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Sunday September 20, 2026

I learned an important fact last night while watching the TV show “Have I Got News For You.” Our Governor from Virginia was a guest. The MC, Roy Wood Jr., asked her how he should address her she said that Virginia was a Commonwealth and her official title was “Excellency”, but (being a person of the people) she said Governor was fine.

Fine? Fine! Are you kidding me? Okay, I’l let it go because this was for all intent and purposes an informal setting, but had this been something official, like say – meeting the President – Then she would have to insist on her title. Well, not her actually, her minister of etiquette. And just to make sure no one was so rude as to address her any other way I think she should have two big burly flagellators standing on either side of her (and maybe a half step back) so if anyone so much as – well, you get the idea.

Listen, some radicals in some religions insist and saying “all power and glory to him” before they mention the name of their beloved leader messiah whatever. And if you draw a picture of him (or is it their god?) then they come after you and try and kill you. I’m going light here.

Imagine if you will, Stephen Miller getting some old school Excellency discipline. For what? For having the audacity to call her informally “Governor.” He has no idea how tough we can be. This is the south after all.

Thursday, August 27, 2026

That know nothing Paul Krugman. I mean, what does he know? Yeah, he’s got a Nobel prize. Trump has a Nobel prize. Donald got it the way he got most things, by bullying. Or lying. Or both.

Krugman got it because he knows something. Donald knows nothing.

Krugman got his Nobel in economics. Donald knows economics the hard way. Every business  he has had has failed. What does he say about that? He has a secret way of dealing with it. It’s called lying. Shhh. And done continuously to try and convince others the technique is called “Gas Lighting”.

A well known fortune in a fortune cookie says, “A fool will find a greater fool to admire him.” Let’s not quibble over the fact that it’s not a fortune. It’s in fortune cookies ergo it’s a fortune. Shut up. Enter Scotty B. !!!

Paul, I’m on a first name basis with Dr. Krugman, has pointed out that before Donald took office he said the economy was going to take off. And it would have. Well, it already did. Fortunately, Mr. Trump inserted his foot on them darn pedals, grabbed the reins and puled up hard while turn the steering wheel to the right and managed to put the feller in the ditch. It took effort, but he did it. Otherwise, he would have had to blame Biden who set him up. Yes. The economy which was taking off would have really done well. Whew. Dodged a close one.

And can you imagine the gall of Dr. Krugman to use charts to prove it? Fake News!! Except these are the same sources he’s always used. How did he summarize it?

Economic growth has slowed despite the AI boom,

Inflation is up,

Interest rates are up.

Sorry, I miswrote. That’s not what he stated. Let me try again:

Inflation has accelerated.

Interest rates have surged.

Accelerated? Surged? Arent’ those good words for an economy?

And in other news, Canada has now cut long term deals with other countries for things it needs because the U.S. can no longer be depended upon as a reliable partner. This will live long after Trump leaves office, which he won’t so I guess we don’t have to worry about that. Trump III? No? Pesky Constitution.

Farmers in Iowa are pissed at him I don’t know why. I just saw the headline. More on that later.

Hey, funny thing, no one talked about election fraud or problems with mail in ballots until this guy came along. Wonder why? You know what? Maybe it’s because there were no problems until this guy came along? Sources say there still is no problem with election fraud or mail in ballots, but don’t worry, he’s on it. And if he gets his way – There will be election fraud and problems with Mail-in ballots.

In Georgia one of the aides to the Republican guy challenging for the Senate seat … has a photograph with him in a KKK get up. So what?

In Florida, ten million dollars for hungry poor kids, was redirected via shell companies into two Republican political campaign operations. No one knows how that happened. Hence, no criminal charges. Do the kids get fed? Probably not.

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

At some point, Donald Trump will be alone huddled in a broom closet, curled in a little ball, all alone.

He will still be lashing out. He will blame. He will tell you it is someone else’s fault, that he has done and been doing a “terrific” job, and that you should believe the naysayers. Of course, the only thing left will be the broom closet as the rest of the building and everything around it will be ashes. So those who open the door and look at this sniveling person will have to wonder what he is taking about. They will take him to a home for the infirmed where a big Jamaican woman will turn on the TV to a TV auction channel selling giant porcelain figurines. She will leave him while he stares at the TV and says that they made a porcelain figurine of him and “no one had ever seen anything like it.”

Ah me. When will that day come?

How long can this schtick continue?

Why does anyone believe him?

How does he attract young women to hang around him to buzz him awake, to wipe up his filth, to type his inanities on-line?

Is he alone at two in the morning when he puts out some of this drivel or is there some little honey typing it for him? And where is Melania during all this?

I saw her at the race car event when little Donnie pooh was waving the start flag like he was a three year old at the beach who had just been given a new toy. I mean, how hard is this? Hasn’t he ever seen a race star before? Or its end? You wave the flag in a figure eight. I mean he’s eighty years old, where has he been?

Speaking of eighty year olds – Dolly Parton. Some say the wrong eighty year old died.

Dolly was born January 19, 1946.

Donald? June 14, 1946.

You’ve got six months.

Along with Lunar Eclipses

Why?

Because the Moon is rotating around the Earth and its position changes a little bit with each time it goes around the Earth. Therefore, if there was an eclipse one month it is likely there will be one next month. 

We all know that for an eclipse to occur the Earth, Sun and Moon must be in alignment. The Sun and the Earth are always in alignment so what we are really talking about is the alignment of the Moon. If the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun it is a solar eclipse. If the Moon is behind the Earth it is a lunar eclipse.

If you think of a giant sheet going out from the alignment of the Earth and the Sun then the only time an eclipse can take place is when the Moon is piercing that sheet, which is called The Solar Plane. Think about this if the Moon is in alginment with the Earth and the Sun then an eclipse will happen (lunar or solar). If you were to describe the position of the Moon each of those times as pinpricks in the Solar Plane there would be a bunch of them grouped at a certain time. That grouping and the next time this happens is known as The Saros Cycle and it happens every 18 years 14 days and 8 hours. The eight hours is the thing to pay attention to.

Eight hours is one third of  day. This means that the next time the cycle of eclipses happens it will be one third of the way farther around the Earth. That translates to 120 degrees west of the last cycle. Because there are 360 degrees of longitude in the Earth and one third of that is 120 degrees.

Pretty cool.

Astronomers much up this rather simple explanatin with a lot of terms, and i understand why. It’s not an accurate enough explanation to actually accurtely predict the next ecplise.

Here’s one example of that muckery. We say a year is 365 and a quarter long (about). This is a measurement of the Earth moving around the Sun. But remember each day the Earth moves a bit in rotation every day. How much? About a degree – there are 360 dgrees and 365 days in a year. So how many roations does the Earth do in a year? I think 364 around itself and one more for circling the Sun. I think that’s the way it works.

Or as AI explains:

The Saros cycle is a period of 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours (about 6,585.3 days) used to predict solar and lunar eclipses. After this exact time, the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up again in nearly the same geometry, causing a very similar eclipse to repeat. [1, 2]

or Wikipedia

How the Cycle Works

• The cycle matches up 223 synodic months (lunar phases) with 242 draconic months (node passes) and 239 anomalistic months (perigee distances). [1]
• Because of the extra 8 hours in the cycle, the Earth rotates another one-third of a turn. This means the next matching eclipse happens 120 degrees further west on the globe. [1, 2]