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Crossing the gulfstream can be the most treacherous leg of our Bahamian argosy.  Often people never gather the courage to “cross the stream” due to its bermuda triangle / dangerous legacy.  Water currents flow North as fast as 3 knots along the East coast of the US, so if winds blow in any opposing direction to the relentless current waves can double in size and be very hard to traverse.  I have been lucky in years past, we crossed a dozen times, this traverse rates somewhere in the middle of the pack. 

We left Islamorada for a night crossing with expectations of SE winds at 12 knots… going true South and up to 15 during the night.  That would have been perfect sailing conditions but true to crossing legacy we didn’t get that…. Winds were almost due East (in our face) for 80% of the trip luckily waves had some South direction in them so we weren’t pounding to weather; we were rolling them 45 degrees off the bow.  SYL and Jumanji were able to sail without engines the last 20 miles when we finally got some South component.

The crossing was fast, I haven’t done the math – but be saw almost 10 knots of ground speed late in the trip.  We planned for a 15 to 16 hour passage; our trip time was 13 hours so we made quick work of the 90+ miles from Snake Creek.  Unfortunately our early arrival put us here before the morning sun.  Entering the Bimini channel requires good light so we set our anchors in the sandy Bahamian beach just outside the cut and waited with great expectation as the sun filled in the colors of the beautiful baby blue watery canvas our boats were now a part of.

This crossing was “not for the faint of heart”.  Linda knows exactly what that means because we have made this type crossing before… doable but more to the liking of burly men than faint of heart.  I can’t say I liked it, but it was not a disaster either…. I would repeat rather than regret the endeavor.

Bimini customs has moved, so naturally we parked in the wrong place.  A bit weary after the all night voyage we moved our ships to “Bimini Big Game Club” to check in first at customs, then to immigration.  The process was painless, $150 and 4 or 5 sheets of paperwork and we are in!  It does require two trips if you have crew, they can’t come with you to immigration but they have to sign their own entry papers.

Mike and I debated about dockage, if we wanted to plug and pay….. but we found a decent anchorage at the North end of North Bimini next to the big fancy resort.  After getting our hooks placed in the sand we all took a nap… when I say I napped.. I actually did what I call “slobber sleeping” I went unconscious for 3 hours.  Reconvening  as a group after noon, we discussed our options for the day.

Weather looked OK for a spirited run to the Exumas the next day (April 2^nd but there was a chance (if we didn’t hurry) we would be in open water for a northern blow.  We all wanted to see Bimini rather than just say “we went there” but were too wiped out to enjoy the day ashore.  We decided to move on…. Then we all took another nap.

I woke up and saw Mike and Laurie heading to the resort in their dink.  When my eyes cleared I drank a big glass of water and followed them ashore while Jono slept.  As it turned out the resort welcomes anyone to come spend their money, even trashy boat people that park at their doorstep for free… so we did.  After the first 15 dollar drink I found out why they were good with it… lol.  One drink, then I came back for Jono, we all ate pizza at the pizza joint.  So… with clearer minds (and a 15 dollar Bahama Mama) we revised our float schedule.

After finding a great off boat option we decided to do Bimini right and spend a few days here at our leisure.  We spent the extra hours getting here instead of blasting across the banks immediately so we might as well enjoy it.  This morning (April 2^nd) we slept in.  I can see people stirring on Jumanji as I write.  The wind has picked up, I feel happy we aren’t out in it.  Today winds start out high but are forecast to lay during the day so our trip would have started briskly putting everyone on edge right off… I’m glad we stayed to enjoy Bimini.  The rigging on SYL sings at about 12 knots and it’s singing to me now, so without looking at the instruments I generally know conditions by the sounds of the boat.  I guess 50,000 miles of sailing gives you that.. at least.

We rented a golf cart for $85/day for the trek to Alice Town (old Bimini) today… we bought some bimini bread and shopped the wares around the small circular tourist heart of North Bimini.  I bought Jono a chartreuse green long sleeve Bimini shirt for his birthday.

