January 2024!
Spring Seed Catalogs have already started arriving, Yay! After the disaster of a wet summer we had last year had we actually put in a garden we'd have lost most of it to mold. I'm hopeful we'll get better weather more conducive to growing stuff.
2024 Moon Names and Dates
Jan. 25 — 12:54 p.m. — Wolf Moon
Feb. 24 —7:30 a.m. — Snow Moon
March 25 — 3 a.m. — Worm Moon
April 23 — 7:49 p.m. — Pink Moon
May 23 — 9:53 a.m. — Flower Moon
June 21 — 9:08 p.m. — Strawberry Moon
July 21 — 6:17 a.m. — Sturgeon Moon
Aug. 19 — 2:26 p.m. — Buck Moon
Sept. 17 — 10:34 p.m. — Corn Moon
Oct. 17 — 7:26 a.m. — Hunter’s Moon
Nov. 15 — 4:28 p.m. — Beaver Moon
Dec. 15 — 4:02 a.m. Cold Moon
Meteor showers in 2024
Peak dates - Name Active - Dates
Jan. 3-4 Quadrantids, Dec. 26 to Jan. 16
*April 22-23 Lyrids, April 15 to April 29
*May 5-6 eta Aquariids, April 15 to May 27
July 30-31 Southern delta Aquariids, July 18 to Aug. 21
July 30-31 alpha Capricornids, July 7 to Aug. 15
Aug. 12-13 Perseids, July 14 to Sept. 1
Oct. 21-22 Orionids, Sept. 26 to Nov. 22
Nov. 5-6 Southern Taurids, Sept. 23 to Dec. 8
Nov. 11-12 Northern Taurids, Oct. 13 to Dec. 2
Nov. 17-18 Leonids, Nov. 3 to Dec. 2
Dec. 13-14 Geminids, Nov. 19 to Dec. 24
Dec. 21-22 Ursids Dec. 13 to Dec. 2
*Major meteor showers according to the American Meteor Society
It was overcast here, so I didn't get to see the Quadrantids meteor shower
Rose and I have managed to stay healthy through the holiday so there's that.
Rose got me a set of drawers, think multiple junk drawers, my desk is overwhelmed with junk, just imagine... I got it assembled on Tuesday.
Rose goes to pick up her new glasses Tuesday then we're off to see if we can't straighten out the boat registration at the town hall. Nope can't do it we need the Police to come and verify the Hull ID #. New Boston PD came down within 30 minutes of my call an of course the Hull ID is an aluminum plate that was 30 or so years ago was illegible, so now I have to go to concord to get a new Hull ID. ugh...
Both Winston and Zebulon are off to the Vets this week, Winston for blood work prior to his getting neutered hopefully in late Feb/Mar., and Zeb for aches and pains, we think it may be Lyme related from a tick bite he got a year ago.
I need to make room for my new Junk drawers, Life is messy, I'm a collector, what can I say.
We're getting geared up for Mother Nature again this weekend starting Saturday the 16th in the evening into Sunday night, somewhere between 0" and 18" is due our way... we got about 9"
So we went to Market Basket for canned Tomato and more Chili peppers for the Chili, and we see all the hamburg packages are now 1/2 and 3/4 pound packages, WTH? I never saw that before, not a single pound package could be seen.
It's Saturday in January, so that means Chili at our house we'll make up a huge pot that'll last us until summer, maybe, beef chunks and hamburg are cooked and now stewing with the tomatoes, San Marzano tomato, Onion, several chopped chili peppers, Cumin, Chili pepper, YUM, It'll stew for several hours, it's starting to smell good in here... Chili tastes good so far, Rose said needs more salt, I think it needs more heat too. Rose added a couple more cans of tomatoes, I grated a couple carrots to add sweetness, a red bell pepper, and a half a jar of red peppers, we had some for dinner, a good hunk of bread, sour cream to top it off and proclaimed it a success.
We picked up all the fixin's for Stuffed Peppers this week, yum...
We're off to take another run around the yard picking up various dog toys and sticks, cleared the yard drain of leaves, and fed the deer, there are at least 4 coming in nightly hopefully they come in before the snow flies tonight. Otherwise the snowblower throws the feed everywhere.
So God made Trump…
Jarrod called this morning, he's got his new 4WD truck with a plow and asked if we wanted to get plowed... We'll check the weather to see what's coming our way and let him know. He stopped by around 5PM and did a great job plowing the front yard, his new truck is amazing how it effortlessly plowed the piles of snow I rode shotgun.
