It'll Be On The Wane Before You Know It

Thought I'd already posted this when I went w/ "Another Waxing Crescent".

St. Nick on a Stick ('Tis the season!) so effing busy yesterday & today (Mostly dealing w/ bullshit, of course.) that I couldn't post anything beyond juvenile to adolescent anger & 'phone-'em-in insults directed at the King of Shit, not that anything here will be read or remembered.

What a world of idiocy; had to charge a new cheap-o printer at Target. The Hewlett-Packard brain trust has decided that a USB cable was simply too passé & the only way to shove the software into the printer's little plastic brain is Wi-Fi. 2.4G Wi-Fi. This involves going to the Spectrum site, where they are ready for this & have a button one may press which sets the WiFi to 2.4 for 30 mins. Also had to download something called HP Smart.

As we're for hard copies & hard-wiring here (No spurious emissions!) had to disconnect the ethernet & turn on the devil-box Wi-Fi. Didn't take much over an hr. Possibly because it took a while for genius here to conclude he'd have to activate the devil-box WiFi, & then to realize the ethernet had to be physically disconnected as well. Now let's see how much of a pain it is to return to hard-wiring, & to see if the printer will work w/ USB, as promised.

Have printed & copied, was going to scan something but there's no "scan" button. The included "manual" is a "Reference Guide", four pages each in three languages explaining what the buttons are. It did advise to turn on the devil-box Wi-Fi & disconnect the Ethernet cable when setting it up, but I didn't get to that part (Fine print.) and it wasn't mentioned at all in the setup videos I watched. Nothing about scanning in it, either.

Fuck me you bastards!! Have avoided establishing an HP account through the entire set-up process, but now:

Create an account to scan with your printer using HP Smart

Scan documents from any HP multifunction printer using the HP Smart app. HP Smart optimizes the image and allows you to quickly save or send.

I fucking surrender! To hell w/ the rent, going out to get a gun steal a car & make the sidewalks red w/ blood buy some heroin tomorrow!

Dozy Donny Drowsing In D.C. ...

George F. Will / Washington Post:
A sickening moral slum of an administration
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:   You can't hide from war crimes by calling them ‘fake news’
DNYUZ:   ‘Moral slum’: Conservative tears into Trump admin move that should ‘nauseate’ Americans

... While Controlling The Weather

David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Can't Keep Eyes Open in Marathon Cabinet Suck-Up
Associated Press:   Doodling, drowsiness and a conspicuous misspelling highlight Trump's last Cabinet meeting of 2025

DNYUZ:   Newsom Trolls ICE Barbie After She Thanks Trump for the Weather

Rachel Cohen / New Jersey Online:   Trump caught struggling to keep eyes open during Cabinet meeting

Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:   Trump, 79, Repeatedly Falls Asleep in His Own Cabinet Meeting

He can't stay awake even when his mushroom member is in their ugly lying mouths.

Daily Affirmation

A pleasant image hides the grim & ugly truth about you & everybody like you.

I affirm that you all suck, I hate you, so please die!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ah-Ha!!

I was right. Aircraft, what a concept! Now I sit & wait, 'though I had plans to leave the bunker.Again, wise up, Yankee Dabbler. Go w/ the cheaper rates, at least cross-country. To quote myself:

Additional confuzzlement: The ebay seller who went Ground Advantage charged $5.10 for shipping, but the USPS website claims the minimum GA charge is $7.20. The corporate entity, however, charged $15.97 for Priority Mail. I can't imagine the second package is more than a few oz. heavier than the first one. Stop dabbling & figure it out, Yankee Dabbler!!

Political Instability Report

On Sunday, thousands of people joined protest marches in Croatia against a surging far right following a spate of incidents that have fueled both ethnic and political tensions in the European Union country (AP Video/Sasa Kavic).

Another Waxing Crescent

Dazed & Confuzzled

Don't give us that Xmas bee ess, we all know what's going on when jazzbos are "waitin' for the man w/ the bag".

If both these shipments arrrived at the PHILADELPHIA PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER on the same date, why will one allegedly arrive two days later, USPS?Especially confuzzling as 17318 was sent Ground Advantage, which promises 2-5 day delivery & apparently replaces First Class Mail, & arrived at the RDC nine hrs. later than 90256, which went Priority Mail, a 2-3 day promise. Which means that even counting only business days, it should be here by Weds., not Thurs.

Going to continue w/ the asumption that at least the Ground Advantage one will still be placed on a 'plane, as I hoped earlier. Patience being a virtue, we'll see what promises are made tomorrow. All I'm saying is the Priority Mail item better be on the same 'plane to the LOS ANGELES CA DISTRIBUTION CENTER as the other one.

