Okay, so I'm over 50 ... ok, maybe 60 ... what? 70? Let me see my birth certificate. Boy, that was a long time ago. We didn't even have cell phones, or interstate highways, and TV was a new invention. Wow, I sure have seen some stuff, and not all of it was bad. In fact, it seems to me a certain kind of people made a lot of good things bad - the ones who loved money, hated good, wanted to get it over on the other guy. There are way too many of them around these days. Thank Heavens for Christ, forgiveness, Christmas, the ability to read, the ability to think, and the ability to choose.
I'm in that same demographic. Yes we have seen some stuff! I remember when grandpa and grandma got a television so they could watch baseball on Sunday afternoon. Simpler times, I think better times.
my Dad 1917-2017.......coincidently last name also White......sure do miss all the stories he had to tell....he told ALOT of them since his mind was a sharp as a tack till the day he died, sure do miss him......
My wife & I are 64 & 65. Just came from a visit to her 87 year old cousin in Charlottesville. He & his wife are sharp as a tack. A little slower each year but active. He fishes & cleans his own, hunts deer & does the same, bee keeping, gardening & canning, grows ginseng & marijuana for medicinal purposes for others & loves his vodka & Canadian Club. We always talk about family history & my wife has quite a few skeletons in her closet. We didn’t get to see her 94 year old cousin who was a lifetime Special Forces member since its inception but we talked about all the places he’s been & things he did. I give these guys credit for putting their lives in harms way in foreign countries. My wife’s family has good DNA. Everyone live to their late 90’s & early 100’s. Diet & lifestyle mean nothing. They, like Trump are nutritional rogues.
Your wife's cousin is living the life I want. Add ham radio and cooking to it. Right now we have our 8-year-old granddaughter. Wife homeschools her. I pay for her roller skates and lessons, etc. So, maybe in ten years, God willing.
One of my grandmothers was born in 1893 and lived 101 years. The other in 1883 and lived 93 years. They witnessed America blooming. We get to watch it wither.
About the withering, let's hope not and believe not, Jeremy. I want to believe and do believe that my latter days will be better than my former days, and we have had some good former days along with some bad ones. Let's believe light will overcome darkness and good will overcome evil. If enough of us believe in that truth, it will prevail.
Mine (birth certificate: is in hieroglyphics so I know some stuff...or as we tell the grands, "I've forgotten more than you'll ever know" and I say that because all they know is phones, "friend groups" and shopping. Case in point, recently I asked the grand where is Pearl Harbor....crickets. And she goes to some fancy private school...save your money.
I had the original laminated. It's yellow and brittle now but still in one piece. Lamination was a new scientific breakthrough and, after I did my hunting license (yes, we had those), I thought it was a good idea to laminate my birth certificate.
I remember traveling US 1, between South Carolina and Virginia. A two lane highway with an occasional third, passing lane. The passing lane was dangerous, as they appeared / disappeared and were for both directions. I-95 was well to the east, incomplete, and I-20 wasn't built yet.
They still exist. Was traveling across Nebraska and it was a state highway, gravel and graded. Thought maybe construction? Nope, two years later, still gravel. That was about five years back.
I visited a friend who lives 5 miles from the state capital of Vermont. He met me at Montpelier and we were no more than 2 miles from the capital that the next 3 miles were on a gravel road. Some states don’t pave their roads
09/21/25: John was the last man out of Havana in the Spanish-American war. We have photos of him and TR charging up San Juan Hill. See? There's John, on the left, on the escalera mecánica!
My great uncle was in the army in 1912 when they went after Pancho Villa at the Mexican border. They were in the first hard rubber wheel army trucks. Poncho was on a horse so of course he got away.
09/21/25: Wheels without paved roads won't do you much good. Rent a tank!
Bill Deedes in "At War With Waugh" described a trip taken from Addis Ababa to the front lines of the war (Italy had invaded Ethiopia) and their truck had to crawl along on what were basically camel tracks.
Excellent book, by the way. And the perfect book to read after the previous book was something you threw in the trash after only 250 or so pages, which is what I'm about to do with Max Frankel's memoir (NY Times).
The Nixon, the Pentagon Papers and Watergate often turned writers into insufferable bores and their prose into sludge.
