Quite The Show

 I've followed NASA launches ever since I was knee high to an Atlas 5. Telstar was my first and fired my love of science, science fiction, Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Vonnegut, P.K. Dick, and of course Douglas Adams and Kilgore Trout. Probably my favorites but I've left off some and that's probably inexcusable. My bad of course. I made most of the Saturn 5 launches my personal venue for out of this world excitement and Aldrin, Armstrong, and Collins helped fire my imagination for walking on the moon. Fun times up until the Challenger disaster which I was watching with my youngest child. Live up close and personal. Young'un asked me, "what's happened dad?" All I could say was, "it blew up." We never spoke of it again. Probably a really bad thing. How does a child cope with national tragedy. But then how about Palestinians and their children. God damn that has got to be personal agony the likes of which most people will never know. I know but that's not much salve for still painful psychological wounds. Only one of a good many. Anyway, I do love me some NASA launches and Wednesday nights launch was a doozy. So by now the quartet of astronauts are heading for our moon and they are carrying hopes and dreams of not just me but any number of young dreamers in and around our tiny Planet Earth. Our Earth looks very different seen from space. There will of course be images taken by the astronauts looking back at the Earth from the moon and that is as it should be. Now for Friday machine art.

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so trumpf gave a "speech" after the NASA launch ... good god the freak is such a child ... a demented and more than irrational fucknut child but ... such a child ... 😐

To Infinity And ... Read, The Moon

Won't be long now ... as I'm pounding the old keyboard in hopes of winding the screed up just before launch. Launch of the Artemis II happens in about 45:00 minutes and so that would be about maybe a quarter past 15 hundred hours and that would be exactly and in Pacific Daylight Savings Time ... 3:20 p.m. ish and maybe ... here's hoping. I regularly watched just about every NASA launch since about 1963 and I was ringside for Neal Armstrong taking that first giant leap for mankind on the moon. A thing of beauty. So I'm switching back and forth from screen to NASA Artemis screen than back to blog and so ... my interests are divided. So I'm switching over to the Thursday machine art and then it's back to watching NASA. 

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by Thursday morning when I get around to posting this ... we'll all know then ... 😶 which by now we all know what a long strange trip it's gonna be for the astronauts ... I do love watching me some NASA blastoffs ... last evenings launch was a doozy.

Our Petulant President ...

 America's demented orange adolf pedofuhrer juvenile trumpf is pitching fits and screeching at the Euros for not signing on to trumpf's war crimes 21st century version. Trumpf in turn screamed, at the top of his lungs no less, "get your own oil!" Of course the Europeans have been getting their oil without trumpf all along and can most certainly handle getting oil from the Middle East and/or wherever and that's the part that galls dementia j. Watch this embarrassing piece of human excrement flail wildly into empty air, screaming at the top of his lungs that sounds more like fingernails being raked down a chalkboard, stamping his wholly fucked up feets, and in general acting like he's about 18 months to two years old and that is the 'commander-in-cheese' orange adolf pedofuhrer trumpf. He is the consummate asshat and in general whiney weaselly wanker extraordinaire. I suppose I could go on and boorishly on but you can certainly catch my drift. Dear dementia j ... you sir are an inveterate cunt and that says it all. Now for Wednesday machine art and would someone check on our camel and see that it's ready for hump day. Thank you for your attention with this matter.

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the real deal with trumpf would be Europeans being unwilling to allow the U.S. to fly over nation's airspace. when the war crimes tribunals crank up, the Euros want no part of that and not many of the human species will blame the Euros for that. trumpf is on his own for this atrocity ... 😐

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This Will Not Be Like A Video Game

 Trumpf plans an "invasion" of Iran. Oh holy body bags this will turn very very ugly, bad, catastrophic, god damnably stupid, and a whole lot of young Americans are going to get killed and worse than killed. The worse than killed premise would be those soldiers that lose arms, legs, arms and legs, one arm one leg and an eye, and the left side of lower jaw. That would be worse than death. Sure sure, postmodern medicine can, possibly, repair torn to shit human bodies ... the mind is a different story altogether. Just ask any veteran from the Bush Wars, or go back to your grandfather and ask him about Vietnam. There are scores of Vietnam War veterans homeless, lost, missing body parts, loved ones that is IF there were any 'loved ones' to begin with, and again ... the psychiatric damage is mostly non repairable. Can we all shout PTSD !!! Yep kids this is going to be damnably avoidable but trumpf will charge in there like he dreams of being Teddy Roosevelt. Trumpf is no take charge leader nor is his flunky minion petey 'horseshit for brains' hedgehog. So for my way younger American friends, get your affairs in order, kiss your loved ones a fond see you later ... maybe ... and watch how el jefe orange adolf pedofuhrer trumpf pulls off the single largest war fuck up ever in the annals of American history and never has there been a snafu like a trumpf snafu concerning Iran. Taking in to consideration LBJ's war on Vietnam. America lost 58,220 soldiers killed in action, another 300,000+ Americans wounded, and 75,000 soldiers severely disabled. But you know, American wars of naked aggression are considered war crimes according to the Geneva Conventions all four of them, so no big deal right ... ? Right ... ? Hello? Is there anyone out there paying attention ... any attention whatsoever ... ??? Okie-dokie then it's off to Tuesday machine art.

