Squawkbox – July 31, 2025

Rickover used the following seven rules for success: Practice continuous improvement; hire smart people; establish quality supervision; respect the dangers you face; training must be constant and rigorous; audit, control and inspect, and learn from past mistakes. More folks need to follow these rules.

List the mayor’s office as a “cooling station” and make all utility complainants forced to stand in long lines go the Albany Utility manager’s office with thermostats set at 78, like mine. New motto for Albany problem solution management: “Feel it to fix it.”

Does the right-wing not know that their leader was part of the liberal elite before he became president? 

I wonder what Robert Burns would say about Trump’s visit to Scotland? Not sure, but I did note the headlines from one of their leading newspapers “The National:” The banner front page headline: “Convicted U.S. Felon to Arrive in Scotland.” We don’t allow the admission of felons to our country. Wonder when he tries to re-enter if ICE will do their job.

A man told me at the recycle center that they don’t take plastic bags. I told him that’s sorry as h*ll.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedoms concerning assembly and the right to petition the government. People can protest, but not in a way that endangers public safety or disrupts essential services.

Amen, Mark Chesnutt. This so-called “new country” is awful; sad to say our boy Luke Bryan is a big part of it. I can’t wait until your show, to hear and see some real country.

I laughed out loud at your story about the would-be racecar driver on downtown streets, Carlton. I’m just amazed that these clowns race around town with impunity, not concerned in the least that they’ll be bothered by our crack law enforcement teams.

Is it just me, or does anyone else notice that there are kidney dialysis clinics on every other block in Albany? Looking at all the fat folks walking around town, though, I guess I understand the need for them.  Albany must hold some kind of world record for kidney disease.

I’ve loved watching baseball all my life. This crap the Atlanta Braves have displayed this year is not baseball. Clean house!

Just when things start looking the bleakest they’ve been in years, along comes the story about the wonderful work Mary Carter is doing in her hometown. Thank you for your work, Mary. We need a whole lot more like you, especially in our pathetic government commissions and boards.

All of my religious Republican friends have gone underground since they found out the True President was running around with Epstein. 

In an ironic, convoluted sort of way, Trump and his supporters are giving me comfort in my old age. I always thought I’d fear death more than anything if I lived this long, but I don’t. It would actually be a relief, as I’d no longer have to witness what has happened to this once great nation. That troubles me far more than any health issue I have. That Man Without a Family