After 8 hours of stump grinding, I’m knackered. It isn’t hard. The grinder does all the work, just sweeping back and forth, chewing up the wood. It’s the low-level attention that wears a guy down. At the end of each sweep, lower the wheel just a bit. Take too big of a bite, and the wheel chatters, the machine bucks and the clutch starts squealing.
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Who we elect for president, seems to matter to the rest of the world.
Our dotard in chief, Joe Biden, is the president, but he doesn’t appear to be mentally competent. No one is certain who is making presidential decisions. Today, October 9th, 2024, North Korea has decided to cut road and rail links to South Korea.
A year into President Trump’s term, the North Korean leader and the South Korean leader shook hands at the demilitarized zone between the two countries.
The world degrades quickly with no American leadership.
I hold Sparky in high regard, but sometimes, he seems like just a pretty face.
When we went outside for our walk, these three deer were wandering by. I said, “Rabbit!” to flip his switch into hunter-pursuit mode. They strolled about 40 yards before Sparky even looked in their direction. Sparky decided to take me very literally, and wasn’t interested.
Sparky talks big, but now I’m wondering if chasing rabbits is a charade. Sure, he’ll eat any baby bunnies he finds. but what would he do if he caught a rabbit?
Sparky says that he is protesting some damn thing, but I wasn’t listening. Early on, he made it clear that he likes pooping on stumps. That was covered in the Poop wars post.
Next walk, he crapped on a stump.
Die Welle, aka The Wave, is 2008 German movie about a free-spirit teacher who gets in over his head. It’s got sub-titles, but worth watching anyway.
Weller gets the bright idea to show them, rather than tell them. He takes on the role of a charismatic leader, and gradually introduces fascistic policies. Kids are gullible, and are eager to finally hear from someone with all of the answers. The students love it, and surprisingly, so does Mr. Weller. The whole thing goes tits-up by the end of the week.
Sparky wants to be an Ewok for Halloween. He is still pissed about The Acolyte, so wanted to do a costume homage to a time when Star Wars was good. He doesn’t have the face for it, but I made him a costume and took some head shots for his portfolio.
The 20th Century was the Century of Physics. In 1905, Einstein published his “Special Theory of Relativity”, and up to about World War 2, modern physics was established. Very little of modern physics corresponds with what we experience in daily life, but it’s been experimentally verified and is used in current technology.
Physicists like Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, and others debated the new theories, and tried to make some sense of the universe.
We Are Legion [We Are Bob] is the first book in a five book series known as the “Bobiverse” by Dennis E. Taylor that came out in 2016. It’s funny, creative and thought-provoking, without any heavy-handed messaging for modern audiences. It’s an entertaining and engaging series, and one of the few that I ever revisit.
Dennis Kucinich has a bunch of crazy ideas, but he does seem to have integrity. Bernie Sanders is similar. I’d never vote for either one. Kucinich put out this statement with a few interesting observations, and a whole lot of superfluous jabbering.
When I heard Vice President Harris brag about former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsing her candidacy, that put the exclamation point on the fact that the leaders of the Democratic party are for war. I am not.
A paradox of this campaign is that the much-villainized former President Trump, (representing a party that has also taken us into unnecessary wars) is the one who speaks to the need to negotiate and to talk directly with potential foes in order to avoid war, or to end it.
What seems like a paradox to Kucinich is really his misunderstanding. President Trump got the leaders of North and South Korea to shake hands at the DMZ. That is incredible. Trump also got the Abraham Accords signed by Israel and Saudi Arabia. Putin invaded Ukraine under Obama and Biden.
When Trump took office, he was opposed by all of the Democrats and half of the Republicans. He was opposed by the war industry puppets to whom Kucinich refers.
Kucinich did not take the courageous step to endorse Trump. That would have been something.
Eight years ago, we should have spent more time talking about how much Mike Pence resembles Race Bannon from Johnny Quest.