Net humor

Posted on by October 8, 2021
I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later.

I don’t have to go to school or work.

I get an allowance every month.

I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew.

I have a driver’s license and my own car.

The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don’t have acne.

Life is great. I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds.

People get out of the way much faster now.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers.

Now they drink like their fathers.

Old age is coming at a really bad time.

When I was a child I thought “nap time” was a punishment.

Now it feels like a small vacation.

The biggest lie I tell myself is… ” I don’t have to write that down, I’ll remember it”.

I don’t have gray hair… I have “wisdom highlights”!

I’m just very wise.

If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would’ve put them on my knees.

Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators.

We haven’t met yet.

Why do I have to press one for English when you’re just going to transfer me to someone I can’t understand anyway?

Of course, I talk to myself.

Sometimes I need expert advice.

At my age “Getting Lucky” means walking into a room and remembering what I came In there for.

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can’t remember their names.

Now, I’m wondering… did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?

A question…

Posted on by October 6, 2021

Do you see rays of sunshine, or darkness???

Took this as the sun was setting the other night. What ‘I’ think you’re seeing is the bumps in the cloud tops blocking the sunshine, which gives the impression of  ‘rays’ of sunshine (but I really think they are rays of darkness).

YMMV…

Your thoughts?

Out of pocket…

Posted on by October 6, 2021

Light blogging and commenting the next few days, out in Big Sky Country…

Go read the folks on the sidebar.

Worth thinking about…

Posted on by October 5, 2021

Came over the transom from the mil email side of the house…

The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of “Men who wanted to be left Alone”. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.

They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.

The moment the “Men who wanted to be left Alone” are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these “Men who wanted to be left Alone” will fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.

They fight with raw hate and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these peoples’ doors, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the “Men who wanted to be left Alone”.

– Author unknown

h/t Guy

Hmmm…

Posted on by October 3, 2021

This is rather interesting. A follow up from yesterday’s post.

The Port of Houston, a critical piece of infrastructure along the Gulf Coast, issued a statement Thursday saying it had successfully defended against an attempted hack in August and “no operational data or systems were impacted.”

Full article, HERE.

More and more ships are making the transit of the Panama Canal and coming around to Houston to unload because it is cheaper than sitting and waiting for a west coast port to free up…

Port Houston is positioning itself as a viable option for handling more containerized imports from Asia, thanks to congestion woes for importers on the West and East coasts.

Full article, HERE.

And another article from 2 weeks ago. Bold/italic mine.

Global supply chain woes stemming from the pandemic continue to drag on, creating chaos in international markets. Many companies anticipate the issue will extend into next year. UPS, for instance, recently encouraged consumers to order Christmas presents now. Kroger and Toyota have also voiced concerns, as well as Walmart.

But it’s not all bad news for Houston, the country’s largest export market. In fact, container traffic at the Port of Houston is on track to set a record this year. 

Full article, HERE.

And there are rumors that the Feds tried to ‘take over’ the Port by declaring it Federal property. I don’t see THAT ending well in Texas right now.

Ouch…

Posted on by October 2, 2021

In addition to the problems with getting ships unloaded at ports on the west coast, prices per TEU are up AGAIN!

The cost to transport shipping containers between China and the United States surged to a record high in September. 

Full article, HERE.
For what it’s worth, I’d say order your Christmas presents NOW, if you haven’t already done so. This year is going to be ugly!
And another ouch is the latest Senate approval for the Bureau of Land Managment…

The Senate narrowly approved Tracy Stone-Manning as director of the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday over vehement opposition from Utah’s Republican senators, including one who called her confirmation offensive and insulting.

Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney argued that Stone-Manning, of Missoula, Montana, is unfit for the job because of her involvement with tree spiking more than three decades ago. Both described her as an “eco-terrorist,” and earlier called on President Joe Biden to withdraw her nomination.

Full article, HERE.

