Quiet

It's quiet around here.  Not a lot going on.  Just a few errands yesterday that kept us busy and consequently I forgot to post here.  But I don't really have much on my mind.  

I see a lot of things on Twitter that make me wonder.  Lots of it is just click bait with no real substance or anything definitive.  Several things have stood out.  The audit results in Arizona were released.  Right away FOX news jumped on and said the numbers confirmed joe biden was elected with even more votes than was reported and so feel vindicated with their extremely early call of the winner last November.  They took a lot of heat for that and were apparently in a hurry to report this so they could look good.  However, all is not as it seems.  I see a lot of articles about thousands upon thousands of votes cast illegally, double submission of votes, dead people voting and residents that had moved away.  Enough to have changed the election results.  But FOX says nothing.  And from what I gather on the www Tucker Carlson is strangely quiet about the audit.  FOX is treating it like a recount, not a forensic audit that examines every ballot for validity.  Of course none of the other media is picking this up.  

Then there is the border issue in Del Rio.  Don't be fooled by the new photos coming out about the conditions under that bridge.  The biden bunch finally decided all those thousands of people weren't good for optics and as a result makes them look bad.  Although there was next to nothing in coverage, enough was getting out for us to see.  They were suddenly all gone.  Where?  Deported? A few maybe.  How do you move 12-15 thousand homeless campers in just two days and there be almost no sign of them?  They didn't deport them IMO.  Yet we see nothing about them, out of sight out of mind way of dealing with a crisis.  The American public has a very short memory.  And the bidenites are counting on that.  I believe those folks have been scattered around the country into Red States.  They won't burden the blue states.  They don't want them any weaker than they already are so red states it is.  No, I haven't driven around in the large city near me looking for homeless Haitians (it is a very blue city and the largest and closest to Del Rio).  I do think some have been placed in the 3 near abandoned Air Force facilities there.  They have places set up for hurricane evacuees that would be readily available.  

Oops, I guess I have more on my mind than I thought.  I'll stop now.

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The Answer to My Question

The other day, I asked the question, why was Del Rio the spot all the immigrants were swarming to.  Old NFO cleared that up for the most part in his comment.  Then I found this article:  Someone Orchestrated the border crisis.  I think this answers most of my questions in more detail.  However, there has been nothing in regard to why biden and his lackeys have been so criminally negligent.  To me the powers in Washington are complicit in this travesty due to their inaction, and also the actions they took to weaken our immigration policies that were working fairly well lately.

Then there's this.  I don't think we have been in 'distress' more than we are now than any time in my lifetime.  By that I mean the assaults on our liberties and livelihoods and well being.  I feel justified I am flying my flag like this for the first time in my life.   We sit so far back from the road I'm not sure anyone can see it unless they are really looking.  But I see it.

We are have having the Son's and their families over tonight for breakfast tacos.  It was Son#2's idea and we offered to have it out here.  Mom wants to show off the new upgrades/repairs we made the last few months.  I'm the chef, except for the eggs.  I don't eat the nasty things and barely tolerate the smell of them.  If they want eggs at all someone else has to step in and they don't get to use my cast iron pan.  I don't want those things defiling it.  

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Del Rio, Texas, WHY?

The gutter installers have showed up just like they said they would.  Rare thing from what we have experienced recently.  It is much appreciated.  They say it will only take them 2-3 hours.  Wow.  

We have the Granddaughter today.  She brightens life for us.  We had been missing her since we had been quarantined.  The oldest Granddaughter is now out and about.  She will have to miss one day of her Homeschool Coop due to their 14 day protocol.  But she is fine and no one else that was exposed to her caught the COVID.

Went to get my flu shot the other day.  They denied me as they read the insurance coverage wrong.  I went to a pharmacy to get it, so they looked at my pharmacy coverage when it should be my regular insurance coverage.  I didn't realize that until I got home.   Same thing as last year but this time I forgot to have them check.  

I have seen quite a few brief reports (on the www) about the disaster unfolding at Del Rio with the flood of humanity attempting to enter our border.  It is only about 150 miles from us.  We don't even see reports on it from the local news.  The city they report from is a very large blue city with very liberal politics.  It is also the first major city entering the country from that part of Mexico.  Our DPS has their squad cars lined up to block the wave at a point where there is a low damn across the river that the people are using.  Last report I read there were 15K people waiting under a bridge on our side of the border.  Just think of the sanitation issues alone.  Someone has provided porta potties.  The logistics of handling that many unprepared destitute people is enormous.  Only Texas is trying to handle this.  The Feds are nonexistent other than the border patrol and they are overwhelmed. We are a red state so the blue government is letting hang.  I would say much of the rest of the State has no DPS available as this has been described as 'all hands on deck' situation.  There are some State Military forces but apparently they are minimal as none appear in any photos or videos I have seen.  

