August 19, 2022

Help please - "Post Removed"

A response to a post I made a few days ago was removed ( "Post Removed" ).

I was wondering if there is any way of retrieving the contents of that post or a least knowing who posted it??

TIA for any assistance...

August 16, 2022

Also found on a Twitter thread:

'BREAKING: According to NBC News, Georgia prosecutors are on track to INDICT Rudy Giuliani!!!!'

Can't find anything on it - can anyone confirm?

August 16, 2022

Found on a Twitter page:

'Donald Trump was born on 3rd base, claimed he hit a triple, was thrown out stealing home, called the umpire a fraud, protested the game, lost the replay challenge, threatened to sue, got the court to give him a do-over, and then bragged about being the best player in the game.'



Add: And gave stupid jock interviews about it on RW TV & radio stations.

August 9, 2022

Howler Monkey at large.

Listened to my first Bang-bang Boebert speech this noon on C-Span (her CPAC speech on Saturday).

I was then I came to fully realize how appropriate that moniker is.

August 9, 2022

BREAKING: Trump currently in a white Bronco

slowly headed south on a Florida freeway...

Or, was that a white golf cart??

August 9, 2022

I think I might see Trump's defense here:

ISTR that the president can declassify any documents so the pasty pustule will simply claim that's what he did to all he removed from the White House files. Ergo, no foul, no harm.

June 24, 2022

I'm wondering if Coke Can Clarence

has considered the issue of interracial marriage? Probably going to hold out for a grandfather clause...

June 24, 2022

Trump in a Nutshell (emphasis on Nut).

ARTICLE FROM THE U.K. GUARDIAN
by Marina Hyde

No grace, no dignity, no humility, no magnanimity, no class, no morals, no empathy, no soul. He has no friends, not even a dog.

His wife can't bear his touch, his daughter can't avoid it. Devoid of humour, he doesn't make jokes, he doesn't laugh. Not ever. An occasional dismal rictus, a necrotic gash in his ochre-lacquered face-bladder signifies nothing more than his satisfaction in transacting failing with no compensating virtues. A craven coward. A sociopath. A serial rapist. A racist. A quisling. An opportunistic grifter. An inveterate cheat. A deceitful toad. A pathological, chronic liar. A shameless braggart. An ignoramus who lacks curiosity. He doesn't read, he doesn't care. Trump is a ridiculous, combed-over cartoon villain, a deranged clown with a face sprayed the colour of hang-over piss and toilet paper stuck to his shoe, whose wits are defeated by an open umbrella.

Rake the forests, nuke the hurricanes, inject the bleach, water bomb Notre Dame Cathedral, trade Greenland for Puerto Rico. Trump's pompous idiocies are exceeded only by his appalling ignorance. Crediting the British with the foresight to build airstrips in the war of independence 110 years before the Wright Brothers first took flight, revealing the hitherto unknown Himalayan countries of Nipple and Button, accusing Baltic leaders of starting Balkans wars!

This clueless buffoon brags that he was able to keep the crayon inside the lines on his dementia test. Accusing Trump of a lack of self-awareness is like accusing Myra Hindley* of poor child care standards. The Grand Fubar of dysfunction, the maestro of petty vindictiveness, of malice and resentful belligerence is testing coup options, yet America flatters itself as being "the world's greatest democracy" much to the bemusement of observers here in Oz. It's beyond our imagining that we'd ever have a bloated braggart, a liar, a hypocrite, a lazy shirker, a crony-stacking blame shifter at the helm filtering Murdoch's kidney stones through his teeth while monetizing a pandemic for the benefit of rich mates. Oh... what?

Trump, if he'd had the imagination, would've considered handing out smallpox infected blankets in Democrat-leaning districts. But it's too late now. A majority of Americans have said enough is enough. After 4 years of what-the-fuck-has-he-done-now, 46,123 tweets and 20,000 documented lies while in office to 9th July 2020 he's been reduced to pathetic whimpering toadies, thralls, invertebrate lickspittles and hangers-on whose fealty is demanded but never reciprocated and who had neither the self-respect nor the courage to call out the capture of the US by an amoral, moronic lunatic.

