It's not just Canada that's burning...

The enormous wildfires ripping through Spain cannot be controlled, officials have said, as an inferno engulfed a holiday hotspot in neighbouring France. Terrifying blazes tearing through southwestern France and central Spain have forced the evacuation of around 135,000 people.

Local official Carlos Novillo warned a fire raging near Madrid is “at its peak” and putting it out is “beyond the capacity” of fire-fighting crews.

More than 25,000 people were forced to flee their homes as the city’s president Isabel Díaz Ayusohas said the inferno was “the worst fire in the history of the region”.

 

 

This is what happens when the tree-huggers are in control - no reasonable forestry management of any kind. Fire breaks aren't cut and controlled burns just don't take place because the 'Greeners' don't want to hurt the poor trees and bushes. 

It's folly, just like all the climate alarmist bullshit is. And just wait - sooner or later they're gonna go back to calling it 'global warmin' They'll have to, because all those out-of-control fires are heatin' the fuck outta the planet. Sad but true...

 

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Leaping lizards! What the hell is in that box, Batman?

A routine FedEx pickup turned into reptile mayhem when a massive iguana leaped out of its box and across the counter, sending unsuspecting employees scrambling. The hilarious encounter unfolded at a FedEx location in Memphis, Tennessee, where Roderick Duncan, 41, had gone to pick up the newest addition to his household. Duncan already owns another iguana but chose to have his second reptile delivered to the FedEx location instead of his home because of the hot summer weather. Shipping an iguana through FedEx is not as unusual as it may sound. The company allows certain harmless reptiles to be shipped domestically using overnight services, though the shipper must receive prior approval and use FedEx-approved packaging.

Employees initially believed there was a fish inside the package and became curious after learning an iguana was actually inside. “Can you take him out to check he’s alive?” Duncan recalled them asking. They quickly got their answer. While Duncan was opening the package, the bulky reptile suddenly sprang out, ran across the counter and sent employees scattering. One startled worker even fell to the floor during the commotion.

 

“My initial thought was, ‘Oh shit, he’s bigger than I thought,” he told The Post. “He was bigger, thicker, more grown,” Duncan said, estimating the iguana was about twice the size of his first. Duncan later posted the full video to provide more context around the chaotic encounter and show that he had not intentionally let the iguana loose for content.

Despite his explosive introduction, the reptile has been much more laid-back since arriving home.

A healthy HillBetty in high boots. Delightful...

A bad day in Nagoya. Especially for her...

 A young woman was simply walking home with a friend when a man suddenly fell from a building above and landed directly on her. The incident happened shortly before 1 a.m. on July 19, 2026, in Sakae, a busy district of Nagoya, Japan. Police said a 29-year-old man fell from a 12-story apartment building and struck 23-year-old restaurant worker Houra Inaba, who was walking along the pavement below.

A nearby woman immediately called emergency services, telling them that someone had fallen from above and collided with her friend. Both victims were transported to a hospital unconscious and in critical condition. But the outcome was even crazier than the incident itself. The man survived the fall, although he remained unconscious with serious injuries. Inaba, who had done nothing more than be in that exact place at that exact moment, died several hours later from hemorrhagic shock.

Police are still investigating where the man fell from and what caused it. Officials have not cbeenable to figure out whether it was an accident or the guy jumped.

This was not merely a bizarre accident involving a tall building and a guy with bad balance - or just plain unbalanced. It was the sudden loss of a young woman whose ordinary walk with a friend became the final moment of her life. 

Just goes to show you - if it ain't something, it's something else...

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When you buy anything on Amazon going from a link

on this blog, I get credit for whatever you buy. 

Granted, it's only pennies, but every penny helps, right?

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I think I had this same dream last night around 3:00am...

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Someone must have a birthday 

or anniversary coming up.

Here's a great new gift idea...

 

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Canada's burning...