We're getting 2+" of snow then rain, lots of it. Oh what fun.
The carport collapsed under the wet snow and ice, we didn't dare put the boat in there after last year's snows did a bunch of damage to it.
Raining hard on Saturday, the yard is once again a mud pit.
Getting close... Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
Rose and I filled up the Deer feed barrels Saturday, we're ready for the cold...
We made up stuffed peppers for dinner on Saturday evening, they were so good.
We ran into a whiteout on Sunday after food shopping, visibility probably 50 feet max.
Undeterred, Biden began by — surprise! — rehashing January 6. “Today,” he said, “we gather in a new year, some 246 years later, just one day before January 6, a day forever seared in our memory because it was on that day that we nearly lost America, lost it all.”
What kind of dolt believes “we nearly lost America” on January 6? And what kind of American president thinks so little of his audience?
Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
TRUTH.
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.
In Sweden it is too cold for the new electric busses. They invest all this time and money into something that doesn’t work because of the weather. Of course, the electric busses use their battery to heat the cabin, meaning that the range is drastically shortened. Maybe we need some more global warming so that these electric busses can work properly…?
The entire Regime-media are “Democrat plants.” Adam Sexton is a “Democrat plant.” So is every “reporter” at NHPR. So is every NBC “journalist” who moderated the so-called GOP debate where you, DeSantis, and Christie all went along with the charade that those Democrat plants were real journalists, and only Vivek called that farce a farce. Same for ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc., etc., etc..
• Our media is free, fair and impartial. Okay, stop laughing. When Peter Jennings said that 90% of the media is left wing, including him, you should have believed him. If you wish to believe they don't tilt the news to the Left, wake up. The examples are enormous. Just one? President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder cooked up a plan to force U.S. gun sellers to provide guns to Mexican criminals, so that they could blame the NRA and gun owners. They were caught red-handed and then stonewalled the investigation. Holder refused to even testify. He had every chance to disprove the facts, he declined and the media dropped the subject.
In His First Campaign Speech – Joe Biden Lies and Says He Went to Funerals of Imaginary Police Officers Who Were Killed on Jan. 6 – A Complete Lie! NO police officers were killed that day. Not one. No police officers died that day. Officer Brian Sicknick died the next day from a stroke.
“These Covid vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings,” Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo declared in a statement calling for a complete halt of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
The main complaint from the media and “health officials” is that vaccination rates remain low and people aren’t wearing face masks often enough. Even in light of all of the evidence that has shown the “vaccines” and masks are all but useless, the ruling class’s puppets are still pushing the public to adhere to their idiotic delusions that this is somehow a new virus that can be stopped by a piece of fabric.
Biden’s “accomplishments” are a bad joke: Joe Biden’s X (Twitter) account called it “One more great year in the books,” but no one seems to have noticed. We’re speaking of a self-congratulatory post from December 30 in which Team Biden trumpets its, er, “major accomplishments” from the year past. You know — accomplishments like having “tackled inflation and lowered costs,” “tackled the climate crisis,” “invested in America and created good jobs,” “protected access to reproductive health care,” “made America safer from gun violence,” “made higher education more affordable,” “strengthened democracy at home and abroad,” and “confirmed highly qualified judges.” None of these claims can withstand scrutiny, and we could easily take each of them apart, but suffice it to say that both Biden and his publicists are benefiting from rock-bottom expectations. After all, it’s hard to fall off the floor. How, for example, could gravity-defying Bidenflation not eventually come down after having been so bone-crushingly high for so long? As such, these “accomplishments” merely betray the Biden administration’s delusions of adequacy.
“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.”
Article that shows inflation's effect on 20 different items and services in the US.
Here are the ones that are hitting Americans hardest…
School Lunches up 254%
Fuel Oil up 66%
Eggs up 49%
Butter/Margarine up 35%
Flour up 34%
Coffee up 14%
US national debt has reached a record high – hitting $34 trillion for the first time in history.
Data published by the Treasury Department Tuesday showed that outstanding federal borrowing soared to $34.001 trillion on December 29, just weeks ahead of Congress deadlines for new federal funding plans.
