Saturday, September 23, 2017

"Fire Reported At Tiny Home Village"





Racine County Eye

"Update 10:18 a.m.: No formal determination has been made by investigators as to the cause of the fire. However, members of the Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin were told the fire may have started after several cloth rags, whichused to put apply stain cumbusted.

"Original story: Firefighters are on scene after a shed caught fire about 6 a.m. Friday morning at tiny home village located behind the Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin, 1624 Yout St.

"Operation Tiny Home is working with the veterans support services group and Zack Giffin to finish building the veterans’ homes. The fire has been put out, but fire investigators have been called to determine the cause of the fire. There was no electricity going to the shed, which contained gardening supplies and the cabinets being used in building the last home.

"Jeff Gustin, executive director of the Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin, said he doesn’t understand how a fire can just start when there is no electricity going to the building.

"'There were stain cans around there,' he said. 'I hope it was something silly like that. If it wasn’t, it would kill me to know someone would run into our yard and do this.'

"Home Depot is replacing the cabinets."

From:  https://www.racinecountyeye.com/fire-tiny-home-village/


"Silly??!!!"  They're lucky they didn't suffer an explosion.  Spontaneous combustion is real, especially in a pile of oily rags.  Use a metal container, with a top, for those rags.  Wash them as soon as possible.

Nice gesture, Home Depot.

WiGWAG: President flip-flops, Hillbilly Hotties, and more

From the Wisconsin Gazette

News with a twist



These flip-flops, available for $27.99 per pair from presidentflipflops.com, come with a variety of conflicting words from Donald Trump’s mouth. The company — their tagline is “Going back on your word, one step at a time” — says 10 percent of sales go to the ACLU.
Photo: Sam Morrison

The bigger blowhard

When it comes to his status as a blowhard, Rush Limbaugh equals any hurricane. In the week leading up to Hurricane Irma’s Florida landfall, he urged radio listeners not to evacuate. The left-wing media frenzy over the storm, he claimed, was nothing more than a phony attempt to “advance this climate change agenda” and to sell bottled water. Just days after such ranting, however, Limbaugh evacuated his Florida home and canceled his next day’s program due to “the security nature of things.”

From corrupt gov to cleaning guy

Rod Blagojevich is more than five years into his 14-year federal sentence for corruption. And how is the former governor of Illinois spending his time in prison? He’s on cleaning duty. “I’ve been given the jurisdiction to sweep and mop two floors,” Blagojevich told WMAQ-TV in Chicago. “So my jurisdiction has shrunk from the fifth biggest state in America, to these two floors. But I don’t care what anybody says, I believe in clean government, and I believe in clean floors.”

The intern did it?

We were fascinated, but not surprised, when Ted Cruz’s official Twitter account “liked” a tweet from a porn account called @SexuallPosts. After all, how many righteous, evangelical leaders have been caught in such circumstances? But Cruz said it was simply a “staffing issue” that resulted in his Twitter account “liking” a two-minute scene from “Moms Bang Teens 20.”

Halloween drag time

As the first leaves of fall turned yellow, retailers already were on eBay selling blonde Ivanka Trump-style wigs for Halloween. Sellers of the coifs, which retail from $6 to $20, are predominantly based in China. You can complete the look with a pink $138 Ivanka Trump sheath dress from Macy’s. WiG, however, is more interested in seeing what our creative drag queens do with the Kellyanne Conway look.

Espresso and free expression

The owner of Hillbilly Hotties, a chain of coffee stands, and seven baristas who wear bikinis behind the bar were suing the city of Everett, Washington, over a city ordinance requiring “quick service” workers to wear a minimum of tank tops and shorts. The federal lawsuit alleged the ordinance — since suspended — denies employees the ability to communicate through their attire, is vague and confusing, and unlawfully targets women. The complaint compared the Hillbilly Hotties’ workplace bikini-wear to Starbucks’ green aprons, UPS’ brown shirts and Hooter’s orange shorts.

New way to toss a bouquet?

In Australia, doughnut bouquets have become a thing, so it was inevitable they’d wind up in the hands of a bride. It finally happened Sept. 9 in Rydal, New South Wales, where Page Kirk and her bridesmaids sported lovely bouquets of fresh doughnuts. We wonder whether the single women were covered in white powder and frosting after the bouquet toss.

Putting the ‘artificial’ in AI

An “ethical review” is underway of a Stanford University academic journal that published a study claiming artificial intelligence can determine a person’s sexual orientation using facial recognition. After several media outlets picked up the story, the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD complained to The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology about the study’s obvious flaws and negative ramifications, setting the review process in motion.