Up in Cazenovia, NY, existed a B&B on the town lake, where we stayed about 10-15 years ago (it isn't on the Google Map today, so I assume it went out of business). Huge building. Our room, on the third floor, was an informal Teddy Roosevelt library. Literally @ 200 books about the man.
And they parked a huge plastic cow outside of our bedroom door, which we had to maneuver around to get into and out of the room. In a drawing room on the main floor, I heard someone playing beautifully on a piano. Entranced, I went to see who it was. Electronic software was playing the piano; the keys silently dropped and rose at the touch of invisible fingers.
The B&B owner was reading a novel and don't deign to look up and say hello. And then a huge queen bee made it into our room on Sunday morning and it was time to say goodbye to Cazenovia, New York... But we still emphatically recommend the Brewster Inn!
Dittos on that. Y'wanna hear me sing the Dinah Shore classic, "See the USA in Your Chevrolet?" She and my Mom went to the same high school in downtown Nashville. Mama used bus tokens, Fannie Rose Shore (Dinah) probably was driven by their family chauffeur.
The poll - I’m almost 73 and somehow I always seem to forget about senior discounts. My favorite local supermarket offers a senior discount one day a week and I can never remember to go on that day. But I can quote something that Rush Limbaugh said 25 years ago. Priorities, priorities.
Great list of updates, Don. Thanks! My favorite is the video of ICE dumping that demonicrat creature on her arse. She’s going to be butthurt for a couple of weeks. Well deserved.
LOL! I actually do have a tattoo. In 2016 I took my then 27 year old daughter with me on a business trip to Australia and New Zealand. On our very last day, we both got tattoos. Mine is a small Kiwi Bird on the inside of my right wrist. It’s my souvenir of an amazing month long trip with her.
This submarine sailor, regardless how many beers were consumed, never got a tattoo. I also remember sneaking in the side show tent to see the tattooed lady.
After covid I decided to let my dyed hair grow out to see what color it was. Yep, white as snow and I've kept it. The bad news is people treat me like a little old lady and good news is handsome men offer me their arms to go down stairs, etc., Sweet.
Good for you! I can’t imagine why women like Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer think/thought that having a full head of dark brown hair at age 80 fooled anyone. It just looks absurd.
PWN: Just ask every time. I got haircuts, tree removal, window replacement, a hotel room! Before you hand over the card or cash, just say, "do you give seniors discounts?" You'll be surprised pleasantly. The worst is they can just say, unfortunately, no. (I think some do it out of guilt over prices, but, whatever ;-> )
In Virginia, they are forced to card everyone. And when you give them your license, they scan it. So the state knows exactly how much booze you buy. One more invasion of privacy.
19: A top prosecutor has resigned after refusing to press charges against some of President Donald Trump’s political foes, new reports reveal.
Erik Siebert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, submitted his resignation on Friday. Shortly beforehand, Trump told reporters he wanted Siebert “out” because he learned that Virginia’s Democratic senators supported his nomination earlier this year.
plus he said both James' mortgage fraud and Comey's case were weak. They have James putting her DAD down as a spouse on one of the mortgage papers. That is fraud plain and simple.
They're the same ones who care what Rosie O'Donnel thinks over in Ireland. The worst thing about the internet is seeing all these crackpots and their goofy opinions.
Fine meme to finish the week in re jimmy the braying jackass kimmel. I must have missed the time someone told him he was a real comedian. The Illinois democrat wahhnnabe who landed on her keister was funnier than he ever was and I.C.E. rolled anyway. Now actually charge the arrestees with felonies,[ actions have consequences ? ] as no one is above the law.
I stopped into a DQ last week to treat myself. I pulled out the necessary $$. The clerk gave me the total, less than what I’d figured. I was a bit surprised, then he said “if you’ve been around the sun enough times we’ll give you 10% off😃” I was not insulted in the least, and pleased he offered. He was so nice about it.
Live life with curiosity, gratitude and humility, and take those discounts wherever they show up!
Weird poll. After I was well over 65 (and I looked it), I was buying a 12-pack of beer along with other groceries at a local supermarket. The young clerk first I mentioned that today was senior discount day and when she got to the beer she asked to see my driver's license. I laughed my ass off.
