When we were in Knoxville Saturday, we ate with friends at Calhoun’s.

Smoked Prime Rib……Holy freaking God Almighty. 

If you are ever in Knoxville, I HIGHLY recommend you eat there and try the Prime Rib.

So in Chicago over the weekend, crowds of “Young People” damaged cars, broke windows, hassled pedestrians and caused general mayhem in the downtown areas.

Oddly though, the videos shows only black people. But the News folks strangely fail to mention that somewhat important fact. (and it is important, simply because people need to know who they are dealing with in public, and which groups of people are committing the crimes). Maybe there were whites and Hispanics and Asians and Middle Easterners in there and the camera only caught 100% African Americans by chance (across all the videos)……

The “event” was, apparently coordinated via “Social Media”. The folks organizing it know that the police can’t deal with crowds of thousands…..at least not unless they use methods that will get them crucified in the news media, so the miscreants have, essentially, free reign to do what they want.

Of course, it makes decent, honest people simply want to live, work, and relax elsewhere. But they can’t in the same parks, streets and restaurants because of the animal.

Until and unless someone tells the truth, that this is a bunch of poor black kids acting like animals, and takes action to stop it, it will continue and spread…..

The sad part is that for every uncultured misbehaving black kid, there are likely 60 or more black kids who weren’t there…but the ones that stayed home will be looked at as if they were that same kind of out of control animal….Judged by the actions of their peers. How are the rest of us to know which group we are dealing with?

Fucker is begging for arms, and then he says this?

‘You can’t come to us empty-handed today, and we are expecting not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons,’ he said before the arrival of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

It ain’t like or his country are paying for the war materiel nor trading anything for it.

Were I part of the negotiations I’d tell Zelensky to pound sand.

Landing on a 5000 ft runway, orientation 18/36 with a 220 wind at 26 gusting 36.

I gotta say it was challenging. But the plane is still usable and it was, if not a greaser, not all that bad a landing.  Wasn’t my best though. On centerline too. The approach was at about a 45 degree crab.

There were no good choices though, so I did it. Beat the storm in and put the plane away.

It was a challenge, and I almost went around just at the flare. Differential thrust is a good thing to have.

So the Supreme Court upheld that the US can treat Puerto Rico (a protectorate) differently than the States….at least as far as government handouts like Social Security and SSI are concerned.

Puerto Rico folks don’t pay Federal Income taxes, nor do they get representation in Congress…because they aren’t a state. They have benefitted greatly from being a protectorate of the US…no military costs, no taxes, lots of aid in Natural disasters, etc.

Now they want SSI for their people, despite not having contributed to the pool. They have NEVER anted-up to the table, being instead a drain on US taxpayers.

Are the citizens of Puerto Rico willing to do what the rest of us do in order to reap the benefits? If so, we can talk. If not, then shut up. Were it up to me, they’d be cut loose to mire in their own corruption and lawlessness.

Liberals are, of course, outraged. And it would seem that most who oppose this ruling are from or related to people who are from, Puerto Rico. Odd that. In fact, in advocating for free stuff for Puerto Rico, they are in fact, violating their oaths and bringing their loyalty to their country, the on who elected them. Race over Country is a thing amongst (Many) Hispanics, innit?

As the officer approaches:

“What’s the matter, officer? Duncan Donuts closed?”

So I went to put new blades on the zero-turn mower.

I found one of the spindles had broken ears where the mounting bolts were. (2 out of the 4). The other bearing spindle had cracks on 2.

So I looked up on Amazon. $34 each and I can have them tomorrow…Supposedly OEM, not a chinese knockoff.

Then I called the local place where I bought the mower. They had the parts in stock, and they were just a few bucks more. I like supporting the local places, so I drove in and got a pair.

THey offered greaseable, and non greasable. Grease is cheap and it keeps the bearings happy, so I asked for the greasable ones.

Got home, and I had one greasable and one non greasable. Back to the mower place.

Got home, pulled the pulleys, got the spindle bolts loose, and found out that the replacement spindles were an inch and half longer than the ones I was replacing. Called the mower place, yeah, they have the correct ones, and drove back to town and exchanged ’em….taking the broken part with me to make sure they gave me the right one….AAAnnd the ones they were trying to give me were a half inch shorter that the ones I needed.

They did have the right ones. Supposedly it matters according to serial number on the mower as to which spindle length….I pointed out that THEY HAVE THE SERIAL NUMBER AS THEY SOLD ME THE MOWER. They simply never bothered to check….(I later found out that the parts don’t change according to serial number but MODEL number…

Christ on a pogo stick. This isn’t that hard, kid. Use the information tools they provide and don’t just get a part that looks similar off the shelf. And this counter guy has been employed there for several years. All told, it cost me an additional $10 in gas (Thanks Brandon!) and an hour of time to finally get the right parts…..I’d have been better off going through Amazon.

So in Syracuse NY, a 10 year old was caught shoplifting a bag of chips….The claim is that the cops “Terrorized” the kid. 

The cops were called and he was placed in the back of a police car and taken to his mother’s house. .

The neighborhood was, of course, outraged.

Thing is, had Mom (and Dad, if he exists) taught him not to steal, he’d not be there.

The folks in the neighborhood were, of course, outraged. Must be the cops were racist or something. “It was only a petty crime”…”Just a bag of chips…”

The Brooklyn Subway Shooter has disappeared from the headlines.

I guess since he wasn’t a white man, wasn’t a “racist” redneck, wasn’t a Trump supporter, they’d rather he just disappear….

Towards cancelling student debt.

Fucking weasels.