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Huh, World War III?

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Is the Biden Administration saying?

“Lets see how far we can push Putin.”

I honestly don’t know, but you’d think they’d be at least a little concerned that Putin is being backed into a corner.

The Biden Administration and Joe Biden don’t seem to know how to properly sabotage something. Here he is painting a target on the United States.

Even if our dumbass in chief had nothing to do with what is commonly defined as sabotage. Putin will have to look no further than President Biden’s own words, before deciding to launch his ICBMs.

Uhh Dumbass in chief, you never tell someone you’re going to fuck them except in a street fight. Saying you were going to fuck Putin on international TV is probably about as stupid as it gets. Then continuing to send billions to the Ukraine to fund your proxy war is just rubbing salt in the wound.

Putin’s Ukraine war is taking more resources than Putin anticipated and he’s suffering more losses. Now with the loss of NordStream 1 & 2, he’s strapped for cash as well. Ukraine applying for expedited entry into NATO isn’t going to calm Putin down. 

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Have you idiots in Washington ever seen an injured wasp sting itself to death? Have you ever seen a badly injured Scorpion sting itself to death? 

Have any of you ever read Melville? 

“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.” — Herman Melville

I thought you people were supposed to be the Crème de la Crème of our educated elites. I thought you were supposed to have at least some capacity to see how one thing leads to another. Although based on your handling of the economy, apparently I’m in error.

When Hitler realized the war was lost, he killed himself. Putin has the capacity to go out in a “Blaze of Glory” and take the rest of us with him. Hitler would have launched nukes if he had them, then shot his sorry ass.

You morons in Washington need to get your shit together.

It’s time for you “Leaders” to stop ass raping the American people. Sit down, talk with Putin, Talk with Zelenskyy, and the rest of the world leaders and come to some kind of reasonable diplomatic solution.

That solution will involve compromise and not everyone is going to get everything they want. However, everyone walking away from the table with some semblance of dignity will go a long way toward not nuking the planet. 

Joe and the rest of the western leaders say climate change is the single most important issue facing us. Well I’m willing to bet that a nuclear winter classifies as catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. Of course the likelihood of anyone being around to give a shit might be fairly low.

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I personally don’t think Putin is an idiot, but I do think if you give him no other choice he’d launch some or all of his nuclear weapons. Logically speaking, if he launched one, he might as well launch them all because a NATO retaliation would probably deprive him of using the rest of his stockpile.

Remember the wasp, and the scorpion I mentioned earlier???? 

Are any of you paying attention?

Invite Putin and Zelenskyy to Geneva. Guarantee their safety. Meet under the old rules of Parley and instead of telling them what they have to do, ask them how we might navigate out of this insanity. 

Then LISTEN! 

(As an aside, Trans rights, Democracy, Donald Trump, the Jan 6th hearing, green energy, abortion, and all the rest of your pet causes, will not matter in the least if this escalates.)

Do your fucking jobs, you bunch of moronic, self entitled, inbred, loads your mommas should have swallowed!

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What unbelievable Arrogance!

I heard about this and thought it was satire.

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It’s not!

U.N. Communications Official Touts Google Search Partnership: ‘We Own the Science’

This is completely insane!

The UN partnering with Google to combat misinformation about COVID and Climate Change.

First and foremost, the UN doesn’t own the science. Science can’t be owned. Science is either a theory, true, or false.

What this person is saying is “We will own the narrative. We will control what you believe is true, and we will block anything contrary to our narrative.”

The UN is making sure that their information is promoted above anything else.

This is nothing more than censorship.

Dr. Robert Malone wrote about this UN officials comments in this piece on the Brownstone Institute site.

As always I ask, is this the kind of world that we really want to live in?

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Oh Boy, Third Strike and I’m out!

I’ve written and discarded three blog posts today.

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Im settling on this one come hell or high water!

I’ve been keeping a close eye on hurricane Ian. I have family throughout Florida including in the Ft Meyers area.

My family has said that for the past week or more Governor DeSantis has been on the local news stations providing instructions, detailing plans, and telling folks not to panic but to do commonsense things that anyone who’s ever been through a hurricane knows should be done.

