Open Blog - Weekend

I'm staying in.

"10 Coolest Strongest Toys Which Actually Exist !"

Four for Fridays!

I can not believe it is Friday already and also Memorial Day weekend. I do not know if it is me but it just seems like the days are going faster. I hope everyone enjoys the three day weekend and please be safe. Here are your questions for this week.

1) Do you have plans for this Memorial Day weekend?

2) Will you be doing and traveling for Memorial Day weekend?

3) Will you be spending time  with family or friends this Memorial Day weekend?

4) Will you be going to see any Memorial Day parade this weekend?

"Memorial Day Weekend is No. 1 for fatal traffic accidents"

Published: May 26, 2017 6:34 a.m. ET

This weekend, traffic could hit a new high

Traffic in Los Angeles

By KariPaul Reporter

"Memorial Day travel will be at its highest level since 2005 this year, with 39.3 million Americans trekking 50 or more miles away from home, according to motor club association AAA. And more than 80% of those — 34.6 million people — will be on the roads.

"Based on travel bookings with AAA, the top travel destinations in the U.S. for Memorial Day Weekend are Orlando, Florida, Seattle, Washington, Las Vegas, Nevada, New York, and Honolulu. The influx could be dangerous: In fact, Memorial Day weekend is the most deadly time to drive, according to personal-finance website ValuePenguin, with an average of 312 fatal accidents a year between 2011 and 2015, followed by Labor Day Weekend (308 fatal accidents) and July 4th Weekend (307 fatal accidents). 'On a normal three-day period, the stretch between Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York sees the most fatal accidents,' it says."

Read more: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/memorial-day-weekend-is-no-1-for-fatal-traffic-accidents-2017-05-25


If you're travelling this weekend, please be very careful.

Open Blog - Friday

Oh yeah!

Good News: "Big game hunter crushed to death by elephant"

AP Photo

"A south African big game hunter was crushed to death by an elephant on a Zimbabwe game reserve, according to South African outlet News 24.

"Theunis Botha, 51, was leading a hunt when his group stumbled upon a breeding group of elephants at a game reserve near Hwange National Park Several on Friday afternoon, Zimparks spokesman Simukai Nyasha told The Telegraph. The group of elephants charged at the group and the hunters shot at them, the agency reported.

"Botha was crushed after one of the members of the group shot an elephant after she lifted Botha with her trunk. The elephant collapsed and fell on top of Botha, crushing him."

Read more: http://journaltimes.com/now/today/history/big-game-hunter-crushed-to-death-by-elephant/article_e3ae82c0-e905-58dc-9988-516c23ae5d42.html 


It's not a "sport" when you're carrying heavy arms and the animals are defenseless.  Go hunt the animals naked, with no guns or tools.  After all, that's how the animals are.  May all the big game hunters meet the same fate. 

I know one.  When he said, "Let me show you the game room," I was expecting a room with a pool table or card tables or pinball machines.  Instead, it's filled with animal heads on the walls and a couple of full-size ones. He was so proud.  I was getting sick.  After his desath, may his head be stuffed by a taxodermist and hung in the "game room."

"10 SECRETS The FBI Is Hiding From You"

Open Blog - Thursday

You taste better than a dog biscuit.

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, my dears!  How are you?  Another crappy day outside.  We had a few really great days and then it hit the toilet again.  I guess we have to pay for a warm winter with a cold spring.  Personally, I believe in climate change and wonder how bad it will get.  The power pigs have made trillions of dollars off of polluting our atmosphere and now we're supposed to just take it.  I'd love to see a mess of CEOs rounded up and placed in the arctic with no tools or food.  You made this mess, assholes, now clean it up.  This reminds me of the fact that when something good happens, someone will say, "Praise the Lord," but when something bad happens, no one says, "Damn the Lord."  That's a nice gig, getting all of the  fame and none of the blame.

Mr. OrbsCorbs contacted me because he's being harassed by a collection agency.  No problem.  I'll just put the dreaded Zoltar Curse™ on them.  They're already half-dead with numerous closed locations.  This should finish them off.  Don't mess with me or my friends!  

Apparently, we already have a new mayor, Amy Connolly.  She has taken over with lying John's blessing.  Of course, she has a shady past and is still under investigation from her old position.  That's the way lying John likes them: criminals.  Racine is a cesspool thanks to lying John.  And now he abdicates.  Gee, if only he would finish out his term, we'd be a top ten city.  Instead, we're a bottom ten city.

