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  Monster Hurricane Ian tore Florida to shreds. Fires, floods, roads washed out, mobile homes tossed aside like...mobile homes, and what a freaking mess. No electricity, no running clean potable water, and in total...KARMA BITCHES!!! I have no empathy for Florida. If ever there was a state that deserved to get an ass whooping like Florida received...it would be Florida. We can blame all this disaster on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He's a genuine and for reals world class asshole. Sort of ironic that trump lives in Florida and DeSantis is Governor of Florida. Two world class assholes in one state. Gosh, that's almost like a Bush scenario. Wasn't Jeb Bush the Governor of Florida once upon a time? I believe he was. Now for a special edition of Friday machine art. Florida can suck eggs. ☺ dancer - cowhand - frontier - catcher - village - it's probably unfair to put all the blame for Hurricane Ian on DeSantis. the voters of Florida elected this slime crawling asshole to o...

  Rio Tinto's Kennecott Copper Mine in Bingham Canyon Utah is getting back into the underground mining business of mining for copper. You see Kennecott Copper Mine has been an open pit copper mine for the better part of one hundred years. But now, Rio Tinto is to get back to mining coppers roots. Well, the underground mining stuff is literally deeper than roots. Tree roots anyway. I've had relatives that worked for Kennecott Copper back in the day and my wife's father worked for Kennecott Copper so Kennecott Copper is sort of like family for me anyway. I've been to the bottom of the Kennecott Copper pit and the scale of the open pit mine is quite the site to see. Being at the bottom of the pit puts the imprimatur on exactly how small the human species is in actual fact. I had an acquaintance that I'd known when growing up and we were sort of friends. So as a young man my sort of friend was able to get a job working in the 'pit' and that turned out none too ...

  The Salt Lake County Democratic Party is calling on a sitting Utah State Senator, from Salt Lake City, to resign his seat in the Utah State Senate and go away. The sitting Utah State Senator by the name of Gene Davis, has been accused of improper advances on an "intern" working in Davis' office. Considering that Mr. Gene Davis is a lifelong Democrat, this is almost unheard of in Utah politics. Had the political party involved in this ugly social drama been republican, well, the Utah State Republican Party would have paid the "intern" off and buried this tale of icky ass grabbing by an old guy deeply in Republican archives and that would be that. Well, that's not how this well publicized tale of sexual intrigue is playing out behind the Zion Curtain.  You can almost forgive an old guy for eye-balling a young intern. Just about every old guy still able to walk around Planet Earth aided or otherwise, is eye-balling the young ladies. However, most old guys are...

  Monday night and the Planet Earth will be close to the Planet Jupiter. I mean Planet Earth will be so close to Jupiter, you'll be able to almost reach out and touch it. Yup and the astronomical community is buzzing loud and with NASA colliding a probe into an asteroid, testing planetary defense, the stargazers are simply going orbital with excitement. I watched the 'planetary defense probe' crash into that tiny asteroid that was in orbit around a separate asteroid and talk about much ado over nothing. You could see the tiny asteroid getting closer as the 'planetary defense probe' closed in for the big finish and then...all visualizing was abruptly ended. The tiny asteroid wasn't moving except in it's orbit around the larger asteroid. The 'planetary defense probe' was doing the moving and the closing in on its target. The data that will confirm if the NASA crash test probe motif actually did work, or not, we have to wait until all data is processed....

  Happening on the Mormon Homeworld from where I came from, comes this tragic news - two women are jogging in the early cool of a Sunday morning up Millcreek Canyon. A lovely slice of intact Wasatch National Forest that has remained a singularly beautiful piece of the original mountains of the Wasatch Front. Almost pristine and I do mean almost. Millcreek Canyon is off limits to dogs and that's about it. Millcreek Canyon is mostly off limits on account of the canyon being part of the Salt Lake City watershed and has been since the days of Brigham Young. We'll leave Salt Lake and Mormon history out of this here narrative. Anyway, these two women are jogging up Pipeline Trail and as the pair rounds a bend in the trail they come face to face with a cougar. A for reals and genuine mountain lion. This sudden situation is a bit of a shocker for the ladies AND the cougar. The women start to back away all the while maintaining eye contact with the cougar. Maintaining ey...

  In the former Soviet Union that's now known as Russia, Vlad Putin who currently holds the position of 'Czar Vladimir' has unilaterally announced a "draft" for young Russian boys to head off to the Ukraine to fight in Vlad's war of naked aggression on Ukraine. Sorry about that first windy sentence. Might that be a run on sentence? Having failed 7th grade grammar, I neither know for sure OR I simply don't care and have never cared about the proper use of English. Considering the fact that I neither use or speak English, I speak the crude American, I could not give a shit less. About run on sentences or whatever. Anyway and back to the subject at hand, Russian laddies not wanting anything to do with Czar Vladimir's war on Ukraine, well, the young Russian laddies are heading for the borders of any number of countries that are unlucky enough to be conjoined to Russia. Sad state of global affairs no doubt. So and with young Russian laddies attempting to bo...

  The closeted world of professional chess, yes that is a real thing, is in an absolute uproar. It would seem that our world's two best players were all set to match up for a winner take all, knock your ass out, championship tourney. However the one guy that's older than the kid that is the old guys opponent, breath, made an opening move and then...he quit the match. Wait...is that right? Wait...maybe it's the other way round. I'd better go google up a check and see so's I have the chess facts straight. Hold on for a moment or so...please...BYB. Ahrighty then I've got the story straight. The current chess player champion is one Magnus Carlsen and he's 31 and Norwegian. The champs opponent is Hans Niemann and he's 19 and American. A side note of relevance here...the kid beat the older guy two weeks back. So, the two chessmen are squared off on (in?) a 64 square chess board. The first move is by Niemann who has the white pieces. Second move is Carlsen who ...

