Dust Bowl II On The Way?

The original:

National Drought Mitigation Center

You'll all be vegetarians soon, & vegans before you know it, because all the livestock will be dead.

Saturday Savings Spectacular!

Going to the corner for milk yesterday I spotted Xmas lights in a cardboard box & decided I could use the wire if nothing else. Well, they work & are battery-powered, so don't waste your money on Woodland Scenics JustPlug® or Dioramo® lighting systems.

My curiosity piqued, I checked battery-powered wired LEDs & found piles, some powered by AAs, some by D cells, & some by hearing aid batts. Turns out the above suckers are made by Greenbrier International, Inc., a subsidiary of Dollar Tree. (Or it's Dollar Tree's parent co. Fucking robots.) All plastic; the only metal is the wiring & whatever's in the battery pack. The biggest deal to me is the self-containment. Everything's in the structure, no connecting to an external power source, so no wall-warts, extension cords or added LED wiring are needed.

This looks as if six bldgs. could be illuminated for $40.00. W/ 30 lights per string, six huge industries could be lit, or a small structure could be overdone until it caught fire.

Hoo boy, now Woodland Scenics is offering this; the video came out two months ago, but the system can't be searched on their crummy site; you have to look in the "Coming Soon" area. No prices yet, but an arm & a leg should cover it fairly easily. Speakers, sound cards & readers &c. will be just a smidge more than a transformer, control box & LEDs. Might not be easily duplicated at a bargain store.P.S.: If you do want the tried & true, I compared the Just Plug® & Dioramo® MSRPs sometime last yr.; Dioramo was a bit less expensive & their system seems more open to using non-Dioramo LEDs & the like. Or, Dwarvin & their fiber-optic "no wires" system. Tain't cheap neither.

Fat Donnie From Queens Calls In W/ His Hot Takes On Sport

Repugnant. Ass-kissing billionaire owner scum. Shove it, Mark Walter!Fat Donnie knows nothing. He's just reading from the teleprompter.

Reading from prepared remarks honoring the Dodgers' title defense, Trump rattled off a string of stats — the team's Tokyo season opener, a record-breaking travel schedule, and a historic 229-day season — before admitting he had no idea what any of it actually meant.

"I don't know," he said. "That's a different kind of a fact mark than I ever heard of, but that's what they give me to read. So what can I tell you?"

"220 the longest season ever," he added. "I don't know what the hell that means."

Nor could he figure it out. Thought he was smart, played baseball at the military academy where he was shipped & could have been a major league prospect. What a lying sack of shit. This reporter has no idea what the hell "fact mark" means either. How stupid can a life form be?

 Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Trump says he thinks LeBron James is ‘racist’ when asked if he or Michael Jordan is the GOAT
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:   Trump suggests LeBron James is ‘a racist,’ says he prefers Michael Jordan

Julia Manchester / The Hill:   Trump on LeBron James as he joins Philadelphia: 'Maybe he's a racist'

Ryan Anderson / New York Post:   Trump's odd response to the great Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James debate

TMZ.com:   President Trump Says LeBron James Is ‘Maybe’ A Racist

Gabe Whisnant / Newsweek:   Trump and Shapiro's Wildly Different Reactions to LeBron James' 76ers Move

Armando Tinoco / Deadline:   Donald Trump Says LeBron James Is “Maybe A Racist” After 76ers Move & Prefers Michael Jordan: “I Only Like People Who Like Me”

Jordan Conradson / The Gateway Pundit:   (VIDEO) Trump Calls LeBron James a Racist When Asked if He's Better Than Michael Jordan - “Maybe He's a Racist, or Maybe He Doesn't Like Trump”

Any honky calling any African-American "racist" is ridiculous, but for Fat Donnie from Queens it's the height of absurdity.

Not next yr., adds Steve Lopez of the L.A.Times!

Mookie Betts didn't go. He can use my initials any time.

Continuing Red Scare

Grasping At Straws

Hailey Bullis / Washington Examiner:
Memo urges Republicans to tie Democrats to communism
Charlie McCarthy / NewsMax.com:   Report: GOP Memo Says to Tie Democrats to Communism

From digby, Lumpy sez the commies want to blow up Mt. Rushmore while spewing the usual contradictory, inane & illogical bullshit.

Trump says communists are trying to blow up Mount Rushmore pic.twitter.com/rh7y9KPPGR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 22, 2026

The only "Commies" Trump should worry about are post-Communist China & their economic powerhouse that Fat Don furthers every day w/ his pathetic ignorance, incompetence & flailing about.

