Month: March 2025

An Inconvenient 4th

Hello Everyone. Recently there has been some hijinks and controversy over the ousting of suspected/alleged gang members from the US. On the surface of things, I support the very thing that was done, but it was done quite wrongly and that is the problem.

The United States Constitution outlined our form of government in such a manner that things could – and could not! – be changed as we grew. Chief among these unchangeable is that there are three branches of the government: The Legislative, the Judicial, the Executive, and those branches are created so that no one branch could run unchecked. The sad truth is that no form of government can withstand the greed and avarice of powerful men and women, as has been made quite clear all too often.

Under the very tired and troubled Aliens Enemies Act the drumpf admin. chose to deport suspected ~ alleged Venezuelan gang members prior to the normal hearings and those very pesky things that the Legislative branch seems to like to throw around. This Aliens Enemies Act was last used to imprison Japanese Americans because the Nation of Japan attacked the United States 80+ years ago.

But, so what, right? I mean, they aren’t even citizens, and it would appear that they are gang members breaking the law. Why shouldn’t they be deported?

Ok, fair question. But, who says they are gang members? Who says they are breaking the law? For that matter, are we even sure they are not citizens? I mean, do you carry around your citizenship papers everyday?

The very people who will go to extremes to demand their 2nd Amendment rights seem to lose focus after #2. They don’t mind the violations of the 4th Amendment – until it happens to them. Until they need it. Until someone takes their rights. And it is the very presence of the 4th’s Due Process that gave us the idea that we are a land of laws and rights that can’t be violated at the whim of the powers that be.

There are those who voted this man in who cheer these violations of due process, but they are the same who voted in a man who supported an insurrection, who then pardoned people who broke into the house of government and vandalized, stole, disrupted, threatened, assaulted, brandished weapons and sought to kill the Vice President.

The same man who stole government secrets and papers, perhaps gave them to our enemies, who was convicted of felonies himself, or at least his administration while he naps and plays golf, is telling you that not only do these people not need a 4th Amendment protection, but that the Judge who demands those protections is to be removed. Perhaps they will see their error when he comes for them?

Hugs. randy

A Thing About Which I Feel Strongly;

the post along with the comments beneath it are important to read. There are ways to make our directions to our government known. Even if a person can’t show up, a person can send a pizza or some cold drinks to a group who’s out speaking out. We can each do a thing. Meanwhile, please read Tengrain’s post, and the comments, as they’re important to know.

Flood the Zone or Death By A Thousand Cuts

Gay Cavemen

Ron doesn’t care for this guy, he says he is too hard to watch.  As I am mostly listening to him and doing other things I had not noticed.  He references cave paintings dating way back in the BC era to show that before religion the cave men were bisexual and had same sex activity without stigma.  Hugs

A Piece Of Beauty

Before

What Is & What Isn’t A Rescue-

Space Castaways by Clay Jones

It was only supposed to be a three-hour tour Read on Substack

You won’t get a long, thoughtful, in-depth, eloquent educational blog today (usually, just long) because I’m just having some fun. We also discussed this issue two days ago, so there’s really nothing to get outraged about here. Or is there?

When I wrote the last blog on this, someone left a comment (I don’t remember who but you can claim it) that the media needed to stop referring to the two astronauts with the extended stays on the International Space Station (ISS), as stranded.

I agree because they were not stranded. Even MAGAt Steve Kelley knows they weren’t “stranded” because if they were, then he would have drawn Superman saving them instead of kissing Elon’s ass. Superman knew the astronauts were safe, so he could focus on more important things, like saving Canada and Greenland from Trump.

This was not Apollo 13, where NASA had to figure out how to get the astronauts home. One of those astronauts was played by Tom Hanks in a film, who had also played a castaway in another movie. And it wasn’t like the film The Martian, when an astronaut was stranded on Mars, played by Matt Damon who also had to be rescued in Saving Private Ryan by Tom Hanks. Sonofabitch!
It’s also not like the other times Matt Damon had to be rescued, like in Interstellar, Courage Under Fire, Titan A.E., Elysium, Syrianna, or Green Zone. We need to tie Matt Damon to Ben Affleck so we’ll never have to rescue him again. We’re not lucky enough to lose Ben Affleck.

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were NOT stranded. Also, it’s not like being asked to work a weekend like in Office Space where if you don’t go, Bill Lumbergh’s going to call you all Saturday.

“Yeah, hi…it’s Bill Lumbergh calling again. Uhhhh, yeah…I just wanted to make sure you knew that we started…mmmm, yeah, at the usual time this morning at the….yeah…International Space Station. So…. if you could come on in….yeah…and bring those TPS reports with you…that would be great…uhhhh, also, it’s…yeah…Hawaiian shirt day.”

Most astronauts want to spend more time in space. They’re not Matt Damon.

Williams and Wilmore’s trip was extended because the spacecraft that took them to the ISS had safety issues, so their trip was extended. They were NOT alone on the ISS as other astronauts were there with them. Were they also stranded? No. There are seven astronauts on the International Space Station right now. There are three more on the Tiangong Space Station (space commies). None of them are stranded.

In case you’re a Republican, seven plus three is ten, meaning there are ten people in space right now.

