Why We Support President Donald Trumpand Vice President Mike Pence

Speaking at the 149th NRA Annual Meetings, April 2019, Nashville, Tenn.

"I Promise To Defend The Second Amendment Rights Of Every American, And I Always Will."  -- President Donald J. Trump

Official White House Photo

"President Trump and I are with the NRA today, tomorrow and always, because the National Rifle Association stands for freedom."  -- Vice President Michael R. Pence

Official White House Photo

GO GET 'EM!

A Respectful Remembrance

We should each visit a fallen Military Veteran this
Memorial Day... TODAY.
Remember those deceased veterans who at several times in their military life signed up to give all or made that gallant supreme sacrifice for God, County, Family, Friends, Associates, and their many unknown past, present, and future fellow Americans.

Thank you for your MILITARY SERVICE!   

Dad, Stephen Paul, Jr., U.S. Army (WWII)

Granddad, Stephen Paul, Sr., U.S. Army Coast Artillery

Great-Great Granddad William Moegling, late of the 97th Infantry Regiment New York State Volunteers, American Civil War - Battle of Second Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, et al.

Great-Great Granddad Albert G. Odell, late of the 91st Infantry Regiment of New York State Volunteers, American Civil War - Petersburg Campaign, Appomattox Campaign, et al. (note: National Cemetery staff adds American Flags a few days before Memorial Day and typically removes flags on or about Flag Day in mid-June at Bath National Cemetery, Bath, Steuben County, NY). 

5th Great Granddad Fredrick Smith, Connecticut Continental Soldier, and Navy aboard the vessel  NEW BROOM, a brig commanded by Captain I. Bishop, the Revolutionary War

6th Great Granddad Captain James Smith, Connecticut Continental Company Commander, the Revolutionary War.

7th Great Granddad Captain Gideon Brainerd, Commanding 3rd Company, 7th Regiment of Connecticut Militia, 1745.

...and so many more ancestors back through history including, but not limited to, our 7th Great Grandfather Thomas Sheldon, Mortally Wounded-In-Action, French and Indian War, Battle of Carillion - (aka: 1758 Battle of  Ticonderoga); and, one of our favored distant ancestors the famous southeast Connecticut original settler, Connecticut Legislator, and 10th Great Grandfather Captain George Denison, Cavalry Commander, Oliver Cromwell's Army, British Civil War (1644/45).

[Reference: Click here to read of the incompetent British leadership under Major General James Abercromby at the Battle of Carillion] 

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR
GALLANT MILITARY SERVICE


Note:  The "I thought the country was divided" cartoon at the top of this post was found by simple Google search and copied here unaltered for non-profit educational purposes only.   

Those Green, Green GrassesNow All White Again

My New Ford F150, XLT, Sport Model

April 5, 2019, 3 PM

OBTW, Those white specs are not dust, just some more frozen rain.  By 3:30 PM, our lands are all covered white once more. 

A couple of late afternoons past, about sixteen White Tail Deer showed-up on our front lawn for their evening feed... deer sure seem to like our grasses.  This is an old story in these parts, but this year we seem to have more of these semi-welcome dinner guests. 

 Northwest View

Northeast View 

That's Not My Corn Syrup!

A Kingly Question For Sure

These recent Bud-Light Commercials are sooooooooo very funny, where a Royal attempts to deliver a large vat of wrongly delivered corn syrup to his castle to the correct light beer brewers Coors and Miller.  Seems the corn industry really has a large knot in their panties and has joined this fight. 

The high-fructose-corn-syrup industry weighed in a couple days ago, whining about those highly funny Bud Light commercials that point out Miller Lite and Coors Light use corn syrup in their Coors and Miller lighter brews.  Syrup supporters argue that most of the syrup is disappears in the brewing process where yeast eats these sugars to produce alcohol.  The corn industry even hired some wacko Ph.D. from a prestigious New England university to make a paid statement certifying this fact behind sugars to alcohol conversion. Not necessary since most of us common folks know that yeast eats sugar and pees alcohol just before they die... this the very essence of the brewing process.

Of course, all of this is true... the fundamental question... why is it necessary to put corn syrup in the beers in the first place (or any processed food for that matter)?  Does cheaper ring anybody's chime?  I don't always drink beer, but when I do -- I drink Bud Light -- and this for over thirty years. I find it great that Bud Light brewmasters use no corn syrup to enhance their nectar-of-the-hop!     

A Very Simple Fact: Bud Light brewmasters do NOT use corn syrup or hop-extract in their brewing process and Coors and Miller do.  I guess the truth really does hurt in most cases.
     

The Two Faces Of Chucky Schumer

Two-Faced Charlie

Got a couple minutes?  Check out Chucky Schumer's 2009 opinion on border security... so what has changed... can anyone spell fellow New Yorker POTUS TRUMP?

To Check Out Click this link: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8z2L42qedM

An Upstate New Yorker's Question -- Was Charlie Schumer lying in 2009, or is he lying now?  Rational acts seem strictly dependant on POTUS's political affiliation.  

About Google BLOGGER... facts unknown to me.

I've been using this Google-supported BLOG site application "BLOGGER" for almost ten years. Never realized that to successfully record reader comments, contributors need to establish a Google account, an active gmail account for example (yourname@gmail). Furthermore, to successfully add comments to any BLOGGER post, a contributor needs to be logged in to an active personal Google account like gmail, etc. These conditions are apparently true for all Google supported Blogger application accounts. This fact is probably cited in the Google User Licence Agreement (ULA)... but like many of us... very few folks like me actually read and fully understand expressions in most legal language ULAs.

P.S. Comment contributors not wanting to establish a Google account are encouraged to send me an email to the available address displayed in the BLOG page upper left section under my Facebook Badge information.  Your anonymous and unedited comments (constructive or otherwise) will be added to the appropriate "Ancient Geek Fumes" BLOG post.  Thanks.  DJ of German Flatts 

Understanding The Root Problem

Many undesirable life events seem destined to repeat themselves, and a significant percent of educated "whiz kids" in charge today seem to think there is a growing new problem.  Watching TV's "Nature" program on PBS a few hours ago... some guy whining about the decline in Arctic Fox population... this because Red Fox species is moving north and overpopulating the Arctic and eating the same food previously exclusive to Arctic Fox (all mainly due -- of course -- to Global Warming).  The unstated root problem, again -- and of course -- is animal (or plant) overpopulation, whether the subject is too many rats, rabbits, humans, or crabgrass!  Climate change (aka Global Warming), or at least that portion directly attributable to human activity, is a symptom. It isn't the problem.  When will a significant percentage of changemaker climate scientists wake-up and report overpopulation as the true root problem?  In history, all life without significant life threats will eventually screw themselves and reproduce to a very unpleasant overpopulation death or an unthinkable environment to support future life. 

While their timeline for overpopulation impacts was off a bit, Dr. Paul and Mrs. Anne Ehrlich called it correctly in their scholarly written works The Population Bomb, The Population Explosion, et al.  It is well past time for the "Chicken Little" global warming scientist crowd to understand the negative impact of overpopulation by taking on new comprehension of these Ehrlich writings.  For goodness sake, attacking the symptoms will never fix the underlining root problem. Otherwise put, animals in smaller numbers doing activities that are potentially dangerous to their environment will logically produce a smaller impact on that environment.  A fresh look to resolve the fundamental unlining root problem is absolutely necessary.

Note: The image inserted at the top of this post was originally posted by quid.com and found online by simple Google search.  The unedited image is presented here for non-profit educational-use-only, in accordance with properly credited copyright free-use educational doctrine.  Check out quid.com, click HERE.