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Just to be clear: if you don’t have a recession after having record inflation, prices aren’t going to come down. Bidenomics caused a record 9.1% inflation rate. Which is why experts and economists predicted a recession during this Trump term. A good business sense and strong cabinet secretaries, with good knowledge of economics, have been the reason this administration was able to turn the country around without any type of recession. Everyone refuses to give credit where credit is due. Covid or not, Biden destroyed this country’s economy when him, his son, and the people around him, including Obama, enriched themselves and lined their pockets. Anthony Fauci did too. He should be in prison, not walking around with all of the money he made off of his dealings with Pfizer, Moderna, and the rest of big pharma. We finally have a president who cares more about this country and American citizens than he does about money. We finally have a leader who can’t be bought or influenced. So, within a year after inheriting the worst economy caused by democratic policies, inflation is down, gdp is up, 401k funds are soaring, the stock market has broken countless records despite expert predictions, gas prices are down, job growth is up, and contrary to what democrats swore was going to happen… NO ONE has “lost their rights.” For example, everyone still has their 1st amendment right to free speech. Democrats use that right everyday to lie about our president. Racist, Nazi, bigot, fascist, unhinged, incompetent, dictator, and now pedophile. They are only able to say things BECAUSE they have that first amendment right to free speech. But this type of language sets up a permission structure for violence. They keep using these terms to turn the people against Trump. The racist narrative blew up in their face. The Nazi narrative caused 2 assassination attempts. But Nazi lost its original sting because it’s been said so much. So now, in order to trigger that hardcore emotional reaction in their base again, now it’s pedophile. This new terminology has now forced another mentally unstable leftist to do the unthinkable and try to take a shot at our president. So while Democrats are exercising their constitutional right to smear Trump, with the mainstream media reporting on every single false accusation made, this president will continue to be the most consequential president in modern history… and democrats are afraid that if more people keep finding out how much better he is for this country, they may never get back in power again

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it's dreary.

More snow today. This sucks.

A day for radio. Just bagged 8R1WA, a Guyana DXpedition. It was a mess because someone was on top of him contesting. 

A contester was working the same frequency and screwing things up but someone jumped in there and got him to move 5 kHz down. 

The DXpedition was 'working split' which means calling on one frequency and listening on another. In this case it was 5 kHz higher than his transmit frequency. Most ham rigs can do this easily.

Then I listened and when things thinned out a bit and the signal grew stronger I threw in my call and got picked out on the 4th try and worked him.

What's cool is that in seconds I saw I was 'in the log' because they had an online log in real time. I saw my call come up inside a few seconds.

As is often the case when I mention that I got confirmation that I was in the log in real time people ask me why bother with ham radio if there are other forms of communication available. 

Simple. Ham radio needs no infrastructure. It's my black box to someone else's little black box directly with no cell towers, internet or wires. It's pure communication.

A few years back I listened to one obstinate jerk that wouldn't move. I went to the DXpedition website and sent the DXpedition pilot to have the station drop five because of what was going on. The pilot must have been paying attention because a few minutes later the station announced he was dropping 5. (Maybe someone else had emailed or called the pilot before I did. who knows?)I stayed on frequency to listen to the pileup.

In a few seconds the entire pileup of about 100 people crying out their callsigns dropped right on top of him. He thought that they were people answering his CQ calls and tried to work them. Of course they couldn't hear him. He grew frustrated and left shortly after. 

After that I reset my rig and waited until things thinned out a bit and worked the DXpedition.

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Lent is officially in full swing as of this past Friday

when I treated myself to an Official Lent Fish Sandwich which practically every Christian church will be selling every Friday in Lent. 

I'll probably only have two or three this Lent, the one I had, one at the club fish fry and maybe one on impulse the week before Easter.

On Easter I will don a white fedora which I will wear as I see fit until Labor Day. 

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I'm possibly going to go out on a limb here

Lately I have been seeing Muslims trying to push Sharia law in this country, along with a few other things. The Muslim call to prayer is now being boomed out of huge speakers in parts of a number of American cities. Generally the first call comes about an hour and a half before sunrise when many of is seem to get our best sleep. The practice should be outlawed. The rest of us should not have to listen to something at that hour.

Sources tell me Mamdani's New Your city owned supermarkets won't be selling pork products. No bacon, sausage, chops or loins. None. (They also won't be selling alcohol, tobacco and lottery tickets, either but that actually makes sense. There's a health issue there so I can't slight it.)

 From time to time I run into articles of Muslims trying to get places shut down because they sell pork. One raised hell with a Texas barbecue joint and the backlash was pretty good. Business boomed.

Jews don't eat pork which is fine because I have never had a Jew tell me I can't. I remember a Jew casually handing me a ham sandwich one afternoon at work and saying he didn't eat pork. 

City owned markets should cater to everyone. They have no business depriving New Yorkers out of being able to purchase pork products. I't's complete, total unmitigated bull$hit.

