Sunday, June 21, 2026

Saturday, June 20, 2026

Today's News Yesterday

Or Yesterday's News Today

"Families Fear Double Cross"
Same bullshit, different century & millennium. It never fucking stops, does it?

Enough W/ The Outside World;
On To Second Childhood

It's ugly & stupid out there, but avoiding it has me working on the you-know-what, where time passes like nothing.If I ever arse myself to do this again, maybe I'll light it.

Dep't. Of Schadenfeude

Alright, it's a dumpster, not a "can". Available as a file for your 3-D printer, only US$3.00.

You Suck, We Hate You, Please Die!

Brendan Rascius / The Independent:
Two websites restrict reviews of JD Vance's book after savage critiques  —  JD Vance's new book is a memoir about his conversion to Catholicism  —  Two websites have restricted or banned reviews of Vice President JD Vance's new book following a stream of savage critiques.
Alexander Willis / Raw Story:   Torrent of awful reviews drowns JD Vance's new book: ‘Reads like garbage can’
There's nothing inside that boy. Changes names, religions & politics at the drop of a hat. Not to be trusted.

No Such Thing As A Free Lunch,
Lazy Moochers!

A hungry man is an angry man, including this reporter, even if he's hungry due to Mounjaro®!
Even Whitey may have to suffer to make America Great & Healthy Again.
Why do the right-wing & the rich hate America & Americans so damned much? Guilt & contempt because we've been lettting them screw us every day for centuries? Pure assholery? It's a poser alright.
Marcia Brown / Politico:
The Quiet Unraveling of America's Food Safety Net … Last year's passage of the massive federal tax-and-spending One Big Beautiful Bill Act has set in motion one of the biggest transformations of the welfare state that the United States has seen in decades.
Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark:   Trump's One Big Beautiful Hunger Crisis
Tough titty, poor people. Suck it up; you can tighten that belt a couple more holes!

Damnit, No Obligatory Daily Item Scheduled!

Current project: Digging a shallow grave in the desert that's nonetheless wide enough for eight billion corpses.

Friday, June 19, 2026

Needs To Be Institutionalized

Dan Froomkin asks the press to remove its head from its collective ass. He's asked before, so don't hold your breath.
Despite the mainstream media’s insistence on sanewashing Trump – by writing about his “unfiltered, improvisational style” or describing him as “a self-indulgent political leader who trusts his own instincts” – he is, in fact, not sane.

Call it what you will – narcissism, solipsism, sociopathy, hedonism, paranoia, dementia – the evidence overwhelmingly shows that Trump cares about only one thing: Trump.

Nothing else.

His only motivation – regardless of the reasons he or his lickspittles cite – is self-aggrandizement. His only goal is to make himself feel powerful.

The emptiest of vessels, who can never be filled.

Today In E.A.I.A C.

Who's covering up what now?

Past attempts to whip up hysteria by right-wingers & the fake news. QAnon, baby!! (Note "Recent Posts".)
Where's the outrage now, hypocrites?

Your Friend & Ally In The Middle East

"Burn, Baby, Burn!!"

Some dare call it genocide. Check the responses.

‘Hideous’: Left and Right Slam Israeli Minister Declaring ‘All of Lebanon Must Burn’

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir sparked a firestorm of criticism on Friday by declaring “all of Lebanon must burn” after four Israeli soldiers were killed by Hezbollah in the country.

“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!” Ben Gvir wrote on social media, adding:

With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF, and this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration.
He concluded that “in the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint,” but instead you must “obliterate” your enemy to end terrorism. Ben Gvir has long been a highly controversial figure inside Israel and abroad for his ardently anti-Arab rhetoric, which often includes violent overtones. His Jewish Power party holds six seats in the current Israeli Knesset, but has been a key bloc holding together Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government since late 2022.

Why, some antisemite even suggested that "key Israeli officials speak and think like pure Nazis, if not worse".

Nostalgia Report

Had one of these 60 yrs. ago.
Wasn't any damn US$29.99 plus $7.99 shipping. US$2.92 today; no shipping beause one could walk into a local toy store & get one, probably for $3.99 or $4.49. I also like that they are screaming bloody murder to get your order in:

ORDER NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

yet the first copyright on the page is 2024. (There is a ©2026 at the very bottom of the page.)

Friday Freak Out

In The Winchell's Donut® Midnite

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Meta, Faacebook, Instagram:
Criminal Fraud & Revenue

Are There No Laws?

Meta faces calls for Congress to probe scam ads targeting seniors

Retirement groups said seniors have lost millions of dollars while Meta profits from the ads.

The letter’s demands follow a report published last month by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit advocacy group, which alleged that Meta has profited by leaving up fraudulent ads, many of which target Medicare recipients.

[...]

It’s not the first time Meta has faced scrutiny over the scams: Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) urged the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities Exchange Commission to open an investigation into the company in November after Reuters reported that Meta in internal documents projected 10 percent of its 2024 revenue would come from fraudulent ads. And in February, a group of bipartisan lawmakers pressed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over its plans to prevent and combat fraud on its platforms.

Reps. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) and Lou Correa (D-Calif.) also introduced bipartisan legislation earlier this year to combat predatory scam ads.

Any damn day now, Congress. Don't let me stop you. Or do the millionaire jerks "representing" us just want us all to die immediately?

In conclusion, Zuckerberg & his cronies are criminal scum. Lock 'em up, throw away the key, & give all of Meta's filthy money back to the people!

[POLITICO]

"Sauerkraut!"

