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Day 655

November 2, 2018 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Day 655 November 2, 2018 926 Days to Go

There are two lines that keep running through my head. One is the punchline to a joke, the other is a line from a song. One illustrates Trump, the other the Republican party and Dave Brat.

First, the joke and Trump – it turns out this is one of Trump’s favorite jokes. Actually, it’s a mini-morality play. It’s the joke about the rattlesnake that has wiggled too far up the mountain to sun itself. As the sun begins to set he appeals to a passerby to carry him to lower ground where he will stay warm enough to survive. The person finally agrees, carries him down and as the person is lowering the snake to the ground it bites him. As the person lies dying he asks the snake why did he do that. The rattlesnake replied, “You knew who I was and what I was before you picked me up.”

And so it is with Donald Trump. There is no mystery here. He hasn’t changed one bit. We knew who he was and what he was before we elected him.

The other line comes from the recording “Alice’s Restaurant” by Arlo Gutherie, which recounts the events of a particular Thanksgiving Day. On that particular holiday Arlo offers to take trash to the dump for Alice. the dump is closed. It’s a holiday. He then throws trash over a ravine and gets arrested for littering. Arlo then goes on to describe his “sitting on the group W bench” with all sorts of hardened criminals (“mother rapers … father rapers …”) and then proceeds to talk about the draft where they (the military) are trying to induct him into the military, and he is less than interested. The line I’m thinking of is when Arlo asks the draft sergeant, “you want to know if I’m moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug.”

And that’s kind of the problem the Republicans and Dave Brat have. They’ve done all this mean nasty stuff and now they want you to vote for them. They try to blame what they have done on others. They have tried to say they didn’t do it. They have said well yes they did it but it’s not what it is. That it is really good for you, etc. etc. etc.

The Republicans passed a tax bill that strips away deductions for state and local taxes. Yes, they did. They also said you can no longer deduct mortgage interest expense. Those two things are the bedrock of most Americans tax planning. It’s the one thing that gives them a leg up. Being taxed by the Federal government on the money you were taxed by your state or your local township is double taxation. I don’t know of any other way to say it. Isn’t that – double taxation – one of the things that led to the Revolution? I mean come on.

Then we get to Dave Brat and “the stupidest campaign in the 2018 election season”*

* credit Joe Scaroborough

Brat sent around an ad and put out on TV that Abigail Spanberger, his Democratic opponent, is dangerous because she wants to expand Obamacare.

He also pounds away at the tag line “Nancy Pelosi and her liberal agenda.” What exactly is he talking about? The fact that Pelosi actually passed legislation? That the legislation she passed helped people? Who knows.

Dave can point to his vast legislative accomplishments. He got one bill passed. He renamed something. He can point to his great lauded fiscal conservatism where he increased the national debt this year alone by over a trillion dollars. As opposed to Pelosi’s actually cutting the debt.

He can point to his letting companies bring trillions of dollars back into this country on profits they made here but never paid taxes on. This was supposed to help the economy. Dave, touting himself as an economist, man-splained that this money would be used to start the economy roaring. It hasn’t. He never explained that if that was true why hadn’t companies used all the cash they already had here to get the economy roaring? Let’s be clear about Brat’s econ credentials. He has never published a legitimate econ paper. He has a PhD in the subject, but you have to wonder. He points to three opinion pieces he wrote about the economy that he published in magazines or journals that are without reputation that he controlled. It’s like Ran Paul saying he’s a certified ophthalmologist. Yeah, in an organization he started; not the real one.

Now Brat and his fellow Republicans after seeing the writing on the wall about people liking coverage for pre-existing conditions are now saying they are for it. For pre-existing conditions? That’s like the line, “Respect you in the morning? Heck, I don’t respect you now.”

Who are they kidding? (about 44% of the population – currently).

These are the yahoos who tried to repeal Obamacare 70 times. They have outright lied in their campaign ads time and time again saying they are for coverage of pre-existing condition while – get this – they are actively pursuing in court to eliminate coverage. My old state of North Carolina has Thom Tillis (what a piece of work he is) introducing a, what the Republicans call, a health care bill. A better name would be “a gouge and fleece the public” bill. Does it cover pre-existing conditions? You bet. The insurance companies can charge whatever they like, but they will cover you.