Last week I quizzed the lady at Sam’s about this I.D. checking business. She said they are required by the state (all on camera, of course), but especially to check for expired driver’s licenses. This had never occurred to me.
A kindly bank teller mentioned that my DL was out of date. I was so appreciative of her noticing it that I immediately drove 20 miles to the little satellite police station where they fixed me up with a new license in about 58 minutes. Clerk apologized that I had to take the written test, but it was on-line in a tiny little booth that snapped your photo as soon as you clicked you credit card and hit SEND. Ugliest photo ever. But it is legit.
That never occurred to me. Also, in NY they do not allow teenagers to check ID's for liquor purchases - they have to call over an older worker to check. What I find odd is that when I make a purchase in a liquor store they never ask for ID - only in food stores.
In Georgia they are supposed to card everyone regardless of age. One day the check out gut didn't and I asked. He told me it was discretionary thing. I'm glad I finally look like I'm 21. 👍
I occasionally buy OTC meds with dextromethophan for my allergies, and of course, it is a controlled substance which requires that you be over 18 (because really, nobody under 18 would want to buy meth precursors). Recently, I went through the self-check line , and the kid came shuffling up to ask for my ID. He said, without looking up, “I need to see your….” Looked up at me and said “Never mind,” and keyed in a date some 50 years old. I wasn’t sure if I should be flattered or insulted.
#22,#23 track back to Obama approving trans surgeries and drugs instead of treating the dysphoria as a mental illness and the imposed isolation of our kids during COVID
In Minnesota it is literally against the law for any medical practitioner or mental health professional to counsel a child experiencing gender dysphoria against transitioning - affirmation only! Same state as the seriously troubled trans Robert Westman who shot two kids and injured others at that church took place.
I am sure that is coming. They are already telling the Christians to get out, they are not welcome. Oh wait, that is Michigan. Hey can we trade MN and MI to Canada?
ITEM 1: King Charles received President Trump the guest of honor at a state dinner in Windsor Castle, England.
It was nice of Trump to visit a Muslim country.”
Meanwhile, down the road a piece from all the festivities, a smug, self-aggrandizing, and stunningly ignorant group of the usual celebrities and “stars” held a 4 hour protest-concert to “Free Palestine”, deploring Israel for daring to protect itself from the very same group of people who’ve been pouring into Britain itself, and are now going full steam ahead in the process of turning it into a new, nuclear powered Muslim stronghold.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the poster card for suicidal empathy.
Item 23, I wish we could go back to the days when my "tranny control" was a Hurst Shifter!
As for age, Thursday night as I sat with my wife pondering the good news that our fourth great grandchild had arrived in good condition safely, and that 3 of our 5 children were now grandparents, just how blessed we are just to be here.
You keep scribbling and I'll keep reading.... John
Okay, so I'm over 50 ... ok, maybe 60 ... what? 70? Let me see my birth certificate. Boy, that was a long time ago. We didn't even have cell phones, or interstate highways, and TV was a new invention. Wow, I sure have seen some stuff, and not all of it was bad. In fact, it seems to me a certain kind of people made a lot of good things bad - the ones who loved money, hated good, wanted to get it over on the other guy. There are way too many of them around these days. Thank Heavens for Christ, forgiveness, Christmas, the ability to read, the ability to think, and the ability to choose.
If your birth certificate is on parchment, you might be old
09/21/25: Mine's on the wall inside of a cave. Xerox copies are very, very tricky to create...
Moses said when we got to the other side of the river, things were going to be better. Better parchment, no more brick making.
09/21/25: And better bagels!
I'm in that same demographic. Yes we have seen some stuff! I remember when grandpa and grandma got a television so they could watch baseball on Sunday afternoon. Simpler times, I think better times.
My grandmother was a teenager when the Wright brothers flew and died only a couple of years before Apollo 11. That's staggering.
my Dad 1917-2017.......coincidently last name also White......sure do miss all the stories he had to tell....he told ALOT of them since his mind was a sharp as a tack till the day he died, sure do miss him......
Count your blessings, for they are many. Mine was born in 1911 and died in 1970.
