May 12, 2023
Some headlines on Trump town hall articles.
"Trump Hijacks CNN, Steamrolls Kaitlan Collins In New Hampshire Townhall”, "‘A Trump Infomercial’: Backlash Erupts Against CNN For Hosting The Former President”, "CNN Hoped A Trump Town Hall Would Give It Credibility With The GOP. Instead, It Got Dunked On”, "CNN Failed America With Its Train Wreck Of A Trump Town Hall” and "Cable Carnage: Trump Turns CNN Town Hall Into Televised Combat”
You know when you are picking up flak you are over the target. Trump is deep in the anti-aircraft fire!
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On the one hand I’ve never seen pure evil as triumphant and enthroned in the West as it is today. They can do anything they like and get away with it. They stole the election, and they get to imprison and torture people who share that truth. As we speak, Democrat voting parents can permanently disfigure their children, experiment on a child’s sexual identity, mutilate their children in ways that would once have been confined to novelistic discussions of some sado-masochisti
And they can have the entire media pretend this is normal and decent.
That this is progress. They can describe men as she in print whilst
talking about them flashing their penis.
It goes far beyond
stealing elections. They openly support the most disgusting moral
crimes, perversions, fetishes and filth. They openly asset strip entire
nations. They gorge themselves on public spending and public funding,
and they funnel trillions to themselves and their friends.
They
risk nuclear war to do it. They would rather start World War Three with
Russia, or drive us back to the Stone Age with Net Zero, than halt
their endless grift and avarice. They destabilise the world with
unnecessary wars, and they throw away every bit of power and influence,
both moral and practical, we once possessed.
They would rather poison half the planet with an experiment, then seek wealth through more honest and decent means.
They make Putin look like a Saint. They make Trump look like God
Almighty. Because they themselves are so twisted, so vile, so
irredeemably perverse and insane.
And yet at the same time, at
the height of their power and influence, when they own everything and
we own nothing, they are afraid. They are still afraid. It’s
remarkable. What do they have to fear? They have got away with so much.
They control so much. They can put their lies in every newspaper in the
world, and on every television screen in the world. What do they fear?
Why do they tremble, still, when we have never punished them?
Because we still exist. Because the truth still exists. Because they
haven’t been able to bury it, they haven’t been able to hide it, they
haven’t been able to kill it.
And they know.
They know that
we don’t watch their news channels anymore. They know that we don’t
vote for them, whatever colour tie they wear. They know that all the
control of social media and media and the courts and the agencies and
the institutions hasn’t been enough.
Look at what they are saying
in response to Trump’s CNN townhall performance. There is a desperation
now to the repetitions of ‘baseless’, ‘unfounded’, and ‘false’. Why
don’t we BELIEVE? We have been told a million times. You must BELIEVE
the lie. But we don’t. Listen to the way AOC squeals. It infuriates and
terrifies them that no rigged election, no rigged response, no fact
checking and no crooked court case changes the truth.
They are
like Roman Emperors who know that the crowd hate them. The slave in the
arena is loved. They are hated. They can choose everything that
happens. They can send in lions or armies. They sit in the golden
seats, high above us, looking down on us. Looking down on both the
people in the cheap seats, and the people bleeding on the sand.
But still they fear us. Still they tremble. Still they envy the
gladiator who stands out. Still they scream in horror when he will not
submit. Slowly, the crowd cheers. For the one who should be dead. The
Emperors are furious.
They have never been so powerful. They have never been so weak.
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Freon R-22
A Public Service Announcement
The Federal Government, in its infinite wisdom, has created an extremely expensive dilemma for residential and business occupants. Essentially, they banned, effective 2020, the production and import of Freon R-22 which has been used by manufacturers of AC units and Heat Pumps for many years. R-22 was a very successful refrigerant for decades as it was easily manufactured and had excellent thermal properties.
According to the EPA, there are an estimated 13 million residential air conditioning units in the United States that still use R-22. This number is expected to decrease over time as older units are replaced, but it is still a significant number. As a result, homeowners with R-22 units WILL face higher costs to repair or replace their units.
