Lots of truth here…
Sadly this is more the norm lately than the exception…
To recap, the left/Antifa/BLM started riots in various cities, LEOs were told/directed/ordered to backoff.
People called for help in various places, like Kenosha. And civilians came, including Rittenhouse. The left/Antifa/BLM thought they could push these ‘civilians’ around, but that didn’t quite work out. For better or worse, Rittenhouse got backed into a corner, took out one criminal and headed to turn himself in. More people tried to jump him, and he fired four more rounds. Two missed, and two connected. He never fired any extra rounds in defending himself.
He was immediately pilloried in the media, by the leftists including Xiden, and at least one congresscritter today that called him a murderer… He was charged within 2 days, with no investigation, and the circus continued in the media for a year…
There was prosecutorial misconduct, suborned perjury, attempts to dox the jurors, etc.
Now, the verdict is in. Rittenhouse was not guilty on all five counts. And the left is melting down, along with the usual suspects and the usual celebrities.
But not according to the wokies…
So now the new ‘buzzwords’ are white vigilantism, white patriarchy, white supremacy, gun owners with a ‘certain’ ideology, etc.
Self defense won out in the actual court, as opposed to the media spin in the court of public opinion. And many who didn’t watch any of the coverage will continue to believe he is guilty.
Sigh…
Why am I in this handbasket? And where are we going???
Sigh…
Pushing to finish the next Rimworld- Diplomatic Immunity, turned in three short stories, one already out- It came from the Trailer Park.
Published one novella A Rifle A Pistol and A Good Horse (thank you very much for the reviews)!!!
Beta read for a couple of other authors, and planning on trying to sell some books this weekend at a local book faire at the library!
Like everyone else, watching the Rittenhouse trial in fits and starts. What a Cluster!!! If this isn’t a political trial, I don’t know what is…
Lawdog and I are still doing our twice weekly live stream on my youtube channel (OldNFO).
Wondering how much higher food/gas/and? are going to go. Premium is over $4/gal in Texas right now! Turkeys (not store brand) are $2.48/lb, hams are $4.45/lb, and brisket, FFS… is $6-7/lb FOR BRISKET! It’s been usually less than $2/lb… Soup aisles are looking like a wasteland, bacon is going up, and staples are getting hard to find in name brands.
And a reminder, we still need to take care of our troops. The military changes us regardless of whether or not we saw combat. Everybody needs to be reminded they are cared for.
Ten cents a bottle, and a nickel for the Moon Pie… That was eight coke bottles in trade and an penny back…
I grew up in a little town called Texarkana during the 50s and 60s when most everyone treated each other with respect. We didn’t eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, not a food group. We drank Kool-Aid and ice tea made from water that came from our kitchen sink. We ate bologna sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, hot dogs, pot pies, but mostly home made meals consisting of mainly meat, potatoes, beans, home grown vegetables, bread and butter, and homemade dessert. School lunches were delicious. Sometimes, for a special treat, we got to take our lunches to school in a brown paper bag or a lunch box.
We grew up during a time when we would gather glass bottles to take to the store and use the deposit money to buy penny candy. (We even got a brown paper bag to put the candy in). You could get a lot for just 25 cents. We also mowed lawns, helped neighbors with chores, and worked in the garden in the summer. We went outside to play games, ride bikes, run with siblings, cousins, and friends. We played hide and seek,baseball, kickball, basketball, football and dodge ball. We drank tap water from the hose outside… bottled water was unheard of.
We ate a hot breakfast or cold cereal at the breakfast table before going to school. We had no cable TV, just a couple channels, no microwave, or cell phones. We watched TV as a family: Gunsmoke, Gilligan’s Island, Wonderful World of Disney, Bonanza, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, Red Skelton, and Ed Sullivan. After school, we came home and did homework and chores and watched some cartoons on Saturday morning.
If we were bad in school, we got in trouble there. When we got home, we got in trouble again (because your parents already knew). Paddling was allowed in school and you behaved yourself or else.
We would ride our bikes for hours, and talk and play outside until the lightning bugs came out, or the street lights came on. We would catch bugs in mason jars, make mud pies, play in the water sprinklers, and pick wildflowers and four-leaf clovers.
We LEARNED FROM our parents and grandparents instead of disrespecting them and treating them as if they knew nothing. What they said was the gospel.
If someone had a fight, that’s what it was – a fist fight and you were back to being friends afterwards and the bullying pretty much ceased. We grew up around guns, were taught how to properly use them, and to respect them and never thought of taking a life.
We had to be close enough to home to hear Mom yelling or Dad whistling to tell you it’s time to come home for dinner. We ate around the dinner table and talked to each other as a family unit. We said the Pledge of Allegiance, stood for the National Anthem and listened to our teachers.
