Willie is playing my song,
I’m gonna be out of touch for a few days, having fun with friends…
Go read the folks on the sidebar, they’re better reads anyway… LOL
I probably won’t be commenting either, but I should be back some time next week.
Beer’s in the fridge, dog food’s in the pantry, and he gets two treats a day, unless he goes after the UPS guy, then he only gets one!
Still not commenting on Las Vegas, waiting for real information, not speculation…
The NFL was down yet again this week, as noted by Sports Media Watch, HERE.
And ticket sales are apparently also down, as reported by various credible outlets,
While we can’t specify if this decrease is due to the president’s comments, player and owner protests, play on the field, or simply the continued division of consumer’s media attention, the conversation around the NFL this week has focused on the president’s comments as well as the players’ and owners’ reaction. As viewers continue to abandon their NFL Sunday habits, both the number of ticket sales and the purchase price of tickets will drop
And even CBS had to admit it…
NFL ticket sales at TickPick slumped 17.9 percent this week compared with the prior week, their steepest decline since 2014, while sales at TicketCity plunged 31 percent. For pro football games in September, ticket sales at TicketCity are down 16 percent from a year ago. TickPick’s NFL sales rose this month, but by the smallest margin since 2015. The vendors’ data reflect tickets sold in the secondary market, as opposed to direct sales from NFL teams.
Full article HERE.
And apparently some player or players STILL knelt or sat on Monday night (not that I watched or cared)…
For those who were killed and injured, and their families in the aftermath of the shooting in Las Vegas.
What truly angers me is that this is already been politicized before the blood is even dry. This was domestic terrorism, plain and simple, but there are no REAL facts yet.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS- This is about Americans of all faiths, colors, and jobs being killed by a madman, not something to be twisted into serving an agenda. I will not name that son of a bitch, other than to damn him to hell.
I am proud of the military, LEOs, firefighters, and others who stepped up and helped their fellow man to either get to cover, or guide them to safety, while the LEOs ran toward the sound of guns.
Loving God,
Welcome into your arms the victims of violence and terrorism.
Comfort their families and all who grieve for them.
Help us in our fear and uncertainty,
And bless us with the knowledge that we are secure in your love.
Strengthen all those who work for peace,
And may the peace the world cannot give reign in our hearts.
-Anon
We are just about done! In final edit now…
Here’s the cover art, thanks to Tina!
Ten stories, a little over 100,000 words. It ‘should’ be out in approximately 3 weeks, depending on Amazon.
Thank you for your patience!
This is just for the ladies… everyone else can skip 🙂
I haven’t found Mr Right, but I have found Mr Cheap, Mr Sleazy and Mr Wrong
Next mood swing: 6 minutes
I’m in touch with my inner bitch
Don’t stare at me, buy me a drink.
It ain’t the size, it’s… no, it’s the size.
Are those your eyeballs? I found them in my cleavage.
Not Drunk. Just Blonde.
Therapy has taught me nothing is my fault
So many men… so few who can afford me.
You can either agree with me, or be wrong
I’m busy. You’re ugly. Have a nice day.
I have PMS, an SUV, and no chocolate. Were you considering cutting me off?
I’m really easy to get along with, once you learn to worship me.
Veni, Vedi, VISA: I Came, I Saw, I did a little shopping.
And which dwarf are you?
Don’t worry. It’ll only seem kinky the first time.
I can see your point, but I still think you’re full of crap.
I’m sorry honey, I just don’t have the energy to fake it tonight.
51% Angel, 49% Bitch. Don’t push it!
God made us sisters: prozac made us friends
You can stare at my as* all you like but you aren’t getting a piece!
I love you. Leave me alone. Where have you been all day?
I want my man to have a VCR: Very Cute Rear
I’m not infantile … You stinkybutt poophead.
You Say B*tch Like It’s A Bad Thing
Bad driver on board
Chaos, panic, disaster, I think my work here is done
I can SO drive
I have PMS 5 children a disloyal husband and a gun! Any questions??
Oh, I’m Easy… I’m just not Cheap!
You KNOW you want me.
0% Angel, 100% Bitch, 100% Your Fault
Yet another bitterly single thirtysomething proud to be a bitch
Starlight Starbright, where the hell is Mr Right ?
I have a pc, a vibrator, & pizza delivery. Why did I even leave the house?
And for us guys…
The Rules
All the commentators on the ground in Puerto Rico are digging up the most pathetic sob stories they can find, playing it for all it’s worth, and pointing the blame at the administration for the ‘failure’ to support the poor disenfranchised people of Puerto Rico, cause they’re not white… (gee, where have I heard ‘that’ line of BS before… Um… Lemme think… Oh yeah, Katrina)
Really?
There ARE real problems, no question. And it’s questionable if the island can be rebuilt in anything approaching a timely fashion, much less actually start the process, due to the lack of planning and current state of the infrastructure. But they are not of the administration’s doing.
