On Feeding & Funding

 

On Taking the Cake & Tied Up With a Bow

 

On Snakes & Tools

 

On Focused Pitting & Fraud

 

You want a war, you get a war

And usually get more war than you can handle. Such, of course, was the case of Dishonest Abe Lincoln, one of the last casualties, but by no means the last of the war he started. Such was also the case of the Sioux at Wounded Knee who, acting on the theory that Winchesters beat Springfields, forgot that Hotchkisses beat Winchesters and starting a fight when you're surrounded is not the best of strategems.

By now, you've heard about how the massed Armies of the Night have tried to turn Gotham into Paris, complete with No-Go zones. Back when La Madeleine had leaders with some cran, young Bonaparte put down a royalist uprising with his famous "whiff of grape". Laissez les bon temps roulez.

Similarly, in 1863, when the Micks decided that, while the WASPs' motto of "No Irish need apply" reflected their disdain for the average Hibernian, the fact they were still good enough to die in the cause of freeing slaves who might just take it into their heads to seek employment on the Great White Way. Thus, the New York draft riots began (there were others in NY and PA, including the City of Brotherly Love*) and took 5 days to put down with at least 1200 dead.

Our current disturbance is aimed at driving ICE out of the city and would appear extremely well-organized. A point of interest is that New York's Finest began arresting the hooligans on the spot and may reflect the true outcome of Madman's and Trump's meeting 10 days ago. Since the usual Commiecrat  municipal establishment would shrink from such ferocity, so we must conclude the God Emperor of the Cherry Blossom Throne has made his point with the help of the Schumer Shutdown. 

PS Fun fact: for those panicking, or just fear mongering, at the fact Moslems played a key part in Madmani's election, keep in mind Germans and Irish made up half the population of NYC in 1863.

* See Bruce Catton's Glory Road.

On Footprints & Backtracks

 

On Gathering Together in Black, White & Color

 

On Counting & Giving Thanks

 

On Poison Fruit & Tainted Turkeys

 

On Pick-ups, Pirates & Picked Pockets

 

On Arrivals & Expectations

 

I could have used this one several weeks ago, following the time change when the darkness descended, the Christmas music started up on XM, and the shops in town started putting out their lights and Winter Holiday décor.  From my perspective this shift seemed to have taken place even earlier than last year. 

However, the biggest surprise, and most recent irritation involving change, was the arrival of Amazon's AI, Rufus  It showed up last night as I was trying to follow a link on YouTube to an item on Amazon.  What turned up in place what I was looking for was a orange screen full of AI's recommendations for me, with no obvious way to close it down.  In order to move past the visual clutter of that intrusion and find what I was looking for, I had go back to the link, get the name of the item, and type it in the Amazon search bar.  Taking those extra steps finally brought me to where I'd have immediately gone without Rufus blocking the way. SonM says there might have been something off with the link I was using, as others I've tried since from that same site have led me right to the item, without "Rufus" bringing up my past history along with a host of fabulous deals it thinks I might want.   I haven't yet decided what to do about this latest AI assist other than feel visually assaulted and along for a another ride I'm not sure I want to take. 

I'm tired of being pushed and sold, and once again will need to sort through the clutter, figure out what matters most to me, and look for ways to enjoy "The Holidays" and the winter months to come.   We did manage to drop 500 tulip bulbs and daffodils for naturalizing into the yard before the weather turned,  using a new 2" auger attached to the cordless drill.  That method worked great, better than the old step-on bulb planter my brother welded up for me years ago, and I now have the imagined surprise of those bulbs blooming in the spring to hold me through the cold and snow! 

 Another late fall surprise encountered this year (which I hadn't noticed before in the the seven years we've been here), was a woods full of blooming Witch Hazel with hundreds of tiny yellow spider-like flowers decking out the branches of bushes situated around the oaks.  Turns out there is a nocturnal moth that stays active during freezing weather, and flies around in November pollinating them. And that leads to the formation of seed pods (w/ 2 seeds per pod) capable to "discharging" (shooting!) those seeds 10-30 feet when they open the next fall.  Sometimes all it takes is something as unusual and naturally wonderful as this amid all the hype to help me find center again.  

On Playbooks & Finger Pointing

 

On Privilege & Disfavor

 

On Cover-ups & Truth Trickling Out

 

"According to Patel’s findings, the CIA took extraordinary measures to conceal the truth. The agency used public money to manipulate analysts, rewrite assessments, and bury an origin story that threatened the political storyline the left had banked everything on. Trump was right about China. Fauci was wrong. The media was wrong. And the bureaucracy moved heaven and earth to keep that reality under wraps...Fauci played the patronizing scientist. The legacy media enforced the talking points. Big Tech censored any dissent. The establishment insisted the virus emerged from some Wuhan wet market and treated anyone who questioned that tale like a threat to democracy.

Patel explained the cost of this cover-up: “We’re two years down the road from that, three, and that story has been written, you know? That iron has been cast. So half the public is like, ‘What are you guys talking about? That’s a right-wing conspiracy.’” That describes the fallout perfectly. The establishment spent years gaslighting Americans. They told the public to ignore common sense. They mocked anyone who dared say the virus came from a lab, even though the evidence pointed straight toward Wuhan. Now the truth trickles out in slow, frustrating drips, and millions of Americans shrug because the lie has calcified—just like how millions of leftists still believe that Trump colluded with Russia."

Quote from Matt Margolis' Nov 16, 2025 post on "Kash Patel Drops Covid Origin Bombshell", with cartoons from several years ago added here as accompaniment.