A little humor…

To start your week…

Two Irishmen walk into a pet shop in Dingle, they walk over to the bird section and Gerry says to Paddy, ‘Dat’s dem.’

The owner comes over and asks if he can help them.

‘Yeah, we’ll take four of dem dere little budgies in dat cage up dere,’ says Gerry..

The owner puts the budgies in a cardboard box. Paddy and Gerry pay for the birds, leave the shop and get into Gerry’s truck to drive to the top of the Connor Pass.

At the Connor Pass, Gerry looks down at the 1000 foot drop and says, ‘Dis looks like a grand place..’ He takes two birds out of the box, puts one on each shoulder and jumps off the cliff.

Paddy watches as the budgies fly off and Gerry falls all the way to the bottom, killing himself stone dead.

Looking down at the remains of his best pal, Paddy  shakes his head and says, ‘Feck dat. Dis budgie jumping is too feck’n dangerous for me!’

Moment’s later; Seamus arrives up at Connor Pass.

He’s been to the pet shop too and walks up to the edge of the cliff carrying another cardboard box in one hand and a shotgun in the other..

‘Hi, Paddy, watch dis,’ Seamus says. He takes a parrot from the box and lets him fly free. He then throws himself over the edge of the cliff with the gun.

Paddy watches as half way down, Seamus takes the gun and shoots the parrot.

Seamus continues to plummet down and down until he hits the bottom and breaks every bone in his body.

Paddy shakes his head and says, ‘And I’m never trying dat parrotshooting either!’

Paddy is just getting over the shock of losing two friends when Sean appears.

He’s also been to the pet shop and is carrying a cardboard box out of which he pulls a chicken. Sean then takes the chicken by its legs and hurls himself off the cliff and disappears down and down until he hits a rock and breaks his spine.

Once more Paddy shakes his head. ‘Feck dat, lads. First dere was Gerry with his budgie jumping, den Seamus parrotshooting…. And now Sean and his feck’n hengliding

Note- Due to current economic conditions the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off until further notice… You’re on your own…

Is Tradpub…

Really this bad???

If I wanted to write an instant YA bestseller, a book that the big New York publishers would be almost guaranteed to not just pick up but have a bidding war over, and if I had no scruples, I’d write something like this.

Seventeen-year-old Seraphina Darkmoon has never fit in — not with her boring, small-minded parents, not with her shallow classmates, not even with her so-called best friend (who, of course, secretly envies her beauty and power). But everything changes when three mysterious young men arrive at school: brooding vampire Kael, dangerous fae prince Draven, and snarky rebel-wizard Jax. All of them are instantly obsessed with Seraphina, who discovers she’s not only the most desirable girl alive but also the Chosen One destined to destroy the ancient order of men who’ve “ruined the world.”

Naturally, every adult authority figure is corrupt or clueless, every boy outside the love-triangle-plus-one is weak, and every girl besides Seraphina is either catty, slutty, or irrelevant. Between trysts in candlelit crypts and whispered prophecies about her unparalleled greatness, Seraphina must decide whether to embrace her dark hunger for power — or surrender to her equally dark hunger for Kael’s kiss.

By the last chapter, nothing has been built, no virtue gained, and no love matured. But Seraphina has conquered her “haters,” punished the men who dared oppose her, and fully embraced her destiny: eternal adoration on her own terms.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

We’ve been hearing some ‘rumblings’ about what is selling and what isn’t, so I don’t think this article is necessarily wrong… sigh…

I know ‘I’ couldn’t write something like that with a straight face, much less actually have the gall to submit it for publication. I wouldn’t do that to my reputation!

But I will say this is definitely in sync with the leftist agenda(s), and falls right in line with the DEI thinking that seems to perfuse the left coast and DC-Boston corridor.

As we’ve discussed earlier, there is an ‘elitist’ mindset in Tradpub and the Manhatten enclave. They believe ‘they’ know what is best for us, even though they’ve by and large never been west of the Hudson River. And they sure as hell haven’t spent any time in flyover country much less the South… Grrr…

I’ll just keep chugging along, writing my realistic novels and be happy with the scraps I get from my loyal readers (all five of you now)…

What say you, as readers???

