January 29

 Cloudy with episodes of sun so far. But still cold enough I don't want to spend much time outside. I should let the car run for a bit but as cold as it is I might drain the battery. I will wait for a warmer day. Right now I am waiting for my grocery order to arrive. I put in a short order Tuesday but that was heavy items like cat litter. Today it was all food. The ten days we had snow and extremely cold weather I used what we had on hand so a number of often used items is either low or gone.

Stray thought: watching a segment with an interview with Minnesota Governor Walz and I was struck by his description of his phone call with Trump. Trump asked "What's the matter with Minnesota?" to which Walz replied "Nothing." Trump came back with the observation that the ICE operations in other cities didn't have the same problems and Venezuela operation went off smoothly with no loss of American lives. Walz replied with thoughts I had: none of the other cities had the same level of ICE initiated violence and aggression. And what the hell does Venezuela have with Minneapolis unless Trump is equating a U.S. with a foreign adversary. That is troubling.

Second stray thought: watching Homan's press conference I was underwhelmed. He mentioned "agreements" with the State and city which gave the Feds what they wanted like having prison and jail authorities inform ICE when they are releasing prisoners on whom they have removal orders. That raised alarm bells in my mind and one of the reporters asked if the prisoners they wanted were non-violent offenders who often were only guilty of crossing the border without permission. He provided a vague non-answer answer. The devil is, as they say, in the details. Also he didn't address any of the abuses Walz and others wanted cured: remove the masks, make the agents wear uniforms and badges, and get warrants--real judicial warrants. Note: I am not against the deportation of undocumented people CONVICTED of violent crime. Key word there is CONVICTED. And a second key word is VIOLENT. A minor traffic citation two decades ago doesn't qualify.

I saw the account of the FBI, with Tulsi Gabbard (head of CIA) present, seized the ballots and other records (evidently with a warrant) from the Fulton County Election facility. Still looking for fraud which wasn't there. There are sore losers and sore winners--Trump is the perfect example of both.