My wife & I are 64 & 65. Just came from a visit to her 87 year old cousin in Charlottesville. He & his wife are sharp as a tack. A little slower each year but active. He fishes & cleans his own, hunts deer & does the same, bee keeping, gardening & canning, grows ginseng & marijuana for medicinal purposes for others & loves his vodka & Canadian Club. We always talk about family history & my wife has quite a few skeletons in her closet. We didn’t get to see her 94 year old cousin who was a lifetime Special Forces member since its inception but we talked about all the places he’s been & things he did. I give these guys credit for putting their lives in harms way in foreign countries. My wife’s family has good DNA. Everyone live to their late 90’s & early 100’s. Diet & lifestyle mean nothing. They, like Trump are nutritional rogues.
Your wife's cousin is living the life I want. Add ham radio and cooking to it. Right now we have our 8-year-old granddaughter. Wife homeschools her. I pay for her roller skates and lessons, etc. So, maybe in ten years, God willing.
From your lips to God’s ears Richard, hopefully much sooner!
One of my grandmothers was born in 1893 and lived 101 years. The other in 1883 and lived 93 years. They witnessed America blooming. We get to watch it wither.
About the withering, let's hope not and believe not, Jeremy. I want to believe and do believe that my latter days will be better than my former days, and we have had some good former days along with some bad ones. Let's believe light will overcome darkness and good will overcome evil. If enough of us believe in that truth, it will prevail.
Amen, brother John. That has been my prayer since I used to sneak National Geographic into the closet and read it with Daddy's flashlight.
When you went to get a copy of your birth certificate, was it still on papyrus?
The clerks got mad when I asked for two copies, carving limestone is messy.
Mine (birth certificate: is in hieroglyphics so I know some stuff...or as we tell the grands, "I've forgotten more than you'll ever know" and I say that because all they know is phones, "friend groups" and shopping. Case in point, recently I asked the grand where is Pearl Harbor....crickets. And she goes to some fancy private school...save your money.
Lmao 😂😂😂
I had the original laminated. It's yellow and brittle now but still in one piece. Lamination was a new scientific breakthrough and, after I did my hunting license (yes, we had those), I thought it was a good idea to laminate my birth certificate.
Lamination works much better than Saran wrap.
now that's funny. I LOVE laminating and do anything that is not plastic that I need to have on my person.
Good one!
Two lane highways. Cars backed up behind a slow driver. Driving was pretty dangerous.
I remember traveling US 1, between South Carolina and Virginia. A two lane highway with an occasional third, passing lane. The passing lane was dangerous, as they appeared / disappeared and were for both directions. I-95 was well to the east, incomplete, and I-20 wasn't built yet.
Those who stay off of I 95 live to talk about it.
Graveled highways my friend .
They still exist. Was traveling across Nebraska and it was a state highway, gravel and graded. Thought maybe construction? Nope, two years later, still gravel. That was about five years back.
I visited a friend who lives 5 miles from the state capital of Vermont. He met me at Montpelier and we were no more than 2 miles from the capital that the next 3 miles were on a gravel road. Some states don’t pave their roads
09/21/25: John was the last man out of Havana in the Spanish-American war. We have photos of him and TR charging up San Juan Hill. See? There's John, on the left, on the escalera mecánica!
My great uncle was in the army in 1912 when they went after Pancho Villa at the Mexican border. They were in the first hard rubber wheel army trucks. Poncho was on a horse so of course he got away.
09/21/25: Wheels without paved roads won't do you much good. Rent a tank!
Bill Deedes in "At War With Waugh" described a trip taken from Addis Ababa to the front lines of the war (Italy had invaded Ethiopia) and their truck had to crawl along on what were basically camel tracks.
Excellent book, by the way. And the perfect book to read after the previous book was something you threw in the trash after only 250 or so pages, which is what I'm about to do with Max Frankel's memoir (NY Times).
The Nixon, the Pentagon Papers and Watergate often turned writers into insufferable bores and their prose into sludge.
Don Surber: If you have the opportunity, review Max Frankel's "The Times of My Life" (1999). Nothing elaborate. You'd enjoy doing this (my guess).
If the book isn't available where you are, let me know and I'll send you one (free!).
I found it on Amazon...thanks
What a day that was. I didn't realize I was in the picture, but glad to have been there. That Teddy was one hell of a leader.
