Maybe Admiral Sestak Should Be Our Next President.....

Learn more about him/

The Isle of Man TT. Yes, Again. This Time a Documentary. Can't Really Understand These Blokes.

Isle of Man....

There are no easy crashes....

This is Right up There Battling for the Worst Religion Ever!!!!!!

Please read.   

And, no, they don't get a pass because they are ignorant. 

If You Have a Confederate Flag Sticker on Your Pickup....or, Like Trump....I Ask That You Read This....

Please read.

"My Guy," Mike Gavel, made it, but Didn't!!!!!! Read the Story....

Read the story.

Read This Story............ A Truly Amazing Young Man.

Here's the link.

Iceland Declares Christianity A Public Health Threat.... Praise Jesus!!!!!!

Here's the link. Thank you, Andrew Hall.

Wedding Photos That Tell the Real Story?

Thanks to the Guardian. A second link.

Twelve of My Fellow Citizens In Virginia Beach Were Murdered!!!!!!

Link about those murdered.

Look carefully at each photo and ask, How would I feel if this was my brother, friend, wife, husband.... and, they were never coming home again. I'd never be able to share a meal, a pleasant afternoon. watch a movie.... I'll stop at this.

Change of Pace.... Nice Looking Bunch of Kids.

This is the Last Bell ceremony for Belarus students who are about to graduate from high school.

Double Duty??? What the Heck is That????? Yes, as I Type This I'm Watching the Indy 500 ....

Many, if not most people, say race car drivers aren't athletes.Well, today is not the time for me to argue that. I will mention that Jimmie Johnson, seven-time NASCAR champion, competed in the recent Boston Marathon and finished with a time of a little over three hours.

Double Duty at Wikipedia. Double Duty is a driver competing in the Indy 500 and then jetting to Charlotte and competing in the Coca-Cola 600!!!! Yes, 1100 miles of racing in one day.

Tony Stewart is the only driver to complete both races.

In 2001, Tony Stewart's "Double Duty" effort had the following published itinerary:

• 9:25 a.m. EST (10:25 a.m. EDT): Stewart at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
• 9:50 a.m. EST (10:50 a.m. EDT): Stewart changes into his fire suit. Driver Richie Hearn standing by to drive relief if necessary.
• 10:15 a.m. EST (11:15 a.m. EDT): Driver introductions at the Indy 500.
• 11:00 a.m. EST (12:00 p.m. EDT): Start of Indianapolis 500.
• 2:30 p.m. EST (3:30 p.m. EDT): Indianapolis 500 completed, Stewart finishes 6th.
• 2:35 p.m. EST (3:35 p.m. EDT): Stewart rides a golf cart from pit area to the infield care center.
• 2:45 p.m. EST (3:45 p.m. EDT): Stewart boards a helicopter to Signature/Combs Flight Center.
• 3:08 p.m. EST (4:08 p.m. EDT): Stewart leaves for Concord Regional Airport on a Citation Ten private jet. Stewart is administered two liters of IV fluids.
• 5:03 p.m. EDT: Plane lands at Concord Regional Airport.
• 5:10 p.m. EDT: Stewart changes clothes and boards helicopter to travel to Charlotte Motor Speedway.
• 5:20 p.m. EDT: The helicopter lands in the Charlotte Motor Speedway infield, in front of the start/finish line. Stewart waves to fans and climbs into his car. (The team had Mike McLaughlin ready if Stewart did not arrive in time.)
• 5:37 p.m. EDT: Starting command for Coca-Cola 600 given, Stewart's car is moved to 43rd (last) starting position as a penalty for missing the pre-race drivers' meeting.
• 5:45 p.m. EDT: Start of the Coca-Cola 600.
• 10:00 p.m. EDT: Coca-Cola 600 completed, Stewart finished 3rd.

Another, it's OK to Kill Your Kid Because of Your Fuckin' Religion....

Sure, you can kill your kid!!!!!!

I hope you read the article. Also, it seems Virginia will also let you kill your children.

This is part of Code of Virginia 63.2-100

“However, no child who in good faith is under treatment solely by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination shall for that reason alone be considered to be an abused or neglected child.”

Wow, this stuff is so weird and creepy. Dang, what constitutes a recognized religion?

Acupuncture. Yes, I've Been Ranting and Raving About So-Called Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Years.

Sure it works. Hey, it's Eastern. Been using it for a million years. I will pass. You should also. Oh, well. Just keep pissing away your money.