Dave Brat won’t lie like that. What he says, and he said this in the debate with Spanberger, that he’ll give you money so you can pay for yourself for your pre-existing condition. Hey Dave, “What if that’s not enough to cover that condition?” What did you say Dave? Sorry, I can’t hear you. Fuck who? Oh. Got it.

“Hey Dave, you are the brilliant economist right? You know that most people with a severe pre-existing condition like cancer go through their savings and financial resources within two years right? What are they supposed to do after that? Hello? Dave, are you there?

“Don’t run away when I’m talking to you. I’m in your district. Hey, by the way, according to you there were 700 paid protestors at your phony town hall at the Cloverhill Church. I say phony because, like all those events you’ve had, no one gets to ask you a question directly. But if there were 700 paid protestors at that “town hall” that would have been everyone in the room. I never got my check.

“You know Dave, you and the Republicans got a lot of damn gall asking for my vote after you have worked against my interests and those of everyone I know. That you have screwed us over time and time again, lied about it, and then tried to stoke fear in us by bringing up a woman who has actually really really helped us.

“Hello? Dave?

“I’d come see you in person, but you won’t tell people where you are going to be because you are afraid. Afraid that you might actually run into a constituent with a problem. A problem you no doubt created.”

926 Days to Go

The election is in five days. Go to the polls. Do not let them turn you away. Vote. Get a provisional ballot, if necessary, but vote.

Let them know how pissed off you are.

PS “You thought they would do what?”

Man laughing — You thought they’d do what?

Day 654

November 1, 2018 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Day 654 Thursday November 1, 2018 927 Days to Go

Trump has been subpoenaed by Mueller and is fighting it in court.

You heard me. (And you probably heard it here first!)

There is no question about this.

Trump said it himself.

Let me explain.

I have developed some AI (Artificial Intelligence) software, which to date has always been right. It’s called “Rick’s Trumpolater” and is marketed by my company Half Vast Enterprises under the name “De Trumpolator” or “DT” for short.

In this never before revealed inner-workings of the Trumpolator, I reveal – for the first time – how it works. Okay, first it’s a piece of software. That means you put data in and you get something out. In the case of the Trumpolator you can put in a speech by Trump and get out what he is really saying.

For instance: put in “Globalists” you get out “Jews.”

Put in “Nationalists” you get out “White Nationalists” or “Nazis.” (There is a random number generator which depending on whether the random number is odd or even determines which word it spits out.)

Okay, now that I’ve revealed some of the inputs and outputs to the DT, let me share with you one of the core principles of the DT. That is – in any given speech or statement Trump always lies. It’s part of who he is. Let me be clear on this point. Trump may not be aware he is lying so he can claim he wasn’t lying, but what the Trumpolator can ferret out is that in any statement he makes there is an element that is not true. We here at Trumpolator Central use a short-hand term for this “ a lie”, or “lying.” We don’t know if Trump is consciously lying or if he does not know fact from what he says, but we do know that with 1000% accuracy he has never not lied in any statement or speech he has made.

So with the above in mind permit me to run through the Trumpolator the following Q & A from the president yesterday:

“Have you been subpoenaed by Robert Mueller?”

“No.”

Running this thorough the Trumpolator:

“No.” ——> “Yes.”

This is incontrovertible.

There you have it.

Why was he even asked this question at this time? It turns out that there was an article in Politico written by someone familiar with such things as legal cases (these people are often called lawyers or prosecutors) that there are a series of sealed documents that the public record reveals someone is fighting something legally behind closed doors. Whatever it is, and whomever is doing the fighting, has to be a pretty special case because the usual shmuck doesn’t get this kind of timely attention. Who brought the case is not known either, but given the unusual circumstances said lawyerly types conclude that it is Mueller and the person fighting is Trump.

Also, interestingly, yesterday we got to see the material referred to the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 that showed the facts in the case against then President Nixon.

Where the current fighting is going on is the same court where the case against Nixon was done. In that 1974 case there had been a grand jury convened, which heard the evidence against Nixon. The evidence was damning. There was no wiggle room. He was guilty. However, the question came up as to could you indict a sitting President? The only way to get a sitting president from office was if the Vice-President and the cabinet voted that the pres was unfit to serve and thus removed him or if he was impeached by the House and voted by a 2/3 majority in the Senate that he was guilty and thus would be removed. This left moot the question of whether a president could go on criminal trial while serving and what would happen if he was found guilty and put in jail. He could theoretically still be president, and like a convicted mob boss, still be running his organization from his cell.

