Got my Coronavirus briefing yesterday

You want to know what the top docs in the USA think?

Don't panic.  Wash your hands.  Stay away from infected people.

Look, the actual death rate of Covid 19 is essentially unknown, because it's hard to calculate percentages when a good portion of the people infected with the virus don't even show any symptoms!

Let me restate that:  At this point, at least 14% of the people infected with Covid 19 that they know of do not show any symptoms.  That means that the actual effect of this virus on a normal person's body is lesser than the seasonal flu.

That's not to say there are no problems.  This bug seems to hit older folks hard, and it hits a statistically significant percentage of males more than females.  But it's not Flubola that we're dealing here.  The fatality percentage being bandied about is 2-3%.  As the doc briefed yesterday, how can you make that claim when you know for a fact that there are thousands of people who got Covid 19 and didn't go to the hospital because it was just the sniffles and a sore throat?  That 2-3% fatality rate is based on the cases we know about, which is a remarkably smaller number than the cases we don't know about.

Also, what kind of condition were these folks in before they got this virus and died?  Is it taking down perfectly healthy adults?  The flu does that sometimes.  Or, is it as I suspect, that this virus is taking out the infirm and elderly, just like the flu does every year to less fanfare?

The greatest threat we face from this virus is not the physical effects on any person or group of people here in the USA.  The threat is from the fact that China, being a filthy, communist-run shithole who we've given ALL of our manufacturing capability, won't be able to supply the things they used to make but now cannot make because entire cities are quarantined.  We're going to take an economic hit, and maybe, just maybe, the right people will get a wake-up call.  But stop thinking we're all going to die.  We won't, not yet.

Don't panic.  Wash your hands.  Stay away from people you know have the virus, if possible.  And quite frankly, get outside if you can.  Fresh air and sunlight seem to be a better treatment for this virus than any man-made medicine.

If it weren't in Canada, I'd move there

No offense meant to my Northern Neighbors, but ya'll have a fucked up government, and I like my freedoms, even if they're under assault by the US government.



If Alberta and Saskatchewan ever decided to leave Canada, I think they might get an influx of Americans from the Midwest, tired of dealing with a bunch of socialist assholes.

I can't argue with this

Especially the part about America being sold out for the profit of the powerful.

I got nothing today

So have some Bill Whittle.



For the record, I think that if the liberal shitholes allowed the conservative counties to split off, it might delay the coming civil war.  But let's be honest, the whole point of being a "progressive" is the joy of controlling every aspect of other's lives.  The Leftist parasites will never give up their power over other people, not unless you pry it from their hands.  And even after you pry it from their hands, you have to battle to keep their hands from grabbing it back.  THIS is what the Democrat party has done.  This is why they want to round you up in cattle cars - if they can't control you, they'll kill you because they don't think you're worthy of living next to them, and your refusal to bow to their whims infuriates them to violence.

Chuck the Schmuck threatenes Supreme Court Justices live on TV

This fucking guy...

“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," Schumer said to a chorus of cheers. "You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

Apparently threatening the courts like the fucking commie he is doesn't play well in Peoria, so he's had to walk it back.  Me, I just think it's enough to say that if anything happens to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, we hang that fucking prick from a lamp-post on Pennsylvania Avenue.

He's mostly dead already.  It's just his love of Marxism and hatred of Trump that's keeping his corpse animated.

ERMAHGERD! CERONERVERUS!

How to tell if you have the corona virus!  Your eyes leak out of your skull!  Your brain jumps out of your head and crawls away!  You can see the actual live virus legions marching in waves across the floor to attack and infect other people!  WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!

Symptoms of the coronavirus - fever, cough, runny nose - are similar to those of the common cold or the flu.

(record scratch).

Folks, the hysteria over this whole thing is just one massive load of bullshit.  Some people might die.  They die from the flu every single year.  In fact, thousands of people die from the flu every year.  One of the guys in my office just took his kid to the hospital and found out he had pneumonia.  That happens too.  There is no reason to freak out about this.

And for the love of God, stop buying every single roll of toilet paper within a 25 mile radius.

People around here have lost their damn minds

The Mrs went to Costco the other day to pick up a few things.  She reported back that all the toilet paper was gone.

All.  Of.  It.  That aisle looked like a supermarket in Venezuela.  The bottled water was hit hard too.  Bottled water!  Folks, the water coming out of your tap is CHLORINATED, it'll kill any virus that might somehow make it in there!  We have to have a reverse osmosis filter to REMOVE all that chlorine.  Ain't nothing coming through those pipes alive.

We have a month's worth of poop tickets here at Casa de Rage, and now I'm wondering if that'll be enough because if people are freaking out and buying every single roll of TP within a hundred-mile radius right now, will they keep doing that as the news pushes more panic every single day in an attempt to bring down Trump?  Are there going to be houses with rooms full of toilet paper as the occupants run around in a panic because they refuse to turn off the TV?

Hell with it, we have a bidet.  I'll wash my ass clean every morning if need be.  The poor folks at Costco couldn't even begin to guess when they would have more TP in stock.  It's a freak-out like Y2K all over again.  I think some people aren't happy until they have something to panic about.

We always have enough food in the house for several weeks, just because you never know what Mother Nature is going to throw at you.  But I'm now looking around and wondering if I need to prep for more, because if people freak out like this over a virus that's the equivalent of a mild flu, then what the hell will they do if anything serious happens?

Donna Brazile lost her shit over fairly straight-forward comments

Eh, she's just a thin-skinned corruptocrat who carried Hillary Clinton's water and doesn't like to be reminded about it.

Brazile doesn’t want GOP interference in the Democrat primary races and that is clearly a reference to Operation Chaos type of voting that some Republican voters are doing Tuesday. But to deny that the superdelegates will get in there and muck things up for Sanders at the convention is just silly. We all saw what happened to Bernie in 2016 when he ran against Hillary. They were determined that Hillary have her coronation and then Trump, thankfully, squashed that Democrat fever dream in the general election.

Brazile made sure that Hillary had debate questions in advance, made sure that the Democrat Party super delegates voted for Hillary, and cleared the way for Hillary to run rough-shod over Bernie in 2016.  So her "Go to hell" moment now just rings hollow, because Brazile is nothing but a party hack covering for other party hacks.  I just want to see what McDaniel has to say back, because unlike the squishy wimps of previous years, McDaniel doesn't back down.

I laughed harder at this than I've laughed in a long time

I swear to you, I'm just a kid.  A big, overgrown kid who can buy whiskey.  So I find shit like this hilarious.

Don't click on that link unless you possess the same juvenile sense of humor that I do.

The USA has the least poverty in the world

Despite what lies the DNC tells, we're doing pretty damn good.

