Saturday, May 31, 2025
250 milliion illegals trying to cross the border from Canada? Yup - it's true. Depends on which way the wind blows...
Officials near the US border were abuzz after being relentlessly attacked on Friday morning by a swarm of fugitives: honeybees had escaped after a truck carrying hives overturned near the Canadian border. About 250 million honeybees flew free of the truck around 4am a few miles south of Canada.
The truck that was transporting around 70,000lbs of hives and honeybees rolled over on a road in north-western Washington state. Local sheriff deputies and bee experts swarmed to the scene, where they removed the box hives to help recover and rescue as many bees as possible. The driver of the truck was not injured.
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They're going to start WWIII, but they won't want to fight in it...
Megha Vemuri, a 2025 MIT graduate, sparked nationwide debate with her commencement speech criticizing MIT's ties to the Israeli military and advocating for Palestine. Wearing a keffiyeh (she was born in India, so WTF is her problem?), she voiced her concerns about 'institutional suppression' and contrasted the graduation with Gaza's devastation. While some graduatgot pissed off and walked out.
Vemuri’s contentious remarks led to her being barred from attending Friday’s undergraduate ceremony, an MIT spokesperson said, noting that the speech she delivered 'was not the version submitted in advance to university officials'.
“MIT supports free expression but stands by its decision, which was in response to the individual deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and leading a protest from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony,” the university said.
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of jewelery my wife creates that make perfect gifts.
Click on the picture to see what she has in her store today, and thanks!
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'Bless me Father for I have smoked...'
The First Church of Cannabis was founded in 2015 by Bill Levin in response to Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The church claims that cannabis is an essential part of their religious practices and should be free from government interference. The church is located in Indianapolis and does not preach one singular dogma.
There is also the International Church of Cannabis, located in Denver, which uses cannabis as a sacrament to elevate people to a higher understanding of self. This church is open to people of any faith and promotes a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space for members to explore new ideas and beliefs with the help of marijuana. While cannabis is not specifically mentioned in the Bible, it has been used for thousands of years in India in the worship of the god Shiva.
How come somebody here in Florida can't come up with something like this? As a semi-failed catholic boy, I've been searching for the better part of 60 years to find a church that can fill my soul with religious fervor. Or something like that...
I found this in Belfast a long time ago.
It's the best tea I've ever tasted.
It's not cheap, but trust me - it's worth it.
There's some serious HillBettyin' goin' on with this one...
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Buy this for you wife. Or your
daughter. Or your girlfriend.
You don't need a reason.
They'll love you for it...
Click on the picture for more information on this beautiful bracelet.
It's a one of a kind gift - and it comes to you with free shipping!
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A dried up old prune? Wow - that musta hurt...
The culture wars have arrived in New Jersey, the state of Frank Sinatra, Jon Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston, comedian Jon Stewart, The Sopranos, and yours truly. Springsteen – 'revered' for songs such as Born In The USA, Glory Days, Dancing In The Dark and Born To Run – has long been seen as a balladeer of the state’s blue collar workers. But last year, many of those same workers voted for the president. Now their split loyalties are being put to the test. Opening a recent tour in Manchester in Britain, Springsteen told his audience: “The America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.” He repeated the criticisms at later concerts.
He's nothing but another angry old man who thinks his shit doesn't stink (think Neil Young). Go grow your Christmas trees, you bullshit farmer. We don't need you anymore. And you haven't 'sung' a song in 30 years, so shut the fuck up...
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Here's a great idea for a gift that's both
truly unique and very affordable...
Click on the picture for more information on these beautiful earrings.
They're only $ 20.00 - and come to you with free shipping!
It doesn't have to be Valentines Day to show her you love her.
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When up is down and down is up, wuddya do?
Unlike on Earth, where gravity dictates "down," space lacks a universal gravitational pull to define up and down. Astronauts navigate using celestial bodies as reference points, such as the sun, Earth, or other planets. Directions in space are relative to the observer and the chosen reference point. There is no absolute "up" or "down" that applies to everyone.
Objects in orbit, like the International Space Station (ISS), are in a state of free fall, constantly falling towards the Earth but also moving forward, hence their apparent "weightlessness".
Spacecraft use various methods for navigation, including star trackers, inertial measurement units, and communication with Earth-based tracking stations.
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It's not dissimilar to a game of 'What's my line'...
Babs and I have these deep, philosophical conversations at the bar when she's not bullshitting with one of her gal pals. Anyway, they usually get underway after about two and a half beers, if ya get my drift. Last night we got on a jag about just this subject, and it was kind of surprising when we traded slang words and phrases from the 60's and 70's.
One of the funniest moments was when we both - almost simultaneously - said that we had never used the word 'groovy' to describe something.
