A change of diet

I thought I'd mix up our diet a bit and serve more fish. I’m trying to lose my Covid weight, and Bob will probably be told to eat less red meat when he starts heart rehab this week. I usually shop at Marc's and it doesn't sell fresh fish, so I looked at the frozen choices. I always start with Product of the USA or Made in the USA. "Distributed by" is just a way to sell you fish from China or Thailand. I glanced at the label of the "lobster cakes with real lobster" (after checking out the price) and put it in the cart. Today when I took it out of the freezer to thaw in the refrigerator, I took a closer look. Less than 2% lobster meat. There are some other kinds of fish, but also soy, wheat, milk, eggs, etc. Looks like I'll need to drive a bit further for fresh fish.

You can't call it false advertising, but you could call it a Democrat politician.

Will the real Nazis please stand up

Why did the Democrats, and some of your liberal friends on Facebook and Twitter call our President a Nazi and Fascist? Next to racist, it was their most popular word. Probably because they know most people don't know what that is, or only associate it with camps for Jews as they saw in old WWII movies. The fact that his grandchildren are Jews and his closest advisor is a Jew is just not important for those liars.

Why didn't they call him a Communist? Those governments were far more powerful than Hitler and killed 10x the number of people. They are both forms of socialism--Nazi is just short for National Socialism. They are hoping you are ignorant. Fascism is when the government controls private industry to enlarge its power and control the people. Communism is a little different--the government owns the businesses as well as controlling them after extracting all the wealth from the owners. That fits our current situation of Big Tech which has flipped that--controlling our government, with the power to shut down our President because he believes in election fraud. It's not as though Democrats have never claimed a stolen election or fraud or questioned the electoral votes. We hear it each time their candidate doesn't get the WH or a governorship (Stacy Abrams still preaches that she won Georgia; Hillary Clinton spent 4 years claiming fraud because the Electoral College didn't work for her). Were their Twitter accounts or platforms shut down?

Big Tech is also controlling major businesses pushing them to outer Wokeland. Academe can't exist without Big Tech. With the lockdown, even your child's education and future is being controlled by Big Tech and the food you put on the table. Nazi Germany NEVER had the kind of control over their people that Big Tech with cooperation of the government has over us.

Mrs. Pelosi, Ben Stein has a message for you

Ben Stein writes to Mrs Pelosi in the American Spectator. They are probably about the same age, and she should remember:

"I can remember it like it was yesterday. 1965. 1966. 1967. 1968. 1969. 1970. 1971. 1972. 1973. One demonstration after another. Driving down from Columbia to Cambridge to march with Stokely and Martin and Eldridge to demand equality of opportunity for blacks.

Hauling down in an ancient light blue Volvo station wagon from Yale to D.C. to protest the war in Vietnam: “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” “One, two, three, four, LBJ stop the war!”
We tried to break into the White House, the Pentagon, the South Vietnamese Embassy, the State Department. We lay down on K Street, in Lafayette Square, the Memorial Bridge, on Virginia Avenue Northwest. On Highway 50 in Maryland. We blocked traffic. We tore down street signs. We spray-painted obscenities everywhere we could find space. Jerry and Abby and all three million of us students." Just the Facts, Mrs. Pelosi | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

I didn't participate in those "protests" but I remember them and how frightened we all were. I was raising babies and feared what their future would be. We know several things. 

1) The President has been charged unjustly by Democrats who have been trying to impeach him since January 2017. He was well within his rights to question the election, and members of the Supreme Court also believed particularly in the Pennsylvania case, that the irregularities needed to be corrected. Most of the 75,000,000 who voted for him also believe in some level of fraud from the dead voting, to mail ballots, to bad software. 

2) Also, in a rather tardy investigation, we know that the mob that attacked the Capitol had this planned weeks before the speech the Democrats claim is sedition or inciting to riot. It's hard to cause rioters to act if the speech hadn't yet been given, plus those of us who heard it knew exactly what he meant as a patriot. And it sure wasn't violence. 

3) Yes, the Capitol Police were unprepared, even though the FBI, which infiltrates these groups all the time should have been coordinating with them. But Mayor Muriel turned down their request for backup and help. It could have all been avoided if only she'd done her job.

And I certainly remember the summer of 2020 when the police were told to stand down by our Democrat mayors and Nancy Pelosi laughed it off as "People will do what they do" when statues were torn down and rioting ignores by our "representatives." When it's her office, and she's the hated person, it's a different story.

