WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE MUTE BUTTON????

 So - I guess the Grammies came out this weekend ... I don't watch such shows, last Miss America I watched was when Linda Carter won (I loved her in Wonder Woman, and in Partners in Crime with Loni Anderson) , but I was never into the whole EGOT thing at all ... but apparently - from what I gather from Good Morning America and FNC (pick a program) they were .... well ..... overly chatty, shall we say?

They had a LOT of political "thank you" speeches ... and here's a bit of MY response to some of those.

1 - the gal who talked about "stolen land" ... my understanding is you OWN a few MILLION DOLLARS WOimmunitRTH of this "stolen land" .... when you gonna give it all back???

2 - Bad Bunny - what the heck are YOU talking about? Your PUERTO RICAN, man .... that makes you an AMERICAN CITIZEN, you don't have to worry about ICE or nothing.There useused to be 

In fact, ANYONE who is a citizen of PR, or has full "sanctuary status" there - your fine, just keep your papers with you.

3 - There used to be - used to be, I feel my age, now - a tiny button which you could push when the award winners would get too far off topic.

A THANK YOU is just that .... you win ... you accept the award ... you thank anyone who HELPED you or who are DEAR TO YOU ... but that's it!

One guy, can't remember his name, sorry, thanked GOD - any that would be allowed ... he talked about his religion, but he told how it had HELPED HIM .... to me, this is allowed.
He then went on to say DOthat Christianity does not belong to just one political group ... that was a bit iffy to me - but I'd allow it ...

But the dude who simply said "F' Ice" ... yeah, I'd have muted him ASAP.

Dudes - the pubic doesn't care what you think ... we don't care!  Pull your big boy pants up, or put some on - God, when did undies become optional?? - and get on with your life.

You are about as significant in our lives as a piece of chewing gun on the ground!

Get over yourselves.

HERE IT COMES AGAIN!!!

 So - des anyone think the Democrats will learn ANY THING from the last snowstorm?  Not before the next storm - TOMORROW - hitting the east coast.

NWS (National Weather Service) predicts that TN, and all the way up to at least NJ are going to get hit by a storm which will drop ANOTHER 12 inches of snow in most places.

WOW

While NY & NJ are used to getting snow - places like North & South Carolina are NOT, In fact Georgia (the state, not the country) is more likely to get snow than they are ...

There are still 80,000 - 100,000 homes WITHOUT power yet from last weeks storm - that's about 5 days without power.

I've been there - during the summer of 2019 (?) after the rare tornado up here - it was no fun ... especially being on a WELL and SEPTIC system.

I have figured out how to get around the septic part, but the water - that was a pain in the butt.

In NY .... remember when they passed the laws which OUTLAWED all gas household items?

No Gas heaters ...
No Gas ovens ...
No Gas stoves ...
No Gas water heaters ...

You're not allowed to use a woodburning fireplace or heating system either ...

So - how long before the Democrats (who are "in charge" of these states) ... how long will it take for them to go "well, that was a stupid law" and reverse it??

How many people will have to pass away?

Right now, my understanding is the death toll sits just over 100 people.

PRETTI BIG MESS

So, y you live in the state of MN .... and if your parents are any thing like mine - great people btw - raised you to understand that if you see an officer, you treat them with kindness .... yu address them as "sir" or "officer", you don't get in their face. 

Well, here's what we know about what happened Saturday morning in Mpls....

Pretti (Pronounced "Pret-tea" not "pretty") was out videoing ICE after they took someone into custody.

Aggitators were around blowing those damed whistles (hate those things) .... and there are about 5-8 others doing the same thing.

Pretti's video captures one ICE person trying to move a woman back (she's in his face with the camera, man) .... and she finally gets pushed back towards Pretti.

The ICE agent reaches out and she goes down.

Now this is about all that's clear - everything else, although recorded, is pretty muddy.

Another recording showed Pretti telling the agent not to push her, he bends down to help her up ... 

The officer, it seems, spotted his gun and calls out "Firearm" or "Weapon" (amazingly, no one got a clear vi somedeo of what he actually said) ... and -boom - all hell breaks loose!

He (Pretti) ends up on the ground - one video clip shows him on his knees, head down, but only one clip .... then it seems that there were several ICE officers on him pushing him down (4-10 depending on which video you watch) .... and some how an ICE agent came out of the "dogpile" with a 9mm handgun ...

Its'' really hard to see exactly what happened ... no matter the number of videos there are.

Someone yelled something - could have been an ICE officer, could have been Pretti - no idea of what was said, nor who had said it.

Suddenly, a bunch of shot rang out ... they say 10, but one eye witness said 6 shouts, not that it really matters all that much.

The results were the same ...

Pretti - a male nurse from the VA Hospital - is dead. On scene.  Another man convinces the officers he is a doctor, and does CPR.

He said that he saw Pretti shot 6 times, at 3 of which were through the back ...

Within all of two seconds, the protesters were upon the officers ... they began to fire teargan and flash-.

bangs trying to get control of things.

