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Aimee and Jed

I don’t know where Aimee Picchi, the author of the article below on insurance rates, is from, but I’ll bet is wasn’t someplace where an abacus is commonly used.

Why wouldn’t we trust an article printed in such an infallible institution such as CBS News? After all, this is the mainstream media that we are all being conditioned to trust. Surely we can all believe without question that Climate Change is driving rates up by greater than 50%, right?

By my math (I’ll grant you that it’s been a long, long time since I sharpened a pencil) 41% of $3, 400 is $1,394 and would result in a rate of $4,794 not the $3,748 quoted in the article. Like wise, 38% of $3,336 is $1,268 and results in a rate of $4,604, not $3,687.

The new average rates for Maryland and South Carolina are both a little more than 10% higher than the old rates. Pretty much an anemic figure when the cost of fuel (along with pretty much everything else) has doubled.

Aimee Picchi: Uncle Jed, get a hold a yourself. I got some bad news for ya.
Jed Clampett: What is it, boy?
Aimee Picchi: I hope this ain’t gonna break your heart, but I just gotta say it.
Jed Clampett: Well come on, get it over with.
Aimee Picchi: Uncle Jed, I decided I ain’t gonna be a brain surgeon.
Jed Clampett: Well I recon I can bear up under that.

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DNC Releases it’s Official Platform

Pandering is still a viable utility, who knew?

The Democratic National Committee wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial.

We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands. We pay our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals

Stats for nerds: a word search of the ‘platform’ shows that:
–Trump is mentioned 150 times.
–MAGA 14 times
–Biden 287 times
–Harris. . . . . 33 times.
Kinda makes you wonder what they’re selling doesn’t it?

The full 91 pages of drivel:

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Shocked | Taken Aback

As the day broke and the sun crept over the trees to the east, I prepared myself for an onslaught of falsehoods that the fourth estate has prepared for our consumption. It’s day one of the Democratic National Convention and those boys of blue (D’s) are in desperate need of a smoked mirror. For this entire week we can the press to do all they can to aid them in that cause:

The authors did a bang-up job when they released this puppy, they worked up a ‘twofer’: 1) R’s are trying to deprive 40K registered ‘Arizonans’ of he right to vote and 2) are using those bastards on the Supreme Court to do it.

It really doesn’t matter that the 40K Arizonans in question may not be US Citizens (which is what the issue is here) as long as those just and upright members of the press can get a clean shot at those un-American R’s. The name of the game in any election is to get out the vote and there is no surer way to do that than to infuriate an uninformed population.

The shit is really going to get deep over the next several days and the only real upside to engaging with the news is that every now and again someone errs and the truth slips out:

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Top Twenty

20 Rules for Public Discourse: 2024
Or
What Speech is Permissible

  1.  All laws, rules, codes of ethics, or standards of conduct only exist to the degree that they can be weaponized against the political right.
  2. The left is always right, and the right is always wrong.
  3. The left is good, and the right is evil.
  4. Everyone on the right is a hypocrite – every last one of them.
  5. The only moral virtue is the acceptance of immoral behavior.
  6. None of these rules apply to the political left.
  7. Nobody on the left can ever be criticized by the right.
  8. Anyone who can be called oppressed and who denies their oppression is a traitor
  9. The only people whose opinions matter are single white women.
  10. Anything that discourages white women from getting married and having children is the most important thing our government can do.
  11. Any lie against Republicans becomes true as soon as it hits Facebook.
  12. All of the lies told about Republicans must be bad.  All of the lies told about Democrats must be good. For example, Trump is Hitler, whereas Kamala Harris is a ‘transformative, messianic figure.
  13. All media must be on board with every lie and with every one of these rules
  14. Nothing can ever be allowed to make sense or to be consistent. The public must be kept in a perpetual state of confusion
  15. The left eats its own. Unless you are at the very top, you are 100% expendable.
  16. The twentieth and final rule is that no matter how many people are harmed by the left, the left takes no accountability for anything. When in doubt, blame Trump.

That’s it – the Twenty Rules for Chaos. And if you are wondering where sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen went, re-read rule fourteen.

