Get woke…

Posted on by July 31, 2023

Go broke…

Many Anheuser-Busch distributors say they are resigned to their painful Bud Light losses — and that they have given up on luring back disaffected customers following the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, The Post has learned.

After four months of hiring freezes and layoffs — with some beer truck drivers getting heckled and harassed even as Bud Light sales have dropped by more than 25% — Anheuser-Busch wholesalers have accepted that they have lost a chunk of their customers for good — and need to focus on a new crop of drinkers.

Full article, HERE from the NY Post.

And the folks at InBev must be going nuts trying to figure out how to get out of the mess they’ve created.

Billions of dollars lost, AB is still bleeding money and jobs, and the customer base isn’t coming back, nor feeling the least bit bad about standing up for what they believe.

The real question is, will this be the wake up call companies/shareholders need to stop the DEI/woke/catering to the .01% crap?

Or will the big investors (who seem to be the real drivers behind the whole DEI/CRT push) get slapped down by the shareholders?

I don’t have a clue. Any comments appreciated.

Busy, busy…

Posted on by July 31, 2023

Many thanks to those who’ve left honest reviews on both Twisted Tropes and Rimworld- Diversions!  AND both are over the magic 50 reviews! Greatly appreciated!!!

Now it’s onward and upward, er…

Trying to catch up with the short stories I owe folks. Which means research… Sigh…

At one point I looked up and had NINE @@#$#%@! tabs open looking at various things for THREE different shorts.

Hey Muse, I’m trying to write four, but NOT all at once, please, especially since once is MilSF, one is urban fiction, and one is historical fiction. The LAST thing I want to do is cross those streams… sigh

And it’s HOT out here. According to something that floated through my feed the other day, we should all be dead since it’s over 100F. I’m guessing the author was European, and must be fairly young, because we survived this heat back in the 50s and 60s WITHOUT air conditioning in most homes… Kids these days. I really wonder about them.

Anyhoo, back to the keyboard. Y’all have a good week and stay cool!

Edit- And I’ve ordered author copies of Diversions, no idea when they will show up… sigh

Little bits of history…

Posted on by July 29, 2023

Come from the strangest locations…

Ben Yalow came up for supper with our crowd and brought another ‘interesting’ book…

That he helped the author put together back in the day…

Ben said that he and Frank were both fans of science fiction back in the day, and Frank had done a LOT of research, interviews, and even chased down log books to document the various services air-to-air battles in WWII. This is one of seven books Mr. Olynyk did

As an example, this is the consolidated entry for Capt Joe Foss, USMC, flying from Guadalcanal in 32 days in 1942.

Other sections (and there are quite a few), break the air combat down different ways, by squadron, by date, time, and location, etc.

According to Ben, Mr. Olynyk’s data was accepted as being the most accurate data available!

He also published a hard cover shown below on the Aces from 1920-1973. Click the cover for the Amazon link!

Sadly, Ben had to take it with him, but many thanks for letting me peruse it and he got a good laugh at me flipping back and forth, oohing and aahing over  the various data and the multiple ways it was presented.

 

 

Are you…

Posted on by July 28, 2023

Smarter Than A 70 Year Old?

  1. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful  citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don’t know, but he left this behind. What did he leave  behind?________________.
  2. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In  early 1964, we all watched them on The ____ ___________ Show.
  3. ‘Get your kicks, __ _________ _______.’
  4. ‘The story you are about to see is  true. The names have been changed to        ___________________.’
  5. ‘In the  jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.’
  6. After the Twist, The  Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we ‘danced’ under a stick        that was lowered as low  as we could go in a dance called the        ‘_____________.’
  7. Nestle’s makes  the very best . .. . . _______________.’
  8. Satchmo was  America’s  ‘Ambassador of Goodwill.’ Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with  us. His name was _________________.
  9. What takes a licking and keeps on  ticking? _______________.
  10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named  __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, ‘Good  Night, and  ‘________ ________… ‘
  11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.
  12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW.  What other names did it go by? ____________        &_______________.
  13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, ‘the day the music died.’ This was a  tribute to ___________________.
  14. We can remember the first satellite  placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called  ___________________.
  15. One of the big fads of the late 50’s and 60’s  was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the  __________         ______________.
  16. Remember LS/MFT _____ _____/_____ _____ _____?
  17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It’s _____ ______ _____!
  18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men? The _____ Knows!
  19. There was a song that came out in the 60’s that was “a grave yard smash”.  Its  name was the ______ ______!
  20. Alka Seltzer used a “boy with a tablet on his head” as its Logo/Representative. What was the boy’s name? ________

 

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Clarification…

Posted on by July 27, 2023

Veterans, make sure you check this out BEFORE you hit 65!!!

Tricare for Life (TFL) vs. Medicare Part D.

You may already have TRICARE For Life (TFL). Or perhaps you’re eligible to transition to this coverage soon. Either way, you may have questions about your TRICARE prescription drug coverage. For instance, you may wonder if you need to have Medicare Part D, Medicare’s prescription coverage. You don’t need Medicare Part D to have TFL. 

Full article, HERE from Tricare.mil

This has always been a confusing issue, and way too many don’t know what their rights/benefits actually are. Take a couple of minutes to read the associated article and if you know any vets, point them to this!

Thanks in advance for your assistance!!!

 

Training women in Detroit!!!

Posted on by July 26, 2023

Our friend Rick Ector and NRA instructor from Legally Armed In Detroit (LAID) is doing their free class for women again this weekend July 29th and 30th!

Rick has been doing this for over 10 years, and it grows each year!

Here are the details!