In the Nixon case a group of Senators went to Nixon with the evidence they had and he resigned.

So are we about to find out? Find out what will happen if a president has charges brought against him?

Unfortunately, the Trumpolator is not advanced enough to handle such questions.

927 Days to Go

PS Anselm Kiefer’s “Landscape with Wing” 1981 at VMFA.

Day 653

October 31, 2018 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Day 653 Wednesday October 31, 2018 928 Days to Go

An experiment that I hope is coming to an end.

Last night I listened to Chris Mathews’ Townhall Meeting with Beto O’Rourke at the University Of Houston. This was a real townhall meeting, not the phony kind that the Republicans have been pulling. By that I mean people got to ask Beto questions directly. In the “townhalls” that Dave Brat has held (and I’ve been to all of them) you don’t get to ask him questions directly. Rather, you get to submit them on a 3”x5” card and then someone chooses which one he’ll answer. In that way he gets to one) not answer difficult questions and two) not be directly confronted by a voter telling him he didn’t answer the question.

O’Rourke took question after question from the audience. He was authentic. He was genuine. He got asked all the questions I would have expected to be asked and more. He didn’t duck a single question. He didn’t blame others. His was a message of inclusiveness, of “we are better than that.” I haven’t heard anyone that inspiring since Bobby Kennedy.

He said he campaigned in every county in Texas, because he intends to represent everyone in Texas. Boy, what a breathe of fresh air.

This is the same message that Stacy Abrams is making in Georgia and Abigail Spanberger is making here in Virginia. They campaign throughout their respective political area. They say Republican, Democrat, or Independent if elected they will represent you – everyone.

Compare this to The Republican messaging: there is a caravan of invaders coming, we must stop the liberal agenda of Nancy Pelosi, they will raise your taxes, they will allow terrorists into the country, they must be stopped.

Dave Brat is so fearful of his own constituents that he does not let people know where he is going to be for fear of being confronted (“paid protestors!”) Abigail Spanberger has held over one hundred and thirty meet and greets since she’s been campaigning. Dave? Zero. Abigail has real policies laid out on her website. You can go read what she stands for and what she will do. Dave? Not so much. There are vague statements and lies.

When I went to the debate between the two the thing that got me was the way Brat tried to slide stuff by. He has voted repeatedly to get rid of coverage for pre-existing conditions in health care plans. Yet at the debate he said something vague about pre-existing conditions. If I understood him correctly, what he said was you would have more money in your pocket so you could pay for whatever pre-existing condition you had.

My wife’s health care costs went up 500% this year. The insurance plan she picked she did so because it covered medicine she needs. Halfway through the year the insurance company stopped covering that medicine. They are allowed to do that. Are you allowed to switch medical plans? No.

Brat has said that he wants more competition for medical health care plans in Virginia. Of course, he omits the fact that he and his Republican colleagues sat on their hands for as long as they could about various coverage options based on the ACA prompting one of the biggest providers of health care plans in Virginia to pull out and thus limit the options people had, which in turn drove up health care premiums. This was all part of their plan “to let Obamacare fail” instead of strengthening it, which they had been begged to do.

“We will let it fail on its own and then bring in people who know what they are doing and start from scratch,” is what they kept saying. Who exactly they would bring in was never made clear, and they did everything they could to try and force the ACA to look bad. It’s interesting that the things they said they didn’t like about the plan were the things they insisted be put into the legislation.

Spanberger supports the idea of using the bureaucracy already in place for Medicare for people to use and pay for when they can’t get good medical insurance. This is what Brat and the Republicans think is so bad.

Woman glaring, full figure black and white painting — The Woman

The Republicans and their right wing buddies been listening to each other so much they believe what they are saying is true and more incredibly that it is what people want. All of a sudden an election is coming up and they have discovered that people like, really like, the idea in Obamacare that folks get covered for their pre-existing conditions (you know like pregnancy). What to do? No problem. Lie. You were for pre-existing conditions all along. As long as you are in office you will make sure pre-existing conditions are covered. Those votes you took specifically against that? Don’t pay any attention to that. (Of course, you won’t be asked that question because you never meet with your constituents.)

