On the Parents magazine website there was an article with the title, “How to Explain to Kids the Difference Between a Mob and a Protest”, which was an attempt to label the protest by Trump supporter in Washington as an insurrection while pretending that the leftist riots that have been going on for the last four years were nothing more than legitimate protests. I responded with the following comment, which lasted about two minutes before it was taken down. ‘Give me a break. We watched as the Left, BLM and their Anitfa thugs burned down city blocks for the last four years. We watched innocent people in restaurants harassed and heckled while their attackers were being encouraged by leftist leaders. …
I spoke with a friend today who was excited because his daughter gave birth to a beautiful little girl this past week. After the conversation, he sent me a text with pictures of his granddaughter and a picture of his his daughter Jenna as a baby so I could see the resemblance between the two. My reply to his text was the following: “Amazing how alert your granddaughter is. Jenna looked a bit chunkier as a baby but she’s beautiful now.” Luckily, I checked the message before sending it because the auto-correct had the corrected the sentence to this: “Amazing how alert your granddaughter is. Jenna looked a bit chunkier as a baby but she’s beautiful nude.” Oops. He would …
I spent my morning cleaning up the mess made by our broken waste pipe. Good times. As I mentioned yesterday, we finally found a plumber that could make it to the house before Thanksgiving. He did his job and this morning I did mine. I suited up in my best decontamination gear, grabbed the wet/drive vac, slid it into the crawlspace and climbed in behind it. Maneuvering through the massive curtains of spiderwebs, I made my way to the spill and vacuumed up the majority of the sludge. Once that was finished, I grabbed a sprayer and soaked the whole area with a mixture of bleach and water. Hopefully that will kill any nasty bacteria or fungus that might find …
Yesterday, I posted about discovering a leak in the upstairs drain pipe that connects to the main drain the empties into our septic system. Bad enough in most houses but unfortunately in our house the plumbing is located in a crawlspace. To make matters worse, every plumber we contacted was short staffed because of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and said they wouldn’t be able to get to us until next week. What a freaking nightmare. Late yesterday afternoon one of the plumbers called back and said that he would come down and have a look at it. He did, said he didn’t think it would be that big a deal and told me he would show up the next day …
We purchased our house many years ago and although I am mostly satisfied with it, there are a few things about it that I’ve come to hate. Probably the number one problem on my list is that while half the house has a cellar, the other half sits on top of a crawl space. This limits how much storage space we have available (exacerbated by the lack of an attic) but even worse since a lot of the plumbing is in the crawlspace, when something goes wrong it is a disaster to deal with. Over the weekend I went down in the cellar to check some mouse traps I had put down during the week and while I was down …
I think I’ll stick with the Coco Mint flavor.
Just an example on how crazy the current state of tech censorship is. I’m in a Facebook astronomy group and someone replied to a post I did suggesting I use a specific filter when attempting an image of the Andromeda galaxy. I wanted some additional clarification and attempted to post the following comment: “Since I use a black and white camera would I use this in series with the color filters?” It refused to go through. Every time I attempted to post it it was rejected. I thought about it and rephrased it as follows: “Since I use a monochrome camera would I use this in series with the color filters?” It posted without a problem. Apparently the words black …
McDonald’s has had a whole bunch of great slogans over the years. Classics like “Look for the Golden Arches”, “You Deserve a Break Today”, “Two All-Beef Patties” and “I’m Lovin’ It.” Might I suggest a new one for them… “We no longer give a s#*t!” Really. Has there ever been a corporation that puts in less effort than McDonald’s? The menu rarely changes and when it does it’s usually just a minor tweak of an existing product. The few times that they’ve come out with something mildly interesting they get rid of it after a few months. Their burgers are small and lack flavor, unlike a lot of the competition, and their fries have steadily declined in quality over the …
A guy going by the name of Bob posted this in response to an article over on Instapundit. I thought he hit it right on the nose and lays out the whole story for anyone that cares to be informed about how bad things are in the Federal government. Whether you’re liberal or conservative, this should concern you. Watergate x 1000: Hillary ran a pay-for-play scheme at State, to line her pockets in exchange for access to State. The FBI covered this up. The Bengazi investigation discovered Hillary’s secret email system, used to facilitate the pay-for-play. When her emails were subpoenad Hillary and Mills and Abedin deleted over 30,000 emails using “Bleach Bit.” When questioned about her secret harddrives being …
On the left is Felicity Jones playing the part of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the movie ‘On the Basis of Sex’. On the right is the real Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It’s simply amazing the resemblance! Not! Let’s contrast that to Christian Bale playing the part of Dick Cheney in the movie ‘Vice.’ Bale is on the left, while Cheney’s on the right. Outside of the evil smirk on Bale’s face, they are amazingly similar. It just shows what a good job they can do recreating the likeness of a character when they want to. But the two movies have very different goals. One is meant to build up a woman while the other is meant to take down a man. …