Here we go again…

Posted on by June 12, 2026
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And the media is dodging the truth…

Nearly three decades after the end of the Troubles, Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, is once again on fire.

On Monday, June 8, a Sudanese “asylum” seeker attacked a local man on the street with a kitchen knife, slashing him across the face and neck. Graphic video of the attack, which blinded the victim in one eye, rapidly spread online. The suspect, identified as Hadi Alodid, has been charged with attempted murder, possession of a knife in a public place, and making threats to kill.

In response, Belfast erupted.

Rioters took to the streets, hurling bricks and bottles at police, torching vehicles, and burning homes in some Belfast neighborhoods with large migrant populations. Police deployed water cannons. Families were forced to flee burning buildings. The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service responded to 62 incidents in a single night. At least 27 people have been left homeless.

Full article, HERE from Town Hall.

While I do not condone the rioting, I note that NONE of the media get into the real reason for it…

Neither the BBC nor the government want to honestly confront the issue of the migrants they have accepted and coddled for years in Britain, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

This is the same area that Britain ‘tried’ to pacify for THIRTY years, and never succeeded. And now the Catholics and Protestants are united against the migrants to are tearing Dublin apart. They are not assimilating, are predominantly muslim, and believe they are ‘owed’ anything they want to take.

This is the same country that has a drink named for their most prolific product, it’s the Irish Car Bomb…

So somebody really needs to step up and take action, because if they don’t, the Irish will…

And neither Starmer nor the migrants will like the results…

Just sayin

Ummmm…errrrr…

Posted on by June 11, 2026
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This…just doesn’t make any sense…

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren’t given reparations.

Lee slammed President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund,” and argued, “They are playing psychological warfare with us.”

“And that’s what they do,” she continued. “Because, again, they’re trying to disenfranchise you. Because if you believe that you’re never going to get reparations from this system, then you tap out, and you don’t just tap out of the conversation, you tap out of the system. You don’t want to vote anymore. You don’t participate anymore.”

“And they know that that’s how they don’t control Congress,” Lee added. “That’s how you can get your school boards, your board of supervisors. They want us that far out of this system. So right now, we fight for reparations because it’s owed us. It is owed us, so we’re not going to back down on that one way or another.”

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

This is getting tiresome, as once again the hue and cry is being made with no actual ‘plan’ being proposed. So it sounds like she wants blacks to just ‘stop voting’. Yeah, that’s gonna end well. I’m betting her Dem handlers are going to be having an few back room chats with her about ‘that’…

And just out of curiosity, what about the early colonials that relied heavily relied on unfree white labor. Tens of thousands of poor English, Scottish, and Irish citizens were sent to the colonies as indentured servants. While ‘legally’ distinct from chattel slavery, many worked under brutal, deadly conditions for a fixed period before being granted freedom, if they survived. Do they deserve reparations?

And who decides who is an actual descendant of a slave vs. the ones that came willingly?

And how much is owed to whom? That’s always an interesting question, along with who really owes it. Of course, what I keep seeing is that the ‘government’ owes it usually something in the 7 figure range.

Where does that money come from? Taxes? The ‘general’ fund? All I see is a bunch of questions with no good answer.

And for us older folks, it’s now official Social Security runs out of money in 2032, so we’ll be taking at least a 25% hit in our monthly checks, if not more. This is because the congresscritters have used the SS monies to prop up the general fund and other things replacing the money with IOUs. Welp, now that’s coming due…

And we have a huge national debt, most of the state pension plans are broke, and billions short of what they need, and entire states are damned near broke, and expecting the federal government to bail them out.

Sigh…

TBT…

Posted on by June 10, 2026
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Gah, it really was 50 years ago…

Way back this time…

1976, and a fall/winter deployment to Northern Japan…

I think I’d made E-6 a couple of months earlier. And was still trying to figure out the airplane, as I’d gone from a P-3B squadron to a P-3C squadron without benefit of going back through the RAG… Fun times…

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Back in the day, you put pins on your hat for every country visited on a deployment.crewcap 2The wings on the back were traded with a Taiwanese radar operator during a stopover down that way…

Lots of hard flying,  between the Panmunjom axe murder incident, which raised the WESTPAC DEFCON, and the possible responses, we went something like 120 days launching at least the ready one every day!

