Oh.

is generally the answer that I give to some do-gooder that takes the time to explain something to me that I have already known since third grade. 

Or when some ding-dong give me a long lecture about everything that's wrong with Donald Trump or being conservative or whatever.

When I get a yada yada yada yada and so on and so forth long winded blast of outright stupidity my response is simply this:

                                  "Oh."

Generally they walk off pissed off but that's OK. They can go away mad just so long as they go away.

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Ping!

Every older person that lives alone should have someone they ping daily with their cell phone.

I say ping because it's not like you have to send someone the entire Gettysburg Address or something. It could be as simple as a period or a comma. Just something to let the other person you're OK.

During my last assignment at work I was alone and I pinged my port captain daily. The one time I didn't he pinged me as a reminder and I shot one back.

It's a good idea if you ask me and not just for older people, either. 

It's for anyone that lives alone. 

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One of the thing I truly love to do to make things go away

is take drive a sports car. The '91 Miata is PERFECT for this.

God willing and the creek don't rise, I think I am going to take that little car on a road trip of sorts this spring. It's now in the garage sitting there awaiting my next small driveabout which may be as soon as tomorrow. 

I get a lot of joy tooling through the secondary roads in it, negotiating curvy roads and just sightseeing through rural areas. The NA is a perfect car for a driver that wants to feel the road under him. 

There is a saying that straight lines are for fast cars and curves are for fast drivers. Right now I am too old to be ratshack racing through the twisties but I can certainly enjoy tooling through a winding road at a sane speed in my old age.

Update. This has been sitting in my file for a couple of days. Tomorrow has come and gone and I did take the Miata out for a little spin. It was somewhat overcast but it was OK. I'm just trying to wring what I can out of the weather and enjoy tooling around in it.

The weekend looks promising in the sunshine department and even though it will be below freezing. Oh, well. That's why they make leather jackets, headgear and thin gloves. 

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This counts for tomorrow's post because I will likely be away tomorrow and busy.

 

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Hollywood types that are threatening to leave.

Go. Get the f*** out of here right now. Stop talking about it and do it.

Don't forget to tell us how sorry we will be when you leave because that in itself will be entertaining. 

Most of you are nothing more that trained monkeys that are trained to entertain us. Other than that you don't do a damned thing.

So feel free to put an egg in your shoe and beat it.

I won't miss you. 

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I must be the most clever, witty and charming guy in the world

because I've been on X for little more than a week and now have about 2 dozen young chicks that are following me now.

I also get two or three friend requests on Facebook a week.

I wonder what the angle is?

Nobody that age and I mean NOBODY is interested in a 73 YO grumpy old man. Who are they trying to kid and why?

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You're giving your culture away

The Black community gave away the Queen of Breakfast when they said nothing of the demise of Aunt Jemima, a National Icon of sorts. Like it or not, cooking is a substantial part of Black culture and Aunt Jemima went away and I never heard of a Black protesting about it. They simply gave it away.

Native American team names disappeared without a word, also. A few sports teams were renamed from Native American names and I know of no Native Americans speaking out. Having a team named after a group signifies that they are looked at as a symbol of strength and power, Trojans, Vikings, Lions, Cowboys, are examples to name a few.

Yet no Native Americans appeared to be upset when Cleveland renamed their team. 

They also lost Land O Lakes butter without a fight.

One group has spoken out and gotten something fixed, Hispanics.

It came as quite a surprise to many when Speedy Gonzales, the Mexican cartoon mouse, was temporarily silenced several years ago.

When word hit the Hispanic community that Speedy was being cancelled they spoke right up. Hispanic groups declared Speedy to be a Hispanic icon. The Hispanics were not going to give up a cultural icon without a fight. The cartoon people backed down and put Speedy back on the air.

Kudos to the Hispanic community for not giving away a part of their culture and a part of Americana. They stood up and help keep the country from growing a little less dreary. 

Personally I think this whole thing is a plan to keep us divided because if we unified then We, the People would really become a force to reckon with and the boys in the back room don't want that to happen.

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One more reason not to drink and drive.

is because if you get hit by someone texting they will blame you.

That is a true statement. If someone that's over the legal limit is stopped at a stop sign and someone texting read ends them they will blame the person that's legally impaired. The texter will likely get off scot free.

