The View from Lady Lake: We know - or knew - no one was looking out for us...

Friday, February 17, 2023

We know - or knew - no one was looking out for us...

But jeez - I'da thought at least somebody at NASA

was looking UP for us...

Hey, NASA - we need to know about this shit before the fact, not afterwards. Earn your money ferfucksake!

NASA confirmed a 1,000-pound fireball was seen over Mission, Texas, - a day after the fact - on Wednesday after residents reported loud bangs and shaking homes. The space administration presented its findings on Thursday after officials warned locals not to touch any debris from potential meteorites.

According to Nasa, preliminary information led its experts to believe the "meteoroid" - which becomes a meteor when it burns up in the earth's atmosphere and a meteorite when it hits the ground - was about two feet in diameter and weighed roughly 1,000 pounds.

They went onto confirm "radar and other data indicate that meteorites did reach the ground from this event." Mission Police in South Texas was flooded with calls just before 5.30pm on Wednesday, according to Police Chief Cesar Torres.

Residents reported a loud boom and said that their houses were shaking, prompting panic around the city. Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said Houston Air Traffic Control received two reports from aircraft of a meteorite sighting west of McAllen. A point of impact is unknown

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One more shot - an intriguing, almost innocent pose.

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Trust me - this is worth ten minutes of your time...
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Here's another one of those 'study' jobs

I'da liked to have gotten on board with...

Now geographers say there may be 7,000 more of them. Japan conducted a recount of its islands amid criticism that the data was old and inaccurate. Geographers took another look and the number of islands is expected to more than double.

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A 3-year-old boy shot and killed himself with a handgun Wednesday at a home near DeLand, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said the shooting happened at 6:22 p.m. at a home in the 2400 block of Nectarine Road in Daytona Park Estates.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood held a news conference Thursday and said the boy got ahold of the firearm in a bedroom nightstand while home with his two other siblings, a 16-year-old and 7-year-old. He said the parents left to go shop for food at Publix and left the 16-year-old in charge.

It's simple. If there are kids in your house - at any time, even visitors - you MUST secure your weapon.

Kids are idiots. Shit like this happens too often, and it shouldn't.

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This is politics as usual for these jerkoffs. It's not 'gamesmanship', it's just an every day 'fuck you' from one of the biggest jerkoffs in Congress - the human blimp himself, Jerry Nadler. Think about this - imagine how hateful the people of his district must be as a whole that they keep re-electing this tub of shit.

Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) announced Thursday that committee Democrats would not attend an official border hearing next week in Arizona, misleadingly claiming “there was no consultation” with them about it.

Nadler, along with 'Squad' member Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who serves as ranking member on the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee, said in a statement:

"Next week, Judiciary Republicans will hold their second stunt hearing on border security. Despite the importance of this issue, there was no consultation with Judiciary Democrats, many of whom have already committed attending other bipartisan congressional delegation trips."

The Democrats’ claim of a lack of “consultation” comes after committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced to Nadler and the other Democrats the dates of the hearing and that it would take place at the border on February 1, three weeks ahead of the scheduled event and two weeks earlier than House rules require.

Republicans on the committee were quick to call Nadler and Jayapal’s statement “fake news” and shared a clip of Jordan announcing the hearing on social media.

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I had a friend - long since dead - who usta love

to go to the Newark Drive-In Theater and steal speakers. He had about thirty of them in his basement - all rigged up together - and those were the music system for his tunes in the downstairs bar. He was a lot of fun to hang with, but a seriously twisted fuck just the same. We all had at least one friend like Shopp, didn't we?

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