It's amazing how fast time is going. Looking over the posting date of my last post I hadn't realized so much time had elapsed before coming up with a new idea. Sorry to my handful of fans. Liberals act like if they were in charge tragedies like the recent newsroom shooting in Maryland wouldn't have happened. Then I'm reading some hyperventilating political/social commentators extrapolating from one weird individual living in his own self-contained weird mental universe that there's some kind of male rage/war against Women. Well as one conservative blogger here said some time ago back in the day re Newtown sometimes bizarre and tragic things happen and there's almost nothing we could have done about it, nothing that could have prevented it so the whole gun control debate becomes a kind of cosmetic discussion imo. Then there's this thing about some revenge porn law that seems to have gotten stuck in the New York State Legislature that won't pass and folks are blaming Google. I'm no attorney but isn't it already illegal to post say nude pictures of myself without my consent on the Web not that you'd want to see? In our zeal to pass new laws based on the latest tragic social circumstance we should first check what's already on the books that maybe need to be better enforced. If you're having sex maybe don't leave the smartphone out? Here's the problem: reality itself is weird and bizarre and tragic things happen, sometimes rarely and in the case of guns for some reason in cycles. There are bizarre and odd individuals walking amongst us right now. All I can say and offer is don't make eye contact:)
“There are bizarre and odd individuals walking amongst us right now.”
ReplyDeleteAlways have been since we lived in caves. We ponder that only some South American coutnries have more gun deaths per capita than the US. These bizarre and odd individuals have been rendered harmless, statistics-wise in Canda, Australia and Europe. Here, we make sure they have all their 2nd Amendment rights, sufficient assault weapons, huge magazines and everything necessary to fulfill
their destiny. It's a new era...Make America Grate Again. IMO there are “bizarre and odd individuals” in charge of the country. Something new for us, but common in the last century in Europe. Haven't
figured out how or why my fellow countrymen relish the situation, if you care to explain.
20/20 recently had a special report on all the road rage in this country. Scary shit. Like my Mom says you have to pray every day.
ReplyDeleteRoad rage has become endemic; several instances in S. Idaho in Boise and the interstate across the south of the state. Fatalities, life terms...for what? I had road rage once. Two old ladies in the four lane up hill. Side by side, going 20 in a 35 zone. Piling up traffic behind them. There was a bit of
Deletea gap, so I accelerated between them, hitting 50. Flashing red light in the rear view mirror. First place to stop was McDonalds at the top of the hill. Swerved into the parking area with the squad car right on
my tail. Reached for my license and a loudspeaker came on, “Don't move and keep your hands on the
steering wheel where I can see them”. A dozen little faces pressed against the McDonalds windows. I guess the cops are a bit cautious with all the concealed and handy loaded weapons. Now, at my advance age, getting road rage is too much effort, ya know?
What the heck is with these folks locked in at 20MPH in 30 zones? Completely oblivious. Are they squirrel lovers?
DeleteThere seems to be some some excess Novichok floating around Britain.
ReplyDeleteProbably make excellent bear spray...
Once in awhile a tree is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteLooking at US crude output and price at the pump-
ReplyDeleteYear Gal/day(million) pump price
1970 9.637 2.25
1980 8.597 3.91
1990 7.355 2.35
2000 5.822 2.45
2010 5.475 2.30
2015 9.408 1.99
2018 10.260 3.02
What economic law says the price of gasoline goes UP
when supply is high? IMO, we are fracking the crap out
of the plains and exporting it. Oil profits on the back of
the US consumer.
Most gas stations here top me off and round it off even after the pump clicks. One mechanic told me this is a bad thing to do. Yup, I've noticed the price going up too.
DeleteSo we pump more crude than we need, but gasoline prices go up.
DeleteThey 'drain the swamp' and make a toxic landfill.
McDonalds buys $24 million worth of self ordering kiosks and fires the kids.
It seems fame leads to suicide.
He may pardon Ted Bundy next.
Researchers report HVS-1, the coldsore virus, may cause Alzheimers.
ISIS and Al qada no longer newsworthy.
Yonkers still has traffic cams.
---can we blame the Mandela Effec
Yeah and the traffic cams never seem to expire. Guy I know says they didn't give him a position because they felt he's overqualified. Can you be overqualified for President?