We cannot know what tipped the scales against Trump. No lie has been too outrageous, bragging about sexual assault was just locker-room talk, five bankruptcies are apparently indicative of an astute businessman, stealing from a children's cancer charity is fake news. Being laughed at by foreign leaders meh, because y'all —"Merica!" Throwing meat to Boogaloos, Proud Boys, Klansmen and Call Of Duty cos-players was addressing his base. Perhaps it was inciting violence from uniformed goon squads sooled onto lawful BLM protesters that crossed the line. Perhaps it was the denigration of war dead and veterans as losers and suckers by a draft-dodging, yellow, mangy dog that did it. More likely it was 11 million Covid-infected Americans, a quarter of a million who died while the orange blobulator ignored it, denied it, played it down, finger-pointed and then looked for ways to exploit it for his own advantage.

There is no excusing Trump, there is no sympathy that should be wasted on this pathetic parasite.

History should not record him as some sort of tragic King Lear but as an effluvium, a discharge from the bowels of a diseased system; a funk that has now been shared. He had always exhibited the narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders of a lack of empathy, grandiosity, lying and deceit, indifference to conventional laws or rules or morality that characterize a despot. But he possessed none of the cunning, artifice, commitment to a cause beyond himself, the political skills of a Stalin or the oratory of a Mussolini. He had no ambition beyond the grift and the trappings — palaces awash with potentate kitsch, a yearning for military parades, a pneumatic wife and his narcissistic cult of personality. He has no talent beyond the con. He's a schmuck with the dumb luck to be born into wealth that metastasized B-grade celebrity into A-grade larceny.

Fittingly, he's spending his last days shaping his own humiliation. It's an Armando lannucci script playing out in real life. If Trump was to be found drooling in a pool of his own piss ala Stalin or dragged Sadam-like from his bolt-hole it would be the most metaphorically noteworthy achievement of his time in office.

Gone too will be his dreadful spawn. Ivanka's in-it-up-to-her-nose-job reputation may limit her future career prospects to hand-job supervisor at a New York sperm bank while Uday and Qusay could end up in Ryker's Island trading sexual favours for lines. Jared Kushner may get a gig at a Madame Tussaud exhibit of auto-matronic rentboys. Melania, no doubt, would enjoy the embrace of a Justin Trudeau look-alike cabana boy, chuckling at the thought that Trump has only Rudi Guiliani left to go through the pre-nup looking for loopholes.

The end of America’s nightmare is near. However it plays out over the next two months, Trump is finished.

The irrelevant man.

A loser.

*Myra Hindley was a British serial killer convicted in 1969 of murdering 5 children.

May 10, 2022

Anyone try to rejuvenate a lead acid battery?

I have a couple of lawn tractor batteries that appear to be sulfated (normal voltage but will not take a very large charge). There appear to be a couple of methods to rejuvenate them but I'm skeptical they work.

One is the battery "desulfator", an electrical gadget you connect to the terminals and it sends voltage pulses into the battery that supposedly remove the lead sulfate coating that has built up on the plates.

Another is a chemical procedure in which the liquid from the battery is drained and the battery is flushed with a baking soda solution. A concentrated solution of Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) is then added and the battery is recharged/discharged a few times to supposedly restore it.

April 21, 2022

Wash the Groceries??

Early in the pandemic it was recommended that all items, especially food items, be disinfected upon entry to the house by washing with soap & water or spraying with beach or some-such thing. I have seen little of that advice lately and am wondering if it is still thought that Covid can be transmitted by contact with such possibly contaminated surfaces/objects? Or, is it air transmission & bodily contact only?

Hoping that method of transmission is no longer thought to be significant - one less thing to worry about...