If it wasn't doom and gloom - oh, and Trump - would there be anything worth reporting?

Every day - every single fuckin' day, we see yet another 'it's the end  of the wrold aswe know it' news item like this one. UK scientists (the UK? WTF do they know about volcanoes?) raised alarm bells after drawing up an apocalyptic play-by-play detailing what would happen if the famed Yellowstone supervolcano blew its stack. 

“A super-eruption on this scale would be a threat to civilization as we know it,” wrote the authors in a recent piece for The Conversation. According to these guys, The volcanic formation, which sits underneath the 30-by-45-mile Yellowstone Caldera, is among the most studied on Earth due to its potential for a supereruption when a volcano ejects over 230 cubic miles of magma, rock, and ash.

Nonetheless, they point out that “volcanoes do not work in predictable ways and their eruptions do not follow predictable schedules.” 

So, you conjured up this theoretical time-bomb, and the dismiss by saying it might not happen. Well played. I hope somebody paid y'all a shitload of pounds to come up with this drek. Jeez...

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Perspective? Or retrospective...

 
I'm a classic baby boomer, born in 1953. What events have I witnessed in my lifetime? Born way back when, I've witnessed (not all personally, but) a historic span of immense social, technological, and political transformation, from the Cold War dawn to the digital age.

In '53, the double-helix structure of DNA was discovered, and the first issue of Playboy was printed.

1954: The televised Army-McCarthy hearings played out on growing numbers of household television sets.

1955: Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.

1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, kicking off the historic Space Race.

The 60's brought us: John F. Kennedy was elected U.S. President - the first catholic to ever hold that position, although, based on his reputation, not exactly a strident Catholic.

1961: The Berlin Wall went up, and Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

1963: Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington, and President Kennedy was assassinated. Beatlemania also swept the globe as the British Invasion began.

1968: Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, and massive anti-war and civil rights protests peaked globally.

1969: Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon, and the counterculture culminated at the Woodstock music festival. 

In 1974, The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected.

In 1991, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved, effectively ending the Cold War.

The 90's gave us the rise of the commercial internet and personal computers completely revolutionized modern work and communication.

Finally, I'm sure I missed a few high and low points, but it's still a lot. Hurray for me and anyone like me - we've navigated the post-9/11 security era, the advent of smartphones and social media, and a rapidly globalized 21st-century world. And then again, there was covid. Yikes...

Changing places?

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They called her the 'Sun Queen'...

When pilots and sailors were shot down or torpedoed in the Pacific, they often died not from the crash, but from thirst. Adrift on life rafts, surrounded by water they couldn't drink, dehydration killed them before rescue could arrive. 

A Hungarian-American scientist named Mária Telkes solved it with a device that fit inside the raft. A lightweight, inflatable still that used nothing but sunlight to evaporate seawater and condense it into fresh drinking water. It became standard emergency equipment, saving countless lives.

Most people have never heard her name. She was called the "Sun Queen," registered over 20 patents, and later built the world's first solar-heated home. But her most important invention was the one that turned sunlight into survival.

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Oh, c'mon NY Post - tell us how you really feel...

In a blistering editorial attack yesterday, the Posts'  Liel Leibovitz didn't mince words about this candy-ass jackwagon folding to pressure, but pressure from who? Nobody's quite sure.

Leibovitz wasn't cutting him any slack. In his editorial, he came out guns blazing. "Ed Sheeran’s opening number at his Saturday night show in Philadelphia was a reminder that even our most gifted songwriters are often intellectual and moral halfwits.  Rather than sing - which is what people pay him a lot of money to do - Sheeran slouched onto the darkened stage and delivered a monologue.

He had mishandled the most recent controversy, he said, referring to a slow-rolling PR disaster that began with his opening act, Macklemore, ranting about “Palestine”; continued with venues threatening cancellation; and ended with all opening acts quitting the tour and demand for tickets dropping so rapidly that promoters had to slash prices by as much as 50%.

Why are people losing interest in Sheeran? Left-wing media would have you believe it’s because tens of thousands of Americans are passionate exclusively about Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and only support entertainment produced by artists who stand with Hamas. A more likely reason: Most people just want to enjoy good music, not whiny lectures by know-nothing ninnies."

Buy that man a beer - or two. He fuckin' nailed what all of us wish we could say publicly...

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Perspective's bitchin' again. Ain't that a bitch?

President Trump announces that the U.S. will take the lead on Greenland’s security under a new agreement with Denmark and Greenland. The island remains politically separate, with Washington assuming primary defense responsibilities and the authority to restrict foreign military activity there without U.S. approval. This marks a major strategic shift in one of the most important regions on Earth.

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A Cornell University study said the Universe will end in a contraction they call the Big Crunch, reversing the Big Bang that created the universe. 

Long before that, they said the Sun will burn out in one billion years. That means California will have to complete the High Speed Rail project in the dark. 

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Nazi Muslims? Seriously? You betcha...

Islam's Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, a 22 year old Muslim who admired Hitler's hatred of the Jews and persistently wrote to Hitler to express his admiration and his desire for Hitler's Nazi Party to collaborate with Islam.