AOC and suppression of freedom of speech

Did you hear AOC this week? Did you hear the code words "liberation of the workers and the poor?" Every Communist leader, anarchist and dissident of the last 100 years has pulled that one, although it's usually in a country that really does have poor and oppressed people. She says (believes would be the wrong word here) there are no red states--just states of suppressed people. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced to her followers on Instagram in an hour long tirade that the only reason why southern states are “red” is that voters are “suppressed” and that nationwide healing would come only through their “liberation.” That's why when churches, Republicans and mayors ask for healing for our nation, you should ask them to define what they mean. Is it God's healing or the AOC type healing? She did say her way was the only way. It's on YouTube. Look it up. She has young  followers who were never taught about the 100,000,000 million who were killed by their Communist governments. A massive failure of our school system.

Big Tech like Facebook, Twitter and Google allowed the Charlottesville lie about Trump to spread and metastasize, and even China Joe used it in his campaign. Trump never said it and he condemned the far right, but a lie can go half way around the world faster than the truth can get its pants on, as I think Jonathon Swift said. And with the help of ignorant Twits on the Internet, it can go around 3 or 4 times. Even one of my FBF who doesn't vote but is glued to MSNBC often repeats that lie while quoting what the Bible says about lying.

So if the Left in collusion with Big Tech can keep that lie going for 4 years, imagine what it can do with January 6! Our President never incited a riot, never said anything except what he has a right to say, that there was fraud and theft in the 2020 election. Several members of SCOTUS agreed, as well as 75,000,000 voters. Hillary Clinton and Al Gore said the same thing for the rest of their lives, and the Left didn't take away their freedom of speech.

Our summer of riots, but where was the Guard?

I don't know if Antifa is proud that the national guard is being called out in the state capitals for a paltry, weak, disorganized mob or angry. They've been rioting since Memorial Day week-end and have staged 4 riots just since January 6 in Portland. This is what they've birthed and no one is celebrating their baby! Pelosi said, "People will do what they do," and Kamala Harris raised bail money for them.

The MSM rarely covered the riots and destruction fully, but people with cell phones captured it and uploaded to the internet. That's how we know about the attacks on people leaving the RNC in August. MSM thought it was no big deal. It won't be long before you won't be able to be part of the people's press. Big Brother knows who you are. Andy Ngo says 90% of the charges against those criminals have been dropped. Let's see how the rate is for those who stormed the Capitol.

Democrats are creating no-fly lists, de-platforming, putting pressure on banks, destroying technology they can't control--but allowing those domestic terrorists to frolic all over Facebook, Twitter, Snap Chat, Google, etc. A lawyer for PBS suggested reeducation camps for children of Trump voters, or having the children removed from their homes and put in physical camps.

I hate using those medical portals, because I know what happens to our data--it's like dumpster diving for academics to publish pages of tables and graphs and get tenure writing about racism in medicine.

Trump and the false narrative

From a friend:

What must President Trump feel like today at the end of four years of serving this country with boundless energy, total commitment to righting a sinking ship, courage in the face of incredible opposition, denigration and betrayal over and over by the self-serving and corrupt, and a total lack of gratitude by the portion of the citizenry who have chosen to embrace the false narrative of the media and are blinded from recognizing all he has done for this country? To think he took no salary for himself for four years—donating it all to worthy causes.

And now, his opposition is not satisfied with his term coming to an end. They are trying to destroy him as a soon-to-be private citizen, by closing his personal bank account, cutting off funding for his business enterprises, canceling a PGA event at one of his golf courses, banning him from most social media, etc. Dissent and disagreement are one thing: malice, vengeance, and retribution are another.

Purveyors of evil--Big Tech

 "If we’re going to be objective about it, we’ve got to give the Mark Zuckerbergs, Jeff Bezoses and Jack Dorseys of the world their due — the apps they’ve created are some of the greatest technological marvels in history. 

It’s too bad that the purveyors of the technologies Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Amazon have on offer are such profoundly myopic, evil bastards. And the events of the past week make it pretty clear that these companies are literally out to get conservative America. By extension, they’re really out to get America itself, because anyone tyrannical and dastardly enough to wish to ruin people financially and to destroy their power to speak over simple political or philosophical disagreements isn’t just a political partisan. Anybody who would do what these people did to Parler for the sin of providing a platform for conservatives to talk among each other after being persecuted by other social platforms clearly doesn’t have respect for the ideals that founded the country and bind it together still."

