Vern's Stories : 2025

Friday, April 11, 2025

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Boy Howdy Ain't That the Truth!

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Climbing Gear

Have any of you ever done this? Back when I was working I never encountered a situation I needed to do something like this.

But I can see me trying to do that during my lunch hour.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Looks Like A Dose of Reality Hit This Lady in the Face

I found this over at A Nod to The Gods

Look at me. I’m a Malibu Liberal.

I believe in climate justice. Can you believe I actually said those words?! I’ve posted those words. I’ve whispered them into quartz. I ate kelp-based protein and offset my flights to Tulum through an app made by annoying Stanford kids. I… pic.twitter.com/2oUyWUJhYH
— Francesco™️ (@frandalorian) April 7, 2025

Monday, April 7, 2025

Huh. I wonder who turned down the deal.

The "zero-for-zero" deal was offered in the past "repeatedly" for the automotive sector, von der Leyen said, "but there was no adequate reaction" from Washington.

You think slo joe and the hoe are the ones who never responded to that deal?

Bob Hope: "She Was A Republican" (1942)

Things you don't want to hear from tech support...

In the mid-1990's my wife and I decided to buy a family computer, with internet and all that stuff.

We had some software programs loaded with it. One of those programs was not working correctly, so I got on the phone with tech support for that program.

After about 1.5 hours working with the stupid thing, the tech support guy asks me, do you have a window by you? I said yes. He asked if it was open. I said yes. He said, Would you please throw your computer out the window? Don't remember if we ever got the program working.

'Do you have a sledgehammer or a brick handy?'

'...that's right, not even McGyver could fix it.'

'So... what are you wearing?'

'Duuuuuude! Bummer!'

'Press 1 for Support. Press 2 if you're with 60 Minutes. Press 3 if you're with the FTC.'

'We can fix this, but you're gonna need a butter knife, a roll of duct tape, and a car battery.'

'In layman's terms, we call that the Hindenburg Effect.'

'Hold on a second... Mom! Timmy's hitting me!'

'Okay, turn to page 523 in your copy of Dianetics.'

'Please hold for Mr. Gates' attorney.'

Maybe They Could Show Movies There at a Billion a Show

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Sunday Memes

Friday, April 4, 2025

Mexicans Are Leaving Because of Taco Bell

Tariffs

The image and text below is from Education Dojo Daily

Tariff Panic

Before you join the media-driven market panic on tariffs, keep in mind the same kind of “Trump will crash the economy!!!!” bullshit happened in 2018, knocking down the market about as much as its down now, only to recover and then advance an additonal 28 percent in 2019. The market even advanced over 16 percent in the Covid-driven hysteria of 2020, although most of that gain was a result of money printing.

Superior long-term investors love these kind of drops in the market since it creates major bargains. These pay off when the hysteria dies down and people realize that the world isn’t going to end, despite the media’s 10 millionth time telling us “No, REALLY, it’s bad THIS TIME! PANIC!!!!” Warren Buffett, for example, has stockpiled over $330 billion cash in his company, Berkshire Hathaway. Now he can feast just like he did in the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 Covid panic.

Still, there will no doubt be some short-term pain. I see two big risks with Trump’s strategy. First, it’s possible China, the EU, Canada, Mexico, and others will join forces to launch a coordinated retaliation. Any one of them by themselves has very little leverage again America since the trade gaps and economy sizes are so wide. However, if the globalist leaders in all countries meet and work out a combined attack plan, it could hurt. But even it that happens, the pain for both sides would be equally shared. Trump is all out of f*cks to give, so I would bet he’s willing to hold out longer than any of our trading partners.

The second big risk is labor. We have nearly everything we need to thrive within America, and the Trump tariffs incentivize companies to move facilities to the U.S., so all that new activity should create jobs galore. Combine all the new jobs with the deportation efforts and the labor supply could run dry quickly. We already have a labor shortage in America, so it could get bad in the short term. However, all the laid-off government workers will need to work somewhere, and Trump is on board with offering legal immigrant work visas, so I don’t think this will be a long-term problem.

Add it all up and you’re talking about a major restructing of America’s and the world economy. It is mind-blowing just how much other countries have been screwing us on tariffs and unfair trade practices. Only America-last, gutless, globalist presidents would let it get this bad, which is exactly what we’ve had for most of the last 40 years. My guess is there will be more pain short-term, and Trump won’t get all he wants. However, after a little suffering, world leaders will get together to hammer out some better deals. Although America will still continue to be screwed, it will be far less so than when Trump began his 2nd term. Improvements will be incremental. It will take decades to fix the damage done by the DC swamp.

The best tariff rate is 0 percent…for all countries! However, expect the media to do everything they can to bury the truth about tariffs and unfair trade practices used by other countries. Half of citizens will continue to live in the dark thinking foreign governments all charge America nothing and that evil Trump just decided for the hell of it to launch an unjustified trade war.

BTW, one more reminder: Biden policies drove the stock market down over 20 percent in 2022 at a time when Covid bullshit was subsiding, meaning recovery should have been running full throttle. Do you remember the same media hysteria? Of course not–that was transitional! Trump policies aren’t transitional, they’re ending the world!!!! You can’t hate the media enough!

Friday Memes

Thursday, April 3, 2025

If You Are Interested

I screw around on the computer a lot. And occasionally I run across a link I think you might like.

Here is a link to a free poker type game where you can kill some time.

247 Free Poker

I don't know if that means 247 games, or games around the clock, as in 24/7.

If you aren't a poker fan they have other games, such as hearts, checkers, backgammon and even pool.

Anyway, enjoy the link.

You Would Think These People Realize They are on Camera

Tesla Vandal Gets Arrested

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Midday Memes

This Happened in the Town I Live In

Man Who Loathes Big Pharmacies Guns Down Innocent Walgreens Worker in California

I first heard of this today on the radio. And now I see it has made national news.

But something about this is not adding up. This guy drove 60 or 70 miles from where he lives to Madera to shoot some body in a Walgreens store.(I live approximately 10 miles from this store.)

If he really did this because he hates big pharma, why didn't he go to one of 20 or 30 or 40 other stores that are much closer to him.

In fact the town just south of him is Delano, about 14 miles. They have at least one Walgreens. And all the other towns he had to drive past to get to Madera have a Walgreens or a pharmacy of some type.

So I don't believe this about him shooting because he hates big pharma.