Do people have the ability to think for themselves?

5/29/26:

Posting has been light, so I am going to react to whatever people are clicking on, and if that sparks some reaction that I'd like to share.

Why the light posting? Two reasons. One is that I am learning new skillsets, which take up my time. Another is a change of perspective, I suspect. This happened during the trip to view the launch of Starship.

So, my thinking is changing again. I was getting more pessimistic back in 2013, now I am getting more optimistic. Therefore, people CAN think for themselves. The real question is WILL THEY?

10/25/13:

If you are of an optimist, you may say yes.  Otherwise, it is no.

Just answering the question with data from my own experience, I am starting to trend towards pessimism.  I thought that I had arrived when I was in college.  But many years later, Iearned otherwise.  Limbaugh once advised people to think for themselves.  I noted with disgust that I had not.  Why had I not really learned?  Natural laziness.  It is hard work to think, so I would rather not bother.

But it isn't just me.  The naural tendency is for people not to think for themselves, as Limbaugh implied.

So people hear a thing, and they accept it as true.  That is the case especially if it comes from an authority.  This gives authorities a powerful incentive to lie, and the proceed to do just that.

Now the prevailing wisdom is that the GOP shut down the government and almost cost us a catastrophic default.  I see that this little prevarication keeps getting repeated over and over again.  Yet, if you were to just observe that the GOP tried to fund everything but ObamaCare, how can you blame the GOP alone for the shut down?  It takes two to fight, and the Democrats were doing their share.  Even worse, if there had been a true default, this kind of thinking would give you the prevailing wisdom that it was because of the GOP.  This is absurd.

How can refusing credit cause a default?  If you were trying to pay your bills by applying for more credit, and were refused, would this be the cause of your subsequent default?  Of course not.  So, why should the government be any different when it fails to live within its means?  All the GOP did was to quarrel with the Democrats over one item in the budget, and somehow this quarrel causes a default?  That's like saying a refusal to buy an expensive item leading to a family quarrel caused a delay in raising their credit card limit.

The credit card being maxxed out did not cause the default in that hypothetical situation.  No, the failure to live within ones means did the trick.  How does that get to be the GOP's fault?  It wouldn't if people thought for themselves.  They hear that it was the GOP and then accept that as gospel.

Is it because the lies are coming from authorities?  Can people actually think this out for themselves?  I am getting more pessimistic all the time.

GOP: Reform or Die

5/28/26:

Somebody clicked on this one, amongst others. I decided to respond to this one.

Love him, or hate him; Trump is the closest thing to reform of the electoral politics of this country that I've seen. He's offering something truly different, and through it all, the country seems to resist. That is, much of the country seems to resist. You can count on the Democrats to resist, but what about the GOP? He has a lot better chance of winning than what they had, in my opinion.

Here is a public that seems to want change, and is getting it. But the public still isn't satisfied. I say give it some more time. With all the opposition to Trump, he really hasn't been able to get a program under way.

That's no excuse. It's just fact. If Trump wasn't really different, then why all of this opposition? Trump's mistake may be in changing TOO MUCH. People may need time to catch up. If he gets the chance, he will succeed, in my opinion. But will the people let him?

Nov 8, 2012:

The GOP has failed us.  Miserably.

Shape up or ship out!

Update:

I'll add that if their answer is to compromise and to become just like the Democrats that they should join the Democrats because that's what they are.

Buh, bye! John Cornyn

Media assembling at election night HQ for Sen. John Cornyn about 20 minutes before the polls close. pic.twitter.com/T1wl1BiBqE

— John C. Moritz (@JohnnieMo) May 26, 2026

For some reason, maybe it was the long trip this past week, made me think of this song...

Dare to be Stupid--- Weird Al

5/26/26:

What seems to be stupid may not be. Or is it?

Let's not add indecisiveness to the list...

5/10/26:

Once you get the idea, then go for it. Oh, boy. /eyeroll

9/27/24:



I'm just now discovering Weird Al. Why not before? Too white and nerdy.

Hmmm. You can't watch it here, go to the link provided.









Try this one. It might not get blocked. It was probably inspired by Weird Al anyway.











Or this one! Brings back memories, no?











And this one??? He dared to be stupid? Or witty? Or what?

Did a mulligan on this video on Rumble

Added a little something to it this time. It's a practice video as I learn a bit on how to use Clipchamp.

Made a audio track with Gemini Ai

They couldn't make a video using the video I supplied and adding an audio track to it. So it produced an audio track instead.

Here's a link they provided for to be shared. I can take what they provided, and try to add it to a video, but I'm not sure how to do that yet using ClipChamp.

AI produced still from my video.  But the rocket is on the wrong side of the river!

Is it me, or are people decidedly negative these days?

After scanning over most of the stores on my usual haunts on the web, it sure looks like people want to be negative about things.

Maybe people would rather be unhappy?

Massie got beat, but he gets a lot of media coverage. It would seem that the loser would disappear. But no...

It isn't just this Massie business. It's everything. If there's a negative take, people are taking it.

Would folks prefer the Democrats??? They haven't got anything to offer but bad news!

Strange title for this post on Instapundit... Texas isn't that much sunnier than the East. It is less sunny than the West!

Compared to Europe, America gets a lot of sunshine.

President Trump Reminds Texas to Vote for Ken Paxton in Tomorrow Senate Republican Primary

President Trump Reminds Texas to Vote for Ken Paxton in Tomorrow Senate Republican Primary

Before I went on my trip, I voted early. My vote is IN.

CSI Starbase Deep Dive

Here's another one of these deep dives. More than what you can possibly want to know about what only a nerd cares about.

Rumble

It's been years since I posted anything on Rumble. Why? I purchased a new computer. The old one wore out. The old one had a video editing program included, so it was possible to make videos that can be uploaded. The new one didn't, but you could use Microsoft's "Clipchamp".

Clipchamp is not the same program that I had been using. Therefore, there was a learning curve to master. It also requires that you sign in to use it, which I frowned upon. Without any way to edit new videos, there was no reason to upload anything new. That explains why there's no new content being produced on Rumble.

Going back there to use it for uploads reminded me of what I'd done before. Some of the videos got some views, but nothing spectacular.

There is a way to monetize the thing and make money. I laugh as I write this.

Well, maybe that is not really a big joke. I suppose it is always possible that it could turn into a money-maker. But I didn't even think of that with respect to this last trip.

Maybe this should take some thinking...

Update (on next day):

I've done some thinking... Plus I did some work on ClipChamp again. I was successful in getting the video shortened. It may be useful for putting together disparate clips into one larger one, but I haven't checked into that yet.

If I post on Rumble, I'm not likely to make much money. But theoretically, I can make a little. I can't make money on Google because they didn't like what I did in the early history of this blog, and because of that, they won't allow me to make money here. It wouldn't have been much anyway.

In other words, I'm not counting on making money from this. But things could change. It's always possible, I suppose.

Endeavor to persevere

5/24/26:

Not claiming to be Cherokee here. If I was like Pocahontas, I could even claim to be African American. Somewhere in the past, a North African made his way into my genealogy. Yep, enough generations that would produce about 1% North African descent. Senegal, if memory serves. This wasn't my word, but a brother's word about the test he took. 2% Injun, 1% North African, the rest is North European.

