So That's News?

 Media reporting is for the most part, a complete waste of time. Jaded, shaded, ridiculously overblown, and partisan. So very partisan. Mindless drivel served up to entertain but not to enlighten. Trump had his digs in Florida searched by the F.B.I. and that's news. Ashton Kutcher having some obscure autoimmune disease is not front page news. Or even back page news. You may or may not remember Kutcher from the silly ass television program from a while back that was 'supposedly' in Wisconsin. I didn't watch the program as it was more than insipid and I don't care for anything that Kutcher takes a part in. Kutcher filled in for the demise of Two And A Half Men after Charlie Sheen went loony and got his ass fired from the program. Two and Half was for the most part dang funny and especially the airing of the 'Squab' episode. Hilariously funny. Back when Jake was a youngster. Kutcher went on to kill 'Two and Half' and that was that. Kutcher got married to the 'Die Hard' guy's ex-wife, divorced her, and then married Mila what's her name. But Kutcher has this autoimmune disease and that passes as news. Maybe married Kutcher is in the process of starting up a "foundation for the study of obscure autoimmune diseases." Here comes the begging and whining for your money. I wonder what color ribbon Kutcher will select for his 'cause'? Bottom line here is...the American people are sorely incurious and woefully stupid. Given the intellectual lack of intelligent news reporting, is it any wonder...Americans are sort of like mushrooms - kept in the dark and fed bullshit. Now for that Hump Day machine artistry.

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I have diabetic neuropathy. do I get a headline? 😣

Beginning Of The End

 The F.B.I. served a warrant on the trump enclave of Mar-A-Lago on Monday and donny 'the golden fuck' trump went ballistic. As an editorial footnote, the F.B.I. serving a warrant on ANYONE in the U.S. is more than a big deal and if the F.B.I. has a warrant, they're coming in unannounced. Maybe there's a glimmer of light shining in this dark trumpian tunnel we've all been dragged into. Trumpkin after discovering his crib was under F.B.I. presence, started to whine up a streak. Trump took to his social media venue to inform the world that the federal agents had "broke into his safe." Trust me on this little misstatement by trump, the Feds did NOT have to break into the safe. The Feds did what Feds do while serving a warrant, they opened trump's safe and removed the entire contents as 'evidence'. Trumpy, while crying up a liar's storm, maintained that the serving of the federal warrant was "unprecedented and unheard of." That much is true. There has never been a former President of the United States of America served an active warrant by the F.B.I.. IF the F.B.I. has served a warrant on trump's home digs, he is in some seriously deep shit and now he has no escape. As a second editorial footnote, the F.B.I. does not now nor ever give up details as to why they've served a federal warrant. You can imagine that the inhabitants of Mar-A-Lago got quite the wake up call as the Feds came rushing the room unannounced. The Feds usually serve their warrants about 05:30 a.m. or maybe 06:00 a.m. and dang if that ain't about a really harsh way to start your day. Oh dang that is about too freaking funny. The cancer that is donny 'the golden fuck' trump is about to be excised from the American body politic. None too soon either. HAH!!! Now for some celebratory Tuesday fantastic machine art. I can't wait to see the 'golden fuck' trump marched out of his hidey hole shackled nicely in handcuffs. Sweet...

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empire trump begins to crumble. won't it be nice to witness the collapse of empire trump on his ratty ass children. 😂

Gadzooks...He Did...What???

