Women like to stay in their home town, surrounded by relatives and familiar faces. They're really big on this sort of culture. Many women consider men to be a sort of accessory, and not actually important to their lives long-term. Once they have the house and a good lawyer to seize it in the divorce, that is often the end of their marriage. This explains a great deal about what is wrong with America today.
Men don't care about home towns. Men like fast cars and motorcycles and uncomplicated friendly women. Men like seeing new faces and are more content to live without all the social requirements that women prefer. We find beer more satisfying than women. Men go fishing because their wives are obnoxious on a regular basis, and fish and mosquito bites and freezing cold or sweaty heat are less annoying than dealing with her. There's not much advantage for men staying in their home town. Home towns are for women and raising children.
Two story craftsman home, built by one guy on weekends, with a hammer, nails, saw, tape measure, and level.
Men used to get a job, buy a piece of property, then build their own home on the weekend. It was a called a Craftsman House, because you bought the plans from the Sears and Roebuck Catalog for about $4. That's around $100 in today's money. It had plans and instructions on how to build it with hand tools: hammer and handsaw and square and plumb bob or spirit level. After they finished the house they would get married, and have a family. That was 100 years ago. Before rampant divorce and DNA tests that prove her kids aren't yours. Women want houses, but they won't build them for themselves like they should.
Building a house isn't actually that hard. I've done portions of it myself and even someone with weak arms and clumsy can still do this job. Most of the parts can be bought at Home Depot, Lowes, and your local lumber mill.
Women love to declare their independence, but I have never witnessed one building her own home in the real world. An independent woman should be able to do everything a man can, everything from change her car's oil, mow her lawn, and build a house. The same as men did 100 years ago.
Women insist they are equal or better than men. This is conceited, but they can certainly stop whining and stand up for themselves. Get a job. Save your money. Buy some land. Get some house plans online for a house that will suit your actual needs, with room to house your accidental pregnancy results. Pay for the building permits. Where I live that's $160,000 for the permits alone, which is too much and a great reason to move somewhere else. So don't do it here. But build your house, at least 700 square feet, not this tiny house crap.
A tiny house is not a house. Its a wooden tent, and just as unliveable. At best they are a detached guest room.
Build your house legally and don't miss any steps or hammer in a screw (something I HAVE witnessed women do).
Get the house inspected with building permits as you go so it is legal, and pay the fees and taxes like men do. Every woman should be able to do this job. Stop needing men to pay for your conceits. Pay for it yourself so you can stand up and have legitimate pride. When you build your own house, with your own money and your own labor you then have the right to do what you want.
I am happy that the Hag lost the election. She was evil and utterly unsympathetic. A terrible leader, and a bad liar. With the Community Organizer leaving, America can restore jobs, fix our trade imbalance, and repair a lot of infrastructure abandoned by the Community Organizer for the last 8 years. Remember this?
Dozens of people died. Why did it happen? Minnesota is run by Socialists. Keeping infrastructure repaired is a Republican problem. Democrat-Socialists are all about the pregnant hookers and legal dope. And if you're high, or pregnant, what do you care about working people dying? Right? This is the primary difference between the parties, and events like this are the reason Trump won. Normal people care about this.
I do hope that Trump restores bankruptcy protection and returns Credit Cards and Student Loans into bankruptcy, since that fixes Millenial debt burden, allowing them to start businesses instead of pay for useless educations that didn't provide jobs. Collapsing those banks and scammer credit card companies from all the bankruptcies of those debt agencies will ALSO end credit card fraud, since it becomes the issuing agency's problem again. Bush W caused this problem. It needs to be corrected. And restoring bankruptcy also ends the protests, since most of these disenfranchaised kids are only disenfranchaised because they're in debt slavery. Fix the debt, fix the problem. Besides, those agencies all gave money to Clinton, so screw them twice.
See? Solve this problem. Give them the right to walk away from bad investment again.
The flood of Trump-fearing American liberals snaking across
the border into Canada has intensified in the past week. The Republican presidential campaign is prompting an exodus among left-leaning Americans who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, pay
taxes, and live according to the Constitution. Canadian border residents
say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors,
global-warming activists, and "green" energy proponents crossing their
fields at night.
"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there
was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said southern Manitoba farmer
Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota . "He was cold,
exhausted and hungry, and begged me for a latte and some free-range
chicken. When I said, I didn't have any, he left before I even got a chance to
show him my screenplay, eh?"
