Someone I know had their Grandson - 7 years old - killed in an automobile accident. This happened in a rain storm - a week ago .... I cannot imagine this happening ! I would be devastated if anything ever happened to any of my grandsons.... There is little discussion beyond that. As a Parent or grandparent - you are not expecting bury a child or grandchild. Don't know what else to say...
The summer is winding down - in the last week of August - Labor day weekend is upon us,,, Local colleges are back in session. Schools start next week.... I kinda lose track of that date.... this means my job will be on the borking side during the week, "school nights" and getting dark before 8pm now.... have to be careful to not fall asleep in the chair as others have - one of my co-workers did just that - waking up at 10:50pm !! We close at 8pm - and leave at 8:30 ! and no he did not collect OT pay for the hours he slept !!
Yanks have all but won the AL east - they are 11.5 up on the Rays (11 on the loss side) and 15.5 ahead of the Red Sox with 27 games left to play . The Wild card in the AL will be a game between one of 3 teams . Cleveland , Oakland and Tampa... The Yanks are only 1/2 game ahead of the Astros that winner - best record- will play the Wildcard winner in the division series. And the team with the 2nd place record in the AL will play the Central Division winner - thats the Twins right now... None of those match ups seem easy to me,,, and I still don;t think that NY has the pitchers to matchup against the Astros...
The Yankees MAGIC number to Win the AL east is 17... that's a combination of wins by NY plus losses by Tampa Bay...
I'm gonna go with a song that I heard for the 1st time in along time last night -
and If you are not a Tom Waits fan - you should be..
- Tariffs that are NOT being paid by China and them doing a Tit-forTat so to speak - by leveling tariffs on U.S. goods ?
- The Amazon Jungle burning - and how this might be the biggest environmental issue of today ?
- The Yankees in 1st place in the AL East despite not having what one would think of as the REGULAR players on the Field for much of the year. ?
- Scaramucci and Walsh may be able to do to trump what the Democrats can't ?
- Who "really" pays for Tariffs ?
- Who the hell got the idea for these MLB uniforms ?
- SO Max Muncey admitted to doing a Flop at 2nd base to hopefully (and yes he did) get a timeout to stop Torres from scoring the tying run in Saturdays' game ??? A player ADMITS to Cheating to change the outcome of the Game ??? and BTW - this just might come down to who gets home filed advantage in the World series - Now - I don't know if the yanks win the game or not after all this would just Tie it up .... and let's not be too dramatic it may actually mean nothing in the end, Let's see if MLB reacts in any way at all.....
- Hey its cold here in the North east this morning !! High 40's - thats great for late August
- The USA team - Louisiana team wins the Little league World Series.
If you have not heard of or know Sebastian Maniscalco - you need to watch this. Very Funny - Very True...... but I think it's more than 20 years ago...
Hey - greetings - Is this all you have to do - really - Reading this dribble is all you have ....
Ok,,here goes..
once in a while we get lucky and a remake / redo goes really well.... Not everything did on this one,,,but - we really made an upgrade from what was there... and as we say it's BTW.... Better Than it WAS !!!
The porch itself was a challenge,,, really first time doing everything in Vinyl....the replacement windows went better then I though,,, I figured when the old framing came out the whole block assembly would fail,,,, but it did not - and I places Several Tapcons into the Cement to hold those windows. I made that screen door - thank you very much - Pocket screws and all.... and it FIT !!
Probably need to do something hide the Red Brick underneath,,, someone - years ago - cut out the Block in order to install a new Oil tank in that basement area,,, and they used old redbrick to reseal the hole - anyone read Poe's the Cask of Amontillado ??? Kinda same deal with out the Murder part !!
Was I spose to leave a video - ?? Ok - I am super excited - we are going to see Hot Tuna -
Jorma Kaukonen (guitarist/vocals) he is 78 years old and Jack Casady - he is just 75 (bassist).
Former Members of Jefferson Airplane - and yes they play at Wookstock in 1969 !!
Here is Come back Baby....
Here is Jorma with Susan Tedeschi and the Tedeschi Trucks Band - We saw this show at SPAC a few years ago !!
Jefferson Airplane - At Woodstock - the were planned to go on at like 10PM - but they never took the stage till between 5am and 6am - hence Grace Slicks comment about Morning Maniac Music ..
Oh BTW - Grace Wrote White Rabbit when she was just 17 years old - WOW
If you think what is happening in this country is normal ....then you are not.
Mass Shootings dot the headlines on nearly a weekly basis. There is an immediate call for Gun control measures ,,, that - I can say with reasonable certainty - will not happen. The NRA holds the Balls of the POTUS . Remember last time the Shit head in the Whitehouse was gong to enact universal background checks, bans on assault rifles, multiple load magazines and look at Red Flag laws.... the net day he met with Wayne LaPierre - the head of the NRA - and the Shot for Brains suddenly changed his tune ... the NRA lobby is far too strong and gives too much money to politicians to let any of those laws happen.
If you think what is happening in this country is normal ....then you are not.
The Shooter in El Paso writes a manifesto that uses the same language as the President does to describe minorities, and immigrants to this country, then goes to the Walmart and targets shooting Latinos - but hey there is no connection to the Presidents words,,,noooooo.... and looks what the Democrats did,,, look what Obama did.... Took one of tRumps Butt Boys 38 seconds during a CNN debate to use Obama's name .... Same old thing - Defer and deflect, then turn the discussion - or try to in a different direction - it's classic Trump apologist rhetoric.
