May 16, 2024 – Well, this IS dreary.How the heck am I supposed to get through the election if Mondavi goes under? You all know what that 1.5L means to me during a debate.CA wine industry up against increasing cost of doing business in CA - just like other businesses. Energy, Insurance, Water, Transportation,...

May 16, 2024 – We've long known Mexico is not our friend. From Vicente Fox telling W that the US was Mexico's "pressure relief valve" to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's flat-out blackmail for more money and visas in return for doing their part on their side of the border on immigration enforcement, administration after...

May 16, 2024 – Have you seen all those news reports lately about how expensive fast food has gotten? Reporters don't have to look far to find someone whining about what it costs to eat at McDonald's and, hard left sycophants that they are, the amazing thing is they ARE looking.You could have knocked...

May 16, 2024 – When I was stationed at El Toro many decades ago, "Irvine" was just beginning to blossom into Donald Bren's - chairman of the Irvine Ranch Company - vision of the Mediterranean on the West Coast. The east side of I-5 was nothing but glorious groves of oranges that ran all...

May 17, 2024 – Juuuussssttttt spitballin' here, but it certainly seems like we have an answer for Egypt's extraordinary pissiniss about Israel's plans to clear out Rafah.I have to admit, this was the favored line of thinking over the past few weeks as the Biden administration sabotaged every Israeli move, and the Egyptians blustered and...

May 8, 2024 – Yeesh. Sometimes I think Republicans are just so desperate for a pretty face that doesn't mean tweet, they'll fall all over themselves elevating - and defending - the exact opposite of what they supposedly want. They get cleaned bowled over by a bad case of goo-goo eyes.This business with the...

May 22, 2024 – Kind of an interesting discussion blew up out of a chart I put up on Facebook that I'd gotten from an X tweet. It was a five-year illustration of the increase in fast-food prices from a couple of the major chains. The numbers seemed to be pretty legit, and so...

Jul 3, 2024 – None of this post-debate mess is a surprise to anyone with half a brain, functioning eyeballs, or any media member with a marginally functioning sense of integrity...I KID, I KID about that last one.Because there doesn't seem to be any such creature. I have even seen people whose brains have...

Jul 3, 2024 – Summer is here, and we've established that we're boiling away in the hottest summer ever, ever, EH-VAH.Let's just get that part over with.WIDESPREAD 5/5 on @ClimateCentral Climate Shift Index through Sunday. This heatwave is almost impossible without climate change.‼️ This isn’t a normal summer heatwave.➡️ We’re living through historic & exceptional...

Jul 3, 2024 – Some people just can't take 'non' for an answer, can they?When they tallied up the votes Sunday evening in the snap elections called by France's unpopular diminutive president Emmanuel Macron, it seemed the establishment's worst nightmare had come to pass. In the first round of voting, "right-wing" firebrand Marine LePen's...

Jul 4, 2024 – Man, I love the Fourth of July—even when there are on-and-off showers and then the sun finally comes out and makes it steamy.It's OUR day, our US of A day - the day WE took and no one can take from us.And I'll be damned if I'm the one who...

Jun 27, 2024 – Okay, my darlings - DAMN. That's all I can say. I've been in that overwhelmed comment section trying to catch up with you all while listening to major dad on the couch (who was supposed to be asleep) HOWLING at CNN positively MELTING DOWN over Biden's horrible, terrible, really suck-ass debate...

Jun 28, 2024 – One thing I noticed, post-debate last night, while I was in the middle of glorying over that spectacular CNN meltdown and also trying to get snaps of the hysterical chyrons.OH NOES CONCERNSThis was the best one, though.I LOVE THE SMELL OF AGGRESSIVE PANIC IN THE MORNINGIt's so unsurprising that the...

Jun 28, 2024 – Since the murderous and barbaric October 7 invasion by Hamas, Israel has been on a war footing. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) went into action immediately, even as reserves were being called up in unprecedented numbers. They had to fill out the ranks of what had been, for many years,...

Jun 28, 2024 – Such a cheery place, the Windy City.Where the haves and the have-nots live in a constant state of friction between those whose lives are spent ducking bullets from criminals and those who want to keep criminals on the street in the name of social justice.Take Cook County District Attorney Kim...

Jul 5, 2024 – It's been almost three weeks since word upscale and independent electric vehicle automaker Fisker announced it was going into bankruptcy. Talks with Nissan about an investment collapsed, which put a further financial crimp on the company, as its other, "secret" investor - whose money was contingent on the Nissan deal...

Jul 5, 2024 – This past Monday, a federal judge in Louisiana did something that went relatively unheralded with all the post-debate brouhaha about our vegetable-in-chief and, to a lesser extent, the SCOTUS immunity ruling which also dropped the same morning.Judge James Cain of the Western District of Lousiana put the Biden administration's pause on...

Jul 5, 2024 – It's not like they really had a choice the way their system is set up and the almost total lack of appreciable differences between the two main parties. The 'conservative' Tories had held the reins of power for 14 increasingly shaky years, the last two under the inept and effete...

Dec 10, 2024 – Over and over again, the cluelessness of the Biden administration has people's heads shaking, hitting desks, or simply thrown back in disgusted astonishment.TELL ME HE DIDN'T SAY THATTheir complete inability to grasp any given situation was on display again yesterday as our diffident and generally incompetent Secretary of State, Antony...

Dec 10, 2024 – Sort of put the brakes on.Less than 24 hours ago, when word of Bashar al-Assad's bugging out of Dodge signaled the fall of decades of dictatorship over Syria was official, those always open, welcoming doors to the German Republic slammed shut.It all came to a screeching halt.Syria updates: Germany halts asylum...

Dec 10, 2024 – Did you know that the Biden administration has been busy handing out money like Halloween treats to lots of questionable entities besides the Green grifters I wrote about a week or so ago?Shoot, yeah.Your money was flying out the door as fast as Janet Yellen could print as POTATUS promised....

Dec 11, 2024 – When we had a chance to talk to Ebola* this past Sunday, as parents do, we asked what he'd done all day. He nonchalantly said, "Nothing," as the weather had been too crappy to do a thing. "Helluva storm," he described it, so he stayed in.As he's a meteorologist, and...

Dec 11, 2024 – Since Antony Blinken's upbeat Syria acknowledgment yesterday - lauding the overthrow of the Assad regime and welcoming the new bosses - and my post on it, I've encountered something interesting happening.My whole premise was based on the fact that, yes, the Assads were monsters, but so are the Islamic fanatics who...

Dec 11, 2024 – Two dang stories back to back in an X profile I follow stopped me in my tracks just now. Honestly - they made me so damn mad.What's also infuriating is wondering what else we are going to find out has been happening during these past few years - let's say...

Dec 11, 2024 – What do I mean by that?The phrase is:CHOOT 'EM!! I heard part of Rep Smith's interview with Harris Faulkner yesterday, and that man was hot under the collar about the drone problem in the night skies of the Garden State.He was expounding on some of the drone sighting reports he'd related...