What is happening there begs questions.  Why Del Rio?  It is not a large city and it is already overwhelmed.  Grocery stores are pretty much empty and they don't have many.  A lot of factors are making food scare.  Some humanitarian aid is buying available groceries and I would guess the locals are a little concerned with this mass of people they have been stockpiling making it even more scarce.  Can you blame them?  Del Rio is not a wealthy city so there is not a lot available.  Was that part of the goal?  Overwhelm the local city and make it easier to enter?  It's pretty desolate out there.  Turning them loose into the countryside would kill a lot of them and cause others to rampage in the city just for food.

The reports also say the largest percentage of those trying to enter are from Haiti.  They just had another major earthquake there so many have lost everything.  How did all these people get here from there?  Haiti is an island.  They didn't have boats that they owned to get this far.  Why did they all wind up at Del Rio instead of closer spots in the US?  It makes no sense.  It is pretty obvious this is a coordinated invasion.  Yes, it is no less than an invasion.  These poor folks are being taken advantage of.  For what true reason?  It can't be for good reasons IMO.  There are some dark forces at work here.  It's more than just one person, it has to be a collection of people or countries that want the worst for America.  

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Tropical Storm?

Today is overcast and humid but not too hot.  We are just off the path of the tropical storm Nicholas in the Gulf.  It appears though that we will be on the western edge of it, that's the dry side.  We may get a shower or two and those could be heavy since this is a tropical system.  Or we will get nothing.  Now if it deviates to the West at all in the next few hours we could get inundated.   I didn't realize anything was happening at all until late yesterday.  I had failed to check the weather reports for a couple days.  All I knew was that the mornings were terrific here, getting down to 68* a couple mornings and low humidity.  Made my walks very pleasant and I didn't get home soaking in sweat for a change.

Not that all that matters.  We have no plans to go out anywhere for the remainder of this week.  It turns out our oldest Granddaughter got COVID this past week.  Yes, we were exposed.  I hugged on her some at church last week and we went to eat with them after.  We got the word late Monday or Tuesday and we have been quarantining since.  I have postponed a visit by the pest control.  We stayed home from church yesterday.  Just an abundance of caution.  We have experienced no ill effects so far.  The Granddaughter seems to be fine now after some fever that kept her in bed a couple days.  The people she lives with (my son and his wife) kept her confined to her room and so far no one else has had any symptoms.  That's good news.

I got word from the gutter contractor.  The materials arrived and they have me scheduled for next Monday.  We wanted shade of dark red gutters which seems to be either in high demand, or they aren't making much of it.  I think it's the later but it gets used quickly.  The other contractor said he couldn't get it at all.  Hopefully the possible rain late today and tonight will stay away until after installation.  

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The 'speech'

I didn't see the 'speech' the president gave yesterday.  I saw plenty of reaction on Social Media to know it was making plenty of folks angry.  Not sure I'm glad I missed it.  I had intended to see it if I could find it on but again time zones messed with me and so didn't even get a chance.  

I have a question for you Veterans that come by here.  How do you feel about seeing an American Flag flown upside down?  It matters to me what Veterans think, you are the ones that laid your life on the line for that flag.  If it would offend you I would refrain from doing something like that.  I saw a lot of comments on social media about flying our flag upside down.  Symbol of distress.  

IMO, we are certainly under more distress than any time that I can remember.  Although Jimmy Carter's 'speech' that got him voted out still is a vivid memory.  We were hadn't been married very long and were struggling financially.  I can recall that the things that he was proposing were going to make life even harder for us economically.  Fuel prices alone were going to make it impossible to get by or even get to work.  I can remember it was still two  weeks till pay day and all we had was 86 cents between us.  This situation is certainly very different and IMO no less dire and in many cases more so.  When you President completely ignores the Constitution of the United States and makes threats against our duly elected Governors and becomes a dictator, our way of life and everything we believe in is under threat.  That would seem to justify flying a flag upside down.

And if you can, please try to have

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Gutters, Virus and Abandoned Americans

I got a call from the contractor that I hired to install gutters.  Just like everyone else, supply is a problem.  The materials needed (roll of red aluminum) has not arrived.  They were told it has been shipped but they don't know when it will get here.  And they are not sure it has red aluminum in the shipment.  They were hoping to know more by today.  Well, being labor day, I doubt I will hear anything.  I'd like to get it over with but there is no real rush.  There isn't anything I can do anyway, the supply issues affects everyone that does this work.  So we wait.