Something about Mary

French medical anthropologist Philippe Charlier has dug up and dug into the past of Joan of Arc, Richard the Lionheart, Napoleon Bonaparte and Rene Descartes. Now, according to National Geographic, Charlier and other scientists have reconstructed a face based on an ancient skull rumored to belong to Jesus’ companion Mary Magdalene. The skull and other remains were found in a crypt under a basilica in the south of France. The scientists used computer modeling of the skull to create the facial reconstruction, which shows a woman with high cheekbones and a pointed nose — and some resemblance to Cher.

From: http://www.wisconsingazette.com/blogs/wigwag-president-flip-flops-hillbilly-hotties-and-more/article_35306030-9ed7-11e7-b00f-63e90a5373c8.html

Open Blog - Weekend


Have a great weekend.

Friday, September 22, 2017

"Racine County officials weigh sales tax to help fund Foxconn project"


Racine County officials weigh sales tax to help fund Foxconn project

"A sales tax is likely to be enacted in Racine County as part of the local-funding package for the massive Foxconn Technology Group plant there but the amount and details of the tax haven’t been publicly disclosed."


Before Wisconsin, Foxconn vowed big spending in Brazil. Few jobs have come.

"The company's experience in Brazil and other parts of the world illustrates how difficult it has been for it to replicate its enormously successful Chinese manufacturing model elsewhere."

https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2017/09/20/before-wisconsin-foxconn-vowed-big-spending-in.html

 

We're gonna pay through the nose for this ripoff.

Four for Fridays!

Good morning everyone how are you doing this nice warm and humid day. I just can not believe that today is the first day of Fall. Where did the summer go already.

1) What was your favorite cartoon as a child?

2) Do you still watch any cartoons?

3) What was the worst cartoon you seen as a child?

4) What do you think of the cartoons that are out now?

I hope everyone stays inside with the heat and humidity. Have a good weekend.

Open Blog - Friday


Nooooooo!

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

"William H. Gates III COL '77, LLD '07 Q&A | The Harvard Campaign Launch"

"For weeks, Equifax customer service has been directing victims to a fake phishing site"

by

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

"Earlier this month, hackers broke into Equifax's servers and stole 143 million people's personal information, including their Social Security numbers. In response to the attack, Equifax set up a website — www.equifaxsecurity2017.com — for possible victims to verify whether they're affected. Because the process involves sharing sensitive information, consumers have to trust they're entering their data in the right place, which can be tricky because the breach-recovery site itself isn’t part of equifax.com. If users end up on the wrong site, they could end up leaking the data they're already concerned was stolen."



Yikes! It's 'The Evil Eye!'

"Sandy Weidner For Mayor - Get A Yard Sign"

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hi, gang!  The nice weather continues.  I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.  And, as Tender Heart Bear so nicely reminded us, the trees and shrubs are turning to their fall colors.  Very pretty.  Can we go right from fall to spring?  Really. after sixty-some winters, can't I just skip one?  I'm afraid we're going to pay for the current pleasant weather with a wicked winter.  I know that my boys will shovel the walk and bring me food, but the whole city goes into the dump when we have a snowstorm.  Lying John Dickert would have better spent his time lobbying for a dome for Racine.

As expected, Cory Mason and Sandy Weidner are going to run for mayor of Racine.  I'm sorry, but Mason is a career paperweight.  He wants to be mayor because it would be another feather in his cap, not because he feels so dearly for Racine.  Having Mason for mayor would be like having lying John back.  We don't need any more career politicians, we need people who care about the people of Racine.  Cory will grandstand and announce this and that, but he'll do absolutely nothing to help the average Racinian.  He doesn't even know how.  He's lost in a political world of patronage and corruption.  Sandy is one of us.  She has tried and tried to change the course of Racine, but the big butts of people like Mason have stood in her way.  A vote for Sandy is a vote for sanity.

Oh, dear me.  The mighty Green Bay Packers lost last weekend.  Oops.  How did that happen?  This Sunday they meet the Cincinnati Bengals at 5:30 PM.  Murder 'em, boys!

Here are the Irregular Football League standings:


The Half-Astrophysicists slipped past me, but at least Mr. OrbsCorbs is still on the bottom.  Tee-hee.

Check this out:

A man credited with stopping a robbery of a Starbucks in July might now be sued by the suspect, over wounds the would-be robber received from the Good Samaritan.

Ryan Flores, 30, is facing charges for second-degree robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, stemming from a robbery of a Fresno Starbucks. Flores was arrested after he allegedly tried to rob a barista with a fake gun and Transformers mask — and in the process, he was subdued by a customer and stabbed with his own knife.

Cregg Jerri, 58, was that customer, and he intervened in the attempted robbery by hitting Flores with a chair from behind. Flores pulled out a knife and fought back, with the two men wrestling over the weapon. Jerri sustained a stab wound to the neck, but was able to take the knife away, and stab Flores an apparent 17 times during the fight.