There may be a firewall, but it's worth a read. Big Tech v. America: How to Fight Back and Win | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

News of the incoming rulers

AOC has called for the "liberation" of the southern states. They aren't red states, she says, they are oppressed. And that's not a call for violence? That's worse than anything President Trump has ever said.

Get ready to open your wallets for the new regime. "On Thursday night President-elect Joe Biden will describe some of his plans for multitrillion-dollar spending increases. Before long he’ll also tell us about his tax increases. And they aren’t going to be small. A new report from the Tax Foundation says the Biden plan would impose the industrialized world’s highest income tax rate on business. Research from around the world says that wouldn’t be kind to workers, either." (WSJ Best of the Web, Jan. 14, 2021)
This should drive businesses to other countries, stifle growth, and puff up the salaries of government bureaucrats.

Google has bought Fitbit. . . and all our data. The funniest sentence in their announcement is: "we will maintain strong data privacy and security protections, giving you control of your data and staying transparent about what we collect and why. "

Sooooo. . . . I think we understand CONTROL. We have none.

Kristen Clarke, Biden's choice for Civil Rights, thinks blacks are superior in every way to whites and Asians. And it's not just culture, they are born superior. That should work well with our Civil Rights laws.

Joe Biden has selected 14 executives from Big Tech, the crowd that doesn't believe in the basic American values of free speech. Even a month ago he'd already added to his team Zaid Zaid, a former special assistant to the president and associate White House counsel under the Obama Administration and current team member at FACEBOOK'S public policy, Strategic Response, who will serve on the review teams for the Department of State and International Development, FACEBOOK'S manager of governance & strategic initiatives Christopher Upperman, who will serve on the Small Business Administration and FACEBOOK'S director & associate general counsel of strategic response Rachel Lieber, who will serve on the review team for the Intelligence Community.

So just to review, he's packing Department of State, SBA and government intelligence with FACEBOOK loyalists. What could possibly go wrong? FB already has data on millions and millions of Americans and foreigners.

She probably doesn't want to be cancelled

 I got an e-mail today from a woman whom I quoted about a Christian sorority of which she was a member in 2008.  She had been checking on her on-line presence, as it is called, and asked me to remove her name from the blog.  It's called being "cancelled."  In this case, she's being pro-active.  Maybe she's no longer a Christian, or has changed groups.  The group has been involved in a discrimination case because they only accepted Christian women. 

Update:  I looked her up and based on her resume of the last 11 years, it's a fair guess she is no longer a Christian.  Advertising the company she has created (last April) would most likely necessitate cleaning her record.

Was my mother funny?

We were big fans of the TV show Closer and the character Deputy police chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, so of course we watched Kera Sedgwick in the premiere of Call your Mother last night. Underwhelming and not even particularly funny. Maybe even boring? Did you watch it? Lately I've watched 3 older episodes of Mom, now in its 8th season. I keep waiting. How did that show make it past episode 3 in season one? I had a terrific mom, but she wasn't particularly funny. Or so I thought. I'm beginning to rethink that.

I blame the mayor of DC

You can assign the blame for the deaths of unarmed protestors where ever you wish, but I blame Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) who refused to help the Capitol Police leaving them completely unprepared and overwhelmed. An unarmed female veteran committing a crime was killed, although she presented no danger to the officers or the people in the building. As a criminal she was not exactly in the same class with George Floyd who was a seasoned criminal and high on drugs, plus she was white and female, therefore no mobs will gather to protest. No cache in being white or a veteran these days. Especially if one is a Trump supporter. Finally, women are equal in malfeasance in office and in being shot by police, all in one incident. Other Democrat mayors showed their inadequacies for four months in our summer of riots, looting, killing and destruction. But Muriel gets the prize.

First, make two columns

Whether a Democrat or Republican, a Trump supporter or not, take an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and fold it in half length wise. At the top left column, write OBAMA. At the top right column, write TRUMP. Then write the numbers 1 through 15. For each president fill in the numbers with policies YOU believe have helped the American people.

I'll start with Obama.

#1. His race lifted the pride of many black people causing them to vote in unprecedented numbers. I don't discount this--pride, a sense of self worth even if borrowed, is important.

#2. His race lifted the burden of guilt for racism and personal bad behavior from the shoulders of millions of Americans who sighed with relief.

