Mom again.

Today was to go fetch her new eyeglasses. One pair had arrived and the other one was still at the lab even when it indicated it was at the shop.

So we waited.

And I forgot. Yesterday the truck went Tango Uniform with the battery. Bye bye $125. at least it did not die in some God-forsaken parking lot but at home.

I need a vacation.

A couple of days ago, the evil Mad Ogre posted about this knife and he being a bad influence, it led me to look for it online and finding it at a darn good price. I got it last night and here is my feeling about it: It is what the Kershaw Leek needed to be but is not.

The Kershaw Leek is a pretty little thing. On its own it can be the knife you take to fancy parties because it looks great and a bit threatening.

But the Leek has a defect in my opinion: The scales are too smooth and you do not feel you have a secure grip on the knife; even the opening feels awkward. It is a pity because it has the right shape for my mutant hands and I love the shape of the blade: most dumb asses will understand it means business.

The CRKT M16-01S although not as pretty, it gives you a positive grip on it and opens a mite faster than the Leek. The CRKT’s blade is 3.06″ versus the 3″ for the Leek, overall length is 7″ for the Leek and 7.13″ for the CRKT and they both measure the same thing closed. As you can see, not enough difference to care other that I would love to have the CRKT with the drop point blade of the Leek.

So far the only negative I find is that the closing should be done with two hands as I find the frame lock difficult to operate.

To summarize: The Mad Ogre is a nasty influencer.  You are going to end up buying more stuff and trying to explain it to the wife.

From September 2018.

Spray and Pray is not a sound strategy. Periscope Aiming is not very accurate.

I am amazed that the guy in the back of the black car walked away untouched.

PS: If you hear shooting, hit the floor and remain horizontal!

If you haven’t heard, Brian Sims is a progressive Democrat state rep in Pennsylvania, representing an area of Philadelphia.

For some reason, he likes to use his social media account to harass and doxx people who are peacefully praying outside of a large Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in his district.

A pro life group has captured his rants and posted them.

WATCH: Pennsylvania State Representative @BrianSimsPA harasses an elderly woman who is peacefully advocating for the lives of preborn human beings and women who are considering abortion.

This is shameful. https://t.co/Xb9pkFZSXC

— Live Action (@LiveAction) May 5, 2019

UPDATE: Watch PA Rep @BrianSimsPA offer up $100 for the identities & addresses of 3 TEENAGERS who are fighting for the lives of preborn children.

This is despicable. pic.twitter.com/96JC9b8jQB

— Live Action (@LiveAction) May 6, 2019

This guy is a pro-abortion, woke feminist.

If recent history has shown me anything, my money is on that this guy is a rapist.

Now that he’s gone viral, I’m curious how long it will take for the accusations to start coming out.

I have never lived in New York City.

I’ve been there a few times and honestly do no understand what is so great about it.

I have been taken to what the locals say is “the best pizza in NYC.”  I’ve had better in Miami (shout out to The Big Cheese).  I’ve have better deli food in Fort Lauderdale, Chinese food in Miami and Chicago, and steak in Omaha and South Dakota than I’ve had in New York City.  All of it much cheaper too.

I used to stay with my buddy who lived in an apartment in NYC when I’d visit him.  He apartment was nice, but my condo in Chicago was just as nice, three times the size (which is saying something since my condo was 1,600 sq-ft), and cost a third the price ($4,500/mo in NYC vs $1,450/mo in Chicago).

I’d ask what is so great about living in NYC and they’d say something like “the MET is over there and the Guggenheim is over there…” stuff like that.  Then I’d ask “how often do you go there?”  The answer turns out to be “almost never” because the lines are so long to get in and it’s expensive.

I’ve been to the Guggenheim more than the average New Yorker, and I don’t even live there.

NYC is just another city.  It’s a big city.  There is lots of stuff to do there.  But I’d rather go for a weekend and be a tourist than live there.

That is blasphemy to the people of New York City.  To them New York City is the center of the known universe.

That is why New Yorkers like Michael Bloomberg, Bill de Blasio, Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo, and now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez think that they should run the country.

When was the last time you saw Mayors or Governors from Midwestern states sending their police to do illegal sting operations in other states or travel over a thousand miles to the southern border to weigh in on federal issues.

The exude the attitude that “New York City is America and everywhere else that is different is strange (and also beneath us).”

Then someone from New York City will do something that shows just how out of touch they are with the rest of America and why New York City should not be the thought leader of this country.

In this case, it was two somethings, and both of them were live streams from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Here is the first one:

Ummmm….

I had corn fields in my back yard in at least three states.  There is a cotton field on the other side of the road leading into the development I live in now.

I’m not in any way suggesting that I am a farmer, but I am aware of where my food comes from and seen it grown on the industrial scale.

It’s not magic, it’s agriculture, like humans have done for about 23,000 years.

Next there was this one:

Half of homes in America have garbage disposals, and 70% of new homes have them.

That is not the case in New York City, where they were banned until 1997 and are now only found in luxury apartments.  Most of the city still doesn’t have them because of the fear they they will clog up the piping in buildings.

Now, my mother never used her garbage disposal.  She tenderly loved and cared for her septic tank like it was one of her children and so didn’t want anything that might threaten its health to go into it.  But we still knew what it was.

I think the only place after the dorm that I lived that didn’t have a disposal was the crappy apartment I lived in in South Dakota that was built in the 70’s.

What confuses me about this video is that while it makes sense that she may never have known what a garbage disposal was if she had only ever lived in New York, but she went to Boston University for four years.  Did she never experience a garbage disposal in her life before?

Clearly this is woman who is totally oblivious to the norms and general knowledge that exist outside of New York City, yet she wants to tell the rest of us how to live.

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is learning a lot of new things in Washington — including what a garbage disposal is.

The 29-year-old freshman congresswoman posted photos and videos on Instagram showing the apparently “terrifying” contraption at work in her swanky DC apartment and saying she’d never seen one before.

“OK everyone I need your help because I just moved into this apartment a few months ago and I just flipped a switch and it made that noise and it scared the daylights out of me,” Ocasio-Cortez can be heard saying in footage.

“I am told this is a garbage disposal. I’ve never seen a garbage disposal. I never had one in any place I’ve ever lived,” she later said.

Ocasio-Cortez blown away by first experience with a garbage disposal

In Venezuela there is no “tradition” of garbage disposal and the first time I used one was when I moved to the states. But I knew the concept of garbage disposal from TV and movies, specially comedies when somebody was always sticking something they should not and then flipping the switch.

How is it possible that a woman is this stupid got elected to anything?
She singlehandedly has raised the reputations of the infamous Florida Man and Florida Woman by making them look smart.