Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Impasse Hiatus Momentary Pause
Came to the realization that short bits of sectional track are not conducive to electricity or good running,& I'll have to give flex-track another shot. Might neeed a slighty better voltmeter, too.
Decided to try TrainWorld again, so was awake before 1600ET, when they close, & spoke to a nice enough woman who set up a new acc't. for me & e-mailed the link to their form as we were on the 'phone. But it looks as if the pkg. won't be shipped until Tues., due to the holiday.
In other consumption news, I finally got an undamaged USN boxcar from Yankee Dabbler. Only took a couple of months.
Looks nice & rolls well. Certainly worth the US$34.99. Not worth the aggravation!And the pirates at DoorStepInk have promised me a refund. Not there yet, & "It may take up to 10 days for this refund to appear in your account." Didn't take any 10 fucking days for the money to be taken from my acc't.! (Forget quite when I started this, but the refund did show on 5 July. Thanks again, clowns!)
I have been making good use of my time by getting the two areas that go nowhere fine-tuned again, & decided that amusing as it was to have the stock pen so close to the Yard Cafe & depot, it could be moved.
And the transload facility works better on the other spur as well. Win-win.
Then I realized that as soon as I have the new track laid everything will need fine-tuning again. And once I've bought turn-outs to replace some I bought when I didn't know what I was doing, or would eventually do, another round (theoretically the last🤞🏻) of alteration & adjustment. Gah!
Not to do anything the upper classes would, like set a goal, but having had this for four months less than seven yrs. now, it would be nice to have fully electrified, runnable track & even have glued a structure or two together & slapped it on the layout before Nov. I've had seven building kits, trees, plants, 'phone poles & other details in layout limbo for yrs. Pprobably beat inflation & Fat Boy's tariffs by buying early. Speaking of, even laying track like a dirty 19th-century Irishman beats the hell out of current events. An hr. passes like nothing.
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Mounjaro® & Moi
Why I laugh & laugh (Sneer, even!) at your pathetic need for food. See? Breatharianism works!
Note visible sternum, & hiatal hernia around navel. Not the one in the groin that is irritating. And tightened belt. Have gone from a 42" (107 cm.) to a 38" (96 cm.) waist & lost about 50 lbs. (23 kg.) in two yrs.
I now pay US$47.00/month for the stuff, but have literally no appetite. It's a struggle to consume a whole banana at one time; have to bag the remainder & refrigerate it until later. Occasionally I'll eat half a slice of toast (current loaf is "best if used by 6 May") or have a slice of cheese for protein. Haven't had or wanted meat for months now.
My only exercise is walking. No car, no moolah for Big Oil. (Gas & groceries? Wise up already!) Net result? Having paid all creditors their monthly pound of flesh, there is $1,150+ in the checking acc't. Barring disaster or emergency, I can't imagine necessary expenses being over $250, leaving me w/ 900 bones to blow on anything my foolish heart desires. Charity, maybe?
No, Eli Lilly and Company ("A Medicine Company") aren't paying for this, but I'll gladly take my money back from them if they're looking for a testimonial from a "real person" who is an "actual user".
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| I'm like a death camp inmate. |
"Stop Yowling About High Prices!"
You voted for this, you pieces of impoverished shit. Ha ha ha & fuck you! This reporter has no use for silly bullshit like gas or food, & he's sitting pretty. He'll laugh & laugh & laugh when you all starve to death in your shitmobiles while waiting for gas.Gaya Gupta / The Guardian:
Half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas, exclusive poll finds
Lauren Pearle / Straight Arrow: Affordability crisis becomes rare point of agreement in divided AmericaBradley Cortright / New York Sun: Half of Americans Struggle To Pay for Gas and Groceries, PollKathianne Boniello / Mediaite: Bill O'Reilly Slams Struggling Americans Who Are ‘Yowling About High Prices’
Knew It
It did arrive a day earlier than estimated, a die-cast PBY5-A Catalina. What a Navy seaplane w/ early WWII insignia is doing over an Army camp close to 150 miles from the Pacific & around 125 miles from the Gulf of California in the mid-'50s is anybody's guess; maybe it's a Twilight Zone episode.
Not bad for US$17.75. (Just saw the same model for $39.99. And I didn't even compare prices. Hah!) I do resent those pirate bastards at FedEx getting $8.99 for shipping. (And Jesus, next time leave it at the door to the bunker, not the mail boxes, & knock before you run away.)
No tax, which I think violates California law. Ah. Only if your operation moves more than $500,000 anually in Calif. I dunno; populous state full of chumps & suckers. Maybe someone should look into it.There are few HO scale aircraft available; this is 1/144th scale & should look better flying from the convenient hook, used on the prototype to lift it from or lower it to the water.
Not balanced for flight either, so my story is it's struggling taking off from a short field, heavily laden w/ poison gas or an H-Bomb, especially as the landing gear is still down. May have mentioned that the Rice area was considered for the Trinity test. Pretty damn sure something nefarious is going on at Camp Patton.Now I have to figure how to attach it securely to the ceiling.
Provenance: 
Does Macau/Bangladesh mean no Trump tariffs, or has this been on a shelf for yrs.?
The actual item.