I have an idea for the proposed arena downtown.  A recent slideshow on the Journal Times' site was about circuses.  It stated that the three ring tent could hold 12,000 people.  There you go, there's our new "arena."  With so many circuses shutting down, one of those tents should be relatively cheap.  Before we commit to bricks and mortar, we can see what kind of response an arena would generate.  If it doesn't work out, I suggest that we then replace City Hall with the circus tent, for obvious reasons.

Festival time is here. For the next four months or so, there's something happening every weekend in Racine, and many weekdays.  Of course, if you live in the affected areas, they can be a pain in the butt.  I have a friend who lives near downtown and she says it's a mess when the city holds some celebration..  She says that people she doesn't even know will park in her driveway.  I told her to let the air out of their tires.  But she doesn't "want to start something."  I told her that the jackasses who park in her driveway have already "started something."  She's just trying to stop it.

Well, I hear the dirty dishes and carpeting calling me.  A woman's work is never done.  Thanks for reading my blog this week.  I love every last one of you.

Contact madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

Enjoy whatever spring weather we get.  Soon enough we'll be complaining about the heat.  Watch out for kids playing near the road.  And take care of yourselves.  Please.   So many of us are always doing for others instead of doing for ourselves.  Well, I give you permission to take care of you, because I love you.
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"WiGWAG: Richard Simmons, bobblehead Trump, and more"

From Wisconsin Gazette.com:

Lisa Neff and Louis Weisberg, Staff writers May 22, 2017 Updated May 22, 2017

News with a twist

Mega butt!

Officers at an Arizona border crossing found nearly 3 pounds of heroin in packages taped onto a woman’s buttocks and stuffed into the back of her jeans. Authorities say the heroin had an estimated value of more than $45,000.

The beach is back

Ireland’s once-popular Achill Island’s Dooagh beach has returned after being washed away by storms in 1984. In recent weeks, tides deposited tons of sand and shells to the area, making it an instant tourist attraction once again.

John Mayer made her do it

An Alabama woman was filmed stomping out the windshield of a friend’s car. Why? The friend had broken her favorite John Mayer CD, Continuum.

Leave him alone

Richard Simmons is suing the National Enquirer and Radar Online for libel and invasion of privacy. The media outlets reported that the reclusive weight-loss guru is avoiding the limelight because he’s undergoing gender reassignment. Simmons has made more headlines in his retirement years than he did during his heyday, when his bouncy, effusive persona was ubiquitous on television.

Bobblehead Trump

Milwaukee’s National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum recently acquired an interactive Trump doll. Visitors to www.bobbledonald.com can ask The Donald a question and then choose the answer, which makes the bobblehead either nod “yes” or shake its head “no.” Like the real Trump, the bobblehead cannot answer more complex questions, such as “Why did you fire Comey?”

Don’t call me Caitlyn

Among the names for baby girls that dropped most in popularity between 2015 and 2016, the top four were all some form of the name “Caitlyn,” according to the Social Security Administration.

S—t march

Anti-government protests in Venezuela have turned nasty, with demonstrators vowing to add feces to the customary rocks, Molotov cocktails and tear gas they use against security forces. The new tactic has been dubbed the “Poopootov.” Demonstrators are advertising their next action as a “s--- march.”

Get a new lawyer

Richard Henry Patterson of Fort Lauderdale claims his girlfriend choked to death on his ginormous manhood during oral sex. His attorneys want permission for Patterson, 65, to show his penis to the court as exhibit No. 1. Prosecutors, however, aren’t swallowing the story. They’ve charged him with murder and they predict his standard “rough sex” defense won’t go down with the jury. The coroner was unable to determine how 60-year-old woman died.

Privacy or payments?

A woman seeking to obtain child support for her son has lost her case before a court in Munich. She wanted the court to order a hotel to reveal the identity of the man she spent three nights with seven years ago. The woman knew the man only as Michael, and the judge said granting her request could breach the privacy of the four men registered at the hotel under that name during the three-night period.

Mom’s home-cooking

A judge in New Mexico says a man arrested for allegedly breaking into his mom’s house and stealing her soupy stew won’t face charges. The judge dismissed the case against the man, saying the only witnesses to the theft of the posole were the defendant and his mother.

Goaded by God

Pittsburgh police arrested a woman they say threw bricks at a man’s car on charges of propulsion of missiles, criminal mischief and defiant trespass. According to the police report, the woman, who is white, said she received a “prophecy from God” telling her to “throw bricks at white men.”

Barreled over by Bambi

The Associated Press reports a daring deer charmed a group of hunters in Indiana by licking the barrel of a shotgun. Video from the encounter shows a deer approaching the hunters crouching in undergrowth. The deer then nuzzled the barrel of a gun held by one — and lived another day. We should mention that the men were hunting turkeys.

