“Clinging to someone while they slip away is like clenching your fist to hold sand….it simply slides through your grasp more quickly”

“Always listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it anyway”

“Some love you for how you make them feel, others for the truth of who you can be…the second are priceless”

“That which you allow is what will continue”

“If you don’t like yourself, you can’t like other people”

“Most people judge others against themselves…if they are mistrusting of everyone, one can assume they are not trustworthy”

“Kindness is the language even the deaf can hear and the blind can see”

“5 ethics of life: Listen before you speak, Earn before you spend, Think before you write, Try before you quit, Live before you die”

(thanks to Joe for the last one)

My Halloween decorations won’t hang themselves.

It is said that the SNAP food benefits will soon stop. I guess that the folks doing the administration of the program aren’t “Essential Workers”….

I cannot find it in me to see the bad part of this, as most SNAP (Food Stamps) folks live on them, not as a temporary measure, but as income used as part of their budget….but mostly they also have nicer cars, and can afford expensive purses and get their hair done every other week…..and they have money for smokes, beer and drugs….AND they go to ‘Food Banks” as well for additional food….and they can always seem to afford Starbucks or equivalent expensive coffee drinks and such. I have never seen a SNAP recipient that was “lean” or “skinny.”… Never seen one with calluses, either, come to think of it.

Not everyone is mooching, but a significant portion of the recipients are….

(and yes, I know that there are people, deserving people, who truly need SNAP and Food Pantries..but they are the minority)

But the representatives of the Pilsen Food Pantry  (whose workers posted on their webpage certainly are not representative of the community demographics) were on the CBS Chicago news saying that they expected even MORE people once SNAP goes away…and they will need even more donations to cope….

And “Food is a Human RIght”. she said.

Hah. Bullshit.

Looks like people are gonna have to make some hard choices:…..Food… or booze, Starbucks and fashion. Drugs and smokes plus losing weight. Maybe working to get enough money to eat….

I dunno.

Of all the time wasted by the “No Kingz” useful idiots…

If they had applied all that energy, time and resources to improving their community rather than protesting for a non existent cause they might have actually made a change for the better….

But that is Liberals in a nutshell, innit?

I am sure that most of them, however, are SURE that they Made A Difference yesterday.

It’s what engineers and anyone who can do the math have been telling folks for years:

Data shows PHEVs emit just 19% less CO2 than petrol and diesel cars, an analysis by the non-profit advocacy group Transport and Environment found on Thursday. Under laboratory tests, they were assumed to be 75% less polluting.

When they look closely (and correctly) at Battery powered cars, they are gonna find that they aren’t as “green” as people think either.

More data and a better writeup HERE

Not everyone will appreciate this parody. For that matter, not everyone will realize that behind the parody is a lot of truth….

S0 the reportage on the “No Kingz” rally in the greater Chicago area was …interesting….

The media (at least ABCNBCBS) was sympathetic to the cause (whatever the actual cause was) and the wanted to report things in positive terms….but they also, apparently had to have some integrity…They did their best to straddle the line:

“According to the organizers, attendance was 200,000 at Grant Park “.

(Overhead photos show maybe 8-10,000)…I doubt you could get 200,000 people in Grant Park.

But they got to say “200,000 protesters”.

I am still wondering what, exactly was the point of the protest.

To keep your country from being taken over by muslims:

Portugal’s parliament has approved a bill banning face veils worn for ‘gender or religious’ reasons in public, and people who wear them could face a hefty fine.

Couldn’t do it in the US though, It would be totally un-constitutional, and I would oppose it here for that reason.

Still, I can understand. Why allow the third world to take over your country and plunder a way of life that has been there for a long time and that works well for the inhabitants? If these people really wanted to they could fix their own shithole countries (that they fled from) rather than invading Portugal and other countries to make another shithole country like what they fled from.

It isn’t like Muslim invasions have ever helped a country be better or improved the lives of the citizens already there, after all.