A few weeks ago Matt Yglesias published a tweet (since deleted, which I don't totally understand as I thought it was pretty innocuous from a Progressive viewpoint) saying that he wanted to spend more time focusing on "relative child poverty."  What the heck is "relative" child poverty?  I want to spend a bit of time discussing why this is a useless metric, helpful only if one want to try to sell socialism in the US.

Capitalism in the USA has lifted more people out of poverty than any other force.  Period.  Go check out the data he presents.

I just got a thrill up my leg

I saw this last night, but I couldn't stop giggling long enough to post it.  Pissy Chrissy Matthews, one of the worst loudmouths on TV, retired on air and walked off the set.

Maybe he was actually told he was going to be let go, maybe after the election. But maybe decided, the hell with that, I'll leave them without a host.

Another suspicion: MSNBC was happy to cover all this up until Matthews started taking on the progressive wing, and then leftwingers and Bernie Bros decided to cut him loose.

If this was another "Me Too" torpedo that circled around and blew up the side that launched it, that would be even better.  Chris Matthews was one of the worst, most partisan pieces of crap on TV.  I hope he spends his last days yelling at clouds and ranting to anyone who is unfortunate enough to be next to him about how that thrill up his leg that Obama gave him turned into the shakes because Orange Man Bad.

Bernie Sanders flies on Private Jets

Much like his communist heroes, who had their dachas on the lake, stuffed with food and booze, while the common people starved to death and waited in lines just to get shoes that didn't fit.

After getting shellacked by former Vice President Joe Biden in the South Carolina primary, the democratic socialist presidential candidate is said to have boarded the wrong private jet during a campaign stop on Saturday.

Am I opposed to private jets?  Nope.  What I'm opposed to is a communist who rails against "the rich" using a private jet.  You want your socialist paradise, comrade?  YOU FIRST.  Fly commercial, just like the rest of America, or shut the fuck up.

Hot tip: Allowing a drag queen to twerk on your pre-pubescent daughter will most likely send you to hell

We're in some fresh hell where a "mother" allows a sexual deviant to get fresh with her child.

This little girl is being traumatized by adults who should know better. The "dancing" this drag queen is doing with his bottom hanging out of his shorts is undeniably sexual. The child is sitting in the center of the room as the focus of this display just like any bachelor would sit for a lap dance from a stripper. Her face is a mix of confusion and discomfort while a woman, who I assume is the creature who birthed her, is standing next to her wiggling and giggling while she allows her child to be enticed by a scantily clad man.

Dave's Question #1:  Where the hell is Daddy, to take his daughter out of that cesspool and protect her from these deviant fucks?

Dave's Question #2:  If Daddy was around, meaning that "Mommy" didn't just use him as a sperm donor and breathing ATM, would it be a crime for Daddy to take "Mommy" home and spank her the way she needs to be spanked?  You want kink, my dear?  Let me show you my kind of kink.  You must be punished.  Severely.  You might want to not make any plans for the next few days until you can walk again.

If I was the father, and I saw my daughter being twerked on by some drag queen with his ass hanging out of his shorts, I would use that as exhibit #1 on my "Mommy" should lose all custody.  And yes, I keep using scare quotes around the word "Mommy".  That's because this female who squirted out a child has failed in the primary function of what a mother should do:  PROTECT YOUR CHILD.  That kid doesn't need a sexual deviant twerking on her.  That kid doesn't need to be sexualized in any way, shape or form.  That child, that pre-pubescent child, needs to be protected from that kind of garbage, which means that "Mommy" has utterly and completely failed as mother when she put her child front and center to be used in a drag-queen lap dance.

Lap dancing a pre-pubescent child is sexual abuse.  Period.  It's sexual abuse and it's grooming for more sexual abuse.

Ten bucks says that kid, when she grows up, is going to be banging anything that moves while partaking in drugs by the handful.  Because if "Mommy" can't be bothered to protect her from drag queens when she's a young girl, "Mommy" sure as shit isn't going to be doing any kind of actual parenting when she's a teenager.

Little Mayor Pete is out of the race

I don't think he ever had much of a chance.  He's a sanctimonious twit, and a flaming hypocrite besides.  I've had several gay friends in the past, and not a single one of them tried to use the bible to excuse their homosexuality like Little Mayor Pete.

Plus, what exactly has he ever done?  Nothing.  Which made his homosexuality the only thing he could truly wave around, and that makes him a token.

Buh-bye, Pete.  The world is a better place now that you're not running for President.

We went riding yesterday

It was supposed to be a warm day.  Up in the 60's.  It was not.  It was in the 40's, which isn't bad, but not optimal for a long ride

We rode up Ogden Canyon.  There was snow on the sides of the road and frozen waterfalls.  As we rode out of the canyon and began following the shoreline of the Pineview Reservoir, we saw people ice fishing.  They all looked up to see who the insane idiots on motorcycles were, and what the hell we were doing.  Here's the camera from this morning that shows the road we were on.  All that snow and ice was there yesterday.

We turned on to Trappers Loop, which runs in front of Snowbasin Ski Resort.  The pavement was dry, but there was snow everywhere else.

We made it to Morgan in time for my fingers to lose all feeling.  A stop for coffee got that feeling back.  First ride of the season.  The Mrs. was not too fond of me, but I made sure she had all the heating gear, so she fared better than I did.

We now know what kind of cold weather gear we need.  We thought we had everything covered.  We did not.

But now, the people who made this ride get to call everybody else a bunch of wimps for at least a year, until the next "First Ride of the Year".

The corona virus effects on shipping

PJ Media has a piece on it.  It's worth a read.  The bottom line is that you can expect a lot of prices to go up in the short term, possibly medium term.

As an aside, I've pushed my investments into purchasing more stock index funds.

Why?  Because I think the panic over this is just that:  a panic, but not really based on much other than the brainless hysteria of people who want to use this as an excuse to attack Trump and gain political power.


Lots more people are going to die in China.  China is a communist shithole where people starve to death while the political leaders eat well and don't care who dies.

It's in Iran.  Lots of Chinese going to Iran, and passing it to people who wipe their ass with their hands.  Sorry, but when a virus can be transmitted through fecal material, guess what?  Use toilet paper.

More people are going to die in countries that refuse to stop Chinese people from coming in.  Italy.  Lots of European countries.  South Korea.  If you allow plague rats to wander into your house, don't be surprised when you contract the plague.

It will eventually hit here.  We have a political establishment that refuses to close the border.  It'll come to Mexico, and it will then just walk across the border to the USA.  And then?  Well, who do you think a virus that is also transmitted through fecal matter is going to hit hardest?

People who don't wash their hands.  Who don't bother with sanitation or hygiene.  Who live outdoors with other people who publicly defecate.

