We had a great time – best was actually the last day where we wound up at Aliso Beach…and got to see dolphins not ten yards off shore (the beach is peculiar in that is very steeply goes into the water and so its pretty deep very close to shore). There my granddaughter came up with the clever idea of leaving one of my books in the “take one, leave one” book library there…we’ll see if it generates any sales! So, I’m tanned…but not really rested because grandpa keeping up with an 11 year old took its toll on the knees (fellow geezers will understand).
But it was pretty cool and rainy – which is remarkable for June in the San Diego area. Highest temp we experienced was about 68 or so. So, back to Vegas and the heat, right? Nope: it has been raining all morning so far and the forecast is for off and on all day. To remind: the average rainfall in Las Vegas for June is 0.0 inches. So, this is a total global warming fail.
I did continue monitor the Trump indictment stuff and I remain flabbergasted at the number of people on the Right to continue to lend it credence. For heavens sake, it was put together by the same people who did Trump-Russia! In the end, we might just be too stupid to win.
Latest polling (pound of salt, as usual) shows Trump running away with the nomination and beating Biden. I’ll believe either when I see them. But the fact is that Biden remains catastrophically unpopular. Conventional Wisdom (which is never right) says that is ok because Trump is even more unpopular. We’ll see. DeSantis is still in the mix but he’s got a minefield to cross – attacking Trump while getting Trumpsters on board. If he can do it, then he’s sheer genius.
The pushback against TQ+ continues to grow – and more and more LGB are joining it. Honestly, isn’t everyone just sick to death of this? A whole month to celebrate the particular sexual activities of a small minority? It is that they are pushing the TQ+ on kids that is driving it, but as it is being driven the whole concept of “gay pride” is coming under attack. Ok, we get it: you’re gay. Whatever. All the laws criminalizing homosexuality are gone. Nobody cares. Move on.
But the Left can’t stop, can they? And they are getting ever more absurd. Saw a ridiculous MSM report earlier where there’s a “rainbow underground railroad” rescuing gays from Texas. I mean, come on! What is it – phone number for U Haul? But they are on and on about the “genocide” of gays and transgender…which, when you dig down into it, comes out to mean they’re mad at straights for not letting them turn their kids into transgender. I don’t really know how this will play out – Team Pudding Brain and every Democrat is fully committed to it – they’re even working on a law in California which will strip kids from any parent who doesn’t affirm their chosen gender. This is absolute objective evil…but the Democrats are all-in on it. Might this start to create a suburban backlash? For every Karen who wants a designer Trans kid might there be a hundred who are horrified at the prospect? We’re going to find out.
Looks like Uncle Grabby made an attempt to grab Eva Longoria’s breasts…TBF, that is an urge all men have but, my goodness, if this is what he does when the cameras are rolling, just what does our Creep in Chief do in private?
Anyways – did you hear that my Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup?
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because grandpa keeping up with an 11 year old took its toll on the knees (fellow geezers will understand).
As a “fellow geezer” who has a couple of years on you, I can TOTALLY relate. In June, 2016, I attempted an 88 mile, 11 day trek at Philmont Scout Ranch near Taos, NM, with my youngest grandson and his mom (my oldest daughter). My left knee gave out near the end of the second day, and I had to quit. It gradually improved over the course of the next 7 or 8 months until one day when I was shooting baskets at the Y, and I collapsed on the floor. The pain was excruciating but intermittent. Miraculously, I was able to get in to see an orthopedic surgeon who has done knee replacements on a good friend within a few days. After looking at the Xrays, he said, “well, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the intense pain you’re experiencing is caused by a tiny piece of cartilage that’s broken loose and is floating around under your kneecap, occasionally lodging against a nerve. The action of your kneecap will cause that to dissolve in a few days. The bad news is that your knee is SHOT!”
I hope you don’t have to go through that. Rehab for knee replacement is the toughest rehab I’ve ever experienced. I had my right hip replaced about 18 months after the left knee, and it was a piece of cake. I was walking without a cane 2-1/2 days after the surgery
Doc some years ago said at some point I’d probably need knee replacement but that I should put it off as long as possible. I was hoping 70…but about a year ago I fell off a ladder right on to that bad knee and it has really been deteriorating fast. I’m going to have it thoroughly checked soon to find out how much time I’ve got before I need to get a replacement.
I was in a bad auto accident back in the late 70s — got rear-ended by a semi and my left knee got jammed under the steering column. Had to have all the cartilage on the inside removed. I knew the day would come when it would eventually wear out. I’m kind of surprised that it lasted nearly 40 years. The new knee works OK, but I’m constantly aware that there’s something unnatural about it. I can walk on it OK, but standing on it for any length of time is very uncomfortable.
