Sunday, May 21, 2023

Oops. Human error turns Nassau County Republicans to Democrats.

NBC New York: Human Error Turns Every Registered Nassau County Voter Democrat.

A spokesperson called it "an isolated event, but we apologize for our mistake, especially to Nassau County officials, who bear no responsibility for this problem[.]"

A mistake listing every Nassau County registered voter as blue had many — especially Republicans — seeing red.

Many voters in the GOP-leaning Long Island county got their voter ID cards in the mail on Tuesday, and a half-million who got their cards saw a pretty glaring typo: All the cards say voters are registered Democrats, when in fact they might be Republican, independent or members of another political party.

And with the primary a month away, the mistake is sparking confusion.

[...] now the mistake has led to many unhappy people.

"There’s a lot of confusion, there’s a lot of people emotionally upset about this," said [Nassau County Executive Bruce] Blakeman.

So who is to blame? Blakeman pointed fingers at the printing company, Phoenix Graphics out of Rochester, which was hired by the county’s Board of Elections.
 
The printing company said it was a human error and is now apologizing. A spokesperson called it "an isolated event, but we apologize for our mistake, especially to Nassau County officials, who bear no responsibility for this problem."

State Department apologizes for causing pronoun butthurt.

Washington Free Beacon: State Department Offers Counseling To Misgendered Employees Triggered By Email Pronoun Debacle.

The State Department will offer counseling to any employee "who feels hurt or upset" by a system-wide email glitch that temporarily assigned random and often incorrect gender pronouns to staff.

The State Department is offering free therapy to "any employee who feels hurt or upset as a result of this unfortunate mistake," according to an internal email that went out to employees on Friday. Many State Department employees were "triggered" on Thursday, when emails from colleagues suddenly began to include random pronouns, like, "She/her/hers" and "He/Him/His" in the "from" line.

The pronouns were randomly assigned, with men being given female pronouns and vice versa, due to a "pronoun glitch" in the department’s system, the Washington Free Beacon first reported.

Those upset by the misgendering are encouraged to contact the State Department’s Employee Consultation Service "to speak to a professional counselor."

"I want to stress that the intent behind making this feature available is to make our systems more inclusive and provide employees with options—not to make decisions for them," Kelly E. Fletcher, the State Department’s chief information officer, wrote in the email. "I recognize that this error had the opposite effect, and again, I am very sorry."

RT: US State Department offers counseling to staff after ‘pronoun glitch’. 

In a tweet later on Thursday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that “issues with user profiles on Microsoft Outlook” had caused the error.

State Department blames MS Outlook user profiles? 🤣 Sure, why not?

I'm very upset over this misuse of pronouns. Where do I go for my free therapy and, hopefully, benzos?

Boys know what to do with tampon dispensers in their bathrooms.

Not The Bee: This high school put tampon dispensers in the boys' bathrooms. You'll be so proud of how the boys responded.

Boys don't menstruate, so it's silly and ridiculous to put tampons and other female products in their bathrooms. Transgender activists have been pushing for this for years, though, because it helps spread the gender ideology cult, particularly among young people.

But the boys at Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon, want you to know that they are not going to put up with it:

Boys in the boys restroom at Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, OR are showing the school how they feel about having feminine hygiene dispensers in their space. Honestly, what did the @ORHouseDems and the school expect? This is a complete joke and a waste of education funds,…

The school, meanwhile, has been reduced to pathetically whining about the whole thing:

    In the last weeks, we have been combating vandalism in the boy's bathrooms. Students have been taking the tampon dispensers down and placing them inside the toilets. We would like your help in stopping this form of vandalism.

Twitter link and Thread.

Awwwwwww. Poor school administration snowflakes.

Give these fine young men a round of applause!

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Saturday Night Random.

A cavalcade of, mostly, unrelated-related Memes...sometimes. Some vintage retro tech with a splash of this, that and nonsense.

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Armed Forces Day.