Tweet for free treats

In April, a Nevada teenager took to Twitter to ask Wendy’s how many retweets he needed to win free chicken nuggets for a year. The reply from the fast-food chain: 18 million. He didn’t hit that mark but the exchange became the most retweeted of all time — 3.4 million — and Wendy’s is giving him the year’s worth of nuggets anyhow.

New slogan

The U.S. House of Representatives recent passage of the Republican health care plan spurred creation of another T-shirt slogan: “Nevertheless, she preexisted.” We found ours online, created by the Nasty Woman Society: Apparel that Empowers.

Read more: http://www.wisconsingazette.com/blogs/wigwag-richard-simmons-bobblehead-trump-and-more/article_c6450bb2-3f27-11e7-adb5-5b5e21fb813a.html

Open Blog - Wednesday

How are you doing?

"Powerbull"

From The Shepherd Express:

By Art Kumbalek 2 hours ago

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, how ’bout our County Sheriff “Hopalong” Clarke apparently getting a gig with Homeland Security? And once he begins his new job, the first thing that will be safer and thus more secure will be the inmates over by the county jail, I kid you not.

Anyways, as I’m sitting here today I’ve heard that the Powerball jackpot has risen $250 million, and whoever eventually wins, the rest of us losers can be comforted with the belief that there will be at least one American who can afford health care, what the fock.

And speaking of our county sheriff, for your benefit during this time of economic hardship for so many, allow me to kind of plagiarize myself in regard to winning and losing:

For those who sometimes may need to count on a helping hand from the government, let me guess: At the last lottery drawing the numbers came up and you went down, didn’t you? You got suckered into purchasing another bum lottery ticket. Get over it.

Cripes, hard to believe any outfit that sells as many faulty products as our government lottery cartel does can stay in business but what are you going to do, ain’a? Take your ticket stub back to the clip joint you bought it from and ask for your money back? Ha! Forget about it. I already tried. No dice. They acted like I was speaking some kind of foreign language. And come to think of it, at the mini-mart I frequent, I was. English. Ba-ding!

But seriously, just because your lottery-financed dreams have been dashed down the dumper like yesterday’s undigested baloney sandwich doesn’t mean that you’ll feel any better by packing it in and stepping in front of the first bus that comes by, no sir.

Take some solace in the fact that at least you know you’re a loser. Know thyself, like they say in the Bible. Not like these supercilious dickweeds who pride themselves in not getting snookered into these lottery scams. I got one thing to say to them: If you don’t play, you can’t win, and when you don’t win—well, you lose, any way you look at it, loser.

But really, so big focking deal you lost in the lottery again, that now you can’t run away with the uber-stacked manicurist you’ve had your eye on over by the beauty parlor where the wife goes; that you can’t tell your know-it-all boss that you won’t be in for the next 30-focking years; that, damn it, you still have no pot to pee in; yeah, those new soles for your pair of dress shoes will have to wait, and so will the knob from the collection agency knocking on your door even as I write and you read.

But do you really think you’d be happier if any of those dreams had come true?

Yeah, probably, but just because the lottery numbers you so carefully picked mega-sucked does not mean that your life is as good as over. Hell no, not by a long shot. What it does mean is that your life will continue to stink, and the familiar does have its own comforts I’ve heard. Don’t worry, you still got plenty more losing ahead of you, so buck up, buddy.

And what’s so great about that? Hey, read your Bible sometime, mister. Somewheres in there it says, “The meek shall inherit the Earth,” or so I’m told. Got that? It doesn’t say, “The focking rich bastards shall inherit the Earth,” does it? Of course not. That would be stupid ’cause you can’t inherit what you’ve already got, what the fock.

No sir, the Bible specifies the meek—another way of saying losers. That’s right. Losers. Just like you, and me. And just so’s you know how special that is, second place inherits two Earths. Ba-ding!

Hey, the losers are going to win the Earth, which may be a lot like winning a goddamn hippopotamus in that the first thing you got to ask yourself is, “What the fock am I going to do with that?”

And when you losers win the Earth, I imagine you’ll need to decide as to how you’ll want it: paid out as one lump planet or as an annuity spread out over a period of years. Me, I’d go the annuity route. For my first payment, I’d take Tahiti and Fiji out there in the South Seas, introduce myself to the native gals and spend my time making sure they were comfortable. Next year, do I hear Monte Carlo?

