So I am out to dinner the other night with some folks….they were a bit less conservative that I am…

The conversation wandered a bit, but it struggles when they asked a question at the restaurant…

Question: “What would you do right now if there was an active shooter that came into the restaurant right now? ?”

Me: “Shoot back, of course”

I don’t think that was the answer they were looking for/

are more important than the people who DO work…

U.S. District Judge John McConnell ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must use available contingency funds to ensure SNAP benefits are paid out “as soon as possible.”

“The judge emphasized that halting SNAP funding would cause “irreparable harm” to millions of Americans relying on these benefits for food. He stated that the need for food assistance outweighs concerns about reserving funds for potential future emergencies”

(My real question is “Does this judge have the Constitutional right to disburse million and millions and millions of tax dollars??? Isn’t that the purview of Congress only? ?”)

So why are the poor, somehow more important than our soldiers, sailors ,coasties and Airmen? What about the “harm” that not being paid does to them? How about all the other federal workers who aren’t being paid?

Why are the lazy poor(and yes, that accounts for well over 3/4 of the recipients)  more important than the Air Traffic controllers or the TSA agents, or, or that matter, more important than the rest of the government workers (and the Military)…(we can get to the question of “are they needed” later,

But why are the POOR folks (many of whom are just not willing to work because they get Food Stamps and other assistance so they don’t have to) more important than all the Rest?

Why didn’t he order the FAA to move funds around so that the air traffic controllers get paid, or the Department of Defense to pay the folks in the Military. ?

Why did Judge McConnel not order the Senate and our congressmen back to work, force them to fund the assorted programs?

Why are people that sponge off the rest of the citizens, who are NOT productive, more important in the eyes of the Judge than our other people who are funded by the government, who actually show up and do something?

I think they are afraid of those folks rioting and making the rest of the citizens grow angry when they see just how ungrateful they are

Queens Bohemian Rhapsody was released.

Feel old?

Read:

New Yorkers predict city will become a cesspit of violence, vacant stores and antisemitism under Mamdani in disturbing new poll… but this is why they’ll give him a landslide victory anyway

If I owned property in New York City, I think I’d be selling it and moving anywhere else.

In some areas…

‘Cause according to what I hear, there will be no SNAP (Food Stamps) benefits come Nov 1…all those cards ain’t gonna get refilled. (Unless the Republicans cave to the minority, which is not unlikely)

The reported numbers are all over the place, but a LOT of people get some form of SNAP benefits…and not all of them are nice people. As far as I can tell the number of SNAP users is somewhere north of 42,879,500 (ish) people.

If I were you, and I lived or shopped in an area where there were a lot of folks on Federal government food assistance, I’d get my shopping done before Sat, Nov 1st and not go back for a few days…..or find another place to shop.

Best way to stay out of trouble is to Not Be There when it starts off.

I always believed in the adage “Stay strapped or get clapped“, but I only carry one spare magazine, and in some places that puts me at a disadvantage (and severely outnumbered)…so I won’t be going shopping in those places in the near future…..

And some segments of our society are more prone to unscheduled group action than others….

You never know how (some) people will react to having their Free Shit stopped:

Found at Kenny’s place

That’s because the europeans all have the same morals, and basically only two religions…which area, at the base of it, the same. Not so much our current immigrants.

The “Government Shutdown” is now starting to pinch people, Government workers are now actually missing paychecks. Some “Entitlements” are about to stop.

I am all for standing firm and getting change. If you actually get change.

Anyone wanna bet that the Republicans fold like they always do?  Thus making the “shutdown” a waste of time and need less pain go a lot of people with no real gain?

Were it legal, I’d put real cash on the line—9:2 that the Republicans give up before Thanksgiving and thus gain nothing for the pain they have already helped cause.

Put your dates as to when they fold in comments.

“A person whose heart carries poison yet wears a mask of kindness is more dangerous than one who walks with a sword”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do”

“The best way to get ahead is to get started”

“Endeavour to live such that even the undertaker will feel sorrow”

“Don’t leave a lover or a friend to teach them a lesson…. rather, leave because you have learned yours”

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters”