Coxsackie NY

 

Coxsackie NY

Today's blog will be very Presidential. There will be very little truth in it and I will not be listening to the experts, but will listen to my gut. However, be assured that there is a town in New York named Coxsackie. Look it up on your cell phone. What kind of sick mayor and council came up with this name?

Can you imagine being on a high school football team traveling to an away game with the name of the town you come from in large letters on the side of your bus? And then the sarcastic cheers from the crowd. It makes you wonder it they ever won an away game.

Our cable company is Cox Cable. It has always been an embarrassment to me when their service truck stops at my house. It has “Cox” written on the side with three foot letters and their slogan written below, “Life is better with Cox.” Have they no shame? The cable company's service is fast and reliable. Their customer service people speak English as a first language. The service techs are excellent. The only folks that earn the corporate name are in the billing department.

There is a popular male venereal disease that was first isolated in Coxsackie named Coxsackievirus. Don't try to tell me that doctors have no sense of humor. The name is easy to pronounce and remember ... unlike other medical terms.

I started my motorcycle career as a district manager for US Suzuki Motorcycle Corp. My vehicle had “Suzuki” written in large letters on each side. I noticed while traveling through Navajo villages that the locals would point to my car and laugh. At a service station I asked what was funny about my car. The attendant informed me that Suzuki is the Navajo word for the male group. I suppose that if the good guys had won the Indian Wars, Suzuki would not have been the name for our imported motorcycles and Trump would never have won an election.

Enough about my life in the Southwest and how we relate to New Yorkers.

Cheers, Old Buz 10/27/2025

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“It is far easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”

- Mark Twain

Governmant Shut-Down 2025

 

Government Shut-Down 2025

          Q: When is it logical for a government to shut-down? A: When the government is being replaced.  Revolution, peaceful or not, is the only logical time to shut-down a government.  Even then … it would be wise to keep the experienced public servants in place.  Can anyone of sound mind dispute this?  I think not.

          If a government sends home, without pay, its workforce for an unspecified period of time and without a logical reason it is alienating.  The good-will of that workforce will not be easily earned back.  The good will of the population should be the same.  Those legislators who vote for a shut-down have no stoppage in their wages.  But the working public servants do and there is no payback for lost wages.

          The political parties like to threaten each other with government shut-downs.  It isn’t an idle threat.  There have been over twenty government shut-downs in the last fifty years.  They have been initiated by both political parties.  To put an end to this ridiculous practice we need a constitutional amendment to make a shut-down illegal.  Votes need not to be taken on the entire budget, but on the individual changes being proposed.  It would take a sixty per cent vote to change any line item.  If no budget is passed by the assigned date, the previous year’s budget remains in effect.  Simple but effective.

Cheers, Old Buz     10/05/2025

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Remember:

“ONE cannot fool all of the people all of the time … and that is why we have TWO political parties.” - Anon                                                                                                                    

Smithsonian/Trump/Impeachment

 

Smithsonian/Trump/Impeachment

In America our President has initiated a new form of history.  He often does this in speeches and in talks from the Oval Office.  But this transaction with the Smithsonian Institute seems small and somewhat humorous.  The institute modified a presidential display which included the entire history of Presidential Impeachments.  Trump had two impeachments from his actions in his first term in office.  Two is a record in American history and Trump would like not to hold that record, which he terms a hoax.  The two impeachments were issued by a Democratic majority in The House of Representatives.  When the indictments were sent to the Senate for trial, he was found not guilty of both impeachments.  The Smithsonian has removed the history of impeachments after 2008 (Trump’s impeachments).  History is ruled from the Oval Office.