An addendum as ‘proof of principle’.:

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Hell on Earth | One of Many

The BBC is reporting that:
— 21+ Ugandans have died from a landslide in a garbage dump near the capital city of Kampala.
—-Kampala has a population of 4 million people
—-The dump covers 36 acres and is the only one servicing Kampala

—-More than 1,000 people live in homes in or directly adjacent to the dump. That has to be one ripe smelling neighborhood.

This one little 36 acre slice of paradise is one of thousands, if not tens-of-thousands, of places where good people in bad circumstances are condemned to live out miserable lives.

I am genuinely surprised that our southern border is not more busy than it is.

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Overly Engaged: Exhibit One (1)

This is exactly what happens when you take this shit to seriously. It’s a predicable outcome that flows from over saturating weak minds with political bullshit. Those ‘end days’ pronouncements (if the other side wins) results in this when/if they do.

The political bastards have gone scorched earth and should they fail to win their genteel constituents will morph to Mansons.

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Abusive? Who’s That Knocking at the Door?

Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions of England and Wales, warned that there are “dedicated police officers” tasked with “scouring social media” to “follow up with identification [and] arrests” when people “publish or distribute material which is insulting or abusive which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred.” 

The UK is a dystopian nightmare
byu/DeusRegnat inlibertarianmeme

This censorious effort is coming from the top levels of government. In an interview with Sky News, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said social media is “not a law-free zone” and that he wanted to issue “a reminder to everyone that whether you’re directly involved or whether you’re remotely involved, you’re culpable, and you will be put before the courts if you’ve broken the law.”

The arrests have already begun. 

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From the Left Shore

Things weren’t quite bat-shit crazy enough in Paris for the last couple of weeks and those ‘one world, one people’ kinda folk are tripping over each other to show stupidity at its grandest.

LA Mayor Karen Bass and the organizers for 2028 Olympics in LA are planning to force spectators to take public transportation to Olympic events. Just in case that doesn’t fuck up enough peoples lives, the plan is to twist the arms of area business to ‘encourage’ remote working in order to clear the streets a mite.

Here is how ignorant these folk are: In order to have enough busses for all of these folk to get from A to B they will have to borrow 3000 busses from other cities in the country. That means that instead of stupid folk in LA paying for their stupidity they will, of course, have others pay for their stupidity. Talk about ‘Net Zero’, this effectively results in net zero carbon savings as what you save in LA you spend in St. Paul.

If I could offer Ms Bass some helpful advice: better get someone working on that homeless problem y’all been toying with for the last 40 years or so. Thing could get real ugly real quick otherwise.

This from Yahoo News: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said 2028 chiefs want the LA Olympics to be “The No Car Games” by investing in public transportation and encouraging Angelenos to adopt pandemic-style remote-working for the duration of the event.

“The No Car Games’ means that you will have to take public transportation to get to all of the venues,” Bass told a press conference ahead of Sunday’s Paris Olympics closing ceremony.  “In order to do that we have been building out our transportation system.”

The plan would require borrowing more than 3,000 buses from other parts of the United States, she added.

Bass was adamant however that Los Angeles’s traffic, where rush hour congestion can lead to car journeys of just a few miles taking an hour or more, would not be a problem, citing the history of the 1984 Olympics in the city.

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My Mothers First Dog

On Thursday I was floating around on that endless stream of information that the wonders technology now bring to our fingertips. Electrons, on either side of thousands of miles of photon pushing fiber, happily dance around in anonymity until called upon to render up a solution to the requests of untold millions slapping at their keyboards.

By happenstance I landed at (tripped over) the National Personnel Records Center of the National Archives. I thought: ‘I’m a vet, wonder what they’ve managed to store on me’?

I followed along through several menu’s and ended up on the actual page that promised to provide me a copy of my service record, providing I could answer a few simple questions: (DOB; last name first, first name last, MI; country and state of birth, date/time of first orgasm; name of my mothers first dog). This, again, was on Thursday. By mid morning Friday I had an email stating the search was complete and I could download the PDF file. Not everything I thought should be in the records was in them, but there were some things there that I had completely forgotten about; like the Amphibious Warfare Training Course in the dead of winter, 40 years ago, three weeks after returning from a two year tour in Panama. I’ve never been so cold in my friggin life.

