Fiddling…

Posted on by January 19, 2023

While Rome burns…

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued an order banning the use of Times New Roman font in all State Department communications.

Why is Times New Roman, which was created in 1932, suddenly so problematic? If you guessed it was because the Biden administration determined the font was racist, I wouldn’t blame you for thinking so. Given recent developments, it seemed inevitable that someone would declare that all serif fonts are tools of white supremacy.

The State Department is ditching Times New Roman out of a desire to be more “inclusive” to “employees who are visually impaired or have other difficulties reading,” according to the Washington Post. The paper received a copy of the department-wide memo, which was cringingly titled “The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin.”

Full article, HERE on PJ Media.

It’s not like they have nothing ELSE to do…

Iran, the Afghan refugees, the illegals coming across the border from… EVERYWHERE!

When I see stuff like this, I truly think the inmates ARE running the asylum!

Sigh… I’m going to sit over here and write. Y’all have a good weekend while you can!

Californication…

Posted on by January 18, 2023

“Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.” Regardless of who said it first, California is ‘fighting’ to take water from other states on a regular basis… But…

Ramirez nails it as usual… Estimates vary between 3.1 million gallons to over 5 million gallons of rainwater is lost PER DAY due to the lack of reservoirs/catch basins in California!

It’s illegal to serve drinking water in a California restaurant unless the customer asks for it. Billboards sponsored by the state urge residents to put a bucket in their shower to capture water for their gardens. These symbolic pittances, along with escalating restrictions on water use by farmers and households that are anything but trivial, are the products of a deeply flawed mentality governing water policy in California. 

Full article, HERE from American Greatness.

I was stationed at NAS Moffett Field in 73 and again 76-77. Both of those times were during the ‘ongoing’ drought out there. You weren’t allowed to wash your car, water your lawn, and I remember ads on TV about toilet use- If it’s brown, flush it down, if it’s yellow, let it mellow.

Gah…

I can remember even then the econazis, California Coastal Commission, and Sierra Club were fighting what Pat Brown had started, and Ronald Reagan was trying to do to mitigate the drought back then. It has only gotten worse, not better.

And not a damned thing has been done! Moonbeam got in after Reagan and promptly rolled over for the enviro whackos and stopped all progress on new dams, catch basins, and reservoirs.

Now they are paying the price, and soon all of us will be too, when the crops aren’t grown, and everything gets imported (if it’s available), or we go without. The central valley used to be a breadbasket for the US, and now, today, it’s a land of blowing dirt and illegals growing weed…

Sigh…

 

ROTFLMAO!!!

Posted on by January 17, 2023

This… snicker… talk about tongue in cheek…

8 crayon flavors Marines would actually enjoy eating

There are a few simple truths in life: The Earth is round. The Sun is hot. Humans need oxygen to breathe. And Marines love to eat crayons.

No one is quite sure where or how that last fact came to be, but as far back as contemporary lore goes, nary a devil dog can say they haven’t heard at least one joke about their beloved Corps being full of colorful wax-snack eaters.

Full article, with ‘selections’ HERE at Marine Times.

And before you laugh too hard, there really ARE edible crayons out there… Crayons Ready to Eat is one such company, link HERE. And you CAN color with them, or eat them, your choice…LOL

Bonus is that CRE is a Veteran Owned Business, so you would be supporting veterans if you order them!

NOTE: I have not ordered any…yet…

Again???

Posted on by January 16, 2023

With four more school principals confessing they withheld National Merit awards from students, bringing the total to seven schools so far, the Fairfax County Parents Association sent the school district, state and local leaders a scathing letter, calling them out for saying that the awards “don’t matter.”

Full article, HERE from Fairfax Co Times.

FCPS is NOT looking real good here, but more interesting is how it now seems some VA legislators and local activists are saying it’s no big thing…

I guess THEY make enough to send their kids to school and pay cash for their educations!

I just find this hard to believe, but then again Fairfax and Loudon dem bastions in northern Virginia, and truly thing they can do whatever they want to with no accountability. MAYBE that is changing!