 

Recent hot, dry weather in Canada has triggered hundreds of wildfires 

across the country. As of Wednesday, more than 900 were burning, scorching about sseven million acres of land. While fires have broken out in several provinces, the greatest concern is in the Northwest Territories and Ontario, where several remain out of control.

Poor air quality has been reported across affected regions, with wildfire smoke carried by winds into the US and even across the Atlantic to northern Europe. The risk of further blazes remains high as North America enters the peak of fire season.

Canadian wildfire smoke is going to be a periodic problem into August across Midwest and the Northeast. Prevailing winds will direct more wildfire smoke from western Ontario into the Midwest and Northeast often well into August. Needed rain to put out the fires may be scarce.

 

Canada isn't the only place that needs rain. Where I live in NoCenFl, the weather geniuses say we're 30 inches under where we need to be...

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Reason No. 14 why an 'open door policy' isn't such a great idea...

A black bear wandered into a Southern California water district office Wednesday after pushing open the front door, briefly exploring the building before walking back into the surrounding forest. Surveillance video from the Crestline Village Water District in the San Bernardino Mountains captured the small black bear entering the office Wednesday afternoon as employees watched the unexpected encounter unfold. The bear spent several moments sniffing around the office and wandering through the building before returning to the entrance, pushing the door open again and leaving on its own.

 

“It was exciting. It was really cool to see a bear that close. It’s rare that we’re that close to them,” Crestline Village Water District employee Josselyn Brian told KTLA. “Thankfully, no one was in danger. There were no customers in there at the time. It was just us. So, it couldn’t have been better. Scary, but wonderful.”

Employees also told the outlet they watched as the bear wandered back into the woods after leaving the office. No injuries were reported, and the animal did not appear to damage the building.

 

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When no news is good news, and versa-veesa...

Dear Donald, you can not negotiate anything with these crazy motherfuckers. Yes, you are a great deal maker. Yes, you are a great chess player. Yes, you have a vision of what the world order should be. 

But, no, you can not negotiate anything with those towel-headed cocksuckers running Iran. The word 'compromise' does not exist in their language. In their world, you go along with what they want or they kill you. It's that simple.

You're stuck at the entrance to a very dark hole, and there will not be any way out of it until you either kill every one of them or the Iranian people do it for you. Sad but true, pal...

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This image is the famous "Join, or Die" political cartoon created by Benjamin Franklin. It was first published May 9, 1754 in the Pennsylvania Gazette It urged the American colonies to unite during the French and Indian War.

A timber rattlesnake cut into eight sections, representing the colonies. The sections are labeled from head to tail: New England (N.E.), New York (N.Y.), New Jersey (N.J.), Pennsylvania (P.), Maryland (M.), Virginia (V.), North Carolina (N.C.), and South Carolina (S.C.).

It played on a myth that a severed snake would come back to life if pieces were joined before sunset. The cartoon became a powerful symbol of colonial unity again during the American Revolution. It is said to have been the very first of what we now laughingly refer to as 'political cartoons'...

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A taste of Fall yesterday morning across the Great Lakes and Northeast as temps dropped as low as the 30s and 40s - during the summer! Bradford, Pennsylvania, woke up to 38°- which tied a record low! Must be global warming effects...

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Another story that'll disappear immediately, especially after NJ's new lady Guv has said countless times that there is no problem with the voting system in her State. She came out with a staement blaming a 'software problem' when in fact tere  is no such thing. It's is a problem because by the person who wrote the software - the programmer - wrote it that way. If that programmer has an agenda, it's gonna be reflected in the software they create. It's just that simple. The bigger question is why did they let their voting honchos have access to DMV data? That's the kinda shit that shouldn't happen, and always does.

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Another of the 'I don't get it' cartoons...

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Think about the writer who's editor handed them this story, and they had to come up with a lead-in headline. 'Sick arsonists tie fuel-soaked rags to cats' may well be the greatest single sentence ever crafted using the English language - better than even Shakespeare or JK Rollings could ever put together.

