Mother Nature Was Not All That Harsh Arond Here...

...and thus the weather forecasters were wrong once again! This morning there may have been 1/2 inch of snow on the ground on my side patio, maybe an inch and a half on the concrete sidewalk out front, and maybe three inches on my car. That certainly was not the 4 to 6" or more that was predicted along with high winds and much higher gusts. They kept stressing the "or more" too. As it turned out, no further accumulation landed upon us even though it snowed a bit more.

That made me somewhat disappointed that I had put off my pending road trip due to the weather forecasts I had heard yesterday. It would have been no big deal to drive in that snowfall. Then again, I heard a weather report saying that the snow had been piling up high and winds were blowing sideways in Patterson, NJ - only about 37 miles northwest of here. I would pretty much have to have driven through that to start my trip so maybe it is better that I decided to wait until tomorrow. Decisions, decisions.

Had the oil and air filters changed on my car today. After that I was a bit hopeful I'd get out of here today but tomorrow is only a day away and I had too much to do today not to put it off until then.

In case you are wondering, I am Arkansas bound to visit Brendan.

All the best,
Glenn B

If The Forecast Was Right...

...this is just about what is happening in the northeast today.

All the best,
Glenn B

Sour Rabbits

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Did He Really Say That...

...because if he did my like and respect for the man has gone up an awful lot. Damn, I'd buy him drinks all night if I had the chance.

All the best,
Glenn B

Trust Me

 

That is one heck of a lot of trust! If someone trusted me that much, I'd sell 'em a bridge in the Sahara.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Stupid Libs

This seems par for the course as to the way libs twist everything in relation to Trump - they usually do it pretty stupidly just like this: 

 

All the best,
Glenn B

Damn Another Nor'easter On Its Way Here

At least that is what the all-confusing weather gurus are yammering about today. Supposed to start snowing tonight but then again it is 43 degrees right now. Of course, no doubt it can drop pretty quickly the snow may come, in fact judging by what they have been saying it seems sure to come. They are saying 4 to 6" or more in my neck of the concrete jungle but who knows.

Had it not been for this forecast I probably would have been on the road tomorrow for a little bit of a road trip. Now, I guess I should wait until Wednesday. I prefer to make it t where I am driving, in one piece and otherwise good health and driving in a nor'easter is probably not a good idea with that in mind. Of course, if it is not too bad tomorrow, I may just say damn the snowflakes - full speed ahead (well legal highway speed anyway).

No, I did not say to where I am headed; later for that.
All the best,
Glenn B

 

If It's Real - Whoever Wrote This Is A Top Notch Arsehat...

 

...and is one in more ways than I could have imagined possible before seeing it.

 

All the best,

GB

It's Still Winter So Here Is Some Good Advice

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Oh My - Was That Me

Damn, if I wasn't drinking already, I'd drive over to Total Wine to pick up some booze!

All the best,
GB

When Someone Shoves A Baby In Your Face

 

There have been more than a few times when someone I know has tried to hand me their infant or toddler when I did not want to be bothered; if only I had thought of that reply years ago maybe it would have been much less often.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

Do You Know When You See An Asshole?

If you are not sure if you have ever seen one, look below the cover:

 

I Am Sure Someone Else Has Thought Of This...

...but just in case no one has mentioned it: Do you think the only reason that Kim Jong Un invited President Trump to North Korea is so that he can call it off shortly before the scheduled meeting and then blame it on Trump for it falling through? You know, Rocket Boy saying something like Trump set too many conditions! Of course, President Trump is setting conditions and would have to be a fool not to do so. Then again N. Korea has said it will do certain things before the meeting. So, if President Trump's conditions are that N. Korea does what it promised, who can blame him if it falls through besides maybe a psycho like Kim Jong Un or an American made leftist loon.

All the best,
Glenn B

Ever Check Your Credit Score?

I just checked mine through a free service from my bank. Wow, it does not suck at all, as a matter of fact it is excellent. Not quite the top score you can achieve but pretty darned close. Makes me wonder though, what does one have to do to get a perfect score because my house is paid off, have some money in the bank, have a steady income (at least until the government defaults on government pensions), I pay my bills on time, have had the same credit cards for years, well one maybe only for a year or so but all the others for many years and not too many of them either, have never defaulted on a financial obligation, never declared bankruptcy and so on. So what does one have to do to achieve credit score perfection???

All the best,
Glenn B

So When Can We Expect Retraction Number 2...

