Add a few fucks, and yellowdog granny would have loved what AI can do.
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DID I RUN AND AM I TIRED?
My RAV-4 is
thirteen years old. Three years ago, my
headlight lenses were so yellowed that I could barely see my way home through a
snowstorm. That following summer, I
accessed YouTube and searched for headlight restoration kits. I settled on Griot’s Ceramic Headlight Restoration
kit, because it did not require a power drill to buff out the lens – the sanding
was done by hand.
I took out
my lawn chair, spent about ten minutes on each lens, and the results were
remarkable.
Two winters
later, my headlights have some cloudiness, but are still drastically better
than the yellow, opaque lenses of earlier.
I have no connection with Griot’s – just passing on my experience.
You’re
welcome
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Grahm
Platner is a flawed candidate for the Maine Senate, running against Republican
Susan Collins who voted 98% in favor of Trump's agenda.
Platner has been accused
by three women he dated of being demeaning, one claiming physical intimidation.
Platner did four tours in Iraq. He
admits he was reacting from PTSD when he returned from war.
Platner has
some baggage, but he is popular with working people of Maine and is probably the
only candidate who can take down Collins.
Republicans
would circle the wagons and have no problem with him as a candidate.
Democrats do
this every time; they require a purity test, often tearing down their own candidates,
while republicans, who elected Donald Trump, take over the Senate and Congress.
PTSD is real, affecting people who return from combat in different ways.
There is a feeding frenzy that may cost the Democrats the Senate.
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QUIT CALLING THEM STUPID!
This morning
on a news program, there was a discussion about the Democratic Autopsy of the 2024
election. Someone made the distinction
between “educated voters” and “voters without a college education.”
The connotation comes off as ‘smart
people vs stupid people.’
I cringe
every time I hear this comparison made by a democratic proponent.
I didn’t go
to college until I was forty-two years old.
Had I heard a comment like that during my twenty-two years as an
enlisted man in the military, I would have said; Fuck those conceited bastards –
and on that basis alone would have voted Republican.
Why would a blue-collar
voter vote for a party that considers them as the dumber portion of the electorate?
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As you enter
old age, you get grumpier. It is because
you have seen it all before, and you know when to call bullshit.
I hate it
when I’m in a restaurant and some woman – it’s always some older woman and her
husband – comes in and sits near me with a small dog wearing an ‘emotional
support’ vest.
The dog is
not for emotional support - it’s for attention.
If it is a
disabled person with a lab or German Shepherd that is actually needed for
assistance, that’s fine; I’ll give up my seat for them. But emotional support – that’s bullshit.
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ICE recruitment offered a $50,000 sign-up bonus as the ICE surge began.
I wonder how
many ICE agents were rioters during the January 6 insurrection? How many convicted rioters that Trump pardoned
are now ICE agents? How many former militia members are now ICE
agents?
It is easy
to see the type of person who would line up to join ICE: the same type that
showed up to attack the Nation’s Capital at Donald Trump's bidding on January 6:
young men insecure in their manhood who want to dress up in combat gear and
pretend to be badass.
They are all
macho and aggressive in a group, but they wear masks because they are afraid to
be identified as a individual.
How many ICE agents does it take to arrest a six-year-old child?
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