MN Governor Tim Walz was "a little surprised" he and Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to Donald Trump. He feels "I did the best I could." Not in the VP debate with Vance you didn't you knucklehead. In his first post-election interview with KSTP a Minnesota news outlet he said "It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way." Rallies can be a lot like rock concerts. You go to a blink-182 concert and you think the whole world likes blink-182. So puberty blockers and transgender surgery for minor kids had nothing to do with your loss. It's really that the rest of the country isn't progressive enough is his take.
I hope you run into a nice school of yellow perch.
Lived in Minnesota for 14 years. Nice people. Clean politics. 10,000 lakes. Hard Winters. But frankly, ice fishing sucks. Brrr
ReplyDeleteWas an avid ice fisherman back in the day. I think we caught one fish a yellow perch. Kind of liked auguring the hole though. A 6" augur works just fine but an 8" good luck you have to be a hulk. Never used the tip-ups just broke my summer fishing rod down and jigged the hole. Then it slowly dawns on you over time this sucks. I think my bro-in-law went with me many times even in 12 degree weather because frankly he wanted to get away from the wife.
ReplyDeleteThey were so off how do the pollsters still have a job?
ReplyDeleteI never read "The Oddysey" by Homer. The Story Channel covered it the other night. The story of Odysseus who fought for ten years in the Trojan War trying to make his way home to wife Penelope to eventually become King of Ithaca before another guy grabs her. Problems coming home on the high seas. Poseiden is pissed. The Sirens. A journey to Hades. LOTS of sex in the work. Odysseus has sex for one whole year with Circe the Sorceress before resuming his voyage. How's that for a stopover.
ReplyDeleteCan you check this book out at the Idaho Public Library?
Think I've seen parts. Very classical, your old teachers would be happy. All copies of The Odyssey in Idaho are safe in police storage. Check with Sgt. Mc Morris in the rest room.
DeleteAlways had trouble with the spelling. How 'bout the Bible? Isn't there a racy passage in the Book of Solomon? What's left how to put up drywall?
DeleteNot really, other than Solomon made Diddy look like a grade school kid. Jehovah Witness guy couldn't explain it either.
DeleteSee Trump Bible - the side benefits of concubines.
Car-sized drones flying over NYC and I'm blogging about Tim Walz and ice fishing. Hell's wrong with me?
ReplyDeleteCan't keep up - cops nab healthcare killer - Luigi Mangione- turned in by McDonald's worker in Altoona, PA. (Did the kid get fired for using the phone while one the job? Did the kid get the $50,000 reward? Did Luigi get Biggie Fries?" Holy lightspeed, Batman. Meanwhile Assad of Syria shows up in Moscow with a plane load of gold. Putin's new Treasury Secretary? Mrs. mailed 100 Christmas cards with letters and the station at the grocery store. Only 3 would fit in the slot. Mgr comes over and unlocks the lid, says "Dump em all in" and mentions "Folks don't send cards much anymore, that's nice" Mrs. been around me for awhile, she says "Been doing it since they closed down the Pony Express." Can't keep up- gotta take a nap.
ReplyDeleteYou had a workout.
ReplyDeleteJust read about the killer on my newsfeed. Had a note on him. Had it in for corporate America. Is the $50,000 reward money tax-free or did the IRS help find the killer too?
Good question - is it earned income, gift tax, capital gains, or other.
ReplyDeleteWhy bother turning someone in?
You do your civic duty and get pushed into a higher tax bracket.
ReplyDeleteTrump is helping to usher in an era however of what decades of abstinence training couldn't do. Known as the 4B Movement. That's a long four years though.
ReplyDeleteZ and BB... as for the reward being taxable, unless it is specifically exempted by a law, yes it is considered earned income and taxable. Maybe the ppl can claim expenses against whatever prize they get. In this case, the cost of the phone call or maybe transportation to McD's.
ReplyDeleteAs for Walz and the losing ticket... I'm not sure anyone was going to win against Trump. I said months ago I felt Trump was the frontrunner.
But none of that is to minimize the mistakes the Harris/Walz team made. They ran a pretty decent campaign, for part of the campaign, but in the end, their missteps and the hole Biden left them in proved insurmountable.
It's interesting to me that some union members, at least in autoland, are now having second thoughts as the reality of tariffs start to sink in for their jobs.
At least they're working as we approach Christmas.
And i'd love to go ice fishing one day, even though I hate the cold. But it seems like shooting fish in a barrel.
Good to hear from you Dave.
ReplyDeleteLike you, I'm still kicking around.
DeleteSuspected as much. McDonald's worker doesn't make much. Probably gets a tax refund every year. Looks forward to it.
ReplyDeleteAssuming he gets the 50K probably no refund. Might even owe. On the other hand he can tell his boss to f%#k off.
Odd, the CEO killer was a valedictorian, his father a tycoon billionaire and he rode grey hound buses with a back pack and ghost gun. Can't make that stuff up.
ReplyDeleteCompare and contrast - Tulsi Gabbard and Liz Cheney, a Dem turncoat and a GOP turncoat. Peas in a pod, but one is nominated for Homeland Security and the other for firing squad. Holy Polarization.
ReplyDeleteLots of photos of him and in every one he's smiling. Looks like he'd give a grandmother a kidney. Truth is stranger than fiction.
ReplyDeleteWhat's interesting here is when did the Cheneys become less than evil? Seemed to happen overnight.
ReplyDeleteMy guess, Liz found something even more evil and flew the coop.
DeleteHer hobby is Trump hating. Long four years for her. Pop a Prozac.
DeleteLove him or hate him - it's a toss up.
Delete4 years. Dunno Z-Man, for a guy that goes 100 mph, that's a long time to do good, screw up or take a well deserved nap.
Can't wait for Day One.
DeleteHoly Halliburton Batman how the Dem Party has changed!
ReplyDeleteMinnesota ice fishing - varies from hunched over a hole in the ice all the way up to a 2 story fishing hut complete with TV. Knew a business man had clients from Japan and took them on a fun ice fishing trip. The Japanese guys asked, "You Clazy or what?" Marketing - win some, lose some.
ReplyDeleteThe huts probably have wifi by now.
ReplyDeleteOr sank in the Spring thaw.
ReplyDeleteAlways wondered about that. At what point do they say let's close up shop? Not worth a walleye.
ReplyDeleteLived there for quite awhile. The Spring Thaw brought out people in shorts to wash their cars at 25 degrees. Thaw caught man off guard. Had a lab tech at the arsenal where I wored. Her husband sank with his truck up at Bit Marine Lake. Hit the bottom rolled down the windosw and swam up to the big hole in the ice. She was quite disturbed, but it s just a Minnesota thing. Like their oversize mosquitoes that come out in the spring and eat humans.
ReplyDeleteBud Grant, former coach of the MN Vikings was a big ice fishterman. Had a huge Walleye mounted in his office. Staff snuck in and replaced the walley with a small dead perch. Stunk to high heavens. Grant didn't even notice. Staff put the Walleye back after a week.
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