Only number I can think of w/ "sauerkraut".
I have got to stop paying attention to the outside world & its inane droning bullshit, lies & stupidity. Unfortunately, it surrounds me & I'm drowning in it.
Wall Street Journal:
Everyone in Trump's Cabinet Is Eating Sauerkraut  —  JD Vance, RFK Jr. and other officials swear by a diet of grass-fed meat and fermented foods, even when the sulfurous odors cause friction at home
Solange Reyner / NewsMax.com:   WSJ: Trump Officials Embrace Sauerkraut Diet
Yes, "a diet of grass-fed meat and fermented foods". Where do people even get ideas like this? The mind boggles.

Not Every E-Mail

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Watch The Nazis Run Your Town

Repent, or the demons will get you!!
Hicks Residents of rural areas are hereby warned:

The New Right Has a Blueprint for Building a Christian America

Inside the conservative plan to chart a new political future, one town at a time.

The Dominionist Plan to Create Theocratic ‘Confessional Counties’ in Rural U.S.

Rooting out pluralism is central to the plan for colonizing sparsely populated rural counties.

The project, he suggested, is part of the New Right’s broader effort to revitalize America by beating back the forces of progressivism, globalism and secular liberalism that they believe have led the country to the brink of destruction. The only difference is tactical. If the New Right’s approach at the national level is top-down — to remake the country by seizing (and, when necessary, abolishing) the primary institutions of political and cultural power — then RidgeRunner’s is the inverse: building local communities that seed a conservative transformation of the country from the bottom up. “If we want national renewal, one of the things we’re going to need is a renewal of the kind of hyper-local, self-governing virtues that were here at our founding,” Abbotoy said.

The bulk of the land, he explained, will be parceled out and sold for single-family development, the aesthetic continuity of which will be ensured by a homeowner’s association and an architectural control committee. (“English farming village-in-Appalachia feel,” Abbotoy said of his desired look.) In each neighborhood, the company will hold some land to operate as communal farmland or shared amenities like parks or playgrounds. Other parcels will be rented out or sold to “aligned” businesses.

So much for the First Amendment & the "free market".

Sounds like the usual Jesus affinity fraud grift covering a real estate scam. The next one is explicit in his disturbed demon paranoia & further fascist fantasies.
Here’s the basic idea behind Simmons’ plan: The U.S. is under a “land curse” from God because it has allowed abortion, sexual immorality, sabbath-breaking, and idolatry to go unpunished. The nation as a whole is not going to make sufficient repentance to get out from under the curse, but Christians can receive God’s blessing by carving out smaller societies that officially repent and commit themselves to living in accordance with God’s law.

“Spiritual warfare can be leveraged geographically,” Simmons writes. "Demons are not omnipresent and can be forced out of geographical areas through spiritual warfare.”

Well, that's a relief. I suspect most of the demons are in Washington now. As good an explanation as any.

This reporter is too lazy to excerpt & paste anything more; aficionados of these demon-haunted weirdoes will want to read it all.

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Monday, June 15, 2026

Electricity!

Copyright 1876 by Currier & Ives, New York
Today is National Electricity Day, commemorating Ben Franklin connecting electricity & lightning on this date (or 10 June) 1752.
I'm thinking this electricity stuff is overrated, or worse.
Look at that. First there is juice, then there is no juice, then there is.
Some of that intermittency is due to the searchlight car itself, so I s'pose now I'll have to blow 20 or so bones on a voltimeter. Battery makers: Please make an inexpensive battery small enough that it doesn't require a permanently coupled box car & will last four or five hrs. Thank you for your attention to this matter.If I have to buy a soldering iron & solder the damn rails together I will not be a happy camper. Unfortunately, there's really no one to blame but myself.

Cry-Baby

Aw, Mr. Conservative Muslim finds out what the "conservative" party really is: Nazis for Jesus.
Renzo Downey / The Texas Tribune:
A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention.  He left in tears.  —  Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.
Not that Mohammed-worshippers aren't brain-dead fools like the Judeo-Xians. You Moses fans think the Jesus/Paul the Apostle-worshippers won't kill you after they're in charge? The hell w/ Abraham & his bullshit Killer Fairy in the Sky, & all the crap started in its name.

And just how dense are Texas's turkeys that they're swallowing the "Sharia Law" load of codswallop? An entire state of scared little monkeys flinging poop. Are there no actual problems in Texas they could solve?

Death From Above

That's "Stratofortress", not "Stratoforce", you ignernt young person. Get a clue & a grip!

The B-52, in many variations, has been operated by the United States Air Force since 1955.

As of 2024, the US Air Force has 75 B-52s (of 744 built): 58 operated by active forces (2nd Bomb Wing and 5th Bomb Wing) 18 by reserve forces (307th Bomb Wing), and about 12 in long-term storage at the Davis-Monthan AFB Boneyard. The operational aircraft received upgrades between 2013 and 2015 and are expected to serve into the 2050s. The B-52H is the only operational variant, scheduled to be upgraded as the B-52J by 2030.

Oops. Make that 74.

TRUMP 2028!

He's The Peace Surrender President!

Sissified fucking idiots of YouTube won't let me embed Jim Morrison saying, "You're all a bunch of fucking idiots!!";
YouTube's bullshit has confirmed it. As have 77 million sucker-ass chumps & Nazis.

Piss In Our Time

The World's Biggest Loser Bends Over & Takes It

The deal Trump announced amid the roar, glitz, and ignominy of his UFC spectacle was an American surrender in a war that leaves us with less than we had when it started. This is what defeat looks, feels, and tastes like
Accelerated Vietnam.

[To the Contrary]