Buc-ee’s, James Brown and other thoughts

Buc-ee’s, James Brown and other thoughts

The democrats seem to be thinking that the cessation of SNAP payments will pressure the republicans into caving and okaying the Obamacare subsidies. So let me get this straight, the caring sensitive party on the left is hoping that the cold hearted, “let them eat cake” party on the right is going to be pressured by its base to extending benefits that they have never supported in the first place? Does this make sense to anyone except the congressional democrats?

Tariffs, socialism, rent controls, minimum wages, industrial policy all bad ideas that never die. Schumpeter said that capitalism generates enough abundance to support a large class of intellectuals lacking in practical skills who feel underappreciated in a market economy. Bernie Sanders, AOC, The Squad, and Mamdani are the poster children for Schumpeter’s observation. They can only exist and have appeal in a world of affluence and then seek its destruction. Mamdani wants everyone to have “free” stuff. But who pays for it? The usual shallow press is somehow saying that Mamdani is now the face of the democrat party. Only in their eyes. He could only be elected in places like New York, Boston, Chicago, Portland and maybe San Francisco. But he would be elected for only one term because his policies are destined to fail. Mamdani is not the face of the democrat party, writ large, no matter how much those on the far left and republicans would like him to be. The quickest way to kill the socialist movement is for Trump to declare that he is one.

Will Mamdani be worse than Bill deBlasio?

Have you noticed that no matter how poorly led are the big cities that they keep electing leftists? Explain Chicago to me. Do they really want their cities overrun with illegals? Or are they “sanctuaries” because they hate Trump?

Over 50,000 fans have already signed a petition demanding Bad Bunny be replaced by George Strait. George Strait? Good grief. Someone asked who would I want to see at the half time of the Super Bowl. I really don’t know since all my favorites are dead.

Finally went into a Buc-ee’s. It was 8AM on a Sunday morning driving back to Knoxville from the Georgia farm and stopped at the one at Union Grove. I got diesel for 20 cents a gallon less and I don’t think that I have ever seen so many gas pumps. Then I went inside and was stunned by the sheer size of the place. I wanted a biscuit. Their’s were being assembled by the hundreds on a production line that only lacked a conveyor belt. All were for meat eaters. I asked for one without sausage and was looked at as if I were speaking Induit. So I bought two and threw away the sausage. Really tasty biscuits and eggs. Even at 8 in the morning the place was a zoo. The sausage links, the fudge, hot sauces, tacos, burritos, the brisket, jellies and beaver chips! All the bric a brac was overwhelming. Beef jerky? I now know why there is a beef shortage. I can see why Buc-ee’s has a cult following but it’s probably not a vegan cult. I will probably start stopping there for diesel but not when the line of cars at the exit backs up into the interstate.

One of the benefits of Sirius XM radio is that you hear songs that somehow you missed way back when. Here is a James (the Hardest Working Man in Show Business) Brown song that was new to me. BTW my favorite James Brown LP is Live at the Apollo. My favorite single is “You got the power (with Bea Ford). It was the perfect blue light in the basement slow drag song when I was in high school. What is amazing is that the album “Star Time” is full of hits like Try Me, Bewildered, Night Train, It’s a Man’s World, Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Say it Loud (I’m Black and Proud) and Please, Please, Please. But this song is new to me. Amazing lyrics.

James Brown

From the LP “Star Time”

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get It Myself)

I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, I’ll get it myself
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself
Do you hear me?
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, I’ll get it myself

[Verse 1]
Don’t give me integration
Give me true communication
I don’t give me sorrow
I want equal opportunity to live tomorrow
Give me schools
And give me better books
So I can read about myself
And gain my true looks

[Hook]
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself
Do you hear me now now
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself

[Verse 2]
Some of us try
As hard as we can
We don’t want no sympathy
We just want to be a man

[Hook]
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself
Do you hear me?
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, I’ll get it myself

[Verse 3]
We got talents we can use
On our side of town
Let’s get our heads together
And build it up from the ground
When some of us make money
We forget about our people, huh, ha
Gonna forget about our honey

Forget about our honey
Do you know, look at here, hey

Come on, I got to have it
Come on, I need it
I got to have it
Come on, I got to have it

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy
Play with your bad self
Come on, baby, come here come here
Got to get myself together
So many things I got to do
So many things I got to see
I don’t need no help from you
Tell everybody, mighty hell
All of these things, baby, ha
I got to do it myself, come on
Hey!

I gotta have it
I, said I, said I, said I, said I, I

[Verse 4]
We’ve used our sweat and blood
Put out every fire, and block up every flood

I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, I’ll get it myself
Do you hear me?
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, I’ll get it myself
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself

[Verse 5]
I’m not gonna tell you what to do
I’m not gonna raise a fuss
But before you make another rule
Let’s start by taking care of us

[Hook]
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself
Do you hear me?
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself

[Verse 6]
Kids, get that education
And don’t you take no bar
Cause we’re gonna get this thing together
And you got to get them all

[Hook]
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing
Open up the door, open up the door
Open up the door, open up the door
Open up the door, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
I don’t want nobody to give me nothing

Open up the door, huh, I’ll get it myself
Ha!

[Outro]
Can you dig the groove?
Can you make the move?
Can you dig the same?
Can you make me play?
Can you dig the groove?

Wow! Can we get an Amen?