Up in Cazenovia, NY, existed a B&B on the town lake, where we stayed about 10-15 years ago (it isn't on the Google Map today, so I assume it went out of business). Huge building. Our room, on the third floor, was an informal Teddy Roosevelt library. Literally @ 200 books about the man.
And they parked a huge plastic cow outside of our bedroom door, which we had to maneuver around to get into and out of the room. In a drawing room on the main floor, I heard someone playing beautifully on a piano. Entranced, I went to see who it was. Electronic software was playing the piano; the keys silently dropped and rose at the touch of invisible fingers.
The B&B owner was reading a novel and don't deign to look up and say hello. And then a huge queen bee made it into our room on Sunday morning and it was time to say goodbye to Cazenovia, New York... But we still emphatically recommend the Brewster Inn!
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cazenovia,+NY+13035/@42.9286195,-75.8738421,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89d9870a74904d8d:0x34700af3f9cc99d9!8m2!3d42.9300668!4d-75.8526915!16zL20vMDFtZDdj!5m1!1e4?authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkxNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
I love the week in review
The snark is awesome
And occasionally I see an article I had missed earlier in the week
Thank you Mr. Surber
We all went thru that phase. Welcome aboard.
Item 13: As Bill Clinton said, put a little ICE on that.-Classic Don Surber
Item 16: The Daily Kos is still around?
The best senior discount: Lifetime National Parks pass.
Agree! Maybe all ages should be encouraged to see our beautiful country.
Dittos on that. Y'wanna hear me sing the Dinah Shore classic, "See the USA in Your Chevrolet?" She and my Mom went to the same high school in downtown Nashville. Mama used bus tokens, Fannie Rose Shore (Dinah) probably was driven by their family chauffeur.
Why would anyone change their name from Fannie Rose? (I’m the proud great-granddaughter of Fanny Holder.)
Miss Shore was from a Jewish family; most people honor a grand parent or other relative by "recycling" the name of a beloved ancestor.
I’m glad that name didn’t get recycled to me.
Ahh I can hear Dinah singing it now.
I couldn’t agree more regarding the National Park Pass.
Kos is the Hungarian word for dirt. Coincidence?
#13=Juanita smiled.
I did not know that. Thanks 🙏
yep...got that for free when it first came out..... :)
Cost us $10. Still a bargain.
YES! the best I think actually it's free isn't it?
When my wife and I bought ours it was $10 each. Now it’s $80. Still a bargain if you ask me.
The poll - I’m almost 73 and somehow I always seem to forget about senior discounts. My favorite local supermarket offers a senior discount one day a week and I can never remember to go on that day. But I can quote something that Rush Limbaugh said 25 years ago. Priorities, priorities.
Great list of updates, Don. Thanks! My favorite is the video of ICE dumping that demonicrat creature on her arse. She’s going to be butthurt for a couple of weeks. Well deserved.
I make the cashiers eyes roll by saying, “I know I don’t look it, but ….”
Love it! I DO look it - got my first gray hairs at age 17, so you can imagine what it looks like now.
In my imagination, Plays, you don’t look a day over 49, and with the most amazing tattoos.
LOL! I actually do have a tattoo. In 2016 I took my then 27 year old daughter with me on a business trip to Australia and New Zealand. On our very last day, we both got tattoos. Mine is a small Kiwi Bird on the inside of my right wrist. It’s my souvenir of an amazing month long trip with her.
This submarine sailor, regardless how many beers were consumed, never got a tattoo. I also remember sneaking in the side show tent to see the tattooed lady.
My husband was in the Marine Corps and never got one either.
I was Army, but same thing, no ink
my husband has a propeller with USAF on his upper arm...what does that tell you?
and he is mega conservative and always wears shirts with long sleeves, lol.
Niiiiice ?? LOL
After covid I decided to let my dyed hair grow out to see what color it was. Yep, white as snow and I've kept it. The bad news is people treat me like a little old lady and good news is handsome men offer me their arms to go down stairs, etc., Sweet.
Good for you! I can’t imagine why women like Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer think/thought that having a full head of dark brown hair at age 80 fooled anyone. It just looks absurd.
If you were dating the love of your life back then, you can always credit them to him as a sign of your love.
