Work and Crazy

We have the dreaded list of stuff we have to do prior to leaving for Arizona.  That will occur probably November 4 or 5.  We've got two items done.

We had a gutter that leaked at the corner.  I guess it had been leaking for awhile because the wood had gotten a little punky.  So there was sanding, and filling, and two coats of paint.  Here is Jim, on the ladder, where he does not like to be.  It actually was surprisingly level and stable.

There is a wasp nest under the porch.  They were not out flying while we were there, and happy we were about that.

 We painted out of a small can of primer/paint.  The giant ladle would not fit in it to transfer paint.  An old sterling silver ladle worked well.

Then there was the twice yearly trimming of the hedge.  It still has a wow in it, I'm just not going to look there.

We still have the wrapping of deer netting around the arborvitae, but it's too soon to do that.

It rained today, so it was good that we got the painting done before that happened. 

The governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, is covering himself in glory.  The day after the Charlie Kirk shooting he said this.  "For the last 33 hours, I had been praying that this person (who murdered Charlie Kirk) was from another country. That he was not one of us because we are not like that. But it was one of us."

Today on Meet the Press, Cox said this.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday that investigators are not ready to discuss the motive behind the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. But he said the 22-year-old suspect had left-leaning political beliefs and disliked the conservative influencer.

“Clearly a leftist ideology," Cox told NBC's “Meet the Press.” On CNN's “State of the Union,” he said, “That information comes from the people around him, his family members and friends."

Cox said Robinson is “not cooperating” and that friends paint a picture of someone radicalized in the dark corners of the internet. “Clearly there was a lot of gaming going on,” Cox said on NBC. “Friends have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep.”

Nothing is known for sure.  We do know that Tyler Robinson was mad that Charlie Kirk was demanding the release of the Epstein files.  Most of the rest is just noise.  It's interesting that Reddit is being besmirched, I like Reddit, they're informative.

On Friday, Brian Kilmeade said this on Fox, sitting on the couch with two co-hosts.  "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them." He wants to kill homeless people.  Neither co-host missed a beat, they, just kept on blathering.  There is something wrong with these people.  Today he issued a half-assed apology for what he said.

Companies are firing or suspending employees for their social media responses to the death of Charlie Kirk.  Seems like a violation of first amendment rights.  Article is here.  Additionally, the Secretary of War is actively scanning social media for unapproved thought. 

Here is my socially acceptable political cartoon about the shooting.  It's based on what the man himself said, in public, and on video, that a few gun deaths were worth it to preserve the second amendment.

This is what an aurora looks like when you're flying a plane.

It's just another day in crazy town.  I would really like to be Canadian.