I think I could pass as white.

6/7/15:

In my genealogy foray, I discovered that my great great grandmother was 100% Cherokee injun.

Doggone!

That explains everything.  "White man has been sneaking up on us for years."  "We are civilized because we are easy to sneak up on".

Tommy James "Draggin' the line"

This song gives me a good feeling... Know what I mean, Vern?

Spencer For Hire

Money Quote:

“If you tackle and dent or even solve rampant homelessness, a lot of people lose their jobs and a lot of the funding and donations cease and that’s why there’s a sudden flood of negative media going his way. They aren’t scared of him winning. But they are scared that once people realize problems can be solved, a whole lot of the slush funding dries up.”---Steven Miller

Misery may love company because it pays well.

This is like hitting a moving target

5/23/26

Back at home now. Updating as quickly as I can. Just now completed the upload of the launch itself, and posted it on Rumble. It is embedded on the Space City Speculations blog. (link on the side bar)
5/22/26

Bullseye! Not that it did me much good. Details over on the Version 3 blog. May be posting videos there, and some here. The Version 3 blog limits my videos to 50 MB. That's only a few seconds. I kept the videos short for that purpose, but which ones will be usable there is yet to be determined. All the others MAY be posted to Rumble and embedded here. That is, all those that may be worth posting. That may be ZERO. I think there ought to be at least a few.

5/18/26:

Another slip. Even more bad news coming soon. Weather is going to take a dump.



5/17/26:

And I am not an ace marksman. Not even close.

Robert Ringer

5/19/26:

Just watched something about Ayn Rand on Tubi. This made me want to review what I had already written on that subject, because of a rule I have; which is this: do not re-invent the wheel.

But not all rules are always followed...

Anyway, I wrote that Robert Ringer ( in the 2010 section of this post) made me aware of Ayn Rand. That is not entirely true. I remembered seeing Ayn Rand on television in the 70's on the Phil Donhaue Show. So I already knew a little of Ayn Rand before reading about her in Ringer's book.

Let's say he made me MORE aware of her. Mainly of her importance in his own success, which he wrote about in his book.

That's it as far as Ringer is concerned. The Tubi show was more of a biographical whole of Ayn Rand, from her very birth to her death. You can probably find it on Tubi with a search function which Tubi has, which most likely direct you to the person of Ayn Rand. Just in case anyone is interested in her works.

Ayn Rand was considered by her opponents to be "controversial". To which Ayn Rand would probably say "so what"? Yeah, I'd have liked to have known her personally.

So that's that on that subject.

1/16/26:

 

Update:

  In this post, at the third paragraph or so, there was a mention of Leonard Peikoff, who wrote a provocatively titled book.   The title is The Ominous Parallels.

  I'm sure that I've read the book, and may have owned it.  I don't think I have it now, though.  I've largely forgotten about the book, except the names, obviously.

  There's a lot of mention about a rise of fascism in this country.  It has certainly gotten a lot of mention, but not this book.  If you want to discuss fascism, and what it actually is, you should at least have a philosophical basis for that discussion.  This book could provide some information on that topic.

  A study of history could be in order as well. In my opinion, too many people flap their gums without knowing of what they speak.

12/21/10:

Ringer is the guy who wrote "Winning Through Intimidation".  I mentioned this guy in an earlier post, but I can't remember which one offhand.   Or how to find it in my own blog.  But it is in here somewhere.

But my own disorganization aside, I recall writing that his book made me aware of Ayn Rand.  Eventually, I got around to reading "Atlas Shrugged", and another one of her books, "Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal".  I can't say that I became an Objectivist.  But I can say that her works convinced me, even though I did not need all that much convincing.  When Ronald Reagan said that the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire, it could have come out of my own mouth.

I read a book by Nathaniel Branden, who is or was an Objectivist.  And in an earlier version of this blog, back in 2004, I reviewed a book by Leonard Peikoff, who was closely allied with Ayn Rand.  So, I am familiar with that philosophy.  Not necessarily a fully fledged member of it.  This is not to say that I am against it in any way. I tend not to be a joiner, nor a Kool Aid drinker or any flavor.  I tend toward an independence that runs almost to an extreme.

It would be easy to dismiss me as a kook.  Perhaps that is what many people think.  If so, then so be it.  I can't be who I am by pleasing other people, and in the process, sacrificing myself for their approval.

I favor Capitalism, but I am not going to drink that Kool Aid either.  So, when I suggest that we use the external tank from the shuttle derived launcher, I feel it is in the spirit of Capitalism, but not necessary in the letter of it, down to the last dotted "i" and crossed "t".  To me, there is no need for that kind of purity of principle.  For I am a practical man.  Some have said "too practical", but it is what it is.

I mention these names so as to inform people of the direction from which I am coming.  With a few caveats sprinkled in.  For what it's worth, the last thing I would suggest is to keep a boondoggle or create a new one.  If I thought this is in effect of what I was proposing with these external tanks, I would drop the idea in a heartbeat.

Update:

One of the commenters yesterday asked why put up one of these big stations?

Here are 4 reasons:
1) To use it to generate artificial gravity.  Tethers could be used, but a solid structure could be better.
2) To use the huge volume for storage and habitation.  Machines could be installed as well to enhance capabilities.
3) Cheaper to reconfigure what is already in orbit as opposed to building it and launching it from Earth
4) Want to use it for deep space missions.  Take this station to the asteroids and mine platinum for profit.

Here are few more:
Testing techniques for in situ resource extraction using the ET's for that purpose.
Testing techniques for tethers while constructing the station.
Testing skills for managing artificial gravity systems.

Larry @ Townhall live embed

Will this embed work properly? About to find out! Yep... The first part of the video is about the Collyfornia governor race. Amazing what those people put up with out there. All of the "ruling class" is too comfortable with their own arrogance. Perhaps the land of fruit and nuts will get sensible and throw the bums out for a change.

No real difference between commies and fascists

And Maher shows that it's true. Even though that may not have been his intention.

The left-right political spectrum is BUNK. The thing that's bunk is that they're opposites. They are NOT OPPOSITES. There's not a dime's worth of difference between the two.

As for me, I don't care if you get to this truth via Bill Maher, or by way of this blog. The truth is the truth.

Yes, and Hitler and Stalin kicked off World War II with a non-aggression treaty. The Weimar Republic was destroyed via the left and the right because neither of them care much for "democracy". You might want to put that into consideration the next time you hear about the "political spectrum".

Here's Maher's tweet:

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing: pic.twitter.com/G1ZTTb3ppk

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) May 16, 2026

Posting may be light for awhile

5/16/26:

More about the Twilight Zone than what anyone bargained for...



5/15/26:

The term "Twilight Zone" was used in this post (before updating). Perhaps I wasn't clear what the term was supposed to mean. It may have helped if I was more familiar with the TV show from what back then. Maybe it was on the TV when I was little, but I just don't remember it much. What does Twilight Zone mean to me? In a word, "weird". It had that weird music that introduced it. Rod Serling would give his speech. Actually the speech may have come afterward. Either way, it just seemed weird. That's what I meant. It was "weird".