Flores's mother, Pamela Chimienti, described Jerri's actions as "excessive force" and told KSEE that Flores planned to file a lawsuit.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Starbucks-robbery-crime-stabbing-Good-Samaritan-12213420.php

My God, her son tries to rob a Starbucks and she wants to sue the man who stopped him.  What's happened to ethics and morals in this country?  Are we all to blame for this type of extortion?   Don't ignore misbehavior anymore; instead, correct it.  If the perpetrators refuse to change, then call the cops.  We need to stop this type of BS now.  Enough with people turning everything on its head.  Throw lawbreakers in jail.  If their mothers come out to justify their children's actions, throw them in, too.  These people are sorely in need of an ethical education.  Stop blaming us for the crap you bring down on your own head.  I hope he does sue, and gets thrown out of court.  If you bring a weapon to rob someone and it is taken from you and used against you, then that's only poetic justice.

Stupid, stupid, stupid people.  I think we should allocate one day a week to stupid people.  That one day they can all go out and get whatever they need to perpetuate their stupid lives.  Leave us alone.  And if a stupid person gets entangled in a row with a normal-minded person, throw the stupid one in jail.  I'm so tired of having to go out of my way to accomodate every and any type of behavior.  Act like an asshole and get treated like one.  My only regret is that the perpetrator of the above crime survived his wounds.  It would have been better off for everyone if another stupid person had been eliminated.  We can only carry so many.

That's it, friends.  I hope you enjoyed my blog.  I'll be back next week to write more.

madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

Enjoy the waning days of summer.  Get out and do something while you still can.  Soon enough it will all be covered in frozen white.  Won't that be fun?
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Have a wonderful week!

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

"Statue of Limitations"

From the Shepherd Express:

 

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, I’ve heard it’s never too early to fire up a presidential campaign, so with 2020 in sight I figure I may as well get my sorry ass in gear, what the fock.

And I’m guessing a prudent first step might be to secure some kind of voting base. I’m thinking of going after that bloc of voters that don’t have any kind of family to speak of. I’ll call for a re-examination of the highfalutin emphasis placed these days on kids and the family, and families and kids. Cripes, it’s kids this, kids that, family this, family that, ’til I could just about puke myself blue. Not everybody’s got a family, like that’s supposed to be some kind of carnally cardinal sin for crying out loud. Hey, I don’t hear the sound of tiny red-bootied little Pope’s feet pitter-pattering ’round his sanctum sanctorum, and nobody looks at him like he’s some kind of solipsistic narcissist, so bite me.

Seems these days you can’t find a single thing to do that doesn’t scream “FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.” Every time I read or hear a commercial about some deal promising “fun for the whole family,” I say “Go to hell,” except I doubt even hell’s going to be able to withstand this family fanaticism much longer. I’ll bet already Satan’s working on a new slogan: Go to Hell—Fun for the Whole Family!

Focking-A, I tell you, when I was a lad, lo those many years ago, “fun for the whole family” was kid code for “suck, and suck big,” and I believe it’s important for me to get my message out to an uncourted constituency, the message being that if we allow these neo-family fetishists to acquire the necessary judicial juju to turn our kids into quivering, boring dorky dipsticks like neo-Mom and neo-Pop, I say we may as well blow up the ozone right here and now and get this whole charade over with once and for all, what the fock.

OK, I got to calm down. Speaking of families, how ’bout this one, courtesy of my five-years-now late longtime always pal, Jay, missed by all, and I remember:

A married couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered. The doctor said he’d invented a new machine that would transfer a portion of the mother’s labor pain to the father. He asked if they were willing to try it out, and they agreed they would. The doctor set the pain transfer to 10%, explaining that even 10% was probably more pain than the father had ever experienced. But as the labor progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to bump it up a notch. The doctor dialed up the machine to 20%, and the husband still felt fine; so the doctor checked the husband’s blood pressure and was amazed at how well he was doing. They decided to try for 50%, and the husband continued to feel quite well. Since the pain transfer was obviously helping the wife considerably, the husband encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain to him.

The wife delivered a healthy baby with virtually no pain. She and her husband were ecstatic. And when they got home, the mailman was dead on the porch. Ba-ding!

Or this one:

A newlywed couple had only been married for two weeks. The husband, although very much in love, couldn’t wait to go out on the town and party with his old buddies. So he says to his new wife, “Honey, I’ll be right back...”

“Where are you going, coochy-cooh?” the wife asks. “I’m going to the bar, pretty face. I’m going to have a beer.” The wife says, “You want a beer, my love?” She opens the refrigerator and shows him 25 different kinds of beer, brands from 12 different countries: Germany, Holland, Japan, India, etc. The husband doesn’t know what to do, and the only thing he could think of saying was, “Yes, lollipop, but at the bar, you know, uh, they have frozen glasses.”