 

We no longer have a functioning democracy in America.  Our representatives primarily vote straight party line (a “rubber stamp”).  They do not vote their wisdom or their conscience.  Political parties have outlived their usefulness.  In the second Senate Impeachment Trial, the Republican Senate voted not to hear testimony or see evidence in documents.  That sounds crazy if not for the fact that their votes were determined before the “trial”.  Most of the testimony in the first impeachment trial was given by Republicans, but not considered by the Republican majority.  Democrats would do the same, as illustrated in the Clinton impeachment trial.  This political folly is also a part of our legislation.  When Mitch McConnell was the majority leader of the Senate, he had over three hundred bills passed by a Democratic House of Representatives that he did not introduce to the Senate for discussion or a vote.  We had legislation by death on McConnell’s desk.  A Democratic Senator or a Republican Congressman that you elected had damn little influence on your government.  And now our President writes our history.

 

If an organization as strong and well established as The Smithsonian Institute cannot stand up for truth who can?  Certainly not your news corporations.  The reason why not is in their names.  After all, they are corporations.  Income is their guide.  Truth will not come from a crystal ball on the internet, it is too one sided.  You can trust your eyes and ears, but that gives you a very small radius of truth.  Your mind is not reliable unless the data that enters it is. And has it ever been the case?

 

Cheers, Old Buz      8/1/2025

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Awareness Guide:

“See what is plain to see.  Doubt if you don’t.” – Daniel

"If you're so smart ..."

    “If you’re so smart …”

   “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”  This is the quote most often used by the simple majority of our nation’s population.  It implies major stupidity on the part of the questioner.  The best example of this is the Trump Monkey, Elon Musk.  Jumping around on a campaign stage with a chainsaw in your hands and a MAGA cap on your head does not indicate “smart”.  No, being the richest person in the world is a better sign of insanity.  Extreme wealth is an indicator of greed and greed is a rapidly growing epidemic in America, the major symptom of which is squirreling away nuts for an imaginary winter.  Greed is the malignant form of the survival instinct, not an indicator of smart.

   We only have thirteen billionaires living in, as President Trump would say, “The Shit Hole State of Arizona,” in which I reside.  Thirteen isn’t very many, but the state’s government and education system still runs (as do all other states in America) to the music of money.  What started as a game for students to relax with, basketball is now the guiding force of the University of Arizona.  Basketball brings in money and education is generally a cost.  Please remember that the stated purpose of a university is to educate and yet our basketball coach has an annual salary of $3,700,008 and the President of The University (the head of education) is salaried at $1,016,018 per year.  That is to say that the chief educator earns less than a third of what the top coach makes at our university.  This is certainly in line with our nation’s interest.  Would the average Arizonan be more enthused by winning an NCAA Championship in basketball or the hire of the world’s brightest physicist to head the Physics Department at The U?  What about money’s influence on government.  I spent a couple of years as The Arizona Motorcycle Dealer’s lobbyist to the Arizona Legislature.  Financial power is the primary influence on the creation of legislation.  Does money write “smart” legislation?  The answer to that question is, “Only if a benefit to the wealthy happens to benefit all.”  That doesn’t happen very often.

  “Our government is the best government that money can buy.” and I guess that we can all be proud of that.

Cheers, Old Buz          5/18/2025

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MAGA Board of Directors:

 

MAGA Board of Directors:

“Donald Trump is my guy.”

 – Vladimir Putin

 

“Donald Trump is my guy.”

- Victor Orban

 

“Donald Trump was my guy.”

- Jeffery Epstein (Honorary, in Absentia)

 

“Donald Trump is my guy.”

- Kim Jong Un

 

“Donald Trump is my guy.”

- Xi Jinping

 

“Donald Trump was my guy.”

-Michael Cohen (Founding Board Member, resigned)

 

 

Trump can be your guy too.  Join the MAGA Team. – Old Buz

          “Judge me by my friends.” – Donald J. Trump       

Is Joe Biden Too Old?