The re-runs are on Tubi, and I watched a few episodes. What seemed weird before does not seem so weird now. It helps to be more familar with the words one uses. After watching a few of these episodes, I don't think I would've used the term "Twilight Zone" this way. Just thought I would mention that. Over and out.

4/29/26:

Did my doctor's visit. My fears were a bit overblown. There's something that needs to be handled, but it is manageable. That's all I got on this. Posting will resume. As Roseann Rosanna Dana would say: "Never mind!"

4/26/26:

There might be something going on medically that I need to attend to.

Don't want to be morbid, but this may not be too good.

Anyway, I am up at an hour in which I am usually asleep. I checked the news (big mistake?), and discover that there was a shooting at the event that POTUS was attending. Another assassination attempt.

Good Lord.

Update:

A doctor's visit has been scheduled, so there's that.

Since I mentioned the incident at an event in DC? ( apparent assassination attempt), I'll add this to this update. Here's something that's going around apparently. (False Flag accusation.)

You idiots who think Trump is staging assassination attempts. You think he would agree to a plan wherein someone STOPS HIM FROM TROLLING A CAPTIVE ROOM OF THOUSANDS OF JOURNALISTS FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF? This is his dream scenario.

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) April 26, 2026

"May you live in interesting times" seems an appropriate quote right now. This is straight out of the Twilight Zone.

Primary Run-off coming up

Early voting begins on the 18th. It doesn't last all that long. Voting day is on the 26th.

In Texas, you don't have to be registered to either party to vote in the primary. However, for run-offs, you have to stick with the same party. You can't jump parties.

Not too sure if you failed to vote in the first round, if you can vote in the run-off. Maybe you can't vote now if you didn't vote before. Since I voted, I can vote. I will vote. That is, unless I drop dead first.

The first round wasn't too good in my case. I wasn't as prepared as I should've been. Now I am better prepared.

Texas votes on just about everything. That's because of the Constitution adopted after Reconstruction from the Civil War. There was a governor who wouldn't leave. For awhile, Texas had two governors. After that crisis was resolved, the state decided it didn't need a strong governor. So, the governor's office is relatively weak. One way to weaken the governor was to have a lot of elective offices. Thus, the Texas governor cannot appoint his own people.

Having a long ballot requires a lot of effort on the part of voters. Some embarrassments are probably unavoidable. One year, many years ago, a candidate with a well known name won, but was not in any way related to the individual who had that famous name. The guy turned out to be a crook. How embarrassing.

I'd rather not vote for anyone that I don't have some solid information about. Know what I mean, Vern?

No posts yesterday.

So what did I do yesterday?

The following video is an oversimplification of what I watched yesterday in a video. It must've been over an hour in length. This video is much shorter. It is also easier to watch. The longer video is hard to watch. Very, very brutal. Here's how Caesar defeated the Gauls...

Ten Years After --- Year 3000 Blues

5/15/26:

Idiocracy or high-tech dystopia? Name your poison...

4/21/25:

Like the Idiocracy, The Year 3000 Blues seems to have arrived early. The album was released in the early 70's.

 

Lyrics:

hey took me down the grading station

And they classified me zed

'cause of over population

They told me that I would soon be dead



But I slipped out of the force field

And hid beneath the monorail

But the automatic blood hounds

Lord, they're soon hot along my trail



Now if I had been a scholar

With computer working hard

Then my molecular structure

Would not be on the grader's card



So, I know that they will get me

Put my index in the brain

Then, the atoms of my body

Will be disposed of, lordy, down the drain



They took me down the grading station

And they classified me zed

'cause of over population

They told me that I would soon be dead

Axial Flux Motor

The author here is familiar, as well as the subject matter. However, I cannot find any other examples of the author's work on this blog. How to fix that? I've got a database of videos that I've almost forgotten about.

Anyway, here's the video. First, let's put in the channel info:

Ziroth

and the video:

The label may be used to find it later:

More locations being contemplated for Starship launches

The one is Lousiana is in a swamp. I had a delivery out there in that area once, and I thought I was going to get eaten alive by mosquitoes.

If he's going to launch people from point-to-point on the Earth, he'd better do something to upgrade the facility, know what I mean Vern?

Nearest towns to this location in Louisiana could be Lake Charles and Lafayette. Of course, the Big Easy isn't terribly far, but not close either.

Meth users need healthcare in LA, says Mayor Bass

Meth use rots the teeth, she notes. You cannot succeed without teeth, she laments. Oh? So that's the taxpayer's duty to fix what someone else broke?

How about not using meth?

This is nuts?

Karen Bass: “How many people, who are unhoused, that you meet have no teeth at all? They don’t have teeth, why? Because meth rots your teeth. YOU CAN’T SUCCEED WITHOUT TEETH! So there needs to be comprehensive healthcare provided to people.”

Karen Bass said this yesterday,… pic.twitter.com/2AvwUhLH3n

— Louis Montoya (@montoyalouis1) May 12, 2026

Abolish the state government

...because they lost a court case?

Nuts!

Bongino Show --- Patel sets the record straight at FBI

Democrats try to bring down Patel because he is being successful... not because of the fake news that they confront him with. Bongino shows where Patel brings the receipts of ACTUAL PROGRESS against crime.

If somebody tells you who they are, believe them

Communism is a recipe for misery and failure. This is why...

AOC proves, yet again, she knows nothing about American history.

The founders had no problem with wealth, they had a problem with taxation without representation, subjugation, and corruption.

But, AOC, like Karl Marx, thinks wealthy = bad, poor = good. Real low IQ stuff. https://t.co/9dMhCRwsLC pic.twitter.com/C7oIYWlvrC

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) May 11, 2026

Susan Kokinda Outlines Background of Anti-Trump Global Progress Action Summit Held in Canada

Translation: The old hoaxes aren't working anymore. Newer more devious hoaxes are needed in order to fool the sheep.

Comment:

It's never about the truth amongst the left. It is always about the lie that needs to be sold to the gullible and the unwary.

One of their favorite tricks is the "third" way. The third way is just another manifestation of the Marxist Paradigm. There is no such thing as a political spectrum as the left packages it. The political spectrum is a truth spectrum. The further away from the truth you get, the more you are in line with the Marxists. As a consequence, it is definitely about freedom and tyranny as Ronald Reagan has said. Never forget that about the left.

The left follows a King in England, but somehow it is about a King in America. America doesn't have a King, nor a nobility BY LAW.

The left cares nothing for the law, that's why they get so exasperated with it. The law is a tool that the left uses to impose their will. It is not about the rule of law. It is about the rule of the left. Never forget that.

Whatever they do for the people is only incidental for the need to fool the public. That's all it is. All it will ever be.

The sad, sad truth -- Dirty Lowdown --- Democrats need to face up to it

Their party has been taken over by the commies. This is not the party of Kennedy, who would "bear any burden". Nope. The commie left identifies with the losers of this world. Well, the losers have no capability for self-improvement.

A capability for self-improvement implies the need for self-examination. The commie pinko left avoids this at all costs. Consequently, the commie pinko left can never learn from its mistakes. Even now, the Democrat Party refuses to consider a number of things that they are doing wrong. Thus, they'll double down on the things that will drive even more people away from them.

