I guess Journalism majors, in addition to not learning english or spelling, don’t learn any basic chemistry or physics either…..

USA Today: ‘Hawaii volcano poses a new threat: Acid from Kilauea’s lava, called ‘laze,’ pouring into the ocean’…which is kinda wrong. (The lava interacting with the seawater creates, among other things, hydrochloric acid vapor, which is bad for lungs)

This is a natural process, giving off vaporized hydrochloric acid and fine particles of “glass”. Happens every time that lava meets the ocean…every time…..No surprise to anyone who pays attention, but to the media and apparently most journalists, this is both a surprise and a scary new phenomenon. Apparently, it frightens them as well. The CBS newscritters are surprised at this and frightened by it and are also under the impression that a simple N-100 mask can keep you safe (it won’t).

I’m no genius, but I understood this sort of thing after high school chemistry and physics for gods sake. Apparently though, journalists never learn anything…even though they supposedly went to college?

Keeps saying that the asshole shooter in Santa Fe TX left behind both some Molotov coctails and some “CO2 explosives”.

What, exactly are “CO2 explosives”?

Is this just the uneducated (as to anything worth knowing)  repeating what they thought they heard? Or was there an actual device and it was, perhaps somehow powered by or charged by CO2? It is awfully hard to get CO2 to do anything …energetically… as far as I know. I mean, pressure vessels, yes, but explosive?  For all intents and purposes CO2 is pretty inert. It would be a great dispersant for a powder or an aerosol, perhaps….

I’m just curious as to what, exactly the media is chattering about here.

Any idea? 

Seems that my friend Tam has had an incident.

Good thoughts sent her way, please. more if you can. 

DB Cooper was one of my heroes. He thumbed his nose at everyone and got away with it….and hurt no one in the process. Yes, he was a criminal, and a thief, but his methods were good, and he had class….and style.

They claim that the mystery from 1971 is solved….

Walter Reca?  Was he really “DB Cooper”? Did his friends really know…and were they really part of his conspiracy?

Supposedly, his identity is now revealed. And Walter Reca is dead of old age.

(18 minute video)

I dunno. But they claim they have taped confessions and a written confession.

 Fox News thinks so, apparently…
Others, not so much

FBI conspiracy? Did they really let him get away with the Hijacking just so they could use him for other purposes?
Seems odd, but then again, things like that happened back then.

Maybe just an attempt to sell a book?
We will likely never know.

So, via Kens place, we get this:

For his 100th birthday on June 6 — which comes 74 years after he was miraculously pulled off a Normandy-bound boat on D-Day — Michigan WWII veteran Isaac “Ike” Fabela has just one wish, his family said.


Fabela will be anxiously checking his mail, as the happy and humble vet hopes to rack up 100 birthday cards from well-wishers across the country.

Send the dude a card. A couple a bucks won’t hurt ya too bad, and it’ll make his day.

Address, in case you didn’t follow the link:

Ike Fabela
C/O Nick Rodgers
PO Box 3112 Montrose, MI
48457

If doing an old vet a favor…if that is too much bother, then I hope I never meet you.
Srsly. 

Overheard in the checkout line:

“A Caddylak cost de same as a Ford, you just be payin’ longer”…

I blinked.
Took a minute to process what I had just heard….

And from one perspective, he’s right…If you think that short term, that is. The same is true of Toyota/Lexus, or Honda/Acura.

The supposed “documents” that link the “russians” the Trump campaign, and the NRA. 

this meme keeps coming up, and yet, I haven’t seen any “documents”….

I’m beginning to think this is like the accusations that “the russians” are the ones that broke into the DNC severs and such….nothing but innuendo from the Democrats, and all with an agenda.

If there is something to it, then I’d like to see it published.

Especially since, like the Mueller investigation, the expenditure of taxpayer money appears to be for naught but political gain. 

……That I could total a $300,000 car and simply leave it in the desert outside of Vegas. 

I mean, I’m doin’ alright and all, but to be able to just leave a totalled McLaren and be glad I walked away is still too much like rich for me. 

I mean, yeah, my Mom made similar GOOD Choices.

and I and my siblings gained from her good choice of mate.

“What my Mother did for me“

And my siblings are carrying on that tradition, and are raising wonderful, fairly well adjusted and very well educated children who will likely be successful and carry on the tradition of raising intelligent, well educated, well adjusted children.

And so on and so on and more of that.

Not so in many families. And this we can, indeed, blame on Mothers. Good (or bad) choices of mates makes for successful (or not) children in most cases.

This is indeed a part of culture of white privilege, (and/or not) in many cases in white other “less successful”/downtrodden cultures here in America. Part of setting your children up for success. Or not.

Perhaps Soros or his ilk?

peaceful Switzerland is in the crosshairs of international and domestic gun control advocates who are intent on abolishing the idyllic nation’s tradition of an armed citizenry. Using the 2017 changes to the European Firearms Directive as justification, these foreign and home-grown forces are attempting to burden the tranquil republic with gun controls the Swiss people have continually rejected. However, as was pointed out in a recent Bloomberg article, many Swiss citizens are refusing to take this assault on their inalienable rights and national sovereignty lying down

So even though the Swiss don’t have a “Gun crime problem ” (hint: the US doesn’t either if you don’t count the mostly “ethnic” parts of Liberal Large Cities…..South side of Chicago, etc.) the EU and their ever intrusive Statist Bureaucrats are pushing for even more gun control in Switzerland…..

And the Swiss have said “Fuck You…we like things just the way they are”

This ougha get, as Kenny said, “interesting”…… I think this might be a line that the Swiss won’t let be crossed.

This article was found over at Ken’s place, BTW.