The wife interrupts him and says, “You want a frozen glass, puppy face?” She takes a huge beer mug out of the freezer, so frozen that she was getting chills just holding it. The husband, a bit nervous, says, “Yes, tootsie-roll, but at the bar they have those great hors d’oeuvres. I won’t be long. I promise. OK?”

The wife says, “You want hors d’oeuvres, poochy-pooh?” She opens the oven and takes out 15 dishes of different hors d’oeuvres: chicken wings, pigs in blankets, sausage-stuffed mushroom caps, pork strips. “But my sweet honey, at the bar, you know, there’s swearing, dirty words and all that guy stuff.”

The wife says, “Oh. You want dirty words, cutie pie? THEN LISTEN UP, DICKHEAD! DRINK YOUR FOCKING BEER IN YOUR GODDAMN FROZEN MUG AND EAT YOUR MOTHER-FOCKING SNACKS, BECAUSE YOU AREN’T GOING ANYWHERE! GOT IT, ASSHOLE?’”
...and, they lived happily ever after.

Ba-ding-ding-ding! ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.


From: http://shepherdexpress.com/article-30432-statue-of-limitations.html

Fall Colors!

Yes it is that time of year already. The leaves are changing and  the weather is really weird with this only one thing can come out of it and it is the nasty four letter word. Here are some pictures that we have taken already.

This picture in Pickerel Wi. was taken when we went up north for are granddaughters birthday.

                 This picture was taken at Richard Bong State Recreational Area in Brighton Wi.

                This picture was taken at Richard Bong State Recreational Area in Brighton Wi.

                This picture was taken at Richard Bong State Recreational Area in Brighton Wi.

There are more pictures to come I hope everyone is enjoying them.

Open Blog - Tuesday


Are you sure?

Monday, September 18, 2017

"Community Newsletter: Child abuse has long-term effects"

From the JournalTimes.com:




"People recognize that child abuse in its many forms has dangerous implications for a child’s immediate health and well-being. What many don’t know is that the physical and emotional damage left by abuse last long after initial wounds have healed. That’s the finding of a wave of research into Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs and it highlights the reason why prevention and intervention efforts are so important.

"What are ACEs? ACEs are serious childhood traumas that result in toxic stress interfering with a child’s normal brain development. This toxic stress can prevent children from learning, from behaving in healthy ways with others, and can result in long-term health problems. Some ACE’s include physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and other household dysfunction.

"How do ACEs affect the child’s long-term health? Without getting too technical, child abuse is to mental health as tobacco is to physical health. Much the way smoking directly causes or triggers predispositions for disease, early abuse can trigger a host of cognitive and mental illnesses. Neurochemicals released during ACEs leave the youth more at risk of depression, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, and attention deficit and learning disorders.

"Many times, these issues will continue for years undiagnosed and untreated because of the secrecy, stigma, and shame that surround both child abuse and mental illness.

"Left untreated, these individuals often turn to other methods to numb their pain as they get older. To relieve their anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, and/or inability to focus, they turn to easily available biochemical solutions. Alcohol abuse, illegal drug use, or prescription abuse are more likely the more ACEs a child experiences. Others engage in activities to escape their problems like cutting, gambling, promiscuity, eating disorders or other obsessive-compulsive patterns."

Read more: http://journaltimes.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/community-newsletter-child-abuse-has-long-term-effects/article_4969a326-5a70-5e6a-8be0-cbb1f7430d58.html


My life story...

"Give Nothing To Racism"

Open Blog - Monday


Exactly.

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Friday, September 15, 2017

Four for Fridays!

Good morning to all of you. I hope you are enjoying this really nice weather we are having. I hope you are able to get out and enjoy it with friends and family. Here are your questions for this week.

1) Would you consider yourself a football widow or widower?

2) Do you have a favorite football team?

3) Do you have a fantasy football team?

4) Have you ever picked football teams with friends or family?

Have a great weekend and I hope you are able to get out and enjoy it!

Open Blog - Friday


I say happy Friday to all plants and animals, too.

Thursday, September 14, 2017

"In Racine, Police more likely to request criminal charges for pot possession"

CARA SPOTO cara.spoto@journaltimes.com Jul 23, 2017 23 


"RACINE — It’s a June evening and a Racine police officer spies a suspiciously parked vehicle on Roosevelt Avenue.

"Approaching the car, he sees a 27-year-old man sitting in the driver’s seat smoking what appears to be a joint. A few minutes later, after recovering 1.4 grams of marijuana, he issues the man a municipal citation.

