Now what…

Posted on by January 5, 2026

Are Cuba and China going to do???

Cuba has had people in Venezuela for years, deeply embedded in the government and security apparatus, and the tradeoff was oil and food…

32 Cubans (apparently Maduro’s guard force), were killed during the snatch. Funny how the MSM seems to be glossing over that fact, HERE.  Some estimates say there were/are as many as 10,000 Cubans embedded today… It’s interesting that there were ONLY Cubans on his guard force. Doesn’t say a lot for his trust of his own people, does it?

China has pumped a lot of money into oil production in Venezuela, much like its takeover plan it has been executing in Africa to take over countries. Now what will they do? I don’t see the USA giving them the money back, but I can see US oil companies, Chevron, et al, going in and getting production back up. This will definitely improve Venezuela’s standards, and should provide money into their economy.

You can bet the US is going to cut those ties quickly, and it appears Maduro is in deep kimchi as the case against him and his wife is ‘stronger’ than the case against Noriega, who is currently residing ADMAX.

Word is the Swiss and others have ‘frozen’ all of the Venezuelan accounts in their banks, awaiting the stabilization of the situation on the ground. Sooooo, even if Maduro got away, he can’t access his stolen funds.

The other interesting part is the impact on the drug trade, as those shipping points and drug ‘bases’ in Venezuela are suddenly ‘unavailable’.

Of course the other thing this has done is to make other South American leaders that were on the fence ‘leery’ to put it mildly, wondering if they are next…

A little humor…

Posted on by January 4, 2026

To start your week…

If you’re an old fart…

Black and White (Under age 60? You won’t understand.)

You could hardly see for all the snow, spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.

‘Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.’

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can’t remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE… And risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked’s (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors.  I can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option… Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah… And where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played ‘king of the hill’ on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites,  and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn’t sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn’t act up at the neighbor’s house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.

Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.

How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.

We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn’t even notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac!

How did we ever survive?

TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO ALL WHO DIDN’T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN’T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!

And here we go…

Posted on by January 2, 2026

Mandami is now the mayor of NYC…

Sworn in at midnight and again hours later publicly, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used his first day in office Thursday to hit the ground running with new executive orders targeting city landlords and housing development. And he said the city will take what he called “precedent-setting action” to intervene in a private landlord bankruptcy case he said was tied to 93 buildings.

“Today is the start of a new era for New York City,” Mamdani said. “It is inauguration day. It is also the day that the rent is due.”

Speaking at a Brooklyn apartment building, Mamdani framed the moves as an early test of whether city government will directly confront landlords over housing conditions and step into court cases that could determine whether tenants remain in their homes.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

And his first order was to overturn ALL of Eric Adams mayoral executive orders issued on or after Sept. 26, 2024, the date he was indicted. Of note, this did away with ALL of the antisemitism protective orders, NYPD orders for protection, etc…

Interesting…

His ‘deputy’ mayors are interesting too. It will bear watching to see what they are up to, especially when they are out of the public eye, so to speak.

More popcorn!!!

Posted on by January 1, 2026

So much ‘interesting’ stuff to watch… sigh…

They say that history repeats; first as tragedy then as farce. This quote is attributed to Karl Marx, which makes this all the more hilarious.

After every communist / socialist revolution, the serfs cheer as they unwittingly descend into an era of privation. While we know that affluent limousine liberals will never pay the price of their socialist dreams, we find this chillingly appropriate for the proletariat of New York City who welcomed this upper-class child of privilege pretty boy to rule over them. If New Yorkers are lucky, mayor Mamdani will fail due to the hypocrisy of New York’s progressive plutocrats. However, if he succeeds, our poor proles will truly suffer as the utopian promises never materialize.

Full article, HERE fro Twitchy.

I found the ‘first’ inauguration of Mandami interesting in that it was private, underground, and used the Quran. Shades of Hamas anyone???

And of course his ‘staff’ is going to be really interesting. I just wonder how well they will actually WORK in NYC.

And there is the evolving CF in Minnesota, a burgeoning one in Ohio, and now another in Seattle. All of those surrounding fraud by specific ethnicities, even as the MSM tries to not cover them…

Iran is blowing up too, although very little coverage here, but apparently they’ve actually started firing on their own people yesterday. Demonstrations  against soaring inflation, unemployment and the sharp depreciation of Iran’s currency, in addition to the lack of water in a number of cities seems to have prompted them, now going on five days.

Add in the mess down in Venezuela and that’s a plate full of stuff to watch. As far as the US stuff, I really hope to see folks perp walked, sent to trial, convicted, and sent to prison! And I don’t care which side of the ‘aisle’ they are on!!!

Happy New Year!!!

Posted on by December 31, 2025

Wishing everyone a safe and Happy New Year, and may 2026 be better for all of us!

