Our week of craziness

Our week of craziness

Fall is on the way,  the Swamp Maples are starting to get the red tinge, the birds have started flocking, geese flocking up in the fields gleaning seed heads, lots of trees losing their leaves, we'll kick it into high gear in another week or so, Oil all set, Pellets were delivered Tuesday, we're ready now.

Rose and I ordered the new flooring for the 2nd floor bathroom on Sunday, we're waiting for the ship to store email.

James is up in Maine this week.

Zeb is getting better by the day, most likely later today we'll remove his cone of shame. He has a new Vet visit on Monday. He did well, all the nurses and doctors fell in love with him.

We took Winston out front and setup the obstacle course for him, the dogs did good for their first time through it. Winston loves to jump over the hurdle.

Now that Zeb is doing better, I'll stop over Mom & Dads to install the replacement slider handle this week.

That's my Zeb...
 

Winston has finally got it, he now goes to the back door and barks to go out and do his business. Yay!  This is a big milestone!

Ouch, we rec'd a $500.00+ electric bill for July 14 - Aug 14th...  Fans, A/Cs, and dehumidifier the likely culprits, and we didn't even install the big A/C unit this year.

Couple of BIG bucks in this evening, looks like a 4 point and maybe a 10+ pointer.

10+ pointer

The 5+ pointer

10+ pointer, what a beast!

I finally got around cutting out all the Thistle and Purple Loosetrife out in the field, the Thistle spikes go right through leather gloves. Ask me how I know...  I filled a trailer to heaping with the Thistle plants alone and buried them deep in the burn pile.

 

Purple Loosetrife

Purple Thistle

Did some mowing on Saturday... Ugh, I'm so tired of mowing... suppose it's better than snow blowing though.

If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life, but the same amount of snow.

Being from New England, "Prepare for the worst and hope for the best"...

 Psalm 37:12-20
The wicked plot against the righteous
    but the Lord laughs
    for he knows their day is coming.
The wicked draw the sword
    and bend the bow
to bring down the poor and needy,
    to slay those whose ways are upright.
    the Lord upholds the righteous.

 Hillary reeked havoc on California, more tropical storms incoming...

TOKYO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing into the sea more than 1 million metric tonnes of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, going ahead with a plan heavily criticized by China.  The plan, approved two years ago by the Japanese government as crucial to decommissioning the plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) (9501.T), has also faced criticism from local fishing groups fearing reputational damage.

 

 

 

 

Stuff I raked from the web... 

Have you heard, Covid is coming back, heard the TSA will wear masks as of September, Lockdowns again by December. Multiple sites within my company company have covid breakouts.  New COVID variants EG.5, FL.1.5.1 and BA.2.86 are spreading... Here we go again! 

COVID-19 Mandates are Back: Atlanta-Based Morris Brown College Reinstates Masks Mandates, Social Distancing, Quarantine, Contact Tracing Effective Immediately Despite No Reported COVID-19 Cases on Campus

SHORTAGES AGAIN...    More than four-fifths (82%) of bricks and mortar shoppers say they’ve experienced items being ‘out of stock’ this year, according to new research.  The data – from software provider Retail Insight – finds this headline figure is up 11 percentage points year-on-year, and says supply chain disruptions causing it are now seriously threatening customer loyalty.  The findings are based on a survey of 1,000 people, and found shoppers believe product availability has become increasingly a problem since the onset of the pandemic – as reported by 71% of respondents. An additional three-quarters (75%) said product availability has worsened since the start of the cost of living crisis.

    New data shows 183,503 illegal immigrants were encountered attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in July – a 27 percent increase in crossings from last month.
        For 29 straight months, monthly encounters have been higher than even the highest month seen under the previous administration.
    With roughly 5,900 daily encounters, this dwarfs the definition of a “crisis” set by Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson when he said in 2019 that “more than 1,000” encounters a day “overwhelms the system.”
    July’s 180,000-plus encounters is a 290 percent increase from the average number of July apprehensions from 2017-2020.
        10,648 unaccompanied children were encountered.
        77,458 illegal immigrants were encountered from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden’s crisis is global.
        At least 146 people on the terror watchlist have been encountered trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry so far this fiscal year – breaking the all-time record of 98 set last year.
    More than 7.2 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office.
        This includes the nearly 5.8 million illegal immigrants that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered and the more than 1.4 million gotaways that have escaped past Border Patrol into the U.S.
        Border officials say that the official number of gotaways vastly undercounts the illegal immigrants who make it into the U.S.
    Biden has installed a de facto amnesty program in which over 75,000 illegal immigrants have had their cases dismissed in court due to his administration’s failure to file the proper paperwork.
    Additionally, at least two million illegal immigrants have been released into the U.S. and now await future immigration court dates since Biden took office.
        Experts say the likelihood U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will remove them is “virtually nonexistent” and that they “are here indefinitely, if not forever.”
    Biden has unilaterally paroled over half a million migrants using a 1950s law in an “unprecedented” way.
    Homeland Security Investigations estimate that Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., 26 times what they made in 2018.