Anyway, I seem to have made a simple subject unduly complicated. If you’re a vet and are up for a few laughs, check out the archives and remember somethings that you may have forgotten.

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NEA: Two Things

Numero A: How in the world did we arrive at a place where absolute radicals are charged with educating the children of this nation?

    Number secondly: sure seems to me that for the sake of diversity they should have placed a couple of white folk on that stage.

    We’ll pay the price for letting this madness persist.

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    Around Here

    I’ve finished all I set out to do on my Jeep and am pleased with how it turned out. Here’s what was done:
    -replaced front bumper
    -rerouted fog lamps
    -mounted winch
    -added flood/spot lights
    -retreated fenders and rear bumper
    -spare tire cover

    Over the last few days I’ve added a cover for the winch, mounted my ‘fish bones logo’, and sanded and repainted the ‘hitch-rack’.

    I’ve found there is a real sense of accomplishment from doing the work myself.  So much so that I’ll change the oil myself even though it costs less to take it into an Oil Express or Jiffy Lube. The day will come when I’m no long able to climb under the jeep or read the fill mark on an oil dipstick but that’s a few years off. Note to self: change oil in the jeep

    I purchased a 24mm socket and ordered/receive a new oil filter housing cap from Jeff.  I may not need a new cap, but I may (not certain, may) have damaged the one that is currently mounted by trying to loosen it with a pair of channel locks.  I didn’t want to risk cracking the bastard (rendering the jeep inoperable) without a replacement in hand.

    Jerky is cranked up and the first load is in the dehydrator now. My daughter and SIL’s house sits right next to mine on these 100+ acres and they only use the place once every 3 or 4 months. I’m drying it out over there because the dogs go crazy over here when all of that meat magically appears.

    I’ve gone with 4 varieties done in medium and in hot. They’ve been marinating for about 18 hours so they are prime.

    Each load takes 4 hours to dehydrate and I have 4 loads. Ill get three completed today and have one left to do tomorrow morning.

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    Phishing, Joe, and FEMA

    One of the more challenging realities of growing old is the loss of reasoning skills, another is impatience. Coupled together, in world that is more and more digital, it’s easy to see how folk fall prey to online scams. Here (2 screenshots of the same email) is something that popped up in my garry@thomaswispered.com mailbox.

    My first thought was, of course: well shit, what a way to begin a Sunday. I pay good money to protect my site from hijackers and one got through that firewall. Then my rational mind returned and I saw the several clues indicative of a phishing attack:
    –‘Dear User’ instead of my name
    –[Your Company Name] in the signature block
    –The ‘Support Team’ in the signature block.
    –The header says Bluehost.com (which is correct) followed by @rewalkjapan.com. Here is an enlarged screenshot of the message header

    Here is what the search engine returns when I look up www.rewalkjapan.com:

    Finally, I remembered to remember that all of the correspondence I have with service providers is through a different email account (other than Thomas account). So I was being phished. Not a big deal when you catch it; a real friggin pain if you don’t.

    It occurred to me that I, at 70, am facing the same demons that Old Slow Joe is battling; cognitive decline. The difference between his demons and those that will (providing God extends my years) appear on my doorstep is that I’m now aware there are actually 2 problems. Which is to say that I may not always be aware of that there are 2 problems.

    The first problem is a decline in cognitive skills and the second is recognition of the decline in cognitive skills. Old Joe has pushed through the ‘sweet spot’ of cognitive decline (where there is a problem and is aware of it) and arrived in a mental wilderness where he has cognitive problems he is unaware of.

    Not to push a point but the last person in this country that should be making decisions on Joe ‘staying in the race’ is Joe. We are quite literally in 25th Amendment territory and at an inflection point in the future of mankind.

    Given that there are 197 days until Inauguration Day 2025 and our enemies are nipping at our heels, a pressing question comes to the fore: Are there no patriots left in the marbled halls of our nations capital capable of doing what the constitution demands?

    OBTW, here is a little something that the thoughtful folk over at FEMA have contributed to the conversation.

    ready.gov_nuclear-explosion-hazard-info-sheet1Download

    Keep your heads down and powder dry.

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    The Comfort of Fiber

    We’ve got storms moving in on our place here is southern middle Tennessee. We desperately need the rain and, along with the wind and thunder, it’s great to experience the power of nature from the comfort of an armchair.