Military.com: Armed Forces Day.

Among the many military holidays celebrated each year is Armed Forces Day. Celebrated the third Saturday in May, Armed Forces Day falls during Military Appreciation Month and joins Memorial Day, Military Spouse Appreciation Day, and Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day) as another May military-themed holiday.

The History of Armed Forces Day:

On Aug. 31, 1949, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy and Air Force Days. The single-day celebration stemmed from the unification of the armed forces under one agency -- the Department of Defense.
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The first Armed Forces Day was celebrated by parades, open houses, receptions, and air shows. In Washington, D.C., 10,000 troops of all branches of the military, cadets and veterans marched past the president and his party. 

National Today: Armed Forces Day, May 20, 2023. 

Armed Forces Day is a special holiday for people all over the world to come together and thank the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. First conceived by President Harry S. Truman, the holiday was established in 1949. The creation of a single day celebration for all five branches of the United States military made sense due to its recent unification under the Department of Defense. Today, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday of every May, this year falling on May 20. Be sure to mark your calendar & support our military!

Three stories from the Daily Mail. Ice cream truck near Auschwitz provokes fury, Cocaine dealer freed by Obama shoots woman leaving her brain dead, $2B wasted by U.S. on Coof vaccines.

Daily Mail: Ice cream van sets up... outside AUSCHWITZ: Fury over 'disrespectful'.

An ice cream van has sparked outrage after setting up shop outside the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz.

The van which also sells waffles has been condemned as 'tasteless and 'disrespectful' by the Auschwitz Museum after it appeared outside the camp's main entrance known as the 'Death Gate'.
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However, it is located outside the protection zone of the Monument to the Holocaust, so unfortunately we have no influence on it.

Some selected comments from the DM story:




It's fucking ice cream, not Waffle Cones in the likeness of Hitler and the van is set-up outside the protection zone

We'll probably learn that the ice cream van is owned by a Jew and all the kvetching will be for naught, just as it was when Jews had a fit over the auction of Hitler's wristwatch only to be silent when it was revealed that it was a wealthy Jew that bought it for over $1M.

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Daily Mail: Cocaine dealer whose life sentence was commuted by Obama in 2015 is charged with shooting female passenger during road rage incident and leaving her BRAIN-DEAD.

A convicted cocaine dealer, who was given a second chance when his life sentence was commuted by former President Obama in 2015 is back in prison on attempted murder charges after he shot a woman, leaving her brain-dead, cops say. 

Alton Mills, 54, last made the news when Obama cut short his life sentence in 2015 after serving 22 years in jail for what were small time drugs offenses.

He received an sentence after being arrested in 1993 on federal conspiracy charges as part of a crack cocaine conspiracy.

His two previous convictions of possession of less than five grams of crack cocaine led to prosecutors filing a sentence enhancement, which saw him sentenced to life in prison without parole.

But he is now looking at another possible life sentence following an expressway shooting early on Sunday morning in the suburbs of Chicago. The victim, who has not been identified, is not expected to survive.

No surprise Total POS Dick Durbin (D-IL) had his fingers in this; the man who called U.S. Soldiers, "Nazis," and compared them to the Gulag and Pol Pot.

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Daily Mail: More than $2 billion of US taxpayer cash has been wasted on unused Covid vaccines.

More than $2 billion has been wasted on unused Covid vaccines throughout the pandemic, data suggests.

More than 300million doses of four brands of vaccine - Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson and Novavax - have been discarded or donated to other countries.

There are multiple reasons for the wastage, including vaccine hesitancy and overspending by the US Government.

Yet despite the figures and dwindling demand, the World Health Organization has called for new Covid shots to be developed for this winter that target mutated variants.

Friday, May 19, 2023

Found a new hobby!

Gonna be AFK for a looooooooooooooooooooong time. 🤣

Follow me for more, "Could easily be staged, but providing ideas for problems that may not yet exist," advice!

