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Pope Francis just spent a week in Canada apologizing to all of Canada's First Nation people. On account of the Catholic run schools for the unchristian Indian children in forced attendance were being murdered by priests and nuns. The priests and nuns were running those schools. Actually, the Indian Schools were killing the First Nation children all over the Western Hemisphere. At least from the time Columbus "discovered" Cuba, priests were "converting" all the nasty heathen or burning them at the stake for laughs. The Catholics were a real hoot don't you know. The U.S. and Canada after mostly slaughtering the First Nations, decided to "educate" their young'uns in "Indian schools" where the children either learned to act all regular 'white folksy' or they were murdered and buried on school grounds. First Nation children. Convenient no doubt. Anyway, the Pope was in Canada and dang near burned his Holiness smooth out. You see Po...

  Play that lotto. Yup. The Mega Millions Lotto jackpot stands at $1.26 billion dollars. Dang if'n that ain't about a mountain of money. As I'm banging this nonsense out on the old keyboard, (it's Friday late in the afternoon) the drawing hasn't taken place. Sometime later on I suppose. People with a rather glazed look in their eyes are lining up to purchase lotto tickets in bulk. The 'live, local, now' news readers are heading to points south and in Arizona to interview Vegans (that would be Las Vegas denizens and not those loopy veggie worshippers) that traversed to the Zona for lotto tickets. Well and some scratchers. You see with all the gambling that's perfectly legal in Nevada, Nevada doesn't allow any lotto stuff. Nope. Lotto tickets might take away from the gaming tables, keno, slots, and whatever else tourists like to throw their money away on. At? Oh yeah and there's a load of "sports betting." It would be really easier for th...

  The trading begins. Not for any professional athletes. Well, there is that one professional athlete. The trading involved here is for one really tall American woman basketball star and one former Marine. I was always told that "once a Marine, always a Marine." However that may not be the case here. So the U.S. offers up one insidious Russian arms dealer convicted back in 2011 for arms dealing. Gosh is that about a shocker or what. Anyway, the U.S. offers one convicted arms dealer in trade for a professional women's basketball star and one former Marine. The woman involved here is one Brittney Griner. She's a woman basketball player of considerable skill and size. The former Marine here is one Paul Whelan. Griner is being held in Russia on drug trafficking charges and Whelan is being held in Russia on espionage charges. Trading negotiations are taking place at present. The trade is to get Griner and Whelan home back to the loving arms of a grateful nation....

  Bruce Springsteen is fixing to offer up a "concert tour" so you can see the 'Boss' in person and rock to all those Springsteen hits. Oh yes and the Springsteen "tour" will be in the good ole U. S. of Amerika. So get your bestest grungy jeans out, whip on a really old tee shirt and get in line for those tickets. You'll be expected to fork over $4000.00 dollars and that is no bullshit. Ticketmaster is selling those Springsteen "tour" tickets and Ticketmaster uses a new marketing ploy known as "dynamic pricing." Talk about getting shafted and that does NOT include Vaseline. Yeah that'd be "dynamic" alright. Springsteen knows about this fucking outrage. But Springsteen is getting old and a bit bloated on success so no pay, you won't get to hear the 'Boss' play. I've never been a big Springsteen fan. Some of his music is alrighty but not all of it. For four thousand dollars a pop, you should be able to get u...

  Not Russia's war on Ukraine. Everybody knows about that war criminal bullshit. The war being referred to here is...ready? WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES!!! Oh yes people, the war is on. The opening salvoes have taken place in Japan... Japan?!? Yup, Japan. It seems that somewhere around Yamaguchi Prefecture macaques, or snow monkeys, have taken to attacking the people. Little rascals are breaking into homes and shops and in general raising holy screaming hell. Japanese folk try beating the macaques into submission to no avail. Taking on a macaque in a one-on-one up close and personal self defense usually results in cuts, bruises, scraps, and open bleeding wounds. The monkeys strike and then take flight into mountainous monkey parts unknown. In one report from Japanese media, the macaques were said to have been instructed in the art of war by one chimpanzee name of Caesar. In a separate but highly coincidental report from British occupied Gibraltar, attacks on tourists have increas...

  A very strange case indeed. Senator Joey 'chins' Manchin AND Senator Lisa 'the bod' Murkowski have both come down with the Covid. Yes my friends the Covid seems to be striking denizens of Babylon-On-The-Potomac with remarkable regularity. The strange aspect to all this is that our intrepid senators caught the Covid at almost exactly the same time. Coincidence? I would venture and according to the gossip floating around America's Babylon, there is much hanky panky between senators on both sides of the senatorial aisles. Bipartisan jiggy! Now the gossip would indicate that both Manchin and Murkowski came down with senatorial chlamydia AT THE SAME TIME! Doesn't that just figure. Our sex starved(?) senators caught in the grips of one virus and seconded by the jiggy clammies. By the by here, chlamydia is bacterial and quite nasty to be contracted. Doing the nasty possess risks. Of course Manchin and Murkowski are denying the gossip and one can hardly blame them for...

  Thanks to the SCROTUMS, wait...that should read SCOTUS. Thanks to the Supreme Court of the United States AND the head up ass six pack of "conservative" Justices, our wondrous America is now back from the twenty first century. We are amazingly transported back in time to the 1970's and the social constraints of the year 2022 are no longer in play. First off, all bets as to social propriety are burned at the stake. Witches too. Women will from now on have to ensure they are up to speed on archaic forms of birth control. Those little blue pills, and that's not to endorse Valium, will be available at your local pharmacy. That is IF the goddamn evangelical treasonous freaks haven't disrupted the neighborhood dispenser of pills. Those goddamn evangelical lunatics need to be yanked up short. Separation of church and state you know. HOWEVER with the SCROTRUMS being in tight religious control of our Supreme Court, moderate minded folk are shit out of luck. We...

