This Ain't Snow

 That's what my son and daughter-in-law said about what we are experiencing today.

They came in last night from Sault Ste-Marie, Michigan (about 1-1/2 miles from Sault Ste-Marie, Ontario, Canada).

By the end of January they had 136.5 inches for the winter so far, and just before they left "The Soo" the number had gone well over 159.8.

According to them, schools were only closed one day because of freezing rain.  Snow does not stop the kids from getting an education.

When they left there they still had over 3 feet of snow piled in their yard.  The picture below is of a snowbank near their house.  Look at how high the snow is up the pole for the yield sign.

History In The Making - Chiefs vs Eagles - Super Bowl LIX

 

The world is watching.  Having won two Super Bowls in a row the KC Chiefs are playing tomorrow for an unprecedented threepeat.  The fact that they are playing tomorrow is, in and of itself historical.  No other team has ever had the chance to even try to threepeat.  If they win it, that will just add to the historical aspect of the event.

Thousands of eyes will be on Mahomes, Hurts, Kelce, Barkley and many other excellent players on both sides of the line of scrimmage.

I have just two questions;  First, what strange, different and never before seen plays will Andy Reid have conjured up in his book of magic to completely confuse the Eagles?  Second, what different and never before seen plays will Steve Spagnuolo have drawn up to stop the Eagles? Specifically, what is up his sleeve to stop the "tush push"?

My predictions:

Chiefs 37 (4-TDs  one by the defense or special teams,  3-FGs)

Eagles  27 (3-TDs  2-FGs)

For the Swifties who will be watching, no, Kelce will not propose to Taylor on the field after the game.  It will happen within 60 days of the game.

Go Chiefs...........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUPER BOWL LVII

 

SUPER BOWL LVIII

Trump is Winning, and In Less Than Two Weeks

 The naysayers and those that still attempt to vilify President Trump still haven't learned the realities of what positive actions he is capable of.

He threatened to take back the Panama Canal.  Hmm, it didn't take long for the President of Panama to reverse his country's stand regarding the Chinese actions on the canal.  The result will be substantially reduce costs to our shipping (commercial and military) that needs to traverse the canal.  Remember, we built that baby at a considerable cost not just in dollars but in lives.

When Colombia refused to let planes returning illegal migrants to their homeland land, Trump put it to them.  What happened?  They are now assisting in transporting those illegals back to Colombia.

The naysayers said that Trump was wrong for threatening Mexico with increased tariffs.  Whoops, what happened?  The President of Mexico has now committed to sending 10,000 Mexican troops to their side of the border to assist in controlling illegal migrants and to put some heavy controls on the exportation of Fentanyl into out country.  We have lost too many of our citizens to the illegal drug trade.

MAGA means America First.  We will see a rebounding economy, more homegrown manufacturing, and a reduction in wasteful spending.

Speaking of wasteful spending, the numbers now show that the City of Chicago alone has spent over $629 million dollars from 2022-2024 on illegal immigrants.  That is housing, food, clothing, medical care, schools, cash benefits, etc. etc. etc..  Yet, they don't have funds for their own citizens for these items.  And they want federal help. Where does the federal help come from?  From the citizens of this country who work and pay taxes, and who can't get help when needed.  That $629 million could have been better spent (and probably in a lower amount) to improve the life, health and welfare of the citizens of Chicago.  Now, just multiply that by all of the other "sanctuary" jurisdictions (NY, Calif., Washington State and others).

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has called his party and followers to fight Donald Trump "in the streets".  Gee, guess he really doesn't want to see this country become great again.

Trump has done more in two weeks to bring us back than Biden did in four years.  Actually, Biden has destroyed much of this country.

BTW, why do leaders of Mexico, Colombia, Panama and other countries listen to Trump and are willing to pay heed to what he says?  Because Trump has something that Joe Biden never had. A pair of metallic based lower anatomical spherical appendages.+

UPDATED 2/3/25 2130 HOURS:

Hot news!!  Canada has now agreed to a $1.3 Billion plan to have its military, with additional helicopter, intelligence and tech support to assist on its side of the northern border.  They are committing to sending 10,000 of their troops to control illegal immigrants from crossing over and to perform interdiction with regards to drug and human trafficking.  And again, the naysayers and those suffering from TDS attempted to excoriate Trump for his statements.  