I started this commentary with plans just to use the SNL segment. Actually, might as well add some more videos. Folks, ACUPUNCTURE is BULLSHIT!!!

What Used to be Fraud is Now Alternative Medicine...

Watch this. A naturopathic doctor "Sees the Light!!!!

Great Lecture on Quackery and Why at Times We Can't Resist!! WATCH THIS....

You Want to See True Evil? Watch this Video!!!!

Why We Believe Weird Things....
LINK....

Have You Seen the Movie, Fargo? No? You Should.

Just watched it for the third time or so. Presently free with Prime.

Fargo trailer....

You should try all of the Coen Brother's movies. Here's a review of many of them.

ONLY WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW IF YOU'VE WATCHED THE MOVIE (FARGO)!!!!!!! ITS TITLE IS "SEVEN THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT FARGO."

Niki Lauda is Dead. He Was 70.

Though he was a world champion three times, many best

remember him for his epic battles with James Hunt.

Video obituary from the Guardian. Watch this...

Here's a link to a video about Lauda and Hunt.

Link to photos published on the Guardian.

Wikipedia kink.

Nope, I'll Pass. This Ain't the Real Catch-22!!!!!!

A mini-series is coming soon based on Joseph Heller's, Catch-22. But, I'll not be watching it.  The real/original is a true masterpiece. Here's a review of the new version.

I have the DVD and have read the book several times. In fact, I can remember how I first learned of the book. It was about 1964 and I was stationed at an airbase in Columbus, Ohio. I was enrolled in an on-base psychology class taught by a teacher from Ohio University (yes, Ohio State is in Columbus, OU is in Athens). The professor said Catch-22 was a truly important book and should be read by everyone. And, most of us would agree. You'll find it on all of the must-read and best-ever lists.

If you haven't read it, rush out and get a copy and get a copy of the DVD.

Here's Heller on Wikipedia.

Here's a trailer from the original. Watch to the end where all of the stars are listed.

Read and watch (the original) Catch-22!!!!

You Who are Religiously Infected Truly Need to Watch This Video.

Sadly, and with no logic or reason, religions are taxed about the same as charities. This fellow is truly a good steward of your donations. I encourage you to give a few more bucks. Your preacher may need another Bentley.

Can't Find That Perfect Place For Your Honeymoon? Not Sure Where to go on Your Next Vacation??? Hey, the Mongol Rally Might be Perfect....

Watch the videos, They are amazing. As I understand it, the rally starts in the UK and ends in Mongolia.

The rules seem simple. As I understand them, open to cars, motorcycles, and scooters. Cars can't be over 1000 cc (61 cubic inches), no support (on the road, entrants fix all of their mechanical problems), donate money to a charity, and teams pick their own routes. I think the total mileage is about 12,000 miles.

Even if you have no interests in cars or rallies, watch the videos. Wow, truly an amazing trip with spectacular landscapes.

OK, you have decided to skip that trip to the Islands or what-have-you and enter the Rally... Here's all you need to know!!!!!

If Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is Saying FUCK When Talking About Global Warming, I think We Should All Pay Attention!!!!!!

Yes, this is a John Oliver tape featuring Bill Nye towards the end. If Bill Nye is saying fuck, you had better pay attention!!!!!!

Here's the link!!!   

Bill Nye's website....  

Wikipedia.....amazing life!!!

"I've got an experiment for you - safety glasses on. By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another 4 to 8 degrees. What I'm saying is the planet's on fucking fire. There are a lot of things we could do to put it out. Are any of them free? No, of course not, -- nothing's free, you idiots. Grow the fuck up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12, but you're adults now and this is an actual crisis. Got it? Safety glasses off motherfuckers."

Trump the Cheat and a Video About His Supporters.... A Few Laughs, Maybe?

I Just Made a Donation to Mike Gravel 2020. I Ask That You Also Make a Donation.

Here's where you donate, Please watch the videos. Two kids are running his campaign.

Donate a dollar. Just trying to get enough of us so he can go to the debates.

Here's the link to the Guardian article.

BTW, this gentleman is 88!!!!!

Sarah Sanders is a Lyin' Creepy Scumbag! And, That's Not a Slip of the Tongue....

Guardian article.

"Sanders’ claim on 10 May 2017, the day after Comey was fired, that “countless members of the FBI” opposed Comey was “a slip of the tongue”, Sanders told the special counsel’s office in an interview last year.

