September 2024

Lane County Board of Commissioners subject of ethics investigation. Speaking as one of the thousands whose garbage bill would go up significantly if their recycling-sorting facility became a reality, I hope to hell the investigation bears fruit and the commissioners get their heels locked. Knowing the subject was wildly unpopular, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out this publicly elected group was conducting clandestine, off-the-record meetings on the subject to avoid public scrutiny. 

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Caterpillar is rolling back some of its DEI policies following an internal review, with senior leaders required to approve participation in external surveys and speakers. Caterpillar’s DEI rollback follows similar moves at Molson Coors, Lowe’s, John Deere, Ford and Tractor Supply. Come on folks. It’s common sense. You don’t shit where you eat. If you’re sellin’ frilly lacey stuff to the hoity-toity crowd, go ahead, read the room, and by all means, run the DEI flag up the pole if you think that’s what you need to do. However, if you’re sellin’ stuff to commonsensers, and you wanna KEEP sellin’ stuff, you need to drop DEI like a bad habit. Years ago, I heard of an heir apparent to a heavy equipment dealership. Upon learning he was going to take the reins, the first thing he did was to go out and buy himself a brand-new Porsche. When his Dad (still the actual owner of the business) saw it, he told him by God, you’re gonna be sellin’ loggin’ equipment to loggers. If you want to take over the company, take that foreign-made sonofabitch back and buy a Cadillac.

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Vivek Ramaswamy hosts town hall in Springfield, Ohio as residents share concerns about city’s migrant influx. Okay, we hafta talk about the elephant in the room. Ohio’s governor is a Republican, and their legislature is dominated by Republicans, so tell me, how in the hell did Springfield get invaded by foreigners from Haiti? Foreigners whose numbers equal 34% of that town’s American citizen population? The only thing I can figure is, like MS13 and Tren de Aragua, once a few of ‘em burrowed in, they spread the word, and the invasion was on.

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