If it gets a foothold in Lost Angeles, San FranShitShow, Seattle or Portland, you can expect to see significant numbers of homeless people die off.  Possibly some of the people around them.  But for people who wash their hands, who aren't smoking meth, who aren't shitting in public?  Low mortality rate.  Any real death counts coming from rural areas of America are going to be associated with the migrants and illegal aliens.

I don't think we're coming through this unscathed, but I don't think it's going to be as bad as people say it is.  As horrible as it sounds, this virus takes out people who cannot or do not have the faculties to take care of themselves, sanitation-wise.  Most other folks will catch a cold.  Which leaves most of America in a pretty good place.  So I'm not freaking out.  And I won't freak out.  Panic over a virus does nothing good.  Follow the advice of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide.

Don't  Panic.

We survived H1N1 under Barry Obumblefuck, and that was a screw-up of massive proportions.  If you could have done something wrong, the Jug-Eared Fuckwit did it.  We at least have a President now who doesn't fuck around and calls a spade a spade.  He also accurately calls the news agencies currently running around with their hair on fire the "Fake News".  None of the Fake News bothered to do any research of what happened under Barry Obumblefuck (and it happened with their blessing, and full participation to cover up the negative effects, so they actually do know what happened but they won't tell you that).

Don't panic.  Wash your hands.  Stop touching your face.  Wash your hands again.  And don't panic.

I'd buy one

And it's sub-$1000, which means if you're out in the woods and a grizzly bear eats it, you won't cry.

The reason Ilhan "I married by brother to commit immigration fraud" Omar refuses to say she's an American is because she's not an American

She's not really an American, and she never will be.

Apparently, one of her challengers doesn't have that problem.

“I am an American,” wrote Republican Dalia al-Aqidi, a former Iraqi refugee who hopes to replace Omar in representing Minnesota’s 5th  Congressional District.

“That’s why I’m running for Congress,” al-Aqidi added.

Ilhan Omar is an embarrasment to this country.  It's an embarrasment that she was ever brought here and allowed to grow her hatred of the country that saved her from a shithole Islamic caliphate.  It's an embarassment that she was elected to Congress simply on the basis of being Terrorist Barbie.  Thanks, Minnesota!  And it's an embarassment that she continues to vomit forth her hatred of America, Israel, and any country that doesn't conform to her 7th century barbarian ideals.

Ilhan Omar is representative of what's wrong with this country.  It should come as no shock that she's a surrogate for Bernie the Crazy Commie.

New Rule

If your comment or your name has a link to a porn site, I'm just going to spam it.  I'm already foul-mouthed, bad-tempered and crude.  I don't need any more bullshit attached to this site.

Top. Men. The CDC didn't test a Coronavirus case in Kalifornia for days

Yeah, sure, why would you want to test a possible virus case in a state with a high Chinese population and massive illegal immigration, anyways?

Seriously, these are the people who will keep us safe?  Gosh, I feel better already.  Hey, government is just a name for the things we do together, right?

Or maybe, just maybe, when you have a HOSPITAL smack dab in the middle of one of the largest ex-pat population of Chinese people in the world asking for a Coronavirus test, YOU GIVE THEM THE FUCKING TEST!

Our government bureaucracy is so full of idiots and bullshit that it's a wonder that they manage to even make an announcement without killing someone.

Some small sanity finally takes hold

Aliens who are sucking on Uncle Sugar's tit get worried that they won't get a green card.

Good.  There's no where in the Constitution that says we have to pay for every free-loader to can make it to our shores.

And more seriously, by taking tax dollars( that have to be borrowed because we're over-spending) from citizens and using it to fund the constant inflow of non-citizens you are flat out committing theft.  Generational theft.  You are stealing from Americans who might not even be born in order to pay for them to live in a country that isn't America any more when they finally make it.

This country is under no obligation to pay for anybody else to live here.  Period.  And quite honestly, knowing what I do about Social Services, we shouldn't be paying a whole bunch of them, either.

Colleges do not educate, they indoctrinate

And to put it another way, far too many people don't go to college in order to get an actual education.  They go to get Credentials.  And those Credentials are essentially for sale to the right people.

Janavs, of Newport Coast, California, is among nearly two dozen prominent parents who have admitted to participating in the scheme by paying huge sums to people willing to cheat on entrance exams for their children or pretend their kids were star athletes for sports they didn't play.

Janavs admitted to paying the consultant at the center of the scheme, Rick Singer, $100,000 to have a proctor correct hertwo daughters' ACT exam answers. She also agreed to pay $200,000 to have one of her daughters labeled as a fake beach volleyball recruit at the University of Southern California but was arrested before the girl was formally admitted, prosecutors said.

All the rich people who got caught essentially buying their kids an entrance to the "right" schools?  Don't you think for a minute that this isn't a standard practice all over the country.  Do you really think that the Kennedys just happen to keep getting admitted into Harvard?  Do you really think they're that smart?  Have you seen the latest group of Kennedys talk on TV?

And this mom is an idiot as well.  Paying that much to get into USC?  Have you ever been to USC?  What is USC known for other than a good marching band and cheating in football?  I does make me wonder what the price was to get into a school that actually matters.  Stanford.  William and Mary.  Those types of schools.  Schools that actually have a reputation for scholastic aptitude, whether it's deserved or not.

Ho. Lee Crap.

Resources, people.  It's all about finding the right resources.  Like a cataloged list of Leftist bloodbaths throughout history.

And just like Epstein

Philip Haney did not kill himself.

Philip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official during the Obama administration who blew the whistle on shortcomings within his own agency, was found dead in California on Friday with a “gunshot wound” to the chest, several news outlets report, citing a statement from the law enforcement.

Although authorities have said the gunshot wound “appears” to be “self-inflicted,” stressing that the investigation is ongoing, 66-year-old Haney had been missing since February 19. and died from a gunshot wound to his chest two days later, Red State and Heavy reported.

"Gunshot wound to the chest".  In the middle of the California farmland.  That's like two gunshots to the head.

Isn't it amazing how many people the Left finds inconvenient somehow just manage to commit suicide at the most amazing times?  Like, right before he was going to publish another book about the crimes committed by the Obama administration?  Right before the election?

I don't care what any Leftist says - it's not suicide.  Philip Haney did not kill himself.

This is how they create slaves out of citizens

Step one:  Create government schools.

Step two:  Turn government schools into pits of Marxist insanity, but mandate that all kids have to go there.

Step three:  Destroy any ability to teach kids the basics (whole lot of blame to go around on this one).

Step four:  Announce that kids don't actually have to be proficient.

And you're left with a population that has not learned, and cannot teach themselves, and thus are entirely dependent on the government.  They'd better vote the right way, eh?  Or their monthly welfare check might just not come at all.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – High school students won’t have to be “proficient” in either math or English to graduate, under minimum required test scores proposed by State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria.