If you think what is happening in this country is normal ....then you are not.
Shit for Brains (SFB) goes to visit Dayton Ohio - then Rails on the Mayor for being anto Trump and lying about his visit , even though the video of the the Mayor describing the POTUS 's visit is very positive about that visit - still SFB calls them Liars. He goes to El Paso -where they did not want him in the 1st place,,,, and the remaining Shooting victims that are in the hospital refuse to meet with him. However, as he tours the hospital - he brags about the size of the crowd that he had at his last (KKK) Rally in El Paso in 2018 and pokes fun at Beto Orourke as having far less - Like 400 people in a parking lot - at his rally. Seriously - he can't even fake felling empathy / Sympathy for an hour or so - these folks have been thru a traumatic experience and SFB talks to them about about himself and how many people were at HIS rally 0 Like they Give a SHIT !
Let's turn to the Bullshit I see posted on Social about gun control and Racism.
1st - the idiotic comparison of Stopping people from driving cars because people drive drunk and kill someone equates to Gun Control. A) No one I ever knew ever said "let me get drunk and drive and Kill some other innocent Driver tonight" NO one that drinks and drives thinks that. They don't take months and months gathering Liquor and Beer and plan to get drunk and go Kill someone in a car Crash - But that is exactly what a Gun Man DOES do ! B) A car is meant to be used for transportation,,, to and from work, Vacations, to the Grocery store. That is the Purpose for which it was intended - IT was not intended to be used as a Weapon to go Kill / Injure someone - there is no Automobile Ad that touts that this is the best car to kill and maim your fellow citizens. But the Gun on the other hand is being used for exactly what it was intended to do - Blow a big hole in something (someone) , Kill or cause great injury. Thats what a gun is for - I bet that 99% of us that have pistol permits put on that permit that we want the gun for 2 reasons - 1) Recreation - Target shooting, and 2) Personal Protection - Ya - shooting someone that is shooting at us ... Thats what the gun is for . So this Bullshit about - "Hey - we don;t don;t take a cars away from everyone else casue someone drives drunk - we Can;t control guns cause some maniac kills people in Walmart" is simply a STUPID argument.
The second one I saw was about being a Racist - it said - " Wait a minute - I disagreed with the last President and I was called a Racist and now I agree with this President and I am still called Racist" ?
Now if that makes sense to you -Go slam your F-ing head in a Car door ! Yes - if You Disagreed with the President Obama because he was black that is Racist (at least Bias) and If you agree with this presidents (SFB) views on immigrants and his Racist tone, words and policies - then YES that makes you a Racist !
If you think what is happening in this country is normal ....then you are not.
I will say again that I do not think this country can withstand another 4 years of SFB as POTUS ... I do not think there will be anything left of our Free Republic - I believe he will cause permanent - irreversible damage to this Country. . I sincerely hope that out of the - far too large right now field - of Democrat Candidates there is one that can Defeat him in November 2020 and we can put this DARK TIME behind us starting in January 2021.
Thoughts and Prayers are not enough and at least for my view - don;t seem to be doing anything to stem the violence that grips this country.
Remember - you are reading text written by a member of the NRA, a Gun Owner with a License for a Concealed Carry pistol permit.
DO I have a solution,,, NO.. Saying we need to keep the guns out of the hands of "crazy" people is obvious. How do we Identify these people ? We have constitution that has language hat protects all of us from Government interference into our private lives. a First amendment that allows freedom of Expression. So there is a fine line to be walked when investigating our lives. However. If there is chance that you have a friend or relative that you REALLY think is a bit off the rails... you need to step up and Identify that person to the local authorities. Are you ratting them out ?? Imagine IF they are the next shooter and you did not say anything. ?? Now this is the Rarest of occasions,.. right - there are about 300 million people in the US - and even of - God Forbid - we had a shooting a week - that would be 52 people out the 300 million - yea - most likely you don't know someone like this.
A few things that I think could be done..
- Universal background checks - not just state be state BUT federal.. and a Review of those Licenses across any database that might ID someone with a Mental Health issue.
- A restriction of Assault type weapons. No one really needs multiple AK47's... but keep in mind these latest shooting did not involve that type of Weapon.
Just an observation : They are reporting that the Dayton gunman was taken down in 24 seconds of him firing the 1st shot. WOW - 24 Seconds, hard for me to think that 1st responders can act quicker than that - and still 9 dead and near 30 wounded.... shows what a semi automatic weapon can do in an extreemly short period of time.
Weekend was a blah- got a few things done , but this is why I don't mind that much that I work weekends. We never seem to do anything of any significance that would keep me from working.
Yanks sweep the Sox to about end Boston Chances to win the AL east. and put a real hurtin on their Wildcard hopes. While every team does it ,,, Pitchers and Catchers and Hitters all think that the strikezone the Ump is calling is not in their favor, but I got a laugh out of Cora and Sale arguing and getting tossed the other day. Yea - maybe a pitch or two could have gone the other way for Sale , but he really lets himself off the hook for shitty performance saying that it was the Ump ... BTW - Mr Sale is 5 and 11 with an ERA of 4.68 - must be a lot of BAD umpires !!!! Idiot.
