There's a restaurant in town

 That has huckleberry glazed bacon.

In comes in a cup like this, only huckleberry glazed.

Holy crap.  It should come with an addiction warning.

Call your mother

 If you're lucky enough to still have her on this planet.  And if not, maybe find a mother you know and do something nice for her.

Happy Mother's Day.

Busy weekend

 Starting today I'm going to be busier than a dog with two dicks.  I'll post when I can.

In the meantime, I got this from Dr. Robert Malone.  I'm subscribed to his newsletter, because when a guy who's name is on the patent for mRNA vaccines starts talking about how you shouldn't be taking the Kung Flu jab, I tend to listen.

So, a couple of my Soldiers work in law enforcement type jobs

 They're not cops, but they deal with crime issues.  Not gonna say more because I'm not going to put them out on any kind of social media.

We read about this story yesterday.  And all three of us immediate said "gang related".  One of my guys said "I'll bet my paycheck there wasn't one white person at that party."

One of the deceased was named "Philstavious".  Yeah.  I think my Soldier's paycheck is safe.

Trump should have gotten on Gab

 Truth Social wasn't going to be able to compete.  The field is just too crowded, and there's only so many people his personality was going to drag along with him.

“Truth Social’s monthly web and desktop visits reached a high of 11.5 million visitors in August 2022 but have been on the decline since then, falling to just 5.7 million in February,” according to Similarweb stats quoted in a Bloomberg report on Wednesday.

Twitter, Truth Social’s inspiration and rival, had 6.1 billion visits in the same timeframe. I wouldn’t even hazard a guess how people like me, who for work must keep multiple Twitter tabs open in Tweetdeck virtually 24/7/365, add up in that figure. Journalists and opinion writers don’t visit Twitter so much as we’re always there.

I write for a certain blog that generates more traffic than Truth’s social media platform does and for another one that’s closing in on it. To put it bluntly, a social media platform can’t thrive with blogger numbers.

When Twitter banned Trump in 2020, the founder of Gab Andrew Torba archived ALL of Trump's tweets and told Trump that he could have it all on Gab.  Trump decided that he could do it better himself.  As we're seeing, that's not quite the case.

I have nothing against Truth Social.  I just have no interest in using it.  

Drooling Joe and his classified documents

 Is anyone shocked that Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants left classified shit just lying around?  Anyone?

And is anyone shocked that the fucking jack-booted Gestapo gave him the kiddy-glove treatment rather than the full Mar-a-Lago?

The only real satisfaction anyone on the right is going to get from this whole bullshit situation is watching someone throw Drooling Joe's words in the fact of his professional liar.  And can we admit that the professional liar we're speaking of is not only one of the most incompetent professional liars but also one of the dumbest.  Of course, that may just be due to who she works for, and also because of muh diversity.  Why did she get the job?  Because she's black and gay.  

That's it.  Kinda like why Mayor Pete Booty-judge got the job as Transportation Secretary.  He was gay.  That's it.  That's his entire list of qualifications for the job.  Hey, how's that working out for the country, eh?  Anyone enjoy their flight delays from yesterday?  But boy, Pete Booty-judge is laser focused on what really matters:  Language.

Fuck it.  I'm on day ten in a row and I'm fucking tired.  All I can do at this point is watch the shitshow unfold and buy more ammo.

Blah.

 

SSDD

 Same Shit, Different Day.

Anyone remember when the New Year came around and you spent about a week trying to not write the old year on your checks?

For any Millennials reading this, checks were what we used before debit cards.  Look 'em up.

The winter storm

 Some thoughts on what's going on in parts of the country.

In the late 1970s and early 80s I lived in such a part of the country, near a big lake.  There was no fuel injection; our cars had carburetors. By then we had advanced to the point that the choke was electric and "set" itself when it was cold with a slight press of the pedal.  There was no electric fuel pump; it was driven by the engine.  You got in the car, pumped the pedal once or twice so the accelerator pump would squirt the raw gas in the carb bowl into the intake, pressed it slightly one last time and released to make sure the choke was set and turned the key.  If you did it right for the conditions and your battery was in decent shape the car would start, often firing on two or three cylinders originally and running extremely rough for the first few seconds until the rest of them lit up.  If you got it wrong and flooded it you were screwed as there was insufficient battery power to keep cranking for very long, and if you left a discharged battery out in that cold it was very likely to freeze and split.  Thus if the car failed to start you better either be able to get an immediate jump or have the tools to remove said battery and bring it inside so it wouldn't freeze!

