Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, March 18, 2024

Come To Donnie’s House of Flip-Flops! His Prices Are Insane!!

The TOFF changed his position on banning TikTok after meeting a billionaire GOP donor who owns a stake in the company.

The takeaway: The TOFF is for sale. He believes in nothing, other than getting very large checks. He'd advocate for open borders and incest if the money was right.

(We know he's already in favor of the latter.)

P01135809 Is Re-Hiring a Russian Asset

Because birds of a feather, flock together.

Former President Donald Trump is expected to bring Paul Manafort, 74, back into the fold, as a campaign adviser later this year.
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Manafort was Trump's campaign chairman in 2016 but left in August before the general election after his ties to Russian-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych exposed Trump's pro-Russian vulnerabilities.

He was later charged with tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts over money he raised working for Yanukovych, which he and his deputy Rick Gates tried to hide from authorities.

Manafort was sentenced to seven years in prison, but was put on house arrest during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then pardoned by Trump in December 2020
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Mind you, this is the same crook who passed information on the TOFF's first campaign to the Russians. Which suggests that Cadet Bone Spurs is just fine with having a Russian spy high up in his campaign to destroy America.

Nepotism and, Apparently, No-Show Jobs Live On at the NRA

At least one, WLP's niece, who got promoted despite having an essentialy no-show job for which she got private jet flights and chopper rides. And which pays her 300 large a year.

At this point, any annual member who reups for any reason other than their gun club requires it for insurance purposes has mush for brains.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Bit of Meaningless Aviation Trivia

From the DC-2 through the MD-11, at least one of every type is still flying.

Except for the DC-7.

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

The most gorgeous airliner ever made, the Constellation:



Never rode one. I did ride a DC-7 when I was too young to really appreciate it.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Caturday

Wherever there's sun, there's a cat.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Never Missing an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity

In some ways, one has to admire how well Hamas has played much of the West. They started the war by committing atrocities, they took and keep hostages, and they are hiding behind their own people. Their strategy seems to be to let the Israelis kill as many civilians as possible until the rest of the world makes them stop. At which point, Hamas will claim the mantle of resistance and cement its control even further. And so far, it seems to be working.

If there is a trap there, Netanyahu has fallen into it. By the time he's finished conducting the war, Israel will be seen just another brutal Middle Eastern state that plays by Hama Rules. There will be no claim of moral authority as the survivor state of the Holocaust. Israel will be seen as just another state willing to massacre tens of thousands of people when it sees fit to do so.

Meanwhile, in the United States, the Arab-American population is doing its best to ensure that, in the long run, everyone will hate them. A lot of them are saying that they will boycott the election because they don’t like Biden‘s position.

If they do that in sufficient numbers to affect the election, then they will be in a situation where the next president (Trump) hates them already (Gruppenführer Miller has a Muslim visa ban ready to go) and the losing side (Democrats) will also hate them.

I don’t know what genius thought up a plan to get everyone to hate them, but it seems that Abba Eban was right: They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Because It's Friday

More fresh steam from the Brits.

A Racist, Activist Right-Wing Judge

That would be Lee Rudofsky in Arkansas. In a voting rights case, he went looking for a reason to further dismantle the Voting Rights Act, found one, had the parties brief it, then ruled in favor of the issue that he had found. Which was just peachy with the appellate court.

For almost all of my life, I've read and heard the Racist Right screaming about "activist judges", especially when it came to dismantling segregation. But now that there are judges, especially Trump-appointed judges, who are actively making it harder for minorities to vote, that's just fine with so-called conservatives.

It is racism. It is Southern judges doing what Southern judges historically have done-- helping the neo-Confederates keep those uppity folks from voting.

And when they get done with that, those "conservatives" want to go after the 19th Amendment. Most of the states in the deep South didn't ratify the 19th Amendment until fifty years after it was adopted.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

I Know, I Know

Strapping These Down, Here







Verizon Sucks Horses' Penises

You can have a deal with them for service for your cell phone and while you can't leave them without a surcharge, they feel free to jack the prices up on you at their convenience.

And if you call "Customer Service", you will talk to some clown who learned English last week and his favorite expression is "I understand," while he lies through his teeth and tries to upsell you to another plan that will cost you more money down the road. He'll tell you how happy he is, but who the hell cares about that? Being a loyal customer gets you nothing from those assholes.

Because they suck. And they hate you.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Trumpist Party Gives Up on Non-White Voters

The Republican National Committee is cutting its minority outreach program after a takeover by Trump loyalists who plan to steer as much money as possible to support the former president’s campaign, The Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger reports.

The RNC has decided to scrap an effort launched in 2022 to engage voters in heavy minority populations, particularly in Latino communities. One source told The Daily Beast the tagline might as well be “Make the RNC White Again.”

You can bet the TOFF's last kopeck that outreach activists working for Biden will make a lot of hay over this. But it's consistent with the Trump Party's long-standing efforts to make it harder for minorities to vote, as abetted by Johnny Roberts and the Supremes.

