I saw the meme on the pre-Web Usenet humor newsgroups last week and had to share it. My usual protocol lately is to just block the idiotic ones. 😎

Collective shots of the eclectic vinyl albums that Sandi & I have been listening to this week.Most of our LPs are from the 60s, 70s and 80s. The Prince double vinyl is a more recent purchase. We’re taking a 2-3 hour break now to listen to WXPN’s Funky Friday web stream on the tunein app.

Just for record, Punx’y Phil has only been accurate 35% of the time in the past 20 years. Perhaps the predictability gene is recessive and has been phased out of his family tree? Source: For The Win ftw.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

Cinnamon Girl -Neil Young🇨🇦🎸🎵 #IAmCanadian🍁 tidal.com/browse/track...

I’m planning to wear my vintage CNN t-shirt today to show my support for Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery rather than Paramount (aka Ellison, Kushner & the Saudis)! I bought it as a souvenir during one of my business trips to Atlanta for CDC training. Be well… 🌲

PBS chose a GREAT time to broadcast Ken Burns’ “American Revolution” in my humble opinion! It showed what persistence & tenacity our Patriotic heroes had to defeat King George ~ with the help of France & Spain. We need to have that same long haul determination to fight our wannabe dictator too. 🇺🇸

A little “Men In Black” humor to start your week off right! Release the frigging files so that we will finally know who the evil rich pedophiles are. FYI: We already know who one or two of them are… 🇺🇸😎🇺🇸

OK, I’m stealing my darling wife’s impromptu joke… here goes: If tRump had a music group it would be named “Dementia & The Quizlings!!!” 😂🇺🇸😂

We had a pretty hard frost in the backyard last night. Luckily we had harvested the last batch of tomatoes and peppers from the garden, transplanted the Greek oregano indoors and moved the hanging flowers inside overnight. Here’s a panoramic view at 8am this morning.

I truly feel sorry for folks who ONLY watch the “Faux News” entertainment channel. They will NEVER know the truth about what’s really happening in our once-great country. 🇺🇸

When you control both branches of Congress, the White House & the Supreme Court, you cannot blame the other party for not passing the Federal budget on time. Yet another distraction from releasing the infamous Epstein Files? The 🍊🤡 would rather play golf than run our government. 🇺🇸 I call Major BS! 🇺🇸

It’s Funky Friday every week from 4-7pm on xpn.org The station is also available on the Tune-In radio app… Great way to get your weekend started!

We enjoyed watching the Steelers vs Vikings game in Ireland via Facebook this morning. Glad our team won, but it should not have been that close of a match! ☘️🏈☘️

Xfinity pissed me off by showing that Jimmy Kimmel Live was going to be on when Nextstar or Sinclair showed a fentanyl episode instead. I hope your company tanks… 🇺🇸

@fetterman.senate.gov I’m unfollowing you now because you were the only D who voted for the GOP budget proposal that cuts support for SNAP and other programs. I will never vote for you again — FYI: I am a very active voter. Good luck in your next career move… 🇺🇸

So glad we had already canceled our Disney+ streaming service when they decided to not support DEI services. We fully support Jimmy Kimmel’s first amendment rights as a comedian! 🇺🇸

Another fine batch of garden tomatoes that we picked this morning, along with one more sweet green pepper. This year we planted 3 types of tomatoes— Better Boy, Better Bush and Red Beefsteak… Full disclosure: the ripening avocado in the photo is from Aldi, not our garden boxes!

Yet another friggin’ school shooting today… this time in Evergreen CO. Oh yeah, I also heard some right wing gun fanatic was killed in Utah. I wonder which story will get more attention in the main stream media? 🇺🇸 Violence is NOT the answer to our problems…

Friday we tried out a new hiking trail at Pine Grove Furnace State Park — the Mountain Creek Trail. Here’s a few photos from the 3 mile hike…

A 14-second video of our resident female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird cautiously letting another female get a drink from HER feeder. This morning I watched her “buzz” a Cottontail rabbit that was too close under the shepherd’s hook until it hopped away! Today’s estate coffee ~> Costa Rica Tarazu ☕️☕️

xpn.org/wxpn-playlis... TGIF~ It’s Funky Friday music fans! Broadcast by the University of Pennsylvania in Philly every Friday from 4-7pm. Great way to get your weekend underway… 🥃🎷🎸🥁🦋

We enjoyed watching the latest Wes Anderson film, “The Phoenician Scheme”, last evening. Fun Fact: Lead actor Benicio Del Toro attended the nearby Mercersburg Academy as a youngster. I thought the film was very engaging; so I gave it 8 stars on the IMDB website! 😎 www.imdb.com/title/tt3084...

Rather than pray for the current President in church on Sundays, I’d prefer to pray for all of good people that he has injured, fired, harassed, ridiculed, deported and killed by his evil policies like Project 2025. Enough said… 🇺🇸

We found out a few nights ago that just because you have wired smoke alarms in your 10-year old “new” home doesn’t mean they don’t have backup 9-volt batteries in them. The guest room one started loudly chirping at 3am. So we replaced the batteries in ALL of the other rooms the very next day!

We received a wee bit of rain yesterday from an afternoon thunderstorm. If we had gotten much more in the water management area (aka swale) next to our home, I was thinking we could stock it and do some fishing from our back deck! FYI: I do have my Resident Senior Lifetime Fishing License! 🦈

Today’s the first stage of the 2025 Tour de France! We enjoy watching the daily replays on the Peacock streaming app. Earlier this year, we were offered and purchased a great deal on a full year of Peacock knowing we could watch the annual TDF race in July. www.letour.fr/en/overall-r...

