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Category: YGBSM!!

  • Yer Saturday Chuckle – Things You See While Traveling

    Yer Saturday Chuckle – Things You See While Traveling

    On a recent trip, I took a route I hadn’t taken in 20 years. Much of the route was pretty much the same as I remembered. But there was one recent change that caught my eye.

    Now, I happen to like roadside billboards. Yeah, some of them can be pretty garish and ugly. But they are a source of info when traveling by car. And some of them can even be fairly entertaining.

    Thanks to LBJ’s wife, Lady Bird, and our “nanny state” Congress back in the 1960s with it’s “wonderful” Highway Beautification Act, highway billboards are now somewhat the rarity. But a few do still exist; some billboards in existence when that “wonderful” law was passed and which meet certain criteria were grandfathered.

    Here’s the billboard that caught my eye:

    Yeah, you read that correctly. “The best fudge is found in Uranus” – the Uranus Fudge Factory in Uranus, MO, that is. (smile)

    Seems the place opened about 2 years ago, in 2015. Previously, according to RoadsideAmerica.com it was “Big Louie’s Burlesque Saloon”. So the place has more class today than it did in the past. (smile)

    In addition to selling fudge, the place is apparently a general store. There’s also a gun shop, a tattoo parlor, a “party bar and grill”, and some other novelty items.

    Here’s one of those “novelty items”. (Yeah, DB Bunghole – I’m throwing you a slow, straight “softball” here. Hop on it!) (smile)

    And since they’re in Missouri – heavily influenced by the Democratic Party since before the days of the Pendergast Machine – you know their labor force has a union:

    Your guess is as good as mine regarding how they ended up with Local #2. I’d have guessed Locals 1 and 2 would be in Greenwich Village and the Castro District.

    On that last trip, I didn’t have time to stop. But I might be back that way again early next year. And if so, I’m gonna have to stop and see the place. Maybe have some wings for dinner.

    Not sure I’ll try the fudge, though.  (smile)

  • “Never underestimate the power . . .

    . . . of human stupidity.”

    For last week’s eclipse, proper eye protection was a must. Well, it was a must if you wanted to see normally afterwards.  Staring directly at the sun without eye protection for just a few seconds can cause retinal damage, even during a partial solar eclipse.

    Still:  despite the public warnings not to look at the eclipse without proper eye protection – or due to counterfeit merchandise – some “fine individuals” just didn’t acquire proper eye protection beforehand.  So a few such enterprising people without proper eyewear found a novel way to “protect” their eyes during the eclipse.

    They used sunscreen. On their eyeballs.

    I’m not joking.

    Reports have come from healthcare professionals in two different states of this abysmal idiocy. And yeah – one of the states was indeed the Granola State, California. (The other state where this was reported by a healthcare professional to have happened was Virginia.)

    (sigh)  God must love fools; he made so many of them.

     

    (In case you’re wondering: yes, this article’s split title/intro was shamelessly stolen from a great writer – the late Robert A. Heinlein. It’s one of his more famous quotes.)

  • Proof Positive that Some People Really DO Have More Dollars than Working Brain Cells

    Here’s a nice paperclip – well, actually a money clip that’s styled to look like a paper clip.

    It was originally sold for $185 at Barney’s in NYC. But they apparently have it on sale now – current price is “only” $150! No word on whether shipping and handling is extra.

    If you think I’m joking . . . read this – then read this.

    Yep – that’s $150 for a paperclip, albeit a large one (about 2 1/2 in long by a bit over 3/4 in wide) in sterling silver. But hey – it’s a genuine Prada!

    Sheesh.

    If you actually bought one of those, I’d like to talk to you. I have this bridge in NYC for sale, and I can make you a helluva deal . . . .

  • More SJW Stupidity

    Just when you think the perpetually outraged special snowflake SJW crowd can’t get any more moronic, you see something like this.

    Critics Attack Mother’s Day as ‘Offensive’
    Because It’s A ‘Gendered Holiday’

    Yeah, you read that correctly. GMAFB.

    Dunno if this means we’re in Heinlein’s “Crazy Years” or not. But it just might.

  • And We Thought LA Was “La La Land”

    Headline says it all.

    Chicago inmates can now order pizza directly to their cells

    I’d say, “YGBSM” – but I long ago ceased to be amazed by idiotic policies adopted by “Progressive” cities and states.

  • And In the “WTF?!!” Department . . . .

    Yeah, the linked article’s headline – repeated in the link below – is accurate.