Two roads run most of the islands length.  The main road has businesses along both sides but the second road is primarily local housing.  We were driving down the residential coast road on the golf cart and smelled some great cooking as we passed a little take away shop about 1:30 so we turned around and discovered some true Bahamian food on the “locals” side of the island.  Fried fish, potato salad with peas and rice.  The four of us took our local fare to a shady spot overlooking the water and had a mini feast just above the beach.  Earlier we found loads of descent sea glass on the North end of the islands sand bar, our lunch spot beach had the same allotment, so we did very good on sea glass here at Bimini.  Check that one off the list!

Mike and Jono just brought our empty gas cans (two per boat) to town on the cart to be filled.  That will top us off for the next long run toward the Exumas.  Gas was $4.20 per gallon.. very good for the islands.

We normally see one or two sea planes landing somewhere per trip.  But while parked here at the resort, they land 5 or 6 turbopropped 16 seater sea planes per day.  They circle in right by our boat offloading 8 to 12 people per load.  RWB also has a couple signature red/orange ferries running from the commercial airport on South Bimini.  They seem to have a booming business here at “Resorts World Bimini”.  The anchorage is fine, holding seems good but there is not a lot of room, 5 or 6 boats fill it up.

8PM Saturday night:  We found so much sea glass on our earlier excursion we decided to make another run at it so we loaded back on the cart and went to the ocean side beach about the middle of Bimini Road.  The four of us probably picked up another quart of glass.. nice haul.  After beachcombing we went back to the resort and had our obligatory $15 dollar Bahama Mama rum drink overlooking the big expensive boats in the harbor – then turned in our golf cart for the day.  As I sit back on the boat I’m enjoying one of Jono’s famous chili dogs..

Today truly felt like the first day of our vacation.. not just a “get there day” like we have had so many of on our intrepid journey toward the Bahamas.  At times turning for home seemed to be the right answer.. and we did.  Somehow the allure of blue water was so strong with me.. and my plans to sail so ingrained in my mind we persevered…. thru all the turmoil and troubles we finally made it.. we are here.. finally enjoying the Bahamas.

As for weather and our sail plans… It seems the front may come thru a day early so we may not have to wait out a blow on Monday, it may come tomorrow!  That puts us on the move again Monday morning as the cool dry North winds clear out the skies to blow us Eastward then South to our final destination in the Exumas.  It’s likely we will make a long 140 mile leg this next time.. all the way to Highborne Cay or Normans.  As always our plans are in sand and that washes off easily with a bit of water…. so long for now.

Here are some pictures in an effort to share our last few days:

It’s Thursday morning, we have enjoyed Islamorada quite a bit since we arrived Tuesday evening, we found laundry, fuel, grocery, hardware store and of course Lorelei’s beach cabana restaurant.  Its fun to listen to live music at night, we can hear it from the boat.  We have slept well in the comfortable anchorage but it’s time to move on.   We have developed a plan for the gulfstream crossing to the Bahamas.

This evening at 5:30 we will weigh our anchors and head North 7 miles to Snake Creek, go thru the draw bridge and into Hawks Channel and begin our Eastward passage to Bimini.  The first islands of the Bahamas are about 90 miles from here, 54 miles due East of Miami, we expect to cover it in 15 to 16 hours.  To arrive in daylight we have opted to make most of the passage at night.  We studied weather, waves and predictions to death, we even listened to Chris Parker’s SSB radio net this morning at 6:30, he said it was a go as well.  I think we will be able to sail instead of motor across today.  Tomorrow it lays down possibly too much tt sail so we will make a go of it tonight.

Jono has been fishing off the boat quite a bit here in Islamorada, but he’s only seeing small perch like fish.  In Cayo Costa he caught 2 speckled trout, one was too small and the other that was nice enough to keep flopped and got away so nothing to eat yet…

There probably won’t be much posting for a while until we get close to Wifi in the Bahamas.  We will leave you with some pictures from the past few days.

