Sort of a crime. Trump has promised 5K dividend checks to Americans if they vote Republican during the midterms. Also gas prices will come down and the Iran War will end immediately thereafter.
That farting sound you hear is Trump talking out of his ass again.
YouTube runs from the perverted to the puritanical. There's something for everyone. Chad Ripperger chief exorcist for the Catholic Church chatting with Tucker Carlson. His main message seems to be people need to stop sinning it opens the gateway. The struggle with human weakness is ongoing for many people. We need to stop demanding perfection. A priest talking with podcaster Shawn Ryan about demons. He says among other things they love to get into electronics. I just thought I had a shitty tablet.
Feral cats in Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii decimating native wildlife populations. New Zealand has it as a goal to eradicate feral cats totally by the year 2050. Maybe Homan can get involved. Feral cats apparently the biggest problem facing New Zealanders. Not jobs not the economy. Cats are controversial. Many people hate cats. It's almost as if there's an anti-cat movement out there. Read an article in the New York Post many years ago by some columnist bemoaning American cats decimating songbird populations. Felines do catch birds. I like birds and feel bad about that but never once noticed in my neighborhood tons of dead birds. I thought the writer was drinking. Except for pit bulls dogs far less controversial.
Then I gotta take a break and go to the standups;)
Where are we going with the illegal immigration thing? So far my wages haven't gone up yet.
YouTube saturates my feed with political stuff. We all know Trump sucks, well most of us anyway so then I might click on the more eccentric vids. Cats fighting cobras. Who's filming this? Animal control can wait we have a cat fighting a cobra. Clicked on a couple DMT videos and the algorithm sent me how does it feel like to be on crack? Didn't ask for that. John Wick. Honey badgers. Uh-oh a crocodile just took a lion cub oh boy is he gonna pay the price. Contradictory medical advice. Take this vitamin don't take that vitamin. What to do about stuck poop. Maybe go back to Trump. MAGA what remains of it anyway is now normalizing dementia, enabling crazy. Mike Johnson does nothing. I'm thinking when I reach that stage of life when I'm spouting nonsense on a daily basis, ruining holidays for people friends and family will at least have the decency to say you're not making sense.
Is TikTok worth installing?
Can't publish my own comments.
The generic fixes suggested by Google don't work. They usually never do. Figured there might be a situation with the Blogger App so opened my blog on the web and then a strange message came up that I need to upgrade my Google Drive cloud storage by 7:06 PM otherwise all my files will be deleted. Ignored it of course as I have plenty of storage. I then installed an anti-virus app but they never detect anything anyway so ran a quick scan and uninstalled it.
Gotta love Google! Anyone got a good alternative browser they use? If you can't comment I'll understand.
Sketchy:)
Don't care much to discuss it.
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts. Lindsay Clancy all over the news. She strangled to death her three young children. The defense claims post-partum psychosis. 6th day of deliberations and jury still deadlocked. The defense not guilty by reason of insanity is as old as the hills. Nothing new and not being a true crime expert I'm guessing to be valid this is on the rare side. If a person kills somebody say because they think a bear is attacking them and you can prove it in court ok. I'd have to say obviously the holdup here is that some jurors want to convict and the others are leaning towards the post-partum psychosis defense. Justice vs. social correctness perhaps. Reading some commentary on the matter and the politically correct position becomes let her off you're a man and don't understand pregnancy and hormones. Don't box me in I like to freely ponder. Personally after all is said and done I would hold her to account.
Other subjects with the guardrails. If you're a man and am against abortion that's automatically invalid. Incidentally Gloria Steinem just passed. I am intellectually against the death penalty but it's pointless to discuss as the vast majority are for it. Executioner - weird career. Is it a turn-on for women? What makes somebody go into that field? People divided on porn kind of an open field. Same with cannabis. Some topics you're only allowed one option others are free for discussion. Back in the day Phil Donahue mostly talked about sex then Oprah came along and respectabilzed the talk show thing. I ramble......
The whole Trump topic is convoluted. Hard to follow after awhile.
So things pop up in my YouTube feed that I never searched for but because of the eccentric nature of the subject matter sometimes I click on. One of these is this trendy and powerful psychedelic drug known as DMT. Rogan has guests on who passionately talk about it. DeGrasse Tyson too. They don't look like derelicts these people but respectable and articulate citizens who talk about their DMT trips. They meet these entities they'll swear are not hallucinations but absolutely real. A common one are these compassionate elves full of empathy who want to help. I would say one way to test if they are real or not can they loan you 50K? As for me I'm fine with a good pipe or the Christian Brothers. I don't want to go to other realms I want to stay in Yonkers. I guess some men got bored with the porn and the gaming. One of the weirder subjects DMT. Interestingly Trump doesn't take anything and says weird things.
