It was a good St. Patrick’s Day filled with fun, food and family!
Confessions of a Life Long Republican – 2020 Redo
So we have the choice this year between The Old Guy (Democrat) or the guy who is under indictment and was arrested and has a mug shot (Republican).
Trump was just rated the worst President to ever sit in the Oval Office by Historical Scholars this past President’s Day. There are 100 million reasons for this distinction, from giving the finger to the Emolument Clause of the Constitution or to trying to inciting a coup against America in the seat of democracy, The Capitol, because he lost the 2020 Election. There are so many things this man has done over the decades and being a white wealthy male of privilege he gets a pass. Why?
A wonderful mother, Kelley Williams-Bolar wanted the best for her children and lied about her address so they could go to a better school served nine days in prison and got 3 years probation and 80 hours of community service. The distinction is she is black and a woman and he isn’t.
This man is devoid of reality because of his privilege. His acolytes are scary at best and treasonous at worst. They follow his white male dominance first and his bigotry while screaming “God Bless America”. He told them they need a dictator an he’s the guy. The hoot and hollered cheers of acceptance. He told them, he is above the law and they cheered that too.
This man is a narcissistic megalomanic but the one thing I will never grip my mind around is that men and a few women serving in our military today worship him (which is frowned upon in the Bible, js). He is a 5 time draft dodger. He has called their Generals Stupid, crazy and least we forget, LOSERS. Yet as acolyte they follow him, because why?
Let’s look at Grampa Joe. Yes, he is a little creepy sometimes but he actually thinks he is funny even when he is not.
Under his administration, during Covid he brought relief for millions of families with children. What did he do? He temporarily raised the limit on the Child Tax Credit to $3600 and then gave monthly installments to families directly. It was the first time in decades the Child Poverty rate in America went down.
Some people are a fan of student depth relief. I am, in as much as, they should eliminate the interest rates not wipe out the entire debt. This would help the Millennials and Gen-Z’s pay it off faster. It was choice to go to college and which college they chose. I do believe that there were nefarious doings in selling these loans. Eliminate the interest and they are paying back their true college debt.
These are just two things in hundreds that Biden has done in his administration. He also didn’t play golf every 4 days as did Trump (on his private golf courses and the cost to Americans was in upwards of $100 million dollars).
Let me bring up Hunter Biden now. The guy is a true blue dirtbag. He is the grown son of the President. Whatever he does are his own choices like any adult child. He drug problem was only his to change or control. Every decision he makes is on him. Republicans say he is being protected. Sure, if that helps you sleep at night. But when and if Hunter goes to jail how will you attack Joe?
I was brought into the Republican party when I was 18 years old. I campaigned for Reagan. I voted for Reagan. I thought they really did stand for Family Values, Were Pro-American and were the beacons of fiscal responsibility. As the decades waned I became more disillusioned. They aren’t pro America. They rally around the Russians like rats to the pied piper. They have no Family Values because if they did we as one of the wealthiest countries in the world would the highest child poverty rate of an industrialized nation. They have increased our national debt after every democrat President before them reduced or in Clinton’s case, reversed the debt. These men have decreased American safety at home and in the world. Millennials and Gen-Z’s are exhausted and really have just given up on the “American Dream”.
Then January 6, 2021 happened, my country had become a place of crazy people and hooligans. Acolytes lead to slaughter by morons who deemed themselves scholars. Whipping the crazies into a frenzy to the point they wanted to hang Mike Pence, VP at the time. They stormed the Capitol building and hooligan child like behavior of defecating on the desks and floors was to themselves their proudest moments of life. The world laughed at us in unison. What these hooligans didn’t understand or didn’t really care about is that it was only a ceremony for the election. Nothing would change the outcome of the election. Someone died. The Capitol police were decimated with lifelong injuries and the savior never pardoned his acolytes.
I would no longer be a Republican as a RINO or otherwise. The acolytes call people like me names but my favorite name of all is WOKE. I am woke, unlike my delusional county persons. Trump is a megalomanic narcissist and his interest are his own. He is an admitted criminal. He is an admitted want-to-be Dictator. He is an admitted lover of all things Putin and Russia and would sell us all to slavery for his own benefit.
So in 2024 I will not vote Republican. I will hope that Speaker Mike Johnson falls from his podium and is replaced by sanity.
Will I vote for the Old Guy…at this point yes but in reality there is a whole lot of time left before the election.