The dirty lowdown of leftism is insanity. It survives only on coercion and fear. There's no "democracy" and there's certainly no freedom. No sane person would choose to live that way. Hence the need for coercion. Once things don't go their way, they'll get worse--- not better. It's never better proposition for the pinkos. For they refuse to learn.

Face up to it Dems, your party is sick, sick, sick. In order to get well, you may have to endure a long existence in the wilderness. It is like Nebuchannezar in the old Testament. They seek to be greater than what they truly are, and must recognize their limitations.

Salma Hayek's Snake Dance

From the movie "From Dusk till Dawn".

Interesting music, lol.

What victory in Iran looks like...

No need to be confused.

If there's any confusion, it exists only because some folks want to muddy the waters and have the matter in a confused state.

If Trump didn't take down Iran, they'd have nukes. They'd have the means to deliver them to where they want them to land. That means US bases in the region.

Iran had to have spent tens of billions of dollars to build up a miltary that can control the region. That capability is GONE. There is no need to be confused about that. Iran's military capability has been thoroughly DEGRADED, and won't be back for the foreseeable future. It may not come back in any event, because they are in danger of losing their income source. The blockade may permanently see to that if the oil wells cannot be brought back to production levels that Iran has had before.

There won't be any nukes, nor the means to deliver them. Thanks to the blockade, they'll NEVER have them.

The only thing that they MIGHT keep is power. But power over WHAT? Given their inability to show capacity for control of the region, they just might lose that too. Then the victory will be TOTAL.

Democrats in Virginia have lost their friggin' minds

After losing their case in the courts, they want to pack the courts and force the outcome their way.

Why should any of this be considered legitimate?

Pass the Save Act, dammit.

Did the liberal wing on SCOTUS slow-walk the gerrymander decision in order to breed chaos? If so, the claim of politicization of SCOTUS rings hollow. But of course it does.

Janis Joplin - Try ( Just a Little Bit Harder )

A oldtimer friend, now passed away, said he knew Janis Joplin. How he knew her, I won't say, because it is a bit scandalous. Anyway, he didn't know she was famous, he said. She told him that she was famous, and he probably didn't believe. Only later, when he saw her on TeeVee, did he realize that she really was famous.

Anyway, that was the story.

She really put her heart and soul into her singing. You can tell. She held nothing back.

What is best in life?

Conan the Barbarian clip on the ScrewTube here. So, "Arnuld" got his chance in "Collyfornia", but the "Governator" got his own ass kicked.

Arnuld would rather pretend for the cameras than to actually deliver results.

Politics isn't beanbag, nor is it reality TeeVee, Arnuld.

Don Surber: Trump and Indiana in 2016

Trump "saved" Indiana in 2016, says Surber.

Trump saved Indiana in 2016 by Don Surber

His election interference a decade ago kept the state safely in Republican hands

Read on Substack

Whatever Trump did, it's a good thing that he did. Otherwise, it would've been Horrible Hillary.

Democrats not sending their best?

The Dems lambasted former Veep Dan Quayle with the way he spelled "tomato". Or was it "tomatoe"? Anyway, Quayle wasn't trying to argue before the Supreme Court. It says here that the petition didn't get the spelling of the state right. How DO you spell Virginia? Maybe I need to go back to school meself.

They filed an appeal to a court that clearly lacks jurisdiction and couldn’t even spellcheck beforehand.

Same geniuses that argued the court couldn’t rule before the referendum only to then complain that they wasted $70 million on a referendum that did not count. https://t.co/AJrMTgM5Qf

— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 9, 2026

Kudlow discusses economic news

"Lefties will be disappointed." Doomers and gloomers will have nothing to talk about. Maybe they'll invent something, eh?

The jab was never a vaccine, and it shouldn't be a revelation that it wasn't.

5/8/26:

For the upteenth time, the "vaccine" wasn't a vaccine. Toldja.

Senator Ron Johnson is correct — COVID-19 mRNA "vaccines" are NOT vaccines.

They are synthetic gene-transfer platforms that hijack vital organs to mass-produce lethal, non-human proteins.

Here’s how they really work 👇 https://t.co/n3zSOQXpGT pic.twitter.com/6yzOVMMEs2

— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) May 6, 2026

8/26/25:

 

I bitched and bitched and bitched about it at the time. The vaccine was NEVER a vaccine and NEVER should have been called one. But it was. Now it is a revelation to some that it wasn't?

No wonder this country is so fouled up. The obvious thing could bite them on the ass, and they'd say it was Trump. They'd ALMOST be right, as Trump had something to do with the development of the vaccine. At least he didn't MANDATE it, because the commies stole the damned election.

 

 

Somebody left the cake out in the rain...

5/8/26:

Feds take back McArthur Park. Pinkos are unhappy about that. Trump should declare Collyfornia a disaster area and take it over. Nueva Jork tambien, senor.

7/8/25:

LA mayor Karen Bass is worried about gangs making a living. They don't bake cakes there... What's she really worried about, eh?

 

Remember the Time LA Mayor Karen Bass Barged Into MacArthur Park and Ordered the MS-13 to Leave? https://t.co/3SaUYnfBx9 --- Wow, the so-called "racist" Trump actually cares about McArthur Park. It's only full of gangs and such. Why can't Trump leaves the gangs alone???

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) July 8, 2025

Channel your inner Pratt

A very strong "no" with regard to immigration

Here's another one I want to pay more attention to: Crowder.



Open borders people are stupid. There's no nice way of putting it. If you have anything at all, it will be taken from you if you keep up with this nonsense. There will be no more country, and everything you take for granted will be off the table. That includes your property rights. Unlimited immigration in favor of socialism and communism will put the hurt on you at some point in the future. Please stop this stupidity.

Trump hatred--- what is it? What can be done about it?

Trump's war on Iran... Opening the Strait or Hormuz...



Does the opposition to Trump actually know why they oppose him???

Maybe they like seeing stuff like this instead..



Dem's plan for destroying America ( or anybody like Trump who defends it )

TimCast on Rumble --- talks security and its costs

The security part was the first segment. Maybe 25 minutes or so. Then he launches into this woman who got evicted. She was in Minnesota, where they got all that Somali fraud. She's on MediCaid, and she needs help from the government.

The government doesn't police the fraud, and she ends up on the street.

If Tim Pool cannot show these stories, people may not see and want to do something about it.

If nothing gets done, THE PEOPLE WHO THE DEMOCRATS ARE SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT SO MUCH, WON'T GET THE HELP THEY NEED.

Are you friggin' paying attention James Carville? James Carville and that bunch don't give a shit about YOU, OR ME; or anyone else but their own horrible selves. That's why shit like this happens.

Tim Pool runs a story on local TV. It isn't right wing propaganda, folks. It's a real story. The violent left wing doesn't want you to see it though. That's why Tim Pool is so concerned about SECURITY. He doesn't want to get Charlie Kirked.

Over and out.

The Obama "Retcon"

Dan Bongino debunks Obama's claim of innocence about the weaponization of the DOJ. The mindless clapping seals lap it all up.