When I give my birthday I say AD after it. Just so they know. 😂😂😂
Or “be patient I was born in the nineteen hundreds.” (Folks on this thread should go out for coffee.)
Laugh out loud...I will use that!!!
PWN: Just ask every time. I got haircuts, tree removal, window replacement, a hotel room! Before you hand over the card or cash, just say, "do you give seniors discounts?" You'll be surprised pleasantly. The worst is they can just say, unfortunately, no. (I think some do it out of guilt over prices, but, whatever ;-> )
Thanks, I’m staying in a hotel tomorrow night so I’ll try to
Remember that!
Cash often will get you a discount instead of credit cards. There's a gas station near me that also does that.
Ah c’mon. I’ll bet you still get carded. 😂👍🍷
In Virginia, they are forced to card everyone. And when you give them your license, they scan it. So the state knows exactly how much booze you buy. One more invasion of privacy.
MN too! I asked the clerk “why?” and he said “State requires it.” And I asked “why?” He shrugged.
19: A top prosecutor has resigned after refusing to press charges against some of President Donald Trump’s political foes, new reports reveal.
Erik Siebert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, submitted his resignation on Friday. Shortly beforehand, Trump told reporters he wanted Siebert “out” because he learned that Virginia’s Democratic senators supported his nomination earlier this year.
plus he said both James' mortgage fraud and Comey's case were weak. They have James putting her DAD down as a spouse on one of the mortgage papers. That is fraud plain and simple.
Item 18
Why would anyone be interested in what Don Lemon says or thinks?
Well, it would be enjoyable to see him squirm.
Juice not worth the squeeze??
lol
You’re probably right
Who is Don Lemon?
a nobody...
CNN used the Lemon Law to get rid of Don.
I don't know how to do the laugh emoji but imagine it here, that's hilarious.
They're the same ones who care what Rosie O'Donnel thinks over in Ireland. The worst thing about the internet is seeing all these crackpots and their goofy opinions.
Lemon's best bet is one of those organs you grind on the street and a pet monkey with a tin cup.
I'm sure an organ grinder can find a real monkey instead.
Does zee minkey have a leesaunce?
Let me know if you get the reference. Hint - PeterSellers.
Inspector Clouseau? Wild guess.
Nailed it! Well done!
Doez your dawg bite?……That’s not my dowg…..
GMTA !!
Doesn’t meet the definition of ‘think’….How did Billie Eilish put it? Or was it that French dude Descarte?
His bro. Night cart
Not me , well until Don mentioned the black hole issue . I want to hear him take a stab at that , I'll give him a minute before tuning out !
Certainly not for informational purposes. Purely for entertainment.
lemon is a good name for him.
His mama, most likely and his daddy if he knows who that was. (Meow: haven't had my kibble today.)
Item 2. The downside of getting a pardon was you had to also agree to take one of Hunter’s paintings home with you.
So glad I wasn’t drinking my coffee when I read that!
Lmao 😂👍☕️☕️☕️☕️
I would just have to pass on a Hunter freebie. LOL Mugly, fugly and ugly.
Lmao 😂😂😂
I was in the bedroom but I laughed so lovely I'm sure my neighbors heard. Good one Vince.
Thanks 😂👍🍷
But does it look good on your wall?
Bet it makes the wall look fat......
Fine meme to finish the week in re jimmy the braying jackass kimmel. I must have missed the time someone told him he was a real comedian. The Illinois democrat wahhnnabe who landed on her keister was funnier than he ever was and I.C.E. rolled anyway. Now actually charge the arrestees with felonies,[ actions have consequences ? ] as no one is above the law.
It had to have been his mother who told him.
I stopped into a DQ last week to treat myself. I pulled out the necessary $$. The clerk gave me the total, less than what I’d figured. I was a bit surprised, then he said “if you’ve been around the sun enough times we’ll give you 10% off😃” I was not insulted in the least, and pleased he offered. He was so nice about it.
Live life with curiosity, gratitude and humility, and take those discounts wherever they show up!
Senior discount every Wednesday at the local lunch counter. The place is packed with bald men and blue haired women.
The last ones who can make eye contact and talk to each other without a phone in their hands...
