Trump

I'm annoyed by politics of late because elections are over a year away for most of the nation that isn't part of the stupid first primary states junta.  Ohio is a swing state, but nominations are figured by the time we have a say via primary except in rare occassions like Operation Chaos when the writing on the wall was willfully ignored by the hopeful would be queen.
I won't vote for Clinton or Sanders, and regardless of the GOP nominee, I will vote to oppose Clinton/Sanders/Biden. Nitpicking the dozen or so GOP types is dumb when they have flaws less glaring than those of Mrs. Clinton. I sound partisan? Well, name an accomplishment by HRC beyond achieving a job title.
Trump is not a Republican on many matters, and he has said things that upset Media types and TV Republicans. The POW and 9/11 comments seem to be best examples, and yet they have a certain vibe that most people probably feel is true but best left unsaid as to not offend unlucky people.
9/11 happened while Bush was president, but he didn't blame himself or his predecessor but rather got overzealous to display what an angry US was capable of doing to hapless villains.
Saddam Hussein wasn't relevant, but he was a known enemy of US. Circumstantial evidence lingered that he had WMDs. Hillary Clinton went along with the Iraq war mantra because of said evidence existed under her husband's watch.
Hillary Clinton, given her connection to her husband's administration, is the sole reason I feel the US did right by invading Iraq. If she had reason to oppose it, she would have stated it and been heard. Senator Clinton representing the place primarily attacked on 9/11 would have carried weight regardless of her being a junior senator.
Considering the hijackers started their suicide mission during the Clinton years and their attack made New York the center of attention almost immediately after she won her dubious senate seat (when did she last live in New York? After 8 years in DC and before that Arkansas where Bill was governor from '79-'81; '83-'92, means she was at least 20 years removed) seems an odd coincidence.
As much as the grief Trump is getting, I imagine seeds are planted to give as much doubt to those who hated him for his being "republican" before his comments just as much it reinforced other's hatred of him. He's not a stereotypical politician that can be pigeon-holed or browbeaten into such.
Contrast Trump against HRC and I can't help but prefer Trump. HRC is not the type I trust with anything.

commercial double take

I saw a Nyquil commercial the other day in which I swore that it had Jeff Goldblum in it. I looked him up on IMDB to see if he was alive and doing commercials. Not dead, but nothing much was written aside from "The Fly." Maybe I got a snippet of IMDB? Well, anyways the commercial had a guy in bed saying he was sick and taking the day off to his boss "Charlie." I thought JG was a bit old to be playing a random dad for a tiny baby and dismissed the commercial as having someone else.  Ew... I was right, I thought after reading this article, by chance.

Gun control sounds nice until you consider these 3 things.

Living in Ohio, I hope to never have guns banned. Deer run amock and need to be hunted, as far as I am concerned. Can't keep some guns for hunting and ban others from shooting people, since all guns can kill people.
Okay, people are quick to point out that countries like United Kingdom and Australia have strict gun laws and don't have mass shootings. Both nations are conveniently islands, last time I checked a map. If undocumented immigrants can illegally enter our country from our borders, then guns can too.
Finally, there are 300 million privately owned guns in our great nation, or so I read somewhere. Who is going to round them up? Someone with a gun, I imagine.

There will always be guns. There will always be nut jobs.

haunted house

I may have mentioned my "to do" list being long or lengthening, but I never specifically said what was on it, I don't believe. Being a homeowner and a stay at home dad that has a night gig because he's not independently wealthy means I feel compelled to fix stuff and such within a budget that boils down to DIY.

Anyways, our kitchen faucet was a pain to remove because I didn't realize Delta made a special tool for the nut until I thought to google Delta Wrench. I put it off at least a month trying to get the dang faucet off, no hurry considering we got a new one back in the winter.

Yes, my turn around is that bad. We bought stuff for the main bath in winter as well but it will wait, for I'm currently refixing the garage door opener. Had it fixed but the chain slipped off the day after I finished the faucet and I had to do some tinkering. I think it's fixed, but I have to put it back together. Something kept going awry so I have been slow to clean up the mess of tools I have out. I might get to the bathroom, but I need to get tile and such figured before putting in a new sink. J says I could do the vanity and light fixture without the floor being done, but I see it differently.

American Experience: Walt Disney

Watched PBS on the Roku about Walt Disney up to the strike. I will see part two when I can, but I can feel a bit of empathy for his side. I'm not a bigot, afterall, so I see why the strike occurred. It was a bit extreme from the looks of it, but Disney made something from nothing and drove it to where it seemed unlimited when everyone else was uneasy about his pushing animation beyond slapstick comics. It was his name on the Studio, but he needed labor to achieve his goal. Hmmm... what is fair in such circumstances isn't fair to everyone.
The whole argument about the haves and have-nots all boiling down to 1% vs 99% types is bs if the 1% reached heights by the means Disney endured. Almost defeats point of striving for improvement if end result benefits everyone more than the one who risked everything.

Baltimore settles with family of Freddie Gray

I don't know exactly what happened, whether it was self-inflicted or police abuse, but Freddie Gray, either way, died while in police custody.
I read a while ago that he and his siblings were living off a settlement from lead paint being in their childhood home and their being disabled from it. The awarded settlement was cut as monthly checks to last for something like 30 years. Freddie got scammed by a company that buys such awarded funds, and he got his friends and family to sell their settlement money for pennies on the dollar.
I hate to think of what negative outcomes could happen now that the city is giving Freddie Gray's family millions of dollars. They should have a reality TV show to follow them and document how this windfall changes their lives.
Nothing against the Freddie Gray family, but they have a bad history with settlement money and you always hear about lotto winners going nuts and spending all their money and being worse off.
Is there a show following winners of lotteries?

Talk about marriage licenses confuses me

Being from Ohio, I know nothing about marriage laws in Kentucky, but when I got married back in '01 my wedding was in Montgomery County.

I was a permanent resident of Belmont County. J was a permanent resident of Greene County.

Guess where we got our marriage license? That's right, Portage County.

Confused? Don't be.

J and I were in grad school, so getting our license down the road from our apartments was simpler than going to our hometowns and future wedding site which were each 2+ hours drive away.

Though our driver licenses weren't local, we had brought with us mail delivered to our apartments to show us being residents of Portage County. Not sure if the clerk actually looked at the envelops, but our marriage license was issued without questions beyond our being sober and not related.

Marriage shouldn't be a quick decision, and same sex marriages cannot be shotgun weddings, so the people being denied marriage licenses when there's no reason to be denied seem lazy if they keep going to the same clerk's office to do so.