My Eight-Ball Lied
And lied...
My Eight-Ball Lied
Quite recently, I considered cleaning my attic. There was a job I needed to do, to add ventilation so it doesn’t get so blamed hot up there. There are already vents, two on each end of the house, but they are static vents with no fans. I’d like to add a couple of small fans, or blowers. I could give a damn if they’re solar-powered.
Of course, getting there will be difficult. Over decades of living at my one address and raising four kids, there is of necessity, an accumulation of who-knows-what. A set of bunk beds, hand-crafted; a milk pasteurizer, Christmas decorations of some sort, and a lot of toys. There are more goodies, but I’ve a feeling someone else will have the pleasure of saying, “What did he keep that for?” Chances are, I didn’t even know it was there.
Most of the stuff isn’t salable, or I’d sell it. But among the toys I spotted an old “Magic Eight-Ball” and it was still full of liquid. “Hah,” thought I, “Just what I need. Another distraction.” So I carried it along back down, struggling through the mess on the attic stair.
But you know, I really hadn’t recalled what a let-down this toy actually is. Someone cobbled it together to deliver twenty replies, says the internet, that are fuzzy enough that they could be said to apply to whatever question you may have mentally asked it. But sooner or later you will ask it a direct question to which you already know the answer, and it will be dead wrong, and then you realize just how un-magic the thing really is.
And then you put it down. For a really long time.
But, I hadn’t recalled that part yet, since I last dismissed the thing like almost seventy years ago. Some lessons are no longer fresh.
Shifting gears for a moment, something is deeply wrong in the world, and in this country. It is so insidious, the realization that it is present within our borders is scary as hell. Just yesterday I saw a piece on RealClearPolitics entitled, Is America Fit to Lead the West? Wow, I thought, is that what we’re doing? Leading the West?
So let me get this straight. The most militarily-powerful nation on earth has to fear nuclear capabilities of Iran and North Korea, is the one nation among “democracies” that requires no voter ID and questions the outcome of every election, also the financier of the UN and probably the WEF, “leads” the West? With our country supporting illegals using Social Security, the empty fund that cannot stand? With Mexican gangs and cartels in open warfare at the southern border, and military-age Chinese males crossing en masse, to await the bell from Beijing?
We lead?
The world is in sorrier shape than I had thought. Than I had believed.
There are a few shiny objects in Washington D.C. that need to be brought to the front edge of the stage, namely, a few bald or near-bald heads in Congress, you know, the group that doesn’t know it has been rejected by two-thirds of America? Never believe for one minute that only Democrats think we’re all stupid. That we aren’t smart enough to select a solid Commander in Chief. That we don’t have eyes to see or ears to hear what they’re saying, or doing.
NO President could undo everything that Joe Biden has done since taking office, in a single term, not without co-operation of this group of nincompoops. And if he’s elected, once again, Donald Trump will not have their co-operation, nor would any other Republican. And Joe Biden is solidly on the side of the far left, those who would unravel the Constitution, pack the high court and welcome in globalists.
But.
Do not believe Democrats are alone in this effort. They are not.
So, I’ve been quiet for a while, and it had a lot to do with this “Magic Eight-Ball.”
So I asked it. Will Joe Biden stay “with it” during this debate?
It is decidedly so.
Will Donald Trump hold his own, with the leftist moderators in charge?
Better not tell you now.
No. Tell me.
My sources say no.
Will Donald Trump win this election?
Don’t count on it.
Tell me, oh Magic Eight-Ball, should I become a professional hit-man?
Don’t even fucking think about it.
Wait. That’s not supposed to be in there.
I shook it, and rolled it, and bounced it against a chair leg, and it still didn’t come up with that reply. Finally, I took the damned thing outside and took a hammer to it.
That reply was not in there, not at all. But that’s what I read.
Clearly, something is terribly, horribly wrong in this country. Reference this article. I’d already seen snippets about pasteurization clearing milk of bird flu virus, so this one hit hard:
Then I saw this:
https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/bird-flu-pandemic-likely/
“Plantbasednews?” WTF?
Try it. Just, try it. See what happens, motherfuckers.
I am pricing sniper rigs. Fuck the attic ventilation.
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