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We own 27% of the House!
Milestone number two reached with UFCU as our mortgage holder or lender or both? Who cares, they’re doing a great job and they don’t do immoral things like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank, Chase, Capital One or Deutsche Bank … Continue reading
Texas “Gubmint” decides to arm teachers as the solution
The hits just keep coming from the Texas Triumvirate of Tomfoolery. In the wake of the Santa Fe (‘burb of Houston) school shooting, the Republicans have decided that the solution of course is anything but stricter gun laws. Oh there’s money … Continue reading
1989: Tiananmen Square Massacre
I recall the horrible news that morning. While the US was sleeping, the Chinese Army and its hardliner masters decided they had had enough of the ongoing student protests, especially when the workers were joining in. Like all tyrannical regimes, … Continue reading
Red-light cameras are now banned in Texas!
As the cliché goes, a broken clock is right twice a day is definitely true with the Texas Legislature (aka, the Laboratory for Bad Ideas), Governor Shitbag (Abbott) and Lt. Governor Red Skull (Patrick). I actually agreed on one law … Continue reading
Joe “Foot-in-Mouth” Biden joins the mess
The picture I swiped from Splinter sums up my opinion of the former vice president and his quixotic plans to “rescue” America from the Shitgibbon. I’m confident the failing and rapidly aging leadership of the Democrats has a boner with Bilary … Continue reading
First tax refund in years
Hell, I cannot remember the last time got any money back from the IRS since we’ve been on the owing side for a few years in a row. One time it was a painful amount too, in the neighborhood of … Continue reading
The UK and its inept gov’t get an extension
In short, the people of the UK are so screwed. If they think their has-been empire will rebound from all they’re going to lose trading with the rest of Europe, they’re also delusional. According to On the Media, some of the … Continue reading
1809: Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln born
As Emo Philips has a joke: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln have the same birthday which is fitting because they’re the two biggest enemies of the South. Being an American living in any region, even abroad, it is a painfully … Continue reading
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Fear by Bob Woodward
The only other book I’ve ever read by Bob Woodward was Veil way back in the early Nineties (or was it the late Eighties?) I know I was still attending Marquette when I checked it out from the library. Even so, I … Continue reading
1919: Prohibition, a stupid idea, begins
One reason why we should never let intolerant, religious nut jobs take over the State is it happened before through the 18th Amendment. They’re not the majority but when we let our guard down, they manage to pass an impossible … Continue reading
1979: The Shah of Iran flees, 40 years of hate gets rolling
America’s brutal puppet fled Iran giving Ayatollah Khomeini and his religious thugs the opening they needed to create a different, brutal Islamic theocracy which has been a thorn in the world’s side ever since. The outcome shouldn’t be a shock … Continue reading
Header change was needed
I went with this snapshot of the landscape from Idiocracy as a tribute to the current Federal Government shutdown being caused by the Shitgibbon’s stubbornness. He wants to be true to his racist base despite walls not working, ask the Chinese … Continue reading
Vice: Worth Seeing
Hard to believe that McKay could make a Dark Comedy about war criminal Dick Cheney but he succeeds in making his point, this horrible man was the main architect behind America’s problems abroad and at home. I’ll explain more of … Continue reading
We own 26% of the house!
I haven’t posted one of these stories in two years but we did it! After re-financing with University Federal Credit Union to punish the dirtbags at Wells Fargo, we managed to get the balance past the 25 percent point and … Continue reading
Finally, something new after several weeks
The last thing I posted was Somara’s return from her vacation abroad (Netherlands, Qatar). Besides candy, pictures and memories, she brought back bronchitis thanks to a discourteous traveller on the flight to London, not from, to. Thus, her trip was … Continue reading