Why every women should know where her marriage certificate is at all times.

I have hear a number of married women complain that their driver's license and birth certificate don't match so they can't register to vote.

That's what a marriage certificate is for. It provides the necessary link to prove citizenship.

Your birth certificate says Kathy Jones. Your marriage certificate says Kathy Jones married John Smith and you changed your driver's license and Social Security to Kathy Smith. 

Now your birth certificate says Kathy Jones and your IDs all read Kathy Smith. To prove citizenship the marriage certificate provides the link.

Here's one scenario as to why you should have your marriage certificate readily available.

You've been married 25 years, the youngest just turned 18 and then out of nowhere your husband buys a lottery ticket for the hell of is and BAM! It hits and he is now the proud owner of ten million bucks!

He promptly runs off with a 24 year old bra buster stripper named Bubbles. Off to divorce court. You figure you should wind up with at least half of the ten million after the shock passes. 

Five million bucks means a pretty good life from now on. You can now afford a nice winter home to skip off to and avoid the cold northern winters. It could even have a nice pool to while away the sunny afternoons. No more boxed wine and a handsome pool boy to run errands and take care of various things.

Five million bucks and you'll manage.

So in court you and your attorney plead your case and the judge listens sympathetically. You attorney give you the confident look that says you're going to be rather rich soon. 

His attorney speaks. He says, "Your honor, the first thing I would like to ask is if this woman is even married to my client. This sounds like a scam to me."

The judge turns to you. "Do you have any documentation to prove you are lawfully married to this man? A marriage certificate or something?"

Now you're screwed. The last time you've seen your marriage certificate was right after you were married. You used it to change your driver's license and social security account. You haven't seen it since and have forgotten about it entirely.

Now you can't even prove you're married to the bum. You're screwed. Of course this can be fixed in another trial but for now you're out of luck.

Meanwhile the bum and his new girlfriend have skipped out to Rio de Janeiro and as such can't be touched. The courts have no jurisdiction outside of the country. 

However the kids have pleaded with him to at least have the decency to leave a roof over your head and he signs the house over to you. The joint checking account has some money in it but not a whole lot. It's off to the job market with a 30 year old degree in Fine Arts which you quickly find out is worthless because the market is glutted with Fine Arts majors.

Off to Walmart and it looks like you are going to spend the next twenty-five years standing there ringing a register until you are about 75 and are too old to anymore.

Several months later you get a large envelope in the mail with a Brazilian postage stamp on it with a few documents written in Portuguese. It takes a couple weeks for you to find a translator and you find out that he has divorced you in absentia from Brazil. 

It's completely over and you trudge off to another mindless day ringing the third register at Walmart.

In the meantime the bum is dilly-dallying around in another country where he can't be touched whiling away the days and nights with his girlfriend who he keeps dressed in the latest finery while you shop at Goodwill. 

Eventually when one of the kids drop by for their weekly welfare check they find you on the living room floor where you have been dead for the last five days and bury you closed casket because your face has been eaten away by the cat.

And all this because you couldn't locate your marriage certificate when you needed it.

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I have been watching the Buddhist monks walk for peace

and I respect it. We could use a nice, nasty outbreak of peace for a while but I think that it isn't in the cards the way things are going.

I snooped into Buddhism many years ago and found it to be compatible with Christianity. One can be both.

The late Tina Turner stated she was a mixture of Baptist and Buddhist and I understand that.

The monks started off in Texas and will arrive in Washington DC today (Z date). They have various things to do in DC and in a day or so will return to Texas. 

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I watched the TPUSA halftime show which was OK. 

I don't watch professional sports but used to watch the Superbowl halftime show but didn't last year. I watched the official one afterwards, or at least a pretty good part of it and wasn't very impressed. I think that the NFL show should be 100% American because American football is an American thing.

I know the NFL is trying to create an audience abroad but think it should stick to its roots.

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I am in for a day of sweating bullets as the temperature has started to climb and I have huge ice dams on the front of the house to deal with. 

Ice dams can force melting snow (water) in through the eaves and down into the inside of the walls. It's going to be hourly checks and I guess I'll just have to sleep in one hour snatches for the next day or so which sucks to the big time.

We shall see what we shall see.

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I can't think of very Donald Trump has done that other presidents haven't.

Trump's deporting people.

