Irons in the Fire

and my first thought is "Why the HELL would a parent who cares about their kid have them out in this weather at a freaking RIOT?
Because they want pictures and to use the kids as shields more than they care about the kids.
Bastards.

if this were a regular thing here(happily, it's not) or if I had to move someplace where it was, I'd have a snowblower.  I can't do this shovel & sweep it the way I used to.
Hands especially.  The shoulder was giving me some crap, but the hands, this is the first time of this since my arthritis got this bad, and they really hated it.  In part because the weather before this was nice enough there was enough residual heat...

to be there, and somehow we invited in to visit.
Bastards, and they intended to terrify people, and they succeeded.
I think the name for that would correctly be terrorism.

rioters*, a bunch of the left were demanding gun owners go to Portland and shoot feds for them.  Oh yeah, that went over well.
A response to another "We want guns banned" leftist asking people who own guns to kill people for her:
Now the anti-gun idiots are saying that the 2A is irrelevant because gun owners won’t rise up and fight the very policies they voted for....