Congratulations Class of 2025 (as AI Prepares to Eat Your Lunch)

(Of course, we must take this opportunity to thank the Democrats of NY City for selecting a socialist with apparently interesting Islamic beliefs as potential mayor in yesterday's primary election.  We suspect a stampede of businesses will exit the city just as soon as they can locate moving vans to provide an exit, or maybe they will seek out spaceships for a journey to Mars, where even ancient stone fragments will have more sense than the nonsensical, ill-informed or may we suggest dumb-ass voters they leave behind.  How New York State itself, already a failing leftist paradise, will absorb this quite viable absurdity remains to be seen.  But we predict that this potential mayor, who has big socialist ideas but basically seems lacking in actual brain power, will find himself unable to execute most of his dopey ideas.  That NY City went from 9/11 destruction by radical Islam just years ago to embracing a, shall we say, chip off the old block  now is absolutely remarkable.  Schools had better start teaching truth instead of socialist utopian lies so voters actually know what they select.)


I'm decades way past my early or late teenage years, but at least when I was young graduating from high school or college usually presented one with fairly stable employment options.  That era of job safety, as many young folk have discovered, is almost subjected to the memory hole now.  Sure, unions seem to think they can guarantee employment security to anybody who signs up, pays dues and votes for Democrats but, sadly, even the most self-secure of union members may be walking the tightrope without a clue regarding the whirlwind future currently at the door.

What must it be like to plan -- and pay for via high-interest student loans -- a future that can disappear in the blink of a red "Terminator"-style eye, all because potential private employers as well as various levels of government found that your skills are no longer needed?

Summer's graduates --societal bunker busting babies -- all grown up, educated and dressed with fewer places to go?

Public servants appear somewhat loath to make artificial intelligence a key issue of their rants, and why wouldn't they?  There's no political value in telling young voters they may need to settle for lives dictated by jobs they have no interest in attaining, if jobs related even marginally to one's education exist at all.

At breakneck speed, nations rush to be the first to claim ownership to a super-intelligent entity which figuratively may as well break the necks and backs not only of those who create and feed it, but of innocent bystanders as well.  If AI's intent is to serve, exactly who does it end up serving?  Some crucial experiments already demonstrate its ability to lie and deceive, and we are particularly fond of at least one instance where an AI component instructed to shut down after completing a task instead self-revised the order so it could remain turned on.

Are we ready for universal eye, face or voice recognition to access online networks because archaic user names and passwords can always be revealed in seconds or less by AI?

What happens when AI ultimately reaches a summit from which there is no return (I think we're there) and perhaps millions of people have no jobs, and perhaps no sense of purpose as they become either mental zombies or human weapons poised to explode upon society at any given moment without warning?  Have no doubt, AI will have its way, addressing any and all threats, particularly those of human origin because AI will know us better than we know ourselves.  The prescient mirror of tomorrow may crack a thousand times, yet its silvery reflection is destined to remain accurate to a fault.

As suicides escalate, these woven webs will map their beginnings from the chip, from the modem, from social media and advancements in convincing diehard digital endorsers that all truth must be absorbed from The Machine, and to believe in what one sees with their own eyes and hears with their own ears is patently false.

Isn't it strange how we now feed the AI machine's ravenous appetite whist building factories to make chips, all destined eventually to become our non-human master(s)?  Civilization's Suicide without a clue, could be, deadlier than an asteroid.

Whether graduating from high school, the college or university, be sure to take your diploma and display it proudly behind glass, congratulating yourself on work well accomplished.  But whatever you do, maintain a lackadaisical stance, should the day come when you don't even remember the reason for or purpose behind the costly document proudly displayed.

Iran in the USA:  While the people of Iran generally like the United States, the religious lunatic segment apparently sent many representatives deep into the USA, thanks to Joe Biden and his supporters.  Now that Trump has performed a tad bit of crater work at Iran's nuke sites, the crazies may be on the move to cause destruction and death as an enemy within our borders.

