Horror Movie, “Becky” rated R.

 I don’t remember ordering this one from Netflics.  But it came in the mail.  So I watched it.  Plot is simple; four ugly cons escape from prison and descend upon the pleasant rural home of the various protagonists.  Daughter Becky hangs in there and kills all four of the convicts, one by one, using ordinary stuff, no weapons.  One bad guy she stabs to death using a school ruler in place of a proper knife.  She gets them all, hand to hand, except the last one who she shoots dead using a hand gun that one of the other bad guys dropped on the ground. 

   Becky is maybe 15.  Not quite old enough for a driver’s license.  Becky is cute, blonde, and deadly. She makes the movie.  I watched it to the end just to see how Becky would kill each bad guy. They open the movie with a shot of Becky with blood on her face, ready to kill the next bad guy who shows up.

   I cannot recommend this movie for all the blood and guts.  But I did want to mention it since I had watched it.

US senate candidate from NH.

 

We have a good Republican candidate for US Senate from New Hampshire.  Chuck Morse, currently NH Senate president.  I served one term in the NH senate with Chuck.  He is a good guy.  He remembers his friends and does what he can for them.  He is a solid Republican.  He has good name recognition across New Hampshire.  He ought to be able to beat Maggie Hassan who has done nothing good for us up here in New Hampshire, and in fact Maggie has done us a lot of bad, starting with the Keystone XL pipeline.  She has also put the kibosh on a good natural gas pipeline out to the Bakken.  Out there they have more natural gas than they know what to do with.  Like they are paying contractors to make the stuff go away.  With a good pipeline to New England we could enjoy plentiful natural gas all year round, rather than the deal we have now, outrageous price spikes in heating season, which cause outrageous electric rates in heating season. 

Can I make a yes or no answer?

 I got one of those “surveys” that end up by asking you for a donation to their cause.  I got one from “Patriotic Voters” (new name to me) with former US senator Rick Santorum on the letterhead.  The survey had some questions that could be answered with “yes” or “no”, like “Should important medicines come from Communist China”.  Then there were others that I could not answer yes or no. 

   For example, “Do you agree with granting citizenship to 11 million illegal aliens?”   For me, that depends.  An illegal alien who has a job, pays taxes, is married, is raising children, speaks reasonable English (at least  I can understand most of what he says), has stayed out of serious trouble with the law, sounds like a good sound citizen to me.  We need more citizens like that.  Or he has served a hitch in the US armed forces that makes him a good citizen in my old veteran eyes. 

    On the other hand, an MS -13 gang member, someone with a serious criminal record that sounds like a prime prospect to kick out of the country. 

   For another example “Should abortion on demand be legal in New Hampshire?”  Good question.  I thought abortion was legal in New Hampshire.  I am of mixed minds on this one.  In general I am against abortion, seeing it as very close to infanticide.  Not good.  On the other hand, I have a daughter, a good girl of whom I am extremely fond.  Had she needed an abortion in high school or college, I would have been right out there finding her a place to get an abortion.  This did not become a problem; daughter was an intelligent girl who managed to avoid pregnancy until after marriage.  So down deep, my attitude about abortion boils down to it should be forbidden to every girl except my daughters.  Even I can understand that this is a morally bankrupt point of view.   Some day I need to straighten myself out on this issue.

More Tests, more Covid cases.

 The more Covid tests they have the more cases of Covid they discover.  As I have previously mentioned, there is a strong group of organizations that want to keep the Covid pandemic going.  They are making money and gaining power from Covid.  Right now even the Who Runs the Biden Administration (WRBA) are Covid pandemic boosters.  

    Reporters are right now grilling Psaki at the afternoon press conference about why not more Covid tests available.

 As a side issue, Mayor Lightweight in Chicago is unhappy with the Chicago teachers union that has refused to teach.  An off-the-record strike.  If Mayor Lightweight was serious about getting Chicago schools open, she would tell the teachers “If you don’t teach, you won’t get paid”.  I haven’t heard her say that, or anything close to that.  Until she does, she isn’t serious. 

Horrible NYC fire.

My sincere condolences to the 19 dead, and their families, in that horrible apartment building fire in New York City today. 

   How ever there are a few questions that come to mind.  How do tenants on the top floor (19^th floor) leave the building?  Elevator[s]?  Was there more than one elevator in the place?  Did the elevator[s] keep working thru out the fire?  What happens when the down button on all 19 floors is pressed at once?  I assume there were stairs.  Were the stairs open or were they blocked by fire?  Did the building have sprinklers?  If not why not?  Can you install outdoor fire escapes on a 19 story building?

New York City is in for some amusing times.  They elected a new mayor, Eric Adams who sounds a lot better than the outgoing De Blasio.  Adams was a member of NYPD for a good long time, worked his way up to serious rank in the department.  Adams has promised to crack down on crime and clean things up.  Sounds good to me, although living way up in New Hampshire, I may not be fully in touch with New York City doings. 

   Same time New York is getting a new District Attorney, a certain Alvin Bragg.  Alvin is a soft on crime guy and on his first day in office released a long list of crimes that his office would no longer prosecute.  Criminals accused of these no longer prosecuted crimes would be turned loose.  This ought to handicap Eric Adams efforts to crack down on crime.  Back in the day, Rudi Guiliano introduced “broken windows policing” namely arresting and charging for minor offenses like jumping subway turnstiles on the theory that you often caught wanted criminals and it put out the word to the underworld that the cops were serious.  Alvin clearly doesn’t believe in “broken windows”. 

   I don’t know how Alvin came into office.  If he was elected, then the good citizens of New York who elected him are going to have to suffer.  If he was appointed somehow, New Yorkers ought to be looking for the scalp of who ever appointed him. 

9-Lives vs Friskies

 I fed cat on Kibble for years.  She used to eat it.  Couple of years ago, something happened and cat stopped eating Kibble.  She is a nice cat, been with me for 14 years, so I bought her some canned catfood.  That comes in two styles, Shreds and Glop, and Pate. I like Pate, it is less messy.  Cat likes shreds and glop.  When I fed cat with pate she would nibble around the edges and leave a good deal of it in her bowl. I like cat, so I weakened and bought her shreds and glop, Friskies by name.  So now we are dealing with a cat food shortage.  I cannot buy 40 can cartons of Friskies at Walmart any more.  Best I could score just before Christmas was a 24 can carton of 9-Lives shreds and glop.  Not good.  9-Lines doesn't put enough glop in with the shreds so the stuff won't shake out of the can into cat's bowl.  I have to use and dirty a spoon to get 9-Lines out of the can into the cat bowl.  And then wash the spoon.  PITA.