Sorry got distracted. What I wanted to talk about was what O’Rourke, Spanberger, and Abrams are all saying and doing. They are saying they want to represent everyone in their area, not a few or a narrow slice.

I remember when this started to change. It started with Reagan. He made it clear he wasn’t representing everyone. He went after unions. He started to change the rules so that certain folks would benefit more than others. I don’t remember exactly when the next step happened but I remember when I heard on the radio that lobbying was made legal. That you’d have to register if you were a lobbyist. I though at the time that would be a good thing because we’d know who they were. What I didn’t realize was that there would be an explosion of influence peddlers. It was at about that time that Microsoft, who had stayed away from government, decided it needed to get involved.

I find it amusing that Paul Ryan makes everyone in his lily white staff read Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead: not realizing that he and his colleagues are doing the exact things that Rand was so opposed to, and that is getting government to change the rules so that you could cheat your competitors.

The next thing that happened was Newt Gingrich. Cameras were put in the House chamber and Newt used it to go on camera and rail against the Democrats. People didn’t realize that most of the time no one was in the chamber. Newt used this to gain notoriety and for the first time in decades the Republicans took control of the House and immediately started to dismantle the government. Newt’s mantra was a scorched earth policy, no compromise. Grover Norquist gained influence. He wanted everyone to make a pledge that they wouldn’t raise taxes. If they did he went after them in elections to get rid of them.

Norquist’s idea was that if you could reduce the size of government to next to nothing then great things would happen. (Could never quite follow the logic there.)

At the same time all this was going on the evangelicals were getting more of a voice. They have this idea that Jesus will come again, and there will be an apocalypse, and we’ll all be taken up to heaven by the lord. Great. What if it doesn’t happen? “You gotta believe!” Sorry. No.

However, this belief and folks like Nancy Reagan who, like Hitler, believed in fortune tellers and charlatans have led our country astray.

In the backdrop of all this are the very rich super conservative who want to eliminate taxes and keep all their wealth. They see taxes as a way to rob them of their hard earned money. The fact that many of them didn’t earn it but inherited it, doesn’t matter. The only thing they want the Federal Government to do is to protect them form foreigners or the raging mob that might show up at their door. Otherwise, they want to have government at the state level where it’s easier to control. They can use the state government to put down local uppity town counsels and the like. Take Flint Michigan as an example.

I am hopefully, silly me, that we are seeing the end of this kind of politics and that we will elect politicians who want to represent all of us. Heck, then maybe we’ll look at real problems and try to solve them.

I know. I know it’s a big ask.

Fortunately, our president has sent 14,200 people trained in how to kill people to our southern border to stop the ragtag group of people nine hundred miles away who are seeking asylum from the terror, violence, killing, rape, and robbery in their home countries. What could go wrong? Beto pointed out that the last time we did this sort of thing a young boy got shot in the back because the military is not trained what to do. Oh. Bummer.

Meanwhile, the president is trying to redefine words.

Sorry, Donald. As Andrew Gillum said of his opponent, “I’m not saying you are a racist. Racists say you are a racist.” The word “Globalists” is used to mean “Jews.” The word “Nationalist” is used to mean “White Nationalist.” You can claim not to know this but all you have to do is to ask your son Eric. He seems to visit sites of White Supremacists or at least he repeats their memes, slogans, and sayings. You’ll find it there Donald – Trust me.

I hope this election will return people who want to represent all of us. I hope the decisive, scorched earth policies of the far right that have been brewing for so long are finally coming to an end. I hope.

928 Days to Go

PS Someone looks pissed off and determined. “The Woman” by Dieter Hacker, 1982, at VMFA.

Day 652

October 30, 2018 by Rick Kinnaird 1 Comment

Day 652 Tuesday October 30, 2018 929 Days to Go

We now have three incidents within the last month all of which are directly attributable to our president’s behavior:
The murder of a Washington Post reporter by Saudi Arabia in Istanbul because the president said the press is the enemy of the people,
The sending of pipebombs to people the president has continually verbally attacked at his rallies,
The murder of eleven people at a synagogue due to the president saying there’s a caravan coming to invade this country.