They will just need to know enough to do the most basic of jobs.

"The most basic of jobs".  Like vote for their government masters.  Public school is a disgrace, and you'd be better off throwing your kids into a pit of feral wolves and telling them to learn.  As Insty likes to say, Public School is simply child abuse.

Burn the Department of Education to the ground, and then salt the earth where it once stood.

It was warm enough to get on the bike yesterday

So the Mrs. and I took a little ride.  Nothing major, just a few miles and a gallon of gas, but it was awesome to get back out on two wheels.  We passed other motorcyclists here and there, and every one of us was wearing a big grin and waving at each other.

The Mrs. and I are currently in the search for a new church.  We tried a church yesterday that was close to home, and about the time the drums came in on the first hippy-dippy song, we both turned, looked at each other and shook our heads.  I may have found a Latin Mass about an hour South of here.  Maybe.  We'll see.

I kept away from the news this weekend.  Deliberately.  I didn't want to mess around with the world's bullshit while I had a weekend with the wife, and we enjoyed ourselves.  Took a little trip to Evenston to pick up my cigars, did a little cooking, finished my homework for the module I'm working on, and basically just relaxed and had a good weekend.  How was yours?

Sanders wins Nevada

Folks, at this point, Bernie Sanders is going to be the Democrat nominee.  The DNC is in full blown panic mode.

Sanders, as an "independent" socialist from Vermont, has never really been challenged on his views.  And because he always caucused with the Democrats, the media protected him.  When it's him against Trump?  They can't protect him as much, and they know it.  This dude had a man-crush on Fidel Castro and honeymooned in the USSR.  He's a loon who has never held a private job and yet is a millionaire who owns three houses while screaming about how evil the rich are.  And unless the DNC pulls another 2016 maneuver, he's going to be the winner.

And as the crazy commie with a cardiac problem rises, so do the boats of other crazy commies like AOC, Ilhan "I married my brother to cheat the INS" Omar, Rancid Tlaib or whatever the hell her name is, and the rest of the lunatic wing of the DNC who have essentially turned Nancy Pelosi into a botoxed, drunk figurehead who does their bidding.

I don't know how much I'm worried about 2020.  I'm worried about what comes after that.

Maybe the reason they want to disarm you is because then they can really do what they want to you.

I mean, given that incidents of Leftist rage and aggression are increasing, it's only logical that they would want you defenseless and unable to fight back.

According to police in Hobart, Indiana, a northwestern Indiana couple suffered a bout of road rage when they spotted two teenage boys with Trump flags attached to their bicycles. Their response was to run them off the road, potentially endangering the lives of the two minors, who are twins.

They attempted to run over to boys on bikes because of a Trump flag.

A flag.

The Left hates you and wants you to die.  Prepare accordingly.  Buy more ammo.

Ilhan Omar is a liar and a crook

But you knew that already, didn't you?

I really need to download Opera and get rid of this Microsoft Edge garbage.  It's to the point where I can't even get Edge to use the "quote" button on blogger here, so trying to pull quotes from a linked post doesn't work.  Microsoft Edge is garbage.  Period.

Anyways, the Daily Mail, a Brit paper doing actual reporting that the US Democrat Media Complex refuses to do, did actual journalism (unlike the American media) on Ilhan "Bro-Fo" Omar.  She married her brother in order to commit immigration fraud.  She lied, repeatedly, on her immigration application.  She's a fake American.  She should have never been brought to this country, and she should have her citizenship revoked for the lies and falsehoods she perpetrated.  At the very least, she should to go jail for her multiple crimes.

But we all know that Terrorist Barbie is a member of the favored class, so she won't get touched.  Just like McCabe, and Comey, and Clapper, and Brennan, and Clinton, and Holder, and Lois Lerner, and so on and so forth.  Democrats never go to jail for their crimes, because we don't have a fair system of justice in this country any more.  We have a system that rewards corruption and violence on the Democrat side, while punishing conservatives and their supporters for non-crimes.

GET OFF YOUR &^%(#@ PHONES!

Traffic was jacked up yesterday for miles.  We finally get past a point that has no meaning what so ever, and traffic clears up.  I manage to pass five or six cars that are clogging up the interstate.

They're all on their phones.  Texting.  Talking.  Doing something other than piloting their multi-ton vehicles.

GET OFF YOUR FUCKING PHONES, YOU PATHEIC SACKS OF SHIT!

It's bad enough that I'm surrounded by people who cannot drive on the best of days.  But to compound their idiocy by having mouth-breaking fucktards on their phones makes my blood boil.

Pushback on the indoctrination of the 1619 project

The Democrats never pass up an opportunity to show just how much they hate this country.

Absolute fucking bullshit

Not a single fucking chance this actually happened.



Oh, I believe that those documents no longer exist, but they were "lost" in the same way that I happened to "lose" my virginity as a teen-age boy.

The FBI has no credibility.  Any.  At all.  Zero credibility.  It is a garbage institution run by Democrats for the benefit of Democrats, and it's been exposed as such.  Burn it down.  You can't trust the FBI to follow their own procedures, and that means you cannot trust them to investigate anything or anyone.  Any investigation they conduct has to be considered either a political operation or the fruit of the poisoned tree.

Given how every single Democrat connected FBI person has skated on the multiple crimes they committed, there is absolutely zero chance that anyone will actually be punished for their "failures", which is to say their deliberate actions undertaken to cover up the larger crimes they committed in service to the Democrat party.

Trump's election has ripped the curtain away from the corruption at every single Washington D.C. institution.  There's not a single that's headquartered within Washington D.C. that I would trust, because they have all shown themselves to be partisan political Democrat agents.  They serve their socialist masters, not you, not America.

Can someone tell me how this is not Satanic?

Planned Parenthood murders babies.  After murdering those babies, they dig through the pile of human remains and pull out various body parts.  They sell those body parts for cash.  The US Government, through the National Institute of Health, buys those body parts with YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

Bravo to Judicial Watch for exposing this evil.  The lies that have been told by the defenders of Planned Baby Murder are legion, and when the videos came out exposing Planned Baby Murder as the body-part selling ghouls that they are, the lies and shrieking were ramped up to 11.  Because liberal women demand the right to murder babies so they can continue fucking random people without consequence.

And our government is using our money to push along this butchery.  At what point do we get to hang them from lamp-posts on Pennsylvania Avenue?

So a part of Oregon wants to break off and join up with Idaho

Huh.

Well, it would probably give Idaho another Representative in the house.  A conservative one, because Eastern Oregon is like the Central Valley in California - a conservative area dominated and abused by liberal fascists in the urban blight.  I don't see why not.  And we wouldn't be creating another state, so no worries about senators, or who gets to make their own state next.  I say go for it.

And don't tell me Portlandia would be sad to see those conservative folks go.  Portlandia hates conservatives and wants them to die.