Obama was the Deporter-in-Chief and deported 3.1 million people. He simply threw them out with no formalities. Adios. Gone. Thanks to activist federal judges Trump has to give every single one a hearing. As of now the number of people that have been deported are rookie numbers compared to Obama's record.

Trump's trying to buy Greenland.

About 5 previous presidents have tried to buy Greenland for strategic military purposes. It can control the entire North Atlantic and eventually China or Russia will probably take it by force of arms. Better we get it than them.

We've purchased land from Denmark before. In 1917 we bought the Danish west Indies that is now the US Virgin Islands.

Trumps using the National guard in our cities.

So did JFK, LBJ, Bush and Ike among others. Ike even beefed up the Guard with paratroopers from the active duty 101st Airborne Division at Little Rock. George Washington personally led troops to put down the whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania. (He is the only sitting president to personally lead troops in the field)

Trump has taken military action without notifying congress.

So has virtually every other president. 

Obama dropped 26171 bombs against ISIS in 2016 alone without approval by Congress. JFK authorized sending 400 Green Berets into Vietnam in May of 1961, in effect creating the beginnings of the Vietnam war. 

While we're at it, notifying Congress is the last thing a president should do before a surprise military action. Congress consists of 535 members all of who have political aspirations and an agenda. They are leakier than a sieve and historically cost the lives of many of our troops. Notably Andrew J. May that blabbed the Japanese were not setting their depth charges deep enough. There have been others including then VP Joe Biden who let the cat out of the bag on the Bin Laden raid that later cost us a bunch of our guys.

There is also an unsubstantiated rumor going around that Hakeem Jeffries got wind of the Venezuelan raid and tried to tip off Maduro. If there is a kernel of truth to this Jeffries should be tried and executed for outright treason.

While he can only keep troops engaged for 60 days without Congressional approval. There's a damned good reason POTUS doesn't keep Congress in the loop prior to bona fide lawful military actions. 

Trump doesn't appear to have done anything that previous presidents have. He's not really too original. He's just had to deal with obstructionists.

Of course I'm sure someone will come along with something...

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Here's an interesting read. 

https://tomklingenstein.com/the-issue-that-breaks-the-blue-narrative/?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=6935203050668&utm_content=6935203053268&utm_term=6935203050868&utm_campaign=6935203050668&fbclid=IwY2xjawPx2IxleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQAAAZOunegzGJyaWQRMXBSNHMxcDhBYkpnRnk1c3hzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeZvGHqcbGFj2PTgvdyVl0KeJ3CWqciJcsjewIbwcMLg4cWbaDNMbhu8YziEI_aem_cuIIsf7WITLUmHBAvHyOnQ

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I met a black guy that got a driver's license all by himelf.

Yup a black guy got a driver's license all by himself.

He got his birth certificate and Social Security card and $35.50 and went to the DMV. He actually filled out his own forms without any help.

Then he took three tests and passed all three. One was a written test about the rules of operating a car and the rules of the road. After that he took an eye test and passed that. Then he got into an actual automobile with a DMV tester and show the tester he could drive a car safely. After he passed everything he was given a photo card and had his picture taken and was handed a real driver's license that he had gotten all by himself and with nobody helping him out. How surprising!

Great day in the morning! Imagine that! Whoda ever though such a thing could be done by a black guy!

Maybe he will be able to get a voter ID all by himself!

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One of the things that drives me to drink

are those people that miss the whole point of something when they get hung up on a picky detail. Grammar Nazis are a part of this group. There are a lot of others that miss the boat when an Idea is brought up.

I was going to write a piece about it but then remembered this sign that says things better than I would have. 

Sometimes a picture IS worth a thousand words.

This applies to a more than a few people I have to deal with over the years. 

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I am listening to lame excuses to block voter ID laws.

In order to vote the following should be met.

1.You have to be alive.

2. You have to be a citizen.

3. You have to be registered.

4.You must show a voter ID. 

5. You may only vote once.

6. Paper ballots.

7 Same day results.

That's not too much to ask for to keep things reasonably honest. 

Now let's take a look at some of the lame excuses I've heard.

"It's Jim crow 2.0! It's unfair to minorities."

Why? Is there some reason they can't fill out a form, show ID and have their picture taken? They do it for driver's licenses, government programs like social security, professional licenses and a host of other things. what's the big deal?

"How about married women? They have to explain their name change!"

They have done if for driver's licenses and Social Security to name a few. What's the problem with a name change on a voter registry? Just bring your birth certificate and marriage certificate and it's a done deal. 

