IT TAKES A WOMAN TO NEUTER TRUMP

 

With dozens of men in the room cringing at Trump's gaze, it took a woman, the governor of Maine, to stand toe-to-toe with the egomaniacal President and answer him with defiance. 

Afterwards, certain news outlets said that Governor Mills had more balls than the men in the room.

That was wrong.  She had more vagina than anyone else in the room.

 

The image of big balls being tough is just a fantasy.    A well-placed slap on a man’s genital area will have him on the ground in agony.   

A woman, however, can push a twenty-inch, ten-pound bag of bones, blood and flesh through her vagina one day and be up the next day feeding her family and getting her kids off to school. 

That’s fucking tough

 So, our governor, Janet Mills, had the biggest vagina in the room when she told Trump, “We’ll see you in court.”  

Maine has always been known as the state of hardy men and strong women.


the Ol'Buzzard

THE CANADIAN PROVENCE OF MAINE

 

Dear Canada

Please buy Maine.  Make an offer to Trump that he can’t refuse.  Remind him Maine did not vote for him in the last election.  Offer to trade him England; he won't know the difference.  Say you will recognize him as King of America – appeal to his vanity. 

 

Maine has great natural resources and a thriving tourist economy, so it would make sense for Maine to become one of your maritime provinces.

  Mainers are so much like Canadians that there would be little adjustment – though we might balk at God Save the King. 

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

WALK-IN BATHTUBS

 

 

As you age, one of the things you worry about is falling. Getting in and out of a tub is doable but becomes more complicated with age. 

I have seen the ads for walk-in tubs; a woman lying back in a spa-like setting in a sitting tub with a door. 

And an advantage is you can't tell the farts from the bubbles!

This seemed the perfect answer to replace our bathtub. 

 

Fortunately, we live in an information age. 

    

I have never seen one of these tubs, and I don’t doubt they give you a safe and comfortable bathing experience, but there are downsides. 

The tub volume is forty to sixty gallons, and you must enter and sit there while the tub fills, which could take five minutes or more.  When your bath is finished you must sit there while the water completely drains.  The sidewalls are high, so in an emergency, you are pretty much stuck in the tub until it drains.

These tubs are expensive and the cost of the tub doesn't include the cost of installation, which could double the price of the tub.

We have a walk-in shower, so the tub to me is just a luxury, a place to sit and soak with a book and a cup of tea. 

The walk-in tub looks good, but I think I will pass.

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

QUESTIONS I CAN’T ANSWER.

 

 

Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

 

Why is a nickel larger than a dime?

 

Why are ghosts wearing clothes?

 

If Pluto is a dog, what the fuck is goofy?

 

Astrophysicists are constantly concerned with the possibility of a giant asteroid, similar to the one that caused the dinosaur extinction hitting the Earth.   But what happens to Earth if a large asteroid misses us but strikes the Moon?   Would it knock the moon out of its present orbit?  What happens to Earth if the Moon changes its orbit even slightly?

Everything is in equilibrium.  We can place satellites in space where the gravities of space objects cancel each other.  If the moon’s orbit changes will satellites fall out of the sky?

 

Why do vampire hunters always enter the vampire’s crypt minutes before sundown?

Why do working people vote for Republicans?

the Ol'Buzzard

 

 

 

 

 

I consider myself a liberal person and to some extent a Buddhist, but most of all a free-thinking individual.   I refuse to identify myself with any group think. 

 

Our Maine Governor and Donald Trump are in a standoff about transgender girls competing in girls’ sports.       I must admit I have some conflicting feelings on this subject. 

However, I try to isolate myself from feelings and view subjects with a logical mind. 

 

How a person wishes to dress is none of my business.

The gender a person wishes to identify as is none of my business.

Who a person wishes to have sex with is none of my business.

Preferred sex acts of other people are none of my business.

 

Transgender athletics is none of my business, and I will not enter into the fray: I don’t have a dog in that hunt, but I would be uncomfortable strictly from a fairness position.

