Spring and Malfeasance

This spring totally sucks!  It's cold, it's rainy, and we're bored spitless.  We did get a new boxwood for the side yard after our nice neighbor dug out the Rose of Sharon that was dead.  Home Depot did not have a good distribution of sizes, the pots were either really big, or smaller than we wanted.  Our dirt lies upon a significant layer of clay-like soil which is a pain to dig in, so we went with the smaller plant.  It will grow.  We got it planted in between rain showers.  It was a dismal day, as is today. 

There have been wild life sightings.  

This is a female turkey that's roaming the neighborhood.  It's odd, she's the only turkey we've seen this year.  Usually there is a flock in the area.  She's a big bird.  The lady up the street thinks she must have a nest somewhere.  What do turkeys eat?  Anything they can get into their mouth.  That's according to the internet.

One of the murderous robins.  They locate worms by sound.  He's listening for them to move through the dirt.

The always adorable rabbit.  He chewed a shoe sized hole in the grass, right down to the ground.  We may have to start shooing him.  I wouldn't mind it if he'd keep moving while eating, but he likes to remain in one place and chew.

So, former President Biden has prostate cancer that has moved to the bones.  It's amazing how many MAGAts just have to weigh in on stuff they know nothing about.  They should all have a plague of boils and hives.  It should be enough to wish him well and zip it.

From twitter we learn The Big Beautiful Bill which is moving through congress does the following, in addition to taking healthcare away from 14 million people.  It's way more than a budget bill, it's an end to the world as we know it bill.

- Closure of the U.S. Department of Education 

- 25% expansion of logging in national forests, bypassing environmental reviews and fast-tracking timber production 

 - Rollbacks on clean energy incentives, cutting tax credits for EVs and renewables, gutting key climate provisions

 - More public lands opened up for drilling, mining, and logging, with royalty breaks for fossil fuel companies 

- Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, ending U.S. participation in global climate efforts  

- Executive Order 14215, forcing independent federal agencies to follow White House legal interpretations and centralizing authority under the presidency  

 - Pension changes for federal workers hired before 2014, cutting take-home pay by raising required contributions, reducing future payouts, and eliminating early retirement supplements

 - REINS Act-style regulation repeal, where major federal rules expire unless Congress re-approves them every 5 years allowing Trump to quietly erase protections without rewriting laws  

- Expanded executive control over agency budgets, allowing the White House to move federal funds internally without explicit congressional approval

 - Restoration of impoundment powers, giving Trump the ability to block or delay spending already passed by Congress reviving powers stripped after Watergate  

 - Creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), placing White House–aligned teams inside every federal agency with access to internal systems and influence over hiring and daily operations 

 - Sharp cuts in regulatory enforcement, with agencies like the EPA, CFPB, and Labor and Transportation Departments halting enforcement of key safety, environmental, and anti-discrimination rules  

 - Trump’s personal control over economic policy, strengthening his power to direct tariffs, pressure private companies, and dictate pricing with little resistance treating the U.S. economy like his own business

Sounds great, does it not?

This is funny, in these days one must take funny where one finds it.

That's it, that's all I've got.