The ladies FREE shooting event will be held on Saturday, July 29, 2023, and Sunday, July 30, 2023, at both the Top Gun Shooting Sports (22050 Pennsylvania Road in Taylor, Michigan) and Recoil Firearms (22509 Ecorse Road in Taylor, Michigan).

There will be no charge for the Firearm Instructor’s safety briefing, the usage of a firearm, ammunition, and range time. Participation is 100 percent free for all attendees. No prior firearms training or experience is required of the women who desire to take advantage of the lesson. Further, experienced women merely desiring to improve their marksmanship skills are also welcome to attend.

Go HERE to register for the course, and if you have friends up there, you might let them know!

Thank you and the other instructors for stepping up once again, and kudos to you Rick for coming up with the idea and following through! This is the kind of ‘gun control’ we need!

 

What if???

Posted on by July 25, 2023

An interesting proposal that I’ve seen before, and happen to agree with…

Highway 0
(Zero Illegal Crossings)

How to improve southwest border security effectiveness through efficiency.

Simply put, build a highway along as much of the southwest border from Brownsville TX to San Diego CA as feasible. Use the specifications from the Eisenhower Federal Interstate Highway System and include a concrete sound barrier wherever a “wall” is required on the southern side. Use the four border states to manage the construction as they would any Interstate Highway project with the funding being provided through the Federal Highway Administration. The states also provide the O&M after the highway is placed in service.

Proposal outcomes:
Uses existing capabilities and experienced workforce to create and maintain the physical
infrastructure needed to improve southwest border security and provides states with jobs.
State highway depts already know how to get permitting, construction, etc done.
Average cost per mile should be 30%-50% less than the cost for an ACOE/CBP steel wall/fence.
Other infrastructure such as cell towers and traffic cameras come along with the highway thus giving CBP access to capability as needed. CBP selects, places & operates sensors!
Faster creation of priority infrastructure vs ACOE/CBP run infrastructure projects and reduces overall risk of accomplishment.
Allows CBP to focus on core mission as the guardians of the border-preventing terrorists from entering the country, reducing human & drug trafficking and apprehending illegals.
Potential economic improvement for rural areas along the border.
​​Politically neutral as it builds multi-purpose infrastructure and improves security simultaneously. More effective & efficient results for the taxpayer dollars.
The link HERE may or may not work…
What is even more interesting is that you cannot web search and find this anywhere!

Sigh…

Posted on by July 23, 2023

Why does this NOT surprise me???

We’ve sure as hell outsourced everything else… Grrrr…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest chipmaker, will delay production at its new Arizona chip plant to 2025 due to a shortage of skilled labor.

The year-long delay comes as trade relations between Washington and Beijing, have deteriorated over the past several years.

TSMC Chairman Mark Liu broke the news to investors on a second-quarter earnings call on July 21.

Mr. Liu said that the company does not have enough skilled local workers to install advanced equipment at its new facility, in time for the official deadline.

Full article, HERE from the Epoch Times

And frankly, I find it ‘funny’ that the union is bitching, considering they don’t have any qualified personnel to DO the installations…

Book promo…

Posted on by July 24, 2023

Eaton Rapids Joe has the third book out in his Seven Cows series, Rock and Fortress

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

The blurb-

I don’t usually feature E-arcs, but this one is a good one if you’re Jonesing for a new MHI novel! Larry Correia and Jason Cordova paired up for Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever
Note: The cover link takes you to Baen’s website for E-arcs!
The blurb-

Chloe Mendoza and her team from Monster Hunter International must seek out and destroy an ancient evil threatening Los Angeles at the height of Disco Fever.

Los Angeles: the 1970s.

Disco is king and the nightclubs are full of young, beautiful people with Saturday night fever. From the Sunset Strip to Hollywood Boulevard, a new era is dawning. But below the glitz and glamour, a darkness lurks.

Chloe Mendoza knows darkness. She is a nagualii, a half-demon created by the gods of Central and South America, a daughter of the Court of Feathers, a group of demigods who ruled Mesoamerica before the Spanish arrived.

Now, she is a member of Monster Hunter International’s latest team, based in the L.A. Basin. Business is good in the City of Angels, but soon Chloe gets a message from the Court of Feathers, warning her of a Dark Master who is building up its power in the region. Whatever it is, it brings death and carnage with it.

Time to boogie.

Enjoy your week, folks! Stay safe and if you’re in the Southwest, stay cool and hydrate!!!

Buyer beware!!!

Posted on by July 22, 2023

The old saying “buyer beware” has now been extended to the Internet age. There has been an epidemic of scams proliferating the World Wide Web, and the firearms community is not immune from criminals trying to separate people from their hard-earned dollars.

These scammers target their victims with incredible deals that are hard to pass up. When it comes to the firearms community, these deals are usually for ammunition. You might see deals that proclaim to save the buyer over 50%. These deals litter the pages of social media sites like Instagram with messages like “DM for orders.”

These scammers have also launched websites with names similar to legitimate ones, including AmmoLand News. We recently received reports of a website named Ammolandusa.com selling ammunition at massive discounts. Once a user places an order, they will receive an email asking the buyer to send money through Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle.

Click the link to Ammo Land blog to read the whole article:  Ammunition Scam Sites Are Infesting The Internet

And speaking of gunnie stuff, Sam Jacobs over at Ammo.com has a new and well researched article up on the most gun friendly states!

How does your state rank in gun ownership when compared to the rest? Our results are surprising! We took into account the current gun laws, current legislators’ past voting history, taxes, and more to bring you this comprehensive list for 2023.

The full article link is HERE!