Author Archives: Joel

Yeah, I want you for president, lady. Since Idi Amin is unavailable. Hillary Clinton On Gun Control: We Can’t Let ‘A Minority Of People’ Terrorize The Majority Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about her views on gun control … Continue reading →

I looked up the daily earworm on Youtube just to get the lyrics right. It’s a perfectly inoffensive little sad song by a perfectly inoffensive little band, has a nice pace and rhythm, reasonable lyrics … and never gets any … Continue reading →

Here’s a breathless piece on the ‘sluggish sales’ of Hillary’s much-hyped book. The suits at Simon & Schuster seem genuinely shocked that all the Clinton fangirls in the republic didn’t rush out to buy it in hardcover. Genuinely shocked, as … Continue reading →

GOP begins hunts for lost Lerner emails Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) is trying to enlist the National Security Agency in the hunt for missing emails to and from the IRS’s Lois Lerner. In a letter to NSA Director Michael Rogers … Continue reading →

ordered me one of these: It’s a signal strength gadget for aligning satellite dishes. Should have bought one during last year’s crisis, but we live and learn. If this actually works, I’m gonna plant a piece of telephone pole in … Continue reading →

Headshots In early 2013 Landlady brought up a bunch of unsexed Brahma pullets. Unless you’re raising them for meat, the problem with unsexed chicks is that half will turn out male. No male chicken ever laid an egg, so the … Continue reading →

And I’m taking it rather well, I think… Remember how last year I went with virtually no connection for months – because it took months to get a repair guy out here? And then he tightened two bolts and went … Continue reading →

Flag Day honored. Crowd helps Boy Scouts retire U.S. flags

How soon they forget: It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the cover-up. IRS Now Claims It Has ‘Lost’ Lois Lerner’s Emails Government backs up everything. Everything. They’ve probably got back-ups of your emails. This is the IRS we’re … Continue reading →

LB here. Dad’s outside beating on the satellite dish with a couple of wrenches and saying words I can’t find in any standard text, so I’d better work fast. I think I hear ripping sounds. He feels bad about the … Continue reading →

Everything seems to be working reasonably well. Except two things. My connection is extremely slow. And every time I try to see the TUAK homepage I get this instead.. Clicking on the link does nothing. It doesn’t show up anywhere … Continue reading →

(tap tap) This thing on? Okay, I’m still having some difficulties here but apparently I have my internet service back. Just a little misunderstanding, Officer. Unfortunately, every time I try to view the TUAK homepage I get a Wildblue nastygram … Continue reading →

Husband and wife shoot gunmen who try to enter their St. Louis home, killing 1, police say Police say a 17-year-old girl who lived at the home was outside retrieving something from her car when she was approached by two … Continue reading →

His biggest frustration is us! (sniff)I’m so proud. This clip characteristically contains several blatant lies, principal among them that he believes there’s no background check in place for gun purchases so anybody can just ‘walk right up to a store … Continue reading →

I firmly intended to post many interesting, informative and inspiring things long before now. Really. But overcoming the legacy of this computer’s former administration is really hard. And like Hillary, I’m just struggling to get by. What difference, at this … Continue reading →

Sort of sanitized reality. 🙂 This is where I live. It’s been a long time now. Sometimes it seems like my whole lifetime, and in a way it really has been. It sounds melodramatic as hell, but in a real … Continue reading →

Having spent some (dozens of) hours going over material, I think there’s enough here to make an entertaining book. I know I’ve talked about it before, but this time I’m more serious. I remember when Claire put her Hardyville stories … Continue reading →

Here’s Uncle Joel’s Garden, 2014 Edition, mid-June. Notice something missing? In this corner we have a single lonely melon plant and a few weeds. Where the weeds are there used to be three rows of sad-looking pea plants, the closest … Continue reading →

Judging strictly from the Internet verbiage on the subject, it seems you’re pretty much not allowed to be a homesteader wannabe without fantasizing about making a septic system with 55-gallon barrels. I don’t know if they’re actually built half as … Continue reading →

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