Elections Have Consequences
15/09/20 07:33
It's all in the rear view mirror now. I'm talking about our vacation to Lake George. I had hoped to do a better job of writing something every day in my journal but it did't quite work out. The one morning where I thought I might have a chance of getting something down on paper I found myself chatting with Evan instead. He was up early and he thinks that he may have my "get up early" gene. That wasn't exactly music to my ears since I had other plans but you set it all aside when your children appear on the scene.
And this business about getting something down on paper? Well, that's a bit of a misnomer. There is no paper. I'll type it all up about as fast as my fingers will allow. I ain't no typist so I'll not be setting any records. The weather up at the lake turned out to be better than expected if you discount the fact that two of the five days we were there were too windy to go boating. White caps roiled the bay the better part of the day and when that happens you know it's rough as the dickens out on the open water.
I'm guessing there were probably two to three foot swells and that makes for some rough riding if you are out and about on the lake. Rollie, Evan, and I went out one day and Ev took the wheel while we toured the usual spots. He's getting the names of the bays down pretty good despite not knowing the lake all that well since his visits there are infrequent at best.
Even I have trouble sometimes defining when and where the names of bays start and end. When we get north of Long Island, it's anyone's guess as to what the names of the islands and bays are. It gets even more nebulous as you enter the northernmost section of the lake that is generally defined as the "narrows."
We went to Sandy Bay early on during the five days that we spent on Assembly Point. The water was colder than I remembered it being during the early part of September. When Evan complains that the water is cold I'm taking his word for it. He swam off the dock on our first day there and he didn't dilly for even a minute before plunging feet first into the lake. It was the first and last time he did that during our time there.
The peeps paid a visit on Wednesday night and we ordered pizzas from SanSouci's. A good time was had by all. We knew that one or more of my peeps would be angling to walk away with any leftover pizza so we planned accordingly. That is to say, we informed the lot of them that any leftover pizza would be going into our refrigerator for Evan to eat later on in the evening. The pizza was terrific so I don't blame a one of them for looking to parlay the leftovers but you know what they say about possession being 99% of the law. The only thing left for me to do was to put my foot down.
It was good catching up with everyone seeing that this pandemic thing has kept most everyone sidelined for the last six months or so. It was good for everyone to see Evan again and I think it's been years since he's seen some of them and vice versa. I know that he enjoyed getting reacquainted with everyone as well although he was somewhat subdued in his outward enthusiasm. He's not much for small talk these days but I think he enjoyed being in the midst of a lively group where he probably couldn't have gotten in a word edgewise if he had wanted to. That suited him just fine.
We stayed at this very same house some years ago although I'd forgotten how big the house was over time. I couldn't recall how many bedrooms there were on the first floor so I just assumed that Evan would stay in the bedroom downstairs which is precisely where he stayed the last time we were there. I don't think I ever went down there the last time but made it a point to do that this time around. It was a bit damp so we got Evan to stay on the first floor in the second bedroom the last night we were there. He arrived at the house with a sinus infection of sorts so he probably had no business staying in the basement in retrospect.
I was happy for Nancy that she was finally getting a change of scenery after all these months. We all needed to get away but Nancy perhaps even more so. I could tell that she was letting her hair down and she was getting more relaxed within each passing day at the lake. She was less tense, less harried, more even keeled, and more herself if that makes any sense. You should have seen her soaking in the water and smiling a mile a minute in Sandy Bay after securing a spot in the Bay which was busier than expected given the post-Labor Day time frame.
Getting back on track after a nice vacation has not been easy. Part of me is still at the lake, or at least was at the lake, for a good couple of days after we arrived home. The very act of sitting down witting about all of this is hard. It's all about letting go and moving on. God only knows that there is a lot to say about this, that, and the other thing especially as we get closer to election day in November.
I'll be damned! Good ole RBG finally died. How many bouts of cancer can one person endure? Notorious RBG, my ass. I gather we'll be spared seeing those stupid pictures of her working out at the local gym now. Thank the baby Jesus for that. She's not even in the ground yet and the looney Dems are threatening a ground war against the republicans and society in general if Trump even thinks about replacing their now deceased liberal icon with a conservative. Thank god we elected a president with a pair.