Tuesday 3/29/16

We broke away from our overnight raft up with Jumanji at precisely 7AM.  Our motors cranked at an idle this morning.. what a lovely thing… validation of our mechanic prowess made the morning brighter.  Better than that, we realized there was a useable wind angle so we put up the cloth and are running 5.4 kts toward the Florida Keys under sail!

The morning sun revealed clearer skies than yesterday.  Sailing in Florida toward the big orange ball….  sunrays paint a shimmering path across the water up to its source… CCR blaring out of the speakers….  A 10% morning!

Winds are forecast to shift around all day, so we know we won’t be able to enjoy this sweetness long.  Mike’s weather machine said the word of the day is 3 mile an hour winds touching all quadrants of the compass…. so we are enjoying it all the more, this moment in time.  Jono is running around trimming sails… trying to keep up with the shifts and slacks.  He and I are enjoying and learning each other all over again, what a joy.

Out of the balls and into the weeds…. As we enter Florida Bay the fishing floats are less numerous, but.. floating weeds will get thicker and thicker for the next 12 miles crossing the shallow weed bottomed bay just offshore of the Everglades.  9:50AM motoring into 8 knots true of wind, seas less than a foot.

We are as of noon today officially in the Florida Keys.  We turned East up the inside passage from bay to bay heading for Islamorada just now.

Rusty here: It’s almost 8PM, we fueled up at my favorite Islamorada spot Caribe  boat sales about 3PM, we walked to the grocery store next door “Traders” and stocked up on last minute foodstuffs, Mike and Laurie found a laundromat and made a final laundry run, then we met at Lorelei’s for dinner and a nice sunset.  Lorelei’s is an outdoor dinner spot / beer joint that is on every cruisers visit list.  We had a great evening… We had a little blow right at sunset so we scrambled back to the boats in our dinghies, we got a little wet driving directly into the building waves but it wasn’t too bad.

Tomorrow might be a sleep late / weather day.  We are close to our staging point for the crossing to the Bahamas so now it’s wait on the right weather.  Jono and I took a swim in the 80 degree water around the boat when we arrived.  It cooled our core down and turned out to be a nice dip in the very salty water.

I’m going to sleep 10 hours tomorrow.. no need to get up and pull out early for the first time in this trip… that will be nice.

SYL  Rusty

We started out fresh and dry from Naples after sleeping in the air conditioned comfort afforded by our swanky dock choice and its comforting 110 volt shore power station.  I was up early so I washed the boat off with fresh water between mosquito slaps… I’ve seen worse mosquito infestations but not lately.

We left the dock promptly at 7AM.  At this moment we are clearing Big Marco Pass after 12.7 miles of travel.  Winds were a bit higher than forecast as we left Naples, but they have now dropped off to the forecasted 7 knots true.  The overcast is heavy so it’s still muggy and damp.

Jono and I have been finding little refinements on SYL this morning as we motor along.  We adjusted the lazy jacks, changes positions of the starboard jib line in the line organizers and thru a different rope clutch so it would lead out better forward.  We are just tinkering with busy work as we putt along at 5.4 knots.

We have a slight 2 point adverse current.. but what else is new.  My engines must love travelling with Mike because he keeps his motors at a very comfortable fuel sipping RPM.  I have learned to be patient, and give my engines some love too…. I tend to use engines up and replace them when their tongue starts hanging out.  Mike is a good influence on me.

The parasail boats are out this morning giving Marco visitors a 100’ elevated view of the semi foggy beach front.  Marco, like many other Florida coastal towns are lined with high rise condos and tall gantry cranes building new ones.

The dynamic duo of Seawinds boats Jumanji and SYL are flying close formation down Florida’s West coast.  Our next waypoint stands us just off Romano Shoals 14 miles away.  Given the sleepy weather forecast we feel comfortable stopping anywhere along the way once we get into Florida Bay.  That probably means we will continue straight through to the keys.. knowing we have options.

