Monthly Archives: April 2026

So, who thought this would be a good idea?

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By now you have heard that someone in the US government thought it would be a good idea to provide arms to the Iranian civilians. I suppose that the thought was if they had arms, they could rise up against their government and maybe even overthrow the government. The plan was as I heard it was to give arms to an intermediary group who would get the arms to the citizens, aka the protesters. It was reported that the intermediary group had indeed received the arms. After receipt of the arms a problem arose. The group kept them rather than getting them to the “protesters”. Back to this in a short.

I find what the US government did to be more than a little hypocritical. Hypocritical due to the fact that for many years the US government and indeed some State governments have been trying to disarm the US civilians and limiting what we have access to. It seems to me that here in the US the US government and some States seem to worry over the citizens rising up. They best to put that worry to bed is to not do things that would cause such to occur.

Now back to the arms intended for the Iranian citizens. The now lost arms. Who knows when or where they will turn up or on whom they will be used. One thing for sure, the US government did not send over a bunch of 22 caliber single shot squirrel guns. By the way, firearms would be of no use without ammunition.

Well, that about does it

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Had to go into town today and regular unleaded gas was well above $4 per gallon. Diesel was well above $5 per gallon, Mind you that I live in North Central Florida. Just this past Sunday regular was just past $3.80, pretty steep rise for just three days. Regular will probably be near $5 if not above by this Sunday.

Neither the War in Iran nor the astronomical fuel prices will in any way prevent the November elections or the upcoming Primaries. Though they will have an effect on the results. I am a registered republican and many of my friends and associates will be sitting this one out. I am not going to sit it out, I will be casting my vote.

This is my plan and intention. We have a do-nothing member of Congress with ambitions to be the next Governor of Florida. He has some “endorsements” from other politicians and the party. This matters not to me. I will not be voting for him in the primaries as I think there are better alternatives. Should he win the primary I will not be voting for him, nor will I vote for a democrat and since the other parties cannot seem to find anyone with a lick of common sense that part of my ballot will go unmarked. My current Representative in the same do-nothing Congress is in the same boat. If he has a primary challenger, I will vote for him or her. Should he win the primary that section of my ballot will also remain blank for the same above reasons. The same goes for any in the do-nothing State Legislature up for re-election. I have a suspicion that most of the sections will be blank on my ballot.

I can hear some of you now, not voting for a republican is voting for a democrat. Well, I disagree. How many elections have we been forced to choose the lesser of the two evils. Less evil is not better than most evil. Evil is evil no matter the quantity. We only get to choose between republican evil and democrat evil.

So, basically, I am pretty much done with the republicans at the federal level and rapidly getting that way about the republicans at the state level and possibly at the county level.

We are told the short time pain we feel now is worth it because of the longtime gains that will be achieved. I will give you a moment or two to adjust your budget for that short time pain. As that knucklehead said, “You can just make one less tip to Starbucks”. More will soon learn that there is more month than paycheck.

But we are told that things will get back to normal when this war is concluded.

Now would be a good time to list another of the “Things that makes me weary”.

I grow weary of hearing thing will return to normal after this crisis. Normal will never come back. Did normal return after 9/11? Did normal return after Covid? When this “crisis” is over there will be another declared “crisis”. Wash rinse and repeat. But there is “Good News”.

Normal isn’t coming back but Jesus is. This is a great song. I recommend the version by the Bellamy Brothers featuring the Issacs on You Tube, but you choose the version you wish.