Welp, now we know…

Posted on by October 12, 2020

Which direction the ACB hearings are going to go…

Full on attack on ACB about overturning Obamacare and everything else including Roe v. Wade. I was stuck in the car yesterday for 7 hours coming back from Colorado which was basically in the middle of nowhere, so I listened to the first day of the SCOTUS hearing.

The Dems stayed on script the whole day, apparently including multiple pictures of ‘children’ ACB was going to kill, since they can’t play the Christian card, or the sexist card, etc.

Democrats have managed to turn Monday into an Obamacare hearing. One-by-one the panelists on the Senate Judiciary Committee presented photos of patients – many of them children – with pre-existing conditions, suggesting that their health care protections will be wiped away if Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett gets on the court.

Full article, HERE.

Plain and simple, they are going to try to Bork her… Dammit… And if approved, and they win, I believe they WILL stack the court. They don’t want SCOTUS as an arbiter, they want to use SCOTUS to make policy the Dems can’t get through Congress.

This was a comment by Dick Durban, D-IL,  on Biden not saying if he’ll pack SCOTUS: “It’s a common question being asked because the American people have watched the Republicans packing the court over the last three and a half years. And they brag about it. They’ve taken every vacancy and filled it.”

Thoughts, comments, corrections???

All good things…

Posted on by October 12, 2020

Must come to an end… Sigh…

Back to reality, break is over. Back on the road to the house today. Realized I’d never posted and EDC pic for the trip, so here ya go…

Real blogging/commenting should resume tomorrow.

Red sky at night…

Posted on by October 10, 2020

‘Usually’ means sailor’s delight (e.g. smooth sailing).

However… In this case, while pretty, and obviously red, it’s due to the smoke from the fires in Colorado and California. And breathing is…interesting.

But the big sky nice to see!

Ahhh…

Posted on by October 9, 2020

Good times with good friends, and good food. And prairie dogs to shoot. Down time is great. Go read the folks on the sidebar, I’m ignoring the news and the intarwebz for another couple of days.

Huh…

Posted on by October 5, 2020

Apparently I’m a ‘provider’ of food for a family of Geckos…

When I turn on my bathroom light at night, I would occasionally hear a ‘scurrying’ sound, like something was scratching on the screen. Turns out I’ve been feeding a mated pair of Geckos.

Dunno if this is mom or pop, but the ‘parents’ are about 6 inches long now. With tail, approaching a foot long.

And the other night I got my first picture of ‘Little Bit’. S/he is about 2 1/2 inches long with a tail about the same length. 

And now I know what the ‘scurrying’ sound is, note the way they’ve hooked into the screen with their claws. Don’t know what is going to happen when it gets cold out… sigh

I need a break…

Posted on by October 7, 2020

Time for Willie to play my song again.

Off to go turn money into smoke and noise. Go enjoy the folks on the sidebar, or read a book from my friends!

Light commenting, if any, and little to no reading for the next four days.

Sigh…

Posted on by October 6, 2020

As if 2020 couldn’t get any stranger…

 

And before you ask, no, I have NO idea why Finland not existing is up there… But the Denver one is ‘real’…so to speak…

There is a rather interesting article, HERE about DIA, and yes those murals they have at baggage claim are ‘strange’ to put it mildly!!! And yes, there was a huge delay and MASSIVE cost overruns… 4X the original cost estimates!

I’m sure there are people that pretty much hit every level of this chart, which is one of the reasons I think so many people are ‘culling’ their friends lists, and becoming more careful about whom they associate with and when.

Ummm…

Posted on by October 4, 2020

Really?

Astronauts were woken during the night to continue the hunt for an air leak on the International Space Station (ISS).

Crew members have been hunting for the source over several weeks. (Bold mine)

But the search was stepped up a notch when the size of the leak appeared to grow on Monday; this erroneous reading turned out to have been caused by a temperature change onboard the ISS.

Full article, HERE.

Ya know, having that O2 up there is just a ‘tad’ important. It’s not like they can open the door and get more! And to take WEEKS to trace it? A friend made this comment- The last coat of varnish and Olga’s toenails must have finally worn off of the outer shell of plywood in the Russian module. 

Why yes, he has spent time in Russia…

I think if I were up there, that’d be pretty cotton pickin’ high on my To Do list!  Sigh…

I wonder…

Posted on by October 3, 2020

How many people even remember either of these versions…

“The American’s Creed” written by William Tyler Page in 1917 for a national contest to support America during WWI.
I believe in the United States of America, as a government of the people, for the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent fo the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.— William Tyler Page, The American’s Creed
There is a second version, written a couple of years later by Dean Alfange that is also popular with many folks…

I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m good with BOTH versions…

Tales Around the Supper Table…

Posted on by October 3, 2020

Is ALIVE!!!

For right now, it’s Kindle only, but a paperback will follow as soon as all those hoops are jumped through.

As always, click on the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

This collection is from ten different Texas authors. There was no ‘world’ or set up for the stories. It was up to the individual authors to write their stories, so you get a wide variety! Vampires, dragons, werewolves, enchanted swords, runaways, SciFi, and cowboys… Stories for everyone in this collection of Texas authors!

Alma TC Boykin- Pigmentum Regium; Monalisa Foster- Caliborne’s Curse; Dorothy Grant- Business not Bullets; Kathey Grey- The Invisible Train; Pam Uphoff- Runaway; JL Curtis- A Favor Owed; Jonathan LaForce- Knights and Dragons; Peter Grant- Starting over; Lawdog- Bad Night in Falls Town; John Van Stry- They Only Ever Just Send One; Wayne Whisnand- For a Child.

This is the result of that collaboration- May I present Tales Around the Supper Table- The Anthology.

And my thanks to the authors that contributed to the anthology, Tina G for a great cover, as always, and Steph M for her deft touch as an editor!  Without all of them, none of this would have happened.