Ummm…err

Posted on by October 9, 2024

Sigh, this is…unbelievable, but…

Only MSNBC would trot out this clown to deliver such nonsense about Hurricane Milton. Bill Nye was featured for a segment since every left-wing blowhard thinks hurricane season is some climate change phenomenon. Without fail, this is where some people go. To the public’s credit, it’s dismissed mainly since everyone has more important things to dwell on now. People are preparing for Milton in Florida, but Nye decided to drop his solution: if you want to stop these storms, vote for Kamala Harris in November. I’m not kidding—he pretty much said that:

Full article, HERE.

I know they are pushing ‘climate change’, and all that, but really???

You’re NOT going to magically ‘change’ the climate. Humans are not in control, period. There is this big glowing orb that has a helluva lot to do with it, and contrary to what the ‘scientists’ say, we really know very little about temperature fluctuations over the history of the earth, but indications are major swings happened long before humanity managed to start the industrial revolution.

And how many of the OMG, the sky is falling predictions have come true? In 1974, Time was asking if there was another ice age coming (article HERE from Time Mag archive). No, there never was a Time cover that said that, but the article did…

And the whole go round about hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, etc. getting worse every year? Sigh…

Borepatch has around a hundred blog posts over the years about ‘globull warming’, HERE. Highly recommended if you want the unvarnished truth!

Milton has come ashore, thankfully without the predicted 15 foot storm surge, but there is and will be a lot of damage, and at least some loss of life. Prayers for those in the path, and for those still recovering from Helene. If you can, please donate to a reputable organization that is helping like Samaritan’s Purse or others.

A little bouncy bouncy…

Posted on by October 8, 2024

This link, HERE, from Fox News shows a bit of video from Miss Piggy, the NOAA P-3 as it penetrates the eye wall of Hurricane Milton.

This is just a little bouncy, for a few seconds. Try doing this for 20-30 minutes or more and you get an idea of how ‘rough’ turbulence can actually get. These crews EARN their flight pay every day, and everyone who lives in the path of hurricanes should be thankful they are willing to fly a 60 year old airplane into hurricane after hurricane to collect the real time data the NHC needs to give the warnings it does.

Say a prayer for those folks who are about to get hit tonight with this mess. At least the folks further north are thankful this one isn’t following the track of Helene.

However, an issue on the ground in Florida is the debris left by Helene that will now become projectiles when Milton comes ashore…

 

A little humor…

Posted on by October 7, 2024

For us old farts…

Lovemaking Tips For Seniors

1.  Wear your glasses to make sure your  partner  is  actually in the bed.

2.  Set timer for 3 minutes, in case you doze  off  in  the middle.

3.  Set the mood with lighting. (Turn them ALL  OFF!)

4. Make sure you put 911 on your speed dial  before  you begin.

5.  Write partner’s name on your hand in case  you  can’t remember.

6.  Use extra polygrip so your teeth don’t end up under the bed.

7.  Have Tylenol ready in case you actually  complete the act.

8.  Make all the noise you want… the neighbors  are  deaf, too.

9.  If it works, call everyone you know with the  good news!!

10.  Don’t even think about trying it  twice
. . . . . .  . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . .  .
‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
Your sweetie says, ‘Let’s go upstairs and make love,’ and  you answer, ‘Pick one; I can’t do both!’

‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
Your friends compliment you on your new alligator shoes and you’re barefoot.

‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
Going bra-less pulls all the wrinkles out of your  face.

‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
You don’t care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don’t have to go along.

‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
You are cautioned to slow down by the doctor  instead of by the police .

‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
‘Getting a little action’ means you don’t need to take a laxative today.

‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
‘Getting lucky’ means you find your car in the parking lot..

‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
An ‘all nighter’ means not getting up to use the  bathroom.

‘OLD’ IS WHEN…
You’re not sure if these are facts or  jokes.

Another take…

Posted on by October 6, 2024

On the EV issue…

It is now, or should be, common knowledge that electric vehicles—cars, trucks, buses, bikes, scooters—under conditions of even low humidity or water damage, are prone to catching fire, owing to the unstable nature of the lithium-ion battery. As Chris Morrison writes at The Daily Skeptic, EVs are known to explode “with the force of a bomb blasting super-heated jets of flame, melting and decomposing nearby structural materials including metal and concrete, and sending vast amounts of toxic fumes into any enclosed atmosphere.”

Jammed into underground parking garages or packed in ferries, EVs are harbingers of almost unimaginable disaster—ecological and safety menaces to which the Net Zero fanatics among our political leadership are comatosely indifferent.  

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Interestingly, this article is written by a Canadian, but the issue is a world-wide one, and impacting multiple countries and companies producing EVs, including the big three.

One not mentioned, is one my oldest daughter called me about in California on I-80 up by Placerville, HERE. It blocked I-80 for over six hours, and apparently took over 50,000 gallons of water to put the truck out.

Funny, to me at least, we have not heard about a single EV fire as a result of hurricane Helene in the MSM, which is strange considering the last hurricane caused multiple EV fires with flooded EVs… The only place there is any mention is 16 confirmed fires in Florida, but it is behind a paywall at Business Insider.

