The Contrast

Honor.  Decency.  Integrity.

Arrogant.  Doltish.  Dishonest

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Enough Already

 Rudy "the clown" Giuliani, wiping away his sweaty hair dye, held another goofy press conference full of discredited assertions yesterday.

Does Rudy have no friends who care enough to tell him he is making a fool of himself?  Clearly there aren't enough republicans available since they continue to genuflect to the narcissistic trump.

The moron-in-chief trump continues to deny the results of the election.  His refusal to allow a smooth transition, the first in the history of the country, is causing a security risk to America and disruption of Covid plans.  Based on this iniquitous transfer of presidential authority, America can never again chastise the elections of any other country.

Enough already.  

North Dakota Stupid

North Dakota has recorded the world's highest Covid mortality rate and after months of resisting ordering wearing masks republican Governor Doug Burgum has relented.

This bears repeating:  the world's highest Covid mortality rate.

Yet one North Dakota moron sheriff is refusing to enforce the mask mandate. 

For whatever asinine reason, in refusing to enforce the mask mandate, Stark County Sheriff Corey Lee  is putting lives at risk.  Lee is not alone.  He has been joined by a number of other North Dakota sheriffs,  including Hettinger County where my family is from.

I grew up in North Dakota and, as much as it pains me to say, this is North Dakota stupid plain and simple.

  

The Tip Of The Iceberg

 It's been a rough two days here on the farm.

Monday night it started to rain and freeze.

At 6:00 AM Tuesday morning the area power lines gave way under the ice and the power went out.

A call to the Rural Electric verified that we better plan on a long power outage.

Lucky for us we have a truck camper tucked away in the big shed with the antique cars.

So, off we went and fired up the farm generator.

We spent Tuesday in the truck camper watching videos and staying toasty warm listening to the sleet hitting the metal shed.  Later that evening the power came back on only to go off again this morning as they were working on the power lines.  This morning we assessed the damage.

Tree damage was extensive.  The most we have ever had since being on the farm.

The weight of the ice was too much for many of the older trees.  We spent most of today removing the larger branches with the tractor and that was only the tip of the iceberg (no pun intended).  

Finally, Real Experts

What's this?!  Someone is finally taking charge of America's Coronavirus pandemic? 

President-elect Biden has appointed an advisory council of medical professionals and experts.  Actual SCIENTISTS!

Dr. Vivek Murthy, a doctor of internal medicine, 

served as the surgeon general of the United States

Dr. David A. Kessler served as Food and Drug 

Administration commissioner from 1990 to 1997

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith is an associate professor of medicine and 

epidemiology at Yale University and associate dean for Health Equity 

Research at Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Luciana Borio is a senior fellow for global 

health at the Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist and bioethicist

Dr. Rick Bright, an immunologist and virologist who oversaw the 

government's production and purchase of vaccines

Dr. Atul Gawande is a surgeon and Harvard professor 

best known for his books and writings on the medical field

Dr. Celine Gounder is a clinical assistant professor of medicine 

and infectious diseases at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a 

practicing HIV/infectious diseases specialist and internist, epidemiologist

Dr. Julie Morita, a pediatrician, is the executive vice president 

of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the US's 

largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health

Dr. Michael Osterholm is an infectious disease expert who 

holds positions at University of Minnesota as a regents 

professor and McKnight presidential endowed chair 

in public health and as the director of the Center for 

Infectious Disease Research and Policy

Loyce Pace has served as the executive director and 

president of Global Health Council since December 2016

Dr. Robert Rodriguez is a professor of emergency medicine 

at UCSF School of Medicine and works in the emergency department 

and ICU of two trauma centers

Dr. Eric Goosby is an infectious disease expert and director 

of HIV Services at the Health Resources and Services Administration

Finally, real experts instead of snake oil kooks and meaningless self-serving briefings. 

Saving The Barn

Back in August I had posted about the barn here on the farm and the aging roofing tin which leaked (link).

The main problem was the shorter sections of tin that were used when the barn was built which created a number of section splices that were lifting.

We decided to go ahead with replacing the tin and in a matter of one day a crew of six workers completed the job.

The original four foot panels were replaced with eight foot panels, thereby eliminating the splices that popped up in the wind and leaked.

Later this week another crew will come to the farm and construct an aluminum soffit and wrap all the trim in aluminum.  With these repairs this barn should last another 100 years.

 

Bye Don, It's A New Dawn

 

Leave

 Those of us who are old enough remember this well.

With what will inevitably be the election of Joe Biden as president, our national nightmare of four years will be over.  

Except, that is:

This psycho will not concede and is taking a scorched earth approach.  The question is whether he will actually leave the White House.  The answer is simple:

Have the U.S. Marshalls drag his ass out.

SAVE AMERICA. VOTE To Restore Decency, Integrity, Honesty, Compassion, Equality.

 

T Minus 1. SAVE AMERICA. VOTE

 

T Minus 2. VOTE. SAVE AMERICA