On the shelf, Texas style…
And if you’re wondering ‘what’ the elf is doing, it’s ‘assisting’ a cow to deliver.
Soooo… To be correct, this would be at 0300, in the freezing rain, in the middle of a muddy pasture… And the cow is gonna be PISSED by the time the elf finished ‘helping’, and chase it up the nearest tree.
h/t Jim W for the pic
Grandson and the new Rottie, Coco, playing with a balloon…
Frankly, I’m amazed she didn’t pop it! Vito popped soccer balls for fun.
Once again Mr. Ramirez hits it out of the park…
Pelosi et al did the deed and finally owned up to it… Or lack of it…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitted during a press conference on Friday it was Democrats’ decision to withhold crucially needed aid for Americans suffering from the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Full article, HERE.
This could be interesting!!!
Why do the words ‘turnabout is fair play’ come to mind?
As the probability of a Joe Biden presidency increases, a major GOP group is wasting no time on working to hold him accountable. America Rising, a powerhouse, Republican research organization, rolled out its Biden Accountability Initiative on Wednesday.
Full article, HERE.
From the website, HERE, this is what their goal is…
The foundation laid during the 2020 election cycle will set the course for holding the Biden Administration accountable for the next four years. Research efforts will include:
Cue the screaming on the left in three, two… 🙂
Originally wrote this for what I thought was going to be an anthology about the election and possible happenings regardless of who won. The anthology didn’t go, so…
You get April Fool!
Click the cover for the link to Amazon!
The blurb-
Sean ‘Mac’ McCampbell just wants to keep his head down, avoid the riots, and finish his Linguistics PhD before his GI Bill runs out. But when the professors are promoting insurrection and the cops won’t contain the violence, Mac finds trouble won’t leave the people and places he loves alone.
There’s only so much hurt you can inflict on a man before he decides to do something about it.
The Long March is about to get a real surprise on April first!
Novelette, 13,800 words
Black and White…
You could hardly see for all the snow, spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
‘Good night, David. Good night, Chet.’
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to get food poisoning. She used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can’t remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE… and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked’s (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option… Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
We played ‘king of the hill’ on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn’t sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $99 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn’t act up at the neighbor’s house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn’t even notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive???
Except I’ve been busy writing…
So you get humor
MURPHY’S OTHER 15 LAWS…
2. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
3. He, who laughs last, thinks slowest.
4. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
5. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
6. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.
7. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
8. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
9. It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end-to-end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them.
10. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
11. The things that come to those that wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.
12. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
13. Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
14 . The shin bone is a device for finding ! furniture in the dark.
15. When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
And then there is Maxine…
A minister decided that a visual demonstration would
add emphasis to his Sunday sermon.
Four worms were placed into four separate jars.
The first worm was put into a container of alcohol.
The second worm was put into a container of cigarette smoke.
The third worm was put into a container of chocolate syrup.
The fourth worm was put into a container of good clean soil.
At the conclusion of the sermon, the Minister reported the following results:
The first worm in alcohol – Dead.
The second worm in cigarette smoke – Dead
Third worm in chocolate syrup – Dead
Fourth worm in good clean soil – Alive.
So the Minister asked the congregation –
What did you learn from this demonstration?
Maxine was sitting in the back, quickly raised her hand and said,
‘As long as you drink, smoke and eat chocolate,
you won’t have worms!’
That pretty much ended the service –
This happened…
As no presidential candidate had received a majority of the total electoral votes in the election of 1824, Congress decides to turn over the presidential election to the House of Representatives, as dictated by the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Full article, HERE.
And a bit more, HERE about the electoral college and what happens in the House…
While I don’t think we’re going to get there this time, it is going to be interesting for the next couple of weeks!
We STOOD as a country…
And now?
I’m not sure I have an answer to what we are… Sigh…
First, JHU published the following article in the News-Letter…
Then, after the outcry began… They retracted it. This is the opening paragraph of the retraction…
Editor’s Note: After The News-Letter published this article on Nov. 22, it was brought to our attention that our coverage of Genevieve Briand’s presentation “COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data” has been used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.
Full article, HERE.
A friend put it best- The real issue here is that science is messy and epidemiology especially so. Somewhere in the last several weeks, I read an article regarding CDC
reporting of statistics. It made a statement to the effect that CDC reported data in a way meaningful to epidemiologists but misleading to everybody else. I have long since come to the belief that a true measure of competency in a scientist is the ability to make something complex simple to the layman. In failing to provide data useful to epidemiologists as well as meaningful to the layman, the CDC has failed.
So effectively, they pulled the article because the READERS were actually asking questions… Sigh…
EDIT- h/t McChuck, a good discussion on the original article, with more readable graphs by William Briggs, HERE.
I guess this is going to be the next thing if Slo Joe has his way…
