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?

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.

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.

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.

What We’ve Become/Allowed

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

And the hits keep coming: 200 meter race

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our Enriched Culture

Wake Up Momma!

The Statesboro Blues courtesy the Allman Bro:

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

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.

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1786163300440387751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1786163300440387751%7Ctwgr%5E9bedb261334ac0511fe11d14195c6f701866e663%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Feducation%2F2024%2F05%2F04%2Fmale-transgender-student-assaults-girl-in-new-york-high-school-bathroom-school-receives-threats%2F

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.” 

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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.

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.

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).

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.

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!

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?

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:

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:

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.

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’.

No Shi#s to Give

Interesting, but can’t say that I have any sympathy for a man that lets this little dick slap him around.

Can you imagine if it had been a white boy slapping a black transvestite? We’d be looking to set another Easter aside just to bring the issue into focus.

The Fix Is In

What a sad, sad nation we become when the questions asked and the answers given are designed to conceal rather than reveal. There is so much propaganda embedded this clip it boggles the mind.

Let your eyes settle on the big red banner across the bottom of the clip. We didn’t respond. When we tell’ Iran not to attack Israel and then they do so anyway, the reporter calls it a win for the President because Israel has not (yet) responded. BTW, when they say that Israel has not ‘responded’ they purposely confuse the meaning of that word with the actions taken by the US (the word ‘response’ in the red banner). If they mean the the US is responding by using words (as the banner implies) then why are Israel’s words not a response as well?

When Iran attacks Israel and the question presented to the administrations slime-ball mouthpiece is about containing Israel (viewed as a win for the admin) rather than not being able to contain an Iranian attack on our ‘ally’ (viewed as a failure for the admin), you know the fix is in. The first question asked is how effective the President has been on dissuading Israel from attacking Iran. It should have been why was the President so ineffective at dissuading Iran from attacking Israel.

The idea that the US has sent a message to the world and strengthened security in the region by our actions (beginning at the 1:18 mark) is an obvious falling away of reality. But then again, your reality is not for you to form on your own.: the US government insists on participating in that endeavor.

With rare exception every time I hear a politician, or their mouthpiece (including their many mouthpieces in the press), use the word ‘bipartisan’ I know that we are being fed a line of crap. Kirby begins using it at about the 3 minute mark.

Up is down, right is wrong, the sky is green, and your an unpatriotic American if you don’t support this administrations balls-to-the-wall run at destroying the nation and setting fire to the world.

Sheep in the Roadway

One of the most profoundly ironic (idiotic) positions for a leftist to hold is one that supports a group of folk that would just as soon see them dead as to carry on a conversation with them.

How the left ended up in the Palestinian camp is a mystery to me.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6h-l3Oj1c5E%3Flist%3DRDNS6h-l3Oj1c5E

Fundamental Change

I don’t know what folk in America thought prior to the US being drawn into the Second World War. Perhaps all of the turmoil and chaos was thought to be another nation’s problem. Perhaps Americans back then were thinking that it’s nice to have allies in the world as long as those ‘allies’ don’t place us in tough positions. Screw Europe and Russia and China, they would have to tackle their problems on their own.

It’s ok to leave Israel to execute the response they feel is best, but who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to let the world know we were leaving them to air out and dry?

That sound exactly like what we are telling our allies around the world right now. If you are an Israeli sitting in Israel right now you’ve become acutely aware of just how fickle an ally America can be. I would suppose that if you’re an Israeli not sitting in Israel then the issue becomes a little more abstract.

From the UN to the battlefields our words and our deeds show that we are too afraid of our own shadow to be of much use to them. And so the Jewish homeland looks to be the latest (but certainly not the last) sacrifice to be laid before the alter of that progressive mantra: ‘peace through capitulation’.

As if Iran gave a shit about ‘nuclear deals’ anyway

God forbid our enemies should fear us once again. We can’t go back to the days when evil was kept in check by hard men engaged in a just cause as ‘hard men’ have fallen from favor and the only ‘just cause’ remaining in America is the destruction of our institutions.

Elections indeed have consequences and the fundamental change brought about by the absolute fiasco of 2020 may have changed the course of mankind for all time.

Fixed It

This is why we mistrust the press.

Here’s a photo of that brave soul.

Jean’s little problem with the ladies could, perhaps, be solved with a trip out to the great wild west environs of Nebraska. It seems Ms Ward is perfectly willing to take folk to school and demonstrate the proper way for a man to hit on a woman.

Almost 60

A little get your azz in gear music for a Monday morning.