Burma Shave…

Posted on by January 15, 2023

Old ‘Burma Shave’ Road Signs were a treat when we were kids…

DON’T STICK YOUR ELBOW
OUT SO FAR
IT MAY GO HOME
IN ANOTHER CAR.
Burma Shave

TRAINS DON’T WANDER
ALL OVER THE MAP
‘CAUSE NOBODY SITS
IN THE ENGINEER’S LAP
Burma Shave

SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH
BY MISTAKE
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
HER HUSBAND JAKE
Burma Shave

DON’T LOSE YOUR HEAD
TO GAIN A MINUTE
YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
Burma Shave

DROVE TOO LONG
DRIVER SNOOZING
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
IS NOT AMUSING
Burma Shave

BROTHER SPEEDER
LET’S REHEARSE
ALL TOGETHER
GOOD MORNING, NURSE
Burma Shave

CAUTIOUS RIDER
TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
LET’S HAVE LESS BULL
AND A LITTLE MORE STEER
Burma Shave

SPEED WAS HIGH
WEATHER WAS NOT
TIRES WERE THIN
X MARKS THE SPOT
Burma Shave

THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
OF PAUL FOR BEER
LED TO A WARMER
HEMISPHERE
Burma Shave

AROUND THE CURVE
LICKETY-SPLIT
BEAUTIFUL CAR
WASN’T IT?
Burma Shave

NO MATTER THE PRICE
NO MATTER HOW NEW
THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE
IN THE CAR IS YOU
Burma Shave

A GUY WHO DRIVES
A CAR WIDE OPEN
IS NOT THINKIN’
HE’S JUST HOPIN’
Burma Shave

AT INTERSECTIONS
LOOK EACH WAY
A HARP SOUNDS NICE
BUT IT’S HARD TO PLAY
Burma Shave

BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
EYES ON THE ROAD
THAT’S THE SKILLFUL
DRIVER’S CODE
Burma Shave

THE ONE WHO DRIVES
WHEN HE’S BEEN DRINKING
DEPENDS ON YOU
TO DO HIS THINKING
Burma Shave

CAR IN DITCH
DRIVER IN TREE
THE MOON WAS FULL
AND SO WAS HE.
Burma Shave

PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
TAKE IT SLOW
LET OUR LITTLE
SHAVERS GROW
Burma Shave

Lots of common sense there… sigh…

This is going to be…

Posted on by January 14, 2023

Expensive, one way or the other… Interesting how Reuters is slanting the ‘message’…

FRANKFURT/MUNICH, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Hurricane Ian in the United States and floods and Australia helped to make 2022 one of the costliest years on record for natural disasters, Munich Re said on Tuesday, warning that climate change was making storms more intense and frequent.

Full article, HERE from Reuters.

But, a bit more, shall we say, even handed coverage from Town Hall.

According to Reuters, Munich Re is complaining bitterly, along with several other pre-imminent international re-insurers. about its massive weather-related losses during the calendar years 2021 and 2022.  

The role of re-insurers in the insurance market is simply to back-up the many standard casualty insurance companies, that may wish to deal off part of the potential liability from catastrophic losses (mega-claims) filed by their policy holders, who may sustain economic damage from one of a variety of natural occurrences. 

Full article, HERE.

The expensive part is when the re-insurers back out of markets, making it impossible for the majors like State Farm, Allstate, Farmers, et al to spread the potential loss. It basically leaves the insurer in a no win situation, to the point that they will probably drop ALL coverage in that state/geographic location.

The states are also caught in a Catch-22, in that they can only raise rates so high, either through legal means, or try to take out more insurance themselves (good luck with that).

When that happens, people are forced to go without insurance, or try to find ‘somebody’ that will sell them a policy at who knows how much per month…

For the rich that live in places like Amelia Island, Kiawah, or any of the other waterfront areas up and down the coasts, they’ll pay it. The problem is the service people that live close to there, that feed the rich, run the businesses that service them, and the restaurants, etc. that populate the ‘cheap’ side of the island. They won’t be able to protect their assets.

Bottom line, it’s a no win for the little people… again… sigh

A little humor…

Posted on by January 14, 2023

Edit- And apparently it didn’t schedule… sigh… Story of my life!

From 2010!

And an oldie but a goody… from 2010!

