Pet Peeves Deserve Time and Attention Too

Sixty-eight percent of American households, or 85 million families, own a pet according to a 2017-18 National Pet Owners survey. 

Considerably more families than that feed what are commonly known as “pet peeves.” 

Unlike most pets, pet peeves don’t usually require spaying or neutering, although the pet peeve owner may require some other form of professional treatment.  Without taking specific preventive action when an owner’s “pet” is peeved however, howling at the moon or leaving little “surprises” in the neighbor’s flowers can be expected. 

There is no law how many pet peeves an owner can have, but there appears to be a co-relation between advancing age and the number of pet peeves one can successfully manage. 

For instance, below are three of my pet peeves… 

Pet Peeve #1 

The phrase “It is what it is” is like fingernails on my mental chalkboard. Whatever “it” is, logically “it is what it is” because what else could “it” be?! What it isn’t?!  

Does the validity of the phrase, “It is what it is” depend upon what the meaning of the word “is,” is? What if “it” isn’t what it is? If that’s the case who can we appeal to and does it entitle us to a reward or reparation? 

Pet Peeve #2

The phrase “people of color.”  As astute readers have been reminded ad nauseum by “The Squawk Squad,” all four of the loquacious quartet are “women of color.”  

News flash: Every person is a “person of color,” and last I looked “white” is still a color.  

When Palestinian princess Rashida Tlaib or Minnesomolian Ilhan Omar whine their policies are under attack because they are women of color, couldn’t Tennessee’s junior senator Marsha Blackburn or Wyoming Representative Lynn Cheney say the same thing when their policies are criticized? 

Does darker skin pigment mean your legislation is “lily white” and can’t be criticized?  Conversely, does being white mean your ideas are automatically offensive to “colorful” woke legislators Who makes the rules in this game? Crayola? 

Pet Peeve #3  After every mass shooting (in Philadelphia it was while the shooting was still going on) Democrats never miss an opportunity to call for tighter restrictions on the gun rights guaranteed to us in the Second Amendment.

In other words, they seek to punish, inconvenience, and make law abiding gun owners less safe due to the illegal actions of a solitary shooter.

Enacting new gun restrictions after every mass shooting is like requiring all licensed drivers take a remedial driving class, renew their driver’s license and pay more for their auto insurance after every hit and run fatality.

The fact that almost all of the mass shootings take place in gun-free zones should be a clue that regardless of gun restrictions, the perps planning to shoot could care less about gun laws – thereby nullifying the “let’s-pass-another-guns-restriction” law. 

Even worse, restricting the rights of legal and legitimate gun owners gives those contemplating mass murder more power and incentive because it is less likely anyone will be shooting back – thereby nullifying the “lets-make-it-harder-to-buy-guns-legally” law. 

These are three pet peeves that wake me in the middle of the night wanting out. What are yours? 

Thanks for reading Dean Riffs. Welcome to all those who love American liberty, free enterprise, and who believe God has blessed our country.  

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Copyright 2019, Dean A. George©

Socialist Scout Troop #666 Cookie Sale

Everywhere you look there are visuals of the Squawk Squad doing what they do best – squawking about pet peeves that they whine are endangering our constitutional liberties.

Here is a partial list:

  • Trump is acting like Hitler;
  • Trump is racist and is enabling racism;
  • Undocumented children are being held in cages;
  • Border Patrol and ICE are acting like Nazi concentration camp guards;
  • The country hasn’t passed the New Green Deal because Americans are racists;
  • Boycotting Israel is the same as boycotting Nazi Germany;
  • We need a $20 minimum wage to afford milk and eggs;
  • Taxpayer funded abortions should be made available to all illegal immigrants.

The last place I expected to see the Squirrely Squawk Squad was fundraising at a roadside stand but as we all know, these socialistic gal-pals will appear anywhere there are cameras and a crowd..

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was ready for her closeup – waving her arms like a loon, spouting economic gibberish and mauling World War II analogies.

Ilhan Omar was fantasizing about being Audrey Hepburn in a hijab and cursing Israel and President Trump.

Rashida Tlaib was stomping around shouting epithets and saying she was going to “impeach” the motherf#%$&#! every 10 words.

Ayanna Pressley – was denouncing black faces that don’t sound black and brown faces that don’t sound brown and white faces who always sound racist.

In their “Kookie” tent each member of the Scurrilous Squad had their own personalized cookie they were promoting:

Alexandria Opportunist-Coronado was pushing a graham cracker cookie covered in chocolate and marshmallow because she’s always wanting s’more and s’more of our money.

Incestuous Ilhan Omar was peddling camel caramel chocolate chip cookies (Don’t ask about the camel ingredient.)  She said cookies for Jewish and Christian customers came with a “Somali surprise” in lieu of chocolate chips, and a hint of sea salt reflecting her spicy Somali personality.

Rashida #$%#%^! Tlaib favored a tangy lemon-iced cookie powdered with hummus, olive oil and Palestinian pine nuts.  Each cookie contained a fortune: a favorite Tlaib Palestinian epithet.

