Sad news…

Dusty Hill, one of the original members of the iconic blues/rock band ZZ Top passed away yesterday.

They were one of my favorite bands from the 1970s through today, a blend of various music styles, and hilarious music videos.

The cars were also iconic, owned by Billy Gibbons the lead singer. The Eliminator was probably the most well known one.

Dusty Hill played bass, driving the beat with his guitar and writing many of the songs the group was famous for with Gibbons. He jokingly called his beard a Texas goatee…

RIP sir, your music will live on and inspire more generations in time!

How about some humor???

Tired of the usual crap so… You get humor…

A man owned a small ranch near San Antonio . The Texas labour Department got a tip that he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an investigator out to interview him.

“I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,” demanded
the investigator.

“Well,” replied the rancher, “there’s my ranch hand who’s been with me
for 3 years. I pay him $1200 a week plus free room and board.

“The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $1000 per week plus
free room and board.

“Then there’s the half-wit. He works about 18 hours every day and does
about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board.

But, I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night, and he also sleeps
with my wife occasionally.”

“That’s the guy I want to talk to … the half-wit,” says the investigator.

“That would be me,” replied the rancher.

And since we’re talking about Texas/ranchers…

An Old Farmer’s/Rancher’s/Chuck Wagon Cook’s Advice:

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight And bull-strong.

*Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

*Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor .

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled.

* Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

* It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.

* Every path has a few puddles.

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.

* Don’t judge folks by their relatives.

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get Older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.

* Don’t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t bothering you none.

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

* The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever Have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’.

* Always drink upstream from the herd.

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a Lotta that comes from bad judgment.

* Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot Easier than puttin’ it back in.

* If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some Influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.

*Never fight with a woman.  You’ll lose.

* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

  • Don’t pick a fight with an old man, if he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.

Hypocrisy much???

Sigh…

Several radical leftists who are members of the Squad in the U.S. House of Representatives — including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Cori Bush — are well-known for their rhetoric pushing for American cities to defund their police departments. And while it’s their right to advocate for what has already proven to cause a dystopian reality in American cities, they are not immune to criticism for being hypocrites. 

Full article, HERE.

And then there was this from Xiden…

The reporter asks Biden if any Democrats support defunding the police, after he insisted that none do. Which is an obvious lie, since Democrats did defund police in many cities and many Democrats in Congress continue to support defunding the police.

His answer???

“Are there people…who think we’re sucking the blood out of kids?”

WTH was that answer for or too??? Full article, HERE.

I want to see his handlers explain this one away…

And this ‘toon nails it… Polling is down on Voter ID racism, so…

Oh hell yes!!!

Oddly, it seems that ONLY political or posts that might ‘offend’ seem to miss schedule… WTH WordPress???

This happened last year, but it’s still worth a repeat…

Luke Duncan is the chairman of the Ute Indian Tribe Business Committee, the governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe. The tribe is made up of three bands: the Uintah, the Whiteriver and the Uncompahgre; two representatives from each band are elected to serve four-year terms on the Business Committee.
The tribe’s Uintah and Ouray Reservation is located in northeastern Utah, approximately 150 miles east of Salt Lake City. It’s the second-largest Indian reservation in the United States, covering more than 4.5 million acres.
Last year, the Salt Lake Tribune ran a commentary titled, “Time for the U. to Give up its Native American Nickname.” The author, a University of Utah employee named Christopher Mead, argued that the University of Utah needs to stop using the name “Running Utes.”
The tribe responded-
Our business committee, the elected governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe, was incensed and deeply troubled when we read the piece. Mead’s approach in raising this issue on behalf of our tribe, and the implicit attitude of saving the Ute people from themselves, lacks common sense. It undermines tribal rights, it causes conflict between native and non-native communities, and it negates our ability as a sovereign nation to make appropriate decisions for our people.
The full article is HERE!
This response, and the one by the Seminoles in Florida over the Florida State mascot both got a good bit of press on the conservative side as they slapped down rather effectively the wokesters that wanted to ‘complain’ for them.
But…
Apparently this week the Cleveland Indians will now be known as the Cleveland Guardians… Whatever that is… 106 years of history, gone.
And the Washington Redskins are now just known as Washington… Can’t even come up with something acceptable… Interesting…
At least the Atlanta Braves are standing up to the wokesters and telling them to go pound sand!

Which is more important???

Bread and circuses (AKA the intarwebz)? Or???