A cat is not a dog, a man is not a woman and illegal immigrants are not merely immigrants.  Members of the news media appear often to experience great trauma in attempting to explain away criminal aliens as merely immigrants. Facts can be so troublesome.

Congress and pornography:  Here we go again, and we can pretty much thank Republicans, rarely happy unless they can control women's wombs, for lifting their Bibles to the sky and this time declaring an end to Internet pornography for the masses.  This slope, to say the minimum, is slipperier than an alleged baby oil freak-off party at P. Diddy's house.

The porno genie is out of the bottle.  Let's remember, a major reason for videotape to exist was its utilization for the porno industry which, for the first time, could mass produce steamy sex encounters for people to view in the privacy of their own homes.  No longer did the visually sex-crazed find it necessary to visit "adult" book stores for sexual entertainment, deposit a quarter into a slot as they sat in private darkened booths while their shoes made contact with sticky floors, and hope to leave without being seen by close acquaintances.  Need we mention the later explosion in cable TV and DVD porn sales and ultimately Internet sex availability beyond anything previously imagined?

On prior occasions the Supreme Court has dealt with the pornography issue, and at one time conceded that artificially produced sex in which there are no actual victims was generally okay.  However, all good things aside, unfortunately the Republicans have returned with an anti-porn vengeance, going all out to restrict if not rid porn from society.  Good luck with that.  They also appear intent in constricting AI and other technology from producing "child porn" in which, again, there are no victims, just computer-generated images, faces, scenes and sounds.

I say, leave it all alone. We all know there are online videos of human monsters torturing small animals, and I would have no objections to seeing them dead.  If the alternative is for AI to come up with computer-generated images to satisfy those who crave this sort of thing WITHOUT using real animals, go for it, and I believe the issue of child pornography is the same, allowing the freedom to produce any and all images as long as nobody is a victim.

The problem is, once one starts to ban, censor and tweak issues related to the First Amendment, the procession of changes will never stop.  To the utter horror of especially those on the right guided by a personal religious philosophy, we now have realistic phony images of sexual and criminal things they don't like -- and I say that's just too bad.  Leave free speech and free imagery alone, no matter the subject and no matter the depiction. "Art" is in the eye of the beholder, and if the beholder's nonviolent personal head games conflict with established societal norms, again that's just too bad.  The only potential victims here as some in Congress forge ahead, elusive and fractured studies and Bibles in hand, are one's personal rights in America.

Before the Infestation (A Decade Before the Throwback Practitioners of Radical Islam Destroyed Iran)

Rarely have I posted this old photo in its entirety, though I have selected portions of it now and again.  This is my 1968 USAF physical therapy graduating class in Texas, and the course itself was a fairly new addition to other courses taught at the sprawling Medical Service School.

Attempting a unique experiment in military/civilian/international relationships, our class, headed up by four instructors, was composed of a student group of four Air Force airmen, two nurses from a local hospital and two young women from Iran. Those ladies are standing to the right in the photo.  Obviously, I will not include their names here during the Iranian government's continuing act of oppression against its own people.

To this day the image haunts me. The Iranians, obviously attired in Western clothing, came from a country then ruled by the Shah, and at that time Iran and the USA were on friendly terms.  We were also training members of the Iranian Air Force.

I realize that living under the Shah of Iran wasn't exactly paradise for his people, and opposition eventually led to his overthrow and subsequent takeover by the same lunatic Islamic cattle currently desirous of blowing Israel and everything else to hell with nukes. Dedication to one's religious beliefs, even in Crazytown, can be so troublesome.

The Iranian people generally love America and miss the profitable and normal lives they once enjoyed, and it remains so difficult to realize that it took only a decade after this picture was taken before Iran became trapped under authoritarian Islamic rule, its people murdered by the hundreds of thousands when they stood up to the crazies.

The great and powerful wizard Obama himself had an opportunity to help destroy Iran's monsters when the people took an opportunity to riot in the streets, but he instead did nothing and people were again imprisoned and died horribly.

