DST? White man's folly!

"No, I am in the growing class of people who don't care. I don't care if we are DST all year long, or standard time all year long. Just as long as we don't need to change our clocks twice a year. Maybe the folks in AZ have had it right all along. No changing clocks - ever." 

Many have heard this old tale when it comes to changing our clocks twice a year for no reason whatsoever. (As the fable goes), and old Indian Chief was asked his opinion on DST. His answer? "Only a foolish white man would cut a foot off the bottom of a blanket and then sew it on the top of the blanket and think he had a longer blanket." BINGO! Thank you chief, for exposing this nonsense for what it is (and was). There is a reason why Donald Trump wanted to get rid of this crap. And I am firmly in his camp on that one!

With all the other fall things I need to get done today between church and the noon kickoff for the Vikings, I need to change clocks. A lot of clocks. Sure, some change automatically - but most don't. Maybe I should start being more like my oldest daughter, whose wall clocks sure don't show any CST or DST that registers in Minnesota. Her clocks remind me of that old saying, "My clocks are not broken - they tell the right time twice a day..."

And then there is the sleep thing. My wife thought we should stay up later last night so we could sleep in later. Good plan for young people. But I get tired at night. For me, 9pm is the new midnight. In fact, these days in the darkness, making it to 9pm is a big deal for me. Thus, I went to bed when I was tired and got up at my usual time. Which because of going back to CDT, was 4:30 instead of 5:30. And because of that early rising, I just might doze off in church this morning!

I know, I know - it might be screwing with that whole circadian rhythm thing. I had to fight that issue every time I flew over one of the ponds and went through multiple time zones. No matter what I did, I always ended up with some kind of jet lag. I remember hearing some sleep doctor many years ago explaining that every time we go from normal to DST or back again, our body responds with a small dose of jet lag. Imagine that! Getting jet lag from no going anywhere! Give me a break!

No, I am in the growing class of people who don't care. I don't care if we are DST all year long, or standard time all year long. Just as long as we don't need to change our clocks twice a year. Maybe the folks in AZ have had it right all along. No changing clocks - ever. 

Help is (not) on the way...

"We have been warned about this type of event for decades. EMP, natural or not, can bring our society to a standstill. We knew how much it would cost to fix our grid to make it robust and smart. We chose to do nothing. Why? Not very glamorous, like building a bridge or something. If something bad happens, and we are looking somebody to blame, we only need look in a mirror."

There sure is a lot of noise right now on the internet about something bad just being over the horizon. Something which could knock out power so completely, that each and every household would be an island unto itself. And the prepping required to make it through this unknowing issue, ranges from three days to as much as ninety days. But what does all of this really mean?

If the power goes out for three days, for most of us it would be a walk in the park. True, most would want their power back on. But other than that, it might just be chalked up as an adventure to some. But as the days add up, much of what is in our refrigerator or freezer might need to be tossed once the power comes back on.

As the days tick off without power, from three to ninety, things start to get very serious. It is true we need one gallon of water per day per person to survive. But what about water to flush your toilet? To take a shower with? Laundry? Do dishes with? And people who did not prep enough with long term food, it would not take long for their pantries to start looking like Mother Hubbard's Cupboard - in other words - empty. 

After about a week of no electricity, no water, no heat, no internet, no garbage pickup - that sickening feeling will start to well up in the pit of your gut - help is not coming. All those government services which we have grown up with, which we are used to (maybe addicted to) - are not coming. And after a week or two, when some in the community have nothing, and nothing to lose, neighbors might become advisories. Our sense of community might devolve into primal tribalism. Survival of the fittest.

There is no scenario which one can imagine which shows any upside to losing power. In fact, it would be about the worst thing one could imagine. And if a power outage was caused by some EMP event, you can take transportation off your bingo card also. Not only would going to the store be useless (as stores would be empty), but your car would also not work to get you there. And even if it did, and you needed gas to fill it up, not of the gas stations could pump without power. Get sick? Need medical help? You know the answer to that one. Even if you are on meds, and your meds run out, what do you do? No power means one bad thing after another. 

Here is the part with some know, but many do not. We have been warned about this type of event for decades. EMP, natural or not, can bring our society to a standstill. We knew how much it would cost to fix our grid to make it robust and smart. We chose to do nothing. Why? Not very glamorous, like building a bridge or something.

If something bad happens, and we are looking somebody to blame, we only need look in a mirror. Sad but true.  

 

Is it possible for morons and idiots to vote?

 

"No - this is not a Halloween prank. Many on my side of the street feel the same way. Raise the voting age; raise the IQ requirement. Sound drastic? The alternative is worse. A ruptured country. Why do you think the government is telling everybody to bunker up? Bad things might be in the offing."   

We need to raise the voting age to at least 40. Come to think of it, we should also raise the IQ requirement to be something higher than a rock. Why - is there a problem? Well, if you hear some of the young ones talk about politics, it will make you dizzy in a New York minute. A very large portion of our voting block does not know a dit from a DUH when it comes to pulling the election lever the correct way. How so? They will vote for the lowest common denominator. Why? Many are not just underinformed, some are totally uninformed. 

