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.   

Cannon Mountain Ski Weather

 It snowed all day today (Friday). It was snowing by 6:30 this morning and just let up a few minutes ago (4:30 PM)  We got 3 inches on my deck, which is within walking distance of Peabody slopes.  It's nice fluffy powder, skiing ought to really good tomorrow (Saturday). No wind.  Temp about 28F up here, 24F down in the valley. 

Whither Corona virus?

 The Biden administration is finding that public opinion is firming up about their handling of the omicron variant of the Corona virus.  The public is beginning to think that Biden isn’t handling it well.  The folks that are benefiting from Corona virus, big pharma, most governors, the president, Tony Fauci, the MSM, and probably more, have seized upon the emergence of omicron as an excuse to keep the pandemic going.  So they talk it up as the second coming of the Black Death. 

   There are stories going around, that while omicron is very infectious, it isn’t really a very serious disease.  It hasn’t killed more than a handful of people so far.  The symptoms are so mild that a lot of people don’t notice that they have anything.  Only when someone runs a lab test on them, and gets the test to give a positive result do they chalk up another Covid case. 

   The MSM is not carrying this story yet, it is against the narrative, but they have not denied it either.  If true and I have no way of checking out the story, then we could call the Corona virus pandemic over and get the country going again.  I think the public is beginning the think this way, and it makes them think the Biden administrative doesn’t know what it is doing.  If the omicron strain is reasonably mild, the Administrative could declare victory over Corona virus and claim credit for the victory.  Who Runs the Biden Administration (WRBA) may catch on shortly.  Or they may not, or omicron is not as mild as some stories say.  

  Time will tell.  The mid term elections are coming.