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  There's an asteroid on track to squish Indiana, the state of, or maybe Texas, the state of, and there ain't about squat can be done about that. All this is courtesy of our forward thinking space officialdom loving known as NASA. The asteroid is Bennu 2135/2182. So Indiana and/or Texas had better get all your affairs in order and then...kiss you saggy asses goodbye. The asteroid impact will screw up life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for people all around our Planet Earth. Ain't not a dang thing can be done about the inevitable. Not a dang thing! There is a smidgen of good news in this egglet of doom and gloom. Asteroid Bennu 2135/2182 isn't actually scheduled to impact Planet Earth until September 24, 2162. A mere 159 years into our shared future. Thank you NASA for the heads up. Happy Friday everyone and now we'll segue over to the Friday machine art portion of today's program. Thank you for stopping by. TTFN. do you - gaze - gallery - blue man - har...

  Okay so, you launch yourself into Earth orbit and the launch and everything goes swimmingly. HOWEVER...time comes around and mission approaches its end and then and then... the FAA refuses to grant your space thingy "permission to land." This tale of intrigue, or bureaucratic cock-up, is NOT made up nor is it a conspiracy theory spun to geek out the conspiracy theorists. This an actual misadventure being wrought by one commercial space launch company by name of 'Varda Space Industries', they're the folks trying to get their space vehicle back on earth in one corner and the FAA in another corner. FAA is in actual fact, not theory, the Federal Aviation Agency. The Varda space thingy is carrying "mainly pharmaceutical" stuff. Whatever that may in fact be. Varda would like to "land their space vehicle" in the restricted expanse of west desert Utah. That would be a significant expanse of desert that borders Dugway, Utah AND is controlled by the Un...

Today is Wednesday September 20, 2023 and September is two thirds over. Time does really fly by when we're having fun. Life in twenty first century America is one dang laugh riot after another. NFL football is underway, NHL hockey will be underway soon, NBA will do a brief preseason, and of course MLB will crank up their run to the World Series almost before you can say "let Pete Rose into the Baseball Hall of Fame." Charlie Hustle SHOULD BE IN THE HALL OF FAME!!!   I had the privilege of watching Mr. Rose play baseball and take it from me, Petey was good. Rose won three batting titles, one league MVP, a World Series MVP, and of course a World Series title. That might be two World Series titles. One title with the Cincy Reds and one title with the Phillies. Mr. Rose earned the right to be in baseball's Hall of Fame. Asshole Giamatti dictated that Rose was "ineligible" for HoF induction and that dictum has never been lifted. Goddamn insulting I think. That na...

  So Donny Trump gave a little "speech" on Friday last and Donny sort of mixed up his insults aimed at President Joe. Trump warned those in attendance a Pray, Vote, Stand rightwing gathering, and informed the crowd that President Joe would "drag America into World War II." Trump missed the mark by about 78 years. Whoopsies... Trump also was unable to distinguish between ex-President Barack Obama and President Joe. Trump didn't seem to notice that he'd not only misspoke but he was woefully confused. Whoopsies once more... Trump still hasn't come to grips with the fact that old age is a merciless bitch and will humble a soul just for the fun of it. I really think that America deserves better than Trump. Unfortunately, there really isn't any candidate running for America's top job that has the bonafides to fill a presidential vacancy. Cold gruel for a starving politically America no doubt. Now for Tuesday machine art and with any luck better days mi...

  United Auto Workers, the union, is out on strike. So are the SAG and WGA respectively. The 'G' in SAG/WAG stands for "guild." SAG and WGA are the actors and writers that make movie and television entertainment that is ever so fascinating to try and figure out what in hell any of it means. Anyway so, the leadership of the UAW, the union, turned down a 21% wage increase offered by Stellantis which just so happens to be what's left over from Chrysler and Fiat and Citroen and Jeep and some other cars that sold so well the cars were never offered here in the good old U.S. of A., in a genuine mega-merger. You know automakers. Stellantis is one of the big 3 automotive conglomerates that crank out crap-nasty cars and trucks and then ask the spending public just about anywhere to fork over significant amounts of debt in the form of 6 or 7 year contracts. The length of contract is to be able to pay the debt off. In financial theory. Better still, take the auto retailers u...

  DATELINE - Salt Lake City, Utah... Here is a tale about a man named "Max" and "Max" went ballistic and "threatened a large number of people with a drill bit." Guy is quoted as saying, "I'm gonna drill you full of holes!" Alrighty then. Needless to say, the Salt Lake Police Department gets called to a scene of workaday mayhem and then the PD proceeds to clear the area around where the guy was acting all belligerent like and keep the local looky-lou's at some distance so as NOT to shoot innocent civilians if a shooting is deemed necessary. Anyway, our man "Max" begins a "charge at police" and rather than simply shoot the guy dead on the spot, well, an angel of infinite mercy hovers over the "alleged crime scene" and intercedes with the local PD and local PD decides just to taser the guy and does. Taser the guy. Needless to say "Max" is jolted into an electrified coma and Salt Lake PD is able to ...

DATELINE - Mesa, Arizona... a Mesa Zoni (zoni is short for Arizona citizen) got a big surprise when he went out to his garage and found 20 western diamondback rattlesnakes nestling up comfy cozy in his aforementioned garage. Surprise! 5 adult rattlers and 15 young 'uns. That find is politely determined to be a "quorum" of rattlesnakes. You see the adult rattlers are pretty dang poisonous. That being stated, the baby snakes are more than dangerous AS, the baby rattlesnakes can't regulate their venom like an adult rattlesnake does so people are more likely to die from being bitten by a baby rattler than an adult. Rattlesnake. You can imagine the shocking terror embracing the Mesa, Arizona man upon finding  'snakes in his garage'. Western diamondback rattlesnakes at that. Twenty rattlesnakes. With baby rattlesnakes out numbering the adult rattlesnakes three to one. Yikes. The rattlesnakes aren't really so dangerous provided you leave the snakes alone. Trust m...