Sigh…

Posted on by June 23, 2025
I am so tired of the “instant“ Internet experts, who can go from experts on climate change, to tariffs, to Iran, and military tactics, and who know better than anyone inside the military, the intelligence community, or the government what should be done and how. It was also funny how the hue and cry over Trump‘s actions last night have brought so many out of the woodwork, when no one said anything about Obama doing the same thing.
And once again, I wonder why we should be listening to anyone in professional sports, actors, are any Internet randos about what was or was not done.
None of us, nor any of them were there, we weren’t involved in the intelligence collection, analysis, or dissemination of the same.
Nor were we privy to any discussions between the US, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or the UAE.
For what it’s worth, which is zip, 0, zilch, nothing… I think they did the right thing. Iran has been backed into a corner by Israel, and the next logical step for them was to strike out at their perceived enemies in any way shape, form or fashion they could, including dirty bombs. The ballistic missile threat(s) were mostly stopped, and the Iranian mullahs were upping the threat…
They have held a threat of nuclear bomb/missiles over the heads of Israel, the Middle East, and the US for at least 20 years. And they have been in a declared war with us since 1979, which faithful tend to “conveniently“ forget. So yes, in my home opinion, the strike was long overdue.

And my friend Tom Rogneby had some similar thoughts, HERE.  And he calls out a few more that I happen to agree with…

I woke up this morning to an Internet of former immigration law experts who have evolved into law-of-war, constitutional law, and Mid East foreign policy experts. The mind boggles at what these geniuses will be tomorrow.

I need to step up my game. I’m just a guy who used to have some expertise in Eastern European culture and politics, who morphed into the digital equivelent of a car mechanic, but is currently retooling as a Dachshund caretaker and landscaper.

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Spent the weekend watching several schwanz-measuring contests. First, there was the “Who’s the Biggest Geek?” competition, followed by “Who’s Been a Geek Longer?” cagematch. Both of these were eclipsed by “Who Did the Most Cool Stuff When They Were In The Military 20 Years Ago?” scrum.

I did not participate. I was not there to help Heinlein change his typewriter ribbon, nor do I speak multiple non-human languages without a noticable accent. It goes without saying that I was never a Delta Force Scout Sniper Airborne Riverine Space Shuttle Door Gunner.

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Watching friends do well and become leaders in something is wonderful. Watching pricks who used to be dominant in their space become a footnote is almost as good.

I’m keeping my mouth shut for 72 hours, as always, to let the dust settle and wait for some truth to filter out, unlike the Dems (who, by the way, WERE notified (Schumer) prior, and Jeffries (after since he was out of touch), along with Johnson and Thune.

Sigh…

A little humor…

Posted on by June 22, 2025

To start the week…

It’s not like any of us have ever done this,  right???

WRONG E-MAIL ADDRESS

This one is priceless…A lesson to be learned from typing the wrong email address!!

A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. So, the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down the following day…

The husband checked into the hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an email to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address, and without realizing his error, sent the email.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston , a widow had just returned home from her husband’s funeral. He was a minister who was called home to glory following a heart attack. The widow decided to check her email expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted.

The widow’s son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which read:

To: My Loving Wife

Subject: I’ve Arrived

Date: October 16,  2005

I know you’re surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now and you are allowed to send emails to your loved ones.  I’ve just arrived and have been checked in.

I’ve seen that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then!!!! Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.

P. S. Sure is freaking hot down here!!

Well…

Posted on by June 21, 2025

THAT was interesting…

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Saturday that U.S. forces have successfully launched attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan,” Trump announced on Truth Social. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space.”

The president said a “full payload of BOMBS” was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. 

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan… The ‘big 3’ for Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Fordow got 6 MOPs, Natanz and Isfahan got 30 Tomahawks. Talks weren’t going anywhere, and Iran knew what the consequences would be. But they ‘chose’ to believe that Trump would never actually DO anything…

Welp, that question is now answered…

What happens next is up to them. Of note, neither Trump nor Israel is saying anything about regime change, just about stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Is what Trump did legal? Yes. As commander in chief, he was well within Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution spells out that “the President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states,” while only Congress has the power to declare war, as an enumerated power under Article I, Section 8, Clause 11.