Susan Kokinda Outlines Prime Minister Carney's Role in Organizing Commonwealth Trump Opposition

Susan Kokinda Outlines Prime Minister Carney's Role in Organizing Commonwealth Trump Opposition

Collyfornia is retarded

They vote for Democrats and they get crap. When it comes time to do something about that, they still vote for Democrats. The commies say that the election is rigged. Yep, and the commies are the main riggers.

As Einstein once said, the mind that caused the problem is not the mind that can fix it.

Call a thing by its right name

5/7/26:

So screwTube took down the video embedded on this post. It violated their terms of service, they say.

Maybe it is the mushroom treatment. If somebody shows the truth, this is dangerous to somebody. So ScrewTube takes it down.

If it is a war, then who are the combatants? If you're a commie, the "rich" is the enemy. Actually, if it IS a war, that last post shows who is getting screwed, and who is benefitting from the screwing. Whatever that is, it isn't just.

People lose their homes in LA from a fire that looks like it might have been arson; and what does the government do? It punishes the people who were burned out. Also, the money goes to the people who are favored. What did those people who lost their homes do to deserve anything like THIS?

2/2/19:

If it isn't a war, then what is it?

There is a phenomenon here, no doubt.  There are some who disagree with what is happening to our culture.   But using the word "war" in order to describe it , is inaccurate.

If you are going to be a wordsmith, then use words correctly.

Consequently, what is this phenomenon?

I have a few suggestions.  One is coup.  Another that might be considered is a mugging.  A third that might be more evocative, and yes, descriptive ---- RAPE.

Yep.  You can see how a RAPE would describe it.  Violence or threat of violence in order to dominate and force to submit to what would not be done willingly.

If you wanted an emotional response to your words, then try using the word --  RAPE --- in order to describe it.  It is utterly one sided, and it can become brutal.  This would be the case regardless if you said something in protest to it or not.





EEEEEE!   Aw.   Don't make a fuss.  Just sit back and enjoy it.  Hmmm?

LA fire benefit concert funds go to non-profits---not to victims

Update: It seems that these far-left outfits were well-represented already. These non-profits got the money, not the victims of the fire. The far-left groups are just troublemakers. The money is going to the wrong places and to the wrong people. The commies have got their own hands on the money. The money is going to THEM.

You gotta be sheeting me, main! None of this money went to the folks who lost their homes in the fire? What the f**k?

California Rep Kevin Kiley says they have learned the $100 million dollar pacific palisades Fire Aid concert money was laundered to nonprofits

“What we have learned is absolutely beyond belief — Tens of thousands of people donated raising a hundred million dollars for what they… pic.twitter.com/7vBGCaVeui

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 6, 2026

Viral ad in LA Mayor's race

This guy brings some passion into the mix. You need that in order to get some traction. Democrats are so arrogant that they don't think that they'll ever face any political accountability. Maybe this will get some attention and get people to give a shit.

Top 20 Greatest Live Music Moments in History

Somehow I ended up at this site. Maybe it is not the best thing to embed.

There were a number of videos that showed how to play the piano. I've got a keyboard, so maybe this is a possibility?

Modern culture sucks. That includes the music. But there's still some good things.

Every English monarch in 36 minutes

Animal farm remake BOMBS at theaters

Tim Pool

If communism is the answer, what's the friggin' question? The answer is a set of inviolable standards. Communism cannot deliver this because there are no standards in communism. Indeed, quite the opposite. Standards come from morality, which comes from God. There's no God in communism.

This is what we thought we left behind in 2024

Surely, we really wouldn't want to go back to this, would we?

Ace of Spades: "Swallwell" sent sexually explicit photos of himself to women.

This dude was running for POTUS not that long ago. Oh, and the Democrats want to run on Epstein. Democrats are the party of perverts.

Also from Ace:

Destruction of our legal system. Lawfare. Endless war of all against all. This is leftism. Destruction of private property rights. Stunted Freedom of speech. No Freedom from the surveillance state. Unlimited immigration. Giving jobs to foreigners, shunning Americans. All of this proceeds from leftism. Why go back to that?

ABA losing its monopoly on Law School Accreditation

The so-called "political spectrum" is a fairy tale

No real difference between Nazism and Communism.

The link between Nazism and Socialism used to be well-understood. This is from a widely circulated newspaper column in 1937: https://t.co/1LrCzJYwRT pic.twitter.com/Nwy2YAUUNS

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) May 4, 2026

Will Alberta leave Canada?

The bigger question is this: will the commie pinkos allow Alberta to leave? Carney is looking more and more like a major disaster.

Maybe Alberta needs to stop asking and just do it. Like the song says.

Tim Pool's TimCast

Black dude loses it over Scotus ruling

Comment:

Gonna follow Tim Pool a bit more. Interesting things to say.

Microsoft sucks

5/4/26:

In the process of an upgrade. More geeking out, as I've moved on to a new Raspberry Pi machine. I've paired it with a tiny screen, though. It is only 7.1 inch diagonal, and reading it is not easy.

The change was made because there was a blank screen from the older machine. For some reason, the monitor would no longer display. It was acting like there was a loose connection somewhere, so I just got a new machine. More than one reason for a new machine. The old one was a minimalist system. This one has more memory, and therefore more power. We'll see.

It turns out that the old machine still works. There's also a tiny screen for it too. So now I have two Raspberry Pi machines.

All of this in order to get away from Microsoft.

3/20/26:

Microsoft just bricked the machine in this video. He fixes the problem, and it tries to do it again! Avoid Microsoft...



11/23/25:

A problem has arisen.

There may be some who would think that I am being too hasty in my judgement. Let me state what has happened. Then we'll go from there.

I have two computers. One of them is a netbook, the other is this one--a raspberry pi. Linux is preferred because Microsoft has gone rogue, as far as I'm concerned. They are WAY too nosy with their data collection. It's over the top, and so I switched to Linux in the last several months. Since that switch, I've had Linux go out on me three times. The first two times, I figured that it was Linux to blame, but this time, it HAS to be Microsoft.

The bios was messed with. Who could do that but Microsoft? Microsoft shares the netbook with Linux. Linux isn't on the main drive, though. However, when you boot up, some of the boot code is accessible to Microsoft. Well, the bios won't load up the Linux now, and redirects you back to Microsoft.

Could some hacker do this? Maybe. What makes me suspicious in this case is something I saw on a YouTube that says Microsoft tries to bump off any Linux installations if there are operating on the same machine. When I saw this, I realized that somehow the netbook allows the possibility of interference by our good, good friends--Microsoft. Anybody, all three failures could very well have been Microsoft refusing to play nice with Linux.

If Microsoft is innocent here, then it was hackers. But why would hacker direct me back to Microsoft? Only if the hacker is with Microsoft, and Microsoft is actually the hacker. Or they paying hackers to sabotage Linux installations.

At this point, the damage is minimal. I don't know how to recover from this, but I might be able to. Not sure what I need to do though. It is a pain in the ass.

The Big Tech companies, like Microsoft, are out of control. They need to be reined in. This ought to be an anti-trust issue right here. They got no business interfering with people's computers. They don't own this damned machine. They didn't give it to me. It isn't their property. I'M NOT THEIR PROPERTY EITHER.