Yummy Goodness
We went to Bar Lucca in Conshy. These were the best fries I have ever had in my entire life! The Sandwich is fried prosciutto and mozzarella cheese with chili oil dressing. So scrumptious! Check them out if you are in Conshohocken! #barlucca
Views of My Town
I grew up in a city of 8 million people. We always referred to it as in town. Still do, lol.
This was my view today for work. Pretty darn spectacular!
It’s Been a Long Time
Life has been a roller coaster as of late. All good which is a delightful change to the last couple of years.
Today we have had our 2nd round of snow. Before that it had been 710 days since having a substantial snow. It’s pretty and fluffy, unlike Monday’s round of snow that cold and slush and turned to ice. 
I love winter. Not many people do but I just love snuggling up and taking it easy. Even driving in it is frustrating but then I come home and snuggle. Yeah!
Stay warm and enjoy your Friday!
Political Madness
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on my blog. I couldn’t remember my password among the calamities of my life. Then yesterday, it popped into my head. Yay Me!
It’s now 2023, the Craziness of Donald Trump and his cult are still here. He is running for President again and is actually doing well among the cult members. The “classic” Republicans have all joined the cult and the craziness that they release. Only now, Mr. Trump has been indicated 4 times. He’s had hi mugshot taken with his fellow conspirators. Yet, he is still the victim.
I saw Hilary Clinton asked about her thoughts on his arraignment in Georgia and she smiled. She then said, “All I will say on this matter is that our system still works”. This from a woman who was witch hunted her entire candidacy for President. Unlike anyone in the Trump administration or associated with the failed-coup against America, she testified every time called. Why? She was not guilty of a crime. Not having morals or being self-serving isn’t a crime. Committing crimes makes you a criminal. Just a highlight, the republican party spent approximately $10-20 million of tax dollars on these witch hunts with no convictions.
Mitch McConnell is having major health issues that his people and the party are hiding. There is only so long it can be hidden. We’ve all seen him at 2 press conferences he zoned out like he had a stroke or dementia. His people say it’s just residual effects from a fall he had last March. Only idiots would believe that after seeing him live on TV.
I’m not saying Joe Biden isn’t a nut wrapped in a candy coating. This is our Country right now. We have grifters and slimbags running for President on the Republican side and Grandpa Joe on the other side. So sad.
At lease, those anti-American anarchists are getting their due now. Puffed up on 1/6’s insurrection against the fabric of America and Democracy by their grifter savior who promised pardons if they rose to do his bidding. The Proud Boys leaders got 10-18 year sentences. Guess what, the grifter lied. His acolyte still love his lying butt.
I’m so tired of this dumpster fire that America has become because of a washed up cancelled Reality TV loser. He dismantled as much of the system as he could in 4 years. Now he is hoping that winning the Presidency will save him from prison. Talk about white privilege.
The End of Summer
It’s not really the end of summer but it is the end to the season of carefree fun that we associate with Summer. I’m not a fan of heat and humidity. I’m especially not a fan of BUGS! but there is that sense of loss when the kids go back to school and the crazy schedule becomes more routine. Yeah…I’m a fan of organization and schedules do no…I’m not going to miss this at all, lol.
While the kiddos are sad to see it all end I’m delighted for my favorite season waiting in the wings…AUTUMN!
I’ve already began watching Halloween movies.
Space Tourism?
This week actor William Shatner became the oldest person in space at the age of 90. Captain Kirk has gone really high into the sky, floated for 3 minutes and then fell back to Earth. So to say he’s gone to “Space” is a bit of a stretch. Really what he did was go to an outer atmosphere of Earth.
Space Tourism is like a thing now. It costs anywhere between $250,000 (Virgin Galactic) to $28 million on (Blue Origin) to fly 66.5 miles into the air. Average length of this expensive joyride? That would be approximately 11 minutes. So you see why I think it’s ridiculous.
The ecological expense is even greater. The amount of Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen and other materials consumed could be used on Earth for real things of worth.
In a world that is beset by the pains of what we have done to our ecosystem (Fires, floods, tornadoes, destructive hurricanes and pandemics) seeing rich people eject themselves into the air inside a penis shaped rocket kind of leaves me with WTF!
Every one of these rich people who are paying ridiculous amounts of money to go into our atmosphere could be funding schools, science programs, food programs for the poor and millions of other need programs. Instead, they spend millions to shout ‘cool’ and ‘wee’ because they took a thrill ride at G-force.