...from the NY Times relative to its February article that miscalculated the taxes of a hypothetical couple under President Trumps new tax reform. According to the Times, the couple would pay more taxes under the trump plan than they would have paid under the old tax rules. The thing was, the Times was outright wrong and they retracted that claim by 'correcting' it to say the couple would have received a $43 tax refund instead of having to pay an increase of $3,896 in taxes.

Well that was 'the thing was'. The thing is: now it has been reported that they were reportedly wrong about that $43 tax refund too in as much as they did not have the hypothetical couple claim other tax credits for an additional savings of $1,500. That additional savings should have been calculated into their tax returns as per "Chicago tax law professor Daniel Hemel, who said Times editors still don’t understand Trump’s tax cuts.". (More at the source.)

I would imagine the Times will eat more crow and tat they will correct their latest reported blunder with what amounts to retraction #2.

All the best,
Glenn B

President Trump - No Other Like Him Since At least The 1950's

The President of the United States of America, the very same one many on the left call "#Not My President" is truly one of the most amazingly competent presidents within my lifetime. Proof of that is not only found within his accomplishments to date - which are many such as the improved economy, tax reform, reduction of unnecessary government regulations - but also can be witnessed in his planned meeting with Kin Jong Un, the communist tyrant in North Korea, to discuss ending the decades ongoing confrontation and nuclear escalation with North Korea. President Trump is awesome and I say that as an independent with zero party affiliation! Yes, the meeting may yet fall through and never take place, what with that nut job running North Korea, but tell me which other U.S. president since the 1950s has handled the situation the way President Trump is doing it now? Allow me to answer my own question - not one although another was extremely close.

 

More here.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

 

Blog Comments

It's been ages since I have received an email notification from Blogger telling me that there were comments awaiting moderation on my blog. Thus, I have to remember to log into Blogger every now and then, click on comments awaiting moderation and check to see if there are any comments. I would much rather receive mail notifications each time someone comments.

I have tried several times to fix all that but to no avail. Today, I once again went to my blocked senders list in Outlook (my email provider) and this time I looked through each and every one of the blocked senders (which are legion cause there are lots of arsehats out there who send unwanted emails). I did not see anything that even resembled an email address from blogger but did find one or three with Google in there and I eliminated them, along with some others, from the blocked sender list. I don't know which one I eliminated that did the trick but getting rid of at least one of them from the blocked senders list may have worked.

I just added three test comments to a couple of posts and got email alerts saying there were new comments. Now, mind you, it did not say there were comments requiring moderation, I guess because I had entered the comments and I guess Google/Blogger dos not require verification when it is the owner of the blog doing the commenting. The thing is though, I made a comment to one of my blog posts a day or three ago and did not receive such notification then. Since I got these now, I am hopeful it will work when anyone leaves comments and that I will be notified accordingly.

Someone leave a comment please, I need at least one, from someone other than me, to see if it works.

Thanks,
Glenn B

Undeniable Absolute Proof Trump & Russians Colluded...

...to skew the election results in his favor. There can be no denying rock solid evidence like this or can there be???



All the best,
GB

Dick's - What's In Stock

 

Now that's funny, sad too but funny nonetheless.

 

All the best,

GB

Guns & School Children

 

Sad but true.

Glenn B

Insanity

All the best,
Glenn B

Trump Not Your President?

 

All the best,

GB



I Am Sitting Here In The Sun On My Bench...

...and no it's not the Group W bench and there ain't no mother rapers or father rapers even close as far as I know. I am enjoying a glass a tart cherry juice (supposed to do wonders to alleviate the gout) with some Kirschwasser in it (pretty good at causing the gout but only a wee dram) and I am enjoying the aromas of two pork shoulder roasts. One is on my BBQ grill maybe 15 feet from me and the other is in the oven in my kitchen. My bench is directly under the vent for the range hood and the hood's fan is on thus bathing me in the aroma of roasting pork. Every now and again, the breeze whips around in a dizzying but delightful eddy and causes the aroma from the roast in the grill to hit me smack dab in my face. There is a bit of a difference between the smells from each roast but both are damned fine on the nose and are making my mouth water in anticipation. 

Some sourkraut, baked beans and some freshly baked biscuits will complete tonight's dinner. I am getting hungrier and hungrier thinking about it with the ever so amazing aroma of roast pork all around me.

As to why I decided to BBQ today,  I figured why not BBQ today when it's 43 degrees or so (getting chillier now) and sunny since tomorrow's forecast promises cold and lots of rain and snow.