I’ve had both my knees replaced in the last couple of years. No pain and much more stable. I don’t have quite the range of motion I used to had by walking and hiking are back on the menu.
I was run over by a car 50 years ago, across both knees. Over the next few years and a couple of major surgeries I was told I would need knee replacement “in a few years” but to hold off as long as possible because the science was evolving so fast. So I lived a range of pain from ouchy to serious, but became a rancher, rode horses (sometimes for eight hours a day, when showing) and operating heavy equipment and driving a LOT. It wasn’t comfortable but I did it.
Last fall, getting ready to load a small truck with the last things I needed to take to Florida, my knees gave out, and I declared that I would meet my truck driving friends at my house there, get everything unpacked and come back to Colorado to get both knees replaced. I got talked out of that but was flat-out crippled for months, but the easy pace in Florida and me babying myself got me to the point of some days with no pain at all, though most did remind me I still have problems.
I just signed up for a 48-treatment regimen at a regenerative medicine clinic in Denver, which will integrate PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) injections, shock wave therapy, physical therapy and chiropractic care and probably some other stuff, too. I’ll be doing three appointments a week, and getting professionally designed exercise and nutrition plans. It’s what you have to do to deal with Deferred Maintenance, bodywise. Hopefully by the end of hurricane season I will be in better shape, to return to Florida for the winter. I’m having a lot of pretty good days with more activity, but when a knee blows up I no longer try to muscle through it and say “OK” and take the time off. I am not afraid of knee replacement but if I can avoid it I will.
Modern medicine does do some amazing stuff. I just got one cataract surgery done and on Tuesday I will do the other, and it looks like I will not have a glasses restriction on my drivers license any more. That is like a miracle to me.
Wow, you guys are all really old lol. Knock on wood, no such issues for me … yet
Yes, it’s weird being the same age as old people
Many years ago when the use of credit cards were starting to become more commonplace, a friend and I use to joke about paying with Green Stamps (for those who might remember) or asking; “Do you still accept cash”?
There’s a concerted effort by elites to totally do away with cash and force digital currency for everything. The supposed benefits to the government are, to eliminate the need to produce new bills & coins, eliminate physically handling & destroying old bills, and stifle or eliminate counterfeiting (of course the trend will just change from hard currency to electronic transfer theft, which I believe will allow for even greater embezzlement). For companies that sell goods and / or services, they will no longer need cash registers or handling cash, running to the bank for deposits and / or withdrawals to make change, especially when dealing coins, and having employees making change. Simply swipe a card. Of course, there will be card use charges that does not happen when paying with cash, which are eventually paid by the consumer, even if not directly.
Reverse ATM’s are starting to spring up all over, especially in places like bigger cities, sports & music venues or stadiums, airports, restaurants, etc… You are directed to deposit cash and update a prepaid card to be used for payment at the many institutions that will no longer support the use of cash. While cash would still be needed at the ATM, that situation is being setup as transitional to get everyone used to only dealing with some form of credit or prepaid card. The ultimate goal is for total digital currency.
While this might seem like a good thing to many, considering the implied benefits, it will go a long way in controlling and documenting your money, alerting the government to every single monetary transaction and overhauling the banking & financial structure. Remember how the Canadian government prevented the withdrawal of money deposited in a GoFundMe account for protesting truckers? Controlling entities will ultimately be able to place a chokehold on payments & purchases that are made for purposed that go against the narrative. What happens when you lose a prepaid card or when a card goes unused for a length of time? That money will probably go into a blackhole, without much if any oversite. No more putting money under the mattress. What happens if someone wants to borrow some money or if you want to give money for a gift – weddings, graduations, birthdays, Christmas or other holidays? Without cash, the government (think IRS) (or anyone else with connections) will know of every transaction.
Think of just how deep our current state of surveillance is. Privacy will be eroded much further.
It all started after the Panic of 1907 – when the major banks of the USA almost went belly up because a lot of them made really stupid investment decisions. This is what lead to the creation of the Fed in 1913…a mechanism whereby Uncle Sam would simply print up whatever money banks need (big banks, of course; small fry can get screwed) to cover their losses from stupid investments. But over time it has morphed into an all-encompassing money laundering scheme whereby the wealth of the people is stolen via inflation and passed over to the richest people who have the most inside dope on what is coming. Now they propose to do away with physical cash altogether so they can completely control us…digital currency can be blocked with ease. You’re protesting? Well, how about we do what we did to the Canadian truckers? You just don’t have any money. Go home and we’ll release the money you need to live.
We must restore gold backed currency – for financial sanity and for the preservation of our liberty. If the government must keep on deposit gold and silver I can demand at will, then it is the government serving me: if the government goes wrong, the people withdraw their specie and the paper currency becomes worthless. Also: no inflation.
