{"id":17319,"date":"2022-01-10T13:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=17319"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:02:36","slug":"a-gang-of-turkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/a-gang-of-turkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gang of Turkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camera Girl with her hawk eye spotted a group of turkeys walking through the forest.\u00a0 So, I took my trusty Sony A7 IV and my Minolta 200mm f\/4 macro lens with Sony LA-EA5 adapter and flashed off fifty shots of the uncouth looking modern dinosaurs.\u00a0 I\u2019ll work on them later but here\u2019s a representative jpg.<\/p>\n

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I guessing the turkeys are looking for food before the big freeze down happens tomorrow.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be dropping thirty degrees down into negative single digits tomorrow night.\u00a0 This should be a good test of the supposedly repaired heating system we live with.\u00a0 A really annoying aspect of the \u201crepair\u201d is that the suction fan has a vibration that is very audible in the living room.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to become an acoustical engineer and figure out where some fireproof acoustical insulation will solve that problem.\u00a0 Oh, the joys of owning a very unorthodox house.<\/p>\n

I looked up the name for a group of turkeys.\u00a0 It\u2019s called either a gang or a rafter.\u00a0 A rafter sounds like an architectural term whereas gang captures some of the disreputable and disorganized facets of the behavior of a bunch of dopey birds.\u00a0 And that immediately got me thinking of the Republican lawmakers.\u00a0 They\u2019re a gang of fat, stupid and disorganized bird-brained followers who couldn\u2019t shoot fish in a barrel.\u00a0 I think of them because things are going so horribly for the Democrats and Biden that it must be about time for those losers that are supposedly on our side of the fence to help the Democrats out by missing some opportunity to kick them while they\u2019re down.\u00a0 Already that dope Cruz was yapping about how the January 6th<\/sup> farce was a terrorist attack.\u00a0 I used to like him but what is wrong with him if he says something stupid like that.\u00a0 It\u2019s the unforced errors that drive me crazy with these \u201cfriends\u201d of ours.<\/p>\n

The biggest surprise of 2021 was Joe Manchin stabbing the Dems in the back.\u00a0 It was wholly unforeseen and miraculously potent.\u00a0 Combined with the COVID revolt, it has poleaxed Biden\u2019s presidency good and proper.\u00a0 But I\u2019m waiting for our Manchin.\u00a0 I\u2019m assuming it will be Romney.\u00a0 He\u2019s a sniveling coward who loves to play the principled man of honor when he knows it will get him the spot light.\u00a0 But with the disarray on the left maybe we\u2019ll be spared until the midterms when with any luck they\u2019ll lose the Senate along with the House.<\/p>\n

I wonder how long it will take the Supreme Court to make up their minds about the vaccine mandates.\u00a0 I confess I\u2019m pretty excited about a win there.\u00a0 That also means I\u2019ll be very disappointed if they fink on us and throw in with the Fauci fascists.\u00a0 But things seem to be going our way on this in the public opinion field.\u00a0 People are waking up to the fact that these vaccines are at best useless and at worst a very dangerous thing to do to young and healthy people.\u00a0 Anyone with children and grandchildren should be paying close attention to the information on both efficacy and safety.\u00a0 These drugs would never have been approved on a normal testing basis by the FDA.<\/p>\n

So, stay warm this week.\u00a0 The Polar Express will be coming through and providing a good excuse to stay warm and watch some old movies or read a good book.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been managing to put the time to good use writing.\u00a0 I produced about five thousand words of prose in the last two or three days.\u00a0 Not bad.\u00a0 Of course, I\u2019ve still got seventy or eighty thousand words to go.\u00a0 But Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day.<\/p>\n

Watch out for those turkeys, winged or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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