    Two years ago I would not have appreciated these storms as much as I do now. When you’re only source of TV, phone, and internet was thru overpriced satellite service (actually two separate satellite dishes ) heavy rain meant absolute incommunicado. Getting rid of the Dish Network and Hughes Net parasites is a great feel.

    We now have fiber that we trenched it in some 2500 feet from the road. When coupled with a ghee-whiz fast whole house modem we managed to create enough bandwidth to meet all of our needs.

    We have a couple of high def TV’s running, cell phones locked in (cause wifey burns up the Facebook pages) a house phone (tied through a converter to the modem), and you can see in the upper graphic I’ve got 9 tabs opened in my Firefox browser.

    Unseen is MS Office’s Outlook email application downloading all of the spam the world pushes my way. Not one iota of delay with all of this running during this storm.

    Life be good when electrons flow along with the rain.

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    That’s Going to Leave a Mark

    The Don had harsh words for the Emperor’s minions:

    “Make no mistake that Democrats, the mainstream media, and the swamp colluded to hide the truth from the American public—Joe Biden is weak, failed, dishonest, and not fit for the White House,” the statement continued.

    “Every one of them has lied about Joe Biden’s cognitive state and supported his disastrous policies over the past four years, especially Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris,” it added.

    So Don is out and about, hacking at the ball and bashing at the bitch while Joe meets with a pack of D governors and complains about not getting enough sleep.

    The latest approach by the D’s is to claim that competence doesn’t matter. Sorta makes you wonder if the fix is already in. Perhaps elections no longer matter, they’ve become nothing more than a useful distraction, another ring in the circus that entertains the masses while the largess is raided.

    Everything was going just fine until that ass named Donald showed up and began chasing the money changers from the temple.

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    A Prison of Their Own Making

    The only reason Old Joe has not been subjected to the 25th Amendment and is still the presumptive D nominee is folk can’t figure out how to escape from that prison of their own making: Kamala. They are in a terrible bind.

    The RNC is exploiting her go-to lines. Lines she has repeated in 62 separate speeches.

    Unless something unfortunate happens to the silver tongued one and she becomes unavailable, the best play for the D’s would be to put on a good show, stay emotionally detached, and get an early start on the 2028 go-round.

    I’ll bet the butt holes on her Secret Service detail are puckered so tight that when they stand up, the chairs come up with them.

    As far as Biden and his adamant stance, his 100 percent in it to win it posture; does anyone expect him to say anything other than that? Imaging the chaos if he were to say: ‘I’m 85 percent in’ or ‘I need a nap need time to think’. All hell would break loose among the D and the D donors.

    What the smart money knows is that Biden is toast and he and the D’s are buying time to do what needs to be done to replace him. He is 100 percent in until he isn’t. My bet is that ‘he isn’t’ once they solve the Kamala problem. Barring that, he’s out once the deep state figures out a path forward.

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    She’s Done

    From February 24. There are many a D that wish they didn’t know now what they didn’t know then.

    May 2024: Words with zero credibility. Surely she knew how far gone he was before she made these statements. She was betting on the gullibility of the American people

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    Our Diversity is Our Strength

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    The Presidency DEI’d

    Should have seen it coming.

    The Paris Olympics are just around the corner but the real gymnastics will come from the D’s if they try to replace Slow Joe with anyone other than Kamel-toe. Kinda difficult to keep the black vote if/when that house of cards falls and she’s not at the top of the ticket.

    Voices from Kamala’s orbit:

    “The fact that people keep coming back to this is so offensive to so many of us,” one Harris ally told the outlet. “They still don’t get that the message you’re saying to people, to this Democratic Party, is, we prefer a white person.”

    “If they think they are going to get through South Carolina bashing an effective and qualified Black woman vice president — their instincts are as bad as I thought they were,” added a second source.

    What a sticky spot: Joe has to go and the replacement must be the candidate still lingering long after her 2020 DEI windfall.

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    Rehabilitation

    I guess it was bound to happen. The lap dogs smart folk that the President has surrounded himself with have now wheeled out their newest remake: Old-Mad-Orange-Brandon.