 

5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics

5/3/26:

The attention may be on Trump now, but Obama was POTUS when this post was written. The left may only be interested in political situations that run against them. If anything is radicalized, it is the Democrat party. Obama associated with communists, after all. Nazis were defeated decades ago.

6/26/12:

The Atlantic

This seemed like pure projection to me, but as the Supreme Court has shown, the projection and denial is going all round.

I read this yesterday, and Glenn Reynolds posted his reactions to this piece.  One reaction was to be "unimpressed".

The major aspect of projection is that it denies something that is within oneself.

Plain denial is also the refusal to see what is there.

How can conservative justices support Obama's usurpation of the Constitution?  Well, it might well have started a long time ago.  Maybe the Bush-Gore election controversy, where this Atlantic piece picks up on, is just one strand in a long strand that is coming unraveled.  It looks like The Atlantic's piece was projection, and the conservative/libertarian response is just plain old denial.

Obama won't follow the law, which he is bound to do under the constitution.  That's the coup.  It is ongoing, but evidently, nobody at the highest levels seems to get it.

I followed the 2000 election controversy pretty closely.  No way Gore could win that one, but if the Supreme Court hadn't stepped in, it was going to have to go the Congress.  In such a case as that, the House picks the winner, and the Senate picks the Veep.  That meant Joe Lieberman would have been veep instead of Cheney.  The House was Republican, so there's no way Gore could win the presidency that way.

The Supreme Court just stopped the counting which could have gone on past the "safe harbor" deadline, which was very close at hand at the time of their decision.  The counting wasn't going to get done in time to get in before the safe harbor deadline, which would have thrown it into the House- by law.  The Republicans controlled the House, (as Gore must have known), but the Senate was 50-50.  Gore would have broken the tie in favor of Lieberman, weakening the incoming administration.

The Supreme Court then may have acted politically, but at least they were following the election law.  They don't seem to be very interested in doing that anymore.

As for the rest of the article, it is pretty much the standard political fare.  The author's major rhetorical thrust was the Bush v Gore decision was a type of long running coup, but it was Gore who was trying to steal the Vice Presidency if he couldn't get the Presidency itself.  That's my take.

The main point to me is the total breakdown in authority that is outlined in the Constitution.  There are three co-equal branches, but at the moment, the only branch that seems to matter is the Presidency.  That looks like dictatorship.   The President must follow the law, or what good is the Constitution anymore?  Why have a Congress pass a law that the President won't enforce?  Why have the Supreme Court decide the controversy, if the President decides to ignore the part of the decision that he doesn't like?

At what point will this President be restrained?  If he gets re-elected, what can stop him?

Gerrymandering is a loser for the Dems, so it says

If both parties MAXXED OUT on gerrymandering, the House would end up with 262 Republicans to 173 Democrats -- according to leftist FiveThirtyEight.

That's because Republicans control more state governments with multiple districts, and Democrat voters congregate in cities. This… pic.twitter.com/6HKKZJf6TD

— Ben Hart (@BenHart_Freedom) May 1, 2026

America didn't lose in Vietnam. It was betrayed.

Yeah, and once Nixon was shoved out of the way, the far left (commies) began taking over the Democrat Party. We're seeing now what that leads too. Iran fell in 1979. The trouble we are having in Iran was largely because of the betrayal in Vietnam. All of this thanks to commies.

By the way, that's what the bastards in Tehran are counting on. They're getting help from the commies.

South Vietnam didn’t fall because it was beaten. It fell because it was betrayed.

Fifty-one years ago today, April 30, 1975, the last American helicopter lifted off the Saigon embassy roof.

We had won. Nixon and Kissinger’s Paris Peace Accords forced the North to recognize… pic.twitter.com/LF0F7DpOz7

— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) April 30, 2026

Tar, feathers, pitchforks!

Look, parents with advanced STEM degrees just aren’t smart enough to homeschool their kids.

You have to let fat retarded communist women with a BA in interpersonal communication and a Masters in uptalking handle education. https://t.co/3eZfW1mgjh

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 1, 2026

Reason magazine explains

Why Wealth Taxes Fail

Comment:

The "Save Democracy" folks just want to spend us all into bankruptcy. All of that just so they can have power. Good for THEM, but is it any good for YOU?

Holy moly! An affordable electric car.

5/2/26:

$12.7k Tesla model 2?

Yours truly wouldn't mind having one, but even at this price, it's too expensive.



10/9/25:

 

The price points for this car seem to be all over the place---anywhere from 10k to 30k. Which is it?

 

10/6/25:

 

Speculation about the new affordable electric car?

 

 

9/12/25:

 

You could knock me over with a feather...

 

New Tesla Giga Press makes a $15k Model 2 possible, or so it says...



But wait! It gets better than that...

$10,595 Model 2! Is it hype, vapor-ware, or real? Supposedly, it will be available by years end. That's not long into the future, and this is a freshly published video...





P.S.

The aluminum ion battery--- it is said to be in the new affordable Tesla Model 2.

Zohran Mamdani Humiliated as Billionaire Responds to His Threat

The Seattle mayor laughed about rich moving out because of wealth taxes and such. Blue cities and states are pushing out all their wealthy folks only to impoverish themselves. The tax base is decreased, and their coffers won't be so easily filled. Not really smart to laugh that off.

Collyfornia raised 100 billion dollars in wealth taxes only to see 1 trillion dollars of wealth escape to other states that don't punish success. Not only is it dumb and counter-productive, but it doesn't even raise money.

When the Seattle mayor laughed, the audience hooted and hollered. Wonder if they'll keep hooting and hollering when they go broke. Their government jobs will go bye-bye if the taxes cannot pay their salaries and benefits.

Inside the NEW $300M White House Ballroom

It has all the appearance of being an upgrade over what was there previously. Of course, the Democrats are against it.

Microsoft Windows is garbage amongst other gripes

5/1/26:

Spent quite a bit of time yesterday re-installing Linux Mint. This time if Microsoft wipes out my installation, I'll have an installation disk. It will be inconvenient to re-install, but it won't be as big a pain in butt that will result if I got rid of the installation disk. Know what I mean, Vern?

4/26/26:

It just erased a list of links that I wanted to save as a part of my reading. It executed a save file that I DID NOT AUTHORIZE. I don't want these pricks keeping a tab on moi. Anyway,what a piece of garbage this damnable thing is. Excuse my French.

The only reason that I'm even using this piece of GARBAGE operating system is because I'm having a few physical difficulties and this netbook is easier for me to use right now.

The netbook had Linux installed, but this POS operating system nuked it, and now when I'm using this POS operating system, it deletes my work when NO COMMAND TO SAVE WAS EVER GIVEN

POS !!!!!!!

Anyway, I was doing some work that just got erased, and I might still have some info available

Free Republic

Grace to You

The tone lately may seem inappropriate for that last link. Excuse the hell outta me. I'm having a bit of stress. Stress being defined as the overpowering desire to choke the sh!t outta some a-hole who really needs it. But I have to remember my sweet, sweet disposition!

Some others from history: *)(((U*(**!

Some American Thinker articles that got wiped out... Dehumanizing rhetoric. Oh yeah. Gotta remember that one.

James Carville. A-hole in chief.

