247 years…

I’m a day late, but Happy Birthday to the US Navy!

And a bit of throwback… From 1945, the capture of U-505 by the USS Guadalcanal off the Azores. It’s 19 minutes long, but was filmed during the operation and it is rather interesting, in that you actually get to see the participants. And the data/code books/etc. was a MASSIVE intel coup for the US Navy!

Yes, I would do it again, given the chance. 🙂

Hmmm…

This is just a ‘tad’ odd…

The Navy is investigating what caused the drinking water aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln to become rank and cloudy last month.

It is at least the second instance of fouled drinking water on a U.S. carrier in recent weeks.

Full article, HERE from Navy Times.

And HERE is the article on the Nimitz…

Steel is porous and it is very possible that the potable water tanks and JP tanks are adjacent to each other (this does happen on DDGs), but for it to be bad enough that people got sick, is odd…to put it mildly.

Carriers make their own water, and it is usually fine. It will be interesting to see what the upshot of the investigations are, but those will take months… sigh

And in the ‘it’s about damned time’ corner…

GM Financial has agreed to pay more than $3.5 million to resolve Justice Department allegations that it illegally repossessed the vehicles of 71 service members and improperly denied or mishandled over 1,000 requests for lease terminations, in violation of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

Full article, HERE.

This has been an ongoing issue since ‘leasing’ of vehicles started… sigh…

Dayum…

This is… going to get ugly!

This is truly going to put the cat among the chickens…

Back in battery…

Five days of no Intarwebz, no TV, just having fun turning money into smoke and noise!

And there was time around the ‘new’ fire pit…

Sadly, all good things come to an end, so after a 6 1/2 hour road trip, back to reality…

Sigh…

Regular blogging will resume tomorrow after I get a good night’s sleep! Thanks for your patience!

Micro and macro…

Having fun with the ‘tribe’! It’s the little things and the big…

And we’re eating pretty good too!!!

Nothing like burgers and fresh lobster for lunch!!!

Kids…

Children’s Science Exam

If you need a good laugh, try reading through these children’s science exam answers..

Q: Name the four seasons.

A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.?

A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.

Q: How is dew formed?

A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?

A: Keep it in the cow.

Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?

A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.

Q: What are steroids?

A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.

Q: What happens to your body as you age?

A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?

A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery. (The kid gets an A+ for this answer!)

Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.?

A: Premature death.

Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized?  ( e.g.,abdomen)?

A: The body is consisted into three parts – the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels A, E, I, O, and U.

Q: What is the fibula?

A: A small lie.

Q: What does ‘varicose’ mean?

A: Nearby.

Q: Give the meaning of the term ‘Caesarian Section’

A: The Caesarian Section is a district in Rome

Q: What does the word ‘benign’ mean?

A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.

And the other end of the age bracket…

An elderly gentleman…
Had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, ‘Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again.’
The gentleman replied, ‘Oh, I haven’t told my family yet.
I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I’ve changed my will three times!’

Two elderly gentlemen from a retirement center were sitting on a bench under a tree when one turns to the other and says: ‘Slim, I’m 83 years old now and I’m just full of aches and pains. I know you’re about my age. How do you feel?’
Slim says, ‘I feel just like a newborn baby.’
‘Really!? Like a newborn baby!?’
‘Yep. No hair, no teeth, and I think I just wet my pants.’

An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.
The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, ‘Last night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly.’
The other man said, ‘What is the name of the restaurant?’
The first man thought and thought and finally said, ‘What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love?
You know… The one that’s red and has thorns.’
‘Do you mean a rose?’
‘Yes, that’s the one,’ replied the man. He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled, ‘Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?’

Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.’

Couple in their nineties are both having problems remembering things. During a checkup, the doctor tells them that they’re physically okay, but they might want to start writing things down to help them remember

Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair. ‘Want anything while I’m in the kitchen?’ he asks.
‘Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?’
‘Sure.’
‘Don’t you think you should write it down so you can remember it?’ she asks.
‘No, I can remember it.’
‘Well, I’d like some strawberries on top, too. Maybe you should write it down, so’s not to forget it?’
He says, ‘I can remember that. You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries. ‘
‘I’d also like whipped cream. I’m certain you’ll forget that, write it down?’ she asks.
Irritated, he says, ‘I don’t need to write it down, I can remember it! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream – I got it, for goodness sake!’
Then he toddles into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes,
The old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs. She stares at the plate for a moment.
‘Where’s my toast ?’

A senior citizen said to his eighty-year old buddy:
‘So I hear you’re getting married?’
‘Yep!’
‘Do I know her?’
‘Nope!’
‘This woman, is she good looking?’
‘Not really.’
‘Is she a good cook?’
‘Naw, she can’t cook too well.’
‘Does she have lots of money?’
‘Nope! Poor as a church mouse.’
‘Well, then, is she good in bed?’
‘I don’t know.’
‘Why in the world do you want to marry her then?’
‘Because she can still drive!’