Lame. 

You say Donald Trump cheated on the last election.

If so, you ought to get behind it so J D Vance can't cheat in 2028. 

There is simply no excuse whatsoever to not have voter ID unless you want to cheat in future elections. None whatsoever.

Lame, lame, lame.

I'd at least respect it if they were honest and said, "Then we can't cheat anymore."

 

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Since I got out of the army I've almost always owned my own home.

One way or the other. 

When I got out of the army I moved into a tipi for about 14 months (Less a couple months when I was a cowboy) 

Then I spent a couple months paying rent in a shared apartment and then took off for Kodiak, Alaska. Upon arrival I was homeless for a couple of months and then took a camp job and let the paychecks roll in and lived in camp for most of the spring and summer making money.

In the fall I went to Washington and moved in with a woman until about February. There I bought a pickup and a $25 camper and that was home for a while. I returned to Kodiak in the spring and promptly scored an out of town camp job out of town and made a pretty good bundle. when that gig ended I returned to Kodiak and bought a small camper-trailer and that was home for a few years until I upgraded to a bigger unit.

After that I bought a sailboat and that worked for me until I met my wife. we apartment dwelled for a while and when we moved to Pittsburgh we rented until we found a decent house.

Rent was to be avoided wherever  possible.  

I used to compare rent to cocaine. All you get once it's over is a slip of paper.

 

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Nobody said a word about my pants being on backwards

A shipmate and I were sleeping when someone opened the door and said loudly, "We're almost on the gear!" This meant time to go to work.

I was on the top bunk and slipped and landed on top of my shipmate and we became a mass ot tangled up humanity on the deck.

We were both kind of punchy and panicky and started to both put on the same pair of pants ala Laurel and Hardy. When it was discovered they were my pants he pulled his leg out and I turned them and put my other leg in the other pantleg and pulled them up. It was then I realized they were on backwards.

I simply reached around and buttoned the top button, called it good and raced for the galley where breakfast was already on the table. I chowed down and spent the rest of the workday with my pants n backwards.

Nobody said a word about it.

All I can say about the incident is that there's a lot to be said about a job where nobody looks twice at a coworker that shows up for work with his pants on backwards.

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Don Lemon can't hide behind the First Amendment.

He's not being charged with for covering the news. He's being charged with his conduct while covering the news. 

There's a saying. Journalists report the news. If they make the news they haven't done their jobs.

Lemon was not being arrested for reporting the news at all. This is just a bullshit smokescreen. His conduct before and in the church made him one of the participants (and possibly one of the ringleaders) of the unlawful invasion of the church.

The analogy someone made was two guys get pulled over for drag racing. One of them whips out a camera and a notebook and tells the cop "I'm just a journalist doing a piece on the dangers of speeding"

Surprise! He's getting a ticket just like the other guy and he deserves one.

The First Amendment doesn't apply here and the beauty of it is that Lemon has provided his own case against himself by having the whole thing on film. 

About 50 years ago I took a couple journalism courses and that was pointed out to me during a class on journalistic law. You're only there to report the news.

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Manslaughter. Fined $1 and given a carton of cigarettes and immediately transferred.

This was one of my father's favorite WW2 stories. 

This is before the UCMJ became law in 1948. This is Old School stuff. I mean serious Old school.

At the time he was a flight officer for a brief time in Mississippi. He had officer of the day duty and part of his duties included being responsible for the guards guarding the flight line. He said he was a little nervous handing teenagers loaded rifles and made it damned clear during guard mount that they were supposed to follow the rules. 

The guard was supposed to challenge whoever tried to get onto the flight line three times before he was clear to fire on the person.

To make a long story short, that night a guard shouted three challenges, fired once and a teenager lay dead on the tarmac. 

Dad said it was a tragedy and it certainly was. Some dopey kid had gotten himself killed for no good reason.

The guard had done his duty. He had done nothing wrong so to protect the soldier was pulled off his post, told to get some sleep and the following morning a courts-martial board was put together. 

The guard was charged with manslaughter. The courts-martial found him guilty, fined him $1 and schlepped him a carton of Luckies and told him to pack his bags. By noon he was on an airplane headed to Texas earmarked for overseas assignment.

He said the officer assigned to defend him filed the paperwork immediately reporting that the courts-martial board did not follow the proper procedures pointing out some of the shortcuts the board had taken.