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take it from me kids, love is the reason I write these screeds and I really REALLY do not want to see you fucked around sideways on account of an out of control and clinically insane el presidente ... trumpf is god damnably insane and there is little doubt about that ... 😐

Bitch Slap From Il Papa

 el Jefe had his ass handed to him by the Pope. Yep. Sticky pants vance had his ass handed back to him by the Pope. Yep. The Pope took both of America's delinquents-in-crime to the old papal woodshed and denounced then condemned the insanity of trumpf's bloody war for Israel. According to il Papa, "god ignores the prayers of leaders who wage war and have hands full of blood." That's a papal rebuke of the entire trumpf regime. The Pope also took petey hogshit to task for his profane "prayer" for "violence against enemies who deserved no mercy." The Pope made rather direct comments about the trumpf regime and insisted that the U.S./Israel war on Iran was "atrocious and jesus could not be used to justify war." Furthermore from his holiness ... "this is our god:jesus, king of peace, who rejects war, whom NO ONE can use to justify war... god does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them. Even though you make many prayers, I (god) will not listen: your hands are full of blood." Pope Leo pretty much made the case that the trumpf war on Iran for Israel is bullshit and there is no way the wholly mythical "god" would tolerate such murderous insanity from global leaders. So backhanded bitch slap for el jefe orange adolf pedofuhrer trumpf and then a resounding double bitch slap for sticky pants vance and vance had best watch his step as the Pope himself can excommunicate old sticky pants and wouldn't that shake up the catholic church in America. I'm firmly of the opinion that Pope Leo should excommunicate vance as the fuck is certainly not a very god catholic and the freak needs to get knocked down a peg or more for the simple reason that the fool is really ... really annoying. Bit of a dumb ass as well. So I can imagine that Palm Sunday mass at every catholic church in America was a rather tense and soul searching affair and the confessionals had lines stretching for miles out the confessional booth doors. Priests were busy busy ... busy. Hearing those confessions of "trumpf is NOT my president and I don't agree with a thing the heretic has to say about anything." Priest replied with a hearty "that shall require six hail Mary's and about double that with our lord's prayer." I'm making shit up there ... I haven't a clue what a priest might have to say after confession ... probably why I'm not a "priest." I'm not gonna get into that little chapter of my existential slug fest with god, his church, any church, and/or any 'christian' fucknut that hypocritically insists to offer "christ's love" while at the same time stabbing you in the back for having a down period in life with much wrecking of faith and study for the ministry. Yeah that is one ugly tale of grace lost and condemned man screaming about bullshit. Now for some Monday machine art and we start off the week with a launch of humans into space and around the moon hoping to screaming hell that this launch will NOT be another Challenger disaster. Launching on April Fools Day ... are you fucking serious ... ?

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if sticky pants actually went to mass on Palm Sunday, I'd bet it was a rather uncomfortable attendance and I'd also bet the freak did NOT frequent the confessional ... 😏

