That if the Congress and Senate feel that shutting down the government (by not funding it) is that trivial, then they also believe that most of the Government is not really needed.

I mean, if they can shut it down that easily, then they must not think much of all those departments, eh? 

Went to the bank Wed.

Withdrew $200….

Asked for small bills.

The teller said “They are all the same size”.  And she held up a $1 and a $100. Sure enough, they were the same size.

I asked for twenties. Easier that way.

So….when you let folks (or corporations) keep their profits (or at least more of them) then they choose to invest in the United States, instead of keeping those profits out of the reach of the greedy bureaucrats at the US Treasury, and the Federal Government in general..

Apple to repatriate $252.3 billion (yes, with a “B”) and pay a one time tax payment of $38 billion (again, with a “B”)…and will create approximately 20,000 jobs here in the US…and will spend about $30 billion (there’s that “B” again) in the US. 

Lots of money and lots of jobs, and lots of investment…..which equates to lots of construction jobs and other jobs when they spend that $30 Billion dollars over the next five years…..

And all ’cause now the US isn’t taking too much of their money. Strange, that….

No, I mean a REALLY big snapper.

Apparently the cold in Arkansas is causing the wildlife to do strange things to survive.

He’d rather represent foreign invaders (not immigrants) than the people who elected him to represent their interests.

If the DNC (or RNC) would run anyone who didn’t appear to be less smart than the south end of a northbound horse against him, they could replace him.

But then again, the DNC wants all these new voters, don’t they? 

Wimp. Pussy.

THIS IS REALLY fargin’ COLD

There is no way I would live there. Maybe if you kept me in prison.

But -88 F is just too cold.
Screw that.

Ninth Circle and all that. 

They are testing their systems for when it gets real. I think he is right. Once is happenstance twice is coincidence(maybe). If there is a third time…..

If you don’t have some preparations in place, think hard about getting some. A few weeks of food and some water will go a long way towards giving you more options than most folks. Even a few flats of cans of beans and a few pounds of rice will go very far, and they buy you the most important thing in a crisis: The time to consider your situation and plan for what is next. Most people will not have that luxury because they are stupid. Don’t be them.

And, if you are smart, a plan for, and the tools to, defend your stash from those folks who are unable or unwilling to plan ahead. 

Seems that the Lincoln Navigator has been named the 2019 Truck of the Year.

Have ya seen the thing?

It ain’t a truck, it is a glorified (if nicely outfittted) SUV/Station Wagon. Lots of nice goodies, but not a truck. An expensive and somewhat capable luxury car that rides poorly.

Shows the difference between the city folks and real folks. Folks who think Style is more important that, you know, function.

That the Rev. Martin Luther King would likely be very disappointed in what the Black rights/Civil Rights movement has become, and the general attitudes of black people in general and especially the ends pf the spectrum….powerful and wealthy, and poor and undeducated, have become.

He’d likely be ashamed of the movement and his people today.

And lets not get into what the CULTURE has morphed into.

Yeah, I’m white and yeah, I know the above makes me “Raciss”…but at least I can both pronounce and spell “Racist” correctly.

If this offends you, then you are a part of the problem. 

So, in preparation for the move, I was helping my brother on Thursday….and as happens to people who use their hands, I took a chunk out of the edge of one finger with a chisel that slipped. Not a big deal, a bit of blood and a curse and all good. Except this was right at a joint, so despite the fact that I clot quickly, it kept breaking open.

Being as it was a new house, no one living there yet, no bandaids, so a bit of paper toweling and some of his finest Scotch 33 tape (only the good stuff , not Jap Wrap) and I’m not bleeding all over his new floor anymore. We finish that job and move to another.

Later that day, I leave to go to a Dentist appointment.

The dental assistant, a nice young lady, asks what is up with my stylish tape on my hand?

I explained how I got the tape, and why.

“My boyfriend would not be able to keep working if that happened to him, he can’t take blood, he’d have to go home” She said. “He’d never just tape it up and keep on working…He’s not very tough”

I (probably wisely) refrained from pointing out that she needed to find a more manly boyfriend, (seeing as how she would soon be probing onside my mouth with sharp objects….) Perhaps one with a set of cojones putting some testosterone in his blood…..

But seriously, WTF? Why do women go with, and stay with, such wimpy men? One would think she’d want someone tough enough to deal with a very minor injury, and manly enough to suck it up and keep working.

Perhaps he’s “sensitive to her needs” or something?

Why would women, seemingly intelligent, want such a wimp? I thought they’d want tough manly men, not pussified ones.
Or is this the new Millennial womanhood? “I am Woman, hear me squeek.”  Mates as weak and soft as they are? Raising children to be as weak as they?