And don’t forget to eat your traditional new years meal!!!

Southern style in my case… Yum!

This is it!!!

Posted on by December 30, 2025

The last day of 2025!

It’s been a year… hoo boy, has it ever!

Let’s hope 2026 is a better year for all of us!

Now the ‘important’ part is the food tomorrow night. The following depends on where you are in the world…

Southern US
  • Black-Eyed Peas: Represent coins and abundance. Alternate is Hoppin’ John which is a combination of black-eyed peas, rice, and ham plus spices.
  • Collard Greens: Symbolize cash and financial prosperity.
  • Cornbread: Represents gold.
  • Pork: Symbolizes progress.
Asian Traditions
  • Long Noodles: Represent longevity; should not be broken.
  • Dumplings: Shaped like ancient Chinese gold/silver ingots to represent wealth.
  • Fish (Whole): Symbolizes surplus and abundance.
  • Rice Cakes (Nian Gao/Ozoni): Represent prosperity, progress, and improvement.
  • Spring Rolls: Symbolize wealth. 
Global Traditions
  • Pork/Sauerkraut: Common in German and Eastern European traditions for good luck and progress.
  • Grapes: In Spain, eating 12 grapes at midnight represents 12 lucky months.
  • Lentils: Popular in Italy as they resemble coins.
  • Ring-Shaped Cakes: Doughnuts or bundt cakes are often served to symbolize coming full circle. 

This is the Southern Living recipe for Hoppin’ John from HERE. It will feed quite a few folks…

Ingredients

  • 6 thick-cut bacon slices, chopped
  • 4 celery stalks, sliced (about 1 1/2 cups)
  • 1 medium-size yellow onion, chopped (about 1 1/2 cups)
  • 1 small green bell pepper, finely chopped (about 1 cup)
  • 3 garlic cloves, chopped (about 1 Tbsp.)
  • 1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
  • 1/2 tsp. black pepper
  • 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
  • 1 1/2 tsp. kosher salt, divided
  • 8 cups lower-sodium chicken broth
  • 4 cups fresh or frozen black-eyed peas
  • 2 Tbsp. olive oil
  • 1 1/2 cups uncooked Carolina Gold rice
  • Fresh scallions, sliced
However you choose, enjoy the evening and ring in the new year!!!

Need more popcorn…

Posted on by December 29, 2025

The CF in Minnesota isn’t going away…

The first stories ‘leaked’ to the Intarwebz, then Nick Shirley dumped a 40+ minute video about the ‘child care’ centers…

FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Sunday that the Bureau has “surged” investigations into fraud in Minnesota.

Patel’s announcement comes after a journalist exposed rampant fraud among some in the state’s Somali community, an issue that has garnered national attention over the past month.

In a post on X, Patel noted that “even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs.”

Full article, HERE from Town Hall.

Which has forced the MSM’s hand, to a certain point, but even the few stories are mostly sob stories about how the Somalis are being ‘targeted’ for enforcement…

What people seem to not want to understand is that this level of corruption is a WAY OF LIFE for most Africans! Their whole culture revolved around stealing from others to enrich ‘their’ family.

‘Their’ family means literally their direct family, followed by their tribe, followed by other Somalis. As far as they are concerned, it’s them against everybody else, and they will use anything they can to win.

The Somalis have not ‘acclimatized’, ‘assimilated’, or anything else. They’ve huddled up by family and tribe, excluded any American influences, and continued their Somali lifestyle in MN.

Now that the fraud is becoming too big to hush up, it will be interesting to see how various agencies, along with various .gov organs respond.

A little humor…

Posted on by December 28, 2025

To start the week…

For all those special ladies in our lives!

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL???

A look in the Mirror:

Age 3: Looks at herself and sees a Queen!

Age 8: Looks at herself and sees herself as Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty.

Age 15: Looks at herself and sees herself as Cinderella/Sleeping

Beauty/Cheerleader or if she is PMS’ing: sees Fat/Pimples/UGLY “Mom I can’t go to school looking like this”!

Age 20: Looks at herself and sees “too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly” – but decides she’s going anyway.

Age 30: Looks at herself and sees “too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly” – but decides she doesn’t have time to fix it, so she’s going anyway.

Age 40: Looks at herself and sees “too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly” – but says,”At least, I’m clean” and goes anyway.

Age 50: Looks at herself and says, “I am” and goes wherever she wants to go.

Age 60: Looks at herself and reminds herself of all the people who can’t even see themselves in the mirror anymore. Goes out and conquers the world.

Age 70: Looks at herself and sees wisdom, laughter and ability; goes out and enjoys life.

Age 80: Doesn’t bother to look. Just puts on a “purple” hat and goes out to have fun with the world.

Send this on to all the women you are grateful to have as friends. Maybe we should all grab that purple hat a little earlier!!