So in conclusion, please remember that when you’re a loser you’ve got nothing but dreams. But when you’re a winner, your days of dreaming are done and if you don’t have dreams, what do you have? Fock if I know, but as soon as I inherit the Earth maybe I’ll have an answer for you’s, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

From  http://shepherdexpress.com/article-29785-powerbull.html

Open Blog - Tuesday

If you say so.

"Bevy of bobcats: Thriving animals poised as next urban pest"

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press May 22, 2017 Updated 43 min ago

James Quigg
FILE - In this April 16, 2012, file photo, a small, likely juvenile, bobcatis perched on a power pole in a residential neighborhood of Victorville, Calif. Bobcat numbers have almost tripled nationwide since the 1980s to as many as 3.6 million, according ro a 2010 study in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife management, the most recent national survey. (James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP, File)

 "CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As someone who has studied bobcats for almost four decades, wildlife ecologist John Litvaitis remembers many times returning from the field without spotting a single one of these solitary and shy creatures that often hunt at dusk.

"But bobcats are less elusive now as their numbers rise and they become more comfortable around humans. Joining the likes of foxes, coyotes and even mountain lions in rare cases, bobcats are making a home in small towns and suburbs — and realizing there is plenty to eat in the cities.

"They have turned up in recent years in such places as Manchester, New Hampshire's largest city; Waverly, Iowa; and outside Los Angeles. They have been spotted below backyard bird feeders, waltzing along streets in search of their next meal and, increasingly, as roadkill.
 

"A website that Litvaitis set up to understand the bobcat rebound in New Hampshire features hundreds of amateur photographs — of a cat lounging on someone's lawn, another stalking a chipmunk, a third sitting contentedly after gobbling up a guinea fowl and peacock.

"'They are back in New England and at least as abundant as they were 100 years ago, if not more,' said Litvaitis, who conducted much of his research while at the University of New Hampshire. 'They are adapting to a landscape that has changed. You have roads and people everywhere, and they have figured out how to get along with most of that.'

"The resurgence of Lynx rufus comes during a shift over the past several decades from treating bobcats as vermin to be exterminated to being considered a top predator worthy of protection."

Read more:  http://journaltimes.com/news/state-and-regional/bevy-of-bobcats-thriving-animals-poised-as-next-urban-pest/article_4e84453a-5562-5f6b-b921-91e1507dd156.html


I'd love to own one of these.

Open Blog - Monday

Let's have a good week.

Open Blog - Weekend

Oh, the colors!

Four for Fridays!

Hello everyone I hope all of you were able to enjoy the nice weather we had this week. Now it is the cold weather and more rain again. I am hoping we can get the warm weather back I was enjoying having the windows open. Here are your questions.

1) When was the last time you went to a festival or carnival?

2) Did you go to the festival or carnival for the rides or music?

3) If you went for the music who was the last band you went to see?

4) If you went for the rides what is your favorite ride?

Have a great weekend.

Open Blog - Fridaay

You've lost almost all of your clothing since Tuesday. Good job.

"5 Most Badass People Of All Time"

Open Blog - Thursday

Whoa! It looked like you disappeared for a minute, Betty.

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hi, mom and dad, little sister and little brother!  It's time once again for that fabulous blog, "Dear Madame Zoltar," the blog that asks the musical question, "Who let the dogs out?" 

We've been experiencing some wonderful weather.  It's actually in the 80's.  Yesterday, too.  Unfortunately, more rain is in the forecast.  Farmers can't get out into their fields to plant.  Why not use drones to plant the seeds?  These wild swings in weather are blamed on climate change.  We've just begun to experience that.  Give it a few more years.  I predict that things are going to get real crazy.

As I write this, the children from the school next door are out screaming.  It starts at 10 AM and continues to 4 or so.  For recess, all the children seem to do is scream and scream and scream.  Are they ever in class? Earlier today, a lot of the kids were yelling, "Woo!"  So I started to yell it back through my window.  That was fun.

Last night, Mr. lying John gave his last state of the city speech, and then got teary-eyed as he talked about the felons he calls friends.  Please, Mr. lying John, stop with the formalities and just get the hell out of office.  NOW!  We've been raped almost constantly since this pig made it to office and we'll need some time to heal.  Heck, maybe I'll run for mayor.  I couldn't do worse than the criminals we now have in office.  If elected, I promise a roundabout at every intersection.

I'd also get rid of the City Administrator position.  What an inglorious waste of over $100K every year.  If Mr. Tom Freidel had an ethical bone in his body, he'd return half of his pay.  Ack-ptoo!  I get very worked up when talking about the thieves that have destroyed Racine.  Every last one of those pigs should be proscuted to the fullrst extent of the law.  Of course, when your City Attorney is part of the problem, it's difficult to see daylight.

