Mac:

 Myron M. Kinley (1898-1978);

The 'Father' of Oil Well Firefighting & Blowout Control

Much of the film used in this video is very old and was originally shot on 8 MM format and converted to digital for production purposes; the quality is not very good, unfortunately.

Please note in this video that shot canisters  (drums of explosives)  used to extinguish well fires in the early years were actually placed at the base of a fire, in what is called the "mixing chamber" by carrying the can, or drum, in to the well by hand or by pushing the can into the fire via a trolley system. Both methods are shown in this film. The viewer must take a moment, close one's eyes,  take a deep breath and imagine the balls these guys had to do what they did with unstable explosives. 

By the early 1930's Kinley developed the use of Athey tracks to build a long boom that would be facilitate more precise shot placement.

There is actual footage in this video of a fire in Gladewater, Texas in 1931 where Kinley broke his ankle. Myron broke the same ankle and leg two more times in his career and was essentially left with a bad limp. It was this bad leg that prevented him from running from a Venezuelan blowout in 1942-1943 that caught fire while he was working on it. He was badly burned by that fire and spent six months in a hospital. On the Gladewater job his brother Floyd, along with others, can be seen carrying Myron away. Five years later Floyd was killed on a blowout in Goliad County.

Young Red Adair can be seen briefly in the clip, around 1948-49, not long after he was hired by Kinley.

Myron Kinley spent nearly 40 years teaching the entire world how to fight oil well fires and control blowing wells; many of the well control techniques Kinley developed 90 years ago are still being used today. Adair, Boots Hansen, Coots Matthews and Richard Hatteberg were all taught the business of oil well firefighting by Myron "Mac" Kinley.

Kinley's role in the protection of the worldwide oil and natural gas industry is unparalleled in history. Simply put, the oil and gas industry could have not succeeded without him. Adair often gets all the credit, but Kinley was the man that led the way.

https://www.oilystuffblog.com/single-post/2018/01/24/Mac

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

This is what it looks like....

The situation at Canada’s Alberta Tar Sands Operations has gone from bad to worse as the super-low oil price is now costing the industry billions of dollars each month.  Unbelievably, the price for the Western Canadian Select heavy oil fell to a gut-wrenching $14.65 yesterday down from a high of $58 in May.  Tar sands oil is now selling at an amazing $40 discount to U.S. West Texas Oil which is trading at $56.

Many “energy experts” have said that a Manhattan tar sands project could prevent oil decline in the future. But that’s not likely. Here are a few reasons why:

1. Reaching 5 Mb/d will get increasingly (energy) expensive, because there’s only enough natural gas to mine 29% of tar sands (and limited water as well). Using the energy of the tar sand bitumen itself would greatly reduce the amount that could be produced and dramatically increase the cost and energy to mine it.
2. Since there isn’t enough natural gas, many hope that nuclear reactors will replace natural gas. That would take a lot of time. Kjell Aleklett estimates it would take at least 7 years before a candu nuclear reactor could be built, and the Canadian Parliament estimates it would take 20 nuclear reactors to replace natural gas as a fuel source.
3. Mined oil sands have been estimated to have an energy returned on invested of EROI of 5.5–6 for mined tar sands (perhaps 10% of the 170 billion barrels), with in situ processing much lower at 3.5–4 (Brandt 2013). Right now, 90% of the reserves being developed are via higher-EROI mining, yet 80% of remaining oil sands reserves are in situ, so the remaining reserves will be much less profitable.
4. Counting on tar sands to replace declining conventional oil, with an EROI as high as 30 will be hard to accomplish, especially if it turns out to be the case that an EROI of 7 to 14 is required to maintain civilization as we know it (Lambert et al. 2014; Murphy 2011; Mearns 2008; Weissbach et al. 2013)

I believe the biggest problem with the sustainability of tar sands if we ignore the nasty environmental issues, is the low EROI – Energy Returned On Invested.  As point (4) states, a minimum of 7-14 EROI is needed to maintain civilization.  However, I believe the realistic range of a minimum EROI to sustain our modern societies is likely 10-12 EROI.  So, shale oil at an EROI of 5/1 or less (probably much less) and tar sands at 4-6/1, these are not sustainable energy sources.

https://srsroccoreport.com/tar-sands-operations-go-from-bad-to-worse-now-losing-billions-a-month/

Let’s Have a War!