"Six months later, another Racine police officer conducts a traffic stop near Racine and 13th streets. The male officer calls for a female officer to search the 25-year-old driver. Before that female officer arrives, the young woman behind the wheel confesses to having two small 'baggies' of marijuana in her pocket, a total of 1.7 grams of pot.

"This time, instead of issuing the offender a citation, the officer writes up a report requesting that she be charged with the criminal offense of misdemeanor marijuana possession, a state charge.

"Racine ostensibly decriminalized the possession of marijuana for personal use in 1990 when it created a local ordinance making possession of 25 grams or fewer of the substance a forfeiture.

"A Journal Times review of minor marijuana possession cases handled by Racine police in 2016, however, found that officers were more than twice as likely to request criminal charges for offenders found with 25 grams of marijuana or less, than they were to issue citations."

Read more: http://journaltimes.com/news/local/in-racine-police-more-likely-to-request-criminal-charges-for/article_752956d8-553e-54e5-806a-c01fdb06f729.html


Fuck marijuana laws.  Alcohol has killed millions.  Pot = none. 

Alltime10s Thursdays

Open Blog - Thursday


Any day is better with Betty Boop in it.

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, JT Irregulars!  How are you?  Hasn't the weather been just perfect?  Beautiful day after beautiful day.  It kind of makes me feel guilty because of all the devastation caused down south by hurricanes and tropical storms.  I guess that if this is climate change, so far I like it.

In regard to those storms in the south, I pray that things improve soon.  There are tens of thousands of people without power.  And, of course, there's all the flooding.  I watched the video that Mr. OrbsCorbs posted about looting: http://www.jtirregulars.com/2017/09/is-hurricane-looting-inevitable.html  I must say that I hold the looters in the same regard as murderers and child molesters.  Given the slightest opportunity, certain elements of our society immediately revert to criminal behavior.  So much for civilization.

Hey, hey!  Our Green Bay Packers won their first season opening game. Next up is Atlanta, Sept. 17, 8:30 PM.  Cream them, please.

As for the Irregular Football League:


Life is good at the top.

Kenosha has dropped out of the running for the new Foxconn facility.  That gives me even further pause about the project.  It's "too good to be true" and too expensive.  Gateway better set up a campus immediately next door to Foxconn.  There's no bullshitting manufacturers about skills, so you better learn them.  If Foxconn goes through, it will draw from Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee, and Cook counties.  It will be closer to the interstate rather than further.  You'll need dependable wheels.  Maybe the bus will provide a Ryde.

Sorry to be so cynical, but the people of Racine also have to fight off he idiot officials who want to build an "events center"and hotel on Lake Ave.  And I suspect that it will be built, and become another huge white elephant for Racine.  And once it's discovered that it's a big money pit, no one will accept responsibility for the building.  In a few years, we'll have to knock it down because no one goes there and maintenance has been deferred.  And so it goes.

Kim-yung-hung-dung keeps threatening us.  Again, I urge Mr. Trump to drop another of those "mother of all bombs" on Pyonglongdong.  And if he shoots any missiles at us or our allies, shoot it down and then deliver ten times the missile's destructive power to North Korea.  Either that, or a Royal Rumble cage match between Kim-yung-hung-dung and Trump.  My money is on the biggest clown.

Thank you for reading my blog this week.  If you see Mr. OrbsCorbs anywhere this week, be nice to him.  They're redoing his attic and then roofing it.  The noise has been incredible..  They're expected to go at it again today.

madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

Enjoy the weather if you can.  Already a lot of trees are turning color.  Catch the show while you can.  It's so foggy now that you can't see anything.  It will clear.  Have a good week.
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"Clown Jewels"

From the Shepherd Express:

16 hours ago
 

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, as right-wing cracker-jackanape jackboots goose-step inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and thereabouts, I’ve decided it would be more patriotic of me to forgo whipping out a bombastic blowhard essay and instead patronize an Americanly small business whose customer service cannot be cheaply outsourced to some godforsaken outpost outside the Lower 48, what the fock.

So I’m off to the Uptowner tavern/charm school majestically crammed onto the corner of wistfully hysteric Humboldt Boulevard and the fabled Center Street. Tag along if you like, but you cover the first round. Let’s get going.

Little Jimmy Iodine: All I’m saying is that if I owned a major league team, as part of my 9/11 hoopla I would’ve hauled out a handcuffed, naked Dick Cheney and had him waterboarded at home plate following the top half of the seventh inning.

Emil: God bless America. This 9/11, there’s got to be a bright side to it somewheres, ain’a?

Julius: Such as?

Emil: Cripes, like maybe if you were a guy and that was your wedding anniversary, it would be easier to remember it.