OK. I'm done with that column. There's something to be said for feelings, although as policy, it's pretty weak. And that race thing has certainly come back to bite us as it was fertilizer for BLM, Soviet style reeducation classes in critical race theory and the virus of Woke.

I'm aware that many Democrats would put Obamacare at the top Left, but when you look at the loss of insurance for millions who already had good insurance and liked their doctors/hospitals and then lost them, it wasn't a sound plan. Certainly not for "feelings." Compare those 85% to those 15% uninsured who received very expensive, poor insurance or who had never signed up for one of the government plans already available, In my opinion, it was a very poor and expensive swap. Also the mandate to buy a product or be fined or go to jail was a very bad precedent.

Now for President Trump.

#1 Life. Protection for the unborn, the disabled and the elderly. Although the Democrats responded with powerful penalties against the unborn--like no aid for those born alive if intended for death, even in the 9th month, he supported both with his person at pro-life events and actions the unborn. I'm a one issue voter, so of course, LIFE would be at the top of my list. President Trump was dedicated to advancing policies that protect the fundamental right to life for the unborn, the elderly, and the medically dependent and disabled. Democrats in Congress, who spent 4 years trying to impeach him, saw abortion as pitting the rights of the child against the rights of the mother, and abortion as an act of political courage and charity, to combat poverty and poor health. The President believed Americans were better than that.

#2 Protect and advance lower income Americans were key for the President. Lower taxes and better jobs help the poor far more than one more government program which primarily goes to the middle class bureaucracy. Lowest unemployment rate in my life time. Lower taxes did nothing for those who paid no taxes at all (close to 50%), and for that the Left criticized him. Pelosi called it crumbs. It's hard to give back what the government didn't take.

#3 The border was strengthened with moral, physical, technical and political walls. This directly affected #2.  The flood of illegal immigrants has hurt American workers for decades. This brought attention back to legal immigration, one of our strengths which builds the country. It also brought attention to the "sanctuary city" controversy, where local governments use our tax money to expand their population which enlarges their state representation which hurts the entire country.

I've got more, but I need to go to the store. I'm sure you can think of a few issues specifically important to you. And if you can find anything good about Obama's administration that I missed, please add that.

Comments on the week's events by my friend and I agree

 Right now “I am mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!”  Trump never acted very “presidential,” but he got things done. His accomplishments have been historic in numbers and in dimension. He was elected because people were tired of the establishment politicians of both parties failures to deliver what they promised and their party and power over what is best for the country attitude. 

 I resent being lectured about morality when the left including politicians, corporations, news media and social media fail to call out the left for any transgressions. They are clearly working to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them. 

 Where was this outrage from Elected Democrats in 2020 while cities literally destroyed by the far left loonies?  Destroying businesses and thus innocent peoples’ livelihoods was termed block parties. Federal buildings and police stations were attacked. Where was the outrage by the rest of the left. Oh but let a small group of loonie rightists break into their place of business ( the capital) and they go apoplectic!  The hypocrisy is enormous. 

 I believe the election was unfair. Democrats have been bending the rules and creating fraudulent votes for years. The only reason they do not want voter ID is so fraudulent votes can be cast. They didn’t let the Covid “crisis go to waste.”  They rushed out mail in ballots to everyone on their dirty registration roles with little , if any, verification that those voters are still alive, live at the address of record, or are even citizens. In PA Democrat counties allowed voters to correct their ballots and Republican counties did not because they followed the law. In GA signatures were verified on in person voting but not on mail in ballots. The list goes on. Democrats spent four plus years trying to destroy Trump because he dared to call them names, he wasn’t one of them and he was being successful. They ginned up so much hate against him but no one ever called them out for promoting violence. No, that is reserved for Republicans only. 

 I must add that Judicial Watch has successfully sued a number of states forcing them to clean their voter registration roles. Thousands of names have been removed from the rolls in those states. But many states have not done this yet. 

 Yes, I know Trump isn’t likable , but his policies snd accomplishments have have resonated with so many people. They love him. What has Biden ever done?  Trump had thousands of people at rallies all over the country. Biden barely campaigned and when he did he’d got a handful of cars attending. How did he get so many more votes than Obama did?

My husband and I will be very active politically over the next few years. We will take a stand against all this politically correct nonsense and censorship. We will promote liberty and self-reliance and personal responsibility. We will try to do this with love even though it keeps getting harder to do so with all the hate that the left has generated. 

