More BLM Shenanigans
13/06/20 07:15
As usual, I have no idea where I'm going with this here journal this morning. I sit down, I take out my piece of paper, grab a pen, and then I just sit here. I sit here looking at the screen wondering what if anything is ever going to appear if I don't do something. More to the point, if I don't say something. Even more to the point, if I don't type something. It's not like I don't have anything to say. It's just that it's all so muddled in my head. If I could just sort it all out. If I could make sense of it. Maybe it's going nowhere. Who knows.
We have a 2020 census that we have to fill out. I suppose I could take a look at that. Nancy usually takes care of that so I think I'll leave that to her to do. I have an invite from a 23andMe to share some kind of something and she's distant enough so that I think I can just ignore her. Why would a third or fourth cousin have a need or interest in knowing about my DNA results? And what is this bullshit about me having 67% more Neanderthal than all of my relatives? Maybe I do protesteth too much. It's interesting stuff but I'm often confused about what it all means. The further out I go on the family tree the more confused I get.
We're watching this show on Netflix about Jeffrey Epstein. Not sure how we got onto that but we did. It's an interesting blend of genres if I do say so myself. It's sort of a mix between Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Investigation Discovery. His particular predilections or proclivities and the fastidiousness with which he approached his victims time and time again made for something of a bore of a show. It's the usual, wash, rinse, and repeat if I'm reading it right. That is to say, he procured his underage girls in a predictable fashion, exploited them in an equally predictable way, and that was his so-called modus operandi for years on end.
I'm not saying that he wasn't a creepy old fuck. Clearly, he was if you are wanting to make a judgement one way or another about his moral compass. And it wasn't legal because the girls were underage but maybe that was just Epstein flouting the law and enjoying the titillation that went along with it. For all the character witnesses that appeared on the show explaining how they wish they'd never meet Jeffrey Epstein, none came even close to defining Jeffrey Epstein the man. We know what he did but who was he really? They just couldn't put their finger on it no matter how hard they tried. Disappointing.
One thing that annoys me about this whole BLM business, aside from the fact that they are trying to sway an upcoming presidential election, is that they are doing their very best to tear away at the fabric of our country's history by tearing down or defacing statues across our nation. They began by attacking statues of icons hundreds of years old whose history involved slavery one way or another and their efforts now include those efforts of a sitting member of Congress who is wanting to pass legislation that will remove any and all artifacts of the confederacy from our national cemeteries. The Senator may not like that history but it is our history and we should all care about that for all the right reasons.
Maybe even more alarming is the fact that that no one on either side of the aisle in Washington is willing to stand up to this radical movement sweeping across our nation and just say "no." I expect as much from the democrats but not the republicans. When asked to comment on the pending legislation, one republican senator responded with, "this is not the hill we want to die on." Thanks a lot, you weak-kneed bastards. If you think they are not coming for you in the halls of Congress at the end of the day you'd better think again.
Make no mistake about it, Trump will veto the legislation if it ever gets to his desk. That may be the end game the republicans are playing going down the home stretch to November so let's see how this plays out before we get our knickers in a twist. In the meantime, can we find a few goddamn Americans with the stones to stand up and fight back against these marauding mobs who want to tear down our statues? How difficult can it be to form a perimeter around these helpless statues of our heroes like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and their ilk while armed with AR-15's and sharpened farm implements?
I don't expect the police in these blue states to have the spine to do it. They're too busy taking a knee with the radicals and bowing to their lunacy. The mayors and the governors in these very same states endorse and encourage this malignancy by saying nothing or referring to areas taken over as zones of love or worse.
Were they right wing groups setting up encampments and tearing down statues in the heart of these blue states you can bet your bottom dollar said governors would be sending in the National Guard and declaring victory against everyone and everything even remotely resembling a "White Supremacist" uprising. Their irrational bellowing is always the same. If people have to die in the process, no price is too great to pay to rid ourselves of the White Supremacist!
Maybe it's not happening in red states so there is no need to protect any statues. I'll give them that. I'd like to use the "we'll give them just enough rope to hang themselves" expression but in this context that might be considered inflammatory or even racist. If BLM were to find my little gem of a word salad while doing word searches on the internet for anything critical of their quest, they would likely dispatch one of their hackers to tear down my journal.