Friday Morning Music Video

Up your volume a bit.

"You're the First, the Last, My Everything" by Barry White, from 1974's Can't Get Enough.

Various bios and articles on Barry note he smoked between 7-8 packs of cigarettes/day. Man...I give him nothing but Props for that.  IMHO, one of the Top Ten greatest voices to grace the music industry. He totally owned the deep bass-baritone voice.

An interesting life. White began serving his first jail sentence at age 16 for stealing $30K of Cadillac tires. He had fathered two children by age 16. He did not know how to read or write music. Turned his life around after release from jail.

Source: ...the BBC recalled "the rich timbres of one of the most distinctive soul voices of his generation, about which it was once said: 'If chocolate fudge cake could sing, it would sound like Barry White.'"

Thursday, May 18, 2023

I didn't say this Ford Raptor Ad is gay.

A poster on a message board where I found this clip commented, "this ad is gay." I'm only the messenger, not the message.

Don't be distracted by the rainbow colored word Tough at the end of the ad in reaching any conclusion. You decide.


Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Bud Light can't give away beer!

HITC: Bud Light offering $20 rebates to flog beer after controversy.

Bud Light is practically giving away beer with $20 rebates at certain stores as they try and sell crates following the controversy.
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[... and] backlash for partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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People have seen the notices at Meijer, Kroger, and other stores, and have taken to Twitter to share photos of the rebates.

Here’s one:

    I've been sober for almost a decade, so I'm not sure on this, but ain't a case like $20 most places?

    Things can't be going great if they're basically giving it away… pic.twitter.com/aeCgHjlnEe

    — Ed Latimore (@EdLatimore) May 13, 2023

And another:

    Stopped by my local Kroger tonight and they had a $10 rebate on cases of Bud Light and no one will still even touch it.  pic.twitter.com/K1iP5lDI5F
    — Scott Burns (@SeminoleScott) May 12, 2023
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The Bud Light marketing team must still be all women if they think a coupon will get a man’s attention,” she amusingly wrote in the caption.

What’s a coupon?” one man joked in the comments.

Another said: “We hate rebates, too much work.”

Literally never used a coupon in my life, so yeah this checks out,” a third person added.

In other business news: Adidas has decided to sell Kanye merchandise after deciding not to sell Kanye merchandise.

 

A great time to be alive in an era of Bad Marketing and PR!

Monday, May 8, 2023

Duels.

We ought to revive this tradition.



Hilton Hotel manager arrested for waking up guest by sucking on his toes.

David Neal


A Hilton Hotel manager was arrested and charged Friday for entering a guest’s room and sucking on the customer’s toes.

David Neal, 52, was charged with aggravated burglary and assault for entering a male guest’s room and sucking on his toes Thursday, March 30.

Nashville Police were dispatched shortly after 5 a.m. to 121 4th Avenue South, where a Hilton Hotel resides, a spokesperson for the city’s police department stated.

While investigating a complaint, officers discovered that Neal, working as a night manager at the time, made a key card and entered the guest’s room.

The guest then woke up to find Neal sucking on his toes, which he immediately confronted.

The guest recognized Neal because the day before, he came into the room with another employee to fix an issue with the television, the spokesperson informed.

Neal claimed that he entered the room because he smelled smoke and was checking on the victim. However, the night manger did not report this issue to security. Furthermore, no other resident reported smelling smoke.

When officers asked where the room key was, Neal replied that he threw it away, the spokesperson said. The room key was never recovered.

Nashville Police Central Precinct detectives led the investigation and issued warrants against Neal.

He was arrested at his Lebanon, Tennessee, residence.

Neal is currently in jail, to be released on a $27,000 bond.

"The guest then woke up to find Neal sucking on his toes, which he immediately confronted." As opposed to what...waiting 10 minutes? 🤣

This is why you block the hotel door using an improvised mechanism in addition to the existing lock devices. And, of course, have near you various self-defense items some of which may or may not be non-lethal. Follow me for more hotel room safety tips!