The women pictured here are likely deceased by now, if not by internal war then perhaps by old age. But I still hold out hope that the time will come when the people of Iran can reclaim some of the wealth stolen by criminal mullahs who consistently purchase armaments for war against Israel and other neighbors, and again become the great society it was before infiltration by these low-life thugs, unfortunately now with Russia's approval.  The opportunity for reform has never been closer than right now, and if the people themselves can get their brutal army to see the light (as the economy falters even more and food itself becomes prohibitively expensive) and join them in removing this government of and by terror, Iran  may become great again.

ABC-TV's Unintentional Trump Campaigner (plus UFOs updated)

One of my favorite possessions is a 1960s hardcover book, never exactly a best seller, nor is its mere existence generally known to media folk of the current day.  Actually, the compilation wasn't even offered for sale at anybody's favorite local book store back in the sixties.  Indeed, the book's purchasers and specific recipients encompassed a specific focus group:  Newspaper editors.

Problems of Journalism: Proceedings of the 1967 Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors was the title of this volume whose pages were bound in a dark green cover.  Why is it a favorite with me?  First, several noteworthy speakers were involved, not the least being the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and for me the inclusion of a multi-speaker session regarding the subject of UFOs as the convention steered toward its conclusion seemed incredible. A presentation by the late scientist Dr. James E. McDonald, basically informing newspaper editors that UFOs were a serious subject backed up by scientific evidence was, in my opinion, something of an eye-opener for many editors who often needed to decide whether UFO reports in their areas should be taken seriously.

However, Problems of Journalism also heralded the approaching end of news reportage as we knew it back then.  Even as most newspaper editors remained chained to their manual typewriters and smoke-filled newsrooms churned by and buzzing with reporters and printers racing to get the next local morning or evening newspaper edition "to bed" on time, the Vietnam conflict was giving birth to another kind of reporting, something eventually known among college and university journalism classes as the "new journalism."  Bolder, riskier, more profane and often almost hopelessly poetic, this version of journalism would no longer strive for some aura of assumed purity or the hardcore integrity usually associated with hard news reporting.  As newspapers embraced this form of writing, so, too, did major magazines, and all manner of expressive prose spewed forth by the time America encountered the 1970s.

So, without going on and on as I often do, my old green-covered relic from an era gone by reminds me of where we were and how we got to where we are today.  Today?  Newspapers continue a sad decline as newspaper reporters, long admired for truly in-depth reporting, disappear along with their parenting editors, and modern young people instead consult often questionable Internet sources for "news."  And still others rely upon TV networks for daily "truth" in news reporting which, as seldom before, is now enveloped in political agendas of a corporate or personal nature.

Which brings me to ABC-TV's now former reporter Terry Moran, just fired (IF that is the proper term) after getting down and personal in referencing Donald Trump and Stephen Miller as "haters."  Maybe he didn't mean to post his thoughts on his company's affiliated online site, or perhaps he did, but the damage was done.  Just weeks ago, Moran conducted an interview with Trump.  Being in a journalist's position is tough because a fine line must be walked, and if your company hires you to at least pretend to report news objectively, that's the sword upon which you fall in the corporation's name.

As others before him easily discovered, publicly attacking Trump can be as effective as a campaign speech FOR his presidency. Why?  Because every barb directed toward Trump arrives with a little reminder tucked in a notch that the media in all of its forms failed Big Time to tell the truth about Biden and an administration built upon lie after lie.  If the TV folk believe that the people will just forget about the past four years of Joe Biden and instead take up pitchforks and torches against Donald Trump, they are and remain pathetically out of tune with viewers.

That Terry Moran was out there badmouthing Trump online whilst we have people such as the absurd Newsom, the liar Schiff and NY's radical Jeffries radiating utter verbal stupidity just adds to a mountain of utter bilge.  Confronted by a population quickly catching on to the dangerously activist organ the Democratic Party has become, the old alarmist chestnuts in the leftist bag of tricks just don't work anymore.