SYL is an hour and a half past Marco now, about to round the Romano Shoals.  That will bring us from travelling due South to SE.  Winds are light as expected, but with the turn we will have an angle on the wind so we will probably set the mainsail for the first time with the replacement halyard.  I called and ordered a new line to replace it, but probably won’t have it until mid-April.  Mike and I are both tired of dodging crab traps.  He caught one with his engine this morning.

I was right!  11:30 and we have sails up.  Our speed went from 5.3 to 7 knots with reduced engine power.  I take the engines off at 7.2 so if we get a few more kts of wind we might just get to sail to the keys but it’s not expected.  Wouldn’t that be a kick in the pants….. actually sailing on a sailboat.

WooHoooo… 25 miles South of Marco the current changed from 2 points on our nose to 6 points of push behind us!  Thank you world.  Almost a knot of free progress over ground is useful when you’re going 6 knots, that’s about 17% (too lazy to do the exact math).  Thirty minutes ago I called out to a boat heading South in front of us, turns out it is a Leopard 38 from Mike’s home port in Aransas Pass Texas.  He said he was stopping about 6 this evening to spend the night on the hook.  That just might convince our little travelling band to stop and visit as well.  We are doing great right now.  If we continue this progress as comfortable as we are, it seems wrong to stop.  I sighted another sailboat off our starboard stern, but haven’t contacted him.

40 miles are behind us today, about 60 yet to sail to officially enter the Keys.  We are still making wonderful progress in very comfortable conditions, if we saw a little sun it would be perfect.  My new/old halyard is taking a new stretch.  It hasn’t been used in a long time so I have to keep tightening it to hold the main straight.  I got up before 5 this morning and Jono is down for a nap, I’m getting a little sleepy too.  When Jono gets up I’ll get me a nice nap as we sail along softly… with the boat gently lifting over the swells…. listening to the rustle of the wakes behind our sterns (and the motors).

Our anchorage for the night was 23 miles from the keys in the open water, 71 miles made today.  We could have driven all the way to the keys but there are so many crab pots night travel would have been tedious.  The line on those pesky floating balls cause havoc when they wrap around the props.

Speaking of motors, today’s challenge was the port side engine.  Recently when I stopped and idled the suspect engine flooded and died, often at the most inopportune times, like when we were hovering in place waiting for a draw bridge.  This evening I took the time to clean the carburetor.  Unfortunately my standard cleaning job didn’t help.  Mike had some new gaskets so we replaced those and the spark plugs but still no joy.  On Mikes suggestion I tried a different method of cleaning the smallest ports on the carb, he has a set of tip cleaners so instead of just spraying the very small ports we rodded them out with his tip cleaners.  She cranked and idled like a dream!  We finished the motor work about 11PM and ended up star gazing for another hour before hitting the sack.

Today was nice, easy sea state and very few problems, an overall win.  One day closer to paradise!

SYL and Jumanji

Resting comfortably in Naples tonight at Hamilton Yacht Club….. your right, we don’t belong in this neck of the woods.  Dues are probably a million a year.  Laurie went in for a shower, the bathrooms were huge with travertene marble floors and granite counter tops.

Our plan was to make Marco Island tonight but it came up a 25 knot blow so we tucked in about 10 miles short of Marco.  Our intent was to to hide from the big waves but we got a bonus.. they had gas so we filled up both Seawinds.  We needed to tank up before heading those last 100 miles down to the keys, so this stop worked out well.  Naples is crazy busy, too little water for too many boats owned by people with too much money.  To let you know what the place is like:  There is a double deck tour boat that brings people through the neighborhoods just to check out the huge homes.  Everyone is on the water here so there are no “cheap” places.  Quite impressive really.

Mike and I had a blast sailing with each other today.  Piloting identical boats, we traded tips on what sail trim was working, it made us both better.  It was awesome to absolutely validate a change in performance by seeing if one or the other was faster at the moment.

