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Day 1313 – No Principles, No Problem, 400% Match

August 23, 2020 by Rick Kinnaird 2 Comments

Sunday August 23, 2020

70 Days until the election on November 3rd

150 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

There’s a new report that Trump’s sister, the one who was a Federal judge but retired quickly because she would have been investigated for tax fraud as an ethical issue, has said that Donnie has no principles. This is the same sister who Mary Trump, her niece wrote a book about The Donald and quoted her aunt in it. Somehow the aunt forgot to tell her niece how she got screwed out of most of her inheritance that said sister of Donald and aunt to Mary had to have known about because the former judge benefited. Talk about no principles.

Not that anything here is really new. Okay, the fact that the sister has been caught saying it might be, but wasn’t she the one doing Donald’s homework for him? Was he too stupid or too lazy to do it himself? I go with both. He’s so lazy he can’t be bothered with running the country. Not even a little bit. (Let Jared do it.) Imagine if we had someone with even half a brain and an ounce of caring, we’d be far better off than we are now. I mean it’s excuse-a-rama with him and his group of flunkies. I hesitate to call it an administration, because they really don’t administer anything. However, we have seen Donald be singularity focused on trying to get re-elected, mainly to stay out of jail. I mean he doesn’t do the job, so what’s his reason for staying other than that? He likes everyone looking at him, and being in the news constantly, but doing the job? He has no idea what the job entails. 

He has learned that he can mess around with lots of things that everyone else holds dear and assumes won’t be messed with. So what? They’re idiots. He the sly genius. Oh my god. Gag me.

Then I get these fund raising emails. The latest one claimed a 400% match to save the post office. It had in the email address my name, but if I hovered over it the actual name was “campaign…” I’ve gotten them from candidates or at least that what they claim to be from but if you hover over you find they are from “info” or “campaign.” Sometimes I write back with the candidates name in the opening of my reply. Then I say, “if you really want to (do as you claim in your opening) write back.” No reply.

Or they say they are taking a survey. Great. I write back, “If at the end of the survey you ask for money I’m never contributing to you ever.” They always ask for money. Is it to help pay for their yachts? (Asking for a friend.)

The painting project continues apace. We shot one side and the whole upper front in half an hour. By we, I mean dean, I held the hose.

 70 Days until the election on November 3rd

150 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

I Held the Hose

PS Painted the front and one side, first coat.

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Day 1312 – Maine Field Report #1

August 22, 2020 by Rick Kinnaird 2 Comments

Saturday August 22, 2020

71 Days until the election on November 3rd

151 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

While the rest of you have been lollygagging around and whining about our country I’ve been doing important things. It’s hard to know where to begin, but let me start with this.

It’s a cover of a book that was part of the out of print kite books that I bought a while back. This book entitled The Kite, features a picture done by someone who has never flown a kite. This is your typical graphic artist representation of a kite. It features a young boy joyously running while holding a piece of string in his hands. The idea is that he is flying the kite, which he is not. The old man is. Also, they are running, through a field of high grass. Hope it isn’t chigger season. There’s an older boy standing to one side scratching his head, and well he might. If it’s not from the chiggers and ticks then he might be wondering how this kite would ever fly. 

The Kite

First off the kite is bridled incorrectly. It’s attached to the backside of the kite, not the front. You want the sticks on the back to support the sail. If this kite were to ever get in the air the cover would blow back into a big curved sheet. Also, the bridle stings are attached to the horizontal cross spar not the vertical one. This means you are not controlling the angle of the kite into the wind, which means, if the kite flies at all it will buck and dump the wind that is being collected on its surface. It also means that the kite will most likely not be stable side to side as the surface area is not evenly divided but rather one big blob. If a little pressure builds on one side of the surface the kite will dive off to the other side.

Yeah, this is the typical graphic artist rendering of a kite. It makes me wonder, “If that get this wrong what else do they botch?”

Bob’s

Then we got on the road, noodled up to Massachusettes where we visited with daughter Katie, socially distanced. After spending the night nearby we continued on to Maine, stopping in Kittery and trying out Bob’s Clam Shack. It’s famous. It’s a landmark. It’s been on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. Blah blah blah. It’s okay, but certainly not worth the money. Our meal: two lobster rolls with fries and two sodas was fifty five bucks. For that price they ought to knock it out of the park. Rather it was a kind of blooper over the nearby fence. The fries were okay, but not cooked in hot enough oil. Slightly crispy, not quite mealy, but nothing to make you stop and say, “Oh my god!”

Waddah Want for $55?

The lobster rolls had lobster in them. Yeah, the lobster rolls had lobster in them. It was okay.

We stopped at the visitor’s center where I had my first moose siting of the season. 

MOOSE!