 

"I Don't Have To Answer To You" Mayor Mickey "Julius Caesar" Sandifer

 That's what he said to me at last Monday's city council meeting.  At one point he even suggested that I go back to school.  Heck, if anybody needs to go back to school it is the mayor. He does have to answer to me, and, to any citizen of Shawnee.  We don't work for him.  He works for us.  Somebody needs to print out a copy of the city's organization chart and show it to this imbecile.  The citizens of Shawnee are at the top of the chart and the mayor is subservient to them.

What prompted this?

1. Shortly after the new council began its term Sandifer appointed W2 Councilperson Murphy to the Downtown Partnership.  This is a position that traditionally does go to a W2 council member.

2.  Councilmember Gillette inquired how come Sandifer was appointing a brand new council person as opposed to the other W2 individual, Dr. Mike Kemmling.

3. Sandifer stated because Murphy "had sent me a request and Kemmling did not"

4. I submitted an open records request for any emails between Sandifer/Murphy regarding that subject.

5. The city denied the request saying those records were exempt.  I went back and forth with the city attorney on her interpretation of state law.

6. I filed a KORA complaint with the Kansas Attorney General.  It took quite a long time to get a response, but I finally received the AG's finalization, via snail mail, on Saturday 1/25/25.

7.  The AG's office indicated that they had instructed the city to comply with my request.  (Did I interpret state law more accurately than the city attorney?)  They then indicated that the city advised them that there were no emails, so, there was no KORA violation.

8.  No emails.

9. So on Monday 2/3/25, I spoke at council and indicated that it appeared that the mayor was a liar.  And, if that being the case, then Murphy could have been considered to have been "lying by omission".  (Looks it up, it's an interesting concept).

10.  I informed the mayor that if the emails were done using his personal email that that would be a no-no for doing city business.  But if that was the case he needed to produce the emails within 48 hours.  And that was when he said he didn't have to answer to me.  Along with comments that there were other methods that the request could have been communicated (verbal).  

11.  His choice of words at the 2/12/24 council meeting that she had sent him a request was clear.  If it had been verbal the common expression would have been something to the effect of "she called me and asked or she spoke with me in the office and asked".

12.  This imbecile really feels that he doesn't have to answer to a citizen.  His pseudo dictatorial comments will come back and bite him on his posterior.

Predictions for 2025

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Guess I'm gonna have to layout my predictions for the coming year.  Why not?  Other folks do it.

• Trump brokers a peace deal between Ukraine & Russia, , within 6 months of taking office (needless to say I'm a firm believer that if Trump had been in the WH, Russia would never have started this thing).
• Trump brokers a peace deal between Israel & Hamas, also within 6 months.
• Trump gets his tax packages thru congress and the average American sees more in their take home pay, inflation starts nosediving, businesses thrive, and the cost of doing business drops because he gets rid of a bunch of restrictive regulations.  He will also get rid of a bunch of restrictive regulations that impede the lifestyles and wallets of America's citizens.  Watch gas prices at the pump take a big drop.
• More Shawnee citizens will become aware of what kind of a lying BS artist Mayor Mickey "The Mouse" Sandifer is.
• Will the Nieman branch of the USPS finally close down and will a developer come in and put in a mid range to upscale eatery?  Possibly, if another location can be found for the post office.  Maybe do what other cities have done:  a mini facility in a shopping center.
• Unfortunately, that eyesore old shopping center at 75th & Quivira does not move forward under the new ownership.  Something pops up and the project gets stalled.  (Hope this prediction does not come true).
• We experience a mild winter here in Shawnee and an extremely comfortable summer.  More poeple (residents and non-residents) take advantage of our swimming pools.
• The Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl and become the first NFL team to threepeat.  Travis & Taylor get married before next year's NFL pre-season and the pending arrival of a future tight end or pop singer is announced.
• Both the Chiefs and Royals finalize plans to relocate to the Village West area of KCK (mistakenly referred to as The Legends, that's the shopping center).
• We see one member of the Shawnee governing body resign before the expiration of their term in 2027.