Come Heller high water …
- The Fourth of July always seems like the back side of the hill for summer to me even though it’s not. It’s when I first think “OHMYGOD, SUMMER’S HALF OVER AND I HAVEN’T DONE (BLANK) YET!” Panic time. There will be kayaking. There will be picnics. There will be …
Why doesn’t the caps lock key apply to the numbers row? Maybe only a professional typer cares.- Why do people get so bent out of shape before a round-about goes in? A month later everyone’s used to it.
- Today’s bold policy stance: Zucchini is not fit for human consumption. There’s a reason people sneak bags of it onto your porch, and it’s not because they’re being generous.
- When I was a kid, all-star games – baseball, football and basketball – were the highlight of the season. Now they range from dull (baseball) to fake (basketball) to downright unwatchable (football).
- In case you thought the state of Michigan gives a rat’s patoot about what citizens think, the same guy who told Flint residents to “relax” about lead poisoning the water supply when he was spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, was hired by the state this year to do communications training for health officials. Nice, huh?
- Elon Musk is tweeting that he’ll pay to fix the water in Flint houses that are still contaminated about federal levels. That’s wonderful and sad. Wonderful because, well, it’s generous. As he put it, “Most houses in Flint have safe water, but they’ve lost faith in govt. test results.” And sad because state government bungled the cleanup so badly that a trust issue exists and because more and more these days government at any level can’t seem to rise to the occasion.
- Settle an argument I’m having with a friend: Are the mosquitos this year the size of A) Turkey vultures, B) Montana, or C) a 747? How big are they? I saw one carrying away a collie. And when I got bitten, I needed a liter of O-positive.
- Two things I never get enough of: Lighting wood matches and watching lawn sprinklers. Could do either or both all day long. (Oh, like YOU don’t have a thing …)
- Can we be done, please, with the construct that starts with “when” as in “When your dog hasn’t made a peep for a half hour …” Really, really tiresome, folks.
- I always think I almost know what a political commentator means when he or she describes something as a “zero sum game.” But I never really do.
- I haven’t played softball in three years and baseball in a hundred, but I still dream at night about the diving catches my memory tells me I made and the home runs I supposedly hit.
- Doesn’t it seem as if most of the news now is political news? It’s almost like the rest of world has ceased producing newsworthy events. That’s not the case, of course. There’s as much news as ever, but there are fewer journalists producing it. That’s the nation’s biggest problem, in fact.
- I expected a funny or snarky answer when I asked Alexa who was prettier, her or Siri. Alas, the response was “I’m partial to all AIs.” (Asking Alexa stupid questions is mostly what we use her for.)
- “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann von Goethe.
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Roundabouts! Traffic Circles, call them what you will:
People in West Michigan do NOT understand them, refuse to understand them!
I stay away from the big traffic circle at Wealthy Street in Grand Rapids because ninnies do not know how to drive there.
Here is the only rule you need: Give way to cars on your left; drive past cars on your right. Simple! But, Wealthy Street is a life hazard. Americans do not get it.
I hope Mr. Musk doesn’t just donate the money to “The Mayor”(whoever THEY are)… I don’t know who to trust..but God bless him!!!
Said it before that people don’t understand a four way stop much less a roundabout.
So far this year (dating back to Spring) I have been on 7 very successful fishing trips aboard my boat. Lake Huron has been a very generous fish donor to myself and my cohorts in aquatic adventures. I consider this to be a meaningful accomplishment.
Oh dear, Summer 2018 continues to crap all over the socialists on this little site. It’s being reported that Stormy Daniels, the face ( along with various other body parts/places) of the Democratic Party was arrested in an Ohio strip club. Evidently, its against the law for customers to touch nude performers, and her attorney is claiming it was touching in a non sexual manner. He’s also claiming this to be conspiratorial, a set up of sorts. Can we agree the Kremlin has its greasy fingerprints all over this situation? Get Mueller on the phone , stat!!!
It’s not all bad news though……… a reasonable assumption is that Stormy might miss a few scheduled gigs, thereby causing one or two strip club owners a slight dip in revenue. Though neither can actually define the term ‘recession’ , fop freddie and JimasS will nevertheless call it ‘Recession 2018’. See guys, if you wish hard enough, that horrible economy you pray for can happen, even if only in a single nudie bar.
I don’t think she has done anything worse than Teflon Don has done in his past. Do you?
So brad, what’s your take on the Stormy Daniels mistaken arrest? Curious for your reply. I think we can all agree that trumps greasy fingerprints were all over this one. Right? Putin too? Geez if I can’t get a full breakfast instead of pastries and cheese why am I a member of his cabinet? You fools keep following this fool down the toilet. Like someone said in an earlier post trump voters were pretty much uneducated white men and you seem to fit that bill. Your play on my names shows your uneducated juvenile idiosity.
Idiosity? There is no such word. JimasS. I rest my case
Fake news brad. Never happened all made up like your King of Russia would say. What’s Putin got on trump that he loves him so much? You got a clue?
The Bleeding-Heart Communist Police Chief of Columbus, Ohio, dropped all the charges against Stormy.
Where did you go brad? You’re like my neighbors dog, dumps a big load of sh!! on my lawn and runs away.
JimasS, your neighbor’s dog drops something on your lawn far more useful and intelligent than you, Mr. “idiosity”.
We need to place a Trump Baby Balloon in the center of the roundabouts to remind us there are other anomalies in this world far more dreadful.
Libtards hitching their wagons to Stormy and balloons. You can’t make this stuff up.
