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10 YEARS…
Probably dead, or in a Felonious Orange prison. The king you see, does not like non boot lickers, and non knee benders. I just don’t have it in me to be an ass kissing sycophant. Integrity, it won’t buy you a cup of coffee, but I sleep well at night.
Eventually they will get around to guys like me. Lots of immigrants and brown people to go yet, then lots of gays/trans to go after. Quite a few judges, honorable generals, good prosecutors, etc, to dislodge/repatriate. But the jack boots will get around to me sooner or later.
This post is about 50% tongue in cheek, 25% I really hope I’m wrong, and the other 25% has already cleaned the guns.
Even NOAA is Like WTF?
I hate to keep harping on the weather, but this 3 day storm event we had here was rather epic. I’ve never seen anything like it. As I use the NOAA site daily, sometimes multiple times daily, I find them an invaluable service. So I saw a little tidbit they had posted:
Over the past week, the Mid-South has been impacted by an unprecedented stretch of severe weather and historic rainfall. This prolonged event has led to multiple devastating tornadoes, damaging winds, destructive hail, and widespread, ongoing flooding across much of the region.
We are just beginning to analyze the scale and scope of the impacts. The nature of this event makes it difficult to put into context immediately. In the coming weeks, we’ll be working closely with our emergency management partners to survey the impacts and help frame what this means for our communities and how it fits into historical perspective.
So… I’m not the only one a little shell shocked from this event. There’s a pun in there if you want it.
To think, a National Weather Service, that does so much good for every community in this country, is one of the government agencies being sledgehammered by our idiots in charge. I suppose if there’s weather they don’t like, they can just make sure no one knows its coming, and then it never happened when it did? It’s tough trying to think like an idiot.
https://www.weather.gov/meg/PreliminaryStatementonRecentSevereWeatherandFloodingImpacts
Road Hazard
Was time to put tires on the car yesterday. Took it to my favorite place to hate, Wal Mart. Had my son follow me there, for a ride home. I simply cannot stand to wait in a shitty lobby for 2 hours, while they are doing a 35 minute job. Really grinds my gears.
So I tell the guy what tires I want, jump in my sons car, and ride home. We went back a few hours later to get the car, and I remembered that when I dropped the car off, they did not ask me if I wanted Road Hazard, (a warranty not worth the paper it’s written on IMO.) So I told the lady at the counter “I forgot to mention, I do not want Road Hazard,” when I dropped the car off.
“Well why on earth would anyone not want Road Hazard?” She replied. I told her I’ve been burned a few times after spending nearly another 50 bucks for Road Hazard, and then being refused to honor the so called warranty.
She fumbled and grumbled about it as she was going back over the transaction, and canceling the Road Hazard. I mentioned again I’d been burned by it, and refuse to pay for something they will not honor, and please do not take it personally.
You see, there are some wee little exceptions in that “warranty.” If you manage to get a hole in a sidewall, they refuse to warranty. If you get a puncture in the tread, too close to the sidewall, they won’t warranty it either. If you have taken very good care of your tires, by maintaining proper air pressure, and rotating the tires every few thousand miles, and your car starts skating in a downpour, they will go to your tires with a tread measuring tool and find your tread is .5 millimeter beyond their arbitrary warranty claims. In this case it was too much tread by a .5 millimeter margin. By the time I’d have gotten to where they’d warranty the tires, they’d be too dangerous to drive on, hell they were already dangerous when it was raining. And… they would have been pro rated to just about nothing anyway if they did warranty!
All three have happened to me over the many years I’ve been driving. I now refuse to pay for something, that I am only going to wind up being screwed out of. This so-called warranty is heavily skewed to favor the outcome, of them not honoring the warranty. At least in my experience.
Maybe some folks have better luck than I do. Maybe Road Hazard is worth the extra money spent for someone. Just hasn’t been me.
Note: I’m having to rely on memory, going back quite a few years here. So it is possible, but not very likely, I made a mistake in this report. Nevertheless, I maintain my position. Road Hazard ain’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
Whether It’s the Weather?
This is just the tornado warnings. There were numerous severe thunderstorm warnings claiming large hail and high winds, as well as numerous flood warnings. My weather alert radio was going off like crazy for three days. That first night I got maybe three hours of sleep. The storms just kept coming, one after the other. Over and over. It was a rough three days.
You see Jackson Tn. there? Now look at the “G” in Dyersburg, then go about halfway to that vertical squiggly line to the right, which is the Tn. River. That halfway point between the “G”, and the river, is pretty much where I live. We had three tornado warned storms come right over our heads.
