One year ago today: January 21, 2024, stars in bars.
Five years ago today: January 21, 2020, oxygen isotopes.
Nine years ago today: January 21, 2016, music, women, money.
Random years ago today: January 21, 2003, the new office clerk.
Well of course, the world is dominated by Trump activity this morning. He’s begun wholesale firing of corrupt immigration judges. Ports of entry are blocked by police who show an amazing ability to grow a pair once Trump puts their fat pensions on the line. He’s hauled ass out of the Paris Accord, the one that puts restrictions on America but not other countries doing the same thing. A Federal hiring freeze. Withdrawal from the WHO, which we presume includes defunding. Here’s a picture of some desperate refugees protesting with their smart phones which everyone knows you need a credit card to activate. It’s the end if birthright citizenship.
By day’s end, Trump has given over a thousand moles their walking papers. All foreign aid is suspended for 90 days. All or most J6 prisoners are freed, but the DC police refuse to release them, spawning a rumor that they are in such bad shape the police don’t want you to see them. Next he’s fired that Coast Guard half-lady who was letting in all the Cubans. And this just in, says the person blocking the release of the J6 prisoners is none other than the Trump-hating mayor of New York. This just gets curiouser and curiouser. By later today, she has tried to force them to sign non-disclosure agreements so they can’t talk about torture, beatings, and the guards pissing in their food.
More on the lawnmower mystery. Does this blog dare feature a hole in the lawnmower gas tank? Sure, because it is the story behind that makes the grade. Here’s some facts so you can sleuth along with me. The hole is a clean perfectly round puncture, so it is manmade. There are small flanges showing the damage came from the outside. But the bottom of the tank is just and inch above the metal of the blade housing, which is not damaged. The joe is so big, the tank would drain instantly, but it ran for the first week, meaning the damage occurred while it was here. And why did I not smell any spilled gas? I do not have anything in my possession that could cause a hole like that and the mower had never left my back yard. Other than facts like this, it’s just a picture of a gas tank hole.
Catalytic convertor theft haul.
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Nothing happened today except Trump driving his teeth into the crowd that opposed him back in 2016. He thought back then the civil service was compelled to follow executive orders. But found out if a whole department was corrupt, they would ignore him. This time, he knows their names and nas already cut the head off a thousand serpents. American cheers him on like nothing I’ve seen before. He’s not going to give them the option to pull that stunt again.
Y’know that “best part of the potato” old wive’s tale? I don’t buy it. I like my spuds the same way I like my women. White, firm, and fresh off the farm.
I need another 25 feet of electric cable to connect a second overhead heater (which I now like) in the kitchen, plus another 15 feet, the smallest length they sell, for the shed. So make it a 50-foot roll and the stuff now costs $80 for the required 12/2. I just do not have the investment capital to offset those kind of price increases. I’m stuck where I was half a lifetime ago. I can build things but I don’t have any place to sell them at a competitive price. I’m going to stick with these super-strong boxes a bit more to see if I can come up with a definitive design with ruggedness as the selling point.
There is hope with Trump returning energy exploration to America that prices will drop, but never to what they were. The Democrats printed up too much money for that. Since my health won’t allow me to work, I have to consider other options. No matter what the future brings, inflation has pushed millions of people to the edge. Maybe not the edge of poverty, but well into the dire straits. I’m going to allocate $5,000 to my own vehicles this year, so I never get caught by another Valdosta again.
Do we have another job? Another neighbor has a collapsing porch deck. No local handyman will take such a small project. I’ll take a look, if it just involves replacing the planks, I’ll quote him a couple hundred bucks. I should not be undertaking this much work, but I’ve told him I cannot rush. Later, the other neighbor gave me a painting that he wants a border. The wood is $1 per foot, so I went to the Thrift and bought pictures with wooden frames to see if it is cheaper to modify those. Then it was “Gunsmoke” time.
Methinks we’ve finally watched all the action episodes, so it was another soap with a cowboy and rancher who get themselves killed over a girl who played them off against each other. The neighbor is a staunch Democrat, but blissfully unaware of how far downhill the party went over the past forty years. He believes the propaganda that, starting with Canada and Greenland, the Trumpists seek to take over the whole world. Christ man, America doesn’t want the rest of the world.
It was so cold it snowed in Pensacola. I stayed in the back room with the heater as outside drops to a few degrees above freezing. This is very rare in Florida, even this far north. I’m watching “Limitless”, the show about the wonder drug. I’ve seen it before, the acting is superb. I’ve forgotten the ending and I’m wide awake. I’ve checked all the important indexes for me and the Trump effect has not yet wiggled the needle. Silver prices, exchange rates, all the same as late last week. I looked at the future, five years, I likely won’t make it. Of all I’ve received in Social Security, I still have half of it invested.
Later tonight, news arrives that US Marshals have entered “The Gulag” and freed the remaining hostages. No word on what happened to the guards who were refusing to obey. Here’s one to chew on. Ross Ulbright was pardoned, he’s the guy convicted of creating the Dark Web. The rub is that nobody who arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, or sentenced him had any proof he was complicit in any of the deals that used his system.
The Internet was, in fact, created to be anonymous to anyone who wished it so. Even the agents who grabbed his laptop were convicted of withholding evidence. A corrupt Democrat judge sentenced Ulbright to two life sentences plus 40 years. I would have to side with Ulbright because criminals will always find a way to communicate anonymously. After all, they don’t charge the cellular company when drug deals are made by phone. It would appear he was one of the many people throughout history convicted of inventing something the government could not control. Anyway, now he’s free.
At midnight news arrives that the website of the White House Office of Gun Control has gone 404. By 2:00AM there are reports of panic among the DC prison guards. This now, 46 minutes ago Trump cut off funding to illegals and directed it to North Carolina, saying the illegals “won’t be needing it”. All DEI hires have been told to vacate their offices by 3:00PM tomorrow.
ADDENDUM
See that blank wall at the Pentagon? There used to be a picture of Milley there. The picture was put up just 12 days ago. Later news, at 12:28AM this morning, Trump fired Milley.
At midnight news arrives that the website of the White House Office of Gun Control has gone 404. By 2:00AM there are reports of panic among the DC prison guards. This now, 46 minutes ago Trump cut off funding to illegals and directed it to North Carolina, saying the illegals “won’t be needing it”. All DEI hires have been told to vacate their offices by 3:00PM tomorrow.
Ah, here we go, 2:10AM. Trump has signs the death penalty for treason. Now watch the stampede. 2:27AM reports of someone carried out on a stretcher at the DC jail, reports of guards attacking inmates. 2:37AM a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada. 2:38AM only one flag, the American flag can be flown at any US outpost in the world.