Luckily, What People Think of the Chicken is None of the Chicken’s Business….

Why did the chicken cross the road?

SARAH PALIN:  The chicken crossed the road because gosh-darn it, he’s a maverick!

BARACK OBAMA:  The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MC CAIN:  My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON:  When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn’t about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH:  We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY:  Where’s my gun?

COLIN POWELL:  Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON:  I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE:  I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY:  Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken’s intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON:  Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL:  The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH:  Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a NEW CAR so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN:  We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE:  That chicken crossed the road because he’s guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN:  To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART:  No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS:  Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad?  Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:  To die in the rain, alone.

JERRY FALWELL:  Because the chicken was gay! Can’t you people see the plain truth? That’s why they call it the ‘other side.’ Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like ‘the other side.’ That chicken should not be crossing the road. It’s as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA:  In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS:  Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish it’s lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE:  It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON:  Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES:  I have just released eChicken2010, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2010. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN:  Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS:  Did I miss one???

 

Rest in peace…

Posted on by January 12, 2023

A Pearl Harbor survivor, former Navy band French horn player died earlier this week after an extensive career serving his country and volunteering in his community.

Chief Warrant Officer Francis “Frank” Emond passed away on Tuesday at 104 years old.

Full article, HERE from Military Times.

Stationed on the USS Pennsylvania, he was playing morning colors and watched the first bombs dropped on Ford Island.

There aren’t many survivors left, and I believe he was the oldest survivor. Rest in peace, Shipmate. Your legacy and the sailors you’ve touched have the watch.

TBT…

Posted on by January 11, 2023

Some memes and ads from ‘back in the day’… Enjoy!!!

And for those of us who remember WLS, especially at night… From my senior year in high school!!!

Did this more that a few times… @#$%% cheap ass timing gears in Pontiac engines… At least I had access to my grandpa’s shop with a real a-frame and chain fall! 

And who can forget the TRASH 80???

Posted in TBT

Good points…

Posted on by January 10, 2023

This one came over the transom from the mil email string…

I grew up in Louisiana and Arkansas and never once questioned my parents income, it was never a discussion. We didn’t eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, not a food group. We drank Kool-Aid made from water that came from our kitchen sink with real sugar. We ate bologna sandwiches, or even tuna (which was in a can not a pouch), PB&J & grilled cheese sandwiches, hot dogs, but mostly homemade meals consisting of meat, potatoes, and vegetables.
We grew up during a time when we mowed lawns, with a push mower, pulled weeds, babysat, helped neighbors with chores to be able to earn our own money. We by no means were given everything we wanted.
We went outside a lot to play, ride bikes, run with friends, play hide and seek,climb trees, or went swimming. We rarely just sat inside. We drank tap water from the water hose outside, bottled water was unheard of. If we had a coke, it was in a glass bottle, and we didn’t break the bottle when finished. We saved it and cashed it back in at the store for a refund.
We watched TV shows like Leave It To Beaver, Gilligan’s Island, Happy Days, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Looney Tunes, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Sanford and Son, Disney on Sunday night, McHales Navy, Andy Griffith, and I Love Lucy. Mom and dad decided everything we watched or didn’t watch. After school, we came home and did homework and chores, before going outside or having friends over. We would ride our bikes for hours. We had to tell our parents where we were going, who we were going with, and be home when the street lights came on!
You LEARNED from your parents instead of disrespecting them, and treating them as if they knew absolutely nothing. What they said was LAW, and you did not question it, and you had better know it!
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew if we DISRESPECTED any grown-up we would get our bottoms beat, it wasn’t called abuse, it was called discipline! We held doors, carried groceries, and gave up our seat for an older person without being asked. You didn’t hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV, and if you cursed and got caught you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth.
“Please, Thank you, yes please, no thank you, yes ma’am, no ma’am yes sir, and no sir were part of our daily vocabulary!
I will never forget where I came from and only wish children now days had half the chance at the fun and respect for real life we grew up with! And we were never bored!… OH MY… If we even said we were bored, our parents gave us ‘Plenty’ to do, we didn’t say we were bored ever again…:-)
Today, things are quite different… And make me glad I’m not trying to raise kids in today’s environment!!!