So I got a text yesterday morning from a campaign worker with a spiel about how this election is important and we need to stand up and blah, blah, blah and then asking if I would volunteer to man a “Phone Bank” to help re-elect Frank Mrvan.

I replied “Dude, I’d rather have a smoldering 4 X 4 shoved up my ass with a half turn, that support that useless Party Hack”.

He came right back “so we have spaces at the phone bank in Merrillville on Saturday morning, will that work?”

I started to compose a furious text

And then 30 seconds later, he/she wrote” Nah, just messin’ with ya, I’ll take you off the list, have a nice day, remember to vote”

I actually laughed.

Still not gonna vote for the asshole though.

Yet here, we have proof that the Biden family (apparently with the “Big Guys” blessing) was dealing with both China AND Putin back in 2017.

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter’s ties that bind: Chinese business partner of president’s son is pictured raising a glass with Vladimir Putin in 2017 – as texts reveal he was given the green light by President Xi Jinping – ‘#1’ – to cement oil deal with the Bidens

We shall see how much the US Media chooses to publish….

Those 140-180+ lb rounds of wood are getting heavier.

Now that the splitter is adjusted and running well, I used the cool morning to split some more firewood for my reserve supply. Stopped when I had to take off my long sleeved shirt due to the temps.

I’m getting old. Those 30-48″ or so rounds (18″ more or less long) are getting heavier and heavier. I thought that perhaps the Hickory was just denser than oak,……I mean, I can barely roll ’em onto my knee before standing up to put ’em on the splitter rail.

So I got out the hanging scale and the log tongs and put them on the tractor…..Nope actually lighter…. in the 120-150-lb range….I’m just getting older, I guess.

Anyway, split another rick or so and stacked it under cover, Got more to do, but I’m nibbling away at it. Wore out a pair of gloves too.  At least the splitter is running well, despite the neglect.

No matter what their race or religion.

One week until Election Day, voters demand tougher security at the ballot box: New poll shows more than 8 in 10 Americans support photo voter ID laws and majority want more guardrails on mail-in voting

Despite what the DNC and the Media (but I repeat myself) tell us, everyone wants clean elections: “At least three quarters of white, black, Hispanic and Asian Americans agreed that some form of photo identification should be required to cast a ballot, according to the survey by CRC Research and the 85 Fund”

No worries about minority voters being “Disenfranchised” or otherwise being prevented from voting. They don’t believe the DNC lies about that either…

So we can hope that this will reduce the Margin of Cheat to some extent..

Put on the new hydraulic hose….($35 dollars BUT a half hour each way to get to a place that was competent to make the damned hose) and got to work…

The splitter is not cooperating

Probably rebelling due to neglect…..

The new carb needed some adjusting to take a load, which I fixed with a screwdriver in a few minutes.

hen the damned thing started dying under load, so I put the adjustments back….no joy.

Then it didn’t wanna start again at all.

Back to basics.

Has spark, has compression, is getting air….Aaannd the fuel filter is plugged with rust. Blew it out (I only have one more on the shelf as the auto parts store is backordered, so I guess  I’m gonna have to go online) and put the carb adjustments back to where I had moved ’em. Gonna have to dismount and clean the tank, I guess. Now it runs well.

My fault, I (stupidly) let it sit uncovered all last winter. I am paying the price now. Laziness comes back to bite you every time. I’d kick myself for that but that would likely make me pull a muscle and all that so just onward and upward…..

If the firewood  I had was oak, I’d just use a wedge and sledge or an axe, but the hickory is just a bit tougher to split by hand.

Wuhan lab at centre of Covid claims ‘worked on a shoestring budget’ with scientists ‘under huge pressure to meet deadlines’ – and may have had a broken air filter just before pandemic began

Or it could be bats from hundreds of miles away from the outbreak. You decide.

Much like the Hunter Biden stories and misdeeds and crimes (and Joe Biden’s also) the Media has been deliberately not reporting on politicians and their actions that they feel they need to hide….

See this Daily Mail extract about the late, (mostly unlamented) Ted Kennedy and the coverups (plural) that the Media did for him over the years.

They have been hiding the deeds of their “approved” politicians longer than I have been alive.

The Internet has just made it harder for them to hide all of it. But it continues to this day…..and they don’t even try to hide their actions any more.

I find it strange that the Pelosi’s did not have ANY security at their home. No guards, nothing. Especially what with her words about her fears of “Right Wing MAGA Terrorists” one would have thought that there would have been some attempt to cover the house and property….

The cost to have a couple of armed guards would be a rounding error at their income level.

Strange, innit? I’d bet that nearly all their neighbors have some sort of security. Nearly anyone else at that level of income has someone providing security.

ETA: And I’m not the only one asking questions. (and the one about how he got there without a car is a good one)

Such good work our “leaders” are doing to help keep things running in this country….. (looking at you, Pete Buttigieg).

‘Some cities may run dry for a few days’: Diesel supplier warns businesses on the US East Coast to prepare for diesel shortage

But selling all that oil from the SPR to China helped……