Bucket List Dream Trips - 9-30-2021

I'm 64 years old. There are things I still want to do in the way of travel. I'll call these my "Bucket List Dream Trips'. In no specific order:

1. Pacific Northwest -

I want to hit the US National Parks in Washington: Mount Ranier, Olympic, and North Cascades. On the same trip I want to explore Vancouver Island, including beautiful Victoria, and take the train from Vancouver to Whistler, B.C.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

2. Maine, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick -

Acadia National Park in Maine, visit Wild Bill while there, then north across the border to Cape Breton and Halifax. A ferry to St. John's Island would be an awesome add-on, but maybe that's a little much.

Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Canada

3. Utah National Parks -

Bryce Canyon, Zion, Canyonlands, Capital Reef, and Arches. Throw in North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Horsehoe Bend, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and Santa Fe, NM. A 3-4 week adventure.

Arches National Park, Utah

4. Alaska National Parks -

Wrangell-Elias, Katmai, Kenai Fjiords, Lake Clark National Parks. This one seems the biggest and the hardest. It's furthest away, covers the most miles from start to finish, and probably requires small plane transportation to at least one or two. This trip would be my biggest "dream trip".

Wrangell-Elias National Park, Alaska

A Good Man in the Brig and A Puppet in the Oval - 9-29-2021

It would be kinda fun to see the President, Secretary of Defense, and top military brass coming unwound the way they did if not for the fact that the USMC LtCol who is the guy told us the truth about the Afghanistan is in the brig awaiting his court marshal. Was he out of order for speaking (the truth) out of turn? Absolutely. He's already lost his command, resigned his commission and lost his military retirement, and been given psychological evaluations.

You know how it is. Telling the truth is such a bad thing in a liar's administration like this one. Well, honestly, I'm not 100% sure it's a liar's administration as much as an administration that operates in an alternative reality. A bunch of useless Harvard and Yale policy wonks who've never lived and worked outside the bubble of their political circles keep pulling Puppet Biden's, oops, President Biden's strings. And Joe says what they tell him, regardless of how silly and ridiculous it makes him look.

I get there are consequences, and that LtCol Scheller was out of turn with his remarks. I have no problem with him losing his command and being processed out. But the fact he's in the brig, which is 'jail' for you civilian types, and the liar-puppet in chief and his military leaders are still not accepting blame/responsibility for the extremely poorly executed withdrawal from Afghanistan, and that the Harvard and Yale crowd pulling the puppet's strings on the economy and everything else aren't under a microscope is mind boggling. I don't expect that, as Democrats in Congress hold the gavels these days, and they live for the lousy policies of the Harvard and Yale Biden puppeteers.

And one last thought: I have as little regard for Jen Psaki as any Democrat ever had for any of Trump's spokespersons. Surely she has a tough job making excuses for this lying bunch. But her explanations on the economy and on everything else show how far out of touch with reality she and the rest of the clown's puppeteers truly are. She's probably having coffee with some Harvard puke, talking 'policy' right now. Because it ain't Joe informing her of the details, I guarantee you that!

CCP Virus thoughts from Matty P 9-28-2021

 

CCP Virus thoughts from Matty P:

I wear a mask sometimes when I absolutely don't have to. I don't really believe in it, but if the poor bastards working at Kroger and Walmart have to wear it and if the little old lady who's scared shitless because media has convinced her that people who don't wear them will kill her feel a little better about things if I wear one, I'll do it. I don't really believe the masks do much except reduce the dispersion of germs when a person with the virus sneezes, but only if that person happens to be wearing one. The rest of us? I'm kind of a "chain link fence mosquito guy".

I got the vaccine (moderna) and when we get back to Florida next week I'll seek and get the booster as soon as I can. I was very disappointed when I learned that people with the vax can still catch and spread the CCP Virus, but it does seem that hospitalizations, ICU patients, and fatalities are disproportionately tallying with unvaccinated people. Another thought: as the number of vaccinated people continues to climb, the percentage of cases will skew higher and higher toward us vaccinated people. This makes total sense. But from the very beginning, long before there was a vaccine, the important number for me has never been total cases or positives, it's been the numbers of very sick people and fatalities. Total cases has and continues to be a shock and awe statistic, but with only a small percentage of cases resulting in serious illness and death, it's simply NOT the statistic that concerns me. But people ARE getting very sick and dying, a small but VERY REAL percentage.

I am taking extra Zinc, Vitamin C, and Vitamin D daily. They're reported to help immune systems in general, and they're thought by many to be helpful in thwarting the CCP Virus. Are they? I don't know, but I'm at least as confident in them as I am in wearing masks, so I take them.

I know of more people who caught CCP Virus in 2021 than I did in 2020, and they're a mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated people. One (age 67) said he was quite sick. He told me he showed his first symptoms just 6 days after he got the J&J jab. How's that for bad timing? He might have caught it at his vaccination place! Most people seem to recover in a week and a half to two weeks, whether they're vaccinated or not. That's the good news. The bad news is some people get really sick and die, and it would seem to be almost random. For 20+ guys it's no big deal, then someone seemingly in good shape gets it and gets deathly ill.

I still don't trust the government or big pharma. Yes, great things have been done, but I don't for one second believe that big pharma's motivations are purely altruistic. Money, baby, they're in it for the money. So inexpensive or common treatments will always be scoffed at in favor of super expensive treatments supported by super expensive research and testing. Big pharma and their elected and broadcast media bought and paid for puppets will always use every resource to undermine and destroy the reputation of treatments that don't cha-ching big pharma's cash registers. Sadly, big tech and social media companies are fully on board with big pharma's self-helping propaganda.

 

It's funny having a place in Louisville, Kentucky and another in Florida. No doubt Louisville has been more restrictive on its individuals and businesses. Again and again I see places either closed or running a skeleton crew because they either don't have the business, or more commonly that they can't find workers. Just yesterday I saw the O'Charley's off Breckinridge is closed. And the Book-A-Million I was in yesterday (yes, I was looking at books again) in that same area had all its normal cash registers closed. I paid for my books at the little Joe Muggs cafe they have inside. Florida Governor DeSantis was mocked and derided by lefties and super political blue staters, but if you ask me, he did the right thing in protecting the Florida economy. If people are scared and worried they'll catch CCP Virus at a store or restaurant, stay the fuck home, don't close the place. At some point these issues are personal choices. And, by the way, many states and municipalities were far too slow to cut off the extra unemployment money. If the state is open and the restrictions are lifted, people need to get their asses back to work or live with the financial consequences of their personal choice not to.

Last thought: any time I'm around a sizable group of people, as has been the case several times this month, I take my temperature and check my blood oxygen on a very regular basis, at least daily for at least a week. Hopefully if I am infected, I will see it coming and can reduce the chances of spreading it by quarantining myself early.

 

Now, live your lives. Don't be stupid. Don't be scared, either. You don't want the vaccine and you have your good reasons? I respect that. I disagree but it's your choice. You don't like wearing, or perhaps you always wear a mask? That's your choice, too. You don't want to go into this store or that one because they require a mask? Don't go in. You prefer in a place that requires masks because the masks make you feel safer? Put that fucker on and patronize the place. Spend all you got there. It's your choice, your money. But let's quit judging each other over our choices. Seek understanding. Except those of you who are wearing your masks while driving alone in your cars or while riding your bikes in the park. You fuckers are dumb. Really dumb.