It is time to end the Looting of SE WI by Government Officials!

https://timstoyymore.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/lets-have-a-war/

Darkside of Foxconn Project

Dear County Board,

I'm taking the other side of the Foxconn gamble in SE WI - which is to say that it is destined for failure, was ill conceived from the beginning, and will only lead to the eventual and ultimate collapse of SE WI as part of Industrial Civilization. Understand that Collapse was always the end result - your actions only hastened it.

Politicians have to lie, because it is their only means of support.

They justify endless wars, instill fear, demand endless tribute, and bully the productive. Their ranks multiply until they become a unstoppable swarm whose demands exceed the capacity of the productive, rapes the land, and creates societal collapse. Soon to be coming to SE WI and beyond.

Please see my post:

https://arrestrecordsofracinewipublicofficials.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/will-foxconn-lift-up-se-wi-or-lead-to-its-collapse/

Sincerely,

Tim & Cindy

Will Foxconn Lift Up SE WI or Lead to Its Collapse?

https://arrestrecordsofracinewipublicofficials.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/will-foxconn-lift-up-se-wi-or-lead-to-its-collapse/

Amnesty International announced

Amnesty International announced it would strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its top award, saying it was “profoundly dismayed” at her failure to acknowledge the full scale of atrocities against the Rohingya people

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Before you are tempted to view this as some kind of principled, honorable move on Amnesty’s part, stop yourself and check out its dubious government and corporate funding sources, its selective support for the concept of free speech and the fact that it spends quite a bit of time soft-pedaling Western imperialism and its atrocities while magnifying the wrongdoings of the West’s adversaries.
Amnesty’s attempt to win plaudits for its decision to revoke Suu Kyi’s award has come after mounting calls for the controversial figure’s 1991 Nobel Peace Prize to be stripped from her. Nearly half a million people have signed a Change.org petition calling for the Nobel Committee to take back the award.

The first unworthy awardee that springs to mind is, of course, former US President Barack Obama, who, rather inexplicably, was presented with his Nobel Peace Prize a mere nine months into his first term as president on the basis that it seemed like he might do something worthy of the honor at some point in the future. Sadly for the Nobel Committee, which clearly had high hopes for the man, Obama went on to bomb seven different countries over the course of his two terms.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/444191-obama-nobel-strip-bomb/

Open Blog - Weekend

Me, too.

Lou Reed - "Men of Good Fortune"

Hortonville business gives employees handguns for Christmas

From JSOnline:

Chris Mueller, Appleton Post-Crescent Published 11:43 a.m. CT Nov. 13, 2018

Employees at BenShot, a business that produces glassware embedded with bullets, show off their guns at their workshop in Hortonville. Each employee was given a handgun as a Christmas gift from the business.(Photo: Courtesy of BenShot)

HORTONVILLE - A local business that produces glassware embedded with bullets recently decided to give every employee a handgun as a Christmas present.

Ben Wolfgram, who co-owns Hortonville-based BenShot, said the decision to give employees handguns as a gift was made as part of an effort to promote personal safety and team building.

The business has 16 full-time employees, including several military veterans. But the business also had employees who had never fired a gun before, Wolfgram said.

Read more: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2018/11/13/hortonville-business-gives-employees-handguns-christmas/1987839002/

Not to be outdone, a Verona company is giving away Cannons for Christmas.  And a Thiensville employer has launched a Nuke the Yuletide campaign.

Happy Belate Birthday to Charlie!

Sorry I missed your birthday by a day.  Charlie was officially 13 as of yesterday, even though he insists that he's only 5.  I love you.

Four for Fridays!

Good morning everyone I hope you are doing alright with the nasty white stuff that has come are way. I will let you know the roads are slippery and if you have to go out please be very careful out there and give yourself extra time. Here are your questions.

1) Do you have plans for Thanksgiving?

2) If you have plans does it include traveling?

3) Are you going to spend Thanksgiving with family or friends?

4) What do you enjoy the most about Thanksgiving?

Please have a fun but safe weekend!

Open Blog - Friday

A spring flowering tree to remind us of why we put up with winter.

10 Secrets of Organised Crime

Open Blog - Thursday

No day for sourpusses.

