Hi All. Doing some cooking and cleaning today, general domestic duties day, with music playing. Thought I would share a favorite singer for my slow days like this. I often have music playing, and it sort of matches my mood – like most people. I hope you find him enjoyable. Hugs. Randy
ok…. back edit. I added some. Home you find them all enjoyable. The Trace Adkins one bumps a bit and wakes you up a bit. Don’t want to get too relaxed :).
Hello Everyone. Recently there has been some hijinks and controversy over the ousting of suspected/alleged gang members from the US. On the surface of things, I support the very thing that was done, but it was done quite wrongly and that is the problem.
The United States Constitution outlined our form of government in such a manner that things could – and could not! – be changed as we grew. Chief among these unchangeable is that there are three branches of the government: The Legislative, the Judicial, the Executive, and those branches are created so that no one branch could run unchecked. The sad truth is that no form of government can withstand the greed and avarice of powerful men and women, as has been made quite clear all too often.
Under the very tired and troubled Aliens Enemies Act the drumpf admin. chose to deport suspected ~ alleged Venezuelan gang members prior to the normal hearings and those very pesky things that the Legislative branch seems to like to throw around. This Aliens Enemies Act was last used to imprison Japanese Americans because the Nation of Japan attacked the United States 80+ years ago.
But, so what, right? I mean, they aren’t even citizens, and it would appear that they are gang members breaking the law. Why shouldn’t they be deported?
Ok, fair question. But, who says they are gang members? Who says they are breaking the law? For that matter, are we even sure they are not citizens? I mean, do you carry around your citizenship papers everyday?
The very people who will go to extremes to demand their 2nd Amendment rights seem to lose focus after #2. They don’t mind the violations of the 4th Amendment – until it happens to them. Until they need it. Until someone takes their rights. And it is the very presence of the 4th’s Due Process that gave us the idea that we are a land of laws and rights that can’t be violated at the whim of the powers that be.
There are those who voted this man in who cheer these violations of due process, but they are the same who voted in a man who supported an insurrection, who then pardoned people who broke into the house of government and vandalized, stole, disrupted, threatened, assaulted, brandished weapons and sought to kill the Vice President.
The same man who stole government secrets and papers, perhaps gave them to our enemies, who was convicted of felonies himself, or at least his administration while he naps and plays golf, is telling you that not only do these people not need a 4th Amendment protection, but that the Judge who demands those protections is to be removed. Perhaps they will see their error when he comes for them?
Hugs. randy
It’s a beautiful sun-shining day today, all of 31 degrees. But that is my life these past weeks: if it’s warm and sunny, I’m at work. If I’m at home and it’s warm, it’s raining. And, if it’s warm and the sun is shining and I’m at home… yeah, I’m too lazy to go out. Who am I kidding. Hugs everyone!
Hello Everyone! This week I decided to try something new. I’m going to leave work at a decent time. So, for a week, my goal is 6:30am – 4:00pm. I’ve managed two of three days so far, and I’m really feeling better. It’s bothersome, a bit, to walk out of the shop and know that I have so much left to do, but I’ve found that doesn’t change no matter what time I leave.
I still hate mornings, though. So, a bit of morning coffee humor. Hugs! Randy
I had a small argument with someone recently who believed that anyone who doesn’t want doge working on government efficiency and rooting out corruption obviously had things to hide. I told him it was like driving to the store – on the wrong side of the highway; ie: doing something that you say is being done for the right reasons, but doing so poorly and evilly… Well, I thought that I would do a post on that… then found myself completely sick and tired of the idea that I could change the opinion of people. So, instead, I thought I would share some of the meme’s I was going to use in this post and allow you to get there by the very pictures. I think it says about as much as I could have.
Hello All. I recently managed to completely confuse everyone with a post titled “I differ from Belle a bit on This”. It may help to put the rest of this post into context…Scottie insisted that I take my medication before I try to express myself a bit better with this second swing. I’ll have you know that my doctor says I’m feeling much better now, so… here goes; strap up buttercup!
I would like to preface this attempt at face-saving with the reminder that just because something sounds incredibly insane does not mean that it isn’t in fact, uh, fact. Let’s face it, America just voted back in a guy who… well, you know who he is. I don’t think I need to explain more there.
For those of you brave (crazy?) enough to have gone back and read that previous post, I begged for help with an eventuality that I see in our future. I told Scottie that it is like seeing something horrifying coming towards you on a fog covered road; too indistinct to quite make out, to loathsome to articulate. And for those of you keeping score, I still don’t want to say it because I don’t want to speak it into existance and I’m truly afraid of the outcome. Nonetheless…
Despite drumpf’s denials, he is plugging right down the perditious road of project 2025. We have seen him bring on banana-nut musk and his flying monkeys as they take a reaping scythe to a functioning government, mostly to the rabid applause of the far right.
