More snow

Well, it's Saturday, March 2.  Some of you will not have to work today... I do.  But first, I'm going to have to go out and clean off my car because we got.... More Snow!

At least another four inches fell last night and there is more on the way.  Tomorrow night we may get a real dumping, and I'm not talking about the dictator wannabe in the White House.
And speaking of that moron, how about his defense of Kim Dumb Chunk in regards to Otto Warmbrier death?  Now the Idiot Jerk is shrieking "no, no, no, my words were misinterpreted..."  You hear bullshit, you call it bullshit.  Every time his loyalists jump in to salvage his addle patted nonsense they look imbecilic at best.  They will defend, almost to the death... or their own re-election, his every utterance.  Dumb fucks, is what they are.
And what about his stupid daughter... Ivankadanka?  Did she actually say "people don't want a minimum wage?"  This is a woman who pays a couple grand (lotsa $$$) for hair maintenance.  A week of minimum wage wouldn't even be a deposit on one of her pedicures.  She is the poster child for the stupid rich.  Remember Marie Antoinette?  This is the kind of thing she would have said.  Evidently Ivankadanka doesn't know that if she keeps this shit up her castle will get stormed by angry, older women in MAGA hats waving pitchforks.
Before the Idiot Jerk got himself elected on a technicality, the super rich kept their incompetence shuttered behind doors.  Now, it's on full public display, like that other Idiot Schultz from Starbucks.  Shit, every they open their mouths they make it quite apparent to everyone that their IQ's are dropping faster then the snow in Central Pennsylvania.

Foolhardiness

So, this is the last day, the 5th day of my 5 days off, a mini-vacation so to speak.  In August I will have 9 days off... in a row.
Yesterday, while I was doing my 30 minutes on the Eliptical, I spent some time thinking about Otto Warmbier.  I feel really bad for that young man.  I feel terrible for his parents, knowing that this is all they have left of their son.  And this whole thing is the result of foolhardiness and bad decisions.  Back when he was first arrested by North Korea I thought he'd been part of a school trip - that was actually not the case, he was traveling alone in Northern China.  While there, he saw an advertisement by a company called "Young Pioneer Tours" for the trip your parents don't want you to take.  He signed up for the tour which was a terrible mistake, a really, really bad decision on his part.  Now I don't know about you, but everything I know about North Korea shrieks loudly, "stay away."  I can't think of one, singly good reason why anyone in their right mind would want to go there.  While in Pyongyang, Otto was arrested.  The North Koreans claim he committed a "crime against the state" by stealing a sign, his parents say he was framed.  Would a young man, foolish enough to take a trip to North Korea, attempt to steal a sign?  Possibly.  Or would the North Koreans try and frame such a young man?  That's also quite possible.  Let's be honest here, Otto would have been a great propaganda tool for the North Koreans.  Their foreign prisoners show up on video feeds on what seems to be a fairly regular basis, and those prisoners are always claiming their treatment is good, and the North Koreans aren't that bad.
The North Koreans say Otto's condition is the result of botulism and sleeping pills.  I did some research: you can die from botulism poisoning.

You can also die from an overdose of sleeping pills.
In his current state he is no longer an asset to the North Koreans, they are cold hearted monsters after all, which is why, I suspect he was sent home.  So, what happened to Otto?  We will never, ever know.  We all make foolish decisions in our lives.  We all have those moments when we look back and say to ourselves "woah, that was stupid."  Foolhardiness should never have such a terrible cost.