Two days late, but I would challenge anybody to come up with as good a quality set of releases today, much less the quality of the bands…
And this one is just plain funny…
And the early days of the ‘neighborhood watch’… Those old ladies saw ‘everything’!!!
Another one from the mil email string…
A LOT of these are true if you are ‘of an age’!
Random thoughts from people our age…
I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid neighborhood of your choice” routing option.
More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?
Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know” feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?
Do you remember when you were kids playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.
There is a great need for sarcasm font.
Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.
I think everyone has a movie that they love so much it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.
How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
Any additions??? 🙂
Can’t see s**t, so you get green Fords… 🙂
Seen Sunday morning at breakfast. 31 A, driven by an older couple out for a ‘Sunday Drive’…
Complete restoration, including the rock screen for the radiator!!!
And a period correct interior, with just ‘one’ addition, seat belts!
And seen yesterday… 1965 Mercury Comet Cyclone
This one is also restored! 4 speed, 289, but sadly I don’t know ‘which’ one. It is missing the tach, so probably NOT the HI PO 271hp 289.
Love that old green color! And the period correct redline tires and Kelsey Hayes Stripper mag wheels from 1967! The wheels alone are worth a BUNCH… 
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Just got a phone call from Murphy over at lagniappes Lair. He came through the storm OK, no damage to the house, no flooding. Some minor fence damage, and power expected to be out for two weeks.
He said the dogs are OK he’s doing OK has plenty of food, water, and he’s only worried about possibly running out of booze… 🙂 Said he’s going to catch up on his reading.
Interesting video popped over the transom from the mil email string…
This was filmed at DEFCON, the hacker conference in Vegas, but was ‘received’ from the middle east… Rather interesting on a number of fronts.
Worth watching to see how easily things can be hacked, even when you ‘think’ you have good security/systems. If you don’t read Borepatch, you should. He’s an expert…
Anyhoo, six minutes of your time. Well worth it…
Seems that some of the media are now starting to question the whole EV thing…
They drove one from Barstow, CA to SFO.
Whether you want to go green or not, most of us are going to be driving an EV in the next two decades. Automakers are spending billions retooling factories and revamping their fleets to go most or all-electric in the next 10 to 15 years, plans fully endorsed by President Joe Biden who wants half of all U.S. auto sales to be electric vehicles by 2030. That’s a massive goal considering the market, including plug-in hybrids, currently stands at about 3%.
Full article HERE from CNBC.
Note the ‘mileage’ the EV got? Not nearly the range quoted. And what happens if all the charging stations are full when you get there? Take a number and wait your turn?
Now I’ve made that drive more than once over the years, and always made TWO stops for gas/bathroom. And usually made it in around 7 hours, NEVER two days.
But let me ask one ‘other’ question… What happens when PG&E shuts off power? Those charging stations are going to be dead. What then???
As I’ve said before, if you run the calculations, the power grid in the USA is NOT capable of providing enough power to actually charge all those ‘vaporware’ EVs that the left is promising/requiring soon…
-Lots of Heavy Equipment Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Excavators
First up is Larry’s new collaboration- Gun Runners
As always, click on the cover to get the Amazon link!
The blurb-
THRILLING SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LARRY CORREIA AND JOHN BROWN
The Heart of a Warrior
Once, Jackson Rook was a war hero. Raised from boyhood to pilot an exosuit mech, he’d fought gallantly for the rebellion against the Collectivists. But that was a long time ago, on a world very far away.
Now, Jackson Rook is a criminal, a smuggler on board the Multipurpose Supply Vehicle Tar Heel. His latest mission: steal a top-of-the-line mech called the Citadel and deliver it to the far-flung planet Swindle, a world so hostile even the air will kill you. The client: a man known only as the Warlord. Rook has been in the smuggling business long enough to know that it’s best to take the money and not ask questions. But Rook cannot stand by and watch as the Warlord runs roughshod over the citizens of Swindle, the way the Collectivists did on his homeworld. For all his mercenary ways, Rook is not a pirate. And deep within the smuggler, the heart of a warrior still beats.
Next up is Ben English’s first book in the new Templer family series- The Uvalde Raider
The blurb-
The time is the eve of the First Gulf War. The place is an abandoned World War II emergency landing strip for heavy bombers, nestled amid the near countless miles upon miles of wide openness in West Texas. Here another climatic battle will be fought, while the rest of the world focuses on what would become known as Operation Desert Storm. But in some ways, the stakes are even higher as men from other places and past conflicts gamble all that they are, and all they ever were, to prevent a catastrophic terrorist attack unthinkable before on an American city. The key to either side’s success or failure? One old Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, an enduring symbol from another war and ensuing catastrophe of a different era. This relic of a not so distant past is named ‘The Uvalde Raider,’ and this is its story…
Ben does a great job with this one, and the flying scenes are accurate!
