A little humor…

Posted on by January 11, 2026

That I think we all need right now…

This young woman is no different from the rest of us, both family happiness and heartbreak are familiar to her. She is simply looking for an answer to her questions. How do you maintain a relationship? How do you bring back the excitement of the first date?

She wrote a letter to the tech support to find her answers. She sent the letter as a joke and only remembered about it when she suddenly received an email notification with a response.

Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as: Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?

Signed,
Desperate

Dear Desperate,

“First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package,  while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.

Please enter command:
I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)  In addition, please, do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.  You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend: Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

“Good Luck!”

Why is this being ignored???

Posted on by January 11, 2026

Sorry folks, the scheduler hiccuped…

Iran is now 13 days into ‘protests’ that started over the devaluation of the currency and a water crisis in Tehran among other places. The original protest was NOT students, but shopkeepers…

Now, almost two weeks later, it is sweeping the entire country! And more and more civilians/women/students are involved…

The Iranian regime triggered an internet “kill switch” in an apparent effort to hide alleged abuses by security forces and as protests against it surged nationwide, a cybersecurity expert has claimed.

The blackout slashed internet access to a fraction of normal levels on the 13th day of the protests as rights groups, including Amensty International, accused the regime of using lethal force against protesters.

“This is Iran’s war against its own population using digital means,” NetBlocks CEO Alp Toker told Fox News Digital.

“This was a piecemeal measure that eventually encompassed the entire country, with the government willing to use this kind of measure for an extended period of time,” he said.

“There would be an attempt by the regime to cover up crimes that it may have committed, so this blackout could potentially last for days or weeks,” Toker added.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

Apparently the ‘official’ death toll is sixty some odd in 13 days, but according to sources inside Iran, the hospitals are or were reporting over 200 dead.

One of the many pictures that has come out in addition to the fires in cities are the pictures of women/girls lighting cigarettes off pictures of Khomeini, which is a death sentence in Iran.

I was there 50 years ago, when the Shah was still in power. The women were elegant, beautiful, and smart! Well educated, and heavily involved the the Iranian way of life at all levels. Now, not so much…

This particular one has caught the Intarwebz by storm, needless to say…

And this commentary from an Iranian woman makes sense, especially if you ever visited back in the day…

WHY THE SILENCE IS SO LOUD  An Iranian woman just said what many are not understanding— and it explains a glaring contradiction.
She argues that much of the loudest “free Palestine” activism isn’t actually about universal human rights at all.
Iranian woman: “Let me tell you why all these pro-Palestine, all these pro-human rights people are silent right now. Because 90% of the people supporting Palestine are Muslims and they’re only supporting them because Palestinians are Muslim. So the one reason why they’re not supporting my people is because the country is being controlled by Islamic Republic. So the leaders are Muslim. So for them to support the Iranians would have to go against the Islamic Republic, which means they would have to go against their religion. So they’re silent. So it’s not about human rights anymore. This is about religion. Because us Iranians, we were never Muslims to begin with. Islam was forced on us. Because when the Arabs invaded our country, stole everything, assaulted our women – I don’t want to say the word but you know what they did, it was more than an assault – they forced Islam onto us. We were never Muslims to begin with. We are the descendants of Cyrus…”

In other words, they are Persian. And if you aren’t familiar with Cyrus, HERE is the Wiki.

Is this going to be regime change? I don’t know… But the mullahs do NOT want to give up control, and are apparently importing ‘muscle’ to back themselves up…

And that young lady in the picture? I hope she has an exit plan or is already gone, because if they catch her, she is dead.

Why is this not being covered? My guess is too many don’t want to ‘upset’ the Muslims in the US… So much for honest journalism. But we knew that already…

FAFO x 2…

Posted on by January 9, 2026

Well, 72 hours have passed. My comments are my own. First, I was not there, I’m not an LEO, and I’m not a lawyer (Intarwebz or otherwise). I am a shooter and instructor.

First, regardless of ‘what’ the videos show, people are going to ‘believe’ what they want to, especially those who don’t like LEOs. And all the Intarwebz experts are jumping all over the bandwagon(s)…

First of all, the officers were performing a Terry Stop, which is legal as they are certified law enforcement, HERE from LII.

First is a video by an actual lawyer who has looked at the legal issues. Note what he says about the events leading to the shooting and the participants backgrounds.

Next is the cell phone video from the officer HERE from NBC.

It is sad that the woman died, but she did it to herself. Panic? No idea… Set up? Probably by her ‘wife’ for a video of some type…

Now let’s contrast the coverage of this with the shots fired in Portland, OR by ICE at a targeted traffic stop against another SUV. How much coverage? VERY little… And most of that was how many were arrested at the Federal facility downtown.

Why? IMHO, because it was two illegals, TdA type, one male and one female. They were shot but not killed after attempting to rundown the ICE officers.

But, to me the question is, WHO benefits from all this crap? WHO is paying these people to protest? WHERE is the money coming from? Peter at BRM, HERE has questions too.

Frey, Walz, the Oregon governor Kotec should all have kept their mouths shut until more information came to light. Now they just look even stupider than normal.