Joe Biden’s challenge to name a single “objective” he’s set out to do, but failed.

Among the points:
    Afghanistan withdrawal
    Schools to open in 2021
    Masking to last only 100 days
    Will never mandate vaccines
    Immigration
    Inflation
    Uniting the country
    Cure cancer
    Help the middle class
    Pay off student debt
    End “forever wars”
    “I won’t traffic on fear and division”
    Cut the deficit
    Cut the debt
    Will not politicize the DOJ
    ‘No one making <$400,000/year will pay a single penny more in federal taxes…”
 

Rasmussen shared that 62% of Americans and even 50% of the Democrats believe the 2020 Election was rigged.  Americans also know that the Feds were behind the riots on Jan 6.  Americans also know the Bidens are a crime family.

Why, it’s almost as though the Ruling Class doesn’t want us to see what’s going on, and that there’s a secret cabal attempting to keep us from seeing it.

Stand back from the scene and understand that the sheer heaping-up of procedural legal bullshit in the various sham court cases against candidate Donald Trump is largely an attempt to confound, mystify, and preoccupy the public while the great scaffold of our nations life collapses. The news — both legacy and alt — will be dominated day after day by analyses of every move and counter-move through endless thickets of courtroom minutiae while the US economy crashes and burns, residual wealth is confiscated, and the American social order turns into something like fiery goo.

By November of 2024, somebody will be elected president, or no one will be. At this point, it is probably down to an election that more than half the country won’t believe in, or no election at all due to civil chaos so extreme it will make the 1861 weeks of secession look as tame as a middle school fire drill. Beyond the hamstringing and hog-tying of their chief adversary, the Democratic Party lawfare necromancers have set up the game board with surprising precision so that their opponents will never be able to win another election. Yet, they are so self-satisfied with themselves they apparently think no one noticed.

As to the parsing out of all those bogus charges against Mr. Trump, consider that we now live in a culture of no truth, only battling portfolios of narrative spin, at least according to the Marxian wokesters who have seized the machinery of law, so, there, with a snap of your fingers goes jurisprudence — as in: I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, blah blah…. The joke is on you. There is no truth, anymore, so stop insisting that there is anything like it to determine, except whatever outcome the Party of Chaos seeks.

The suspended animation of August with its sand castles, lobster rolls, and care-free cocktail cruises will soon yield to the season of hurricanes, financial fiascos, momentous military movements, and reversals of political fortune. What, for instance, becomes of “Joe Biden,” the fictitious president? I’ll tell you one thing: no way is this fellow running for reelection, and the mighty pretense around that hallucination makes idiots of everyone on cable TV news. The “Big Guy” is just sulking now, drowning his sorrows in ice cream — but his fate hangs there above the Rehoboth dunes like an ominous black sea-bird suspended on an ill wind, mocking him. You have finally screwed the pooch, Joey, it cries… caw caw caw….

We are thus close to the moment when impeachment can no longer be dodged. The reams of Biden family bank records that Mr. Comer of Kentucky has unearthed hither and yon, plus deal memoranda, video and audio recordings of dark confabs, and hundreds of tell-tale emails are of a different evidentiary nature than the roster of hypothetical thought crimes confabulated by Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and Fani T. Willis. Personally, I would like, at least, to see impeachment hearings where all that hard evidence of Biden family bribery is methodically laid out for The New York Times and CNN to ignore. It will look like a game of chicken for a few days, but then the party honchos will “sadly” order Ol’ Joe to step aside before that grim spectacle goes too far.

