She’s dating one of the Kelce’s. Good for them. Hope it works out for them. Who celebrities are dating stopped mattering a long, long time ago for me. I just don’t care.
There’s a lot of people though, actually cheering against the Chiefs just so she won’t get to go to the Superbowl.
Do yourselves a favor and quit worrying about them.
Now about politics. Taylor Swift evidfently has a lot of pull with the younger demographic. I don’t know why. Isn’t she famous for singing about her bad relationships? About her breakups? Why on earth would anybody listen to her? Let her pick any guy for them? 😉
I can’t honestly name one of her songs. I’m sure she is NOT heartbroken about that. But she is selling mad music. So she must be good at it.
Just watch the game and leave her be. If I hit the powerball, I may rent a skybox to watch a few football games too.
I’m going to start a little thing. When I make my posts, I used to include, at the end, some simple things and maybe some links. Just little tidbits I found funny or was following in the news. Maybe another blogger. I’m going to start doing that again, but I’m going to put them at the top.
So, here ya go
I’m currently watching some reaction videos on youtube. It’s pretty much just watching other people watching a show. They edit out the boring parts. So it is kind of like watching reruns, but only the highlights. Right now, I’m watching “funnylilgalreacts” react to “The Expanse”.
I found an old Navy friend on Twitter/X. Hit on her a little. Tried chatting her up. But ghet this. And some of you will find this hard to believe. She is WAAAAY further left than I am right. To her I am a MAGAt. So she nuked me. Then she killed her page and started over and I was back! She tolerated me for a bit. Then…. I got nuked again. Sigh. Time to move on. 🙁
So let’s talk about the border. Y’all know the border patrol runs heavy in my family? My “Granddad” was a border patrolman. I have cousins down there right now. Right in the middle of this shit. It hits kind of heavy.
I have actually considered myself bringing a lawsuit against the Federal Govt myself. The constitution delineates border security to the Federal Govt. It is explicit. And looking at the 10th Amendment, Texas has no right to maintain the border. So I was looking for a way to force the Fed Govt to perform their duties. They plainly aren’t. How many Illegal Aliens are there in the US? There have been millions for decades. You might almost say it is policy.
I’m so happy somebody is doing something. But I’m more than a little bit afraid it could legit start a shooting civil war. I’m not real happy with the prospect of a shooting war starting outside my door.
It appears that for the moment the Biden Admin has blinked, but it could change quick. Because right now. Governor Abbott is only playing with Eagle pass. Wait until he expands it to the entire Texas border. Will other border states follow suit? Almost certainly California/Newsome will not. I tend to believe that Katie Hobbs of Arizona will not, but I think she is highly susceptible to the weather. Couldn’t tell you about NM.
I couldn’t care less that Nikki is Indian. The Press, MSM, keep trying to mak ethat a big deal. The keep trying to invent some sort of racism there. I just don’t think there is. Listen To Vivek, listen to the positive responses he gets for his positions. And he’s Indian. If he didn’t have the Trump movement running against him, her might even get some ground.
I think everybody has seen the response that the new Argentine President is getting as well. He’s not exactly bona fide English.
I won’t try to tell you there is no racism, on either/any side of the political spectrum. But I do maintain the MSM tries to use it as a cudgel against the right. They ARE partisan.
So the thing about Nikki. How come the press never lambasts her? Pretty much since I have been aware of politics, the MSM has been in the conservative ass. Don’t believe me?
Reagan: He’s too old. He’s not a real politician. He has Alzheimers. Bush: He had an affair. He’s in the Skull and Bones! His resume is so long because he can’t hold a job. W Bush: Nepotism! He can’t pronounce Nukular, He’s always feeling up Laura on camera. Skull and Bones! Trump: He’s a reality TV star! He rapes!
And these are just the people who won. The landscape is littered with people / men, that have been disparaged by the MSM. The favorite slur is some kind of sexual scandal mistake.
Look at what happened to Kavanagh / Clarence Thomas / Trump. Again and again.
Show me the photos of Trump grabbing a pussy. I’ll be happy to show you one of Hunter Biden snorting coke off of his naked niece’s ass. I know he wasn’t running for office. He’s just his dad’s bagman.
It’s just something that I have noticed. Nikki isn’t getting attacked. Could it have something to do with the fact that her political positions magically changed to nearly match Joe Biden’s?