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew If we DISRESPECTED any grown up we would get our behinds whipped. It wasn’t called abuse. It was called discipline! We held doors for others, carried groceries, and gave up our seat to someone else without being asked.
We didn’t hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV. If you cursed and got caught, you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth and had to stand in the corner for quite some time. “Please, Thank you, Yes Ma’am and Yes, Sir” were part of our daily vocabulary!
We grew up with good, God-loving families. If we missed school or church, we had to stay inside all day. We couldn’t leave the house or watch TV.
h/t Wayne for the words…
Looks like the prosecution in the Rittenhouse case knew all along who ‘Jump Kick Man’ was…
The mysterious “Jump Kick Man” talked about during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the man that was labeled as the one that stomped Rittenhouse’s head when he fell to the ground, has been identified as a Kenosha man with an extensive criminal history spanning decades.
So, if he’d been nailed it would have been four for four on criminals the DA is calling ‘Heroes’ for protesting…
Full story HERE.
And St. Paul, MN has just signed it’s own death… Rent control…
The city just approved a rent control measure that will limit landlords’ ability to increase rents on its 65,000+ rental properties. They will not be able to increase prices by more than 3 percent each year under the new law. Controversially, the initiative does not account for inflation and applies to new construction, not just existing properties. This makes the St. Paul rent control measure one of the strictest in the US—if not the world.
Full article, HERE. And apparently less than 24 hours later, developers were already pulling plans for building housing… Yeah, THAT is going to end well!!!
And yet ANOTHER recall on WuFlu tests for false positives…
(KRON) — Ellume is recalling its at-home COVID-19 test over the potential of false positive results, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
The FDA classified the recall as a Class I recall – the most serious type – and said the use of these tests could cause serious health consequences or death.
The Ellume product is an antigen test that detects proteins from the SARS-CoV-2 virus from a nasal sample. The test is available without a prescription for use by people with or without COVID-19 symptoms.
Full article, HERE.
The ‘coverage’ of our current administration is nothing like what the MSM here is pushing… From the Aussie media!
I’ll end with Mr. Ramirez latest…
Apparently YouTube is playing games again… This time with the wrong people…
Right after Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger began his closing statement in the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, YouTube cut off channels that were beating legacy media channels. Coincidence?
The Rekieta Law channel, which features multiple lawyers doing real-time analysis of the trial, often beat the number of people watching the PBS stream. The PBS stream is one of the more reliable ones available to YouTube users and was being used by several outlets.
Full article, HERE.
As soon as the lawyers got hold of YouTube, it ‘suddenly’ was back up… Funny that…
And the state lawyer apparently pointed the AR at the jury with his finger on the trigger, WITHOUT safety checking the weapon! WTF???
Note that the bolt is forward, even though there is no magazine, we ALL know the rules… HERE.
Turkey day is coming! Get your rules out ahead of time…
- Don’t get in line asking questions about the food. “Who made the potato salad? Is it egg in there? Are the greens fresh? Is the meat in the greens turkey or pork? Who made the macaroni and cheese? What kind of pie is that? Who made it? Ask one more question and I will punch you in your mouth, knocking out all your fronts so you won’t be able to eat anything.
- If you can’t walk or are missing any limbs, sit your butt down until someone makes your plate for you. Dinner time is not the time for you to be independent. Nibble on them pecans and walnuts to hold you over until someone makes you a plate.
- If you have kids under the age of twelve, I will escort their little butts to the basement and bring their food down to them. They are not gonna tear my house up this year. Tell them that they are not allowed upstairs until it’s time for Uncle Butchie to start telling family stories about their mommas and papas. If they come upstairs for any reason except for that they are bleeding to death, I will tear their butts up and you better not ask why!
- There is going to be one prayer for Thanksgiving dinner! JUST ONE! We do not care that you are thankful that your 13 year old daughter gave birth to a healthy baby or your nephew just got out of jail. The time limit for the prayer is one minute. If you are still talking after that one minute is up, you will feel something hard come across your lips and they will be swollen for approximately 20 minutes.
- Finish everything on your plate before you go up for seconds! If you don’t, you will be asked to stay your greedy butt home next year!
- BRING YOUR OWN TUPPERWARE!! Don’t let me catch you fixing yourself a plate in my good Tupperware knowing that I will never see it again! Furthermore, if you didn’t bring anything over, don’t let me catch you making a plate period or it will be a misunderstanding. And why are you making plates before you eat? You never bring a dish or offer a dime do you?
- What you came with is what you should leave with!! Do not leave my house with anything that doesn’t belong to you. EVERYBODY WILL BE SUBJECTE D TO A BODY SEARCH COMING AND GOING OUT OF MY DOMAIN!!!
