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Driving.

Has this ever happened to you? I was driving my wife home from work this morning. Heading over the hill on Mission Gorge Avenue from Grantville into Santee. There is a lady driving in the lane next to me. You know the type. A bit heavy-set, 40ish, lots of makeup and "Mary Kay" on her back window. None of those factors mean anything, but combined, they always point out a particular type of person who will push past you or talk you down in any conversation. An annoying go-getter that is usually self-centered. She's driving over the speed limit, and constantly drifting into my lane. She was making me nervous, so I wanted to pass her, but she was driving a little faster than I was, and at every light, she'd take off very quickly so I couldn't even get ahead of her that way. As we started climbing the hill past Jackson Drive, she just went faster, and thankfully left me far behind. As I got into Santee, I turned at West Hills and then east on Mast Blvd. My final turn was at Fanita Parkway. There, at the light waiting for the left turn, was the lady who had sped away from me. We sat for a few seconds waiting for the light to change. It tickled me that for all of her speeding and bad driving, she didn't really arrive any sooner than if she'd driven like everyone else. I also had a bit of fun, when the light changed and she was stuck behind a slow-moving truck all the to and through the next turn she needed to make. She must have been quite upset. People need to pay attention and drive like they are not the only creatures on the planet. It was annoying, but I just hope she corrects herself before having a major accident.

Crazy year - What a long, strange trip it's been.

Last August, we set out on the road for the East coast. That was fun, we spent time in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut. We drove back to North Dakota to welcome our third grandchild into the world in December then headed west to California.

While in Cali, we took a break and flew to DC for TAPS. When we finally left California, we drove a new route that took us down highway 66 and sopped at the Grand Canyon. new sights for us and lots of fun.

You don't need a weatherman to know.....

The weather here since we got back has been very disappointing. a couple of days were great, but since then, it's been all rain, wind, and cold. The expected high today, July 1st is 55 degrees. Really? the winds have been well over 25 mph and raining on and off for days.

The farmers are in a bad way since the fields are being flooded. There is a lot of concern in the Devils lake basin because entire farms are going under acres at a time.

I can't work on the yard which had become overgrown since we were gone, can't do repairs and general upkeep on the house in the rain. Hopefully, this will begin to settle down before it's time for us to leave again.

Just sayin'...

We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone.

There was a discussion on facebook about a few laws in Kansas and Arizona that concern who a business has the right to serve and not serve.

I wrote this:

If a businessman doesn't want to serve someone, they have that right in a free market. They are free to lose potential business for their decisions. For the offended party, they have a right to publicly protest or advertise against the businessman. The Government cannot pass laws to force someone to serve someone else. It has no right to control that or even personal morality. Death threats and violence should be treated as the illegal acts they are with no bearing on why the perpetrators thought they could act that way. A school can't decide not to teach a group of people though they can control conduct on school grounds. An individual teacher must perform according to the employment contract or they are free to seek employment elsewhere. Currently, our Government is only interested in granting crony benefits to vocal groups that support the progressive agenda.

Baseball been berry berry good to me.

"Put me in coach, I'm ready to play." - Centerfield by John Fogerty. Spring is almost here. The boys of summer are in spring training and this Thursday, our stalwart Padres begin playing preseason against the Seattle Mariners.

I'm beginning to get excited.

Why don't they love us?

I sit here and watch the administration spend money hand over fist on illegals and liberal causes while hollowing out the military. We have less than 600,000 military personnel. That's less than the population of North Dakota. Does anyone think we could ever protect this country from an attack? Hell, if they give a fraction of the people in China guns they could overrun this country without training just from sheer numbers. This is something we should have learned from the Korean War.

The President hates our country as any leftist hates any democracy. The slim hope of saving grace we have left is the people's expectations that they still have power. Consider is we were Czarist Russia. The Marxists there just moved in and fired up the population against the Czars and the Jews.

Still, they are in control and the RINOs hide their heads and balls on the sand like it's just business as usual.

Recommendations:
Liberals, you need to wake up and realize the true outcome of these actions will be. It's not the one-world utopia you imagine.

Conservatives: the Washing crowd of Boener and the establishment republicans are not going to save anything. Know who you vote into office.

And those of you who say you don't care about politics or think you know something because you watch CNN or MSNBC. you'd better spend some time learning the concepts this country was founded on and what the ideology o the left is really all about.

It's go time.