When Hitler rose to power, his Nazis supported al-Banna, a school teacher, to grow the Muslim Brotherhood into its ally in the Middle East; by 1938, the membership of Muslim Brotherhood topped 200,000.

During World War II, members of the Muslim Brotherhood spied for Hitler's Nazis in the Middle East and fought for Hitler as Nazi troops in two specially formed Muslim Waffen-SS Handschar Divisions (see Religion of Peace). 'Handschar' is German for scimitar, the curved saber used by the Islamic troops of the Ottoman empire.

Above is Hitler with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and a close ally of al-Banna, in Berlin, where he lived as Hitler's VIP guest from 1941 to 1945 before joining al-Banna in Egypt in 1946. 

Bosnian Muslims of the 13th Waffen Gebirgs Division der SS Handschar at prayer during their training at Neuhammer, 1943. 

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Best as I can tell, I think I've only seen one of the finales, and I'm not even sure of that one - It was the Newhart one where he wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette (what a major babe). That was pretty good, even as a rerun.

Well, actually, I did see the final MASH episode, but again - I saw it on YouTube probably ten years or more after it was on TV. I watch so little TV, going back to the late 80's when we moved from NJ to the Virgin Islands. Back then, there was only one broadcast TV channel on St. Thomas, and you might imagine what that programming was all about. More times than not, we didn't even watch TV, we'd rent a VCR tape and watch that over two or three days. To my mind, TV's good for one thing - falling asleep to. Juss' sayin'...

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The Yankees are nearing a deal that would eventually hand a whopping 16% stake in the venerable franchise to private equity giant Apollo Global Management. The Steinbrenner family would relinquish a “de minimis” slice of its controlling equity, finalizing a transaction that will give the famed franchise a new, cash-rich partner.

The partnership structure makes Apollo the Yankee’s biggest equity owner after the Steinbrenner family, which will still own a bit more than 60% of the team. Apollo’s $2.6 billion cash injection into Yankees involves both a debt and equity investment, and values the team at significantly more than $12 billion. 

Money makes money make money, etc., etc., etc. How about 

them $ 16.00 hotdogs and $ 22.00 beers, huh?

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President Trump claims FBI files show that his attempted assassination in 2024 was part of a partisan plot to knock him out of the race. 

Trump was only grazed in the ear because he turned his head to the right before the shot. A Democrat U.S. judge just ordered Trump to keep his head still from now on. 

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Good morning...

 
Sunrise on the right side of Islamorada. Somebody left the tree lights on a little too long. Remember the old adage 'Red sky in morning, sailor take warning. Red sky atnight, sailor's delight'. And yes - it rained that whole day. What else was there to do?

 Went and had a humongous breakfast at Doc's Diner up on Key Largo, went back to the apartment and fell back asleep. Went back up to Key Largo that afternoon and went to the American Legion post there, stayed entirely too long and ended up taking an Uber back to the apartment. 

Next morning I hitch-hiked back up to get our car at the Post. A VERY non-productive day if ever there was one. A day well spent, I'd say...

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What's it gonna be girl, yes or no?

Like a sound track from a rock 'n roll documentary, we all wanna know - will she stay or will she go now? If she stays it will be trouble, and if she goes, who knows? New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has admitted to The Post that she’s playing the waiting game, seeing how lefties fare in the midterms before deciding on a possible US Senate or White House run.

“I will be making any of those considerations after the midterms,” she said last week. The far-left loon - who is backed by such extremists as controversial streamer Hasan Piker - added she’d be out helping House and Senate candidates in the midterm elections. “I think we’ll learn a lot in November,” she said.

But regardless of the outcome of those races, more and more Democrats are starting to see the radical four-term congresswoman from New York as a frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

It's hard to imagine that so many people can be so deluded to honestly believe she's be a viable enough, tough and savvy enough candidate for the single-most important job on the entire fuckin' planet, but then again, 

they sho'nuff be's a lotta frikkin' loonies over on dat side de aisle, Massa...

Out with the old, in with the stupid...

You hear it before you really think about it. “Watch the tram car, please.” On Saturday, that echo was less prominent as some of the new ev’s on the boardwalk didn’t play it. It’s another sign of the changing of New Jersey’s Boardwalks, once filled with games of chance, restaurants, video game arcades, light gun saloons, and classic Americana. 

It has been replaced with “arcades” full of claw machines and plushies, tattoo parlors, weed shops, souvenir stands, and corporate branding. The changing of the tram cars is just the latest nail in the Americana coffin at the Jersey Shore. There was no “watch the tram car” for this ride.

Seeing the new electric vehicles work the Boardwalk during a packed Wildwoods Air Show weekend, something felt different. For generations, those five words have been part warning, part soundtrack and part inside joke shared by just about everyone who has walked the Wildwood Boardwalk. The voice is still there in 2026. The yellow-and-blue passenger cars are still rolling along behind it.

I know how I sound like an old fart when I say shit like this, but I can't help it sometimes. I can remember, as a kid, my Mom and Dad taking us kids on that tram car train as if it was one of the rides on the piers, and it lasted almost a half hour all the way up and back. The cost back then? Ten cents. A dime apiece. Best deal on the boardwalk. Wanna ride it today? How about $ 5.00 a head. from ten cents to five bucks in a short 65 years. Go figure...