So the indoctrinated brainwashed little snowflakes stayed home from school on Friday. They were striking against global warming climate change. Coincidentally, I had lunch with an old friend on Friday and he’s gone over to the dark side. He told me that the last five years are the warmest on record. Sad.

Anyhoo, I came across this story about an Australian broadcaster who had a few choice words for these brats.

Alan Jones, an Australian broadcaster for Sky News had some choice words for students taking part in the climate protests that occurred on Friday, which featured these students ditching school in order to push the “we’re all going to die” narrative so beloved by the church of climate change.

Jones had a harsh reality check for these students, who he noted demand better action by people and government in the name of saving the environment (Jones calls it a “hoax”) while they themselves refuse to give up their own cushy lifestyles. His words came in the form of a letter which Jones said he might send to Al Gore.

“It says this: To all the school kids going on strike for climate change, you’re the first generation who have required air conditioning in every room. You want TV in every room, and your classes are all computerized. You spend all day and night on electronic devices,” said Jones

“More than ever, you don’t walk or ride bikes to school,” he continued, “but you arrive in caravans of private cars that choke suburban roads and worsen rush hour traffic.”

“You’re the biggest consumer of manufactured goods ever, and update perfectly good expensive luxury items to stay trendy,” said Jones. “Your entertainment comes from electric devices. Furthermore, the people driving your protests are the same people who insist on artificially inflating the population growth through immigration which increases the need for energy, manufacturing and transport.”

“The more people we have, the more forest and bushland we clear, the more of the environment that’s destroyed” continued Jones.

It was here that the letter writer proposed a solution, and Jones read it with clear satisfaction.

“How about this,” said Jones, “tell your teacher to turn off the air-con, walk or ride to school, switch off your devices and read a book, make a sandwich instead of buying manufactured fast food.”

“But none of this will happen because, the piece says, you’re selfish, badly educated, virtue-signaling little turds inspired by the adults around you who crave a feeling of having a noble cause while they indulge themselves in western luxury and unprecedented quality of life. The piece ends by saying wake up, grow up, and shut up until you’re sure of the facts before protesting.”

There’s a video at the link.

From Jane Austen.

Another redhead from Ron in Ohio. (more…)

The clown show in Congress continued his week. Jerrold the Hutt Nadler and the rest of the Dims on the judiciary committee continue to beat the dead horse. Collusion failed so now they’re trying for obstruction of justice. What a bunch of assholes. The nice thing is while they’re wasting time on this they’re not passing any laws. All the Dims on the committee share the award this week.

I had lunch with my 94 year old cousin and her oldest child (my second cousin) today. She’s the last living member of the previous generation of my family. She’s in a let better condition than I will be when I’m 94 since I’ll be dead by then.

Lots of changes since my last visit. Crestwood Mall has been totally demolished. I used to do a lot of shopping there. I was shocked when I drove by.

I had a hell of a time getting down to the river front. The way I used to go was closed off.

I drove by my old four family flat in South St. Louis that I owned between 1980 -1985. In one of the houses on the street I saw a Black Lives Matter sign in the window. Looks like the neighborhood is getting some Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). Sad.

The house I grew up in in Webster Groves looks good. The first two apartments I lived in were unchanged.

Cunetto’s and Rigazzi’s on the Hill are both still in business. I had lunch with my old girlfriend at Cunetto’s. We ate there a lot when we were dating.

The neighborhood one of my great-aunts lived in that was destroyed by Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) has been rebuilt and it looks like it has been reclaimed by urban pioneers. Let’s hear it for gentrification.

It’s been a bitter sweet trip as have been all of my trips back to my hometown the last few years. When my mother was alive, I would visit twice a year so the changes would be gradual. Now that I only visit every three to four years, the changes are more drastic.

It’s true that you can’t go home again.

I was gonna see some other old IBM friends tonight, a married couple, but they had a big fight last night so it got canceled. Jesus! 50 years of marriage. You would think they would have been all fought out.

Tomorrow, it’s off to Jefferson City to see another old IBM buddy.

I had lunch with an old girlfriend yesterday. She has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. She was pretty well behaved until the last ten minutes when she went off on gun control and Trump. She is all upset about Trump being a narcissist while denying that Obungler was. Being a nice guy (much nicer than when we were a couple) I just smiled. As we kissed and parted I said, “Six more years!” She did not take that well.

Anyhoo, here’s Ron.

Just realized that I haven’t ranted for quite some time now. And what better fodder than what happened in the House yesterday with Jackson-Lee, Nadler, and Lewandowski. Tasty pudding!!

In 2016, the Democrats didn’t get their way in the genelec. So despite their leadership’s warning that it’s unpatriotic not to accept the results of an election, they refused to accept the results of the election and decided to rip the country apart, starting with the Electoral College and the Bill of Rights.

For 2 years and 10 months now they’ve indulged themselves in a tantrum, a hissyfit, a permanent 2-yr-old’s rage over the reality that a non-politician who can’t be bought, rented, extorted, intimidated, bribed, or even embarrassed by repeatedly debunked lies about his personal habits has been PotUS and is actually making things work again after 8 years of sand in the gears by his predecessor.

At the core of it all is not that the man is wrong, or inept, or dangerous, or unqualified, or even unethical . . . it’s simply that they don’t like him for having interrupted HRC’s apotheosis. Their only response to his successes with the economy, the in-migration crisis, the trade imbalances, the unemployment stats . . . is “Orange Man Bad!” and “In-peets fo’ty fah!”