For those of you who know people who work in the government, they are typically non-political. Why? Because politicians come, politicians go, and these folks have to be to work on Monday morning to do the work that needs to be done. But, drumpf and his crew of merry men fired thousands for being “unfit”.
They said that this was to “save money”, “to be more efficient” and to “root out corruption”. They told you they were going to do this in their project 2025. They also told you that they would replace them with right minded compatriots. That was such batshit craziness that no one believed them, including the now fired government workers who voted for them.
Now, for some things that they didn’t tell you that I alluded to in the previous post:
I believe that the project 2025 is a grass-roots restructuring of the American Government. The replacement of the top people every four years is expected, and has a limited effect. The rank and file ignore them and do their job around them.
The replacement of the rank and file in relevant positions will change the structure of the government in the same way that the take over of the school boards drove home the confusion and dismantling of personal freedom for young people… who grow to be the upcoming generation. The removal of DEI and reasonable minded government workers, is only the pretext for replacement of those people who mirror the very American population with compatriots who demonstrate their “fitness” by being willing to violate any law, any policy, any moral code upon direction of their Dear Leader.
In short: I believe that the drumpf administration is seeking to create the very deep state they accused the democrats of having.
I believe this grass roots movement will mirror the change in the top, but will be around for 20-30 years, long after we would presume, hope!, drumpf to be gone.
I believe this movement will not only facilitate the end goals of project 2025, but normalize it.
I believe this is designed to not just dismantle the normalcy of the government, not just open the very institution to pillaging by the powerful, but to bring about a future that would not be recognizable pre-maga.
And, the ramifications of this terrify me.
I used to have a small lawn care business, just me and two lawnmowers, weed wackers, a couple of brooms putzing around the neighborhood in my old pick-up truck and Dad’s old snowmobile trailer. I couldn’t do much about the customer’s dandelions, but I let them grow in my own yard. I liked them. My neighbor’s were pissed. -randy
One of the strangest arguments I have ever had and will ever have, I sincerely hope, is that we should make sure we are feeding our children. On the face of things, you would rarely hear someone argue differently, but when people talk about discontinuing food stamps and school lunch programs, that is the real argument: feeding kids isn’t an important enough use for my money. In this country, we throw away food because our leadership is unable/unwilling to prioritize taking care of our people at a basic level of food, housing, education, health. Hugs all. randy
In fiscal year 2023, the federal government spent $112.8 billion on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is the largest nutrition assistance program in the United States. This was about 1.84% of the federal budget.
According to research, childhood hunger can significantly impact adulthood by increasing the risk of chronic health conditions like diabetes, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease, as well as contributing to mental health issues like depression, lower cognitive function, and reduced life satisfaction, even when adjusting for socioeconomic factors in adulthood; this is largely due to the developmental disruptions caused by malnutrition during critical growth periods in childhood.
40% of American families are one paycheck away from poverty. This means that they would be unable to cover an unexpected expense if they missed a paycheck
In 2022, 9.1 percent of U.S. households with adults aged 65 and older were food insecure at some time during the year, meaning they had difficulty providing enough food for all their members because of a lack of resources.
Miss my Grace.
Have a great night everyone!
Hello All. I am stumbling over how to express my thoughts on this or even if they are accurate, so I think I need your help. I don’t know if it is best listening to Belle talk about Recisions first, but I’ll put forth her video and let you know my thoughts after that I need some help understanding.
Recision is a trackable and mostly upfront process where the congressionally approved monies are rejected by the executive branch. Where I differ from Belle on this, sort of, is that the republicans in general and more specifically whoever is the brains behind the drumpf administration would seriously consider this idea of Recision. I think this is pure smoke and I very much do not believe that is their goal for a variety of reasons:
This is what I am betting I will see soon: These displaced workers performed x-amount of work. That work, those services, will soon to be seen as necessary, but as the workers were dismissed for being “unfit“, they will need to be replaced with those “fit” for the job. And, of course, the first definition of “fit” is one who will do what they are told no matter what while publicly kissing sweet potato hitler’s ass.
Where I need input now is in consideration that the guy in the mirror isn’t giving me a lot of erudite thoughts on this issue, so I’m a bit lost in my own wanderings and I simply don’t have the time in front of the interviews and news to have better information. So far I’m not hearing the news organizations talking about this in this expected outcome. What do you think?
Thanks!!
randy
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