Three old guys are out walking.
First one says, ‘Windy, isn’t it?’
Second one says, ‘No, it’s Thursday!’
Third one says, ‘So am I. Let’s go get a beer.’

A man was telling his neighbor, ‘I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but it’s state of the art. It’s perfect.’
‘Really,’ answered the neighbor . ‘What kind is it?’
‘Twelve thirty.’

Morris, an 82 year-old man, went to the doctor to get a physical.
A few days later, the doctor saw Morris walking down the street with a gorgeous young woman on his arm.
A couple of days later, the doctor spoke to Morris and said, ‘You’re really doing great, aren’t you?’
Morris replied, ‘Just doing what you said, Doc: ‘Get a hot mamma and be cheerful.”
The doctor said, ‘I didn’t say that. I said, ‘You’ve got a heart murmur; be careful.’

One more. . .!

A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split.
The waitress asked kindly, ‘Crushed nuts?’
‘No,’ he replied, ‘Arthritis.’

 

 

Whodathunkit???

Google biased???

It’s not really a secret anymore that the Left doesn’t believe in a level playing field, and that the woke vanguard is censorious, fascist, and unwilling to allow for the fair and open enunciation of opposing points of view. … But the censorship is even more far-reaching than that: on Monday, Fox News reported that “the Republican National Committee [RNC] says Google is suppressing get-out-the-vote [GOTV] and fundraising emails by sending millions of GOP election emails to users’ Gmail spam folders, with party leadership threatening to explore legal options to ‘put an end’ to what they call a ‘clear pattern of bias.’

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

And if that’s not bad enough…

Note from LifeSiteNews President Steve Jalsevac: This article should be read and passed along to everyone that you know. Using any Google products (Gmail, Google search, Chrome, Android phones) is far more of a threat to your privacy, security and freedoms than most people are aware.

Full article, HERE from Life Site.

Note that the second article ties in directly to what is alluded to in the first article. When you take a step back, so to speak, and look at it, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and the MSMS, et al are all in the tank for the left.

It’s always been about control of the population to allow the ‘elites’  to do what they think is best for ‘all of us’…

There is no question that the utilization of the Intarwebz to control our access to information, and through that, to keep folks from doing their own research, connect with like minded individuals, and do that freely without being harassed, tracked, doxxed, or swatted.

Well, we know how well that has worked out. And any attempt to counter that control has been met with various lawsuits, banning, either for days/weeks/months, or permanently if you go against their ‘standards’, which seem to fluctuate on a daily basis.

In other news-

Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2098, which designates “the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or ‘COVID-19,’ as unprofessional conduct.” Physicians found doing so could face sanctions from the state’s licensing boards and some news reports described the law as the first of its kind in the nation.

Full article, HERE from Medical Economics.

Now ‘my’ question is, who determines what is misinformation? And what happens when that information turns out to be true??? Will they have their own pet ‘fact checkers’?

What happens when your freedom of speech becomes subject to the same kind of law?

Your thoughts???

How about some humor…

Truisms!

1.Today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation towards the local swimming pool, so I gave him a glass of water.

2. I changed my password to “incorrect” so whenever I forget it the computer will say, “Your password is incorrect.”

3. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

4. I’m great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once.

5. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

6. Doesn’t expecting the unexpected mean that the unexpected is actually expected?

7. Take my advice — I’m not using it.

8. Hospitality is the art of making guests feel like they’re at home when you wish they were.

9. Television may insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

10. I bought a vacuum cleaner six months ago and so far all it’s been doing is gathering dust.

11. Every time someone comes up with a foolproof solution, along comes a more-talented fool.

12. If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you’ll have trouble putting on your pants.

13. A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

14. Ever stop to think and forget to start again?

15. When I married Ms. Right, I had no idea her first name was Always.

16. My wife got 8 out 10 on her driver’s test. The other two guys managed to jump out of her way.

17. There may be no excuse for laziness, but I’m still looking.

18. Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend thinking.

19. Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

20. He who laughs last thinks slowest.

21. Is it wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly?

22. Women sometimes make fools of men, but most guys are the D-I-Y type.

23. I was going to give him a nasty look, but he already had one.

24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

25. The grass may be greener on the other side but at least you don’t have to mow it.

If you think the last post was bad…

This one will really trip you off line!!!

Three progressive Queens Councilmembers are co-sponsoring a bill that would permanently abolish the NYPD’s Gang Database as violent crime surges in the Big Apple, including gang related incidents.

According to the Astoria Post, one of the sponsors, Tiffany Caban, said “The gang database is nothing but a dragnet to surveil and criminalize Black and brown New Yorkers, especially youth.”

Full article, HERE from PM.

And if you read her issues paper, it’s even scarier…

  • Defund, and ultimately disband, the NYPD and replace it with a community-led public safety infrastructure
  • Fight to close Rikers Island before 2026 and halt the construction of the borough-based jails proposal
  • Create a citywide bail vouchers program to facilitate the release of incarcerated individuals
  • Remove police from schools, traffic enforcement, homeless outreach, and hospitals

Full link/issues paper HERE!

And she got elected on this!!!

Wow…