The Last Reasonable Russian

 Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died. Mr. Gorbachev was 91. Gorbachev brought the "Soviet Union" to a moderated end. Mr. Gorbachev was also able to sit down with former U.S. President Ronnie RayGun to bring an end to the 'Cold War' and nuclear proliferation. Together, Gorbachev and RayGun were able to sign a number of nuclear nonproliferation treaties. Those treaties were reasonable and equitable to both sides. The U.S. and the Soviet Union. Mr. Gorbachev was awarded a Noble Peace Prize and that all by itself is no mean feat. Gorbachev ended the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan. That little dust up also gave rise to the al-Qaida brand of terrorism. Back in those days, the bad guys fighting the Soviets were known as the 'mujahideen'. Osama bin Ladin cut his teeth fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Ain't it about funny how little things change. All those years later. Funny...yeah, really funny. Now for some Wednesday machine art. Bless the camels.

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did you know that President Barrack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? well...Mr. Obama certainly was... 😊

Thus Spake Musk

 Elon Musk says "global population collapse is a bigger crisis than global warming." Alrighty then. Musk tends to say any number of curious if not outright absurd things. Musk said he was gonna purchase Twitter. That little adventure went absolutely nowhere but into a court room. Musk vs Twitter and the countersuit reads as Twitter vs Musk. Musk has so much money he can pay attorneys by the hour. Those attorneys have to punch a time clock. Go figure. Musk evidently believes that there are not enough babies being born to sustain the human population. That belief is of course bullshit. There's more than enough people on the planet as it is. Way more than enough. Wacked out Elon proves once again that he hasn't exactly got his finger on the pulse of reality. Billionaires live in an alternate universe that isn't available to mere mortals. That is probably for the best. Now for Tuesday machine art. Might not be relevant but it is nice to look at. Musk not so much.

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so NASA came up a crapper again. the Artemis I SLS Rocket sits idle on a launch pad like a titanic phallus that is dang close to flaccid. pity that. 😟

Launch? Or Not To Launch...Not!

Dateline...Not Gonna Happen. Sort of changes everything I'd written last evening. NASA planned to launch the Artemis I SLS Rocket at about 08:30 a.m. e.s.t., hopefully today. As I am scratching at my keyboard Sunday late afternoon, I don't know if the Artemis has broken those earthly bonds or not. It didn't launch. As hopeful as I might have been, rocket launches are incredibly intricate if not technically dang near impossible for mere mortals such as myself. That's why we have us a NASA to pull off the dang near impossible. About the time I'm posting this on a Monday morning we'll all know if NASA had a successful launch...or not. C'mon NASA... you can do this. NASA couldn't do it. Monday machine art comes right about next.

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pundits are tossing the notion of a second American civil war around like it was a lighthearted bit of parlor gossip. civil war is not civil or a notion for mindless gossip. civil war is a hate-fueled, bloody, brutal, and ugly business and should be approached is if the notion were the Black Plague. which it is...of course.  I do hope that there are some mature and intelligent adults left in the American room. I suppose we shall see if push comes to shove. 😩

Donny And The Profitable Espionage

 The depths of trump's machinations are remarkable. Remarkable in the sense that the freak actually thinks he's "allowed" to be a liar, thief, seditious asshat, and one colossal treasonous fool. The F.B.I. raided the trump compound @ Mar-A-Largess removing boxes and boxes of official United States documents of which any number of those documents being marked 'top secret'. Trump took the material while vacating America's White House after being ousted in the presidential election 2020. Trump lost that election and there is absolutely NO doubt about that. So trump absconded with 'top secret' documents of which a number of those documents were about America's nuclear weaponry. Trump held on to that top secret material for the better part of two years. So what did trump do with all that classified crap-o-la for the better part of two years? And that is the question being posed by National Security honchos and America's Justice Department. The 'highly classified' intelligence guys are combing through the retrieved documents as I pound out this here screed. Trump had that stuff for two entire years. The 'intelligence' folk are playing a case of pick up sticks after the fact. For two years! Judas Priest...there's some seriously screwed up protocols surrounding presidential access to material that shouldn't be falling into the hands of an arrogant if not treasonous freak like donny 'boy' trump. Trump would sell out his very own mother for some Russian pee girls and a sack filled with internationally recognized cash. Just so long as there's classified documents involved. I wonder if'n all those yokel trumpers out there in America land are comfortable with being supportive of presidential espionage. Trump ex-presidential espionage. Trump is gonna have to change the messaging on his spiffy red hats. Make America Vulnerable Again. MAVA...kind of snappy...no? Now for some Sabbath machine art. No sermons or vespers are required. No security clearances either.