In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected
higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed
loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just stuck
their fingers in their ears and kept coming. Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet
liberals just south of the border, pack them into electric cars, and drive
them across the border, where they are simply left to fend for
themselves after the battery dies.
"A lot of these people are not
prepared for our rugged conditions," an Alberta border patrolman said. "I
found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier water, or any gemelli
with shrimp and arugula. All they had was a nice little Napa Valley cabernet and some kale chips. When liberals are caught, they're sent
back across the border, often wailing that they fear persecution from Trump high-hairers.
Rumors are circulating about plans being made to build
re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer, study
the Constitution, and find jobs that contribute to the economy.
In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of
crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus
trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen
young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration
authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens
about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in
the '50s.
"If they can't identify the accordion player on The
Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age," an official
said.
Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants
are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, are buying up all the
Barbara Streisand CD's, and are overloading the internet while downloading jazzercise apps to their cell phones. "I really feel sorry
for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them,"
an Ottawa resident said. "After all, how many art-history majors
does one country need?"
Ordinarily, Trump and Dope are not related things, but both passed in the same election here in California. So the Democrats can all smoke dope now that they've lost the election. The big upside of Trump is way more jobs than under Obama and what Hillary was planning, the even if she hasn't yet been charged with alleged crimes of treason and mishandling official state secrets, collusion to hide the mishandling, corruption, and bribery. She hasn't been charged yet, but after Trump is sworn in? I wouldn't wait long.
The thing about recreational dope is there's important local consequences.
Around 25-30% of my library patrons are into growing semi-legal dope.
The new dope law means anybody can legally grow it without having to hide they are. This means all people who want it will be growing it.
This shrinks the market for buying dope, lowering prices and thus money in the industry.
Less money and less market means less the local jobs in dope are about to go away.
Plantation dope in the lowlands will happen now. That means mechanization and even higher yields.
Philip Morris was alleged since the 1980's to have dope plantations waiting for the day it was legal here. Now it is.
Expect a HUGE surge of cheap dope in cigarette stores for over the counter sales.
Dope can now be refined into honey oil legally and used in those e-cigs and sold there too.
Dope seeds will probably be a major sales item at this point. And books on growing it will be big at the library where I work.
Previously, you couldn't ask an employee who was high if they were high because it is illegal to inquire of an existing medical condition and medical dope was legal. It is also illegal to test one person for dope, and testing everyone is expensive. Business owners would either deal with doped up workers or fire them under another pretense.
Locally, many workers were high while on the job. It was obvious, they stank, and you learned not to do business there because they screwed up every job. This drove business out of the local shops and businesses.
Locally, dope inebriation causes more car crashes and fatalities than alcohol, according to the highway patrol.
Statewide legal dope should cause even more crashes. Part of the problem with prosecuting dope inebriation (DUI) is the tests only reveal the user has had some in the last 3-4 weeks. Not in the last few hours. So proving inebriation at the time of a crash is a major technical challenge. Heavy users will share tips to avoid DUI prosecution for dope driving.
Any business interested in quality control will avoid California since the population is high, or can't be proved otherwise.
Taxes here are already really high. Taxes on businesses are punitive. This reduces the available jobs to chain stores and is pushing out lots of other businesses.
Trump will help a lot of businesses but probably not here. Repealing Obamacare will help a lot, but people have gotten used to serious increases in poverty, and we've had 8 years of that, and 8 years of employers abusing their staffs by cutting hours and benefits. I doubt we'll see happy times from this around here. It will probably be a lot better most other places. Just not in California.
I am a scientist. I am an observer of people. What I see I must not ignore, for evidence ignored is tainted. As a librarian, we've been learning about filter bubbles, and how social media harms your access to clean information. Being logged into Google+, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Yahoo, etc, skews any search you do, using your profile to filter results, and this profile tracks you and everything you do, every link you click, and even the ones you don't. Allegedly this is to sell you stuff, but Google started with money from NSA. This is public information, although it is somewhat hard to find these days.
Will I see more evil or less evil when the filter bubble isn't blocking the truth? I think I need to see for myself. Maybe I'll feel a little better about people once I do. Or maybe this will simply confirm my plan to avoid getting entangled with the evil around me, and further remind me to keep my relationships shallow to avoid harm.