A few days ago, some young person was asked who he or she was voting for. The Democrat running for senate or governor was a member of DSA. And that to this young person - was a big draw! This person said a vote for the Democrat was the right choice, as living under socialism would be kind of cool. How in the world could somebody who has gone through our fine education system think that socialism is "cool"? There is the question and answer in the same sentence. It is BECAUSE of our education system our young ones don't know why socialism is bad.

Why are so many of our young people screwed up these days? Thank our teacher's union. They don't care about educating our kids - they don't care if the test scores go in the toilet - they don't care if truants are sky high - they just don't care. Maybe this is all by design. The socialists who populate the teacher's union, maybe they want this outcome. Underinformed or uninformed voters. If that was the plan - it is working.

If the uninformed have their way, we will deep six our republic and trade it in for a failed socialist state. And then that old axiom might once again come true - be careful of what you wish for, because you just might get it. And then once the country is more screwed up than Hogan's Goat, the young voting block will blame - Donald Trump. They will take no ownership about not being able to afford (affordable) health insurance once they get "Medicare for all" passed. With that, the regrets really start to pile up. 

But because the school districts have done such a bang-up job in creating Frankenstein's Monster, the "normals" will be outvoted. They will be sucked into the vortex and forced to live with the bad choices made by others. What can we do about this? Not much - the die is cast. The teacher's union is way too strong and has too many fools cowed. 

No - this is not a Halloween prank. Many on my side of the street feel the same way. Raise the voting age; raise the IQ requirement. Sound drastic? The alternative is worse. A ruptured country. Why do you think the government is telling everybody to bunker up? Bad things might be in the offing.   

What's up with all this 90-day prep stuff?

 

Think about that (and this) before you scoff too much. Cub Foods only has one or two days' supply of food on hand before they are out. Even if you could make it to Cub, all you would find is a locked door and empty shelves. Again, make your home your store, even for a short period of time. 

Anybody see the new directive from Pete Hegseth to all our military bases? He wants every base to have enough food, water and energy to last for ninety days in the event of an emergency of some sort. In other words, he does not want to have any dependency on the outside civilian world. Why? Good question - it is as if something is up and he is not telling. But that is not all - in the UK, the government has advised all citizens to bunker up with food and water. How much? Enough to last ninety days.

Here is the issue if that is the case and we all need to bunker up for at least ninety days. Over the years, I have asked many a friend how much potable water they have in the house. The most common answer - "Not much". When I tell them they need one gallon per day per person living in that household, the most common question in response is - "Who has room for all that water??"

My response to those who think we don't need to do any bunkering, is a simple one. "Do you remember Katrina? Do you remember how the government did not help in time?" I have said this before in many years of addressing bunkering - in an emergency, your home will not only be your refuge, but it will also be your store. If all power is out, and stores are closed or totally out of stock, what you have in your house is what you will get. Period. Full stop.

But this article is not about how to prep, how to bunker. It is this - why now? What is the urgency? Is something in the wind that NATO governments know and we don't? That our government knows and we don't? Is this some kind of Iranian terror cell issue? Russians? Aliens? Asteroid? What is it? I spent too many years with a high-level clearance knowing stuff that never made the newspaper. And I have told friends and family over the years that knowing stuff which is classified is not always self-satisfying - at times it is downright scary! 

But even if this is based on a nothing burger, it is always a good idea to have at least a week of food and potable water on hand. Why? If we lose all power and services, even for a short period of time, we will not be living in 2026 - we will be living in 1826. Remember Texas in the winter of 2021. We will have to fend for ourselves, just like the pioneers did two hundred years ago.

Think about that (and this) before you scoff too much. Cub Foods only has one or two days supply of food on hand before they are out. Even if you could make it to Cub, all you would find is a locked door and empty shelves. Again, make your home your store, even for a short period of time. 

What is our Plan "B" on November 4th?

 

"Here is the remedy to ensure that Plan "A" happens on Tuesday. Vote. Yes, it is really that simple. Just vote. But if Minnesota Republicans do their normal election day dance, and have a sizeable portion stay home rather than vote - Plan "B" will happen. We will lose and have nothing to show for it. Nothing but four more years of entropy and fraud." 

Don't tell anybody, but we are down to only a matter of days now before the midterm election. What does that all mean? It means simple this - our Plan "A" is to win the election and win it big. Drive these progressives, socialists and communists back into the ground. Show the America haters the way out. Turn fraud into a four-letter word instead of a five-letter word which keeps perpetuating year after year after year. But what if we don't win? What if the Minnesota Morons once again have the day. We re-elect the arsonists instead of the firefighters? What then? What is our Plan "B" going forward?

If we lose, we will do what we have been trained to do. Suck it up. Lick out wounds. Wonder how in the world of sanity, we could re-elect such flawed people. When over the years, we have offered up slate after slate of really good and normal folks. There will be no do over. The die will be cast once again. There also will be no do better, as a veteran of working on Jeff Johnson's campaign twice, we had our best foot forward.

