A little humor…

To start your week! This one is a few years old, but…

A Texan’s answer to welfare…

Put me in charge . . .

Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for
Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,
blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want
steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women
Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test
recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and
piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get
tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?
You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your
“home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be
inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your
own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or
you will report to a “government” job. It may be cleaning the roadways of
trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We
will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo
and speakers and put that money toward the common good.

Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of
the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before
you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self-esteem,”
consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for
doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self-esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least
attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system
rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are on government subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a government welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

I’m getting old…

Out too late with old friends from out of town.

So no post for you. Go read the folks on the sidebar, I’ll be back to posting tomorrow.

Book promo…

It’s ladies day!!!

First up is Cedar Sanderson with another in her Groundskeeper series, Have a Dead Night

As always, click the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

As the cold rain falls on Belleview cemetery, Apprentice mediator Chloe Brandt is shifting from raking fallen leaves to solving mysteries for the living and the dead. If it’s not one thing, it’s another as a fallen tree, a new case, and an unexpected result all collide with a summons from a colleague. Now Chloe and her boss Mr. Cruor are headed for the deep hollers of Appalachia, to attempt the unraveling of a fifty-year-old tragedy, and they are walking right into an ambush. One wrong step, and the dead stay restless forever.

Next up is Pam Uphoff with a new series Machine World, and the first book in it, Dumas

The blurb-

Dumas house Zeller. A Servants bastard who was caught using Mentalist Powers and chipped. Still brilliant, but without Power, with speech issues, sold . . . But he’s got a Grand Plan . . .

A small part of the Baranov Family has been kicked out of Baranov House after their son is accused of improprieties with the Family Head’s daughter. Retreating to their old hunting lodge on a low population World, with their old servants and a couple of new ones, they’re going to find themselves right on the spot when the Machines arrive.

Last but certainly not least, Alma TC Boykin with another in the Familiar Generation Series, Land Magic and Shadows

The blurb-

How far will a seeker go to find an answer?

Thomas A. “Art” Chan struggles to balance his duties as university faculty with those of husband and Hunter. Toss in a tenure committee with members who insist on putting new obstacles in his way, and Art begins to contemplate a job in retail, almost.

Meanwhile, a professor searches for items in a place best left undisturbed. A place where darkness looks back. Darkness with an interest in careless magic workers.

Which is more dangerous: academics with grudges, or an irritated earth power? Or a third force, one that combines the worst of Art’s worlds?

I can highly recommend all three!!!

I’ve been off all week…

I was going to post this yesterday for TBT, and forgot… And I don’t feel like doing politics today.

Back in the day, the P-3A/B aircraft had a radio operator. Yes, he operated the HF and secure radios and TTY (teletype) and morse code. And he was also a forward observer, depending on what we were doing.

The problem was, due to ‘limited’ space, the radio operator didn’t get a nice hardened TTY. According to what I was told, the unit was ‘originally’ meant to be used by secretaries/shore operators in the comm center. Soooo, they gave a ‘fragile’ TTY to a bunch of ham fisted guys bouncing around in an airplane…

Amazingly, a lot of the folks made them work anyway!

And this pic has been floating around for years…

These were the six operational squadrons flying out of NAS JAX in the 70s-80s under Commander, Patrol Wing Eleven. This was when we had 24 active squadrons between the four bases, plus the 13 reserve squadrons during the Cold War. The picture was taken in 1985, one of the few times we had birds from every squadron in town. Usually, at least one of the squadrons was deployed.

And yes, if you were there, the other squadron was VP-30, but it was a training (RAG) squadron, not operational, plus VP-62, the reserve squadron.

And we deployed all over the world with them.

Well…

I don’t think any of us were really surprised at what happened with the various state and city elections yesterday…

New York city got what they deserve. A Soros funded democrat/communist for mayor. And he’s also a jihadist, just to add a little spice in addition to never actually holding a job

. NYC will go even further in the toilet than it already is. And some of the ‘smart’ folks have already bailed to Florida, Texas, and other southern states. Of interest, the FDNY Chief resigned last night when the election was final (he’s Jewish, so he knew he was going to be gone). Money people are already moving to Dallas, so now it’s a question how long the NY Stock Exchange will last.