 Remember, the left has already done or is doing everything bad they accuse the right of doing whether or not the right is actually doing anything wrong.  Another thought - It is just so rich that the Democrats talk about coming together now that they have won. How dare they suggest that after they have spent four plus years throwing dirt at everyone Republican!  Yes, we should try to compromise, but Democrats have pushed too far. If they are not careful there could be a revolution. 

VDH Common sense as always

“The proper conservative response to last Wednesday’s violent entry into the Capitol and vandalism, as well as assaults on law-enforcement, is to identify the guilty parties and ensure they are arrested.”

“Those who wrongly demanded to defund the police, now rightly deplore the lack of a Capitol police presence. Their only consistency is their own perceived political self-interest.”

Crazy 2020 Is Dead! Long Live Crazier 2021! - American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Letter from a friend of a friend

He was there on the 6th, and this is what he saw and heard.  I don’t know “friend,” however I’d believe him above anything that is said on CNN, MSNBC or the reporter on our local news channel who kept referring to the President’s lies while interviewing our governor.

“Family:

I just wanted you to know that since we live so close to Washington D.C. I decided to attend the March for Trump. No matter how I felt, I knew this would probably be one of the most historic political events in my lifetime. I must honestly say I was impressed. When I came home I was shocked by how the media spun things. There were so many people there, the pictures don't even do it justice. Here's an image from the stage someone else took:

[see below]
The following pictures and videos are from my own camera which I attached to a homemade selfie stick made from a flagpole, zip-ties, and rubber bands:
Pictures: https://cloudup.com/cZ8ELLpbuGK
Videos: https://cloudup.com/c1Mcm70XVhO

I remember specifically in Trump's speech (though that section is not being shown by the media) that he said we should never give up or concede. He said even if we lose the fight, to keep fighting in 2 years and vote them out. And he promised to be on the ground with us campaigning to find real politicians who would fight for the people. He went very deep into stats and fraud claims, but much of that was removed from the public eye in other streams. If you want to hear his full speech, here's a working URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBH7ql34Ex0

Never once did he say to riot or attack. He said to never give up and to remember we have the power. I know people who were at the front steps of the capitol (after I left) who didn't even realize there was any violence.

I personally believe this was a setup in a lot of ways and I am sad that anyone would condone violence. But let me be 100% clear, Trump told us to fight legally. He told us to have hope. He told us to fight for truth. I walked away with a new perspective of Trump. It was great to hear his words directly instead of any marketing spin. The contrast of what he said versus what they say he said is quite disturbing. I just wanted to share that with all of you.”

10 books Conservatives need to read

‘Economics in One Lesson,’ by Henry Hazlitt (1946)

‘The Black Book of Communism,’ by Stéphane Courtois, et al. (1999)

‘Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s,’ by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (1998)

‘Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship,’ by Richard Aldous (2012)

‘A Renegade History of the United States,’ by Thaddeus Russell (2010)

‘Gay New York,’ by George Chauncey (1994)

‘Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston,’ by Valerie Boyd (2002)

‘Public Opinion,’ by Walter Lippmann (1922)

‘Good White People,’ by Shannon Sullivan (2014)

With summaries and annotations. 10 Books Every Conservative Should Read To Combat Fake News (thefederalist.com)

Stay awake, not woke.

Normally, I wouldn’t be reading Refinery29, a digital media source established in 2015. It’s owned by something called Vice Media which in turn is Disney, A & E, and other media investors.   It’s for young fashionistas in New York. But then, it’s the modern version of Woman’s Day or Ladies Home Journal which influenced women of the last century with heath and fashion while being obedient to the needs of the marketing department. 

One of the founders and CEOs Christine Barberich  (the other 3 are all males) resigned in June because a minority employee had said bad things about her and the toxic work atmosphere on her Twitter account. Twitter users can say anything and the accused is toast.  Twitter has so much power it has silenced the President of the U.S., and because it is a private company, freedom of speech does not apply.  Maybe you think that’s great because you don’t like the president.  Just keep in mind there is someone out there who doesn’t like YOU too, maybe an ex-, or a member of your club, or even an adult child. The laws about employee and management put in place over the years to protect you, don’t apply to gossip and whispers on social media. Your union or employer will not protect you if the charge (no hearings or trial) contain the magic word, RACIST.  You could have your life’s purpose and meaning closed out and cancelled by Twitter.

