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Truth

 

After the Labor Day weekend show

 

Absolutely Zero

 

Stolen from MC

Yeah, it’s a Flock Camera

 

Questionable Saturday

 What was your first rock concert?

Sheer stupidity

 From a comment on my post regarding government spending:

But you go ahead, stay on your liberal plantation

That may be the dumbest comment I have ever received. A smaller, more fiscally conservative government is the antithesis of liberal. This person obviously hasn't read this blog for long.

Criticism of the president in no way makes me a die-hard Democrat.

Someone who automatically jumps in lockstep on every issue , no matter the political party, is not only an ideologue, but certainly lacks the ability to think critically.  

It it is people like this commentator that allowed the worse mass murders of the Twentieth Century to happen. 

Grow up.

I have answers

It's hot. It is not because of el Nina or el Nino. The warm weather is not from cow farts nor Yeti belches deep in the Himalayas.  Quetzalcoatl is not exacting revenge for Cortes. It is not a divine wind sent from the ghost of King Kamehameha. 

It is hot because it is summer. No more, no less. 

If you need to place blame, look no further than that big firey ball in the sky called the sun.

I'll wait in this place, where the sun never shines

 

This is not about politics

Our national debt is over thirty trillion dollars. Let's write that out for emphasis: $30,000,000,000,000. 

For reference, Pluto is only 2.6 billion miles away. Jesus was alive a mere 6.2 billion seconds ago. 30 trillion seconds equals 951,293 years. Thirty trillion is an unfathomable number.

President Trump started this term by looking for savings in the US government, yet wastes taxpayer money and effort on totally stupid and unnecessary shit like changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. 

We all know the next Democrat president will change it back, costing more taxpayer money. 

This is why our grandchildren's grandchildren will live with all 30,000,000,000,000 consequences. 

 

The snowbird sings the song he always sings

 

Eight-year-old me used to irritate my brother to no end when I insisted on playing this on the juke box at the Pizza King. 

I will finally admit the song is fairly annoying. 

Already?

 Let it be known, on August 27, Costco has Christmas stuff out. 😫

Not happening

 Here we are early on a Thursday. Today is trash day. Worry not, my bin was rolled to the curb last night. It marks 186 weeks since I had to put my recycling bin next to it's standard garbage counterpart.  It is not because I'm a superior environmentalist, I have no compost bin. I do not eschew corregated boxes nor plastics in my house. 

Only about 21% of residential recyclables in the U.S. are actually captured and recycled, with plastic recycling rates dropping as low as 5%. I'm not going to wash my trash when it is likely going into the landfill (or shipped to China to go in their landfills) anyway. 

You can come and sort my trash if you feel strongly about it. 

Okay, it's been a couple of months. I cut down the corregated boxes (they are not cardboard, you heathens) when they build up and put them in that seldom-used bin with the yellow lid. 

But I'm not bothering with the other stuff. 

The world is a little less fun

 

Artsy Fartsy

 

Apples in a bowl on my kitchen counter. 

Now I need a nap

 What? Are ypu still here? Why?

We had a fun and adventurous weekend. The grandgirls came for the weekend. On Friday we ate some Mexican food and then played minuture golf. The youngest hit the only hole-in-one. The wife was the overall champion. 

I'm cool with that, I've no giant male ego. Heck, she wins about half the time we have played over the years. I would be way more disappointed if she lost to assuage my feelings and to make me feel like a big man.

Now she needs to get back home and do the dishes. And bring me a beer. 

Saturday I made spaghetti and we had movie night. In all, we had a great time. 

I'm glad the girls feel so comfortable and happy here. It is certainly not home, but the next best thing. 

Big Orange Drink

 

I had a 45 record of this as a kid. It cracked me up. 

It’s raining again

 Jeez. It’s raining. There are flood warnings. 

Rinse and repeat, I guess. At least I got the lawn cut this evening before it started raining.

Wet and repeat

 All of tbe recent rainy weather has left my day lillies confused. They are blooming like it is May.