Not Just Fertilizer: Everything

90+% plastic, & virtually all made in The People's Republic of China.

Exceptions: The ruined depot was "Made in Western Germany", possibly in the 1970s; the black switching loco was made in Austria in the '80s or '90s. This scout car was "Produced in the Netherlands and Vietnam"

& the water tank was "Made in Vietnam", both very recently, I assume.

Not that where it's made will make any difference when the raw materials run out.

Truth & Facts from Comrade Misfit:

This point is not original to me: Other than the computer/phone you are reading this on, you probably can easily reach and touch something made in East Asia that is made of plastics or synthetics. Those things are petrochemicals, which means that the base material is oil.

That oil comes from the Persian Gulf.

The last tankers that made it through the Strait of Hormuz before the war started are either in port or are making port. Since almost nobody keeps large supplies of raw materials on hand anymore (the whole world has gone just-in-time supply), the plastics makers are in trouble. That effects almost everything. Think of all the stuff that comes in plastic containers and bottles, like your prescriptions.

All of that stuff will be in short supply. Even if the war ends tomorrow, it'll take months, if not years, to get everything back to where it was.

At greater length: The Mahablog, which links to a Krugman interview transcript. If the gift link has expired, or you're functionally illiterate, the audio.

Crusader Alkie

Nate Krieger / Vox:
The Department of Holy War  —  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has a longstanding fascination with the Crusades.  That's right, the Crusades: the series of late 11th to 13th century medieval wars in which Europeans fought to control the Holy Land.  He has tattoos that reference the Crusades …

Is having a delusional drunken religious buffooon whose Gawd is the hateful, vengeful cosmic asshole of the Old Testament running the Dep't. of "War" an ideal situation? The unembeddable answer.

21st Century Schizoid Sat.

Interesting: Audible drums start at (4:35). (Or am I that old & wretched? You needn't answer.)Some hot shit when released in 1969, & it holds up.Remains an accurate premonition of this 21st Century, other than napalm having been semi-outlawed.

Cat's foot iron claw Neuro-surgeons scream for more At paranoia's poison door Twenty first century schizoid man. Blood rack barbed wire Politicians' funeral pyre Innocents raped with napalm fire Twenty first century schizoid man. Death seed blind man's greed Poets' starving children bleed Nothing he's got he really needs Twenty first century schizoid man.

Letters Of The Day

LXXXVI XXXXVII

Wanna buy some seashells, on the seashore?

Friday Freak Out

Scheduled yesterday. No working or nothin'!!

MAY DAY!

Just Fucking Don't!!

Do not produce, consume, or engage in any other activities, including breathing if you can possibly avoid it. I may not get the mail, or even eat, not that I don't go a day w/o often.

Workingmen Arm Yourselves and Appear in Full Force

Having missed high school American History, I was unaware that May Day as worker's day was a result of the Haymarket Square Riot of 1886.

When "workingmen" weren't the sad collection of sissypants they are today, a mere 140 yrs. later. Wake the hell up! You dumb bastards have nothing to lose but your chains!!

Agitating broadsides source.

A Day Like Any Other ... Miserable

Burn Baby Burn!

Convenient illustration of our subtext.

If Home Despot hadn't, for some reason, given me a credit card I'd burn the fucking dump to the ground. Lumber, paint & all sorts of other flammable, toxic crap; it'd be quite the show.

Why arson? Got plenty of exercise walking from aisle to aisle looking for three items their website claimed were in stock in whichever aisle & bay, but there was sweet fuck all. Did find one of the five I wanted, & bought a different brand of something else; that's one (One & a half?) of five. Not even empty spaces where the items had been but had sold out. The last of the five was visible, but some wage-slave was stocking the aisle & had it fenced off the entire hr. I wandered in the desert.

Can't decide if I want to summon the energy to send the incompetent bastard manager an e-mail, but his name & address are right on the receipt.

Lunar Seas

Enough Already

Had it w/ the outside world of low-life human scum, middle-class pigs, billionaires & the rest of you. (I'd kill for enough money to have everything delivered.) No point sitting here typing all day for an audience of tens of the 370–400 million native-born English speakers, & the approximate additional billion who use it as a second language. Not that I'd expect all the furriners to get the subtle humour that's extruded here daily, but they should dig the images & music.