Make no mistake, all of the troubles we are seeing these days are the result of a spiritual war. The cunning serpent is so emboldened, so angry, he and all who blindly follow are exposing themselves. They don’t care that you see them as they believe their power and control are enough to make you subservient. This is actually a good thing. Evil use to work in stealth mode, robbing, stealing and killing in the dark of night, behind closed doors. When people begin to see the real damage and dangers of certain out-of-control entities, it is then that the tides turn. Communism, the controlling elements that live in Russia and China want desperately to see the downfall of the US and will use their influence, their 30 pieces of silver to buy anyone willing to sell out.
Given the level of voter fraud, is a miracle of God that the Republicans were able to regain control of the house. It is through that control that we are beginning to see just how deep the corruption goes. It was a miracle of God that Musk bought Twitter, that we are seeing how deep the corruption goes. It is a miracle of God that Trump is still standing, regardless of the constant baseless threats being thrown at him. I do not know what lies ahead, but God hears our prayers and has not forsaken us. This does not mean we will be without troubles & hardships, but there will be among us courageous people, willing to risk it all, to return us back to a God-fearing nation, people every bit as courageous as our found fathers and all who followed them. Never discount the power of prayer. That is what the enemy wants, what the count on. Prayer is far more powerful than the point of the gun, as it carries with it the force of God.
A whole month to celebrate the particular sexual activities of a small minority?
Good timing of this question, as I was driving a lot today and thought of much the same thing. I think we should have a month dedicated to praising lots more demographics than the miniscule trans/gay/whatever group that is getting all this attention.
Surely no one would object to “Faithful Spouse Month”. We could have parades, interview married people on TV, and in general give this demographic the respect it deserves.
How about “Dedicated Parents Month”? Why just have a stingy Mother’s DAY or Father’s DAY when dedicated and committed parents do what they do 24/7/365? Give ’em a whole month of admiration and acclaim!
I would really support “Families With Special Needs Month” and lots of interviews and articles about the courage and fortitude it takes to take care of severely developmentally damaged children (of any age) who can’t feed themselves, use a toilet, or even talk but who radiate love and are deeply loved in return. (While it might not be same kind of courage it takes to go out in public in a badly tucked swim suit or badly colored purple hair, it’s still courage.)
One of the fastest crimes today is child & young female abductions. This stems from the cultural casualness and influences of sex & forced sex rings, drugs, pedophilia, slave labor that is used in many industries, problems we face at border crossings, Epstein’s island, etc. There’s a movie coming out on July 4th, “Sounds of Freedom” by Angle Studios, the same group creating the series “The Chosen” (if you haven’t seen any, I strongly suggest you do, it’s free at their website), with Jim Caviezel, the person who played Jesus in “The Passion of Christ”. It is based on eye-opening true stories that sheds light on this atrocity and gives insight to what so few of us realize is happening, now, today.
Here is a link to the movie trailer and interview that think worthwhile.
A few years ago I saw an interview with Ashton Kutcher, of all people, about his involvement with groups fighting child sex trafficking. He said that working with these people and with police departments he had seen things no one should ever have to see.
We as a nation are enabling sex trafficking by encouraging poor people to flock to our southern border. These people (many of whom are not the desperate peasants portrayed as “only wanting a better life” but people able to come up with ten thousand dollars or more to pay cartels to get them to the border) are then abused horribly, with the younger women and the girls routinely raped and often sold into slavery when they get close to the border.
This nation, as a country, has done some shameful things, but I think this whole border fiasco and its associated atrocities (including the enriching of drug cartels) will go down in history as its worst.
If you need a little humor in your life, this will help.
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On Twitter, when I see a pride flag, I’ll often comment and ask “why do you celebrate someone else’s sexuality”? I have yet to get a response.
This is a really good read. It seems the Democrats have reached back in their playbook for this most recent round of manufactured fear and attempts to take total control.
A year after the start of WWI, President Woodrow Wilson addressed his message to Congress and warned that the “gravest threats against our national peace and safety” did not come from “other governments”, but from “within our own borders”.
“Citizens of the United States,” Wilson continued, “born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-is-charged-under-a-law-meant-to-suppress-political-opposition/
It looks like Wilson was illustrating the adage “even a blind pig can find an acorn sometimes”.
I don’t know why Dems would feature this. Wilson was the first big Progressive and I thought he was a hero to the Left.
I might alter his statement just a little: born under other flags and allowed to remain without the process of our naturalization laws
famous Latin American saying: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
The Democrat Party is a direct threat to the USA. People who allow mentally compromised people to have power for the sake of holding power, should never be called Americans
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) struggled to get through a press conference in Philadelphia while wearing his Sunday best to greet President Joe Biden.