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, my friends and enemies!  How are you?  How do you like this chilly weather?  We've had snow and temps in the teens - winter is here, early.  Let's hope that climate change keeps it a mild one.

How about those fires in California.  It's literally hell on earth.  They're blaming the drought on climate change.  It's made the landscape a tinder box, ready to burn on a moment's notice.

Hey der, how about dem Packers?  They finally won one.  They claim to be all tired and injured, but I think that's smoke for their upcoming game with the Seatle Seahawks.  (Psst, what is a seahawk?)  Seatle is struggling, too, so the game may be interesting.  I'm picking the Packers in this one.

Here's the standings from the Irregular Football League:

My Screaming Psychics have clinched a playoff spot.  I'm right behind The Mighty Bears.  Mr. OrbsCorbs' Orbliterators are in the toilet.  Ha-ha!

Have you been following the strange case of Sandy Weidner?  Judge Eugene Gasurgrghbrregiwk has sealed her open redords case.  He's sealed everything about it, even the court dates and times at first.  Numerous organizations have filed suit.  Meanwhile, the judge has found her guillty of contempt of court and fined her $130,000.  But he suspended imposition of the ruling until the appeal is heard first.  Huh?

How about that "blue wave" in the last election?  Tonu Evers won the governor's spot and already the opposition is talking about how they're not going to co-operate with him.  Our fine government at work.  The guy hasn't even been sworn in yet and already he faces stiff opposition.  Whatever we do, we cannot work together.  We must stay bitter and angry at each other.  Always.

Donald Trump is blaming the raging fires in California on poor forestry practices.  Again, huh?  The damn drought has made everything drier than dry.  There's always some idiot tossing a cigarette butt out of his window.  I can't imagine the loss.  Complete cities flattened by the fires.  So many people who have lost everything.  You can feel it in the force.  A satellite has snapped a picture of the smoke.   The best we can do is pray for those people.

Looks like the "holiday season" is already here.  Christmas trees are going up.  Lights are being strung.  Thankfully, I haven't heard any Christmas music yet.  The later, the better.  And, of course, we have Black Friday coming up.   Black Friday is an ode to consumerism.  The ultimate shopping day.  Be sure to wear your shoulder pads and helmet for this one.  Or maybe a Kevlar vest would be better.  Heck, wear both.

Thank you my friends for reading my blog this week.  I love you all. madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

Enjoy the sunshine.   Bundle up for the cold.  The word is wind.

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Open Blog - Wednesday

Have a great day.

Hey Hey, My My

From The Shepherd Express:

by Art Kumbalek

Nov. 13, 2018

4:30 p.m.

This handout photo released by the European Southern Observatory on November 20, 2017 shows an artist's impression of the first interstellar asteroid: Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on 19 October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. Subsequent observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that it was travelling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. `Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly-elongated metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long, and is unlike anything normally found in the Solar System. / AFP PHOTO / European Southern Observatory / M. Kornmesser / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY / M. Kornmesser" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSM. KORNMESSER/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain’a? Listen, feeling a tad burned out this week so no essay for you’s, what the fock.