Atlantic (about Thomas Massie): Thomas Massie is one of these fake republicans who like to "stand up" to Trump while they are knifing him in the back. This gets the applause from the pinkos, who might even invite him on the View, like they did with MTG.

Trump is a target for assassination. AGAIN. This isn't the first time that the leftist pricks provoked a reaction amongst the less stable people ( maybe even LIKE ME). Just kidding. I'm such a sweet, sweet guy.

We've met the enemy, and he is US

What's this "we" stuff? It's you, me, everybody.

That's the message here in this video. By the way, I think this is an excellent YouTube channel. YouTube demonetized him, so he must be good! Anything good gets screwed on YouTube. I seen too many such stories to think otherwise.

Comey indictment

A bit of editorializing here...

A line has to be drawn somewhere. Sure, there's the 1st Amendment. Free speech. All of that is welcomed in a free society.

But there's a point where things are going too far. Where do you draw the line?

There's a law against threatening the President. That's the law.

So you've got this individual, Comey, who does this 86 thing. Comey was formerly a high ranking member of the government. In such a position, one should expect RESPONSIBLE conduct. The use of this term "86" was irresponsible. The leadership is expected to conduct itself responsibly, but if this is acceptable, then where does it lead?

Things are getting a bit out of hand. It needs to be reined in.

Comey declares he's innocent. Really? With all this hyper language out there, one would think that the idea was to burn down the whole country. You've got the Minority Leader saying things like "maximum warfare". Maximum warfare??? Is that what it has come to?

Yes, and Trump shares a bit of guilt on this. Everybody needs to take a chill pill.

Just sayin'.

Pondefecate: translation don't talk out your ass

4/29/26:

This is a "no-shit" zone. Know what I mean, Vern?

5/25/12:

A bit of urban lingo there.  It is also a pun, because the word sounds like "pontificate", which has a somewhat different meaning.

I try not to, so I'll link to sources frequently.  By the way, I am updating the index for navigating this blog.  Always striving to make improvements in the blog.

Winning the War, and Concluding the Peace

At the conclusion of World War Eleven ( the name of that war according to Minnesota Congress-woman Ilhan Omar ), a certain Lt. Colonel refused to accept defeat. He remains defiant until the facts on the ground were explained to him by none other than General Patton.

That's how the video goes, anyway. Perhaps such did take place. But if it did, it is doubtful that there weren't any interpreters present as well. This video makes it look like everyone understood each other without the need of interpreters.

Otherwise, the parallel with current times is instructive. Iran has been beaten. But they are scrambling for a way to maintain their "arrogance".

The facts on the ground in Iran do not support their position.

There's a movie that can be viewed on Tubi ( I think ). It is about Japan's behavior directly after the surrender. Many of them refuse to accept their defeat, while maintaining their arrogant poses. The link refers to the movie "Emperor", with Tommy Lee Jones playing the role of General Douglas MacArthur. The movie's drama showed the need to get cooperation from the Japanese, but if the Japanese refused to accept their defeat even after surrender, the country could be reduced to utter ruin. The Japanese Emperor had to intervene and accept a visit with MacArthur in order to move forward from the war towards peace and reconstruction.

Does Iran have to be utterly destroyed? Only if their leaders refuse to accept defeat. The facts on the ground say that America can reduce Iran to utter destruction, and that Iran cannot stop it. So we'll see if that is the course that the Iranians intend to take.  They will have no one other than themselves to blame if that occurs.

Is America First really a call to pacifism?

Questionable polls deliver questionable results

Correction:

The pdf says "develop" nukes. It should say "deliver" nukes.

Generational disconnect is no accident

 

Comment:

What you really have is a Marxist plan to overthrow the USA. It has been percolating through the society for a century. It is a Marxist plan to do all the things that the young generation is suffering through.

The young generation is the hammer through which the Marxists can smash the American system. If they are successful at this, as it appears that they have had a lot more success at this than they should've, then all Americans will lose EVERYTHING. The schools just dumb everybody down, and the Marxist media just treats everyone as mushrooms. (keep you in the dark and feed you bullshit)

They'll just lie and lie and lie through their teeth, and not tell you the real story. This is the real story. The real story was to weaken America through the generations until there is no strength left, when the Marxists can sweep into power and rule over all mankind. Trouble is that Marxism isn't good for anybody but the Marxists. They don't give a rat's ass about anything but their own rotten selves. The problem is in getting people's head out of their own asses and see what is really going on. You'll never get that through the so-called educational system, nor the bullshit media complex.

The video discusses a lot of these issues with feminism and all the other rotgut leftist claptrap being fed to the young.

Promethean Action Outlines Visit of King Charles Against Backdrop of Trump Assassination Effort

Any connection between these assassination attempts and the English Royal Visit this week?

Is this yet another war of independence from the UK? Amazing.



This may take some study to understand, but I think I can get at least some of it.

There was another post like this one that can be reviewed. The war is really about reestablishing the "American System" that Lincoln and McKinley set up.

I recall from the History books, that Lincoln had his hands full with the Brits, in order to keep them out of the Civil War. If the Brits had lined up with the Confederates, America would've been finished. History may be repeating itself.

Life hacks

life hacks: what's killing your muscles

I'd like to be half as healthy as I already know how to be. Know what I mean, Vern?

Rejection of basic reality will have consequences

  Without children, there will be no future. Something to consider when you get old. South Korea has a problem.

It's a civilizational disease. Not unique to South Korea. It is like that in many countries.

Link

Obama and the left play dumb on assassination attempts

 

This post is about the attempted assassination, and the usual thing with the commies of pretending not to know anything about anything. Listening to them, you'd be tempted to reach the conclusion that they are perfect little angels incapable of harming a fly. But we all know better, do we not?

Of course the commies know because the commies instigated the assassination attempts. They applaud this kind of thing, and encourage it as much as possible. But when it happens, Zero says he don't know shit.

Link

Is the US Naval blockade working?

The short answer is yes.

What the war is about

There is no time to watch all of this. Half of it will be enough to make a judgment.

It is worth a look.

The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things (1966)

4/26/23:

Anyone ever heard of the saying that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds? All liberalism does, and all that totalitarians do is to take advantage of the weaknesses of little people. That may sound elitist. But I'm not elitist. I have weaknesses too. Yes, and these kind of people have tried and will try to take advantage of my own weaknesses. Unfortunately, that is the way of the world.

The song asks if time will make man more wise. Probably not.

1/22/23:

update of 5.1.16 post

This song came to mind again this morning, and I thought I'd make a post about it. Turns out that I made one previously. So it is only an update.

There are multiple instances of the song that are posted on Youtube. The one I saw is not this one here. On the other, there are some comments that I noted. The comments are what I want to discuss.

The comment at the top of the list appears to be from someone who is much younger than I am. I grew up when this song was being played on the radio as brand new. It was first recorded about 66 or 67. Well, the comment was about how world was being destroyed, and how the song related to that. I have to laugh...

Most of my childhood was spent in Houston, and the part that wasn't, was in San Antonio. Houston is an industrial town, and there's pollution there. But it was far worse in the sixties than it was when I left town in 2016. It is almost as if the younger generation has discovered pollution or something. We were all very aware of it, I assure anyone who wasn't around back then. Maybe the comment was referring to the thing called "climate change".