Revenant Trails

 If you happen to be into mountain bikes and/or rockhounding, have I got a place for you. If you venture north on old highway 91 starting north from Beaverdam, Arizona if you're paying attention, which can be difficult on this stretch of not much to see Mojave Desert, then you start up the grade just past the mule train marker ... well, keep driving north and when you get to the first passing lane northbound, after the passing lane ends keep a watch for the Revenant Trails sign. The sign is on the north side of highway 91. Anyway, hang a left turn onto the dirt road and drive up the hill a short ways and then you'll come to the split in the road and turn left at the sign marked by the skeleton on a mountain bike. There's another rather rugged looking 'Revenant' sign and keep driving, slowly, and past the first parking area to the big parking area and you've arrived at the 'Revenant Trails' parking. Nicely graded with plenty of room and 20 miles of groomed and worked on by BLM bike trails. Mountain bikes and horses are acceptable and the BLM has posted signs informing the adventurous what vehicles are and are not to be on the trails. The BLM has gone out of their way to make the 'Revenant Trails' mountain bike Mecca for the folks that do the mountain bike thing. There is also much quartz just about everywhere you look. Which is why the wife and I happened on to the 'Revenant Trails' site. We've driven past the spot dozens of times and really never bothered to see what was up the road. Well, not really a road as it's just old country dirt trail that's been graded once and that's it. The road is a bit rocky in spots but you can easily drive the family auto up the road without much difficulty whatsoever. The other day we ventured to the 'Revenant' for a morning of rockhounding and sharing the site with the bikers is quite neighborly. So word of mouth is spreading amongst the mountain bike aficionados and we found a number of bikers from as far away as Delaware. Yep, Delaware and I spent a moment or so with the biker guy that didn't really have a mountain bike. Nope. Guy was riding a unicycle dealy that was equipped with an electric motor and I was truly surprised at how versatile the gizmo was. Just one rather large and fatty tire and a board. I suppose the dealy is a uni-board. Guy riding the thing was good and was attired head to toe with ground preventive accouterment. If you take a header while riding the 'board' on a mountain bike trail, you'll want all the padding you can slap on your carcass. Anyway it was a pleasant morning and I got to share some rockhounding tips with the uni-board rider and guy has even rode past Joe Biden's house in Delaware. PS, the Biden home is heavily guarded by the Secret Service so being a looky-lou is not recommended. At the 'Revenant' there are varieties of rocks and minerals so if you like picking up the rocks for relocation, bring a bag, gloves, and plenty of water. Stay hydrated as this is the north eastern terminus of the Mojave Desert and there are plenty of bones of people and things that didn't believe the hydration recommend. I can imagine that in the mountain bike following the word is out about 'Revenant Trails' ... one top notch destination for mountain bikers, uni-board riders, rock hounds, and yep it's set up to accommodate horses and horse drivers. No gasoline vehicles are allowed and the site is posted. BLM has really gone out of their way to establish one truly fine off road haven. Old highway 91 northbound and old highway 91 is the actual site of the "old "Spanish Trail" made famous in books and movies. You can actually touch the same dirt that Father Escalante did way way back in the day. A rather off topic screed from moi but I felt the need to share this just about secret little paradise with the world at large and mountain bikers that may not be aware of one dang nicely fixed up bike site. Now for Sunday machine art.

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one last little detail that really needs a mention ... the 'Revenant' site is open range and ranchers let their cattle roam free so don't mind the cows and ESPECIALLY watch out where you step. cows don't bother with people very much they just sort of look at you, keep on grazing then, sashay up the west hill and poof just like that the cattle are gone. you'll more than likely meet up with one of the grazers next time you have a burger with fries ... 😏

Le Cirque du Chaos

 Yes kids it's on. A one ring comedy of fools du jour and holy spumoni I've never in my lifetime seen an American regime as fucked up as the trumpf presidential crime syndicate. The Nixon regime wasn't as stupid as the trumpf sorry ass lot of grifters, adulterous horn dogs, cigar cherishing Patels, which by the way, the manner in which Kash Patel is sniffing that cuban cigar you'd think the freak was planning on taking that cigar to bed. Sex with a cuban ... go figure. You see, Kash Patel head g-man over at the FBI had his 'bureau' personal cyber account hacked by Iranian hackers and the hackers splashed Patel's stupid shit all over the web. T'was a thing of cyber beauty no doubt. Evidently the Bureau's web protections aren't very effective. Patel is not exactly a photo op prize. So Kash Patel, head g-man @ FBI is this week's bozo of the month award winner and his prize is a barrel filled with mockery and hilarity at his expense. What a moron. Anyway, turns out that Iran is a harder fish to trumpf fry and isn't America's demented old fuck just about a global laughing stock. Not a country anywhere on Planet Earth isn't joyously celebrating the crash and burning demise of trumpf regime 2026. This just in from the DoW, that's to read department of war. Sec/War Hogshit is praying to the 'god of war' to bless the fingers that rest on those triggers of the drone kill 'em switches and bless their aiming software so's those really pricey Iranian killers will hit and kill even more Iranian school girls and miscellaneous Iranian civilians. That regime horror was recorded live and as it happened at some evangenital christian brownshirt gala and what an ugly display of lickspittle overkill that was. Marco 'polo' Rubiola, Sec/State, is over in Europe trying to plead with the Euros to give the trumpf war on Iran support so's the world doesn't think the Americans are in the war alone. Which by the way is exactly the case and it's being reported that Rubiola isn't making any headway with the Euros. Might have helped his, Rubiola's, case had trumpf not been insulting the diplo-shit out of the Euros and so it goes. By the way and according to the Treasury, the U.S. is now insolvent. Now for some Saturday machine art.

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where we live in the Mojave Desert, gasoline is just about too god damn pricey to fuel up your vehicle. I have to wonder how it is for the folk driving those enormous land yachts, to fill up the family behemoth and use up the 2026 christmas fortune. on the plus side of all this national chaos ... you don't see too many of those maga bumper stickers ... I wonder why that might be ... 😏