Friday Finger

Bonus: Fuck Off & Die Friday!!

You scum have brought nothing but murder, rape, pillage, war, violence, abuse, lying, cheating, stealing & stupidity to this world, & are making the very planet an unlivable hellworld. Fuck alla y'all up the ass w/ a splintery broomstick!!

Funny how no one ever refutes this or similar statements. Can't handle the truth, can you, grain-dead idiots?

Doesnt Know Anything

Can't stop his fat ignernt mouth, either. Ohtani has barely played the outfield,

Shohei Ohtani has played the outfield, but only sparingly in the major leagues. He made 7 brief defensive appearances in the outfield (6 in right field, 1 in left field) during the 2021 season with the Los Angeles Angels, totaling about 8 1/3 innings without recording a putout.

Earlier in his professional career in Japan with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, he played the outfield much more frequently, logging 64 total games across left and right field before shifting to strictly pitching and designated hitting.

but Lumpy has to make him the best outfielder ever. Fat Gay Don likes Ass. Football or greased-up, almost-naked furrin men hugging & hitting each other, so he doesn't know a damn thing about American sports. I hope he hasn't cursed the former Bums of Brooklyn w/ his ignorance. At least he'll probably be too scared to come to L.A. for home games during the Series.

Summer Re-Run

Rich Fantasy Life

Gee-ziz, read this: "Antifa". "MS-13". "They [sic] NWO will not have mercy on anyone." Sure. But how did they forget ISIS or whatever the Islamist threat was at the time?

Humanoids have been moronic, paranoid Bizarros since the beginning of human history. Did those post-election riots happen in 2016? Why, no. Not until 6 January 2021. EAIAC.

Confuzzled

Today's Dull

Almost three insufferable hrs. in the outside world & nothing happened beyond flashing lights.

Summer Re-Run

The Daily Caller, Xmas 2013.

They seemed nice.

"America Needs A New Red Scare"

Triggered Much? Bugger Off, You Twits!

Fox News:

Leftist streamer sparks online firestorm over speech to College Dems in Mao-style suit: 'They're communists'  —  The far-left influencer told students ‘no more to Democrats who compromise’ while dressed like the communist dictator  —  Far-left political influencer Hasan Piker sparked heated backlash …

Robby Soave / Reason:   Socialist Influencer Hasan Piker Is Praising Mao. Here's the Truth About Chinese Communism.

David Harsanyi / Washington Examiner:   America needs a new Red Scare

William A. Jacobson / Legal Insurrection:   College Democrats Wildly Cheered as Hasan Piker Bashed America, Israel, and Dems Who Compromise

Mike LaChance / The Gateway Pundit:   Radical Leftist Influencer Hasan Piker Calls Mass Murderer Mao Zedong ‘One of the Great Leaders of This World’ (VIDEO)

Olivia Rondeau / Breitbart:   Communist Streamer Hasan Piker Berates Moderates While Dressed as Mao Zedong

Avery Hill / The Post Millennial:   Hasan Piker praises mass murderer Mao Zedong—80 MILLION Chinese people were killed under his Cultural Revolution

Sam J. / twitchy.com:   Let's GOOO! Lily Tang Williams, Who Grew Up Under Mao Zedong, Challenges Hasan Piker to Debate Marxism

Dmitri Bolt / Townhall:   Hasan Piker Declares an Ideological Purge of the Democratic Party—Dressed Like Mao in Fiery Speech

Are you scared yet? They need the sheep to be frightened. Interesting note: Should really be known as the Zhongshan or Sun Yat-sen suit.

The Paranoid Style: Red Scares & Scary Sharia

From the first Red Scare, cover date Sep't. 1954.

History Lessons: Same Idiotic Shit, Different Day

Unpopular Front on the "Little Red Scare 2.0"

To the New Right, this abolition was unilateral disarmament in the still-frosty Cold War—and it removed a valuable cudgel against the domestic left. The Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership transition plan called to “revive the committees"“ and to rebuild of the internal security apparatus to battle domestic subversion, warning that clergymen, students, businessmen, entertainers, labor officials, journalists and government workers may engage in subversive activity "without being fully aware of the extent, purpose or control of their activities," and that individual liberties are "secondary to the requirement of national security and internal civil order.” The author of this section was one Samuel T. Francis, whothe would go on to be a staffer for [Sen.] John East.