Politico, Jackasses on The View, CNN, and morons in Washington D.C have totally pissed me off with their bullshit trying to say a hurricane is caused by global warming and that somehow DeSantis is at fault.

Uh NO! If you subscribe to the theory that Climate Change over the past 100 years is responsible for major storms then DeSantis sucking the cock of the Climate Change folks over the past few years wouldn’t have stopped hurricane Ian.

It’s a slow cumulative process that’s taken 100 years to create. If you were to somehow magically be able to undo all the effects of Climate Change instantly… You’d create devastating storms and more Climate Change because you instantly changed the planetary climate conditions.

What do you think happened with the extinction of the dinosaurs? Big rock from space hits the planet. The impact and heat transferred to the ocean caused tons of debris and vaporized the ocean in or near what is now the Gulf of Mexico. Rain, darkness, debris, and ash blocked out the sun. After that it was only a matter of time before the planet’s atmosphere cooled possibly triggering a kind of extended winter, followed by an ice age and poof dinosaurs died off.

That’s what happens when you radically alter an environmental system.

When the volcano on Krakatoa blew, there was enough dust thrown into the atmosphere that it apparently caused shorter growing seasons in Europe and the Thames in London froze in Winter for several years.

Tell me again how DeSantis kowtowing to Climate Change activists would have prevented a hurricane…

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Then there’s that moron from MN Amy Klobuchar who suggests that voting Democrat would have had effect on hurricane Ian.

Either the Democrats. Have weather control technology and have been using it to destroy those who disagree with them, or Klobuchar is admitting she and the Democrat party are the single largest coven of evil witches ever seen.

The more likely explanation is that she’s just a moron. Although it might be fun to take all the democrat party in Washington and give them the Witch test. Tying them up and tossing them in the Potomac to see who floated might be good for a laugh. Nah, I wouldn’t want to pollute the Potomac with that much festering human refuse.

The shrews on The View are no better, and Joy Reid is quite possibly the dumbest person on TV.

She’s such a well informed climatologist she can make the statement, “There’s no doubt climate change is responsible for Ian”. Wow Joy! I didn’t know you could read much less that you were a climatologist.

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Don Lemon on CNN morning (No longer a prime time Anchor) Had the audacity to try to back a real meteorologist Jamie Rhome into a corner about climate change during an interview while Ian was making landfall in Florida.

Even after Dumbass Don got politely shutdown by Rhome, Lemon tried again to have Rhome connect Ian to climate change, forcing Rhome into a more strenuous shutdown, Lemon had to have the last word saying, “I grew up there and the storms are getting stronger.”

Well Don Florida is much better off without you living there. It wouldn’t surprise me to discover that you were one of the people who created the “Hanging Chad” voting debacle.

This was almost as funny as Dumbass Don being roasted by royal commentator Hilary Fordwich over reparations when he pushed that issue during his coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.

Ms. Fordwich was properly British and smoked Lemon without raising her voice. It was epic, the link is here and funny to watch.

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The thing is, this season in Florida is called Hurricane Season for a reason. It’s a yearly event, it’s been happening forever and most folks throughout the Caribbean are familiar with it.

Some years you get a lot of little storms, some years you get a couple of major storms. It’s the luck of the draw.

Old timers in Florida try not to look a gift horse in the mouth if the hurricane season passes with one or two minor storms, but they’ll tell you if you ask, they worry about “paying the piper” the next year with a major storm.

Anyway, every time I started to write something I’d get distracted by the stupidity of some other moron.

But the one that really pissed me off was President Biden.

Grandstanding as he was in the D.C. FEMA office was obscene. Although I did enjoy the look the guy behind Sleepy Joe’s left shoulder had.

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There was absolutely nothing Joe could offer being in the FEMA office. The odds are that his presence significantly disrupted those folks working day.

In other words, Dementia Joe slowed down their progress at getting needed resources out of warehouses and moving toward the area they are needed.

Sort of like him bloviating at a major airport during one of the recent air traffic snarls and because of him being there to run his mouth, he added to the problem by having that part of the airport shut down.

