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Dirt Under my Nails

All of the bad weather has moved out of my little corner of the world and I was able to apply some machinery to cleaning up some of the mess and overdue mowing/trimming. All of my trees stayed in place but a large Cherry Tree fell across the road just east of me on Sunday and a kind soul, knowing it couldn’t be cleared ‘in place’ attached a chain or rope to the trunk and dragged to the nearest place it could be chopped and cleared from the road way. You guessed it, it ended up along the side of the road on my property. I spent a good part of the day yesterday cutting it down and loaded it on my trailer (three loads actually) to a burn pile of been cultivating.

Today I was able to tackle the mowing and trimming along the front edge of the place. It’s just under 1,500 feet along that portion.

Here’s the before (at the gate):

And the after:

There is nothing quite as satisfying as working with good tools on a lawn, fence line, or in the woods.

Now, I’m off to Huntsville AL to satisfy two needs: Kimchi making’s and beef. It’s worth the 100 mile round trip for a couple of reasons: first, the only place where good fresh Napa cabbage, Korean radish, and Chinese chives can be found nearby (if you consider 50 miles nearby) is at the ‘International Market’ in Huntsville. Wallyworld sells some pretty bad looking Napa cabbage for about 4 bucks a pound while the place in Hunstville has fresh (fresher) cabbage at 1.29 a pound.

The second reason is I want to make some beef jerky and I want to can up some beef stew. The meat I need can be had at the military commissary for 3 or 4 dollars a pound cheaper and is of a better quality than Walmart. It’s 5 or 6 dollars a pound cheaper than Publics. The kids and grandkids love the jerky and can shove away an amazing amount in short order. I’ve got some mid-heat peppers in the garden that may find their way into the flavorings I put on the jerky. We’ll see.

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Omar/Bush Need a Do-Over (But not Veronica)

Sounds about right. There are wackos, bums and thieves on both sides of the aisle. Some are second and third generation professional politicians that have spent decades in the marble halls dedicated to the memories of the previous generation of thieves. Others are new at the game.

The difference between a McConnell and a Omar (or a Bush for that matter) is one has mastered the application of power and wealth and the other is a novice. As you can tell, I don’t have strong feelings on the subject one way or the other.

Speaking of ‘Do-Overs’, you know who doesn’t need one? The male runner named Veronica Garcia. This little bitch, who identifies as a female, drug his dick around the 400 meter course at the State Championship and beat the nearest real girl by more than a second.

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Bad Breeding?

Sometimes I fall into periods of deep thought.; yesterday was one of those days. The questions that kept turning over in my mind are related to the figures below that I found on Facebook and the question is/was: “Did the creator of these images purposely dumb them down, or are they the product of a mind suffering from sort of dissociative disorder, or is this person so dumb that they actually believe farm equipment actually operates like this and farm animal actually look like the do in the images?”

If it’s an IA operating shyster then there is someone out there that is trying to attract dumb people. I guess they see them as an easy ‘mark’. Which, if you extent this line of thought, means that this same nefarious seeker of dumb persons believes there are dollars to be made from them, which also (extending further) means they believe dumb folk have somehow gained wealth. Has this person stumbled upon a closely held secret path to wealth or are they an absolute idiot themself?

I’m thinking that the person generating these images has never seen a farm or farm critters; it’s some city dweller that is relying on the superior mind of his ‘in the public domain’ and free to download beta version of AI software. The scary part is that soon the world will be filled with such nonsense as future generative AI routines will find, and use as an example, images created by other faulty AI systems. Folk that are living in the inner cities of tens of millions people would have no way of independently verifying that a, for example, pig only has two nostrils and farm girls are born with three fingers per hand.

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They’re Running In Monaco

[An update at 3 minutes in and on the first lap: Red flag wreck and cars have returned to the pits. At least 3 cars are out of the race while a small army of orange clad minions man the brooms to sweep the crash area.]

The Monaco Grand Prix is probably the greatest event in motorsports. ABC is streaming the pre-race hoopla that includes million dollar yachts backed into viewing position , stars of screen and stage looking for a mic, pro athletes with their trim blond and bosomed wives, and thousands of ladies in their summer finery. It’s a spectacular demonstration of wealth and privilege. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for wealth/privilege and hope both will visit me some day.

It’s a great course with spectacular views and challenging turns.

If the past provides any hint at what the future brings, there will be some broken hearts and destroyed machinery at the end of the day.

Streaming now on ABC

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The Unofficial Start of Summer

All signs point to an active summer season and the folk out on the left coast were the first to kickoff what promises to be a stellar riot season. The confluence of anti-christian, anti-Jew, pro-Palestinian, unemployment, immigration, high inflation, summer heat, legalization of drugs, de-funding of police, lax enforcement of existing law, the election cycle, inability to determine ones own sex/gender, the entry of South American cartels to the trade-space, social unrest brought about by rabble-rousers of all persuasions, and the perceived ills caused by the existence of strait white males have pushed the citizenry beyond what they believe they should tolerate.

Before the actual games begin, here are a couple of videos that recap some of the preseason action:

First, the contestants provided the boys in blue a warm welcome.

Then a rousing, albeit short, tribute to their downtrodden brown brothers.

A good time was had by all .

Now that school is out and the last vestiges of social structure have been swept away, it is going to get damn spicy in America’s population centers. What this nation needs is a scoring and handicap system for these games. If we can gin up something reasonable and craft an online betting venue some good may come from the mess these folk are going to make.

