January 10, 11

 Mix of snow and rain today and more of the same expected for tomorrow. We had a nice morning watching the FA soccer game today with Sunderland playing Everton. It was finally won by Sunderland after two extra periods of play and a shoot out. That they say never happened before in the FA Challenge. On weekends I try to stay away from the news and politics. 

However, Collin Trent at AMERICA'S UNDOING has some good observations on our current situation. I thought from the start of Trump's term that he was building his own private army with ICE and I heard yesterday that they want to set up some kind of investigative force not answerable to the FBI but to the White House directly to look into "fraud." So are we going to see a "secret police" to complement the private army?

Pissed off comment about the shit I have been seeing about the ICE perpetrated murder in Minneapolis: I would call the piece of crap who said "F###### b####" just after he shot her a son of a b#### but that would insult b####es. I would call him a bastard but that would insult all bastards. I can't think of a form of life so low it wouldn't be insulted by the comparison.

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It has been a nice slow day again. Two soccer games were entertaining: Portsmouth vs. Arsenal which Arsenal 4-3 and Real Madrid vs. Barcelona which Barcelona won 3-2. Next weekend the Premier League is coming back. The sun has played tag with the clouds but we haven't had any precipitation since sometime last night. Little of the snow we had stuck anywhere.

I saw an article this morning which said that, in Venezuela, heavily armed militias or gangs (depending on your perspective) are conducting traffic stops and otherwise hunting for Americans. That doesn't sound good or as though it will all that easy for our government to "run" things there. I heard a couple of times that Trump was asked how long we would have to be involved there for more than a year. So much for America First. I don't know how many remember how we were told by the Bush Administration that the Iraqi people would greet our troops as "liberators." The attitude was mixed as people were happy to be rid of Saddam but not at all happy about the presence of foreign troops. It looks like a similar sentiment is prevalent in Venezuela. A point that this administration, I think, never learned is that your goals might be very important and good but the way you get there is also very important.