I didn't have a garage; that was a luxury and I had no money.  I was a young man.  I had to park outside.  After said car started you cleared the snow off (frequently a foot deep) and then you had to wait until the engine warmed up enough that you had cabin heat.  Not for yourself; you had on a winter parka and long underwear under your pants but rather for the defroster because if you didn't wait the first time you exhaled your breath would freeze on the INSIDE of the windshield and you couldn't see a damned thing.

Phones were connected with wires and the closest one required a quarter to be deposited in the slot and was probably 10 or more miles away once you got in said car and started driving.  There was a zero chance of you reaching it if you got out in 0F conditions and attempted to hike that; you were dead if you tried that stunt.  If you went off the road and into the piled-high snow, often by February 10' in height on both sides of said road, that had been previously removed from said road by twin-augur snowthrowers on the front of a dump truck filled with sand you'd be lucky if someone realized that hole was made by a car and the car is still in there; there was no way to call for help so your only hope was another vehicle that noticed as if wherever you were going called in your lack of arrival figuring out where you balled it up in those conditions was not going to be easy.  You were quite carful to not have that happen because if it did they'd probably find your dead body in April.  The mailboxes on said roads were hung on tall cantilevered chain rigs that would swing out of the way when hit because otherwise the first time said snow removal device came by it would destroy the mailbox.

You never went anywhere without good (ski-style) gloves in the winter months either on your hands or in the car, and you never went anywhere in the winter months without adequate clothing which included a thick knit hat for your head, gloves and emergency supplies in the vehicle, including plenty of blankets or other means of keeping warm (I was a broke young man so a pile of blankets it was; I didn't have money for a cold-rated sleeping bag/bivvy sack), a source of minor heat (e.g. a candle and means of lighting it), and a small tin or other similar thing plus a set of road flares so IF you were off the road you could lay a trail TO YOU from the road and increase the odds someone driving by would see it, especially at night -- assuming you could walk between the points, that is, which was by no means reasonably assured as there were no such things as airbags either so if you crashed odds were high you were BADLY hurt.  Why the candle and plenty of matches?  The candle wasn't for heat for you; it was to melt snow in said tin so you could drink it without killing yourself via hypothermia, and the means of keeping warm without energy was so if you had a mechanical breakdown and could not use the engine for heat, or had an extended problem and ran out of gas you didn't die.

He goes on.  Do go read the whole thing.

I would note that several of the people who died up near Buffalo died of carbon monoxide poisoning.  That means that they were running their car to keep the heat on, but they didn't clear the snow away from their tailpipe and the exhaust fumes came right back into the car.

Good times make soft men.

Both the wife and I have emergency supplies in our vehicles.  We grew up in colder climates.  We understood that snow and cold could kill you dead, and you had better be prepared.  Every winter you went through a list of things that needed to happen if you got stuck, and one of those things was that you got out of your car and dug out your tailpipe, so that if you needed to run the car you weren't sucking on your own exhaust fumes.  Apparently that little tidbit of information hasn't made it down to later generations.

I don't have any answers.  All I have is my own knowledge, and my attempts to pass it along.  But I'm willing to bet that many of those people died because of their lack of preparation and their lack of knowledge.

Any new news?

 I was on my feet from 0730 to 1800 yesterday, got home in time to grab the wife and run off to a friend's house for whiskey and cigars, then woke up early so I could head out again.

I see that Elon Musk is releasing even more files that show the Fucking Bastards of Ignominy were essentially running who got banned from Twitter.  I repeat my call that every three-letter agency in D.C. needs to go.

Trump sold some NFT trading cards of him drawn rather cartoonishly.  Not a good look.  I saw a video of Steve Bannon saying whoever convinced him to do that needs to be fired immediately.  And Steve Bannon is about as hard-core a Trump guy as you can find, so this isn't some squishy RINO bitch saying it.

Speaking of squishy RINO bitches, is there any political establishment who hates its voters more than the GOP?  

And is there worse political leadership than the GOP at this point?  I've had a couple tabs open on my browser for a while relating to the bullshit election in Arizona.  Fraud and Corruption.  The 2022 Arizona election fraud.  The fraud and corruption are so bad, so in-your-face, that the only people still trying to deny it are the ones who benefit from it.

So why the hell isn't the GOP out there fighting like mad?

To ask the question is to answer it, I guess.  RINOs don't benefit from people who put America first and actually stand on their principles.

Anyways - gotta run.

UPDATE:  Blogging without adequate coffee results in spelling mistakes.  Just so ya know.

Daddy issues

 So I'm dealing with a few organizations that claim to be fraternal.  Two-wheeled organizations.  Brotherhood and all that shit.