On the way to the house we pulled off the first Freeport exit to see if Cindy’s was still in business. It’s a ramshackle little place with good food – when they are open. They used to be closed on Sunday now it turns out to be Tuesday, the day we came by. The easiest way to find Cindy’s is to pull off the first Freeport exit, if you see the big indian on the right, Cindy’s is down on the left a little further than you think. The place looks like it was cleaned up a bit. Maybe the crazy guy who owned it sold out, which would explain the day closure change. The old guy at Cindy’s was a Seventh-day Adventist so Cindy’s used to always be closed on SATURDAY, our normal travel-to-Maine day. (That-you Shelby for the correction.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfHkE8W6Pls

The Indian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP09jj5ae0Y

Cindy’s

Before

We arrived at the house and assessed the situation. Ocean side needs work. Tide still goes in and out. Situation normal. We took most of the solar panels off the roof and stacked them on the deck. I was surprised how light they were.

Solar Panels under wraps & Picnic Table

The picnic table was hauled into service as a staging platform and Scott came by and dropped off scaffolding, dean started scraping and bitching. Well, he was bitching long before he started scraping. I went for supplies. 

Scraping

All of a sudden dean said, “Rain is coming in five minutes we’ve got to get this stuff inside.” The app was right on target and we got treated to a rainbow.

Rainbow and Tide

Scott dropped off scaffolding  dean climbed and caulked. I supervised.  (From the ground, “Missed a spot.”)

Scaffolding

The far corner turns out to be higher than it appears.

The Upper Corner

“Hey look Ma!”

I Can Reach It

There’s more, but time does not permit …

In other news, the new post master general testified to Congress and we were all mistaken. He is an innocent lamb, carrying out the plan of the previous Post Master General. The taking sorting machines out of service was because of excess capacity. The slowdown was due to Covid, and he’s never talked to Trump about any of this.

The fact that the drop off in mail service being directly related to the same time those sorting machines were taken out of service and that when Covid hit there was a brief blip has not been explained as far as I know. It is mere coincidence I guess that areas were black and brown people live has been hit the worst. Mere coincidence. 

Meanwhile his wife is being considered, (or was she approved?), for the ambassadorship of Canada. If they allow her in, maybe they can show her how Canadian health care works, how they’ve worked to stop the spread of the virus, and how to deliver mail. All information her husband, the Republicans, and Donald Trump could use.

“Fuck fuck fuck,” Senator Tom Carper (D – Delaware) during USPS Zoom call thus either demonstrating that Democratic senators can be as clueless as Republican senators or that he thinks Mr. DeJoy is a lying sack of excrement. 

71 Days until the election on November 3rd

151 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

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Day 1311 Frost You Say?

August 21, 2020 by Rick Kinnaird 2 Comments

Not Jabba

Friday August 21, 2020

72 Days until the election on November 3rd

152 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Haven’t had time to write. Been on the move. I’m in Maine now. Settling in. Repainting the house. I’m the go-fer.

The other day I saw a short bed truck, no cab, maybe it was a jeep. There was an American flag on one side and another flag that read: Trump; 2020; No More Bullshit.

Or maybe the third line was No Bullshit. I don’t recall. It doesn’t matter.

All I could think was, that’s all he’s got is bullshit.

It’s the classic schoolyard bully scenario. “You’re the bully”, “No you’re the bully.”

Whatever you accuse him of he accuses you of. When confronted he accuses. When accused he deflects. 

I ran around to a gamut of hardware and big box stores yesterday. All the people wearing “Trump 2020” shirts, and there were a lot, did not have masks. Everyone else pretty much did.

Rank stupidity. Herd immunity? No, I think the Trump breed will die, and whither away before that happens. Not completely, but it may get tampted down. Bending the curve as it were.

Meanwhile what else has happened?

Trump has sidelined Fauci and raised up some Fox News idiot to speak in Fauci’s place. Plus he’s got the My Pillow guy and a host of other foolish people to speak at the RNC convention. I don’t know what they’ve got planned. It will be interesting to see. It will be hard to top what the Dems have done this week, which I think may be the wave of the future as far as conventions go.

If we keep going in the direction the Democratic Convention went we might end up with people talking policy and ideas. Imagine that!

Meanwhile the Republican underlings doing Trump’s bidding are saying that nothing is undermining the Post Office, while the president is saying he won’t give the Post Office money and they won’t be able to do their job.

In other fun news, Steve Bannon was arrested. Seems old Stevie was stealing money via a campaign he set up. There’s a name for that, what is it? Wire fraud? Money laundering? Embezzlement? Something like that. 

Apparently, he set up a GoFundMe campaign to get people to donate money to help build the wall that Mexico was going to pay for. Instead, of using the money for that he siphoned it off for his personal use. Imagine that?

