Sunday Amazon Finger

I despise you all 24/7; why should I wait until Friday to express my horror & disgust? And I needn't add anything to the message; it's so simple & true even you brain-dead sheep get it.

It's an Amazon finger, so a tribute to Jeff Bezos. ++Fuck him!!

Rail Rocket

Continuing the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex theme.

Looks like a V-2 to this reporter.Hardly prototypical, but none of the other U.S. Army rolling stock except the tank cars is. The Navy boxcar probably is.

This certainly isn't. It's Nazi-inspired as well.

The inspriation, a composite Krupp K5, from the captured Anzio Annie & Anzio Express.

Modifications & adjustments: One of the tabs on one of the trucks was broken; had a replacement on hand.

And decided the two wooden crates w/ trefoils were dangerous, & that the V-2 would look better centered on the car. Fortunately there was little glue used, & it took mere minutes.

Three dabs of paint & replacng the string w/ chains will finish the job. Dunno if the rocket is 3-D printed, but it's very light.

Moment Of Truth

Will It Or Won't It?

It will. Whew!

Too long for Blogger, forced to load it to YouTube.77 bones used (+ s&h) clean, all details accounted for & well broken in. Crawls & runs just fine. An Atlas Classic, Chinese-made, not Austrian, this livery & road number were released in Sep't. 2008, MSRP $139.95, up $35 from March 2007, & up 40 simoleons from April 2003 - May 2005. March '26: $209.95 or $329.95. Why I buy used. The sticker on the box, from MTHC (Mark Twain Hobby Center?) reads "Used As Is $48.15". The parts list claims the lights (currently not working) are LEDs, & that there's a light board, which should make DCC installation relatively easy.

Glamour Shot

I have more boxcars than I need & not enough reefers, stock cars, tank cars yada. There's also a possibility I really don't need more than five zebra-striped locomotives for a 9'x7' layout. STOP ME BEOFRE I PURCHASE AGAIN!!

Now I must wait until Tues. for the turnouts I ordered from Yankee Dabbler two damn wks. from next Tues. the 13th! Had to call them & read them the Riot Act, got some double-talk about what's in their warehouse & what's w/ their distributor, & the incompetent buffoon did notify me he'd send the turnouts immediately. After they fucked me earlier this yr. I resolved not to do business w/ them again, but it was the only place that had three of the turnouts I needed. When will I learn never to trust anyone, anywhere, about anything? P.S.: When you're delaying me & not infoming me why, don't get allpissyoif I use some salty language. Unless I specicfically ask Gawd to damn your useless ass to hell, saying "goddam" about some bullshit you're perpetuating is not a "curse", you illiterate dipstick!

Thursday Tab-Clearing

Advertising Analysis W/ Connie Clausen

This commercial is in my "Non-Sequitor" bookmarks, so I was amused to see this:

Analyzing the Persuasive Elements of a 1961 Coca-Cola Commercial

Ms. Clausen, by the way, had better things to do than be a "low-level actress".

Booze & Women Wednesday

Remember?

I've vague recollections, but it's been a while.

A draft from 2024 we never got around to publishing.

Good Deal On Reefers!

Ha ha. Not that kind of reefers, ninnies.

Must admit I've not had a bad experience w/ ebay yet.

Certainly detailed enough for my purposes, which are quantity over quality.

(Now I've screwed myself. Next time won't work out.) Not that I spend big money or buy anything that isn't 20-40 yrs. old. Note the revision date on this; 03-06.

When Athern wasn't a corporate entity in Illinois.

The price tag on one box was dated 4/5/2008.

All Aboard For The Future!

Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time

• 43% of Americans view socialism positively
• Positive views of big business down to 35%; capitalism steady at 55%
• Small business, free enterprise remain most popular economic concepts

They may be wising up, but support for such amorphous concepts as "free enterprise" & "capitalism" is a good indication of how ignorant fools are turned out every graduation by America's bullshit educational system.

And "small business" is a knife that cuts both ways. Sometimes a small business is family exploiting family, or just greedy, small-minded pigs. And sometimes they are good businesses that do help local communities & economies.

Still On The 'Phone

"Her wrist surreal, a heart and winged skull, lettered 'Life & Love Pass Swiftly'"

NB, kids: Vampires are not all fun & games.

Monday Modeling Story

Current Economic Situation

From the customer before me: Two pints of Ben & Jerry's® & 22.3 oz. of Screamin' Sicilian Pizza®, US$20.97, put on a Mastercard. Yup, 21 bucks of debt for a junk food dinner & dessert. Making America Healthy Again!!

In other consumption news, purchased a 200 sq. ft. box of Kroger Aluminum Foil® for eight bones from a guy selling them from a folding table under an awning on the sidewalk. Retail at Ralphs: US$13.99! Six dollars saved, & I s'pose, open to charges of receiving stolen property & aiding & abetting. Come & get me, coppers!

Coltrane's Centennial

Induction photograph, 1945.

Born on this date, 1926.J.C. died 17 July 1967, at the age of 40, killed by the pig society that drove him to drink, 50 yrs. too early.

Tired Of It All Tues.

73 wasted yrs. in this world of shit & pain surrounded by brain-dead doody-heads. And summer will be gone w/in an hr.Just purchased a stupid, indulgent belated birthday gift for myself. Don't feel any better, maybe when it arrives.