New Jersey and Virginia the dems voted for dems. No surprise there either… But, I was kinda stunned to hear that the VA NAACP actually promoted a white woman (DEI) over a black woman, immigrant, and veteran for state office. And they elected an AG who wanted to kill is opponent’s children! Yeah, he’s just the guy you want as the head law enforcement officer…

And Commiefornia passed Prop 50, which guarantees there will be no more Republican representation from that state… They are planning to redraw the map to make sure the Pubs can’t muster enough votes in any district, especially with ranked choice voting.

And now the Dem senators are apparently planning on continuing the .gov shutdown, even as airports start restricting flights to prevent accidents. And wonder who is going to pay folks to work, pay the military, and SNAP since they money doesn’t exist to extend the benefits again.

Now we get to watch and see what happens…

 

Wow!!!

Just…wow… I thought the whole veterans bad thing was bad…

(Ken SilvaHeadline USA) In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, the State Department circulated an “optional” pledge, in which signatories agreed to refrain from attending church.

State Department security officer Mark Pemberton refused to sign the “optional” pledge. As a result, his own agency referred him to the Justice Department for investigation on the grounds that he was involved in “Religiously Motivated Violent Extremism,” or RMVE, according to a lawsuit he filed earlier this month against the State Department.

Pemberton said in his lawsuit that he first told his superior, Diplomatic Security Mobile Security Deployments Office Director Jeff Thomas, he was refusing to sign the voluntary pledge because he couldn’t wave his constitutional rights. Nor could he stop exercising his religious beliefs, he said. Thomas later retaliated by referring him to the department’s insider threat program.

Full article, HERE from Headline USA, and a video HERE.  h/t S.

Soooo, basically they went after him because he is a WASP and heterosexual. Therefore he ‘must’ be a threat to the Xiden administration/State Department… sigh.

What is unbelievable is that this has drug on for FIVE years! At least now he’s fighting back and from the reports seems to have a good case! Of course I’m NOT a lawyer, and we all know ‘where’ the case is filed and ‘who’ the judge is will play a major role!

I just hope he wins!

Grrrr…

 

Leftovers…

Leftover Halloween jokes… What, you thought you’d get candy???

Q: What did the little girl say when she had to choose between a tricycle and a candy bar?
A: “Trike or Treat”?

Q: What do you call a fat pumpkin?
A: A plumpkin.

Q: What does a witch use to keep her hair in place?
A: Scarespray!

Q. Why do demons and ghouls hang out together?
A. Because demons are a ghouls best friend!

Q. Why can’t a male ghost father babies?
A. Because he has a hollow weenie.

Q. Why did the game warden arrest the ghost?
A. He didn’t have a haunting license.

Q.  What do you call a dancing ghost?
A. Polka-haunt-us

Q. What did the mother ghost say to the baby ghost as they drove down the street?
A. Buckle your sheet belt!
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 This Halloween, the only Candy I’m interested in swings from a pole.

Thank goodness for Halloween. All of a sudden, the cobwebs in my house are decorations!

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Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, “Never take candy from strangers.” And then they dressed me up and said, “Go beg for it.” I didn’t know what to do. I’d knock on people’s doors and go, “Trick or treat . . . no thank you.” ~ Rita Rudner
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A vampire bat came flapping in from the night covered in fresh blood and parked himself on the roof of the cave to get some sleep.  Pretty soon all the other bats smelled the blood and began hassling him about where he got it.  He told them to knock it off and let him get some sleep but they persisted until finally he gave in.

“OK, follow me,” he said and flew out of the cave with hundreds of bats behind him.  Down through a valley they went, across a river and into a forest full of trees.  Finally he slowed down and all the other bats excitedly milled around him.

“Now, do you see that tree over there?” he asked.

“Yes, yes, yes!” the bats all screamed in a frenzy.

