Postponement of Edition 3 of Small Bites and New Endeavors

 

I know, I'm failing.  I have bosses who have massive amounts of use it or lose it holiday/comp time.  They are being forced to take whole weeks off, which means, I have to step in and play boss.  This translates to Amy is not overly available for anything but work.  My poor chinchilla has had to postpone his moving plans (from a cozy cottage to the penthouse suite) because mom doesn't have time to put his new house together.  There's a 200 pound cage in my dayroom, still in the box. My middle daughter has had to pick up the slack, doing many things I should be doing, but can't, because well..work.

So while I have a few minutes I thought I would take a moment to put together a post to tell you all about a new endeavor said middle daughter and I are trying out.

We've noodled the idea around for a year, but have finally decided to give a weekly podcast a try.  We will most likely attempt to run it through Facebook or Youtube, but the odds of us getting jailed are pretty astronomical.  We won't toe the acceptable line on what you can speak about these days.  We aren't known for that.  Heck, my American flag is still being flown upside down.  

It doesn't yet have a name, but our first episode will be immigration centered.  The current crisis, and yet is is a crisis, on the southern border, enabled by the words of our current President* and his administration deserves some illumination, not just about the crisis, but about immigration policy as a whole.  So, hopefully, you will see us live on Friday evening.  After 9 pm.  When the the little ones are in bed.

Oh, and also, small bites will return this Friday/Saturday.

Small Bites, Edition 2: March 12, 2021

 As I stated last week, this will become a regular feature.  There are several reasons for that.  One is that I don't have the time to write up a full length blog on one subject every week.  I may still write one occasionally, but the research required for those is a lot harder than plucking a few headlines and writing a paragraph about each.

This week Congress finally got around to passing the stimulus bill that was so important during the election.  They had to impeach the former President first for a riot he didn't start and then they had to take a short vacation.  Turns out there is less stimulus and more giveaways.  We are bailing out underfunded union pension funds, New York City and San Francisco, art museums (again), and various other things that have little or nothing to do with COVID and the American people.  That is not to say that some of these things shouldn't be taken up, as a matter of course, just that cloaking them in COVID relief is kind of...icky.  There were some tears over the removal of the $15 an hour minimum wage, and few more tears by some group naming themselves "Evangelicals for Biden" for the taxpayer funding of abortions, but both of those wish list items were dead on arrival.  Anyone who thought differently is living under a rock.

Minneapolis now looks the same as Capitol Hill, in other words like the DMZ, due to the trial of Derek Chauvin.  He's the police officer who is being tried for murdering George Floyd.  Apparently, there's still some question as to whether Mr. Floyd died from being strangled or if he died from a lethal dose of Fentanyl.   I have no opinion, at this point.  I do know something I'd like to share with you all.  You are less likely to die at the hands of a police officer if you 1) don't commit crimes, 2) if you do commit crimes don't resist arrest.   Those two things can save a life, no matter what your skin color.  

President Joe Biden* apparently gave a speech on Thursday night.  It wasn't a great speech.  I'm not sure, despite reading several comparisons, that it was as bad as Jimmy Carter's malaise speech, but it also wasn't very positive.  Telling your country that they "might" be able to have a small gathering in July if they are vaccinated doesn't quite rise to the level of inspiring.  I want to make sure I'm not being unfair to the President*.  He struggles with words, and reading, and remembering where he is, so it might not be entirely fair to criticize a speech he probably won't remember tomorrow.  

Harry and Meghan are in the news.  Why?  Because apparently the royal family is full of rabid racists who did horrible things and made Meghan want to kill herself.  For the record, little Archie was not entitled to a...title.  At least not at this present moment.  No one was taking away his title because he's 1/4 black.  Harry and Meg chose to leave the royal family,and whatever their reasons, when they chose to do that the left behind the trappings, but also the wealth of the royal family.  Lest you think they live in poverty, they are living in a 14 million dollar mansion, have multi-million dollar deals with Disney, Netflix and Spotify, not to mention the 25 million Diana left to Harry.  They aren't poor.  I have come to the conclusion that the Brits have finally found a way to pay us back for 1776.  