According to drummer Ron Bushy, organist-vocalist Doug Ingle wrote this one evening while drinking an entire gallon of Red Mountain wine. When the inebriated Ingle then played the song for Bushy, who wrote down the lyrics for him, he was slurring his words so badly that what was supposed to be “in the Garden of Eden” was interpreted by Bushy as “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”.

Jeff Beck claims that when he saw Iron Butterfly perform at the Galaxy Club on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in April 1967, half a year before the band recorded their first album, their entire second set consisted of a 35-minute-long version of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”

Coachella

Coachella is back!  It kicks off this weekend and fans, celebs, and influences are flocking to the desert to show their ass oops, fashion sense.  Here is what the follow-on generation is shaping up to look like.  If nothing else, if the Chinese don’t put us out of business it’s going to be entertaining next few decades.

Need a spot to stay while there? You can grab a tent for two nights for $11,000.

The Pitch: This glamping option comes furnished with all the sleeping or lounging essentials plus golf cart service between the campground and stages, air-conditioned restroom and showers, breakfast and late-night snacks in the air-conditioned Safari Lounge, and of course Guest Passes to Coachella Weekend One or Two. Safari Tent packages include accommodations, passes and concierge services for 2 people, with the option to add up to two additional guests for a fee.

A ‘cabana’ for two will run you $12,000 for two folk for two nights. That’s it below, stuffed between a couple tents:

They also have a ‘resort’ where all of the high end folk will be staying. I’d share the price with you but, apparently, that figure is classified.

Conditioning

The news release by Iran (via tweet) (far below) is designed to stop whatever response the west was going to exhibit. A rational person would give a sigh of relief and say ‘thank God that this did not escalate’.

And then it will happen again, a few more missiles than last time, and then stop. . . no big deal. Then again. And then soon Israel being directly attacked by Iran will become the new normal.

Sweet 16

Police have arrested the hoodlum that bashed an elderly lady on the way into church. It turns out it’s a 16 year old. They say he has multiple felony arrests, including robberies of women. This is not saying that he had a single arrest warrant for multiple felonies, he’s committed multiple felonies and has multiple warrants.

Question (rhetorical) : How many felonies has he committed and not been charged with? It seems to me that if he gets caught half of the time (a guess) then he’s done a tremendous amount of damage in his thus far short lifespan.

The good news is that the police in NY anticipate him being a model citizen at some point in the future so they generously withheld the young mans identity. The last thing they want to do is damage his future prospects.

Homeboy Booth was busted for stealing a butt load (pun intended) of high-end vibrators.

After the police were contacted by the employees, investigators were able to find Booth because he listed the vibrators for sale on Facebook Marketplace. 

Remember these folk?

Well, those chickens have wandered back to the coop (below). BTW, the way you know you’re hosed as a community is when your city council looks like the one pictured above. As Cleavon Little (the sheriff in ‘Blazing Saddles’) would say: “Where are all da white womens’. I would add: are there no white men in Oakland?

Deep-State 73, Citizens 0

If you think what’s happening in America is an ‘erosion of our rights’ by bad actors in the deep state then you’re the model citizen that same state has worked so hard to create.

The fourth amendment: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized’

The bill passed 273 to 147 even though an amendment that would guarantee that the states intrusion into the lives of citizens was legit (a warrant required) failed on an earlier vote/tie of 212 to 212.

Apparently the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have no meaning to these folks and the oath they swore while ascending to office was eye candy for the masses.

So the score is somewhere around 70 to zip. But the score only matters if you believe that ‘the game’ is legit and not just another ring in a multi-ringed circus. The ideals of the founders expressed in the constitution are not even any longer suggestions, but rather punch lines used by the clowns within the ring.

Finally

George enjoyed international fame for a long list of hit records and had more that 160 chart singles. He also enlisted and honorably served in the USMC.

He passed in 2013 after fighting an alcohol addiction that lasted almost his entire life. I hope you’ve found some peace brother and thank you for your service.

The Spineless West

Breitbart says: The United States believes that an Iranian attack on Israel may be imminent and has instructed its diplomatic employees in Israel not to travel far from their homes in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Be’er Sheva in the south.

And: The warning came after days of threats by Iran to retaliate against Israel for an airstrike April 1 in Damascus, Syria, that killed two generals and five officers responsible for attacks on Israel via terrorist proxy armies in recent months.

Garry says: The truth of the matter is that Iran realizes that the US is now so afraid of conflict that it will abandon it’s staunchest ally in the Middle East to avoid a shooting war. They can attack Israel without fear of reprisal because the US has lost it’s spine and the balance of the ‘west’ never had one.