Seems that the military in Myanmar has had enough:

The armed forces had backed the opposition, who were demanding a rerun of the vote, claiming widespread fraud.

The election commission said there was “no evidence” to support these claims……

That is, in effect, the difference between the US and other Myanmar.

The military has chosen NOT to watch as their country is taken away from them with  obvious voter fraud.  They wanted a revote, and the “Election Comission” said that there was “No Evidence”…(much like here, wherein no one bothered to look in the right places for the fraud that happened. They couldn’t find it ’cause they didn’t look for it. Thye just recounted the votes, including the fraudulent ones). In Myanmar, this causes a coup….

I am of two minds here, on the one hand, I am glad (and proud) that OUR (the US) military chose not to take sides in our election issues….on the other hand, we had as many and as blatant issues as Myanmar and our military stood by and let it happen…..

I’m not sure which is worse, really.

And “Pete”: STFU, I don’t want to hear your mealy mouthed bullshit.

So the media has been (again) hyping the next “Winter Storm”.

This time, it might actually be something….Rain, Freezing rain, snow and then more snow.

It’s actually coming down at a rate of over 2 inches per hour.

And tonight we should get 40 mph winds.

This time the hype and warnings might actually have been valid.

ETA 18:24: Yep, rain, sleet freezing rain, and HUGE snowflakes…about 2.5 inches of snow, then it slowed.

I cannot wait for the 48 MPH winds forecast for early morning.

I will believe that the Covid-19 is a threat to mankind when people and the authorities start acting like it is.

For all the hype about how Covid is still the number one cause of death, and may soon kill 1/3 of the people in the contry, in a few days they are going to allow over 20.000 people to congregate in a stadium (and the lines leading INTO the stadium) to watch the Superbowl. Yes, “social Distancing” and masks and all that…but the best way to prevent this disease is to not allow all those folks to travel from wherever their homes are….and don’t let them congregate and mingle. Simple.

If the threat was a real and severe as they claim, why would they allow so many people to congregate……I mean, they keep crying “SuperSpreader!” whenever a few HUNDRED people show up at a protest, or whenever there is a meeting or ceremony of any kind (among conservatives, anyway)….

Seriously, if the threat is as real as they claim, how could they allow anyone to enter the stadium and congregate there as spectators for the duration of the game?

WTF?

Seems thta some beltway schools closed their virtual classes because there was too much snow…..

Will public school teachers and administrtors ever stop trying to find reasons not to work?

ANd we have the Media and the Democrats crying for the “ouster” of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene…who is an outspoken woman who supports Trump….And whose words are being “viewed with alarm” by a bunch of people with Faux Outrage….

Her remarks are, perhaps, outside of the mainstream, but hardly terriibly bad.

And Innit odd how these same folks calling for her to leave her position didn’t decry all those Democrat politicians who called for violence and protest and civil unrest……

Funny how that works.

9-12 inches of (if I were still young enough to care) perfect Snowman-Making snow.

So far, all is well. Resuce parties stand down.

Now I gotta fire up the tractor and go clean my and my neighbors driveways.

The first “significant” snow of the season:

The Chicago TV stations are hyping the fact that we will be getting at least 5 inches!! of snow. One would think it was something like a blizzard…it is POSSIBLE we will get snow at the rate of ONE INCH PER HOUR!

If I don’t post in the next few days, send someone with food and booze …please.

The Biden Aministration is decrying the fact that “black and brown” people are not getting “vaccinated” (or “taking the shot) for the Wuhan virus…..and saying that it is due to some sort of “Racial Inequities”..

When in reality, Black (and “Brown”) people don’t trust the government enough to want to take the shot.

And let us not fail to remember that they, especially Black people, failed to adjust their lifestyles, so that their simple social behavior led to enough interactions to increase their risk…nothing like partying with 3 or 4 hundred of your closest friends to help keep that Wuhan stuff at bay….(instead of keeping to ones home and probably not being exposed).

But it MUST be the white man that causes all the issues, right? Couldn’t be the cultural differences that cause ’em. Nope. Folks who choose not to get the shot, others who won’t travel to get it like white people do…..

At some hospitals, where the shot is free for staff (but not compulsory), less than 30% of the folks of African ancestry took the free shot…and less than half of the Hispanics.

There are a LOT of reason that point to why the “Black” and “Brown” population has been harder hit…obesity, lack of decent nutrition, cultural, etc….But none of them are the fault of the “White Man”. The issues are internal, not external to those populations. ,,,,but that is true of most of their issues, innit?

If ONE mask was good, and now, two is better, then at what point is enough, enough?

(Note that while it MAY be true, no one has done any studies as the efficacy of double or triple masking…meaning that the whole idea is pretty much bullshit)….)

At some point, wearing 3 or 4 or 5 masks or even more, there will be no deaths from covid….’cause all the deaths will be from asphixiation.

Wearing masks wasn’t supposed to protect the wearer, but the folks around them, remember? Not filters for air going IN, but rather for filtering air going OUT…keeping droplets of spittle and such from carrying disease to others.

Of course, if one has any sense of history, one can remember when the “experts” told us that masks weren’t effective at all.

But that no longer matters, right?

Trust those experts. Really.

They are the ones that chose 6 feet (3 meters) with absolutely no modern data (and even the “experts” disagree) for their decision also….someone just pulled the distance out of their ass….no one know if that is, indeed, an effective distance…nor do they take into account factors such as airflow or direction

I didn’t get involved in the GameStop debacle….The copany wasn’t worth investing in, if one uses real metrics.

Having said that, the fact that most of the online trading companies chose to halt or limit the trading of GameStop and other similarly traded stock tells us that the Big Boys still control the trading, and more importantly, the portals to trading for us little folks. And that the Big Boys get to call the shots even when outmanuevered by the little folk,

Use the market, make money with it. But never forget incidents such as these.