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And they didn’t advertise on TV, and they only had one game to play. Now the state has 10 daily numbers plus dozens of scratch off games that suckers can waste their money on. The old mobsters never had any of that.

“Odd how so many mayors, superintendents, police chiefs, principles and other “officials” come from less than 13% of the population.”

The group only has to make up the majority of the Democratic voters in a place.

‘show us your papers’...

Killing two birds with one stone...

The incompetent, unqualified mayor of Los Angeles worships Fidel Castro:

“Bass traveled to Cuba multiple times in the 1970s as part of the Venceremos Brigade, a group that organized solidarity trips with support from the Cuban government... she called Castro’s death a “great loss to the people of Cuba.”

(she’s tried to walk this back).

She let parts of Los Angeles burn to the ground via mismanagement and incompetency and parts of LA - and the metro system - make the 3rd world look clean and safe, taken over by drug-addicted, mentally ill homeless and illegal aliens, who have more rights than productive, tax-paying citizens.

If we don't confront this evil quickly, we are in for a very, very bad time.

They crave an authoritarian state as long as it’s their party that running it.

Dude -- The U.S. has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives installing and protecting governments across the Middle East where Islam is literally established as the official state religion.

If the U.S. had any interest in fighting radical Islam, we would have been on the same side as Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, and Muammar Gaddafi for decades.

I just don’t get it. 700,000 traveling to watch this. I wouldn’t walk across the street for it. And I am a former NFL season ticket holder. I totally gave up on the NFL when they gave up on football and showed that it is only about the money. They don’t give a crap about anything else. Screw them.

And it’s not America’s side.

My family from Brooklyn thought that Poughkeepsie was upstate. My wife from Rochester knows better, but even she speaks in awe of the severity of winters in Buffalo and truly upstate in the Adirondacks.

Scamalis will not be moving cash for now ,LOL

Exactly.

Central Missouri is back to unseasonably warm and dry after last week’s freeze. Mrs. Augie and I have been chipping away at getting ready for growing season.

I ran two tanks of gas through the chainsaw cleaning up fencelines Friday evening. We hauled most of the spoils up to the bonfire pit yesterday. There’s another four or five loader buckets worth that we’ll pick up today.

The tiller tractor wouldn’t start last week when I tried to get it out of the barn. Battery was dead as a hammer. One of the cable ends broke when I pulled the battery to charge it. Fixed that yesterday but it still wouldn’t fire. I had to take a file to the rotor button and breaker point contacts to get it running. The local NAPA store will have a new distributor cap, rotor button, points, and condenser for me tomorrow.

After I got that one going I got Nanner out and hauled four loader buckets of topsoil to the new garden patch, added some compost, then mixed it all up with the tiller. I picked most of that up and set it aside in a heap, then ran the tiller over the entire garden to mix in the compost that I applied last fall.

Today we’ll be working on chicken yard fence and cleaning up the brooder house to get ready for a new batch of chicks in April. We’re going to try to keep this flock confined for at least a few months to allow Mrs. Augie’s flowerbeds time to recover from all the digging and scratching the old birds have done over the past couple years.

I was thinking that I’d dig out the ground beds in the greenhouse today and refill them with the topsoil that I amended yesterday, but I noticed that the freeze didn’t kill all of the spinach. I’m going to take a closer look and see if there’s enough left alive to leave it as is. Probably be best to replace the soil now and replant but we’ll see.

I’m getting the next round of shots in the back on Friday. I didn’t take any time off work when I got the last round and that wasn’t a great idea. I’m going to take advantage of my short-term disability insurance this time. I can take up to 12 weeks of FMLA time and I intend to use all of it. I’ll go back to work at the end of that and be on the home stretch to retirement.

Howard had another good week. He didn’t get in trouble even once. He has just about grown out of the silly dumb puppy stage. Mrs. Augie has fallen absolutely in love with him. It took awhile but she is now smitten. lol

Yeah, it definitely could have been worse.

So what were they thinking, that this chunk was a pebble that fell from a tire? Or maybe somebody tossed it out the window?

"Initially, Ellingham's team told James that the rock had likely fallen from a plane, before leaving her home."

And that was *before* it had even left her home!

Not do sure but does give EWS early warning system.

A Zoomby crashing.

Alejandro Agag, the founder of Formula E, claims Toto Wolff is the key proponent of ever greater reliance on battery power in F1.

https://racingnews365.com/toto-wolff-pinned-as-main-force-behind-controversial-f1-rules

And if Wolff is in the hybrid catbird seat now, who’s to say he wasn’t in the same position when the original turbo-hybrid formula was adopted in 2014? After which Mercedes went on a tear for EIGHT seasons because development/updating was drastically limited by the regs, making it impossible at first and later difficult for the competition to catch up.

Training will be minimal as training is not necessary

It would have been less painful to Americans if the government just threw all Muzzies out of America on their asses. TSA is a tool used to cut down on the number of Americans murdered by Muzzie Pork Chop terrorists.