Fucking daddy issues is what it is.

I won't name the groups because I just don't want to deal with the fucking drama.  But holy crap, people.  I've never seen so many grown adults transform into whiny, snot-nosed babies so fucking quickly.

When I was stationed in Virginia, I was asked by an MC to be a prospect.  I spent one night hanging out with them.  In that one night I had to try to keep one person from going off the rails and spent two hours outside in the winter night watching over my buddy who was talking down a drunk from essentially fucking his life up beyond repair.

Needless to say I didn't go back.

I think I like life as an introvert far better.

I have a cheap sweatshirt I bought over a decade ago.

 Went to visit my brother in Boston.  Did the tourist thing back in 2010, and at some point stopped at a street vendor and picked up the sweatshirt.  I think it was 2 for $25 so I got one for me and one for the wife.

I still wear them to this day.  They're a little worn, but useable.  Not coming apart.

I bought a sweatshirt a couple of months ago.  Says "Army" on it and I wanted to rep my branch so I paid about $35 for a single sweatshirt.  The bottom edge of it is unraveling already.

I have no idea where my Boston sweatshirts were made.  Probably China, because two sweatshirts for twenty-five bucks was pretty damn cheap even in 2010.   But they're still doing strong while my brand new sweatshirt is already coming apart.  I'm going to do some hand-stitching on it to keep it alive for a while longer, but what the hell?

Anyone else dealing with crap like this?  I expect a $35 piece of clothing to last longer than a couple of months.

Soooooo, it's Friday

 Why the hell am I seeing college football all over the place?  They couldn't wait one more day to play on their usual time?

Meh.

Basil Hayden Dark Rye

 Oh.  Mah.  Gerd.  It's so damn good.  Pairs well with a good, spicy cigar.  Holy crap I need to get more of that.

MyPillow

 No, it's not a political post.  I actually bought a MyPillow a couple of months ago.  I'd been using a combination of three pillows for a while, trying to find a way to get comfortable.  Finally I decided "What the hell, let me try this thing."

I bought the king-sized extra firm.  It showed up, along with a copy of Mike Lindell's book that he gives away with an order.  You unroll it and toss it in the dryer to get it to fluff up.  I put a pillow cover on it, put it on the bed, and gave it a try.

I can tell you that my wife noticed a decrease in snoring right away.  It was comfortable.  You can wash it and dry it.  Fluff it at night and it's good to go.  I haven't bothered with any other pillows since I bought it.

All in all, I'd recommend it.  It's a damn good pillow.  Just make sure you get the right size and right fill for you.  I haven't tried any of his other things, but I'd buy a MyPillow again in a heartbeat.

Well, THAT'S new!

 The wife took this picture outside my parents house this morning.

I can promise you that when I was a kid, those things didn't live around here.  So they either got pushed here from somewhere else, or the population has gone up quite a bit in Idaho.

This whole "NyQuil Chicken Challenge" that people are worried about

 Folks, it's called "Natural Selection".  Sometimes you just have to let the stupid people die off.

Probably because American food is crap

 And too many Americans don't know how to cook proper food.  

I came upon this one tweet from an American guy who just traveled to Europe for a vacation. While he was there, he lost weight and felt great. The moment he came back home to the US, he got sick feeling. Why?

Most American food is crap, plain and simple.  Fucking soy is in EVERYTHING.  So is corn syrup, which your body can't really digest.  Sugar in multiple forms.  Everything is way too sweet.  Seed oils like Canola, Safflower, all those expeller pressed tubs of poison that we pour into everything.  Shortening, also known as cottonseed oil that's been hydrogenated.  That shit does straight into your arteries and stays there.  

90% of fast food has all the horrible shit in it.  Fried foods using seed oils instead of beef tallow as God intended.  Processed to hell and gone until it doesn't resemble anything natural.

And then if we're not eating out, what do Americans do?  Grab boxes and bags of processed food and make that shit at home.  Have you looked at the ingredients in that crap?  You can't pronounce half of them without a degree in chemistry.

And the sad fact is that you can make much healthier food from scratch if you just spend five more minutes.  Even mac and cheese.  I love making that from scratch.  It's not difficult.

So yeah.  American food is crap, unless you're being VERY selective about what you get and you make it yourself.

Cheesy but true

 

So I'm just gonna toss this out there

 But if you elect some dude who has a name that you can't pronounce, there's probably a good chance you're living in a Democrat run shithole.

Also, Jackson, Mississippi was a shithole for a long long time before they elected the current Democrat.  When your city has been run by Democrats for nearly a century, you're going to be a second-class city and a first-class shithole.

That is all.