This doesn't mean the impaired person should get off. They are guilty of DUI and should be punished.

On the other hand the texter, that actually caused the accident to begin with, should definitely be punished. After all, they caused the accident. They were driving distracted.

I'm not going to get into what constitutes DUI here. That's been determined by law. I will go so far to say that unless a driver is seriously impaired they generally pose a lesser danger than someone that drives distracted all the time. More often than not, the mildly impaired driver is paying serious attention to his driving simply because he doesn't want to get caught. They will not speed and they will carefully stop at stop signs. Bombed out of your mind is a separate issue.

In any number of cases distracted driving is as bad or even worse than a low level DUI. It ought to be punished severely. Over the years I've seen too much distracted driving, most of it phone related.

Years ago with a flip phone it was no big deal taking a call while driving on a light to moderate traffic Interstate. You'd hold the phone to your ear while keeping your head on a swivel. 

Enter the smart phone that has the ability to text, email, take pictures and God only knows what else. There's plenty of room for distraction with a smart phone in your pocket, although the bulk of it is not very important at all. Then ought to make a lot of people be required to place their phones in the trunk of their cars before they get in the driver's seat.

Then there's the busybodies. Enter stage left. The ones I like are the people that drive around taking pictures of other drivers doing something wrong and post them on social media.

"This guy was driving 60 in a 30 zone!" said one post.

When I asked why they were taking pictures while driving they claimed their passenger took the picture.

So I asked them why not only was the steering wheel in the picture but the top of the speedometer that showed THEM driving 60 to keep up with the speeder.

Delete.

While I'm at it, I just got $20 richer because I bet someone I could post a simple true statement on Nextdoor and get the usual suspects up in arms.

He said he'd take the bet so long as it had nothing to do with Donald Trump.

I posted 'Do not drink and drive because if you get hit by a driver that is texting they will blame you.'

ZING! Sure enough the usual suspects came out in numbers and I got $20 richer.

Frankly I think he took the bet planning on losing the bet. I think he was just looking for the entertainment.

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I just read where Trump plans on booting all TGs out of the military

which may/may not be the best course to take.

When he was president he refused TGs entry but said those in could stay and I believe this is probably the best course of action for him to take, at least in the enlisted ranks.

Officers serve at the pleasure of the President so maybe he can remove them easily enough. Any flag officers should probably be unceremoniously dumped. Most flag officers are political hires to begin with.

What's sad is that any rank above O-5 becomes political and military service and politics mix like oil and water. Promotions should be based on strict merit.

I figure that enlisted people should stay for a couple of reasons. If they have a good service record they should be allowed to stay, especially if they are in logistic or administrative positions.

I say this not as a friend NOR an enemy of the TG community but the fact is the minute they get let go there's going to be a boatload of lawsuits and screeching. The lawsuits will take decades to sort out.

On the other hand I suppose he can give them all medical discharges and a disability to squelch them. 

TGs don't really belong in the military to begin with because virtually all of them carry some serious emotional baggage which if hard if not impossible to ditch. 

I have a TG nephew I love dearly. I'm glad that he transgendered because the truth is he just plain sucked at being a woman. Still, with what he went through emotionally I have questions regarding his stability. You can't go through the mental and emotional roller coaster ride that goes with changing your sex without coming out unscathed. 

It is what it is.

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Comment about my nephew. Post change you had morphed from being a whiny pain in the a$$ to a pretty good guy to have a beer with. I respect you for improving your life and dealing with the cards you were dealt with and keeping quiet about it.

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Back in the 70s I was aware of at least two or three gays in the service with me. I treated them with courtesy and respect and didn't rat them out because they did their jobs well. I just figured it was nobody's business.

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In passing, during the American Civil War it is estimated that between 400 and 750 women served as men in the ranks.

One woman died in the Old Soldier's Home and the staff kept it a guarded secret until after she had passed. She must have been one hell of a soldier.

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I was up late last night

because I started trying to organize my QSL cards to figure out exactly how many entities I have confirmed and it was a total waste of time because I am no closer to I was when I started.

I need to get some kind of program and load them into it and hit enter and Bingo! There's the magic number.

As of now it's 237 entities I have paper for and 8 due in which leaves a possible 245 for me. 

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Ahhh, yes. Aunt Jemima.

Who in my mind was probably the best breakfast cook ever produced even if she was imaginary.