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Great Job Bozo

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Staggering

On June 6th it will have been 80 years since the landings of D Day In 1944. The undertaking was enormous and the number of lives lost in the liberation of Europe was staggering.

Operation Market Garden was the largest military operation mankind has ever conceived. On the side of the Allies three nations with completely different geopolitical views: Russia, the US and England somehow bridged their differences and nursed a very difficult alliance to challenge and then collapse the tyranny that gripped the world.

Millions of families across our nation had family that traveled to war in those foreign lands. Both of my uncles on my fathers side fought in that war. They left the family home in Ozark, Mo., fought in a world war and, upon returning, both married patriotic women they found along train stops as they went to war. One became a milk delivery driver in Detroit and the other delivered ice and coal. An uncle on my mothers side left his home in Ottumwa Iowa and gave his life on some distant and obscure battlefield.

As you enjoy this great Memorial Day weekend, take time to lift a glass to those that gave that last greatest measure of devotion and count the blessings in your life that came at such a dear cost.

Have a great weekend. The sacrifice of so many demand no less !

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See, Simple.

I often wondered why it is that the moon appears to rise over a different point in the sky. Sometimes it would rise near my equipment barn and other times it would be well south of that (as it did this evening). Turns out there’s a simple explanation that the pencil necks in the physics realm have made difficult.

“This change in the position of moonrise throughout a given month is due to three factors. First, the Earth’s rotational axis is tilted by about 23.5 degrees relative to the plane in which it orbits around the Sun. Second, the Moon orbits the Earth in a plane that is tilted by about 5.1 degrees relative to the plane in which the Earth orbits around the Sun. Since the Moon makes one complete orbit around the Earth in 28.5 days, you will see the position of the Moon’s rise on the horizon change by twice 23.5+5.1 degrees, or about 57.2 degrees, during one orbit of the Moon around the Sun. This is pretty close to the 118-65 = 53 degrees that you measured using a compass.”

See: told ya.

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Catching Up

I’ve been playing catch-up on the yard work for the last couple of days but don’t think I’ll be ahead of the curve until mid-June or so.  The unpredictability of the weather is the cause of some of this and letting some areas around the farm go without tending at the close of last year has created challenges where I really didn’t need to be challenged. 

Yesterday I knocked out half of the trimming that needed to be done along a deep drainage area that intersects with the road in to my house.  Because I didn’t hit it at the end of last summer the chainsaw was needed to knock some of it down.  A large tree (about 6 feet in diameter) fell across a portion of it last year so I’ve been cutting on it in prep for a burn later this year.  I brush-hogged the back field this morning and trimmed along the houses and drainage areas leading to the creeks a couple of days ago so when this round of weather moves out (Monday?) I can finish the ditch area (a day’s work), mow and trim along the fence on the front of the property (a day’s work), clear, mow, and trim along the spring and creek (three days of effort). 

My little mini-garden is in.  Tomatoes, peppers, okra, cucumbers, beans, melon and zucchini mostly.  I know I’m not going to have the time to maintain much more than this and finish moving the fencing and other garden related infrastructure and play catch-up around the place.  I’ve got another 40 pepper seedlings I need to get into the ground in the next couple of days.  I’ve got to do better at recording what goes/went where though; the annotated diagram I had for the 7 varieties of tomatoes and 9 varieties of peppers already in the ground has disappeared.  Tomatoes won’t be a problem because two varieties are weird:  Atomic and Lemon

I’m growing advanced in years, but still know the difference between a Roma and a Beefsteak and the two varieties of cherry tomatoes (Besser and Tiny Tim) are easily distinguishable.  The last variety is a F1 slicer.

Peppers are another story altogether.  It’s going to be fun figuring out which of the three yellow peppers (aji lemon, Hungarian hot yellow, and banana) are which.  Also, given that an immature habanero and pepperoncini look much the same, caution is warranted.

All twelve of my apple grafts survived and they need to be planted/staked and caged.  All 10 of my pear grafts failed.  The root-stock appears to be good and is growing its own leaves/shoots so I think I may have cut the scion wood off of my three varieties to late in the year (I should have cut in December and did cut in late Feb).  I’ll plant the root-stock and then re-graft next winter.  All four of my existing pear trees are bearing fruit.  Of the 4 older apple trees (2x Yellow Delicious, 1 Fuji, 1 Red Delicious) three are fruiting.  Of the twelve new apple trees I grafted and planted last year, 11 survived.  True to form however, half the labels I placed on the tree have faded away and the annotated diagram of what was planted where has pass into oblivion.  The good news is I know what was planted!  I just don’t know where it was planted.   If this is what 70 is like, 80 is going to be a real adventure.

Everything hinges on the weather and the weather looks pretty friggin frightening for the next couple of days.  They are predicting bad ju-ju for Saturday and Sunday.  The last couple of times they projected bad blows this far out they materialized with a vengeance.  I’ll be alright, I’ll just walk around all puckered up. 

Before I retired and moved out into God’s country the weather didn’t play a big part in my life.  Even when I was in the Infantry the weather just ‘was’.  It didn’t really matter what it was or was going to be, when you’re a grunt all you can do is shrug and keep on keeping on.  Keep your heads down and your eyes open folks cause that bad weather looks to be running south of the Macon-Dixon line and packing a real punch.

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Catch of the Day

Here’s three of today’s best bad AI that I found on Facebook.  Can you spot the error(s)in the photos? Answers in the comments.  Hint: it’s never the tits.

