Snort…

Posted on by August 10, 2023

This one is interesting, much like the Seminoles down in Florida with the whole kerfuffle over Florida State…

Washington’s WJLA reported Monday that “in a letter to the Washington Commanders Monday, the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) demanded a meeting with the team’s new ownership to discuss a controversial name change.” Healy Baumgardner, who is president of NAGA’s Global Impact Campaigns, said that NAGA has asked the Commanders for a meeting several times before, and been repeatedly stonewalled: “We attempted to have an open dialogue with the now Washington Commanders since they made the name change several years ago with no response by them to have a conversation. We felt that it was time to apply public pressure.” 

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

We’ve got a major cell moving in, so I’m cutting this short before the power goes out. Go read the folks on the sidebar!!!

TBT…

Posted on by August 9, 2023

Some ads from ‘back in the day’, pre 1900…

When morphine, cocaine, and other things were legal to put in various tinctures, tonics, and drinks… Including Coca Cola!

Yes, Coca Cola originally had cocaine in it in the 1890s…

This one apparently had both cocaine AND morphine in it. I’m ‘sure’ the kids were soothed…unconscious, but soothed…

And then in 1982, the Tylenol poisonings in Chicago took place, changing forever how hard it was to get a pill bottle open, among other things…

Wednesday, September 29, 1982 was a school day, but 12-year-old Mary Kellerman woke up with a runny nose and a headache. So her parents told her to stay home, take a couple of Tylenol and get some rest.

“I heard her go into the bathroom. I heard the door close. Then I heard something drop,” recalled Dennis Kellerman, Mary’s dad. “I went to the bathroom door. I called, ‘Mary, are you OK?’ There was no answer. I called again: ‘Mary, are you OK?’ There was still no answer. So I opened the bathroom door, and my little girl was on the floor unconscious. She was still in her pajamas.”

Mary was pronounced dead at the hospital from unknown causes.

Full article, HERE from the History Channel.

I remember being in Pensacola, going through the abbreviated ACOS curriculum when they required every student to go back to their billeting and physically bring any bottles of Tylenol to the base medical clinic and turn them in. THAT scared the hell out of all of us, and I think that’s one reason, even today, I tend to not take Tylenol…

 

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Interesting…

Posted on by August 7, 2023

Welp, we all know that the US women’s soccer team lost to Sweden in the knockout round of 16.

Headed into the Women’s World Cup, the US women’s national soccer team (USWNT) was aiming to make history and become the first team — men or women — to win three consecutive world cups. That all came crashing down this weekend when the top-ranked US lost in penalty kicks to Sweden in the round of 16, the first of the competition’s four knockout rounds. 

Full article, HERE from Vox.

I find it interesting that Abad-Santos points at politics as the ‘reason’ the right is down on them for the loss.

An informal poll at the Legion meeting last night was that not a soul watched, and most didn’t care. One woman frankly stated words to the effect that “Frankly, they aren’t likeable, they don’t stand for the anthem, and don’t put their hands over their hearts. Not like the girls that were on the teams back in the nineties and early two thousands. Those young ladies were proud to be playing for America, and they showed it!”

Another of the ladies pulled this one up on her phone and laughed, saying it was on the money.

I tend to agree with her, as most of the ‘press’ I’ve heard about the team is their ‘stands’ for various things, not about how well they play.

And yes, the women were beaten by a bunch of 15 year old boys in 2017- Article, HERE.

Frankly, I don’t care. Soccer has never been something I watch or care about. I have other more important things to worry about.

Some more ‘messages’…

Posted on by August 7, 2023

From Concellation Security-

I found a few more that Cedar didn’t find that I had put up before the wokies took over and kicked us to the curb…

Message from Con Security: Would whomever brought the green dragon come get it out of elevator 1, please. Its tail is caught in the door and it’s a ‘bit’ unhappy… and setting the fire alarm off. Dragons are ONLY allowed in the freight elevator.

Also, the pet relief area in front of the hotel is ONLY for small pets… If your dragon has to go, use portal F, breathing equipment and shovels will be provided.

 Message from Con Security: Those who requested to move to the overflow sleeping area, report to Portal D, your spaces are ready.No photo description available.

