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Christmas Turkey

The Right Way to Eat Lefse

Oh my gosh! The Leftenant was right! There is a right way to eat lefse!

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Merry Christmas!

Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!

(Disclaimer: If I just offended you that is really your problem and not mine.)

Government Shutdown

President Trump wants to build a wall between the USA and Mexico. He said Mexico would pay for it. Now if he doesn't get the money (from US taxpayers), he is threatening to shutdown the government. I'm old enough to remember the Berlin Wall. I really don't want that to happen again. I like being able to buy a cantaloupe that came from Mexico when it is winter in Minnesota.

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CuTRis Pays 'Hush Money' to Trump

CuTRis Pays 'Hush Money' to Trump
UnAssociated Press
December 14, 2018

President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen while responding to Trump's attacks following his sentencing, said that CuTRis offered hush money to Trump just yesterday!

When questioned about this, CuTRis admitted that he had offered President Trump $5 if he would just shut-up. CuTRis also said it was a very bad investment; because though he took the money, Trump has not yet stopped talking, tweeting or boasting about his alleged superhero powers.

One Issue Voters

In my opinion, the problem with most voters in the USA is that they cast their votes based on one single issue that they hold to be the highest in importance. If that is to protect gun ownership at any cost, then so be it. A kindly, elderly, neighbor from a blue-collar background who always voted Republican once told me it was because of the abortion issue. That was the single reason she voted Republican.

Since I think both the liberals and the conservatives are full of crap, I tend to vote for candidates based on numerous issues. I can't follow party lines, because neither the Democrats or Republicans represent my own personal views. I might agree with one side on one issue and disagree on another.

I think for most people, it's easier. They only need to consider a single issue and not look at the bigger picture. But that, I think, is why politics is such a polarized shit-show in the USA.

False Liberals

I'm always a bit stunned by the overzealous liberals I see in the world--who are "in it" to prove to the world that they are more liberal than all "those other (white) people;" you know the ones... the others who think for themselves instead of lining up behind the latest racial inequality group or immigration protestors. Not that the conservatives who want to shoot anyone who "crosses the border illegally," are any better. Except that they might be more truthful in their motives.

I recently watched as an ethnic minority alerted neighbors to the fact that they would be observing a cultural funeral tradition and to please excuse the extra cars parked on the street. Not being a far-left liberal, I thanked them for the information and expressed my condolences for the loss. The liberal neighbors said nothing. However, I'm pretty sure that if someone had said that Black Lives Matter would be marching through the neighborhood, the same neighbors would have been cheering and handing out bottled water. Maybe they could even get on TV!

When Fruit Looks Like a Butt

I think my wife got this from her mother. I'm not exactly sure what kind of fruit it is, but it looks like a butt.

Rebirth

The hardest thing I ever did was to leave my family, my friends, my house, my job and my band when I moved out east in 2003 to Providence, RI. When I realized that the dream had fallen apart and I was truly unhappy, I did the second hardest thing. I packed up and moved back home to Minnesota; and had to rebuild my life from scratch. It was hard. Some friends were aloof now and told me I had "made a mistake." But it wasn't a mistake. It was merely a step. One day as I was next to a stream in the Minnesota Valley Wildlife Refuge (Louisville Swamp) I saw two Bald eagles tumbling through the sky at breakneck speed. I lowered my spotting scope and watched amazed as they cleared the top of my head by perhaps 10 feet--and I still remember the sound, like a kite in the wind, as their feathers cut across the air above me. And then I realized how blessed I was and I rebuilt my life. All the ties that had been toxic or holding me back were severed. Those that meant something were reestablished. Because of that step I met my wife and had my son. Because of that step I developed my career in IT and wrote numerous books (now on Amazon). But it was never easy. If it had been, it would not have been as gratifying.

Bones has Died

https://www.twincities.com/2018/12/03/mike-bones-hartzell-of-st-pauls-rice-street-dies-at-71/

https://cutris.blogspot.com/2013/12/homeless-at-8-degrees.html

https://cutris.blogspot.com/2013/12/homeless-at-7-degrees.html

https://cutris.blogspot.com/2014/10/here-is-real-homeless-person.html