Well, that was a long day

So enjoy a little Canuckian commentary on the protests going on up North.



Canadian protesters and water cannons.  Just a thought.

Turning dollars into sweet smoke

Went to the range today - got an invite from a co-worker who's a range safety officer at a local range.  Had plenty of time to sit down and get the sights dialed in.  Also had a steel plate target system, which allowed me to focus on accuracy AND time.  Yee haw!

Just an observation, you can get a steel plate to fall with 3-4 hits from a 22LR.

Now I need to buy more ammo.  That Ruger carbine will blow through a box of ammo pretty darn quick.  And it's so much fun....

Don't be stupid enough to send your kids off to colleges like this

If they want to be Leftist shitholes of fascism and hatred, let them do it without your money.

UMass Amherst has broken this promise to Louis. We have repeatedly filed grievances on his behalf against Peller and her co-actors and have been met with stony silence. Instead, Louis has been notified that the university is investigating another complaint -- by Peller against him.

Louis’ ordeal is a glimpse of the far left’s “cancel culture” as it pushes the Overton Window on free speech from Twitter bans to outright criminalization of dissent. We believe that more malicious prosecutions like Louis’s are likely; brought, at first, in progressive enclaves like Northampton where the far left holds real political power. Much as occurred in the Jim Crow South, authorities in such places are increasingly choosing to enforce their political ideology instead of the rule of law entrusted to them. The American left these days is unable to accept defeat under fair rules of play, whether in elections or in judicial proceedings. To avoid defeat, leftists will continue searching for ways to criminalize dissent.

There's no better way to waste your money and ruin your life than go to one of these fancy-schmancy schools that do not teach you anything of value, while you shell out six figures in cash for the pleasure of being indoctrinated.  And nobody needs to support the jack-booted thugs and nomenklatura that poses as "higher education" these days.  If you need a hard degree, go get a hard degree.  I wouldn't take a degree in the humanities right now if you paid me to do so.  
I know my parents weren't happy with me way back in the Dark Ages when I graduated high school, but looking back at my life I consider my choice to skip college and enlist in the Army to be the best choice I could have made.

We made 20 pounds of sausage today

So yeah, been a bit busy.  Bratwurst, Sweet Italian, Kielbasa and a beef sausage that we're experimenting with.  The beef sausage came out awesome, if I may say so myself.  The key is hot paprika.

Yesterday was a whole lot of cleaning, shopping and getting rid of things.  It's been a busy weekend.  Also got a sourdough starter started, so hopefully by next weekend I can make some sourdough bread.

I'm making a tool bag for my motorcycle.  I've dyed the leather black and green, although the green is so dark you won't be able to tell the difference unless it's in bright light.  Still got a ways to go on that.

I enjoy home things.

J. Christian Adams details the two-tiered justice system

Crap like this is just part why I'm voting for Trump again.  Actually, I'd drag myself through a mile of broken glass to pull the lever for Trump, especially because of crap like this.  Trump flicked the light on and we all got to see the rats scurrying.

This is what the President began to realize was happening at the United States Attorney office in the District of Columbia – biased justice.

It wasn’t just the Trump campaign being targeted for unequal justice by the US Attorney’s office.

Every time a corrupt Swamp Rat cries, the Baby Jesus smiles.

As government becomes more and more intrusive in medicine, I see this becoming the norm

A walk-in, same-day MRI clinic.

$399 for a same day MRI?  That's cheaper than some people's deductibles!

Getting the actual MRI takes about 30-45 mins and you’ll get your images and a radiologist report. Taylor is a board-certified radiologist specialist trained in Musculoskeletal Imaging at the Mayo Clinic, so you can trust the results you get.

Unless you've worked in the medical field, I don't think you can understand the special kind of hell that is government insurance.  Any kind.  Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, any medical insurance requires extra staff just to deal with getting reimbursements.  Tricare is the worst of them, but none of them are good.

Regular insurance is better, but that's not a glowing recommendation.

More and more doctors, once they get established, are starting medical clinics that are cash on the barrel.  Payment for services rendered, and insurance can piss off.  Trust me, if my choice was going through a doc and waiting, and still paying $500 for the deductible, or just walking into this clinic and paying $100 less?  I'm walking in.

This post at Insty's pretty much sums it up

Bill Barr says Trump tweeting about the DOJ is making his job impossible.

To which someone replies that maybe he should be tossing people in jail already, and then maybe Trump wouldn't have to tweet about the DOJ.

She's got a point.  We Normal Americans are watching people commit crimes that we all know would land us in jail in a red hot minute, and yet nothing happens to the politically connected in D.C.  Trump seems to be the only person putting anyone on blast for their blatant crimes.  And now you want him to stop?

Without Trump tweeting about it, do you think anybody would be talking about the conflict of interest that occurred in the Roger Stone case?  The blatant violation of a fair trial?

The only reason, the one, singular reason why anything is getting fixed in Washington D.C. is because Trump is tweeting about it, exposing the corrupt, pathetic pieces of shit in our government, and those corrupt pieces of shit are either fleeing from the light, or finally being forced to fix themselves.

I hope Trump never stops tweeting.

CASE IN FUCKING POINT:  DOJ won't pursue criminal charges against McCabe for lying to investigators.

McCabe, that Deep State lying fuckstain, lied his ass off at every opportunity, but he won't be charged with anything.  Can anyone out there list one of the charges they hit Roger Stone with?

Anybody?  Anyone?  Wanna take a guess?

Lying to the FBI.  So because Stone is a Trump supporter they throw the book at him, but one of the people who deliberately tried to destroy the Trump presidency and lied continually from the day Trump first took office, abusing his power every single day as they cooked up a fake Russia narrative, won't be charged with a fucking thing.  McCabe got fired for LYING, just in case you forgot.  He got caught LYING so badly that they couldn't even cover his ass, so he got shitcanned.  But now his Deep State buddies have determined that gosh, they just can't bring any charges against him despite doing just that to anyone connected to support of Donald Trump.

HEY THERE A.G. BARR!  DOES THIS MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO DO YOUR FUCKING JOB?!?!?!?!?!

The FBI lost any and all credibility years ago.  This is just the feces-crusted cherry on top of one gigantic shit sundae.  This is beyond laughable.  Why not just wear armbands with the DNC logo on them while you go about your Gestapo tactics there, Fibbies?  It's about the only thing you haven't done yet.

Stay Strapped, My Friends

Violent, homicidal Leftists are now attacking Trump supporters with a cane sword.

Victims reportedly told police that Whitehurst had approached them during their peaceful assembly with what was described as a cane sword. The assailant allegedly pointed the sword in their faces and made threatening statements, holding the blade 6 inches from their faces.