Interesting…

In Georgia no less…

More than 450 illegal immigrants were arrested on Thursday morning, following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on a construction site for a Hyundai electric car battery factory in Georgia. South Korea, the home to Hyundai’s headquarters, expressed “concern and regret,” over the raid, as hundreds of those arrested were South Korean nationals.

Full article, HERE from Townhall.

Of note, ‘part’ of the tax incentives for this project was jobs for Americans… But Hyundai cheeped out… Makes one wonder if they ‘sent’ folks to work for cheap. They are all about the bottom line.

But good on ICE for another good job!!!

TBT…

Back in the day…

And we bitched when the price went up…  The day before beer had been .35 cents! They were in the process of ‘changing’ the machine… sigh

Beer machineBeer machines in the barracks… The ‘brand selection’ depended on which base…

On Midway Is. beer was .25 and cokes were .35, a carton cigarettes was $1.00, and hard liquor was .25 a shot.

Needless to say the beer machines got emptied first!!! I ‘think’ Coors was $6.00 a case, and Miller was $5.00. Rum (in Puerto Rico) was a dollar a bottle.

Just like the differences in which bases got what, air stations got McDonalds, the naval stations got Burger King, and I don’t remember what the Sub sailors got…

Posted in TBT

Sigh…

An 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis during WWII is believed to have resurfaced in the most unexpected place: hanging above a sofa in a coastal Argentinian home and discovered not by law enforcement or a museum, but spotted in a photo on a real estate website.

The painting, “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian baroque artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a prominent Dutch-Jewish art dealer whose collection of more than 1,100 works was seized after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. Senior Nazi officials, including Hermann Göring, acquired hundreds of pieces, according to the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE).

The potential discovery is the result of years of work by Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) investigative journalists Cyril Rosman, Paul Post and Peter Schouten, who have been pursuing the case for nearly a decade.

Full article, HERE from ABC News. h/t Stretch

The Nazis carried off everything they could, in the form of artwork, gold, statuary, money, and jewels. This is well known history, and it is also well known that any number of Nazis escaped to Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Many of them took or shipped their most ‘valuable’ items ahead and picked up where they left off when they escaped, took new names, and new ‘lives’, courtesy of the SA governments (and bribes paid).

And many of them have lived out their lives in safety and under the radar, regardless of their crimes during the war. But the items they stole are now being recovered worldwide, and numerous folks to both sides of the Atlantic, along with families, museums, and collections are pushing/sueing to get the items back.

Good for them!!!

Same old…

Same old… There is literally a ‘homeless highway’ that runs up and down the left coast. San Diego/LA/Vegas in the winter, summer in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle… And this has been going on for well over 30 years.

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump is aiming to combat crime involving homelessness throughout the country, with cities such as Las Vegas seeing a crisis surrounding encampments overtaking communities and crippling the local area. 

Sin City has seen an uptick in homelessness throughout the community, with a 20% increase within Clark County in 2024, according to the most recent data from the Southern Nevada Homeless Continuum of Care. 

“It’s progressively gotten worse and worse and worse,” Robert Marbut, the former federal homelessness czar under Trump’s first administration, told Fox News Digital. “And there was sort of an idea that they tried a lot of gimmicks in the beginning.” 

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

What is ‘new’ in Vegas is that tourism is way down, due to costs of the big hotels, the bed bug issues, and the cost of food. That puts more folks out of work, exacerbating the problem, and what is not mentioned is the hundreds of miles of tunnels UNDER Vegas that are actually storm drains. HERE is a video of those who live there…

As indicated in the article, they keep trying the same things to ‘remove’ the homeless, and it doesn’t work.