For example, five years ago the price of R-22 was approximately $5 a pound. Service companies are now charging retail up to $100 per pound. A typical residential unit requires 10-15 pounds of R-22 and hence the gas alone will cost over $1000 if it needs to be totally replaced because of very common leaks. That is in addition to any other service parts and labor that might be charged. The units installed have been in service for 6-15 years and are prone to leaks and other breakdowns.
A new unit using one of the newer and cheaper refrigerants is probably the best plan forward but that is going to be costly ($5,000 to $12,000) depending on size and with a massive refit coming the backlogs might be lengthy…..Plan Ahead!
Tim adds:
The Feds have made the importation of anything using R22 illegal. Recently they sentenced a man for smuggling it in. This will only get worse.
We have not had a problem with the "hole in the ozone" for some time, and in fact there is a lot of reason to believe it never had anything to do with freon anyway. It appears to be a cyclical thing in Antarctica.
And even NASA's radical Goddard Institute has admitted that the ozone in Antarctica is recovering.
So why launch this Jihad on freon?
Seems to me they want us to be too hot in summer, and thus we'll be more amenable to global warming claims and willing to allow them to take action to "address" the faux emergency.
Any way you slice it air conditioning has made our modern life possible. Few people lived in Florida before a/c. Ditto Texas, or Louisiana, or Mississipppi. It was too hot and sweltering. There is a reason why the Confederacy had a much lower population than the Union at the time of the Civil War. Now the Sun Belt is the place to be - and it's growing. We have air conditioning to thank.
So, the Left, in their eternal quest for power, wants to make air conditioning obsolete, or at least too expensive for the hoi poloi so people have to move back to the cold and dreary Democrat- controlled cities in the north. And since they are also restricting the use of things like natural gas, these places will be cold and dark and utterly miserable. But, heh! Americans DESERVE that because we were too successful and lived too well! Time for the Third World to get it's share and for us to pay the penalty for advancing civilization!
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The policy is to bring in replacements for Americans. We are too self-reliant, too demanding of good government, too uppity. So they just want to bring in a new crop of people and start over. A group more compliant, as most of the lower classes coming from Latin America tend to be (they let those who want to run things run things.) Our "leaders" are erasing us.
Colin O'Leary
5.541 million people live in Finland.
That's also how many illegal immigrants are expected to illegally cross the US-Mexico border by the end of August.
19,000+ individuals PER WEEK are slipping past CBP and into the country.
Title 42 ends on Thursday. It is estimated more than 200,000 people are beginning to mass along the border, preparing to rush across once it ends.
At what point is it time for Americans to acknowledge our government has abandoned us and is actively refusing to enforce the law and protect our communities?
Is it time for private citizens to do what the government won't?
Should Americans rally together and stop this illegal invasion of our country ourselves since the government has abandoned its duty to protect us?
I don't know the answer to those questions other than to say articles of Impeachment must be filed against President Joe Biden for dereliction of duty.
The entire population of Finland should be allowed to storm our border YEARLY. This is OUR country! We have laws and a process for people to apply for asylum.
Name a European country that would allow this bullshit to continue. I'll wait because I was in Europe during the Arab Spring, and I saw exactly how they handled a migrant influx, and that was a fraction of what we're experiencing here in America.
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May 11, 2023
Our State Premier Says they were 'saving lives' and wouldn't do anything differently.
We were told the vaccines were very, very safe and any adverse reaction was rare and usually mild and resolved quickly.
They told us that just because normal testing time for a vaccine is 3 years, there were no shortcuts taken in creating the Covid-19 from research to public rollout in just 12 months.
We knew that generally healthy people and particularly healthy children, were at minimal risk of serious risk from Covid-19. Despite this, the vaccine was mandated for 12 year olds plus, and rigourously recommended for children down to 6 months of age.
Heads should roll for this and other Covid-19 overreactions by government and health authorities. But that will only happen if enough members of the public wake up!
