It’s a conspiracy

The drive by media is biased, local print media is left
leaning, and I believe I’ve uncovered an insidious plot to get
us God loving, gun toting conservatives to give up. Not our
beliefs, just where we get our news.

Case in point: you probably know newspapers are using a
different ink than in the papers of my youth. But as an affront
to us older subscribers I think they’re making the print smaller,
and thus harder, for us bifocal wearing oldfarts to read.

Yesterday as I perused our local paper I was confused by an
ad on an inside page. The wife noticed my confusion and asked
what the problem was. But whe I looked at the ad again, the
ad changed! I could have sworn the ad was for Naked Pizza.

That could turn into every parents nightmare if a child saw
it and asked what a naked pizza is. But when I looked again
the print had changed to Baked Pasta! A hologram? Magic? An
oldfart who hadn’t had enough coffee yet to comprehend?

So I told the wife, hey I’m only 66 years old and I shouldn’t
be having these kinds of problems yet. She explained that I
can’t hear out of one ear, my knee goes out more than I do, my
back constantly hurts, and my hands cramp up. So what is so bad
about one more little problem?

It doesn’t seem bad to a person younger in better health but
once we reach a certain age we want less, not more glitches.
At this rate I’ll be making myself a cane soon. So I am
once again going to man up and admit the paper has once
more changed to a smaller print size.

Enjoy our Tuesday. Now I go in search of some leftover pizza
to fill a need. At least I can still remember where we keep
the pizza.
Comments are always welcome.

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No news for me

We do live in interesting times. And it seems odd to us that
at a time when we have over 1.1 million acres of forests on
fire out west, southern Texas recovering from a hurricane,
daily shootings in Chicago that rival war zone statistics, and
a law makers who can’t make any laws, the headlines we see are
how the first lady wore a heavenly dress paired with shoes made
by the devil to religious services yesterday.

Nothing about how understaffed and overworked the wildfire
firefighters are, no solutions to end the carnage in Chicago,
and no legislator saying ‘let’s do what’s right for America’.
There is something wrong with that picture.

The National Interagency Fire Center lists 78 large incidents
across 7 states as of yesterday. These can be anything from
fires to hurricane relief and the incidents are listed on the
map below. Click on the map to enlarge it.

Chicago has had 2,587 people shot so far this year that
resulted in 480 deaths. That breaks down to one person getting
shot every 2 minutes 18 seconds and one person shot and killed
every 12 hours 21 minutes.

Here on the east coast of Iowa we lost the sun at around 3 pm
yesterday and the sky turned yellow. Later, when the moon was
able to be seen, it looked almost blood red. We were told it
was because of the smoke from the wildfires out west while the
temperature outside dropped around 15 degrees.

Until such time as the media takes its responsibility seriously
I will no longer watch any news programs. I see it as a waste
of time and think instead of being uninformed, listening to the
media would leave me misinformed.

Enjoy our first tuesday of fall. Now I need to get another
gallon of coffee in me to get ready for sunrise and todays
chores.
Comments are always welcome.

Staying local

Today we are going to mention a couple things, happening or
about to happen, on the east coast of Iowa. We mention them
only because one is of interest to us and the other just goes
to prove the insanity is everywhere. So if you bear with us,
we’ll explain.

Tomorrow the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 776 are
hosting a Cruise-In at NorthPark Mall here in Davenport, Iowa.
The proceeds from this event will be used to support military
and veterans programs. Things get started at 5 pm and continue
until somebody turns off the light or the cows come home. It’s
a great event for a good cause and we hope to see you there.

Then we have the circus coming back to our city government. It
is now being said by one Alderman that another Alderman is a
racist and a bigot. The whole incident began when a former mayor
said something to the effect that the Irish were slaves too.

Of course that got those who see racism everywhere full of
righteous indignation and caused our city to pass a proclamation
that our fair city is diversified. Whatever happened to just
shrugging it off and calling the speaker a nut if you don’t
agree. It may not be popular but he has the right to say it.

This brought about the facebook melee between the two Aldermen.
She claims the other shares the views of our former Mayor and a
zoning letter he wrote to residents near a College that wants to
tear down some buildings is racist.

The complaining Alderman went before the local Civil Rights
Commission and stated “if you’re poor and black, you are not
going to understand the letter.” Hell lady, I’m an oldfart
white guy and I can’t understand it. Of course this same
outraged Alderman has a candidate she thinks would be more
compassionate, caring that will run against the one she doesn’t
like.

I don’t believe Alderman Ambrose has much to worry about but
time will tell. We wish him well in the election. An article in
our Quad-Cities Times written by Devan Patel was used as a
reference for some of this portion of this post.

Now I’m craving a burrito and a gallon of coffee so enjoy our
friday. Before we know it monday will come calling again.
Comments are always welcome.

The moon with a side of news

The man in moon was trying to hide last night but did so with
class behind a sheer curtain of pastel colored clouds that
looked like lace from the east coast of Iowa. And although he
did whisper, we had our little chat.

