Here’s a pretty redhead from Ray. (more…)

So the feds just murdered one of the protesters in Oregon the other day. Supposedly, he was surrendering. But since he was a white dude there is nothing to see here. Move along.

Here’s some cogent analysis by Ron.

This is all quite remarkable once you get it all out in the open. Here we are with a two-party system heading into an election to select a new leader in a peaceful and dignified transfer of power not involving dynasties or birthrights of any kind.

Unless you count the Clintons or Bushes.

And what do we have? Well, on the progressive side we have an avowed socialist running against a multiple repeat unindicted felon while on the conservative side one of the oldest and most right-wing publications wants to scuttle the front runner and the guy coming in second in all the polls because they’re not playing by house rules.

Geeez, guys . . . can’t we do better than that? I mean, really? WTF is WRONG with you people! We have skewed polls, biased reporting, in-the-tank interviewers, and complete morons on both sides trying to tell us what we should be thinking. And the bottom line is that we’ll never get the whole truth about ANY of the candidates. Period. Especially not from the candidates themselves.

Trump has masterfully stolen all the spotlights and refocused them on himself since Day 1. Bush has spent more money than all the other GOPers combined and all he’s getting is a huge collective yawn.

And he is supposed to be the smart brother.

Rubio is like a cute little puppy running around peeing on everyone else’s shoes, Christie is still trying to untangle the tin cans of history from his fat ass, and Cruz is going out of his way to open fire on his own foot.

The obligatory token, Carson, has nearly succeeded in putting nearly everyone who listens to him to sleep, and Fiorina manages to say all the right things when nobody’s listening. It all looks like something from a Barnum & Bailey Keystone Kops big-top act written by Larry, staged by Curly, and choreographed by Moe.

Moderately educated English-speaking people in Canada, England, Australia, India, and parts of western Europe must be watching this goat rope and asking themselves which nuke superpower is more dangerous – one ruled by a Putin or one led by a bozo. Gotta be terribly amusing to them, except for the potentially catastrophic danger of either a Clinton or a communist in the Oval Office.

They must be wondering how the hell we could fire and disgrace a 4-star general for exposing classified material to his biographer (who actually had a clearance) but not even charge a demonstrably guilty liar and hypocrite who mishandled thousands of classified documents and very likely exposed them to our enemies, much less consider giving her the reins to the most powerful nation on the friggin planet.

I’m sure it’s occurred to them that one reason for the missing indictment on the Bitch of Benghazi is that no one in the entire Soetoro administration, including Dinglebarry himself, is far enough above corruption to have the courage to BRING charges against her.

And while Soetoro strongly dislikes the Clintons and would really prefer Plugs as his successor, he’s willing to take sloppy seconds in the form of Cankles to protect and preserve his legacy, knowing that a Cruz or a Rubio or even a Trump would shred his signature legislation along with the asswipe his EOs are written on.

Sound alarms from shore to shore
Before the votes are numbered.
Or with a power-hungry whore
We’ll find ourselves encumbered.

Ron sent me this one.

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I guess it’s time to relate what happened in Colorado. On Day 1, I did a back flip in my wheelchair and hit my head. I didn’t think anything of it. I was wearing a helmet and I have a hard head. It didn’t even bother me until the afternoon of Day 2 when I got real tired. I skied like a rookie and made some rookie mistakes. I had to ski from the top of the mountain all the way down but I made it with some rest stops. That’s when I figgered I had a concussion. Didn’t ski the next two days and the last day, I hung out the Do Not Disturb sign and slept all day.

It snowed that night and when I got up they had shoveled the snow from outside the rooms (they all open outside) and put the excess snow where the exits to the street above the hotel was. There was no way I could make it to the lot where my car was parked from the front of the hotel trying to get up a steep hill with the snow. I went down to the desk and told the dude on duty about that. He kept calling maintenance with no luck. The guy prolly took a nap after shoveling the snow. So, he asked me where my car was and got it for me. He cleaned all the snow off of it. Then he fetched my luggage from my room and loaded my car. By this time, the car was nice and warm. I tipped him $20.

I had a decision to make. Should I go to the hospital or drive home. If I went to the hospital I might be in Aspen for a while and Ryan might have to come and get me. I got to the bottom of the hill. Right turn – hospital. Left turn – home. I chose home.

I gassed up in Glenwood Springs and got my Mickie D’s coffee and hit I-70. It wasn’t too bad until I got behind the snowplows at Vail Pass. By the time I got to the Eisenhower Tunnel it wasn’t too bad and after going through the tunnel it wasn’t bad at all. It was still cold. In the low teens. I made it to Kansas before having to gas up again and stopped at Hays Kansas. I got a good night’s sleep.

When I got up the next morning it was cold. It was dark when I left Hays. After a while I saw what looked like city lights blinking on and off all at the same time. WTF? As I got closer, I realized it was a big wind farm. I was glad I had plenty of gas so it would warm up before I had to gas up again. Wrong! The temperature kept dropping. When I finally gassed up it was 6 degrees and the wind was blowing. Froze my ass off. Driving through Kansas City I listened to sports radio and heard the fans saying they should fire Andy Reid because KC lost to the Patriots. Let’s see, the Chiefs lost by one touchdown to a superior team with a better quarterback on the Patriots’ home field. I know a lot of teams that would kill to make the playoffs. Teams like the Detoilet Lions. No playoff wins since the NFL/AFL merger. KC had had some snow and some of the bridges were a bit icy. Did a nice skid on one of them. Anyway, I made it all the way to Mt. Vernon Illinois on that tank of gas. It was 9 degrees and I had to gas up freezing my butt off again.

The next morning I took off glad I was heading South so it would finally warm up again. When I gassed up in Tennessee it was in the 30’s. Listening to the radio there was some dumb black activist in Chattanooga bitching about gentrification on MLK Boulevard. Seems it was turning white and she didn’t like that. She wanted it to be a black slum like MLK streets throughout most of the country. What a dumb holiday. What did the dude do? He led some protests and made a speech. Fifty years later what is the state of black America? Worse. As for that being judged by content of character over skin color? It’s skin color all the way.

I made it home safe. I did a lot of sleeping. I’m feeling much better but I still have some recovery time. Alas! I won’t be going back skiing next month. I need to give my head plenty of time to heal. Also, this is my last solo ski trip. From now on, I go with Ryan and Sherry.

David R. sent me this one.

From Tom R. (more…)

Made it home OK. More later.

Made it to Mount Vernon Illinois. Home tomorrow. If I don’t post, don’t worry. I should catch up Tuesday.

Hooray! Made it to Hays Kansas.