But as the people’s spokesperson, I feel obligated to fill this page with something or another, so I’m on my way over by the Uptowner tavern/charm school to see if any of the fellas would like to fill in for me. Tag along if you’d like, but I got to warn you that labor negotiations can be mighty tedious and technical with this crowd.
Ernie: Took a ride on that new Hop streetcar the other day. Thought it was pretty nice, but I wish they would’ve spent a little more dough and added a club car where a guy like me could go back, have a smoke and a nice cocktail while taking a gander at the sights passing by, over and over and over again.
Herbie: And it’s still got that new streetcar smell, although I’ll bet you a buck two-eighty it’s only a matter of time ’til it fades to the more familiar Milwaukee County Transit System bus fragrance I call “Ode a la Unregulated Nursing Home.”
Julius: I hear they’d like to expand the area the streetcar can go, ain’a?
Ray: But they don’ need to go into the focking suburbs, I don’t think. They already got their transportation for a select clientele. It’s called The Cop—a transit system for black guys out on the street at night that travels directly to the station.
Little Jimmy Iodine: So I was reading about all this research on brain concussions, and it made me wonder if they still had Jeffrey Dahmer’s brain in a jar somewheres ’cause they wanted to use it for science, remember?
Emil: Science?
Herbie: What do you mean, “science?” What the hell you think they’re going to use it for, a Caesar salad?
Ray: What’re they going to learn from Dahmer’s brain; how to bullshit cops?
Ernie: Good one, Ray.
Little Jimmy Iodine: Hey, Artie! Over here. Put a load on your keister.
Art: Hey gents, what do you hear, what do you know. Any you guys want to write my essay for me this week? I can’t pay you’s anything, but it’d be good exposure.
Emil: What the hell are these scientists going to find out all the time keeping these guys’ brains around for, ain’a? It’s not like these focking things can talk. The scientific rule is you got to have a body, otherwise the brain won’t work.
Herbie: And having a body is no guarantee that the brain will work, as you focking prove every goddamn time you open your mouth.
Emil: Fock you.
Little Jimmy: Scientists have to study exposed brains ’cause if the brain’s still in a guy’s head who’s alive, all you could come up with is that some guy could be acting like a focking nut but you wouldn’t technically know why his brain was telling him to act like a focking nut. See? Like it was only recently they discovered that ladies’ brains work differently than men’s do.
Ernie: Who the hell didn’t know that? Must’ve been the bachelor scientists come up with that brainstorm.
Julius: Fock exposure. Write your own damn essay Artie, you cheap knob.
Herbie: You’re telling me it’s some kind of brain chemical why the wife can’t focking parallel park the focking car to save her life, and not ’cause she wants to drive me focking nuts?
Emil: I’d say it’s focking dangerous to the public welfare to have these brains in jars laying around. What the hell, these scientists never heard of Franken-focking-stein? Yeah, a lot of people think it’s only a movie but I tell you, with the goddamn technology these days, who’s to say there’s not some nut scientist out there who’s only one brain short of creating his own personal guy? They are besmirching with disaster to us all, I swear.
Ernie: Emil, if anybody’s one brain short—it’s you, you focking nitwit. They don’t have to dick around with making up a being out of used parts like they had to in the olden days. Now they can do it with those genes in some kind of fancy pressurized tube, I shit you not.
Little Jimmy: They say they haven’t perfected the cloning yet, but I bet you a buck-two eighty they can do it. There’s a lot of stuff they never tell us. Like that time aliens from space landed in New Mexico.
Herbie: That’s a load of crap. How come these so-called aliens always crash-land in a desert or some focking hillbilly bayou? How come they never go down Fifth focking Avenue in the middle of rush hour?
Julius: A lot of Mexicans say that whole Southwest was stolen by the United States gringo, that it used to be Mexico and they want it back.
Art: Que de la fock. About the essay, guys?
Ray: Yeah, that’s just what focking Mexico needs, more cactus land with no water on it.
(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.)

From:  https://shepherdexpress.com/advice/art-kumbalek/hey-hey-my-my/

Is Trump Mentally Ill?

Here Is How Walmart Plans To Seize Further Control Of Your Community

by Tyler Durden

Tue, 11/13/2018 - 05:25

205

SHARES

At the most recent International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) conference in Atlanta, Walmart announced new plans to repurpose twelve of its locations into Town Centers -- an outdoor gathering area with seating, community activities, entertainment, dining facilities, jogging paths, fountains, green spaces, playgrounds, and even space for live music.

The idea behind Walmart's seismic shift is that it wants to recreate the downtown of small communities that it was instrumental in destroying.

Walmart Town CenterImage courtesy of Walmart & MMA

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-12/here-how-walmart-plans-seize-further-control-your-community

Open Blog - Tuesday

Enjoy your day.

Collector's Item

The above is parked in our garage.  That's right, a Yugo with collector plates.  Today at Home Depot I parked next to quite the opposite: a Dodge Hellcat.  Are they all 1,000 plus horsepower?  How much horsepower did the Yugo have?  They have no horses in Yugoslavia so they measure power in oxpower.  The Yugo had 1/2 oxpower.