A little golf humor in honor of J.J. Spaun winning the US Open on Sunday in Pittsburgh. Now I just hope it stops raining long enough to play some golf this summer! #sandigranny.bsky.social #kenottosmart.bsky.social

Luckily I don’t have to listen to Opera today ~ 😱 ~ I can watch the 3rd round of the U.S. Open golf tournament being held near Pittsburgh instead of it or the stupid DC parade. Congrats Army!!! — but boo birthday boy 🍊🤡 #sandigranny.bsky.social

I’d much rather listen to Opera than watch 🍊🤡’s stupid military parade. FYI: I am NOT an opera fan. My Dad and older son Liam both served in the US Army — no bone spurs in our family! 🇺🇸 Also, Sandi’s father served in the Army Air Corps during WW2. #sandigranny.bsky.social

Sunday evening we saw this Red Fox in the swale next to our home. I got a quick shot of it with my old Lumix DSLR and a 100-300mm telephoto lens before it trotted off into the woods. Good next door neighbor (non-MAGA) said there is a family of them nearby. 🦊 #sandigranny.bsky.social

Eye-opening article about the importance of CDC research and staffing as opposed to more tax breaks for greedy billionaires and corporations. 🇺🇸 My humble MBA opinion, of course! 😎 www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/c... CDC paper on lead poisoning investigation reveals what it's lost | STAT

Wow… This is really a stupid idea; but then again you have to consider who is getting the benefit of this wasteful plan! 🇺🇸 Taxpayers would likely foot the bill to retrofit President Trump's new jet, which could be more than twice the plane's $400 million value. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Our favorite new blues rock album this Spring is Dave Mason’s “A Shade of Blues.”A founding member of Traffic, he included several remakes of their songs and also has some interesting guests like Joe Bonamassa, Michael McDonald, Mike Finnigan and Warren Hill. www.davemasonmusic.com/a-shade-of-b...

We got to use the IRS direct file system this year for our federal taxes, because they finally started accepting our 1099-R forms. Now the evil Orange Anti-Christ is shutting it down because H&R Block contributed $1M to his campaign or second inauguration? I call major BS on this move… 🇺🇸

I knew that today must be Easter after I saw both a Baltimore Oriole songbird and a Cottontail rabbit at our bird feeders this morning! The rabbit was on the ground, of course. 🐣🐇

In the early days of my career as a statistician, I had good fortune to assist a very smart Biostatistician, Kristan Ramaswamy, develop & publish state Life Expectancy Tables for Pennsylvania. Here is a current comparison of the US rates vs. other countries. www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-...

I guess I won’t be purchasing any Hanes t-shirts or boxers for a few years… 🇺🇸

News flash: FDT has implemented a 10% Tariff on Australia’s Heard and McDonald Islands. Unfortunately only seals and penguins live on those remote uninhabitable islands. Maybe he thought that’s where McDonald’s fast food ~which he craves ~ comes from? Sure sign of dementia? You bet! 🇺🇸 🦭🐧

Here’s my favorite meme from last week’s collection of alt.humor political posts on the Usenet newsgroups (it’s a pre-web file sharing platform). Enjoy and have a great first week of April! 😎🇺🇸

Need something to lighten your weekend mood after another crazy week of news from DC? I highly recommend listening to the Funky Friday radio show from 4-7pm every week on WXPN (in Philly). Here’s the web streaming link in case it helps. TGIF! 👍🏻 xpn.org/program/funk...

Sandi & I celebrated the life and music of Jesse Colin Young over the weekend by listening to these 3 vintage vinyl albums that we still own. I saw him perform live during his Songbird tour in 1975. He had a wonderful voice and was an excellent songwriter as well. RIP Jesse! 🎸

This a great humorous chat between Canadian PM Carney and Mike Meyers at a hockey rink, of course. Enjoy!

OK, I received my latest SS check today, but still believe Muskrat & his DOGE dweebs have done major damage to the program. FYI: I’m still patiently waiting for my frigging DOGE rebate check that Felon47 promised weeks ago. 🇺🇸 Have a great Hump Day and Last Day of Winter! #sandigranny.bsky.social

I look forward to seeing all of red hats buying Tesla swatsticars now that their beloved leader F47 is going to purchase one tomorrow. I sure hope they can get a home charger installed next to their double-wide trailer. Good luck with that — as I like say! 🇺🇸 Sandigranny.bsky.social

New scientific research recommends switching from bottled water to filtered tap water to cut your intake of microplastics by 90%. Our new fridge has a water & ice filter; we change it ~6 months. 😎 PS: We like using the Contigo double-walled stainless steel bottles! www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ma...

Record number of Visitors to US National Parks in 2024: 331.9 Million visits! Q: So why would anyone in their right mind decide to layoff most of the NP staff? A: So they could sell off OUR land to their rich oil, gas & timber buddies for pennies on the dollar. 🇺🇸 www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Nothing worthwhile on TV this evening after Jeopardy. So I thought perhaps we might watch one of Frank Capra’s classic movies, “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.” I gave it 9 out of 10 stars on IMDB the last time we viewed it! www.imdb.com/title/tt0031...

Hey Muskrat: Social Security is NOT a Ponzi Scheme. You should be deported for using a student visa to overstay your US visit. Go screw up your own country!

What an asinine proposed waste of time and money by our PA state senator. In 2021, he chartered a bus to take MAGA folks to the January 6th insurrection in DC. He got beat by Josh Shapiro for Governor. We need term limits in the PA legislature, not a stupid new agency. www.abc27.com/pennsylvania...

Now that I’m retired, I enjoy collecting new music, e-books and wallpapers on Usenet (pre-web file sharing). Here’s my latest & favorite wallpaper find. PS: Google’s Lens generated search results said this is Lake Baikal in Russia. Not sure if I agree with their AI engine…