 Dateline Salt Lake City..."guy steals excavator from construction site, digs himself a hole." So some guy harvests an excavator and then proceeds to dig shit up along 9th West and just about 8th South in Salt Lake. I know exactly where this happened. I grew up on Salt Lake's Westside and so I can pretty much vision all the collateral events. Dude tore out parking strip, dug up a water line, ripped out newly laid fiber optic cable that belongs to Google, BUT the guy didn't tear out any gas lines. Natural gas lines. Ripping out gas lines could have been one explosive situation. According to 'court documents', you had to know there'd be court documents, guy is 46 and had taken the "running excavator" from a construction site about a mile back up a road. The specific "road" did not receive any mention. Construction site crews followed the guy that had ganked the "running excavator" and as the guy is digging shit up, he then proceeds to drive to a local Smith's Market and I know exactly where the store is. I've shopped there on numerous occasions. Anyway, guy drives the excavator to Smith's where he is stopped by a crowd of shoppers present at the Smith's store. The intervening people are dang lucky then weren't "dug up" while everyone waited on Salt Lake P.D. to arrive and take Mister Ganker into custody. I'll be willing to bet this brought some excitement to the neighborhood. So the total cost of damages to city property is estimated at just over $40,000.00 and guy's "bail" was set at $1,000.00. I'm thinking that back at the "construction site" the site foreman is going to have a bucket load of explaining to do to the project supervisor. The construction crews will have a good laugh for a while and just before the site foreman gets back from his visit with the project supervisor. Foreman's coming back with a chapped ass and he'll take it out on the crews. That's how these things always turn out. Of course it isn't quite the usual to leave an excavator unattended and especially an excavator that's running. Damn if'n they aren't having some good times back on the Home World. Now for some Monday machine art without any accompanying excavators. 

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videos of the incident are probably already posted on YouTube and all other incidental social media sites. dang...that would make for some "trending" video. 😃

Happy Birthday...

 Or and most importantly, Happy Landing Day! On Mars! Curiosity Rover has been on Mars for ten years and still roving. Talk about a more than decent return on an investment. To date and that would include today, there have been six Mars 'Rovers' landed and returning serious science contributions to NASA. Of the six and I'm including Perseverance Rover most recent and some Chinese rover name of 'egg roll' or some such. I'm not including any science returned by a Chinese rover. The Chinese can suck eggs and they most certainly probably do. However, Curiosity Rover tops them all in longevity and contributions to all of our shared humanity's understanding science and our planetary cousin Mars. Ten years of cruising the Red Planet and seeing things that you and I will never be able to see. Not up close and personal. The pictures we get to see are certainly awesome. Personally, I'd not want to visit there. Takes way too long to get there and the Martian atmosphere isn't exactly welcoming. Not for ordinary and regular Earth crawlers. I'm more than happy to wander around good old terra firma looking at the rocks and stuff on the home turf. But and of course, that's why we have NASA and Martian Rovers to do all that legwork and we get to armchair the bejeepers out of being very far away. One last time...Happy Landing Day Curiosity Rover keep on keeping on. For all of us. Now for our celebratory Sunday machine art. Let's hear it for the machines.

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way way back in the day...I thought it would be so cool to be an astronaut traveling all spaceman like around our solar system. turns out I'm still waiting on flying cars. 😕

Karma-izing

 Tub 'o' guts Alex Jones (InfoWarMisinformation) is ordered to pay some of the Sandy Hook parents about one gigantic load of good old American money. $45 million and something dollars. Jones was sued by the Sandy Hook parents and after a jury of Jones' peers found the flabby freak guilty of slander, deceit, outrageous lies, willful disregard for sit ups, AND playing with treasonous fire, Jones will have to fork over every last dime he's ever came in contact with. Karma. Dark Lord Dick Cheney has risen from the realm of the wholly half dead and plugged up a political ad for his daughter, Liz Cheney, whom is wrapped in one damn ugly re-election campaign in Wyoming. The Cheney klan lives in Wyoming. Bet you might not have known that. Liz Cheney is one honest to goodness straight up American woman and has been targeted by donny 'the golden fuck' trump as a bad girl for informing America exactly how goddamn treasonous trump is in actual fact. Of course with Wyoming being what Wyoming is...the folks living in that wind swept sheep pen aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in a six pack of bulbs purchased at Walmart. Wyoming, where the men are men and the sheep are nervous. Anyway, America's Dark Lord of Waterboarding has made this political ad and Darth Cheney lights up the trump like no one but the Cheney can do. I doubt that trump realizes he's made an enemy the likes of Dick Cheney. Cheney knows exactly where ALL of America's skeletons are buried. It's entirely possible that Cheney has buried any number of those skeletons. Cheney is quoted as saying..."I find your lack of respect for my daughter most disturbing." Wow is that some serious dang karma with a capital 'K'. Alrighty then and moving on to the really important stuff it's time now for the Saturday installment of machine art du jour.