Apparently some ‘wag’ on cable yesterday afternoon said after the internet ‘outage’ yesterday, that the administration needs to take all the money away from roads, bridges, and ACTUAL infrastructure and put it into ‘ensuring that the intarwebz stays up, because THAT is more important than roads and bridges…

Of note, the web was partially impacted for around an hour…

People today don’t seem to understand that shelter, food, and clean water aren’t guaranteed. Or gasoline, for that matter…

We did pretty good without the intarwebz… invented a few things, cars, airplanes, trains, a few life saving drugs here and there, steam power, gasoline engines among others. Created the atomic bomb, went to the moon, you know, little things like that…

What is the benefit of the intarwebz? You can shop in your underwear from your couch. But THAT is more important than the roads, bridges, rails, etc. that bring those things to you?

And those other ‘little niceties’… Food from fields to manufacturers, to stores; oil from the ground to refineries, to those gas stations you use.

I…gah… I just do not understand how short sighted, conceited, and egotistical these people are that believe crap like the above…

Have a good weekend, and go enjoy yourselves! Get outside, away from the computers and phones and enjoy nature!

 

TBT…

Sometimes chains are a ‘good’ thing…

This plane captain is waiting for his bird to be spotted on the flight deck so he can chain it down.

The ONLY times a bird isn’t chained down on the deck or in the hangar is when they are being towed, or on deck if the pilot is in the jet and it’s getting ready to taxi or in the launch sequence.

Supposedly there is non-skid on the carrier decks, but by mid-cruise, it’s usually worn off to the point that the deck is getting slick. Add spilled oil, hydraulic fluid, etc. and it gets REALLY slick!

And with the noise on the flight deck during launch/recovery, you can’t hear anything. It’s even more ‘fun’ at night, when the only lights are red lights around the edges of the deck.

Posted in TBT

Who was Jefferson Davis???

Sam Jacobs over at Ammo.com has a new ‘personality’ up.

Two individuals come to mind at the mention of the Confederate States of America, General Robert E. Lee and Former-President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis. Both General Lee and Davis were men of principle and conviction as they stood up for what they believed; however, for a variety of historically complicated reasons, General Lee became a far bigger symbol of the Confederacy after its demise than Davis. Although Davis remains a sort of avatar for the end of states’ rights, some have come to view him as a Southern patriot.

Full article, HERE.

I think it’s one of the more ‘balanced’ depictions of Davis, historically accurate, and free from the usual cliches. With the left trying to revise history and/or erase the parts they don’t like, and honest presentation is refreshing, at least to me…

Your thoughts?

Oopsie…

Green energy gonna save us…

Or not… At least in Philly… $24 million in electric buses (apparently about $1 M each) less than five years old are now off the road!

The entire fleet of Proterra buses was removed from the roads by SEPTA, the city’s transit authority, in February 2020 due to both structural and logistical problems—the weight of the powerful battery was cracking the vehicles’ chassis, and the battery life was insufficient for the city’s bus routes. The city raised the issues with Proterra, which failed to adequately address the city’s concerns.

Full article, HERE.

Apparently, this is one of those little oopsies like lack of mileage, no charging stations, etc. But this is supposed to be our future?

Guess it’s time to invest in some good cow ponies. At least they are fairly cheap to operate, but the lack of trunk space and no AC are gonna be a PITA (in addition to the PITA from riding any distance at my age)…

I really wonder if any of these cities that are going down the ‘green energy’ rathole are actually doing the due diligence they should be on these ‘products’. Wind, solar, electric cars?

How are they going to charge them? Look at what happened in Texas with the freeze… Wind was frozen, solar was snow covered, propane froze because the feeds were ‘supposedly’ green powered, which shut them down, etc. The ONLY clean energy is nuclear, but that’s bad… sigh

Where does this end? How many must die before some people come to their senses and stop trying to placate the left and say we need to actually have stable power, and vehicles that go more than 300 miles without having to be charged (hint-gas/diesel powered)?

And now that manufacturers are stepping away from building cars, people are wanting to not allow John Q. Public to be able to buy a pickup truck because they are ‘dangerous and carbon negative polluters)…

Kicking the soapbox back in the corner and looking for my BP meds.

I’m giving away books!!!

I’m part of a group of authors giving away copies of our books this month!!!

You can enter HERE for free. Signed copies of Rimworld- The Rift will go to the five winners! 🙂

I think I’m in pretty good company with these folks! 😉

Sigh…

Coming out of the WuFlu, I wonder how many of us can get a bingo…

Busy writing, go read the folks on the sidebar! They’re better at this than I am.