The staggering figure, which is a major point of contention between Republicans and Democrats, is equal to $101,233 in federal debt for every person in America, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
The amount the US government owes lenders has increased by $6.25 trillion, or 23% since President Joe Biden took office three years ago. To put that in perspective, it took about 225 years from the nation’s founding to approach $6 trillion in public debt. The growth in debt has accelerated rapidly in the past two decades. It jumped by more than $9 trillion during Barack Obama’s eight years as president, then increased by $7.8 trillion during Donald Trump’s four-year term.
Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian Protesters Take Over Historic Boston Common, Crash New Year’s Eve Celebration
One of the biggest problems for Biden Crime Family investigators is the overwhelming amount of evidence against Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and family. There is so much evidence, it is difficult for the American people to grasp the significance of the shell companies, suspicious bank wire reports, the text messages and the shady business deals.
BIDEN (whose party is attempting to remove President Trump from the ballot): “We must be clear: democracy is on the ballot!” pic.twitter.com/9QsEbbVxfS
Biden, after an angry speech on "democracy," comes back to yell, "I UNDERSTAND POWER!" pic.twitter.com/c9UxB7KDuN
Did you catch that? Under the new “democratic” rules of the left – If you challenge ANY FRAUD, IRREGULARITIES, CRIMINAL ACTIONS, MISSING BALLOTS, MACHINE MALFUNCTIONS, FRAUDULENT VOTER ROLLS, LATE NIGHT BALLOT DROPS, etc. — You will face consequences.
Now they’re even putting their threats in their favored legacy media outlets. They’re not even hiding it anymore.
Schumer snickered as he said it was nice to visit the Border, but if they really wanted to make a difference, they would be in D.C. working with Democrats on legislation to solve the border crisis. That statement sounds great and is encouraging until you realize he is not discussing our Border. What Chuck wants to get done is a comprehensive bill to address the Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan Borders and to allocate billions of dollars in aid for Israel and Ukraine. Chuck has no interest in our Southern Border. No wonder he was smirking and snickering. He was looking into the eyes of Americans and lying to them. It was shameful for anyone but deplorable for the Senate Leader.
If Democrats had their way, the judges would approve asylum, grant them citizenship, register them to vote, and have them sign a preselected Democrat mail-in ballot for 2024.
The sleight of hand aside, there is no compromise on the Border situation. Republicans want the Border closed and secure. The Democrats want it open and a fast track to citizenship for illegals. Those two beliefs are on opposite sides of the mountain. Joe Biden can say he needs more money to secure the Border. Lie. KJP blames the Border Crisis on the Republican House because they are blocking all of Biden’s efforts. Nice try…..Lie. Schumer says the Republicans must return to D.C. to negotiate a bill to solve the Crisis. Smokescreen……Lie. Mayorkas keeps saying the Border is secure. Stupidity……. Lie.
The Democrats are concerned about the Border, just not ours. They want American dollars to be sent to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan to secure their Borders, but they want our Border open 24/7. The Border is a colossal scam perpetrated by the Democrat Party and the help of the mainstream media to con the American people. It is working, but the walls are crashing in on this play. With 4 million illegals a year, America cannot withstand the assault. Like the Pandemic, the illegal flow has spread to every state, and Americans have had enough. This legacy, along with Bidenomics, will topple Biden and prevent him from a second term.
Riots and anarchy spread across Germany again on New Year’s Eve, making the major cities no-go areas for women, Jews, and gays. Indigenous Germans largely avoid downtown areas on New Year’s Eve now. 54 police officers were injured, and 390 people, mainly military-age migrants, were arrested in Berlin alone.
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ At World Trade Center | ZeroHedge
What are the odds the “magic dirt” of America will make them into good citizens?
Open Borders – Why Not Just Invite the Entire World to the U.S.? – American Thinker
If you’re not familiar with The Cloward Piven Strategy, this is it writ large.
- Politicians, intimidated by threats of black violence, would appeal to the federal government for help.
- Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of “a federal program of income redistribution” in the form of a guaranteed living income for all — working and non-working people alike.
- Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it.
- With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.
Over 50 countries go to the polls in 2024. The year will test even the most robust democracies
Democrats, Orchestrated Crisis, & an Open Southern Border
President Trump Publishes Rebuttal to Democrat Party’s Abuse of 14th Amendment to Remove Him from Ballot Like They Did to Abe Lincoln
“And when you stop that gravy train and reverse the tightening, you’re going to be in a depression within a year, not a mile. All this talk about, ‘Oh, yeah, now we’re going to have a mild recession’ — not a chance in Hades.”