Finally, I have a message for the wokinistas.  You are not smarter than me.  You have no business telling me how I should live my life.  You overestimate my ability to care what you think.  Let me clue you in:  none, zero, zip, nada.  That is my ability to care.  You are more than entitled to your opinions, but you are not empowered to make me care what you think of me.  You may call me simple minded, or crazy, that's fine, because as I have already stated, I don't care.  You see, every day, I get up and go to work, and I deal with a public that is frustrated, lonely, cut off, and tired of being told they can't live their lives because if they do, they don't care about their fellow man.  But who cares about them?  We are so busy trying to keep people from dying of COVID, that we've stopped caring about everything else, except maybe white privilege and gun control, neither of which is going to help the people I see every day.  You purveyors of woke thinking don't care.  You just pronounce your moral superiority, and you feel good in your warm gooey places.  Which is good for you, but pretty darn crappy for the fellow man you claim to care so much about. So go ahead, cancel me.  I don't care.  I have only three little words left for you....Go Pound Sand.

Until Next Time....

Small Bites, Edition 1

It's morning, and the odds of me finishing this post before I have to go unload a 420 case truck are slim and none.  I'm not even sure what I'm writing about other than the news tidbits over the last few days.  What I do know is that many Biden supporters should be scratching their head right now.  So let's take on just a few of the things in the news.

Dr. Seuss, or at least some of his books, have been cancelled.  "I think I saw it on Mulberry Street" is going for the affordable price of $1600 on Amazon last time I looked, but my guess is, it will be banned from sale on Amazon like other books recently.  Want to make a book no one was talking about popular?  Ban it from Amazon.  Currently, "When Harry Became Sally" has a hold line longer than Harry Potter when it first came out at my local library.  If the goal was not to let people read the book, it failed.  I imagine in the next few weeks, Dr. Seuss books will be raking in the dough as people clamor to purchase as many as they can.  Who thought we'd be living in "Fahrenheit 451"?

Among other things currently hiding in our latest stimulus bill is up to 21,000 dollars for federal employees who can't go to work because their kids can't go to school.  That's per employee.  Sorry to you other poor slobs who have to go without a paycheck because your kids can't go to school, even though there is no scientific evidence that schools are super spreader environments for COVID.  I'd like to remind all our petrified teachers that I've been working, with the public, since June 9th.  All I do is feed people's alcohol addiction.  I'm trying to figure out how my job is more important than the education of young minds, but so far, I haven't really come up with a good reason.  Also, I haven't caught COVID.

Recently, I was made aware that I no longer have to quarantine for close contact with a COVID infected person if I'm fully vaccinated.  Fully vaccinated apparently means 2 weeks after the second dose of a two dose vaccine, but not more than 3 months since the second dose of a two dose vaccine.  So, the vaccine is good for 10 weeks.  Yep, I'm clamoring to go get 2 needle sticks that last me 10 weeks.  Antibodies from the infection last longer than that....

QAnon has turned into some mythical monster with the ability to pronounce on the internet that they are going to do something everyone knows they aren't going to do, and yet manages to get the center of a national government locked down for 2 more months.  Meanwhile Antifa is still trying to burn down Portland. Eventually they will succeed, since even if arrested, they are back on the street the next day trying again.  

Apparently it's neanderthal thinking to not fine or jail people for not wearing masks, but it's okay to release COVID positive illegal immigrants into a population.  A funny thing happens when you say you won't deport anyone for 100 days.  They realize you won't deport them so they run across the border as fast as they can, and they really don't care if we are in the middle of a pandemic.  Our current President* seems to think Americans can't make basic decisions about their health and well-being, but who gives a crap if we just let a bunch of people not from our country run around free and clear to spread the 'Rona.  People want to know why New Zealand had success?  They DIDN'T LET ANYONE IN!  Of course, that's easier to do when you are an island surrounded by water on four sides, which I said from the beginning, but at least now we have our progressive friends admitting that too, so I guess that's something.

Andrew Cuomo is on the hot seat for sexually harassing at least 3 women.  It's good cover for the fact that he killed 15,000 grandparents with his insane nursing home policy.  He wasn't the only one.  More than half of all COVID deaths in my state, Pennsylvania, can be attributed to congregate care facilities.  Good thing Dr. Rachel* Levin moved her mama into a posh hotel before the Wolf Administration's own death policy.  If they were using federal guidance, which some of them have claimed they were doing, why did 45 other states not follow the same policy?  There are only two answers.  1) there was no federal guidance for them to mandate COVID positive patients go back to nursing homes, or 2) 45 other administrations were far smarter than them.  You pick which one.  It doesn't matter which one you pick, because it's all being obscured by Cuomo's creepy Joe Biden-like behavior.

I've decided to make this a weekly thing, so you have now read the first edition of Small Bites.  See you next week!

P.S. - I finished this post on Friday, March 5th.  As predicted, I didn't have time to finish it before that 420 case truck.