I would sit down to update my journal one fine or not so fine morning only to find that it too had been defaced or destroyed in the name of the cause. Until then I'll not be gussying up my words or anything else just to please or placate BLM and their army of fools. Enough is enough.
Did I mention that we have our garden in? No thanks to me I might add. I'm the reluctant one who thinks it's a waste of time and not worth the energy we put into it. But I'm always down with having a few tomato plants if nothing else so that is where we're at this year. When I say nothing else, I'm talking veggies.
Nancy has her share of flowering plants which she has put in and which will likely occupy the better part of the area we have set aside in the garden once they start to flower. That's fine. I think last year her morning glories didn't produce many flowers so she was disappointed. We put a little bit of compost in this year so let's hope there is a more "glorious" end result.
There seem to be a lot of chipmunks around this year so we have that to contend with. They dig these little holes here and there throughout the yard and it's annoying if nothing else. I've never been a slave to our yard in the sense that everything has to be perfect but when and where we see an imbalance it is worth noting. This should also trigger an imbalance up and down the food chain if I'm not mistaken. Maybe it means that fewer survive the upcoming winter because food stocks are diminished due to the excessive foraging by the chipmunks.
The increase in their numbers may provide a surplus for raptors and other creatures who find their little chipmunk meat irresistible and there for the taking. It's low hung fruit as it were. Did I mention that our neighbor captures them and transports them by car out of the neighborhood and far enough away so that they could never find their way back even if they wanted to? Who does that?
Trump has a rally scheduled for the end of next week in Oklahoma. This will be his first rally since the pandemic broke out in March. They have issued some 800,000 tickets to the event and that has the Main Street Media (MSM) apoplectic and just out over their skis with anger. How dare he hold an event like that in the midst of a pandemic! The MSM knows full well that there is huge enthusiasm gap between the supporters of the two candidates and they also know that enthusiasm translates into votes at the ballot box.
They also know that they have boxed themselves in having said nothing about the pandemic when riots broke out coast to coast. They've also said nothing about social distancing and not a word about the protestors (anarchists) need to wear protective gear. They gleefully reported on the ensuing deaths, the burning buildings, the looting of the stores, and the unrest that was metastcizing in cities across our country. (MSM) If this is what our country looks like after four years of a Trump presidency who could possibly want to reelect him? And now they have their panties in a bunch when Trump wants to have a rally? That's not the way it works.
If only they (MSM) can keep the fires burning in the black communities long enough to get the democrats and their fellow anarchists to the ballot box on election day they might have a chance at beating Trump. All we need is one or more blacks killed at the hands of a white policeman and we're good to go. They are too blinded by their rage against Trump to realize that the longer the riots go on the more invested the rest of America becomes in seeing to it that we elect a law and order president come November. This is a message that Trump can refine on the stump and nobody does it better than Trump. Trump! Trump! Trump!
Evan phoned me while I was sitting in the dentists office yesterday. He informed me that the battery in his car had died and he was asking in a roundabout way whether or not it was ok to have someone "jump" his battery to get his car started. It was funny because I could see him getting the offer and I'm quite sure he didn't know what the devil the guy was talking about. So much so, in fact, that he decided to call a friend. You now, like on that television show, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." "For sure", I told him. "Just make sure that you drive it for a bit after it starts so you give the battery a good charge."
He gets very skittish about cars when he starts to have problems and it just adds to his existing insecurities when things like this happen. But solving problems that crop up from time to time that bolster his confidence is a good thing. When he puts the pieces together all by his lonesome it's all the better even if it does involve calling a friend to ask a question or two. I am curious as to how he made the connection between the cooler in the rear of the car that we loaned to him that he never unplugged and the sapping of the battery that then sat idle and juiceless beneath the hood unbeknownst to him until he turned the key in the ignition.