Shortly after the reviewing board investigated the complaints and the findings of the courts-martial were set aside. The man now had a clean record. 

I was wide eyed kid and asked why they let a guy off that had shot someone.

Dad explained how guard duty worked. Lawful orders were given and obeyed. The man on post had done his job and the results were a tragedy. A teenager was killed for being a dopey kid. There was a war on and the teenager was a casualty. The flight line had to be guarded. 

To punish the guard would mean guard duty would become a joke had the guard been punished for doing his duty. He had been ordered to guard the flight line, had done so to the best of his ability.

The courts-martial was convened to protect the man. He had been tried, convicted, sentenced and the sentence had been executed. The carton of Luckies was an unofficial gift. They also mistakes in the proceedings had done on purpose to clear the man's name because his defending officer was expected to file a complaint and get the courts-martial findings overturned by higher authority.

The man had been tried, convicted, sentenced and the sentence had been executed. The matter was now closed and he couldn't be retried by a state or any other level court. 

He was transferred out of state so that the base could not turn him over to the state to face any additional state charges. The base commander could truthfully say the man was being sent overseas.

It took me some time to figure that one out and later as a soldier I realized that Article 15 gave a servicemen some serious protection. 

Nowadays a felony can be punished under Article 15 and not be a felony conviction. It can also be thrown out afterwards.

What's also interesting is that 30 years later when I was in the army we had a Sp/4 transferred to my battalion from Germany. 

Tensions at the time in Germany were running high as the Baader-Meinoff gang was running around blowing stuff up. He had been on guard duty on an ammo dump and some idiot 2LT wanted to see if the guards were on their toes and decided to sneak past his post. 

Seems the lieutenant didn't take his challenge seriously that night and would up getting shot in the leg by my new found friend. A courts-martial found him innocent of any wrongdoing. The story seemed somewhat off to me and I admit I was dubious. 

A few months later he showed me a letter that came in from Germany a day earlier. In the letter from one of his friends in Germany it said that the lieutenant he had shot was supposed to be resigning as soon as he had fully recovered.

He said he was offered the transfer and suggested he take it to give him a clean slate. He took it even though he liked Germany because he figured he'd be a target for officers if he stayed in Germany.

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What's a kitchen table?

It's a place where life takes place.

It's  place where kids do homework and build model airplanes. It's where lunch is yaffled down so you can get back to whatever it is you're doing. 

The scratches and nicks on a kitchen table don't detract from it. They show that a real family has lived there and raised a family. Kitchen tables are where memories are made. They show character.

Some time ago a woman was talking about getting a new table when the last of the kids leave the house. I told her not to.

I told her for the first ten years you will enjoy the newness of the kitchen table but as the years pass she's going to regret throwing away the memories.

There's something special about a kitchen table.

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Don Lemon is hiding behind the First Amendment.

Don't be fooled. His jailing has nothing to do with the first Amendment. It has to do with his personal conduct. Journalists are responsible for their conduct just like everyone else. They're not privileged characters.

If a journalist is in the middle of a riot and is interviewing rioters he's probably on safe ground. 

The minute he participates in any act of rioting he loses his protection.

For example if a journalist is in the middle of the chaos simply interviewing rioters he's pretty much on solid footing. If he asks a rioter to do something illegal he's crossed the line. He's instigating.

The question over his upcoming trial is simply did he participate in the church invasion in any way or didn't he. If he had anything to do with the invasion itself he belongs in jail. 

The First Amendment has nothing to do with his trial. It's a separate issue. Don't be fooled. 

He hasn't been hauled off by the Gestapo to some dank dungeon. He's simply been arrested by federal law enforcement and has been charged with conspiracy and interfering with the first Amendment rights of worshippers. 

If/when his defense attorneys bring up the first amendment in his trial it will be a false deflection and will serve as an effort to confuse the jurors.  

If Lemon can hide behind freedom of the press for invading a church service then what I ought to do is make myself up a press pass and then do what I want. It would be the ultimate Get out of jail free card. 

It would be legitimate. After all I have 101 followers which makes me as legitimate as the New York Times.

(Why anyone is interested in the ranting and raving of an old man is beyond me)

Anyway, nobody's rights are being violated here. Don Lemon let his ego run away with him and let himself believe he is untouchable. He's finding out otherwise. I see he's thrown the race card into the equation, too. That's really worn out. It means nothing.

