- Be Yourself it’s the best you.
Whatever your real self is be it and be proud, don’t worry what anybody else thinks about it. Just be you– try it. It feels good and you’ll find yourself apologizing less (if at all) and enjoying life more.
- Covid Was Bullsh*t
We just crossed the anniversary of the biggest con government has ever played on it’s people– Covid. What was declared a global pandemic had a 97% survival rate. The year of Covid Flu deaths fell to almost 0%. Normally in a year Flu deaths hover around 3%– seem odd?
This year the news cycle tried giving us another Pandemic– maybe you didn’t hear about it– this one called acute viral nasopharyngitis or viral rhinitis. It is an upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) often caused by rhinoviruses, though other viruses like coronaviruses can cause it. Other names include acute coryza, nasopharyngitis, and rhinopharyngitis.
It is deadly (around 3%) and it’s unstoppable, it’s also known as The Common Cold.
Dr Fauci who should be sitting in prison has admitted through emails and communications that he made up the six foot rule, paper masks, advising businesses to be closed etc all without any science behind it.
Think about that for one second; People’s livelihood’s were destroyed. Businesses were shuttered, families were separated. All for the sake of “saving lives”, the very same number of lives normally lost to cold and flu season.
Common sense told me those masks don’t work because the particles of a Covid germ are smaller than the pores in those cheap paper masks even if you wear two of them. Doctor’s who maintained their integrity admitted they were futile, but still many ran to them like carrying a safety blanket into battle with the same ineffective result.
I admit, I played along for about a month, then I decided enough was enough. I went outside when they told me not to, I stopped wearing a mask and was able to shop (and often get high fives from masked people who also knew the truth but didn’t dare to risk the ire of the mob) at every grocery store except Trader Joe’s ™ where I was told I was making the employees nervous and asked to leave– I did and I’ve not gone back. No loss here.
It came to me one day at a liquor store– I was picking up a bottle of high end gin and I was wearing a mask and as usual carrying a gun. I thought if I had told myself five years earlier that I would be in a liquor store with a mask and a gun I would have laughed out loud- yet here I was. I pulled the mask off then and there and said enough.
Where was common sense?
You couldn’t let a restaurant open but you could set up tents outside the restaurant and that was okay? Jimmy’s Hardware couldn’t open but Wal*Mart could? We couldn’t go to Church or the Library but we could go to a Liquor store? We had to comply while the politicians and even the sainted Dr Fauci did not.
And then the vaccine– when those of us who actually care what we put in our bodies questioned whether we should allow ourselves to be injected with a quickly made serum overseen by the Big Orange Man with the provisio that we could not sue the pharmacutical companies making the virus if we had side effects we were called “grandma killers”. So the vaccine protected you– but if I didn’t get it somehow you were in danger?
We were told we couldn’t fly, couldn’t attend conventions, couldn’t eat in restaurants if we didn’t show this vaccine card. We were told once we got vaccinated we no longer had to wear masks– only they still put mask mandates into effect.
Somehow making someone show ID to vote is more wicked than showing a vaccine card was to eat?
We closed funeral homes, we stuck our elderly in nursing homes to die alone, worst of all we gave up our freedom and we turned in neighbors who didn’t follow the rules.
As Ben Franklin famously said;
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”.
We couldn’t gather unless it was a BLM Protest or a No Kings rally– because somehow those were safe from the deadly virus, but a church service, or a wedding or a funeral were not safe.
I believe fully it was an attempt by the world governments to see how far they could push their people and how many of them would gleefully fall in line. I believe the mainstream media was complicit in this, and I believe everyone responsible should be held accountable.
“A sheep spends it’s life fearing the wolf only to be eaten by the shepherd.”
If you fell for it, especially if you had a relative who died from Covid, and most deaths– even a motorcyle accident was famously recorded as a Covid death because they detected the virus on the rider– were attributed to Covid to back up the “science” and doctor’s brave enough to question or make alternative suggestions were quickly shamed, if you fell for it I can forgive you for all the horrible behavior, if you turned in a neighbor or thought ill of those of us who stood apart, I can forgive. If you gave in to fear I forgive you, the 24 hour news cycle and the absolutely corrupt media and politicians did that.
If you still feel this way? Please delete my blog from your reading list and go seek out your shepherd for protection.
Because I can also tell you this; Never Again. Not me. And I am many.
- Perfect Afternoon Coffee
There’s morning coffee and there’s afternoon coffee and never the two shall meet. I like my morning coffee on the light side with cream, hot, I drink it in smallish 6oz mugs because I don’t like it when it gets lukewarm or cold.
I drink a San Francisco Arabica blend light roast– so more what you might call a breakfast blend.
Usually around 4pm I have my afternoon coffee– in the past I’ve gone to a couple of different cafes- Bedlam Book, Gerardo’s Italian Bakery– where I would get a Cappuccino with frothed milk. It’s a richer bolder coffee, done right its nice and hot and super fresh.
In Spring I like to buy something I shouldn’t be spending money on, two years ago it was a brand new Miata this year I went with this;
So I decided instead of paying $3 for a cup about 3-4 days a week ($624/year) I’d buy my own machine– I had been deterred because it looked like a lot of work, well as it arrived and my wife said “I hope this isn’t another bread maker” More on that later— I’m happy to say after a few stumbles it’s actually very easy to make a great cup.
This is the coffee I chose– I was familiar with illy brand and this is a good Italian blend.
Now the first day I used it things didn’t go so well. I opened the high pressure can very gently as advised and a fine explosion of coffee grounds hit me in the face and over most of the kitchen. I cleaned that up and ran the machine making a nice fresh cup of Cappuccino. When I went to froth the milk, well that was another story– like the coffee it went everywhere and I rushed to clean it up– Veronica had already had a pretty hard laugh after witnessing the coffee mess.
I ended up buying a frothing container for $6 on Amazon and that’s solved the problem completely.
Now this makes a perfect cup and I can’t wait until 4pm to enjoy it.
- Stoic Advice – Honor Yourself
People are busy. People are misinformed. People have skewed priorities and conflicts of interest. They’re not always going to understand. They’re not always going to get it.
Whether it’s politics or business or personal, you can’t expect everyone to see it like you do. Honestly, if they did, it would probably mean you’re heading in the wrong direction. That’s what Chrysippus said anyway—that if he wanted to follow a mob, he wouldn’t have become a philosopher.
The pandemic was a perfect example of how easily people become sheep. I saw it in my own circle. Question anything and you’re somehow a conspiracy nut.
Stoicism isn’t about being appreciated. It’s not about fitting in. It’s about doing what’s right. It’s about saying what needs to be said. It’s about being who you feel you need to be.
So if you’re waiting for your friends to understand you, if you’re holding back until you get approval from family members or colleagues, if you think your entire audience will get on board…you’re waiting for something that may never come.
Do what you believe is right. Do what you believe is just. The rest isn’t up to you.
- May God Have Mercy on My Enemies
General George S. Patton is often quoted as saying;
“May God Have Mercy on My Enemies, because they will get none from Me.”
It’s not exactly right- Patton said the less eloquent “May god have mercy on my enemies because they’re going to need it.”
I prefer the re-edited version, and I live my life this way. We’ve passed through the Easter Season and I’m taking a break from Church for a pretty long period.
The Catholic Church continues on with the nonsense that has plagued them for decades, and rather than go full on face it transparency they opt to do the same sweep it under the rug strategy.
A reckoning is coming, and may god help them.
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Andy
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