Train Wrecks

We're all tempted to witness train wrecks. There is something about a person's life dissolving before your eyes that draws us; perhaps gives us a sense of superiority in that "Thank God I'm not as screwed up as *name of train wreck*."

Bruce Jenner is such a Train Wreck.

• He's a derailed 100 car bullet train hitting an elementary school the day before Christmas vacation.
• He's a nuclear waste freight train hijacked by Bin Laden's nephew crashing into Grand Central Station.
• He's Hillary Clinton's campaign train hitting the Bernie Saunders campaign bus at a California RR crossing where hundreds of illegal Mexicans are demonstrating against Donald Trump.

Oh, wait...

You know what I mean.

Bruce Jenner posits that his Christian beliefs are preventing him from dating men. This claim generates the same kind of skepticism I get when Bill Clinton says that his 26 flights on Jeffrey Epstein’s Underage Jet Orgy Express were on missions trips to save the souls of those poor 13 year old girls.

Bruce and Bill - please don't bother explaining. There's other distractions, other wrecks we need to witne ... oh look, Miley Cyrus is shoving flaming Tampons up her nostrils.


 

Shoulda Studied Plumbing

College majors with the highest post-grad unemployment:

#10. Political Science
Unemployment Rate: 7.2 percent
Underemployment Rate: 49.7 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $38,000
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $70,000

#9. Ethnic Studies
Unemployment Rate: 7.3 percent
Underemployment Rate: 57.1 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $32,000
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $60,000

#8. English Language
Unemployment Rate: 7.5 percent
Underemployment Rate: 51.7 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $32,200
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $55,000

#7. Fine Arts
Unemployment Rate: 7.6 percent
Underemployment Rate: 62.3 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $29,000
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $50,000

#6. Art History
Unemployment Rate: 7.8 percent
Underemployment Rate: 58.9 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $32,000
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $53,000

#5. Earth Sciences
Unemployment Rate: 7.9 percent
Underemployment Rate: 41.8 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $30,300
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $63,000

#4. Environmental Studies
Unemploment Rate: 8.5 percent
Underemployment Rate: 53.7 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $30,000
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $60,000

#3. Mass Media
Unemployment Rate: 8.6 percent
Underemployment Rate: 56.5 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $31,200

#2. Geography
Unemployment Rate: 8.8 percent
Underemployment Rate: 48.1 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $34,500
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $60,000
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $56,000

And the winnah is...

#1. Anthropology
Unemployment Rate: 8.8 percent
Underemployment Rate: 59.1 percent
Median Wage (Early Career): $30,000
Median Wage (Mid-Career): $50,000

Captain Ironman

My grandson

My kitchen

*sigh*

Not positive, but I think he's wearing a Spider Man shirt under the Capt. America jersey.
His older brother was into Walker Texas Ranger.
I mean really into Walker Texas Ranger.
Like Calvin and Stupendous Man into.
He scared his mother. Tried to go to school in a three-piece suit, cowboy boots and six gun.
*rummaging around*
Now where's that picture?

It's All About The Rice Bowl Stupid

The 2016 Presidential election is alll about Republicans, Democrats and corporate America fighting for their rice bowls. Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, et alia, are schlepping the same baggage.
Fred on Everything has a great post on the elections:

The Republicans try desperately to ditch the only Republican candidate who could win the Presidency because…Hillary is one of them. Because, as every sentient being has by now noticed, the Republicans and Democrats are members of the same corrupt club of blood-sucking parasites, the action arm of the corporations, Wall Street, the Israeli lobby, and those who want the US to control the world at any cost–except, of course, to them. They are panicked at the rise of someone who might put first the interests of America. Better Hillary, a fellow parasite, than Trump, who isn’t.

What If It Really Was His Name?

From The NY Post:

A Bronx man took his killer’s identity to the grave, using his last breath to curse out cops instead of giving up the name of his attacker.

Daniel Pena was attacked in the courtyard of a building on Decatur Avenue near Bedford Park Boulevard and stabbed at least twice in the chest around 7 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.

As rescuers tried to treat the 23-year-old, officers tried to get him to identify his attacker as he gasped for breath.

“As he took his dying breath, his last words to police were, ‘F–k you,’” a law enforcement source said.

Whatever You Do, Don't Say You're Feeling Kinda Blue

The only way I'd ever approve this kind of medical procedure is for Democrats who are threatening to commit suicide because Hillary was not elected.