 

Boys have a different pelvic structure than girls, and boys have a distinct muscular build and a different hormonal makeup than girls.

 

A transgender woman or girl has every right to dress the way she is comfortable, and every right to associate herself with the gender she is most comfortable.  She has every right to surgery to make herself more comfortable in the role she chooses.

 

But, if she does not have, or has not had, ovaries and an egg that drops every month causing the hormonal rollercoaster of a period, and the internal organs designed for pregnancy and carrying a fetus to term, then strictly speaking she is not female.

 

Males competing against females in a physical sport would likely have an unfair advantage. 

 

But again, I don’t have a dog in this hunt. and I do support our governor standing up to Trump.

Maine's governor, a woman, has been the only person who has shown the toughness to answer Trump back to his face.  

 The Ol’Buzzard 

 

 

I'M SORRY DAVE. I'M AFRAID I CAN'T DO THAT

 

A GOD COMPUTER

Our biggest threat is not climate change or WMDs, it is likely Artificial Intelligence.   We can program a computer to self-learn but still do not know the internal process taking place.    

Over a short period, Google Chess AI downloaded every chess game ever published, taught itself the rules of chess, and is unbeatable by any human Chess master.    

So far, we are controlling AI by programming them to operate within a narrow function.   We presently know how to program a supercomputer to allow AI to teach itself independently, but we do not have a supercomputer capable of handling the capacity required for a totally independent AI. 

Assuredly, computer science will advance to that capability.   A supercomputer that could download all human knowledge.   A God computer?   It is a given that bots can replace humans, with greater efficiency, in most jobs.  What assurance do we have that a Supercomputer would not decide that humans were an unnecessary annoyance and decide to eradicate us?

 

All we have to fear is fear itself; or perhaps a nuclear holocaust, a worldwide pandemic plague, total climate destruction, an asteroid collision, or: I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.......

As yellowdog granny would have said: We're Fucked.

the Ol'Buzzard

BREAKING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE

 

This is what you voted for MAGA

Happy trails

the Ol'Buzzard

RESTAURANT OBSERVATIONS

 

My wife and I occasionally eat at restaurants.  While waiting for our meal I often observe the other diners, and there is a pattern I have observed.

 

At every table with four or more diners, especially diners forty years or older, there will be a person holding court, and dominating every conversation.

 

For every table of six or more the self-appointed master-of-ceremony will talk louder than anyone else – controlling the conversation and allowing no dead airtime to exist.   If drinking is involved, at that table there will be a person who brays like a donkey, booming laughter at something that's probably not that funny.

People under thirty do not fall into this loquacious category, as they sit at their table with their cellphones, probably texting each other rather than talking.

 

And then there is the family with young undisciplined children…

Your bill will total over one hundred dollars
and you are sitting next to this!

Bon Appetit

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

 

 

TRUMP STATES OF AMERICA

 

ENLARGE FOR BEST VIEWING

I miss Yellowdog Granny.

the Ol'Buzzard

MUTUAL CONTEMPT

 

LOVE IT

the Ol'Buzzard

TIME TRAVELERS

 

 

We are all time travelers.  We are on a never pausing spaceship traveling into the future.

 

Einstein postulated that if light speed is constant then time is not.  If time is not a fixed standard, then it will vary by the speed of one object moving away from another.

RELATIVITY

An astronaut leaves Earth traveling at 8/10 the speed of light.  After 30 years on the spaceship, 50 years will have passed on Earth. 

 

People belonging to the know-nothing party, which is the base of the Republican Party, will say that Relativity, like Evolution, is just a theory – somehow they will weave god into it.   

But time travel is a standard calculation that allows GPS to operate and allows us to land a space probe or ship with precise accuracy on another planet or moon. 

Time is bendable and can be affected by gravity, opening the possibility of wormholes, but that is another formulation. 