This not-eating thing has worked out well: Eight days to the end of the month & even after indulging myself I've over US$600.00 in the credit union & 18 bones in folding money. Not to mention many dollars in quarters saved for laundry but now made superfluous by WASHConnect, which infects one's 'phone.

Can't possibly spend more than 100 bucks on "necessities" between now & the end of the month, so I s'pose I can indulge myself in the 100+ simoleons of turnouts & other railroading junk I need/want. And of course, the more one buys at one time, the more one makes up for shipping costs. Wheeee!

Currently attempting to consolidate, organize & discard some things that have been piled up all over, many of which have ended up on the only flat surface available.

And elsewhere.

Low Ridin'

Musical Interlude

There are many versions of "Slave Driver".Wage-slave until you drop dead. Then imagine how cheap your funeral will be in the booming economy. Win-win!

Dr Oz: "I'll give you a number you'll never forget -- if we can get the average American to be so healthy, so with it, so vital that they just want to work a little longer, it's worth a trillion dollars to the US economy"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 19, 2026 at 7:30 AM

I'd like to know if Dr. Oz has ever done physical labor in his life. Fuck him & the bullshit economy, which benefits only the already over-monied.

Further hypocrisy: Why aren't Republicans tarring this bastard w/ their Muslim/Islamist brush, as they do to virtually every other Mohammaden? "Making America Healthy Again" sounds like Sharia Law to me. Brought to our limited attention by MPS.

The Sheep Look Up

Fall-in-line idiot at the end doesn't quite get how it all works, does he?

Anybody got any diesel?

Burning Sage Saturday

One classic & a tolerably stupid Todd Rundgren production, recently & often heard over & over & over in truncated &/or covered forms in adverts on the telly.NB: Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger) is Canadian, b. 1914 in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. He penned both the above classic* & "I'm Movin' On", which were enough for a lifetime career. Go Canada!!Still don't get it. Are ancient tunes less expensive, or are ad agency music directors admitting that today's music sucks may not even be up to yesterday's drivel?

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*Originally from an Australian number. Hank changed the locations.

Sure, I'll Believe Anything

Fox News:

GOP lawmakers pump brakes on Trump's $5K check promise: ‘Where are you getting the money?’  —  President Donald Trump's promise of a big payout for Americans if Republicans win the midterms is getting a rocky reception on Capitol Hill.  —  Several Republicans outright oppose the $5,000 check promise …

Matt Weidinger / Washington Examiner:   Don't count on those $5,000 Trump dividend checks

Count in one hand & crap in the other; see which piles up sooner: Shit, or Fat Donnie's bribe money. Cultist cretins & suckers. It'd be funny if any of the chumps figured it out. They couldn't be any denser.

I'm Sorta Back ...

Not that I was missed.

Ugly, ugly, ugly, except the clouds.

Finally realized my problem was from constipation, so cleansed the colon, then slept for about 10 hrs. Still yawning, however, because humanity & all its works are still unspeakably dull, inane, boring & mind-numbing (image above) except, of course, for the parts where you horrid pieces of murderous shit are trying to kill anyone in your way.

Temperature's Rising, Fever Is High, Can't See No Future, Can't See No Sky

Ars Technica informs us:

Getting violent

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

“One more warning sign here of what we’re facing in a warmer world.”

Babylon deh pon fire, natty nah go in deh.
Babylon deh pon fire, natty move out deh.
Move out deh, it's hot down der.
Nah go down deh, fire down der.

Spotted at B.J., which has other links. And Ten Bears always has climate news. I don't go crazy w/ the climate because I'll be dead before the worst happens, & will gladly leave this world to you wretched idjits about to experience real & serious karma. Or do you think you'll just stop, cold turkey? Après moi, le déluge! Har har har.

Saturday Night At The Movies

I stand 100% w/ our relatives, friends & neighbors in Canada in their struggle w/ the idiots in the current Republican regime & its active attempts to destroy North America*.Interesting that Charles Smiley Presents released this ©2009 compilation just five days ago.

Also of interest? Two of the Class I railroads operating in these United Snakes are Canadian.

Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway trade the top spot depending on the metric used. Based on the most recent full-year data (2024):

• Union Pacific Railroad – $24.3 Billion Revenue, 32,100 route miles, 32,400 employees
• BNSF Railway – $23.4 Billion Revenue, 32,500 route miles, 41,000 employees
• Canadian National Railway – $17.1 Billion Revenue (CAD), 20,000 route miles, 24,000 employees
• CSX Transportation – $14.5 Billion Revenue, 21,000 route miles, 20,900 employees
• CPKC – $14.2 Billion Revenue, 20,000 route miles, 20,000 employees
• Norfolk Southern Railway – $12.1 Billion Revenue, 19,400 route miles, 19,600 employees
The 2023 CPKC merger significantly reshaped the competitive landscape. Before the merger, Kansas City Southern was the smallest Class I with revenues of just $2.75 billion and 4,000 route miles. The combined CPKC is now comparable in size to CSX and CN, making the six freight Class I railroads much more evenly matched than at any time in modern history.

If you didn't figure it out, the CP in CPKC is Canadian Pacific. That 2023 merger was the result of CP purchasing the KCS from NdeM, the national railroad of Mexico. Them furriners have a stranglehold on us! What will happen when Yank farmers run out of fertilizer & whatnot because of tariffs & oil scarcity? We won't be able to afford Canadian imports either!

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*Does that make me a traitor? I hope so. Slap the bracelets on, G-Men!