We noticed new candidates for the city council received a
mention in the local newspaper, we know one of the two, and it
could get interesting around election day. Since I couldn’t
sleep we talked until the moon finally disappeared behind a
solid grey cloud.

Dale Gilmour is running for 6th Ward Alderman and JJ Condon is
aiming for the Alderman at Large seat. Both are small business
owners and lifetime residents of the area.

Mr. Condon is a member of the Zoning Advisory Committee and is
on the board of directors of River Action, Inc. I don’t know
anything more about Mr. Condon, but wish him well.

Dale Gilmour is a life long resident of Davenport and we went
to the same high school. He has had his business for 25 years
and has been to more city meetings than almost everyone already
on the city council. When I was still going to the meetings I’d
see him there. He also has some really neat cars.

If we lived in the 6th Ward we’d vote for Dale but since we
don’t we wish him the best of luck. The elections will be here
before we know it.

On another note, the fires are still burning our west and we
hope the firefighters take the R & R when offered. Sometimes
you just have to step back and take a short break.

Enjoy our thursday. Even though the wife doesn’t believe me
I’m going to try to act like a responsible adult today.
Comments are always welcome.

Hard to figure

The more I try to figure out what’s going on in our world the
more I like taking pictures of critters. Nothing much makes
sense to this old redneck who doesn’t believe in coincidences.

When this happens I end up with more questions than answers
and said questions bother me. Not because the questions are
there but because of the number of questions that pop up. That
being said, here are some things I’ve noticed.

Facts don’t matter anymore. We’ve all heard the abuse of
numbers when talking heads want to prove a point. It makes no
difference if they’re fact or fiction.

Too many people are buying the bull being shipped. We won’t all
die if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, gun owners are not
sadistic morons who maim puppies in their free time, and our
history is not based on the feelings of the offended.

People get flu shots every year that don’t protect them from
actually getting the flu because a different strain appears. We
are told our children need dozen of vaccinations full of
harmful things they wouldn’t normally wouldn’t be exposed to.

It has gotten to the point that being a member of a certain
political party can be harmful to ones health and freedom of
speech is on the endangered species list. We are a rudderless
ship on troubled seas and the lighthouse is without power.
And if there are houses on the moon I wonder what they sell
for.

That being said, enjoy our Wednesday and don’t worry. We’ll
get a few more this month.
Comments are always welcome.

As I see it

If you have any access to media you have heard of the current
debacle in Washington, D.C. No, not Russia hacking our election
process. I’m referring to repealing Obamacare. The topic seems
to be all over the media with varying degrees of accuracy.

It numbs my brain when I hear, or read, that if Obamacare is
repealed 20-30 million people will lose their insurance. Since
there are only about 8 million people on Obamacare where do all
the other people come from? And since when is health care a
right?

Remember AARP lobbying for the bill then getting an exemption?
Or hearing Congress would have to pass it so we could see what
was in it? Or our favorite, if you like your doctor you can
keep your doctor? Yet with all that has transpired since this
bill was passed some people still think it’s a good thing.

One has to wonder what our government is up to since they can’t
get anything done. A bill to allow illegal aliens to work is
more important than getting the government out our health care
and ensuring that social security is there for those who paid
into it for decades? We think not.

Republicans ran for office on the platform that they would
repeal the Affordable Care Act and are now saying it can’t be
done. It would be nice if there was an adult in Congress who
could play well with others and get something done. Excuses
aren’t getting it anymore.

I don’t blame Trump for this as I believe he is doing what he
said he would do during his campaign. He may doing it at a
slower pace than some would like, but he is doing it. And
finally, how can you be against a bill a isn’t even scripted
yet?

Enjoy our wednesday as it is the last one we’ll see this month.
Now I need more coffee and a pizza infusion.
Comments are always welcome.

What a week

We made it to friday. This week has been filled with a little
more drama than the usual. So many things were going on we
don’t know where to begin. The media vs Trump feud continues,
the green energy bunch aren’t happy, it now looks like the
fireworks ban is spreading in our local community, and it’s
hot.

Nothing unusual, just a constant supply of same stuff
different day. The Trump bashing media has gotten to the point
I avoid news and only turn it on when I know the weather
guessers are on. That’s entertainment. It’s getting to the
point I’m waiting for the media to declare “Trump said shit
when he had a mouthful!”

Locally, fireworks are banned for use again. Now a neighboring
city, and the county, want to ban them also. The arguments
for the ban are laughable. The official take seems to be “we
gave people the chance to set them off responsibly and follow
the law and it didn’t work”.

Isn’t that why we have police? If everybody followed the law
like responsible adults there would be no need. As Americans
some do everything to excess. We drive too fast, slide through
stop signs, and push laws every day. Personally, I think the
neighbors put on a better fireworks show than the city did.

Our former city administrator is suing the local newspaper as
he feels said paper slandered him and caused him a loss of
income. Not sure how that one’s going to play out either.

And Happy Birthday to the wife! Even though you longer believe
me when I say it doesn’t cost anything to look, I love you.
Enjoy our friday as monday will get here before we know it.
Now we have to go restock my pizza shelf in the freezer.
Comments are always welcome.