Ha...Ha!

 Down goes America's chump. The trump will be doing the perp walk p d q. That acronym is 'pretty dang quick'. The particulars in the indictment are sealed by order of a New York court so all the blah blah blah from news outlets is purely speculative. There are reports concerning the indictment that indicate trump is charged on 30+ counts for various high crimes and misdemeanors. Any bullshit coming from trump himself is simply bravado and pleas of 'poor me'. The trump is an embarrassment. Now for Friday machine art and the distinct possibility that trump will embarrass himself even further. What an ass...

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it is entirely plausible that the trump spawn will face indictment the same as daddy. it would be worlds of enjoyable to see the trump kiddies doing the perp samba. come on Barbie doll iVanka, dance like a chicken. 😆

They Will Not Put That On A Pizza

 In an almost surprise turn of events and the announcement of the mammoth meat meatball schtick, Italy has enacted new legislation that strictly bans "cultured meat." In particular, lab-grown mammoth meat. Can't blame the Italians for that. It will take a long time before "cultured meat" approaches acceptability. Or edibility. I'll not try lab-grown meat. Not now and not ever. I suppose one could place me squarely in the 'ain't not about ever gonna eat that shit' camp! Enough said. Thursday machine art is up next. 

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I can imagine that many nations will be banning "cultured meat." Some crap concocted in a petri dish IS NOT FOOD! 😠

Mammoth Meatballs...What?

Quick-breaking gastronomical news, a start-up company in Australia is diving into the "cultured meat" market. "Cultured meat" would be edible meat grown in a lab. Meat not raised on grass or hay or alfalfa or chicken feed or even close to being animal. Lab-grown meat. Dang if'n that doesn't sound yummy. Or possibly not. I'm a 'traditionalist' as far as meat is concerned. Various animals raised on a ranch or farm or sometimes in the wild BUT, animals of four legs and sometimes two legs. Packaged all neat and tidy and available at our local Walmart. In the meat department. Don't get me wrong here, I view my visit to the meat department as a form of human evolution but there was a time in my past when I was all about hunting then killing wild animals and then removing their innards and skin and after proper aging of the carcass, butchering the deceased animal for dinners. I don't commit any of that barbarism any longer. A strange tale of my last 'hunt' and a conversation with a coyote changed my worldview on the old hunting-gathering motif. A retelling for a later day and time. Oh crappies, I digress. The cultured meat thingy. Anyway, a startup collective in Australia grew mammoth meat (as in wooly mammoth of ice age recently extinct fame) in a petri dish or test tube, and the foodies at Vow (that's the name of the Aussie start-up) made a meatball out of that lab-grown mammoth meat. Doesn't that sound almost if not quite delicious? Mammoth meat! I think that the kids at Vow should make better use of their lab and all that high-tech lab equipment to produce something good for humanity. Mammoth meat?!? I've tasted bear meat, bison meat, caribou meat, moose meat, and trust me on this...all those meats are gamy and stringy and overall are massively unappetizing. Mammoth meatballs? Hell NO! The civilized world (?) has plenty of animal flesh for human consumption so...for the foreseeable future, lay off creating "cultured meat." Now for HumpDay machine art. Humans probably don't need to be eating camels either.

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I can confirm that humans and animals, and in this instance coyotes, can and have exchanged points of view and listened intently as coyote took the lead as teacher. the exchange changed my entire life. 😳

Potatoes, Oxymorons, And Idahoes

 The french fried state of Idahoe is allowing death by firing squad and the Idahoe Legislature passed death by firing squad legislation with that passed legislation being signed by Idahoe Governor Winky Little. Good old Winky signed that legislation on Friday last. Idahoe is 'pro-life' except when Idahoe is pro-death. Of course, Idahoe women can't get an abortion in case of life-threatening situations. Idahoe is "pro-life" except when Idahoe is pro-death. Makes sense no? Oh, hell no way does any of it make any sense. Idahoe is just another in a growing number of knee-jerk states ruled by knee-jerk politicians that understand nothing about life OR death. Idahoe is planning to change its state motto. Yup. Idahoe intends to change its state motto to "If It Moves Shoot It." Idahoe intends to execute any woman that gets an abortion and that little surprise was tucked neatly inside that death by firing squad legislation. America is in the not-so-distant future going to have to change that tested and tried motto from 'Land of the Free' to 'Land of the Genetically Ignorant'. Idahoe will lead America into a knuckle-dragging future that reeks of ignorance. Tuesday machine art is up right about now.