Now that I think of it, he was telling me later in the day when I gave him a call to see how he made out, that he couldn't open the car door so he had to remove the key from the FOB before he could even get into the car. Did he do a little research on YouTube before he figured that out? Maybe he called his friend who lives nearby and together they sorted it out. He'll be coming by in a couple of days and he will no doubt talk about the "ordeal" since it was a success story and we all know how he likes to regale us with his success stories. That's my way of saying that I'll be surprised if he doesn't mention it. Lessons learned!
We have a 2020 census that we have to fill out. I suppose I could take a look at that. Nancy usually takes care of that so I think I'll leave that to her to do. I have an invite from a 23andMe to share some kind of something and she's distant enough so that I think I can just ignore her. Why would a third or fourth cousin have a need or interest in knowing about my DNA results? And what is this bullshit about me having 67% more Neanderthal than all of my relatives? Maybe I do protesteth too much. It's interesting stuff but I'm often confused about what it all means. The further out I go on the family tree the more confused I get.
We're watching this show on Netflix about Jeffrey Epstein. Not sure how we got onto that but we did. It's an interesting blend of genres if I do say so myself. It's sort of a mix between Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Investigation Discovery. His particular predilections or proclivities and the fastidiousness with which he approached his victims time and time again made for something of a bore of a show. It's the usual, wash, rinse, and repeat if I'm reading it right. That is to say, he procured his underage girls in a predictable fashion, exploited them in an equally predictable way, and that was his so-called modus operandi for years on end.
I'm not saying that he wasn't a creepy old fuck. Clearly, he was if you are wanting to make a judgement one way or another about his moral compass. And it wasn't legal because the girls were underage but maybe that was just Epstein flouting the law and enjoying the titillation that went along with it. For all the character witnesses that appeared on the show explaining how they wish they'd never meet Jeffrey Epstein, none came even close to defining Jeffrey Epstein the man. We know what he did but who was he really? They just couldn't put their finger on it no matter how hard they tried. Disappointing.
One thing that annoys me about this whole BLM business, aside from the fact that they are trying to sway an upcoming presidential election, is that they are doing their very best to tear away at the fabric of our country's history by tearing down or defacing statues across our nation. They began by attacking statues of icons hundreds of years old whose history involved slavery one way or another and their efforts now include those efforts of a sitting member of Congress who is wanting to pass legislation that will remove any and all artifacts of the confederacy from our national cemeteries. The Senator may not like that history but it is our history and we should all care about that for all the right reasons.
Maybe even more alarming is the fact that that no one on either side of the aisle in Washington is willing to stand up to this radical movement sweeping across our nation and just say "no." I expect as much from the democrats but not the republicans. When asked to comment on the pending legislation, one republican senator responded with, "this is not the hill we want to die on." Thanks a lot, you weak-kneed bastards. If you think they are not coming for you in the halls of Congress at the end of the day you'd better think again.
Make no mistake about it, Trump will veto the legislation if it ever gets to his desk. That may be the end game the republicans are playing going down the home stretch to November so let's see how this plays out before we get our knickers in a twist. In the meantime, can we find a few goddamn Americans with the stones to stand up and fight back against these marauding mobs who want to tear down our statues? How difficult can it be to form a perimeter around these helpless statues of our heroes like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and their ilk while armed with AR-15's and sharpened farm implements?
I don't expect the police in these blue states to have the spine to do it. They're too busy taking a knee with the radicals and bowing to their lunacy. The mayors and the governors in these very same states endorse and encourage this malignancy by saying nothing or referring to areas taken over as zones of love or worse.
Were they right wing groups setting up encampments and tearing down statues in the heart of these blue states you can bet your bottom dollar said governors would be sending in the National Guard and declaring victory against everyone and everything even remotely resembling a "White Supremacist" uprising. Their irrational bellowing is always the same. If people have to die in the process, no price is too great to pay to rid ourselves of the White Supremacist!
Maybe it's not happening in red states so there is no need to protect any statues. I'll give them that. I'd like to use the "we'll give them just enough rope to hang themselves" expression but in this context that might be considered inflammatory or even racist. If BLM were to find my little gem of a word salad while doing word searches on the internet for anything critical of their quest, they would likely dispatch one of their hackers to tear down my journal.
I would sit down to update my journal one fine or not so fine morning only to find that it too had been defaced or destroyed in the name of the cause. Until then I'll not be gussying up my words or anything else just to please or placate BLM and their army of fools. Enough is enough.