Well, Junior has continued to drive Señor Zanza's car with no apparent problem, except he can't afford much gasoline.  Too bad.  Get a part-time job, Junior, and start living like an adult.  Junior lnows that Señor Zanza is a soft touch as opposed to me.  So he constantly asks to borow his car instead of mine. He already knows the answer I'll give him.

Thank you for reading my blog this week.  I love you all and wish you the best.  Better keep a jacket in the car until we know for sure that winter is done.

Direct your inquiries to  madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com
 
Watch out for kids playing in the street.  That's where all my boyfriends played baseball.  If you encounter a "boom car," be sure to give him the finger for me.  When one of thoose is stopped at a light, I like to sidle up next to him, put on some Rammstein full blast, and then lower my windows.They give me dirty looks.  How dare I interrupot their atempt to inflict themselves on others?  Ha-ha! Enjoy.

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Open Blog - Wednesday

I'm smiling, I'm smiling.

"Six-Feet Sleep"

From The Shepherd Express:

By Art Kumbalek

 

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, I just got the info that Powers Boothe (“Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones,” Con Air, Sin City, The Avengers, “Deadwood,” etc.) the deeply magnificent TV, movie, actor’s actor from out of Texas, has passed. Age 68. Died in his sleep. “Natural causes,” they report. Hey, put me down for one of those: Age 68. Natural causes. Died in his sleep. Count me in, what the fock. (Which reminds me that, at my age, I really need to get more sleep. Put that on my bucket list.)

Yes sir, natural is the way to go in each and every way, I hear. Jeez louise, every other goddamn TV ad begs you to buy this or that ’cause it’s “natural”; so this or that has just got to be gosh darn good for you ’cause it’s “natural,” you bet. No artificial substitute, please, like cancer, bus runover, gunshot. Got to be natural.

And I figure that dying in or during your sleep, of natural causes, is also a financially sound way to bid adieu—to say “aloha, all” before a boatload of MRIs, PET scans, CAT scans, X-rays, chemotherapy, lying in a ho$pital bed puking sick for weeks, sends you to bankruptcy and the poor house from the bills from the crappy or nonexistent health insurance bullshit. Yeah, I’ll take the “natural” croak in my sleep—cuts costs, I figure. Ha! Take that, you focking HMOs.

Cripes, just this morning I heard some knobshine on the radio gasbagging ’bout the skyrocket costs for the health care, and that if all the people took more of what-you-call the preventative measures, these costs could enjoy a bit of shrinkage. That’s just got to be good news for the uninsured, ain’a? Take your preventative measures—that way if you get good and honking sick, it might only cost you one billion focking bucks instead of two for christ sakes.

And speaking of shrinkage and healthcare, I’m reminded of a little story (Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Reprehensitives, I hope you’re reading):

So this American tourist goes on a trip to China, where he got pretty frisky with the ladies. A week after he came back home to the greatest country on Earth, he awoke one morning to find his manhood privates covered with bright green and purple spots. Perplexed, he went to see his doctor.

The doctor, never having seen such a thing, ordered a bunch of tests and told the guy to come back in two days for the results. Two days later he returns and the doctor says, “I’ve got bad news for you, sir. You’ve contracted Mongolian VD. It’s very rare, almost unheard of here. We know very little about it.”

Our randy tourist is a bit relieved and says, “Well, give me a shot, a pill, and fix me up, doc.” And the doctor says, “I’m sorry, there’s no known cure. We’re going to have to amputate.” In shock, the guy says, “That can’t be focking possible. I need a second opinion!”

So the next day, the guy seeks out a Chinese doctor, figuring it’s a disease from his neck of the woods and he should have experience treating it. The Chinese doctor examines him and says, “Ah yes, Mongolian VD. Rare disease.” The guy says to the doctor, “I already know that, but what can you do? My American doctor wants to amputate!”

The Chinese doctor shakes his head and laughs: “American doctors always want to operate. Lotta money for them that way. No need to operate.”

The guy breathes a sigh of relief as the Chinese doctor continues, “Yes, no need to operate. Wait two weeks and it will fall off all by itself.” Ba-ding!

Anyways, I got to run. Time to slap together some kind of résumé for that honcho FBI job opening. If our Milwaukee County Sheriff’s name can be bandied about to be our nation’s top dick, I don’t see why my name can’t also. Besides, I look snazzier in my signature headgear than he does his, what the fock.

And I can’t forget to thank my constant reader Ingrid Mae for her so-much appreciated support and benefactoring, you betcha.