On Saturday, during a press briefing on the recent I-95 bridge collapse, Fetterman donned his trademark hoodie combined with workout shorts and sneakers to welcome the president of the United States to his turf.
Meanwhile, Biden forgot where his hometown was, claiming he grew up in Pennsylvania— this, ladies and gentlemen, are the people representing the U.S.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/06/18/biden-and-fetterman-two-democrats-who-struggle-to-speak-english-leading-our-country-n2624640
We need to look at the voters who put him there. Everyone knew he was a hot mess when he was elected, but the Identity Politics in Pennsylvania trumped (so to speak) everything else and they picked Uncle Fester over anyone Trump supported. Oz wasn’t a great candidate, but he could talk and dress himself.
I think we need to be meaner. I think we need to go after the voters. I think we need to show Fetterman, or Biden, with the captions “remember, people actually VOTED for this guy”.
Agreed but I think they stole the election. I don’t think it was the voters. We really have to come to terms with the fact that Democrats cheat and steal elections and stop pretending that we are just unsure if they do or not.
Democrats are not normal, decent people anymore. They are corrupt grifters.
Stealing the election and having hundreds of thousands of votes for an incompetent are not mutually exclusive
Thoughts on election stealing:
The theme of the Left is that every single thing done by them in the last few elections was legal and moral and totally fine and does not constitute election fraud or rigging. So what if we do the exact same things?
Just because we didn’t get to write the new playbook shouldn’t mean we can’t use it
We just have to play within the framework Democrats established, and do it better. Like when Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster, we take those new rules and shove it down their throat.
We still have time to mobilize to get some state election laws changed. Maybe we can hire retired police and military officers to guard ballot boxes. The RNC has money, and would get more if they would commit to actually USING it, so why not have camera systems and trained personnel at ballot boxes? A law that says each ballot must be individually placed in a box, so a camera could count the number of ballots dropped through a slot , and establish chain of custody so that every locked box is escorted to where ballots are counted and checked in, with the number of recorded ballots entered into a record?
Personally, I would like to have every drop box in a fenced enclosure with an entrance gate and an exit gate, with everyone coming to drop of ballots being stopped and asked how many ballots are being dropped off. Have a camera there, too, but not focused on faces as that would prompt howls of intimidation, blah blah blah. Just a camera recording the entry of a person who states that he is dropping off X number of ballots. Then he goes to the box and drops in each ballot, one at a time, past the camera lens, and then leaves by the exit gate.
We all know signature checking is a joke, but since it’s a sacred cow of the Left then work with that. Demand that every single mail ballot be scanned and photographed, so there is a record of what is accepted as a signature, and keep a record of who passes every signature as valid. There’s a little accountability for you—Station Six is manned by Sally Smith, so she is responsible for the approval of every signature that goes through that station on her shift. Maybe every mail ballot has to pass two examinations, not just one.
Lots of work? Yes. But I for one would volunteer to go to a swing state to monitor boxes or ballot signatures, and I think a lot of people would volunteer if asked. It’s time for us to put up or shut up
Lots of money? Some. but the cost would be a lot less than another stolen election.
The Dems WILL cheat, but we can make it harder for them.
Remember when Hillary claimed there was nothing wrong with her deleting 30,000 emails from her illegal servier (in spite of a protective order) because she had just been writing back and forth about Chelsea’s wedding plans?
Well, now there is some information about why she wouldn’t want those emails made public:
Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives
@dom_lucre
On November 6, 2016, an email leak from John Podesta and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign revealed that Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea Clinton, had her wedding paid for utilizing relief Haiti relief funds from the Clinton Foundation. Ghislaine Maxwelll was also a guest
Another one on those lines is “the government has tanks and planes!” with the response being “I live right next to you.”
Trump’s problems regarding the perception that he is a cranky mean spirited name calling old fart are not going to be helped with aides and spokespeople like this one:
a spokesperson for former President Donald Trump’s campaign indirectly addressed the South Carolina GOP vote (to move the date of their primary). The spokesperson characterized DeSantis as attempting to “claim any victory he can, even if it’s completely detached from reality.”
Trump and his entire campaign need to turn away from this model of campaigning, immediately. The unnecessary sniping and snarling are doing them no good.
What did DeSantis do to earn this nasty commentary? Nothing—but a spokesman for the campaign made a simple comment:
Andrew Romeo, a spokesman for the DeSantis campaign, said:
This could not have shaken out any better for us. We were happy to support this decision and look forward to competing to win in all four early states. Governor DeSantis has the strongest political operation and footprint of any of the announced candidates, including Biden.