Is there a Sasquatch connection?
Understood Reaganomics. Don't get Trumpanomics. Tariff our allies. Cause inflation to rise and call it a good thing. Start a war with a country that can control a key shipping lane and thus negatively affect global markets. Pillage another country for its oil and use it to replenish our Strategic Petroleum Reserves. I'm no scholar of international law but sounds vaguely illegal.
Uncle Joe and now Trump. Dementia patients running the Free World. WTF are we doing?!?
In the latest Trump Follies Trump renames Lake Ontario Lake America. Also there is purportedly a monster in Lake Champlain known as Champy. Trumpy has a better ring to it no? Rumor has it Trump plans to rename the Bermuda Triangle the American Triangle.
Pipe smoking on the front porch. Don't wanna smoke on the patio and bother everyone downstairs. Do I have to put a No Soliciting sign on the front gate? Can't smoke in peace. You politely decline the offer and they keep talking. Usually young people they send out. A tad aggressive. Must get a commission. Do I have to smoke way down the backyard? May have to build a little clubhouse for myself. I thought those days were over.
Some of my blogs are born out of a good pipe smoking session.
If even the AI is right about most things it's not right about everything. These AI Overviews. On vacation and at the library desktop today. Just googling this and that. Searched "rats as big as cats." AI says this is an urban legend. It's rare but many years ago I did see just this in my neighborhood a rat literally as big as a cat and no it wasn't a misidentification. I know my mammals. The computer extended my session so googled "feral cats" next. AI says don't ever touch or pet one. We owned a feral once. Misty. Had a litter in the yard next door and sometimes Misty would catch a squirrel and they all had a nice meal. We eventually adopted her and took her to the vet to get her spayed. She lived with us for awhile and then one day she decided to live with another family. Probably too many cats in the house for her liking. To read the AI you'd think they all live in the deep woods. They're actually more intelligent than that.
Speaking of the library using the public restroom shouldn't be a big deal right? Went in the Men's Room and some homeless guy proceeded to pull his pants down and literally urinated all over the floor in the stall. Quite a puddle. Told the security guy and then went to a local park in the area to use their bathroom. Ya gotta go ya gotta go.
What is the society coming to?
I'm 62.5 now. The day when I can apply for a property tax exemption from the City of Yonkers and finally start saving some money is not that far off. Generally what happens with the MMR vaccine is this. Let's say you got it in public school like I did it doesn't hit you until you're 85 or 92. It's very slow-moving.
Practicing medicine without a license. Would you trust Trump with a colonoscope?
Time is going real fast these days. Sometimes I don't realize how many days have passed since my last blogpost. The donuts are getting stale.
I think it fair to say that America is the greatest country on 🌎, always has been has animated most right-wing blogs. Make no mistake it IS a religion. Yet we have maybe the worst healthcare system in the world. I don't mean in terms of the quality of the medical care but rather the financial aspect of it all. People and families shouldn't go bankrupt, deplete their entire life savings just because a member has the misfortune of coming down with say cancer. Hannity probably thinks astronomical medical bills are preferable because hey it's not socialism. The faith system of Americanism says don't question it.
Do other countries feel they are the greatest country on Earth? Does England? They just go about their business. Is it possible to question Americanism without being called oh I don't know a Communist?
Dicey subject:)
Anything you'd like to add? Yes many of us become grouchier with age but Trump is totally joyless. Always looks angry. Persecution complex. Paranoid. Never any humor or light-heartedness. A joyless prick. A political hemorrhoid. No fun. The Nutty Emperor.
The last stage of the great MAGA breakup is now upon us. My big Trumper neighbor finally scraped off his big TRUMP sticker on the back of his minivan. Maybe got tired of the price of gas. As people take off their "45/47" and other Trump bumper stickers off their vehicles wondering what was the final straw. If I had to guess I'd say Trump's Reflecting Pool a-holism with Jeanine Pirro. Maybe too ICE's new shocker gloves are too much for some people. We can speculate.
Not to worry though. There is still a strong pro-Trump oasis still up on the web which shall remain nameless whose masthead should read "proud to be among the 10%."
