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Well this is another one of those times I amnot quite sure where to start, so I apologize if I bounce all over the place.

Well today is Stage 4 of Illinois reopening. I am so glad for business, maybe just maybe the can begin to recover just a touch anyway, and life can seem what a little normal. However with that said, Pritzker has already stated, that he is not afraid to shut things down again if cases of COVID jumps. What the heck, talk about throwing cold water on what was going to be a return to normal. I want to know WHO determines if we roll back. Will be be doctor’s, nope. Will it be local leaders, nope. It will be Pritzker and his band of puppets. I really feel, that if things go too good, and things are returning to normal, and heaven forbid, people are feeling good, and Trump’s numbers go up, and the left feels they are loosing control again, he will roll back to stage 3 or even stage 2 so they can control what goes on again, and how it is done, because they can’t stand not having control.

This now brings me to the second thought. Senate Bill 1863 and House Bill 2238, was signed by Pritzker. These Bills allow voting by mail. This is nothing more than a tool that the Dems and Liberals will use to make sure that elections go the way they want them too. Now, objections / concerns were raised by Republicans in both the House and Senate, however they were voted down and told there are plenty of safeguards and checks and balances to prevent voter fraud. Wow how dumb do they think we are, well pretty dumb I guess. When you trust government to run something correctly, especially something like this, you end up with what just happened with 1 million checks being sent to dead people. Well I guess those 1 million dead people will now be able to vote now, after all they got a check. So how in the heck, if the government can’t do stimulus checks correct, how, at any level, local, state, or national election, are you going to feel it was done accurately. Me, I think it will be a joke, and a lot of dead people will cast ballots.

Final Third thought. Defund the police. Have people lost their minds. Well I guess they have, and the Mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, has. Now she has a major mess on her hands, CHOP, and she has no idea how to deal with it, and I think she should be removed from office by the citizens of Seattle for ever letting this happen. She totally and completely failed at her job and failed the citizen of Seattle.

Once again I will state that what happened to Floyd was wrong on so many levels, and the cop should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, as I know there was more of a back story to those two prior to this encounter. But the call of defunding police makes it sound like all cops are bad, we don’t need them, we need more social workers was one call. I respect ALL levels of law enforcement, local, state, and federal. Are there bad cops, people in those positions that shouldn’t be there, you bet there are. However you tell me of ANY job that does not have bad people in those position, doctors, lawyers, and most and the biggest on GOVERNMENT. We as a society need to work on government reform, that is called the ballot box, that is if it is stuffed. We need to SUPPORT police by being respectful of there job day in and out, obey the fracking law, and when they do something wrong, hold them accountable, the person, not the institution. More on this to come.

Now since I last wrote, I was blessed to see my grandsons and enjoy them and view the world through their eyes. I was blessed to celebrate 42 years of marriage with our close friends and have lots of laughs.

Well will see what the world brings us today.

As always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.

Good evening all. Yes I apologize it has been some time since I last posted. Well I have some many thoughts running through my mind, wow I am not sure where to begin. It seems, if you look at the market, we take three steps forward and five backwards, as a economy / civilization. One minute things are starting to get back to normal, then some talking head expert says, no not yet, as the COVID is coming back or numerous statements that throw the brakes on everything.

There are times I really do wonder how much of this is real, and how much of this is made for prime time. I truly feel that COVID and the BLM movement have been and are being weaponized to be used as a political tool, to gain footing for the up coming National election.

As I have stated, I do not believe Joe Biden could win this election on a honest election. I believe, whether you like it or not President Trump had everything rolling, and the economy was doing great, look at your 401K. Unemployement was very low. He told China, the rules are changing, and they did not like that, and then all of a sudden COVID shows up, and well I don’t need to tell you the results there. And on you might say, well the whole world has been impacted, yes you are correct, which I believe was planned, as if it would have been only the US, well that might have even looked like a act of war from China.

Then, we have the BLM movement, which, I will stand beside Floyd’s family, as what happened there was more than just a White / Black issue, and from what I have seen, the cops, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, however that being said, now it seems political Liberal, real want to take this tragedy, and use it as a weapon to reshape society to what they want, so they can have control of everything, and you would need to rely on them to provide, socialism I believe that is what it is called.

I hope that we as a country can get our heads and hands around this, and work towards good solutions. We work towards a fair election, not a loaded one, which is what certain people are trying to have with mail in voting, more on that later.