Just one more indication that the GOP is becoming a white supremacist/Christianist party. The god that they claim to worship likely would be appalled. The orange one that they, in fact, pledge fealty to approves.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Yeah, Sure He Did

A former Boeing manager who raised safety questions about the aircraft maker has been found dead outside a hotel in South Carolina, according to local authorities.

The body of John Barnett, 62, was found Saturday in a car outside a Holiday Inn, suffering from what the Charleston County Coroner’s Office said appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Louisiana resident was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sounds as about legit a suicide since Salvadore Allende shot himself in the back twenty times from thirty feet away, pausing only once to reload.

Wrangling These Down, Here








If You Have a Newish Car, It May Be Narcing On You.

GM may be the worst of the car makers. They've been collecting information through OnStar on how people drive and "sharing" (ie, selling) that data to LexisNexis. LexisNexis then sells that data, with personal identifiers, to insurance companies. GM conns drivers into signing up to some Orwellian app called "Smart Driver" and they don't disclose that GM's going to sell the data. Hell, the new owners often aren't told, because the salesvermin get more money for sneakily signing people up for it.

GM may be the most egregious, but Ford, Honda, Subaru and Hyundai are also doing this shit.

Read about it here. (The article is not in the NY Time's paywall.)

Any doubt that car salesmen are among the slimiest of all? And GM is just borderline evil. About the only good thing one can say is that the company wasn't founded by a fucking Nazi.

If you have an older non-networked car, keep it maintained and drive it until the wheels fall off.

Did the Russians Make the TOFF's Bond?

Possibly.

The Tsar's investments have to be safeguarded.

Monday, March 11, 2024

Obesity in a Can (or Bottle)



Typing is a little difficult at present. Blogging may be light.

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

First engine run for this Kiwi Mossie in seventy years.

Saturday, March 9, 2024

The Pope Joins the Ranks of Putin’s Poodles, Advocates Surrendering to Evil

It's a church of fucking cowards and kiddie-rapers.

I'm not Ukrainian and even I am outraged that the Pope is willing to entertain surrendering to the forces of pure evil. He should go see what happened in Bucha before taling again of surrender.

Mexico is Smarter Than the United States

On this one issue, at least: Mexico abolished Daylight Savings Time last year.

Standard Time is better for our health. Like or not, we are animals and we have internal clocks that are aligned with the Sun (and Standard Time).

Economic interests would prefer permanent Daylight Savings Time, but that should be no surprise. They're more than willing to damage everyone else's health if they can make a buck out of it.

Katie's Britt's Speech Affectation

This: Reminds me of this:



Also, notice how the Talibanistas are proclaiming that Britt is "just a housewife." That's a lie, she's a sitting U.S senator. Just like Despicable Ted, or is he just a Texas househusband?

Finally, this:

Dolt-45 vs. Everyone

Kevin Drum has a master chart of all of his major cases. No surprise, P01135809's lost almost all of them.

My back-of-the-envelope figuring is that the damages ordered so far are approaching $600 million, with other cases still ongoing.

Suggestions From the Peanut Gallery

I receive suggestions from time to time that have been sent in by readers. I do read all the articles. I don't always watch the videos; often I do on about 1.75 speed. (I like reading, so sue me.)

These two are from the suggestion pile.

I saw only a little bit of Sen. Britt's response speech. It was all I could take. Between the breathy moralism and the fact that some half-brain-dead lunatic thought it was a good idea to have her speak from a kitchen made me wonder whether or not she was also barefoot and pregnant. Because anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the Christian Taliban will know that they want their women to be in the kitchen, pregnant, and when they speak, it's to affirm whatever their man thinks.

I found it nauseating and almost as tone deaf as Bobby Jindal's SOTU reponse. But the hypocrisy goes far deeper, as Jess Piper well knows. Give her a read. it's free.

Shifting gears, the Katsaps want to refuel the nuclear power plant that they stole from Ukraine. But it's not going well.

Hungary's semi-elected dictator met with the TOFF and urged him to win/steal the election, bend a knee to Putin, give Ukraine to the Katsaps and thereby end the war. Orban and the TOFF either don't know or don't care that the Baltic nations are on Putin's target list, as well as every other country that was ever a part of the Russian Empire. For all we know, Orban has dreams of resurrecting the Austro-Hungarian Empire, possibly because he wants to have a navy.

Finally, let's be clear on one thing: The Republican party is dead. It no longer exists. It's the Party of Trump, now, as he cemented his takeover of the party, including installing his daughter-in-law, who has no qualifications other than being loyal to her hubby's daddy. She has already stated that the national party will devote all its money to the TOFF, so if you're in charge of a state branch that once got some financial help from your mothership or if you're running for the Congress, well, kid, yer on yer own.

Pretty sad that a party that began as an anti-slavery party which got civil rights effectively into the Constitution (changing it from aspirational to a force of law) ended its days in service of a wannabee dictator whose main objectives are to stay out of prison and grift every penny he can.

Caturday

Chip, pausing during self-bathing.