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!

Flag day!!!

Posted on by June 13, 2025

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…

Posted on by June 12, 2025

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…

Posted on by June 11, 2025

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…

Posted on by June 10, 2025

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…

Posted on by June 9, 2025

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…

A little humor…

Posted on by June 8, 2025

To start your week!!!

I never knew one word in the English language that could be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition: “UP”

Be sure to read until the end… You’ll laugh.

This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is ‘UP.’

It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].

It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.

At other times, this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it UP, for now… My time is UP!

Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?

U

P!

Did that one crack you UP? Don’t screw UP.

Sigh…

Posted on by June 7, 2025

FAS is at it again… And ‘we’ are to blame, as usual…

When the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, the United States and Russia began the process of slowly dismantling their nuclear arsenals. Under the 2010 deal, New Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (START), they are each limited to 1,550 deployed strategic weapons on land, at sea, and in the air. Russia’s arsenal is missile-heavy, while the U.S. has a more balanced strategic arsenal.  

That agreement expires in February 2026, with little prospect that it will be renewed or respected. That means that both the U.S. and Russia will be free to build as many nukes as they can manage. They can be as exotic as can be imagined; nuclear missiles that can stay aloft for weeks, “glide bombs” designed to evade radar, and the ubiquitous “suitcase bomb” that could blow up several blocks while irradiating an entire city.

Unlike policymakers of the past during the nuclear standoffs of the 1960s-1990s, today’s leaders must face a vastly different atomic world. 

The Federation of American Scientists, an organization created by scientists involved in the Manhattan Project, has been tracking the worrisome trends and believes the prospect of nuclear war has never been greater.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

These are the same people who publish the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and the Doomsday Clock. They were founded to ‘counter’ military control of nuclear weapons, instead, wanting civilian control of them (that scares the hell out of me even more than military control).

With nine (at least admitted) countries having nukes now, it has become a bigger problem (known in science as a three body problem if you want to go research it).

These folks have protested, railed in media and press releases, and done everything they can do ‘scare’ people into destroying their weapons. But just like anything else, there is no way to actually determine of ‘all’ weapons are destroyed (see Iran’s current games).

They have continually cried wolf throughout the Cold War, and now are becoming even more strident. One hopes that sanity will prevail is spite of these people!!!