The long-term strategy of the Resistance is to concoct scenarios which attract media cameras and microphones to document them hurling whatever pops into their damaged cerebra in hopes some of it will stick on the political wall. And frankly, I think it’s beginning to be a bit wearisome to a growing majority of people who’re seeing healthier paychecks, lower taxes, and fewer parasites sucking the SNAP and Welfare teats.

Yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee “hearing” with Lewandowski was a classic goat-rope, nothing but political commedia dell-arte, an unabashed pandering to the hard-core leftist base who’ve had their panties in a wad for 149 weeks, or 1050 days, or more than 25,000 hours. Damn, that must be a pain in the ass.

They want to impeach Donald Trump – for not being a crook in the classic Clinton mode – or more likely just for being Donald Trump — SO badly that they’ve stopped work on all the problems and issues they were elected to work on and focused all their energies on doing what their leaders have said they don’t want to do – begin impeachment proceedings against a sitting president without ample evidence.

Pelosi has made it very clear that she thinks that the attempt might fail in the first place and that it has NO chance in the Senate, and as it did with Slick, it might even backfire and produce a sympathy vote for DJT a year from now.

Mueller’s report very clearly says that no evidence of collusion exists, AND that there was no obstruction by Trump in his investigation, which was triggered by a bogus dossier and improperly justified FISA warrants. But Jackson-Lee and Nadler sat at their microphones, flashed their sphincters, adjusted their fat rolls, and called attention to the vast emptinesses in their skulls for the cameras.

It’s an addiction with them – and they can’t live without that periodic impeachment fix. Emoluments didn’t work. The 25th Amendment didn’t work. Russia! Russia! Russia! didn’t work. Stormy Daniels didn’t work. The Steele dossier didn’t work. The Mueller report didn’t work. Avenatti didn’t work. Cohen didn’t work. Strzok and Page didn’t work. Comey didn’t work. Pussyhats didn’t work.

God DAMN! You’d think they’d get the freakin message after a while.

But, as with all addicts, they gotta have that “Get Trump!” shot in the arm every month or they dry up and blow away like a popcorn fart in a Texas tornado.

In the meantime, they continue to avoid any negotiation or even discussion on immigration reform, and the only work they pay any attention to is resisting efforts to improve the border security or clean up the disasters in California’s streets or provide funding for the slaughter of babies and feeding of illegals.

No, I tell a lie there – they DO have one more pet project: destroying American industry to promote the Green New Deal and allow emerging nations to burn all the fossil fuels they like while we return to a medieval system of wealthy landowners and vassals eating gruel and riding donkeys.

Jackson-Lee’s mind is locked into “racism” mode, while Nadler is channeling Cap’n Ahab in his demented quest for the white whale of high crimes and misdemeanors. But as Pelosi has told him, “Remember what that whale does to Ahab at the end of the story. Is that what you want to happen?”

Nicely said Ron. I did see some excerpts of the hearing and Lewandowski did some major league trolling of Jerold the Hutt, “President” Swalwell, and Jackson Lee. “I didn’t hear a question, I heard a rant.”

Damn that global warming climate change. Wisconsin vineyards decimated.

September is harvest time for Wisconsin vineyards, and many are delivering much smaller yields than usual this year –or even none at all– due to historically cold and wet growing conditions, as reported by www.nbc15.com.

But I thought winters were gonna be non-existent.

Peter Botham, co-owner of Botham’s Vineyards and Winery in Barneveld, has been growing grapes for decades. However this year will be the first in 27 that the vineyard won’t be harvested.

Why is that?

“For growing grapes, it could not have been worse,” said Botham.

A historically cold winter burned the buds, and then a cool and wet spring and summer made it impossible for the few grapes that did develop to ripen.

An “historically cold winter”? How can that be? I thought the planet was heating up?

Botham’s vineyard saw so little fruit that he decided not to harvested at all.

“You’d [usually] see a lot of purple right now [but] all you see right now is green,” he said.

And it isn’t just Botham, many other Wisconsin growers are hurting too.

Shaun Lapacek, owner and winemaker at Rock N Wool Winery in Poynette, reports that more than 60% of his grapes have been lost to the cold.

“Every half month you go out there, oh my god this one’s not growing. It’s been brutal, there’s just no getting past it, it’s just been a brutal year for us,” Lapacek said.

“All the produce, all the grapes … have been lessened,” he added.

And just think, I’ll bet we’ll be hearing from the AGW crowd that this year was the warmest evah!

Fenton Mo.

Yep! I’m in St. Louis visiting family and friends. Couldn’t believe some of the shit going on today.

RBG must be in her death throes because the Fake News Media is bringing back the Kavanaugh smears and the clown car presidential candidates are calling for IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT! The New York Slimes (Motto: All the fake news not fit to print) came up with a story about someone who doesn’t remember getting harassed by Kavanaugh. Amazing!

The funniest story today was from Biden. It seems back in 1962 he faced down some black gangbanger named (and I’m not making this up, altho’ I’m sure Creepy Joe did) Corn Pop. Maybe he was named Pop Corn. Anyhoo, Joe claims Corn Pop and a couple of his dudes were armed with straight razors and Joe was armed with a chain. But before anyone was hurt, they all kissed and made up.

And Trump is the crazy one?

From Jane Austen.