Turns out there's at least one or two different things to freak the fuck out about. Bannon goes to the big house and that's karma. Ivanka Trump gots the heebie jeebies on account of Jared Kushner being a weeny. Senator Mitch McConnell gots the migrating spinal column and when good old Mitchy went to see the M.D., well, the doctor informed old Mitchy "there weren't more than about shit could be done for the condition so man up and learn to live with it. Or without it. Either way." So there you go. Oh wait, I forgot about our next pandemic...the Monkeypox Pac. Okay go ahead on and start freaking out. Sixes about sums it all up. Now for some Sabbatical machine artistry and/or sanctimony.  flight - stork - puffin - clues - fly away...fly far far away. 😶 did you know that the Monkeypox Pac is our pal donny 'the golden fuck' trump's favorite political action committee? well it is.

  The verdict reads...GUILTY! Whom you might care to inquire? Why Steve Bannon is guilty as charge. Two counts of contempt of Congress. Guilty...Guilty!! Just in case the reader might need a quick refresher, Steve Bannon is a trailer trash trump enabling political parasite bottom feeding at the lowest rung of a corrupt septic tank in Babylon-On-The-Potomac. Two yes two counts of contempt. I think that overall and in general, most of America finds our Congress contemptible. However most Americans don't get subpoenaed to testify before an investigative Congressional Committee and therefore, have no worries about having to stand trial for contempt of Congress. Bye bye Bannon. You'll get to know cell boss Bubba up close and personal. Personally personal. Love blooms vicious on the cell block. Now for some celebratory Saturday machine art. Guilty...damn is that about rich or what. style - ponding > the dying of Lake Powell - insufferable pricks - Kermit - Iran's "Grand...

  According to Bloomberg.com...Americans are moving to Europe. In droves if'n Bloomberg has their numbers correct. Americans are moving to Europe to live. Evidently the US dollar is solid and providing untold benefits to those gayety loving Americans taking the plunge east to Europe. Of course Europe is caught in an historic heatwave and there is that messy little dust up in Ukraine. Wildfires are spread all over the European continent and that's to include the UK. The UK doesn't count themselves as part of Europe. Not anymore. That Brexit bullshit. Of course given the gun violence that Americans face on a daily basis, well, war in Ukraine probably doesn't seem quite as bad. That alone speaks volumes. Closer to war or closer to homegrown gun murder. I suppose the case comes out as sixes. So in the reverse of Horace Greeley, go east young man go east. Seems a mite convoluted but I'm not making any plans to move anywhere. I'm staying right where me and my lov...

Sir David Attenborough says that our word of the day is..."pollinators" and there you go. Artistry is up next. Bucky Budbud - euphoria - Panama Red - so be nice to bees. ☺

  The British are cooking bangers and mash on the sidewalks of London. Evidently it's that hot. England is not used to the kind of heat they're facing today. They're dealing with desert like heat. Today was 110 degrees Fahrenheit a way out here in the Mojave Desert. Tomorrow will be about 112. You get used to the heat when you live in the desert. You stay out of the sun and drink plenty of water. Lots and bottles full of cool clear water...water...water. From the song 'Cool Water' made famous by Marty Robbins. Back when we lived in the Arizona, summer was generally clocking around 115 freaking hot degrees and that was the usual. As for England? Well shoot...the Brits are sweltering and dealing with wildfires that they've never had to deal with in previous years. The heat waves are circumnavigating our Planet and its wildfire hot and burning just about anywhere. Possibly not on or around Antartica. Not yet anyway. Did you know that the glaciers holding most of An...

  Former VicePresident Mikey 'give it to Mikey he'll eat anything' Pence, spits at Trump! Could there be civil war breaking out in the GOP? Oh be still my beating heart, the stuff of dreams come true. Pence offered his endorsement to an Arizona candidate running for Governor, name of Karrin Taylor Robson who appears to be the Republican Party favorite. The treasonous trump endorsed a really batcrap crazy woman name of Kari Lake. Lake is a "former" television news anchor. Doesn't that just figure. It seems there's been bad blood between Pence and trump ever since January 6, 2021. Pence found out that trump was encouraging the insurrectionists attacking the U.S. Capitol to "hang Pence." I can see where that might put Pence in a bit of a mood. Hanging? Dang if'n that ain't about harsh. Anyway Arizona Republican establishment types are vying for their favorite Ms. Robson and the lunatic fringe of Arizona Republicans are hyping Lake. I used to...

The Texas police response to the mass murder of school children in Uvalde, Texas was highlighted on Sunday by the release of the "official report on the shooting." Evidently, Texas cops gathered at the Uvalde elementary school after reports of an active shooter on school grounds AND those multi-agency Texas law enforcement types stood around looking obviously stupid while the Uvalde school children were murdered in cold blood. Cold racist cowardly and fucking outrageously murdered. The cops STOOD there and watched doing absolutely nothing. However those law enforcement types looked all battlefield butch. It wasn't Texas law enforcement types that were being murdered. Nope. The school children being butchered were mostly of Mexican descent and THAT ALL BY ITSELF is why Texas law enforcement stood around doing nothing. Nothing but allow a brutal and chilling slaughter to run its course. Of course had those Uvalde school children been all Texas white folk, well, those Texas ...