My only problem today was my main halyard broke just after noon, that means the line that holds the main sail up shot up and dropped inside the mast, and of course the sail dropped immediately.. no way to re- tie to the broken line.  Fortunately our boats have a topping lift next to the main halyard so we re-purposed that line, raised the main sail and kept on trucking.  This evening after we tied up Jono went up the mast and fed a new line down through, replacing the broken halyard.  It went fine, I had a spare line so again.. we fixed everything that broke today qualifying it as a good day.  It’s a long way up to the top of that mast I tell you…..  Jono is becoming quite the sailor.  It’s very helpful to have him on board as you can clearly see.

To recap our day:  The morning sail started nicely as we left Boca Grande (Cayo Costa Park) with 14 knots of wind at just enough angle to motorsail into the wind.  There was a short time when I was down to one motor because winds were at a good angle to sail easier, but it didn’t last long.  After rounding Sanibel Island making the turn more Eastward, the wind was back on the nose.  The last 4 hours were rough.. it was a rodeo… gusts were up to 25  knots and still on the nose.  We broke through countless 4’ers for those last 4 hours.  Laurie was a little frazzled, I asked if she needed a hug when we were getting gas, she took me up on it immediately.  Hearing the motors run all day sets you on edge, but all the pounding to weather doubles the mental stress.  That kind of sailing is no fun, but especially acute for Laurie as this is her first big trip.  She’s a trooper and will do fine after seeing her blow that Shuttleworth out of the water while Mike slept today!

To explain… just off Fort Meyers a nice looking catamaran came 0ut to join Mike and I’s fast flying flotilla.. His intent was to run with us for a while.  He took a position between Mike and I in formation but quickly found out he couldn’t stay with us.  We had our boats super trimmed out and running perfectly for the conditions, we had been set up and running around 8 knots for quite a while.  He never had a chance to get his rig up to speed before we were gone!  I don’t think his boat would stay with a Seawind even if he had time to get up to speed.  I’m not sure what make of boat is was, maybe a 36′ shuttleworth.

All in all we had a good travel day covering 60 miles of South Florida’s West coast.  Tomorrow night we will be in or very near the Florida Keys!  Winds are supposed to be 7 knots tomorrow so it will definitely be an all motor day but on flat water, thankfully not banging into 4’ers in full wind like we did this evening.  Our plan is to sail into the night and pull over to the curb if we get tired.  In the yachtsman channel  (that parallels the everglades) you can stop and anchor anywhere you like, it’s wide open.  Chances are we won’t stop though. If it’s an easy motor we will likely see the sunrise from the Florida Keys Tuesday morning.

We are fueled up and ready to go at 7AM.

SYL !! and Jumanji

Good day today….. we did weather a storm but we saw it coming and anchored up in a protected cove for 2 hours while it passed.  We all slept listening to the rain on the boat.. hoping the lightning didn’t take out our electronics.  I actually unplugged a lot of my navigation tools so I’d have that if we got hit.  Florida is the lightning capital of the United States.  Many of our friends have replaced electronics several times from lightning striking here in Florida due to that 50′ aluminum lightning rod we hang sails off of.

44 miles is all we made today from Clearwater to Longboat Key, but given the storm and bascule bridges we had a good day.  This was our daily target and we made it… a little later than expected but here we are!  We docked at Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant like we always do coming down this way.  Unfortunately it’s closed….. but the docks are still here.  The owner came out and welcomed us to stay tied up at his dock, said his place will be rebuilt and reopened so don’t stop coming by.

Tonight I’m having a world famous Jono Chili Dog.  It’s here on the table, he just brought it out and it’s hot so I’m off….

Sea Yawl Later!!  Rusty

Jono and I have braved the wide ocean, crossed 320 miles of open water from Pensacola to Clearwater Florida.  50 hours not seeing land is all I want though, I’m not an ocean crosser, we just like seeing pretty water in warm places.  I’m no Christopher Columbus discovering new worlds.  I feel like we made it… TODAY we were in shirt sleeves on beautiful emerald green water.  We saw 3 separate groups of dolphin on the passage, the largest group was about 15 strong all trying to jump and run ahead of and between our bows at the same time.  It was truly the best dolphin show I’ve seen on SYL.