It seems that many of the shipping companies/suppliers are now looking at ‘alternatives’ to transporting EVs by sea, especially after at least two ships have sunk due to EV fires onboard.

I know I don’t have any good answers, but I’m to the point that I believe insurance companies are about to get into the ‘game’, so to speak, and will be changing rates for EV owners depending on where/how the live and store the vehicles, and possibly where they work and park.

Anybody have any better ideas/thoughts?

 

A follow up…

Posted on by October 5, 2024

To the Navy welding fiasco at Newport News…

Navy leaders this week identified an aircraft carrier and two submarines affected by faulty weld issues during work at the Newport News Shipyard in Virginia, but say that the substandard work did not take place on components that affect ship safety or operations.

In a letter to House and Senate armed services committee members Thursday, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said impacted ships include the recently-revamped aircraft carrier George Washington and the brand-new attack submarines Hyman G. Rickover and New Jersey.

Full article, HERE from Military Times.

And apparently another TWENTY-THREE ships/subs are still to be checked… WTH???

This appears to have been going on for a ‘while’, maybe years. And of course, they are pushing the mantra that “malicious intent” has been ruled out. My question is, BY WHOM???

A lot of the Navy boards I’m seeing or hearing about, etc. are, shall we say, less than happy with this mess, as it is those sailors asses that are on the line on those ships, NOT the shipyard workers or bosses.

The one thing we are NOT hearing is what the Navy is finding, and whether SUPSHIPS is involved in the review/investigation.

I can’t help but wonder if HII and Newport News are betting on the Navy burying this to protect Newport News’ contracts…

Interesting…

Posted on by October 4, 2024

I can’t help but wonder if this violates any law (Hatch Act), and if it does, will anything be done?

Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro used public funds to train dozens of overwhelmingly liberal social media influencers on how they can get their audience to vote in the 2024 election, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation through a records request.

Shapiro directed the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to pay thousands of dollars to host a day-long “Democracy Summer Camp” on July 25 to instruct people with large social media followings on how to get their audiences to vote and how to identify “misinformation” on the internet, according to the documents. The DCNF obtained a list of 43 influencers the governor’s office invited to attend the publicly-funded training and, upon review, none of the influencers favored Republicans and roughly 70% had an explicitly liberal social media presence.

Full article, HERE from Daily Caller.

Is it just me, or has the left kinda gone full GAF on the rules, and all they care about is winning in November, and screw the country?

It’s like the bubble on the left has lost all pretense of reality and common sense, and has become such an echo chamber that nothing is penetrating? Not the hurricane relief issues, not Israel’s situation, Russia/Ukraine, the inflation, and crime issues in America, nothing is penetrating… And then there is the usual Dem spying, infiltrating, and lawfare, HERE.

And now the ‘port strike’ has mysteriously ‘resolved’ until January… Resolved…yeah, right. The can got kicked down the road again, just like the CR was kicked until Christmas. What is going to happen when all these things come crashing together???

IMHO, it’s gonna be UGLY, regardless of who is in charge. Re the port issues, are we looking at another PATCO situation HERE? Granted the ILA isn’t a federal union, but automation is coming to ports, ILA or not…  Remember, most major cities are three days from anarchy when the food runs out. Then what???

Folks, I don’t have any good answers, but I will say this. Go VOTE, I don’t care how you vote, but get out there and vote! That is a right that we enjoy, and it’s going to take a lot of folks to overcome the illegals that are going to be voting! The irony to me, is that most years, barely over 50% of the eligible voters actually vote! That is pathetic!!!

Who are we???

Posted on by October 3, 2024

Are we a reflection of our vehicles, or are they a reflection of us?

I live in a little small town, total pop less than 7000. Semi-rural, big city is 10 miles away.

I live on a corner and my neighbor and I were cussing and discussing traffic through our neighborhood yesterday. He’s retired and likes sitting on his porch watching the world go by, since he’s NOT a big TV fan. I go out in my garage to smoke, since I don’t smoke in the house, so we have similar perspectives… And both cuss the number of people that run the 4 way stop… Easily 30% of the total traffic. And we have seven small kids within a block! We also have a lot of walkers early in the morning/late evening especially during the summer.

80 to 85% of the vehicles that drive through are either pickups, work trucks, or SUVs. Probably 5% are Jeeps, 5% are cars, and the rest are a mix of hot rods, old/restored cars/trucks, and large vehicles. Within about 2 blocks there are, I think, five or six cars, mostly owned by little old ladies, and a couple of vans owned by families with 3 or more kids. That I know of, there are TWO Tesla EVs in the entire town, and one is owed by a sheriff’s deputy, because her mother and dad bought one before they moved here.

Many of the trucks and SUVs are muddy, depending on the time of year, and are working vehicles. Granted we do have a couple of blinged out pickups, but not many, and those don’t seem to be out/about when it rains…LOL

I’d say our neighborhood is a mix of older folks and a few younger couples, but we all get along, often talking and keeping up with whom is on vacation, keeping an eye on houses, etc. which is a HUGE change from what I had for neighbors in northern Virginia!

