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First all open one maybe…

Fundamentally I don’t care.  However, I do have an enormous fucking problem with a pride flag flying in a US Navy helicopter or being a uniform patch.

They are US Navy sailors, not the helicopter crew of the USS Grabass.  They should be flying the US Navy Ensign or (if it’s still authorized) the First Navy Jack.

Also, gratuitous gay Navy joke:

Along with Miguel, we are relocating too.

New job, more money, better opportunities.

The good news is the housing market in Huntsville is insane so we might have the opportunity to cash out quite well in equity.

So the wife and I are prepping the house for listing pictures and showings.

This means patching, painting, and cleaning.

I was reminded of this scene from Pulp Fiction.

It doesn’t have to be perfect.  We just have to cover up enough crayon marks, piddle stains, and all the little dings and nicks that having two kids and two dogs do to a house long enough for some potential buyers not to notice them during an open house and we only have a few days to do it.

Political-driven science is just propaganda with technical vocabulary.

More than a thousand people reported lasting health effects after being exposed to teargas during protests in Portland, Oregon, last summer, according to a newly published scientific study.

Nearly 900 people reported abnormal menstrual cycles, including intense cramping and increased bleeding, that began or persisted days after their initial exposure to the teargas. Hundreds of others complained of other negative health impacts, including severe headaches, nausea, diarrhea, and mental health concerns.

Hundreds report abnormal menstruation after being teargassed during Portland protests

Hundreds of what? Maybe we get a mention of gender somewhere?

The new research, based on an online survey of more than 2,200 people, challenges claims that the health consequences of being teargassed are minor and temporary, said Dr Britta Torgrimson-Ojerio, a researcher at Kaiser Permanente Northwest and the lead author of the study.

Nope, not here.

Participants in racial justice protests against police violence last summer in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Rochester and other cities told media outlets that their exposure to teargas had been followed by unexpected bleeding, unusually painful cramps, and other disruptions of their typical menstrual cycles.

Neither here, but this is important stuff!

The results of the Portland study, including the new link between teargas and menstruation, are an important contribution to the scientific research on teargas, which has primarily been tested on younger men in military and police settings, said Sven-Eric Jordt, a professor of anesthesiology at Duke University.

I am pretty sure the US Military and police have had women now for some time, but we must trust the scientists, right? Important stuff like this is surely based in accurate information provided by direct observation and medical testing.

The new study, published in BMC Public Health, has some limitations. The results are based on an anonymous online survey, so researchers were not able to independently confirm the identities of the respondents, Torgrimson-Ojerio said.

So basically this study has the validity of one of those Facebook polls that promises to tell you what type of dog were you in a past life according the the answers you give.

SCIENCE!

I watched the movie last night and I figured this classic is a perfect addition to the Sunday soundtrack.

Water is warm and this guys were hungry and slamming anything thrown in front of them. One rattler, one dark green lizard and a neon green worm.

And it is HOT out there.

Growing up, my dad was a strong Republican, but the way the GOP has gone — this isn’t my father’s Republican Party anymore.

Elected Republicans have descended into facism. #DropTheGOP pic.twitter.com/TW3qm837KC

— Nikki Fried (@nikkifried) April 30, 2021

It seems the hasthag #DeathSantis never got a whole lot of traction. According to the CDC, Florida is right in the middle of the pack in deaths per 100K even though all the medical experts predicted we were going to be burning funeral pyres 24/7 because we have a huge elderly population and because we “ain’t smarts like them folks up north.”

So when one narrative fails, they have to try another load of slime and see if it sticks this time, hence the video above.

The Florida Democrats are pissed off: The State went full Red with Trump, the lost state legislators in the last election, they lost the governorship and ended up coming out that the Democratic candidate had a predilection for meth and male prostitutes.  The Legislature passed bills reinforcing the safety of voting making it harder to cheat and  another bill to make you pay if you went full rioting.. ahem… almost peaceful demonstrating. So the only thing they can come up with is to label everybody who is not them a fascist.

I know the strategy has worked up in the Northwes and selected purple areas, but it is a hard sell if you consider that a lot of peple in South Florida have come from countries with dictatorships or are descendants from survivors of the same. The simpl fact that Pothead Fried is freely accusing anybody she does not like as fascist and is still alive and free, proves her so wrong that only morons suffering from intellectual and political paralysis would buy it as article of faith. In true fascist countries, she’d be arrested and thrown in some dark hole somewhere or her body found in some culvert somewhere with two gaping oozing holes in the back of her head. But she is in Florida, USA where she has a protected Constitutional right to say stupid shit like that trying to seek power.

Q.E.D biatch.

Donation is supposed to be a magic word when you are moving as things disappear when you mutter it. Be advised it ain’t that magical because institutions that accept donations are (rightfully so) picky. I am amazed that most of them do not accept books and I guess they get a lot of crap any decent bibliophile would not touch and rather Fahrenheit 451 because of deteriorated conditions and even bugs.

The first thing I did when we pulled the move trigger was go through my book collection and figure what was coming with us and what was to be donated. To make it fast, I decided that if I had not read it in more than 5 years, it should be gone unless something else mattered. That has been my practice since I moved to the US hand having to leave about 2,000 volumes back in Venezuela, mostly things I read once and did not care to read ever again. Yes, I was a book hoarder but I am much better now and the Miami Dade Public Libraries have benefited.

Local Vet organization got almost 400 books, 95% of them in pristine condition which I hope it brings them a tidy sum. Average tax deduction is supposed to be $2.

And no, I did not count how many books end up going, but the pile was bigger the donations.

PS: If you are wondering if I will talk about moving guns and ammo, don’t . For obvious reasons, I ain’t sharing that till everything is fully secured at the destination.