FWIW three other people have been arrested for the church invasion and my guess is that one, two or maybe all three are going to decide that testifying against Lemon is a pretty good deal because they'll be offered a chance to walk or at least escape jail time. 

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I have not met too many people that had a calling.

I did have a calling from the sea where I want to eventually be buried. I worked on the water and finally retired at the age of 71. Had it not been a calling of sorts I probably would have left at 62 like may sailors do. If I my body hadn't slowed down I'd still be working. I enjoyed working.

I thought of this because I saw a picture of a cowboy and it reminded me of two working cowboys I worked with for a couple of months.

The pair of them had a calling. They loved simply being cowboys and would do so for however long they lived. I can't explain it other to say that they had a calling from God. 

I'm sure they were more than aware that they would probably die young and possibly die as cripples as there's a jillion ways to get crippled up working with large livestock.

I think of those two occasionally and saw two of the happiest men I have ever seen. They worked every hour God gave them, lived in a spartan bunkhouse and had a very simple life and wanted nothing more out of it.

The pair of them lived for the brief periods of time they did 'cowboy stuff', moving the herd to another grazing area. In the saddle moving cows around they were kings of the world.

I could get on Old Paint and get from one place to another, but these two could ride! It was something magic to watch.

I guess now they use dirt bikes and quads to move cattle but looking back on it I feel honored to have worked with some of the last of the real cowboys.

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Mail delivery is a mess now.

I have USPS Informed Delivery and under normal circumstances it's great. It lets me know what's going on. 

It shows pictures of what is going to be in your mailbox that day.

Today I was supposed to get 5 letters and nothing showed up today. I don't believe the mail man ever showed up which is rare. I did run into another letter carrier yesterday and she told me they were delivering parcels only. Letters would be resumed in the next day or so.

I kept my eyes peeled for the mailman and apparently he never showed which I mildly expected. 

If I get nothing tomorrow I'll head off to the post office and have them get it for me.

Normally I don't sweat things like this but there's a lot of tax information that's due in. 

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I do believe I am going to have my water freeze up this winter.

While my incoming water is buried deep enough there is a spot where it enters the house where it's a bit shallower than it probably should be. 

Cold snaps don't drive the frost line down far enough to freeze things up but this long term of cold weather probably will. 

Generally we get cold snaps that last about a week and then there's some respite and things recover  bit. The current cold weather according to the 30 day forecast says it's going to be cold as hell until the middle of February. That means a deep frostline.

We shall see what we shall see.

I had an early February trip to Florida planned but I cancelled because of wanting to make sure everything here is OK and the fact that the cat is getting sick and it's a matter of time before I lose him.

If I have to put Kitty to sleep that's strictly on me. It's not fair to dump that on someone else.

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For quite some time I have not believed everything I see.

I have has a pretty hard time finding a decent news source that tells the truth. 

Both sides use creative editing and AI to spread outright lies.

Back in the Dark Ages people like Walter Cronkite (until he sold out during Vietnam just told you what's going on. The BBC was good, too. They just told you what happened.

A car outside Lefty's Pub in Belfast blew up. 4 injured, two dead. Nobody had claimed responsibility for this yet.

The next day: The IRA has just claimed responsibility for yesterday's car bombing in Belfast. OR no new news on yesterday's bombing.

With video clips you can make the Virgin Mary look like a whore and when you throw AI into it you can do practically anything. 

I saw someone's cellphone pictures of a demonstration and then some AI generated picture, allegedly of the same demonstration and it looked like a million people were there instead of the 4-500 on the cell phone video.

I have signed up for 1440 and they seem to be a pretty good Old School News source. Unfortunately they don't cover a whole lot.

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Tell Alex Pretti to say hi to Renee for me.

As far as I'm concerned they both won Darwin Awards because they were both stupid enough to tangle with armed lawmen. When you do that all bets are off. What happens to you is strictly on you. . 

As is generally the case people talk themselves into jail or worse and it looks like these two did just that. Over the years I have had many contacts with law enforcement types and by simply being civil to them have had no problems. I pretty much comply with their orders. 

Let's take a look at what's going on and how to get ICE out of Minneapolis. 

As of now ICE is looking mainly for illegals that have committed crimes so they can deport them. Ordinary illegals are not the problem. Criminal illegals are.

Had the Minneapolis PD simply called ICE every time they picked up an illegal and turned them over they would most likely not be there. They'd likely have a small office and pick up the criminal illegals the MPD supplied them with and deport them. The End.

