I am now ready for Halloween.

I have a good supply of candy and, hot buttered rum mix and rum.

A few years back I read here some people in the inner city were taking their kids to more affluent neighborhoods and trick or treat.

There were the gripers and at first I agreed. Their argument held a lot of water but I did something unusual. I figured give the kids a break and be kind. I couldn't blame the kids.

I simply bought an extra bag of candy and called it good.

I figured they'd probably hit the higher end neighborhoods but wanted to be prepared. Then I thought again. I DO live in a 'rich' neighborhood...relatively speaking. My house is made of brick.

If you are living in a tent and someone else is living in a plywood shack is one of them rich guys. 

I did get hit by maybe fifteen or so kids that were obviously from the city and instead of just giving them the bum's rush I chatted with them. A couple of them commented that I had a big, nice house and said they'd like to live in one. (My place is somewhat middle middle for the neighborhood at best). 

The adults politely refused my hot buttered rum which makes sense. They were driving and also had to set an example. I would have refused if I were in their shoes.

I was good to them and encouraged them to get ahead and make something of themselves and think for themselves. If they did and worked hard they could have a nice place someday.

Anyway it's been a few years and I hope that at least one of them got a look at the burbs and is working at trying to get out of the city. It would be cool to find out that at least one of them went on for further education or some kind of apprentice program and eventually gets out of the city. 

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It is getting colder which means I have a uniform change coming up.

This time of years my safari jackets get parked in the closet unless I have to travel by air.

They get replaced by hoodies and when it gets even colder the hoodie gets covered with a leather flight jacket.

I just pulled a couple of safari jackets out of the dryer and they will be ironed and hung up until spring unless we have an unseasonable cold snap or I have to fly somewhere.

I'm lucky that I got to stay in safari jackets this long because sometimes by October things get pretty cold.

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"Yes you can AND DON'T RETURN IT.

When I need it back I will shout out for it."

When I was a carpenter and someone asked to borrow a tool I would say that because everyone would put it back by quietly laying it behind me and then I would have to go looking for it.

If they had it I knew where it was.

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Some whack jobs are mad at the LAPD

because a little kid got gassed at a 'protest'.

What a crock! The parents should face reckless endangerment charges for bringing a lid to a protest that they knew could easily go south.

Maybe if the police start charging these idiots and punishing them this kind of behavior would come to a halt.

I suppose some liberal judge would let them off the hook but it would be in the parent's arrest record and if it happens again CPS would have a leg to stand on and take action and possibly remove them from their idiot parents.

When that happens a LOT of people will stand up and take notice and the stupidity would cease instantly. 

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Don't come to this country unless you want to become an American.

And don't move to North Carolina unless you want to become a North Carolinian or move to Texas unless you want to become a Texan.

I am getting tired of getting reports that transplants move into an area and try to turn it into the sewer they left.

If everything was so good back where you came from then why did you leave? If you don't like your new home then by all means, leave.

This holds doubly true for Islamic activists. If you come here and even think that Sharia law has a place here then leave.

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One thing Trump has done is return the word 'retard' to its proper home.

when he called Tim Walz one.

At one point the term was used to describe a special needs person but like a lot of things in the English Language that seems to have changed over time.it warm and allow him to cook.

I remember an incident from back in the day when an engineer from some lofty place dropped out to become a fisherman in Alaska. He bought a boat and went to work on it to suit his needs.

He was installing an oil stove of sorts in it to keep warm and enable him to cook. He arrived at the boat one day with a bunch of hardware including a small pump, check valves, fittings, piping and other hardware to get the now installed stove up and running.

At the time practically every town had one or two harmless special needs people that had been mainstreamed and were just part of the woodwork. They were pretty much accepted,  looked after and protected by the townspeople.

As the engineer turned fisherman started sorting out his parts our special needs guy was wandering by and asked the fisherman what he was doing. He went into an explanation on how he planned to pump fuel to his new stove.

Our special needs citizen looked at him and said, "Gee, you must be awful smart to know how to do all of that. I would have put the tank on the roof and let the oil run down into the stove."

The engineer turned fisherman looked completely stunned like he'd been hit by lightning. He mumbled something about having to go to the store and left.

A couple of days later I saw the engineer working on the deck of his boat and asked how his stove install went and he replied it works like a charm and invited me aboard to check it out. It ran perfectly.

When I disembarked I turned and took a look. I was not surprised to see the stove fuel tank affixed to the top of the coach roof. I said nothing but thought to myself "Who's the retard?"

Some of the most intelligent people on the planet can be retards.

I saw this picture answering a post on social media and decided that it fit Tim Walz nicely. (Occasionally it fits me.)

 

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I see where Ilhan Omar is having a few problems.

with her citizenship and maybe a few other minor things like fraud and/or theft.

One thing about this is the entire thing could have been avoided if she'd have simply represented her constituency without all the bull$hit, fanfare, drama and false outrage. 

She had to know that her paperwork had been fudged a little and that it would not take a whole lot to go through it with a fine screen and discover where something had been glossed over but she grew too overconfident and started getting herself into the limelight and pissing people off.

What's interesting to note is that if she continued to represent her constituency and quietly contribute she likely could have had a lifetime spot and a Congresswoman because her constituency of Somalia born people in MN would have continued sending her to Congress for the next umpteen decades.  

She also could have continued with whatever (alleged) fraud she was into and kept milking the system dry. 

Instead she chose to make a nuisance of herself and finally someone got tired of it and decided to do a little digging.

Most of the usual scam stories I have heard over the years are stories where the scam artists are doing something that is and likely will fly under the radar forever and a day if they hold course and speed and keep quiet about it. They always end with either 'Then they started getting greedy' or 'Then they started bragging about it'.

Getting greedy or telling anybody about a scam is a sure fire way of getting caught. When you start increasing your criminal activity where it becomes noticeable people start looking around trying to find out what's going on. 

When you tell someone what you are up to you run a very good chance that they will say something to someone else and then it becomes common knowledge fast. When that happens it's all over.

While I am no fan of Ilhan Omar whatsoever, I bet if she's followed the simple rules of crookedness and simply decided to fly under the radar she'd be sitting in Congress instead of waiting for whatever comes next.  

 

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Chain drive garage door openers.

tend to be noisy but they are solid. They are also the most reliable.

The quietest openers are screw driven and probably a little more expensive. They make sense for a family where the comings and goings spread over 24/7.

Still, I met a guy that bought one so it would not wake him up when the garage door opened and closed.

He lives alone.

What kind of badness is he talking about? If he is inside his home and he heard it it is an alarm because someone else has opened it and is either planning on entering or leaving his house.

I seriously doubt he is going to walk in his sleep into the garage and open the door and when he returns he's not going to be asleep either.

Go figure.

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