"Two huffing-related deaths in Racine County since 2014"

https://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-huffing-related-deaths-in-racine-county-since/article_1303db11-8b88-56e3-9b67-0e5c39ceefbf.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

Yesterday's Journal Times contained this line: "RACINE COUNTY — The Sheriff’s Office is beginning to see a disturbing trend, an increase in methamphetamines."

https://journaltimes.com/news/local/more-meth-starting-to-infiltrate-racine-county/article_0804d22a-9240-5342-8061-5f82c48f4815.html


Two deaths in four years is hardly an epidemic.  Is the sheriff setting himself up for a pot-legal culture?  Gotta make money one way or another.

A Better Mount Pleasant sends

Under Village President Dave DeGroot budget expenses have exploded over the last two years:
Fire Department increased 11.1%
Police Department increased 14.7%
Contracts & Professional Services increased 18.6%
Salaries & Wages increased 13.1
Assessors Department increased 45.7%

Since becoming Village President there have been no performance reviews for salary increases, no annual reports of police crime and call statistics, no annual report of fire service calls or community response times.
No facts, data or community comparisons are required or used to determine village spending.
These increases don't even reflect expenses and wages hidden in TIF districts which residents pay interest on.
We can't afford this kind of reckless behavior. #BootDeGroot

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bootdegroot?source=feed_text&__tn__=*NK-R

Open Blog - Monday

Veterans Day observed today.  No mail and your bank may be closed.

Walker Leaves a Legacy of Debt for Wisconsin's Future

Veterans Day

Thank you for my freedom.

Open Blog - Weekend

Those are great plans.

When the public relations talking points fade, the facts begin to emerge.

Wisconsin’s Deal With Foxconn Was as Bad as They Come

The state offered billions to win a big factory. It will create some jobs, but at a staggering cost for taxpayers.

"If that all sounds like a bad deal, it’s because it is. Tim Bartik, an economist who studies industrial policy, calculates that Wisconsin is paying about 10 times the typical amount per job created. And that’s a best-case scenario. The Taiwanese company isn’t contractually obligated to deliver those 13,000 jobs -- it could decide to ship them to China instead, or even to close the Wisconsin factory in 10 years. In fact, Foxconn has already changed the type of factory it intends to build, switching to a cheaper, less advanced manufacturing process."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-06/wisconsin-s-deal-with-foxconn-is-the-worst-of-corporate-welfare?srnd=politics-vp

Four for Fridays!

Good morning everyone I hope you enjoyed your week. If you don't have to go out please stay inside the roads are not good. I just came home from taking Drew to work. If you have to go out take your time and please be safe. Here are your questions.

1) In the winter do you stay home more then in the summer?

2) In the winter do you find yourself hibernating more?

3) What do you do if you stay inside more in the winter?

4) What season do you like the most?

Try to enjoy your weekend!

Open Blog - Friday

I don't know if I like those lips or not.

10 Things You Didn't Know Are Killing You

Open Blog - Thursday

Hip-hip-hooray!

Dear Madame Zoltar

Madame Zoltar didn't get a flu shot and now she's suffering the consequences.  She's hoping to tear herself away from the toilet bowl long enough next week to write a blog.  Get better Madame Zoltar!

Open Blog - Wednesday

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Open Blog - Tuesday

Vote early and vote often.

Media organizations file motion in Weidner sealed records case

From The Journal Times.com:

Sandy Weidner

RACINE — Five media organizations are trying to intervene in the ongoing public records lawsuit between 6th District Alderman Sandy Weidner, the City of Racine and City Attorney Scott Letteney.

Last week, media organizations filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit, requesting that legal documents related to the case be unsealed.

The case was sealed in February by Racine County Circuit Court Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz, but began receiving media attention in September after Weidner spoke with the Associated Press and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the issue.

“The big thing for everyone to understand: This is not a feud between myself and the city attorney,” Weidner told The Journal Times.

She said the issue arose as a result of “different understandings” of what is considered confidential by Letteney as compared to prior city attorneys. Letteney was appointed in summer 2015 after having served as a deputy city attorney for almost 10 years.

The motion

 “This is one of the more extraordinary cases of excessive secrecy,” Bill Lueders, the president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, told The Journal Times. “We hope the appellate court will act quickly to reverse this case … (and) the poor decisions on part of a Racine judge.”

The five organizations filing the lawsuit are the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, the USA Today Network-Wisconsin, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (which is distributed through USA Today Network-Wisconsin).