He's already having his followers chanting at his rallies, "fill It!", in response to the now open seat on our lands highest court. And he's promised to fill it with a woman which I guess is neither here nor there aa far as I'm concerned. It removes the spectacle that the left will find one or more women to come forward alleging sexual improprieties ala Kavanaugh were the candidate to be a male. I've also never considered one's genitalia as being a factor in making decisions where competence is concerned so let's not make this an issue when it isn't and when it shouldn't be.
I do like the idea of changing the idealogical makeup of the Supreme Court. Going from 5-4 to 6-3 suits me just fine. We've seen far too many close calls and even some calls where our conservatives have gone squishy and come down on the side of the liberals. That has got to stop. Our culture is dominated by far left crazies these days and our court of last resort, the Supreme Court, is more often than not preventing this madness from insinuating itself even further into the bloodstream of our republic. We need more patriots and fewer anarchists. Now we just need the Senators on the republican side of the aisle to step up to the plate and confirm Trump's nominee. That is not a forgone conclusion by any stretch.
When I first saw the headline about Ginsburg dying in my Twitter newsfeed on Friday night I thought it was just another hopeful fool tweeting something out to see if he or she could get a few retweets or likes for kicks. It was sourced from a place that I was not totally familiar with so I wasn't getting my hopes up. I mentioned it to Nancy since she was on her iPad and I thought maybe she might have seen something as well. We agreed that we would wait for more sources to come in and come in they did. Like a flurry that turns into a squall, it was fast and furious if you were were paying attention to the flickering of the tweets from now more reliable sources.
Michael Moore, the stalwart democrat and documentary maker from Michigan who correctly called Trump's win in 2016 tweeted out, "Nooooooo." That tells you all you need to know about what RBG's passing means for Trump's prospects of winning the 2020 election come November 3rd. The math is still a bit fuzzy in terms of how Trump's team will play it between now and election day in order to get the biggest bang for the buck but Trump is already capitalizing on her passing by using it in his rallies and in his tweets. He tweeted out something to the effect that this is why he was elected (to make the difficult decisions.)
It's hard to believe but Biden took the day off after the announcement of RBG's passing. He took the day off with just weeks to go in the campaign? Are you fucking kidding me? On a day when he could have been and should have been rallying the liberals coast to coast against Trump's plans to replace RBG with a conservative on the Supreme Court? If there were ever a more fertile opportunity to pump a little enthusiasm into a flagging and stagnant campaign and candidate this was it. If you weren't waking up to the fact that Joe Biden is a very sick and demented man then you should be now. All the kings horses and all the kings men cannot now put poor Humpty Dumpty back up on the wall.
One has to wonder if this is not a prelude to Biden announcing a more serious malady of sorts that will make his attendance in the upcoming debate with Trump a non-starter. Putting a feeble person like Joe Biden in the ring with Trump is tantamount to elder abuse in this day and age. Trump is already taunting Biden in his rallies. "They'll give Joe a shot in the ass and he'll be good for two hours and then what happens to him?" "I want each of us to be subjected to a drug test before going into the debate!" I wouldn't be surprised if on the day of the debate we see the Vice Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, step up to the podium instead of Sleepy Joe. Trump's team should prepare for this eventuality. Just thinking out loud here.
The only thing left for Trump to do is to have a cup on stage with him at his rallies. A cup that he can raise to his lips from time to time to signal his sipping of liberal tears. In case the libs need reminding, it was O-Bummer who stated clearly, "Elections have consequences" when asked why he was taking certain actions designed to disadvantage republicans. In other words, made himself perfectly clear. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. This is my mandate and if I want to be a radicalized jihadist who sends pallets of cash to Iran then that is what I'll do.
So it shouldn't be any surprise that our country elected someone like Trump to restore the grace and dignity to our country after O'Bummer squandered it away to the point of jeopardizing the whole kit and caboodle. Trump is expected to name his nominee this week. The sooner, the better. Nancy Pelosi is threatening impeachment again. Anything to stop the freight train that is the republican party now steaming into the main station with a full head of electoral steam. If you liked Trump with a 5-4 conservative Supreme Court, which incidentally didn't always go his way, you are going to love four more years of Trump with a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court. Buckle Up!