Sanders repeated that “slip of the tongue” during a press briefing the following day, when skeptical White House reporters questioned her on her claim that Comey did not have support within the FBI’s rank and file. One reporter asked what basis the White House had for that conclusion, given that the FBI’s acting director had publicly said that Comey still had the support among the FBI’s agents.

“I can speak to my own personal experience,” Sanders told the White House press. “I’ve heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president’s decision.” She went on: “I’ve certainly heard from a large number of individuals. And that’s just myself. And I don’t know that many people in the FBI.”

“You personally have talked to countless officials, employees, since this happened?” another reporter asked later.

“Correct,” Sanders said.

“I mean, really?” the second reporter asked.

“Between, like, email, text messages – absolutely,” Sanders said.

“Fifty? Sixty? Seventy?” the reporter asked.

“Look, we’re not going to get into a numbers game. I have heard from a large number of individuals that work at the FBI that said they’re very happy with the president’s decision. I don’t know what else I can say.”"

Trump Gives Tiger the Medal of Freedom....

From one womanizer to another, here's the Medal of Freedom. Yep, Trump gives Tiger the MoF. 

"The Medal of Freedom recognizes individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors," according to the executive order designating the award."

The CNN article.

OK, so Tiger made a comeback. That's good for him and his fans. But, folks, it's a game of golf, for cryin' out loud. No cancer cure, no world peace, climate change is still with us, Trump is still president, and other than Tiger no one is better off. Oh, well. Again, shouting in an empty room,

Because of Words in Some Book You Can Put the Rest of Us in Danger!

Well, it's the Jews this time. Yes, measles again. Here's the article.

"Debates in the Orthodox Jewish community over vaccinations stem from Torah teachings that followers should not cause the body any damage since it is a gift from God."

"But the law also provides an exemption when a physician certifies that the immunisation may be detrimental to a child’s health or whose parents “hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs which are contrary” to the vaccination law."

I'm not going to comment.

Ahh, Which is the Happiest Country for 2018? Yep, Our Friends in Finland are Again the Top Country for Happiness!!!

And, how did the US do? Well, we fell one place to 19th. Dang, I wonder if anyone is telling this to our president?

Here's a link to more information.

Any of You Folks Like Pups? Here's a Video of One Who is Amazingly Well-Trained....

This is Sophie. I wrote a couple of 55-word stories about her when I knew she was pretty-darn sick. Sophie and the pup in the video are both Bouviers.

The Last Hurrah!

Past few years, he’d, somewhat macabrely, wondered who would go first.

He 77 with heart disease, she recently diagnosed with cancer. In dog years, they were the same age.
Decided they’d take a trip. Get away from it all.
Car packed, ready.
Chest pains, toppled over. 

Tossed her the keys. “Drive carefully and have fun.”

January 4, 2017

This one’s pretty uplifting, hey! I wrote this when I accepted that my pup was pretty sick. She died January 15, 2017.

The Dogs’ Way

They demand nothing and expect little.
Always patient.
Understanding and forgiving.

Never vindictive.

Always by our side.

Will protect us till their death.
Won’t question what we do, but will always support us.
A simple treat will make their day.

If there was a God who was fair, they, the pups, would be walking us.

January 21, 2017

Pompeo, God, Trump, Israel, and More Religious Lunacy!!!!!

I'll not comment on this one!

Here's the link to the article.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed with a suggestion posed in an interview Thursday that it's possible God raised Donald Trump to be President in order to protect Israel from Iran.

In an interview in Jerusalem, the Christian Broadcast Network's Chris Mitchell asked Pompeo, "could it be that President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace?" Esther is the main heroine of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which was celebrated this week.

"As a Christian, I certainly believe that's possible," Pompeo said.

Pompeo added that he is "confident that the Lord is at work here" when he sees the "remarkable history of the faith in this place and the work that our administration's done to make sure that this democracy in the Middle East, that this Jewish state, remains."

Darren Brown.... I've Commented on Him Before.

The first video is downright weird. Yep, it's about a lady playing the piano. 

The second video is about an older lady (hey, I can say that) who Darren teaches to play poker. Though she had played cards with her family and friends, she'd never played poker. She plays against several professional players. See how she does.

Christopher Hitchens....

The first video is the 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft.

The second video is the last public appearance of Hitchens.

If you don't know of him, you should. Regardless, you should watch both videos.

He died on December 15, 2011.

Mueller Report is Finished.... How About a Laugh????

Have You Folks met Mayor Pete? You Should. Read These Two Articles....