DeleteIf there get to be to many over qualified job seekers, they may start a program for worker
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Any thought on killer robots ? IMO, getting taken out by Sgt. 61A is no worse than being terminated by Lennie the Gimp over in Brooklyn, ya know?
ReplyDeleteSophia the ai robot is starting to creepify me.
DeleteThen there's the evangelical take on Bigfoot .
ReplyDeleteSasquatch leading souls into the abyss. That's a new perspective. All your cougar links - yesterday I bought a bottle of fine cognac. Last night I dreamed a friendly mountain lion came on our porch and I was petting it.
DeleteYou sure that was just a dream?
DeleteBeen pretty hot the last couple weeks here. Yesterday and today 105 degrees. Even the coyotes
ReplyDeleteare stopping by the A&W.
Going up to 112 degrees here this week. Doing our part for global warming?
ReplyDeleteIn the wintertime I always say I'll take Summer then in the summertime I say Winter's not so bad. Make a list of the negatives of summer and winter and the summer list is far longer than the winter list (mosquitoes, ants, thunder and lightning, heatstroke, sugar and salt clumping up in the shakers etc.). Dunno man I prefer Spring and Fall.
DeleteIf the Multiverse Theory turns out to be a meaningless mass of Strings and
ReplyDeletehumungous equations, is the Mandela Effect likewise doomed? IMO, it's a 'Dark Matter' :)
David Deutsch the theoretical physicist says the famous Double Slit Experiment proves parallel universes exist. A laser beam is shot through a slit and something we cannot detect is pushing our photon aside says he and that's light from another universe. Dark matter, dark energy, antimatter and micro black holes just everyday things CERN plays around with but I'm like leave it alone. Eggheads talk so you can't understand, ever read the latest CERN press releases?, but as for me I think classical physics is on its way out if not long gone. Everything's gonna be quantum in the future including your colonoscopy.
DeleteI wouldn't discard classical physics just yet. Consider, it was good enough to develop the A bomb and H bomb, as well as put men on the moon. Quantum physics concerns sub atomic particles and conjectural universe paradigms which have proven difficult and sometimes impossible to verify by
Deleteexperiment. So we shoud be conCERNed that applying quantum theory to either nuclear physics
or NASA astrophysics and thermodynamics would require hundreds of more equations than presently required to provide the same answer. If and when we get cheap energy from cold fusion, I may change my mind. :) Shh, don't mention that to Hawking.
So there's been this debate going on about Geordie Rose's D-Wave Quantum Computer. Is it really quantum and can it access shall we say other parallel universes? Many say no but for $10 million-$15 million dollars I'm thinking it has to do something otherwise lower the cost no? I think Einstein gave a better understanding of gravity than Sir Isaac Newton. You'd agree?
DeleteYou New Yorkers gotta help me out. Is that slick talking mass of contradictions Giuliani a cronut...
ReplyDeleteor just are regular nut?
Why can't some people just go away? They come back like a bad penny.
DeleteTrump administration wants to allow hunting in Yellowstone Park. Your big chance:
ReplyDeletestep out of your new car and blow the brains out of the buffalo along the road. What
would Teddy Roosevelt say?
I'm seeing sad commercials on tv about the dwindling number of snow leopards in the wild. I read in the paper that clothing and other accessories made from giraffe are all the rage in some markets. It's like many of us seem to like to see the different animal species go extinct or something. Mankind is perverse.
DeleteAwhile back it was Anthony Weiner. The latest seems to be David Pecker of National Enquirer.
ReplyDeleteWe got an Archbishop trying to fire the Pope, a Stormy out for revenge and and weiners and peckers on the front page. What would Walter Cronkite say?
So guys... you're both a little older than me and have seen a lot more. I got a question for each of you...
ReplyDeleteIs the McCain funeral and memorial a little over the top?
Aside from presidents, have we seen anything like this before? At least in the television era that did not involve a Pres? It strikes me as Kennedyesque... John, not Ted or Bobby.
Thoughts?
He's getting Aretha Franklin type coverage. I can't believe the guy was working 'til the bitter end. Everything is over the top these days. It's like you watch your local news everyday and the weather is always the lead story...until an Aretha Franklin or John McCain dies.
DeleteZ... I love the weather guys. They start at 2 minutes into the broadcast, come back at 15 minutes and then again at 25 minutes. How much time do you need to give the weather?
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