 

To my way of thinking, time is truly relative to the individual.   When I was eight years old the time between one Christmas and the next was an eternity.   Now in my eighties, it seems I wake up and another month has passed. 

 

Then perhaps this is all just a simulation.  Zeus's son is playing a computer game and we are just avatars.   

the Ol'Buzzard

TAKEOVER SHANTY

 

I would like to see this take off as a shanty on social media

the Ol'Buzzard

 

SNOWS THEN AND NOW

 

Old men remember.   Over a half century ago when I was a young man in Maine, you could not go into the woods in the winter without snowshoes.   Not the puney little aluminum snow shoes of today.  You needed a set of trail shoes or trappers – if you were just over 100 pounds you could probably get by with bearpaws.

 If you stepped off your snowshoes you would sink to your crotch or deeper.   We don’t have snow like that today.

 

The snow storms don’t come as often and are not as severe, then are followed by a warmup.  

 

That said, today we have an old-time storm coming into Maine. The snow just started here in western Maine and is forecast to last all day, dropping 10 to 16 inches.

 

I am located just below and east of the town of Rangeley.   In the 10-16 inch area. 

On the southern coast, the snow will turn to sleet and then freezing rain.  Undoubtedly causing power outages.

 

So, this will be a goodun; but I remember when this would have just been considered a standard storm. 

the Ol’Buzzard

BEST WINTER GLOVE I HAVE EVER OWNED

 

I am late posting about winter gloves, but Trump sucked the oxygen out of Blogging last year.  

I do not advertise for any company, but when I find something that serves me well I occasionally post it.  

I have cold weather experience and have spent years in the Arctic.   That is years of having cold hands.

Two years ago I bought KOMBI Men's Sanctum Glove.  There is a soft lining with a wrist cuff and a snow cuff to seal out snow.  The glove also has a waterproof inner glove and a water-resistant palm. A six-inch cord from the cuff ends with a wristband, so I can take off the gloves and hang loose from my wrist.

KOMBI Men's Sanctum Glove

We have a Maine outlet store in our town called Renys, and I  paid less than twenty dollars for the set.

Canadians are probably familiar with Kombi gloves, though made in China the Company is located in Canada. 

take care

the Ol'Buzzard

FROM TEA PARTY TO MAGA

 

In 2007 the Democrat Party dared to run a black man for President.

 

Seeing the opportunity to coalesce the racist base of the Republican Party into action, the Koch Brothers financed a Tea Party movement.

 

They hired organizers to reach out to their more gullible constituents. They paid for buses to transport protestors to targeted areas and furnished them with signs, placards, and support.

Without realizing it, the Koch brothers were training the inmates to take over the asylum.

People who had never been the center of attention suddenly had a chance to be filmed by major news networks.   Not the brightest bulbs in the Republican light show, these people showed up with tea bags hanging from their hats, don’t tread on me flags, dressed as Uncle Sam, etc.    They screamed and yelled and received their fifteen minutes of fame.   But they also found they had a movement they could belong to.   And by remaining organized they had a controlling power over the Republican Party.

More and more of the lunatic fringe joined the movement.  The only thing lacking was a leader. 

Then came Donald Trump; not a particularly bright person, but as P.T. Barnum said, you only have to be smarter than the rubes you are conning. 

 

The circle was complete.  The Tea Party became the MAGA cult. 

 

After attempting a coupe, there was a chance to eliminate MAGA, but Republicans, still afraid of the MAGA base, refused to impeach Trump and remove him from office.  

But not just the Republicans: the milk toast Attorney General Merrick Garland had the chance, but delayed holding Trump accountable for the insurrection of January 6 for two years.

 

So now we live in a MAGA republic, whether we like it or not, and Trump’s desire to delete the Department of Education pretty much says it all.   

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

 

SWASTICAR

 

Trump's federal government just proposed spending $400.000,000.00 to buy Musk's Swasticars.   

Is this blatant corruption, or what?