     The Ukraine War will then be Kamala Harris’s to lose — depend on it — though nobody will care. I have a feeling that Barack Obama will not be able to… how shall we say… work with her. All that cackling must conceal an inner vacancy so vast that Judge Crater, DB Cooper, and the brigantine Mary Celeste might be roaming around in there, along with Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Lost Colony of Roanoke. And I cringe to imagine the meetings with Kamala where Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco, and Torie Nuland try to tell the poor simp what to do. It will look like one of those girlie beat-downs on an Oakland street-corner.

     Anyway, by that time the stock markets will be all a’crumble, all those Vanguard retirement funds will wash-up like so many writhing grunions on Cabrillo Beach, and your local bank will cap withdrawals at $500 a few weeks before executing the long-rumored bail-ins. At that magic moment, the Democratic Party will have everything it has wished for.

     Of course, I can’t say the melodrama will play out exactly like that, in that sequence. But expect trouble in September. Expect disorder like you’ve never imagined. Think about retrieving whatever cash you have in the bank. Consider arming yourself for safety’s sake, if you live in a part of the country that allows it. Or maybe even if you live in the other parts. Lay in some beans and rice and some batteries. Buckle your mental seat belt. When August is over, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Two Princeton, MIT Scientists Say EPA Climate Regulations Based On A 'Hoax'

Monday, Aug 14, 2023 - 09:40 PM
Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times
Two prominent climate scientists have taken on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new rules to cut CO2 emissions in electricity generation, arguing in testimony that the regulations “will be disastrous for the country, for no scientifically justifiable reason.”

Apparently, Biden had gotten wind that certain 2024 Republican presidential candidates were saying the country is worse off under his, er, leadership. Never mind the polling that shows just how deeply unpopular Biden and his policies are, nor how somewhere around 70% of the American people think we as a nation are heading in the wrong direction. Never mind all that.

CNN’s Jake Tapper admitted on air Thursday that President Trump was right when, during the 2020 presidential debates with Joe Biden, he accused Hunter Biden of making millions of dollars from China (and Ukraine and Russia).

“They’re telling us America is failing,” Biden spouted. “Let me tell you, they’re dead wrong. They’re dead wrong. America isn’t failing. America is winning. And I’ve said a thousand times … there is no quit in America.”

Got that? This president wants you to ignore his corruption, his cognitive decline, his utter incompetence, and instead remember that there’s no quit in America.

Objectives that Joe Biden has set out to accomplish and failed on. The eight-item list won’t surprise anyone: bone-crushing inflation, runaway government spending, Bilk Back Broker, the border calamity, energy independence, the COVID pandemic, the permanent rigging of our electoral system, and a disgraceful cut-and-run from Afghanistan.

In fairness, though, we can think of one thing that Joe Biden set out to accomplish and succeeded on beyond his wildest dreams: self-enrichment. Bestselling author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer notes that the Biden Crime Family has raked in more than $30 million from individuals with direct ties to Chinese intelligence.

Indeed, when it comes to profiting personally while selling out his country, it’s never been a good bet to bet against Joe Biden.

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shared a list of what he said are the “Truth” on Thursday.

The list shared on the presidential hopeful’s X account (formerly known as Twitter) is what he said he is basing his campaign around.

The list includes many issues that dispute many claims that are made by Democrats. It also stresses the importance of religion, gender, education and family among many others.

The is as follows:

1. God is real.

2. There are two genders.

3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.

4. Reverse racism is racism.

5. An open border is no border.

6. Parents determine the education of their children.

7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.

8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.

9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.

10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.   

The left used to profess to be the party of counterculture.
The left used to profess to be the party of the working class.
The left used to profess to be the party for free speech and liberty — they were “liberal.”

Anti-liberty leftists were clearly lying when they professed all those things. It was all a ruse to attain power, and that is why they cannot abide a naked exposé of their dirty deeds.

The national socialist media is now attacking these counterculture phenomena, free speech, liberty, and the working class itself; and, they’ve always been lying about being liberal, progressive, or democratic for that matter.

We're struggling to hire folks,

The lowest wage that American workers are willing to take in order to accept a new job hit a record high this year, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey published Monday.

The average “reservation wage” – or the minimum acceptable salary offer required for workers to switch jobs – hit $78,645 during the second quarter of 2023, according to the Fed’s latest survey of consumer expectations.

That marks a nearly 8% increase from the same time last year when the average reservation wage hovered around $72,873.