“Depressions are different from recessions. They go much deeper, and they end up in deflation,” he further stated. “It’s going to bring down a lot of consumer price inflation, and especially housing… When this asset bubble bursts and the price of everything, especially housing, comes back down to reality, imagine, not only can you buy the house you want at half-off… you can buy twice as nice a house here for the same mortgage you were going to get before. How’s that for a Christmas present?”
Dent issued another warning, stating that the “everything” bubble will have a long-lasting slowdown effect for 12 to 14 years. He agreed that “as the rich get richer” and the “poor get poorer,” the wealth gap in America will continue to widen.
California becomes first state to offer health insurance to ALL illegal migrants: Taxpayers will be forced to fork out
It comes as more than a staggering 1.5 million are pouring across the southern border every year many of them seeking shelter in California’s Democrat-run ‘sanctuary cities.’
- 38% of companies say they are likely to have layoffs in 2024
- 52% are likely to implement a hiring freeze in 2024
- Half say anticipation of a recession is a reason for potential layoffs
- 4 in 10 say layoffs are due to replacing workers with AI
- 3 in 10 companies reducing or eliminating holiday bonuses this year
So, with
- the world approaching WWIII;
- political polarization tearing America apart;
- fiscal policies making economic collapse inevitable;
- institutions charged with protecting our Constitution instead destroying it;
- crime turning our cities into a year-round rerun of The Purge;
- a president taking bribes from China, Ukraine, and Russia;
- Congress stuffing its pockets via insider trading;
- homelessness and drug addiction making our sidewalks look like a scene from The Walking Dead; and
- South America trying to move into North America for the free housing and medical care,
We know the then-House Speaker invited her niece (a professional photographer) to come down to the Capitol and photograph the historic event. We also know that ABC producers were employed to produce the televised hearings of the January 6 Commission for several weeks, and had a hand in editing actual J6 footage. This was designed to create an altered, fabricated memory of what happened the day thousands of people came to Washington because they were concerned the election of 2020 had unanswered questions. Not necessarily unanswered by a non-asking media, but unanswered, nevertheless.
Robert Reich considers our biggest threat...Donald Trump.
TDS is quite real. The Donald has caused otherwise intelligent people to go bat-crap crazy. The syndrome is a weird mash-up of obsessive-compulsive disorder and delusional paranoia. The afflicted have a warped perception of reality in which Donald Trump is a supernatural being — visiting calamity on the Earth with mean tweets and a stern gaze. I can imagine Reich sitting in his office at Berkeley writing his article, while twirling a couple of ball bearings in his hand, and mumbling about Trump stealing the strawberries.
Let’s compare Reich’s ten suggestions to mine. You can judge who’s saner.
- Veto any bill raising the national debt — to stop economic suicide before it’s too late.
- Finish the border wall — because there’s nothing compassionate about facilitating human-trafficking.
- Push legislation empowering the states and individuals to hold the federal government accountable — since the feds won’t police themselves.
- Pull all funding to sponsors of international conflict — which shouldn’t even need to be stated.
- Make congressional insider trading illegal — remind them that they work for us.
- Deny bailouts to private companies and local governments — accountability counters bad decision-making.
- Drill, baby, drill — for economic prosperity and national security.
- Outlaw public employee unions — to stop them from funding politicians who give them sweetheart contracts with our money.
- Pass legislation requiring that strategic products be manufactured domestically — because they’re currently made in countries that would like to colonize us.
- Cancel all government subsidies of technology and research — because the picking of winners and losers has created only losers and bigger losers.
And yet, as Biden put it, “We’re living in an era where a determined minority is doing everything in its power to try to destroy our democracy for their own agenda.”
Finally, we bring you the idiocy of Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats — in this case, former New Hampshire Governor and current Senator Jeanne Shaheen. In a since-deleted X post, Shaheen attributed the following quote to Ben Franklin: “A democracy, if you can keep it.”
Franklin, of course, said nothing of the sort. When on September 17, 1787, Elizabeth Willing Powel asked him outside Philadelphia’s Independence Hall at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin answered, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
A republic, if you can keep it.
When it comes to “democracy,” the Democrats are stuck on stupid.
Since October 1, 2023, Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 15,800 Chinese nationals who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry, the report indicates. Official reports from U.S. Customs and Border Protection reveal the apprehension of 9,844 migrants in October and November. This leaves nearly 6,800 who were apprehended since December 1, 2023.
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