But back to Refinery29—why was I reading a digital style magazine for shallow, young New Yorkers? Because it was quoted in the Ohio State University  “OSU HealthBeat” which I received in e-mail. Elizabeth Gulino in Refinery29  was quoting in “The COVID-19 Vaccine Won’t Make You Infertile” the OSU Iahn Gonsenhauser, MD, chief quality and patient safety officer at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.  Then HealthBeat also linked to two other articles that quoted R29 which quoted an OSU doctor. This raises R29’s credibility as a serious journal, and OSU’s appeal to the younger set. A two-fer.

Here’s the kicker (I actually did some further research on this issue, and completely agree with Dr. Gonsenhauser who is quoted in many other popular websites.)  Refinery29 is so woke and so alert to every possible misstep of intersectionalism, it has begun to cancel women by referring to “pregnant people.”  You may skip right over that when you read about pregnancies (the way God designed the plan for males and females to procreate).  That change has moved into the language and fanciful unscientific beliefs because of women calling themselves men while still hanging on to all their lady parts. It’s along the same line as Pelosi destroying the “gendered family.”  It’s all about cancelling women and their uniqueness.

“There is limited data about the safety of receiving COVID vaccinations during pregnancy. Pregnant people are typically excluded from clinical trials due to concerns about harming the fetus (although many argue that keeping pregnant people out of trials leads to their health needs being underrepresented). Twenty-three of the participants in Pfizer's trial became pregnant over the course of the study, but that's too small of a sample to tell us much. Dr. Olulade says that people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or trying to become pregnant [paraphrase] should talk to their doctor before getting the vaccine (everyone should!). "Ultimately it’s about weighing the risks of the unknown when it comes to the vaccine in pregnant women [direct quote] versus the known dangerous risks of COVID."

You and I are awake, not woke.  We know that pregnant people are women, and that people who are pregnant or breastfeeding are women. Every time you read about “pregnant people,” or see an adjective in front of the word “justice,” you are being manipulated. When the kettle heating the water to boil the frog for dinner gets hot enough, it’s too late for you to jump out and save yourself.

Update:  Facebook gave me a black mark for posting this link to my own blog (owned by Google) to my FB wall.  I'm directly quoting a source that quoted an OSU doctor speaking on Covid, yet Facebook fact checkers find my opinion about being woke objectionable.

Still sorting, packing and reshelving

Does your husband (or you) save screws, nails, tacks, and pieces of unidentified plumbing parts, TV wires, and pencils too small to use? We are rearranging the basement storage. Life was easier I think when we lived in a house for 34 years that had no basement and no attic. Now we've had both for the last 19 years, and I swear these mysterious oddies and endies in my husband's tool area just grow! I have one box that is just light bulbs. extra extension cords and surge protectors, and emergency candles. Another box of containers that just hold things together like putty, glue, calking, bonding, etc.

I had planned to buy a metal open shelving unit to store what I didn't throw out, but after pricing them (over $50), the wood bookshelf from our old house that's a little awkward began to look pretty good. Also none of us could remember how we got it in the house and down the stairs in 2002. So we solved the moving problem by just putting it back.

One of the collectors of nuts, bolts, nails, screws of 4 styles and 16 different lengths appears to be an insert from an old desk—maybe walnut or maple. I asked Bob if it was from his grandfather's desk (he died in 1955) which we had when we were married in 1960, or his grandparents' secretary they'd purchased when they got married in 1906. But he couldn't remember. So just in case it's an antique, I moved it to the laundry room where it can accumulate more unidentifiable things.

Am I alone?

Violence is unacceptable--written by a friend

"Violence is unacceptable. Vandalism is unacceptable. I condemn fully the actions of a few that occurred in our nation’s capital yesterday [Wednesday] Period. 

I’m so glad all of America is on the same page now. I’m wondering where the half that spoke up yesterday and today were all this time, but welcome to the club of common sense. It’s time for some reflection for those who never condemned the violence of the past seven months. Seven months of denying the reality of the domestic terrorism and normalizing political violence has consequences. We all saw what was in our streets all summer with the burning down of people’s livelihoods, murdering innocent police officers, hitting pedestrians in the back of the head while laughing about it, churches burning, screaming in the faces of diners in restaurants trying to make a comeback, stealing armfuls of clothing and electronics. Hell, across the bridge in downtown Seattle a new “nation” was formed in the midst of what the mayor called a “summer of love” and people were murdered and police officers were barricaded in precinct buildings that were set on fire. 