There will be more details coming, which will do nothing but further cloud the issue. Unlike the last administration, I believe this one will actually do a fair job of investigating and provide a report to the public. As to why MPD isn’t getting the data? I have the gut feeling that DHS does not believe MPD will honestly review the data, based on Frey’s comments and ‘threat’ to ICE.

What do I think? Yes, it was a good shoot. I do believe at that instant, the officer was in fear for his life. I do believe his first shot was from in front, and missed the woman, penetrating the headrest next to her head. Why the second and third shots? I think he was still processing threat parameters, and continued to react to that. The entire evolution takes less than 2 seconds from start to finish. If anyone has been shot at or been in combat, or been in a shoot house scenario, yes, time seems to slow down, but your ‘reactions’ still lag reality (or at least I know mine do).

Do you think ‘you’ could have gotten out of the way quicker? Or stopped after one round?

And who benefits from this???

If you’re a writer…

Posted on by January 8, 2026

I had Fred Hughes on my YouTube channel yesterday.

We talked about writing, co-writing with another author (with examples), writing in someone else’s IP, branding, and marketing, among other things.

We each write differently, but with the same goals, get a book out and get folks to buy it!

I want to stress that there is, IMHO, no ‘right’ way to write, that is up to the individual author as to how you write.

Anyhoo, the link is HERE, if you’re bored and want to hear about how others do things…

One thing we didn’t get into, but I wish we had, was what writing short stories for anthologies ‘can’ do for you. One thing it can do, even if your name isn’t on the cover, is to get exposure to readers who don’t necessarily know you or follow you. If you wrote a good story, that can help broaden your reader base, by making those readers want to see ‘what else’ you’ve written.

Lastly, covers… I know I beat this one to death, but covers are extremely important. Does it match the genre you’re writing in? While that fancy cover may look great full sized, what does it look like as a 200×200 pixel thumbnail? That is what most people are going to see on Amazon.

A few other folks to check-

Mad Genius Club- Writers on writing. https://madgeniusclub.com/

Writer’s Dojo- Larry Correia and Steve Diamond on the business of writing. https://www.writerdojo.com/

Cedar Sanderson- She does it all, art/writing/editing/etc. https://www.cedarwrites.com/

Raconteur Press- A local start up publisher who does primarily anthologies with new writers. And doesn’t hide the accounting and pays their authors!!! https://raconteurpress.substack.com/

 

And away they go…

Posted on by January 7, 2026

The ‘smart’ money folks are getting the hell outta Dodge!!!

As the clock ticks on California’s billionaires facing a proposed wealth tax, some of America’s top business leaders are making strategic moves to leave the Golden State.

Google co-founder Larry Page appears to be distancing himself from California, as public filings reviewed by Fox News Digital from the California Secretary of State’s office show several business entities linked to Page were moved out of the state in December, ahead of the Jan. 1, 2026, residency date tied to the proposed tax. Those filings indicate his family office, Koop LLC, and his influenza research fund, Flu Lab LLC, no longer list California, while a flying-car venture, One Aero, now lists its primary address in Florida.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison has taken steps that signal a potential pullback from California, though details of a reported $45 million off-market sale of his San Francisco home have not been independently confirmed by major outlets. The New York Post reported the sale and said it would mark the city’s largest real estate transaction of 2025.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

These folks aren’t dummies!

Just between the two of them, that would be $16.8 BILLION dollars they would owe Kommiefornia. And they didn’t get to be billionaires by doing stupid things that cost them money…

And they’re not the only ones and companies that are exiting stage right, in this case. You know as well as I do, California will pass the legislation to scrounge every penny they can from every avenue since they are billions in the red, and with the cuts to USAid they’ve lost that government trough they’ve been siphoning off of for years.

Plus the Feds just pulled the funding for the ‘railroad’ to nowhere that is never going to happen, so that’s another $4 billion they can’t scam off of…

Sigh…

In other news, we knew it was going to happen sooner or later, and it looks like we’ll have George Floyd 2.0 shortly in Minnesota… The hue and cry has already started… I’m going with my normal 72 hour rule, even after seeing the videos, because I want to see what ‘else’ is going to come out (or get disappeared)…

Guess what???

Posted on by January 6, 2026

Mandami has been caught in his first ‘official’ lie!!!

Since we know he is a ‘devout’ muslim, and according to ‘some’ interpretations, the Quran 3 (Surah Ali ‘Imran) :28  “Believers should not take disbelievers as guardians instead of the believers—and whoever does so will have nothing to hope for from Allah—unless it is a precaution against their tyranny. And Allah warns you about Himself. And to Allah is the final return.”

Allows ‘lying’ to non-believers/infidels, better known as taqiyya…

Soooo, when he said he had been ‘briefed’ on the Maduro operation, a lot of folks noted he does not have federal security clearance (it takes a lot more than three days to get that in place, trust me). When asked directly by a reporter, he initially danced around the question and answered “NO,” confirming he does not have clearance.

And the other item of interest is that he is apparently not taking briefs from the NYPD, nor meeting with them… I wonder whom he’s delegating that to?

I really feel for you folks in NYC.

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.