It is not a balloon of President trump hat needs to be there, we need a balloon that represents the crybaby democrats/socialists.
Only it needs to have a pacifier and a baby blanket. That way when the crybabies get tired they can lay down with their pacifier and blanket. Or as my British mates would say a “dummy and a blinkie”.
All the violence that I see has come from the democrats/socialists side of the spectrum.
Take the liberal supporter at the WhatABurger in Texas. The 6 foot, 200 pound plus, 30 year something forcefully removed a MAGA hat that a 16-year-old was wearing and said a lot of bad words, he stated he was going to burn the hat in his fireplace. Before he left he tossed the 16-year olds drink into his face.
He now faces assault charges.
As to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, on the night of the announcement the democrat/socialists had picket signs premade with names of the potential candidates. Some of the protestors were carrying signs that just had 2or 3 xxs instead of a name. It does matter who President Trump will nominate, the democrats/socialists will have a crying hissy fits over the nomination. Iam not going to list some of the things that the “reporters” have been trying to unearth on Brett Kavanaugh. One story goes back to his college days. It seems Brett did not use spaghetti sauce. He used ketchup on his pasta. My gosh how low can somebody go, using ketchup instead of spaghetti sauce. The inhumanity of such a deed.
Corrections: LIE, BINKIE.
IDIOSITY actually is a pretty cool word.
Tom-munist, the word doesn’t exist but you think it’s cool? Talk about low information……….WTF?
It is a word. It is in the Oxford English Dictionary. I is not a doctrinaire right-wing Republican word, but it has imagination and fun in it.
Mueller, Rosenstein, McCain and Kasich are Republicans. Brad is a racist.
The socialist default mode…… RACIST!!! It’s SO played, it means nothing now.
By the way fop freddie, your soy boy pal Tom-munist has relegated blacks and Latinos to grooms of race horses. That’s pretty low on the totem pole. I think THATS racist. Ooops, was my use of the term ‘totem pole’ cultural appropriation? Insensitive? Who have I offended?
It means you are a racist, Brad. But I guess you knew that.
If Brad is a racist (no racial issue has even been of topic here) than Fred is a child molester.
Stop raping children!
No I am not, but you are and Brad are still racist.
What in the world is this thing about raping children???? This is straight out of the blue. What the heck, Working Dad??????????
That is his go to Tom. I am surprised you haven’t seen it yet.
I call him out based on comments he makes and links he posts. He pulls insults out of his ass, because he has nothing concrete. However, as I said before, it concerns me that his mind even goes to that place. I really hope he isn’t projecting his own behavior, as he often does. Perhaps the authorities should be alerted.
C instead of an s. But you understood what I meant. You recognized yourself in that category right brad?
Idiocy as opposed to idiosity? Nah, not even close. You’re in dire need of some education. Sadly, it’s too late for you. It is what it is. Do your country a favor and stop voting.
Your mother made a big mistake by not aborting you when she was pregnant with you.
Before Trump came along, did we ever have another President who actually was mentally ill? People have reported that Ronald Reagan already was well into Alzheimer’s Disease by the end of his second term. We know that Woodrow Wilson was mentally disabled late in his presidency. Was Andrew Jackson a homicidal maniac? Can you think of another clinically crazy President, before Donald Trump?
Tom-munist, interesting diagnosis from you, the nutbag who recently claimed in this forum that we ALL love race horses because they have black and Latino grooms. THAT drivel indicates a serious disconnect. The first rule of finding yourself in a hole? Stop digging.
Last month Tom threatened to mail myself and my family a “pineapple” grenade. He disagrees with my politics so he thinks it is perfectly fine to commit terrorist acts and kill people.
This is the same asshole that is calling the President “mentally ill”. You have to consider the piece of shit source.
Working Dad, the only reason you support Trump is because you don’t like Arabs, Latinos and black people, and you wanted to erase the first black president of the United States. You are willing to sell us out to the Russians just to accomplish that, because YOU are a piece of shit.
Is obozo really black? That might come as a surprise to his WHITE mother. Where does fop Freddie draw the line?
Yes he really does identify as a black man. Try against, racist.
Try again, racist.
Trying again, Working Dad. You are a racist.
Brad. What’s with the little juvenile names you have for everyone? How old are you? 12. You support a Russian loving communist supporter and you call Tom a communist. I really think you and working dad are brothers or sisters living in mommy and daddy’s basement.
I think they are much more pathetic than that, Jims. They are actually “adults” stuck in an adolescent frame of mind, harboring biased and intolerant views that are so strong they would gladly hand our country over to Putin, just so they can feel superior on the top thug’s team.
Here is a message from Trump appointed Director of National Intelligence; Dan Coats.
“worst offenders are Russia, China, Iran and North Korea — with Russia the most aggressive foreign actor, no question. And they continue their efforts to undermine our democracy.”
“The warning signs are there. The system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point,” Coats said, addressing the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on Friday. “Today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack,”
FAKE NEWS!!! WITCH HUNT!!!! Right? Can’t wait to hear what a swell dude Putin is after the meeting Monday.
Trump does not want to acknowledge that Russia interfered in our election, because he does not want to think that maybe Russia might have put him over the top in that election. Today, that darn Trump told us he believes Mr. Putin, when Liar Dictator Murderer Putin claims he Putin never interfered with our election.
Trump had another discussion today, not as much publicized as his talk with Putin. Trump had a summit with Satan. And, Trump told the news media that Archangel Satan denied ever taking the form of a snake, or tempting anybody. “I believe him,” said Trump. “Why would he do that?”