The View from Lady Lake

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Scat goes roach hunting. A twisted tale...

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Do you live 'in the now'? Maybe. Maybe not...

Essentially, ‘living in the now’ means: Ensuring that your awareness is completely centred on the here and now. You are not worrying about the future or thinking about the past. When you live in the now, you are living where life is happening.

Be aware of your present. Being conscious of what’s going on around you and inside you while you go through your day. Paying attention to your life as it unfolds in the present moment.

Realize that life only happens in the present. ‘Past’ and ‘future’ are only concepts. You cannot live in the past or in the future – you can only live in the now.

Have the understanding that the past and future are illusions – they don’t exist. As the saying goes “Tomorrow never comes”. Tomorrow is only a concept. Tomorrow never comes because time is always now.

Have you ever been so engrossed in something that it seemed like everything else just disappeared? Living in the moment is about creating that state of mind at any time. It’s about slowing down, and trying to savour the present. Didja get all that?

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He most definitely said he's 'trans'. He also said he 'identified' to make a point...

He's trying to score a different kind of point. Former NBA player Royce White plans to declare for the 2027 WNBA Draft - the second former pro to test the league’s policy on trans athletes. White, 35, a Republican candidate for US Senate who only played three games in his short NBA career, made the announcement on Friday on the heels of former first round draft pick and Knicks center Enes Kanter Freedom’s declaration earlier in the day.

“I’m transgender. I’m a woman… I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for purposes of… professional basketball,” White told Fox News. Of course it's all tongue in cheek - he, along with Royce White, mean to shoot down the hypocrasy of the WNBA's support of trans shit.

White is on the ballot in Minnesota’s Aug. 11 Republican primary for Senate.

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This jackass was almost our friggin' Governor...

A month after he was arrested on drug charges in Alabama, Florida politician Andrew Gillum is behind bars again. The former Tallahassee mayor and 2018 Florida gubernatorial nominee was arrested in July on possession of methamphetamine and other drug charges. Gillum was released the day after his arrest, but he has now been jailed again after allegedly missing a drug screen and then later testing positive for meth, per TMZ and the Tallahassee Democrat.

On Thursday, Aug. 6, the 47-year-old Democrat - who narrowly lost Florida’s 2018 gubernatorial race to now-Gov. Ron DeSantis - was booked into the Baldwin County jail, according to jail records. The 2018 election was this close:

Thank God for small margins. I cannot imagine what it would have been like had he been elected - especially during and after COVID. DeSantis is real conservative - a genuine rock star, plain and simple...

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This HillBetty's bustin' out, allright...

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This absolutely will not end well...

New Orleans is preparing to let artificial intelligence help answer certain 911 calls, raising new questions about whether computers should play a role when Americans need emergency assistance. Officials say the system will not replace human dispatchers or handle serious crimes, shootings, medical emergencies, or other life-threatening situations. Instead, it is designed to manage repeat calls about incidents that emergency officials already know about.

The AI system can identify when a caller is near a reported traffic accident and ask whether the person is calling about that same crash. If the caller only wants information or is confirming that the accident has already been reported, the system may provide an update and free a human dispatcher for a more urgent call. If the caller is involved in the crash, has new information, is confused, or needs additional help, the call will be transferred to a live operator.

Officials say the goal is to reduce overwhelming call surges and help human dispatchers focus on emergencies where every second matters. New Orleans handles a large volume of emergency calls, and staffing shortages have made it harder for call centers to keep up. Supporters say using AI for repetitive calls could reduce wait times and put trained professionals back on the most serious emergency lines.

Make a call to any business these days and you'll most likely be talking to a computer that tries to sound real. You know how frustrating it is to have to scream in to the phone

"I WANT TO TALK TO A FUCKING HUMAN BEING!!!"

How could this system - in a way - be any better for anyone who's in trouble. This AI shit is a slippery slope, my friends...

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Cramming in a lot of stuff on a nice summer day...

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You have to do something really stupid to piss off a hippo...

A boat filled with tourists hoping to witness some of the wildlife that makes Africa an unforgettable vacation destination got exactly what they came for - along with a little fright along the way.

A tourist's video footage captured the moment a massive hippo charged after a tour boat in Botswana, racing through the water in hot pursuit of the escaping boat. The tour boat was traveling along the waterway when the group spotted a lone male hippo in the distance, prompting the captain to slow down to avoid disturbing the territorial animal.

“After watching his behavior for a moment, he calmly said, ‘Hold on - we need to speed up now before he decides to come after us,’” said Oznur Bell, the tourist who captured the moment on camera. “The moment we accelerated, we looked back and realized the hippo was chasing us.”

