Yesterday was absolutely delightful, today is cold and wet. Welcome to the Gulch. On the plus side, the newest Glib here in the Gulch is surviving and thriving, even though WebDom is still not getting more than a couple hours of sleep at a time. l0b0t still looks like an elder Islamic scholar slinging hash on the side. OM?…well, he’s still old.
Links?
It’s going to happen folks. Unless we join Israel and start bombing the shit out of Iranian nuke facilities. Which means it’s going to happen.
Oh noes! We’ll just have to rely on local and state resources, the way it’s supposed to be. And something that wasn’t laid off at the NWS was all those sensors and satellite data that they use to evaluate and track storms. Nothing to see here.
Vlad can’t be happy about this.
Time to dial up another drone.
I really feel we’re still at the tip of the iceberg on Joe’s great adventure in the White House.
38% success rate…$155,000 per…and the Uniparty is pissed.
Okay. Pretty shitty news cycle, but there it is. Have a great rest of your weekend. Peace out, Glibbies.
I was thinking about this the other day: weather “forecasting” seems ideally suited to artificial intelligence.
Absolutely.
I don’t know who the second person is but I would not be surprised if he’s yet another communist jumping on the Gaza bandwagon.
Made famous by GoT. I guess.
Sink it. While still in a Sicilian harbor if you are feeling charitable. Sink it in international waters if you want to do western culture a big favor.
This is what’s playing here
His mental unfitness seems like the least of all the many scandals the Democrats perpetrated in the last couple decades.
He was the most powerful man in the free world, and they hid his incapacity and ran the country by committee. This is bigger than Watergate.
They didn’t hide it very well. Every geezer recognized Joe’s infirmities from the get-go. We (and someday y’all) started seeing the clues because we recognize them in our friends. Our friends are also watching us, to see how we are doing.
The memory lapses, stumbling around, incoherence. You’ll see your own parents having difficulties and may not want to say anything.
As we get into those years we pretend that it isn’t happening but others recognize it. Yesterday I visited a classmate, he (with a little help from a couple of us) decided he shouldn’t and won’t be able to drive anymore.
” Don’t look back” -Satchel Paige
Sadly 4X20, I am beginning to see it in my father. It is unmistakable.
Oh, I agree.
So was getting the FBI to help stage an attempted coup in 2016 and a successful one in 2020.
Suthen, we realize our parents are getting older and as their children we’d like to help, undo those symptoms, but a lot of the time the old people don’t want any help, out of pride or stubbornness (looks in the mirror).
We don’t want to infringe on anyone. Don’t feel guilty. There comes a time, as in Biden’s case, that the adult in the room has to take charge. I blame Dr Jill and Hunter for not doing what was necessary.
Taking charge, however, puts the responsibility on that person making the decisions.
“I am beginning to see it in my father.”
Same here, mostly he’s getting forgetful. Also my mother, although it’s more physical than mental with her.
This is what took my father out. He hid it for as long as he could, as the smart sufferers do, but it showed up to everyone in the end.
I mean, this is outrageous. We were lied to.
Unprecedented!
lol They managed to find one RINO to furnish a quote in support of that boondoggle and then claim “bipartisan pushback”. 🙄
“Murkowski and McConnell were unavailable for comment.”
lol
they hid his incapacity and ran the country by committee. This is bigger than Watergate.
And, of course, it’s all about The Bomb, and not the carefree shovelling of hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of political allies and climate scammers.
Stacey Abrams tank getting $2b should have been a big fat scandal.
Should have known that the M1 tank was named after her.
Yep. That’s something isn it. Talk about not even pretending any more.
Well, the Empire doesn’t consider a
small one-man fighter to be any
threat, or they’d have a tighter
defense. An analysis of the plans
provided by Princess Leia has
demonstrated a weakness in the battle
station.
Sounds about right
Didnt Greta pull some shit like this before? She ‘sailed’ across the Atlantic and then back cuz oil only it turned out she flew and just stood on the boat for photo ops? The climate scam in a nutshell, that is.
I don’t know, I tuned the nagging potato out.
Nagging Potato would be a great costar for Annoying Orange.
I believe she did travel by boat, but the right wingers pointed out that her entourage (parents, handlers, media personnel) flew, so her crossing by sail caused a dozen people to fly over. Which is a bit specious because if she flew they still would have also, so her “sailing” did decrease the number of people flying.
Of course, the net additional carbon footprint of a single person on an airliner is decimal dust.
So, yeah, it was pure PR.
Of course the boat and all the equipment, less metal, are petroleum products. The metal parts required lots of the Big P to get out of the ground and turned into metal parts. I saw the pictures and she wasn’t dressed in wool like the vikings- all that gear was made from the the Big P as well.