Herbie: I can buy that. Association. Whenever the anniversary of a disaster tragedy rolls around, like your Pearl Harbor, your Hiroshima, your Hurricane Katrina, the dark day I got focking married springs to my mind right off the bat.

Ray: The association—that’s how I remember things, too. Like whenever I see the bartender come down to this end of the bar, I remember it’s time to have another focking cocktail.

Ernie: There’s the disasters you can bring on by mistakes you don’t even know you’re making and there’s disasters that happen no matter what you do. Like these asteroids flying around outer space. I read in the papers that it wouldn’t matter what side of the bed you got out of in the morning, a space rock the size of about three football fields across would wipe out everything and everyone in a space the size of New focking Jersey. The Sopranos, Atlantic City, chemical dumps, Bruce Springsteen, on-the-take goombah politicians—bada bing! bada boom!—all gone in a New York second on account of Mother Nature got up on the wrong side of the bed that day.

Emil: Im-focking-possible ’cause Mother Nature’s got nothing to do with outer space stuff.

Julius: The hell. Listen Einstein, we the sapien Homo and the rest of the life on this planet all got its beginnings in outer space, so shut the fock up if you’re going to talk like a sausage out of your anus.

Ray: Speaking of “talking out of your anus...”

Little Jimmy Iodine: Hey, Artie! Over here. Put a load on your keister.

Art: Hey gents. What do you hear, what do you know.

Julius: I hear that the Republicans are champing at the bit for big-ass tax cuts except for the mom-and-pop regular Joes struggling to maintain a pot to pee in—tax cuts only for the fat-cat uber-rich assholes who bankroll the campaigns of congressional Tea Party types to destroy truth, justice and the American way.

Herbie: Remember when they had that idea of an “ownership society,” which means Congress Republicans and their donor pals own all the money and all the power, and the rest of us baboons own a one-way ticket to Palooka-focking-ville

Art: I got to tell you’s guys before I forget about this documentary I saw on TV called “Superheroes,” where everyday guys and gals who act like they’re Batman go out to fight crime.

Little Jimmy Iodine: I’ve been out of touch with that stuff, but I heard Superman and Lois Lane finally got married, didn’t they? I always wondered if they ever got around to having any kids. I mean, how the heck do you breast-feed a baby with the superhuman power of suck?

Emil: I’d like to know how the hell they ever got a marriage license in the first place. The guy was from another focking planet for crying out loud. Wouldn’t you think there’d be some kind of law or an amendment against that kind of thing? For christ sakes, an Earth woman having a connubial relationship of a conjugal nature with a creature from outer focking space—a creature prone to wearing colorful leotards and a cape in public?

Herbie: That’s a difficult question. I think it may be focking fair to consider anyone from outer space to be of another species. While to carry on a relationship of an intimate nature with a member of another species may be perfectly acceptable onstage at select entertainment venues just south of the Texas border, I don’t think an inter-species life-partnering union would play in Peoria, nor with the Christian right nutbags who helped put Trumpel-thinskin in the White House.

Ernie: No shit, ’cause I’ll bet you a buck two-eighty Superman was a Democrat.

Emil: How do you figure that?

Ernie: Because numbnuts, he was always helping and saving people no matter how much money they made.

(Hey, it’s getting late and I know you got to go, but thanks for letting us bend your ear, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)
 

Open Blog - Wednesday


Here comes autumn.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

"People Rescue Air Jordans from Foot Locker During Hurricane Irma 😂"

"Kenosha drops out of hunt for Foxconn flat screen factory"

The Taiwanese firm Foxconn plans to built a $10 billion plant in suotheastern Wisconsin in exchange for up to $3 billion state incentives.(Photo: Kin Cheung, Associated Press)

"The City of Kenosha is dropping its bid for an up to $10 billion flat screen factory, leaving Racine County as the most likely site for a Taiwanese company's plant that could   eventually employ thousands. 

"News emerged Friday that the Foxconn Technology Group is in final negotiations with officials in Racine County about locating the liquid crystal display plant there, which might eventually house up to 13,000 workers.

"The latest news about Kenosha could strengthen the hand of Racine County officials in their talks with the company. But the disclosure could also complicate the efforts of both the company and local officials as they seek to sign on holdout  property owners and ensure providing a huge tract of land for the plant. 

"On Monday, Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian wrote Gov. Scott Walker to say that his city could not pursue the project without further changes to state law. In the letter obtained by the Journal Sentinel, Antaramian wrote that the legislation being voted on Tuesday by the state Senate didn't do enough to clear the way for the potential project in Kenosha County.

"'Based upon the current status of the legislative bill which addresses the project, the city of Kenosha regrets that we will not be able to support this development in our community,' Antaramian wrote. 'We wish you, the state and Foxconn all the best in finding reasonable resolutions to all of the issues surrounding this project.'"