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I fail to find any rhyme or reason as to how politicians can be pro-life and pro-death all in the same breath. screaming hypocrisy and that much is obvious. 😠

Waco And The Burning Man Festival

 The trump made a "campaign stop" in Waco, Texas on Saturday. Hold on...I better check that...yup Waco on Saturday. You might remember Waco, Texas from the Janet Reno days of cooking folks alive. The F.B.I. was unable to dislodge Branch Davidians from their Waco, Texas compound back during Bubba's days in D.C. and so the F.B.I. while attempting to smoke the loonies out with teargas, ended up starting fires that engulfed the Davidian compound and the Branch Davidians were burned alive. Men, women, and children. There were NO recriminations for that little cockup. A shining moment in U.S. law enforcement history. Janet Reno was Bubba Clinton's Attorney General. Anyway, Herr trump took to rambling and raving about his pending indictments for any number of high crimes and misdemeanors, many of which are treasonable offenses. Good old 'shit-for-brains' trump insisted that 2024 will be the "final battle" and of course, he, trump, did not offer further explanation as to what the hell he was talking about. Trump did insist that he would rid America of the ever so illusive "deep state." No explanations for that tinfoil hat remark were offered by trump. Trump's 'truths' are out there...really way out there. So it goes. Now for Monday machine art. Presented without further interruptions. 

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Underground Radio Palestine is reporting that Benyamin Netanyahu (Israeli king by proclamation) is loading Palestinians into boxcars and shipping them off to concentration camps out in the Negev Desert. there have been huge plumes of acrid smoke being reported from near those Negev concentration camps. so there you go and yes, history does in fact repeat itself. 😐

Not This Shit Again

 Russia's president Vlad 'the war criminal of St. Petersburg' Putin plans to outfit Belarus with "tactical nuclear weapons." Oh great, here comes another 'cold war'. I didn't much care for the first 'cold war' and that one I grew up in. Under? On account of? Whatever! You see Belarus is a Russian puppet state and Belarus is just about exactly to the north of Ukraine. Oh yes and I almost forgot, Belarus is a nation/state in the Baltic region of Europe. I don't believe that Belarus is a member of the E.U. E.U. would be the European Union. Whatever. Back in the 1950s, the cold war was an all-encompassing madness that affected just about all aspects of life in the 50s. We had air raid sirens that lead to drills, and schools taught us children how to "duck then cover" under our desks at school just in case the rooskies dropped the 'big one'. So much fun. There were "fallout shelters" stocked with K-rations, water, cots, blankets, and thyroid pills. To this day I've never been able to figure out what the hell the 'Civil Defense' authorities thought thyroid pills were going to do. The grown-ups discussed what to do just in case. Above-ground nuclear weapons testing and those pretty in pink clouds of radiation. Ah, those were the good old days. So in short, Russia moves nukes into Belarus so the U.S. and NATO will move nuclear weapons into Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Soldiers will be stationed in Germany again and damn we'll be having some fun oh yeah. Conscription, the draft, will begin once again and all manner of young Americans will get to live life as a conscript. You can read all about the high life and the draft in any half-decent history of the Vietnam War. So it might be advantageous to get one's affairs in order and keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times. The ride might get bumpy in a hurry. Now for our sabbath machine art. 

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when a levee breaks...mama you gotta move. 😳

So You Wanna Rock Your Taylor Swift?

 Taylor Swift recently had a pricing dispute with TicketMaster over what TicketMaster was (is?) charging fans for a ticket. I read a piece on one of the websites that indulge in that form of financial abuse, that Swift tickets were priced at about $3600.00. For one ticket. Damn if that doesn't seem outrageous. I can remember back in the day I went to see Vanilla Fudge and Led Zeppelin was the opening act. Tickets were five bucks. Yup. I didn't know at the time who in hell might Led Zeppelin be. I knew who they were after the show. My point is, show tickets and concert tickets are overpriced in the extreme. Compare five bucks to three thousand six hundred bucks for one ticket. Holy not about to buy into that shit! One more point needs to be made here, I googled up to find the actual ticket price for a Taylor Swift concert in Vegas and the tickets are 'only' three hundred and six dollars and "up." I suppose that three hundred and six dollars for a nosebleed seat aren't near as bad as a ticket priced at three grand plus. The only band that has EVER played anywhere on Planet Earth worth paying more than five bucks to see would be Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd doesn't actually perform anywhere not anymore. Oh yes and with that being said, Roger Waters can suck it. But then so can Taylor Swift. Not a fan no way no how. Now for Saturday's machine art. 

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I suppose that should Swift decide to perform her concert naked, well, maybe the price of three hundred and six dollars might be worth forking over. but then Vegas used to have all nude reviews just about any day of any week. what happens in Vegas back then is NOT what happens in Vegas today. 😖

Is It Live Or Is It...

