Mike Lee's Quality Jail Time

 It's a bright sunny Sunday outside.  Cold, the temps are not supposed to climb out of the 30s (F).  This morning, when downstairs to let out the dogs and start the brew the temp in the writing room was 69 (F) just before the heat kicked on.  Christmas is supposed to be bitterly cold, with highs in the mid 20s (F), so I'll probably kick the heat up a notch or two.  

I don't doubt that this year it will be more expensive to heat my house since no one is living next door, and at this point, I don't imagine the new owner doing any work to get it ready for rental.  In fact, as far as I know, it is still overflowing with all of the crap the previous owner left behind.  Workers were stopped by yesterday to drop of boxes of vinyl plank flooring bought from my store.  The associate who sold it to them said the guy who bought it was a slum lord.  How well he manages the property will have a direct bearing on how many $$$ I put into my property.  

We have a new store manager starting tomorrow.  This will be fun.  You see, 14.25 years ago, when she was only a supervisor, she offered me a part-time job as a cashier.  Then, when I moved into an HR position, I worked with her for 4 years at the Carlisle store.  I don't doubt for an instant she will be managing my store when I go into full retirement.  This is how circles work.

So, and what about Mike Lee?  Here he is cozying up to the Orange Anus.

He has introduced a bill to ban pornography from the Internet.  Well, it's a little more than pornography he wants taken away, nudity in general is a bad thing.  You see, Mike Lee is one of those terrible individuals who believe a theology that was crimped together by men who not only believed the Earth was flat, but that it was the center of the universe as well.  For Mike to believe otherwise would mean he'd need to question.  Questions are bad for religion; answers not being might you want to hear.  Of course, Mike also knows that his beliefs are a great way to control the masses.  These rules have been divinely inspired, of course, they don't always apply to Mike, or to pastors, or to priests, or preachers.  And Mike? Because of his close affiliation with the Orange Anus during the insurrection, might find that he'll be spending some quality time in jail.  He will, of course, believe he is being punished for his beliefs.

Alienating the Base

 Monday.  I always work Mondays.  The shift is shorter.  I'll spend 6 hours at the store and leave.  Oh, and I'll take at least one 15-minute break during which I'll eat the lunch I took yesterday but didn't eat.  Why take a lunch and not eat it?  Father's Day.  They had barbecue for Fathers.  They let me eat because "you have fur babies."  And so, I did.  There was also food for Juneteenth.  Sugar cookies, cherries, strawberries, grapes, and watermelon.  I ate sugar cookies.  Quite a few.  Over 10.  Easily.  As I've mentioned before, I'm a carboholic when the right carbs present themselves.  Sugar cookies are the nefariously right carbs.  Interestingly, there was Mac and Cheese with the barbecue.  That is not the right carb.  I had a small spoonful. It only becomes the odiously right carb when I make it at home.  The small spoonful was nothing more than a tease.  Now I'm thinking of making an entire pan of Mac and Cheese.  We shall have to wait and see.

Business was slow... until 15 minutes before I was ready to leave.  Then a couple asked for information about blinds.  The wife kept saying "I'm confused.  I really need to see samples in my house."  Well, that ain't gonna happen.  Twenty minutes later she thanked me and told me they would talk about it... and get back to me.  So, I ended up punching out late, but not late enough to get an extra 15 minutes of pay.

I have a little tomato in my little garden.  I tried to take a pic, but the camera focused on Lily.  That's fine.

I saw that Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas who nearly physically attacked extremist MAGAs.  They called him names, one of them shouting he 'needed to be hung.'  This is the base the GOP is so desperate to hold on to.  How desperate?  Adam Kintzinger has pointed out that so far Kevin McCarthy has said nothing.  Don't expect him to, at least until maybe later this afternoon or tomorrow, if he says anything at all.  Maybe he'll just run away from the reporters, like he's done before.  This party is so terrified of alienating one MAGA hate monger, they will tolerate any evil.  

In another example, Shannon Boon, from Fox News, asked Mike Lee if the GOP might be out of step with the constitution regarding gun legislation.  Of course, fearful of alienating even a single one of those MAGA gun owners, he obfuscated.  You could say he did a little Texas Two Step in his response, saying there wasn't really a bill and that you can't ascertain anything without a bill.  You know what I'm talking about.  He spit out the same horse shit Republicans always spit out because they're terrified of alienating even one vote of their gun loving base.  The idea that they might gain more voters than they lose by voting for gun control isn't even something they can see in their rear-view mirror.