In the case of Williams and Wilmore, NASA wasn’t trying to figure out how to get them home. They were trying to decide when and which craft. No one had to figure out how to get them home. They were picked up during the regular rotation of delivering and returning astronauts.

When you go to a bar and do the responsible thing and call an Uber to take you home, the Uber is not rescuing you (unless a Nickelback cover band is playing in the bar…and you’re sitting next to Ben Affleck, then you really are being rescued).

SpaceX is already contracted with NASA so it’s not like Elon came running to help from out of nowhere. NASA has contracts with other companies that deliver astronauts. Also, Elon didn’t volunteer to “rescue” these astronauts for free. Elon has been paid $13 billion by NASA over the past decade, and future payments will be higher.

While most readers will think this cartoon is just me having some fun, it’s also mocking all the fuckers who believe Elon rescued stranded astronauts.

And speaking of Gilligan, why can’t we lose Elon during a three-hour tour?

Music note: I listened to Van Halen, NOT Van Hagar.

Creative notes: I wrote this idea yesterday and saved it for today so I could draw the deportation cartoon, which I had been trying to do for a week. This cartoon, the second I’ve drawn today (the first was for the Advance which you’ll see tomorrow) took four hours.

Drawn in 30 seconds: (snip-go see it)

American Fascism Is Here! GreaterSapien Goes OFF!

I enjoyed the entire video.  I love how he broke down the fascism that is already being implemented.  I really enjoyed his words at the end of the video.    Hugs

Ali’s recent comic post reminded me of this one on what Musk is doing

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for March 17, 2025

Peace & Justice History for 3/23

March 23, 1918
The trial of 101 Wobblies (members of the Industrial Workers of the World or IWW) began in Chicago, for opposition to World War I. In September 1917, 165 IWW members were arrested for conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes. The trial lasted five months, the longest criminal trial in American history at the time.The jury found them all guilty. The judge sentenced IWW leader “Big Bill” Haywood and 14 others to 20 years in prison; 33 were given 10 years, the rest shorter sentences. They were fined a total of $2,500,000 and the IWW was shattered as a result. Haywood jumped bail and fled to the Soviet Union, where he remained until his death 10 years later.

“Big Bill” Haywood
Read more 
March 23, 1942

The U.S. government began moving all those of Japanese ancestry, including some native-born U.S. citizens (known as nisei), from their west coast homes to indefinite imprisonment in detention centers, beginning with Manzanar in California which eventually held more than 10,000 Americans.
Located on 60,000 acres west of Los Angeles, it is now a national historic site; only 3 of the original 800 buildings remain.
Gallery of photos and other materials about Manzanar 
March 23, 1961
Army Major Lawrence Robert Bailey was the first recorded American to be held as a prisoner of war in Southeast Asia. One of eight crew members of a C-47 surveillance aircraft shot down over Laos, Bailey was held by the Pathet Lao for 17 months, losing one-third of his body weight (down to 53 kg, or 117 lbs) during that time. The other occupants of the plane are presumed to have died in the crash; Bailey always wore a parachute.
March 23, 1984

USS Queenfish nuclear submarine student die-in outside the U.S. Consulate.
One thousand boats, known informally as the Auckland Harbour Peace Squadron, demonstrated against arrival of the nuclear submarine, U.S.S. Queenfish in New Zealand.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march23

We sliced a bunch of ham today. Here is why

Hi everyone.  I am very tired but I wanted to do this post before I crash out and go back to doing other things.  Ron and I just got done working together to slice three hams.  Small boneless ones.  We wait until they go on sale and get a couple.  Turns out we had one in the freezer waiting for this.   So a good sale came up on small boneless hams and Ron pounced like a lioness after an elk.  We once got lucky, a large shoulder ham was at a really low price and had a small bone.   That is important.   The bone has to be small, if you get one of those that works great.  You can have a ham dinner then carve the largest chunks off the bone.  Those you slice on the meat slicer and the bone part you boil for soup.  (insert Bernie Sanders yelling “Suooop”)!  here.

So rather than describe it I will simply but the pictures below.  But before I do that you might wonder why I have a meat slicer.   Well for about 15 years I made bread for us and our friends.  I love the taste of fresh baked bread and I had three great machines to do it.  I made a two pound loaf every three days.  I tried several ways to cut the bread loaves into slices.  The meat slicer has a variable speed and worked great for cutting the bread into even regular slices.  I used my machines so much I burned out three Breadman upright loaf machines.  I liked that kind because the paddle was in only the one end of the bread loaf and so you did not lose much bread slices.  I have never found another like it.  I bought two, one was 200 dollars with a squat fat pan that gives an unusable loaf.  If anyone has or knows of a good machine Ron keeps asking me to go back to making bread again.   Ok below are the pictures.  Loves, best wishes, and hugs to all.   

Dark humor

It’s a beautiful sun-shining day today, all of 31 degrees. But that is my life these past weeks: if it’s warm and sunny, I’m at work. If I’m at home and it’s warm, it’s raining. And, if it’s warm and the sun is shining and I’m at home… yeah, I’m too lazy to go out. Who am I kidding. Hugs everyone!