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Cosmic Background Radiation. An AI Take

So I’m reading an article on Cosmic Background Radiation and the author throws up a picture that looks pretty different that the green and blue splotch image I’m used to seeing, like this:

It looked pretty different so I checked out the caption directly below the photo. Photo and caption from a screen shot I took:

Turns out, like almost every other ‘photo’ taken of objects in our galaxy or in the friggin universe, it’s not real. While most are color added manipulations of data produced by the instruments, this, if the caption holds true, is a “purple and red shape on a black backround”.

Now I can live with that color modified data thingy, but what is being pushed our way now is the phantoms of somebodies mind or, perhaps more appropriately, some AI generated graphic that ‘it’ believes is plausible enough to pass human scrutiny. What hurts most is that the author (or automation) didn’t even care enough to generate a decent caption. My stab at creating relevant media and captions (below):

Or, you can just fall into line and believe your betters when told that the image below is an actual image of a young lady advertising for a mate on Farmers Only DotCom.

It’s all good though, it’s part of that brave new world thingy you hear everyone talking about.

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The Wisdom In Job

I’ve been in one of ‘those’ moods for several weeks now; teetering between “someone needs to burn this whole thing down” and “fuckit, you broke it now it’s your problem”. 

I am, of course, engaged in careful reflection of the state of our nation given the two absolute idiots we have running for President. I don’t blame them, they’re just simpletons caught up in the times. I blame the character of the nation.

My conclusion (burn or abandon)?  It has to be the latter because the former won’t fix shit.  Besides, any Phoenix rising from these ashes would not be a kind and gentle beast.

The second course of action (actually inaction), the broke/fix it path, will eventually lead to the same outcome of the ‘burn it down’ alternative except someone else does the burning. 

Apparently, we are incapable of self-determination, and because we don’t live in a vacuum, there are a surprising number of ugly nations lined up with matches in hand.   They have been a patient lot so far.

America is a one and done phenomena.  The confluence of sentiment and opportunity that allowed men of great character to crank up a new nation will likely never again occur.  No force on earth could reconstitute that recipe and even if they could there are no avatars of the type ‘founder’ waiting to be invoked.  Men of means willing to pledge to each other their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor have been replaced with the most ignoble among us. 

So there we have it; the indispensable nation is both dispensable and disposable.  There are a shitload of nefarious folk leveraging the vast wealth of many nations against the last redoubt of liberty even though that ‘liberty’ hasn’t existed here in a hundred years.  We are now but an empty shell, the riches within have been repeatedly drained by a continuing train of power-hungry vermin. 

14:1 In the Book of Job: “Man born of a woman is but a few days, and full of trouble.”  I’m thinking that the ‘but a few days’ phrase is entirely beneficial to the collective consciousness of man: imagine what the world would be like if all of us old fuckers lived forever and did nothing but complain.

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A Rant on Truthiness

I’m normally not one to rant and rave, I’m the guy that pretty much takes things as they come and marvel/remark at the wonders and weirdness of this place/reality we’ve all been cast into. But as of late I can’t help but notice that what is usually a tolerable level of incongruence, mischief, and deceit has dramatically escalated. I’m being swarmed with untruthfulness and chicanery from every quadrant.

Has this always been so and I never realized it? Have I been blind and only now shaken off the innocence and naivete to process it?

While not on the top of the list of falsehoods being visited up me is the notion that we should jail the former president for 34 (turdy fo) felony counts for signing a lawful check? It was a just debt incurred for a lawful act. 34 felonies because the CFO of his multi billion dollar firm chose to use ‘services rendered’ instead of ‘reimbursement’ in the notes section of the check? Are you shitting me?

Next, my inbox is now a minefield. Here is a sample of the trickery some endless stream of Nigerian never-do-wells have decided needed to be sent my way.

I turn to the news and get this:

The intertubes are swamped by AI entities that can’t seem to get it right:

Until the AI can figure out how a mirror works or the number of fingers that belong on a hand I’m not worried about them taking over the world.

I am worried that given enough time the technology will become proficient enough and prolific enough that a tipping point will be reached. Until then, a false image (and narrative) such as that shown below will receive north of 12 thousand up votes without anyone realizing the ‘boy’ has 3 arms.

The worst part of all of this is that the government, under the guise of solving the ‘truthiness’ problem, will develop and deploy a set of cyber tools that squash all narratives that don’t match the reality they choose to impose.

We all knew it was to good to last anyway. Right?

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The Way We Look

I guess we just look stupid. That’s the only explanation that I can come up with for all of the deceit and manipulation flowing from the administration/press.

Precedent? Cutting off aid to our strongest regional ally during a shooting war has precedent? Really?

Since when is airing out an ally ‘all part of security cooperation‘?

I’m more upset with how our government and the press are working together to manipulate our citizenry than I am upset about the absolute devious manner we’ve treated a friend. This is bad, real bad.

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Hyperventilating

Have you ever noticed that the press moves from one Trump ‘disaster’ to another? Were the collective media a single person they would have been committed long ago for severe obsessive compulsion disorder.

The press has such a hard on for Trump they’ve completely lost all objectivity.. For instance, they have completely forgotten that ‘Trump’ and ‘The Trump Organization’ are separate entities. That’s how you end up with headlines like:

Even if their audit ‘suggests’ that the corporation took an overly aggressive view of the tax treatment of a loss (and this hasn’t been adjudicated), it’s the corporation that’s on the hook not Trump. This same approach by our nations impartial news organization occurred when they torpedoed The Trump Organization’s CFO for failing to tax his perks.