There are two outcomes if I'm in that crowd.  One, the good outcome, is that the cops show up to find me holding a gun on this fucking fascist turd while he's face-down in the grass waiting to be arrested.

Two, the bad option, is that I ventilate his ass for attacking me with a deadly weapon, and the cops show up to do the report.

There is no option where he attacks me with a sword and walks away.

We've moved on from "Democrats hate you and want you to die", we're now at "Democrats hate you and they want to kill you themselves".  Prepare accordingly.

Crap like this is why I don't give a shit about what Democrats have to say

Especially regarding the Roger Stone affair.

Under Obama and his radical attorneys general, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the Justice Department became a hotbed of political favoritism, pretty much from day one.

I have picked five examples of Obama's allies being protected from justice in various ways by his administration that Democrats didn’t give a hoot about… and when you read them, you’ll understand why.

Let's face the facts, shall we?  We no longer live in a country guided by the rule of law.  The rule of law no longer matters, as proven by the fact that Hillary Clinton is still a free woman despite her felonies, the FBI agents who lied on the FISA applications and lied directly to a FISA judge's face are not being prosecuted, the people who lied about RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA and then lied about Ukraine are not being prosecuted, the people who aided and abetted in the corruption in Ukraine are not being prosecuted, the NSC apparatchiks who spent three years lying to the President and undermining his foreign policy are not being prosecuted, and the examples keep going on.

Every time you turn over a rock, you find a Democrat committing crimes and getting away with it, because the people running the show don't want their friends to get in trouble.  But Roger Stone gets the book thrown at him, complete with a SWAT team dragging him out of his house, over what, again?  Lying to the FBI?  All the FBI does is lie, directly, to everybody's face, but gosh, don't you dare make one little mis-step to them or it's nine years in the slammer!  Yeah, Roger Stone's prosecution isn't poltiical at all, is it?  Sorry, my eyes rolled so hard they fell out and are on the kitchen floor now.

So now the Democrats are screaming about how four of their political hitman goon allies are resigning from the DOJ, and screaming that DJT is somehow perverting justice.

Even if that was the case, which it is not, I wouldn't really care.  I don't care about it because the concept of justice no longer holds any weight at the Federal level.  The Democrats destroyed that concept, and they continue burying its corpse on a daily basis.  

There is no such thing as Justice at the federal level anymore.  The Democrats killed it.  Maybe, just maybe, after a sufficient number of Democrat criminals are in jail, I'll believe in justice once again.  But for right now, it doesn't exist, and DJT could hang Democrats from lamp-posts up and down Pennsylvania Avenue and I wouldn't blink an eye.  The Democrats have done their best to destroy the rule of law.  They don't get to whine and snivel about the law anymore.

New Computer problems

Like....  a touch-screen.  Who the hell puts a touch-screen on a computer?  Why can't I get a laptop without a touch-screen?  Who the hell puts their grubby, greasy paws on a touch-screen when you have a mouse or track pad or whatever they use as an interface these days?

I went to wipe a smudge off my screen and the damn thing flipped to the next webpage.  Took me a bit to figure out why, and to find out that I even had one of these things.

Seriously, why the hell would you put a touch-screen on a computer?  Were there not enough fecal bacteria on your phone, and so you have to spread your disease in a new way?

The father of a coke-snorting stripper-impregnator came in FIFTH in New Hampshire

Oh, and he's been a member of Washington D.C. longer than I've been alive, but he'll fix all your problems.  Really.  Or not, since he's in single digits.

Joe Biden skeedaddled to South Carolina, his "black wall" of black voters, supposedly.  But he's an unlikable asshole, so no matter how many black voters vote for him in S.C., his campaign is pretty much toast at this point.  He's spent so much time getting his ass kissed in Washington D.C. that getting challenged on ANYTHING gets under his skin.  Hence his calling a lady asking a simple question a "lying dog-faced pony-soldier".

Seriously, at that point, he should have been done and over.  But the media is looking at Bernie Sanders coming down on them like a freight train and the DNC is tied to the tracks, and they're desperately trying to make Joe Biden into a thing again.  Sanders isn't just a disaster waiting to happen to this country, he's a disaster for the DNC.  With him at the top of the ticket shouting at clouds and promising free puppies that everyone else will pay for, he'll suck up plenty of votes from San FranFreakShow and New York City (currently the home of Comrade Willhelm, aka Bill DeBlasio) but voters in a lot of purple states are going to run away from him like he's Satan himself.  And the DNC knows it.  But the DNC has been sucking commie cock for so long that they can't just toss him aside without losing half their voting base.  Hell, the commies ARE the DNC, and everybody knows it.  Nancy Pelosi holds the title of Speaker of the House, but she's just a sundowning alcoholic at this point.  The real power is held by A.O.C. and the squad, as proven by the Democrat's headlong fling into the shampeachment.  Nancy didn't want that.  Even her wine-soaked, botox-paralyzed brain knew that shampeachment was a bad idea.  But A.O.C. and her crew wanted it, so they got it, because Pelosi is nothing but a washed-up commie desperately trying to hold on to her power and the millions of dollars her corruption brings her, so she caved.

Howdya like THEM apples, Nancy?

Lie-a-watha finished fourth, just a few points ahead of Creepy Joe.  Petey Butt-plug finished second, but we'll see how he does in the South.  I'd say there's no way in hell the USA would elect an inexperienced homosexual child of communists and Marxists who was raised in an environment soaked in America hatred, but we already did.  He just happened to be black, so that got the vote of the black community.

Get out and vote.  Remember, Trump doesn't just have to beat the Democrat who's running, he also has to beat the massive amounts of voter fraud that will be going on.  The Democrats got caught with their pants down in 2016 when they thought they had the election won, so they didn't push as hard on the fraud as they could have.  They won't make that mistake again.

There's a part of my job that requires I schedule training events

For anywhere from 50-100 people, depending on the units involved.  So not huge, not thousand-person events, but let's take a gander at some numbers, shall we?

Let's say I wanted to put on a training event in Portland, OR.  Just a hypothetical situation.

Training events for the USAR are mostly held in the summer time.  It's when kids are out of school, obligations are lower, so you can actually get Soldiers to an event.  Summertime per diem for Portland is $192 for lodging, $61 for meals, and $5 for incidentals.  That's per day.  So that's $258 per day, per person.

Going with my last training event that I held, we can assume 60-70 attendees.  Again, this is a rough number, but it gives you an idea.  So that's $15,480 - $18,060 being spent just on lodging and food.  And that's just for the attendees, not the staff, instructors, and various other costs.  And that's PER DAY.  Most of my training events are four days.  So the total amount of money being spent is $61,920 to $72,240.

That's a lot of money.  And again, that's not travel costs, or car rentals, or any other costs.  That's just one factor that I have to figure out when I'm holding an event.

