I don't think they give a rat's ass. I don't think they care who's president or what's going on. Probably don't vote. Doritos behind the couch cushions. Another blogger thinks there should be a dress code.
Shoot the breeze today or piss into the wind whichever you prefer.
What could go wrong? Chaos at US airports as hundreds of TSA agents quit during the partial government shutdown. Will Homan do body cavity searches?
Make it stop.
I wish I could hibernate during the whole damn thing. Wake me up when it's safe. It's not normal governance. It's like a Wizard of Oz thing but you can't wake up.
Three's Company misunderstood conversations. This is the Z-man Consumer Reports. Recently got the Horsepower Duck which promised to be a handy little hand-vac. Manual says 16-20 minutes run time which would be fine for my purposes but it always dies out after five minutes. Just now I used it to vacuum up all the cat hairs and dust on my stair treads. Got halfway through and had to recharge the thing just to finish the job. Couple summers ago bought that As Seen On TV Arctic Air device which is like a mini portable AC just add water. Gave off good cooling action for a while but the coils and interior became all rusty in no time and I wound up throwing it all out. Excuse me while I go Flex Seal my pipes.
Readers of this blog know what a bad winter I endured. Frozen pipes and a broken smart water meter which ain't cheap courtesy of the City of Yonkers. Had to call the pros in. Last two weeks my shower was giving me a problem. An old diverter valve the flap broke off. Whenever I took a shower it was like someone peeing on me so yesterday got a new one at my local hardware store and tried to install it myself. Got a touch more complicated than the YouTube how to video so easy a 10-year old could do it in five minutes so I called a professional plumber. Again. The plumbing community loves me. I'm helping put their kids through college.
Does anyone know of any As Seen On TV products that are actually decent? A cat crapper? Anything?
The warmongers over at Fox News. Sean Hannity armchair warrior. Probably never even picked up a rifle to shoot a duck. You know things are serious when even Megyn Kelly is distancing herself from Trump over the Iran War. She who spun the ICE abuses. The rift in the Trump base is widening. Trump is both impulsive and compulsive. Is there a disorder for that? Makes important decisions without considering the consequences. Banned the penny now a woman at work doesn't know what to do with all her pennies. The Strait of Hormuz now a huge problem for Trump. The new Ayatollah, Ayatollah Jr. now closing it off. Affecting the global economy. Will you get your SHEIN shoes? Hannity can afford to pay more at the pump. YOU may have to have sardines for dinner. Hegseth says it may take some time to take control of the Stait. Maybe he can put some of his hair gel in the water and set the place on fire.
According to my Analytics I'm even getting blogviews in Vietnam. I don't know what this means.
Deep thinker, philosopher and right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly has formed a theory which began as a brain fart but which she is now putting on the table as a serious contribution to the national debate over the ongoing events in Minneapolis MN. She now says that the ICE protesters aren't having enough SEX and talks about all the fat unattractive women with multiple piercings in the anti-ICE crowds. Thoughts - Megyn Kelly has staked out an early position on that tragic ICE shooting of Renee Good, staked it out from the get-go and is sticking with it but I am also beginning to form my own theory here. Megyn Kelly is secretly attracted to ICE agents some kind of thug fetish going on. It rings her bell. The masked anonymous ICE agent, the super manly and patriotic Defender of the Homeland. The 50 Shades of Megyn Kelly.
I thought I was gonna have nothing to talk about today. You go girl! Throwing your sisters under the bus. (Is that Megyn moaning?)
I generally don't make them but going forward no online shopping for me. Would have to be an absolutely necessary purchase like if I ever feel the need to get a hearing aid but other than that I'm done. There are two groups of SHEIN customers. The first group are people who never had a problem with them and the second group are former customers who had to deal with Customer Service. I'm thinking maybe the UPS Claims Dept. is partially driven by ai although I don't know this. Might explain some things. Something hasn't been right since Trump got elected. Maybe it's the tariffs. SHEIN is a Chinese company so why should they give their American customers refunds? Just a theory.
We're a nation of compulsive shoppers. Probably half the people in Target don't really need anything. You always see them coming out of the store with plastic storage containers. Credit card debt in this country is at an all-time high. What's up with people always passing you on the escalators? Everyone's in such a hurry. My mother used to have a saying about such people. What are they in a hurry to get to their grave?
It's gonna snow? Go to Home Depot and get another shovel. You already have five.
Word on the street is the Trump brain won't last another three years. He needs handlers. He wished Americans a very Merry Christmas saying it may be their last. He wants CBS to put Stephen Colbert to sleep. There are the new plaques in the WH etc. etc. It's only a matter of time before the main attraction at the WH will be kids lining up to throw peanuts in his mouth.
Oh Tangerine Man,)
In another flight of fancy Trump says newer Navy battleships are in the works larger faster and more powerful than anything Mankind has ever seen before. It's part of his grander delusion of what he calls a Golden Fleet. The first Trump battleship will be called the USS Defiant. I can think of some other names. It'll have hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns......I think it will be able to take an asteroid or two out of the sky. The crew will be able to battle the Cyclops if they encounter one. Will the on-board cuisine include giant squid? Commander Trump will be able to do battle with half the world. Meanwhile the Navy says they may not have all that technology up to par yet.