But after Obama had flooded the zone with thousands of immigrants who are a solid blue vote, coupled with the scads of Minnesota Morons who reside in the Twin Cities, Hennepin and Ramsey Counties have become bastions of entropy. In other words, it is impossible to break through with normal and excellent candidates. The chattering class in those two shameful counties would rather vote for a yellow dog, if that yellow dog was a Democrat.

But if we win, and Plan "A" is realized, oh what a day the 4th of November will be! We will once again have hope in the future, rather than feeling like the system is rigged. Truthfully, it is hard not to think our system is rigged when a very flawed guy like our current AG can beat a very high quality guy like Doug Wardlow. That race really left me shaking my head. How in the world could that happen? And then, after all this waste, fraud and abuse, the current AG is in the running again. How? Why? What?

Here is the remedy to ensure that Plan "A" happens on Tuesday. Vote. Yes, it is really that simple. Just vote. But if Minnesota Republicans do their normal election day dance, and have a sizeable portion stay home rather than vote - Plan "B" will happen. We will lose and have nothing to show for it. Nothing but four more years of entropy and fraud. 

 

 

As we boldly enter the "Season of the Which"...

 

"One final word about today's ranting. One of our favorite lunch restaurants which is no longer around was Which Which is Which. Another play on words. My wife loved that place not only for the great food, but the cleverness of the title. Maybe those who don't like this article will at least like the cleverness of its title. Just maybe?"  

I can hear the caterwauling by some on the left already. That silly old Bird used the wrong word in the title of this article. Guess what? I did not. This has nothing to do with ghosts and goblins and witches on Halloween coming up this weekend. It does, however, have everything to do with the final few days before the midterms. Even though a couple of the gals on the blue side look a bit witchy, this season is all about which - as in, which to choose.

As we enter the final week of the campaign season (that goodness!), I am struck by something interesting. In the cozy little burg that I live in, our senate district always shellacks the DFL when it comes to local elections. Rarely is it even close. However, this year might be different. There is a plethora of campaign signs all over the place for ever DFL type who is running for anything. In other words, in years past the DFL would throw a sacrificial lamb in for just about any of the races and give tepid support and a meager amount of money to each campaign. This year, despite the graft and mismanagement of the state and country, the DFL might sense blood in the water.

It is hard to believe (in fact - I don't believe it) that there are still a percentage of folks who will vote for each candidate who are still undecided. How in the world, with all the propaganda that has been filling the airwaves, internet and traditional media, can somebody still be undecided? There is a school of thought going around that many of the undecided are not people who are unaffected with any party - they are disenchanted Republicans. They are sitting on their hands trying to decide to either hold their noses and vote or sit this one out.

To me, this election is a no-brainer. Anybody who was in an elected state office during this era of fraud, needs to be fired. No questions asked - just show that person the door. Next, any doe-eyed politician who wants to raise taxes in this already high taxed state, gets an automatic NO vote. And one more thing. Most people who have more than one brain cell, knows that this election is about our future - not about the past. In other words, DFL types can hate Trump with every fiber of their beings, but Donald Trump (starting in 2027), will officially be a lame duck president.

One final word about today's ranting. One of our favorite lunch restaurants which is no longer around was Which Which is Which. Another play on words. My wife loved that place not only for the great food, but the cleverness of the title. Maybe those who don't like this article will at least like the cleverness of its title. Just maybe?  

 

 

   

Voting for more fraud? Why not?

"One more thing. A vote for Amy is a vote for more of the same. It would be like another term of Tim Walz. No breath of fresh air in that election. Fraud? Get used to it Minnesota. We now own the term." 

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls - we have a real opportunity coming up for all of you in Minnesota next week. Even though the Democrats are trying to make the election about a lame duck president, the real issue should be re-electing representatives who turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the fraudsters. And my-oh-my, this commercial of Amy holding our blessed flag upside down and then chanting some Somali gibberish - should be a disqualifier. 

It is not just Amy - there are legions of lawmakers in Minnesota who not only do not deserve another term, but they should be excoriated in the public square. Other than the Somalis who got caught with their fingers in the till (so to speak), NOT ONE lawmaker has been punished. Any why should they be? Tax dollars to Democrats are no different than play money. Ergo, the Minnesota Morons will re-elect the arsonists. Again. Like they always do.

Don't look now, but our beloved (as it once was) state of Minnesota has become not only the laughingstock of the nation, but also the posterchild for fraud and fraudsters. But who cares? The Twin Cities, which is ground zero for all this graft, is loaded with folks who are just fine with the status quo. But what riles them up? Donald Trump. ICE. Former Secretary Noem. Speaker of the House Demuth. But the fraudsters? They are just a bunch of nice folks who just happened to forget to follow our laws. 

Two weeks from now, it will all be over but the weeping. Weeping? Why weeping? Because one of the purposes of elections is to fix the broken. To throw the bums out. Not here. The DFL will get behind any blue candidate, no matter how flawed. Punish the innocent, reward the guilty. How did we get this so screwed up? No matter - it is and it shall stay that way. 

One more thing. A vote for Amy is a vote for more of the same. It would be like another term of Tim Walz. No breath of fresh air in that election. Fraud? Get used to it Minnesota. We now own the term.