Monday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction, from 1990's Ritual de lo Habitual.

Friday, May 5, 2023

The "Royal Wood?"

NY Post: Giant penis mowed into lawn at King Charles’ coronation bash site.

Cocky pranksters mowed a giant penis onto the famous grounds of the Royal Crescent in Bath, England, where a significant coronation party is set to be thrown in just two days.

Residents awoke Thursday to morning wood, with the glaringly obvious penis trimmed into the lush grass overnight, SWNS reports.

It’s unclear if law enforcement is handling the case.

Fancy homes that date to the 18th century form a crescent on this street, known worldwide for having a “perfect lawn.”

King Chucky isn't amused. Perhaps the image gives him an inferiority complex?

Friday Morning Music Video

"Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick, from 1978-79's Live at Budokan.

Rick Nielsen, an often underrated and over-looked name in Guitar Greatness.

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Mrs. Blinken's Dinken?

White House Executive Secretary, Evan Ryan, wife of Antony Blinken, Biden's Sec of State: 

Hmmm. Something appears pointy. ["Oh, Drake - dude, no. It's the way the fabric in her dress folded at the precise moment the photo was taken.Yeah - sure, that's what it is. - DD].  

And check out her Man Thumb on the purse.

Not shopped. Image reproduced from a Brietbart Story: Republicans hone in on Blinken and wife's contacts with Hunter Biden and Burisma.

The Champ is still Big Mike.

PacWest Shares Plunge 60%, More Banks Drawn Into Quagmire.

MSN: PacWest Shares Plunge 60%, More Banks Drawn Into Quagmire.

PacWest shares plunged by 60 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday, raising concerns that the Los Angeles-headquartered bank might be the latest victim of the turmoil sweeping through the banking sector ever since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March.
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Growing anxiety over the fate of PacWest and other smaller banks in the future would likely increase pressure on the Fed, which in the aftermath of the SVB's collapse was widely expected to pause its interest rate hikes.

Another smaller bank, Western Alliance, saw its shares drop by as much as 38 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday.

But despite predictions and expectations, the Fed has so far persisted in its strategy.

^ The Fed's Strategy ^

Maybe...if we all started wearing masks again the bank failures will stop.

Had a glitchy. Or... something.

(Tap, tap...) This thing on?

 

 Whoops!
 
  


 There we go!🤣

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Navy Confirms Using Drag Queen Influencer as a ‘Digital Ambassador’ to Attract Recruits.

I Meme Therefore I Am LINK

"China and Russia are laughing their asses off right now."

Breitbart: Navy Confirms Using Drag Queen Influencer as a ‘Digital Ambassador’ to Attract Recruits.

The U.S. Navy confirmed to Breitbart News on Wednesday that it used a “drag queen influencer” as one of its “digital ambassadors” to attempt to recruit “a wide range of potential candidates.”

The influencer is 24-year-old active-duty U.S. Navy Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is “Harpy Daniels.

More bank failures on the way?

Hit The Kobeissi Letter at Twitter for ongoing updates. The outlook...let's just say it's not optimistic.

Conservative Playbook: Are PacWest and Western Alliance the Next 2 Dominoes to Fall?

Things weren’t supposed to move this quickly.  Just hours after First Republic was dissected, two more major banks are in very serious trouble.

Are the dominoes going to start to fall more quickly than we were anticipating?  After his bank gobbled up First Republic, Jamie Dimon told the world that “this part of the crisis is over”, and many in the corporate media believed him.
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Both institutions are now highly vulnerable, and as Dick Bove has aptly noted, those that have made massive amounts of money from recent bank failures are searching for their next victim[.]
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Of course PacWest and Western Alliance are not the only potential targets.

Monday, May 1, 2023

EPA overestimating range of EVs. They're unreliable.