  At the United Nations headquarters in New York City...New York City?...yes New York City, the annual meeting of heads of state and world law-dee-dah elites gather each and every September to make their respective cases for continued membership in THE United Nations General Assembly. What all that b.s. boils down to is...a whole lot of blah blah blah and miscellaneous blunder with occasional outbursts of incoherent falderal and the ever so popular "I'm really important, I really am." Presidents, Prime Ministers, almost prime ministers, dictator/generals, various and assorted war criminals with a dash of sultans and the like are gathered for a week of wine, dancing, and song with dancing. It's September kids and the big boys are gathered to point accusatory fingers at one another and peacock for the vast global media concerns. Which brings us to my case in point. The Shaw of Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi who holds the title of the 'Shaw of Iran' courtesy of...

  So go figure. Byzantine antiquities found in Gaza. Gaza as in the Gaza that continually gets pounded by Israel? Yes...that Gaza. One Palestinian farmer name of Salman al-Nabahin, was clearing his land in preparation for the planting of trees. Yes Palestinian farmers do routine and regular stuff like farmers the world over. So Mr. al-Nabahin uncovers a Byzantine era mosaic floor that had been buried years and years ago and now this mosaic floor is seeing the light of day courtesy of Mr. Salman al-Nabahin. It's almost ironic that this Byzantine era mosaic floor hasn't been blasted to little tiny pieces by Israeli military dropping bombs and then Israeli tank shelling that is run of the mill for Gaza on an almost daily basis of bloodletting simply because Gaza is Gaza and filled with Palestinians and Israel finds Palestinians on par with how Nazis treated Jews way back in World War II the really big one. Now that is the truly ironic aspect of this little slice of daily Palestini...

If you're thinking of going to Bhutan...don't. Bhutan is a tiny slice of the Himalayas tucked neatly inside China and borders India. Not so easily accessible. Okay so here's the straight dope on travel to Bhutan. It's really freaking expensive. So freaking expensive as to give rich people pause and a moment of economic reflection before booking a trip to not even close to paradise. Bhutan is on average 8000 feet above sea level and that translates to oxygen transpiration of minimal abundance. You'll not be able to breath. Anyway, the "authorities" that lord it over Bhutan have decided that anyone desiring to visit Bhutan will now pay an entrance fee of $200.00 dollars U.S. a day and gimme a sec while I google up the what ifs on Bhutan currency...okay I'm back, Bhutan uses the Indian Rupee and 1 rupee equals 0.013 dollars. That's about 1 penny and a bit so an American dollar can buy a mountain of rupees. Anyway and so...Bhutan hasn't been gettin...

  Queen Elizabeth II ... her funeral was a thing to witness. Over here on the left side of the pond, the "funeral" began at 12:00 a.m. PDT. I did not get up to watch. I did however start watching after I'd clambered out of bed and got some coffee in me. Quite the show. Spectacular funeral the likes I've never seen before...ever. Television coverage began at midnight. Way too early for my liking. Quite the show indeed. Back on the ugly side of the pond and the Sheriff of Bexar County Texas, one Javier Salazar, is opening a criminal investigation into whether criminal activity accompanied the bullshit stunt made infamous by Ron DeSantis Governor of Florida. The migrants were LEGALLY in the U.S. and were "lured" to Florida by agents working for DeSantis and then loaded onto a plane and flown to Martha's Vineyard and that's in Massachusetts. Evidently Sheriff Salazar didn't take kindly to the DeSantis stunt and is out for 'blood' and that...

  Typhoon batters Japan, typhoon batters Alaska, Queen Lizzie the Deuce is getting buried, and political shit is building to a roaring crescendo. Election 2022 is almost upon us like a case of really itchy bad herpes. Oh the horror... The greedy fuckers at Apple are about to unleash another way overpriced iPhone and all you'll need to do is pony up about 2 maybe three grand and the spiffy Apple thingy can be yours. You'll only have to wait about three maybe 4 months and the gizmo will ship as soon as Apple can get all the microelectronics necessary to stuff the guts in and then...and then...maybe your Apple spiffy cellphone will be yours. Happy Monday everyone and ain't we just living the dream. Monday machine art is now to be yours at no cost to you. If you happen to tune in for a read.  atlas - treason - poster - gabby - Gabby Petito is here due to an institutional and systemic failure of those that are supposed to be keeping victims like Ms. Petitio safe from psyc...

  The inventor of the "scrunchie" has bought the big one. And the farm. Taking a dirt nap. Bid this mortal coil a fond adieu. That's right, Rommy Hunt Revson invented the 'scrunchie' and is now resting peacefully in death. I don't know if Revson is resting peacefully or otherwise, I'm not dead yet. Not yet anyway. Tomorrow is a new day. Back to the 'scrunchie' lady. She was at one time married to some bozo that owned the Revlon complexity and when that bozo died, Ms. Revson evidently didn't get a dime from that extremely deep pocket and had to make things work on her own. And she did just that. The 'scrunchie' is ubiquitous all around our precious little blue planet. Back in the days when I had really long hair, I used a scrunchie. The scrunchie was handy as hell. Kept the curly dang locks in place and out of my face. So Ms. Rommy Hunt Revson has left her mark on our world and anyone with the long hair can thank Ms. Rommy for one quite ...