“Good,” said the first bat, “Because I DIDN’T!”
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10 Things That Sound Dirty On Halloween, But Aren’t…

  1. So…What’d you get in the sack?

    2. Once you get under the sheet, start moaning and groaning!!!

    3. Just hop on that broomstick and ride it!

    4. Those small suckers are gone in a few licks!

    5. I got the best piece from that house.

    6. Quit screwing around on the porch!!!

    7. Stick your hand in and guess what you’re feeling….

    8. It was so full and heavy, I had to use TWO hands!!

    9. They’ll suck you dry if they get their teeth in you.

    10. I bobbed and bobbed, but couldn’t get my mouth around it!

A little humor…

To start the week!

What Starts with F and ends with K

A first-grade teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her
students. The teacher asked, ‘Harry, what’s your problem?’

Harry answered, ‘I’m too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in the
3rd grade and I’m smarter than she is! I think I should be in the 3rd
grade too!’

Ms. Brooks had enough. She took Harry to the principal’s office.

While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to the
principal what the situation was. The principal told Ms. Brooks he would
give the boy a test. If he failed to answer any of his questions he was
to go back to the 1st grade and behave. She agreed.

Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he
agreed to take the test.

Principal: ‘What is 3 x 3?’

Harry: ‘9.’

Principal: ‘What is 6 x 6?’

Harry: ’36.’

And so it went with every question the principal thought a 3rd grader
should know.

The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, ‘I think Harry can go
to the 3rd grade.’

Ms. Brooks says to the principal, ‘Let me ask him some questions.’

The principal and Harry both agreed.

Ms. Brooks asks, ‘What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?’

Harry, after a moment: ‘Legs.’

Ms. Brooks: ‘What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?’

The principal wondered why would she ask such a question!

Harry replied: ‘Pockets.’

Ms. Brooks: ‘What does a dog do that a man steps into?’

Harry: ‘Pants.’

Ms. Brooks: What starts with a C, ends with a T, is hairy, oval,
delicious and contains thin, whitish liquid?’

Harry: ‘Coconut.’

The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open.

Ms. Brooks: ‘What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky?’

The princi pal’s eyes opened really wide and before he could stop the
answer, Harry replied, ‘Bubble gum.’

Ms. Brooks: ‘What does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down
and a dog does on three legs?’

Harry: ‘Shake hands.’

The principal was trembling.

Ms. Brooks: ‘What word starts with an ‘F’ and ends in ‘K’ that means a
lot of heat and excitement?’

Harry: ‘Firetruck.’

The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher, ‘Put Harry
in the fifth-grade, I got the last seven questions wrong…… ‘

Stuff…

Back in the day… Before things got stoopid…

I’ll have you know I got 2 of them! I managed to not get caught…

And it was my turn to cook, since it was ‘chilly’ yesterday, I did a southern favorite.

Shrimp and grits with collard greens and garlic bread. And I forgot to get hold my cousin in time to get actual tasso ham here…grrrr…

But everyone enjoyed it!

Oh yeah, and remember to set your clock back an hour…

This is…

Odd, to put it mildly…

The U.S. Navy has replaced the admiral in charge of the Office of Naval Research with a civilian who has reportedly worked as a Department of Government Efficiency staffer, according to the service.

Rear Adm. Kurt. Rothenhaus, who has served as chief of naval research since June 2023, has been reassigned and replaced by Rachel Riley, who most recently acted as a senior adviser for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a Navy public affairs official confirmed in an emailed statement Thursday.

Riley worked at HHS as part of DOGE, the The New York Times previously reported, a job her LinkedIn profile shows her holding since January 2025.

Full article, HERE from Navy Times.

I have to say this one makes no sense to me. I worked there for 13 years, granted for an SES and GS-15, but the leadership were a Navy Rear Admiral (usually with R&D or acquisition background), and a senior Navy Captain as the XO.

Riley has no R&D or acquisition background but apparently was a ‘team lead’ in organizational transformation and organizational design for efficiency and speed of government organizations. And apparently she also worked on Chinese issues, in addition to being fluent in Chinese… Odd…

I can’t help but wonder how she will get the clearances she needs to be involved with certain projects/programs, much less understand the details of advanced research programs.

But that’s just me, and I’m no longer there. But I have heard a few folks I knew are bailing after the news…

Sigh…