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espionage, high crimes, insurrection, misdemeanors, sedition, treason, and the prick is ugly. how much longer... oh lord...how much longer does this buffoon stay out of prison? 😮

Dog Day...Afternoon?

Dateline... Friday August 26, 2022 and it was 'National Dog Day'. I did not know that. I know it now but as far as I'm concerned, every day is national dog day. Or more closer to home, every day is my dog day. I do love the dogs. I've had some dang fine dogs over the years. Which does prove problematic as the dogs don't live near as long as I've managed to live. Every dog I've ever been privileged to have custody of has been one fine dang dog. Big Head was part wolf and German Shepard. Chance the Thunderdog was an all America mutt. Little of this and some of that but Chance has been my favorite. I still mourn his passing. Damn pancreatic cancer took my dog way before I was ready for the Chance dog to pass on. Then there was Ms. Daisy Dog and she was a bubble-butt dog. Ms. Daisy didn't have a tail. She had a knob that would waggle as if she had an entire tail. Ms Daisy was demur and that's the truth. I think Ms. Daisy was Australian Shepard or some manner of blend like that there. She too passed way before I was ready for another passing. Damn...that passing shit really hurts and sucks large. My wife and I have a Ms. Emmy Dog as things worked out over time. I sort of didn't want another dog. My wife tends to prevail in all dog adoption motions. Losing your best friend is ever so painful. We've always and ever taken in rescue dogs. They make the best companions. The rescue dogs are damn smart and for the most part, obedient. The dogs learn fast and that makes things ever so easy. National Dog Day and I didn't know that. Oh shit... I'll see you on the next world Chance dog and I'll try not to be late. Now for some Saturday machine art. Dogs are the best!

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I really don't care for cats. domestic cats. I do like all the really big predator cats. lions, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, leopards, and bobcats. I also think that domestic cats could make good rugs but that's just me and that manner of sentiment tends to put people off. ☺

California...Dude

 In the year 2035, California is planning to ban all new gasoline powered automobiles. Those for sale new gasoline powered automobiles. A pressing question has arisen following the California planned banning of gasoline powered automobiles and that question rising, in alarm, all around the 'fruits and nuts' State is..."how the hell are we supposed to get to the beach?" Seems a fair enough question no doubt. The year 2035 is a mere 13 years in the future. That's not very far off. 13 years is three presidential terms plus the first full year of a fourth. That is IF America can get that far into the future. A further series of pressing question has arisen and those questions are, "how in the hell are we supposed to get to DisneyLand? How are we supposed to get to a Lakers game? How are we supposed to get to Rams games and Knotts Berry Farm and what about Sunset Boulevard and what about LAX and all that pumped petroleum?" There is in actual fact an entire bevy of questions that will need answering before 13 years have flashed by. 13 years will literally flash by in a heart beat. OR another dumb ass war of illegal naked aggression with loads of war criminals on both sides of whatever insanely stupid rational is used to crank up a war in the first place. 2035 will certainly be a turning point not only for California but for our woefully under duress world. I seriously doubt I'll be around to see it and I'm not bothered by that notion not even a little. Given how fucked up our world seems be at present, 2035 could certainly be a smog shrouded, water depleted, wildfire everywhere there's wood left to be burned sort good times all around. Now how about we shuffle off to Friday's machine art portion of our program. Shuffle lightly, California is still waiting on that really big if not world-ending earthquake. 

