Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Running late for work…

Running late for work, coffee in ha, mentally preparing for the day - 
and then three sandhill cranes are standing in the middle of the road like they’re conducting a city council meeting. Not crossing. Not moving.
Just standing there. Staring at me. One of them actually took two slow steps toward my car like it was about to ask for my license and registration. At this point I’m not commuting anymore.
I’m just waiting for the wildlife to adjourn the meeting. Welcome to Florida.

Thanks to Life in Florida for the inspiraion.


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Did that saying about 'denying history' come from England? Well, they sure are re-writing it...

 
British wartime leader Winston Churchill is set to be removed from the UK £5 banknote and replaced with wildlife imagery. Nadeem Perera, a member of the Bank of England’s wildlife advisory panel, called the move “overdue,” saying Britain’s wildlife is deeply connected to the nation’s culture.
 

Current banknotes feature major historical figures including Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, J.M.W. Turner, and Alan Turing. The Bank of England will now ask the public to help choose which animals appear on the redesigned notes.
If it wasn't for the trees, they'd all be speaking German.

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I knew I liked Stephen A. Smith......

Because, unlike most of us, he's not afraid to call a Spade a Spade - literally and figuratively. After Kamala Harris told Black voters “I told you so,” Stephen A. Smith fired back: “We supported you when you didn’t necessarily earn our support. You didn’t go through a primary. Black folks still supported you.
Why you keep standing in our face talking about you told us so? Like somehow some way we went against you and we didn’t believe you and we didn’t support you. Yes, we did. Yes, we did. In some cases, against our better judgment, we still supported you.”
And look where that got them, right Stephen?

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Never, ever give up on a bad idea...

 
The floating solar system will primarily generate electricity for the commission’s water treatment operations, which serve millions of residents in northern New Jersey. Any excess electricity produced by the installation will be sent to the local power grid, providing renewable energy to nearby communities.
The project previously faced obstacles after it was rejected in 2024 because of environmental and safety concerns tied to the reservoir’s location within the Highlands Preservation Area. After revisions and additional 'coordination with regulators', the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved the project in March 2026 through the state’s Competitive Solar Incentive Program. The development required oversight from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection due to the strict protections governing the Highlands region.
The Wanaque Reservoir provides drinking water for over 2 million residents in northeastern New Jersey, primarily serving Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Passaic, Clifton, Kearny, Montclair, and other parts of Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, and Union counties. It is managed by the North Jersey District Water Supply.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Wanna risk death? Take the stairs...

 
An elevator is a platform, either enclosed or open, designed to lift freight to higher floors inside a building. Elevators tend to be a uniform element of any tall residential or commercial building, and have even made their way into homes.
But since elevators are a vehicle of the masses, they are automatically prone to accidents, some of which can be gruesome. This raises the question: How dangerous are they? The answer might surprise you. As it turns out, elevators are actually safer than stairs!
In the US, elevators make 18 billion passenger-filled trips every year, as per ConsumerWatch.com. The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission projects that all those yearly elevator malfunctions lead to around 27 deaths on average. Not surprisingly, a majority of people at risk are the mechanics whose job is to fix those faulty elevators. As calculated by the LA Times, elevator fatality rate rounds of to 0.00000015% per trip in general. This percentage is even lower when it comes to the general public.
 

On the other hand, approximately 1,600 people succumb to death or debilitating injuries after falling down the stairs, as per data collected from the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics.

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Sure, she'll write a book, but who would buy it? Hunter?

She says she'll explain a lot of things that haven't been explained properly in the past. I'm sure there'll be some plot twisting in that approach. 
She'll talk about her 'years of service to the country'. Okay, was she elected to something somewhere that I haven't heard about? So some dickhead publisher is gonna give her god-knows how many millions of dollars to have some hack ghost-write a 300 page tome that won't say a single thing of value - or interest.
 Honestly - seriously - who the fuck would want to read her bullshit? Two things I look forward to. Seeing her on CBS Sunday morning and 60 Minutes plugging it, and I wonder what the betting line is that Joe doesn't make it to any of her book signings. Juss' sayin'...

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Was yesterday a 'typical' Tuesday here in Florida? Sorta...

 
This isn’t a meme. This is just a normal Florida weather schedule, and anyone who lives here has experienced every panel of it on what started as a perfectly normal Tuesday. At 8:00 AM, you walk outside and it’s already 85 degrees with humidity so thick it feels like you’re breathing soup. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and someone down the street is already mowing their lawn while three lizards scatter across the driveway. Because in Florida… mornings start early and sweaty.
By 11:00 AM, the sky suddenly turns gray out of nowhere. Dark clouds roll in like they were summoned by a wizard, and within minutes a tropical downpour starts hammering the neighborhood. Not a gentle rain either - the kind that floods the street in ten minutes and has everyone running from the grocery store parking lot with bags over their heads.
Then 2:00 PM rolls around and Florida acts like nothing ever happened. The clouds vanish. The sun comes out blazing again. Steam is rising off the pavement like the road itself is cooking. It’s 92 degrees, the pool is full, and someone is grilling while a kid rides by on a bike like the storm never existed.
 

That’s when Florida reminds you who’s really in charge. By 6:00 PM, thunder starts cracking across the sky, lightning flashes every few seconds, and the entire radar map turns bright red. Palm trees are bending sideways, rain is blowing sideways, and the weather alert on your phone won’t stop screaming.
And somewhere in the middle of it all, a Florida dad is standing in the driveway watching the lightning saying: “Storm’s coming - but it’ll pass.” Meanwhile the weather app quietly updates tomorrow’s forecast to “Sunny with scattered thunderstorms.”
See you again in the morning, Florida.

