Coyote vs Acme

We have 69 (F) outside and supposedly we're going to be adding another 21 degrees onto to that for our afternoon high of 90 (F).  And as is now usually the case, we have storms on store for this afternoon.  We had them yesterday with torrential rains.  We had them again last night.  In the past few days we have had a lot of rain.  In fact, yesterday they were pounding down so hard my green pepper plant was split in two and is now, colloquially speaking, a goner.

Yesterday was a busy day.  I did all of the paperwork online to renew my driver's license, so all I had to do was check in and then wait to have my picture taken.  After that I went to Karn's supermarket.  Karn's sells fresh meats from local farms.  They also sell fresh seafood.  Nothing is shipped in frozen.  Nothing comes from a mystery country.  I bought 3 pounds of ground beef and the price was comparable to what I'd have paid at my local Giant Supermarket.

The first thunderstorm of the day hit as I was leaving Karn's.  Driving is difficult when buckets of water are hitting your windshield, and the wipers simply could not keep up.  And there were many bolts of lightning.  And the thunder was crashing.  When I got to the BJs parking lot, I sat for a minute or two in my car checking the weather map.  The storm was massive.  WTF went through my head, I can't wait until this thing passes, so I ended walking through the parking lot with lightning stitching brightly through the clouds overhead.  Shit.

I went to see Coyote vs Acme last evening.  I have not laughed so hard in a very long time.  An animated coyote sues Acme in a live action courtroom.  So many of the  laughs caught me by surprise.  Warner Brothers was not going to release the film because they thought it unmarketable: being smart and absurdist, the animation was not geared for the kiddies, yet in their minds animation meant kiddies.  They still are rather clueless.  Every trailer was for an animated kids movie and there were children in the audience last evening.  Anyway, this is a good, laugh out loud movie.

And the cornucopia of Republican continues to overflod

Republicans introduced an amendment into the House of Representatives yesterday thaRpt would limit the Supreme Court to just 9 judges.  They needed a 2/3 majority for it to continue.  They knew they weren't going to get the votes, but they introduced the measure for a base they are terrified might not show up at the polls in November.

Many Republicans are now worried that the Orange Anus, who has accumulated a massive war chest will not divvy any of those funds out to help Republican campaigns.  You'd have thought they would have realized by now that he views those funds as his own personal money.  The fact that they thought he was going to share is downright ridiculous.

One thing Republicans can be sure of, though, is that he will go out on the road and campaign for them.  He doesn't care if he helps their campaigns or not, he just wants to be on stage, and the center of attention, for a small audience for as long as possible.  

Failing Badly

We're on the slightly humid side this morning and I'm blaming the torrential rains we had last night.  Torrential rains, you ask?  Wowza!  From around 9:30 PM till nearly 11 PM, here in Central PA, mother nature put on a dazzlingly spectacular light show accompanied by window rattling booms and crashes. We've been getting one of these thunderboomers so frequently, I'm beginning to believe this is a part of climate change.

As planned, I got my haircut yesterday.  I usually got Great Clips, a barber/styling salon that was cheap and quick.  You might want to blame it on the Navy, but I truly hate getting my haircut.  That being said, a senior haircut now costs $18.  I consider that rather expensive for 7 minutes of snip, snip, snip... oh, and having to deal with the babbling chit chat from a 50+ year old stylist with purple hair.  I did not need to hear that her boyfriend, who works in Montana and who lost 250 pounds, was coming home and that they were going to play disc golf.  Still, the haircut was decent, so I endured.

Later on this morning I'm going to be renewing my driver's license.  This will entail showing an employee from the Department of Motor vehicles my passport (to get my real ID) and then having my picture taken.  If you've been reading me long enough, you might remember that the last time I had my license renewed there was a woman who kept having her picture taken, over, and over, and over again because she wasn't satisfied with the way she looked.  Can't you just hear the police officer saying, "ma'am, I'm going to ticket you for driving 85 mph in a 35 mph zone, but that is a stunning picture of you."

After 286 days at sea, the USS Abraham Lincoln is now docked at Laem Chabang Port, Pattaya, Thailand.  This is embarrassing. I cannot imagine what this ship is like on the inside.  Hegseth is failing badly.

And in their attempt to stay in power, Republicans in Texas have shut down 30% of the polling stations in Tarrant county.  This is a prime example of utter stupidity.  These fools think that making Democrats drive farther to vote will keep them from the polls.  Their tiny brains also believe that Republican voters are different, and will have no problem driving any distance, no matter how far, to keep the Republican party in power.  If obtuse is a point, these Republicans are making it.  They don't understand that most seniors, those people in their 70s and 80s, those people most likely to vote Republican, will stay home rather than drive for 45 minutes in order to stand in line for 3 hours to vote.  Because the party of selfishness and greed is unable to change, they will punish their most loyal base out of sheer stupidity.  This party deserves to fail... badly.