President Joe Biden, age 79:

Biden confuses Iran and Ukraine in State of the Union gaffe https://t.co/FR3rlN76ew

— The Independent (@Independent) March 2, 2022

SUPERCUT!@POTUS: The State of the Union is … [indecipherable] pic.twitter.com/PWbZ8yMa7U

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 3, 2022

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, age 81:

Pelosi bizarrely rubs knuckles during Biden's State of the Union pic.twitter.com/kf4CfeYbOR

— The Independent (@Independent) March 3, 2022

Majority Leader of the United States Senate Chuck Schumer, age 71:

Soooo close, Chuck Schumer. #SOTU pic.twitter.com/499b7TwfAz

— The Recount (@therecount) March 2, 2022

Tell me with a straight face that our senior leadership is in total command of their mental faculties.

The next SOTU should be held at 4:30 in the afternoon with warm tapioca and reruns of The Andy Griffith Show.

Even the AP called Biden out on his bullshit.

AP FACT CHECK: Biden’s State of Union is off on guns, EVs

I’d go further and think Republicans should repeal all the COVID vaccine liability protections from pharmaceutical companies.

You don’t get liability protection and the right to hide the data for 50 years.

Ukrainian authorities say citizens don’t need to declare captured Russian tanks and military equipment for tax purposes

Ukrainian authorities have reassured citizens that they don’t need to declare captured Russian tanks or any equipment they pick up as personal income.

“Have you captured a Russian tank or armored personnel carrier and are worried about how to declare it? Keep calm and continue to defend the Motherland!” a statement from the Ukrainian National Agency on Corruption Prevention seen by Interfax-Ukraine said.

“There is no need to declare the captured Russian tanks and other equipment, because the cost of this … does not exceed 100 living wages,” or 248,100 Ukrainian hryvnia, the agency said, according to Interfax-Ukraine. The sum equates to about $8,300.

On the agency’s website, a document in Ukrainian dated Monday said the seizure of tanks or equipment would be considered a “manifestation of the unity and cohesion of the Ukrainian people in the fight against invaders” and would not be taxable.

You know that if the Chinese ever landed in California and you managed to capture a Type 99 tank the IRS would demand 35% of it’s estimated $2.5 million value.

Then the ATF would kick down your door, arrest you, and shoot your dogs for illegally possessing several unregistered machine guns and destructive devices (the main gun and every explosive round).

For the honor of defending the home land against foreign invasion, you’d be put in prison and your assets seized to pay your fees.

Ohio bans the sale of Russian vodka.

Canada bans drafting Russian hockey players.

Glasgow bans Russian films.

Italy bans teaching Russian literature.

Our sanctions on Russia explicitly exempt Russian oil and natural gas.

I don’t think Western leaders really know how to do anything but line their own pockets and engage in political theater.

This meme feels so very true:

Cain Velasquez, former UFC heavyweight champion, charged with attempted murder

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was formally charged Wednesday with attempted premeditated murder and multiple gun assault charges in relation to a shooting Monday night in San Jose, California, according to a Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office news release.

Velasquez, 39, is accused of targeting Harry Eugene Goularte, who is charged with allegedly molesting one of Velasquez’s young relatives. Velasquez faces 10 counts that could carry more than 20 years of jail time if he is convicted, per a court document.

According to court documents, Goularte, who was not injured in the incident, is accused of a lewd or lascivious act upon a child under age 14.

Goularte, 43, was released from custody Feb. 25 without bail against the DA’s orders, according to the statement from the DA’s office. He was ordered to stay in home detention, remain 100 yards away from any child under 14 and wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, which he was allegedly on his way to obtaining when Velasquez gave chase.

The child, who is under 10, told an officer from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on Feb. 24 that Goularte took him into the bathroom of a daycare center and touched the child’s genitals, per a court document obtained by ESPN. The child said Goularte said not to tell anyone what happened and that this had occurred “100 times.” In the court document, the child said he witnessed other kids go into the bathroom with Goularte as well.

The only problem I have here us that Velasquez hit an innocent bystander and not the pedo.

I say stick Velazquez and Goularte in a ring together.

I’d like nothing more than to see a UFC fighter rear naked choke a pedophile until his windpipe is crushed and his eyes pop out.

Also, who is the judge that let out a pedo without bail?

I think he deserves to have his hard drive checked and to be Velazquez’s round two.

A brief summary: 3 nights ago, MiL complained of chest pain radiating to the right arm. Although the common symptoms for a heart attack are supposed to have the pain radiating to the left arm, I have read about that “anomaly” so we decided not to take chances and take her straight to the ER since she was alert and mobile.

BINGO.

She had a euphemistically called “cardiac event.”  EKG showed OK but some enzymes that indicated heart attack were off the chart. They found enough blockage in three valves that they pretty much nailed her ass to a bed, started a course of meds and then talked about going open heart surgery. On this last bit I went: Are they fucking nuts? she is 83 years old!  She won’t make it through surgery. Some other invasive surgery was also brought to the table, but finally the head cardiac doc said she will get stents because the surgeries are too risky. If anything, this is just another of the many examples that reinforce my distrust in the infallibility of the medical profession. Hell, I’ll be surprised if they get 50% right.

I recking they will do the arterial rooto-rooter today or maybe tomorrow. The missus is glued to her side and knowing her, she is not having a swell time. She got some training dealing with my mom, so at least she knows how things can go (good or bad) but I hate the fact I can’t be there with her because of my job.

My job, you ask. I will keep my long-standing policy of not sharing anything about the job I am doing, especially since I am bound by Federal law. I can share that is VERY satisfying and I can in a roundabout way serve my country. And that is all you get to know, or I will share in these pages or any social media.

I figure things will get back to a semblance of “New Normal” (I could not help myself) next week.

Thank you everybody for the best wishes.

This news story is a overflowing with irony:

She shoplifted from a beauty supply.

She hid from the police.

Forgive me if I don’t care about what happened to this woman.

The irony of being left ugly as a result of beauty supply theft is delicious.