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California is going to miss all those auto-touring tourists coming to the land of what ain't fruits is nuts. California of course. those auto-touring tourists come equipped with wallets filled with that good old fashioned American money. guaranteed to be worth whatever is passing for monetary policy in 2035. 😁

What A Load Of Hooey

 NASA has a new biggy big big Space Launch System Rocket. Yup it's a big one no doubt. HOWEVER, the SLS rocker is NOT bigger than the tried and true Saturn V. The Saturn V rocket is the first rocket to take American astronauts to the moon and back six times landing and one miss. The ill-fated Apollo 13 mission had to tank on account of exploding service modules and that turned into one terrific movie for the big screen. The Saturn V took Americans to the moon and each and every last mission was a thing to behold. So I am a bit biased and I can admit that. The new SLS rocket is a doozy and comes close to the Saturn V. HOWEVER, one time again, the SLS has yet to get off a launch pad. The Saturn V got off a NASA launch pad just about every time NASA went go to green to launch one. That can NOT be said about the spiffy keen SLS. In physical stature the Saturn V is taller by about 30 or so feet. No biggy there. The SLS has way more powerful engines and that's for certain. However, those engines are still in the theoretical phase. Well see how this new SLS holds up come next Monday morning. Early Monday morning on August 29, 2022 at about 06:00 a.m. e.d.t., NASA will give the new SLS rocket a green to go and we shall see what we shall see. I'm hoping the launch is a rousing success. But having grown up on Saturn V rockets, well, I am jaded. You go NASA. Three cheers for space nerds. We go where no human has gone before. Rest In Peace Mr. Spock whatever timeline you might find yourself in. Now for Thorsday machine art.

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so President Joe pardoned a bunch of student loans that have been hanging over peoples heads for quite a while now. the republicons went ballistic. I can't figure out why the freaks should be so upset. the dummies weren't ever gonna get any of that student loan backlog paid in full anyway. go figure... 😏

Sell The Boat

 A super yacht 'Axioma' owned by a Russian oligarch but then seized, has gone up for auction. The 'Axioma' is estimated to be worth a boatload of bucks. The 'Axioma' WAS owned by Demitrievich Pumpyansky. The super yacht was ordered seized by "Western sanctions" slapped on Russia and the super yacht was appropriated by Gibraltar Admiralty Marshal. Pumpyansky is/was a Russian steel magnate worth billions and had enough expendable cash to buy his yacht outright. All this international intrigue and yacht ganking is due to Russia's illegal war on Ukraine. Turns out that Russia has any number of 'billionaires' and these 'billionaires' are bearing a significant monetary forfeiture for Vlad Putin's bloodlust. With money and Ukrainians to burn, Russia seems hellbent on self-immolation and forfeiting super yachts and/or whatever else. I wonder what Bezos would have to say IF his super yacht were to be ganked by Russians on account of Bezos being American. I think that Bezos is American BUT, he may have bought his freedom from the homeworld. Bezos has that much cash on hand. Bezos could make King Midas feel insignificant. Maybe the Russians are eyeing his spaceship. Could be... Now for some Hump Day machine art. Without Russian OR Bezos input. Insufferable pricks no doubt.

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international intrigues or "sanctions" seem to be laying the groundwork for future war.  gosh...isn't that about simply special... 😟

Trump Sues United States

 In the totally absurd department, donny trump is suing the United States. America's government, the American people, and every last Democrat residing just about anywhere. America's ex-president is also suing Liz Cheney. Trump claims in his lawsuit that Ms. Cheney has given the trump a bleeding ulcer, the nervous fits, and donny is worlds of upset that America no longer takes him serious. In the trump lawsuit, he also contends that the American people no longer fear the 'donald' and in the lawsuit trump is woefully unable to come to grips with our current reality. Dang if'n the trump isn't about one whiny and miserable little piss ant. Now for some Tuesday machine art. No filler is added.

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I think that the U.S. should countersue trump and ask a judge for immediate relief by seeking trump's physical removal from our shared plane of existence. 😉

La Dee Dah...