"Is hurricane looting inevitable?"



They're all victims.

Open Blog - Tuesday


And then you're in trouble.

Monday, September 11, 2017

"Brazil probes possible killings of ‘uncontacted’ tribe"


 "SAO PAULO — Brazilian prosecutors are investigating reports that gold prospectors may have killed members of a so-called uncontacted tribe in the Amazon.

"Brazil’s National Indian Foundation asked prosecutors to look into the matter after prospectors were heard discussing an attack on indigenous people who live in the Javari Valley near the border with Peru. The foundation said in a statement Monday that some prospectors have been detained for questioning, but they have not confirmed any deaths.

"Federal prosecutors confirm that they have opened an investigation, but haven’t given any details.

"Survival International says the area is home to more uncontacted tribes than anywhere else on Earth. Isolated peoples are particularly vulnerable and indigenous groups in Brazil in general have complained that their way of life is increasingly under threat from land conflicts.

"Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed."
From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-probes-possible-killings-of-uncontacted-tribe/2017/09/11/8db9a34a-9718-11e7-af6a-6555caaeb8dc_story.html?utm_term=.bb20ce7fd25a


Welcome to 'civilization.'

"100 Women: ‘I dye my hair brown to be taken more seriously at work’"

 
11 September 2017 
From the section Magazine
 
Eileen Carey    
"A Silicon Valley CEO reveals her secret to getting ahead in business - dyeing her blonde hair brown, and ditching her heels and contact lenses.

"Eileen Carey is a successful CEO, in her early 30s, with glasses and brown hair.

"But she didn't always look the way she does now.

"'The first time I dyed my hair was actually due to advice I was given by a woman in venture capital,' she says.

"Carey was told that the investors she was pitching to would feel more comfortable dealing with a brunette, rather than a blonde woman.

"'I was told for this raise [of funds], that it would be to my benefit to dye my hair brown because there was a stronger pattern recognition of brunette women CEOs,' she explains.

"Pattern recognition is a theory which suggests people look for familiar experiences - or people - which in turn can make them feel more comfortable with the perceived risks they are taking.
When she had blonde hair, Eileen says she was likened to Elizabeth Holmes, whose company Theranos has been through a lot of controversy.

"'Being a brunette helps me to look a bit older and I needed that, I felt, in order to be taken seriously,' Carey says."

Eileen Carey used to have blonde hair and wear contact lenses

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41082939

We Will Not Forget

American TelePsychiatry


This is where I went this morning to talk with my new shrink.  It's in Kenosha.  They have a Racine office, but it's "not set up" to deal with Medicare.  Interestingly, the shrink I ended up talking to (via closed circuit TV) was in Racine.  I like him very much.  He had very little to say.  That's one of the main reasons I like him.  I see him again in December.

Open Blog - Monday


I'm seeing spots before my eyes.

Saturday, September 9, 2017

Roofers from Hell


Yesterday, roofers worked on my section of the building.  Apparently they weren't just roofing.  It sounded like they were putting a new floor in the attic.  I've never heard so much noise from construction.  The worst hammer blows came from a roofing hammer.  They almost ring when they hit a nail.  I couldn't believe the noise.  So I went to sleep.  This is now my method for avoiding conflict.  I slept through some of the noise.  When I awoke at midnight to take a pee, the above is what I discovered in the hallway leading to the bathroom.  How hard do you have to hit something to put a hole in the ceiling below you?

Before the hole was there, my instincts were to go upstairs and tell these guys to cool it.  I'm sure I'd get into some sort of trouble, so I avoided that scenario.  I've already left a message on the manager's phone.  I don't know if the roofers will be here today, but there's no manager on weekends, so I'm going to show the roofers the hole myself if they show up.  Assholes.


P.S. I found another, larger hole in a closet.


The roofers are back.  I spoke to one and he said, "We'll probably have to fix it, but I have to talk to  the contractor first."  I don't know the name of the contractor.  I don't know nothing.  The police can't (or won't) help.   So now these guys are hitting shit in the attic above me to upset me.  When I was talking with the police dispatcher, she said , "Is all that noise coming from them?"


P.S.  Minutes after I left for my doctor's appointment this morning, one of the workers fell through
the ceiling of the common hallway.  Took down a light fixture, but he's okay.  This job is going to cost the contractor more than he makes on it.  09/11/2017

Open Blog - Weekend


Good-bye blues.

Friday, September 8, 2017

Four for Fridays

Hello everyone! Since I've hogging the computer all morning, I might as well takeover Four for Fridays this time.... My day off, it has been raining-shit happens. Anyways....

1) Any prediction for Hurricane Irma? It has been predicted to hit Florida, but will it be total devastation or downgraded to a tropical storm?