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 requires a report to Congress within 48 hours of the commencement of ‘hostilities’. And could run a maximum of 60 days…

However, the WPR can only be exercised “by (1) with a declaration of war, (2) with specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”

Now Iran declared war on the US in 1979, as soon as the current regime took over, so ‘technically’ we’ve been at war with them for 47 years. I believe this was done under part 3, to prevent a nuclear attack on the US.

Also, Trump briefed Rep Johnson, so Congress was notified prior to the strike. And I loved the ‘misdirection’ of the very public departure of the B-2s plus tankers heading west… “Look over here, we’re positioning…”

Thankfully the missions were successful and none of our folks died!

Now it’s up to Iran…

That’s…

Posted on by June 20, 2025

A LOT of money…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an agency essentially dismantled by DOGE amid complaints from Democrats that cutting waste would harm impoverished countries, is at the center of a massive bribery scandal.

A federal contracting officer and three businessmen have pleaded guilty in a scheme involving bribes like cash, NBA tickets, and a country club wedding in a scandal the Department of Justice (DOJ) said was part of a $550 million scam, Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent Mike Emanuel reported Friday. 

Roderick Watson, 57, worked as a USAID contracting officer, according to a DOJ press release, and pleaded guilty to “bribery of a public official.”

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

One can only wonder how many other ‘contracts’ are similar, and whom else did the money go to?

We now know a lot of money went to NGOs for ‘various’ contracts, and that some of those monies were used directly against the US government and used in the United States.

It makes me wonder if the swamp can actually be drained… sigh…

 

Sigh…

Posted on by June 19, 2025

The unavoidable laws of the universe…

1. WORKSHOP LAW OF BREAD:
When the buttered slice of bread falls it always falls on the buttered side.
2. LAW OF LANES:
If you change lanes, regardless of where you are, the one you just left starts to move faster than the one you are in now.
3. LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose begins to itch.
4. LAW OF THE TOOLS:
Any tool, when dropped, rolls to the least accessible corner.
5. BATH THEOREM:
When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.
6. LAW OF ENCOUNTERS
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
7. LAW OF THE RESULT
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will!
8. LAW OF BIOMECHANICAL:
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
9. LAW OF COFFEE:
As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.
10. LAW OF EXAM:
A book will remain in state of rest or covered in dust until exams time.
11. LAW OF SLEEP:
The nap becomes enjoyable when the alarm sounds.
12. LAW OF CHEAPER THINGS
You always find the cheaper item once you have bought the expensive one. OR you find the lost item just after buying an expensive replacement.

Pictures…

Posted on by June 18, 2025

My daughter got a chance to take a few photos while on vacation last week…

Yes, I bought her a nice Canon camera a couple of years ago, and she likes to work in black and white. All of these were taken in northern California. And yes, the little boy’s mother was right there, and they got off the tracks as soon as the picture was taken!

A little waterfall near where they were staying…

And a couple of pictures further up the creek.

Some interesting sheers in the rocks on the right side of the creek. All of that is apparently ‘natural’.

I hope y’all enjoyed these, I know I did!

Oopsie…

Posted on by June 17, 2025

The View had Arnold Schwarzenegger on yesterday and the interview went ‘off the rails’ so to speak…LOL

As conservatives, we have a sort of love/hate relationship with “The View.” For as long as it has been on the air, we are constantly baffled at how it stays on the air, and who would actually use minutes of their life to go sit in the studio audience, much less watch it at home. However, the truth is that the hopelessly uninformed, vapid gals of “The View” provide some of the best nonsensical content around. Their latest guest to once again put their collective idiocy on display is former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. 

“The Governator” sat down with Joy and Whoopi, et al, but the fun, at least for us, began when Joy Behar asked Schwarzenegger about the ICE raids going on in California. Either Joy is completely unaware that Arnold is a legal immigrant, or she really is as big a buffoon as we thought. Whatever the case, none of them got the answer they wanted from the actor. Behar began saying, “You’re an immigrant to this country, did you have a visceral reaction to what they’re doing, to what ICE is doing when you see the videos of it?”

The full article and video are HERE from Red State.

Snort… They really did NOT like Ahnold’s answer, or his comments… They kept trying to interrupt him but he was on a roll!

Go listen and be amazed at how thankful he is that he came to America!