You have your news junkies your weather junkies and your political junkies. My late uncle would park himself into a nice recliner and watch the 5 o'clock news then the 6 o'clock news which was simply a rehash of the 5 o'clock news. Water main break in Brooklyn story 2X. He was extremely well-informed. You don't need to check the weather on your phone just ask an old person. They'll tell you the exact time the rain is coming. Politics. I was away from blogging for about 3 years and when I came back people had to explain to me why Matt Gaetz is a bad person. The political junkies let's say they had to go to detox. No Trump news or politics for a whole week. Read a mammal book. They wouldn't survive. "Trump soiled himself at a press conference." No we got some honey badger videos for you.
Bibi got Trump into a real pickle with the Strait of Hormuz and Iran. Sometimes best friends pull you down. Bibi never met a war he didn't like. I think Trump is looking for some kind of exit strategy but he has to save face. Israel First been there done that. Doesn't care about the average American. Still waiting for my tariff rebate checks.
Wondering if Trump/Hegseth depleting our stockpiles will be enough to obliterate the remainder of his base what's left of it anyway. 'Tis an issue of national security. I'm thinking even MAGA has its limits. Not to worry though the POTUS says we still have massive amounts left. Rule of Thumb - always take the opposite of what Trump says.
Let's get back to serious and normal governance.
We are all Trumpaholics right now. It would be nice if we can get back to discussing real solutions to real problems. The doddering old man is a diversion. Can we somehow get back on track?
At work someone told me towards the end of the year the AI will be making our work schedules. What could go wrong? What's next RoboChef?
Wondering what would happen if I put catnip in my pipe. Cats be coming from Brooklyn.
They shut down the LHC in Switzerland. Don't know for how long. Maybe too many neutrinos were hitting Trump's brain.
The POTUS has paused the bombing of Iran. Wild conspiracy out there going viral that Hegseth is depleting our stockpiles. Fiji may be able to attack us someday.
Whatcha got?
Because of the Rand Paul Senate Hearings. Fauci - not a fan never was. Helped kill scores of gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic by pushing the dangerous drug AZT. FF to Now. WHO writes their personal thoughts in the form of a diary on a government computer? Perjured himself once before Congress by denying his agency funded extremely dangerous and controversial gain-of-function research at that virology lab in Wuhan China. Once wrote in a paper that the research was important enough to risk a global pandemic over. Early on in the pandemic the intelligence community was coming around to the conclusion the SARS-COV 2 virus probably came from a lab leak and then Fauci met with CIA senior officials and quashed this angle. Some of his diary entries reveal a massive egomaniac narcissist etc. etc. He is a man of such sterling moral virtue that Uncle Joe decided to preemptively pardon him before leaving office. During the Senate Hearing he invoked the 5th 111 times! Virtue should be loquacious in its own defense no? This is not a Left/Right MAGA issue as some left-wing bloggers are making it out to be. Get off that trip. Egad we're living in depressing times!
Just a nighttime ramble. Should choose your heroes more carefully.
I peruse medical topics from time to time. You often click Images naturally. People who have medical conditions like they have some weird rash on their body then they become a stock medical photo they get paid for that? "Yes we know it's flesh-eating bacteria but we have to take some quick photos for Google first."
Vitamins and supplements. Not against but generally they don't seem to do anything for me. Years ago the doctor said I'm deficient in D so he said get 1000 IU or something. That was it but now Eric Berg MD on YouTube says if you take Vitamin D you also have to take Magnesium, K2 and Zinc and everything in specific amounts for the D to work properly. Didn't know all that. My doctor never said anything about that just pick up some D. Who knew? Now you have a mini pharmacy in your drawer.
Memories of my colonoscopy. Had the propofol. After the procedure was over best sleep I had btw I says to the medical people assembled in the room no wonder Michael Jackson liked that stuff. Nobody laughed. Dour group.
My Trumper friend was bemoaning the wave of Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS sweeping the country. I see it differently. If you felt you were being unfairly caricatured wouldn't you go out of your way to prove people wrong? Instead Trump does the opposite. By his words and actions he actually strengthens TDS. Folk called him a would be dictator so he started acting like one. He feeds his own stereotype. Have ICE act like goons. Put the military on the streets. Threaten Greenland. Saber-rattling Cuba. Kidnap a foreign leader. Try to suppress pro-Palestinian speech on campus etc. etc. I'm not being exhaustive here. The laundry list is a long one.
Actually TDS is the only way to go.