We fared well enough. But I do not want to see that again for a good while. Fortunately, the vast majority of those tornado warnings were radar indicated, and not necessarily “on the ground tearing shit up,” tornadoes.
I didn’t catch the total rainfall we got here, but from what I gathered on a TVA site, we got nearly 11 inches in a small town just W of us.
High and dry, and apple pie now. We all good.
Easy
That an orange tinted, lying, thieving, raping, convicted felon, con man, does not a good POTUS make.
Movies and TV Series
I’ve watched more than 5 times? Hate to admit it, but Star Trek ToS. I watched the hell out of that show when I was a kid. At least 5 times through. I still watch it lol. Pluto has it’s own Star Trek channel, and it’s a free app. When I’m surfing, and all of my TV options are things I have no interest in, or have seen already, I tend to drift to Pluto. Star Trek, MST 3K, Tosh.0, Gunsmoke/westerns, a live comedy channel, Dr. Who, if all I could get was Pluto for entertainment, life wouldn’t be all that bad.
Lord of the Rings. I read the trilogy as a kid, amazing story that stands the test of time. What surprised me with the movies was, the accuracy. So many movies lose the gist of the book that spawned them, and leave out important details, or add unnecessary fluff. Not the case with this one. I’m always amazed how well the movies followed the books with this series.
Another childhood show I had to have gone through at least 5 times, Gilligan’s Island. When I got home from school, Gilligan’s Island came on, immediately followed by Star Trek ToS. So I had a TV afternoon escape thing, right after school. Still had plenty of time to go outside and do kid stuff, and get my homework done after supper.
Another childhood show y’all, The Munsters. Yep, I still watch that one too, from time to time.
Alien. The first one. Had to have seen that 5 times. Also Predator. Both good movies. Oh, The Riddick series of movies. Good shit right there.
One of the best movies I have seen in a while, I caught just recently. The Gorge. Saw it a couple weeks back, I’m jonesing to watch that again, I don’t know yet if it will meet the 5 times category, but it might. If you have not seen it, and you like a good story with plenty of action and a wee bit of a love tale, I recommend it highly.
There’s more I’m sure that haven’t come to mind as I write this. Soon as I hit “publish,” I’ll remember. 😉
Good News, Bad News
Science works! Scientists have been studying the hole in the ozone layer for quite some time. They first determined the hole is a direct result of CFC’s, which when released into the environment, work their way up into the atmosphere, and break down the ozone. Scientists raised the alarm, and the result was, the world started trending towards not using so much of these CFC’s, which has led to the currently observed state of the ozone. It’s now healing.
Which is great. Only now, in this current day and age, right before our eyes, science and education are under attack. Entire departments getting wiped out. Massive firings of scientists and highly experienced experts in many fields, are now looking for jobs flipping burgers.
The scientists are the good guys, and gals. Without them we will slide backwards in time. But, you can’t explain that to the morons, because well, they are morons. Dark Ages, here we come. I need a drink…
https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-healing-ozone-hole-global-reduction-cfcs-0305
People?
Musicians, motorcycle riders, old divers like me, and anyone with the same particular political opinions, and general outlook on life.
You don’t usually find all of that in one package. But I can make do with the right general mix.
Also, my WP blog friends figure into my acceptable friends niche. You know who you are. 😉 If distance was not an obstacle, we’d be hanging, riding, drinking, enjoying good food, and each others company. I often think there should be such a thing as a WP convention, held around the states, at different places, and dates.
We’d probably to be able to catch each other sooner or later…
How To Polish a Turd
You select it for a high office in the Pentagon, and the the R bootlickers do it for you.
Was listening to some of the opening statements “cough cough, bullshit!” about Hegseth earlier. I suppose they all know about his rape accusations, and his drinking problems, but they can overlook that. Just like they overlooked the 34 felony counts on the convicted Felonious Orange. Just like they overlooked the insurrection. Just like they overlooked all the profiteering, the tit for tat, the compulsive lying, the odious, ignorant behavior, the classified documents, the refusal to accept a loss, and the constant shit storm that surrounds Felonious Orange, wherever he goes.
Strong men don’t have to act strong. Smart men don’t have to say they are geniuses. Honest men don’t have to tell you so. Innocent men, don’t blame the system for their crimes. Felonious Orange is none of these things. It’s a show. A con. And I can’t believe how many ignoramuses fall for it.
Evidence Based Reality 