And cripes, where does the time go I ask, ’cause I also better not forget to hone my annual commencement address to our newest batch o’ graduates who’ve been painstakingly educated to the point they couldn’t find their butt on a map even if they were focking sitting on it. America: We’re No. 1! Want some fries with that?

(Reminder: Fifty bucks and a case of ice-cold bottled beer is my standard fee for addressing whatever kind of group you got needs addressing.)

And in regard to what I can possibly say concerning the golden future that awaits our commencers just beyond the pale, what I got so far address-wise is, “There’s no business like show business, so get a focking job”—which is just as far as I got last year, so what the fock, guess I’m finished, time for a little shuteye ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek, and I told you so.

From: http://shepherdexpress.com/article-29764-six-feet-sleep.html

"Coroner: South Carolina teen died from drinking too much caffeine"

USA Today Network Teddy Kulmala and Cynthia Roldán, The Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail Published 5:35 a.m. ET May 16, 2017 | Updated 2 hours ago

 

"ANDERSON, S.C. — A 16-year-old Spring Hill High School student who collapsed in a classroom last month died from ingesting too much caffeine, the county coroner said Monday.

"The official cause of death for Davis Allen Cripe was a 'caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia,' said Richland County Coroner Gary Watts. It was the result of the teen ingesting the caffeine from a large Diet Mountain Dew, a cafe latte from McDonald’s and an energy drink over the course of about two hours, Watts said."

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/16/coroner-south-carolina-teen-died-too-much-caffeine/101739718/

"North Korea May Be Linked To WannaCry Ransomware, Researchers Say"

May 16, 20177:59 AM ET

Bill Chappell

Twitter 

 

A hacking group linked to North Korea has used code that's identical to some of the malware used in the WannaCry attack, security researchers say. Here, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is seen visiting a factory, in an image released from North Korea's official news agency.

AFP/Getty Images

 

"The WannaCry ransomware that attacked computers in 150 countries has lines of code that are identical to work by hackers known as the Lazarus Group, according to security experts. The Lazarus hackers have been linked to North Korea, raising suspicions that the nation could be responsible for the attack.

"The connection was made by Google security researcher Neel Mehta, who pointed out similarities between WannaCry and malware used by Lazarus, the group that has been blamed for the Sony Pictures hack of 2014 and for stealing millions of dollars from a Bangladeshi bank in 2016.

"After Mehta highlighted the elements in the code, other researchers confirmed similarities that early versions of WannaCry — also called WannaCrypt, Wana Decryptor or WCry — shared with malware tools used by Lazarus."

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/16/528587064/north-korea-may-be-linked-to-wannacry-ransomware-researchers-say 


When the hell is Trump going to squash this bug?  Again, drop one of those mother of all bombs on  Pyongyang.  If they attempt to retaliate, destroy them, and unite the Koreas again.  I'll bet the majority of North Koreans will be shocked to learn the truth.

Take this clown off of the world stage.

Birds

Last Friday Drew and I went to Horicon Marsh in Lomira Wi. We left very early in the morning we seen a lot of birds and water fowl. We may go back up there this weekend to see if we can find more birds and water fowl. Here are some pictures from are adventure this past Friday.

                                                        This is a Black Necked Stilt!

                                                 This is a Black Crowned Night Heron!

                                                           This is a Blue Headed Vireo!

                                                      This is a Blue Winged Warbler!

                                                   This is Sandhill Cranes with Chicks!

                                                            This is Trumpeter Swans!

I hope everyone enjoys the pictures and there will be more to come. I don't know when I will get more posted but I am trying to keep up with all of it.

Open Blog - Tuesday

His left shoelace is untied.

Open Blog - Monday

You fight it, Snoopy, while I go back to bed.

"When men got bored"

From: http://knuckledraggin.com/2017/05/when-men-got-bored/


Cool!  I want one.  Just for short trips to the nearby grocery and so.

Mother's Day

Thank you, Mom, for the good things you did.

Open Blog - Weekend

Thanks, honey.

Un-fucking-believable

A little while sgo, a guy called from TWC to ask if anyone feom TWC has ever reached out to me.  "No," I said.  So he apologizes for that and said he's a representative of TWC who will stay on my case until it's  resolved permanently.  He gave me his number to call if I needed to.  It has a Madison area code.  He kept repeating that he will stay with the case until it's resolved.  I told him I had a tech coming out tomorrow.  "Good," he said.  "I'll have him report directly to me.  Whatever the problem is, we're going to fix it.  I promise you that."

I thanked and thanked him.