We got another dose of angry Joe, when he said that he was going to be watching the gas prices in Florida very closely and threatened the gas stations not to gouge the consumers.

I found this particularly annoying since in California, 3000 miles away from the hurricane. The gas prices rose .16 cents overnight. If that’s not gouging sleepy Joe, I don’t know what is.

Mayorkis running his mouth wasn’t adding anything either.

I think DeSantis has probably done everything pretty darn close to right. I think that when Florida does the “After Action Review” they’ll find some things that could have been done better and then implement what they learn so that the next hurricane they’ll handle better. That’s a marked contrast to the Biden Administration and the Democrat party who never learns anything new except how to fuck over the American people.

Lemon, Reid, Klobuchar, Biden, Mayorkis, and the vicious harpies on The View, are a bunch of jackasses and they cannot be removed from their positions too fucking soon!

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The first days of Fall

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After many weeks of blistering heat even in my small mountain town, the past few days are hinting Winter is coming. Typically up here it’s 70° to 80° at worst. Places off the mountain swelter while we have our windows open, enjoying nice breezes.

The temps have suddenly been cooler, even during the day. It’s actually nice to be outside puttering around the yard. This may be residual from hurricane Kay. 

Fall chores are upon me. I need to clean the dryer vent, fire up the furnace and blow all the cobwebs and get that weird dusty smell out of it.

This morning I woke up to the temperature inside the house being 65°F instead of 75°F. Outside it was 54°F.

Some of the Maple trees are starting to change, other plants will be losing their leaves over the next few weeks.

There is one thing that makes this really nice. Since the windows are closed and all the neighbors have their windows  closed too, there is blessed silence. Their internal conflicts of their families are remaining internal after a long hot Summer of their squabbles being broadcast to the whole neighborhood. 

Sound carries up here. The things you hear are amusing and astounding. The most interesting arguments are the ones at 2 or 3 am. Wow! I don’t need to know some of the things I’ve heard about either party.

The squirrels are being lazy this morning, they’ve not yet been out scampering through the treetops chattering at each other.

The dog is happy for the cooler weather. I know the seasons are changing because the dog is not shedding. His fur is at its thinnest and the past few nights he’s been very cuddly. His Winter coat will come in over the next month or so. I’m curious to see if I can predict the severity of the Winter season by looking at his fur.

Yesterday I had the chain saw fired up. Some of the larger branches of Mountain Lilac needed to be cleared out. They’d died  because of the heat and drought. Probably in the next month, I’ll be using the pole saw to remove more dead branches exposed by the plants losing their leaves. 

Like most guys, I like tools. The danger with the chainsaw is that I go looking for stuff to cut down. I like the electric saw much better than gas powered ones. I think it’s the whir of the motor, instant power, and not breathing gas fumes.

There’s a neighbors tree that really could use some grooming. Maybe I’ll ask him if I can go at it. Not that I’m looking for additional chores, but this particular tree has a lot of old dead branches that overhang the road coming to the house. One of these winters, they’re going to fall and mess somebody’s car up. (This is a purely selfish move on my part, and I get to use my tools.)

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Thank goodness for a hurricane

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I probably won’t have to water for a week or so!

FYI, I does in fact rain in Southern California. We got a nice steady rain for about 4-6 hours yesterday and into last night.

The dog was not amused about it at all. He loves snow but water falling from the sky… He spent most of the day in his “room”. He also kept looking at me as though I had something to do with it.

I don’t know how much rain we actually got, but it wasn’t enough to cause a lot runoff as sometimes happens. This was a nice constant soaking where I live, the plants in the yard are already perking up after 90°F plus temps baking them for the past week or so.

The temp dropping to 70°F with a breeze through the house after the high temps caused some shivering at dinnertime.

I’m sure in the lower areas (Off the mountain) there may have been some street flooding etc.

The rain also helped out the fire crews working the fire in Riverside County so that is another plus.

This morning it’s cool and overcast. I’ve been watching some young squirrels playing in their home tree. I guess they were cooped up all day yesterday and their mom told them to get out of the house for a while.