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no one should be surprised when a 'hellfire missile' strike hits that Florida golf course that the 'golden fuck' likes to hide out at. no one will know how that happened. sure sure... 😁

NeoFascist NeoNazi And Christian? W T F...?!?

 Dateline Texas, and so this narrative begins. Deep in the heart of...Texas where CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Committee, is holding their annual meet and greet the racists. On Thursday, which just so happens to have been yesterday the 4th day of August 2022, the extreme right wing lunatic assembly of the Republican Party will get to hear varying shades of white nationalist propaganda, neoNazi propaganda, pseudoChristian heresy, and any number of insane freaks that have so far been able to escape having to be committed to a loony bin (read that as mental asylum), will be making speeches to enflame the mob. The CPAC opening liturgy went something like..."give us Barabas...give us Barabas." This is to be that kind of CPAC soiree. The CPAC'ers will get to hear any number of batshit crazy speakers that seem to be to the right of donny 'the golden fuck' trump. MTG is to make a spectacle of the assembly and herself. The Thursday headliner was one Viktor Orbán and this crazy bastard is Prime Minister of Hungary. Good old Viktor enthralled the mob by stating that a "Christian politician cannot be racist." Good old Viktor is whom the CPAC crowd feels is imminently qualified to give advice to America's version of the Third Reich. "White is right. White is might. White is how 'god' intended the human race to be." Blah blah blah and on and on ad infinitum. The "god fearing" crowd of packers will get to hear from the 'golden fuck' himself and won't the jizz factor be elevated by at least ten. So with this year being an election year, you can just bet that the political shit will fester, get stinky, grow ugly at the speed of treason, and there's money by the bucket load to be tossed hither and yon for all the world to be thrilled by. Oh yes and I forgot, the CPAC invitations for this year had a disclaimer that read "Only white folk and 'christian' white folk will be allowed entrance. No blacks or Jews of course" Happy Friday anyone that might care to lean on in for a quick read. Friday machine art is up next.

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you can read about Viktor's speech given at the CPAC on any number of news websites. that is IF you've the stomach for it. 😠

If Today Is Thursday Then...

 Tomorrow will be Friday. How about that. So it turns out that the State of Kansas isn't as backcountry inbred as I had feared. Kansans voted to keep a woman's right to choose regarding reproductive issues, sacrosanct, part and parcel of the Kansas State Constitution. Go figure and that's almost a complete surprise. I'm thinking women all across America are going to make their voices heard by way of the ballot box. You go ladies. Get up, stand up, stand up for your right to choose. The neofascists need a good smack upside their ignorant heads. Get 'em girls! If Kansas can wake up and walk out of the darkness, well, there's still hope for America. I do hope so anyway. Cut to the chase here and it's time for Thorsday machine art. Let's hear it for the hammers. Get it? Thors day and hammers? Yeah, kinda weak and I admit that.

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I wonder if the bookies in Vegas are taking bets on Texas election outcomes? 😏

