Friday

 - The drooling imbecile occupying the White House said with some certainty the other day his administration has basically cured cancer…and that almost 100 people died from Chinese flu. 81 million votes my ass

- Feds are looking to regulate or ban altogether gas stoves, gas heaters, gas water heaters, eventually gas vehicles. No viable options for what will power their mandated replacements. Wood burning appliances and small gas engine things have become a plague, etc.  On one hand, I can see certain benefits to this undercurrent (heh) of becoming an all electric society.  Electric things are significantly quieter, don’t require continual digging up streets and such to provide service, and so forth.

But no one has yet to detail how we are supposed to generate enough electricity to do any of this. Electricity takes a HUGE area to generate, takes millions of miles of cable, requires installing extremely heavy transformers which at the moment no electric powered vehicle can move or lift, is insanely expensive, cannot be stored, and most disconcerting can be turned off if people don’t behave a certain way.

Perhaps the ability to remotely disconnect is the point?

- Political dynasties have essentially crippled  our nation. Kennedy…Bush…Clinton…Biden. These people are not to be canonized, nor should they have any authority over our day to day lives in a capacity greater than street sweeper.

- Human garbage Bowe Bergdahl had his conviction overturned by a federal judge, based on the courts martial presiding judge failed to report that he had applied for a high level job with the Trump administration, and was thus prejudiced in his verdict. Doesn’t change what Bergdahl did though.

- Speaking of electricity…I’ve noticed a massive disconnect between the number of batteries devices require and the number of batteries in a package.  Need six AAA batteries? Buy two packs of four, or one pack of 10.

- Speaking of shopping…we had occasion to be in a large retail chain store (nameless, but store initials are J.C. P…). We purchased assorted stuff, and discovered that should we need to return our purchases, we’d get just about half our purchase money back. That’s a pretty funky way to do business, and will likely be our last excursion there. The chain store website says nothing about this.

- Has anyone seen anything about Bernie Sanders lately? The socialist millionaire has been oddly quiet.

- On a sad note, there will be a memorial service for Deb’s youngest son Rick tomorrow. As you may know he passed away a few weeks ago. Please keep her and her two boys in your thoughts and prayers.