Finished off, death by Immigration

The City I once knew is over.  Toast.

Meatheads running it.

Summer, 1975

To this day I can never NOT stop watching for a swimmer in trouble.

It just comes with the territory.

No matter what part of the world, what lake, what ocean, I still keep an eye out to help someone in need.

It was a long time ago.  1975.  In some ways it seems like only yesterday.  I had completed my junior year at UMM and due to funding constraints at my “regular”  summer job I attended summer school and worked as a Lifeguard at Page Lake.  The mid-summer day was windy, windy and cold.   The wind blowing out of the north-west as it does so much in west-central Minnesota.  The cool air and overcast day had kept most of the regular Page Lake swimmers at home.  Even the Healy sisters had decided to stay home and not bike over and swim!

There weren’t but maybe 3 or 4 swimmers that day.  I didn’t know if I should stay at the lake and put in my time as a guard but looking at my finances I needed the money. Tuition wasn’t cheap.  I knew I could stay warm and put in my time and do my job.  To this day, I’m thankful I did.   You see, I can’t forget you.  I never will.  Your death would have haunted me to this day.  You know who you are and if you read this, I don’t remember your name.  It doesn’t matter.  I hope you’re alive!  Between the white-caps rolling in I saw your hand, waving frantically, sticking out of the water and you weren’t coming up.  Thank the Lord I saw you and had been paying attention to you and your friends who braved the cold that day to swim.   You were young and could swim but your head was caught under the raft’s support beams at the corner of the raft.  You had jumped in from the raft and when coming up you squarely had your head and neck stuck in the structure under the water.  Yes, it was a freak situation.  I hit the water hard and got to you very fast, the adrenaline rush had kicked in. When I got to you I had to figure out why you weren’t coming up.  I had to push your head down to extricate you and you popped up gasping and crying while I swam with you into shore.  Up to that time, I had never a saw a person’s face that blue. Your lips were purple and the tears were rolling between the coughs of lake water.  You were fortunate.  It was a close-call I have never been able to forget.   I have many fond memories of Page Lake as a youth, catching 5-gallon pails full of bullheads with my late grandfather, Walter Marquart,  spearing a beautiful northern pike in college in an ice-house , trapping mink and muskrats on the shore and watching  “teams” of white pelicans work together to fish in formation. Your memory is for sure, the best of all.  We were all lucky for it was the Creator at work!

For years we did it every night

Reading to young children every night is important for several reasons, as it offers numerous benefits for their cognitive, emotional, and social development. Here are some of the key reasons why this practice is highly recommended:

1. Language Development: Reading aloud exposes children to a wide range of vocabulary and helps them develop language skills. It introduces them to new words and concepts, improving their communication abilities.
2. Cognitive Development: Reading promotes brain development by stimulating areas associated with language and comprehension. It encourages critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.
3. Bonding and Comfort: Reading together creates a special bonding experience between parents or caregivers and children. It provides a sense of comfort, security, and closeness, which is essential for emotional development.
4. Pre-literacy Skills: Regular exposure to books and stories helps children develop pre-literacy skills such as print awareness, phonemic awareness, and understanding how stories are structured, all of which are crucial for future reading success.
5. Imagination and Creativity: Reading exposes children to imaginative worlds and encourages them to use their own creativity. This can inspire a love for storytelling, imagination, and creativity.
6. Social and Emotional Skills: Stories often contain lessons about empathy, emotions, and social interactions. Reading together can help children understand and manage their feelings and develop social skills.
7. Routine and Predictability: Establishing a nightly reading routine provides a sense of predictability and structure in a child's life, which can be reassuring and help with sleep routines.
8. Academic Success: Children who are read to regularly tend to perform better academically in the long run. They are more likely to have a strong foundation for reading and writing, which are essential skills for success in school.
9. Love for Reading: Reading can foster a lifelong love for books and learning. When children associate reading with positive experiences, they are more likely to become avid readers as they grow older.
10. Exposure to Diversity: Reading introduces children to a wide range of people, cultures, and perspectives. This can promote tolerance, understanding, and appreciation of diversity from an early age.