I'm not talking about the most recent one that looked like a Johns Hopkins graduate. I mean the one before her that had her hair in a bandana. The original Aunt Jemima was outright racist and should have been swapped out. It was a disgrace.

If you have been following my posts for any length of time you probably have figured out I am a breakfast person. It's my favorite meal of the day and when I need to get the batteries charged I heat up the skillet and get to work. Give me a good, solid breakfast and I'm good for the day.

The Aunt Jemima to me represented a very capable woman that knew her way around the kitchen and produced amazing things with her talents.

As for those that want to drag slavery into the issue to cloud it, please do some digging. The mammy of the plantation house generally ran it with an iron fist the same way a pre WW2 First Sergeant ran a rifle company. She basically reported directly to the lord of the manor. She was a much needed and well respected part of the plantation and carried a lot of responsibility. She fed the family and had a lot to do with raising the children. Her advice was often sought after. I digress.

Come to think of it, I'll digress again. Back in the day the house got the choice cuts of meat and the slaves got the not so choice cuts of meat, some probably as tough as shoe leather. The slave woman folk learned how to turn it into some very, very tasty meals. Today what was now slave food is known as Soul Food and some of it commands a pretty high price if you eat out. (Ribs, anyone?)

Aunt Jemima, whatever race or sex she was (There are Uncle Jemimas, too) represented people (of all races) that know how to make a halfway decent Old School breakfast. For decades Aunt Jemima was my go-to pancake flour. Every time I'd buy a box I'd grin because I knew I had part of the fixin's for a good breakfast. Aunt Jemima symbolized that to me.

Now she's gone and I generally just grab a box of Walmart's Great Value and call it good. Screw Pearl Milling Company. I want the real deal. I want Aunt Jemima back on the box where she belongs.

What I figure happened is that the usual gang of liberals stirred up a few members of the black community that took the bait and decided they were offended and raised a little hell over it.

Pearl Milling caved in instantly afraid of a boycott of some sort and killed off YET ANOTHER American icon.

Who lost? All of us. Another American icon bit the dust. Buying a breakfast ingredient has gotten a little more dreary. We've lost a bit of Americana.

As for the Black community? They've given another piece of their heritage away over nothing.

And that's how the left slowly strips us of our character, one little piece at a time.

Pearl Milling Company please take note. If you bring Aunt Jemima back and return her to her place as Queen of the Breakfast Table, I'll bring back my money. 

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Little sidebar here.

I remember the sit-in in the South because blacks were not allowed to eat at the Woolworth's lunch counter. I suppose they were sitting in for their rights which does make sense because the lunch counter food is pretty sorry if you ask me. They sure as hell didn't stage the protest because of the food and that's for damned sure.

I always wondered why MLK didn't just open a diner nearby and get some old women to cook there and open it to anyone. A lot of those old women can cook!

Bull Conner himself would be seen leaving with his belly sticking out with a toothpick between greasy lips and the Woolworths people would have probably shut down the damned lunch counter because they'd all be eating soul food at the diner.

 

 

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I just bought this. I couldn't resist.

There is no way I could let this one slide. I just had to have it. 

But then again I have always looked forward to situations where I could simply embrace the suck. I did it in '16 when I was proud to be a Deplorable.

The fact is that the drive to rename sports teams was driven by white liberals. Prior to their ballyhoo most Native Americans were pretty proud to have teams named after them because an athletic team wants a name that represents power, skill and athletic prowess. Most Native Americans were flattered to have a team named after them. Then the activists came in and influences the younger set and all hell broke loose.

Snoop around and Google 'Fighting Whites' and you will find out about how back in 2002 a small college intramural basketball team got a national following.

I make NO apologies to the Cleveland baseball team. I do make apologies to Native Americans because when they eliminated Native Americans from team names the liberals stole your heritage of being strong and powerful. As usual the liberal white man stole that from you and many of you let it slide past you and let the liberals rob you of your heritage. 

More to come when I post about the best breakfast cook of my dreams. 

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Kaso, you were right.

and I was wrong. Thank God. Great day in the morning!

Bob Casey just conceded. 

The steal has been averted. There remains more work, though. The four counties that decided to ignore the Supreme Court order should be cleaned out and those responsible for their sins should be punished.

