Ah, those wonderful people on the left after another attack on Trump and others

That's a small part of this post.

Same kind of people either raising funds for the enemy, or approving of it.  You'd expect better of them?

And, almost immediately, leftists were screaming it was a set-up by Trump.

Holy crap.

Yes, Blogger is doing it again,

no telling why.  The 'appeal' has been made, we'll see what happens.

And yes, it's been that way before since this started: "Make your changes(we won't tell you what caused this) and we'll see if we can take this off."  And there's zero way to comment or protest to them.

Yeesh.

And, oh joy, some idiot fired shots at that stupid press dinner where the President was,

and, undoubtedly to the disappointment of most of the press and lots of open Democrats, he was  uninjured; which makes me wonder what kind of crap we'll get to hear tomorrow from the Democrats in most states...

I managed to take some time for more pleasant subjects and

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He's right

That the spectacle of endless investigations, show trials, and ritual humiliations will somehow translate into ballots.

They’re betting the farm that their voters’ limbic systems…flooded with righteous fury and the sweet, sweet promise of payback…will override every warning light flashing in the constitutional machinery.

And if it works?

Watch the fuck out.

Because once you normalize impeachment as electoral therapy, once you teach an entire generation that losing an election is justification for destroying norms, you don’t get the Republic back.

"You worked hard and saved,

invested, and you get out and vote?  Well, YOU are the problem, and we need to fix you having all that!"
With required taxes and penalties, of course.  So say the leftists.

The proper response involves, verbally, telling them to go to hell.
The full response involves "Politicians and activists who try to take your retirement, home, and works need to be hanged from the nearest lamppost or tree.  And there are lots of both in DC."

Short version: "We really, REALLY

should not have shut down those reactors.  And should have built a couple more."
Admitting you're the idiots who've trashed your energy sector in the Holy Name of Green is hard to do.  And the actual Greens won't care, and will fight getting that capacity back tooth & nail.

The question is if they can defeat them before the lights go out.

She was born in the middle of the Depression,

and the first home she remembered was a railcar.  Her father worked for the railroad, and in that area a family got a car of their own.  She remembered it as being divided into a private bedroom with her sister by hanging sheets, there was a well of clean water nearby and a woodburning stove inside for cooking and heating.

The town this was in no longer exists, disappeared a long time ago.

She grew, and went to school.  Years later she met and married Dad, and raised two kids.  

She smoked, but the day she found out she was pregnant she stopped.  Her father died of lung cancer- smoked all his life- years later.  Her mother died, whether dementia or Alzheimer's I don't remember, but it scared her half to death.  Watching her mother become a warm body that couldn't talk, or feed herself, was terrifying, and she once told me "If I get that way, you put me in a home, you don't use your whole life taking care of me!"

Well, she avoided that fate.  Until the last few days she could talk, and thought clearly, and in the end died in her sleep.

Like Dad, I will always remember her.

"You're stupid for asking me questions, but at least I smile

while I tell you so!"
Oh yes, couldn't be anything but accounting errors, sure...

Still not much blogging

There's been clearing out Mom's apartment, things to give, things to toss, most of them with some memory attached but needed doing.

Meeting with some family haven't seen in quite a while(for good reasons, nobody's been mad at anyone).

And dealing with the situation.

So things are still slow.

Three things to note before I go out to take care of business

First, the Southern Poverty Law Center is just a big a bunch of garbage as you ever thought.

Oh, look who a 'media bias group' hired to say the left-wing sites are more trustworthy...

I don't know about 'bigger than the war', but it IS a really big deal.

Make it all public, because those bastards are using our money

to cover up what they did and keep themselves in office, and it has to be made public.

I don't care which party they're in, or which sex, or what they like to sleep with, make it public.

Personal thoughts

Mom's health had been pretty good after Dad died, then she had a fall and hurt her hip.  Came through that ok, but had a problem during recovery that hung on.  

When she wound up in the hospital this time she'd been going downhill some.  And they found a couple of problems she'd not said anything about that had gotten bad, and she hit the point she said she was done, no more procedures and such; it was time.

This is the first time I've sat in a hospice, waiting for the end.  It was a nice place staffed with good people, and that helped.  

No matter how easy they work to make things, it leaves a big hole, and it's going to take a while to climb out of it.

April 19, a very important day

Patriots Day. Marking April 19, 1775. When Americans took up arms against their king, and bled, at the crack of terrible dawn.

It's a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine, which was then part of Massachusetts. Should be a national holiday.

July 4 marks the day they published a piece of paper, telling the king to shove it. Important. Up until then it was a civil war. Americans who considered themselves Englishmen fighting British troops. After that, it was Americans fighting the British for their independence.

Patriots Day is first blood.

Might as well get on with clearing some things,

starting with these

And now, for the older audience,