The Great Escape

Okay...so they can sue me for the copyright infringement. They won't get anything out of me. I could change it to "The Great Jail Break", but this is cat paradise, not jail. Anyway, we were moving skylights on Thursday so the garage door was open. We opened the screen door to the garage to get some air movement and let the cats enjoy it. The crazy kitten, so far only known by the moniker of "brat", decided to climb the screen. We chased him down and went to the garage at the end of the driveway. By the time we returned, we saw 2 cats near the deck. Doug questioned whether they were neighborhood cats but had a dreadful feeling that ours had escaped somehow. I took Gabriel with me and captured a kitty while Doug found the escape hatch and blocked it off. The brat had punched his way through the screen door. I grabbed a cat and brought it to Doug. We went for the other one, who really was kind of freaked out. I don't blame him. The dog kennel is close to the deck, and he was being subjected to harassment. I'm happy that they are all back safe and sound. The current dilemma is what to do with the screen door so that we can use it again. How do you cat-proof it?

A little credit is due - part deux.

Thanks to media distortions, no good news from the White House will ever see the light of day, at least until Billary assumes co-presidency again, God help us, and the Clinton criminals will likely pilfer the White House silverware and china… yet again. Why doesn’t the main vein media point out that it was George W. Bush’s Advanced Energy Initiative and new energy rules that he signed into law that will start to bring energy independence to America… someday. Since almost noone knows what those laws require: George W. Bush's initiative requires the use of 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol and biodiesel annually by 2012, renewable fuels produced IN AMERICA, by American farmers, reducing our dependency on foreign petroleum reserves, while raising the prices and demand for American cash crops like corn and soybeans.

I, for one, am sick and tired of the incessant deceptions spread by liberal stooges. It's like this. Repeat those so-called progressive fabrications often enough, with enough vehemence, and eventually, what you have wrought is the veneration of government and liberal laissez-faire perverted living of the lowest common denominator (i.e. you know the usual liberal hippy lines: if it feels good, do it. Free love! All we are saying is give peace a chance. The government is here to help you! (That last one scared the hell out of me)). And yes, I did intend to have two parentheses at the end of the last sentence.

George W. Bush is certainly not a perfect president. However, the economy will grow by 4.2 percent this quarter, with unemployment at its lowest level in more than 20 years. Unemployment, in fact, has been lower, on average, under G.W. Bush than during the Clinton administration. So, how about giving credit to the current administration when they do something right... give some credit for a change? Oh, this is important enough to repeat, and pay attention, kiddies: Liberalism is evil, no matter what the Democrybabies and Screamin’ Howard Dean might say. When radical Democrats open their mouths, lies fall out like dentures without Polygrip. Moreover, because so many ignoramuses (or is that plural… Ignorami) will believe anything they see on TV or in the major newspapers, the extreme leftist demagoguery in the media is dangerous to the future of America.

Ah… I got that out of my system, and I feel a bit better now.

Okay, hypocrites... a little credit is due-part 1

Okay. George W. Bush is certainly not a perfect president, by any means. However, the way that he is portrayed as an absolute failure by the mainstream media is disingenuous at best, and is deliberate propagandist deceitfulness at the worst. The likes of ABC, CNN, and newspapers like the New York Times are blaming the Bush administration for high fuel prices. First, that is completely asinine and utterly duplicitous, if not seditious crimes against the state, seeking political influence to undermine the chief executive officer by misrepresenting the facts (also known as lying, propagandist anti-American political tactical warfare). No president can do that much to cause changes in the economy in the day-to-day world. Expecting hairpin fiscal turns in the largest economy in the history of the world, based purely on presidential authority is like turning a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, such as the CVN RONALD REAGAN around when the thing is cruising at 30 knots. It is going to take an awful lot of water to turn that ship around, as in, an aircraft carrier spinning u-turns the size of small tropical islands.

Here is the reality: The liberal main-vein media are a bunch of wacko hypocrites who have no interest in facts or the health of America's economy, unless such facts support their radical socialist agenda. All these creeps care about is destroying G.W. at any cost, including devastating American socio-economic harmony. The salaciously caustic nature of the media’s distortions is tantamount to treason. Did you ever notice that the (very) unprofessional reporters at ABC and CBS bare their ugly liberal prejudice by disrespectfully referring to W as Mr. Bush, while they STILL to this day refer to Slick Willy Clinton as President Clinton? Liberalism is evil, no matter what the Democrybabies say. These folks spin the media with a twisted merchandising of distortions that liberal politicians own, presented as hard news, when the reality is that the liberal media is the de facto mouthpiece of Ted 'Hiccup' Kennedy and other spiteful liberals like Billary Clinton and Chuckie Schumer. Why these jackasses are reelected (in some cases for more than 40 years) is beyond comprehension. It is the duty of every American to understand the issues and vote intelligently... or to just simply NOT vote. Would it be such a bad idea to have a test of awareness of current events before opening the polls? Yeah, I know, that would be an unfair test because political and social morons would not be allowed to vote. Ummm... cha ching. That’s life.

Preparing for the Roofing Contractor

We are getting a new roof on the house soon. I am not sure when the project will begin, as the contractor had some weather-related delays on current or recent jobs. It sounds like the work may start next Wednesday, the 3rd of May. It is probably a good thing that the work was delayed, because we have preparations to make. Each day when I come home, I put wood sealer on the frames of the new skylights. There isn't enough room in the garage to do all of the skylights at the same time, so I did four of them first and am working on the last three now. That would be a total of seven skylights, in case that was as clear as mud. We will ultimately have nine skylights, eight in the living room and kitchen, and one in the bedroom. The idea is that we can open the five venting skylights (2 kitchen, 2 living room, 1 bedroom) and cool the house during the summer, without air conditioning. The two current venting skylights, when opened in the summer, cause the temperature in the house to drop markedly within minutes. So, hopefully, this will help with the heat and make for some happy houseplants.

On a sidenote, we could use central air to cool the house, but our home has hot water heat. That is why we don't use central air, so now you know. By the way, some home-buying advice: never buy a home in December in Minnesota, unless you pay attention to the fact that the hot water heat doesn't allow central air. Oh well. We manage just fine. Anyway, I have put four coats of satin wood sealer on four skylights and tomorrow will start the last three. It takes four to five days to finish each skylight, one coat every 24 hours. Very exciting stuff I am writing tonight.