Liberals laughed at it. All summer. We watched as mainstream media told us not to believe our lying eyes telling us it was all a “mostly peaceful protest” while standing in front of a five alarm fire. See also, Cuomo’s (who apparently needs to read the First Amendment) “show me where it says protests are supposed to be polite.” It was all normalized and allowed to continue all summer with no consequence.
Today, we have newly minted President-Elect Biden saying about yesterday’s chaos, “well if it was BLM...” ...what? Are you kidding? This is the uniting message of the President-Elect? What did Biden want - more than one unarmed woman to die yesterday? This is called gaslighting, ladies and gentlemen. Biden’s dementia must have allowed him to forget that BLM was allowed to burn cities to the ground. Biden’s dementia must have allowed him to forget that BLM was moved out of Lafayette Park the day after a church was lit on fire and there were so many rioters trying to storm the WH that the President had to be removed and put into the bunker with dozens of secret service agents injured. 

Unsurprisingly, no outcry of an “attack on democracy” from from the usual players on social media then. Crickets from the mainstream media. Normalization of political violence. A small fringe of the other half of the country took notice and took their chances at playing the stupid game without the spray paint (and likely some Antifa actors joined in what they consider a normal Wednesday). The difference here is that Republicans are also outraged by this behavior. We are consistent. It is the outright hypocrisy of the media and liberals now pearl clutching at people in a federal building that is atrocious. No such clutching of the pearls from them during the Kavanaugh confirmation when extremists took over the Hart Senate Building?

Regardless, welcome to the club of common sense. What you won’t see from Republicans is the bail out of the idiots. But join the club, Democrats, join the club with the mission statement “outrage at violence.” No bail funds allowed."

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but there were two, after all.

Antifa sponsored riots in major Democrat cities on New Years Eve, just a week ago. The media didn't blink an eye and politicians federal and local didn't resign in shame for not stopping it.

Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi, behaving like zombie mean girl cliques, have been screaming at the President and his supporters for four years, telling Democrats and anarchists to get in the faces of American citizens minding their own business and take them down, to shame them, and cause them economic loss. They ruined families and friendships, and probably destroyed careers. Pelosi ripped up the president's speech with millions watching on TV in an "act of violence." Big Tech has made themselves our rulers shutting down communication after stealing our identities and data for years to create massive wealth for their millionaire owners, and we never cast a vote for them.

Now the book burning Democrats and many Republican leaders who barely spoke out as our nation was torn apart by riots are outraged that a small group went rogue on Wednesday (some probably were Antifa or FBI plants as there always are in these crowds) from a rally of many thousands. The people came to the capital at great expense and danger to express their frustration over a stolen election. The courts had refused to hear their case, and the local officials just laughed in their faces. The citizens in Hong Kong rally against a Communist government for their rights, and Americans whose rights were stolen in a so-called free country are ridiculed.

A fraction of those at the rally broke out and defiled the "people's house." As others have suggested, it was 99% peaceful. Where was the outrage this past summer from those members gathered for voting Wednesday? They allowed violent behavior and even encouraged it while federal, state and personal property was bombed, burned and defiled? Where were the cabinet members now fleeing the chicken coop calling for calm or asking Schumer, Pelosi and Waters to accept responsibility for their own incendiary words? We know where Joe Biden was--in his basement. We know were Bernie and AOC were--fanning the flames. We know were the media were during the summer riots--dashing off more articles on cancel culture and critical race theory ignoring the Marxist roots of the leaders of BLM and the white faces of Antifa. We know where the board members and CEOs of major corporations were this summer--scrambling to get in the line of woke--as their own buildings were boarded up or burned. down and employees sent home.

It's terrible that 5 people have died, and none of them were killed by the rogue group that attacked the building, unlike those who died during the summer mayhem at the hands of Antifa and BLM.

This is not "whataboutism." It's about the gaslighting and theft, the spying and lying that's been going on for 4 years.

Portland police declare a riot as protest gets out of control (msn.com)

7 Charged In New Year's Eve Vandalism Of Philly Federal Buildings | Philadelphia, PA Patch

Maxine Waters encourages supporters to harass Trump administration officials (cnn.com)

Pelosi calls Trump, GOP lawmakers 'domestic enemies,' 'enemies of the state' over mail-in voting opposition | Fox News

Photos of America's Summer of Rioting - American Renaissance (amren.com)