It's not good enough to just win an election that was attempted to be stolen. We have to clean things up so they will not try it again. The guilty have to be punished.

There have to be real consequences. Firing them is not good enough. They have to be made an example of. If there are no real consequences then they will try it again and again.

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McCormick made the usual complimentary speech thanking Casey for his service yada yada yada.

The way I see it, Casey did serve PA in his first term by being a moderate Democrat. He started out OK and had he stayed a moderate he'd likely still be in office. 

Somewhere along the line something changed and he turned woke. I don't know what happened. Service in Washington changes people. I don't know what happened but over time he changed. 

Maybe he changed to get in good with the party bosses. Maybe he got caught up with the being a 'Washington insider' crap. Hell, maybe he got caught f***ing a goat and was being blackmailed. I don't know.

Fact is he had changed and it was simply well past time to get rid of him.

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It's OUR economy, not Trump's.

I hear the usual gang of imbeciles planning of doing what they can to crater 'Trump's' economy because they don't like him.

I suppose it it was Trump's economy I would not be as upset over it as I am because it's not Trump's economy, it's OUR economy. 

These people with their big egos would leave WE, The People living in caves and ditches just to make Donald Trump look bad.

While I don't think Trump was the perfect candidate, I did vote for him for the same reason I have voted for every candidate since before and after Reagan. I voted against the alternative.

Reagan was the only candidate I actually voted for but I digress.

Mitch and the RINO gang would leave us starving and freezing in the dark if they could find an angle to blame it on Trump.

The whole push of them should be places in stocks and the public should be able to humiliate them. Come to think of it, that would be a damned good reason for me to go and buy a nice extra large loaded pizza the night before they put them in the stocks.

They want to crash OUR economy to have something to blame on Trump. F*** them! 

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You DO know that most veterans

leave military service and lead ordinary lives.

While some of us have service related problems, both physical and mental, the average GI simply leaves the service and goes about his or her business.

Some do leave broken and it's our duty to do the best we can to fix them but the average GI often leaves the service better off than he was when he went in.

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Electronic shopping.

is great for known items and many generic items. Want a couple Sharpie pens? Click. A 16 oz. can of original Bush beans? Click.

How about a Moen model 8277 Commercial M-Dura utility sink faucet?

Yeah, sure if you have been able to check one out and see what you're getting. You've checked one out at a brick and mortar store and it's what you want and it's on sale on line. Same faucet, $15 less? Click.

It's when you are looking for something that you have not been able to physically check out that gets rather iffy. 

While the reviews are helpful, they are not always accurate. One never knows who has been 'stuffing the ballot box' with good reviews.

Shopping blindly on line is like buying a pig in a poke. You never know what you are getting.

Then you throw China into the equation and all bets are off.

Chinese can and often do make things to specification and that's not entirely a bad deal for American consumers IF the US seller pays attention and makes sure that the Chinese are making things to specification and not slipping us junk. 

I have had that happen to me with a set of brake rotors that started pulsating my brake pedal shortly after installation. While the mechanic did make it good, I put the blame on the American company that sold them to the mechanic and didn't QC them. 

A couple months later I saw the mechanic and he told me that after a couple incidents like mine he's gone strictly with Raybestos brake parts. I dug a bit and some of their stuff is made in China but my guess is that the Raybestos people keep an eye on things.

Anyway, on line shopping certainly has a place in my life but I have to be damned careful about buying things I am unfamiliar with because there's a lot of junk out on the market and you can't check it out in advance.

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I retired 2 years ago today.

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What's wrong with some of these states?

Florida is the third largest state in the Union and they have their election results done and over with by midnight. 

When they have a PA Lottery drawing inside of a few seconds not only do they know that there's a winner but they even know what store sold the winning ticket.

It's been damned near two weeks and some states are still farting around counting ballots. I know PA and CA still are and I believe IA,  AK, OH. 

It's a damned joke. Needless to say, the longer they take the greater the chance of a steal. 

I know that I voted electronically and the results of my precinct were probably available a few minutes after the polls closed. Taking into consideration that they may have closed a little late because policy is that anyone in line before 2000 gets to vote, it may not be until maybe 2100 or 2200 at the latest. 

We should have had 100% results by 0600 7 November. 

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John Fetterman doesn't believe in fair and impartial elections by his own admission.

He just said it was OK for the Bucks County to ignore the PA Supreme Court order to stop counting late and unsigned votes.

