The Generals are calling them "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" because of how badly they bombed at the Quantico Meeting... FYI: Those were the Names of the Atom Bombs dropped on Japan during World War II...

Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals...

Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/pete-hegseth-generals-speech-veterans-react

What I think is funny is that the guy on the left is always referred to as SECDEF Pete H... 

That's short for Secretary of Defense... 

I guess the Name Change Failed... 

The Secret To Shopping For Produce Has Been Decoded! - a video sent to me by a friend... Proof that any jackass can make a YouTube video and state any kind of crazy conspiracy theory...

And I replied: Thankfully I don't do my own shopping... The caregivers at my old folks home do all the shopping and all the cooking... But I am allowed to complain to management and they actually listen... I told him that I don't want to ever eat  "American cheese" ... That horrible product is guaranteed to be 51% real cheese - from a cow - and 49% something else... Whatever that something else is makes it taste horrible... 

But I don't believe that genetically modifying organisms is a bad thing... I'm in favor of genetic engineering and glad that they have invented the seedless watermelon for example... 

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Unlikely friendship but so pure ✨#horse #dog #dogs #foryou #fyp - another video... Showing horses and dogs playing together... 

https://youtube.com/shorts/P4SmTT7GAGM?si=sWjDHj_6Hw3EwcYR

and I replied: 

Nice... When I went to college we read a book called "a language older than words" by Derek Jensen... It was all about inner species communication... Just like in this video... That was the interesting class... It was all about ecology... And the teacher rode a bicycle to work everyday... And I got to meet a lot of interesting young people that were not in the computer science department... Humboldt State University attracted a lot of hippies... And it was especially delightful to chat with the 20-year-old women... Me being 50... 

So the first thing we did in class was rearranged the desks and chairs so they formed a circle... When we arrived they were in straight rows pointing at the front of the classroom... And then everybody talked whenever they felt like it... About the reading... But the teacher made sure that the loudmouths did not dominate the conversation by calling on shy people... Because in most circumstances some people dominate the conversation every time... 

One conversation we had was about genetic engineering of humans... I was in favor of that... And the vast majority of the kids were opposed to it... Because who would decide what genes are better?

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And another friend asked: 

What would you do if we had a boring, rational, good guy as president? 

And I replied: I had 8 years of Obama and 4 years of Biden... And I posted what I thought were mistakes that they made... Biden spent $5 billion dollars to keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant running for an extra 10 years... I didn't think that was brilliant... 

I was working for the county of Humboldt when ObamaCare launched the website... And we were trained on how to answer the phone when people called that needed help... That Obamacare website was a disaster and just by magical coincidence Michelle Obama's college roommate got the contract to build the website even though she was a Canadian... Idiotic corruption... And it was really hard to use... The worst part was that when you entered data and then clicked yes nothing happened for like 15 seconds... And so a normal person would click again... And again... And again... Now you've got four requests... Because the website didn't have the ability to tell you, hey I got it... And then display a spinning clock...

This is what Socialism Looks Like: Trump announced $16 Billion in WELFARE PAYMENTS to Farmers That are Harmed by His Insane Trade War.

When Obama was President, Farmers earned a living by Growing and Selling Crops. 

People ask: Where will all this Money come from? Well, from MORE Deficit Spending! Since Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law is Currently Failing to Collect Enough to Pay for the Cost of the US Government, we are Increasing the National Debt in Hopes that YOUR Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren and Great-Great Grandchildren will pay for it all... This Year had the Largest Deficit in History... and Now Trump wants to Make a $16 Billion Welfare Payment to Farmers and a $19 Billion Dollar Payment for Disaster Relief... The Midwest is experiencing Record Tornado Damage and Flooding due to Climate Change... and The West needs help for Wildfires... and and and... This Summer we Expect More of the Same! More Wildfires, More Tornadoes, More Hurricanes and More Floods...   

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and now for something completely different.

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I already own all the Cheap Chinese Junk I will ever Need. I have a Laptop and a TV and I'm going to keep them and use them for another decade. They work fine and there is no need to buy a BRAND NEW SMARTPHONE! because the one I already own is great... So the Chinese plan to stop selling RARE EARTH MINERALS that are required to make Electronic Gizmos... Well, so Freaking What! From now on I'm buying used... Used Clothes totally undermine the Chinese Fabric Industry... I find it INSANE that we Import Cotton Fabric... Why not GROW COTTON IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH? and Weave it in places like Burlington, Vermont... We did that Years ago... Why not Now?

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and now for something completely different.

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Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg says Trump was a Draft Dodger during the Vietnam War because he Bribed a Doctor to write a FAKE Medical Deferment... Well, That was a Smart Move by Trump. Only an Idiot would Go to Vietnam unless he was Forced to... Everyone who had a Rich Daddy Dodged the Draft. It was a Totally Insane War... History has proved it to be a Horrible Waste of American Lives and Taxpayer Dollars. So Mayor Pete went to Afghanistan... Well, What The FORK did he Accomplish? The only thing we have done in Afghanistan is INCREASE THE OPIUM CROP YIELD... Thanks, Pete...