2) What do you think of memes? Are they real, fake, funny or what?

3) What should done about North Korea?

4) If you could move to anywhere in the world, where would you move to?

The rain has moved on and I'm going out birding. You now you can go back to your regularly scheduled blogging. Thanks!

drewzepmeister-aka Tender Heart Bear incognito (for the moment) 

"WiGWAG: A hip hippo, Drag Queen Storytime, and more"

From the Wisconsin Gazette:

News with a twist

Updated

When reading is a drag

Madison’s Pinney Library started a program titled “Drag Queen Storytime” earlier this summer, according to Wisconsin Public Radio. Miss Gretta, played by Craig Schlagel, reads a book and then the kids participate in a sing-along. Library assistant Danny Atwater says children can relate to drag queens because of the dress-up aspect.

Hip hippo

The Cincinnati Zoo’s popular baby hippo is starring in an internet video series called The Fiona Show. You can watch her on the zoo’s Facebook page, where she’s already garnered millions of views since her premature birth in January. The show is just the latest development in what has been a busy year for Fiona, who now weighs in at 450 pounds. Her face has appeared on ice cream and beer. She was named an honorary deputy sheriff. And a children’s book about her is in the works.

Loving public transit

A New York City couple who met on a bus 13 years ago have now gotten married on one. Random passengers and 50 guests joined Kara Mullins and Osvaldo “O.J.” Jimenez for their public-transit nuptials. Jimenez first spotted his future bride 13 years ago on a Manhattan crosstown bus. He said when he suggested getting married on the same bus, she replied, “Heck, yeah, let’s do it.”

Watch your step

A man crossing a New York City street got a sinking feeling when a sinkhole swallowed his leg. Photos and videos on social media showed him looking forlorn and confused as he sat in the middle of a crosswalk with his right leg almost entirely invisible under the asphalt.

Stressful job

A former gravedigger has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, saying that he was fired for blowing the whistle on co-workers who were breaking open caskets and concrete grave boxes while they were drunk and stoned on the job, reported the Wisconsin State Journal. The suit names StoneMor Partners, a Pennsylvania-based cemetery and funeral home company that owns Roselawn Memorial Park in Monona and Glenview Memorial Gardens in Ixonia in Jefferson County.

Did he look like Gen. Lee?

Authorities in the Ohio county of Crawford reported the beheading of a statue outside a courthouse in Bucyrus. Police say the vandalism occurred the same week protesters damaged or removed Confederate statues in other cities in the United States. But the Bucyrus statue was of Col. William Crawford, who fought in the American Revolution and the French and Indian War and died decades before the Civil War.

Just say ‘no’

Police in the northwest German city of Osnabrück found thousands of Ecstasy tablets in an Austrian-registered car. The tablets were orange and in the shape of Donald Trump’s head. The stash had a street value of about $46,000. But seriously, what a bitter pill to swallow.

Kid candidate

A 16-year-old in Wichita, Kansas, is campaigning as a Democrat in the 2018 gubernatorial race. Jack Bergerson will be too young to vote in the election, but Kansas law does not impose an age restriction on gubernatorial candidates. In fact, according to a spokesman for the Kansas secretary of state, there is no law governing qualifications for governor. Several other Dems are running in the primary, but they don’t have Jack’s lieutenant governor — 17-year-old Alexander Cline, a high school classmate.

Magic number: 3

We’ve always known it takes three licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. Now we know the perfect Oreo cookie dunk lasts three seconds. Researchers studied the cookie question and found Oreos absorb 80 percent of their potential liquid weight after just two seconds in milk. No more milk can be absorbed at four seconds.

West Wing work

While Donald Trump was on his summer holiday, the West Wing underwent redecorating. The billionaire still doesn’t have his penthouse, but he has a $3.4 million redo. Beige and navy carpeting with floral medallions was installed, as were new drapes. Gray wallpaper was hung in the Oval Office and two large eagle statues were placed in the Roosevelt Room, along with a dozen side chairs with eagle details. “You’re going to start seeing a lot more eagles about the West Wing,” John Botello, interior designer and preservation specialist for the Executive Office of the President, told the AP.

Dying wish?

A New Jersey man and lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan held season tickets to Eagles football games for more than 30 years. When Jeffrey Riegel died Aug. 25, his obituary said he hoped “to have eight Philadelphia Eagles as pallbearers, so the Eagles can let him down one last time.” A dying wish or a parting shot? Either way, eight friends in Eagles jerseys served as his pallbearers.

From: http://www.wisconsingazette.com/blogs/wigwag-a-hip-hippo-drag-queen-storytime-and-more/article_39f5f828-93d3-11e7-aa86-9fe70803f280.html