The most recent issue I have read about is a number of NYC Muslims are griping that people bring the family dog into their homes. They say the dog is unclean and doesn't belong in the house.

To be fair about it, Islam preaches mercy, kindness and respect to all animals and cruelty towards them is frowned upon. The do, however, consider dogs to be unclean. They are not supposed to come into the house. 

Now that's OK in itself. If they don't want to bring a dog into their homes, fine. They don't have to.

Still, First of all who/what I bring into my home is nobody's business unless I am hiding a hatchet murderer or other serious criminal. Secondly in many American homes (including mine) pets are simply one of the family. They come and go with us. Many of us even sleep with them. I know my cat sleeps with me. I suppose if I had one the dog would share my bed. I know a Lab probably would and there's little I can do about it other than close the door and not let it in.

Over the years while visiting friends I've had a couple of dogs jump up into where I was sleeping. I just rolled over and went back to sleep. IIRC they were both Labs which seems to be par golf.

Representative Randy Fine (R. FL) recently answered the New Your outcry of of Muslims trying to run the family pooch out of inside homes. He was quoted as saying "If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one." 

Of course the Democrats are screeching for his resignation but a quick glance at his social media posts says otherwise. I also have not noticed people looking to buy or build doghouses to keep the family pooch outside yet and I doubt I will. The family dog is part of the family. The dog stays put.

It goes further than this. One of Mamdani's lieutenants has said outright that Islam will be in every American household. Of course it won't be in mine.

The list goes on and on. If you take a look at history and the world around you, Islam gets along with nobody and all of the other religions get along fairly well. In fact they don't appear go even get along with each other as Sunni and Shiite Muslims have been fighting over who should have succeed Prophet Muhammad's bloodline. The fight has gone on since 662 AD and occasionally breaks into armed conflict to this day.

Christians and Jews? Fine. Buddhists and Hindus? The seem to get along fine. It seems that every religion seems to get along fine well and at the very least tolerate each other except for Muslims because Muslims try and force themselves on everyone else. That's bull$hit. Leave everyone else alone and stop trying to force you customs on everyone else. 

There are between 50 and 60 other nations that accept Sharia law. This is not one of them. If you want Sharia law please pack your bags and leave. Put an egg in your shoe and beat it.

Personally I do not believe the religion to be compatible with western society. Muslims won't assimilate. It does not belong here in a free country because it wants to undermine our religious freedoms.

Before everyone goes off on me over the First Amendment, take a look at Don Lemon, a journalist. He is not being charged with anything that has to do with journalism. He's being charged with his personal conduct in the church which has nothing to do with the first Amendment. 

Same holds true for Muslims in the country. while the religion itself can not be challenged the conduct coming from it is fair game. If they can't assimilate them all non-citizens should be deported. As for those that are citizens, I guess we're stuck with them so long as they behave themselves. 

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The roof is now clear.

The storm left my eaves with huge ice dams the like of which I have never seen before. It was well over a week of almost hourly check to the inside of the eaves (in the attic space) to make sure the ice wasn't being pushed inside as happened several years ago.

Since that huge mess we have reroofed and afterwards I installed leaf guards over the gutters. I'm sure the Amish did a good job reroofing and we used several layers of ice guard. 

Everything worked out as planned when I did it years ago and it's good to have a plan work out.

All the snow and ice is gone and not a drop found its way into the house.

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One of the smartest things I ever did

was to sheath my cell phone in an AI case in neon pink.

Besides being a damned heavy duty case the neon pink color has made my life a lot easier. I just have to glance around a room and there it is. It just jumps out at me.

Recently it fell out of my pocket when I slipped on some ice and when I realized it was gone I retraced my steps and lo and behold it was pretty damned close to where I fell. It just jumped up at me.

If it was in some uber tacticool color that blends in with everything I'd be screwed.

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One of the things I like to do is follow the sun

on my map.

Spring begins when the sun is directly over the equator. Summer begins when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer. When the sun drops to the equator six three months later Fall gets underway and when the Sun goes over the Tropic of Capricorn winter begins and the cycle repeats itself. 

Right now as I sit here it looks like at Local Apparent Noon the sun will be pretty close to being directly over the island of Hawaii.

Local Apparent Noon (LAN) is when the sun is at it's highest point of the day and that doesn't necessarily agree with what the clock says.

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I just read somewhere that 12% of Americans believe that Noah's Ark was married to Joan of Arc. 

While I do not know if it is true or not it certainly would not surprise me to find out it is true.

 

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I think if I was POTUS

I'd have fun screwing around with the chow.

What do you want tonight, Mr. President?

Fish sticks and tater tots and don't forget to use miracle whip to make the tartar sauce with.

Or this: I dunno. How about something interesting for a change like a chili-mac MRE?

I think I'd keep him guessing and make things interesting for him.

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Over the chaos of a SAVE brawl I was reading one wry woman stole the entire internet. I would live to have a few drinks with her because she and I certainly share the same sense of humor.

She posted "The dog ate my marriage certificate."

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