Kelly Blue Book - Study: EPA-Certified Range Figures for EVs Unreliable.

EPA ratings are optimistic for most electric models.

A new study suggests that the ranges and fuel economy equivalent figures published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are not particularly accurate. [  Shocking! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Oh well...DD ]

If the EPA’s numbers are off, we should note, then the rest of the world has it even worse. EPA range figures are famously lower than those published by many other governments.

SAE International, a global association of engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries, used data from tests performed by Car and Driver to study real-world EV ranges.

In a 75 mph highway test, Car and Driver found that “more than 350 internal-combustion vehicles averaged 4.0 percent better fuel economy than what was stated on their labels. But the average range for an EV was 12.5 percent worse than the price sticker numbers.”

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Gabriel.

Learned that a neighbor (up a few blocks, we see them but not often, but nevertheless a neighbor), has a grandson - young child - undergoing treatment for cancer in a St. Paul hospital. If his body responds to the treatment, the cancer could go into remission. Recovery will be a long journey. His name is Gabriel.

If you could please include his name during your prayers, his family will appreciate it.

(Comments turned off for this post).

Thank you.

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Fed Chair Jerome Powell punked by Russian Prank Callers.

🤣

NY Mag: Jerome Powell Got Punked by Russian Prank Callers.

...it’s a little jarring to see that on Thursday, the gray-haired Powell was made the butt of a joke by two Russian pranksters crudely posing as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This happened back in January, but Powell apparently thought this call was a private one with the world leader and talked candidly about how a recession was just as likely as it was not, and it is now making the rounds on Russian media and Twitter.

BBC: Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell pranked by Russians.

Comedians Vladimir Krasnov and Alexei Stolyarov - known as Vovan and Lexus - claimed credit for the stunt.
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In one of the clips shared on Russian television, Mr Powell praised Russia's central bank chief Elvira Nabiullina for managing the Russian economy amid Western sanctions, according to the BBC Monitoring service.

Other video now circulating on the internet shows Mr Powell describing a sharp slowdown in growth in the US, following the bank's efforts to rein in price rises.

"We would tell you that a recession is almost as likely as very slow growth," he said of expectations for 2023. "I think that is partly because of us having raised rates quite a bit but this is what it takes to get inflation down."
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"Embarrassing moment for the Fed," chimed in Jesse Cohen, global markets analyst at Investing.com.

"Embarrassing moment for the Fed." Ya think?

Powell needs to go. Didn't care for his policies during Trump's term, he shouldn't have been appointed, still don't care for his policies.

This wasn't a perfect phone call. Resign.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

5 SMODS missed us today.

Five SMODS today. FIVE!

All of them disappointing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  (Collective sigh and groaning.)

NASA's SMOD page may appear different than the above snap shot depending when you view it and when they update their site. It updates the closest five SMODs as they approach Earf.

And where are the aliens? They'll land moments after a global financial collapse. This, we do know.

Biden formally announces he's running in 2024.

Announced it at 6AM. 6AM? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

^LINK


Sunday, April 23, 2023

It's a Glock! It's A Bong!

It's...a Glong? A Block?

Smoke only after play has concluded and items secured.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Do you dare take the Moral Alignment Test?

How are you doing, morally, these days?

The test is 24 questions. It takes about a minute to complete.

You answer by using your cursor to slide the "white box" to the left or right for each question. 

Sliding the white box all the way one way or the other is "strongly" agree or disagree. Sliding it part way is a basic "agree" or "disagree." You might be able to leave the box where it's at as a "neutral" response but I didn't try that. I answered each question with a slide one way or the other.