Sex abuse victim in her 20s allowed to choose euthanasia in Holland after doctors decided her post-traumatic stress and other conditions were incurable.

• Woman suffered from mental disorders after she was abused as a child.
• Condition included severe anorexia, chronic depression and hallucinations.
• Dutch woman, in her 20s, showed improvements after 'intensive therapy'.
• She was given lethal injection after doctors said treatment was hopeless.

Story here:

It beggers the imagination that a doctor would actually do this to someone who is suffering from mental/emotional malaise. Isn't that what renders you incompetent to make such a decision?

Treatment was abandoned last year after independent consultants were called in and said the case was hopeless.

The consultants also said that despite her 'intolerable' physical and mental suffering, chronic depression and mood swings, she was entirely competent to make the decision to take her own life.

Lord have mercy, this line of reasoning snuffed out over 5,500 lives in the Netherlands last year alone.

If the same euthanasia percentage (0.033%) of the Dutch population were to take place in America, that would be 105,000 lives lost. The CDC reports that 41,000 people commit suicide in the US each year; about half of them take their lives by use of firearms.

Cage Match: Putin v. Hillary

It seems like everyone has Hillary's emails except for the FBI and the DOJ. Of course this story makes for some extremely interesting speculation as Trump has already stated that he can do business with Putin.

The Kremlin is debating whether to release the 20,000 emails they have hacked off of Hillary Clinton’s server.

According to a report from four days ago, beginning in 2011, the Russians began monitoring Romanian computer hacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel (aka Guccifer) after he attempted, unsuccessfully, to break into the computer system of the Russian funded RT television network.

After monitoring Guccifer, the Russians were reportedly able to record (both physically and electronically) his actions which allowed the Russian intelligence analysts, in 2013, to not only detect his breaking into the private computer of Secretary Clinton, but also break in and copy all of its contents as well.

The report notes that shortly after Russia obtained Clinton’s emails, they released a limited amount to RT TV which were published in an article in March 2013, titled Hillary Clinton’s ‘hacked’ Benghazi emails: FULL RELEASE.

Story here.

Black SUNY Albany Students Indicted, Expelled

Two black female students who generated national headlines by claiming they were attacked by whites have been indicted by an Albany County grand jury and expelled from the State University.

The University at Albany has expelled two black female students and suspended a third after they were indicted for allegedly lying about being victims of a hate crime.

Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell have been dismissed from the university and Alexis Briggs has been suspended for two years, according to an email sent to the school community Thursday by President Robert J. Jones, the Albany Times Union reported.

The women grabbed national headlines — and a sympathetic tweet from Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton — after claiming that a group of 12 to 20 white men hurled racial slurs and attacked them on a CDTA bus about 1 a.m. Jan. 30 while others stood by and did nothing.

The alleged incident sparked a large on-campus rally defending women of color and the social media campaign #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany.

[...]The three women were indicted this week by a grand jury and arraigned for 10 misdemeanor charges, including assault, attempted assault and false reporting, along with a violation for harassment, the Times Union reported. They have pleaded not guilty.

Story here.

SUNY Albany had this to say about the entire incident:

Joseph Brennan, a UAlbany vice president of communications and marketing, who testified that the school suffered "reputational harm" as a result of the conduct of the three women.

Brennan testified that the women's actions impacted the school's recruiting and created a disruption that exceeded that of "floods, hurricanes, power outages and fatalities" he had encountered in his 25-year career. He said UAlbany has already received notifications from families that they would not send their children to "such a place" and that his office has had to cancel production of a fundraising video and a social media campaign as a result of the three women's actions.

Life's a beach, next time wait until the tide turns before you sound the racism alarm. Just talk to the University of Missouri in case you missed the memo.

Hillary's Gambit

gam·bit (găm′bĭt) n.
1. An opening in chess in which the player risks one or more minor pieces, usually a pawn, in order to gain a favorable position.
2. A maneuver, stratagem, or opening remark, especially one intended to bring about a desired result.

Happy Mothers' Day

This is a thirty something year old picture of my wife and her mom taken a year or two after we were married.

Two great ladies. Her mom died 13 years ago and she is missed greatly.
I am greatly blessed to have had both these women in my life.

Hollywood Speaks

Here's what some celebrities think about gun control:

Vince Vaughn

“I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home,” Vaughn told GQ in 2015. “We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual. It’s the same reason we have freedom of speech.”