I wish more felt the same way he does, rather than thinking America ‘owes’ them a life…

Rats…

Posted on by June 16, 2025

Being thrown off or deserting the sinking ship of state…

The DNC has seen plenty of drama, as we’ve been covering, given that DNC vice chairman David Hogg is not only out, but revealed he isn’t running again when it comes for the revote that was scheduled. He’s out for good, after serving in the role for just four months. He’s not the only one who is out, though. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), sent a letter to DNC Chairman Ken Martin indicating she would not accept a reappointment as a DNC member.

As Weingarten mentioned in her letter, she has attended every DNC as a delegate since 1992, has been an at-large member since 2002, and served on their Rules and Bylaws Committee since 2009. It’s her issues with current leadership, though, that has her wanting out. 

Full article, HERE from Town Hall.

It’s no surprise to me that Hogg got thrown overboard. When your ‘plank’ is to go after sitting congresscritters, that’s NOT going to win you any points…

Weingarten has been on the wrong side of many things since 2019, not the least of which was the WuFlu vs. schools issue. She’s been trying to deny her participation in that whole CF, but people are bringing receipts, videos, and posts from various media.

Personally, I think this is her trying to ‘distance’ herself from the next set of failures and any blame as she tries to hang on to her seat at the AFT (and the salary of over over $560,000 that goes with it).

She’s lost the DEI ‘mandate’, losing in a number of states on charter schools, and contract talks (like Chiraq) are not going in her or the union’s favor. When you add in the loss of ‘required’ donations to unions, that is cutting into the amounts of $$$ that the union has to ‘buy’ influence.

I just wonder how long she can dodge the reckoning she has coming…

A little humor…

Posted on by June 15, 2025

To start the week!!!

Puns…

  1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He
    acquired his size from too much pi.

    2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to
    be an optical Aleutian .

    3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

    4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a
    weapon of math disruption.

    5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.

    6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

    7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

    8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

    9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

    10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

    11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

    12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the
    other: ‘You stay here; I’ll go on a head.’

    13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

    14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’

    15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

    16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

    17. A backward poet writes inverse.

    18. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.

    19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

    20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you’d be in Seine .

    21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess
    looks at him and says, ‘I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.’

    22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall.  One turns to the other and says ‘Dam!’

    23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the
    craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your
    kayak and heat it too.

    24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, ‘I’ve lost my electron.’ The other
    says ‘Are you sure?’ The first replies, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’

    25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root
    canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

    26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at
    least one of the puns would make them laugh.  No pun in ten did.

Book Promo…

Posted on by June 14, 2025

First up, Pam Uphoff with a new story in her Chronicles of the Fall series, Ivan Zima

As always, click on the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

A novella about a Master Mentalist who has lost his ability to collect the Power for the magic that keeps the True Men in control of the Three Part Alliance. He’s lost his job, his family has distanced itself from him . . .

Ivan Zima didn’t quit, he adopted his servants and got on with life. And when those kids went off to college, he adopted more kids. After all, who doesn’t need a horse-crazy teenager, a juvenile delinquent, and three cute little girls as your empire crumbles and falls?

Next up is Melissa Olthoff with a new book, Rise from Ruin

The blurb-

When a prank bonds Harper Tavros to a fierce griffin instead of the dragon she always dreamed of, she must battle her doubts and rise to the front lines, forging an unbreakable alliance to save her country from impending doom.

Together we fly, divided we fall.

All Harper Tavros ever wanted was to be a dragon rider.

But after a prank goes wrong, she ends up soul bonded to a griffin. Now, she’ll have to learn an entirely new skillset before she ends up on the front lines of a war her country is slowly losing.

If she’s going to make a difference, she’ll need to rise up from the ruin of her dreams and embrace a new path. One that includes her accidental bondmate, an utterly ridiculous, insanely brave griffin. But in order to form a strong enough bond to defend their country, they’ll need to keep the pressures of war, loss, and doubt from tearing them apart. Because the only way Harper and her griffin will survive is together.

Last but certainly not least, another anthology from Raconteur Press, Mad Science!

The blurb-

Unleash your inner mad scientist! Dive into a wild anthology of sci-fi tales where telepathy, matter-transmission, and volcano-powered rockets ignite the imagination. Packed with tongue-in-cheek humor, bad puns, and mind-bending ideas, these stories celebrate the joy of questioning everything. From the golden age of pulp to the bludgeoning edge of science, prepare for a fun, thought-provoking ride that doesn’t take itself too seriously—but will leave you craving more!