    Seventh grader suspended for ‘liking’
    a photo of a gun on Instagram

    Sheesh. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the idiots come up with something even more idiotic and prove you wrong.

    Yes, I understand the school’s concern about school violence, but c’mon. Here, the district suspended a kid for “liking” a non-explicit picture – a picture of an airsoft pistol with the one-word caption “Ready” – he saw posted on Instagram while web surfing from home at 7PM. And they did it without giving the kid a chance to explain himself.

    Yeah, like the kid’s parents I kinda got a problem with that.

    Really? Do they also monitor their students to see if they visit pr0n sites late at night on the Internet while at home? Or what books they check out from the city library on weekends – or download from Amazon?

    I think Hank Hill described the behavior by the school administration here quite well. Except here, laughter isn’t IMO in any way appropriate.

    Big Brother approves. Those who value common sense and freedom . . . perhaps not so much.

    If school administrators in that school district have nothing better to do than monitor their students’ off-hours off-campus Internet usage, well, to me that suggests a very different problem. Specifically: it suggests that perhaps that district has far too many school administrators. And the fact that they’d suspend a student for liking a picture of any gun on Instagram – without even asking the kid for an explanation, and with no other indication of a problem – shows an utter lack of common sense (though that’s regrettably often the case in education these days).

    Maybe instead of playing “after hours Internet monitor”, the district should instead let a few administrators go. They could then hire a few more teachers with the money saved.

     

    (Author’s Note:  edited to reflect the fact that the “gun” in question was an airsoft pistol vice paintball.)

  • Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown Doubles Down on “Teh Stoopid”

    Remember former Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)?  You know, the “fine lady” who ran for re-election to Congress from a district in the Jacksonville, FL, area last year while under Federal indictment for fraud and other charges (20+ total counts)?

    You should – she’s been featured in multiple articles here at TAH.  But if you need a memory assist, I’ve written about her here; that article links to numerous others about the “fine lady” written by Jonn and TSO.

    Well, it seems Ms. Brown is in the news again. And as before, not in a good way.

    It appears that well after she lost her try at re-election (she was defeated in the Democratic Primary in late August, 2016), she decided she’d tap campaign funds again – to the tune of more than $13,000 – to pay for things that on the surface certainly appear to be highly questionable if not outright illicit campaign expenses.  This Washington Free Beacon article has details.

    Frankly, I don’t see any issue.  That $11,000+ in “lodging expenses” at a DC-area Marriott in late September seems to be a totally legitimate expense to pay from re-election campaign funds.  So what if it was weeks after she lost her bid for reelection – and occurred nowhere near her former Congressional district?  Ditto that $2,000+ in “petty cash” withdrawn from those same campaign funds during a period of roughly 2 1/2 weeks starting in mid-October.  What’s the problem?  (I do hope the sarcasm in this paragraph is obvious.)

    Criminy.  She was already under indictment, and it certainly looks like she went out and did more of the same.  Is she really that freaking stupid?

    Don’t bother answering.  I think we already know the answer.

    To repeat a question I asked in a previous article:  I wonder how she looks in an orange jumpsuit?

  • Bill Nye . . . the Eugenics Guy?

    Seems that Bill Nye, the anti-freedom propagandist who originally made his name popularizing science, is propagandizing on a wider range of subjects these days.  And he’s catching some well-deserved heat for his most recent public position as a result.

    Nye’s already shown his true colors by coming out in favor of jailing “climate deniers” – a rather odd and, frankly, hypocritical position for someone who makes his living courtesy of the First Amendment IMO.  His newest position only further confirms his anti-freedom/pro-authoritarian bias.

    In a panel discussion on his new Netflix show, Nye recently seemed to come out quite clearly in favor of penalizing people who choose to have “extra” children.

    Yeah, you read that correctly.  Nye apparently is in favor of government-imposed limits on family size.

    Perhaps someone should remind the dipstick that this isn’t a new idea.  Communist China already tried it.

    It was called their “one-child policy”.   It was virtually universally considered an egregious and unconscionable violation of human rights.  China formally ended the policy in 2015.

    Any government policy that results in compulsory family planning and coerced sterilizations – as did China’s implementation of its “one-child policy” – is simply not something I find acceptable.  As far as I’m concerned, Bill Nye can go straight to hell.

    And no, Nye:  history quite clearly shows it won’t be “done right this time around”.  Dictatorship never is.

    Freedom may be messy and difficult.  But life as a free citizen is infinitely preferable to life as a serf – who is told by their lord and master what he or she can and cannot do and say.