There's plenty to distract a Californian from evil news in the East. This is why I recommend ignoring the national news and focus on the local and regional. We are having really nice weather right now. Take advantage of it. I like walking. There's audiobooks on chilly mornings, as the sun comes up over the Sierras. Those are really nice while gardening, too. There's also mountain biking, road biking, and hiking. Those are popular here too, though I DO recommend blinking lights and bright colored clothes so cars can see you in time. I've never been hit by a local, but I do my part to be seen. Some of the local junkies ride wearing black or camouflage and have accidents because of it. Some fatal. So use your brain if you ride.
The Sierras are also a great place for hiking and picnics and BBQ on the back deck. Lots of good places to enjoy that here in the Sierras.
There's twisty roads to drive on, and grilled steak with a good but inexpensive Lodi Zinfandel. Thanks to Cesar Chavez for destroying the farm worker's jobs and convincing Americans it was unethical to eat table grapes. Instead those were ripped out and replaced with wine grapes. Zinfandel was the popular one, and the wineries that replaced all those raisins and table grapes farms that Chavez put out of business ended up producing really good Zinfandel. Zinfandel is a spicy red wine that goes well with pepper-steak, but also hamburgers and BBQ. Here in California those go for around $3-9 a bottle, though you can pay more. I find that around $5 a bottle is the sweet spot for value and quality. It tends to have more variation and fruit than Cabernet, and more flavor and sharpness than Merlot or Sangiovese. It is too strong for chicken or fish, however.
The other sport here in the Sierras is boating. That means power boats, row boats, kayaks and canoes, even sailing. Yes, sailing, usually small boats under 20 feet long known as a sailing dingy. Lake Tahoe is a huge lake, and on a breezy day has sailboats crossing its deep waters. Quite a few sailboats anchor on its shores, and more boats are pulled out or put in from the various free or pay boat ramps. It is over 1000 feet deep so does not freeze in the winter, even if the shore gets piled high with snow and icicles. Tahoe holds more water than the Great Lakes combined. Tahoe has lots of public access, as well as fancy pay-docks for those who want to pay for better privacy and security. The catch is the winds aren't very reliable in the Sierras, and there are days it is utterly calm, so a sailboat would be pretty useless then. There's also days when a storm surges in and it would be dangerous to sail on the lake. Having oars on your boat, and a boat light enough to enjoy rowing, would be a good idea if you plan to use one on lakes in the Sierras.
Lake Tahoe is below the map, to the right side. The above lakes are in and around Truckee.
And there's plenty more lakes than Tahoe, though most are smaller and all are shallower. Between all the Subarus with kayaks on their roofs, or bicycles, and pickup trucks with a camper on the back and a boat trailer towed behind in the various campgrounds around the various other lakes, like Stampede Reservoir or Lake Davis, both of which are known for their trout fishing. A motor or paddle or row boat is great for those.
Grouchy wife? Go fishing.
There's also other kinds of boating, though few people do water skiing anymore. The waters are either too cold or too dirty. Houseboats are great for parties on the reservoir lakes like Oroville and Shasta, being warm in the top foot, and freezing below that. Many boaters in the Sierras and Valley like to fish. More than the classic aluminum rowboat, there's other kinds too. Lots of people have a Bass Boat, which is a dual hull boat with a motor and a swivel seat or two. Those are great for guys who want their lure, beer cooler, fish finder, and use this excuse to get away from their wives. I can't blame them. The heat in the Valley is NASTY this time of year, and even Folsom Lake, which generally has really good bass fishing, and is barely 30 minutes from downtown Sacramento, with several boat ramps, the water temps help cool you off. There's a number of good bass-fishing lakes in the foothills, and a person with a truck and trailer towing one of these is in good shape for a weekend of peace on the water.
Stephenson Project, Weekender (model). Built by hand from plywood, for a few thousand dollars. Weighs only 450 pounds, so can be pulled on a trailer behind any passenger car with a class 1 trailer hitch.
Paddleboarding is going out of style. I still see some, but most have figured out its not Zen so much as clumsy. If you want to try it out, renting them is cheap at many lakes. You can also rent rowboats, motorboats, and sailboats like a Laser or Sunfish. The Pico rents at Donner Lake. Tahoe City (north shore) rents out the Melonseed, which can be sailed or rowed. Building a boat out of marine grade plywood is another option, though I recommend renting one first. There's no point building a boat you don't enjoy sailing. Much like an RV, you have to be comfortable with it.
Ultra-light, carbon fiber hull, mast, and sails, only $8500 and weighs 85 pounds.