Extract:
The blue trend line in the chart shows that of the 71 percent of SAEs reported from only 4.2 percent of all vaccine doses, 27 percent were considered serious, and 47 percent resulted in death.
Serious SAEs mean hospitalization, life-threatening illness, or permanent disability.
"These are critically important results,” said Dr. Peter McCullough on Substack. McCullough is a renowned internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist, as well as a contributor to The Epoch Times.
"They imply the COVID-19 vaccine debacle is indeed a product problem and not due to patient susceptibility in most circumstances,” McCullough said.
Study Shows 4.2 Percent of Pfizer COVID Vaccine Batches Made up Most Adverse Events, Raising Serious Concerns
theepochtimes.com
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CNN hack asks a focus group member how he feels about Trump discussing the 2020 election instead of focusing on 2024. The guy responding points out that the very first question that was asked of Trump was about the 2020 election. He suggested if they wanted to focus on 2024 they should have asked about 2024.
Supposedly CNN management wants the network to clean up its act, but all we're seeing is the same pack of clowns as usual.
Republican Focus Group OWNS CNN After Townhall | Breaking Points
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BTW CNN cut off Trump 20 minutes early. That was an intentional, calculated sleight.
I watched Trump's speech after his arrest and Scripps cut it off early too. That is a very rude thing to do and I am sure it is to display the proper contempt for the President. Nothing more.
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All the geniuses unhappy with Trump’s statement about the war in Ukraine cannot possibly remember that France won, indeed, World War I against Germany but in hindsight that wasn’t the point…the point was to win a lasting peace and France lost that battle, badly.
Within the space of 22 short years the Germans were back and had occupied more than half of France. That was no victory, in 1918.
>>> "I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying,” Trump said at CNN’s town hall moderated by "CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins. "And I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
Trump, who would not say whether he wants Ukraine to successfully deter Russia when pressed by Collins, told the audience gathered at Saint Anselm College that he doesn’t "think in terms of winning and losing.”
"I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said”<<<
Trump won't commit to backing Ukraine in war with Russia | CNN Politics
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Well, then their staff are despotic Marxists. And they are the reason that many have no idea there are 2 sides to every story. Conservative media is constantly inviting leftists on, ( they won't come on, except for the open-minded free thinking ones).
CNN’s Oliver Darcy Reports CEO Chris Licht and Network are ‘Facing Fury of Criticism’ Within Company After Trump Town Hall
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Lot of talk from the mainstream lefty loons that Biden can raise the debt ceiling by himself. According to the 14th amendment section 5, he can't. Doesn't stop them.
Why do all these experts overlook 14th Amendment, Section 5 of the Constitution - "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.". Nowhere is the President given the authority or power to enforce this Amendment.
Why doesn't Biden just disband Congress? That is what other dictators do...
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Kaitlin Collins just made up her own statistics to promote the notion there have been hundreds of mass shootings in America at Trump's Townhall on CNN
CLAIM: During CNN’s Wednesday town hall with Donald Trump, moderator Kaitlan Collins claimed there have been "more than 200 mass shootings in 2023.”
VERDICT: False, as long as one adheres to the standard definition of a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more individuals were killed by one attacker in one incident.
On May 7, 2023, Breitbart News noted that President Joe Biden made the same claim as Collins, and on May 8, 2023, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierrerepeatedit.
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Biden restores Gain of Function funding for Wuhan lab.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/05/10/trump-froze-taxpayer-funds-for-a-key-wuhan-lab-collaborator-biden-just-brought-it-back/
I don't think the country will survive until the next election.
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There is a long history of atheist and agnostic elitists in America trying to uplift the lower classes by imposing a civic religion on them, to replace the antiquated and obsolescent traditional Christian religions.
Appalled by the behavior and retrograde beliefs of the hoi polloi the self-appointed members of the elect have long been determined to instill virtue in the citizenry via a civic religion.