- Do not leave your kids so you can go hopping from house to house. This is not a DAYCARE CENTER! There will be a kid-parent roll call every ten minutes. Any parent that is not present at the time of roll call, your child will be put outside until you come and get him or her. After 24 hours, I will call CPS!
- BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM BEFORE YOU COME INTO TOWN!! There will be no sleeping over at my house! You are to come and eat dinner and go home or to your hotel room. EVERYBODY GETS KICKED OUT AT 11:00 pm. You will get a 15 minute warning bell ring.
- Last but not least! ONE PLATE PER PERSON!! This is not a soup kitchen.
- I am not trying to feed your family until Christmas dinner! You will be supervised when you fix your plate. Anything over the appropriate amount will be charged to you before you leave. There will be a cash register at the door. Thanks to Cousin Alfred and his greedy family, we now have a credit card machine! So VISA and MASTERCARD are now being accepted. NO FOOD STAMPS OR ACCESS CARDS YET!
And an oldie updated…
A French doctor says ‘Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.’
A German doctor says ‘That is nothing; we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.
The Russian doctor says ‘In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.’
An American doctor, not to be outdone, says ‘You guys are way behind. We recently took a man with no brains out of Delaware, put him in the White House, and now half the country is looking for work.’
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The liberals are asking us to give Biden time.
We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
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America needs Biden like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
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Q: Have you heard about McDonalds new Biden Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
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Q: What does Biden call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.
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Q: What’s the difference between Biden’s cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society.
The other is for housing prisoners.
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Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Biden were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and
It started to sink, who would be saved? ….
A: America!
NO!
The left always seems to have been obsessed with Europe. The constant song coming from that side of the aisle and their willing accomplices in the media is that we should be more like our continental neighbors.
Draconian climate mandates. Secularism galore. Massive international cooperation that dilutes national interest and identity. Democratic socialism. That’s what the left wants us to emulate.
Now that we’re dealing with inflation, rising prices, and supply shortages, the left is playing the same “be like Europe” tune in a different key.
Full article, HERE.
I don’t want to be forced to shop EVERY day for food in an open market, praying they have decent product available because my fridge is the size of a dorm fridge, nor buy propane on a monthly basis, or pay $9/gal for gas for my car.
I don’t want to live in a society where I’m not allowed to defend myself, or even own a gun.
I don’t want to live in a country where there is not medical care available outside of a nationalized system that ‘prioritizes’ health care based on your ‘station’ in life and ability to pay for drugs (if available), or wait months for an MRI or CT scan.
I don’t want to live in a society where certain groups and locations are hands off to the police, and those people are free to do as they wish, without regard for the laws of the country.
The ‘solution’ is NOT to live like Europeans, but to actually take back control of the US from the politicians and elites that are running it in the ground and remind them that they work for US, not the reverse.
Edit- And a friend sent this… Comparison between various ‘measurement’ systems…
I’ll stick with OUR system… So far, we’re the only ones to put a man on the moon…
Two of our group have collaborated on a little thing… Taskforce Chiweenie
Click the cover for the Amazon link!
The blurb-
Two extraordinary heroes.
Sure, they may look like adorable chiweenies, but the reality is that only they stand between the world, and…The Poultry Liberation Front
Follow the adventures of Chuy and Mochi through their slightly exasperated flag officer’s voice as he delivers pithy situation reports while the battlefield unfolds on his front yard.
Add your own color, but keep in mind: the language contained in this coloring book is, well, colorful. We cannot recommend this book for children. Strictly for adult amusement, no matter how cute the pups and chickens are!
It is hilarious! Lawdog’s ‘way with words’ and Cedar’s artwork combined for a real ‘work of art’ for adults!!! It is also 8 1/2 by 11, so full sized for your enjoyment!
Coming soon, a completely different take… Cedar is putting together a series of short stories on PTSD, based on some conversations that have been bouncing around.
We both have stories in that one, and each story deals with the issue in different ways. It will be out next month, just in time for Christmas.
From Rudyard Kipling…
I went into a public-‘ouse to get a pint o’ beer, The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:
O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”; But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play, The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play, O it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be, They gave a drunk civilian room, but ‘adn’t none for me; They sent me to the gallery or round the music-‘alls, But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls!
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”; But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide, The troopship’s on the tide, my boys, the troopship’s on the tide, O it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide.
Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap; An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.
Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, ‘ow’s yer soul?”
But it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll.
We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints; While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind”, But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind, There’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind, O it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind.
You talk o’ better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires, an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot; An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please; An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
Folks, if you are a vet or know one that is having problems, or a family member of a vet having problems, there IS a place to turn…
https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/
We are STILL losing about 20 veterans a day to suicide. The time from now to Christmas is the worst time for veterans… Especially those dealing with the issues of coming home and not being able to handle it.
PLEASE reach out! It is important!!!