Anyone who has read much of this blog knows what I think of climate change. I'll add some more to it, now. Climate alarmism is the same as COVID alarmism. Alarmism is a favorite tactic of useless politicians. Actually, they are worse than useless. People in the days of old had a healthy skepticism of politicians. Not so much these days. All these politicans have to do is to cry wolf, and people run for the hills. It would appear that folks need to remember the story of the boy who cried wolf. Yet, it is the younger generation who seem to need to hear that story the most.

My generation was hoodwinked into alarmism as well. The young are the most succeptible to this kind of thing. Their lives are in front of them, and they haven't much experience. Once they've been around awhile, they may catch on to these kind of shams. Unfortunately, almost everybody fell for the COVID scam.

The song appear to question the idea of material progress. Material progress was highly valued up till the sixties, but obviously that has changed. What has also changed is that material progress has slowed down--- a lot. It has taken over 50 years to get back to the moon, even if Elon Musk's Starship succeeds. Maybe China will get there. Back in the sixties, the Chinese got around on bicycles. We had our muscle cars. There's a message in there, if you bother to look for one.

Don't misunderstand. I'm not excusing pollution. Nor even the production of so-called greenhouse gasses ( assuming that these gasses actually cause global warming, which I doubt.) The thing I'm criticizing here is the total lack of intellectual curiousity that has become rampant in this society. If there was such, there would be less opportunity for all of the alarmism that runs rampant, and it is this alarmism that is greater thing to worry about than the things the politicians love to scare people about.

Heard this on the road this morning.  I like this song.

John Cornyn amnesty ad is real

This is the kind of two-faced stuff so typical of Establishment RINOS. He is running strong pro-Trump, but he is for amnesty. The two things do not go together. Different audiences, different messages. In other words, bullshit.

By the way, even though I do write about politics, I don't like it. In fact, I friggin' HATE it. But it is necessary. How else can you run the country?

Yes, this Senator Cornyn pro-amnesty ad is real.

We found in on YouTube & it was several hours before Cornyn’s team made the video private.

No amnesty!

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) April 24, 2026

"The Graduate" and the cougar phenomenon

This from the AI. I guess if it is from AI, there's no lies in it. I blush as I write this.... Anyway, here's some commentary upon the subject from moi. As usual, you can consider me full of sh.... too. But I wouldn't try to deceive. Nah, not me. The AI...

 

The 1967 film The Graduate is frequently cited as a cultural precursor to the modern "cougar" phenomenon, featuring a married mother who pursues and seduces a much younger man (21-year-old Benjamin Braddock). While the film popularized the theme of an older woman dating a younger man, the specific slang term cougar did not originate until later, with its first known print appearance on the Canadian dating website Cougardate.com possibly as early as 1999.

Although The Graduate established the narrative of an older woman actively chasing a younger man, sociological research challenges the extent of this trend in real life. Studies, such as a 2010 British psychological study published in Evolution and Human Behavior, have suggested that the "cougar phenomenon" is largely a myth or rare occurrence, with most men and women continuing to follow traditional gender roles where men prefer younger partners and women prefer older, established partners. Additionally, academic research by Milaine Alarie indicates that contrary to the aggressive seductress archetype seen in films like The Graduate, many women in age-hypogamous relationships do not depict themselves as the primary pursuers.

With respect to the "cougar" phenomenon, and the AI supplied info, I'll have to call "bullshit" on that one.

Why do you suppose that the AI is trying to treat this as a non-phenomenon? Of course it happens.

This, like a lot of other things, is just another example of the phenomenon ( in my opinion) of keeping something hidden, which actually exists. Perhaps not exactly in the movie way, but it is definitely something out there. Trust me on that one.

Here's another thought. The article seems to be discussing or denying that any such phenomenon as "cougar" exists, while basing it upon "studies". In my opinion, the "studies" may not have discussed this with MEN in order to see if anything like that happened with the men. Maybe the men would talk, and maybe they wouldn't. That's up to the dude involved. Dudes and dudettes aren't necessarily going to tell the truth about this stuff, lol.

What I'm saying is that you can take this "study" with a grain of salt. Women are probably more likely to believe the "study", because I think women are more gullible on average. Otherwise, they wouldn't be liberals.

Comment:

By golly,  I wrote about this movie before.

Update a bit later:

This looks just like the graphic of the 60's movie "The Graduate". The movie was about a cougar who seduced a young man, and how it got rather zany before the movie was over

Bongino mentions Boreing

Bongino mentioned Jeremy Boreing, and the name seemed familiar. A lookup on the olde Wikipedia shows that Boreing was part of the Declaration Entertainment thing I was involved with awhile back.

The same guy was mentioned, and he had a very interesting discussion on this cock-eyed leftist idea ("social murder") going around. Indeed, that's what Bongino spent a lot of time on in his most recent show.

Bongino is a very interesting guy. I'd recommend his show highly. That's if you want to get your head out of your ass. Seems like there's way too many people out there like that these days.

Oops! I must be channeling my inner no more mr nice guy. Excuse the hell outta me!

Who the hell is "Greg"?

In order to locate my blog using a search, I encountered this AI analysis of this here blog. The first one, awhile back, of these analyses -- amused me. This latest one has me a bit concerned.

It's "analysis" seems to say that this blog is like Alice Cooper's "No More Mr. Nice Guy", when this "analysis" feels to me like 3 Dog Night's "Mama Told Me Not To Come".

One thing I should be a bit more careful about. I'm merely offering my opinions of the scene. I'm not claiming to be an expert on anything that I'm writing about. From time-to-time, I realize it might get to be a bit too much, and to tone it down it a bit.

So, "who" is this person---meaning me. I've written many posts about myself, so it really shouldn't be a mystery. If it appears that way, it is because I do intend to keep my privacy within the constraints of how much of that is even possible anymore. Whoever is smart enough to do an accurate "analysis" of this blog would certainly have enough chops to know who I am.

I DO know a little about computers. I would definitely counsel EVERYBODY to be careful about these blasted things because they could become troublesome, and especially these days with AI. AI may not necessarily be a good thing---Know what I mean, Vern?

Here's a quote of said "analysis".

The Boots and Oil blog is a personal political commentary site authored by an individual named Greg. The blog primarily focuses on US politics and current events, featuring curated social media clips, news articles, and videos, all accompanied by the author's own critical, often satirical, observations.

Key themes and topics covered on the blog include:

Sharp political criticism of figures from both major parties, with frequent posts targeting Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the "Establishment GOP."

Election integrity and legal issues, such as critiques of Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel and discussions on proof-of-citizenship voting laws.

Media and censorship, with commentary on government-funded censorship and the influence of foreign propaganda. International affairs, including US involvement in Ukraine and relations with China. Conservative and libertarian perspectives, often expressing skepticism toward government overreach and a strong defense of constitutional rights.

The blog is organized with labels like "Major Topic --- Politics" and "Sundry Topics --- News and Current Events," and it has been actively updated as recently as April 2026.

Alice Cooper--- No More Mr. Nice Guy

3 Dog Night Mama Told Me Not To Come