I was reminded of this while reading Spying on the South by the late Tony Horwitz, a book about the Antebellum journeys through the South taken by Frederick Law Olmstead. It was on these journeys that the atheist Olmstead began to formalize his ideas on how to improve the rowdy, uncouth, undereducated citizenry of the North by creating civic institutions and spaces that would enable the better spirits of Americans to rise up. In Olmstead’s case it manifested as the design and construction of public parks in cities after the Civil War, most notably Central Park in NYC.
Olmstead’s musings on the topic read like a speech by Barack Obama and his reference to bitter clingers or HRC and her rant about baskets of deplorables.
The difference today is that technology provides the elites with the means to institute and enforce their vision for a "better” society.
Tim adds:
The upper class has always had this sense of noblesse oblige, the concept of the "white man's burden" or whatnot, that they must pull us up to what they consider a proper civilized level whether we agree to it or not. That has been especially true since the late 18th century and the paternalism of the later Liberal movement. It dovetailed with the old aristocratic view of lower classes, and the new Middle Class jumped right into the aristocracy, only eliminating the old order and making themselves the new.
In the end it is an attitude born of hubris and conceit.
Sadly they are determined to rule over us and change us "for the better" as THEY see it in their Godless way. And we had better go along with them or they will have to take drastic action.
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BANK RECORDS released today clearly show that nine members of the Biden family, received millions from China (and other countries).
The money was laundered through 20 or more LLC shell corps.
Most of mainstream media is ignoring the story.
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May 10, 2023
There is a growing mentality of relativism, which holds that everything is equally valid, that truth and absolute points of reference do not exist. But this way of thinking does not lead to true freedom, but rather to instability, confusion and blind conformity to the fads of the moment.”.
Pope Benedict XVI
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In the words of the most transparent, credible, trustworthy president ever:
"This is a big fucking deal.”
Today, the GOP members of the oversight committee dropped a massive turd in the Biden/CNN/
Of course, the leftist social and cable media immediately began tugging on the huge ropes attached to the massive Biden/DNC water wagon. The paid shills are earning their checks today and some lefties on Twitter as spinning so fast, they have their own gravitational field and are starting to attract their own moons.
One Twitidiot, James Surowiecki, a Dem fanboy who has been all over Clarence and Ginni Thomas, confidently stating they are dirty and should be in jail, typifies the cognitive dissonance. James, being the good soldier he is, hefted this 55-gallon drum of water on his shoulder and began trotting:
"There's no evidence that Joe Biden himself had anything to do with any of these deals Republicans are talking about. So, they've constructed this imaginary entity - "the Biden family" - to suggest he's guilty by association.”
Really (with a heavy note of sarcasm).
So, what exactly were the Biden family members, who do exist, doing in exchange for the money Biden’s siblings, children, grandchildren, and in-laws were receiving? Exactly what business are they in? Are all of them natural gas experts like Hunter? Why were these transfers made through all these shell entities?
"But Trump!”, the sycophants shout. "Look at all the money the Trump organization, made up of Trump spawn, are getting! It must be criminal!”
At least the Trump organization is a legitimate business with a public face and the kids have actual jobs where they do, you know, actual businessey things.
One would assume that any campaign staff tasked with protecting their candidate would know what is going on here, even if the candidate himself isn’t involved – because this if he isn’t this is dirt that could be rubbed off on him, and if he is (or ever was), this has to be buried so deep it will never see daylight until after the candidate occupying a subterranean level comparable to the box in which the information is buried.
It helps if your candidate portrays himself as an affable buffoon or a mentally compromised codger. The public perception can be steered toward the view of a bumbling idiot who is mentally incapable of knowing right from wrong.
But in fact, this is not a recent development, this has been going on for a long, long time. Even before the laptop from Hell came to light, author Peter Schweizer was documenting what I have called the Biden Family Values – and these are closer to the Mafia than to Main Street.
A few facts as I see them:
- I said this morning that I remain confident in my position that Joe Biden never expected to be president.
- They all expected Hillary to win, Madame NeverPresident was so confident, she didn’t bother campaigning in key states. It wasn’t incompetence, it was just good old-fashioned arrogance.