You can spin this anyway you want but what’s very clear is that the president’s attitude and remarks have consequences and we are seeing those consequences play out on the world stage, in our nation, and in our neighborhoods.

There is a lot of fear. Most of it stoked by the president and his allies. There was a period of a few hours when people said the president acted presidential when he read lifelessly from a teleprompter. Then hours later he was back at one of his rallies saying the same old stuff. He thought he was being presidential because for a while he wasn’t screaming it like he normally does. Now “Lock Her Up” or “Lock Him Up” are standard rhetoric at his rallies.

What has this president accomplished since he has been in office:
– He has either not filled many jobs in the government leaving agencies and bureaus wondering what direction to take or,
– Positions he has filled have been either people with no experience and no interest in the job, or by people who want to destroy or privatize the very agency they were put in charge of,
– He has pulled us out of treaties around the world, thus leaving us smaller and weaker,
– He has met with despots and dictators and has an affinity for them, which has emboldened them to act in ways detrimental to the U.S. and why shouldn’t they? They know he won’t stop them.
– He has attacked our allies: politically, economically, and diplomatically,
– He has encouraged violence and hatred not only at home but abroad,
– He has filled many open judgeships with not conservative but far right leaning judges. That legacy will be with us for decades to come.
– He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of diplomacy and competency when it comes to being president and he has demonstrated time and time again that he has no interest in learning.
– He has passed tax cuts that help the 1% but also the one tenth of the 1% more than anyone else. I’m talking like over 80% of the cut going to those individuals. The individuals who need it the least.
– He has indebted our nation to the tune of trillions of dollars.
– He has put in place tariffs with our trading partners the short term effects we are beginning to see in the rapid decline of the stock market.

And yet there are those who think “I’ll stick with him.” When I’ve asked why I get attacked, pointed to silly right wing websites, or I get nothing.

The Republicans still have a chance to pull this election out of the bag. Voter suppression may not be enough. They may turn to outright cheating as has been reported in several states already. It seems easy enough to do because they did nothing to protect our election system.

We have a chance. It is a slim one. To vote them out of office.

VOTE VOTE VOTE

Your life may very well depend on it.

( 7 days til the election. Vote early or get to your polling place on the 6th. If you live in N.C., Kansas, Georgia, or any of the swing states try to vote early. You may have been “purged” via dirty tricks by Republicans in those states.)

929 Days to Go

PS Erdo points the way.

Man standing on mound of rocks pointing — Erdo Points the Way

Day 650

October 28, 2018 by Rick Kinnaird Leave a Comment

Day 650 Sunday October 28, 2018 931 Days to Go

We aren’t halfway through this presidency and the country has gone to shit.

It’s amazing how fast it can happen isn’t it?

Putin is claiming America is in decline and Trump is the big reason why.

We’ve been pulled out of economic, diplomatic, and arms treaties around the world. This and the fact that we haven’t filled many of the diplomatic posts around the world has led to our shrinking influence on the global stage. Plus, get this, the ambassador to South Africa is a lady who designs handbags and is a member of Trump’s Mar A-lago crowd. Great.

The stock market is in the dumper.

We have done nothing to protect our electoral process, and we are now hearing reports of voting machines switching votes thus undermining what electoral integrity we used to have. That is, what hasn’t been already undermined by the Republican gerrymandering, voter suppression and shutting down of polling places.

Now we have a shooting in a synagogue. What does our president suggest was the problem? That there wasn’t an armed guard there to return fire. This suggests that every place of worship should have armed guards ready to shoot? What could go wrong? I mean let’s give religious people the idea that they need to protect themselves from “the others.” Gee, has that led to problems in the past? Well, yeah, like most of history. I mean what is history but one long description of one group trying to impose their religious beliefs on another via force?

The only respite in Europe came at the end of The Hundred Years war when thirty different parties got together and negotiated for five years to end the thing. Why? Why did they get together to end it? And why weren’t the two most powerful forces on the European continent involved in that peace process? Interesting questions. The other players in Europe, the ones doing all the fighting were exhausted. The German principalities and the Polish plains areas were tired of one army or another sweeping over them and killing everyone who wasn’t on their side. The Pope and The Holy Roman Emperor were all for continuing. I mean why not? They weren’t doing the actual fighting. They were just whipping the masses into a frenzy to keep fighting. Protestant versus Catholic and all that. Finally, all the little people got together and hammered out a peace.

