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To: the longhorn who wrote (9989)	6/22/2020 10:55:16 AM
From: robert b furman	1 Recommendation Recommended By Kirk © Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26864

Hi LH, Perhaps with the excessive costs incurred with Covid 19, the lies and mistruths of renewables will become more widely understood. Making electricity more expensive is bad for business and hardest on the poor. Political noise/news will only get more outrageous as we draw closer to the election. I'm watching Bloomberg this morning,and they are touting the Tulsa Trump Rally as "half full" which I think 2/3 to 3/4 is closer. The Covid spikes are being blamed the result of rallies and reopenings and not that of increased testing. As we drove through Missouri,we were unable to stay at our usual Poplar Bluffs Drury Inn , as it was full that week with the National Guard doing Covid 19 testing. We had to drive to Sikeston to find a Drury Inn - which was next week's testing location. Missouri is testing 10,000 citizens a week. I think testing is creating the spike more than political theories on who's misbehavior is to blame. Trump needs to get this looting stopped. It is just an excuse for low life's to steal. Another urban phenom to stay the heck away from. AMMO AND WEAPONS = a preppers better than gold alternative. IMO Really feeling good about having the garden growing again. Now for the timed watering system. Doing drip irrigation on the tomatoes this year vs. soaker hoses. I've also added a liquid fertilizer station that works through the watering system. Should add to the composted cow manure and peat moss I tilled in last week. Every year the soil looks better and the garden yield bumps up. Glad to be home again. Bob

To: the longhorn who wrote (9989)	6/22/2020 11:09:56 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26864

What people like us need to do is put the screws to the politicians. I go right to their FB pages and say I won't go to their cities because I don't feel safe, or whatever issue I wish to tell them about. I also say I recommend my friends avoid them. For me, this is SF where I say we don't eat there any more because we fear our cars getting broken into and aggressive "pan handlers." For years I've avoided driving through certain cities at night as residents would often shut down streets and even the interstate to do illegal sideshows. News on the political front is depressing these days! Just read about a shop owner in Ohio who was destroyed in the riots. She and her three employees hid in the back while her store was smashed to bits. She's trying to reopen and is being threatened. "we are going to hit you again". One good example is we used to drive up to SF for a big banquet and dance in a fancy hotel for a club for those of us with direct French ancestry are entitled to join. The club got a big endowment long ago so it only cost $12 a year in dues and the $15 or $20 price for the banquet for a member and our date is often covered by the drink voucher.... Anyway, SF eliminated smoking in their buildings so my sister-in-law who still smokes would have to travel up several flights to get to street level to go outside and around the corner to have a smoke... which is right in the center of the seedy part of town so smelly, unsavory people would hassle her for money... so my brother would have to escort her... not fun so we stopped going together. It would not surprise me if the club paid $200 a head for this banquet but there are four less going now....