Technical Issues

 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:)

I hate subject matter that you're only allowed one position on

 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.

Whatever happened to having some Christian Brothers to take the edge off a rough day?

 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?

Trumpanomics

 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?!?

Diary of a Madman

 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.

People who worship the AI

 

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?

Trump IS right. The MMR vaccine is lethal

 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? 

The Religion of Americanism

 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:)

The Trump Presidency - dismal and depressing

 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%."

Political detox

 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.

The straw that broke the MAGA'S back

 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. 

What would we do without Trump?

 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?

CERN pushed us into another reality and a higher tax bracket

 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?

Random thoughts on Dr. Anthony Fauci

 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. 

Medical News

 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.

Trump makes TDS possible

 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.

Conservatism does not mean being pro-every war

 Reading some right-wing blogs (ahem) and many on the Right do feel you should never question any war started by a conservative president.  I use that term loosely as I do not equate President Trump with conservatism but he is widely perceived as such so for purposes of discussion.  The Iran War or War with Iran seems to me to be destruction without a purpose.  What is the endgame?  The mullahs are still in charge.  A regime change doesn't seem to be in the offing unless they plan on putting the My Pillow guy in charge.  Color me perplexed.  Gas slowly going back up again btw.

QUAGMIRE;)

Somehow it seems fitting that explosive diarrhea should happen during the Trump Administration

 It's perfectly emblematic.  Trump forges ahead with his Iran Folly, Mamdani wants to arrest Bibi and the rest of us are cutting back on groceries.  Won't be grilling the swordfish anytime soon.  I myself am cutting down to just the Bare Essentials.  Milk, bread, butter, eggs, cheese, coffee, Christian Brothers and pipe tobacco.  Don't tell the doctor about the Little Debbies.

So Trump says there's no way the U.S. will arrest Netanyahu which is interesting because he kidnapped Maduro.  Covid during his first term and cyclospora in his second.  Add the Reflecting Pool and the guy is just bad luck.  He's 80 so he fits right in with the golden years of the Congress but I think he's more senile than most.

I have to go tune my hearing aid.

And now Sean Hannity will explain the weather

 Have off today.  Sitting there in the early morning with my mug of coffee.  My late Dad used to say that's the best time of day.  The aide has the TV on.  Fox Weather.  They love to catastrophize the weather.  It might be sunny where you are but they have to find a hailstorm somewhere.  Up comes a big weather map and one part actually says "Gulf of America."  So here's the thing.  No one person let alone the POTUS gets to rename major geographical areas of the world.  Don't know how this would work exactly but you wanna rename a major river, lake or body of water or other geographical region I'm guessing it would have to go before an international body of scholars first then a consensus then go before some kind of international association of geography for final ratification.  Then you gotta change all the school textbooks,  future maps, Wikipedia etc.  Well the heck with all that Fox Weather is going with Gulf of America.  CULT.  Jim Jones vibes.

They say Trump is finally considering what his legacy will be.  'Twill be mostly a legacy of weirdness.

The Trump Grievance

 Ummm so ok yeah what follows is not my official position.  Devil's Advocate.  Roll with it.  So Trump gives this prime time speech about election integrity which only CBS carried.  Didn't watch it.  Would rather watch a woodworking show or infomercial.  Ok so let's say the 2020 Biden/Trump Election really was fraudulent and stolen but Trump eventually got his 2nd Term anyway although belatedly so philosophically speaking the System righted itself you could say.  WHY keep talking about it?  Move forward.  Help Americans put food on the table or buy a house.  Nobody is into this retro stuff anymore except the true hardcore MAGA-ites.  You got explosive diarrhea you're really not thinking about 2020 now you have to clean the walls and ceiling.  You go outside you got smoke in your eyes.

Don't indulge Tangerine Man's grievances.  Going forward......