Part of the reason is these people do not WANT to get off the street. The are the mentally ill, druggies, and others who ‘like’ the freedom of their lifestyle and freedom from ‘laws’. They bounce from the streets to the hospital when they OD, or jail, a rehab program for a month or two, a halfway house, and slip back to the streets. Lather, rinse, repeat.

If it gets too ‘hot’ for them, they move either north or south, depending…

The ‘fix’ that Atlanta (Olympics 1996) and Denver (Dem convention) did was bus tickets ‘somewhere’ out of town that meant they would be gone at least a week or more… For Atlanta, that meant New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, or NYC. I was based in Virginia then and remember the LEOs talking about how EVERY bus was full of homeless coming out of Atlanta, and how much work they had to ‘keep’ them moving north…

Where will Vegas sent their homeless??? California? Colorado? Who knows…

A little humor…

To start the week! An oldie but a goody!!!

Political Science for Dummies

DEMOCRAT

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.

You push for higher taxes so the government can provide cows for
everyone.

REPUBLICAN

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST

You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST

You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk
the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are
surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the
analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give
excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows but you don’t know where they are.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION

You have all the cows in Afghanistan , which are two.
You don’t milk them because you cannot touch any creature’s private
parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives
to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION

You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION

You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

BELGIAN CORPORATION

You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he’s French, other times he’s Flemish.
The Flemish cow won’t share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow’s milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.

FLORIDA CORPORATION

You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally
vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can’t figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think
is the best-looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION

You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegal.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.

Stranger…

And stranger…

Police Scotland have warned the public not to share misinformation about an incident in Dundee involving a 12-year-old girl after online speculation was amplified by Elon Musk.

Scotland’s first minister has also accused the multibillionaire X owner of undermining community cohesion.

A 12-year-old girl was charged with being in possession of offensive weapons after an incident in which a Bulgarian couple were approached by young people in St Ann Lane, Dundee, on Saturday evening.

Full article, HERE from the Guardian, and HERE from the BBC.

And here is the video talking about the Paki rape gangs that have been around for years in England…

Soooo, the question now is what REALLY happened with the 12 year old?

Will we ever know the truth? Or will this be enough to finally blow the lid off and the Brits, Scots, and Irish decide to take their countries back?

I don’t know, but between than and their war on ‘words’ in media, I don’t plan to visit anytime soon…

Flippity flop…

It’s GOOD for you, no it’s BAD for you, and back and forth…

Now, they’re saying coffee is back to being ‘good’ for you (or tea if it has caffeine in it)…

A recent study found that your morning cup of coffee really does make you happier – even if you’re not a caffeine addict.

The study involved researchers from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and Germany’s Bielefeld University. It was recently published in the journal Scientific Reports.

The study followed 200 young adults over four weeks and measured their moods.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

So now we’ve come full circle… again… Of course there are alway those to ‘question’ the validity.

Carrie Lupoli, a Connecticut-based nutritionist and health coach, said that even after experimenting with decaffeinated coffee, she observed the same positive effects on herself.

Sure, no caffeine, but it still works ‘because’ it’s a ‘routine’… Looking at what she does, I’m not surprised she would be counter to the study.

Interestingly, this was NOT done in US, but in England and Germany.

Me? I’m sticking with my morning routine of a cup or five of coffee in the morning. Otherwise, I’m not ‘human’ to deal with, as my friends know.

YMMV, yada, yada, yada…a

Book promo…

And a beg…

As always, click the cover for the Amazon link!

This anthology is a benefit antho for Lori Janeski. She will get the proceeds.

The wife of fellow author and editor Matthew Bowman, was in a serious auto accident last September which broke her back. She had surgery, from which she is doing well, but Lori has a long road of recovery ahead. In the spirit of “a rising tide lifts all boats”, Amanda Montandon (with the help of Laura Begley) spearheaded this anthology, Hairballs, Hiccups & Hope.

All of the authors who have stories in this work are donating their creative efforts toward helping Lori and her family through this difficult time.

Every little bit helps.

I bought it and enjoyed all the stories!!!