RAGBRAI week

Hillary's big economic plan

 Locking through in Davenport

Three things...
I wish to point out that I brew up the very best coffee in Iowa City, maybe the very best in Iowa. I will not divulge the exact mix of beans I use, but I will tell you I don't use any particularly expensive beans. I'll also give you a clue that My very best mix involves a trip to Stringtown every month or so.
I also never put fufi flavored beans in My coffee...as it is, at least a Venal Sin to put stinkum in coffee.
I will even give a little plug to McDonald's, I find that their black coffee is a very tolerable and reasonable in price...in a pinch. The rest of the menu seems to involve early death.

The second thing is that while attempting to clean My garage, I have found My very favorite stocking cap ("took" if you are Canadian) on an old coat tree and under a jacket. I knew I would find it...the lost is found after these many months.

Thirdly, as you can clearly see in the photo, The Crooked Man is awash in books. I have taken note of all those little "free libraries" that have sprung up...all over town in the past couple of years and have resolved to "git me one". Look for another one in Alphabet City in the near future, or look for The Crooked Man to appear on one of those Hoarder shows. Maybe both.

I resolve to be able to see out My windows...again

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I see by the papers that...
the very first casualty in the coming war
between Man and Artificial intelligence may have just occurred at a Volkswagen plant in Germany. The first casualty was a human life...
lost to a robot in an inevitable war...
we cannot hope to win.
Not ever. 

(it has been speculated that if we ever do make contact with advanced life...it will be with robots...
the advanced forms that made them may or may not still be extant.)
  

 

Hey, almost forgot...
I just purchased My very first "growler" from the new Lucky's Market...just opened in the Sycamore Mall. I have seen this Mall
built, then die three times since coming to Iowa City...hopefully this incarnation will "take".
Anyway more about the beer in growler experiment. I hope to do away with cans and bottles and support local beer at a reasonable price.  They used to sell beer this way at the turn of the century (nineteenth into the twentyish). The legislature just kindly OK'ed it in this century and hopefully will cut down on bottles and cans...maybe even cut down on those who go through our dumpsters and trash.
A great deal of how this works for Myself depends on how well the growler holds the "fizz".  Another problem is open container, the store seals it for the trip home. I would hate to get stopped for a tail light out and have the Officer spot the empty "Little Brown Jug"  rolling around the back seat. Hopefully it will be no more an issue than the garbage bags full of cans I now haul back to feed into those smelly little machines. I'll keep you informed. 
Kudos to Lucky's...I like it. Only criticism I have is that they have bisected the Mall...into three. This will make it difficult for the Mall walker Zombies to get their mileage in. Perhaps a catwalk above and through the rafters might facilitate the walk by adding terrain. One would hope the elderly zombies would refrain from spitting down on the paying customers. 
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I see, by the papers...
that scientists are feverishly trying decide why there are so many shark attacks this year. Don't spend too much time cogitating on this...there are more than 7 billion of us now and...
as even a school child knows...Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Trust, but verify...
Trust, but verify...
Trust, but verify...
Trust, but verify...
Trust, but verify...Ronald Reagan rolls over in his grave

I am 69 on My next birthday and My question is...
Whose shinning eyes will turn to ashes before I die...
New York or Tel Aviv?

I suppose this will guaranty a second Nobel prize...
the first one gained for nothing at all, the second will be
for less than nothing.

Underwhelming and dangerous 
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I see that all five Democrats with Presidential aspirations will be
in Cedar Rapids R.F.D. today.
One must wonder with tongue firmly in cheek...
How many of them will be caught in the Great Cedar Rapids Speed Trap?
*will they be ticketed, if caught?
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As I sit by My house, at the side of the road...
I reflect upon the fact the Humans, acting alone mostly do no harm. Crazy people who act alone can and occasionally do a great deal of harm. Fortunately these aberrations of humanity are few and far between and do relatively little harm in the Cosmic sense. 
Humans do their most damage when acting as a group, gang or troop and this is where they do the most harm, putting "humanity" in general in the greatest danger.
I can recall My parents proudly say "We are not Joiners". Today I proudly stand as one, and say the same. I'll never gang up on...or bully You with some "group think" nonsense.
The greatest achievement of Mankind is not as You might think, trooping out to infest the Universe...
But one man finding his way to the Stars, with difficulty.    
So, as I sit in My house at the side of the road, I will be your friend as You pass by, and help you out when I can...
Come at Me as a group, gang or troop...
I will almost surely give you the finger and have you on your way...to do what harm you might, elsewhere.
       
  


 Where the bulldogs all got rubber teeth...
on the Big Rock Candy Mountain
An intrepid and brave member of the "free Press"
has finally cornered Hillary with the hard questions.
When asked "What is your favorite ice cream?"
Hillary stated, "I like nearly everything".
Bitchin
Now we know   

    

 


My friend John, in his cups
The musicians kilt him with their booze, drugs and cigarets...
I miss him 
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I sit here on Sunday morning...
sorting through the Sunday paper. I usually separate the
advertising from anything that might conceivably contain
"news" any lay the advertising to the side for perusal at a
later time. This usually does not happen as I am not much
of a "consumer" nowadays. If I use advertising at all, I
just note "what" is being advertised, that I might avoid it...
on the theory that mostly it is close out crap that nobody
wanted or that It will be more expensive due to the price of
the advertising.

This brings Me to the "funnies"...what to do with the funnies?,
put them with the totally useless advertising or put them on
the pile that I might enjoy looking at. I usually opt for putting them on the "read" pile. I try to remember how many years it has been since anything in the "funnies" has even made Me chuckle. I then speculate If it was just that I was young and stupid (synonyms) that I ever thought they were somehow entertaining. I then remember Li'l Abner that was genuinely funny and would make Me chuckle. I then speculate on the big grown people that put out today's "Pap" and actually make a good living selling this crap to newspapers who must include it out of tradition, I guess.

My very best advise to newspapers...just stop publishing this stuff, It is not worth the ink, let alone the paper. I would help Me in My choice as to what pile to put it on and keep Me from being disappointed each and every Sunday morning.  
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The gift the Greeks bear, for us...

They show us our future if we don't watch our spendthrift asses.
It looks like cabbage for Christmas as a shadow descends over Athens.
We are just over there, in the next room. 

Sutliff over the bridge

A few more days like this and...
electricical failures it may be time to invest in an
abacus, cigar box, stick ups, pencils and a good
flashlight to do business.