4 Generations Playing Cards

 I came across this video and laughed so hard I spit coffee on the keyboard.  Just so you know, I belong to Gen X.  Copy and paste into your web browser.

https://fb.watch/tqCnkjGM5C/

The Crazy Homeless Guy

 There is a "frequent flyer" homeless guy who has been around downtown for some time.  I can't describe him, or I would be labeled as a racist despite the description being true.  This guy is NASTY and yells obscenities at passers by and runs around leaving his piles of garbage everywhere. 

Problem #1.  We can't describe the guy to authorities or we would be deemed racist and intolerant.  We can't really even describe as him as male, as perhaps he does not identify as male.  

Problem #2:  He disturbs the public with his rants he screams into mid air.  Sally from Mill Valley is now outraged as she moved to Sonoma County to rid herself of such human trash, despite her EQUALITY FOR ALL democratic bumper stickers on her effing Tesla.  

Problem #3:  The "Safe Team" does nothing.  They were called to the scene this morning.  They were there for a few minutes, and then they left.  The "frequent flyer" homeless guy refuses services, but he is allowed to remain to be a public nuisance.  The homeless guy is obviously unstable.  Who knows if he will turn violent on a whim?  It does not matter, because an unstable homeless guy who refuses services has more rights than tax paying citizens who simply want to enjoy public spaces without being harassed or killed. 

Despite all this negativity aimed at the Chronically Homeless Brother from Oakland, the homeless brother does have a few valid points.

Some of the rants Homeless Brother is screaming state that how the government is out to screw everybody, and how the government is corrupt.  

I can't sit here and think that he's wrong.  

Which makes me think.......who is the crazy one?  Should we be trying to silence the homeless guy for speaking his truth?  His truth rings true.  I rant about the corrupt government as well.  I suppose that makes me equally crazy and there are those who want to shut me up. 

Yes, I texted it

 There are a few lingering family issues that are unresolved.  For starters, my recently impregnated niece, who already has a toddler, just ran back from Texas to her mommy and daddy in Sonoma County, California, after a four month stint in Texas because she "accidentally" got pregnant.  The services in Texas to do not match California benefits

Here's the kicker.  They moved to Texas because they were sick of liberal California policies.  Now that they got a taste of what Texas is really about, they rushed back to liberal California in a heart beat because they were what Texans despise -- Californians moving to Texas trying to California their Texas.   

I don't blame Texans for despising Californians moving there.  I get it.  Our own local version is people from SF moving to Sonoma County and us despising them.  

Here's where I go off the rails.  Do not the 30 year-old mother and 40-year old father not know where babies come from? ??????  And the pregnancy is a SURPRISE????????

WTF???  Do you not KNOW where babies come from?  Hellollooooooooooooooo.  I donate to Planned Parenthood just for this reason!  JFC!!!!  There are so many options for birth control out there!  Rubbers, pills, diaphragms, foams, etc.!!!!!!  You name it!!!!!!!!  I donate for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It's available FREE OF CHARGE.

Word to Niece:  Don't come whining to me for items for a baby shower because this one is a girl.  The pricey item I got for the last kid that was born was sold on FaceBook marketplace for pennies on the dollar.

Besides, what if your "girl" does not want to be identified as a girl?  How do you know?  You can reuse the same items we gave you for your son's shower.  

Wait.  What?  You sold those as well?  

My, you really effed yourself didn't you?  

Lord of the Flies

 Ok, do you remember reading Lord of the Flies in junior high school?  I do.  I have distinct memories about specific chapters in that book that still haunt me to this day.

I have my own personal version of Lord of the Flies that has nothing to do with the book, but everything to do with my upbringing.  

My parents were born and raised in rural Minnesota farms located in the west central portion of the state.  My maternal grandparents had cows, hay, soybeans, corn, etc.  My paternal grandparents had pigs, corn, barley, flax, etc.  

Where am I going with this?

Place yourself here.  It's 1976 and you're a kid in rural western Minnesota on your grandparents' farm.  Some of the relatives still do not have indoor plumbing and the out-house is a real thing.  Some of them still don't have electricity nor a telephone.  Here's my terror.