It was about and hour later that I heard about it on YouTube ... and it was going nuts.

The protesters were blocking the streets - using anything they could find ... dumpsters, chairs, patio furniture, etc.  They scattered NAILS on the streets! to flatten tires of law enforcement vehicles.

Well, you would think Mayor Frey and Gov Walz would want to tamp this down, right? 

Oh, hecks no!

They each held press conferences .... Frey trying to calm things down, just a little bit .... Walz (The Fraud Father) turned the heat up ...

I was watching The Faulkner Focus today, and she pointed out that Tim Walz (I refuse to call him "Governor" anymore at this point) compared minority parents as being just like ANNE FRANK'S family during the Holocaust!!

I kid you not!

This isn't done yet.

Sounds like ALL agents/officers involved, have been transferred to other states.  Which puts them out of MN BCA grips for a while longer.

They aren't getting away with anything ... it will be coming back - they just have a few more hoops to jump through.

Today - the President is withholding his view of what happened, sayign they are "looking into it" ....

There are still supposed to be over 2000 ICE officers in MN - so no one has "won" yet .... but, you have to wonder what the heck is going on.

THE SUPREME COURT RULING: ELECTION DEADLINES

 Yea, I gave it away - this case involves a loss in 2022 in the state of Illinios (imagine that) where a couple of Republicans running for office - so it wasn't just one person, it was at least 2 effected - who felt they were harmed by the IL law which said ballots could be counted for up to 2 WEEKS AFTER the actual election date, in particular, those which came in via USPS mail (aka Absentee ballots).

Well - it seems the plantiff's (Republicans) were found not to have standing - that is they didn't have a leg to stand on.  In fact, the state board of Appeals found they had "self inflicted wounds" by needing to keep staff for those additional 2 weeks while all the ballots were counted.

Yes - in outher words, just accept the fact that IL is rigged against you and move on.  (Eye Roll Here) ... 

Well I hadn't heard about this case on ANY news channel, yet (I

m behind this week) but instead, it was an episode of Facts Matter on YouTube.

Here's the episode in which they talk about the Supreme Courts take on it ... Wow is all I have to say.

Just Wow.

HAVE YU EVER NOTICED???

 Cardinals and Bluejays look exactly alike, just different colors? Is one just embarrassed and the other always cold?

Live is the reverse of Evil?

Just a bit of humor ... I will update this fairly regularly ... I hope.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS ON THE NEWS?? i DIDN'T .... NOT EVEN FOX!

 Okay ... so, if you are like me - and trust me, I am so much this way - you spend your day working by your computer, and you have YouTube playing as background sound.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!  Let's hope Newsome never runs for PRESIDENT - I'd hate to think of this on a national level.

So I was listening to one such item when I was "shopping" on line - window shopping really, I hardly ever actually pay for anything these days - when it caught my attention ...

California - one of our largest econmic areas - is having a bit of an issue ....

NO FOOD

Yes, you have read that correctly - the Preppers in California are going "SEE?" to the rest of the state right now - and every other Prepper is going "Damn!"

You need to watch this video - then in a couple days, I will put up a post with my feelings on it all.

REPORTS OF 12,000 DEAD ... IN IRAN ... BY FORMER PRINCE OF IRAN ...

 Yeah, I thought I had better put in where this information came from ... because the "official" numbers - from Bret Braer on Fox News, it was 3,000 - 4,000+ .... can we just say between 3,000-4,000?

According to the former crown prince - I want to say he was the son of the Shah of Iran, but I'm not really sure at this point - they are killing people and then charging their families in order to get the bodies back (it's supposed to pay for the bullet that killed them)

WOW - they say this sort of thing about China ... but this is the first time I've heard about it about Iran.

Don't get me wrong - Iran is a horrible place.

I was in 11th grade when the hostages were taken .... 10th or 11th, but I can't remember if it was at the beginning or the end of the year - I remember we had two foreign exchange students - one from Spain and the other from somewhere in the middle east (Yani, I still remember his name) and shortlly after it happened he was ... gone.  I remember him being in class until break - then - POOF- he was simply gone.

I suspect he was sent back to whichever country he came from ... but I don't really know.

I remember the 1980 elections - I was in 12th grade and I remember the next day when I found out Reagan had won - I was so excited (Carter was a horrid President) and I remember asking one of my teachers if she had voted yesterday, and she said yes, and I said "Isn't it great?" and she said "Oh did you like Reagan?" .... I didn't know it at the time but I don't think she liked him very much.

Well, neither did the Iranians - the moment he took the oath, they let the plane carrying the hostages GO .... they weren't going to mess with him - no way, no how

The Iranians today are again, looking for Freedom - it's an vague concept that is recognized the world=round ... someplaces don't even have a name for it - but they will know it when they see it.

I doubt they will go back to a monarchy ... and somehow, I don't think the religious leaders won't want to give up their power either ... and there is a parliamentary government of sorts ... we will have to see what will happen.

More on this story will be coming - I've got some quotes/posts to share.