San Francisco is in the process of passing city legislation aimed at reparation to all eligible blacks, the sum of $ 5 million each. I almost dropped my uppers when i read this news brief. This is mind blowing. There are not enough Cadillacs and Buicks being made to cover that kind of windfall. The manufacturers of gold chains better ramp up production.

Of course, you have to figure that California is on the cusp of such a movement. I just cant get a handle on why that state ends up doing some of the things it does. I guess if you are under the constant threat of earthquakes, droughts, wild fires, snow storms, floods, tsunamis that you might be a bit edgy. I understand there has been some movement by residents of that state towards the eastern part of the USA. I hope they all stop in Arizona.

Low and behold, Dallas has released ZEK. After 7 yrs in the NFL, all playing for the cowboys, Ezekial has been terminated. Jerry has said he feels bed about it but I both doubt that statement and find the statement a bit confusing. For the last two years ZEK has not been able to run thru a line of girl scouts selling cookies on the street corner. He has tripped on the turf as many times as he has actually been tackled. Some say his legs were gone. I say it was his heart. I wonder how much of those millions he has stashed to cover his golden years.?

Chewy

We dont subscribe to the daily newspaper so each morning I depend on my news apps on my telephone to keep in tune with the world. Sometimes that is a good thing, other times, not so much.

One of the top news flashes this morning was a headline stating that Banks were set up to lose $ 427 million from the country of Ghana. It seems that Ghana is making a move to restructure its debt in order to finalize a $ 3 billion bailout by the IMF. This makes this my WHOA NELLIE award winner for the day, maybe the week. First, where is Ghana? What makes Ghana worth loans of $ 427 million? And why in the name of big boondoggle banking flim flams would you lend someone that kind of money, know you are running a pretty good chance of losing it and then turn around and think about bailing them out to the tune of $ 3 billion? Ive heard of some pretty loose lending practices before but this does take the cake.

In December of 2022 the top imports to the USA from the country of Ghana were petroleum, cocoa beans , cocoa butter, paste and powder. Why did we need crude oil from this country? Why the influx of cocoa products in the dead of winter. We dont drink that much cocoa and its the wrong time of year to suntan. I guess Hershey is a big end user of Ghana cocoa. This country has a GNP of some $ 77 billion dollars and they are needing a bail out of $ 3 billion. What they need to do is lend them some folks to run things over there. Sounds like some graft and greed going on to me. They have a few billionaires in Ghana so its not like they are sitting around a mud hut starving to death.

I read yesterday where the Kardashians are losing their hold on the media of the world. I could not be happier. I am sick and tired of my morning news journey being flooded with the exploits of a family that has no known talent except for their desire to be famous. This goes for many people in the entertainment business. i did not watch the Oscars because I had not seen one movie that was being honored. A vast majority of the actors and actresses were people I had never heard of. They are able to generate headlines even after the affair is over. From some starlette wearing a transparent dress with built in pasties to Tom Cruise not going to the ceremony has kept them in the spotlight. I would have questioned why he wasnt there.

Pullin on the reins

Chewy

I havent blogged in a long while and Im not sure why. Maybe everything has been going so well that I had no comments to make. I dont see that being the reason so we’ll just leave it at that.

This last few days was a bit scary, given the bank failures. It gives you reason to think when things like that happen, after you have in effect taken your last bat. Being retired and not having a job to go to and a paycheck coming in fresh every two weeks is kinda like you have had your last at bat in the bottom of the ninth. I guess I could set up a table at the mall and do tax returns but I sure would hate to start over. Besides, being an uber driver for my wife keeps me kinda busy. Hopefully our elected representatives and the folks that run the systems that keep us happy and prosperous will have enough sense to keep out of things.

There is not much exciting happening in our lives. We have a family dinner on Wednesday nite of each week, where we get to have the great grandsons and their parents over for dinner. We sure look forward to that every week. Those two little boys are the apples of our eyes and can hardly wait to see what they have learned new. One is just learning to crawl and he will be in everyones business for that point forward. They are both smart as they can be so look forward to watching them progress for as long as Im around.

The grads of Pecos High are having a multi-year reunion in April, 2023 and we sure look forward to attending that little shin-dig. I dont know why I like class reunions as much as I do but I sure enjoy seeing everyone that attends. We will be on the old end of the spectrum at this reunion so I will have to strain my brain to remember some of the younger ones.

One of the drawbacks to getting old is that you are exposed to new trends and fads that you never thought you would have to face or look at. I am particularly bothered about the this new path of evolution that they call trans-gender. I hear some young folks want to be referred to by the use of their pronouns. I always kinda figured he, she, it covered all the bases. Apparently, that is not so. We have run into some furrbys up here in the big city. Young folks that identify as a furry animal. I always thought I was fairly intelligent but I cant get my mind around that business.

I shudder to think what would have run thru Frank Kellys mind if one of the Pecos gals (or guys for that matter) would have showed up on the steps of ole PHS wearing a transparent dress with built in pasties. Hell, I remember when there was talk about lewdness of the girls wearing levis jeans.

Ill let yall know, on occasion, what is unsettling me. If you want to suggest a topic to discuss, write me back. If I dont have an opinion I can surly make up something.

GHC