“The reasoning behind the Seal Orders and Open Records Decision remains unknown to the public. Indeed, all pleadings are under seal, and even the docket is unavailable for viewing by order of Judge Gasiorkiewicz,” the motion reads.

Read more:  https://journaltimes.com/news/local/media-organizations-file-motion-in-weidner-sealed-records-case/article_a8ac7da5-a83c-5210-bd73-1d6476db155c.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

Open Blog - Monday

My face will crack.

Daylight Saving Time Ended

Make sure you set your clocks back one hour or you'll be early for everything.

Voters to weigh in on marijuana; Multiple referendum questions on ballot

From The Journal Times.com:

From the Fall Election 2018: Election news, candidate profiles and more series

• RICARDO TORRES ricardo.torres@journaltimes.com
• 10 hrs ago

RACINE — While candidates for governor and Congress have received a lot of attention leading up to Tuesday election, also on the ballot will be questions regarding marijuana.

In the City of Racine and Racine County there are advisory referendums asking voters on how they feel about medical and recreational marijuana, along with how it should be enforced and taxed.

On Friday, Racine County Board supervisors Nick Demske and Melissa Kaprelian, along with Joel Jacobsen, the Democratic candidate for Assembly District 63, held a press conference at the Dr. John Bryant Community Center, 601 21st St., urging voters to make their voices heard on the subject.

Read more:  https://journaltimes.com/news/local/voters-to-weigh-in-on-marijuana-multiple-referendum-questions-on/article_f0c8e897-8600-56dd-a926-d70908a2f429.html

Bice: Four pedophile ex-priests had their professional licenses granted under Gov. Scott Walker's administration

From JSOnline:

Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 10:29 a.m. CT Nov. 2, 2018 | Updated 4:40 p.m. CT Nov. 2, 2018

Gov. Scott Walker arrives to deliver his 

state of the state address at the 

Capitol in Madison in January. 

(Photo: Steve Apps, Associated Press)

 Gov. Scott Walker's campaign has spent the past year accusing Democratic foe Tony Evers of putting children in danger by not stripping the licenses of teachers found guilty of improper and immoral acts.

But it turns out that the second-term Republican governor's administration has its own serious lapse involving the professional licenses of individuals of highly questionable character.

Records show one of Walker's agencies — the state Department of Safety and Professional Services — either gave licenses to or renewed the licenses of four ex-priests who were defrocked for sexually abusing children.

The four former pedophile priests from the Milwaukee Archdiocese were given state approval to practice such professions as social work, nursing, alcohol and drug counseling and funeral work. All four appear on the archdiocese's list of former Milwaukee priests with a "substantiated case of sexual abuse of a minor."

Read more:  https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2018/11/02/four-defrocked-priests-had-professional-licenses-renewed-awarded-under-walker/1856197002/

Daylight Saving Time Ends

Don't forget to set your clocks back one hour before you go to sleep tonight.

Open Blog - Weekend

For me it's mostly horny with no chance of a drunk.

Four for Fridays!

Good morning everyone I hope you had fun watching the trick or treaters in your neighborhood. We had a lot of fun with the Grandkids over the weekend. It was so nice to have them here the weekend of my birthday. Here are your questions.

1) Have you gone in the stores and already last week the had the Christmas trees up?

2) Do you think the stores should have them up this early?

3) When do you think the stores should have any Christmas stuff out?

4) So you do any Christmas shopping this early?

Have a great weekend!

Open Blog - Friday

White dogs can't dance.

10 Shocking Halloween Facts

Open Blog - Thursday

Happy November.

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello my children!  How are you?  The weather has been decent, if a bit cool.  It will just get colder as winter approaches.  Right now, though, there are still some trees holding onto their fall color.  Some are stunning.  Others are drab.  There are also Halloween decorations out there.

By the way, happy Halloween.  I'm giving away Milky Way bars in the junior size.  You have to be a child, though.  I'm not feeding some juvenile delinquents.  Junior is dressing up as a zombie to answer the door.  What fun.

The Green Bay Packers.  Ty Montgomery.  Need I say more?  What the (expletive deleted) is he doing making a "judgment call" (his words)?  He was told to take a knee if the ball made it into the end zone.  Then Aaron Rodgers could stage one of those last-minute comebacks he's become known for.  But no.  Next year Ty is a free agent.  Goodbye, Ty.

