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!!!

First it was Apple…

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…

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…

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…

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???

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…

What’s old…

Is new again…

SECDEF has announced there will be a medal for those who serve on the Mexican border…

Border medal, yes. New medal, no. We have proudly revived the 1918 “Mexican Border Service Medal” — same mold, same ribbon, same name, same service. We look forward to pinning the award on brave border soldiers soon…

X post HERE.

You know this is gonna upset a lot of folks…

Snerk…

A reckoning coming???

IMHO, long overdue…

August 13, 2025: The current American president ordered audits organizations many had long suspected of diverting the money to recipients that would support anti American groups, lavish salaries for pro-government officials as well as foreign nation officials who responded to large bribes to see things the American way or just to oblige the recipients to one day return or carry out tasks requested by the current president.

Over 250 NGOs received most of this money and distributed according to what the current American president wanted. The recent U.S. government audits of most of these activities continued into 2025 because the NGOs and their government handlers believed they were immune to fraud claims because their activities served the wishes of whatever Presidential administration was in power. They were wrong and audits named names, and suggested cutting the money off and prosecuting those responsible. Those investigations and prosecutions continue.

The current government wants to destroy these practices. This does not surprise a lot of Americans who already knew that something like this was suspected because there had been rumors and stories in the news detailing some of this malpractice. These accusations were always ignored or denied.

Full article, HERE from the Strategy Page

This was published a week ago, but I’m just now catching up on my reading…

As anybody who has served in the military and been overseas knows, NGOs are the bane of our national policy.

Why, you may ask, do I say that if the are ‘doing the will of the administration’?

Well, because it long ago became what the NGOs ‘wanted’ to do and there was little to no check placed on them to ensure they were actually spending the money where it was supposed to go.

Everybody remembers the kerfuffle a few years ago over the salaries at the Red Cross, which is an NGO, but it’s even worse today. Reference HERE. And some of us have personal stories of the ARC trying to take over emergency relief in various places, including trying to ban volunteers from operating (Cajun Navy), providing free food (bbq, HEB providing water, etc.) and collecting money for EVERY emergency that happens, and they say they spend almost 90% of funds on “program services.” So no one really knows how much actually gets to the flood victims, etc.

Another huge NGO is now the United Nations. They spread food and other ‘relief’ around the world, but a lot of it ends up stolen by boots on the ground, much like the US Aid relief packages of food, flour, etc. you can see for sale in most third world souks…

And that’s not counting the relief workers that are raped, killed, etc. every year.

The original premise was ‘doing good’, but that has morphed to what the NGO leaders, e.g. ‘we’ think is good. And many of them are westerners, who have zero understanding of what is ‘good’ in a particular country…

So yes, I agree, audit the hell out of them. Charge them and send the guilty to prison! And take that capability and put in under control with audits, transparency, and knowledgeable people who are not out to feather their own nests…

Kicking the soapbox back in the corner and going to go find my BP meds.