I Apologise To Ren For Garbling His Aphorism
René Descartes, French philosopher, that is, not Ren Hoek, the equally profound and quotable cartoon character, whose image I can now put up as an illo. Art!
That's Ren in happy manic mood. I don't think I dare put up one of him going raving made at Stimpy, lest there be small children reading this.
ANYWAY I am, of course - obviously! - taking a swing at Ren's famous quote, "Cogito, ergo sum", which translates from the <hack spit> Latin as 'I think, therefore I am'. My variation means, 'I think I'm swamped'. Gosh, whomsoever can we be thinking of? Art!
Mister Zeppelin Ego himself
So much for draining the swamp. 'Sump' is from the Old Dutch for 'marsh', just to be clear.
'What is the snowy-haired bafune on about now?' I hear you query. O I thought you'd never ask!
Well, I took a detailed set of notes from an indie Youtube journalist I now follow: 'Chris Cillizza', whom said Mopey Dick The Orange Land Whale's recent activities seem to support the conspiranoid loonwaffle theory that DJ Tango is doing his best to destroy the Wizard Lizard Gizzard party from within. Art!
Ratherly drolly, CC stated that, for Trump, Trump comes first, second and third, with the Wizard Lizard Gizzard party a long way behind in fourth. So far that his behaviour seems to be that of a mole working for the Ice Cream Bandit party.Chris
'Isn't this getting perilously close to Politics, which the BOOJUM! charter is slated to avoid?' I hear you quibble. Not really, this is more about Fat Caligula's ego, hence today's title. Trust me, I have an honest face. Art!
As proof that Pumpkinhead doesn't care about the chances of the WLG party in the November mid-term elections, or 2028, because he's not on the ballot, let us examine a bit of bipartisan bill creation: the Housing Bill, which was due to be signed into law on 24/06/026. It tackled the affordability crises in mortgages and rents, which made so much sense that both parties were willing to back it. This kind of rapprochement is not common and is the end result of a lot of behind-the-scenes give and take. Art!
This is a clip Dave showed, where King Piggy was walking alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune - they got rid of Mitch McConnell before he dropped dead at his desk - who you can see trying to shepherd Donold into the banqueting area. Not gonna happen! DJ Tango spotted cameras and microphones and his ego led him straight to them, whilst he actively struggled to breathe properly after a walk of - gasp! - fifty PROUD IMPERIAL yards.
Earlier that morning the WLG party had been preening, ready to announce the Housing Bill, and gain themselves a welcome positive boost by demonstrating that they care. Art!
Rah rah rah!
Except it was not to be, for whom is this posting on Truth Social before the bill gets signed, stating that the ceremony is cancelled? None other than The Nodfather. He says his signing is cancelled unless the WLG members in the House and Senate vote for his SAVE Act, which might be better called the 'Falsely Claiming Voting Irregularities In Order To Restrict Democratic Voters Act'. Art!
Chris, looking unamused
Thing is, nobody in either party is going to touch SAVE with a twenty-foot perch pole. It can't even muster 50 votes in the Senate to be voted upon. As CC acidly pointed out, it has never had support, does not have support and will never have support, no matter how hard Don Snoreleone pushes it.
HOWEVER - O that word again! - the US Constitution provides for an obstructive Prez throwing his toys out of the pram. The Housing Bill will, by default, become law 10 days from 24/06/2026, regardless what Pimpkinhead does or doesn't do. Thus he just poisoned the well before blowing it up and salting the ruins, since the WLG's now cannot proudly boast about having Joe Public's best interests at heart. At best he got to sump pump his ego up for a few hours. Art!
The lunch meeting that Thune was escorting BOOH to? It turned into him shouting at the WLG members present for not being loyal enough to him. Unlike many other occasions when the Big Orange Oaf Himself shouts at people, this time he got shouted back at, by Senator Bill Cassidy, whom has lost his seat to a Trump-approved minion and thus has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO LOSE.
Things could not have been worse. As CC bemusedly stated, it was as if the Ice Cream Bandits wrote the script for this, with the Orange Land Whale making it all about him him him - 0% to do with the Wizard Lizard Gizzard party.
There are only 4 months left to the November mid-terms and the Flabby Farting Fraudster seems intent on sinking his own party. An ego sump indeed!
Sad or a stroke?
That reminds me, I must lay in a bottle of Prosecco. I know I'm not drinking for another two months, but I am prepared to make an exception for - ah - Certain Events.
More Ungentle Shoeing
One of the staple tropes in Mordorvia at present are videos of ladies in cars whining pitifully about their lack of petrol and life is all sackcloth and ashes. In fact the fuel shortages are getting so bad that orcs are now criticising Crimeans for being the cause of them, and wanting to have nothing to do with Ukraine. In conflict there is drama, and here is an artist turning an AI lens upon the orcs. Art!
Hmmmm, they do seem to have captured the fin de siecle designs that the Teutons had to adopt in late Second Unpleasantness, thanks to lack of fuel. Art!
The 'gas station with nukes' is rapidly turning into a 'car park with nukes'.
A Small Touch Of Charming
Those of you who have been reading this scrivel for a while will be aware that Conrad follows 'Jake Broe' on Youtube, him being one of the go-to pundits on the war in Ukraine as he has been for several years now. He has a lot of influence and followers and regularly funds specially-adapted 4x4s for Ukrainian armed forces units.
Now someone has done a musical tribute to him - Art!
Thank you Berry Dekker. Go view, it's hilarious.
An Engineer Reacts
Engineers, as any fule no, have a very particular mindset, in that they are all about solving problems. They usually try to anticipate potential flaws and failures in advance, or work out at what point a system will comprehensively fail under load. Here's one from a Youtube compilation I bookmarked.
Customer: Why did your system fail? You said it would not fail due to a power outage. We did not have a power outage.
Engineer: Correct, you did not have a power failure. Our system failed when it was electrically shorted due to excessive humidity. The server was under six feet of water.
Art!
One has to imagine a hurricane in the background.
Colour Conrad Confused
I'm going to put up one of the illustrations from 'Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum' again, a design I do not recognise and which I think is no more than a concept artwork for a prospective project that never got off the ground. Art!
The background seems to be indicative of the Moon's surface, which was lonnnnng thought to be incredibly jagged and spikey, until the Apollo astronauts went walkies and discovered that billons of years of meteorite and micro-meteorite impact had softened everything to soft curves. So that dates it pre-1969.
Is this launch vehicle making an ascent from the lunar surface? If so, why does it have two streamlined half-sections falling away, because you don't need streamlining in a vacuum, only in atmosphere.
What are the decagonal containers stacked upon the rocket? The only thing present on the lunar surface is regolith, so are they exporting it back to Earth? If returning to Earth, why have they discarded the streamlining?
All very mysterious. There is no narration on the compilation, nor any info on the 'Show More' screen, and because it's a video, you cannot do a reverse-image search. Art!
I did discover it must have been done before 1958, because that's when the USAF ceded rocketry and research to NASA.
This is going to bug the Dog Buns! out of me.
Finally -
In late-breaking news, Darling Daughter and Quiet Tom - but that would be telling. I shall need permission ere I speak.
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