When Trump (actually The Trump Organization) gets the IRS on his ass they come with the full force of a politically charged and deep pocketed nemesis. Here is why he/they are so exposed (from Wiki) .

The Trump Organization is an holding company for all of Trump’s business ventures and investments, with around 250 of its affiliates and subsidiaries using the Trump name.

The Trump Organization has or has had interests in real estate development, investing, brokerage, sales and marketing, and property management. Trump Organization entities own, operate, invest in, and develop residential real estate, hotels, resorts, residential towers, and golf courses in various countries.

They also operate or have operated in construction, hospitality, casinos, entertainment, book and magazine publishing, broadcast media, model management, retail, financial services, food and beverages, business education, online travel, commercial and private aviation, and beauty pageants. Retail operations include or have included fashion apparel, jewelry and accessories, books, home furnishings, lighting products, bath textiles and accessories, bedding, home fragrance products, small leather goods, vodka, wine, barware, steaks, chocolate bars, and bottled spring water.

Well, shit, with 250 affiliate and subsidiary firms along with 22,450 employees, if they weren’t being audited/sued then the leadership within the firms were not earning their pay. The IRS, with all of the heavy they bring, could care less about the success of this organization. What those worms in the deep state do care about is that tingle that runs down their leg when they think about bringing Trump to his knees.

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Cruelty for Some

For some the world is a cruel place. The streets are mean and danger plays the waiting game with those less capable of defending themselves, their family and their possessions. For many that danger required them to either cower or, if deciding to arm themselves, risk the ire of the boys in blue. It looks like a decision in the 9th Circuit Court may change that for some.

The case, USA v. Duarte was heard in U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

While not a ruling of the full court, a three judge panel has revealed that some small threads of freedom are still a part of the nations fabric.  Equally fascinating is the logic was based on the Constitution as written rather than ‘as interpreted’.  Surely this is new territory for this group.

In part the decision reads:  Duarte is an American citizen, and thus one of “the people” whom the Second Amendment protects. The Second Amendment’s plain text and historically understood meaning therefore presumptively guarantee his individual right to possess a firearm for self-defense. The Government failed to rebut that presumption by demonstrating that permanently depriving Duarte of this fundamental right is otherwise consistent with our Nation’s history. We therefore hold that [the prohibition] violates Duarte’s Second Amendment rights and is unconstitutional as applied to him.

And

We do not base our decision on the notion that felons should not be prohibited from possessing firearms. As a matter of policy, [the prohibition] may make a great deal of sense. But “[t]he very enumeration of the [Second Amendment] right” in our Constitution “takes out of [our] hands . . . the power to decide” for which Americans “th[at] right is really worth insisting upon.” (Heller).

Let’s face it, not everyone needs a weapon in order to protect themselves. We could take a few lessons from the folk below and beat back any barbarian that comes after us.

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What We’ve Become/Allowed

Wonder what things were like in the locker room post race?

And the hits keep coming: 200 meter race

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I’ve Lost Control

Ok, I’ll admit it. When it comes to sharpshooting AI web creatures I just can’t help myself.

Something has snapped in me and suddenly what would normally have been a mundane image trolling for clicks to a OnlyFans website (or nefarious actors with delusions of using mighty software viruses/trojans to bring it all down) has become targets of my ire.

In the image below the ‘lady’ is supposedly standing in front of a bathroom mirror taking a photo of herself on a cellphone. Two questions: how did ‘she’ get into the room and how is ‘she’ to leave?

One more? How does the ‘lady’ below reach the stove?

Last one for today: When this thing (below) moves it’s hand from it’s hip, how many fingers will remain on the hip?

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Good News, No New Light Bulb Rules !

There are 10 major environmental rules that Biden just pushed out the door.. Four of these will significantly contribute to the draining of your financial reserves. the other six are just going to make life difficult. They are:

1. Shifting to Electric Cars
The rule does not ban sales of gasoline-powered cars or mandate sales of all-electric vehicles, but by 2032 more than half the new cars sold in the United States would be zero-emissions vehicles, up from just 7.6% last year.

2.Slashing Power Plant Pollution
Requires existing coal plants reduce 90% of greenhouse pollution by 2039 and requires new natural gas power plants to reduce their emissions 90% by 2032.

3.Plugging Methane Leaks
Requires oil and gas producers to detect and fix leaks of methane that wafts into the atmosphere from pipelines, drill sites and storage facilities.

4.Raising the Price to Drill on Public Lands: Raises royalty rates and increases more than tenfold the amount of the bonds that companies must secure before they start drilling.

Other actions guaranteed to jack up prices and steal pennies from widows include:

5.Banning Asbestos: Bans chrysotile asbestos, the only type of asbestos still used in the United States,. The mineral is used in roofing materials, textiles and cement as well as gaskets, clutches, brake pads and other automotive parts.

6.Ending ‘Forever’ Chemicals in Tap Water: Requires municipal water systems to remove six synthetic chemicals currently present in the tap water of hundreds of millions of Americans. The new rule require that the public be notified if levels exceed a standard of 4 parts per trillion for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl. Not 4 PP million. No, not 4 PP billion. We’re talking 4 parts per 1,000,000,000,000 .