But we’re better than that right? Yeah, our president suggests it’s the victims’ fault. That they should have been armed. Don’t you want to go to church and see a couple of good Christian people standing at the doors with semi-automatic weapons ready to kill any infidel that might come near? How about them mosques? Or the ashrams? Or some temples? I mean freedom of religion means freedom for anyone to carry a firearm anywhere, am I right?

We gotta protect ourselves from those other people. Right? Right?

This isn’t “God Help Us.”

This is “We Gotta Help Ourselves.”

And the president in a quiet voice saying the usual hateful things he yells from his lectern at those rallies ain’t cutting it.

Moving on, to little tidbits I have learned:

The man who won the Nobel prize for figuring out how T-Cells work to stop cancer has played blues harp with Willie Nelson.

The reason Neville Chamberlain gave in to Hitler and let him take part of Czechoslovakia was that the day before 300 German speaking people were killed in Czechoslovakia and Hitler said he had to get in there to protect the remaining German speaking folks in that country. Chamberlain said okay. The 300 people killed was all bullshit. It was PR on German radio. Pure propaganda.

The Czech Republic has the town of Terezin. A medieval walled town the Nazis took over and kicked everyone out to use it as a poster child for what the relocation of Jews would look like. They had an orchestra and a choir and the Nazis took photos to use as propaganda to convince others to move peacefully. There were sinks in a long row to show that everyone could wash together. The sinks never worked. They were just to convince the Red Cross everything was hunky-dory. The gang showers worked. It was the same set up as the ones at the extermination camps, except the extermination camp shower rooms had no windows.

The guitarist on David Bowie’s CD “Let’s Dance” was none other than Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Who knew?

Early voting is seeing numbers twice what they were in the 2014 mid-term election. Democrats are urging people to vote early because of Republican efforts to throw people off voting rolls. The idea being that if you were removed from the voting roll you have time to fix it before the polls close on election day.

Voting is up in Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota, Tennessee, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Nevada. This has Republicans worried. They may have to turn to actually changing the votes in the machines to steal some of these elections. Suppression and creating near impossible situations for people to vote may not be enough.

Did you hear about the mainly Spanish speaking county in Kansas? Yeah, I know, right? The supervisor of the election there moved the polling place out of town. Far away from public transportation. The usual rule of thumb for the number of people you need to have a voting place is 1200. This county has 13,000 people and they have one polling place! That wasn’t bad enough. They moved it out of town. The supervisor has been appealed to to open the old voting place in town. She didn’t respond to the request, but she did send the request along with her “LOL” comment to the Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Mr. “Operation Crosscheck”, and candidate for governor. Must be nice to know that they are doing everything they can to screw you over.

If we can’t cut you off the rolls, we can make it take hours and hours to vote in a remote location, and if that doesn’t work we’ll change your vote in the server. Trust me.

There was also a tidbit that a security guy bought two voting machines off eBay for $100 each. That was in 2014. He found that the data from the last election was still on them, which made it even easier that normal to figure out how to diddle the names and votes. Not that it was hard mind you. Nothing was encrypted and there were no real safeguards to getting into the machine. Alarmed he bought two more machines from the 2016 election. Surely things had been fixed. Nope. Situation normal.

Meanwhile, even with Congress not in session somehow judges are still being put in place. The Federalist Society is a conservative group and their list is where all the judges are being selected. These people are out of touch with regular Americans. This will screw up our lives for my foreseeable lifetime.

President Obama has taken to the stump. He said that when a Republican says he’s for protecting
pre-existing conditions yet has voted against it consistently and might also be in favor of a current lawsuit that wants to strip away pre-existing conditions that person is lying. I wish this guy would have just stuck to being President.

Arianna Grande broke up with Pete Davidson for a pig. Yeah, you heard me. She likes her pet pig better than Pete. Somehow it seems right and it’s the kind of thing that would only happen to Pete.

Have a nice day! Please tip the armed personnel protecting you from “the others” on the way out.

931 Days to Go

PS Preparing for Halloween Trick or Treating: wine, rum, and candy.