Rick Kinnaird

Saturday September 19, 2020

43 Days until the election on November 3^rd

123 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Well guess what? Mitch McConnell is a lying sack of excrement. Who knew? Well, anyone paying attention. 

Hillary was interviewed on Rachel last night and, as always, she described succinctly the situation. She’s been right so many times it is scary. She minced no words about McConnell. He doesn’t care about helping people. He’s only interested in power. 

Now an interesting situation is created with the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. McConnell has said he will jam through Trump’s nominee. He will be flogged with his own words. As will Lindsey Graham and many other Republican senators who so adamantly blocked Obama’s pick eleven months before the 2016 election.

How those senators respond will be interesting, as will how the people who have elected them respond with their votes in November. 

PS I was in deep shit, but now after the help of these fellows, I am only in shallow shit.

Sunday September 13, 2020

49 Days until the election on November 3^rd

129 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Sorry, didn’t finish until six days later.

Yesterday morning the Western Bay was glass smooth. An excellent day to kayak across and see the seals. You don’t get those kind of days often. 

It was a harder paddle than I remembered. My seat wouldn’t stay upright and I was constantly lying back, which is a hard way to paddle. Sitting upright meant no back support. It made it much harder than usual. Dean and I to the area just north of Green Island where the seals like to sun themselves. I stayed on the shore and had dean approach the rock. I wanted him to see all the resting seals get excited and wiggle their tails and shimmy off the rock. It was hard to see them as they were bunched so close together. One white seal pup was easy to spot. The rest were just black lumps.

As dean approached the rock the pup slipped off the rock. The others didn’t move. It was then that I realized that black I was seeing was actually rock and not seal. We hadn’t seen any seals on the way over. It was curious. We didn’t see any on the whole trip except for the pup. Where had they all gone? 

There have been schools of fish out in the bay. You can see a black storm in the water as they move; no doubt away from some predator. We’ve seen osprey fly by with fish in their claws and bald eagles too. I don’t remember seeing that kind of activity before.

The painting is nearly done. One area of the deck and the handrails need a second coat.

Hopefully,  a hike tomorrow.

Shelby had discovered a French TV station, which showed the Tour de France. Tehn we found it on NBC. But yesterday, everything was showing football, both US and European – no Tour. Late yesterday, I switched on the French TV and saw the last 9 kilometers. It was an odd finish. One rider was out in front with the peloton chasing him just 23 seconds behind. Several riders broke away and caught him. He faded into the pack as one rider after another charged to the front and then got caught. Finally, one fellow made a breakaway and no one pursued. He took the race handily and the rest came in together.

PS Fire on the beach.

Friday September 11, 2020

51 Days until the election on November 3^rd

131 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Wow, September 11^th. It wasn’t until I was writing this that I realized it was 9-11.

That was nineteen years ago. It’s seems two lifetimes.

I was thinking about the comparisons made about our current Satan. They fall into two types, maybe three. There are comparisons to Hitler and his rise to power. There are also comparisons to George Orwell’s “1984” and how prescient he was in outlining the behavior of authoritarian leaders and their followers. The third part is the lack of interest, ability, and understanding of the job. Nowhere is that more clear than in his doing nothing about the pandemic even when he knew what it could do. There was no preparation or call to action. This however has been his method of operation all along so it should surprise no one.

The last part are his accomplices: willing or unknowing. 

51 Days until the election on November 3^rd

131 Days unti the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Penumbral Eclipse, January 19, 2019

Thursday September 10, 2020

52 Days until the election on November 3^rd

132 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Lots has come out in the last few days but nothing as disturbing as Bob Woodward’s tapes of Trump, In Trump’s own words he says he was briefed in late January about the virus and he knew it was deadly. He told this to Woodward on February 7^th. Yet, he did nothing. He was passive. He let it happen. As if he had no control over the outcome.

You can say a lot about him, but he does know how to do things in the government. He has been on a crusade to destroy the pillars of our democracy. He’s destroying the Post Office, the CDC, the intelligence community, our standing militarily around the world, … he knows how to pull levers of power. It’s not that he couldn’t have done something. It’s not that he didn’t know how; he’s proved he knows. It’s that he didn’t. 

I ascribe no motive as to why this may be. He didn’t make any effort to stop the spread of the virus across our country – for whatever reason.

Anyone who votes for this man is voting to destroy our country and themselves.

52 Days until the election on November 3^rd

132 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Fog and Pine

Monday September 7, 2020

55 Days until the election on November 3^rd

135 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

I’ve seen a number of posts about the election that give me hope.

One was a picture of a boat at the bottom of the lake in Texas where they were having a regatta for Satan. The rally flag was still attached “SATAN 2020”.

The other was a picture of Joe Biden with his wife. They were sitting on a garden love seat in their backyard garden. He was wearing blue jeans. Their German Shepherd was lying down in the foreground. He was smiling. So was she. It was so nice, so normal. I miss normal.

There are reports of people taking down their SATAN flags and putting up POW/MIA flags. There is hope.

There was also a post which pointed out that the Republicans are bitching about the condition of the country and what a mess it is. Yet, they hold most of the government positions of power. Seems like maybe they should give up the tiller and let someone who knows what to do and how to do it take the helm?

55 Days until the election on November 3^rd

135 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Sunrise this morning and Orion last night