7.Protecting Endangered Species: Protecting them from you, not from them. Gives federal officials more leeway to protect species in a ‘changing climate’, bring back protections for animals that are classified as “threatened” and clarifies whether to list a species must be made without considering economic factors.

8.Protecting the Alaskan Wilderness. Deep sixes a proposed 211-mile industrial road to a $7.5 billion copper deposit.

9.Chemical Plant Safety. Requires 12,000 chemical plants and other industrial sites nationwide that handle hazardous materials to explicitly plan for and invest in safety measures against disasters. (We knew this was delayed until members of the deep-state were able to acquire sufficient stock in said firms that produce ‘safety measures’.)

10.Permitting for Highways, Power Lines and Pipelines. Speeds up federal construction permits for clean energy projects while slowing down everyone else. Requires the feds to more heavily weigh damaging effects on the climate and on low-income communities before approving projects like highways and oil wells.

White house spokes-creature ended with an upbeat proclamation:
“The beating will continue until morale improves.”

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A Rant | Journalists and Nigerians

So here was the headline on Breitbart.

Intrigued, I took a look at how it was possible to significantly increase the number of consumers in a closed system and not simultaneously create growth (unless the production side of the equation was max’d out).

As in all things manipulative, success comes gaslighting your audience.  Changing the meaning of words helps bunches as well.  There is a lot going on with this article and I’m not going to get into any more than the first two paragraphs.   

First paragraph:  In a rebuke of the neo-liberal orthodoxy (1) which has dominated both major political parties in Britain, a study has found that mass migration has not actually stimulated the economy and has been a major drag (2) on public services and the housing sector.

  1.  When did one of the most meaningful characteristics of a free market (supply and demand) become ‘neo-liberal orthodoxy’?
  2. A ‘major’ drag would result in less available public services and more available housing.  Exactly the opposite is the case here: more people are availing themselves to public services and the demand for housing has gone through the roof.

Second paragraph A report from the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and co-authored by former immigration minister Robert Jenrick (1) finds record levels of immigration imposed upon the country (2) by the so-called Conservative Party — despite promising the public to reduce the influx of foreigners following Brexit — has not been correlated with an increase to economic growth per capita. (3) This report must have been ginned up for consumption in the US, as Jenrick is one of the least credible bog (think swamp) creatures in the UK.  God did not create enough electrons to get into all of this guy’s faults but through the magic of the interwebs we can link to the Wiki article. 

  1. This report must have been ginned up for consumption in the US, as Jenrick is one of the least credible bog (think swamp) creatures in the UK.  God did not create enough electrons to get into all of this guy’s faults but through the magic of the interwebs we can link to the Wiki article. did it work?  They used his name in order to hang this report on a seemingly credible official title that most will not evaluate.
  2. Here it comes, leveraging the politics of divisiveness with words and phrases ‘imposed’ and ‘so called Conservative Party’. 
  3. And finally, here is where they are slipping the mickey to the simple minded masses:  ‘per capita’.  So, economic growth can be going like gangbusters, but ‘per capita’ income drops.  No shit!  If I add a buttload of low/no income folk to the equasion then ‘per capita’ income MUST drop.  The only way that it wouldn’t drop is if all of the immigrates (on average) immediately earned more than the population of Briton earned on average.

Just because I’ve become accustomed to being lied to by politicians, the news media, and auto repairpersons doesn’t mean I’m going to overlook it.   

Speaking of being lied to and hoodwinked, the entire nation of Nigeria must have established Facebook accounts.  Surely at least half of that nation has decided the path to riches flows directly from posing as a MILF or GILF.  Here are some examples:

These two creatures (what’s the proper term for an AI cartoon) are shown in the same setting with the one on the right demonstrating the buildings in he background a little larger. That’s something not possible given the setting. But there is also a problem:

The problem? The creature on the left. . .

It’s not just the fingers (left photo 6, right photo 4) that AI seems to have a problem with; it’s also the background (note the rail behind the creature on the right):

Almost every AI created image has a flaw of some type that your subconscious mind registers but you can’t quite figure it out without some conscious effort. A couple more to prove this point.

Sometimes, it’s more than just an added or deformed digit your mind sees, sometimes it’s an entire limb.

That’s my morning rant, time to check the fence lines. The most simple rule about raising cattle? They’re easier to keep up than they are to put up.

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Piss Off and Vacate Yourself

The motion to vacate is the House’s procedure to remove the speaker. The current rules allow any one member, Democrat or Republican, to introduce the motion. If it is introduced as a “privileged” resolution, the House must consider it at some point, although it could be delayed with procedural votes. It only needs a simple majority to pass.

With R’s controlling the house by only one or two votes this means it only takes two or three malcontents to successfully remove the speaker, providing the D’s all vote to to toss him out as well (as they did with McCarthy)

My view is that these idiots the R’s have elected to office are to smart by half. That is to say they’re so stupid they would give away the keys to the kingdom just to get that rush that only the exercise of power provides.

We should have elected adults and problem solvers instead of characters of outrage and outrageous characters.

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Our Enriched Culture

So remember that when it comes to encouraging migration…..

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Wake Up Momma!

The Statesboro Blues courtesy the Allman Bro:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ezPZxfS1jys%3Flist%3DRDGMEMJQXQAmqrnmK1SEjY_rKBGAVMezPZxfS1jys

“Just remember baby, if you can’t make it your sister Lucile said she wants to go”.