Some people are just happier with a wetsuit and a really light boat that flips over twice an hour, and that's what makes them satisfied. I've found that a used Laser sailboat (aka a board sailer) and a trailer made for it that will pull behind any car with a Class 1 hitch, is around $500 used. These have common parts and are easy to maintain. The hull weighs 130 pounds, the mast and sail another 30 or so, and you are most of the ballast. They flip over easy in gusty conditions and most people who sail them wear a wetsuit. I learned on a Laser. I liked it, but they only really go fast when they are about to flip over. They're olympic boats, and you'll see them in Rio. Only 14 feet long, they're called a Dingy, or racing Dinghy.
Hand built classic Moth, weighs around 85 pounds, made of 6mm marine-grade plywood.
Conversely, the Classic Moth is a boat type that has been modified almost annually and weigh around 80 pounds, are often made of thin bent plywood with floatation chambers and has wires to reinforce the mast. They also have a bit more ergonomic seating setup than the Laser but you mostly have to build one from scratch. They are most popular in Europe, particularly in the UK and France. However, this is another boat where wearing a wetsuit is typical. I think I'd like a boat a little less likely to flip over, and I researched more types of boats, and boat construction, and learned that whomever knows the math for boat design never shares it. Much like electric cars, its all craft secrets. I have learned that Day Sailers, like the above Weekender (Stevenson Project) might be a better fit for me. While it looks big and bulky, it uses bent and tensioned plywood for its strength and actually only weighs 450 pounds, which is pretty similar to a bass boat.
Weekender on a car trailer, with a flat tire.
I could easily see owning one of these, and with club membership at the Gold Country Yacht Club ($70/year) I'd have a place to park it, legally and cheaply, rather than cutting down a tree and building a gate and a ramp and all the fuss involved with storing it here. That said, a Laser would be easier, though much less comfy on Lake Tahoe. An O'Day day-sailer will be cheaper, since those are common used, but perhaps less entertaining than one of these you built yourself. Just not in the basement, unless you can afford to dig out a wall to extract it.
North San Juan is a ridge that runs from the covered bridge at Bridgeport, near Lake Englebright, all the way east to the top of the Sierras. It is around 35 miles or dirt and gravel roads, chapparal oaks, pines, and the three branches of the Yuba River. Its rough country, nearly undeveloped, and most of it is BLM or National Forest. Pot growers squat there, camping and growing dope for processing and sale after the harvest in the Fall. The nearest grocery stores are in Grass Valley and Nevada City, so these people rub elbows with us when they come into town. They also borrow books and DVDs so they have some entertainment while they rest. Most of these places have no power or water, so the trimigrants don't have any to spare for washing, thus stink. I'm grateful when they bathe before visiting my library.
Pot is a cash crop and while there are permits which allow for a certain amount of plants for those people licensed to grow, most of the growers only use the license system to protect themselves from arrest, and to play shell games with the deputies coming to seize the plants in excess of the legal limit. Modern pot is 1000 times stronger than the stuff in the 1960's, thanks to selective breeding, and it is possible to OD on it, like with Hashhish. Honey Oil is hash oil, if you didn't know. Making honey oil requires butane and a pressure vessel, and these tend to overheat and burst, causing really bad fires. Most of the structure fires in this county turn out to be honey oil lab fires. Renting out your spare guest cottage to a college graduate could result in the place burning down. This has created serious distrust between the owners and renters, for good reason. The local apartment buildings often reek of dope smoke, and honey oil fires there risk the lives of everyone inside, which could be 50-200 people and all their belongings. Of course, the police don't bust them for smoking dope because the law lets "medical marijuana" exist, so the honey oil fires will keep happening.
Deputies hunt for the violators. Unfortunately, most of the growers are clever and have multiple sites, keep the plants in 1 gallon or two gallon plastic pots so they can move them from site to site and thus sell more than they admit to having. It is all profit for them. Attempts to tax pot growers have failed. They underreport their crops and sell the excess for cash so barely pay any taxes. Despite the risk of major fires (and there's been HUGE fires) caused by processing pot plants into honey oil, these people were processing in a rural area with no fire suppression. It could have burned up a lot of land and cost the county and state millions to fight, just like the Trailhead Fire, nearly out, did. The Butte, Lake, and Alta fires were all caused by honey oil processing labs, and homes were lost. But Democrats remain convinced that dope is harmless and my county suffers. Screw you, Democrats. I hope you get cancer from your dope.