Minneapolis would be safer if they removed the criminal element as they pick them up instead of simply releasing them and turning them back on society again to commit more crimes. 

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Want to see the Democrats throw every illegal out?

All Trump has to do is say he's considering a path to citizenship for conservative undocumented immigrants.

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Well, the Amazing Snow Storm has arrived.

It's snowing and coming down straight. As of yet there's no drifting and unless the wind picks up I won't have much to do other than keep an eye on things.

We're going to get a pretty good dallop of snow at this rate. 

This may be the day I have to dig out my work boots and put them on for the first time since I retired. That'll suck. I've managed to get by with flip flops and Sperry Topsiders and no socks on very rare occasions I'll wear sneakers. I get by with a series of workarounds. . For example I preheat my pickup as needed.

Oh, well. Into every life some rain must fall. (Mainly on weekends and holidays)

We've got about 8ish inches now and my neighbor just made my driveway operational with the snowblower I gave him a few years back with the deal he keeps my driveway operational. 

He hasn't had to use it in a few seasons and we both spent a big part of the day getting it running again. He had run it out of fuel the last time he used it but maybe forgot to drain the bowl because it was crudded up. We played hell getting it running and 

By operational I mean I have a place to park and enough room so if I pull up another car can slip in behind me. It's only snow and a short lived inconvenience. It's not concrete that will set up and be there forever. Besides over use I'll manage to flatten out the rest of the driveway in pretty short order.

A place to park and a path to the garage door which I seldom use in the winter and I'm good to go. Keep it simple. The stairs are about 5-6 feet wide and I will later shovel a 2-2.5 foot wide path that's more than adequate.  

I just called a woman I know and asked her if she needed anything from Giant Eagle and got a pretty good ear beating about how the roads are impassable and so on and so forth. I waited until she talked herself out and told her she still does need something from GE because I'm not going out in this slop. She has a problem with sarcasm.

However over the years I have driven to work in slop like this because work is sacred. If I was still working and it was the day before crew change I would be on the PA turnpike following plows and breaking trail. Now that I'm retired the need is no longer there. I'll just wait this one out.

The weather reports say this is going to stop around 0300. I'll play this by ear. I have no plans of staying up all night. 

1830 update. Snow was scheduled to stop at 2000 but it's just quit a while ago. Everything's fine.

The only thing I felt I had to keep an eye on are the vent and exhausts for the furnace and the hot water heater. They rise up about 2 feet above grade and if they get covered I'd lose heat and/or hot water. 

The Township has done a good job and I should send them compliments. Currently the road outside is 'emergency passable' and by the morning it should be clear.

Emergency passable means if you have some kind of serious business you can take care of it while exercising caution. I bet 87% of the accidents in this kind of weather are not people going to work or with some kind of serious business. They are generally idiots that ran out of Fritos and think that constitutes an emergency.

2100. Show's over. Off to bed.

Next day: For the first time since retirement I put my work boots on.

  

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I see where both the Netherlands and the UK have sent one soldier apiece to defend Greenland.

If I was, say a Danish soldier in Greenland and I met the lone Dutch soldier that had been sent there the first question I would have for him is "Who did you piss off to be sent here?"

Of course if I were the Dutch soldier that was asked that question I would reply with a mischievous snicker to keep him guessing.

My guess is the Brit that was sent there was probably caught screwing around with the RSM's daughter. 

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Weather hysteria.

We're supposed to get clouted with about a foot of snow over the next day or so and the usual weather hysteria has set in.

You can't find a single egg, gallon of milk or loaf of bread in SW PA as everyone lives on French toast during bad weather. It's ridiculous.

We're just going to have a day or two of difficult driving. 

Job opportunity. Next winter storm buy up all the bread or eggs and sell them at a buck an egg or maybe 50 cents a slice of bread. Panicky suburban housewives would pay through the nose for it because they don't how not to. While the screeching would be epic, they'd be screeching while opening their purses.

Fact is this is nothing new. We've had snow here before and will have it again in the foreseeable future. It's snow and when the weather warms up it melts and goes away.

Get over it.

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I remember a while back some guy told me his wife was from a rural Midwest farm and would get snowed in for over a week at a time.

I remember asking him what she does to prepare for snowstorms. 

He laughed and said, "She didn't forget where she came from. She's always ready so she just sends me on a beer run."

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I'm tired of health lectures.