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Two Observations

Firstly, I really don’t think that leadership within these many universities were ‘managing the encampments’. Nice to shift the blame from the protestors to the protested when you can get away with it though.

Secondly, I found these words in the articles narrative:

In a letter shared exclusively with NBC News, two Fordham faculty members presented an analysis of what they consider to be Tetlow’s “inaccurate and misleading statements” to the Fordham community.

Assistant professor Leo Guardado and associate professor Carey Kasten provided an in-depth timeline of the May 1 events to the Fordham Faculty Senate on Friday. They also presented a compilation of photos and videos taken by faculty members who elected to serve as observers of the encampment.

That narrative is longhand for ‘you’ve been stabbed in the back by your staff’. These institutions have gone so far left that they’ve began eating their own. . . and I’m OK with that.

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Really? I Mean Really?

Some one had to fact check this? Were people being deceived ?

I’ve notice that AI is being heavily used on Facebook right now with the focus being on GILFs. For shits and giggles I’ve been responding to the posts with mods of the AI that they posted. Here are some samples of what they post:

Here is some of what I’m placing in the comments

No one has begun hitting on me yet. Go figure…

In other news, Canada has figured out how to spend 13 million of taxpayer funds.

Growing old sucks; I had to look it up. Now I’m sorry that I did.

Come to think of it, I could identify with the two spirit (2S) characterization: Old and Cranky!

Not to be outdone, the good people of NY have eased the transition of this 200 lb male that thinks he’s a bitch. Here we see him discussing the finer points of gender equality with a fellow student.

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It didn’t take long for the folk over at Twitter to take down the beat down (above). Wouldn’t want the public to see just how demented some of these 2S-alphabet creatures actually are.

If the cops seem like they are a little slow to respond as of late there may be good reason: they are out doing protect and defend functions at Wallyworld

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When the Coddled become Un-Coddled

This level of perceived entitlement is telling. It’s a testimony to the coddling by parents and ‘authority’ figures that have historically bent to her every desire.

I wonder how her pleas would have been received
had she been held captive by Hamas?

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From the Mouth of Babes

So a boy who’s confused about why his genitalia defines him wants to compete against little girls. The school said the girls must compete against the boy. Here is how they dealt with it.

The board of education bans the girls from competition and called their actions discriminatory. Refusing to entertain the insanity means being banished from the herd.

So It goes to county court and they rule the girls can continue to compete, but they won’t stop the little gender confused one from playing along. They’re right back where they started.

This could have all been avoided if they had just thrown the shot put at the offending genitalia.

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Thomas 28

“I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in flesh. I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them thirsty.

And my soul became afflicted for the sons of men, because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty they came into the world, and empty too they seek to leave the world.

But for the moment they are intoxicated. When they shake off their wine, then they will repent.”

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A Little Glimpse At the Deep State

These folks are pretty damn clear about their philosophy and their intent. Once the shock and awe passes ask yourself this: ‘Why did they push this out into the public domain?’

Was it to frighten? Is it a warning? Is their clever little propaganda piece about influence operations an influence operation in-and-of itself?

One thing is for certain; there are some fairly nefarious actors embedded in our self appointed Deep State and they don’t seem like people willing to draw within the lines.

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Nightmare in Leftyland

A transgender sex offender was caught ‘ allegedly’ trying to kidnap a child on recess at an elementary school in Colorado.

33-year-old Solomon Galligan entered the playfield at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora and approached the children and tried tried to grab a boy. He tripped and fell and then lunged at another child. Witnesses told police that the kids began yelling “stranger danger,” and Galligan left the yard. One child said “he had white powder on his face and smelled of alcohol.” 

Adds new meaning to the term ‘Rocky Mountain Horror Show’.

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The only reason that Trump is staring down a NY jury right now is not because he is being called to task for some great transgression against society, it’s, as others have so eloquently stated, to keep him the limelight with his pecker out. As long as he can be painted in that light, and off of the campaign trail (where he is always on the offensive) then the prosecution can be considered a success.

They could give a fuck about the truth and they don’t care for the appearance of a fair and impartial judicial system. Which, once given a little thought, means they damn sure don’t give a fuck about you/me and/or our country.

Here’s the star witness:

No where in the annals of criminal justice can we find an accused stand trial where the primary witness for the prosecution is a notorious liar and scumbag.. One former Assistant U.S. Attorney states this about Cohen’s latest antics:
“It is not a problem for Cohen’s credibility because he has none — he is a convicted perjurer and fraudster whose current ‘defense’ of his fraud convictions is that he wasn’t telling the truth when he pled guilty. “

Cohen has decided that the best course of action he could take is produce a running commentary on the trial in order to generate revenue on his nightly ‘podcasts’. Here how bad that move is (enter Stormy Daniels’ scheming attorney Michael Avenatti) sitting in the damp cell of a federal prison.

“Never underestimate this guy’s ability to screw something up due to his ignorance and arrogance. He’s dumber than a box of rocks. The state can’t win the case without him and because of his conduct in reviewing trial testimony in violation of the court’s order, which [he] just admitted to when speaking with ABC, the court must strike him as a witness, declare a mistrial, or both. Thus sayeth that grand champion of the downtrodden; Michael Avenatti .

What does all of this mean to the collective ‘us’? It leaves us with broken institutions. For a couple hundred years the barbarians have been kept from the gates by good men who believed in the promise of America. Not the ‘earn an honest buck’ promise, but rather the quasi-equal playing field promise. These idiots have managed to snatch that away from us and we are left with the worst possible promise for the future: Powerful people are to be feared and all of the systems are rigged to benefit them alone.