Trump. Man Myth and Legend:)
'Tis the holiday season. NY AG Letitia James files suit against UPS. It is what it is.
Merry Christmas.
The pros and cons of online shopping would make for a too lengthy post but some of us adventurers encounter the occasional "delivered but never received" quandary. Happened to me a few days ago and it wasn't theft as I was having my pipe session on the front porch at the time. The website gives helpful pointers in such a situation. Did you check behind the holly tree in the backyard maybe? OK so then you check parts of your neighborhood and do some casual walks and some casual talking. Some light research of mine indicates it's not mostly theft but technical reasons. Maybe the driver accidentally butt-scanned something dunno. So now you contact Customer Service and as a rule they never want to help you. Maybe not a telephone call could be a live chat. It's obvious they don't want to do any actual work even though they have all the logistical information at their fingertips. "Our records indicate that your package was delivered on..." so now it's a kind of philosophical conundrum. You have it but you don't. It's quantum. Then maybe you file a claim with your carrier and they're looking into it. Mystery open.
Shopping is funny. Maybe you can find a chair already made but sometimes you have to put it together yourself. Happened to my brother.
Some woman with a sketchy background runs some site called StopAnti-Semitism.com. Every year they hand out awards for Jew-hater of the year. Last year Candace Owens got the top honor. This year Tucker Carlson is in the running of course along with Cenk and Ana from the Young Turks, Ms. Rachel, actresses Marcia Cross and Cynthia Nixon and a few others. Basically it's all about calling out Bibi and the genocide in Gaza. This is weak. Criticizing a foreign government is not the same thing as hating that country's people. If you have a problem say with the Argentinian government it doesn't mean you hate Argentinians.
My sister owns an African Grey Parrot. In addition to saying my sister has a fat ass and generally talking smack he has said some things about Jews behind closed doors. Nick Fuentes has asked why he's not on the list. Can we nominate the bird?
I want to become a monk. His past affair with journalist Olivia Nuzzi took a literary turn. The Bard of Smut. Also from the ticker a federal judge has tossed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and ex-NY Attorney General Letitia James. Betcha didn't see that coming! Pentagon wants to court-martial Sen. Mark Kelly over his taking part in that refuse illegal orders video. Russia/Ukraine peace plan still being worked on and Trump has some kind of health care plan.
I long for the slow news days.
Can I get a 50 year mortgage?
Well it took an act of Congress for Trump to finally fulfill one of his campaign promises namely to release the full Epstein Files. Transparency in government. Who's Bubba?
Could be a new sub-genre on PornHub next to midgets and dwarves and granny porn. I LONG for the days when politics was boring. You'd be watching the PBS Newshour and experts would be on discussing the deficit, your eyes would glaze over and you'd change the channel. You finally got your big political science degree at a college or university, you finally got a seat on an important TV roundtable and you have to discuss THIS? What is this Ancient Rome? You have to get the kids out of the room now before you flip on the news? Oh yeah to hear the WH tell it this is just a massive distraction from Trump's many accomplishments. Like what?
I can't believe I'm living;)
Eight Dems struck a deal. Has to pass through both Chambers of course and be ratified by His Highness but damage already done. SNAP on hold. Airports in turmoil. Didn't stop Homan's Heroes though (wish I thought of that one but borrowing from BB). Longest in history. If Trump got a third term he'd land us into even a longer one and over something stupid.
I wish in the next three years we'd get a return to normal governance. Fairly normal? Semi-normal at least? But the Trump Administration is an inversion, the reverse of the normal way things should be. Putting the cart before the horse, counting your chickens before they're hatched or having diarrhea after you take a shower. He's making cooing sounds now of a 2K tariff dividend check for most Americans except the highest earners. Something tells me that may go the way of the DOGE check.
To paraphrase a Billy Joel song Christian Brothers will get you by.
I say put 'em all together and have a marathon. Hosted by RFK Jr. Might cause liver problems.
What was the bone of contention again to cause the entire Government to shut down? Health care for illegals? Release of the Epstein Files? A UFO cover-up? I forget. Trump likes to break his own records. Longest government shutdown in history. Second longest also held by Trump during his first term. Trump doesn't like the government being open apparently. Homan and ICE still doing their work though come rain or shine. Meanwhile Pelosi's retiring after 100 years in the Congress.
My toilet bowl started glowing last night. Are they retesting the nuclear program in Yonkers?
Why do we still do this? Tomorrow night we fall back one hour. Pretty soon it'll be pitch black at 5PM. I'm getting old. I don't drive good in the dark anymore. Lights will go on in the house earlier too. Electric bill goes up. There is now a real movement behind ending Daylight Savings Time. Not sure I said that right as I like summer evenings with that extra light. Let's just go back to some kind of normal time for lack of a better phrase and leave it at that.
Got a set of 4 solar path lights recently at Harbor Freight. Pretty cool. They recharge themselves in the daytime even on overcast days. Sometimes they don't last the whole night but that's OK. Trendy but practical.
Whenever the Congress gets back in session can we do something about the time thing? No fan of Trump but if he does something about this I'll give him three points. Make that five.