Al the best,
Glenn B

If You Buy A Knife At A Gun Show...

...it is not all that bad a thing to do especially if you buy one with a trigger that just about shoots the blade out. That is just what Brendan did today at a gun show in Benton, AR.


 It must be nice living in a state where such knives are legal.

Funny thing about that gun show, Brendan thought he had a couple of LEO types following him around it for awhile. Maybe they thought he was an Antifa type or a displaced New Yorker intent on smuggling firearms back to Cuomoistan. So what did he do, bought a knife and threw them off completely. Truth is, even if he wanted to but another gun, after buying the Beretta M9A3 not that long ago, I doubt he will have enough cash to afford another gun for some time.

All the best,

Glenn B

Dick's Sporting Goods - Bigger Dicks Than Ever...

...and Walmart has followed along.

It is old news already, that Dick's Sporting Goods has announced they will cease selling what they and leftist malcontents & politicians call assault rifles and that Dick's will engorge their dickheadedness by banning sales of firearms to anyone under the age of 21. Since I have not blogged in a week or so though, I am going to comment on this new dickhead policy made by a company ever so appropriately named and will tell you what I am doing about it in my own little way (which is something I think you too should do).

First off, as you likely have gathered by what I just wrote above - I think the policy is ridickulous. It is also, or at least should be, an outrage to all rights loving Americans. Banning any adult under the age of 21 from purchasing a firearm, when it is otherwise legal for an 18 year old or older person to make such a purchase is a blatant act of age discrimination. That is abhorrent alone but even more so if you imagine a member of the U.S. military, who is 20 years old, being turned away by Dick's when trying to legally purchase a sporting or self-defense rifle! Damn, we send them off to war to defend our nation and our principles and put them is harm's way but we won't trust them to purchase a firearm for personal use until they hit the somehow magical age set by Dick's that makes selling them guns suddenly okay!

It seems obvious to me, after reading the above linked article from which I am about to quote, that Dick's came up with the new policy out of only one real concern - that of liability:

"Stack said the discovery that Dick’s had sold a gun in November to suspected Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz spurred the company into action, even though it wasn’t the same weapon or type of gun used in this month’s shooting.

“But it came to us that we could have been a part of this story,’’ Stack said to the Times. “We said, ‘We don’t want to be a part of this any longer,’” said Mr. Stack.""

Stack is the head of Dick's and is acting like one, specifically like a dickhead, in my opinion. That they don't want to be a part of it only seems to me to mean they do not want to face the liability that may be associated with such a shooting had they sold the firearm to the shooter. It certainly does not mean, again in my opinion, that they feel for the victims and are doing this out of some sense of being able to prevent such shootings in the future because they kept on selling guns to those under 18 all along after prior mass shootings committed by others - some of them under 21. As I see it, it was only after a heinous dirtbag psycho shooter purchased a rifle from them, albeit not the rifle used in the shooting, that they suddenly said - hey we have to stop selling assault rifles and stop selling to anyone under 21. It is a disgrace and a clear indication that Dick's is living up to its namesake.

As if that was not bad enough, Walmart reportedly also has announced that it has jumped on the Dick's bandwagon and that it is also going to discontinue sales of firearms to anyone under the age of 21. They already stopped selling so called assault rifles years ago, something I did not realize or not recall I guess since I cannot remember ever purchasing a firearm from them and thus have little interest in what type of guns they sell or do not sell.

The current situation though is amazing in as much as I have not seen or heard even one word of condemnation from either of these retail giants about the failure of law enforcement to prevent the Parkland, FL shooting; not one mention of how the current gun control laws have failed to deter such shootings but instead have created soft targets such as gun-free school zones in which children can easily be massacred; not one word about how to really and reasonably protect our children while not stripping of us our rights; not one word about the mental health crisis that has spawned such shooters because they have lived with zero outlets for their frustrations and such non-violent wussification all too often cumulates in an explosion of violence, against they who cannot or will not defend themselves, by those so deprived.

So what is one to do? I for one am going to close my Dick's Scorecard account and discontinue shopping there. I am also going to stop shopping at Walmart and tell them to close my online account. I will also contact both companies and inform them of my displeasure with their policies and to let them know because of those anti-gun policies, I will no loner shop at either. I also will, of course, continue to champion the right to keep and bear arms as best I know how. I think you all should do likewise.

All the best,
Glenn B