    In the haste to rehabilitate his image someone, Jill?, over corrected in an astonishing way. If I were Trump I’d try the ‘imitation is the greatest flattery’ line for a week or two.

    I guess here is what we can expect to see flow from this crowd next:

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    Shout it Down

    The D’s are working real hard to put Thursdays disaster into the dust bin of history. The path forward, the plan, appears to be to act like it didn’t even happen. Onward ! Forward!

    That enthusiasm might just blind enough D’s and I’s to look past the naked emperor, but at the end of the day we will all end up with a babbling old man at the reins of power in a very dangerous world.

    Could this be how it all begins/ends? Are the fingers of a madman inching towards a big red button?

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    A Few Too Many Mushrooms

    So here’s the deal, it is illegal to be a homosexual in Gaza (under Hamas control) and in the West Bank (under Palestinian Authority control).

    Israel is the only country in the Middle East that does not persecute members of the alphabet community. Israel is ‘tolerant’ enough that it holds its own Pride parades. That word ‘tolerant’ has really changed meaning since our nations jumped on the Pride bandwagon by the way. Tolerance, when attached to concept of perversity, means we must remove our hats, bow slightly, and give reverence to all things rainbow-ish.

    OK, back to the alphabet, what does the far left do when the clock has wound down on our nations month long Pride tribute? Why they instigate a counter protest of their own counter culture celebration.

    Here is how progressive these brainiacs are: The group they are counter protesting for have the right, have the duty, to drop the rainbow people from high places until they no longer bounce. Be careful what you wish for.

    This could only happen in San Francisco.

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    John Deere vs The Pressure People

    There is a lot of whining going on over the movement of a large slice JD production to Mexico. The Daily Mail has an extensive write-up detailing all of the hurt this brings to middle America. There is much crying and gnashing of teeth.

    First two lines in the article: 
    –John Deere is sparking outrage by laying off American workers and moving more of its agricultural equipment manufacturing to Mexico.
    –Since October 2023, more than 1,000 John Deere workers have either been laid off or pushed into an early retirement across several plants in Iowa and Illinois.

    Then there is this at around the 55th paragraph mark:
    –The layoffs began after 10,000 unionized John Deere workers went on strike for five weeks in October 2021.

    The JD folk were not all pleased with what they gained in the 2021 negotiations, almost a full third wanted to hold out for more than was was finally settled on:
    –a 10 percent pay raise
    –a $250 a month increase for retiring employees
    –100 percent coverage of medical insurance costs
    –a one time $8,500 cash incentive
    — a $2,000 dollar bonus for each previous year worked at the firm

    Well shit folks, you didn’t think that John Deere became a 187 year old king of jungle by rolling over every time the natives became restless did you? In this instance the natives were all upset about the company making good profit and the CEO making his millions. Consider this:

    The CEO managed to triple the value of the company stock and improve the quarterly dividend it pays to all stockholders. Given that level of wealth creation I think the CEO was worthy of his pay.

    When the union made the employee-employer all about the money and promoted a we vs they mentality among their members they also promoted that same mentality in the leadership of JD. If it’s all about the money then there is a much greater value proposition to be found in dozens of far flung locales on this planet.

    Congrats to the union and the union employees, you’ve proven that Adam Smith’s invisible hand was correctly extrapolated by Samuelson:
    —–Free markets are self-regulating systems that create economically optimal outcomes, which can’t be improved upon by government intervention.
    —-The idea of trade and market exchange perfectly channeling self-interest toward socially desirable ends is a central justification for newer versions of the laissez-faire economic philosophy which lie behind neoclassical economics.

    Unfortunately for the those in Iowa and Illinois the ‘economically optimal outcome’ favored the folk in Mexico. Had the legal tender, the value proposition, been based on mutually favorable outcomes then this would never had happened.

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    Catch of the Day (6/0)

    Ten ‘ladies’ in 6 photos have busted out of the electron stable.  Each suffers from a flaw in the AI generated image. Can you find them?  Answers posted in the comments.  Hint:  it’s still not the tits.

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    Around the Farm

    With the mounting of a light bar on the new bumper I’m almost finished with my Jeep project.

    I wired the light through a Bosch 5 pin relay such that when I turn on the fog lights it activates a relay and 12 volts (I tapped in at the positive winch terminal) is applied through a inline 30 amp fuse to the relay that delivers it to the new light.