I am going to keep thinking on this, and try to put my thoughts together better and not ramble, I apologize for rambling.

High note of the day, I had the chance to send sometime with my 4 grandsons, no matter what life throws at me, I can look at them, and listen to the world according to them, and I realize how truly blessed I am.

thank you for reading, and as always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.

Oh wow, yes I know it has been sometime since my last post. Well I am not going to discuss what is going on, as I am totally burned out on the crime going on. Please read my words. I agree with the protests, NOT the vandalism, crime, and just plain crime. It takes away from Floyd and that is the saddest part.

Now on to my weekend, I had a great Sunday, I worked with my oldest grandson rebuilding his go-kart. After we were all done, he took it for a test drive and as he and his dad put it, it runs better than the day we bought it. We later that day I got a picture of a small street sign on the ground, with the caption, maybe it runs a little too good. That was the best picture I have ever gotten, and oh yes, the kart and Gus were just fine. But I do have to help him replace it, which is fine.

Well time to call it a night.

As always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.

Well today was another Pritzker show, down in East St. Louis. It is good he was going around the state and touching base with all of his voters, a campaign stop for him, disguised as a COVID update. If you listened to his speech, it started out saying how terrible it was for the events in Minneapolis and down in Georgia. With which I agree, however for him to use this space to highlight those events, and then go onto talk about how the black and Hispanic communities are always getting the worst, and how COVID is the worst in these communities, and how he is working to make things better. To me I really feel he was pandering to those communities, and really was a cheap stunt using those horrible, horrible events to his favor. Those events, no matter who they happened to, white, black, Hispanic, or Asian, or any other ethnic group is totally horrid, and those at fault should be held accountable to the maximum extent of the law. After he made his little speech, he stepped away from the mic and let others do the update, which is why I said a campaign speech.

On a lighter note, I hope all were semi excited to watch the Space-X launch, which yes I know didn’t happen due to weather, but I was excited to watch anyway. So now the next time they will try again is Saturday, so hopefully, we will get to see it then. That forsure is one thing on my bucket list to do is actually be they and watch it live, maybe someday.

Oh then the good old City Manager has proposed HUGE cuts, and I am not even sure where to go with this one. I will have to give this one some thought.

As always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.

Well all today was kinda slow on just about all fronts. The news was pretty much the same old stuff, which I am sure you all are aware of that by now. It rained like heck last night, and tonight my wife is out watering, as tonight we only got 3 drops of rain at the most. We did break down today and turn on the A/C, so that is nice.

It is the first day back at work, and of course there were issues to be addressed, but that is normal.

We are blessed to have a slow day today, as tomorrow I am sure it will all catch up with us on all fronts.

As always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.

Happy Memorial Day To All.

This Memorial Day weekend was a different than I am sure everyone had planned. It does not matter what part of the country you are from, or what your political leanings are it was just plain different. No Indy 500 race. No tribute to all veterans in Washington. We even felt guilty if we had a cookout and had some friends over, things just felt out of wack.

However I was able to sit around my niece’s pool and take stock of how blessed I really am. I was totally surrounded by people I consider heroes. I have a brother in-law who was in Vietnam, and Nephew who was in the Navy, and his youngest son is following in his foot steps. My son in-law is a Marine, and his father is a Marine, remember once a Marine, always a Marine. My dad and two uncles served in WWII. I have also been truly blessed to be able to help with the Greater Peoria Honor Flight. This by far has been one of the most rewarding and totally humbling experiences ever. To see these men and women from the Military from WWII up to Desert Storm get on the airplane with their escort and the experience they will have is unreal, and for many this was closure, and for some it will be a release. For all who are involved especially for when they come back, there is not a dry eye anywhere and the pride and respect for these Veterans is overwhelming.

For all of those who have served an are serving in all branches of the service in all corners of the world, we say thank you and we are blessed for your service, and may you be blessed. For those families who are home celebrating this day without your Military member, we thank you, we pray for you, and we will hold you hand. You are hero’s as well, and we are so proud of you.

it does not matter if you are red or blue, or what your skin color is or your religious beliefs are, on this Memorial Day we all will give thanks and prayers for all of those who have served and are serving, may God bless them.

As always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.