Not much broke on this leg of the trip which is always a bonus.  Jono (below) and I work well together solving little issues that popped up.  We arrived better than when we left.  Most of the 300 mile trip was nice, we ran into some medium size waves on our bow on this passage, but nothing like we saw the first two weeks in the Mississippi Sound.

We met up with a boat buddy that has the same boat I have.  Tonight we are docked side by side.  SYL and Jumanji.

I  enjoy riding the bow.. looking out at the water on a calm day.  Peaceful……..  Going to bed now, SYL

What a start to the latest “adventure”.   After pounding our way East for the first week (unfun sailing) Linda took a fall that required surgery on her left knee.  Luckily I was in port when it happened so I rented a car and made it home before she went in for the procedure.

The day after surgery  the “flood of the century” unindated my house putting 4′ of water over the lower slab.  The house is built up 12 feet off the ground so it didn’t get into the living area but everything in the garage I couldn’t remove went under including my 39′ RV and welding machine.

Suffice it to say I’ve had better beginnings to a vacation.  The boat is in Pensacola while Jono and I clean up the mess.  We lost water the second day when the tank on our pump floated breaking all connections to the well, and to the house.  We came within 2″ of losing electricity, water was almost to the breaker box.

Last night 2 hours after dark I got the well put back together so we have running water again.  Now it’s just waiting on the appraiser while everything in the garage goes sour…..  Nice huh?

Jono and I left Madisonville La. 10AM on Monday the 7th on SYL for a Bahama run.

We left late because our first leg was only 44 miles out of the Pontchartrain and barely into the Mississippi sound.  The trip was nice, we motored with little or no wind until our 6PM arrival at Rabbit Island.  Our first night on the boat was uneventful, we slept well in the nice calm waters just off the GIWW.

Tuesday morning our goal was over 90 miles so we left at 6AM for Dauphin Island off the coast of Biloxi.  Winds were right in our face the first 4 miles so we motored out but got enough wind angle to sail the rest of the day.  With strong winds against us we only made 55 miles and stopped next to Horn Island – not the most protected anchorage I can assure you.  We bobbed like a cork all night but slept reasonably well given the conditions.  Tuesday was a “Man Sailing” day….  Winds were 20 to 22 knots on the nose in 3′ seas so we tacked a lot but SYL did her job well.

Wednesday morning Jono and I took some time to work on boat projects, and took the dinghy to shore to walk the beach on Horn Island so we didn’t leave until just before lunch.  If Tuesday was a big wave day, Wednesday was bigger!  We tried to make out way East with little progress.  We ended up bailing out and hiding in Pascagula Mississippi.  Winds were up to 30 knots and waves were solid 6’ers.  A buddy recommended a small city marina that turned out to be a delight.  We met 3 new friends, Tim – Dick and Less who all own slips here.  They hooked us up to power, visited and told boat stories… Less brought me and Jono some fried red snapper for dinner.  He’s a big sportfisherman, owns the Bertram in the next slip.  It turned out t be a great decision on many fronts…  Just as we entered the harbor the Coast Guard issued gale wind warnings, and we met such great sailors here in little “Lake Yazoo”  Tomorrow it’s supposed to get a little better, blow like stink tonight and slowly back off tomorrow during the day.  Our plan is to reef the sails down and try to get out about 7AM, try to make it across Mobile Bay tomorrow into the ICW.  If we get beat up too bad in the morning we will hang out at Dauphin and make the ICW to Pensacola on Friday.

Today’s dinghy ride to Horn Island netted us our first shells and driftwood of the trip.

Well it’s 8:30.. my bedtime… Sea Yawl Later !!

It’s turnaround time.  We started heavy overtime this week.  I arrive at 3AM and leave at 6PM, that’s the way it will be for the next 3 to 4 weeks.

In my craft it’s feast or famine much like a sharecropper… make the money all at once or don’t make it at all.