Message from Con Security: The hot tub in the swimming pool are is NOT to be used to boil lobsters. Stop it…

If you need a big pot, contact housekeeping. Boiling/cooking ‘things’ may be accomplished back to the left of the loading dock. Look for the Texans BBQing the entire steer, they can point you in the right direction.

Note 1- Whomever ordered the ten bushels of corn on the cob and five pounds of potatoes, please report to the front desk to take your delivery.

 Message from Con Security: The Monster Mashup was not supposed to be literal… Would whomever from 4HU left your CASPERS unlocked please report to Security. We’d like to ‘chat’ with you. Also Room A 666 will be off limits UFN. Whatever the yellowish slime is, is melting the flooring.

 Your attention please- The Shoot Like a Girl demonstration has been moved from our little range due to overwhelming demand. Would the lady firearms instructors please report to Portal B to transport to MCS Pendleton please, they have graciously allowed us to use their range complex. Portal C will open for the attendees at 1100. The demonstrations will begin promptly at 1130. And yes, men are welcome to attend, you just might learn a few things.

 Message from Con Security: Would whom/whatever brought the pink/purple/green poofy ‘thing’ report to A 154. It currently has a German Shepard with a monocle, Red Riding Hood’s wolf, and Mary’s little lamb cornered. The Ewoks are jabbering something about zorching it and recipes…

Message from Con Security: The Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy panel is rescheduled to 1730 in D 101. There was a small ‘issue’ with the Rebels and Alliance over whom would sit where at the panel table.

Note 1- Apparently all will survive, although they have been sent to separate hospitals.

Note 2- Paging 4HU, MCN, Trekkies, and Star Wars, please provide a representative for the rescheduled panel.

Note 3- There will be a cloak room set up, ALL, I repeat ALL weapons WILL be checked at the door, peace bonded or not. That is all.

Message from Con Security: The Social Distancing Panel has been moved from Ballroom A to the Mojave Desert. Portals one, three, and five will take you there. Swag includes: 1 pkg toilet paper, I case water, 1 bottle hand sanitizer, and 1 cattle prod (42″) provided by the Texas Contingent…

ROTFLMAO!!!

Posted on by August 6, 2023

It’s NOT just military pilots…

A Lufthansa pilot reportedly flew a plane full of passengers in a flight pattern that resembled a penis on radar after being asked to divert the flight to a different airport.

The pilot of Lufthansa Flight 306, who has not been identified, is believed to have gotten frustrated after his flight from Frankfurt, Germany, was not able to land at the Fontanarossa Airport in Catania on the island of Sicily, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported. 

The airport had been forced to cut down on the number of flights after a terminal fire in July, and Flight 306 was told to land on the island of Malta to the south. 

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

I’m betting he got his… smacked for that…

Busy writing, go read the folks on the sidebar, they write GUD!

Straight up truth…

Posted on by August 5, 2023

Tucker takes a ride with Ice Cube in LA…

Definitely worth the twelve minutes to listen.

Just sayin…

Book promo…

Posted on by August 4, 2023

Raconteur Press is out with another anthology-

As always, click on the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

Since the first feline walked into the first human dwelling and decided they liked the staff, Cats have been going where they want and doing what they do. Whether hunting, lounging or deigning to grace their companions with company, cats will continue to do what cats do.

Which is anything they want.

Join these 11 wonderful authors as they explore how and where cats boldly go.

And Kelly Grayson has another Waffle Haus battle out! Siege of Waffle Haus 1347

The blurb-

I’m Aloysius Q. Fortenberry, Sorcerer of the Seven Clans, Senior W.H.I.S.S.C Operative, Sheriff for the Texas district. You may remember me from Battle of Waffle Haus 814. W.H.I.S.S.C. stands for Waffle Haus Internal Supernatural Security Corps. We’re charged with keeping the peace among the supernatural community that patronizes our diners, and to never EVER let the secret out that not everybody you see at Waffle Haus at 3:00 am is drunk, stoned, or inbred. Some of them look that way because they’re not human at all.

