Fat in Indiana
March 4, 2025
Do you wanna be a star
Cant sleep. This was roiling in my head when I got up. There are way worse tunes to haunt your dreams, that’s for sure.
Let me add a non-related thought. If that is a double stuf Oreo, the original Oreo must have no cream filling at all. WTH?
March 3, 2025
The way March started
February ended with temps above 60. March hit us with sub-freezing and windchills in the teens. What the heck Mother Nature?
March 2, 2025
I am a rock, I am an island
I find it utterly amazing that Europe is outraged that we refuse to continue to spend hard-earned American tax money on them.
Let’s be completely clear, NATO needs the US, not the opposite.
Is there any doubt, should the evil Chicoms ever decide to go all Pearl Harbor on us, that our European “allies” would vote to just sit it out?
March 1, 2025
Straddling the fence
The spate of spring-like weather is blown away on the high winds of Friday. Temps in the twenties and thirties and wind chills in the teens will dominate the weekend weather. I wasn’t likely I was going to hang around outside anyway.
It appears there was quite the scene in the White House yesterday. It wasn’t the normal international diplomatic doublespeak we see most times these days for sure. Based on biographies I have read, the blowup was reminiscent of how plain-speaking Teddy Roosevelt ran things.
Don’t confuse observation with approbation. I’m not sure where I stand on the matter.
Edit: I know where I stand. Why are we giving money and arms to Ukraine anyway? And after reading /watching more I think the President and Veep were right.
Ungrateful jerk.
February 28, 2025
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February 26, 2025
Slash and burn
Almost spring-like air moved over Mudsock yesterday afternoon and I was tempted to sneak outside and enjoy a nice cigar. Alas, I had a zoom meeting and then other work to do so playing hooky wasn’t in the cards. So it goes.
The Democrats and public employee unions (redundant) continue to completely misread the room. They complain that DOGE is rooting out waste and fraud instead of acknowledging that a bit of governmental slimming is warranted. Don’t worry. The despicable Republicans (and their lobbyists) will howl soon when their favorite programs start to get the axe. I suspect there is enough waste and fraud at the Pentagon to pay the budgets of a state or two.
Here is the thing, I don’t care if a worthwhile program gets cut. If it needs refunding Congress can actually do their job and vote it back.
While we are slashing employees and programs, it is clear the easy work of government service is a magnet for the sexual perverts and mentally ill. If anyone at any private business where I have worked spread their perversions and sexual proclivities on company servers they would be escorted from the premises poste-haste. I sure don’t want my tax dollars used for a hook-up chat room.
Since many of these people worked in intelligence , doesn’t such…proclivities…make them vulnerable to blackmail and compromise? Perhaps I’ve read too many spy novels.