But rest assured, there is not a single reason in the world why I would ever hold a training event in a shithole like Portland.  Portland used to be beautiful.  It is now a stinking, feces-ridden shithole populated by garbage people, run by garbage people, and controlled by fascist garbage.  I won't ever hold a training event in that shithole garbage city, because I'm not going to risk my people being assaulted by the screaming mobs that control the place.

You couldn't pay me to visit Portland.  Why the hell would I want to spend money there?

Proving the opposite

I don't look at AOC's degree and go "Wow, she must be so smart!"  I look at her degree and ask "How in the hell did a woman with the IQ of naval lint graduate cum laude, and what the hell is wrong with that school?"

Any education system that can produce someone as staggeringly stupid as Ocasio-Cortez is doing something wrong. Taxpayers are paying good money and getting dismal results.

I have long stopped being impressed by a fancy university degree, and now I'm simply disgusted at how horrible our education system has become.  That AOC is walking around with a degree in economics, and yet still doesn't understand how unemployment percentages are calculated, is a stunning indictment of Boston University and it's entire Economics department.  I bet her cum laude had a lot more to do with the cum than the laude, IYKWIMAITYD.

Is that crude and rude?  Good.  Because the other option is she got high honors due to a complete and total collapse of any standards formerly held at what used to be a prestigious university.

How Refreshing

Trump is proposing a budget plan that would balance the budget in fifteen years.

Anyone remember when Republicans used to care about a balanced budget?  Remember when the Republican party made statements every year about how we were plunging headlong into debt that we couldn't recover from?

Of course, it was all words.  When they had the House, Senate and White House in 2004, what did they do with it?  Spend, spend, spend, baby!  And Obama made them look like a piker with his spending, but by then they had stopped all pretense of passing a budget and just rammed through massive, bloated Continuing Resolutions every year.

Paul Ryan put the nail in that particular coffin, when he bent over and sucked Obama's dick like a good little pussy when he became Speaker of the House.  And even after Trump got elected in 2016, Paul Ryan refused to put forth a budget, or even have a fight about the budget, even with Republican control of Congress and the Presidency.

I honestly believe that this is part of the reason the Republicans lost control of the House in 2018.  Why the hell should any R get support when all the do is act like a D?  When Trump was elected, how many bills were ready to go for his signature when he sat down in the White House?

None.  Zip, zilch, zero.  Budget?  Ha!  Reform bills?  Ha!  Anything that actually pushes forward a common-sense conservative agenda?  HA!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  I don't know if the Democrats had photos of Paul Ryan in compromising positions or what, but he did everything they wanted him to do, while shafting the Republicans who put him in his position.  He's gone now, far too late.  Same with Jeff Flake.  Same with John F'n Boehner.  Granny Rictus McWinebox is in control, at least until Election 2020.  We'll see what happens then.  Maybe we'll get people who actually care about representing the voters in office.

Maybe Trump can actually get them to do their jobs.  Maybe that's just a dream.

Well, the new computer works

I'm still getting used to the keyboard, and transitioning back to Windows from a MacBook, but I'm able to get things done again.  Which is why I sorta went radio silent on the weekend, as I furiously got my homework done after losing a week.

I still don't have any of my photos, documents or anything else like that.  As far as I know, it's all gone.  Kaput.  Blown away.  Eh.  I can't say I'm too broken up about that.

I need more coffee.

Got a doctor's appointment for the foot today.  That damn bone I broke in 2018 isn't getting any better, and I had a flare-up a couple of weeks ago.  We'll see what the doc can do about it, if anything.  The doctor in Mississippi told me that it was just something that people have to put up with, because there were no good options.  Running is getting to be problematic with it, but we'll see what the doctor says.  Taking the bone out entirely is an option, but that's surgery, and dammit, I don't have time for walking around in a cast or a boot.

Random tidbit - beef heart, ground up, makes awesome chili.  And meatloaf.

As Trump continues winning bigly, Democrats become increasingly homocidal

Bernie-Bro James Hodgekinson was just the beginning, and it keeps happening.

A 27-year-old man is under arrest and charged with aggravated assault after police say he drove a van into a Republican Party voter registration tent in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday.

This dick-bag tried to run over Republican volunteers, then got out of his van, flipped them the bird and ran off.  If you try to tell me that's not politically motivated, you're smoking crack.

It's just another in a long line of violent Democrats attacking peaceful Republicans.

Jorge Bergolio is a godless Marxist

Hey, Jorge?  Why don't you and your boyfriend go back to Argentina and try your Marxist bullshit there, hmmmm?

Tax cuts for the wealthy constitute a “structure of sin,” Pope Francis said Wednesday in a passionate address calling for international wealth redistribution.

Let's simplify something, shall we?  And this is something that anyone with a basic knowledge of theology would understand, which apparently does not include Jorge the Commie Pedo.  Forced charity IS NOT CHARITY, IT IS THEFT.

“Today’s structures of sin include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development,” Francis told the meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences.

This godless commie is a wolf in shepherd's clothing.  Forcing people to give their money to the government does nothing for your soul.  It will not lead you to salvation.  It does NOTHING to expunge your obligation to help the poor, because you are not helping the poor.  You are simply enriching the corrupt and powerful, while signaling your unearned virtue of "charity".  And meanwhile, as the corrupt and powerful siphon tax dollars into their own pockets, the people who actually need charity don't get it because the money that would go to charity has been taken away from the people who could give it.

Here's a little experiment for you.  Go take a gander at how many of your local hospitals have a saint's name in there somewhere, or how many end in "Presbyterian" or "Methodist" or "Lutheran".  Those organizations were running hospitals for everyone, long before the government decide to financially rape everybody with a job.  Many of them continue to do the Lord's work despite the governmental interference, because it is what God has called them to do.  Little Sisters of the Poor, anyone?

The government is not charity, because the government takes your money against your will and uses it for whatever the corrupt and powerful wish to use it on, which leads to the government using tax dollars of Christians to pay for abortion on demand through Planned Parenthood, which uses some of that money to pay off politicians, who then make sure that Planned Baby-Parts-For-Cash gets even more money.  That is not charity.

Charity cannot be forced.  Charity that is forced on a person is simply theft with a fancy hat.  If you stick a gun in my face and take all my money, and then give that money to a single mother in Detroit, IT IS STILL THEFT.  In order for Charity to exist, it must be given freely out of a person's understanding of God's love and God's will.  That means that government programs can never be, and will never be, charity.  Charity is the supernatural love of God, expressed through his followers here on earth.  It is not yet another government hand-out.

I cannot believe that a topic this simple would get skipped in seminary, so I'm forced to conclude that Jorge the Commie Sodomite knows this simple fact, and choses to ignore it in favor of the santanic, ungodly ideology that he worships instead of worshiping the one true God and savior.

