All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
(Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus) Augustus
Living as I do in the land of fungus it’s important to look for where moisture has seeped into wood and rotted it away. This is critical because structural members can be compromised and your whole house can come crashing down. You have to look for the telltale signs and when the long horrible winter is over you have to figure out how the water has been getting in and remove that vulnerability. And then you have to remove the rotted wood and replace it. And it’s expensive and difficult. Things have to be shored up while replacing structural supports and if you don’t identify the point of water infiltration you may have to do the whole painful repair over again.
Based on what I’ve observed I’d say that the Republican Party is pretty much rotted away. To continue the analogy, the question remains whether it’s best to demolish the structure and build a new one or begin shoring up the structure and ripping out the rot. I’ll leave that decision with whoever thinks he has the budget to build a new party.
But this post isn’t really about rebuilding a conservative party. It’s about discarding the thoughts and actions that have become useless and redirecting my actions to things that are useful. Writing endlessly about Washington and the atrocities of the dementia patient in the White House is not only useless, it’s debilitating. Thinking about the daily assaults on us is like a drip of water that slowly over time erodes your mind.
I have to find positive activities and they have to have some measurable results. That goes for both my personal activities and the things I choose to write about. And maybe I’ll be writing less, at least here. I have my own writing that I want to do. Blogging takes up a good deal of time. I intend to make sure I have something that is worth people’s time reading.
What I think I will concentrate on for the blog are things that I have found that are useful. I like to think that the reviews of music, movies and books are of that sort. These are things that can be useful to people looking for entertainment. I’ll try to provide similar factual posts about other aspects of living. Maybe it will be about a company that provides a product or service. Maybe it will be an organization that supports the values that I believe in. Maybe it will be an activity that I have heard about that is useful or enjoyable for families and communities on our side of the cultural divide. And sometimes it will be a politician who seems to want to help.
Another aspect of the blog that I intend to change is interaction with the readers. I really need a lot more feedback from you all. I confess I haven’t figured out yet how to do this yet. I think that the site would benefit from having people express their opinions. I especially am interested in people who disagree with my opinions. Not progressive trolls who just want to disrupt the proceedings but people on our side who think we are making mistakes either tactically or in a more fundamental way. And I am especially eager to hear your thoughts about how we can thrive during these dark times. A one-way conversation can be frustrating. So, here’s to a new day and a new direction. Out with the old and in with the new.
So the Republican Congressmen took a vote on kicking Liz Cheney out of her leadership position. The result was, “Just 61 Republicans voted to remove Cheney from her post, while 145 voted for her to stay in a vote by secret ballot.”
So the House Republicans are just as useless as the rest of the Republican establishment. Well good. Too bad it was a secret ballot. An open vote would make it that much easier to primary the rest of these rats. I hope that whoever is serious about rebuilding a party that would represent Free America will make a point of primarying Cheney and McCarthy next year.
But honestly, other than as an amusing form of revenge, thinking about the Republicans is just another waste of everyone’s time. What are they other than more cogs in the same machine that perpetuates the obvious lies that we all are fed day and night by American Pravda. Let the Left do its worst. When the humiliation and anger get extreme enough people will be forced to make a choice. Give in, leave or fight back. Fold, Flee or Fight.
Wars, both civil and foreign, I undertook throughout the world, on sea and land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon. The foreign nations which could with safety be pardoned I preferred to save rather than to destroy.
(Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus) Augustus
Yesterday was a sort of hectic day. I had to clear the snow from the driveways so I could get out and head off on an errand. That kind of interrupted the usual time I like to take in the morning for the site and for reading up on stuff. Today is sort of back to normal but when I looked around there wasn’t too much to review.
There were the usual atrocities by the Dems and the usual useless hand waving by the GOPe. Blah, blah, blah. There was that nice piece of news about DeSantis going after the Social Media sites that discriminate against conservatives. It’s encouraging to see that a few red state governors have some desire to help us. Excellent. May twenty more do just as much. Then we’d have something to talk about.
And since the news didn’t take much time, I started thinking about what is meaningful for me to do with my time and with my website. One of my fans said I should do more with the photography side of things. He likes the macro stuff I do and thinks I should put it up on YouTube as a slide show montage thing. That sounds kind of interesting. I’m also thinking about publishing some art books with the landscape and macro stuff. I also have been neglecting my fiction writing during the inauguration excitement but now that things are slowing down, I really must get some discipline and put in the hours to move those projects along. I’ll put up links to these other things here on the site.
On the local front I’ve had some friends show interest in putting together the first local chapter of the He-Man Woman Hater’s Club. High on the agenda for the club was hammering out the rules for the poker game. There were some who wanted to allow for a high stakes option. I was completely opposed for a couple of reasons. One is that I want to allow for the widest possible socio-economic inclusivity (there is that word sneaking in!). Even the least of my brothers must be able to enjoy the benefits of manly camaraderie. The other is that I’m a truly awful poker player and I don’t want to be beaten by Camera Girl if I lose the milk money. The next question on the agenda is whether sandwiches will be premade or assembled as needed. My opinion was that each man must build his own sandwich and that only a few sandwich building breaks should be allotted. Otherwise, the game would become too fragmented. Of course, chips and drinks can be snagged at the end of every hand. And finally, the type of poker was debated strenuously. Some of the younger guys said it should be strictly Texas Hold’em. Having been raised on draw and stud poker I resisted this idea. But I went as far as to agree that some limits be made on the side bets for high spade and other distractions.
All of this was very gratifying and sound. But what brought us all up to a halt was setting the date for the first game. After all we’re still in the “lockdown.” If we assemble at someone’s house, we’ll have to shut our lights as we near the driveway and camouflage the parked cars for fear that the neighborhood Karens will rat us out to the storm troopers. I mean, I like a good ham swiss and mustard as much as the next guy but getting tased and thrown in the local COVID tank with the other sinners is a bit much. We tabled the item with the understanding that it would be in April or May.
But just talking to the “boys” about some old-fashioned male bonding was inspirational. It’s good to be making plans again and living in the future and not just dwelling on the nightmares of the recent past. If you think about it, other than this COVID crap the government really doesn’t have much of a stranglehold on what adults do with their lives. Lying to the authorities and our bosses at work will become second nature the way it does in any totalitarian state but we can still be ourselves with our friends and family. And one day we’ll pull the whole thing down around their ears and march them off to the gulag as payback.
So today is a good day to plan and get things done.
Florida actually has a Republican governor who isn’t afraid of the Left.
Gov. DeSantis announces legislation to crack down on big tech, online censorship WTXL Tallahassee
Now if a few more red state governors get their acts together maybe something meaningful will be done. If fifteen states slammed the cable providers for allowing the Big Techs to use their infrastructure to discriminate against Americans we might see some interesting action.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
(Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus) Augustus