Graphic courtesy of Life in Florida




We can't beat the US, so fuck it - let's fight the whole world...

They may be running out of missiles, but it seems they do have a shitload of mines they want to lay in the Straight of Harmuz to shut down global oil shipping from the middle east. US forces obliterated several Iranian navy vessels - including 16 minelayers - near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday as President Trump warned the Islamic Republic against planting explosives along the critical global trade route. The strikes came amid reports that Iran had already begun laying mines along the vital shipping lane — which carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply - despite Trump’s demands that it remain open and unaffected as tensions with the US and Israel escalate.
What a brilliant tactic if ya think about it. Why deal with just the one super power who's in the process of beating the fuckin' snot out of you when you can piss off the entire rest of the world? Makes perfect sense, defensively speaking, doesn't it?
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Know that feeling when you just got out of the shower and you're all dried off and putting you drawers on and your foot gets caught in the undies and you start falling over and realize if you try to stop your fall you'll spill your beer? 
 
That's me every day.
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Got up to 95 yesterday. A welcome relief from the past two months.
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After listening to Biden's first SOTU speech, I thought for sure the country was fucked seven ways to Saturday and I said as much on FB. Little did I know HOW fucked we really were gonna be behind his 'leadership'. History, properly written, will not be kind at all to that jackwagon. Hey, Uncle Joe - how's that Presidential Library thing goin' for ya?
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FOX - Secretary of State Marco Rubio and New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are both hopeful about becoming their party’s presidential nominee in 2028. They both have a shot. Odds-makers place the New York congresswoman second only to California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the race to be the Democratic nominee (HOLY FUCK!), while President Donald Trump, asked whether Vice President JD Vance is his chosen successor, has more than once suggested that Rubio is also in the running.
Recently, both spoke at the Munich Security Conference. While Rubio earned well-deserved applause from policymakers at home and abroad for his speech, Ocasio-Cortez showed she was not ready for prime time - not even close.
In what may prove a preview of the presidential race two years from now, Rubio and Ocasio-Cortez squared off on geopolitics. For Rubio, the occasion was another opportunity to articulate President Trump’s foreign policy vision - one that embraces American leadership powered by a strong military, a forceful trade agenda, energy independence and a robust economy. And, as we have seen, the Trump White House is not shy about using that military. Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez delivered remarks at a forum on the sidelines of the Munich conference and reminded us why she should not be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office. 
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It was a big deal, to be "let out of the car", brought into a store and allowed to take a coke out of a machine to drink. You remember the big Coke coolers, right? The old kind, where you lifted the lid, reached into ice cold water, pulled one out, used the cap remover on the side pushing the bottle down, drinking it. leaving the empty in the wood box nearby. 
The only reason I would ever get in a car back then to go anywhere except church I was always told to sit in the back seat. Not everyone had the luxury of sitting up front. One of my brothers would always be able to call "shotgun", long before I ever knew we were going somewhere. 
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Angry skies...

 

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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Everybody needs to hear a nice story about nice people once in a while. Here's one...

An Olympic medal became a lifeline for a baby in need after a champion chose compassion over personal glory.
Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk auctioned her Tokyo 2020 silver medal to help fund heart surgery for 8 month old Miłoszek Małysa. According to ESPN she saw a fundraiser for the child and decided to sell the only Olympic medal she had ever won. She wrote on Facebook that the medal could serve a greater purpose by helping save a life. A Polish supermarket chain Żabka won the auction with a bid of $125,000.
The baby's family had raised about half of the $385,000 needed for surgery ESPN reported. Andrejczyk's contribution significantly boosted the total. In a further act of generosity Żabka returned the medal to her after completing the purchase. Andrejczyk a cancer survivor said a medal is only an object but can hold value for others. Her decision transformed a personal achievement into a powerful act of giving that inspired people around the world.
Sadly, the child finally succumbed to the disease, but man, what a noble gesture on her part.

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Sooner or later, everybody'll leave. Who'll pay the bills then, geniuses?

It’s not just families and retirees fleeing the government of New Jersey. Now, one of the state’s most dominant and historically tied corporations are leaving too, according to a report today by Reuters. Exxon Mobil is seeking to move its corporate registration from New Jersey to Texas, marking a symbolic shift for the company whose roots date back to the early days of the U.S. oil industry.
The proposal, disclosed in a proxy filing Tuesday, would redomicile the company in Texas, where Exxon’s headquarters has been located since 1989. If approved by shareholders, the change would make Exxon the latest major corporation to register in Texas instead of states traditionally used for corporate incorporation.
• Exxon Mobil plans to shift its corporate registration from New Jersey to Texas
• Move would align its legal home with its Texas headquarters
• Company has faced climate-related lawsuits, including a case filed by New Jersey
 

There's a great line from an old Ten Years After song that says "Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'till there are no rich no more."
That's what so many of these deep blue States are doing. They're creating tax and punish emvironments that big businesses don't have to put up with just because of proximity. But we all know if there's one thing Democrats don't do - it's learn from their mistakes. Juss' sayin'...
 



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Running late for work…

Running late for work, coffee in ha, mentally preparing for the day -  and then three sandhill cranes are standing in the middle of the road...