Beware!

 I don't believe my friends and coworkers are going to Julius Caesar me on this day. I hope not. The weather, on the other hand, just might. Mother Nature is showing her bipolar side this month and if the prognosticators are correct we should be in for a ride the next few days. A windy day will see temps push 70F then a front drives through bringing gusts to 80 mph and temperatures could drop 30-40 degrees in hours. Tornadoes and straight line winds followed by snow. 

What's Cooking

 It appears we are going to have to replace our stove. It won't hold temperatures in the oven. We have had it "repaired" once already and the expensive fix lasted about eight months before it started failing again. The red light that indicates the top is hot has burned on steady for a year no matter if the burners are on or not.  It, like my other Samsung appliances, is junk (don't get me started on the pos refrigerator). 

We have only started looking at options on-line and I sauntered past the selection at Lowes yesterday when I stopped for furnace filters. I want the double oven version, but I balk at the price. In the end it will be what the wife wants even though I do 90% of the cooking. It is just the way it is. 

In the end I know I will spend about a grand on an appliance that will last about a decade and that is a sad commentary on today's crappy manufacturing environment when "good enough" replaces quality components and workmanship. 

Friday music

 

Damn hippies

Do Not Do It

 I’m pretty sure this opinion will not be popular. I desperately want the SAVE Act to pass. It is no burden to show ID to vote, Indiana has had voter id for a long time. 

It is not worth chucking the filibuster to get it passed. Look at what getting rid of the filibuster did for the Democrats on judicial nominations. 

Elections go in cycles. Maybe in months, certainly in the next years, the Stupid Party the Republicans will find themselves in the minority and will need the filibuster to protect us from the left-wing lunatics.

About the book

 A big thanks to Nathan, Sarah, and Instapundit 

I do not have to vocabulary to properly express my gratitude. 

Yes it is fixed.   

Live blogging the coming storm.

 Indigestion rumbles in my gut harmonize with the distant thunder. I recline in my chair and watch lightning illuminate the western sky behind the neighbors’ rooftops. It’s going to be a bad storm. You can hear the wind rising in the trees and the house pops as if flexing its joints for the onslaught. 

Clearly my tired brain is running rampant in the early morning hours.  The doorbell camera chimes and the Amazon spy device announces there is movement at the front door. The Amazon driver hurriedly chucks a package on my porch and races back to the waiting van before the rain arrives. I go downstairs and grab the package. I place it on the kitchen table unopened and trudge back upstairs to my chair. I type these lines wondering why anyone would care. 

I need some sleep. 

Democrat Theater

 The Democrats still refuse to fund the Dept of Homeland Security. Ostensibly because they are upset over ICE and want it defunded. 

Except ICE is funded through 2029. Congressional Democrats know this. 

This all just political theater staged for their uninformed ignorant voters. 

In the meantime we are all more at risk. 

Getting Progressive

 

As in Rock.