Aryan Pressley raved about her skinny cookie which was a round, mint-flavored cookie coated in chocolate. Pressley’s cookie had a special ingredient:  a Boston Bean extract that conjured hallucinations that make Pressley sound like Oprah Winfrey when speaking in public.

Cookie prices were available in three tiers:

Undocumented immigrants – FREE
Brothers and Sisters of Color – Whatever you can afford
White skinned and tanned Caucasians – $5 per cookie or $65 a dozen.  NO CRACKER CHECKS!

The Mob Squad sold all their cookies before noon when a PBS limousine spotted them, bought all their inventory and announced plans to give single boxes away in their next fundraiser to donors pledging $500 or more.

Thanks for reading Dean Riffs. Welcome to all those who love American liberty, free enterprise, and who believe God has blessed our country. 

Sources: Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, The D.C. Shorts, Breitbart, Now This News

Copyright 2019, Dean A. George©

RU Smarter Than the Squawk Squad?

Are you smarter than a frosh congressperson?

Four progressive congresswomen who believe their mandate is to continue the Obama legacy of “transforming America” are pushing their party so far to the left, it’s in danger of reshaping the Democrat Party as a keto-free Cuba (low carb savings with lots of high fat government spending.)

Affectionally labeled “The Squad” by the mainstream media and “The Squawk Squad” by real journalists, its members include: 

  • Somali immigrant and anti-Constitutionalist Ilhan Omar who immigrated here as a teen and now pines for the peace and tranquility of her native Somalia;
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former Brooklyn bartender who became a socialist because she likes using social media;
  • Rashida Talib, a Palestinian from Michigan who can out-cuss the entire U.S. Navy and pledged to impeach President Trump her first day in Congress, and;
  • Ayanna Pressley, the newest squad member who says we need to beg forgiveness from those coming here illegally for detaining them during processing.

True or false: Minnesota Democrat Representative Representative Omar, who allegedly committed immigration fraud by marrying her gay brother, along with passport fraud, campaign fraud and tax fraud by claiming to be married to someone else while married to her brother, recently warned President Donald Trump, “I am fighting corruption in OUR country?”

True or false: New York Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocrisis-Catastrophe said this: “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right.”  

True or false: Michigan Dem Representative Rep Rashida Talib said this: “Concern for ‘national security’ has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident.” Translation: It’s making illegals permanently living here illegally anxious.

True or false:  Rep Omar once referred to the 9-11 terrorist attack that killed 3,000 people as “something” that “some people did?”

True or false:  Rep Omar recently told attendees at a Philadelphia conference: “I believe, as an immigrant, I probably love this country more than anyone that is naturally born.”

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Multiple choice: Michigan Democrat Representative Talib illegally listed her father’s Detroit address on her candidate application, which according to her own father was a lie.  In truth Ms. Talib lives with her family in:

a) The Gaza Strip

b) The Serengeti

c) Dearborn

d) Tel Aviv

Multiple choice: Ayanna Pressley is Massachusett’s first black female U.S. Representative and the newest member of the Squeak Squad.  What exactly is “The Squad?”

a) A quartet of women of color who thinks everything is all about them;

b) An amateur Capella group that likes to sing the blues and howl at the president whether or not there’s a full moon;

c) Four elected representatives who are convincing registered voters that global whining is the biggest threat to American democracy;

d) All of the above.

Multiple choice: Who said the following: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel?”

a) Louis Farrakhan

b) Joy Behar

c) Harvey Weinstein

d) Ilhan Omar

 

Multiple choice: Who recently said (ironically while standing in front of a mirror practicing their  “Squad” poses), “This is what racism looks like?”

a) The Average White Band

b) Alexandria Odoofus-Confirmed, Rashida “Palestinian Girls Just Want to Have #$%#! Fun” Talib, Ilhan “I Married My Gay Brother” Omar, or Ayanna “Diversity Diva” Pressley

c) The United Nations Human Rights Council

d) The Coca-Cola Polar Bear

Multiple choice: Which two people have a higher favorability rating than freshmen (er, salty freshwomen) Ilhan Omar (9 percent)and Alexandria Obother-Whatever (22 percent):

a) Loki and Thanos of the Avengers

b) Nancy Botoxi and Chuckles Schumer

c) Lex Luthor and The Joker of Justice League

d) Dr. Josef Mengele and Kermit Gosnell  

e) All of the above

The correct answers to today’s true/false and multiple choice questions should be obvious to regular readers of this blog.  To those who are new to Dean Riffs, just choose the opposite answer of what is regularly reported on CNN and MSNBC.

Thanks for reading Dean Riffs. Welcome to all those who love American liberty, free enterprise, and who believe God has blessed our country. 

Sources: USA Today, The Gateway Pundit 

Photo sources: grondamorin.com GOPUSA.com, theguardian.com

 

Copyright 2019, Dean A. George©

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