Puerto Rico isn’t a few hundred miles drive to fix… It’s about 1300 miles from Jax to San Juan! That’s three hours flying time, or 100+ hours by ship. And it’s a protectorate that has SERIOUS problems before the first hurricane hit. $70B in debt, people leaving the island in droves, infrastructure marginal at best, ever since the military pulled out in 2004, and rampant corruption. There appears to have been no real plan by the governor or service entities to actually prepare, or plans for handling the situation, they knew was coming. It’s not like this is the first time a hurricane has hit there!
As of the earlier in the week, there were already 10,000 military boots on the ground, with helicopters and trucks being flown in by C-17s in a steady stream. As of yesterday, there were over 10,000 CONEX boxes sitting on the piers at San Juan, because there is no power, and no cleared road structure to actually move the goods to where they need to go, and no truck drivers to actually drive the trucks. The Army Corps of Engineers has been authorized to do what they can to get infrastructure back online, but even with all them working, it’s NOT an overnight fix…
But the administration isn’t responding fast enough…
They tried to find issues in the response to Houston, and didn’t; Florida, no luck there either. But now… Oh boy… Licking their chops, “We’re going to nail them on this one! We got them this time! Front page, lead story on every news cast! This… This is the screwup that will get the president impeached!”
Yeah, they really want to do that. Don’t remember which congresscritter said it, but this administration can’t be allowed to succeed. If it does, it makes all those career politicians look like the buffoons they really are!
In other news, it appears the NFL’s past weekend and Thursday games were down 11% and 13% respectively from last year, and the networks are purposely NOT showing the empty seats or any posters in the crowd.
One behind-the-scenes TV staffer at another stadium told Sporting News that camera operators were ordered to avoid crowd shots in case they showed fans counterprotesting the protests.
Full article HERE, at Sporting News.
NFL fans could be heard booing as hundreds of players protested during the national anthem over Week 3, but the spectators’ presence was conspicuously absent from television coverage.
Full article HERE, from the Daily Mail. It’s pretty bad when a foreign newspaper has more honest coverage than the MSM…
One other thing I find kinda humorous in all this, is that taking a knee is considered part of the oath of fealty to someone… So by taking a knee, effectively these players are swearing fealty to the United States. I wonder if they even realize that…
History, HERE.
While this is based on the Volt, I can’t help but wonder how close this is to all the other electric cars…
IT WOULD SEEM THAT IF ELECTRIC CARS DO NOT USE GASOLINE, THEY WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN PAYING GASOLINE TAX ON EVERY GALLON THAT IS SOLD FOR AUTOMOBILES, WHICH WAS ENACTED SOME YEARS AGO TO HELP TO MAINTAIN YOUR ROADS AND BRIDGES. THEY WILL USE THE ROADS, BUT WILL NOT PAY FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE!
Ever since the advent of electric cars, the REAL cost per mile has never been discussed. All you ever hear is the mpg in terms of gasoline, with nary a mention of the cost of electricity.
Electricity has to be one of the least efficient ways to power cars, yet it is being shoved down your throats. Glad somebody finally put engineering and math to paper.
A British Columbia Hydro executive supposedly said: If you really intend to adopt electric vehicles, you have to face certain realities. For example, a home charging system for a Tesla requires 75 amp service. The average house is equipped with 100 amp service, meaning you’d have to upgrade to a 200 am service at some not inconsiderable cost. On a small street (approximately 25 homes), the electrical infrastructure would be unable to carry more than three houses with a Tesla. If even half the homes to have electric vehicles, the system would be wildly over-loaded.
This is the elephant in the room with electric vehicles. Your residential infrastructure cannot bear the load. So as your genius elected officials promote this nonsense, not only are you being urged to buy these things and replace your reliable, cheap generating systems with expensive, new windmills and solar cells, but you will also have to renovate your entire delivery system! This latter “investment” will not be revealed until you’re so far down this dead end road that it will be presented with an ‘OOPS!’ and a shrug.
A man named Eric test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors and he writes, “For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.” Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9-gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles.
It will take you 4.5 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery. The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned. If you pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $0.36 per kwh. 16 kwh x $0.36 per kwh = $5.76 to charge the battery. $5.76 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.23 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery. Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.
I think this might be a little skewed, maybe high, but it still doesn’t take into account the hydrocarbons, etc. used to make the electricity. IMHO, the only ‘fair’ way to calculate the ‘carbon tax’, if you will, would be to also factor in the amount of hydrocarbons used to make the electricity vs. the hydrocarbons burned by a gas or diesel engine. And there are small diesel engines now getting 70mpg in Europe. I drove a little Mercedes with one.
The gasoline powered car costs about $20,000 while the Volt costs $46,000-plus. It looks like the “Greenies” in the American Government want loyal Americans NOT to do the math, but simply pay three times as much for a car, that costs more than seven times as much to run, and takes three times longer to drive across the country.
Say What?