    I’ve got all of the wiring running through ‘looms’ except one small ( 5 inch) portion between the fuse to the relay. I’ll get that in today and then adjust the light beam upward slightly.

    ‘That Black Stuff’ I mentioned purchasing a few days back really does seem to work on the Jeep’s vinyl. For some reason it ended up slightly streaked on the fenders (not shown) so I need to go back and touch those up a mite. It occurs to me that the concept of cost/price is relative: I thought the stuff as being pricey at roughly $20 for 3 fluid ounces, but then realized having ‘like new’ fenders and a rear bumpers is a steal at that price.

    I’ve got 6 quarts of oil and new filter but cannot find my 24mm socket so the needed oil change has hit the deferred maintenance list for a couple of days. Two remaining items for completion (other than the oil change and fender treatment) are applying a wicked sticker below the Wrangler logo on each of the rocker panels and receiving/mounting the winch cover.

    We got a little rain on Friday, enough so that the weeds that I call grass/lawn were brought back to life and the place could be mowed yesterday (Saturday). A predecessor task was swapping out the mower blades which, of course, had a predecessor of sharpen the mower blades.

    The old ones (above) have been sharpened previously and now are pretty well shot, so I’ll toss them. The ones I placed on yesterday will be good for a couple of months and will need to be trashed once I’m done running them over rocks and stumps that manage to rearrange themselves around here.

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    A Thousand Years

    The leaders within allied nations around the globe will certainly be busy in the coming days and weeks.  It seems that the relatively peaceful world they’ve become accustomed to now teeters itself on the cliffs of chaos. 

    What The Fuck (spelled out because WTF is not sufficiently exasperating) was the President’s campaign (and the presidential administration) thinking when they trotted this senile old man out in front of the world?  The level of incompetence within the deep state is staggering and the comfort that came from knowing that Old Joe wasn’t really calling the shots is no longer comforting. 

    The bad guys are probably hurrying to their own huddle.  I regret to inform that no good will come from their new found confidence, a confidence born from the emperor’s nakedness.  Born from the realization of how utterly incompetent the American deep state has become. 

    Consider the words of The Great Communicator. . . .   

    “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

    . . . and then replace this sock puppet and his vice-sock puppet post haste.  ‘A thousand years of darkness’ is a long, long time.

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    Catch of the Day (5+2)

    A plus up on the number of photos used: the ladies wanted out of the stable.  Seven fashionista’s in five photos and two farm girls along with their prized tractors.  Each suffers from a flaw in the AI generated image. Can you find them?  Answers posted in the comments.  For the tenth time:  it’s still not the tits.

    ……and, the ever popular ‘Farm Girl’:

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    An Explanation Was Warranted?

    CNN must be expecting some pretty dumb folk to tune into the debates this evening. Why else would they feel the need to explain how a person sounds (actually doesn’t sound) when their mic is turned off?

    With all of these rules staged to protect less cognitively endowed it makes you wonder what post debate propaganda imagery will be generated.

    One thing is absolutely certain: putting Slow Joe on the world stage for an extended period is a national security risk. The worse he does the more emboldened our enemies become.

    How the fuck did we end up in such a sticky mess?

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    Sign of the Times | Overlords & Tyrants

    So Tommy Robinson gives a speech on free speech in the Great White North and is immediately arrested: so much for free speech.

    It took about 10 law enforcement (LE) personnel, some of who were undercover, to arrest Tommy on an immigration warrant. Three simple questions come immediately to mind:
    1. How many LE folk do they employ to take down your typical Roberto or Pablo?
    2. How many undocumented newcomers do they typically take to jail?
    3. Finally how many border walkers are actually named in a warrant prior to their arrest?

    Some powerful folks are doing their best squelch voices among the Canucks. Breitbart had a good take on how the New World Order folk have been smothering Tommy R and folk of his stripe. The tweet below from some 8 years past.

    Closer to home the Uni Party manages to replace Rino Romney with an over-the-top exemplar of Rino-ishness: John Curtis, the former head of the Utah Democratic Party.