The refinery I’m working this time is quite unique, we make an extremely high grade of diesel from McDonald’s french fry oil.  Our “feed stock” is truly food not crude… lol.  Most of the fuel products in the world are refined from crude oil, ours here at Diamond Green Diesel is a byproduct of the best french fries on the market.  As you can imagine, this plant smells much different than most refineries.

This part of Louisiana is a unique place.  LaPlace and Norco are just West of New Orleans along the Southwest shore of lake Pontchartrain.  The culture is as diverse in this area as any European enclave, New Orleans being the dominant cultural center in this part of the world, our native sons range from Fats Domino and Louis Armstrong, to the Swamp People discovered by TV land a few years back.  I guess civilized America finds hunting alligators and living along the swamps and rivers of Acadia amazing on some level.  The thing is… Troy Landry and Shelby the swamp man are just real people doing what we do here in the deep south.

I was talking with the lead refinery operator this morning and come to find out, Shelby is his cousin…. he said if I wanted to get on the pirate ship Shelby lives on let him know… lol.  I think I might!  My family knows the Landry’s, while I guess they are unique in some ways because Hollywood picked them to represent the local lifestyle, I see people walking in the grocery store that could been the same magnitude star as anything you see on reality TV.

I enjoy this area… not too many free handout / gimme grabbing Democrats around here.. most people actually earn their own living and are proud of it.  Self sufficiency is a deeply seated, time honored tradition in “these parts”.  Maybe that integrity is what’s missing in America.  Honor and self reliance is a rare commodity around the inner city porch dwellers the “give me” politics helped create.  I mean think about it… as long as Jessie Jackson and that Sharpton idiot can maintain a division to squeal about.. the longer they have a job.  Much like the political parties we have in America today.. as long as one can make the other look stupid.. the more power they have regardless of how it effects the American people.  I guess you can tell where my “political” (for the lack of a better word) boots are.

Hey, I’ve got an idea, lets tax everybody half their wages.. (but only the ones that work of course) then “give” them part of it back (the part we can’t steal) and get re-elected by telling the dummies that don’t work we will send their kids to college “for FREE”  Hell of a deal.  Wish I had thought of that…. As you can tell I HATE politics and politicians.  Donald Trump may be the Anti-Christ.. he might be… but if he will go to Washington and clean house I’ll vote for him.  Lots of people say he is un-electable… lol… OK, look who the american people sent to Washington last time.  During the gulf wars did you ever think America would elect a guy named Barrack Hussein Obama?  OK, then add oh yeah, he’s a black man with questionable ancestry.  NO way! right?  point made.

What America needs is statesmen not power hungry lawyers that get “made” by lying his way into the ultimate golden parachute of power.  I know how to solve this.. I know how to delete political cronyism – favor for favor politics.  It’s easy, we don’t have to send a representative to vote for us these days.. we could manage our whole government on facebook.  Why pay those idiots to play power games in Washington?  In a single minute everybody could push the button and elect his enabler.  Notice I didn’t say leader.  What we need is somebody to do real research, find out what America needs as a nation, present it well to the public and lets vote on it.  NO AGENDAS!

Yeah I know.. that makes too much sense so it will never happen.  Hmmmm maybe we do need to send a non-politico to Washington… Trumps the closest thing to an advocate we may have to dance down those halls.  I’m so disgusted with politics it makes my skin crawl.. fire em all and hire us some good analysts and honest reporters… man would that be a change huh?  How much do you pay politicians out of your wages?  We could get by on 1/4 of that if all we did was pay for the federal work of building infrastructure and armies.  OH, wait.. you don’t work?  OK…. that’s why you want to keep the Democrats in power so they can rob from those that do work, steal all they can steal for their self serving motives…. then give you some of my crumbs so you can sit on your butt and cry about “economic equality”.  Awesome idea.  Is that the American dream?      We are a country guided by self serving power mongers.

Where’s my boat…. I’m leaving… lol.

I’m through ranting now…. I’m really not an activist or somebody that is willing to actually stop what I’m doing to make a difference…. the silent majority… I’ll shut up and keep polishing Sharpton’s chair at the white house.  What an idiot.  What people do for power………….