I was wrong….it did happen. Sorta.

So the Po-Po in Chicago (hey, that rhymes, sorta) have done their job and have tracked down and found the perpetrator of the terrible, heinous, racist attack by “MAGA” hat wearing Redncek Trump supporters (in the middle of the night, on the coldest day of the year)…

Seems it was folks the good ole’ Jussie Smollett HIRED to do the job.   They have the confessions, they have the rope that they bought at an Ace Hardware…..They have all the details…..Excellent Job, CPD.

Funny, those Nigerians don’t look anything like the folks Jussie portrayed in his description. I doubt if they even own a red baseball hat. Probably aren’t Trump supporters either. And certainly aren’t Rednecks.

While I doubt he will admit he lied and apologize to anyone, I hope he gets charged with Filing a False Police Report and is forced to pay for the costs associated with the investigation.  Ought tor be a pricey lesson for him…

(Isn’t it odd how, when anyone investigates, nearly all the “Hate Crimes” based upon race, “gender” or sexual preference just aren’t perpetrated by white conservatives? How it is (in nearly all cases) one of those “minorities” affected that commits the crime???(Often the one the crime was supposed to harm)? )

Odd, that.
But hey, Leftists. Symbols matter more that anything else.
More than reality.

SO I bought an old car at an acution (for my Dad).

a 1927 Chrysler.

not in the best shape, but the motor turned with a crank and it had (some) compression.

oiled up the cylinders, and it has pretty decent compression now.

Spark? Yeah, that’s the issue at this time. Haven’t worked on a points ignition system for a lot of years.

Cleaned and gapped the points, and ran a hot wire to the switched side of the coil. It has spark now.

Now if I could just remember where I put the timing light away 20 years ago….

One thing at a time. 

I’m once again disappointed by Trump.

He has failed, again, to lead. Or at least lead well.

The Dems are keeping a Wall from being built….at least any meaningful amount of Wall.

Essentially, they’ve thwarted him (again).

So much for “The Art of the Deal”.

He SHOULD have forced Wall funding when he had a majority in the first 2 years. He didn’t.

He SHOULD have taken some of the deals offered. DACA. Border Adjustment Tax. Others. All were better than what we got.
Now? Yeah, we get, essentially, nothing.
He SHOULD have stood fast on the “shutdown”. He didn’t. Like Charlie Brown and Lucy, he trusted them, and they snatched the football away. Again.

At the end, all we got is that he isn’t Hillary.  

So it seems that the “attackers”  KNEW and had worked with Jussie….and he knew them. Apparently had worked with them in the past on the set of “Empire”…and they had worked out together at the gym…..Friendly like. .

Forget “declaring an emergency”.

I’m all for Donnie simply refusing to sign the spending bill.

Go full shutdown again.

I don’t want to see another shutdown. But I DO want our southern border secured….at least not open (as it is now).

Let Donnie go forward and ask why the Dems don’t want to secure our southern border.

Let the shutdown happen (again). Let him stand fast.

And, just so I am clear, I think declaring an “emergency”  for wall funding is a misuse of presidential powers.  This has been an ongoing issue, and using the emergency powers is not right.

I still think he needs to call out ALL the legislators that won’t fund the security of our southern border. Call ’em out by name and ask the American people to ask ’em WHY they won’t. 

Seems that the po-po are “questioning” two “persons of interest” in the “assault” that happened in Chicago. 

Now, The men are “not suspects” and are simply being questioned.
But if they spend any time at all with the police, and it is later determined that Jussie was not entirely truthful in his claims, they should sue him for the time they spent with the police and the stress that this is no doubt causing them.

And the police, should they be able to prove he is “less than truthful” should be able to force him to pay all of the costs for the investigation.

I say “not entirely truthful” because small bits of the story…small but important bits….keep changing. 

I am slowly coming to believe that if it weren’t for fake racist (both anti-black and anti-muslim) incidents, there wouldn’t be any at all.

ETA: Seems that the Chicago Police Department RAIDED the home of the “Persons of Interest”.
Raided. Kicked down a door and tossed the apartment. Lots of damage.
I would think that Mr. Smollett should be liable for that damage as well, if and when.

Negotiations to end the Shutdown were, as expected, in bad faith.

Pretty much the past few weeks has been a waste of time, as the parts of the funding bill for border security are, as expected, a joke. Read some of the limits they have placed.

Apparently these folks are willing to sell out the country and the citizens therein.

I’m thinkin’ lampposts and rope, but then again, I hate the sight of innards and such.

Trump should stand fast, and veto this abortion.

So Ocasio Cortez wants to eliminate air travel, among other things, to save the planet.

Yet during her campaign she spent nearly $21,000 on air travel…..and only $3100 on travel by rail….so much for long distance travel.  7:1, more or less. Odd, for someone who believe that we are ruining the planet, innit?

I’ll maybe start thinking these people really believe what they say when they start acting like they believe what they say.

Hypocrites. 

I mean, if one had been the “Victim” of a racist and homophobic attack, wouldn’t you want to do whatever it took to find those folks who perpetrated the attack? Cooperate with the police?

Do everything you could to prove your story is correct? Truthful?

Like, maybe, turn over your phone records to the police when requested? Metadata and geolocation tags?

Or would you turn over records that were so heavily redacted as to be useless?

(Sources close to the Chicago Police Department tell me that the theory is that it was a Grinder date gone bad)

Seems the video records don’t show the “noose” readily apparent as he reenters his apartment after the fact, but it was around his neck when the police got there. And he apparently was able to retrieve his Subway sandwich that was purchased BEFORE the attack. Odd.

it is also reported that “The growing lack of evidence in the case has reportedly pushed Chicago police to even consider charging Smollett with filing a false report. “.

First rain,

Then turning to a half inch of ice.

Then some more rain.

Then snow, to make the load on the trees and powerlines greater as it sticks to the wet ice.

Now wind. Ice is falling from the trees, along with small branches.

Oughta be interestin’ later.
I pity the power line guys. (never yet seen a girl lineman)
I think they’re gonna be busy this afternoon and evening.