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and now for something completely different.

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Little Stevie Mnuchin Warns of ‘Late Summer’ Default If No Debt-Limit Increase.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-22/mnuchin-warns-of-late-summer-default-if-no-debt-limit-increase

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and now for something completely different.

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Trump's Family, Staff Should Stage an Intervention for the good of the country. "Just because I have a hotel in my foot doesn't make me a boogily-moogily-moogily!" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-pelosi/pelosi-says-she-wishes-for-family-staff-intervention-after-trump-tantrum-idUSKCN1ST20O

Mitch McConnell Russian Bribery Scandal - Sanctions were lifted on Oleg Deripaska and then he decided to build a $200 Million Dollar Aluminum Factory in Kentucky. Quid Pro Quo? Obvious Payback?

Little Stevie Munchkin, Treasury Secretary, and Mitch McConnell both Lobbied for the US Senate to Remove sanctions on Oleg Deripaska... The House had voted in a Bi-Partisan way to Keep Sanctions...  and then SURPRISE SURPRISE Mitch Benefits...

SANCTIONED RUSSIAN OLIGARCH'S COMPANY TO INVEST MILLIONS IN NEW ALUMINUM PLANT IN MITCH MCCONNELL'S STATE.
https://www.newsweek.com/company-russian-oligarch-millions-aluminum-plant-mitch-mcconnell-1397061

Congressional Leaders Seek Investigation into Russian Investment in Ky. Aluminum Mill.
https://www.wvpublic.org/post/congressional-leaders-seek-investigation-russian-investment-ky-aluminum-mill

Wife of lobbyist for Russian plant in KY got boost from McConnell...
Rachel Maddow notes how the dots connect awkwardly for Mitch McConnell after the wife of the lobbyist who alerted McConnell to a huge Russian investment in Kentucky was suddenly processed for a federal judgeship for which she is not qualified.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wife-of-lobbyist-for-russian-plant-in-ky-got-boost-from-mcconnell-60082245958

Rachel Maddow connects the dots on an epic financial scandal involving Mitch McConnell and Russia...

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/22/rachel-maddow-connects-the-dots-on-an-epic-financial-scandal-involving-mitch-mcconnell-and-russia_partner/

Candidate Pete Buttigieg: Do You Have AIDS? HIV? Can we see Your Doctor's Report? If you are Dying, that might effect your ability to Serve...

Valid Question for Candidates... Can we see their Medical Reports? That might be a VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR in the 2020 Election... With Trump, Biden and Sanders INCREDIBLY OLD... We wouldn't want to elect someone who is going to die soon... 

We need to see a REAL DOCTOR REPORT from Trump... Written by a REAL Doctor... NOT someone just writing what Trump Said About Himself. Trump OBVIOUSLY LIED LAST TIME and We DO NOT KNOW if he is in good health or not. 

Video: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" written by Pete Seeger sung by Gregory Vanderlaan

https://youtu.be/LLjpvJP9MmY  

Classic Anti-War Protest Song. It circles around and starts again at the beginning. We go from flowers to soldiers to graveyards and back to flowers again. 

This was one of the most requested songs of my "Miss Piggy Song Book" (a hand written set of lyrics and chords of my favorite hundred songs... with Miss Piggy and Kermit on the cover... It lived in my guitar case for decades... )  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Flowers_Gone%3F  

Seeger created a song which was subsequently published in Sing Out in 1962. He recorded a version with three verses on The Rainbow Quest album (Folkways LP FA 2454) released in July 1960. Later,
 Joe Hickerson added two more verses with a recapitulation of the first^[3] in May 1960 in Bloomington, Indiana.^[7]

Peace Sign made out of Rocks on Mount Shasta, California

Translation of the song "Guantanamera" as sung by Pete Seeger... and Guantanamericano-the hidden verses…”

I always was confused by the verse:

“Yo soy un puto frijelero nacio en el este de Los Angeles,
Yo soy un puto frijelero nacio en el este de Los Angeles…
Tengo demasiados hijos, ¿de dónde provienen sus ojos azules?”

But Cheech and Chong sang it so I could understand it...
OR you could copy and paste it into Google Translate!
(It's really offensive)

Or is it One Ton of Marijuana? - sung by Darryl Cherney and the Chernobyls!

actual song...
Guantanamera : ( Lady from Guantanamo, Cuba)
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma

(I am a truthful man,
From the land of the palm tree.
Before dying, I want to
Share these poems of my soul.)

[Chorus (after each verse):]
Guantanamera! Guajira!
Guantanamera!
Guantanamera! Guajira!
Guantanamera!

Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo

(My verses are light green,
But they are also flaming red.
My verses are like a wounded fawn,
Seeking refuge in the mountain.)

Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
El arroyo de la sierra
Me complace mas que el mar

(With the poor people of this earth,
I want to share my lot.
The little streams of the mountains
Please me more than the sea.)