Fantabulous Friday

 - Deb and I reluctantly accepted that putting our oldest cat Sunburst to sleep last week was in her best interests.  The remaining tomcats, her offspring, see it otherwise. They both have been moping, moaning, and generally dealing with whatever felines determine as grief. 

- Has anyone else noticed the so called United Nations has been excruciatingly ineffective at…well, everything…since the mid 1960s? The ‘organization’ is basically a money pit that produces nothing, solves nothing, protects nothing.  Proposal: the UN has exactly 12 months to do it’s job, or a) they are cut off from ALL US money and b) they are kicked out of US owned lands.  That right there would save us billions…immediately 

- A story reading drag Queen in Oregon was found guilty of 11 counts of child sexual abuse. The former school teacher (!!!) will serve 330 days in minimum security, and yes, that’s 30 days for each count of felony child sex abuse.  Justice in this case was irrelevant, as long as a transvestite is allowed be prey on children.

-  Proposal: a constitutional amendment restricting the amount of taxpayer money sent overseas. This restriction would be made up of direct payments, weapons and other war projects, government backing of loans and investments…basically everything. This limit will apply overall, not broken down down by nation. So, if the government spends (hypothetically 5%) of our national coffers studying the reproductive cycle of Lithuanian banjo beetles, not ONE MORE RED CENT can be sent to any other nation, for any reason other than for the immediate benefit and survival of these 50 states.  At some point we need to not just be aware of, but prioritize our own.

- Interestingly my Neflix account, Discovery card, CVS credit line, and a dozen others have all been placed on hold until I go in and update my personal and payment information. I don’t have any of these services, Legit or not, so…I don’t think so

- The once proclaimed compact electric car of year, Chevy Bolt EV, will be discontinued later this year, with GM shifting to electric trucks. Imagine buyer’s angst at the cost of paying for a car for 5 years knowing it’s basically a steaming pile of unavailable parts, obsolete before getting 2000 miles on it.  

In the meantime, I *WAS* sort of seriously shopping for a 1972 Chevy or Ford F100…until finding each of these is going for close to $80,000 now, some over$100,000.  

- 2023 seems to be the year of firsts…While opening a bottle of wine the other night, our old corkscrew *broke off* inside the cork.  Took 15 minutes of digging out tiny bits of cork with an ice pick, managed to pull out less than half the remaining cork. Amazingly no bits of cork fell into the bottle.

I’ve been opening wine bottles over 50 years, and this was a first. 

- Seems Midland Tx now has a “critical shortage” of 9-1-1 dispatchers, resulting in delays getting emergency services. Yikes!  

- When reading a news article citing “sources wishing to remain anonymous,” you just about know it will be absolute bullshit. Surprises me that we are so silly as to accept that which is basically made up, on the spot.  We need to stop believing this nonsense