And this business about getting something down on paper? Well, that's a bit of a misnomer. There is no paper. I'll type it all up about as fast as my fingers will allow. I ain't no typist so I'll not be setting any records. The weather up at the lake turned out to be better than expected if you discount the fact that two of the five days we were there were too windy to go boating. White caps roiled the bay the better part of the day and when that happens you know it's rough as the dickens out on the open water.
I'm guessing there were probably two to three foot swells and that makes for some rough riding if you are out and about on the lake. Rollie, Evan, and I went out one day and Ev took the wheel while we toured the usual spots. He's getting the names of the bays down pretty good despite not knowing the lake all that well since his visits there are infrequent at best.
Even I have trouble sometimes defining when and where the names of bays start and end. When we get north of Long Island, it's anyone's guess as to what the names of the islands and bays are. It gets even more nebulous as you enter the northernmost section of the lake that is generally defined as the "narrows."
We went to Sandy Bay early on during the five days that we spent on Assembly Point. The water was colder than I remembered it being during the early part of September. When Evan complains that the water is cold I'm taking his word for it. He swam off the dock on our first day there and he didn't dilly for even a minute before plunging feet first into the lake. It was the first and last time he did that during our time there.
The peeps paid a visit on Wednesday night and we ordered pizzas from SanSouci's. A good time was had by all. We knew that one or more of my peeps would be angling to walk away with any leftover pizza so we planned accordingly. That is to say, we informed the lot of them that any leftover pizza would be going into our refrigerator for Evan to eat later on in the evening. The pizza was terrific so I don't blame a one of them for looking to parlay the leftovers but you know what they say about possession being 99% of the law. The only thing left for me to do was to put my foot down.
It was good catching up with everyone seeing that this pandemic thing has kept most everyone sidelined for the last six months or so. It was good for everyone to see Evan again and I think it's been years since he's seen some of them and vice versa. I know that he enjoyed getting reacquainted with everyone as well although he was somewhat subdued in his outward enthusiasm. He's not much for small talk these days but I think he enjoyed being in the midst of a lively group where he probably couldn't have gotten in a word edgewise if he had wanted to. That suited him just fine.
We stayed at this very same house some years ago although I'd forgotten how big the house was over time. I couldn't recall how many bedrooms there were on the first floor so I just assumed that Evan would stay in the bedroom downstairs which is precisely where he stayed the last time we were there. I don't think I ever went down there the last time but made it a point to do that this time around. It was a bit damp so we got Evan to stay on the first floor in the second bedroom the last night we were there. He arrived at the house with a sinus infection of sorts so he probably had no business staying in the basement in retrospect.
I was happy for Nancy that she was finally getting a change of scenery after all these months. We all needed to get away but Nancy perhaps even more so. I could tell that she was letting her hair down and she was getting more relaxed within each passing day at the lake. She was less tense, less harried, more even keeled, and more herself if that makes any sense. You should have seen her soaking in the water and smiling a mile a minute in Sandy Bay after securing a spot in the Bay which was busier than expected given the post-Labor Day time frame.
Getting back on track after a nice vacation has not been easy. Part of me is still at the lake, or at least was at the lake, for a good couple of days after we arrived home. The very act of sitting down witting about all of this is hard. It's all about letting go and moving on. God only knows that there is a lot to say about this, that, and the other thing especially as we get closer to election day in November.
I'll be damned! Good ole RBG finally died. How many bouts of cancer can one person endure? Notorious RBG, my ass. I gather we'll be spared seeing those stupid pictures of her working out at the local gym now. Thank the baby Jesus for that. She's not even in the ground yet and the looney Dems are threatening a ground war against the republicans and society in general if Trump even thinks about replacing their now deceased liberal icon with a conservative. Thank god we elected a president with a pair.
