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Worthwhile Largesse

Good News, Subsidies

When I think of how much of our taxpayer money has been frittered away on useless crap like eco-lunacy, supporting Commie insurrections and delivering government benefits to illegal immigrants [156 more examples omitted for reasons of space], here at least is one I can get behind (via Reader John C., thankee):

The Department of War has given $10 million to TV host Mike Rowe’s Foundation that encourages Americans to enter the skilled trade industry.
The former “Dirty Jobs” star started the program that aims to offer Americans careers in the skilled trades like plumbing, electrical, and other hands-on work that won’t be made obsolete by artificial intelligence.

Wow… government money being spent on a civilian program that actually helps citizens and provides strategic benefit to the nation.

Here’s the enormity of the thing:

The foundation has helped over 2,600 people so far train as welders, HVAC technicians, pipefitters, and diesel mechanics who command a six-figure salary without requiring a four-year degree and massive amounts of student loan debt.

However:

The foundation says that America will need 320,000 welders, 250,000 shipbuilders, and 81,000 electricians over the next decade.

I bet the Lefties are totally pissed off about this — ironic, really, considering that they’ve always proclaimed themselves as the “Workers’ Party”, but really aren’t.  Then again, they are the “Party Of Lies”, and always have been.

Congrats to the Pentagon, and of course likewise to Mike Rowe (a true patriot if ever there was one).  If I have a single quibble, it’s that they should have given more than ten million dollars to this most worthy cause.

Finally, Part 2

Eco-Crap, Good News

I said this a couple weeks ago:

Start your engines, rev them loudly and turn your A/C down to 65, because the foolishness is ending:

The reelection of President Donald Trump came with an overall shift in the political landscape regarding climate and energy issues. Since then, major media outlets shut down their climate desks, corporations are easing back on emission-reduction targets, and polls consistently show the public rates climate change low on their list of priorities.

Can we also repeal all those stupid CAFE standards and regulations on auto companies and the cars they sell?

And now this is coming down the turnpike:

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to permanently end home appliance and equipment mandates that raise costs and disrupt consumer choice.  The proposal will update the Department’s Process Rule used to establish energy conservation standards for household appliances and equipment, including air conditioning units, gas stoves, washing and drying machines, water heaters, refrigerators, and other products Americans rely on every day.  In America, you should be able to choose a dryer that dries clothes on the first try rather than one that takes multiple cycles — unfortunately, past administrations thought otherwise,” Secretary Wright said. “For too long, the American people paid the price for mandates that restricted consumer choice and drove up costs.  President Trump promised to end this nonsense and that is exactly what we are doing.”

One more time:

“Dear Dr. Kim”

Advice

“Dear Dr. Kim,
“My girlfriend has just returned from a hen week with three love bites and two new tattoos.  She pouts she got drunk a lot and can’t remember what went on.  She assumes that we can simply carry on as usual, but how dare she treat me like this?”

— Puzzled, UK

Dear Puzzled:

Let me get something off my chest, first.  When the hell did a hen party night turn into a hen party week?  WTF?  Does anyone (other than the Party Girrllzzz Set) think that any good will come out of this?  Oh sure, a mob of drunken women, unrestrained by morals and good taste, out to have a good time without any consequences (they think) for a whole damn week?  Let me tell you:  under the term “Recipe For Disaster” in the dictionary, you’ll find this event as one of the prime scenarios.

And I won’t be distracted by the red herring of “Well, men have bachelor parties toooo!”  because that’s a topic for another time, but suffice it to say, men are idiots and always have been.  Women are supposed to be better than that, and increasingly, they aren’t.

And now that we’re here, let’s get around to your specific problem.

Here’s the executive summary, in case you haven’t figured it out yet.  Your slag of a girlfriend — a self-confessed blackout drunkard — went away for one of these debauched parties, misbehaved utterly, got shagged by (at least) one other man and got two (more, I assume) tattoos.

There are more red lights flashing here than in Amsterdam’s Hooker District.  In case you haven’t figured this out yet, allow me to list them:  habitual drunkenness (not a good feature of any relationship), licentiousness (love bites? strange men nibbling on her neck?  FFS) and multiple tattoos added without memory of the occasion(s).

In answer to your question, “How dare she treat me like this?”  comes this not-so-comfortable response:  because you let her.  You are a weak, pussy-whipped excuse for a man who is allowing this bullshit to continue.

It’s probably too late for redemption, but here’s the deal.  What you should have done, when confronted with the love bites, was demand that she get tested for venereal disease(s).  And when she refused to do so — and she would have, claiming that “nothing happened” (probably a lie) — you should have tossed her out of your life, without regret or compunction.

Which is what you should do now.  If you think that this particular leopardess is ever going to lose her spots, you’re delusional.  So not ditching the bitch is going to ensure that your future life in her company is going to be an unending catalog of drunkenness, infidelity and impulsive self-destructive behavior.

If you want to live the rest of your life — or the immediate future, anyway — under conditions such as these, go ahead, forgive her and carry on.  Just don’t expect any sympathy from anyone, because you don’t deserve any.

Somewhere out there is a better woman for you than this slut.  You probably don’t deserve her.

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