At least some Democrats will claim it anyway….

Or it could just be because, you know, it is Hurricane Season.

This one might be as bad as Sandy, if the path it takes is just right….

Whatever….This could be a big storm and it could severely impact the US East Coast.

Hurricane Sam forecast to rapidly intensify into a Category 4 in the Atlantic

No doubt, if it does hit the US, there will be lots of damage…and the US taxpayer will pay for most of it because insurance rates are subsidized by the Federal Government and so don’t really reflect the real risk.

“You must learn from the mistakes of others….You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself”

Sam Levenson

Except for a couple of details:

Most have not lived in Hati for YEARS.

Most (not all, but most) are eligible for asylum in other South American countries, but were brought to the US/Mexico border (brought, via bus in many cases, by activist organizations) when they had  other options…

And how, exactly were the Border Patrol folks supposed to stop the “migrants” from entering the US without “being aggressive” (Notice that they have backed off the whole “Beating and Whipping” meme?). These folks are already breaking the law…does Joe Biden and his group of handlers thing that a kind word and reason is gonna work? What, exactly, does Joe and his people think is the job of the Border Patrol?

This is a production, and a photo op, more than anything else.

Seems that in Melbourne, the police have decided that the protesters need to be taught a lesson, so they are using “Rubber Bullets”, Pepper balls , and other forms of crowd control.

They get away with that simply because the folks in Australia allowed themselves to be disarmed (and cause the crowd probably doesn’t wanna hurt the cops).

I’d bet good money that the cops here would not try that sort of violence in the US. I think they know how things would end…and not well for them.

On PBS in Chicago (WTTW, PBS NewsHour), Dr. Thomas Chandly of Streeterville says that the surge in Emergency Room cases is “Other respiratory illnesses” and not Covid….In fact, Covid is only a small part of Emergency Room cases at all.

But that isn’t what the Mainstream Media is telling us.

I wonder if he Didn’t Get the Memo?

Australia, Hawaii, Netherlands.

People are saying “NO!” to forced vaccinations.

This oughta be interesting.

Like usual, Totalitarian states just don’t know when to stop pushing.

Once one feels one has nothing to lose, then the protest gets easier….and the scope of the protest becomes easier to move.

I mean, people I don’t know (Likely actors anyway (And carefully selected for diversity!)) telling me to “Trust Us”.

I find very few “Health Care Professionals” to be worthy of trust anyway, finding that they mostly just follow “Protocol” unthinkingly….Few really observe data and make their own decisions…Few,  apparently, can think beyond what they are told. Very few are actual thinkers or analysts.

But I’m supposed to trust them, whoever they are?

Nah. I wouldn’t trust any of those people…”Doctor” or actor.

Know what they call the guy or gal that finished last in their Medical School class?

“Doctor”.

“Trust Us”.

Nope.

The harder they push for me to take their “Vaccine”, the more they change their statements (remember where they once said 60% would give us “Herd Immunity”…then 70%, now it must be over 85%?) the less I trust them….the less inclined I am to take the shot….and the more suspicious I am about the real reason they want us to take it…..

One thing of note: Biden stated that “we need to protect the vaccinated workers from the unvaccinated workers”..

So: If the “vaccine” works why do the vaccinated workers need protection from the unvaccinated?

If the “vaccine” doesn’t work, or is so ineffective, then why should I bother to take it?

Which is it?

About the Australians.

It seems that some of them have some character and are willing to say “No!….Enough of this!”.

Perhaps there is some character left Down Under. I just hope those folks at the riots protests were smart enough to cover their faces and turn off their cell phones or the government is gonna get ’em for daring to think for themselves.

And now the Lancet is sorta-kinda backing away from their derision of the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory.

But “Trust the Scientists!” we are told…repeatedly.

When politics trumps science…when scientists make claims to keep their jobs and their paychecks….why should we trust any of ’em? Why should we trust the next statement from any scientist or doctor…how do we know their statement isn’t influenced by funding?

“Science” and “Scientists” and “Experts” have shown us that their advice isn’t worth listening to….they have, essentially, lied to us  (and any dissenting opinions have been suppressed)…Who can we trust? How can we know? Even the preeminent “expert” has played fast and loose with the truth…(Yes, Dr Fauci, I’m talking about you)…

When “Peer Reviewed” publications like the Lancet are willing to lie to us….Can we trust any of the “experts”? Can we trust ’em to tell us the truth about such things as the Covid “Vaccine” either?

And that is after a double dose of  “Vitamin I”….I must be gettin’ old….

So yesterday, we had a work party to recoat the metal roof of the indoor range building. I try to get it coated every 5 years, but we were two years behind…..Both of our 2019 work days had been rained out, and we won’t bother discussing the dumpster fire that  was 2020. But this job had to be done soon….The metal roof is 45 years old and it has no rust yet, but we gotta keep it cared for.

(Caring for infrastructure of something like a range is an ongoing task…..paint, roof coating, general maintenance, it has to be done…..or it can cost you. Ferisntance: a new roof has been quoted at $64,000 without replacement insulation…And, frankly, the range doesn’t have that kind of money….so we gotta take care of what we got….)

I spent a few hours by myself on Friday cleaning a portion of the roof of old coating material in order to have one portion ready for coating while another part was being cleaned so we could stagger people in order to not have them all on top of each other or just standing around… That put my arms and hands at a pretty high fatigue level at the start of Saturday….

Saturday was a beautiful day for doing such work. at 8 AM the temp was 68 degrees. The sun was out and the roof dried of morning dew quickly. People showed up we had jobs for them. Brushing the roof of detritus, scraping the loose material, brooming and blowing it off, brushing on the new coating. I handed out gloves to some of them (who shows up to work without gloves???? At least they showed up though).

We had just enough volunteers show. Not any extra, but enough. One team cleaning the roof, the others brushing the new coating on.

Having said that, by 11:00 it was getting fairly warm and there was no breeze and people were getting hot . 3 or more hours of spreading roof coating or scraping the roof gets tiring. I made sure that everyone had enough cold water and stayed hydrated. Fatigue had caught up with me as my arms had not recovered well from my work Friday, but I pressed on

Soon enough, it was 1 pm and the temp was 84F…and we were cleaning up.

Everyone was hot and tired, but we should be good for at least another 5 years….My thanks to those other Range members who showed up and worked hard…when they could have chosen to do something enjoyable on a beautiful Saturday.. It is volunteers like this that keep the Range operational.

I am glad that things went as well as they did. My logistics and planning came off well, as there was mixed material there when it was needed and there was little waiting for clear space to work and such. I’ve done this 4 other times on this roof, so I had the plan worked out, and it worked out well. Experience pays.

My arms are still tired though, as I type this on Sunday Morning, and mostly my hands are a bit stiff… (I just don’t recover like I did 10 years ago. )