Oh, it gets better. One prosecutor said this should be called, “Money Laundering for Dummies.” It turned out that the GoFundMe people told Bannon that he had to have a charity to give the money to. He couldn’t funnel it directly into his bank account. He set up a charity that sent it to a shell company that funneled it to his bank account. Eazy-Peezy.

So he gets arrested off the coast of Connecticut aboard a 165 foot yacht, which is owned by some Chinese guy. One hundred and sixty five feet is the length of the yacht Wayne LaPierre of the NRA rented, seems to be the length of choice.

I have to say Steve looked better than usual during his arrest. Turns out some of the money was used for plastic surgery. Ah me.

I guess he was getting spiffed up for his appearance at the RNC convention. I thought, “Hey, can’t he Zoom from his jail cell?” Not a problem, he posted the five million in bail. Don’t you wonder whose money he used? 

No more bullshit.

72 Days until the election on November 3rd

152 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Fat Dumb and Happy – stone sculpture: town square, La Democracia, Huehuetentango, Guatemala.

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Day 1306 – The Destruction of The United States of America

August 16, 2020 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Sunday August 16, 2020

77 Days until the election on November 3rd

157 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

When Trump was running for President he asked, “What do you have to lose?”

We now know the answer. Our Country.

At least the way we envisioned it. Regardless of your political persuasion or political association or economic outlook, I doubt any of us thought it would be like this.

The U.S. Constitution has three concrete tangible things described: a military, the post office, and the census. Trump has attacked all three. 

There were some people who called themselves conservative who ascribed to the idea of “no new taxes,” and who wanted to shrink the federal government “to the size of a pea.” Is this what they envisioned? I doubt it.

Trump has now had his henchman at the post office decommission over 600 mail sorting machines. The claim is for efficiency. Eash machine can sort over 35,000 pieces of mail an hour and are very very reliable (like 99.4%). There is no better cheaper faster, more reliable way to sort mail. 

The Census is taken every ten years and the Constitution makes it clear that everyone is to be counted. Yet, Trump is ending the Census’ work a month early so that many people won’t be counted.

These are fundamental institutions to our democracy.

Trump has also tried out using federal law enforcement officers from various agencies as his own police force. Will he do it again? Sure, why not? No one is stopping him.

He knows that if he leaves office he will no doubt face many trials and very likely prison time. There is no retirement home for dictators. By and large they stay in office until they die. Sometimes, a deal can be worked out such as for Edi Amin or Baby Doc, but those are the exceptions. His best bet if he is forced from office is to flee to Russia.

77 Days until the election on November 3rd

157 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Take That!

PS  Pierce the Bull 

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Day 1304 – Two Stunning Developments – Can they be true?

August 14, 2020 by Rick Kinnaird 2 Comments

Day 1304 – Two Stunning Developments – Can they be true?

Friday August 14, 2020

79 Days until the election on November 3rd

159 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

I wasn’t going to write anything today because I’ve got a very busy day ahead of me, but then a brief look at the news and I saw two items that were absolutely stunning. I have to comment.

No, I’m not talking about the birther accusations from the right about Kamala Harris. Who didn’t see that coming?

Nor am I talking about the protests in Belarus and the similarities to what has been going on in our country.

No, first I am talking about what happened at the president’s news conference yesterday.

And second I am talking about something so shocking that I’m not sure it is real, but I think it is.

They are both related stories in that they both deal with a level of dishonesty by Trump. That’s shocking too, right?

Hair Not

Okay, first off a reporter that I’ve never heard of, and probably will never hear of again, stood up in the press conference and asked Trump if he was concerned about all the lying he had been doing to the American people for the last three and a half years. 

What did the president do?

Acted like he wasn’t sure who the person being referred to was. The reporter repeated and clarified. The president pointed to the next person without comment other than “Uh…”

Secondly, there is a report from the BBC that our government mandated restrictions on showered water flow that have been in place since the 1990s are being revised because they interfere with Trump’s “hair routine.” 

If this is true, it is shocking.

But now we know that he isn’t just listening to Fox and Friends in the morning. 

’58 Chevy Impala’s sidewalls
Presidential Sidewalls

BTW I highly suggest you find the article and look at the accompanying photo and video. It makes clear that Trump is bald on the whole front of his head. That I knew. But what I hadn’t been aware of were the sideburns. They are long, very long, and combed back and over his ears. I’d guess that if he got his head dunked (like in a toilet by a bully) that the hair on his sideburns would hang down to below his chin. 

This gives a whole new meaning to the 50s term of “Flattop with Fenders.” These are sidewalls! That’s the 50 piece of metal that covered over the top half of the outside of a wheel well.

That is all. Carry on. Wear a mask. 

79 Days until the election on November 3rd

159 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS The prez hair, sidewalls on a car, on the head of the president

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