Pray for Pope Benedict XVI, the one true pope.  Jorge Bergolio is the anti-Pope, doing Satan's will on this earth.

Let's talk some more about how Democrats hate America and Normal Americans

Let's talk about the "New Way Forward" act, shall we?  Here we have the Democrats trying to pass a law that would:

Decriminalize illegal entry into the USA.

Force the USA to pay to bring criminal immigrants back to the USA and pay them money so they can sue people.

Force the USA to allow immigrant pedophiles, rapists, drug dealers and human traffickers to stay in this country.

And much more America-destroying crap.

Folks, the Democrats prove they hate America.  They hate you.  They don't want freedom-loving individuals, they want government-dependent little slaves.  They want to turn the entire country into a mix of Baltimore and Venezuela.  Don't take my word for it.  Look at what they're doing.

UPDATE:  Here's a much better summary of the bill.  It's worse than bad.  It's horrible.  It would end America as we know it.  This bill is the ejaculation of every America-hating Democrat who wants to "fundamentally change" this country.  It's bad enough that I wouldn't object to having every sponsor of this bill hung for treason.

And again, Democrats prove that they love Illegal Aliens more than they care about Americans

Un-fucking-believable.

And the Democrat's middle finger towards Americans gets worse.  For some reason I can't quote the article, maybe because I'm using Microsoft Edge, which is akin to working with baling twine and plyers when working on a car.  So go read it yourself.

He's a lot calmer about it than I would be

But that's why he's a senator and I'm not.

Leading to the vote that acquitted President Trump, Scott spoke for nine minutes about how fairness was completely lacking in the impeachment process and how crucial it is to our rule of law. If you closed your eyes for a second you might have thought Ward Cleaver was having a heart-to-heart with the Beaver upstairs in the bedroom.

I like having Tim Scott on my side.

And I'm off to go shovel some more snow

Although with the snow in the mountains, I can just sweep the driveway as long as my neighbor hasn't salted it like he's a sumo wrestler and the driveway is the most important tourney of his life.

I noticed that a lot of people seem to do that.  Throw salt like it's going out of style.  The problem with that is all it does is melt the snow, and then when it re-freezes you get a layer of ice with snow on top.  Not good for cars or people.  I shovel his sidewalk quite a bit when I have time, just to keep him from throwing salt on top of snow.  I shovel my other neighbor's walk as well, but that's just because she's in her 90's and doesn't need to be running a shovel up and down the sidewalk.  Not if I can help it, anyways.

Also, if you have to throw salt, a mix of salt and sand does wonders for your tires gripping.  Some of you Southern people will have no clue what I'm talking about.  Some of you Northern people are going to wonder why I use a shovel when there's snowblowers and plows available.  It ain't that serious.

So, Mittens Romney voted to convict Trump on Article 1

Something tells me he's going to get a primary challenger when his time rolls around.  Romney had a lot of goodwill stored up in Utah due to the way he managed the 2002 Winter Olympics, which in all fairness, he pulled a mess out of the dumpster and produced a damn good event.  Credit where credit is due.  But that credit just got wadded up and tossed back into the dumpster, because outside of urban Salt Lake City, Utah is still a deep red state.  And SLC doesn't have enough people to function like Los Angeles or San Franfreakshow.  All you have to do is drive half an hour in any direction, and you're in Trump country.  These people do not appreciate the clown show impeachment that's been going on, and Romney is going to find himself hard pressed to defend his vote.  Hell, Ben McAdams, the lone Democrat from Utah, is already facing five or six Republicans all gunning for his seat, and after he threw his lot in with the Marxists, he stands a good shot of losing his seat.

All this to say, when you find yourself standing on the side of Chuck Schumer, you're on the wrong side.  Romney just cast his lot with the anti-American Marxists, and he's going to pay for it.  Will it be enough to get him booted?  Maybe.  Probably.  I guess we'll find out.

So, did you watch the SOTU address?

Just a couple of random thoughts - there doesn't need to be a standing ovation every thirty seconds, folks.  Although, while it was somewhat annoying to watch on TV, it had to be driving the Donks absolutely crazy.  So, eh.

Although maybe the Republicans were just making up for the Donks sitting on their hands, while Trump listed off accomplishment after accomplishment.  The Democrats couldn't even clap for a little girl getting a scholarship for a school of her choice.  Rashida Tlib and Ilhan "Omar" Nur couldn't bother to clap for the last Tuskeegee Airman.  Democrats really do hate America, and they hate Normal Americans.

And of course, in a move that was as classless as it was tone-deaf, Granny Rictus McBotox, San Fran Nan, the Botoxed Bitch of the Bay Area, ripped up her copy of Trump's speech on live TV.

I did notice at one point that as several Donk women stood to clap for something, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ran over to scold them and tell them to sit back down.  The Democrat's loathing for American success is palpable.

Trump's guests were spot on.  And the Democrats hatred of Trump's guests was almost a physical object.

Anyways, back to the salt mines.

Well, crap

Computer died.  I'm typing this on the Mrs. old laptop.  I figure I'll have to go out and get a computer some time in the next few days.  So posting may be light in the upcoming days.

Not to mention that work is still taking up a whole lot of time.  Gotta pay the bills, ya know.

Weed smokers need more anesthetic

Just another reason to avoid using it.

Along with anecdotal reports, a 2019 study found that patients who reported smoking weed or ingesting edibles on a daily or weekly basis needed more than double the amount of the anesthetic propofol for endoscopic procedures (like colonoscopies) than non-users. They also needed 19.6% more midazolam and 14% more fentanyl.

Look, I know some folks out there use it for medicinal purposes, but let's be honest shall we?  That accounts for a very, very small percentage of actual users.  The vast majority of weed smokers are just getting high every day, and unlike cigarettes or alcohol, there's a culture in America that cheers for the constant intoxication of a generation via cannabis.  Cheering on marijuana use is like cheering on chugging a pint of whiskey and smoking two packs of cigarettes.

We haven't even begun to see the damage that is occurring, both to individuals and to society at large, and by the time you will see it it will be too late to do anything about it. 

It's snowing sideways today

The bosses at work took a look at the weather forecast yesterday, and said "Hey Dave, why don't you take your computer home just in case?"  And sure as shooting, my phone buzzed nice and early to say "Hey Dave, just stay home and answer emails from your living room, because there's no way in hell you're getting up that hill you have to climb to get here.  Bunches of people have already tried and failed."

So I'm posting whilst answering emails from people all over the country.  Yay!

I'm not being too sarcastic, I'm sitting in my sweats sipping coffee when I could be stuck in an office.  Could I get up that hill?  Yes.  I know how to drive in the snow.  But pj's and coffee!

Out the door early again

So light posting.  But I have a blogroll, after all.