Three memories that stick out from that deployment are the amount of snow, Belenko’s desertion with his Mig-25 and the day we had to do TWO different medivacs down to Yokota in a blinding snowstorm, because the USAF didn’t want to fly their C-9 in bad weather. That was a LONG day…

Microsoft…

Posted on by June 9, 2026
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Is at it again…

You’re a smart cookie, so you opted to buy a copy of Microsoft Office for macOS back in 2019 or 2021, eschewing the Office 365 subscription, so you could keep on using Office 2019/2021 forever if you wanted to. Just like in the old days.

I’ve got some bad news.

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS and iOS, set for July 13, 2026 when a license-validation certificate used by the Office apps expires. After Office 2019 for Mac reached end of support in October 2023, Microsoft assured customers their installed apps would “continue to function.” The July 13, 2026 conversion instead drops the apps into a Microsoft-defined “reduced functionality mode,” in which files can be opened and viewed but not edited or saved. By May 30, 2026, the original 2023 end-of-support page had been re-dated and rewritten on Microsoft’s site; the “continue to function” clause was removed.

↫ Consumer Rights Wiki

Microsoft’s advice to the users they’re stealing from is to keep using the applications as mere viewers, switch to the free Office 365 web applications, pay for a 365 subscription, or buy a brand new regular copy of Office 2024. None of these make any sense, and clearly, all of this should be illegal, but it’s not because the software industry is a clown show.

Proprietary software is unethical.

Article, HERE from OSNews. h/t Steve

Sigh… I was one of those ‘smart people’…

Guess I’ll be loading Libre Office, HERE. I’ll be dipped if I will use/pay for MS 365 after Microsoft pulled this crap on me.

Grumble… At least this will get rid of the last MS anything I had on any system. I left Windoze in 2019, and I’m glad I did. I find the Apple/Mac systems much more robust and easier to upgrade, and are not connected in any way with Google’s Android.

A little humor…

Posted on by June 7, 2026
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To start your week…

1960 Hits Renamed

Some of the artists of the 60’s are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby boomers who can remember doing the “Limbo” as if it were yesterday.

They include:

Bobby Darin —
Splish, Splash, I Was Havin’ A Flash

Herman’s Hermits —
Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Walker

Ringo Starr —
I Get By With A Little Help From Depends

The Bee Gees —                                                                                                           How Can You Mend A Broken Hip?

Roberta Flack—
The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face ?

Johnny Nash —
I Can’t See Clearly Now

Paul Simon—
Fifty Ways To Lose Your Liver

The Commodores —
Once, Twice, Three Times To The Bathroom

Leo Sayer —
You Make Me Feel Like Napping

The Temptations —
Papa’s Got A Kidney Stone

Abba—
Denture Queen

Tony Orlando —
Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall

Helen Reddy —
I Am Woman; Hear Me Snore

Leslie Gore —
It’s My Procedure, and I’ll Cry If I Want To

And Last, but NOT least:

Willie Nelson —
On the Commode Again

June…

Posted on by June 6, 2026
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Was an ‘interesting’ month in WWII… Two of the biggest battles of the entire war took place in June. One in the Pacific, and one in the Atlantic.

In 1942, June 4-7, it was the Battle of Midway, starting on the 4th with an attack on the islands at Midway ending on the 7th with the USS Yorktown finally sinking, but the Japanese losses were worse, Akagi, Kaga, and Sōryū. Hiryū did get damage done to the Yorktown before she was sunk.

In 1944, June 7th was the second day of the D-Day landings. The beachheads Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword had been finally established late on 6 June, and the 7th saw the bridgehead pushing out 15km from the beach.

The other thing started on 7 June was the mulberry that would allow the offloading of the prodigious amount of material the US troops would need.

The battle for France would obviously take more than four days, and end up costing 2,501 American soldiers, and 1,913 from other Allied forces, primarily the United Kingdom and Canada just on 6 June. Overall, including wounded, missing, and captured, the total was around 10,000. The Germans lost between 7,000 and 9,000 troops that day.

The Normandy cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer contains 9,389 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing, in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial, are inscribed 1,557 additional names.

They were truly the greatest generation. May they rest in peace.

Da Bears…

Posted on by June 5, 2026
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Will no longer be in Chicago…

The Chicago Bears will proceed with plans for a new stadium in Hammond, Indiana, the organization announced Friday.