You would not believe the war  that I"ve been having with Spectrum/TWC.  First off,  I don't exist when either system is checked for me.  Then why do I have to pay?  Or can I pay with non-evistent money?

I don't want to read too much into this.  I've been raped and lied to by TWC so many times before.

We'll see, we'll see.

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A technician arrived this morning and started performing all sorts of tests.  Pretty soon his supervisor showed up.  The technician then gave a long laundry list of everything that is wrong with my computer (and tablet) and said most of it couldn't be corrected, but he would try.  That's when I stopped them and threw them out. The service guy kept saying it was impossible for Windows XP to receive 70 Mbps.  I told him I received it for months, Until Spectrum took over.  They set up all the reasons they're gonna fail and then they want to go at it.  Not on my computer.  Would you let a mechanic work on your car if he first gave you a long list of why he's going to fail?  I don't know what I'm going to do at this point.

Btw, there's 2 Spectrums out there. There's the one that merged with Charter and TWC, and there's the one that stands alone.  Go to Spectrum.com.  Call one of the numbers and ask a question about your account.  You'll be told that they don't have your account and you should call the old Time Warner Cable number.  When you call them, they insist that they're Spectrum.

Would you let a guy work on your car if he couldn't even find it?  What horseshit.

Interestingly, my download speed has been in the 70's since they left.

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I called TWC this afternoon because I've been having trouble with my email.  The guy fixed it almost instantly.  I told him about my troubles with Spectrum.  He said, "Did they tell you your operating system is too old?"  "Yeah," I said.  He said he has XP running on a computer at home at it's doing just fine.  More smoke and mirrors from the elite.  They will do everything but fix the problem.  Offers to maybe fix the problem but more likely to do more damage don't count.

Four for Fridays!

Good Morning everyone I hope you had enjoyed your week. I have been busy this week getting things ready to move my daughter into another dorm she has a job on campus for the summer and Monday we have to get her moved again. Here are your questions.

1) Do you like seeing the flowers and the trees with flowers starting to bloom in the Spring?

2) Do you like to hear the different birds singing as they migrate in the Spring?

3) What is your favorite flower to look for in the Spring?

4) What is your favorite bird to look for in the Spring?

Have a great weekend!

Open Blog - Friday

Sometimes it feels like two weeks.

10 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About Your Body

Open Blog - Thursday

Hi, Minnie and Mickey!

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, peoples!  How are you?  It looks ike it will be another beautiful day out there, with a chance of rain.  The sun is beating down now and I love the warmth. Spring is bursting out all over. This is a wonderful time of year.

Again, Junior and Señor Zanza want to clean up the yard, but they can't because it's too wet. The mud that they dragged into the house on their shoes last time was a mess.  We can wait.  The farmers can't.  It's going to be a tough year for them.  Heck, every year is tough for a farmer.  You must really love the land in order to be a good farmer.

And I love you, my dear readers.  Together we can ride the Titanic that the city has become.  Mayor Liar is leaving us.  WTF?  Isn't the captain supposed to go down with the ship?  He has stirred up some hornets' nests and thrown around our money to his friends like crazy.  The corruption in Racine city government is thorough.  I say we just change the lock on the mayor's office door and set about to get rid of his friends from our government.  Many have already left, taking their golden parachutes with them.  I hope that all the rest drop dead.  These bastards stole millions of dollars from us, and nothing will ever be done about it.  Racine must have the word "stupid" emblazoned on every map.  C'mon down and grab all the gold that you can carry.  Become friends with Mayor Liar and make much, much more.

I'm sure I sound like a broken record with my anti-Dickert rants.  But the man has stolen not only millions of our dollars, he has destroyed morale at City Hall, where they haven't seen a raise in years.  But newcomers who are friends of Mayor Liar start to see an income flow in little time.

So, just leave already, Mayor Liar.  We can't afford to wait around wondering when you'll abscond with the rest of our money.  My dearest hope for Mayor Liar is that someone takes him out.  He has made a laughingstock of Racine and simply cannot tell the truth.  Please, please, Mr. Mayor Liar leave your office NOW.  He must enjoy keeping us out of the loop while making outrageous claims.  Machinery Row and the proposed arena will finish us off.  We'll be paying for Dickert's thievery for decades.  A pig with a tie - that's Mayor Liar.

Well, thank you dears for reading my blog today.  The more readers, the merrier.  I love you all.
 
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Enjoy he weather, Irregulars.  Soon we'l be bitching about how hot it is.
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Open Blog - Wednesday

Have a wonderful week.