Here are the standings from the Irregular Football league:

My team is still in second place.  How does Mr.hale-bopp collect so many points?  Unfortunately, The Mighty Bears have dropped another position, behind Racine Irregulars.  Oh my.  Mr. OrbsCorbs' team is lost down where the swamp gas collects.

Speaking of swamp gas,  have you heard any of the bile that Mr. Trump is spewing?  He lies like a rug.  Sooner or later, his lies are going to get him into deep trouble.  Let's just hope he doesn't take us with him.  I'd love to start a Dump Trump campaign, but I'm too busy.  I find it really ridiculous that Trump is president.  Hilary had three million more votes than him, but the electoral college was probably bribed to elect Trump.  What do we even vote for if the electoral college is going to ignore us? Not that Hilary is any great shakes.  I hope we get a strong candidate in the next preswidential election.

Or maybe the Rusians will make our choice for us.  How the heck can they hack voting machines from way over there?  How do they access them?  Are they online?  Can we mess with their elections?  If so, please do so.

Thank you everybody for reading my blog today.  I love my fans. They give me the courage to continue.

madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

Get out and enjoy the weather and the view.  Soon enough it will be covered in s-word.  Then the s-word gets dirty and looks terrible.  I hate winter.
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Open Blog - Halloween

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Chickenhawk:

A chickenhawk or chicken hawk is slang used in American and British gay culture to denote older males who prefer younger males for partners, who may less often be called "chickens",^[1] i.e., the prey of the chickenhawk.^[2] Other variations include chicken queen^[3] and chicken plucker.^[2]
It is sometimes used as a disparaging vulgarity within the LGBT community, or seen as a slur against people in that community. The label can be applied to a man who seeks partners with the look of someone young, regardless of their target's age.^[4][5]
"Chickenhawk" also indicates a man who uses underage boys for his sexual pleasure. The usage was publicized by members of the controversial group NAMBLA in the 1994 documentary film Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys,^[6][7] although Time magazine reported it in this sense in 1975.^[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(gay_slang)

Bendeed Knee

From The Shepherd Express:

by Art Kumbalek

Oct. 30, 2018

5:00 p.m.

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, three words to remember during the coming week: VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! And if it helps, I suggest you grab a Sharpie and write “VOTE” on your forehead, so that a simple glance at the bathroom mirror will jog your memory. Whatever it takes, what the fock.
Next, a “thank you” to constant reader Ingrid/Mae for the very nice note. And speaking of notes, me and the fellas are humming a blue one these days. So, no essay this week ’cause I’m off to the Uptowner tavern/charm school for some needed camaraderie. Come along if you like and, believe it or not, this time I’ll buy the first round. Let’s get going.
Little Jimmy Iodine: Hey, Artie! Over here.
Herbie: Gentlemen. Now that we’re all here, it’s time to raise your glass. To Martha.
Julius: To Martha.
Ernie: To Martha.
Ray: To Martha.
Emil: To Martha.
Little Jimmy: To Martha.
Art: And for Martha, for all, I will read a poem by the esteemed Mr. Yeats, “The Stolen Child.” And full disclosure, I’ve taken the liberty to change the gender here and there in the poem, so sue me, what the fock:

Where dips the rocky highland

Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,

There lies a leafy island

Where flapping herons wake

The drowsy water rats;

There we’ve hid our faery vats,

Full of berrys

And of reddest stolen cherries.

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses

The dim gray sands with light,

Far off by furthest Rosses

We foot it all the night,

Weaving olden dances

Mingling hands and mingling glances

Till the moon has taken flight;

To and fro we leap

And chase the frothy bubbles,

While the world is full of troubles

And anxious in its sleep.

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes

From the hills above Glen-Car,

In pools among the rushes

That scarce could bathe a star,

We seek for slumbering trout

And whispering in their ears

Give them unquiet dreams;

Leaning softly out

From ferns that drop their tears

Over the young streams.

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Away with us she’s going,

The solemn-eyed:

She’ll hear no more the lowing

Of the calves on the warm hillside

Or the kettle on the hob

Sing peace into her breast,

Or see the brown mice bob

Round and round the oatmeal chest.

For she comes, the human child,

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world’s more full of weeping than she can understand.

To Martha.
(Hey, this is going late but good 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.)