Last but not least, an anthology- Starflight: Tales From The Starport Lounge
The blurb-
Seventeen incredible authors. Seventeen amazing stories. One fantastic sci-fi universe, where the only limit is one’s imagination. Welcome to Starflight.
Based on the exploration-based Starflight video game series created by Greg Johnson and the Binary Systems team, the stories in Tales From the Starport Lounge flesh out and shine a light into the darkest corners of the known universe. Join the last vestiges of Humanity and their alien allies (the reptilian Thrynn, the insectoid Velox, and the plant-based Elowan) as they attempt to carve out their own territory in a sector of space filled with wondrous opportunity and deadly threats. Brave explorers seek out new worlds to colonize while merchants cruise from starport to starport, their holds laden with exotic goods.
Not all in this futuristic setting have noble intent. For every prospector and trader attempting to make a difference, a dozen pirates, smugglers, and mobsters engage in all manner of criminal enterprise. Gangs fill the underbellies of every major city and raid the trade routes between the stars, pushing the outnumbered and outgunned Interstel Police to their limit and forcing civilians to take matters into their own hands. It’s a rough and tumble universe, where one wrong move could spell doom for an expedition, or grant enough wealth to buy a planet.
Board your ship and set course for stars unknown! The universe awaits.
Stories include:
“Those Who Came Before” by Michael Gants
“Choices” by Christopher Woods
“Black Box Blues” by Philip K. Booker
“Rock of Truth” by Bart Kemper
“Obligations” by Marisa Wolf
“Hindsight” by R.J. Ladon
“Peacestone” by Brisco Woods
“Everyone Gets What They Have Coming” by D.J. Butler
“A New Beginning” by J.F. Posthumus
“Fire at Will” by Declan Finn
“Hiro of Arth” by David A. Tatum
“Rover Rescue” by Michael J. Allen
“Territory” by Nick Steverson
“Turn of Luck” by William Joseph Roberts
“Always on Duty” by Benjamin Tyler Smith
“To Cache a Killer” by Michael J. Ciaravella
“Through the Time Lens” by Robert Silverberg
Plus an introduction by Starflight creator, Greg Johnson
Xiden yesterday to the G7- “During a meeting this morning with the G-7 leaders, the president conveyed that our mission in Kabul will end based on the achievement of our objectives,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in an afternoon news briefing. “He confirmed we are currently on pace to finish by Aug. 31 and provided an update on progress in evacuating Americans who want to come home, third-country nationals, and Afghans who were our allies during the war.”
Full article, HERE.
It appears that the ONLY people to be evacuated in the next six days are US passport holders and SIV, nobody else, according to one report from State… WTF???
Meanwhile- the Veep was saying this- After fleeing to Singapore to let Joe Biden handle the criticism for the situation in Afghanistan, Kamala Harris bizarrely described the widely panned botched withdrawal from Afghanistan as ” a successful drawdown” of the embassy.
“There’s no question there will be and should be a robust analysis of what has happened, but right now there’s no question that our focus has to be on evacuating American citizens, Afghans who worked with us and vulnerable Afghans, including women and children,” Harris said.
Full article, HERE.
While the reality is that nobody seems to know how many Americans have actually been taken out, OR how many are left… And they punched the first load of military out yesterday…
And neither Baghdad Bob Kirby or Raggedy Ann Psaki will actually answer a damn question…
So fed up with this mess, the administration, and DOD. This is an embarrassment to every veteran who served, the USA as a whole, and has driven a wedge between us and our closest allies.
The blood of the STRANDED Americans and Afghan supporters will be on Biden, Harris, Austin, and Milley’s hands.
At least the retired folks, analysts, and ‘others’ are doing what they can to get people out any way, and anywhere they can! AND apparently having to fight with State if, big IF, they can get through the perimeter to the airport. Indications are State is not processing anybody that does not have ALL their paperwork…
And living conditions are in the toilet, literally, at the airport. Water/sewer are apparently out, food and water are running out, etc. Of course it’s only going to get worse when the Taliban/Al Qaeda/Haqqani kill all of those that ‘could’ run the power plants, water plants, etc. And their only income will be from smuggling, sales of $87B of military equipment, and ransoms on those they will be holding (see Tehran 1979)…