While we are deporting immigrants, why not the man from South Africa?

the Ol'Buzzard

YELLOWDOG GRANNY WE WILL MISS YOU

 

Jackiesue Denny (YelloowDog Granny) a great liberal warrior has been carried to Valhalla by Valkyries.  We will fucking miss her.  

I can not pay tribute any better than Debra.   Please see her blog;

SHE WHO SEEKS

Fuck!

the OL'Buzzard

COMMANDER AND CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES

 

 

I predict that, within the next four years, Donald Trump will design himself a military uniform.   He will award himself numerous ribbons and medals and have double the number of stars (and bigger stars) than the highest-ranking General. 

He will also probably declare himself more than just President Trump: Remember Doctor Generalissimo Presidente Idi Amin? 

How about:

Grand Leader Supreme General and President by Divine Proclamation Donald Trump

 

The man is a classic case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. 

Delusional Disorder is a mental health condition characterized by persistent false beliefs (delusions) that are not based on reality.  These delusions can be of various themes such as delusions of grandeur.  

And I can spot an asshole quicker than a proctologist.

the Ol’Buzzard

TRUMP PARDONS JANUARY SIX RIOTERS

 

the Ol'Buzzard

DYSLEXIA AND SPELLING.

 

   

I have been dyslexic all my life.   This complicated my learning to read.  The word was might change to saw in my brain, and letters in longer words might switch places.   I was a whiz in math and science, but anything related to reading was painful.

 

At some time during my military career, I taught myself to read.  I do not read individual words.   I read the meanings of groups of words or whole lines.    I am able to devour novels, technical manuals, or research material at a rapid rate with high recall.   This ability made college a breeze; however, my wife, who attended college with me, had to go over my papers and correct my spelling.  This was during the eighties before computers.

 

Occasionally, my wife and I read to each other, but I tend to insert words or leave out words in sentences, and that annoys her. 

 

Even now, when I copy a list of numbers, I am careful that numbers don’t switch. 

 

I understand that misspellings drive the Spelling Police crazy, but some of us are doing the best we can.

 

Famous people with Dyslexia:

Whoopi Goldberg

Richard Branson

Steven Spielberg

Orlando Bloom

Albert Einstein

Muhammad Ali

Pablo Picasso

Cher 

Thank goodness for spell checkers.

The Ol’ Bzzuard

HANDBOOK FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS UNDER TRUMP

 

A voice crying in the wilderness.

Casandra warning

1984

by George Orwell (Eric Blair)

 

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

 

“The enemy of the moment always represents absolute evil.”

 

“If all others accepted the lie which the party imposed – If all the records showed the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became true.   Who controls the past, ran the party slogan, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

 

“Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version.  A great deal of the time you were suppose to make them up out of your head.”

 

 3 SOCIAL CLASSES

“The aim of the high is to remain where they are.  The aim of the middle is to change places with the high.  The aim of the low, where they have an aim – for it is an abiding characteristic of the low that they are too much crushed by the drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything out their daily lives.."

Oligarchy: a small group of people who govern a nation.

 

‘…the deportation of whole populations – not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.”

 

“In the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.” 

 

“Double think: (reality control) ie thou shall not kill but glorification of war heroes.”

 

“Ministrys: (reversals of facts)

Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war.

Ministry of Truth with lies.

Ministry of Love with torture.

Ministry of Plenty with starvation.”

 

INGSOC (the Party)

“The essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.   To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any facts that has become inconvenient…”

 

“The proles are only intermittently conscious of the war.  When it is necessary they can prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods of time that war is happening.  It is in the ranks of the party, and above all the inner party, that true war enthusiasm is found.”

 

“We know that no one ever seized power with the intention of relinquishing it.   Power is not a means; it is an end.”

 

MY COMMENT

1984 is a primer on controlling a population. 

INGSOC (the party) successfully manipulates the mind of the proles (the people) to the point that a person thinks the opposite of what is true: that 2+2= 5

 

INGSOC: Republican Party 2024

 

the Ol’Buzzard