Of course the Iranian regime wants nuclear weapons, because they are the best insurance against regime change and invasion. Why does anyone think the USA has nuclear weapons?
A lot of people think they’ll immediately nuke Israel with them – which seems kind of nuts to me.
Seems odd to me also, since doing that would get Iran immediately obliterated. I’ve been told that the Mullahs are apocalyptics who want to start a global conflagration, thereby summoning the 12th Imam who will establish righteousness and justice on the earth.
That’s a nonsensical attempt to qualify Iran as yet another bogeyman we must be frightened of and protected from.
To be fair, they are dangerous and sponsor lots of terrorism… I doubt they are an existential danger, though.
But, if they nuke Israel, they get to kill a bunch of Jews AND get the 77 virgins when they get retaliated on.
Why does it sound odd? They have repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel. This is a religious quest for the mullahs. Believe them when they say this is what they will do.
I guess we’ll find out. Yay.
Because we keep setting them off? The big booms convinced people.
Yes. That’s why everyone who can do so gets a nuclear arsenal.
Did anyone ask residents of western North Carolina what they thought of the “brains” among FEMA management?
One wonders what these types think is the “optimum” number of jobs at these agencies. Is there any upper limit at all…?
Well, I awoke from my nap at 8:57 and uh… (again) thought I overslept and was *four* hours late for work. I rushed out to get there. Upon my arrival: “Uh..don’t you work mornings?”
Ah, yes. ‘Twas *pm.* Well. No real harm/foul. Real alarm to go off in about six hours. *twiddles*
Your inability to daylight from darkness is . . . concerning.
I worked 3rd shift (2200-0600) for three years….
For a short time I worked rotating, days, afternoons, nights. A week at a time. My favorite was 3-11. In bed by midnight and have time in the morning to do something. Saved money by no time to hit the bars after work.
The crepuscular hours are odd for most creatures. They don’t call it Terror Twilight for nothin’. (Not the stellar Pavement album.) Wake up late on a workday? Pretty normal to fret in the fog and focus on getting out the door ASAP, rather than taking the time to observe the circumstances and come to the reasonable conclusion that dusk is doppel-ganging for dawn.
Fear of accumulating missed-work points is an understandable wrench to clog rational thought. I’m proud my sub and conscious mind prioritize work and other obligations, at least.
Revealing moment: I also tried to pay off a plasma donor when I fucked up and he wouldn’t be getting paid by the center that day. I felt really bad he was losing out on $ for my blunder and tried to hook him up. That wasn’t terribly wise. (To be fair, I *did* tell my mngr earlier that I was experiencing an epileptic funk and was ‘off.’ This is when I learned to have an Accommodations talk with work, explaining the occasional need to take 15-20 min to run ‘diagnostics’ and re-gather myself.)
I’ve had one mini ‘aura’ at work, and it was wise for me to previously have that chat with Walmart. It wasn’t a strong one, but it was wise to take a seat for self-systems analysis. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I also reserved some of the perfectly named “Nayzilam” in our bay, the nasal inhaler that’s supposed to act like Narcan when subduing epileptic symptoms.
Still haven’t had an ‘opportunity’ to use it, yet, and see how it works. Yes, I make sure to keep a dose in my car as well. Thankfully, it’s cuz I haven’t had a flare in a while. (Red Flag = olfactory hallucination. I get a whiff of that and I’ll pop right to snortin’ some pharma juice.)
@4×20+ Most of my teaching in Korea was ~3pm-11pm. Damn, that was good.
Biggest upshot? After work ya go out to band practice or bars to jam and chill. Frequently both! And ya *still* get to sleep in after going to bed at 3am. For a person with no kids? Pretty fabulous timing to squirrel about and perhaps *find* one’s own, particular, birthing person.
Daylight is for suckers.
I worked 3-11 during the 11 months I lived in California.
Prime dating years. I hated every minute of it. It took several more years for me to land a 9-5 job like a proper human.
PS. That was 3 nights a week. The other 2 nights were 11pm-7am. The less said about that horror the better.
Again?!
Every one of my clocks that can do so is set to military time.
🎶 Darlin’, don’t you go and cut your hair
Went to the range today with my old bird hunting partner. He wants to try his hand at deer hunting, and bought a .30-06, and a scope for it. I offered to use my culminator here at the house, but he had some laser bore sight thingy he wanted to use. According to him, it didn’t work, but I took a shot, and while it was on the paper, it still needed adjustment. Well, he figured the thingy would help him dial it in, but the next shot didn’t really work out: https://ibb.co/WNwDDpw1
He now has the nickname Lazer Eye.
(no one was hurt, thank god.)