Additional confuzzlement: The ebay seller who went Ground Advantage charged $5.10 for shipping, but the USPS website claims the minimum GA charge is $7.20. The corporate entity, however, charged $15.97 for Priority Mail. I can't imagine the second package is more than a few oz. heavier than the first one. Stop dabbling & figure it out, Yankee Dabbler!!

Moon Pie

Saturday Sage Burning Friday Freak Out

Heard this excellent number leading to a commercial break during the Fox Sports broadcast of the Arizona-Arizona State football game.No idea what that means (Probably nothing.) but there it was.

Minutes later: Wait, it's still Friday for an hr. or so in this time zone. Holidays are stupefying.

Friday Photo

What a great Thanksgiving!! No human contact at all. Total consumption: Two bananas, gluttonous fucking pigs! Could have had half an English muffin but decided that, like virtually all activity, it simply wasn't worth the effort. And plenty of tea & iced coffee to keep me awake, because you brain-dead cretins & your world of shit & pain bore me numb!!

Spent no money. Will not spend any today.

Non-NFL sporting event: Finished watching the November Sumo Tournament. How 'bout that Aonishiki, first Ukrainian to win the Emperor's Cup?NHK doesn't like to share its footage (Pearl Harbor, you rat bastards!!) but the action starts at (24:50) if you click.

Ungrateful Sky

It Was 57 Yrs. Ago Today

3 Nov. 1968.Guessing it's much the same show as I saw three+ wks. later at Seattle's Eagles Auditorium on this date in 1968. Opening act: Chicago Transit Authority. I think that was the show when Linda V. (last name redacted as she is still alive & has a Ph.D. & a career) & I first made out.

Wow. Memories. Now I'm really depressed.

Jacques Cartier "Discovers" Canada

Jeeziz, people, make a usable recording, not this horsecrap w/ zillons of extra unneeded pixels! And get the captions right, too! Still worth it, however.

Ten Yrs.

This reporter hasn't had any booze since Thanksgiving 2015, ten yrs. ago today. Not a big deal, as I wasn't boozing much at the time, having tapered off considerably from my yout'.Never got behind (or under) any wheels when plowed good. Don't miss it a bit, either. On the other hand, I had enough "points" for a US$40.00 discount on a $43.00 bag of boo.

Thanks For Nothing Again & Again: Eff "Food, Family & Friends"

Even if I had any appetite, eating makes me literally sick. I'm an orphaned only child, have no immediate family & doubt I'd enjoy any of my distant relatives. Not that I could afford to travel anywhere. Friends? Informant scum is more like it. Everything is lies & bullshit. Shove your pathetic petit bourgeois pretensions, worthless nobodies.

Let Them Eat "3D-Printed Chicken"

In the bunker galley. Even w/ an alleged 25% less sodium, it's quite salty.

Campbell's cordially invites the poor to eat shit & die.

Jason Lalljee / Axios:
Campbell's fires executive for alleged racist rant, disparaging company … - The lawsuit alleges that Bally called Campbell's products “highly processed food” for “poor people.”  — It also alleges that Bally “claimed that Indian workers were ‘idiots’ and expressed that he disliked working with them.”
Fortune:   Campbell's Soup fires exec after leaked recording berating ‘poor’ customers and ‘bioengineered meat’ prompts outrage and investigation

Straight Arrow News:   Campbell's executive on leave after he says the soup isn't ‘Mmm! Mmm! Good!’

DNYUZ:   Campbell's exec is out after rant mocking ‘poor’ customers, ‘3D-printed chicken’ goes viral

Robert Klara / Adweek:   Campbell's VP Blasts Customers—And He's Not the First Exec to Do It

Maya Yang / The Guardian:   Campbell's Soup executive called its products food for ‘poor people’, lawsuit alleges

The Campbell's Company:   Updated company statement on the Garza Lawsuit

Dee-Ann Durbin / Associated Press:   Campbell's IT chief on leave after lawsuit claims he said company's food is for ‘poor people’

Katherine Mosack / One America News Network:   Campbell's VP on temp. leave amid wrongful termination lawsuit related to ‘secretly-recorded’ rant discussing company's alleged use of ‘bioengineered meat’

Rob Taub / The Hill:   Campbell Soup exec called products food for ‘poor people’: Lawsuit

Washington Post:   Campbell's executive says products are for poor people, mocks Indians, lawsuit claims

Andrew Powell / IJR:   Campbell's Exec Placed on Leave After Allegedly Calling Customers ‘Poor’ and Making Racist Remarks

Robert Moran / The Philadelphia Inquirer:   Lawsuit alleges Campbell's soup VP made racist comments and said its food is made for ‘poor people’

Joel Odom / Oregonian:   Campbell's soup exec in hot water, and the timing isn't great

Leslie Eastman / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:   Fakes‑Giving: Campbell's 3D ‘Meat’ Allegations May Sour Holiday Soup Sales

CBS News:   Alleged audio of Campbell's Soup executive's racist rant

Leena Nasir / The Daily Caller:   Campbell's VP Martin Bally Reportedly Mocks ‘Poor People’ Who Buy His Company's ‘Shit’ Food

Connor Jones / The Register:   Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers

Anthony G. Attrino / New Jersey Online:   Campbell's exec called soup ‘shit for poor people’ in recording, lawsuit claims

Chris Pugh / Plain Dealer:   Lawsuit says executive of iconic food brand mocked its products and customers

Fox Business:   Campbell's Soup executive allegedly calls company products ‘shit for poor people’ in secret recording

Now can we start killing corporate executives & the other richies? And if not now, when?