So I moved around 6 months ago. Left San Antonio after some 19 years. I miss my friends, but am very happy with my new job, and the new salary.
I still have my house down in San Antonio. Hasn’t sold yet. Can’t wait. I’ll be able to start house hunting up here. Get out of this tiny apartment. Property values have dropped, and I haven’t budged.
I still have the same cars. I wear mostly sweatshirts and slacks to work as it is cold in the building. Very cold lately. I wear a coat inside right now.
I’m tired of the election. I’m a conservative, so I’ll vote that way. Pretty much, whomever is the most conservative will get my vote. I’m ready for some changes though. Still a PaulBot
Still smoking cigars, though I have cut way, way back. Ie, I smoke maybe twice a week, instead of 6-7 days a week. For those of you whop know, check our Stolen Thrones – Crook of the Crown. Like the houka up above? I like the basic apple.
Do people still call AF people Zoomies? We used to call USAF people Zoomies in a derogatory way. Kind of the same way people called us “Squids”. We got a new employee today. She’s a Zoomie. People just looked at me like I was speaking Arabic. Zoomie? What’s that?
Had a beer with an old pledge brother last weekend. I’ve seen him 3 times in the last 30+ years. And I’ve seen him more than anybody else in my old fraternity.
So now that my blog is working, I need to start playing with some video, and video editing software. Won’t that be fun?!
So previously, I wrote about the Houthis in Yemen, and how they were going to widen the war by trying to close the Bab al Mendib strait.
I have predicted that if the Yemini/Houthi are successful in halting merchant ship traffic in the Red Sea, It will cause Egypt to enter the war. Well, this hasn’t happened yet, but I have some more info for everybody.
This link talks about a Yemini attack in the gulf of Aden (Inbound to the southern entrance of the Bab al Mendib) on a merchant ship by a bomb laden drone.
And this link is about Egypt’s hope for a slow of hostilities. They have already noticed a 30% drop in Suez canal traffic since December.
And y’all, I’m really only watching 1 flash point for the kickoff of WW3. Let’s hope that doesn’t come to pass. With time, I may write about some of the others.
Years ago, I was in the Navy. Most of you who know me, know this already. When in the USN, I was taught Arabic at DLI in Monterey. One of my instructors was named Abdul Wahab AlHouthi.
Abdul was young and a little vivacious. He was popular. He had a lot of interesting stories about being a child in Yemen. Eating Grasshoppers and people smuggling guns. He spoke about the temperments and habits of the people there. Whenever I hear about the Houthis in Yemen and their attacks in the Red Sea, I visualize a thousand of Abdul running around, shooting rockets and yelling at me to study my verbs.
Just a little explanation as to why I’m thinking so much about this. I’ve been there. I know people who spoke to me personally about their cares and views. (Everything in the region is the fault of the British and how they drew the maps)
Egypt is going to enter this war. Purely on self interest. Yemen, and whether they are doing this at the behest of Iran or not is moot, is attacking shipping in the Red Sea. The chokepoint very near Yemen is called the “Bab al Mendib”. Yemen is going to close that chokepoint, and make it financially attractive for merchant shipping to avoid the Bab al Mendib and the Red Sea altogether. It will be cheaper to go all the way around Africa, than to lose your ship as well as its contents, by getting sunk or seized in a war zone
This will be disastrous for Egypt. At the top of the Red Sea is this place called the Suez canal. When I went through, (Once southbound, and once northbound), it was a million bucks a pop. That was in the 90s. If ships quit going thorough the Red Sea because of Houthi attacks on merchant shipping, it will hammer the Egyptian Economy particularly hard.
It will to a much lesser extent also hurt the Saudis and their port of Jeddah. But it will still hurt them.
How long will it take before Egypt and Saudi team up to directly express their displeasure with the Houthis.? The Houthis are being backed by the Iranians, and their has already been some friction between the Saudis and the Iranians.
I’m not exactly going out on a limb by predicting that the war in the Middle East is going to expand. But here is a specific for you. International merchant shipping will begin to avoid the Red Sea. When that happens….
Tick Tock Abdul. I bet they are already talking about your relatives in Riyadh and Cairo.
Slowly but surely I’ll figure out the new interface. I’ll be posting rants along the way.
First thing though, I have to customize my skin to get back to more of my old blog style.
What you see here right now is just a generic skin. I liked the format so I picked it. Now, I’ll just start to change things around a bit to make it mine.