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Diversity

So while the folk on the left coast were busy working through their issues, the kind and gentle townfolk of NYC were sharing the love that only comes through diversity.

The author of this post takes the high road when describing her approach to ‘providing the world raw and unfiltered reality’.

Seems to me that she if she is so proud of that hyphenated American heritage she could report the worlds troubles from that hyphenated place.

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Finally | Some Backbone is Shown

It looks as if a good number of Jewish folk have figured out that ‘passive resistance’ is a tactic that ends with long trains and ovens. A sorely learned lesson that goes along with the realization that if you give your enemies enough rope they’ll hang you with it.

BTW, another lesson to be learned is that those that hate you will do all that they can to paint you in the worst possible light: the ‘Pro-Israel Protestors’ are tearing down flags and ripping apart the encampment because they want ‘to fight people’.

Two important observations: As an ‘Investigative Journalist’ Joe Scott sucks (as the last sentence in the screed above demonstrates) and his bias is as apparent as the red ass on a baboon.

Good to see that our brothers of the Jewish faith have, at least in the short term, managed to demonstrate a desire for self preservation (grown a set of balls).

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Of Ticks and Chiggers | Blackberries and Coon Hounds

Some time back in October we were awakened by the dogs freaking out. Turned out there was a Black and Tan Coon Hound that had wandered up to our door step and refused to leave.

One broken hip (wifey), a spaying, continuing treatment for heart worms, and a ton of shits and giggles later we’ve kinda/sorta settled into having this country girl (Maggie) as a part of our family and farm. While the wound left by the passing of one of our Border Collies (Dixie) has not fully healed, Maggie does her damnedest to make sure that you focus on her whenever possible. Here (below) is one of Maggie’s techniques to hold your attention. She’ll get in this position and will not move; demanding to be talked to and petted.

I mentioned earlier that when Maggie came to us she had Heart Worms and we undertook the ‘long form’ treatment to rid her of them. This means that she takes a monthly medication that continually treats her blood system. One of the several drawbacks is that the meds preclude being able to take an oral tick preventative. The ticks have reemerged here and so the vet determined that the best route was to have her wear a flea collar (the meds in the collar will not interact/conflict with her Heart Worm treatment).

Off I go to the vets in Loretto, TN and am immediately amazed at the millions upon millions of Blackberry canes that are in bloom.

Every overgrown field and every fence-line between my place in the ‘real sticks’ and the vets shop in the ‘almost really in the sticks’ was lit up with blooms that promise a bumper crop of these tasty fruit.

My mind immediately began contemplating the many ways that I know to put up these fruits and, once I returned home I looked up a few more. Here is where I’m going to go with my Blackberry bounty this year.

In-as-much as distilling spirits is still, inexplicably, illegal I’m going to take a run at two types of ‘infusions’: One with grain alcohol (as per the video below) and one with an infused brandy. The brandy run will have just a touch (less than a smidgen) of cinnamon added. Both products, together, will make a unique gift come mid-December.

Blackberry Jam (and related yummies)

I’d like to make at least two varieties of Blackberry Jam this year: “regular” and something I’ve made in the past called ‘Black-Jack’ which is a Blackbery Jam made with Jalapenos. Nothing like Black-Jack to liven up steaming breakfast biscuits (unless it’s pear preserves, but that’s another story/post). I’m thinking that a new addition to my garden, a pepper called ‘Lemon Drop” (Aji Limon) might pair well with the blackberry flavor. Japs weigh in at 2,500 to 8,000 Scovillle Heat Units (SHU) while the Lemon Drop ranges from 15,000 to 30,000.

I’m also planning on canning up some berries all by themselves for later use in cobblers. I may even try my hand at homemade blackberry bread.(think Thanksgiving)

So there’s also a variety of syrups, non-alcohol beverages, ice cream and cheesecake topping, cakes, pastry, and muffins to be made if one can manage to collect a hoard of these free berries.

The only downside to gathering berries is the dreaded ticks and chiggers. If you’re going to out into the tall grasses, take it from a man that has had his ass chewed raw by these little parasites: treat your clothing with permethrin the day before you set out (it lasts for two months or so and for several washings) and invest in a $2 bottle of calamine lotion (yes, it’s still a thing) for the back end in case the chiggers find a way to reach you.

Finally, spend a little time with those that need your attention. You’ll both reap a blessing from the effort.

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Crackhead Barney

One of the early clues that your producer may be dabbling in the powder is when he books someone named Crackhead Barney, a female, for your show.

That’s one fine babe right there!

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An Altogether Sorry State

To be honest I haven’t been following the Trumpsters legal problems.  He has had so many over such a long period that I suppose I’ve become numb to the constant thumping in the press. 

Now, because abstinence has brought me to an arms-length and because I’m looking over the issue(s) with fresh eyes, I’m pretty appalled at what is being done in our name.  Yep, if you are being tried in federal court that venue represents the interests of the citizens of the United States.  When a judge or prosecutor acts for or against a man on trial for a federal offense then they (supposedly) act with our interests in mind.  Do these folk think the nation agrees with the way this defendant is being treated?  

I have questions:
–How in fucks sake did an accounting entry result in 34 felony charges?  What gymnastics of the mind leads an impartial person to believe that this is fair, or right, or rational?