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The dream team. Well, nightmares are dreams, too, aren't they?

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Someone must have a birthday 

or anniversary coming up.

Here's a great new gift idea...

 

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You think you had a tough day at the office? How about this poor guy. An Illinois maintenance worker was trapped inside a 130-foot-tall gas station sign for around six-and-a-half hours – but still managed to give a thumbs-up despite the mishap. The guy was left stranded when the lift he used to get up there malfunctioned while he was carrying out work on the sign.

Fire crews were equipped with ladders that were only 100 feet tall, which prevented rescuers from reaching the worker who was sheltered in the narrow space.

Rescuers found a specialized lift around 17 miles away and brought it to the scene so the worker could be brought to safety. The dramatic rescue went viral online. 

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Weeks after the Obama Presidential Center’s star-studded opening in Chicago, a subcontractor who previously claimed his company was stiffed for nearly $4 million has shut down operations and laid off 25 union workers.

 

Mike Owen, the owner of Chicago-based Adamson Plumbing Contractors, told Fox News Digital that the financial fallout forced the company to abandon about half a dozen other construction jobs and left it on the verge of collapse.

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Bear started to make a move on the kid playing in the driveway 

when the family dog spotted it, jumped in and chewed the bear 

an new asshole. Buy that dog a steak, for sure...

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Dressing for the day...

 

This image is a photograph titled "Coat on Binoculars" taken by Leonard Nones in 1965. It depicts a coat draped over coin-operated binoculars near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The original photo was featured in GQ magazine. 

We talked a bit the other day about what is art and what isn't. Again, to a photo editor for a men's fashion magazine it most certainly is. I guess a simple qualifier for whether or not you'd consider it - or anything else - something you'd want to be hanging on a wall in your guest bathroom, if ya catch my drift...

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Cutting in to her therapy session?

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The moral of the story? Never buy in to an HOA. Ever...

Homeowners in a quiet lakeside subdivision outside Charlotte, North Carolina, are bracing for a housing cost jolt that could push some longtime residents right out of their neighborhood. Families in Magnolia Cove, an 80-home community in Sherrills Ford, are grappling with word that their monthly homeowners association dues are set to rocket from $350 to $1,250, with a $10,000 special assessment tacked on for good measure.

This is just one story of many that are out there each and every day. HOA's, over which you have zero control, will rape and plunder you out of your house and home, nickel and diming you to death.

 

 Those of you who might follow the Stalone series 'Tulsa King' might remember that one episode where the tight-ass HOA dweeb fines him for having his garage door open too long. Well. that kinda shit ain't fantasy. Happens all the time. When the dweeb found out Dwight was a convicted killer he changed his tune. 

So, if you are not a convicted killer, don't buy in to any development that has an HOA. End of lesson...

Obama's still stiffin' 'em...

Subcontractors working on the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago have raised widespread payment disputes and claims of millions in unpaid change orders following the project's opening. The prime construction manager, Lakeside Alliance, oversees the roughly 475 subcontractors, while the Obama Foundation states it has fully paid out the primary contractor on accelerated timelines.

Key Subcontractor Details & Disputes:

Adamson Plumbing: Suspended operations and laid off 25 union workers after citing an unresolved $4 million payment dispute for work on the center.

II in One Concrete: Part of the Concrete Collective joint venture, which filed a federal lawsuit involving structural engineering disputes and claims against project engineers 

Thornton Tomasetti.Lakeside Alliance Partners: The primary joint venture managing the trades includes Turner Construction Co., Power and Sons Construction, UJAMAA Construction, Brown & Momen, Safeway Construction, and W.E. O'Neil Construction Co.

 

The Core Conflict: 

Affected trade contractors report that communication and payouts for scope adjustments and change orders stalled out near the project's completion, leaving several minority- and smaller-owned firms struggling with financial deficits.

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