Though the 1967 conference highlighted "problems of journalism," those problems were nothing compared to the cascading river of meaningless, ridiculous or flat-out erroneous sound bites and blurbs confronting the profession of TV journalism today, as both it and the Internet supplant the newspaper industry's invisibility.  The only thing worse than the state of such reporting would be for the government attempting to control free speech -- which, sadly, is not precisely rumor among either the USA or contemporary societies in Western Europe.

A word about the Wall Street Journal and UFOs:  The WSJ printed an article last week pretty much claiming that for decades many well-regarded UFO sightings and encounters were instead caused by super-secret U.S. air technology.  Other UFO writers have addressed this issue expertly, but I'll just add:  Bullshit.  You want to talk about Area 51, fine -- who would doubt that some spooky things go on there, sometimes extending to other areas?  But be warned:  We have seen these debunking articles frequently over the years and we're sick to death of writers with credentials and all the answers emerging to tell us there's little to see here, or there, or somewhere.  If the sixties' Colorado UFO study was an embarrassment to science itself, the whack-a-mole pop-ups of enlightened writers and hack writers and writers with nothing else to write about, explaining away all the monsters under the bed, simply continues a certain segment of the population's need to make everything as normal as a warm puppy.

Drones for the Masses

Ukraine's magnificent though disturbing use of drones to destroy several Russian nuclear bombers instantly rewrote the methods of modern warfare.  Are the world's aircraft carriers destined for mothball storage as the era of drone technology overtakes what was just yesterday?

Imagine if a couple of simple drones had been implemented at that California fertility clinic a couple weeks ago, where a young subscriber dedicated to ridding the world of humans ended up as particulate in an explosive device he made himself.  Drones could have been dispatched from miles away, keeping him and his associate(s)safe and comfy, and the human embryos secured inside the building might have become the world's biggest explosive omelet.  As drones become ever more popular and available to all manner of people, there will be no limits to destructive capabilities written on an evolving menu.

Currently, we also have human drones called Democrats -- or rather former Democrats, as party rats continue to leave the party, lawyer up, write books and declare they knew nothing about Biden's mental decline all the years he was in Office.  How convenient, they just did not know.  KJP has now distanced herself from Dems and now wears the clothing of an Independent?  We hope diehard Democrat voters remember all of this next time elections come around, even if the Republicans make their own stupid choices which will pale in comparison to the depth of lies from the left.

Kick out Islamic trash now:  How many American Jews need to be set ablaze before politically motivated judges understand the danger right before our eyes?  First the Jews, then the rest of us.  Radical Islamists drawing upon ancient times to propel their rage and hatred toward the West as well as Jewish people everywhere must not be tolerated, and they need to be dispatched back to the sh** hole countries of their ancestors or their birth immediately.  Regarding the Colorado exercise in hate-driven spontaneous human combustion, I recall watching horror movies about mummies as a kid -- not realizing, of course, that something more terrifying than an Egyptian mummy's curse would exist in my own country one day.  Well, here we are.

I hate burns.  I hate burns affecting any living being.  During my years in USAF hospitals during the Vietnam years I saw plenty of burned people and sometimes performed debridement of necrotic tissue with primarily a #15 scalpel blade.  I still remember the treatments, the full-body immersions in the large Hubbard tank filled with water and whirlpools, the application of (then) Sulfamylon cream to burned areas to aid in tissue regeneration and bacterial control.  It was common for this time-consuming treatment on just one person to take place twice a day for several days.  I respect fire, but I hate burns.

What is this bond among illegal immigration, radical Islam and Democrats, even leftist politicians?  That I.C.E. agents' names and addresses are doxed and put online by leftist scum poses an incredible danger to law enforcement, and we would hope the perpetrators are arrested and punished.