–Contempt of court?  How in the world did our nation get to the point where a black robe could jail a citizen for speaking the truth?  What a bunch of power-hungry egotists we’ve allowed to sit on the bench.

–Are they really talking about holding Trump in contempt for stating the absolute truth about Michael Cohen when he called him a ‘disgraced attorney and felon’?  I mean, damn folks, he’s a disgraced attorney and felon!  These clowns are not trying to protect Cohen (who is beyond redemption), they are trying to railroad Trump.  Now, because Trump had the huevos to speak up, they have to ‘rehabilitate’ Cohen in the eyes of the jury or the state’s witness does them more harm than good. 

–How about the truthiness of Trump saying that Fox News reported that liberal activists were trying to get on the jury when (1) that is exactly what Fox News reported and (2) that’s exactly what happened? We’re going to bust his balls for stating the obvious?

–Final question I’ll ask (although I’ve got a hundred more): if ‘they’ can puff up charges and gag a Presidential candidate (and former President) with the sole intent of forcing their will on him, just how fair do you think such a system will be to you and I?

These folk are so self-centered and so caught up in their 15 minutes (actually months) of fame that they are far beyond being able to see the damage they are doing to the country.  What power in earth, heaven, or hell could mend a nation shredded by such petty tyrants?

While the nation of America will continue on, the great American Experiment is about to fail.  A government of, by, and for the people cannot long endure in the presence of power-hungry politicians, prosecutors and judges.  Freedom had, for a reasonably long time, a good run.  I wonder how far into the future it will be before man has another opportunity to beat back the beast of tyranny and breath free air again?

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Petty and Un-Endowed

The more radical R’s are running around shitting all over the commons because the Speaker blew off their threats.  Looks to me like Biden and the D leadership have offered him cover and any ‘Motion to Vacate’ will fail. 

I think the MTG’s and Gaetz’ of the world know this as well and won’t move that motion.  They will however retreat to the shadows of their lair and scheme anew.  To them it’s less about righteousness and more about power.

I may (or not) agree with the policy/funding decisions that were considered and passed.  Those are not the subject of this screed; the uncivil and mindless thumping by R’s and D’s is.  They (both sides) have turned the The Peoples House into a circus worthy of our ridicule. 

The petty grabs for power and overt intimidation(s) sprawled out before a nation of sheep.  70 percent of the population has bought into the we/they, R v D shit show and have so thoroughly socialized their R-ness or D-ness that they cannot retract for fear of being abandoned by their herd.

So MTG, along with her sycophant Gaetz, would be wise to heed the words of the accidental sage Zack Van:

“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment”.

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Nicki Minaj | Ever Wonder?

I never thought about who would attend a concert headlined by one of the many ‘gangster bitches’ that currently bless the nation with ghetto rhymes.

But now (owing to the wonders of the I-Phone) that topic is thrust to the fore. Amazingly the audience is almost exclusively white. Whoda thunkit !

I guess that if you’re white and identify as other than white then it’s appropriate (in a large group setting) to carry the flag of that group. Man, that’s a lot of white folk.

I guess a large percentage of whites born after 1990 believe they were born in the wrong body. They identify as black and what better way to demonstrate your ‘other than whiteness’ is to act according to your perception of how ghetto folk act.

I can’t blame Nicki or any of the other gangster ladies for finding their own path to reparations. I could quote LoopTroop (Don’t hate the player don’t hate the game), but few folk could explain the black boy in white skin syndrome than they can: Ladies and gentlemen I give you LoopTroop:

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Turn Your Lamp Down Low | A Passing

Guitar legend Dickey Betts, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band, has died at his home in Osprey, Florida. He was 80 years old.

Betts shared lead guitar duties with Duane Allman in the original Allman Brothers Band. Together they produced a distinctive sound and created a new genre — Southern rock. They were founded in 1969 and notably were one of the few biracial groups to roll out of the deep south.

Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident in 1971, and founding member Berry Oakley was killed in a motorcycle crash a year later.. Gregg Allman passed a few years back (2017).

80 years is a good run for a high flying musician. Perhaps in some afterlife he and the brothers two can get the band back together. RIP Dickey.

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Dangerous Times

There is another way of understanding where we are as a country, it’s by looking at two distinctly separate events and examining how they are received by our citizenry.

First the invalid that has been installed as President doesn’t have a clue. This is bad, real bad. As bad as you think it is, it is much worse. Here is how: half of the country won’t admit that he’s well beyond his use by date. They hate the R’s with such passion that they are blind to the hazards generated by having him stumble around on the world stage.

Secondly, the left has not cornered the market on morons: Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL) may not be the bellwether, but he’s not trailing by much. Breitbart brought forward a report that Gaetz generated. Saying:

“More than 1,000 U.S. troops are effectively being held “hostage” in Niger with medical supplies running low — stuck between the military junta-controlled government’s demands for them to leave and the Biden administration’s refusal to let them go home after the end of their deployments, according to a report prepared by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).”

Now there are R’s that hate the D’s with such passion that they’ve abandoned all rational thought and suck in what this egotist spews out as if it were mothers milk. That the D’s hate with equal enthusiasm is no consolation.

We are not only a nation failing to rise to it’s potential, we’ve weakened ourselves such that some industrious foreign actor might just take a run at the brass ring.

As Bob would say, “It’s a-hard rain that’s gonna fall’.

Bob says this about the last verse: “when I say,: the pellets of poison are flooding the waters,. . . that means all the lies that people get told on their radios and in their newspapers.