 Did you know that His Highness Ben Affleck owns a "compound" in Georgia? I did not know that. I know it now. His Most Excellence is giving a "Georgia Compound Cotillion" for His Most Excellent Squeeze. The 'squeeze' would be J-Low. Last I remember reading about J-Low she was squeezing the base balls of A-Rod. A-Rod is in actual fact, one Alex Rodriguez. He played the baseball and it was very very good for him. However, A-Rod couldn't complete the squeeze play on the J-Low and the J-Low went back to the Affleck and they tied a knot or some shit like that there and now Affleck is showing off his fabulous wealth, Georgia compound, and joys of 'southern living' with a "wedding cotillion" and only the very special people are invited to the Affleck Georgia Compound for mint juleps and an extra special Georgia minstrel show. La Dee Dah... Evidently, regular American people that aren't on an 'A-List' will not be invited. To the Affleck cotillion. Awww, jeepers, was it something we unimportant people did? Jesus...who cares what Affleck does or does not. However Affleck does make for some really snide commentary. Now for Monday machine art that holds relevance and social impact. Sure sure...

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did you know that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is easily bought? well that court is easily bought and for now, Senator Swishy Graham is off the grand jury hook. Figures. 😠

Revenge Of The Cetaceans

 The whales of had about enough of humans and on behalf of all the cetaceans, orcas are leading the charge against humans. Oh this is so very true and even was reported on the NPR webpage. Here's an image of an orca pack on the hunt -

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"Killer whales are 'attacking' sailboats near Europe's coast. Scientists don't know why"

Not even the NPR writer can give the orcas any respect. 'Killer whales'...c'mon man!

You can google up the webpage to check and see for yourself...IF...you've a mind too. Or you can just take my word for it. I wouldn't lie to you and IF I did lie to you I'd tell your. However you'll have to ask me. First. ☺ Funny guy and I admit that. Back to 'Attack of the Orcas'. These attacks are happening off the west coast of Europe. Think France, Portugal, and even Spain. The Straits of Gibraltar don'cha know. The orcas are attacking sailboats and small ocean going craft and these attacks are scaring the bejeepers out of the humans that happen to be on the ocean going dinky boats. The whales are not stupid enough to attack a full grown shipping vessel or some fully armed naval craft. Hell no. The orcas are ripping the rudders off'n the sailboats and then on several occasions they ram the boats to really creep out the dumb ass people onboard the boats. So picture yourself on a smallish sailboat just sailing along and here comes this pack of orcas closing in and at first you think...'ahhh, so cute there's whales!' But then this pack of orcas commence to ramming the sailboat, rip the rudder clean off the sailboat, spit that rudder back at the humans, ram the sailboat a couple three more times and then the orcas swim away laughing all to be damned. Suddenly the thin veil of humanity is ripped right away clean and the realization of size makes itself clear so very clear. Orca whales, they're dolphins to be oceanographically correct, are a helluva lot larger than wee puny humans. By a large bit. When quizzed by inquisitive journalists, cetologists (they are the guys what study all whales, dolphins, and porpoise) insist that actual attacks on humans that cause death are nonexistent. But any logical or reasonable explanation from scientists is nonexistent and the brainiacs are puzzled by orcas acting in such a provocative manner.  Bottomline here is simple...whales and dolphins and porpoise are sick to death of the humans fucking up the oceans that by all rights belong to the cetaceans and all other fishes. They're sick and tired of being hunted and "studied" and tagged and watched and made to put up with naval bullshit. The orcas have taken the lead in harassing humans and breaching whales are also picking up the attacks. Note the number of incidences of whales breaching onto whale watching boats, idiots on those paddle boards, and small fishing boats. So this little byline is happening and happening with increasing frequency. Not even the gun toting' numbnuts from Texas can do more than about shit themselves if happening on a pissed off orca ripping the rudder off'n a sailboat. Oh yes and as an after thought, if a sailboat doesn't have a rudder, well, that sailboat is pretty much useless. As would be the humans onboard a rudderless sailboat. How about three rousing cheers for the orcas. Bless all cetaceans. Oh hell yes!!! Sunday's machine art is up right about now. I can say that as I'm not on any sailboat and have no plans to get on one. Nope.