- None of them expected Trump to win.
- They expected the intel/
- Biden had to be installed or else all of the Democrat/Deep State machinations would come to light.
But the one thing they didn’t count on was Biden Family Values.
Biden thought he was done after his dalliance with his bestie, Obama. He had failed several times to capture enough of the Democrat imagination for a nomination, brought low by one flaw or another, so he figured he had gone as far as he was ever going to go as a septuagenarian Vice President - and that is why, under Obama, he grabbed as much cash possible from any source available.
The turd dropped by James Comer is backed up with documents but are just the tip of the turdberg. The Democrats investigated and tried to impeach Trump – twice – for far less.
Will it result in something? I don’t have enough faith in this DOJ to think it will – but it does give the Democrats a convenient way to push Scranton Joe out the door. I can see a deal where the Dems agree to allow Joe to keep his ill-gotten gains, Hunter and James get wrist slaps, the rest of his family is protected and they preserve his legacy, such that it is, in exchange for a Lyndon Johnson-like "I will not seek, nor will I accept, the nomination” statement.
If that happens, America loses.
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One must understand that the wanton killing of innocent people, or the killing absent a threat to personal harm, is an example of some sort of mental and/or moral deficiency. I don't see how such a thing is arguable based on thousands of years of human interaction and the mores and social conventions that have developed. A significant aspect of modern civilization is the respect for human life.
I want to call attention to the complete idiocy of the Democrat dichotomy of focusing on taking guns from the hands of legal, law abiding Americans versus their stand for the "rights" of the mentally ill to terrorize law abiding people - on a subway, for example.
No paragon of logical consistency, AOC calls for murder charges against a man who forcibly restrained a guy with a long history of criminal charges and mental illness after he randomly threatened an entire subway car of people, excusing the deceased man's criminal behavior because he was mentally ill.
We have seen examples of mentally ill people, insane is a more accurate description, kill, injure and maim random people with knives, baseball bats, pipes - even one pushing a woman onto subway tracks - for no apparent reason.
AOC never stops to think that same excuse is not used when some clearly disturbed person walks into a mall and kills random innocent people.
What are the differences between these situations?
The answer is only the tool that was chosen.
Mental illness, drug abuse and homelessness has, is, and will be a
massive societal problem. All this tends to disappear during a Democrat
administration and mysteriously reappear during Republican
administrations
Quite the opposite. Participating and suborning delusional, self-destructiv
Democrats constantly lecture us about the rights of certain segments of society - but the fact is a right is only a right as long as it doesn't interfere with the rights of someone else.
It is not a right to be insane. It is not a right to refuse treatment or institutionaliz
Democrats are unwilling to institutionaliz
Square peg, meet round hole.
Well, the Democrats want to make the whole nation insane, thus solving the problem of inequality between the sane and the nuts. We are ALL crazy in the egalitarian order! And those who retain their marbles are the truly insane ones to these people.
BTW the Left has no worry about human life. Life comes from God and is His prerogative.
So they Left wants desperately to usurp the godhead and the way to find parity with the Creator is to hold power over life and death. That means they like anything that takes life away.
Pope St. John Paul II famously referenced a "culture of death" in America and the West. That culture did not come out of a vacuum. It was a conscious rejection of the Judeo-Christian
I would add many think that anything that reduces the world's population is for the good. Most liberals are Malthusians and still buy what Paul Ehrlich was selling back in the '70's. Ehrlich was a fool and all of his predictions amazingly wrong but they still faithfully buy into his claptrap. It's why they are all on board with Global warming catastrophism and with environmentalis
It's why they promote homosexuality and transgenderism and all the other forms of sexuality that will not result in children being born. And it is why they are perfectly comfortable with mass shootings; they just took out a bunch of people and at the same time help promote gun control to take weapons away from normal American. Being on the Left means loving Darkness.
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El Nino is likely to drive temperatures to record levels, according to Roy Spencer, and he asks a key question; what tmperatures do Americans choose?