While we are at it, Governor Josh Shapiro is another unindicted co-conspirator in the current attempted steal. He's currently governor and hasn't lifted a finger to stop it.

As of now we have no fair and honest elections in PA.

It certainly looks that way.

Come the day before Thanksgiving we shall see what we shall see.

Still, win, lose or draw, a board of elections disobeying a Supreme Court order is prima facia proof that we have unfair elections in PA. We have unfair elections in Bucks County and it's all or nothing because things like this spread and eventually it will work its  way until no counties provide free elections.

 

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One of my favorite crackpots is Burt Monro.

from New Zealand who set the worlds land speed record in it's category on a 1920 Indian motorcycle. The record still stands.

There was a movie about him in the early 20s and I suppose they tried to do him justice and they probably did. The movie was named The World's Fastest Indian and it is about a man and his passion.

Years ago on this blog I followed yet another passionate crackpot that tried to set a land speed piston driven (in his class) record in a garage built hot rod of some sort. 

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I wonder if the guy I wrote about 14 years ago ever broke 175 in his class.

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Has anyone bothered to notice

that 99+% of the women that are going to refuse sex to men because Trump got elected are the woman you wouldn't want to have sex with in the first place?

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Today is a pain in the a$$.

A three or four hour job just turned into a week long project.

Maybe longer. 

It started with a dripping faucet and involves a woman making up her mind which faucet to use and while we're at it, lets replace the laundry tub.

In other news Bucks County is illegally counting ineligible votes.

There's going to be a recount and my money is we're going to be stuck with Casey for another six long years.

The fix is in.

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The ritual. Sleeping with an orange cat.

If I didn't have the cat I suppose going to sleep would be a lot simpler.

Climb into bed, don the CPAP, light it off, pull up the covers and simply doze off.

 

But I do have an orange cat so the drill changes entirely. Kitty knows I am going to go to bed in about an hour so he jumps up on the bed and goes to sleep because cats sleep every chance they get just like they eat every chance they get. He always sleeps in the out of the way corner which should make it a snap to join him. When Kitty isn't eating or sleeping he's constantly trying to figure out how to get pets from me.

When he hears me come into the room he jumps off of the bed and onto the floor to wait for me to undress and as I get ready to climb into bed he jumps back on it to the spot where he is right smack dab in the middle of the way which is what orange cats do.

Orange cat do what orange cats do and people do what people do. It's really quite simple except one never knows what an orange cat is going to do next other than get in the way. That's a given.

So anyway, I put my butt on the side of the bed and make a 90 degree turn and slowly lower myself on top of him. He doesn't want to get squished so he moves to the inside where he gives me a dirty look. 

Then I pull up the covers slowly and he does the 'I don't want to get caught under the covers dance' until the covers are in place and then he swats me in the face which is his way of demanding attention. 

I roll over flat on my back and he climbs on top of me and lays down on my belly and chest and I give him several minutes of pets and attention as he purrs like a chain saw. He also licks my face which is important because I get kitty germs which is good for my immune system.

Then I pick him up and put him next to me on the inside of the bed, don the CPAP mask and reach over and give him a few more pets and roll over on my side facing away from him and turn on the CPAP.

The instant the pets stop he climbs over me and swats me on the face for more pets so I stuff him under the covers and he battles his way out and promptly swats me again. Back under the covers and he battles his way out again, give me a dirty look and climbs over me and curls up behind my knees and I go off to sleep.

Such is life with an orange cat and I suppose I would not want it any other way.

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I am thinking about Trump's idea

of moving the federal agencies out of DC and spreading them out all over CONUS. 

I'll do one better. I say move Congress to Minot, ND. If they don't like that maybe they can move to Adak. Their choice.

Better yet, split Congress in half. Send the House of Representatives to Minot and send the Senate to Gary, Indiana. The House could eat at the Air Force base there and the Senate could eat an Lefty's Diner.

We can do a remake of an old Jimmy Stewart movie, Mr. Smith goes to Washington. How about Mr. Smith goes to Minot, North Dakota?

The wailing, moaning and gnashing of teeth would be epic.

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Tonight the faucet arrives.

And tomorrow I install it for the wife.

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Yesterday I went out for a steak dinner which is something I have not done in quite a while. I'm mildly surprised I finished it all.

