If a bunch of people with weapons come breaking into my house then they’d better hope they can get to me faster than the 3 seconds it takes to open the gun safe or someone is going to get a face full of 00 buckshot.

Still waiting for healthcare to be “fixed”. Definitely going to be any day now…

MAGA intensifies

I take enough that I have an organizer for them.

I had to come back here specifically to thank you.

We have a “rainfall” showerhead that has been a huge disappointment since we installed it. Your comment popped into my head today as I was about to jump in the shower. All I had to do was remove a little o-ring and now it works fantastic! It also cut my shower time in half.

This is just an educated guess, but since there doesn’t appear to be a meter attached to it, I’m going to guess it belongs to the electric utility and is part of their AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) network.

There’s a device at the substation that can read all the meters fed from the sub. Some utilities use AMI over power lines, some use a wireless mesh network, and some use a combination of different technologies depending on a few things.

Source: used to run the department that handled the AMI system.

When LBJ was Vice President, his personal chef – a black woman – had a family emergency and had to return home to Texas. He let her borrow his car for the long drive from Washington D.C. There were still a lot of businesses in the south that would refuse to accommodate blacks in the early 1960’s.

After telling him about her trip on return, LBJ angrily remarked on what a disgrace it was the “the Vice President’s chef, driving the Vice President’s car had to stop and shit along the side of the road” because no gas station would accommodate her.

Personally, I cannot wrap my brain around seeing another person as inferior to myself, much less to the point where I would deny them the ability to use the bathroom and force them to go outside like an animal.

And yet, that and much worse have been the lived experience of many people in this country from day one. “Freedom” and “Equality” have always been lies for many Americans. If we had any moral fiber as a country, we would have shipped the Statue of Liberty back because it was an undeserved gift that did not and has never truly reflected our national values.

That’s not to say that things haven’t improved. They definitely have in some ways. But the same attitudes that denied the VP’s chef the ability to use the bathroom because she was black still exist in people today. They haven’t magically vanished. And those people are working overtime to make life difficult for anyone they see as inferior to themselves.

Those people need to fuck off. But they won’t until either something changes their minds or they are forced to.

Cook’s Venture (an Arkansas poultry processor) went bankrupt practically overnight. Then the state came in and killed all the chickens at each farm, leaving the farmers to deal with all the dead and rotting corpses.

What did our wonderful governor do? Well, as I recall, her administration refused to declare a state of emergency and pretty much told all the poultry farmers to go fuck themselves because it’s “not the government’s job to bail out private businesses” or some bullshit like that.

Doesn’t feel so good when you’re the one getting told to fuck off. I hope all the people who voted for Trump and Sarah Sanders are happy since this is exactly what they voted for.

Personally, I would be ok with J.B. Pritzker. Don’t love that he’s a billionaire. On the other hand, he’s the best governor Illinois has had in ages and seems to be trying to do right by his constituents.

“Y U mad? I’m totally on your side!” – Guy who is definitely not on your side

I’m glad someone got that.

Land of the free!

“Why is that Bible like four feet tall?”

“Oh, that’s our family Bible. Big letter edition.”

Moronica for Morons!

If I were in your shoes, I would not think my relationship is “great” because there seems to be a very basic lack of honesty and honesty is the foundation of a good relationship.

If this was a situation you and your wife discussed and came to an agreement on, that would be one thing. There are all kinds of couples that have unique “arrangements” and yet they have successful marriages because they communicate openly and honestly.

Being dishonest, especially about something as big as an affair, only leads to more dishonesty. Lies to cover up lies. Before you know it, you don’t even recognize the person you’ve become. I know this from personal experience.

And in about 15 years, Harry’s family will be forced to move to California when the soil they’re working is dried up and carried off in big black clouds by the wind.

“Gorilla Ladder step stools. Now at your local Home Depot!”

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The Art of the Deal is fiction according to the author.