FLIES ARE EVERYWHERE

There are flies in the outhouse.  There are flies in my grandma's kitchen.  There are flies in the barn.  The flies are EVERYWHERE.  Then, there are the dreaded HORSE FLIES that BITE.  Oh yeah, that's how we knew it was going to rain.....if the flies were biting, rain is in the forecast. 

 To see a fly land on food makes me want to barf.  Sorry, grandma, I said it.  The proliferation of flies on the farm has had an impact on me my whole life.

To this day I have a phobia about flies.  I hate them.  I won't even go into mosquitos and wood ticks.  

 

The Presidential Debate

 The media has created a circus with our presidential candidates.  The media are selling newspapers profiting off of this train wreck.  Television and internet outlets are also profiting off of this political train wreck.  

Again, I don't care for either candidate.  I refuse to name them by name as that would only encourage an algorithm.  

That's what it's all about these days.  Selling advertising and profiting off of algorithms.  

Sad to say that democrats have severely castrated themselves with their front runner.  He could not complete a coherent sentence last night.  He stammered, he stuttered, he stared off into space.  He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named ate him for lunch.  It was almost pathetic to watch. 

Our current vice president, who is nowhere to be found these days, is nothing but a "diversity, equity and inclusion" box checker whose sole purpose was to appeal to as many ethnic groups and women as possible.  

Look where that got us.

Sonoma County: Proposition J

  I've seen some pretty gruesome things happen on the farm growing up.  No matter what anybody tries to tell you, nature is not always pretty....most of which is without rainbows and unicorns.....and it has nothing to do with what farmers are being accused of doing things to animals.  It's what animals do to other animals and all sorts of other stuff that nobody would understand unless they actually lived on a farm.  

Attention Berkeley vegan zealots......Wipe the Walton Family country farm innocence off your faces right now.  It's a war zone out there with animals eating other animals whether or not you're a vegan.   

But here they come....pushing Proposition J.......bussed in radicals from Berkeley who never spent a summer working on a farm telling Sonoma County families with roots 150 years in the community how to do things.  Never mind they don't live here and can't vote on the measure they are pushing.  They just want to shove their beliefs down our throats and watching our founders implode in the process. 

Attention Bezerkeley radicals:  You don't live here.  You don't pay taxes here.  You don't belong here.  

We have been fine for the past couple of centuries WITHOUT you.  You need us more than we need you.  You want to move here.  We don't want you.   

 

Sissy

 My sister is out here visiting from Minnesota.  I love it.  I especially love the fact that she is here visiting and there is not a graduation, wedding, nor any other family occasion that is distracting from the visit.  

We stay up until 3:00 AM sitting around my fire pit simply talking about our childhood experiences and reminiscing. We talk about things that mean absolutely nothing to anybody except to us.....as that is our right sitting by the privacy of my fire pit......we speak of our royal ancestors who escaped the Catholic vs. Protestant fight with William of Orange.  We are William of Orange's bastard offspring he shipped off to New Amsterdam (before it was New York City) to escape prosecution as he *knew* $hi+ was about to hit the fan.  Granted, we are his bastard offspring.  He cared enough to put us on a boat for New Amsterdam to escape the prosecution he saw coming.  He cared enough make sure we all did not get killed in the political upheaval - as he did.

Now that we are established in North America, we speak of the fights involving our ancestors while moving westward and pioneering.  Do we remain faithful to our homeland?  Do we pledge allegiance to the flag....of the United States of America......... Do we even know at this point where we even evolved from?  We are so interbred and removed from Europe at this point we don't have a clue to whom our "mother country" even is.  

All I can state is that my sister and I are having a spirited discussions about our ancestry.  There are a lot of moving parts to it on both sides.  

Yes, my siblings and I are EuroTrash mutts.  We check pretty much every box for the central and northwestern Europe genome.  Yes, there was "intermingling" with the American Natives and god-only-knows-what-else-along the way since the European ancestors landed in North America.     

Who's counting that?

Again, I am a MUTT.   We lowly mutts are loyal and will love our masters and defend them till death.