Some days, it’s easier to maintain operational security than others. We rely on powerful Faerie glamour and happy W.H.I.S.S.C. operatives to keep the secret, but when both of those things fail, the feces can strike the thermal agitator. On those days we gotta get creative, because the #1 Rule is: Don’t scare the straights.

After all, everybody is welcome at Waffle Haus.

Next is Dan Kemp with a new one out-  Athenaeum, Inc Door Number Three

The blurb-

Dan Kemp takes you along for a deep dive into a shadowy world of espionage, private military contractors, criminal organizations and government agencies where the good guys and bad guys are often one and the same.

If you had enough capacity for violence to seize a billion dollars from a powerful drug cartel, would you do it?

The Professor has problems, and not just what decades of soldiering did to his back and his knees. His boss just died, leaving him as CEO of the extremely discreet intelligence contractor Athenaeum, Incorporated. His old buddy the Operations Director is a highly skilled Army Ranger veteran but his finance chief is slightly unhinged and spends her money on highly inappropriate work outfits. The surviving old men on the Board of Directors are stuck in the 1970s. Running Athenaeum out of an old Cold War bunker and keeping their roster of experts together is expensive, but the government contracts are drying up or going to bigger, flashier corporate players.

Then an intercepted phone call puts them on the trail of a drug cartel’s shipping container of “maybe” a billion dollars in cash, so its command decision time.

  • Door Number One, ignore it. But… a billion dollars with a capital B.
  • Door Number Two, tell the Feds. But that might bring official notice to the shady intelligence gathering they have been paying Athenaeum for all these years.
  • Or open Door Number Three, which might get them all killed, or worse.

Enjoy them folks!!!

And last but not least, Michael Kingswood has a kickstarter up for his next set of stories. Mike is writing 52 short stories in a year! (He’s a better man than I am…sigh, I know I can’t do it!) So go over a take a look!

His kickstarter is HERE for volume three!!!

Oopsie…

Posted on by August 3, 2023

When ideology confronts reality…

The San Diego County Human Relations Commission has come face-to-face with the inherent contradictions of the leftist worldview, and it isn’t pretty. Ordinarily a placid platform for leftist platitudes and a sleepy mechanism for virtue-signaling, the Commission is now in an uproar and may not even survive. Three commissioners have resigned, and there is talk of junking the whole thing and starting over. This is the sort of thing that happens when leftism meets reality.

Honestly, this just kicks over the gigglebox…
I’m busy trying to write, so go read the folks on the sidebar! And have a good weekend!!!

TBT…

Posted on by August 2, 2023

What is it???

And if you know, where was it normally used???

Answers are below the fold…

And for something a little different-

Mark Felton’s 16 minute video on the ‘real’ Kelly’s Heroes that stole over a ton of Nazi gold!

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Science fiction come to life???

Posted on by August 1, 2023

Many SF novels talk about ‘vat’ grown meats… And apparently they are now here…

Purveyors of lab-grown meat — who prefer the term “cell-cultivated,” to avoid the mad-scientist-with-a-test-tube image — foresee a world where our plates are full of steak but animal slaughter is largely a thing of the past.

Why it matters: Investors are pouring money into the sector and its promise of cruelty-free meals that are (maybe) better for the environment, but many unknowns remain.

  • For now, meat grown from animal cells is only available in the U.S. in very limited quantities at two high-end restaurants.
  • Chicken is the first proof-of-concept product, and while the taste is familiar, the texture is a work in progress.
  • It remains to be seen if the technology to “grow” meat at scale will prove economical — and if consumers will welcome the results.
  • “It is unmistakable that this is chicken or beef,” said Uma Valeti, the CEO of Upside Foods, which made some of the first cultivated meatballs, chicken and duck.
  • “All the fundamental building blocks come from cells,” he told Axios. “We get cells from the animal or eggs — all we need is a drop.”

Full article HERE from Axios.com

Welp, ‘I’ for one, won’t be paying $70 to $150 to ‘try’ small bites of this stuff.

I can’t help but wonder if this is going to go the same way ‘plant based’ meat has gone, and no, I haven’t tried any of that either.

Of course if various governments get their way about how much farm and ranch land is available, we may not have a choice…