Vietnam To Venezuela

Is Big Fat Gay Don going to lie this shithole nation into more war crimes?

Financial Times

Buy Now Before Prices Increase!!

Purchased from the local gang of train robbers in '20 or '21, no doubt at list price.And the current list price. An increase of US$25.00 on a slightly under $50.00 item over four yrs. 12.5% annual inflation? Only difference is the pack is no longer #14 but #148-25, w/ corresponding change in the copyright date.
Was able to get them for $57.59.

And Down Goes The Sun

Xmas Is Over!

Meaning I finished all my shopping yesterday, w/ a month to go. Were Santa to stuff my stocking w/ another 100 or so bones worth of plastic Chinese crap I would have every possible structure I could want for (or that will fit on) the layout, 'cept for a larger quonset hut for Camp Swampy.Scam alert? Good price (MSRP is US$114.99) cheap shipping, but from "United States WAREHOUSE Brazil?" And no returns? Uh, no. Not to mention "import fees." Image at left is the item, but not the one from Brazil; note it's $19.85 shipping in the contiguous 48. Anyway, I got one for US$79.99, plus $5.10 shipping & $7.80 Calif. tax, which I'm happy & proud to pay. And the seller's in Jersey, sending it USPS; even at the cheapest rate the Postal Sevice is likely to put something from the wrong coast in a 'plane & have it here in civilization ASAP, as opposed to UPS & FedEx, which mean it when they call it ground service. Hey, it's almost amusing to track one's package across the country for days & days.

Another Reminder Of Why I Remain Angry After Sixty+ Yrs.!

If my parents weren't deservedly dead already, I'd have to kill them, not merely for throwing away my comic book collection when we moved to Seattle but for lying to me about it for months. Probably should've killed myself for believing the lying sacks of shit at all, & for not realizing right fucking then that no one can be trusted, ever: "Oh, they were lost in transit for a while ... they'll be here in a month or so ..."

Lying fucking scum, like the idiot squealer who called the police & sent me to psychiatric jail & like everyone the fuck else in this horrid world of shit & pain. No wonder I hate every one of you, even my goddam parents started fucking me, pretty much the day I was born!!Not saying that I had Action #1, or this one, but I did have Daredevil #1. You rotten, rotten bitch & the son thereof. After this kind of treatment, no jury would dare convict me of anything. Not that they'll take me alive, mind you!

Moon Over McDonald's Monday

Can't escape the oppression of the arches.

Weather Report

The Legend Of The Golden Arches

Under renovation; no flags. And because McDonald's obviously hates America,
or they wouldn't be killing you sad-ass sheep every damn day
w/ their saturated-fat Big Murder® death-burgers! Sue me, murdering pigs!!

Super Sunday

Dig the Wally Wood album cover. Bob Holiday played Supes in the 1966 Broadway musical "It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman".

Bob Holiday played the Man of Steel more times than any other actor: 19 previews and 129 performances on Broadway in 1966, plus revivals in both St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri in 1967.

During the run of "It's A Bird It's A Plane It's Superman" he fell one night when the shackle attached to his harness broke. He dropped six feet to the ground, bounced back up, turned to the audience, and said, 'That would have hurt any mortal man!'" The crowd erupted into a standing ovation.

Show Bidnis!!

[Idiotic Movie Dimbulbs]

Character Building In America

Th' fuck's w/ coach's hair? Or is it not hair, but the world's worst rug?

Sat. Sizzler Shots

"Moonlight On Vermont"

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

You can tell he's not "limp wristed", because of his flannel shirt & that working guy jacket he bought from the tee vee.Xian theology or Nazism? Hard to tell, innit?

Sepia Saturday

Hitchcockian.

Fireboats & Everything!

Meet The New Plague

Looks like an artist's impression. Search "H5N5 virus images" for other interpretations.

Died. Didn't just contract a new-to-humanoids strain; died.

CNN:
Washington resident dies of complications from bird flu strain never before reported in humans  —  A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said on Friday.
Grace Abels / PolitiFact:   This year, Thanksgiving turkeys might need a prayer, not a pardon, as bird flu cases rise. …
CBS News:   Washington state resident dies after contracting a bird flu strain never before detected in humans, officials say

I understand there's a celestial object w/ our name on it if this plague doesn't get the job done.

