On Load After Load & A Bigger Truck

 

On Turkeys & Side Beef

Finished the third season of Lincoln Lawyer and had a good time watching it.  Other than that, we're hesitant to pick up a new series these days, and have stopped watching most old series episodes produced after 2020.  One by one, we dropped shows we used to enjoy as entertainment when the writing and focus underwent a noticeable (and not for the better IMO) change following Covid and the advent of Woke.  While realizing all television viewing requires some suspension of disbelief, the lecturing, posturing, peculiar emotional dramas, forced set-ups, stories that didn't hang together and general goofiness (especially with female characters) eventually brought us to the point of asking each other, "What is going on? Is this what we want to watch?".  And our answer was "No". 

That said, when we went back in time to try and watch Moonlighting from 1985, we found it to be less fun and weirder than we remembered or wanted.  So here we are in No Man/Woman's Land, with less and less ways and means of escape.   Had fun with Jumanji over the weekend, and then when this  showed up in the Pics of the Week, I smiled with the awareness we aren't alone in the hope we hold as we navigate our way through the losses and differences involved with living in shift and change.

On Pronouns & Multiple Choice

 

On Big & Juicy

 

On Reap & Release

Remember when Chuck Schumer stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and said, “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."?  That pronouncement took place four years ago, on June 8th of 2020, with Schumer using the phrase "released the whirlwind" to conveying his convictions about what was to come. 

Eighty four years ago this month, while visiting Coventry after the city was razed on Nov 14, 1940 in an 11 hour raid involving nearly 500 Luftwaffe bombers, Churchill quoted this verse from Hosea 8.7: “They have sown the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind.”  

While the two quotes may sound somewhat similar, they're not. Reaping is different from releasing. 

Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house

OK, we all know there's a lot of loneliness out there. The Left has been doing its best to destroy the family, nucular and extended, for 50 years or so. Add to that the separation of miles in the name of finding a job and a lot of people need somebody. We are, after all, pack, if not herd, animals. 

Some turn to false voices, partly because they promise everything. Fortune, success, love, family, and everything else. They've been particularly successful with women. 

Feminism, like Black Power, La Raza, revolting students, Gay Is Good, and all the other dodges dreamed up by Yuri Andropov when he was head of the KGB, calls to those who felt, for right or wrong, alienated. After a couple of generations, blacks, Hispanics, and some women and students have seen that, for all that was promised, little was delivered.

These were the voices, mainly female and homosexual, screaming into their phones on November 6 and since. They still believe the lies and women, most especially, seem to feel like they must strike out because they did not win.

This is the crowd that is looking into the mirror asking, "So, is it me, the cat, and the vibrator for the rest of my life?". And the false voices still lead them astray. No men, they say; no women, especially white, who voted for Trump, cut yourself off from the family for Thanksgiving (and Christmas, New Year's, St Swithin's). They want them to tell black or Hispanic friends who went for Trump that's not the way minorities should act.

I expect the suicide rate will skyrocket before too long.

A lot of people had fun watching the hissy fits, but there comes a time when you have to see a lot of these people as terribly broken human beings (maybe that's what differentiates us from them) and you feel badly for them.

All of the "causes" I mentioned above had their "other", their Emanuel Goldstein, and it usually boiled down to straight white male, Conservative, church going, working. Someone to blame.

I know family gatherings can sometimes seem like the Battle of the Bulge, but I do hope there are people who can negotiate a truce, even if it means acknowledging that Uncle Harry really is a jerk, and to get him to just smile and say nothing for once.

They may be crazy cat ladies, but they're still people.

On Sinks & Signs

 

On Gifts & Reindeer Games

 

On Planes & Change

 

Hate didn't get them anywhere

so the Demos are trying spite.

Having seen their best efforts to steal another election foiled, the Democrat party, mostly in the form of Chuckie Schumer, is doing everything it can to give the incoming Administration a much harder row to hoe.

The worst is the nonsense taking place in what passes for foreign policy. The body double in Brazil wouldn't even acknowledge the press. Undoubtedly, because they were sure to ask what the Hell his masters thought they were doing giving American missiles to the corrupt regime in Ukraine and then giving them permission to fire them into Russian territory.

As one might imagine, Vladimir Putin is more than a little perturbed about this (and I'll bet you thought you'd never side with a Russian dictator). He's rattling the expected saber, approving lowering the criteria for a Russian nucular strike on the US. Our crack National Security Council of Winken, Blinken, and Nod saw no reason to change US criteria.

Add to that the hoohah earlier this year over the Demos wanting to bring back the draft, not only for all those patriotic Lefties in man buns, but for all those wxmyn with shaved heads, blue bracelets, Handmaid's Tale garb, and general psychopathy. Yes, kids, your kids, all of them, may soon be singing something like, "Good Bye, Mama, I'm Off To Yokohama", or something that rhymes with Kharkov.

I'm wondering if a march on DC with the aim of taking and holding the halls of Congress until 1/20/25 might be needed. I mean the 1st Amendment is back with us.

If not, there might be more than a tiny elf and 8 tiny reindeer coming over the Pole this Christmas.

On Legacies, Making America Fun Again & The Joy of Dancing

 

I couldn't get the video to load that first shows Tim Walz carrying on and gesticulating about his inability and unwillingness to forgive "those other guys" for "trying to steal the JOY from this country" before it launches into a "hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right" moment, followed by a collection of clips celebrating the joy of The Dance. 

It's here at:   https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1858394199999062349

For a sense of inner dance, there's also this by Scott Pinsker on The Sad Demise of Nancy Pelosi:

"She was so close!

Your legacy is a tricky thing. More often than not, timing is everything: Had Bill Cosby died 20 years ago, chances are his legacy would’ve been vastly different. (Of course, the all-time worst historical legacy belongs to Moctezuma II, a.k.a. Montezuma. He probably wanted to be known as a “Great” king, a la that Alexander kid from Macedonia… but instead, his name became synonymous with traveler’s diarrhea. I’m 99.5% positive that’s NOT how he wanted to be remembered.) All Nancy had to do was stick the landing.

But Nancy Pelosi didn’t just whiff the mark — she cost her party control of the House, the Senate, the White House, the Supreme Court, and even the popular vote!

And now, her legacy is finished."

On Buzzing & Stroking

 

On Many Moods & Recriminations

 

On Different Perspectives & Visual Awareness