Same old…

Posted on by September 1, 2025

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…

Posted on by August 31, 2025

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…

Posted on by August 30, 2025

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…

Posted on by August 29, 2025

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…

Posted on by August 28, 2025

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!!!

First it was Apple…

Posted on by August 27, 2025

Now it’s Android…

Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.

Zscaler’s ThreatLabz spotted and reported 77 apps containing malware, many of them purporting to be utilities or personalization tools.

Many contained an updated version of the Anatsa banking trojan, malware that first appeared in 2020. The latest build includes a keylogger for password collection, SMS interception capabilities, and anti-detection tools. Zscaler thinks it’s being used to target 831 financial institutions globally, including both crypto exchanges and regular banks.

Full article, HERE from The Register h/t Borepatch!

Ouch… and all this stuff is getting by Google’s vaunted ‘malware detector’…

If I were you, I’d be careful of what apps I downloaded.

Just sayin…

Stuff…

Posted on by August 26, 2025

Well, the Cracker Barrel logo fiasco is apparently over…

Cracker Barrel said Tuesday that after listening to its customers, it will scrap its new logo and keep the “Old Timer” in place.

“As a proud American institution, our 70,000 hardworking employees look forward to welcoming you to our table soon,” the restaurant chain added.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

Now the question is what will happen with the interior ‘redesign’? And the DEI mentality of the CEO and the board???

Not a clue over here, but from what I’ve heard, the ‘old’ interior is fine with folks…

In other news, SpaceX finally got Starship 10 off the ground and had successful tests of both the booster (dropped in the Gulf on purpose), and the test deployment from space of the dummy Starlink satellite units. Additionally, they had a successful test reentry in the Indian Ocean after a ‘stress test’ on reentry. They did burn off part of at least one of the rear flaps, but that’s what testing is all about. The test of the revised tile plan seemed to go well too…

And the Coasties did good! USCG Hamilton got more drug busts in the Caribbean and off South America, which totaled 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana, were worth $473 million! Story HERE. That’s a pretty good hit!!!

Apparently, at least a few Brits are waking up to the fact that they too have an immigration problem (among other things)… Story HERE.

However, I can’t help but wonder if this is too little, too late…

Apple issues…

Posted on by August 25, 2025

I’ve had TWO critical iPhone updates in three days…

A recently disclosed vulnerability affecting Apple products has prompted an order for government organizations to patch the bug. 

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave civilian federal agencies until September 11 to implement a fix for CVE-2025-43300 — a vulnerability affecting popular brands of Apple phones, iPads and Macbooks. 

Apple said on Wednesday that it is “aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” 

Full article, HERE from The Record.

Sigh… We all know Android anything is bad, and Apple has. been under attack for years. This one is apparently an 8 or 9 on the 10 scale for vulnerabilities…

So, if you have an Apple device, it might be time to go through the softward updates and plug them in. I know a lot of folks don’t allow ‘auto updates’ to any devices, but ‘I’ would do this one… but that’s just me.

This vulnerability is apparently ‘system wide’ impacting image formats across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

What is worse, it apparently does not require ANY user input, and it automated by the downloaded photo itself… dammit…

So that makes me wonder how many of these virus packages are hidden in memes…

YMMV, etc. etc. etc.

A little humor…

Posted on by August 24, 2025

To start the week…

Golf

A couple of women were playing golf. The first of the twosome teed off and watched in horror as her ball headed directly toward a man playing the next hole. Indeed, the ball hit him. He immediately clasped his hands together at his crotch, fell to the ground and proceeded to roll around in evident agony.

The woman rushed to the man and began to apologize. She said, “Please allow me to help. I’m a physical therapist and I know I could relieve your pain if you’d allow me to.”

“Ummph, oooh, nnooo, I’ll be all right… I’ll be fine in a few minutes, he replied breathlessly as he remained in the fetal position still clasping his hands together at his crotch.

But she persisted, and he finally allowed her to help him. She gently moved his hands, loosened his pants, and  put her hand inside and began to massage him.

She then asked, “How does that feel?”

To which he answered, “Feels great, thank you, but my thumb still hurts like hell.”

++++++++++++

Psychiatrist and Proctologist

Best friends graduating from medical school at the same time decided that, in spite of two different specialties, they would open a practice together to share office space and personnel.

Dr. Smith was the psychiatrist and Dr. Jones was the proctologist. They put up a sign reading: Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones: Hysterias and Posteriors. The town council was livid and insisted they change it.

The docs changed it to read: Schizoids and Hemorrhoids. This was also not acceptable, so they again changed the sign to read: Catatonics and High Colonics. This was also a no go. Next they tried Manic Depressives and Anal Retentives. Thumbs down again.

Then came Minds and Behinds – still no good. Another attempt resulted in Lost Souls and Butt Holes – unacceptable again! So they tried Nuts and Butts – no way. Freaks and Cheeks – still no good. Loons and Moons – forget it.

Almost at their wit’s end, the docs finally came up with: Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones – Specializing in Odds and Ends.

Everybody loved it.

Where???

Posted on by August 23, 2025

Will the power for the data centers come from???

It appears that ‘some’ of the huge data centers planned with consume up to 5 Gigawatts of power. Who is going to provide it???

HERE was Google in 2017 talking about green/sustainable energy for ‘their’ data centers…

And this week, we have HERE from Google in 2025…

Here are the current top ten Data Centers in the US and their power requirements.

# Location Data Centers Megawatts
1 Northern Virginia 300 3,945
2 Phoenix 100 1,380
3 Dallas 150 1,125
4 Atlanta 80 1,065
5 Chicago 110 805
6 Northern California (Silicon Valley) 160 790
7 Portland (including Hillsboro) 50 540
8 New York & New Jersey 145 450
9 Seattle (including Quincy) 70 395
10 Los Angeles 65 220
Total — 1,230 10,715

The direct link is HERE. What I find interesting is that the three smallest are in Seattle, LA, and Portland, all places that have power issues…

The following YouTube is the planned mega or hyper data centers. It’s 36 minutes long, but very informative… especially the way they are getting power…

I can’t help but wonder what will happen to those folks who also need power for their homes? Who has the priority???

Somehow, I don’t think it will be the little people… Sigh…