He's already having his followers chanting at his rallies, "fill It!", in response to the now open seat on our lands highest court. And he's promised to fill it with a woman which I guess is neither here nor there aa far as I'm concerned. It removes the spectacle that the left will find one or more women to come forward alleging sexual improprieties ala Kavanaugh were the candidate to be a male. I've also never considered one's genitalia as being a factor in making decisions where competence is concerned so let's not make this an issue when it isn't and when it shouldn't be.
I do like the idea of changing the idealogical makeup of the Supreme Court. Going from 5-4 to 6-3 suits me just fine. We've seen far too many close calls and even some calls where our conservatives have gone squishy and come down on the side of the liberals. That has got to stop. Our culture is dominated by far left crazies these days and our court of last resort, the Supreme Court, is more often than not preventing this madness from insinuating itself even further into the bloodstream of our republic. We need more patriots and fewer anarchists. Now we just need the Senators on the republican side of the aisle to step up to the plate and confirm Trump's nominee. That is not a forgone conclusion by any stretch.
When I first saw the headline about Ginsburg dying in my Twitter newsfeed on Friday night I thought it was just another hopeful fool tweeting something out to see if he or she could get a few retweets or likes for kicks. It was sourced from a place that I was not totally familiar with so I wasn't getting my hopes up. I mentioned it to Nancy since she was on her iPad and I thought maybe she might have seen something as well. We agreed that we would wait for more sources to come in and come in they did. Like a flurry that turns into a squall, it was fast and furious if you were were paying attention to the flickering of the tweets from now more reliable sources.
Michael Moore, the stalwart democrat and documentary maker from Michigan who correctly called Trump's win in 2016 tweeted out, "Nooooooo." That tells you all you need to know about what RBG's passing means for Trump's prospects of winning the 2020 election come November 3rd. The math is still a bit fuzzy in terms of how Trump's team will play it between now and election day in order to get the biggest bang for the buck but Trump is already capitalizing on her passing by using it in his rallies and in his tweets. He tweeted out something to the effect that this is why he was elected (to make the difficult decisions.)
It's hard to believe but Biden took the day off after the announcement of RBG's passing. He took the day off with just weeks to go in the campaign? Are you fucking kidding me? On a day when he could have been and should have been rallying the liberals coast to coast against Trump's plans to replace RBG with a conservative on the Supreme Court? If there were ever a more fertile opportunity to pump a little enthusiasm into a flagging and stagnant campaign and candidate this was it. If you weren't waking up to the fact that Joe Biden is a very sick and demented man then you should be now. All the kings horses and all the kings men cannot now put poor Humpty Dumpty back up on the wall.
One has to wonder if this is not a prelude to Biden announcing a more serious malady of sorts that will make his attendance in the upcoming debate with Trump a non-starter. Putting a feeble person like Joe Biden in the ring with Trump is tantamount to elder abuse in this day and age. Trump is already taunting Biden in his rallies. "They'll give Joe a shot in the ass and he'll be good for two hours and then what happens to him?" "I want each of us to be subjected to a drug test before going into the debate!" I wouldn't be surprised if on the day of the debate we see the Vice Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, step up to the podium instead of Sleepy Joe. Trump's team should prepare for this eventuality. Just thinking out loud here.
The only thing left for Trump to do is to have a cup on stage with him at his rallies. A cup that he can raise to his lips from time to time to signal his sipping of liberal tears. In case the libs need reminding, it was O-Bummer who stated clearly, "Elections have consequences" when asked why he was taking certain actions designed to disadvantage republicans. In other words, made himself perfectly clear. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. This is my mandate and if I want to be a radicalized jihadist who sends pallets of cash to Iran then that is what I'll do.
So it shouldn't be any surprise that our country elected someone like Trump to restore the grace and dignity to our country after O'Bummer squandered it away to the point of jeopardizing the whole kit and caboodle. Trump is expected to name his nominee this week. The sooner, the better. Nancy Pelosi is threatening impeachment again. Anything to stop the freight train that is the republican party now steaming into the main station with a full head of electoral steam. If you liked Trump with a 5-4 conservative Supreme Court, which incidentally didn't always go his way, you are going to love four more years of Trump with a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court. Buckle Up!