Well it is Friday, TGIF, and a little sunshine for the day. I spent most of the day cutting two lawns. Wow, my bad, I should have done it sooner. I actually cut each yard twice, gee I guess the fertilizer I used worked great.

Anyway, while you are mowing you can do a lot of thinking and of course discussing things with yourself. Today I was thinking about this contract tracing that the Governor wants to put in place. First I am really torn with this whole idea, tracing where you go, in case you come in contact someone with COVID. While he and Dr. Izeki where explaining, that you would get a call from some contract tracer to inform you that you might have come in contact with COVID, you need to answer your phone, even if you don’t know the number. Well when I do that now, I either get a Medicare supplement or my vehicle warranty is expired so have no fear I won’t answer. Second thing, why the hell do they need to know everywhere I go? And third, and could be the most important, is that for Illinois, they said they will need 30,000 people to work as contract tracers. They even went so far as to say if you are looking for work, give us a call. To me that was a slap in the face to all that have lost their work due to this shut down. And as we all know, once the government sets up any department, it will NEVER go away, and those people working there will be on the states payroll for ever, and have a Pension, which is forced by the Illinois Constitution , hence why we have issues now, and Pritzker wants to add more? WTH?

I get we need to control the virus, however, that said, I am scared that we as a people, could be in the first steps, of loosing some of our freedom we value so much.

We will see what happens.

More tomorrow, but as always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.

Well good afternoon all. Gee wizz for those of us in central Illinois are just about tired of the gray wet weather. Maybe we can have some sunshine tomorrow, I am keeping my toes crossed.

Moving on, sure looks like the vote by mail is headed for a vote. And of course it is all about public health, right. Even tho there were a lot of voter fraud concerns brought up by several republican members, it is on a fast track to be put in place. To me, this is totally unacceptable. I don’t care what side of the isle you are on, you should totally shut this down. This is nothing more than a bid to load the election to those who certain people want in office. For the state side, it will be Pritzker and his agenda to cripple Illinois. At the federal level, it will be the far left Dems and Joe Biden, and his VP, which will just totally scare me. I am hoping that this does not happen, and only time will see. If the Dems and far left Dems want Trump out of office, they can do it by getting the vote. Oh wait they can’t get the vote, so they are going to load the ballot box with unknown voters.

On a different note. I 8 days, some business in central Illinois will be able to reopen, be it at reduced levels, but they can open and maybe things will seem a little more normal. And maybe we will keep moving forward.

As always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.

Well all I hope all are doing well. I am listening to Pritzker tell us the daily briefing on COVID-19. Not a whole not new, other than we are getting close to Phase 3 only 10 days, so be good or I won’t do it. And of course he had his normal doctor’s on and giving their totally supportive words as for what he is doing, gee there is a shock.

I guess the biggest thing is moving to have mail in voting. Wow, that really scares me as if that happens, there will be a lot of dead people voting, and Pritzker will remain governor. Now if it goes to a federal level,mail in voting, OH MY GOSH, Biden will be in the White House for sure, be it sitting the corner talking to himself, and whoever he picks for VP will be running the country, now that is a scary thought.

As always, stay safe, and tomorrow is a new day.

Well what a day. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said that businesses and counties will face consequences if they defy his executive orders intended to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. The governor said the state’s Liquor Control Commission and Department of Professional Regulation would use their authority over the businesses they license, although he did not outline specific steps. Well he is going to be a tough guy to all the people just trying to make it. My take on this is first, if he allows the downstate counties and/or cities, before the greater Chicagoland, then his phone will blow up with all of the important people and their businesses wanting to know why they can’t. Second, I think it is a power thing, i.e., you people are going to do what I tell you, I am your King. Third, I wonder, only a thought, he wants to bankrupt the state big time. No small business, the state broke, nothing coming in. Then he can go to Pelosi , and get all the aid he needs from her 3 trillion aid package. I mean it would take care of a lot of the money issue the state has, if that money made it that far, but that is topic for later. So I believe that mayor Ardis, and those that put their proposal together for our area and sent it to Pritzker is DOA, done, toast.

OK now for the national scene, Joe Biden, and his basement campaign. Wel what I am starting to see, and even hear from others is that Obama is going to be the face and voice of Biden. He will be out campaigning for his, with Joe only making a cameo appearance every now and then, we shall see, I am sure there will be more to come on that one.

As always we are blessed with today, and tomorrow is a new day.