Pictures…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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!

Flag day!!!

Why today???

It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. The Flag Resolution stated “That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”

Of course we’ve added a few more stars (and States) since then…

This was taken at sunset, as it flies everyday! And yes, it is lighted at night.

In our little town, they put out the flags (both US and Texas) on important dates like Memorial Day, Flag Day, the 4th, and Veterans Day. Gotta love ’em for that!

Well…

It’s ON now…

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have launched a sweeping strike on Iran following months of attempted, and seemingly failed, nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Tehran, but according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the U.S. was not involved in the strikes. 

“Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran,” Rubio said in a statement Thursday night. “We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.

“Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense,” he added. 

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

It’s apparent that Israel had had enough, they thought there was a clear and present danger to Israel’s survival. They were, as of last night, going after the IRGC leadership and Iran’s nuke infrastructure.

Now we’ll have to see what happens next…

Personally, I think it was both justified and the minimum required to get the mission done.

What say you???

Floaters…

If you’ve ever had eye issues, you’ve had ‘floaters’… those odd ‘bits’ that float across your vision at the worst possible time.  Yesterday afternoon, I had YAG laser capsulotomy on my left eye to fix the secondary issues after cataract surgery.

So not only were both eyes dilated, they shot the left eye with the laser and broke up the capsule leading to multiple floaters! And it’s irritating as hell to try to do anything requiring concentrating on anything ‘visual’.

So you get a meme…

IYKYK…

Needs must…

Brits and Canadians went over and above after D-Day… 🙂

One of the first squadrons to take part in beer runs was 412 RCAF Squadron of 126 Wing, Second Tactical Air Force which was locally based at RAF Merston and then latterly at RAF Tangmere during the invasion period. Climbing up over the Sussex countryside and setting course for the recently created forward landing grounds on freshly liberated French soil, although they were not always totally liberated! One of the first landings occurred on a strip known as ‘B4’ that still had German snipers within range and the pilots were informed that they should depart forthwith!

Full article, HERE with pictures from Spitfires.com

I’m guessing that this wasn’t the ‘first’ time booze got carried by aircraft, but at least this time it had approval!

And it’s a neat story of things getting done to keep the troops happy!

I hope y’all enjoy the story!

Some folks…

Who know their way around programming are ‘less than impressed’ with the current state of LLM AI…

The AI and Internet are garbage. So far, a glorified electronic dictionary.
IMAGE Recognition and Generation has been very good,  The rest is a copy cat approach of variously collections of data. Digital DATA, Just like US Postal mail, some stuff is real, required, and others are totally irrelevant and wasteful.
The only difference was the dictionary was based upon REAL (for the most part, and even then was discrepancies) . Now we have a S___show, of the Wild West, with incompetence and greed, trying to make binary decisions, based upon telemetry, historical digital values, and actions of poor autonomous systems based upon erroneous, uncertain, poorly factored inputs and values.

I get his point, and I have to agree with him…

Sigh…