Weird poll. After I was well over 65 (and I looked it), I was buying a 12-pack of beer along with other groceries at a local supermarket. The young clerk first I mentioned that today was senior discount day and when she got to the beer she asked to see my driver's license. I laughed my ass off.
But did you get the discount on the beer??
Last week I quizzed the lady at Sam’s about this I.D. checking business. She said they are required by the state (all on camera, of course), but especially to check for expired driver’s licenses. This had never occurred to me.
Might make a good law for voting too. Wonder why we just can't quite get that done??
That would make it more difficult for DEM's to cheat.
They need to be running the local polls!
Does that mean they report the expired ones to the state DMV? I'd never heard of this before.
A kindly bank teller mentioned that my DL was out of date. I was so appreciative of her noticing it that I immediately drove 20 miles to the little satellite police station where they fixed me up with a new license in about 58 minutes. Clerk apologized that I had to take the written test, but it was on-line in a tiny little booth that snapped your photo as soon as you clicked you credit card and hit SEND. Ugliest photo ever. But it is legit.
Quite interesting BH.
That never occurred to me. Also, in NY they do not allow teenagers to check ID's for liquor purchases - they have to call over an older worker to check. What I find odd is that when I make a purchase in a liquor store they never ask for ID - only in food stores.
In Georgia they are supposed to card everyone regardless of age. One day the check out gut didn't and I asked. He told me it was discretionary thing. I'm glad I finally look like I'm 21. 👍
A young checker at a Safeway said she was making too many mistakes, so she was required to check ID.
I occasionally buy OTC meds with dextromethophan for my allergies, and of course, it is a controlled substance which requires that you be over 18 (because really, nobody under 18 would want to buy meth precursors). Recently, I went through the self-check line , and the kid came shuffling up to ask for my ID. He said, without looking up, “I need to see your….” Looked up at me and said “Never mind,” and keyed in a date some 50 years old. I wasn’t sure if I should be flattered or insulted.
Strange dichotomy.
#22,#23 track back to Obama approving trans surgeries and drugs instead of treating the dysphoria as a mental illness and the imposed isolation of our kids during COVID
In Minnesota it is literally against the law for any medical practitioner or mental health professional to counsel a child experiencing gender dysphoria against transitioning - affirmation only! Same state as the seriously troubled trans Robert Westman who shot two kids and injured others at that church took place.
Right up until the Muslims outlaw trannies. MN will submit to that.
I am sure that is coming. They are already telling the Christians to get out, they are not welcome. Oh wait, that is Michigan. Hey can we trade MN and MI to Canada?
correction, not "shot", rather, murdered two children at Mass.
Just like homosexuality in previous generations (think early 1970's).
No
OOooohhhhhhhhBama. Yo- mama
Item 1. I was worried when I saw Trump surrounded by Redcoats.
Item 1. It’s just a matter of time before King CIII announces the new trade deal includes Trump Windsor Castle Resort.
OUCH!!
It was the King’s idea 😂😂😂
So true. They really need the money.
ITEM 1: King Charles received President Trump the guest of honor at a state dinner in Windsor Castle, England.
It was nice of Trump to visit a Muslim country.”
Meanwhile, down the road a piece from all the festivities, a smug, self-aggrandizing, and stunningly ignorant group of the usual celebrities and “stars” held a 4 hour protest-concert to “Free Palestine”, deploring Israel for daring to protect itself from the very same group of people who’ve been pouring into Britain itself, and are now going full steam ahead in the process of turning it into a new, nuclear powered Muslim stronghold.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the poster card for suicidal empathy.
All those crusades down the drain. I guess Vlad the Impaler didnt spike enough of them. Ah the good old days. lol 😂👍👍👍😂😂😂😂
The Brits learned from the French Suzie.
Another good column Don!
Item 23, I wish we could go back to the days when my "tranny control" was a Hurst Shifter!
As for age, Thursday night as I sat with my wife pondering the good news that our fourth great grandchild had arrived in good condition safely, and that 3 of our 5 children were now grandparents, just how blessed we are just to be here.
You keep scribbling and I'll keep reading.... John
Item 6. How are we going to know who the jihadis are without their beards??
The Amish will use their buggies to roar into battle.
Unlikely, since they're pacifists.
Maybe by the way they squawk as the razor approaches….?