Minus the tattoo and the Bud Light.
I bet that’s a Marlboro hanging there too.
Damn near a Doppleganger.
I still miss her something fierce and it’s been 45 years since she passed.
She was quite the character and one hell of a cook.
She was raised in the South during the Great Depression and I learned a great deal from her.
Wish I had paid closer attention.
I ain’t kidding when I say I’m a Red Neck.
Born and Bred.
I don’t know who to give credit to but my hat is off to them.
At least you don’t have to listen to her whiny ass very long.
It’s a welcome and timely piece.
We are absolutely surrounded by it and it’s a world wide problem.
He was stupid long before the dementia hit and the only thing that elected him was a cheat code written into a bunch of election tabulators.
Stolen from Midwest Chick over at Non Original Rants.
Just one of many I got a kick out of this morning.
I don’t know where she gets them from but she comes up with some doozies on a regular basis.
May be, because I’m thinking these clowns are going to be needing a whole bunch of it.
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and select subcommittee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government plan to adopt a rule that will allow Republican members to issue subpoenas without consulting Democrats days ahead of time, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The plan, articulated to GOP members of the select subcommittee by its top Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio during their first meeting Friday, will expedite the subpoena process as both panels move forward with probes of the Biden administration, two of the sources said.
It reflects the “urgency” of Republican plans to investigate the Biden administration on several fronts, the sources added.
A third source told CNN that the move will effectively allow Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee and select subcommittee to unilaterally issue subpoenas.
We already know that the Demoncrats and the entrenched Deep State apparatus consisting of every controlled department in the government are going to stonewall and defy any investigations into anything the House Committee starts asking about.
What I believe is going to happen is that these people are going to start regretting the tactics employed by the infamous J-6th committee that they so loved just a short while ago.
You know the old saying,
WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND.
I absolutely can’t wait to see what happens when these people start trying to ignore these subpeonas.
Will these Republicans fold like a cheap suit or will they start throwing the dirty sonsabitches in the slammer?
Stay tuned for KABUKI THEATER 2023.
I got my W-2’s back today so we can file our taxes and maybe get enough back for a can of beans.
If, we are lucky.
I think we got a whopping $40 back last year.
The Wifely Unit also discovered that she makes more than I do per hour but she doesn’t get half the hours I do because she gets paid by the state to take care of our oldest boy and they have a very funky way of allowing hours worked to be claimed.
She is also taking care of her Father all week but that is a family matter.
I also see I didn’t make nearly as much this last year as I have in the past even though I am making more per hour because they don’t want me working any overtime, compared to Assholes Incorporated, where I made almost half of my wages off of it.
Hey, as long as we are getting by without me having to kill myself anymore I’m very good with that.
All that being said, I’m not sure we even qualify as Middle Class anymore.
Maybe, MAYBE, at the very bottom end.
The thing is, Thank God, we are both pretty simple people with simple needs.
I spend way more on crap than she does.
But, neither one of us has a car payment and because both of us are Geezers now with clean driving records, we aren’t paying out the nose for car insurance either.
We paid cash for both of our vehicles. Hers is 19 years old and mine is now 34 years old.
We don’t need or want fancy stuff and she is basically a Minimalist.
I am obviously quite the opposite with a mild case of Hoarder but even at that I’m pretty much done collecting crap.
Compare and contrast us with the typical Keep Up With The Jones’s types we all see everywhere, who are eyeball deep in debt, living check to check yet still can’t quite grok that having all the newest and bestest of everything isn’t impressing anyone anymore.
All it’s doing is dragging them down.
I about fell over when I saw that people are paying $700 a month for CAR PAYMENTS!!
That is freaking insanity in my book, I don’t care how much money you make.
Then we have the working poor as they are called. These are the people I am worried about.
I have no idea how they are going to make it through to the end of this world wide economic collapse.
Because that’s where we all are headed right now, all of us.
It doesn’t matter what country you live in on this spinning marble, the whole planet is right in the middle of an economic collapse yet no one seems to be able to see it happening.
Some countries are in way, way worse shape than we are already but this thing is just getting warmed up.
The best part is that every bit misery here now and yet to come has been planned out for years in advance.
I just don’t see how a few billion people are going to fare here in the very near future.
Our standard of living is being deliberately degraded in a very serious way.
So what are your thoughts?
Any advice, strategies or cheat codes?
As in just on the other side of the back fence, behind a big Arbor Vitae.
Just as I was pulling up in front of the house after work I see a neighbor giving me the high sign so I got out to see what he wanted.
He asked me if I knew about the one person homeless camp next to the fence behind some shrubbery on the street side of the back yard.
I said I saw a big cardboard box someone had stuffed back there a while ago but I had been too lazy to retrieve it and cut it up.
He said oh no, there is more than that back there.
So we went and took a look. Bigger than shit, there were SEVERAL card board boxes back in there and a bunch of garbage. It was pretty obvious someone had been camped out there at least one night, probably more than that, I had just been driving right by without looking,
So I went and backed the truck up, and we started pulling boxes out. There wasn’t anybody in there thankfully and there won’t be anytime soon either now.
You know things are getting bad when you have a homeless camp beside your fence out here in Suburbia.
Especially when the nearest store or any other kind of business is at least a mile away.
Even stranger, The Wifely Unit started scolding me for tearing down someone’s sleeping space!
WTF?
Excuse me?!
Sorry for your luck whoever ya are but you need to get on down the road.
NIMBY?
Fuck yes NIMBY.
Especially when it is literally in my back yard.
The city has little “Comfort Stations”, little heated individual shelters set up just for the homeless, that seem to be all over the place anymore.
Go find one and get out of the weather.
Especially since it’s supposed to go below freezing for a few days and nights starting tomorrow.
The City has been playing Whack A Mole with these people for years now. They set up camp on someone’s property, they get chased off and they move down the road a mile and start over.
So they built a whole bunch of these little shelters for them.
There just seems to be more and more homeless people.
Hey, I’ve been there.
I have lived in my car, couch surfed and did what I had to do.
It’s not that I have any burning animosity.
It just puzzles me why here when it’s so far from anything.
What confounds me is why they hang around this cold, wet miserable town in the first place if they don’t have anything holding them back.
Follow the birds man, head South for the Winter.
I hear Southern California is real nice this time of year and Gavin Newsome just loves new voters.
I’m sure he’ll take real good care of ya.
Weird.
I just came inside from my morning ritual of coffee and a smoke. There is a lawn chair sitting out front The Wifely Unit put there for the purpose and as I was getting through checking my email and putting out my smoke I noticed that it was so quiet that the only things I could hear was the tinnitus screaming in my left ear and some kind of small transformer humming somewhere in the house nearby.
I had to strain to hear the traffic on the freeway a couple of miles away.
Other than that, dead quiet.
That just doesn’t happen here in the Burbs, there is almost always traffic noise at the very least.
It makes me miss living out in the pucker brush something fierce.
I may have mentioned once or twice that I really hate living in the city.
That is one reason why.
I’m thinking clapped out 87 Camaro is right out by the time he gets old enough to drive.
UPDATE;
So far the voting looks a lot like this,
UPDATE: This is what he is driving…