From Dr. Spencer's website:
When it comes to life in these United States, roughly 50%of U.S. residents have at least a moderate worry about climate change and global warming. As mentioned above, I believe this is largely due to their response to what is reported by the news media, which is routinely exaggerated.
An interesting question that the late Dr. Pat Michaels asked about 25 years ago is, what temperature do Americans choose to live with? We have a large country with a wide range of climates, from frigid winters to tropical year-round, so there is considerable choice of what climate we decide to live in.
Dr. Michaels pointed out (most recently in 2013) that over the years, Americans tend to migrate to warmer climates. Some of us might claim to be concerned about global warming, but we increasingly choose to live where it’s warmer. I’ve updated those calculations to 2022, and the results are the same:
The blue curve is the usual area-averaged temperatures for the Lower 48, while the orange curve is the state population-weighted average. While the area average temperatures have warmed modestly over the last century, the temperatures where people choose to live have increased by twice that amount. (The possibility that Urban Heat Island effects have spuriously warmed these NOAA-reported temperatures is part of a research project we have been involved in).
Some might claim that the migration to states with warmer temperatures has more to do with economic opportunity than with temperature. But who creates economic opportunity? People. And where do people choose to live? Where the weather is warmer.
There’s a reason why people are flocking to Texas and Florida, and not to the Dakotas or Maine. Ultimately, it’s due to the climate. So, while some of us like to think we are Saving the Earth by buying a Tesla, our migration habits are telling a different story.
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Nonsense! We all know that Nome and Archangel and Spitsbergen are hopping vacation destinations! Who doesn't want to go to Thule for a summer blowout? I mean, spring breakers are flocking to the beaches in these places, eager to hook up with the sexy, parka-clad ladies there while they munch on blubber and tan hides! Hubba, hubba!
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The rosy picture about Ukraine winning, if they can just take back the territory that Russia now occupies and is entrenched, and send the Russians packing is denied by the arrest of the Airman who released military documents that say the opposite.
At this point the story is that Ukraine can win if the USA joins forces massively with Ukraine and directly confronts Russia and fights another foreign war on the other side of the earth. Good luck with that. Our history doing this is a couple of stalemates and many loses. We have no treaties nor obligations to Ukraine so on what basis do we fight Russia?
Who will run out of weapons first? At best we can expect a stalemate.
Some U.S. Congress members have expressed worry about the ramifications
of continued U.S. involvement in the conflict. In mid-April 2023,
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a Privileged Resolution of
Inquiry9,10 to force President Biden to disclose the number of U.S.
military personnel in Ukraine and the full extent of the administration’
"... the resolution directs Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to disclose the number of United States Armed Forces, including special operators, deployed to Ukraine without Congressional authority.
In order to comply with the resolution, the President and Secretary of
Defense must send the requested documents to the House of
Representatives
‘The Biden Administration and other allied countries have been misleading the world on the state of the war in Ukraine. There must be total transparency from this administration to the American people when they are gambling war with a nuclear adversary by having special forces operating in Ukraine ...
My Privileged Resolution of Inquiry will better inform the Congress and the country on the true state of our military’s involvement in the war,’ said Congressman Gaetz.”
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It's been many weeks since my last Ozark Hilton visit, and so Monday I made the great trek.
Fortunately there isn't much to report; everything went pretty smoothly (with the exception of wasps picketing in front of the porch entrance to the cabin, forcing me to detour around a bunch of brush and debris and also keeping me from doing the work I had planned - putting the roof on the porch. I guess that won't happen any time soon.
Frankly, this was the most uneventful trip I've had there in ages. But it was pleasant nonetheless. The weather was beautiful, and I had no trouble getting down there (although I tried to make my usual stop at the Tim Birdnow Memorial Outhouse, but aborted it when I saw a giant gaggle/flock/herd of young children there; some sort of school picnic was in progress. But it didn't matter; I really didn't have to go anyway, at least not much. I just drove on.