The absolute joke that is fear of "Sharia law" is revealed by (non-) reaction to the Saud family's investment in the creation of the Paramount/WB/Discovery media cartel. All lies & hypocrisy.

Future book title: Lying Sacks of Shit & The Sucker-Ass Chumps Who Believe Them. Could be a long one.

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Note to self: Stop looking at the damn iNternet, seeing how stupid & shitty everything is, & thinking you have to type something. Remember, no one cares! Back to your second childhood, & to hell w/ the rest of this miserable world!

Summer Re-Run Time

So effing exhausted, & sick & tired of typing crap here for neither reason nor reward. And of course every time I express myself &/or the truth I am at risk of being taken into custody & condemned to the psychiatric gulag, Soviet-style. What a shithole country. Proud of yourselves? Or just so fucking dense you have no fucking idea what's going on around you?

Here's a good one, from October 2009:

"Easy". Same paranoid sissy-pants bullshit for decades. You fucking cretins, I despise you all!!

Communism Is On The March Again!

And I Am A Gargantuan Electric Comm-u-niss Golem!

Big thanks to Trump, Rubio, et al., for reviving the International Communist Menace.

United States Department of State:
Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism
Frances Martel / Breitbart:   State Dept: Cuba Set ‘Infiltrating American Universities as a Top Priority,’ Fueling Campus Unrest

Noah Rothman / National Review:   In Trump's Campaign Against ‘Third Worldism,’ Cuba Is at the Center

Sharon Zhang / Truthout:   As Trump Threatens Invasion, Admin Releases Report Vilifying Cuba and the Left

Andy Ngo / The Post Millennial:   ANDY NGO REPORTS: State Department links Antifa's lawyers to decades of Cuban communist influence

Don Feder / Washington Times:   Fight communism now — or buy a parrot

These stupid jerks are trying to scare the chumps about Cuba. Yes, Cuba, giant, powerful Commie island to the south, & its "influence" & "infiltration".Here we come, capitalist pigs!

Also on the subject, from The Rude Pundit.

Rubio is promising that the administration is going to be naming more groups as "terrorist organizations" and going after their funding, which they claim comes from foreign governments. The ideological criteria is broad: "This is what radical leftism is.  It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time.  They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist." Except it's not illegal to believe any of those things. You can be a communist in the United States. It's allowed. Or it used to be.

And the net is going to get wider and wider and "communist" is going to mean "wants health care for everyone," and this effort is going to work hand-in-hand with the voter suppression efforts, one being used as an excuse for the enforcement of the other. Rubio teed it all up: the coming pretext to destroy everyone on the left.

Top Ten All-American Hellhole States

These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026

States of the former Confederacy, plus Oklahoma, Utah (not a state then) & Indiana; somewhat surprising until I remembered it was a Klan hotspot in the 1920s.

The Ku Klux Klan held immense political and social power in Indiana during the 1920s, with an estimated 300,000 members—representing roughly a third of the state's native-born white male population.

Guessing all these hellholes have Republicans as Goobernators & legislatures dominated by idiotic right-wingers.

And the biggest loser is:

America’s Worst Place to Live in 2026: Tennessee

And I'd heard so much about Nashville being a "hot", burgeoning cultural center, like Branson, MO but w/ less Jesus. Great for crackers, sure.

Tennessee Republicans, led by Gov. Bill Lee, make no apologies for a rash of state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, including a so-called “bathroom law” requiring transgender people to use the facilities designated for their sex at birth. The state also explicitly bars localities from adopting their own antidiscrimination ordinances. To underscore the point, Lee signed a resolution earlier this year designating June “Nuclear Family Month.”

“The nuclear family, consisting of one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children, is God’s design for familial structure and has been the bedrock of society since the creation of the world,” the resolution states.

Its sponsors deliberately timed the observance to coincide with the month when Tennessee’s more than 300,000 LGBTQ+ people celebrate Pride.

Inclusiveness isn’t the only area where the Volunteer State falls short. Tennessee also has one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation, according to FBI statistics. And it has the third-highest rate of drug deaths, according to the United Health Foundation.

Who'd a thunk CNBC would be full of low-T lib sissies who are so concerned about the pervs?

Sunday Evening I Got Nothing Musical Filler

Lively your sucker asses up w/ some 40-50 yr.-old classics, chumps.They don't make 'em like that anymore, & why should they? It's all been done.