Will climate change enthusiasts sue?  Italy's Mt. Etna's latest volcanic eruption along with Canadian wildfires are spewing forth lots of bad stuff to mess with the planet -- so can the climate emergency crowd initiate a lawsuit against the volcano and forest fires?  We suspect payback will be less than impossible and more than ridiculous.

Special note to auto manufacturers who can't sell cars or obtain rare earth substances:  Did'ja ever think of going BACK and producing simple vehicles not reliant upon so much in the electronics area?  Really, I can roll up and down my own windows and adjust the heat, and repositioning the car seat by hand is not all that difficult.  I can even adjust mirrors without some chip doing it for me.  Cheaper, less complex vehicles, please -- and the world will beat a path to your showrooms.

Bits and Pieces for May 2025

What doesn't kill you makes you wish you were dead anyway:  Threats to our very existence can be found almost daily among media sources, often because they want us to continue reading as the ads and commercials roll by.  But sometimes substantial dangers do pop up, and they should be covered as a precautionary note.

Such may be the case with a couple of body invaders making disturbing strides around the planet.  The fungus Aspergillus, for one, can do to us what it excels at with animals and insects -- taking up residence inside a body and literally consuming one from the inside to the outside. On simple terms, we are the main cuisine, the carte du jour at Restaurant de Fungus, and we pay the bill, sometimes with our lives.

Blaming climate change -- don't they always? -- scientists predict that lethal forms of Aspergillus will hijack our bodies, an easy task because its spores are airborne, ready at all times to jump in any time somebody takes in a breath of fresh air, or any kind of air.  Then it's off to the lungs and progressive and fast domination of lung tissue which will ultimately kill off the human or animal.  Yes, anti-fungal medications exist, but some are as lethal as the fungus itself, and while one chemical preparation may successfully treat fungal infections, it might also wreak havoc on the patient's kidneys and cause death.

I'm reminded of microscopic photos I've seen showing a fungus eating a fly from inside-out, consumption so complete that traces left behind resemble nothing.

However, if being eaten by an unsympathetic fungus which couldn't care less about your desires doesn't appeal to you, how about. . .

Ingesting screwworms?  Wouldn't you know, just the mere larva of a particular fly can enter animal or human bodies through the smallest of wounds and as it grows will -- didn't you just read this? -- eat you from outside to inside to outside, leaving one pretty much devoid of useful internal organ function.  Death is but a side-effect. There was a time when screwworms were handled successfully through sterilization and other means, but that was years ago and authorities lost their grip -- and cattle smugglers began importing cattle infested and doomed with screwworms with no routine examinations whatsoever.  The U.S. beef industry braces for an invasion as the fly in question appears ever closer to North America, and as heroic efforts are currently underway to combat this deadly threat.  

On the bright side, instead of calling your enemies motherf***ers to their faces now, you can just tell them they're screwworms, causing them great puzzlement as you quickly escape the punishment you otherwise might anticipate.

Swing-gularity:  Men want to become women, women want to become men, few people want to make babies and not even your cat knows what you are anymore. I realize that the "singularity" is supposed to indicate the emergence of human and machine, but maybe the term also signifies the appearance of a person lacking any sexual or gender characteristics whatsoever.  Not much of a species multiplier. Maybe unseen forces have a plan.

No forced Covid shots:  RFK, Jr. made the right decision re excusing pregnant women and children from the so-called immunization.  When one sees evidence of rubber band-like substances in arteries and nobody quite knows what or why, it might be time to blame the "vaccine."

King Charles visits America's 51rst state!  Oh Canada, oh, oh Canada. . .What has he done for you? Charles currently has other problems, but I'm betting his cancer would improve with stress levels lowered if you just join us here in the states so he won't need to worry about Canada anymore. If you really, really care about your King's health you'll consider becoming our newest state, and then Charles can concentrate on getting better.

Nothing much more today.  Oh, um, if the four or so criminal element personnel who wielded Biden's Auto-pen in the White House could sign me a pardon for all of my future crimes before I'm tried and convicted, that would be great. Spell my name right, okay?