And so, after the long journey, I finally came to the palatial mansion and had no trouble turning around. Well, not much; I did bump a tree in the process. It's sad; my Ford F150 was beautiful when I bought it but trips to the OH have dented up the passenger side something awful, and I did it no favors this trip. Ah, the heartbreak of entropy and driving a rig too big for the narrow confines of a hardwood forest...
So, after busting my hump to schlep my gear from the truck around the wasps and into the cabin, I settled on the porch. It was a beautiful day, and quickly slipped into a beautiful evening. A bit warm and humid; I was sweating quite a bit, but beautiful.
LOTS of tree frogs/toads somewhere. I could hear endless croaking. I was really surprised when, years ago, I first encountered a toad there. This land has no water, and it is about half way down from a ridge line into a valley. It's hardwood country, full of red and white oak. I was sitting in a lawn chair by my tent (this was well before I built the cabin) and a toad hopped right under me and through the campsite. I was shocked; I didn't expect to see such a critter!
Since then I have encountered very few, but this year it sounded like a swarm of them. I like it; i love the sound of croaking frogs/toads. It makes you feel like you are in the sticks (which most definitely I am down there.)
At any rate, I noticed a hole dug into the leaves that but up to the porch; something had dug a hole to get under the cabin. Possibly my old friends the armadillos? But I hadn't seen those two in ages. And I didn't hear them at dusk - their preferred feeding time. But later that night, well after dark, something moved about outside of my vision, in the velvety blackness outside the circle of light thrown by my lamps. It SOUNDED like an armadillo; they tend to be loud walkers, never having learned how to move about quietly in the woods, especially as long as there are still leaves on the ground. In fact they sound amazingly like a man tramping about. But no man would be walking in those woods in the utter blackness. It's a blackbody black, blacker than anything most people are likely to encounter when the skies are overcast. By this time it WAS overcast so I knew it had to be some sort of critter. But I never saw it. It could have been anything; a coyote, a bobcat, an opossum, an armadillo, a used car salesman...
It was getting late and I packed up my stuff (which included a cooler and my lamps) and went inside. Almost as soon as I went in it began to rain, then to storm. For a while it was really lively! Thunder and lightning and winds blowing; a classic spring storm. And I had just happened to get in before it struck.
I love being there in inclement weather; you can really hear it and feel you are in a pocket of safety and warmth while the storm rages just outside. Yes, that happens when you are at home too, but you don't usually hear it so much or FEEL it. At the Ozark Hilton, with it's tin roof and shoddy workmanship you know you are in it all. At home you are just observing it - here you are living it.
At any rate I put in the movie Interstellar into my portable DVD player and settled in to watch. I used to bring books and read, but my failing eyesight makes that impossible now, alas. I also used to put on the radio, and I only picked up country/western stations or one pop station that on Saturdays played music from the '70's, primarily soul and disco. So I would sit there on Saturday nights discoing out and reading whatever book I had brought. All I needed was a disco ball hanging from the rafters!
One time I had a pet wasp too. I was sitting there reading and getting funky with the disco when a wasp buzzed around my head. That was most disturbing! It landed next to me and I started looking for something with which to bash it. But it made no hostile moves towards me and I am of a "live and let live" mindset, particularly down there. So I continued reading. My wasp friend simply sat next to me on the futon, content with some company. It occasionally buzzed and I reassured it I was there, speaking gently to the Apocrita Hymenoptera (yes, that's the technical term for their suborder, but in the end they are just insects.) My little friend spent much of the night just sitting there soaking up my company. Me and my pet wasp! Eventually he grew sleepy (I suppose) and flew away. I don't know if he liked the disco or the light but he certainly was an odd wasp. I guess he may have been a sentry who was there to make sure I made no hostile moves toward his nest, which I never found.
At any rate, I rarely get wasps in the cabin because my state of the art HVAC system smokes like, well, Johnny Carson was alleged to have and they don't like it.