Did I mention that we have our garden in? No thanks to me I might add. I'm the reluctant one who thinks it's a waste of time and not worth the energy we put into it. But I'm always down with having a few tomato plants if nothing else so that is where we're at this year. When I say nothing else, I'm talking veggies.
Nancy has her share of flowering plants which she has put in and which will likely occupy the better part of the area we have set aside in the garden once they start to flower. That's fine. I think last year her morning glories didn't produce many flowers so she was disappointed. We put a little bit of compost in this year so let's hope there is a more "glorious" end result.
There seem to be a lot of chipmunks around this year so we have that to contend with. They dig these little holes here and there throughout the yard and it's annoying if nothing else. I've never been a slave to our yard in the sense that everything has to be perfect but when and where we see an imbalance it is worth noting. This should also trigger an imbalance up and down the food chain if I'm not mistaken. Maybe it means that fewer survive the upcoming winter because food stocks are diminished due to the excessive foraging by the chipmunks.
The increase in their numbers may provide a surplus for raptors and other creatures who find their little chipmunk meat irresistible and there for the taking. It's low hung fruit as it were. Did I mention that our neighbor captures them and transports them by car out of the neighborhood and far enough away so that they could never find their way back even if they wanted to? Who does that?
Trump has a rally scheduled for the end of next week in Oklahoma. This will be his first rally since the pandemic broke out in March. They have issued some 800,000 tickets to the event and that has the Main Street Media (MSM) apoplectic and just out over their skis with anger. How dare he hold an event like that in the midst of a pandemic! The MSM knows full well that there is huge enthusiasm gap between the supporters of the two candidates and they also know that enthusiasm translates into votes at the ballot box.
They also know that they have boxed themselves in having said nothing about the pandemic when riots broke out coast to coast. They've also said nothing about social distancing and not a word about the protestors (anarchists) need to wear protective gear. They gleefully reported on the ensuing deaths, the burning buildings, the looting of the stores, and the unrest that was metastcizing in cities across our country. (MSM) If this is what our country looks like after four years of a Trump presidency who could possibly want to reelect him? And now they have their panties in a bunch when Trump wants to have a rally? That's not the way it works.
If only they (MSM) can keep the fires burning in the black communities long enough to get the democrats and their fellow anarchists to the ballot box on election day they might have a chance at beating Trump. All we need is one or more blacks killed at the hands of a white policeman and we're good to go. They are too blinded by their rage against Trump to realize that the longer the riots go on the more invested the rest of America becomes in seeing to it that we elect a law and order president come November. This is a message that Trump can refine on the stump and nobody does it better than Trump. Trump! Trump! Trump!
Evan phoned me while I was sitting in the dentists office yesterday. He informed me that the battery in his car had died and he was asking in a roundabout way whether or not it was ok to have someone "jump" his battery to get his car started. It was funny because I could see him getting the offer and I'm quite sure he didn't know what the devil the guy was talking about. So much so, in fact, that he decided to call a friend. You now, like on that television show, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." "For sure", I told him. "Just make sure that you drive it for a bit after it starts so you give the battery a good charge."
He gets very skittish about cars when he starts to have problems and it just adds to his existing insecurities when things like this happen. But solving problems that crop up from time to time that bolster his confidence is a good thing. When he puts the pieces together all by his lonesome it's all the better even if it does involve calling a friend to ask a question or two. I am curious as to how he made the connection between the cooler in the rear of the car that we loaned to him that he never unplugged and the sapping of the battery that then sat idle and juiceless beneath the hood unbeknownst to him until he turned the key in the ignition.
Now that I think of it, he was telling me later in the day when I gave him a call to see how he made out, that he couldn't open the car door so he had to remove the key from the FOB before he could even get into the car. Did he do a little research on YouTube before he figured that out? Maybe he called his friend who lives nearby and together they sorted it out. He'll be coming by in a couple of days and he will no doubt talk about the "ordeal" since it was a success story and we all know how he likes to regale us with his success stories. That's my way of saying that I'll be surprised if he doesn't mention it. Lessons learned!