And one more thing, granted this is a couple of years old, but I was talking to a highway engineer in NOVA, and he said the electric cars with their hard narrow tires (for mileage purposes) are actually harder on the roads than SUVs! He was looking at legislation to make EV users pay a road use tax, based on mileage driven, to offset the damage to the roads. When you add that in, it should get even more interesting!
Well, I got another one star review on The Morning the Earth Shook… And this one is a ‘good’ one!
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and it’s interesting that this is another unverified purchaser. I know I’m not the greatest writer in the world, nor do I claim to be, but it would be rather hard to write this without using military terms, and I ‘thought’ I did my best to actually footnote those that I thought would trip people up. I guess not…
Well, we finally got rain up here, and it lasted all day, and it’s supposed to do that again tomorrow, with temps never getting out of the 60s!!!
Talking to an older gent who was slogging through the rain yesterday morning, cowboy hat/shirt, jeans, boots, he grumbled words to the effect that he didn’t have one in Vietnam, you damn sure didn’t use one around a horse, and he didn’t think he even owned one.
Difference between city folk and country folk… City folk are worried about getting wet, and fuss with umbrellas; country folk just put their heads down and go about their business, because they know they won’t melt.
Peter, over at Bayou Renaissance Man, has a post up on a confrontation between Antifa and some DPS troopers down in Austin last weekend… It’s HERE! No riot gear, no helmets (unless you count bike helmets on the bike officers, and Antifa made a mistake of ‘thinking’ if that’s possible, that they’d be treated like they are in California… Snerk…
And due to either yesterday or the day before’s post, I got hit with over 100 spam comments, after being ‘normally’ in the 2-3 per day range… Obviously, one of those posts pissed somebody(s) off again…
And in a ‘the rest of the story’ mode, it appears the guy who stopped the church shooter in TN was pistol whipped, then got up, went to his car and got HIS CCW pistol, before coming back and confronting the shooter, who somehow shot himself in the face, link HERE. It appears the MSM ‘forgot’ to include that part… Sigh…
This one came over the transom via the mil-email string…
I can’t find anything wrong in it, and it was sent to both Ryan and McConnell…
Gentlemen: I’m a 68 year old Vietnam Vet and retired 3M Executive.
I am on the verge of leaving the Grand Old Party. No big deal for you – huge deal for me. I have come nearly to the end of my loyalty to a party that seems to have lost its backbone.
The lack of leadership displayed by the two of you — for whatever reason you’ve decided to not support or defend the duly elected President of the United States — is beyond me.
Yes, President Trump is not the typical political bureaucrat, but he is the President of the United States. It appears from where I sit that you both have decided to lay down on the job you’ve been elected to serve. The 60 Million + people that voted this President into office made this decision based upon the absolute requirement to have someone outside the beltway to lead the nation. As distasteful as this appears to be for not only the Democrats, it appears to be equally distasteful to the GOP leadership. Your lack of action on numerous legislative issues that this country desperately needs is visible to all.
The electoral map of the U.S. is RED because President Trump mobilized the electorate. These same voters are going to clean house again in 2018 if you don’t start acting like leaders. Former Arizona state lawmaker Kelli Ward is out in front against Senator Jeff Flake by 25 percentage points today. Can you say: “We are tired of GOP leaders in Washington D. C.?” This is only going to increase across the U. S. for all GOP mid-term candidates if they continue to demonstrate no backbone and will not support our President.
My best description of where this country is headed was voiced by David Horowitz. “Friends, this isn’t George Orwell’s “1984.” It is America, 2017.” |
When I look at the current GOP, I’m struck by a comparison that I recently heard. This is a basketball example that really does reflect what the GOP appears to be today. The metaphor is the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals. The Democrats are the Globetrotters and the GOP are proud to be the Washington Generals. The Generals know going into the game that they are going to lose, but it’s a nice gig and they get to be on the court with the big boys. The GOP and The Washington Generals don’t mind losing – they just want to be in the game! Sound familiar?
That is exactly how it appears to the loyal GOP voters out here in America right now. Why is zero legislation moving forward? We have the Presidency, we have the House, we have the Senate! What’s wrong with this picture? We are wasting valuable time here, Senator McConnell and Representative Ryan. The voters are not going to waste time in 2018. This is the last chance for the GOP before it morphs into something none of us recognizes. And, by the way, when are you going to support the laws on the books? Sanctuary Cities, Antifa, tearing down statues, covering statues: the progressives are running wild and the GOP is laying down.
Remember freedom of speech? UC Berkeley? The progressives are worried about what shoes the first lady is wearing and the media is supporting it. What a wonderful world we are living in. Well there you have it.
President Trump and Vice President Pence are being copied on this plea for help. Hitch up your pants and stiffen your backbones. It’s about time! I know what’s coming because I live in a state that has already gone off the cliff – CALIFORNIA. The Progressive have already won here!! I mean the Globetrotters.
I have an extensive cc list of over 1,500 people. I’m asking them to send this note to 10 of their Conservative Friends. We the people will not sit still while this country is being abused and our values are not being represented. The Left will not take this country away from us.
Respectfully,
Lenard XXXX