Jesus, Judas, And The Made Seduction Of MTG

 In a Georgia backwater berg allegedly named MilledEdgeOnSeville, way back in a day, came the beginnings of the capricious if not cracker-ass loony life of MTG. Raised to be Georgian redneck and upon making a solemn promise to her father to live a "virgin lifestyle" and yet being backcountry horny, MTG would continue to keep her promise to 'daddy' and figuring out a way to fulfill her growing hormonal urges by making jiggy with the countryside fauna. So as MTG was making hormonal jiggy with a Georgia bulldog and getting dang close to climax, MTG was met with one of those straight up weird "divine interventionist visions." Appearing before MTG was Jesus and Judas who urged MTG to pursue money, religion, and politics. Not necessarily in any logical order of course. However and to give MTG the benefit of her copulation with the bulldog, Jesus and Judas encouraged our blest MTG to finish her jiggy and then get on with the business at hand. So MTG after a refreshing cleanup, plunged headlong into the business of making piles of bucks, social connections for future political convenience, and faking the bejeepers out of "church." Religion has always been about social and political control of people and rarely is religion about "god" or living a 'devout' lifestyle. Such mundane bullshit. Okay so, using her considerable fortunes and social/political connections, MTG gets herself elected to Congress. By some mysterious oversight and total disregard for her previous and peculiar sexual orientation, MTG is simpatico with the Georgia folk and she's a shoe in for certain. By hook and obviously conflated backwoods propaganda. Tell the ignorant folk crap-o-la served up on a deep fried country fair stick and PRESTO...election won. Truly a sad state of affairs for Georgia and the rest of America. So MTG makes a big splash with the none too critically inclined toward rational and sane belief. MTG is 'in' with the cracker television nut jobs, christian nationalist neo-Nazi racists, and donny 'the golden fuck' trump. Here we are back in the present and who knows, maybe America is doomed as doomed can be. We'll just have to wait and see if backwoods Georgians can reconcile themselves to slightly less insane inflammatory rhetoric and choose a more moderate approach to life, the universe, and everything. By the way, the answer to that last seems almost a question is...42. Ain't not nobody can understand the question and therein lays all of our common problems. Now for that Camel Day machine artistry.

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poking literary sticks at the politicos is really one whole lot of fun. the exercise and practice almost gives my life meaning. 😃

Ding Dong Drone Strike Calling

 Ding dong the terrorist's dead...which old terrorist?..the al-Zawahiri terrorist...that old terrorist. So says U.S. intelligence and President Biden. All these years after 9/11/01...drone strike killed the al-Z man in Kabul. You'll of course remember Kabul in Afghanistan. That nifty little killing field what played host to the Americans since Oct. 2001. 21 years later and click boom dead as a door nail. Gosh I'd almost forgot about those heady days of yore. Terrorist attacks, clandestine wars, wars of attrition, Alex Jones, conspiracy theory, Dark Cheney, Guantanamo Camp X-Ray torture chambers, enhanced interrogations, water boarding, and dang if'n those weren't about some good times oh yeah. I spent a number of years under surveillance by the feds and their bullshit stranglehold on freedom of speech. Evidently I pissed off some G-Men for criticizing Buckaroo Bush and his illegal war criminal activities. At the time I submitted an indictment for Dubya to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to hold to account Bush and his handlers for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Jeepers, was it something I said? Anyway the al-Z man is toast. Incinerated like an unsuspecting victim of an unannounced drone strike. Bye bye you raghead freak!

Now for some Tuesday machine artistry simply because I can and the al-Z man can't.

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the yawner formally known as beyonce must have broke wind. so much fuss over absolutely nothing. ✌

Welcome Mr. August

 We've made it to August 2022. Just about and almost summer is two thirds gone. Shot to hell. Hell of course being California, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and on and on and... Its dang hot and the climate forecast indicates more hot is coming. Add that to the Great Western Drought of the twenty first century and what we have here is global climate collapse. You can toss all the climate change prattle on the heap of 'gosh weren't that just a spiffy notion'. Our Planet Earth's climate has collapsed and we'll all get to see what happens next. This could prove very interesting. Very interesting indeed. So Lieutenant and then Commander Nyota Uhura has passed on to that infinite space...the final frontier. Actress Nichelle Nichols has died at age 89. She deserves nothing less than a burial in space with full Federation honors. I think Kirk is the only one left from the original Star Trek. Kirk is getting up there in age too. Don't go gentle into that final frontier Captain Kirk hang in there as long as you can. Boston Celtic GREAT Bill Russell has died at 88. Mr. Russell led the Celtics to 11 NBA championships. That and Mr. Russell was one decent and terrific human. You can rest those knees now Bill, you've earned your place. Now for some wildfire hot machine art on a Monday.

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dang if'n it doesn't seem like we suffer the loss of really great humans and assholes like trump hang around like a rotting washed up on a beach whale carcass. 😞