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