Every family has three members to include the following.

First there is an Uncle Simon that smoked 3 packs of Lucky Strike cigarettes a day and polished off a quart of Seagrams 7 to top it off and died at 103 years old.

Next it Cousin Jimmy that won the State Awards in high school for every sport offered and did it again when he went through Penn State. Later when he was 25 years old his heart exploded and he dropped stone dead. 

A$$holes like me say he should have followed his uncle Simon's example.

Then there's that 8 year old kid that was playing in the front yard and got hit on the head by a meteorite.

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Passing something on.

STOP what you're doing - we have a pretty huge update and confession about this whole "Report ICE activity hotline" situation.

By about 1am, we had reports come in from numerous states that there had been "incidents" at a number of biker bars last night.

It turns out that "report ICE activity hotlines" had received "tips" about "off-duty ICE agents" drinking at dozens of bars. Those bars just so happened to be biker bars owned or frequented by individuals who haven't always been on the right side of the law.

ICE protestors were alerted and given the addresses of these bars. According to friends of ours across the country, beta soy boy, gender-fluid communist Meal Team Sixers showed up with their "F-ICE" flags and tried barging into the bars.

Except... there were no ICE agents drinking there. As a wise man once said... "now youse can't leave".

To clarify, WE absolutely did NOT report those addresses to the "Report ICE activity hotlines". That's ridiculous, guys. What kind of people do you think we are?

Nah. We simply provided the "Report ICE activity hotlines" to the good ole' boys that DRINK at those bars and asked them if they wanted to have a fun night.

Hey leftists... we've been warning you... there would be a time when the people who just wanted to be left alone get off the sidelines.

Keep going, children. We're in this for the long haul... and we're really, really good at it.

If you have a phone or fingers to type... you can get in the fight and help protect ICE and law enforcement. Below you'll find the "report ICE activity" hotlines.

Have fun and blast this thing all over the internet.

Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) — 1-844-724-3737

LULAC ICE Activity Reporting — Signal/WhatsApp: +1-202-699-4637

Puente Arizona (Phoenix metro) — 480-506-7437

Arkansas United — 479-763-2822

Los Angeles Raids & Rapid Response Network — 888-624-4752

San Francisco Rapid Response Network — 415-200-1548

Alameda County (ACILEP) — 510-241-4011

Contra Costa County — 925-900-5151

North Bay (Sonoma/Napa/Solano) — 707-800-4544

Sacramento Rapid Response Network — 916-382-0256

Santa Clara County — 408-290-1144

Santa Cruz / Pajaro Valley — 831-239-4289

Central Valley / Valley Watch — 559-206-0151

Kern County — 661-432-2230

Orange County — 714-881-1558

San Diego County — 619-536-0823

Santa Barbara / Ventura / SLO (805 Network) — 805-870-8855

Long Beach Community Defense Network — 562-245-9575

Colorado Rapid Response Network — 1-844-864-8341

Florida Immigrant Coalition / RAISE Hotline — 1-888-600-5762

Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) — 770-457-5232

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR) — 855-435-7693

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network (Greater Boston) — 617-370-5023

Grand Rapids Rapid Response Network — 616-238-0081

Reno / ACTIONN Rapid Response — 775-453-6137

Rapid Response New Jersey — 1-888-347-3767

NYC ICE Watch — community reporting via coordinated alert networks (no single phone line)

Rochester Rapid Response Network — 585-420-6471

Siembra NC Rapid Response — 336-543-0353

Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) — 1-888-622-1510

New Sanctuary Movement (Philadelphia) — 267-333-9530

Centre County Rapid Response Network — 814-264-4626

AMOR / ICE Watch RI — 401-675-1414

Vecindarios901 (Memphis) — 901-329-7979

Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) — 615-833-0384

WA Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) — 1-844-724-3737

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Greenland.

Most people wonder why Trump is so interested in Greenland. That's probably because he knows it would be a good strategic asset for the United States.

Here's a pretty good WSJ article as to why Greenland matters to the US defense that makes a lot of sense. It explains it better than I can.

Incidentally this is not the first time we have made a real estate deal with Denmark. We bought the Danish West Indies (Now US Virgin Islands) from Denmark back in 1917.

Greenland in seven maps.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/greenland-national-defense-maps-6f53c339?st=sidtL4&mod=1440&user_id=695da3512f655e62cc0c887f

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I see where ICE has turned the tables on the idiots that follow them around.