Fortunately, there is distraction, the layout occupying a quarter to a third of the bunker, which I'd like to finish before I fall over & die, when it will no doubt be destroyed by the Philistine slumlord. Thus the way of all things.And I keep discovering things to do on YouTube. Who knew to paint the ties & track? Yet once you've seen painted rails & ties, naked, unrusted, unweathered rails & black ties won't cut it. 

Also, this one neat trick."Fiddly little jobs" indeed. A possibly easier version of the neat trick.

Cletus Safari: Meet The Moping Morons

Stupidity increased throughout the day.

Per Nancy Nall & The NYT, there's one born every minute:

The stupidest motherfuckers on the planet, ladies and gentlemen. The guy making that argument for not levying property taxes on people living in paid-off houses thinks he might enjoy that benefit someday. His tiny brain can’t conceive that the richest people in the country — the kind who can afford to pay cash for a house — would be the happiest recipients of this policy change. He doesn’t even understand what property taxes are, does he? No, he does not. And yet, his vote counted the same as yours.

Bring back civics education. And happy Wednesday to all who live in this stupid, doomed country.

Read it & weep. Or other visceral reactions. How many of these fools will nonetheless vote for a moderate, sensible (in comparison) Republican douchewallader like Li'l Marco "Tiny Feet" Rubio? Doomed indeed. Hope the "gift link" works.

Sanewashing Continues From Former "Tiffany Network" ...

... Which Is Now The Nazi Network

Idolatry: 15-ft. gilded statue of The Donald at Trump Doral.

Decoding Fox News tells us:

On Sunday April 26 President Donald J. Trump sat down with Norah O’Donnell for a CBS “60 Minutes” interview the day after a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

That evening a 13-minute edit of the interview aired on CBS. The network also published the full 40-minute version on “60 Minutes Overtime.”

I went through both and made a transcript of exactly what was included and what was cut from the shorter version that aired on network television. The final 13-minute edit that CBS broadcast on Sunday was a bit of a Frankenstein monster as the president was sometimes cut off mid-sentence while other sections were cut and moved around to give the conversation a better flow.

Throughout the longer un-edited interview the president gave disorganized rambling answers that were filled with false statements about foreign investment in the U.S., immigration, and the 2020 election. He also brought up transgender athletes more than once and trashed the Democratic Party and the members of the press.

"Transgender For Everyone"

My favorite part:

Things like transgender for everyone. [?!?] I’m against that. There’s so many things that I’m against. I don’t think they’re controversial. I think the other side is controversial, but I do a lot of things and I get things done. And, you know, we’re respected now as a country all over the world. And some people love that, but some people probably don’t.

He's gotten one hell of a lot of "things" done alright. Eternal war, internal strife, tariffs, the list of his accomplishments is never-ending. And he's kept us safe: Men can be absolutely certain that no lezbos are coming to their houses to "transgender" them in Lumpy's America.

Echoing the reported opinion of former US secretary of state Rex Tillerson, Lebowitz thinks the biggest danger of Trump is that he is a moron. “Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

Stupid, & scared of things that don't exist. Paranoid delusions.

AI Overview: These delusions are a severe form of paranoia, often involving persecution, and are treated with a combination of medication and psychotherapy.

P.S.: Who the hell's this "Al" who's suddenly everywhere, acts as if he knows everything & is a great surrealist painter?

Let's Hope We Don't See Anything Else This Stupid For The Rest Of The Day

"86 47"? That's nothing. Try these: Impeach, indict, imprison! Off w/ his head!! Kill him before he kills you!!!

Now I just sit here & wait to be indicted. C'mon you chickenshit bastards. Do you have the nerve?

In Its Own Words

WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left

You'll have to click, as Zeteo doesn't offer embedding of its videos.

Turkey-Neck Tuesday

Wash Day Blues

Pretty pics to distract from my ultimatum/death threat.

Ultimatum For The Slumlord

If the fucking laundry room isn't working by May Day, I will march my ass the two blocks to your offices & suffocate your cheap parasitic ass w/ my dirty laundry, you putrid bastard, as there is no point to living any damn longer if I have to leave the bunker to get my washing done. Six-plus months of going to the laundromat signed your death warrant, you rancid son-of-a-bitch. It's killing time!!

Pretty good sound considering the lack of microphones & amplification.

Does This Sky Look Angry To You?

This Is (Vaguely) Interesting

Note "change":

Couldn't reconcile my credit union account (Yrs. in banking left me a compulsive mess.) by a dime, because I wasn't expecting penny rounding change from a debit card.