"Shutdown of Guaranty Bank questioned"

Paul Gores , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 5:00 a.m. CT May 9, 2017 | Updated 2 hours ago

"New investors were on the verge of pumping $100 million into Guaranty Bank, a prospect that should have stopped federal regulators from shutting the Glendale-based institution last week, an investment banker who was working with the investors said Monday.

"Steven D. Hovde, chief executive of Chicago-based Hovde Group, said the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency 'pulled the rug out' from Guaranty Bank when it suddenly closed it down Friday night.

"RELATED:Feds close Guaranty Bank; to reopen as First Citizens

"Hovde, who is widely known in Wisconsin and elsewhere for helping banks raise capital, said the feds knew that a recapitalization of about $100 million was in the works and might have been completed by the end of June. The money could have restored the bank's capital to levels acceptable to regulators.

"In addition, Hovde said, Guaranty was improving financially and had cleaned up many of the problems stemming from loans that started going bad during the Great Recession.

"'There is no reason that bank should have been grabbed this past Friday, no reason at all,' Hovde said, calling it 'a horrendous case of government overreach plain and simple.'"

Read more:  http://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2017/05/09/shutdown-guaranty-bank-questioned/101443230/

Open Blog - Tuesday

The same to you, dear Betty.

Spring Flowering Trees

The following  two shots are of my favorite spring flowering tree: Eastern Redbud. Redbud is only marginally hardy here.If you decide on Redbud, make sure you're getting a winter-hardy species.

PS -Cara Spoto of the Journal Times is getting in on the act, too.  Below is her picture from the front page of the Journal Times site.

http://journaltimes.com/business/local/police-called-to-former-guaranty-bank-after-threat-is-reported/article_12389e36-2321-5705-aa6a-cb0747fa5b91.html

FUCK SPECTRUM!!!

Open Blog - Monday

She hasn't met me yet.

I Fired My Shrink

First off, it was a hell of a drive to see a physician.  Just off of Hwy.50 and I-94 in Kenosha. Second, he rarely met my eyes, usually talking to a computer screen and typing.  He would constantly pick at his beard and even pick his nose. Third or fourth, his "therapy" for me was to constantly repeat that I"m a nice guy and I should get out more.  Fifth (and this is a big one), he knew nothing of alcoholism  Every time we met, he asked me if I had cravings for booze.  I'd try to explain to him that I've been sober for 24 years and the only time I thought of booze was when he brought it up.

The only reason I got together with this guy is that my old shrink recommended him.  Turns out she's never met him; only heard about him.  I'll look around for another shrink but I don't expect much.  I called Ascension the other day looking for a shrink.They told me that their shrinks no longer accept Medicare and supplemental insurance.  Bullshit.  The shrinks get paid the same no matter what. Obviously, the business office has decided to take advantage of the severe shortage of shrinks in Racine.  Bastards. Making money off of the suffering of others.

I can get my primary care doctor to prescribe all of the psych meds for me.  We've done this before.  How much you wanna bet that with the proper credentials, I could pretend to be a shrink? Hell, I'm beginning to think I could fake being a nephrologist, too.  He's now taking orders from me because he can't figure it out on his own.  Last time I was there, he said, "I'll see you in six months." He looked at me and I was shaking my head.  "Three months?' he asked.  "OK," I said.  I don't particularly want to see him, but I want test results.

If you have a good doctor, hang onto him or her as long as you can.  I suspect the majority of MDs are pigs.  If I croak, it's no big deal to my doctors because they have plenty of other patients.  When I asked my nephrologist if he had told his other patients on Nexium about my experience,  he said, "No, I'm not going to mess with someone's drug schedule if they're doing alright.  You're the first patient I've had with this Nexium problem."  Or maybe I'm the thousandth.  My numbers dropped., and I suggested Nexium was at fault.  He didn't do shit.  So who knows how many patients of his have croaked when switching from Nexium might have helped.  Nexium probably gives the kidney doctors a nice vacation in the Caribbean for keeping thier mouths shut.

I trust no MDs.  None.  If you start asking questions and they start retreating, you probably have a liar/loser for an MD.  I've had plenty.

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Open Blog - Weekend

Or else.

Four for Fridays!

I can not believe how quick this week has gone by already. I hope everyone has survived all the rain we have been getting. Here are your questions for this week.

1) What is your favorite color?

2) How did you come to have that color as your favorite?

3) Do you have a second choice for a favorite color?

4) What do you have with that color?

Have a great weekend!

Open Blog - Friday

Yahoo! Get drunk on some tequila and puke your brains out..

The Kent State Tragedy Occurred 47 Years Ago Today

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
Four dead in Ohio, . . ."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXtQfXBAmM

"Free Parking on Street"

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