   Yes and no.  Yes, he is too old to run our country (as is Donald Trump).  No, one can be too old for life, for that defines its end point.  Joe Biden is no longer fit to  be the president of our country.  Donald Trump never was.  This is not a political blog post.  It is an attempt to look at job qualification without bias.  At the age of eighty-three, I feel qualified to state an opinion on this issue.  The federal court system sees me as too old to be a desirable jury member.  I was at the age of seventy relieved of this burden.  A wise decision from our federal court system and there are far too few of these in recent history (ref: Citizens United, Roe vs. Wade, Gun Regulation and Presidential Immunity). 

   Back to the point.  As you well know, with age any muscle will tire and weaken.  I am six foot eight and can no longer slam dunk a basketball.  It also takes me much longer to write a blog post.  In verbal debate, where I once shined, I am very mediocre.  With age comes gradual death.  It is the simple mechanics of wearing out.  Probably a good thing.  It happens.  Joe Biden would have been a better president at the age of fifty than he is capable of being at the age of eighty.  When he does his energetic trot as he enters a stage, he is unable to recognize the elderly shuffle that he is displaying.  Brains are muscles too.

   Half of the citizens of the US (The Democrats) need to offer the nation a younger and more agile (physically & mentally) candidate for the position of President.  No candidate should be legally allowed to run for office when past the required age of retirement.  Normally in our country this age is sixty-five. 

   It is only a matter of time before the aging Alpha Wolf loses his last battle and this normally doesn’t go well for the future of his pack.   If the DNC prevails, Joe Biden with run against Donald Trump.  The only hope is that an aging good man can prevail over an aging bum.  But, beware of the electorate.

Cheers, Old Buz     July 7, 2024

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“In the final analysis, time is all that each of us has to spend.  Spend it wisely.”       – Old Buz         

The Free Market & You

 

   I have a great interest in Hong Kong.  Their people are the #1 readers of this blog, with the US in a close 2^nd.  Singapore is in 3^rd position.  The low life that was our 45^th president says that there are great benefits to being a star.  The statistics show that if there were a thousand people in my front yard in Hong Kong, one of them would have read my blog, while in America it would require a million folks in the front yard for there to be two reads.  This, for me, would be a reason to consider moving there.  So naturally, I researched real estate values in Hong Kong.  A 1500 square foot townhouse sells for three to five million dollars there.  This effectively removes the top middle income folks and those below them to obtain reasonable housing.  I do not consider 3 bedrooms … 3 families reasonable.  In Hong Kong a recent college graduate with a family moves in with his parents.

   I believe that Hong Kong offers an opportunity to view the canary in the mine rendition of The Free Market Economy in real estate.  The “affordable housing” words are fast becoming an oxymoron in coastal America and even desirable inland cities.  I took a little over two decades for Hong Kong to fall off of the cliff to insanity.  I believe we Americans can do it faster.  Hell, we already have a pretty good start in removing affordable housing from our thriving commercial locations.

   Why is Free Market (greed) such a strong driving force in an economy?  Please revisit my Golden Goose Economy post.  Those who enter the economy are generally interested in personal income.  Those who are driven by success and are successful at obtaining their goals generally have the malignant form of survival instinct, greed, as their north star.  This driving force places profit above reason.  Those who have this trait, our successful financial leaders, are willing to destroy the society in exchange for personal financial gain.  Do I sound like a God Damn Commie here?  I am not.  I spent my business life as a motorcycle dealer.  I’m a Capitalist.  I tried to keep my customers happy and myself, my employees and my family happy as well.  I believe that these goals give more satisfaction in the long run than greed offers.

   My home (1350 sq.ft.) was built to sell for $17,500 in the 1970s.  My wife and I purchased it for $144,000 in 2002.  The present market value is twice that.  What will it be in another two decades?  Look to Hong Kong for a clue.  At some point in time an “effective government” (another oxymoron) will have to step in and stop the insanity.  Good luck with that taking place.  “Gold Rules.”

Cheers, Old Buz          June 23^rd, 2024

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The Free Market:

“We will not fully appreciate the value of water until an Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos owns our water company.” – Old Buz