Friday Finger

Fatiguing Friday Photograph

Tedious Thursday Turkey III

As much for the alliteration as any other reason.

Tired Thursday Turkey II

The Clouds Above, The Palms Below

Eff Microsoft & whatever service they use to provide weather information. Rain was forecast for 1000, then 1100, now it's 1347 & still no rain!

Also screw Gates & Microsoft for managing to screw up the slideshow. It went downhill in Windows 10, & Windows 11 is fucking worse, not better. How is it possible for everything not only to suck, but continuously to suck even more? Just how many sub-human cretins passing as humanoids must be killed to stop the sucking? And why is it the only answer is always mass killing? Are there perhaps too many of you, all of whom are cretinous beyond human comprehension? I'm looking for solutions here people, &, as always, none of you are the slightest damn help.

Between Storms

Six Yrs. On

Six yrs. ago today the Rail Chief starter set arrived. A few days ago I finished the baseboard, & as I already had the track plan I figured I could nail it all down & start testing electric flow & derailments.

There are two phrases one hears often in model railroading. "It's your railroad, do what you want" (Who's going to stop anyone? The NMRA Police?) & "A model railroad is never finished." While the concept for this one is done, it can't get any bigger, & there's little space for more plastic crap from China, it won't actually be finished for some effin' time, as demonstrated by it taking Sunday, Monday, Tues. & part of Wednes. to get the track as intended & functional in relation to buildings & the like. Then I could start painting the track & painting & cutting cork for roadbed. Won't list everything else there is to do, but I have a reefer car & four buildings to build paint & cement together, & one building & two oil loading platforms to buy & assemble. Also, much of the rolling stock needs better wheels & couplers.

One good thing: W/ the changes & adjustments it turns out I have a turnout that works in a spot where I thought I'd need to blow US$30+ on a curved one from England. No idea what sort of tariffs are being idiotically imposed on goods from Britain above the list price.

I will need to buy a couple of turnouts for the Army camp that's going to be in the northwest section, & the nuclear power or poison gas plant needs plenty of work. (Piping & such. And, radiation trefoils or poison gas skulls & crossbones?)

Untitled (Globs)

I auto-corrected again & again, but I'm still not sure this is correct.

I Can Think Of Someone Else "A Lot of People Don't Like". Can You?

Meaning if you don't like someone, they're fair game, right?

April Rubin / Axios:

Trump with MBS on Khashoggi: “A lot of people didn't like” him  —  President Trump said “a lot of people didn't like” journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a Tuesday meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). … - Saudi officials rejected the report's findings, calling it a “negative, false and unacceptable assessment.”

Irie Sentner / Politico:   Trump again threatens ABC's broadcast license, this time over Epstein questions
Associated Press:   WATCH: Asked about Khashoggi murder, Trump says ‘things happen’ and MBS ‘knew nothing about it’

Meghan Blonder / The Washington Free Beacon:   Panic at CNN Over Rumored Sale to Saudis: ‘It Scares the Hell Out of Me’

Caitlin Doornbos / New York Post:   Trump scolds ABC reporter Mary Bruce over MBS questions, threatens to pull broadcast license

Austin Mabeus / CNN:   ‘Very painful’: Jamal Khashoggi's widow on Saudi crown prince visiting the US

Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:   How M.B.S. Won Back Washington

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:   Trump Berates Mary Bruce of ABC News After Question About Jamal Khashoggi

Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:   Khashoggi's widow responds to Trump calling him ‘extremely controversial’

John T. Bennett / Roll Call:   ‘Things happen’: Trump defends MBS on Khashoggi murder, slams ABC reporter

Katie Jerkovich / RedState:   Trump Shows Off His Latest WH Addition to Saudi Crown Prince MBS in Classic Move

Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:   MBS tells Trump he wants to join Abraham Accords, but path to Palestinian state crucial

Jon Michael Raasch / Daily Mail:   Saudi Crown Prince ditches Senate meeting after ‘sensitive’ concerns about guest list

Ray Hartmann / Raw Story:   This White House disgrace makes no effort to conceal Trump's sheer contempt

Mark Alfred / NOTUS:   Trump Threatens ABC's License for Asking About Khashoggi Killing and Epstein Files

Sayan Bose / The Sun:   Trump claims Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince ‘knew nothing’ about bone saw murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

more at Mediagazer »

Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field  —  The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press. The news of journalist Olivia Nuzzi's affair with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

more at Mediagazer »

These United Snakes, 2025

One Thousand Words' Worth

At least the user capped the spike.

Untitled

Sunday Surf Fest '77 Or Something

Intermsission

Between the fronts.

This is Big Sky Country too.