Doing a little etimology deep dive, it turns out that word started gaining popularity in the 20's. No shit. The word "groovy" originated in jazz slang during the 1920s and 1930s, referring to the rhythm and feel of a piece of music or the physical groove of a record. They were still saying it on the TV show 'Laugh in' in the 60's...
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They might be responsible for reviving the use of the word because
of this silly little ditty that was actually a No. 1 hit in late '65...
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"While the previous administration failed to conduct a thorough financial review before signing away billions of taxpayer dollars, the Trump administration is doing our due diligence to ensure we are utilizing taxpayer dollars to strengthen our national security, bolster affordable, reliable energy sources and advance projects that generate the highest possible return on investment," Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a written statement Friday.
Many of the canceled projects focused on carbon capture or low-carbon cement. 17 of the canceled projects are from the Industrial Demonstrations Program, which aims to support the decarbonization of heavy industries like steel, cement, and aluminum - a tree-huggers dream and a waste of any penny ever spent on it.
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Meanwhile, the World Boxing Federation:
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Here's a great idea for an elegant,
inexpensive gift for her
birthday or anniversary...
It's only $ 40.00 - and it comes to you with free shipping!
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In the 1935 film 'Charge of the Light Brigade' - another 'epic' starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, the filming of the charge sequence led to the death of 25 horses, which led to legislative action by the U.S. Congress and action by the ASPCA to prevent further cruelty by film directors and producers.
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My life-long secret crush...
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Friday, May 30, 2025
If I do go back to work, I wanna work at Trader Joe's...
If I did work there, I'd probably wear some kinda apron, and have
a name tag. People would think I'm THE Joe, wouldn't they?
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Handmade gifts are extra special when
they're for someone extra special...
Click on the picture for more information on this beautiful, one-of-a-kind
bracelet made with Swarovski crystal and silver beads.
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Ever hear of Kenny Rankin? He's up there singing wonderful balads...
'I'm just a singer, and I can sing anything that touches my heart," was how the singer and songwriter Kenny Rankin saw himself. Rankin, who died in 2009 from complications related to lung cancer, aged 69, defied musical pigeonholing during a career that began in the late 1950s, and was amused that record shops did not know whether to file him under rock, folk or jazz.
Fellow musicians admired his talents. The saxophonist Stan Getz called him "a horn with a heartbeat", while Paul McCartney liked Rankin's version of the Beatles song Blackbird so much that he asked Rankin to sing it when McCartney and (posthumously) John Lennon were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987.
There are many of his recordings on YouTube if you like this one. I first discovered him back in 1972 when he opened for George Carlin at Seton Hall College. A year later he and I met in a small bar in Cape May, NJ called the Ugly Mug. We sat together, talked and drank for a good two hours. He and I managed to run into each other a couple more times, and the coolest thing was? He remembered my name every time. One of the mellowest, ncest, most talented dudes I've ever been lucky enough to get to know.
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Here's an idea for an inexpensive
gift for that special lady in your life...
Click on the picture for more information on these lovely earrings
The pair is only $ 20.00 and comes with free shipping!
The pair is only $ 20.00 and comes with free shipping!
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They will never learn that they're spending YOUR money...
The US government collected $4.92 trillion in revenue in fiscal year 2024, primarily through taxes. This revenue was used to fund a variety of programs and services, including funding for programs required by law, such as Social Security and Medicare. Funds are also allocated annually by Congress and the President for federal agencies and programs like transportation, education, and defense. Payments are made on the incredible amount of money borrowed by the government, but they barely make a dent in the total debt.
In addition to taxes, the government also generates revenue through fees, interest, and the sale of resources.
Meanwhile, In fiscal year (FY) 2024, the government spent $6.75 trillion, which was more than it collected (revenue), resulting in a deficit of nearly
$ 3,000,000,000,000.00. Yes - that's three trillion dollars...
on the blog, I get credit for whatever you buy.
Granted, it's only pennies, but every penny hepls, right?
Get a hobby, they told me...
"I never realised how unique my chain was until almost 25 years later. In 1992, my wife, Deborah, and I were visiting the Ripley’s museum in Ontario. We saw a giant gum-wrapper chain hanging from the ceiling as part of one of the exhibits. As we stared up at it, we were both thinking the same thing: my chain is much bigger.
Deborah nudged me and said: “You’d better do something about that. I spoke to the manager, and he put me in touch with Ripley’s vice-president of acquisitions. He was impressed by my chain, but told me there was a Guinness World Record holder who had a longer one.
My competitive nature kicked in. I went to the Wrigley’s purchasing department and asked them to supply me with Juicy Fruit wrappers – my favourite flavour. They gave me 5,000 to begin with, then 10,000 more. Before long, I blew past the 7,400ft (2.25km) record and reached 10,000ft.
I became the Guinness World Record holder for the longest gum wrapper chain in the world – at 12,105ft – in March 1994, and I have officially broken my own record eight times since."
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