She was and still is an Eco-terrorist. If you or anyone you know depends on access to federal lands, I hope they have a fallback… sigh…

In for a penny…

Posted on by October 2, 2021

In for a pound…

Busy writing, so you get memes…

Two good ones guaranteed to piss off ‘somebody’…

The ‘joys’…

Posted on by September 30, 2021

of living on the Dry Line.

For those that don’t know, the ‘Dry Line’ basically runs from Marfa, TX, through Wichita Falls, and on up to around Wichita, KS. West of the line is ‘dry’ weather, east is ‘wet’ weather…

On the line… well, sometimes it gets ‘interesting’…

Yesterday was one of those interesting days. We’ve been over 30 days without any rain, but things started popping day before yesterday. First two ‘severe’ thunderstorms we got maybe ten drops of rain out of the first, and a 30 second sprinkle out of the second. I walked out and looked south and saw this about six in the evening…

Interesting cloud pattern, confused winds… Surface winds were 15 to 17 kn from the south east, mid-level winds were 15 kn from 270 and the upper level winds were 20 to 30 kn from 180. But it does make for a pretty picture!  OBTW, taken looking directly south.

But it was ‘funny’ in a hair raising way, to watch the little CU cloud moving to the left in the picture, as the winds on the ground blew in the exact opposite direction, and the upper level 90 degrees off from that.

I’m just glad I wasn’t up in that mess, because based on previous experience, that was BUMPY…

Oh, and after two days of severe thunderstorms, we’ve gotten an eighth of an inch of rain, while places north and south of us (less than five miles), have gotten an inch or more.

What is going to happen…

Posted on by September 29, 2021

When all the non-compliant medical personnel are fired for not getting the vaccine?

This is just one of many-

A North Carolina-based hospital system announced Monday that roughly 175 unvaccinated employees were fired for failing to comply with the organization’s mandatory coronavirus vaccination policy, the latest in a series of health-care dismissals over coronavirus immunization.

Full article, HERE.

From New York city…

New York hospitals on Monday began firing or suspending healthcare workers for defying a state order to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and resulting staff shortages prompted some hospitals to postpone elective surgeries or curtail services.

Full article, HERE from Reuters.

From NY state…

Last night, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order expanding healthcare worker eligibility requirements, an effort to head off potential staffing shortages fueled by the state’s new COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Full article, HERE.

In Houston-

More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the Covid-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement.

A spokesperson for Houston Methodist hospital system said 153 employees either resigned in the two-week suspension period or were terminated on Tuesday.

Full article, HERE.

So, some locations are talking about bringing in the National Guard to ‘supplement’ the medical establishment, among other things…

But there are also places that are apparently already putting off  ‘elective’ surgeries again. Which is what killed a shipmate of mine last year… Grrr… Where is this going to end up?

I don’t think anybody actually knows, nor do they know the ‘actual’ impact on the medical system in the US (and if they do have projections, they are sure as hell hiding them well)!

Oh, and Xiden is pushing for ANY military to refuse the vaccines to get a Bad Conduct Discharge (BCD), which will impact them FOREVER!

If you REALLY dig, you can find THIS report, from the CDC, about ‘adverse’ events with the vaccines, all three of them.

I believe it is everybody’s right to make their OWN decision about the vaccines. FWIW, I got the Moderna because I’m an old fart and the VA had it for free, but that was ‘my’ decision, not something forced on me.

Now who is lying???

Posted on by September 28, 2021

After having watched ‘most’ of the testimony today, I’m less than impressed with Austin and Milley. Gen McKenzie, however, didn’t dodge questions that I saw, and pretty much answered them directly. But to a person, they ALL said they did not recommend a troop withdrawal prior to getting the folks out.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said military advisers were “split” on whether to maintain a presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, despite testimony from top officials Tuesday who were consistent in their recommendations to keep at least 2,500 troops in the region. 

Full article, HERE.

So, did Xiden actually GET the information, who communicated it? Austin? Milley? Somebody else?

The plot sickens… sigh