In summary, reading to young children every night is a simple yet powerful way to support their overall development, enhance their cognitive and emotional well-being, and set them on a path toward success in school and in life. It's a valuable investment in their future.

One thing about me..........

I never bullshit on the numbers.   Numbers don't lie.   Deer killed, fox trapped, portfolio value.

No need to talk shit, there is always somebody better, bigger, and talking it up, no worries.

Here's some numbers to chew on.

Women have killed about 2,500,000,000 babies since 1980.

In all of human history men have killed about 500,000,000 people.

Let that sink in.    

Hey You, Mr Smart Ass..........

Did you know your social security check, say for paying in 67 years of your short life, is now or will be much smaller that the amount of money an illegal alien receives after arriving in our nation for less than 5 minutes?

Pissed yet?

Too many criminals, not enough I.C.E. 

9/11/2001

There are politicians who rail against Trump for derailing  Iranian plans of enriching uranium to conduct nuclear bomb-making.

They must never heard of the horror of 9/11.

The twisted logic of their thinking is unfathomable.  

This is what they want.

"Here's an idea,  Iran wants a nuclear weapon, let's give them one!"

Moderna CEO STEPHANE BANCEL

Listening to the tout CEO, Stephane Bancel, is COVID all over again.

Have you ever wondered how bad Wall Street research is, well, look no farther than this guy's commentary.

Remember, Bancel is the goon who had the foresight to have his company produce 100,000 Covid 19 doses because they knew, (without a smidgen of doubt) that the pandemic would arrive!  Funny how that works isn't it?  

Bancel is now the loon of loons, stating to Sky News that, "It's like science fiction medicine."

You can't make this crap up.  Bancel is the best of the best in bullshit.

Here is what he says they do with enzymes they inject in you.  "We take a biopsy of your cancer.  We then next gen sequence it, meaning we read every letter of the 3 gigabytes of letters of your DNA of the cancer cell.  We do the same thing for a healthy cell.  We upload both on AWS and we compare every base to see where the mutations happened."

Mitch McConnell, John Thune

 No one seems to give a shit if Mitch is alive or dead.   It's crickets from the spineless GOP.

Where are the good people of Kentucky in all of this?   Isn't somebody up to finding out where he might be hiding and in what condition?  Is there a formal investigation for the American voters?

The following seem to be internet talking points.

- No urgency when being taken to the ambulance. 

- Wife IMMEDIATELY went to see the China VP with hours.

- Wife had floors replaced within days.  

- Junk man hauled off furniture from apartment McConnell controls next door to his home.

- Many 20 minute phone calls, but hasn't done a “Proof of Life”. And he hasn't been seen in a MONTH.

A sitting United States senator vanishes on June 14. His office goes silent for almost a month. Then it releases two photographs and a few paragraphs typed by staff, and we are supposed to call that proof he is fit to serve.

It proves nothing. During his disappearance, McConnell cast zero votes. None. The job Kentuckians pay him to do, the power he holds over your healthcare and your right to vote, and he simply stopped showing up while keeping the title and the paycheck.

Police scanner audio from the night of his fall reportedly caught paramedics performing CPR on someone in cardiac arrest at his home. His office says there was no heart attack. His office says a lot of things no one can check.

Regarding the South Dakota hack, Thune, it's just more word salad from this epic bullshit artist.  When he was on Hannity a couple weeks ago and Hannity was lobbing 16-inch softballs at him you knew the fix was in.

John Thune as Senate Majority Leader is no fucking different from Chuck Schumer. His pathetic, spineless non-leadership has completely screwed the SAVE America Act. It passed the House, but dead in the Senate because Thune refuses to battle the Democrats filibusters or grow enough spine to nuke the 60 vote threshold. President Trump and conservatives demand real action on election security. 

Instead, we’re stuck with the same bullshit gridlock. 

Thune is a total disaster to South Dakota, America and U.S. taxpayers.