I can still pack the chow away but have to watch it because my metabolism has slowed way down and I can't burn it off as fast as I used to.

The other thing I did was buy myself a decent bottle of scotch which is a double edged sword because I have to be damned careful with it. It's sneaky as is Jameson's. For some reason the British Isles distillers have sneaky down to a fine art. One double, neat and it's time to park the bottle.

Low end bourbon lets you know you've had a belt which means one is warned and knows when to quit.

I don't plug for businesses too often but the Texas Roadhouse serves a pretty good feed. I'll never forget watching a skinny little old lady there chow down the the biggest steak they sell and cleaning that plate entirely like a starving Estemenian. She must have been well into her 80s. I made a careful note as to where the fire extinguishers were in case the sparks from her knife and fork hitting each other caused a fire.  

Anyway I am officially a year older and totally astonished I have made it this far, all things considered.

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Happy birthday.

today I am 73. Boo hah!

I bought myself a bottle of damned good scotch for my birthday but decided to have a snort or two tonight in case I don't wake up.

There's no way in hell I am going to leave behind an unopened bottle of Johnny Walker Green Label, the good smoky stuff.

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Now we sweat out the house and I sweat out the PA senate race.

GOP has 214 seats and needs four more for a majority. There are currently 8 seats where Republicans are leading but have a large percentage of uncounted votes to be counted. We shall see what we shall see.

Here in PA I want to see what's going on with Bob Casey who has refused to concede. AP has already called it for Dave McCormick but Casey has refused to concede, citing that 100% of the vote hasn't been counted and so on. Frankly if the part of the uncounted vote is from Philly I take his point because Philly is a sewer and corrupt as holy hell.

Actually I hope Casey NEVER concedes, goes back to his Senate office and is carted out by the Capitol Police in handcuffs and charged with trespassing.

Bob Casey's father, Bob Sr was a well respected two term governor of PA. He was a moderate Democrat. 

His son rode his coat tails into the US Senate where he has been for the past 18 years and at one time was a moderate Democrat until he got too deep in the swamp.

Casey's last two terms consisted of supporting the liberal sewer and for five years and then turning Blue Dog Democrat on the election year. Unfortunately Pennsylvanians remember his as Bob Casey Sr's son and have not paid attention.

Dave McCormick is a carpetbagger, from CT and although I hate carpetbaggers, we're better off with him than Casey by a long shot.

Once the election is certified as being done and over with I can relax because I honestly have little to no faith on the honesty of elections in PA because the entire state is pretty much controlled by 3 sewers, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and the steamiest and most corrupt pile of filth in the state, Philadelphia.

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Finally! Arizona and Nevada checked in and

Trump has 312 votes.

He's 42 over the mark and now I can relax a bit because I do not trust anyone as far as this election goes. This one seems to be pretty much secured.

Part 2. Keeping him alive. The Secret Service is going to have to work some serious overtime if even .001% of the liberal meltdown threats are true.

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I was going to start a post but at the last minute did my homework

As you know, I was waiting for Arizona and Nevada to check in. 

I just checked and Nevada has brought the score to 301 Electoral votes for Trump. It's over 300 now and I can relax a bit.

For me the game ain't over 'til it's over and he is duly sworn in.

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Still waiting for NV and AZ to check in. Incidentally worst campaign ever.

Harris had the worst campaign I have ever seen. Toward the end of it Harris was promising a big chunk of change for first home buyers. That's not the government's job. It's their job to install an economy and a system that enables people to be able to do it for themselves. She attempted to try and bribe people using their own money.

The entire campaign was based on fear and bribery and empty promises. 

I believe that Trump won because people looked at where they were four years ago under his economy. During those years I saw numerous hard core unemployables going back to work. 

It would be interesting to find out how much money Kamala's campaign cost as opposed to what Trump spent. I think it's a safe bet that she easily outspent the Trump campaign by a rather large margin.

The woman I met on election day while getting gas commented that she had voted for more affordable gas, groceries and rent. Can't say as I blame her. Fact is she looked like a stereotype Karen which somewhat surprised me. She voted with her wallet which is pretty much what I did.

Someone recently asked me how much money he had given me. Truth is in cash money handed directly to me, none. (Covid money doesn't count) Instead he enabled me to keep a pretty damned good chunk of the money I earned myself by revamping the tax tables and reducing my income tax. That left me with more of my own money to spend. I was working when he did that and it saved me a healthy chunk of change.