In announcing the potential out-of-state move, the NFL franchise carefully worded its language to allow for a different outcome. And at least two Illinois lawmakers say team President and CEO Kevin Warren gave them advanced notice of the announcement and Warren suggested talks about staying in Illinois would continue.

“Yesterday, the Chicago Bears Board of Directors met and voted to advance our stadium development project in Hammond, Indiana, with the exact site to be selected,” the team said in a joint statement from Warren and Chairman George H. McCaskey. “We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city.  It will bring Chicagoland together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses.”

The team’s decision comes less than a week after the Illinois legislature adjourned without taking up a last-ditch Senate bill that would have allowed Arlington Heights or Chicago to enter into a public-private ownership deal with the NFL franchise. Such legislation would have given the team a path to build a new stadium without paying property taxes on the facility, bill sponsors said.

Full article, HERE from the Chicago Tribune.

This one has been going on since 2021, with the Bears making various decisions only to have either the City of Chicago or the state, or both, refusing to support the decisions. Indiana, on the other hand, has been more that accommodating, quickly passing bills in the state legislature to support the discussions, and now, five years later, it looks like the Bears are moving on.

Actually, I’m not surprised, as it has been pretty apparent that both Prtizker and now Johnson don’t want to give the Bears anything, and want to control the decision process.

What neither of them understand is that the Bears have the ultimate option of moving without their approval. This is a lesson they ‘should’ have learned from Baltimore, Oakland, San Diego, and San Franciso… Oh wait, those are all Dem run cities… never mind…

Rut roh…

Posted on by June 4, 2026
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It just truly sucks when the narrative gets blown up…

A Muslim was murdered outside an Eid service in Minneapolis last week, and initially, it was a story made to order for the left’s victimhood industry. It even seemed to be a genuine example of “Islamophobia,” which is as rare in real life as Nancy Pelosi stock losses. The far left’s propaganda arm, also known as the mainstream media, swung into action, and leftist politicians chimed in with the requisite displays of outrage and sorrow.

There was just one catch: when all the details came to light, the media narrative came crashing to the ground. Not that anyone involved admitted that or backtracked one inch, of course. As Mark Twain said long ago, the lie goes halfway around the world before the truth has finished tying its shoes, and in this case, as always, the lie served its purpose.

CrimeWatchMpls reported on X on May 27 that “A shooting took place in the parking lot at Canterbury Park, a Muslim event was scheduled to take place in the Expo Center at Canterbury.” Even though nothing had yet been revealed about the shooter, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Planned Parenthood), who is running for governor of Minnesota, hurried that evening to imply that the shooting was an instance of “Islamophobia”: “On this Eid al-Adha, I’m thinking of Minnesota’s Muslim community and all those gathered in prayer today, especially following today’s tragic shooting at an Eid prayer service at Canterbury Park. My thoughts are with the victim’s family and the entire community.”

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Everybody and their brother were riding the Islamophobia for all it was worth…

Until the suspect was identified… Mohamed Abdirizak Rage… Oops…

And OBTW, he’s a hard leftist to boot! Of course none of the players are taking back any of their comments, and just like a number of other incidents supposedly ‘targeting’ individuals that turned out to be true, it just mysteriously disappears from the media with no corrections to the basic story…

In other news, it looks like the CA Dems are trying to figure out how many votes they ‘need’ to knock both Pratt and Hilton out of their respective races in California.

Quelle surprise!

Anyhoo, y’all have a good weekend!!!

TBT…

Posted on by June 3, 2026
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We all have those ‘generational’ memories…

I found another pic from the 60s of some of the girls at the pool party…

Yes, it’s black and white, and the suits are plain, but the girls are nice!!!

And 20 years later, there was a ‘new’ board game that caught everybody’s attention…

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It’s a complete game set I haven’t pulled out in years… IMG_2357This is an original version dating to 1984, that we used to play back in the day. It spawned a lot of ‘trivial pursuit’ games in bars, and we had one helluva team and won quite a few drinks over the years! 🙂

Strangely, our best sports answerer was a young lady who was into statistics!!!

And to be perfectly honest, I think the real board games were a lot more fun that playing online. You got to see the actual expressions real time, and could make fun of the outlandish answers…

What games do you have squirreled away? Do you still play any of them???

My grandkids are now playing Monopoly, Risk, and a few other real boardgames. It’s also teaching them how to plan tactics, and how to lose gracefully… mostly… 🙂