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I think the cetaceans should start attacking the Japanese. the dang Japanese dummies STILL are hunting whales. the cetaceans stage a couple of grand attacks on Japanese fishing boats and maybe, just maybe, the assholes will call that cetacean hunting quits. we can only hope so... 👍

Nausoleum

 Senator Lindsey Graham (Republicanned- South Carolina) can't find a modestly corrupt federal judge to quash his being subpoenaed to give testimony before a Fulton County grand jury that's investigating election interference by trump and cronies back in 2020's presidential election. President Joe Biden won George by a slim margin and that margin was upheld by the State of Georgia as "official." Anyway, Graham has been sweating bullets in his efforts to avoid having to give sworn testimony that will involve him in trump's attempted coup and seditious treason on these here United States of America. A U.S. Federal Judge denied Graham's appeal of the subpoena and then again denied Graham's appeal of the first denial. Now we're moving on to the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals where Graham is appealing once again. Gosh, the guy seems a mite nervous about having to give testimony. Under oath. Dang if'n that don't seem just a touch suspicious. What'cha hiding there Swishy. You see, all of Graham's close friends like to call him 'Swishy'. I really don't know why Graham's close friends would do that but, they do. Anyway when Graham found out his appeal had been denied by the federal judge, Graham went ballistic. He started to pitch a world class hissy fit. Graham became engorged with self-righteous anger and commenced to whirl, twirl, swish, then sashay up and down Pennsylvania Avenue shrieking his displeasure. "How dare they!" Graham is quoted as saying. "I'm a sitting U.S. Senator and I'm above the law. Even Georgia's and the United States law." Graham was creeping close to being a public nuisance and his buddies had to drag his swishy ass away and out of the public view. You know, it is kind of funny to watch all these well-heeled politicians twist themselves in knots trying to subvert the pending judicial ax hanging over their ever-so-corrupt heads. Now for a change of pace, we bring up that ever so fantastic and wonderfully delightful Saturday machine art. That is the best part of almost any day.

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you know and with a little luck, we just might get to see America's 'golden fuck' doing the perp walk out of Mark-A-Lagho. if only... 😲

The Future Begins...

 The future begins in about 5 maybe ten minutes from now. Wow is that existential or what. The future of our Planet is in serious peril. Drought, wildfire, political bullshit, and anything trump will have consequences that reach far into the future. For the people well, there's not much hope or future. Did you know that the northeastern part of our "Union" is under serious drought? Well that part of America is under drought and that drought is unprecedented. Massachusetts is freaking the bejesus out because of drought. Massachusetts? Yup and New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, New York, and Connecticut. Go figure. In fact about the ONLY state in our Union that isn't in a drought is West Virginia. Of course West Virginia has bigger problems than a silly drought. Think Joe Manchin and coal. West Virginia put all of their financial eggs in a coal basket and elected Joe Manchin to senatorial office. Tough luck all you West Virginia Mountaineers. Mountaineers? Not freaking likely. You could consider Coloradans 'mountaineers' or maybe Montanans could be 'mountaineers' or Idahoans might be 'mountaineers' but...West Virginians? I'm gonna call bullshit on that fallacy. East Californians might be 'mountaineers'. Oopsies, I've digressed big time. Back to the drought subject. America is in an alarming continent wide drought. Europe is in a continent wide drought. Parts of Russia are in drought. Parts of China are in drought. Just about anywhere you might care to look is in drought. Excepting for West Virginia. The time for taking serious action to alleviate drought conditions was about 50 years back when. Oh well, missed that deadline by about a whole bunch. Happy Friday everyone and for all your New Englanders, well, you have my sincere condolences. However, I did tell you a way back when. Now for some Friday machine art and let us all feel sorry for everyone trapped in drought. I live in the Mojave Desert and rain is regularly missing in action.

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back to the past and a return to Dust Bowl America. BUT ain't nobody gonna move to California...California is in drought and wherever there isn't drought there's wildfire. talk about screwed every which way but loose. 😐