Today is moving day for my brother.

Let us hope that all the 14 people that promised to help actually show up.

2 LARGE trailers, 1 medium. 10 miles.

If everyone shows up, maybe 3 hours. If not….

And I got a phase check tomorrow at 7 AM. If the weather holds, I will fly.

Hope I can walk…. 

They are, apparently, also totally STUPID.

Via Wirecutter:

This Sorority Girl Tried To Show Some School Spirit And Accidentally Pissed Off The TSA

Hassled, searched and reprimanded for a hand gesture. 

Help kick him over 14 million. 

Joe asks:

“We all know many of you who are now in the throes of vapor swoons over this comment secretly call those Third World shitholes…”shitholes”. 
Your outrage is that Trump said it.
No? How many of you are saving up your cash to take a dream vacation to Haiti or El Salvador or Uganda?

Make it worthwhile for a company to stay or return to the US, and they do…..

Fiat Chrysler will move Ram Heavy Duty truck manufacturing back to Michigan from Mexico.

“FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne says the company should adjust its manufacturing footprint to reflect “improvement in the U.S. business environment.””

MAGA and all that. But, at the end of it all, the economic policies make it worthwhile to bring that production back to the US.

A long time ago I did work for a subcontractor  that made wiring harness testers for Ford. The Ford folks hated the fact that they had production in Mexico….the workers sucked, the plant was shit and they wished they could afford to move the pant back. But they couldn’t, due to Clinton policies. Bush didn’t fix that, and neither did Clinton.

Economic policy dictates where Big Business (and the small businesses that supply and support them) locate.

Now, look what is happening. 

Puerto Rico was a shithole even before the hurricane devastated what they had.

And why half the island is still without power.

One wonders, were they planning on selling the supplies and equipment for profit?
(The Governor, of course,  is investigating )

Note that half the powerline workers are (or WERE) waiting on parts and pieces so they can get the job done.

The problem (as we see once again) with Puerto Rico is the Puerto Ricans….and their Government.

Via Elmtree Forge

Seems that the fainting flowers at CBS are afraid to use the word that President TheDonald used to describe some third world countries from which many immigrants are coming…..In particular African countries, El Salvador and Hati. “Shithole”…which adequately and somewhat accurately describes  portions of some of those countries….The thing that gets me is that that is exactly what they mean when they say “Third World” but when they can bias their coverage and (breathlessly) NOT say the word in order to twist what he said….

Note: he was asking WHY we should protect immigration numbers from these countries and not promote immigration from places like Norway….Which to their minds, means “White”, rather than “First World”.

And why shouldn’t we promote immigration from places where people are literate, clean, disease free, skilled and whose values closely approximate those of the US? Why should we “protect” immigration from places where the population hates OUR culture, where diseases are rampant, where there are few (or no) skills, where the immigrants fail to assimilate and dislike and do not want to learn the culture of the US?

The bias of the media becomes ever more plain. 

(and the DNC).

I no longer have the same Doctor.

My health insurance cost has gone up by a factor of five:
Yet…..
My deductible has gone from $500 per year to 5 times that.
I no longer have vision insurance.
I have less access to care than I did before your wonderful “Affordable Health Care Act”.

I know of NO ONE who is better off now than they were then. No one. Not even the “Poor” people. Even they have lost out in this.

So, from the Heart of my Bottom, I would like to say Thanks, you assholes.

So when, exactly, are laws upheld?

So if your actions are illegal, but “correct” in the political hysteria climate….and fits the prejudices of the DA…..One can get away with breaking the law.

Durham DA will not pursue Felony charges in toppling of statue

Does this mean that I can start trashing statues of MLK? (No, I wouldn’t, even if I could)

(One wonders if RACE had a role to play here? 

That Oprah’s embracing of the “#MeeToo/TimesUp movement will prevent her from being elected President. Not because she is necessarily anti male, but because of what the #Movement will morph into.

Ultimately, it will become a monster from which nearly every woman (except the man hating Feminists) will distance herself. But by then, it will be too late for Oprah.

We shall see.