A couple things I have been wondering about have been answered somewhat.  Well at least one issue has been.  

First: The one that has been resolved.  I'm sure you are aware that this COVID vaccine isn't a true vaccine.  There is no immunity that a true vaccine provides.  This version we have manipulates your RNA so it spikes a protein and that helps your body fight the virus but no immunity.  I was wondering if they are actually working on a true vaccine during this time but no one has even talked about that that I have seen.  This is how it was explained to me.  This COVID-19 is a corona virus.  There are any number of viruses that fall under the corona label.  One is the cold virus.  They have worked on making vaccines for these viruses for years yet not one has been developed.  It mutates too quickly for any vaccine to be developed is how it was explained to me.  That is one reason there has never been one developed for the common cold.  In fact, they have never been able to create a vaccine for any corona virus.  That makes sense to me, I am not sure I can make it understood.  But it answers my question about a true vaccine.  If anyone is trying to work on it we may never know and the likelihood of success is nil.

Second; If you are like me, I have been appalled by what has happened in Afghanistan.  To our troops that were still there (and died needlessly), the abandoning of our Afghan allies, the billions of dollars in still operable military equipment and lastly Americans left behind.  My emotions have ran the gamut.  

The billions of dollars worth of equipment we left.  Why?  I cannot fathom why it was left, even less why left still operable.  This is an intelligence gold mine for our enemies.  The software alone that operates much of it will now be sold to China, Russia and whoever else has the $$ to pay the Taliban.  Our security is comprised.  All of these pieces of equipment are not only going to be copied but now they will be compromised on the battlefield.  Why?  I have some crazy assumptions but I see no other reason that deals were made and payoffs were accepted.  If that is the case and even if it is just a stupid oversight, it falls under 'aiding and abetting' the enemy.  There is a single word name for that.  

The abandoned Americans.  This one was and is really hard to get my head around.  I may have uttered a few vulgar words out loud.  I recently read a commentary (click the link) that gives me a moment to pause.  Some of it seems logical, other is hard for me to grasp.  I was told by a third party that there had been 17,500 non-military non-government Americans that had not evacuated in Afghanistan when all this got critical.  That number seems way too high.  Yet if you take the time to read the article it makes sense.  Also, it makes sense why we aren't seeing the crying families of those abandoned on TV we normally would.  My thoughts are still jumbled about this so I will stop on this one.  Oh, and that third party, they confirmed the Pineapple Express  was the real deal.  

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Vet and Vets

We made a trip to the vet yesterday.  Snickers has been scratching and licking all over himself and had irritated a couple spots and they were getting thin on fur.  We really like out Vet.  Very compassionate guy and so very friendly and doesn't get in a hurry.  We got off subject talking politics and the current situation.  More on that in a bit.  While we had Snickers there we asked them to cut his nails.  He absolutely will not let us do it easily and he has the darker colored nails that make it hard to see where to cut.  I hurt him once.  They trimmed the hair from in front of his eyes and got his glands squeezed.  Basically it is seasonal allergies causing his scratching.  Apparently he seems to be more allergic than our last dog Buster.  He was an Aussie and they are notorious for having allergies.  Snickers is basically a mutt and allergies aren't that prevalent in mutts in my experience.  Of course he proves me wrong.  He got a shot that's supposed to take care of that for 3-4 months.  Enough to get him through the last of this season.  He stopped itching almost immediately.  Yea!

I have a couple close friends that are having a really hard time with this Afghanistan fiasco.  They are current military and retired.  Two are Special Ops that have spent time in that part the world kicking doors.  The current is still kicking doors and spent way more time there than many and lost his two close friends there.  He named two of his sons after them.  I can only imagine what they are feeling and thinking.  One had a post on FB that he would be 'out of touch' for a while.  I'm sure they feel betrayed and how that it was all for nothing.  

I don't know but can only guess from what I have heard from other veterans that are going through similar things.  I just want all veterans of that conflict to know, that I care.  My wife cares.  I'm sure there are millions of other Americans that feel as we do.  We cannot begin to explain how much we appreciate what you did, whether it was for yourself, your country or whatever.  Please know that we are concerned about your well being in this difficult time.  Please don't bear this alone if you are having dark thoughts.  Reach out to someone for help.  You are right to feel betrayed by your government, your so called leaders, but they aren't worth another life.  Don't add another loss to this tragedy.  

I was going to go into a little bit about what I talked about with my Vet yesterday.  I think I will let that lie for now.  It would be easy to backtrack that info and get the subject of our conversation in trouble.  Just know that the private citizens, the ex-special ops guys are the real deal working outside the government.  I salute them o7.

If you can with all this going on...

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