I don't recall how much money it was but I did compare the numbers from the previous year and it was fairly substantial. Like a lot of people, I simply banked the return when it arrived.

Enabling people to keep their own money and handing them cash or a check are the same damned thing when you look at it so I can say Trump DID give me something. He just didn't come up to my house and hand it to me.

Those tax cuts gave people more money to spend and while mine went into the bank it went toward enabling people to get loans and mortgages. 

Many people fail to understand that while taxes are needed to keep things rolling, the less taken from the working stiff the more he has for his family. I am no fan whatsoever of giving huge parcels of our wealth away overseas without damned good reason.

People were aware of the reckless spending made by Biden and her empty promises.

At one of her press conferences she said she'd bring down the price of groceries and a reporter asked her, "If you can do it, then why haven't you done it already?"

She didn't know what to say. 

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New money.

Back in the day when I was early on into my fishing career I was hauling in a gillnet full of roe herring. We were in a small two man open boat. It was a simple, crude arrangement and probably a starter boat for the man I was working for.

He looked at the net, looked at the fish and smiled at me.

"That's new money," he said. "Nobody has ever seen that money before. We're the first people to look at it."

For a second I thought he was crazy but realized that it was money. It just hadn't been converted to cash yet. It certainly was new money, too. The two of us were the first people to ever see in.

Every single one of those fish was money in my pocket. Of course individually it wasn't much but added up it became a pretty good paycheck for a few hours worth of work.

Later the time I fished halibut I could figure out some idea of my settlement as I went along. We were supposed to get $1.50 a pound for it and you could estimate the weight and figure out your share of the fish. A 100 pound fish meant $150 total. That meant about $20 in my pocket. All new money.

It's the same for a lot of other basic producers. The first two that come to mind are oil and produce. The oil coming out of the ground and the produce farmers grow is new money and they are the first to see it before it is taken to market and converted to cash.

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Mail call. A pretty good freebie from the USPS

Today's mail will consist of an advertisement for solar energy and a QSL card. It's 0800 and the mail isn't due until about 1500.

I signed up for USPS informed delivery and every morning if I am going to get any mail the post office sends me a picture of what's coming my way.

It's a pretty good deal.

 

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The game ain't over til it's over.

The way I see things is that while it looks like Trump will get into the White House, it's not 100% a done deal.

I see now where Michigan 'just happened' to find a big collection of ballots which will not change things because Michigan has not been called yet and Trump has the required number of EC votes with out Michigan.

Still, this election isn't over until he takes the oath.

We still have two months until that happens and nothing will surprise me.

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Off to vote shortly.

Now I can take that stupid sign down off the front door and stop being a paroled convicted felon that knifed two college girl political door knockers back in 2016.

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Last night I was warned to examine my ballot carefully paying close attention to the circle I am supposed to fill in on the Kamela line.

Reports of a small dot in the circle next to Kamala's name are going around. I have been told it I get one to request an untampered ballot. 

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So far there have been two or three attempts made on the life of Donald Trump.

Assuming he wins I plan on seeing more.

I can't help to wonder what kind of horror show would erupt it someone even threw a pie in Kamala's face, much less an attempt on her life.

You would never hear the end of that one.

Oh yeah. If you are some like of troublemaker be advised I don't support an attempt of violence against either of them.

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Back from the polls and I didn't get a good vibe. I am NOT going to fret and stay up all night because it won't do any good.

We shall see what we shall see.

When this is all over and done with someone please tell me in the comments, "You can come out now!"

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I am old. Everything gets screwed up after we change back to Standard time.

For the first few days I wake up about an hour or so too early and eat breakfast almost immediately.

By 0900 I am starved.

BLM just popped into my mind a minute ago. Seems like we haven't heard a lot from them lately. My guess is because the scammers that started it and suckered all the do-gooders into donating to the St. Floyd of Fentanyl fund and such have parked their sorry asses into expensive homes in expensive areas with the money they were given by suckers. That is my guess. I may be wrong but it's my best guess. 

Someone please come along and show me where any minority college educations were funded or any meals were purchased for anyone other than the families of the BLM honchos.

The same people that were suckered into the BLM scam are the same people that are being suckered into the Kamala scam.