Anyhoo, back to vehicles. I ‘think’ we tend toward practicality as opposed to keeping up with the Jones/latest fad. And we do see the occasional snow/rain events that cause flooding, and the need to actually haul stuff (folks seem to be pretty handy and not afraid to do house/yard stuff as necessary), rather than hiring somebody to do it. A lot of folks work for ranches/oil field/businesses that pretty much require trucks to get to/from work in the field.

The Jeeps? Sigh…don’t ask me…

I know for ‘some’ of us old farts, an SUV is easier on our broke old bodies to get in and out of, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 🙂

YMMV, IANAL, and I sure as hell didn’t stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night…

On point!!!

Posted on by October 2, 2024

I can’t say it better than this!

Matt Taibbi via Camus, HERE.

Matt Taibbi: “So let me pause to say something about America’s current intellectual class from which the anti-disinformation complex works. By the way, there are no working class censors. The dirty secret of content moderation all over the world is that it’s a tiny sliver of educated rich correcting everybody else. It’s telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it, basically. The problem is America has the most useless aristocrats in history. Even the French dandies who were marched to the razor by the Jacobins were towering specimens of humanity compared to the Michael Hadens, John Brennan’s, James Clapper’s, Mike McFall’s, and Rick Stengel’s who make up America’s self-appointed speech police. In pre-revolutionary France, even the most drunken, depraved, debauched libertine had to be prepared to back up an insolent act with a sword fight to the death. Our aristocrats pee themselves at a mean tweet. These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism, which is unique to them, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments. They are simultaneously illiterate and pretentious, which is very hard to pull off. They may have one idea, and it’s not even an idea, but a sensation. Fear. Rightly so, because they snitch each other out at the drop of a hat. They’re afraid of each other. But they’re also terrified of everyone outside their social set, and they live in near constant dread of being caught with even one original opinion.”

And, they could care less about us and America. To whit- The lack of support to the Americans taken prisoner by Hamas, the anemic support into the Blue Ridge area after the storm (funny how Musk was able to get them Starlink), but ;gov can’t move water, etc), the current port strike, and now the Americans in Lebanon being told to ‘pay their own way’ out of the country…

Grrrr…

 

What’s next???

Posted on by October 1, 2024

Welp, the fuze is apparently ‘lit’ in the middle east. Iran fired on Israel again yesterday. With about the same results.

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says that the Iranian missile attack on Israel was “defeated and ineffective” and that the U.S. military coordinated with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to repel the strikes. 

Iran launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles towards targets in Israel on Tuesday, Sullivan said at a Tuesday White House briefing, noting the move was a “significant escalation.”

The strikes were in response to the deaths of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders, Iran says. The move comes after weeks of Israeli strikes against Tehran’s proxies in the region.

Of note, the Pentagon briefing was ‘delayed’ to allow the administration to get their ‘take’ out there before the Pentagon said anything. And the Pentagon briefing was a nothing burger… sigh…

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army had pulled back 50km from the southern border, leaving the UN ‘peacekeepers’ swinging in the wind, as the Israelis moved 45km into Lebanon to take out even more Hezbollah personnel, weapons caches, and launch sites.

The ball is now well and truly in the Israeli hands, and the question everyone is asking is WHAT will they do?

Personally, I do not think they will go nuclear, but I do believe there will be more ‘targeted’ strikes into Iran, possibly including the Iranian nuclear program, and possibly part of the Iranian administration (IRGC) that supports the Hezbollah and other surrogates.

In any case, I doubt that the US will have ANY input to what happens. Netanyahu and his cabinet will make whatever decisions THEY need to make, regardless of what the rest of the world says. I do believe they have reached that point.

Sigh…

Posted on by September 30, 2024

Once again, young military men are being stupid…

A new liberty order, promised two months ago by the top U.S. commander in Japan following alleged cases of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault by U.S. troops, takes effect Tuesday.

The order from U.S. Forces Japan bans early morning drinking in off-base establishments for all service members and spreads responsibility to every service member for policing one another’s conduct, according to a copy of the order obtained Monday by Stars and Stripes.

“Servicemembers should make every reasonable effort to prevent inappropriate or illegal activities by other Servicemembers,” the order states. “If Servicemembers are aware of such misconduct, they are to directly report such misconduct to their chain of command or other appropriate organization/office as soon as possible to do so.”

Full article, HERE from Stars and Stripes.

Two things about this concern me. One is the order to report misconduct to the COC. This is effectively making Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Soldiers subject to punishment if they DON’T report things, and also puts young enlisteds in the position of trying to determine what is and what isn’t misconduct…

The second, and more troubling, is “Commanders shall practice proactive, intrusive leadership and develop programs that foster positive behavior and accountability,” the order states. Bold is mine… There isn’t a definition of what intrusive leadership is, and trust me, THAT can very from commander to commander…and officers within commands.

This has been an ongoing issue in Japan and elsewhere for years, anytime you put young military men in an environment where young women are trying to make money off them in bars, etc. I don’t have a good answer, other than for the kids to get their s**t together and STOP doing stupid stuff!

Sigh…