The big ugly fuckers can move - on land and in the water it seems.

Rule No. 1 - Don't fuck with the hippo...

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Are FLOCK cameras a privacy invasion?

Rep. Thomas Massie is preparing a bill that would block federal funding for cities and police departments using Flock cameras and similar automatic license plate readers. Massie says the technology amounts to mass surveillance of law-abiding Americans and threatens basic privacy rights. His proposal would use federal money as leverage to stop local governments from building massive databases that track where drivers travel.

The cameras photograph passing vehicles and record license plate numbers, vehicle descriptions, and the time and location of each sighting. Supporters say the technology helps police solve crimes, find stolen cars, locate missing people, and issue Amber Alerts. Critics argue that innocent Americans can be tracked even when they are not suspected of committing any crime.

The company said its technology supported more than one million investigations in 2025 and helped locate more than 10,000 missing people.

The fight now comes down to one major question: how much privacy should Americans give up in exchange for stronger policing? Massie says law enforcement should face tougher limits, while police officials call the cameras valuable tools that help officers do more with limited resources. The bill is still in its early stages, and formal language has not yet been released, but it is already setting up a major battle over privacy, public safety, and government surveillance.

Sources: Facebook Florida Hillbilly | Newsweek | Flock Safety

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I finally get that whole 'suspenders' thing...

Ya seem 'em no matter where you are. Those old, beer-belly-out-to-there guys wearing suspenders to hold up their pants. I always thought that was legit - well, at least up until recently I did. Now that I'm not quite as 'active' as I usta be, I've noticed that my pants start slipping down on me - even with a belt on kinda snug-ish. Mentioned it to the Babs last night and she said 'If you haven't noticed you have no ass at all any more'. It must be true. Not having access to a full-length mirror, I have no way to check it out, so I'll just take her word for it, and I'll keep hitchin' up my shorts...

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The Simpsons don't cut anybody any slack...

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There aren't many Legion Posts that can match up with the one I belong to. Granted it's a five hour ride from here, but I do manage to get down there a couple times a year. It's a converted classic Florida ranch house in the middle of a residential area off the beaten path, sitting on a side-road. Not a lot of parking, but it does have a pretty killer back yard BBQ and party setup. Ice cold beers, good company and great stories - what more could a guy want?

Oh - and for the record, the Lady Lake, Florida Post is the largest in the country, and they can kiss my fuckin' ass. That's a story I may or may not get in to at some point.

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There's all kinds old guy car nuts down here in The Villages. Guy up the street from me has an almost identical jeep to this one, fully restored and really cool looking - minus the mounted machine guns, of course. He told me it's a 1951 model that he himself shipped back from Korea after the war was ended, and he's had it ever since. That, in itself, is impressive as fuckall.

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and they are super comfortable.

See them on sale for yourself here.

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People of Indian descent own an estimated 50% to 70% of all 7-Eleven franchise locations in the United States. Official corporate demographic breakdowns by exact nationality are not published by 7-Eleven, but industry and cultural reports consistently point to this high percentage of ownership.

South Asian Americans - predominantly immigrants from Gujarat and Punjab - own close to half of the entire independent convenience store and gas station market across the U.S. Because 7-Eleven relies heavily on franchising where individual stores are independently owned and operated, it historically served as an accessible path to business ownership for new immigrant communities.

While Indian and South Asian ownership is exceptionally high in major metro areas and regions like the Northeast, Midwest, and Texas, other immigrant groups hold higher ownership shares in alternative geographic pockets - such as Filipino owners in parts of the West.

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These are members of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (comprised largely of Bosnian Muslims) at prayer during training in Neuhammer, Germany, in November 1943.

Formed in 1943, the division was made up primarily of Bosnian Muslim volunteers alongside Catholic Croat soldiers, led mostly by German and ethnic German (Volksdeutsche) officers. It was the first non-Germanic division created within the Waffen-SS. Heinrich Himmler and Nazi leadership promoted the recruitment of Muslim units in the Balkans primarily for counter-insurgency operations against Josip Broz Tito’s Partisans in Yugoslavia.

The division was named Handschar after a traditional scimitar/knife symbol used in the region. Units within the division were appointed their own military imams.

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Ya got both sides of the gun argument in this one story. The obvious thing is that only good people with guns can stop bad guys with guns. The other side of the equation is debatable as to the whack-job who gets the gun and does shit like this. Would he have done something heinous if he only had access to a machette or a broad sword? Can't say for sure, but it does happen often enough. They still haven't been able to figure out why this jerkoff did what he did - as if, after the fact, anybody gives a shit about 'causation'. Juss' sayin'...

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