Did he forget to remove the laser before taking the shot?
Yep.
OMG. I didn’t see the pic before my comment. That’s a whole nuther level of fucking up. He’s very lucky he wasn’t seriously hurt.
Meant to add – there’s no reason to take one to the range. They do nothing at 100 yards. Use them in your backyard at 25 yards to “rough in” your scope as much as you can, then go to the range to zero.
The one I use on my shotgun is actually quite good. We’ve also got one for the Tavor rifles that is probably within 5 (?) inches of zero. They’re a useful tool.
Like I said, I have a spud culminator, you can use it in the basement, where you are not even tempted to load the rifle. And it is a lot more accurate than any laser I have seen.
Lots of people screw up with laser boresighters. They very clearly say to use them on targets at 25 yards. Everybody tries to take them to the range and use them at 100 yards. The online reviews for them are chock full of idiots saying they couldn’t see the laser dot at 100 yards.
And, of course, their purpose isn’t really to zero your rifle. It’s to get you on paper. Trust me on this, there is nothing more frustrating than trying to zero a rifle that isn’t even on paper yet.
Oh, and the ones I use are cartridges, not the ones that go at the end of the barrel.
If you can’t get on paper at 100 yards go to 50.yards. Once you’re on paper the rest is fairly easy.
Move boldly, you can always move back. A little at a time just burns ammo.
I just bore sight by eye. Put rifle in rest. Adjust until target is in the barrel. Adjust scope to get on the paper. Zero in.
Is that thing made of pasta?
That’s some Looney Tunes level shit right there.
“Reckless? Hell, I shot just where I was aiming.”
Yikes. 😳
Spring is coming here in East Gulch. No rain until next Thu. and cold tomorrow but steadily increasing to the mid 80s yuck.
It’s weird that basic cable shows way more baseball, basketball, hockey, and football than… soccer. A sport everyone claims needs more attention before the upcoming World Cup.
Yeah… keep hiding it behind premium pay streams, that’ll work. 🙄
I have no idea how soccer cable rights work. But you can be assured it’s based on how team owners believe they can best maximize their revenue.
Yeah but then explain why cable is just fucking loaded with female sports these days.
There is more ladies’ soccer than men’s soccer now.
Because slush funds are paying for it. Nobody watches the majority of women’s sports. Tennis is a huge exception, and then others around the Olympics, like gymnastics or ice skating. Im sure there are some others. But the sport they’ve put the most money into, women’s basketball (which is fucking terrible), loses money hand over fist.
Love Riders on the Storm. I used to live around the corner from the Jim mural in Venice. Saw his grave* too, on a quiet day. Guy guarding it seemed to think it all very silly.
*iiiiif he’s in fact dead
Obligagoddamnedtory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xillqqt0Y0
Wakey-bakey, Glibbies.
It is, indeed, Sunday morning and not another Saturday repeat. I yearn for a chill morning. Ez has a soccer game after work and we may do some family shit. Colin’s back from civil court in Austin and has been awarded about $500k after he ‘asked’ for 1.8M, IIRC.
Kick ass, y’all.
Morning, fellow eccentric.
You put me in the mind to hear this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTTgpTeb0Z8
AT EVAN
I strongly approve.
*yawns*
Sup, my Glibs?
🥱🥩🥛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8KpkZe23G8
Lip synced awesomeness introduced by three Italian birds.
Have the one on the right bathed and brought to my room.
🎶🎶
Meanwhile…in Paris…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/paris-is-burning-mass-chaos-asmigrants-riot-streets/
I spent 5 years in France in the ’60s.
Train strikes, Algerians would demonstrate on rare occasions. Nothing like today.
How mass is “mass” chaos?
Depends on the camera perspective.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/06/01/watch-john-bolton-vows-to-resurrect-usaid-post-trump-n4940337
Why are we stuck with the same lame characters every season?
We deserve better.
So, he’s still doing the Catskills summer tour? I’m sure the women his age are lovin’ the ‘stache.
Not sure women, his ‘stache certainly smells of Lindsay Graham’s ass.
Kindly keep John Bolton away from the Catskills.
Morning all,
Summer here, maybe a bit of rain tomorrow evening. Garden is in and need water to get things started. Fortunately that can be handled by artificial means. Finally get a chance to cut the grass.
Bees are busy doing bee stuff, I’m not sure what they are finding, I don’t see any flowers yet but I’m not a bee.
🐝🐝🐝🙂
This Peewee documentary is awesome so far, for youse who get HBO. Where was all this lovely crisp HD footage when ah were a lass?
Mornin, Sean and 4x. Maybe back to bed.
Good morning, TO’G, Sean, 4(20), Ted’S., and EfE!
Morning.