Notes from a shut-in

I must have seriously offended the Cosmic Deciders. Lord knows I try to be good. The list of repairs, improvement,  mowing, preparations for winter, and general titivation of Camp J would do credit to a man half my age. So what thanks do I get? A case of flu-like crud whose demand for Kleenex requires a re-thinking of the month's budget.

Yesterday, at 2 p.m.,  I was exercising the chain saw and splitting maul on a pile of ash and elm, smugly congratulating myself for a good start  on the 2011-2012 home heating needs. At 2:30 p.m.I was crapped out on the  couch, the teevee on, moaning about a sandpaper throat, sinuses overloaded with weapons grade mucus, the bodily strength of a bunny, and a four-aspirin headache.

It's mildly better this morning,  but I have a legal case against The Council of the Fates. Surely a proscription is written somewhere against imposing this sort of dysfunction during the most glorious week any October could could be expected to produce.

What if they gave a health care and nobody came?

Actually, they did.

The Central Planners appropriated $5 billion for this part of Obamacare -- insurance for the allegedly uninsurable -- but so few have signed up that they can't seem to spend it all. (But mark me down as one who believes They  will find a way.)

Alert Alert Alert

The administration of  His Obamaness  is considering warning Americans to be vigilant when traveling in Europe.

Wonder if it is to be paired with a warning to be vigilant in Washington, D.C., or when visiting the President's homies down around 68th and Halstead?

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And on the subject of danger in the streets, why are the media blacking out the Washington and Chicago blood baths in the wake of Heller and McDonald? Could it be that old Vast Right Wing Conspiracy again?

Mexican bizarre

You can't make this stuff up. Not even Fox News can make it up.

Mexican border town mayors are complaining because the United States returns their Mexican-citizen criminals to Mexico.  The mayors think it best for the U.S. to keep the thugs on the U.S. side where Norteamericanos can pay for their keep. Failing that, we should at least fly them to their Mexican home towns.

Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes blamed U.S. deportation policy for contributing to his city's violence, saying that of the 80,000 people deported to Juarez in the past three years, 28,000 had U.S. criminal records -- including 7,000 convicted rapists and 2,000 convicted murderers.


Funny, I've been reading for years that illegal immigrants are gentle souls, moving here only to satisfy our desire for cheap lettuce.

Never mind the trouble a guy has of picturing U.S.authorities catching, trying, and convicting an illegal of murder, then punishing him with a  bus ticket to Juarez.



H/T to Wyatt Earp