At any rate, I watched Interstellar and was struck by the mistakes and ridiculous assumptions in the movie, as usual. Why were they seeking a new home for humanity in interstellar space? There was no good reason for that; they could have settled anywhere in the solar system far more easily. If the planets didn't work they could have settled inside asteroids and rotated them for gravity, or actually built space colonies. But instead they were using a wormhole to go to planets that would require massive amounts of terraforming or artificial environments anyway.
Another problem with the movie is the rather ridiculous business of them spending just a few short minutes on a planet around a black hole and the guy in orbit experiencing over twenty years. That theoretically could happen ,but not that close to the planet. Also, such a planet would not form at all; it would be torn to shreds by roach tides.
And then we find that the protagonists caused the effect that motivated them to go on this mission to begin with; a horrible violation of causality as a result of time travel that is flatly impossible.
Furthermore the little girl is brilliant far beyond anything anyone has seen. She figured a bunch of dust was binary code sending a message. Ri-ight!
So I watched the movie. Unfortunately a huge number of moths had gotten in while I was sitting outside, and I had moths buzzing all over me for a while. But the hot lamps eventually polished them all off. I don't know why moths are attracted to flames but they are, and they happily fly to their deaths. I would hear sizzles every few minutes as my pesky flying friends made their final suicide runs. Little kamikaze pilots driving for glory! I don't know if moths have a concept of bushido but I hope they got SOMETHING for their troubles! It's kind of sad they kill themselves for one second of bright light.
At any rate, I slept in the outer cabin - which had once been a big porch - and that in a chair. My back hurt pretty bad after it; not as young as I used to be.
I was up with the dawn and shlepped my stuff to the truck and got out of there before the wasps woke up and launched an offensive. I drove into town and stopped for gas, but the pumps were acting very screwy and wouldn't take my credit card. I took my insulin and went to McDonalds (as is my custom when I go down there) to get breakfast. (It's the only time I go for fast food.) Turns out McDonalds was closed due to a power outage. I guess the storm was worse than I thought.
Unfortunately I had taken my insulin. There wasn't a place to get food within thirty miles. I drove on a bit fearful, heading for Fredericktown, site of one of the larger Civil War battles in Missouri.
I made it with no problem and ate in the car on the way home.
Well, that's that. As I say, nothing major happened (which means no good stories to tell) but I had a wonderful time of it, soaking in nature and enjoying the weather. Granted, I'm getting a bit old for this; my body is pretty sore today despite the fact that I didn't do any work except lugging stuff around. I suppose I'll never finish the cabin. There are so many things I needed to do, but my health failed me years ago and the lost time meant I will never finish it. I need to put a roof on the porch. I have a partially-built screen porch attached to it that needs finishing. I want to build a big storage shed and move all the junk out of the cabin into it. I want to build an actual outhouse and not just use cinder blocks with a toilet seat in the yard (well, it IS self cleaning as animals do the work for me!) I need to finish the flooring in the cabin, as well as upgrade my heating system with a real wood stove. I need to take down the remains of the "storage wigwam" a tent built with a frame of small saplings. It collapsed long ago and lays there like a pile. If I take that down I could park there and turning around will be a lot easier. I also have a couple of trees that were small when I built the cabin but now hang precipitously over the place, widow makers imperiling my hard work.
It makes me sad to think that the cabin will never be done - and eventually will decay and rot away. But that is the way of life - our works are all as dust and eventually are absorbed back into the good Earth. My cabin was always a temporary thing anyway. I actually intended it as a temporary shelter until I could build something better, but it was so much work I didn't want to waste so I kept building. Now it's, well, not overbuilt but over trashed; I brought down way too much junk for construction purposes. I need to build a bonfire and burn a lot of the wood that is down there. It would be much nicer with less trash. I feel like Fat Albert in the clubhouse in the junk yard sometimes. Actually, if I keep gaining weight and get a nice suntan I'll LOOK like Fat Albert. I guess I should practice aying "hey, hey, hey!"
So anyway, I hope you all enjoyed my latest tale from the Ozark Hilton. It's always good to make the long trek. I'll keep going as long as I am able, but it's getting harder all the time. I know some day in the not-too-distant future it will come to an end. All good things.
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