The dog has been talking to me all morning as Husky breeds tend to do. He’s wanting to play but when we go outside to toss the ball around he gets distracted by smells, then forgets what we were doing. He comes up to me with this “where’s the ball,” look. Even though it’s right where he left it when he got distracted. I swear this dog has ADHD.

I think everyone in the neighborhood is taking it slow this morning. They’re probably just enjoying the coolness as I am. I’m also enjoying the silence, no cars, chainsaws, hammering, or screaming nut jobs yet today.

I’m guessing that once things dry out a little, all the noise will start up, but for the moment I’m enjoying the sound of nothing except birds chirping and squirrels barking at each other in the trees.

There’s the possibility of thunderstorms later in the day. The dog will no doubt be on the couch next to me for “Protection” if that happens.

Apple had its big annual announcement this week. I’ve been reading about the new products and am thinking I’ll wait until the iPhone 15 before thinking about a phone upgrade, my iPhone 12 Pro is still working. The new IOS is supposed to be available on Monday, I’ll be waiting for a week or more before installing that as well.

I’ve found in general that I’m not intrigued by the new products. The exception is the Apple Watch Ultra. That product got my attention. I’m not going to run out a pre-order it, instead I’ll wait to see it in person. It’s a big watch and it might simply be too big for me personally. A 36 hour battery life addresses one concern I’ve had with my aging series 5. Typically if I’m wearing the series 5, I’m running it in dark mode rather than having the display always on. It saves power and I don’t mind not seeing the display until I need it.

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That the Apple Watch Ultra is going to have recreational dive computer software available later in the year is also a plus. For me it’s a twofer. I get an Apple Watch with longer life per charge, and a dive computer. It remains to be seen, but it’s possible that they may be able to provide wireless air integration with a bluetooth transmitter on the regulator.

My faithful Sunnto dive computer and transmitter are due for a battery change and pressure test. This service costs about $300 and requires that both units be sent away to God knows where, this time. It used to be San Diego, then it was Florida, and I haven’t checked where it’s going to go this time around.

While I like the Sunnto, (this is the second one I’ve owned. The first one was lost in a fire,) this particular unit’s backlight has never been as bright as the first one. The battery changes are expensive too. I’ve been looking for a new dive computer and have discovered a number of newer units that are rechargeable and provide wireless log transfer to computers or phones (my venerable D5 requires a hardline connection). Because of the service costs on the Suunto, I’ve been considering a new dive computer anyway.

Perhaps the Apple Ultra can provide all the functionality I’d like in one neat package. It’s also cheaper than many dive computers available now.

Could it be that Apple is going to be able to change the paradigm in SCUBA too?

The Apple Watch Ultra could also address some of the navigation issues I’ve noticed while hiking in the mountains & forest near my home. I’m interested to see how the dual band GPS works. My series 5 has on occasion been completely confused about my location and I’ve resorted to a compass and topographical map to sort out the issue.

(As an aside, that’s the reason you always carry a non digital backup if you’re hiking someplace unfamiliar. I also have a HAM radio because sometimes there’ no cell service but I can usually hit a repeater. Fortunately I’ve never had to call for help but fortune favors the prepared. I typically have some food, water, and a minimal first aid kit with me as well. I don’t want to be one of those hikers who needs a risky night evacuation putting rescue personnel in more danger. I’d rather be able to tell rescue folks, something like, “I’m hurt, my location is coordinates x West y North, I can’t walk out, but I’ve got food, water, and proper clothing to wait it out till dawn. I’ll check in with you guys throughout the night on Freq xyz”. That’s just being responsible.)

Yes, I know that the newest iPhone has satellite messaging, but my radio works just fine. Even if I were to get a new iPhone, I’d still carry the radio.

In short, I think the Apple Watch Ultra might be for me. This doesn’t mean that I’m not still looking at good old fashioned automatic watches like the Omega, Ball, or others. Sometimes it’s really nice to just know what time it is…

Aside from reading articles about The Queen, I’ve successfully ignored the news this week. Although I have indulged my Reddit AITA “Am I The Asshole” addiction a few times.

I get a kick out of those articles. Some people are real jackasses!