My score is "Neutral Good:"😎

Neutral Good:

Individuals who are Neutral Good are directed by their still, small voice and commonly act unselfishly, with just auxiliary respect for whether their activities are lawful or in accordance with social assumptions or customs. Neutral Good people generally approve of what is legal in that capacity and are not naturally rebels, yet they have faith in assisting with thoughtfulness and great deeds through whatever means appear to be important to them. Encouraging great deeds by supporting coordinated society, if that is what the situation prescribes, but jumping on the off chance to go against the grain when this is what is needed. Neutral Good individuals strike a balance between rebellion and order, with emphasis on one or the other viewed as an impairment to the more prominent objective of advancing genuine humanitarian aims across the planet.

Here's the link to the test: IDRlabs Moral Alignment Test. 

Do you dare take it? 💪  

Drop a comment. Any "Evil Chaotics" out there? 🤣

(link fixed)

Friday, April 21, 2023

Stochastic terrorism or Free Speech?

Transvestite Terrorist Vows to Murder Anyone Who Doesn't Allow Men in Women's Restrooms:

Seems like a call for an insurrection.

The DOJ and FBI is investigating the person in this video who is promising to carry out violent attacks. Correct Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray?

Thursday, April 13, 2023

News Round Up

RT: China is ‘ghosting’ the US because normal diplomacy has proven useless.

No countries are returning Biden's call. The only one is Zelensky, begging for ... 

Breitbart: Zelensky DEMANDING another $14B.

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Rolling Out: Rapper EGYPXN shoots mother, sister, brother. Drops music video. Then is killed in a police shootout.

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Forbes: OPEC Back in the Driver's Seat.

Why OPEC in the Driver's Seat? Because they can't stand Biden, he alienated them and China will buy all they have. Happy Summer Gas Prices!

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Not The Bee: Arnold Schwarzenegger went viral for filling in a pothole ... turns out it was an active service trench.

Arnold "Screw your freedoms" Schwarzenegger. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving Dick.

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Daily Mail: Elon Musk calls to 'defund' NPR after it quit Twitter over spat with CEO, who branded the public broadcasting.

Taxpayer $ to NPR should have ceased decades ago.

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Breitbart: Former NHL Player Raymond Sawada Dies of a Heart Attack at 38.

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RT: Musk claims Twitter HQ landlord rejected homeless shelter plan.

Twitter owner Elon Musk has blamed his landlord for shooting down a proposal to use vacant office space at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco to help ease the city’s homeless crisis.

We tried to turn it into a homeless shelter,” Musk said on Tuesday night in a BBC News interview. “They (the owners) won’t let us.” He added, “We’re only using one of the buildings, so the other building could be a homeless shelter.

Elon provides a partial solution.

Liberal Reaction: "We didn't think of this so we don't like the idea. What? Elon suggested it? Double-Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww."

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ForbesBTC staying above $30K.

"Some say" ... it might be a time to consider buying.

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207-year old Dianne Feinstein (D) asks for temporary fill-in. She'll claw to that Senator Seat until the first shovel of dirt hits her casket. FFS, Retire. 

Breitbart: Dianne Feinstein’s Request for Temporary Replacement on Committee ‘Unprecedented’.

No Republican would be afforded the same political leniency.

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MSN: Kitty gets head stuck in iron grate drain.

Kitty extracted, doing fine and probably back to knocking everything off shelves and countertops.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

FBI paying attention to online slang; it "might be Extremism."

Other slang that may draw FBI scrutiny includes "Looksmaxxing" and "LARPing". Read more at:

NY Post: FBI documents associate internet slang like "based" and "red pill" with "extremism".

New documents released Monday warned that common internet lingo is being associated with “Violent Extremism” by the FBI.
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Many of the terms mentioned in the FBI’s list of incel terminology are either widely used across the internet or innocuous in nature.

"Lingo"? 🤣 Groovy Baybee. Very Hip.

"It was just like those incels Chad and Stacey, who are based and red pilled, to say, 'Hey, it's over. Just be first.' They both are Looksmaxxing. Their LARPing is tedious." 

^ This is how the FBI, under AG Merrick Garland's DOJ and, Biden and his Handlers, spends its time...¯\_(ツ)_/¯...