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I’ve bought several on Amazon over the past few years. Love them!

I know two former Ohioans who moved back from CA.

The majority of women in the United States having babies are not married. An incentive to get married and stay married is a good thing.

Bush League Republicans= the controlled opposition

I found Scott Adams at the beginning of the pandemic when I started walking my neighborhood with my dog and wanted a podcast. He’s absolutely amazing. I’ve listened to him every day for a year. So, so logical and funny and takes his time laying everything out. I’ve started reading his books. He’s been kind of lifechanging for me—I really think differently now.

The only other podcast I like is War Room/Steve Bannon. Can’t keep up with it 4 hours a day but I try.

I’d like to get on Adams’ Periscope live and make comments that he can read but I don’t wake up until 8, when he’s done :)

He lives now in my hometown. I hope he knows that he has some female listeners/fans too (tell him, if you know him—I think he assumes pretty much his followers are male but then with 3 brothers and 3 sons I kind of “trend male”).

I guess I should check out his website you moderate.

Yes—weather—and family, sometimes, nearby.

Scott Adams (Dilbert) says something interesting about restaurants (he used to own 2). He says they add almost nothing to the economy (although we love them)—pay to servers is low, the owners don’t pay taxes often; they are kind of shady and barely make money anyway.

All I know is the traffic is as heavy as always and I own two properties in Northern CA and their value apparently is at a record high. Guess I should sell the rental.

I live in the Bay Area—today, despite the “lockdown” and people supposedly fleeing CA in droves, traffic was as bad as ever.

It’s a mystery.

Recalls work when some % of people who voted for that candidate originally change their minds.

I can tell you that many, many parents of CA high school athletes have now changed their minds. Some have admitted as much in my private Facebook groups dedicated to reopening schools and sports. CA is one of only 10 states which didn’t have a fall season. Peoples’ eyes have now been opened to the power of the CA teachers’ unions. They are more powerful than even the governor. They may not vote GOP but they are getting a lesson on the reality of who really controls CA. Teachers are a protected class.

Our district’s union used to say #ForTheStudents when asking for more bonds and $$. Parents now know that was a lie. (I’ve known it for years of course but many Californians in the past naively supported teachers and unions—no more).

Yes, but I had already signed and gathered 8 other signatures.

It’s so odd that I get more news from the UK than from anywhere else.

CA just sent out new guidance last night that makes it even LESS likely that schools will open this school year at all. Especially unlikely for middle school and high schools—other than those private (some public) schools that had already reopened in Oct or Nov.

If they didn’t reopen then, they are being told now that they missed the boat.

And a million parents are set to protest the lack of sports at 138 high schools today (I’ll be one). But CIF keeps pushing off all the fall sports further and further into the spring. Some football seniors have even left high school and just went to college in red states early.

The federal bureaucracy HAS already shrunk quite a bit from the 1970s. It’s almost all managing contractors now.

And those private contractors (other than the Beltway bandits) tend to be American jobs in small towns so that’s good.

We are good at being efficient.

Scott Adams says that charges of hypocrisy—or “whataboutism” are not persuasive.

It’s too bad, if he’s right!

I’m a federal employee who has worked for the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and now soon Biden administrations.

Feds consider all of them the “Christmas help”—they come and go, and the smart federal employees (more than you’d think) know to keep their heads down and do what the new boss wants.

Love Ricky Skaggs. Also the WW2 museum in New Orleans is really good.

A warning to any (peaceful) MAGA young men who were there. Leftist women on dating sites are posing as MAGA to reel them in and get them to brag and then turning them in to the FBI. I have direct knowledge of this.

There was really nothing like the Civil War. This doesn’t come close. We are all still comfy and drinking Starbucks (etc) every day.

We aren’t eating hardtack and picking lice out of our hair and lying in stacks in the “bloody lanes” and “the bloody angle” and the “hayfield.”

The loudest sound ever heard in the Western Hemisphere until that time was the cannonfire at Gettysburg. . .

I pulled my white kid from her white public school this year, so she could go somewhere in person (for one thing) and she’s now going to a Christian private school that is much more diverse (mainly more Hispanics).

Her new school is MUCH friendlier. The difference? It’s a Christian school!

Wow and I only got to use it one day! It was pretty good actually. As good as Twitter.