An interview by the Guardian.

The latest poll has him in third place.


From the Guardian.

"He is the son of a Maltese immigrant, Christian, contemporary of Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, Rhodes scholar at Oxford, city mayor before his 30th birthday, Afghanistan war veteran, piano player, polyglot, fan of James Joyce and, now, at the grand old age of 37, would-be first millennial president."

"Buttigieg speaks Arabic, Dari, French, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian and Spanish to greater or lesser extents but has a Midwestern understatement that seems to neutralise Trump-era sneering and anti-intellectualism."

"He goes up to the 14th floor office where John F Kennedy’s inaugural address hangs above his desk, a photo of Buttigieg with Michelle Obama sits on a sideboard, and Winston Churchill’s 12-volume history of the second world war shares the bookshelves with Making Gay History by Eric Marcus. There is also a fragment of blue stone from Buttigieg’s first trip to Iraq as a civilian adviser; he recites the inscription in convincing Arabic, then translates: “‘Not everyone who rides on a horse is a knight.’ I keep it here to remind myself, just because you have an office or a title doesn’t mean much unless you do something with it.”

Edit: He ain't got no bone spurs.

Do Yourselves (hmm, am I being a little too optimistic that anyone is reading this stuff?) a Favor, Read the Article and Watch the Video.

I've mentioned this fellow before.

Here's the article.

Check This Data Base for Your Favorite American Loon!!!!

Here's the link to the database of American Loons. Check to see if your favorite person is there. 

Thought I'd use this entry of Mike Huckabee as an example. Yes, folks, this is Sarah's dad.

#183: Mike Huckabee

Huckabee is a Baptist minister and former governor of the State of Arkansas. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election, representing the Christian Taliban. He is a young earth creationist, and therefore rejects certain controversial elements of modern science such as evolution, heliocentricism, gravity, and mathematics.

As a theocrat, Huckabee advocated changing the Constitution to incorporate Biblical values: “I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than trying to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.” He generally subordinates logic, evidence and governmental responsibilities to religion. As a presidential candidate he seems, interestingly, to have appealed mainly to the younger evangelical population.

Among his proposed policies are Covenant marriage and reinstating prayer in school (since its removal from school is, together with TV, one of the main reason for the current “moral decay”). He has also used the infamous bumblebee argument for the claim that science doesn’t understand everything. His argument against evolution is mainly Wilberforce’s (you are free to believe that you and your family came from apes, but I didn’t). He admits to not having been present at creation, however. And yes, his ignorance matters.

More here.
Diagnosis: The crackpots shall lead the ignorant, ‘tis said, and Huckabee is certainly a candidate for the position of kook supreme. He is extremely dangerous, and persistent assertions that he is unelectable don’t quite allay all of our worries.

Ahh, More New Age Bullshit? Or, Just New Age Folks Doing What New Age Folks Do?

What in the heck does New Age mean? Actually, I just glanced at this definition. 

I guess the way I view it, it's all the stuff that believers in astrology, psychics, energy healing, and so on latch on to. Obviously, my definition is biased. And, so be it. I guess I could also add, that it's the crazy crap that regardless of how absurd and ridiculous and worthless it is, well...the New Age folks open their checkbooks and get in line.

When I started this months ago, it was about yoga with goats...or, goat yoga! And, another link as it's in my state of Virginia.

The catalyst for my posting this was when I saw an article about cats and, yes, YOGA!!!!

For you New Age folks, the believers and for folks who just want to make money, Hey, how about yoga and pythons. Heck, there are plenty of them in Florida. Just come up with the craziest crap you can and the folks will lineup, with money in hand. Honest, they will.

As a bonus, and speaking of batshit crazy, have any of you folks heard of this woman, J. Z. Knight? Ahh, she sucked them all in, including Shirley MacLaine. Knight has a 12,000 sq. ft. home. As I always say, that crazy crap is often a money maker.

EDIT: I may have mentioned in passing that I've started at least 15 novels. Actually, could be as many as 25. Though I have at least a couple with 75,000 words, none are finished. And, well...most likely shouldn't be.

That said, I started on one and it was going to be Carl Hiaasenesque. Was about a group of friends that the protagonist got entangled with. Yes, they were all New Age whack jobs. Anyway, he was going to make a point and to that end, he was going to use his Bouvier pup to channel a long dead warrior God. How's that folks? Oh, well. I need some more coffee!!!!!! Or, maybe less....