    The deal making and skid greasing that gets someone like Jumping John into the Senate as a Republican shall forever remain unknown. Unknown because our wonderful free press (yes that free press that just wrangled a massive government giveaway) is busy covering transvestites in Maryland winning state level beauty contests.

    Finally (OK not a final finally, but a finally for now finally) your betters in congress look to have stumbled on hard evidence that the CIA colluded with the Democratic Party to get Brandon implanted as Commander in Chief.

    To which half of our citizens immediately remark : No Shit.

    This ain’t your daddy’s America folks, that America had slime embedded in high office that knew how not to get caught.

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    Catch of the Day (3+1)

    Here are three new sets of electrons piled together in interesting ways. Each suffers from quasi-obvious flaws. Can you find them?  Answers posted in the comments.   Hint: it’s still not the tits.

    A bonus for all the good folk in rural America: Farm Girl

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    Three Types of Poop

    Same game, different day.

    The no shit line of the day? ‘Both countries face growing confrontation with the West’.
    The oh shit line of the day? ‘A pledge of mutual defense if either is attacked’.

    No shit: we are just shy of WWIII over Ukraine
    Oh shit: Ukraine is currently attacking Russia and North Korea has pledged ‘mutual defense’.

    No Shit, Oh Shit, and Bullshit: Now the ‘No Shit’ and ‘Oh Shit’ elements of this article are concerning and I don’t want to diminish their import, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the ‘Bullshit’ portion found just a little further on in the piece. It reads:

    For the first paragraph in the narrative to be true, then the second would have to be false (and vise versa). The relationship building narrative (bullshit) cannot be the purpose of the visit as North Korea is already (2nd para: had been providing) so cash/energy strapped they would sell every single production item they had. Russia on the other hand has an excess of both cash (albeit rubles) and energy.

    Now for absolute proof my ‘Bullshit’ contention: “six senior US officials” . Probably a subset of the same folk that weighed in on Hunter Biden’s lap top.

    The world is a dangerous place and I’m sorry to report that the actions of our nation have done little to tamp down on the tyranny that threatens us all. Let’s go Brandon doesn’t seem to quite cover it.

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    Just Noticed

    I must have been asleep at the helm

    These are not the ‘shoes needed for the elderly’ and the photo pre-dates the announcement that he would be into geriatric wingtips. Elevated heels? WTF?

    If nothing else I’m a helpful kind of guy. A good citizen. In that narrow vein that marks the intersect of helpfulness and good citizenry I’d like to offer Joe (et al) an appropriate alternative in men’s footwear:

    You can thank me later.

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    Beyond My Abilities | A Kinder Master

    I’ve looked really hard at why Juneteenth was named a holiday and why, given that you’d want to celebrate when a message was delivered (vice what the message conveyed) you’d want to title it in bad English. It’s almost as if you were playing a racial game; as if you were poking fun at that element of our citizenry. If I were black I’d be embarrassed that my fellow blacks joyfully accepted this studied insult.

    Some little scratch at the surface meaning of the holiday reveals that it is the day that blacks in one city of the US found out that the thousands of whites that died for their freedom were successful. Is it a holiday in honor of those lost lives? Nope. It honors nothing. It’s a black holiday just to remind folk that Dems wanted black folks to know they value them enough to give the 87 percent of Americans that aren’t black another holiday and a good laugh (at the bad English) at the expense of the 13 percent.

    But no matter, as Genesius Times points out, we’ve managed to replace one master with another. A kind and gentle master, but a master none the less.

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    At One Time

    There was a time when a shirt worn by Joe M would not have made the news. It seems that now demonstrating ones faith takes an act of faith. Faith that even though some unknown cupcake sitting in their unknown corner of their little sprinkles on the cupcakes world is going to find a way to sue him into oblivion (or submission) for showing a faith that the cupcake cannot understand or own.

    To be clear: I find Catholics to be an odd lot. Almost cult-like and a lot more rigid than my ever-backsliding ass could comfortably ascribe to. However, Joe shows the kind of ‘moral big balls’ that our society desperately needs to be reminded of. Thanks Coach.

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    Your Lying Eyes

    It’s a good thing that we have someone like Karine Jean-Pierre, a government employee whom we pony up the salary for, at the helm of the truth machine. Who knows what kind of mischief will ensue should Americans believe their lying eyes instead of the party line.