July 5, 2025

Yesteryear
One year ago today: July 5, 2024, a music night.
Five years ago today: July 5, 2020, needlessly complicated.
Nine years ago today: July 5, 2016, I’ve seen these tepuis.
Random years ago today: July 5, 2007, don’t lend paintings.

           Home alone. Chooks had steak for breakfast. He did not fare greatly with the fireworks y’day and I see the bush trails have not been cleared since I last did it, what, two years ago. I put a right angle in them so anybody driving past doesn’t know they go through the woods. The paths are worn so people use them, not maintain them. Could be I’m the closest thing to a woodsman they know. Their philosophy must be let the branches grow until one of them gets a stick in the eye.
           Walking uphill still bothers but me and the dog were all over the place y’day. The bamboo has invaded again. Let’s see if I can muster the energy to hammer that back, a real test of my recovery. Let’s glance at the news and move along. Library opens in four hours. The media is taking real pains to avoid mentioning the ethnicity and religion of an aide who was shot dead in DC, a policy most Americans disagree with. Political correctness is still imposed on the majority. TMOR, at street level most Americans do not like Middle Eastern people and do not want them here, even the “good ones”.

           The new Jurassic movie is declared a dud at the box office even though the villain is Big Pharma. Fact it, the dinosaur phase has moved on. Speaking of reptiles, the Reb is pet-sitting again and I have more info. It is a Mexican king snake and it is living in JeePee’s aquarium. Ugh, she has this dude come by and feed it baby mice, which I know she would not do. Me either. They are dead, but have to be microwaved or the snake cannot sense it. I made sure Chooks and I were out on a long walk during the process. The guy who feeds him looks like this friend of mine who lives in Calgary, Alberta.
           How is our audiobook lady faring? She’s found a witness in the village who says Rose and her baby were killed, but the witness sounds flakey. Char “Charlie” is now very pregnant and falling for the chauffeur, showing the 1960s had no monopoly on stupid rich girls. There’s a dozen loose ends dangling in the plot, as it turns out Eve, the alcoholic, was also a spy in the second war, and among other things was awarded an OBE. In practical matters, I can’t find my hatchet in the van to clear those bush trails. Just the two main paths, let the lazy neighbors fend the rest themselves. This neighborhood is going downhill—but it is still infinitely better than places like Miami or Memphis.

           Hmmm, Liechtenstein, per capita income $185,000 and tax rate of 1.2%. Near zero immigration (around 1,500 Islamics and 30 Jews in the whole country). And it appears some people still need to be told not to camp or build on a flood plain. The 46-year-old mayor of Miracle (Quebec) died suddenly. As the National Post puts it, “It is so sad to see all these young, healthy, full-vaccinated and boosted men dying suddenly, because of climate change.”
Nobody, especially not Big Media, noticed that when the FBI said it would investigate the source of Democrat protest funding, the riots across America stopped same day. Illegals in California are demanding doctors learn to speak their languages.

Picture of the day.
Grand Union Station
(Kansas City)
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           Other than my insurance and the post office being closed, it was a pleasant drive. The lady at the library was put off when I pulled my shirt over my nose, I guess she has some right to sit down next to decent folk and start with her coughing and sneezing and sniffling. If you are reading this, it means I figured out how to get files off the Apple, probably by exporting them. Nothing happened today unless you want to hear about the challenges of getting a phone charged around here when you forgot the right cable back at the ranch. Meanwhile, here's a shot of my stunt double grabbing a cofee in Bowling Green y'day. Man, the old guy gets around.

           I read for an hour about the long process of the courts stripping away your Fourth Amendment rights, the one that says they cannot arbitrarily search your private papers with out a warrant. It’s difficult study because there is no definition of “private”, but I’m on the side that says when in doubt, it is private. The court, for example, has repeatedly rules that items like your bank deposit slips and phone dialing list are “voluntarily conveyed” to those outfits and become their property, not yours. Such laws are repugnant to me, especially where the paperwork is required by law.
           What’s irksome to me is the way the courts say that you are agreeing such records can be openly viewed by employees of those businesses, and therefore it makes no difference if the police also view them. That is about as primitive a sting setup as it gets and those who think like that are disgraceful. Even if, as the courts insist, there is no expectation of privacy, it is highly unlikely anyone gave out that information for the purpose of providing evidence against themselves. And to me that is vitally important, as these businesses don’t carry warning stickers.

ADDENDUM
           The radical left is incensed. The implications of the Big Beautiful Bill are too spacious to cover in my little blog. However, the direction it moves things is clear and that is away from the infrastructure the Democrat/Libtard people spend decades and billions setting up for what they thought would be a final takeover of the country in 2016 led by Hillary. The bill cuts off the money-laundering that propped up the regime and worse for the party, awakened millions as to what was going on and how to combat it. Now they are howling that Trump has threatened to deport anyone who does not agree with him—embarrassing his accusers since Trump cannot deport valid US citizens.
           Libtard professors claim Trump said he would take away citizenship from “natural born citizens”, meaning anchor babies who most Americans detest. That law was meant for freed slaves, not illegal immigrants. The upshot is that they’ve made such claims before, and so often that the steam is gone. And way down at the bottom here, I record there is a really sore knotted muscle down the length of my inner left leg halfway between hip and knee. It is a new pain and impossible to say if it is from the recent treatments, which have affected this leg for several weeks now.

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