They run their plate numbers and get the registered owner's address and drive them to what  is often the followers own home.

Actually they don't take it far enough. They should stop there, get out of their car and knock on the door.

If someone answers simply say to them "We know who you are and where you live." and then turn around and leave. If the door answerer is a spouse hen someone is likely to get a real ear beating when they get home. 

What's likely to happen is the car owner will see it and out himself by charging up to the officers and try to raise hell with them. With any luck the car owner will talk his way to jail.

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I've seen a few videos of police officers breaking the windows of people that refuse to open them.  In just about every one of them it's pretty funny watching the driver go into shock as the entire window shatters into tiny pieces and falls out in under a second.

What they also need is a seatbelt cutter because when someone refuses to get out the seat belt seems to be the big problem. The officer has to unbuckle it.

Just shatter the window, cut the seat belt and then just jerk the person out of the car and onto the pavement where they can easily be cuffed.

Oh yeah, the police should report this to a central website so that when the owner tries to report it as vandalism or something to get it fixed the insurance company can tell them to pay for it themselves.

I don't believe that insurance companies will pay for damage like that that is caused by idiots.

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I guess the kid got his driver's license and actually listened to me.

I think it was last spring when one of the neighborhood kids was tooling around on some sort of pretty fast electric bike. He was speeding and fooling around on it and I know he blew a stop sign completely off.

The next time I saw him I flagged him down and told him the next time he had a few minutes I wanted to talk to him and give him a couple of tips and pointers. He said he had a few minutes then and there.

I told him I had been a professional criminal and had smuggled guns, drugs, stolen goods, untaxed gasoline and God knows what else and had gotten away with it for my entire life and had never even gotten a ticket.

When he asked how I managed never to get caught I explained to him that over 87% of all felony busts were the result of traffic stops. 

I told him that some I'd teach him how to drive drunk and not get busted.

Anyway, he slowed the electric bike down and seemed to act a little more responsible. 

Today he passed by driving at a reasonable speed in a car.

Maybe he's just doing it here but that's fine by me.

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The average fool doesn't understand the rest of the story of our Venezuelan raid.

Most people think it the raid and removal of Madero was all about oil as in cheap gas prices here in the States. That's a small part of it if you look at the bigger picture. we now have cheap gas and domestic drilling appears to be on the rise.

It's also about oil from another respect. We're keeping China and Russia pretty much out of the Venezuela oil patch. This is in line with the Monroe Doctrine and the policy of keeping the rest of the world out of the Americas.

President Carlos Perez nationalized the Venezuelan oil industry in 1976 and started edging the American companies out. They were completely out by 2007 and American oil companies lost a metric $hit ton of money because there was no reimbursement for contractual losses.

This hodgepodge wound up in world court and Venezuela was stuck with a debt to the US. No US presidents stepped up to the plate to make an effort to collect the debt.

Enter businessman President Trump that ordered certain vessels leaving Venezuela containing Venezuelan crude to be seized causing a certain outcry from the usual suspects Stateside. 

The whole thing is a pretty complicated deal but basically booting Madero out puts us in the driver's seat to cut off oil to China and Russia to an extent which slows up their war machines. 

There's a LOT more to it than providing cheap gas to American pumps.

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I am getting sick and tired of health lectures and nagging.

Just about every family has two members, an Uncle Simon that drank a quart of whiskey and smoked three packs of Luckies a day and died in his sleep at 98 years old. The family consnsus is he got nagged to death.

Then there's Cousin Jamie that was a natural born athlete that was the high school champion of football, baseball, track and field and basketball that went onto college and graduated after having sports scholarships and being the best athlete of his entire graduating class that six months after graduation dropped dead of a heart attack.

I didn't put someone's kid brother on the list. He got hit on the head by a meteorite one day when he was eleven.

It is what it is.

I'm sick and tired of people nagging at me to change my ways.

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In other news 

I am beginning to like RFKjr more and more because he has started to upset a few apple carts about health issues that we have believed for decades.

He recently tipped the long standing food pyramid upside down and it seems to make more sense.

A lot of myths about what's good for you have been created by various marketing groups to sell products. 

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day (breakfast food makers)

An apple a day keeps the doctor away (apple growers)

And so on.

RFKjr seems to be challenging a lot of what we've heard. 

Anymore my old age cynicism simply says follow the money.

As someone else said, I tried to follow the science and got nowhere so I followed the money and found the science.

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