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| Does not want to be grounded. |
Monday, July 6, 2026
They Either Don't Know What It Is,
Or They're Against It
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| From the yr. 1984. How do they know? Not sure what to make of the LDS reference. |
Spotted at Hullabaloo. As noted, worth reading. No reforms or promises will give these people functioning minds that can be changed. Members of the "godless and wicked majority" who they think are "besieging" them had better get to work on actual besiegement, before it's too damn late.The evidence for this startling conclusion comes from the most significant opinion study you’ve never read or read about. Published in May, the Johns Hopkins Agora Institute and ReD Associates conducted an in-depth research of conservatives in three red counties in Michigan, South Carolina and Wyoming. The authors describe the content of “Faith, Freedom, Family, Place: An Ethnographic Study of Conservative Americans’ Relationships to Democracy” as follows:This study relies on ethnographic research: sustained immersion in people’s homes, lives, and communities through extensive interviews, observations, participation, and relationship-building. Where much democracy research documents what people say they believe, ethnography examines how and why political worldviews take shape within the full context of daily experiences, relationships, and social environments.
The most fundamental issue the researchers attempted to resolve is the relationship their subjects had with what is commonly thought of as the American secular faith in democracy. What the study found is that the respondents either had a notion of what constituted democracy that greatly differed from what is taught in Civics 101 — when such a course is even offered — or rejected outright the very concept of democracy. In fact, the latter view was the majority opinion:
14 out of 21 participants in this study had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy . . . Sarah (mid 30s, WY), a homeschooling mother, put it plainly: “I don’t like the word democracy.”
Tuesday?
Mental Monday
Get Help Before It's Too Late For All Of Us!!
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Poetry Corner
on your
mass grave,
under the rubble
of your
civilization ...
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Can't Handle The Truth, Can He?
Every accusation is a confession, especially w/ this small but loud voice obsessed w/ denial.The right to free speech, unless you actually try to use it.
Jah Is Not Happy [Up-Dated]
Listen to this testimony.
Who is effing "deranged" here?
New York Times:
Crowds Evacuated as Storms Menace Washington Ahead of Trump Speech — Thousands of people stood in security lines for hours in severe heat to reach the National Mall, only to be ordered to leave as events were set to start. Some refused. — Federal officials ordered thousands of people …
Still A Shithole, 50 Yrs.Later
Question Of The Day: "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?"
Well?
Another question you sheep might ask: "What to the wage-slave is The Fourth of July?Saturday Supercut
Close to two hrs. of tunes, chosen by a mindless robot for me! Not a one by Yankee artistes, you'll note. The robots know what I like. Assuming embedding this will play the other tunes as well. Every one good, if not a 20th century classic.
Friday, July 3, 2026
There's That Word Again!
HYPOCRISY!!
"Unreasoned", translated: He's a retarded fucking moron.Cassandra Dumay / Politico:
‘Hypocrisy’: Congress wants more homes. HUD is closing its low-income housing pipeline. — While Congress celebrates bipartisan legislation to boost affordable housing for working-class Americans, local authorities are scrambling to build rental homes for their poorest residents …Marisa Kendall / CalMatters: Judge shoots down Trump's homeless funding shift: ‘The hallmark of unreasoned decision making’
Friday Finger
America speaks
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Actual Independence Day
Not The Fourth. Admittedly, "Declaration of Independence" is stronger than "Resolution of Dissolution".
A letter from an American. More myth-making.
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| Signing of The Declaration of Independence by Armand-Dumaresq, c. 1873 |
Historians now think the signing wasn't until 2 August. The Continental Congress did approve the final draft on 4 July. More. Added trivia.On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”Also known as the “Lee Resolution,” after Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee, who had proposed it, the resolution was the final break between the king and the thirteen colonies on the North American continent that would later become the United States of America.
QOTD
— An OPDIVO Qvantig™ advert on the telly, advising of side effects.
Uncaring, Unconcerned Nation
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| AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster |
Uh, because no one in this hypocritical shithole gives one shit about anyone else, even "The Children" about whom they profess to care so fucking much?There were 16 kids living in squalor in an Ohio home. Why weren’t they found sooner?
Breeder scum. Put it back in your pants & keep it there. Makes one wonder what horrid things were they doing to their spawn, doesn't it?Authorities wouldn’t publicly share the nature of the other investigation that led them to the house Tuesday. However, court records show a warrant was issued for Siders Jr. that day on misdemeanor indecent exposure charges related to alleged incidents on four days in May. He has pleaded not guilty.
Thursday Troll Or Threat: You Decide
You think I need a fucking gun (which I didn't & don't have) to kill those who make me suffer? Think again, idiots!! Any sharp or pointed object can poke out your eyes or slit your damn throat.
A wk. in psychiatric jail sure helped me, didn't it? How 'bout you call the police again, Ratty, & see if two wks. in hell improve my outlook in any fucking way. Or three or four wks. of being warehoused. Now ask me why I despise each & every one of you horrid pukes. Why have you done this to me?
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| Much more visceral & satisfying. Like strangulation. |
Daily Affirmation
Every day, in every way, I become angrier & angrier, because I am constantly being provoked by you fucking retarded dimbulb morons who let robots control you & your pathetic lives.
Words fail me.Exactly how much more of the incessant lying, cheating & incompetence I deal w/ every fucking day am I expected to take from you cretinous shitheels? And why should I take even one milligram of shit from you subhuman jerkwads?
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