Julianne Moore

“The Second Amendment protects the right of a United States citizen to bear arms,” Moore wrote in an April 2016 issue of Lenny Letter. “But a gun is a machine. And if you choose to bear arms, you have a responsibility to bear them safely.”

Susan Sarandon

“How much more suffering & loss will it take before we better regulate the sale of arms in our country?” Sarandon tweeted in 2012. “Let @NRA know how you feel.”

More here.

Are We Looking At Another Benghazi?

Marine reinforcements are being sent to the US Embassy in Baghdad. I hope there are minefields and concealed machine guns surrounding the embassy.

From Fox News:

The U.S. military has sent a platoon of Marines to bolster security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad following recent protests led by firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Twenty-five U.S. Marine infantrymen arrived late Thursday night, a U.S. defense official told Fox News.

The move comes amid the Sadr-led protests against the rule of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, which escalated last weekend with protesters storming the Green Zone in Baghdad where the embassy is located.

[...]A U.S. Marine rifle company of more than 150 Marines, in addition to private security contractors, has been protecting the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and will continue to do so.

I hate to even speculate about this, but with SecState Kerry leading the show I do not have any confidence that our people will be protected at any cost.

50 Years Later The Chinese Still Don't Get It

Murderous Mao

May 16th marks the 50th anniversary of the end of Mao's Great Cultural Revolution.

In 1979, three years after the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited the United States. At a state banquet, he was seated near the actress Shirley MacLaine, who told Deng how impressed she had been on a trip to China some years earlier. She recalled her conversation with a scientist who said that he was grateful to Mao Zedong for removing him from his campus and sending him, as Mao did millions of other intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution, to toil on a farm. Deng replied, “He was lying.”

Okay, given that Shirley MacLaine is a clueless ass, at least Deng was honest. The Cultural Revolution lasted for 10 years, killed over a million people and and nearly starved 200 million more.

It was a nationwide, self-hate communist convulsion that should have cured the world of socialism, but people like Bernie Sanders and the Clintons weren't watching and the idiots in liberal colleges haven't been taught  the dangers of total government control.

Story here.

The Brits Still Have Our Back

It should have been a cruise missile.

Royal Navy fires warning shot at Spanish patrol boat ‘hassling’ US nuclear submarine attempting to dock at Gibraltar

The Royal Navy has fired a warning shot at a Spanish patrol boat as it tried to 'hassle' a US nuclear submarine attempting to dock at Gibraltar, it has emerged.

Ohio Class USS Florida,  SSGN 728

560' long, 18,750 tons
Four 533mm torpedo tubes, 154 BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles

Spanish Guardia Civil vessel Rio Cedena twice tried to disrupt the visit by ballistic missile sub USS Florida as it was approaching the British Overseas Territory on the southern tip of Spain. Flares were fired across its bow as it sailed in front of the American submarine and the Royal Navy reportedly dispatched its squadron patrol vessel HMS Sabre.

Spanish Patrol/Party Boat SS Sangria
57' long, 8000 lbs.
MG-82 5.56mm machine gun, 24 six packs Alhambra Premium Lager

Story here.

This is not the first time that Spain has played sea squirrel with England, but now they have involved a warship of the US Navy. Smart.

In a 2010 incident the Royal Navy almost blew up another Spanish patrol boat:

The Civil Guard patrol boat ignored warnings as it came close to the heavily armed warship HMS Somerset and the fast patrol boat HMS Sabre.

The two Royal Navy vessels were carrying out an anti-terror exercise in an area where ships are always on high alert for attacks.

Britain has made an official complaint to Spain following the latest in a series of confrontations between the two countries around Gibraltar.

[...]Senior British military officials were said to be "furious" when they learned what happened, and said the Spanish ship risked being "blown out of the water" by its recklessness. A Navy source told the Gibraltar Chronicle: "Racing towards a well-armed warship is madness. It's irresponsible and incredibly risky."

The reason for this brash action? Spain has had a 300 year woody for Gibraltar.

Spain refuses to recognise that the waters outside Gibralter's three-mile port perimeter are British and has repeatedly tried to reclaim them. Britain was given Gibraltar and the waters around it in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, but Spain has said it will never renounce its claim to sovereignty.

Piddy Toes

... and this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home and returned with his all relatives. 

Story here.