P.T. Barnum was right when he said you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. 

(Spanky McFarland once added ''But ya can't fool mom!")

Actually I was wondering if any of the boys from the hood had dug up Saint George's grave yet to steal his gold casket.  

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Oh, OK. It said 'ham radio' on it and cost you $25.

and you don't want to get a license because it's for 'emergency use' and you want to be able to get in touch with one kid 75 miles away and the other one is 275 miles away.

I see.

You $29.95 peanuts for it and think that because it says 'ham radio' on it that it is something magic that will insure instant communications with your kids from anywhere in the world because ham radio operators talk to people all over the world.

Really? I suppose it never occurred to you that if they worked that way then everyone and their cousin would have one and you wouldn't need your cell phone anymore.

As a licensed ham that has almost 250 different places in my log and thousands of overseas contacts logged, my rig (replacement value $2500ish) I can't do make contacts overseas at will. In fact, neither can a superstation that someone has over $250,000 into.

And you bought a couple of $29.95 Chinese made handhelds that said they were designed for ham radio operators. You probably knew you are supposed to be licensed to use them yet say you are not getting licensed because they are 'emergency use'. 

And now you want someone to program them for you? Don't look at me.  You're asking me to program something that you want to use illegally? I think not. I'm not going to become an accessory to your little illegal enterprise. 

Do you even know the proper procedure to use one? Most likely if you do get it programmed you're probably going to interfere with legitimate operations. You'll be a nuisance at best and probably a real problem in an emergency.

Even after you do get it programed you probably won't know how to use it.

In reality what you have without using repeaters is a radio that has a range of maybe 1-3 miles depending on terrain with the little 'rubber duck' antenna it came with.

Maybe you have heard stories of those little radios reaching the International Space Station. They actually have but only when it is line of sight, using a Yagi antenna and using a digital mode. This is out of your league. I know it's out of mine.  

Another thing. Are you going to maintain it and keep it charged? Doubtfully. It will probably be stuck in a drawer someplace and you'll have a flat battery to deal with. 

Here's something that might fit the bill and come a lot closer to your needs. From what I gathered looking at them they run off of the cell towers that may or may not be up and running after a natural disaster. No license required.

https://rapidradios.com/products/rapid-radios-nationwide-ptt-walkie-talkie?variant=40382724931674&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gc_id=21121854227&g_special_campaign=true&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwm5e5BhCWARIsANwm06g4RmPwDP155ghYcQeWgwT4pyfIOyjsJ-3tQSctU16sarcW8ZKrtE4aAplgEALw_wcB

Like a lot of people out there you were looking for a magic wand and they don't exist. You have to take the time to learn to use the tool.

On the other hand, if you are willing to make a commitment to learn how to competently use the tool I will gladly help you license and learn how to use it. 

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The sign seems to be working with thanks to the neighbors.

The sign says:

                               Attention

                            Political canvassers beware.

The occupant of this home is prohibited from voting because he is a                       PAROLED CONVICTED FELON.

In 2016 he knifed two people that woke him up from a nap.

Thanks to most of the neighbors that are on board and tell them that I'm a felon and can't vote.

One of them even told one of them that it took my wife over 2 hours to get the blood off the porch with a pressure washer.

We've got 5 days to go and we shall see what we shall see.

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Any medical care I need will be done in a physician's office

NOT in my home.

Seeing how I am retired I got a call from my part C people's 4th assistant junior trainee subcontractor's office offering me a free at no charge wellness whatever to be conducted in my own home.

I don't think so.

"We'll point out things to make you safer," they said.

Yeah, right. I can see that one play out.

Enter a leftist wide-eyed ninny. The old wooden ammo crate I use for storage comes into view. "OMG! Is that military equipment?"

Yeah, Lady. It's a case of 9mm Sten guns I bought from an arms dealer a few years back. Wanna check one of them out?"

Or an ammo can. "Is that ammunition!?"

Scribble, scribble.

Of course they will suggest I install a grab rail in the shower or something along this nature to make it look like they're on the up and up. 

Truth is they are fishing. They want to check me out and see what I have and put it on either the Dr's records or the insurance company's records. 

Which, off course, being on Medicare the .Gov can snoop through the records. This is bullshit. Enough is enough.

You want into my house? Come back with a warrant.

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