Oumuamua, our friendly interstellar visitor that hit the headlines a while back can now be pronounced as a nonlife visitor. Astrophysicists are still puzzling over the odd shaped visitor from another galaxy. It (Oumuamua) seems cigar-shaped or may be shaped like a pancake. Okay, brainiac guys which is it? Cigar-shaped OR a pancake? You get no answer to that pressing question. Figures. However, the astrophysicist brainiac guys have figured out what the 'thing' used for propulsion. Oh yeah, the really smart guys can't figure out our visitor's shape but they've come up with a scientific postulate for how the dang thing was traveling through space. Interstellar space. Gas. Yup, good old gas. Hydrogen gas. Or possibly Oumuamua was driving on regular gas from back in the day when gasoline had the lead in it. That really sweet smell of leaded gasoline. Oh yeah, take me home on country roads in a cruiser fueled with leaded gasoline. But I seem to be off-topic. Anyway, Oumuamua to this day has the brainiac types scratching their astoundingly smart heads and that's exactly how things should be. What fun is a Cosmos without strange things that buzz by our Planet Earth and just offer a smile and a wave? Not much fun at all. Now for Thursday's machine art.  The captain of the Oumuamua had his crew simply smile and wave boys...smile and wave.

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I think that the Oumuamua thingy was an interstellar probe. The aliens had to come and see for themselves what is up with Planet Earth and all that goddamn noise being broadcast into space.

Lizard Eats...Cats?

 Yes my friends there is a 'cat-apocalypso' happening right this very minute in Florida of all places. Nile monitor lizards have somehow and mysteriously appeared in Florida and the beefy dang lizards are eating Floridians out of home and cats. The Nile lizards are not some manner of tiny lizard, no they are not. The Nile monitor lizard can grow up to 5 feet and then some and weigh close to 15 pounds give or take an ounce or so. The monitor lizards are quite adept at climbing trees by the way. Just wait until the monitor lizards get a seasonal Florida freeze and start falling out of Florida's trees. The lizards have taken a liking to Florida so the crawlers are homesteading Florida and there ain't not a dang thing good old Ron DeSantis can do about it. The Nile lizards have acquired a taste for American house cats. Yup. Floridians are ever so put off by the Nile lizards eating their cats and the Floridians want something done about this invasion. One unnamed Floridian was heard to have said, "we get the damn Cubans, we get the Haitians, we get the Mexicans, we get retired Jews, and now we've got to put up with lizards? It's a damn outrage! We all thought the republicans were bad." Anyway, Nile monitor lizards have spread themselves far and wide throughout Florida and it sounds like basic karma is sprouting in Florida. If the Floridians can teach the Nile monitor lizards to eat pythons, well maybe they can find a way out of their dilemma. Now for some Wednesday machine art.

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the feet image posted back up there a space or some is a gank from the Little Feat website. Dang fine band and a dang fine graphic. 😏

Penguin Demands Fish!!!

 Fossil hunters in New Zealand have discovered the fossil remains of a penguin that tipped the fossil scales at 340 lbs. That is one giant penguin. New Zealand paleontologists made their discovery known in a recent edition of the Journal of Paleontology. A scintillating publication that's popular among those paleontologists that prefer their paleontology discoveries reported on the printed page. It was also said that the newly discovered fossil penguin didn't put up with any bullshit from leopard seals. Leopard seals have been known to hunt seals. Now for Tuesday's machine art.

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I am the proud owner of mammoth vertebrae. just one. an entire mammoth fossil could prove problematic. where would you house an entire mammoth fossil? short answer would be a museum. 😉

Flaming Space Debis

 Northern California had its night sky lit up by space debris that caught flame as the space junk reentered Earth's atmosphere Friday evening last. The denizens of No Cali thought they were being invaded by space aliens. The US military and NASA had to reassure the No Calians that there was NO space invasion underway and the ever so twitchy No Calians were then able to resume their sleep drills unabated. Silly No Calians are just a mite-twitchy, nervous, antsy, panic prone, and you really can't blame them. What with forest fires, horrific snowstorms, rains leading to floods, and the dang snow hasn't really begun its melting process. So yes the good people of No Cali are deservedly gun-shy and their personal stories of living in a wet hell on Earth are only now being brought to light. Monday machine art is up right about now. 

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there is an actual and for real story behind the Arctic Mystic image I posted back up there one click. someday I should probably relate the details. not today though...😐

America's Lord Of The Lies

 Just when you might have thought it safe to read the news again, up jumps America's 'lord of the lies' and that would be trump. The trumpster manages to regularly have his name in the headlines. You'd think there might be more important news to report on... but no. Even when there are wars to report on, all any American reader gets is trump this and trump that. It seems to me that had somebody pumped a bullet inside trump's head, well, that might be newsworthy. Far be it for me to wish a horrible demise on trump...sure that's my story for now and I'll stick to it for the time being. The 'lord of lies' is insisting that he's going to be arrested this upcoming Tuesday. How the dumbass might be privy to law enforcement designs or events is unexplained. According to New York law enforcement types, they have no idea what trump is blabbering about. Law enforcement types rarely if ever give the general public or trump for that matter, advance notice of enforcement maneuvers. So the important stuff ready to go would be Sunday machine art. 

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all of trump's antics simply highlight how pathetic the man has become. ☺