Can someone please explain why these idiots get to pay no taxes and I have to pay 29% payroll, 8% local and state sales tax on almost everything I purchase? Anyone?
Halloween -Michael Myers Is Back…A lot
It’s been 58 years since Michael Myers murdered his sister Judith. He would be 64 years old now. He is also apparently still killing young folks for some reason only he knows.
I’m 56 years old and tired all of the time. How he has the energy to be a mass killer at 64 is just freaky.
The first two Halloween Movies were awesome. The story was awesome and so was Jamie Lee Curtis vs. The Masked Brother. I will also go as far to say that Halloween H20 was also an amazing addition to the story of Michael Myers. The writers followed the previous story line arch to bring Michael Myers back again.
To me every other Michael Myers “Halloween” Movie sucked. Halloween 5 tried to accomplish what they did with Halloween H20 but failed miserable.
Let me first address the fact that Michael Myers would be 64 years old. We get this from the story line. He was 6 years old when, dressed as a clown, he murdered his older sister Judith.
She died at the age of 17. So the math says he’s 64 in 2021.
I’m not a fan of endless spinoffs of movies or TV shows. The above mentioned movies made sense to me. It followed a story line. H20 was cleaver because Laurie changed her name and started a new life. She got married and had a son. Laurie was attacked by her brother Michael when she was 17, just like their sister Judy. In H20, her son is attacked making the 17th year significant and thus tying the 3 movies together.
The end of H20 ended the story of Michael Myers for me. Laurie ended it with an ax. The Halloween movies continued and each and every time they come out it leaves me feeling…this is dumb.
I know people love Horror movies but where is the originality? To pay for extreme graphic violence seems a bit lazy to me.
Halloween to me will always be just a trilogy. Others, will disagree with me on that point and that’s cool.
I will watch my trilogy and think about how scary these movies are because Michael doesn’t utter one word of dialogue. He just is menacing…period.
If for some reason I see a Halloween moves shot after H20 I will wonder…How did Michael get his head back on?
Perhaps it’s the same way Leslie from General Hospital got hers.
[Laughing]
Happy Halloween Peeps!
Arrogance Killed My Sympathy
I’ve had many conversations with friends about the “mask/No mask” mandates. All I could do was shake my head at the No Maskers. When the Vaccines seemed to be working and the vice grip of local and state governments were easing slowly about wearing masks, I still wore mine. Why? Because my Mother didn’t raise and idiot.
The Covid was still out there. The unknown of what it would do next was ever present. I still wore my mask to the grocery store and to get gas. Basically I wore it anywhere there were people, inside or outside. Did I think it would 100% protect me from contracting Covid? No, but I knew that I had to take every precaution for myself and my family. How hard is it to wear a mask to mitigate transition. I can tell you…it’s not difficult at all!!!!
Fast forward, we now know that we still need the masks. We still need to practice caution and social distancing when possible. However, a large group of anti-Vaxx/anti-Mask people are pushing conspiracies and lunacy as the reasons why they won’t get vaccinated. In the face of factual evidence that 95% of all new Covid patients are Un-Vaccinated. And yes, they are dying every day.
How do I have sympathy for people who could have mitigated their catching Covid? How do I care for someone who puts their children in harms way intentionally out of some misguided ridiculous nuttery? They do not believe in masking up and this could cause their children to be ravaged by Covid.
How do people become so arrogant and prideful that they are willing to die to make a point? Recently 3 anti-mask, anti-vaccine, conspiracy hounds who host radio shows have DIED from Covid. A revered Cardinal who preached to his followers against the vaccine is now on a ventilator.
Arrogance will kill you. You don’t know better than those who spent their lives studying infectious disease because you read something on reddit or twitter while taking your morning dump.
Arrogance will kill others. Texas Govenor Abbott who had gotten a booster shot before it was authorized and then after contracting Covid took Regeneron while only asymptomatic shows that he just became afraid of Covid. That little treatment he took isn’t available to all because it’s wicked expensive. There Abbott stood arrogant and defiant until Covid came for him. Now he wants medicine and prayers. Can you imagine the anger of parents who children are flooding Texas ICUs? Where is the Regeneron to save their babies?
America should be better than this but apparently they are not. Get it together. Practice those Christian ways you are all ways proselytizing. Save our children, and each other. To wear a mask is the least you can do for your neighbor.
Don’t let arrogance and pride kill you or someone you love.
The View Through My Cracked Window 