The Social Network Spider's Web

To be blunt, if this government and its global accomplices continue "taming" the Internet to make it safe for children while obviously making the Web more difficult or useless for adult participation, little will remain except for a heavily regulated and censored tool of marginal value.

I am no fan of the so-called "social network" populated by crazies, idiots and those desirous of perpetrating harm or death upon innocent people, and if I ever became a Facebook member or a member of any such network I hope lightning strikes me down. The fact that I run a couple of ad-free blogs should say something about my relationship with the social network -- and at this point I'm not sure I could consider blogging relevant to the social network variety currently dominating that one universe.

Particularly, I am so done with congressional hearings filled with sobbing parents whose children met bitter ends or other tragedies because of their presence on the social network, or individuals claiming the Internet drove them nuts or into some emotional quagmire.  Yes, it's been said over and over, but still we ask just when did parents forfeit their obligation to know what or whom their children are involved with 24/7?  Difficult as it may be to conquer, parental distance is the primary reason why government representatives have launched concerted attacks on the Internet, making it increasingly and exquisitely hard to enter and use the Web without complications.  Things will get worse in the name of protecting children.  But that's not the social network's job.  Lawsuits seem so attractive though, don't they?  The phrase, "for the children" may pull at one's heartstrings, but a rabid or almost cultist emphasis on those words can also rip out freedom's guts.  I curse congressional lapdogs and activists intent upon making adults subservient to the politically generated "needs" of children watched over and "protected" way too much by the wrong people.  This may be unpleasant, but it's worth entertaining the thought that most, if not all people influenced negatively to extremes once exposed to the Internet's treasures were probably swimming in mental issues long before they allowed the computer to become whatever they believed it became to their lives.

Donald Trump Does the World:  If you hate him he must be doing something right.  Once one becomes tuned in to his long-range goal to make America a leader once again, current price increases and related annoyances should be looked upon as necessary short-term effects. Yes, it all hurts like hell, but so did the slow-burn torture and disaster inflicted upon the entire country by Democrats over a quite different long term.  I think that Trump knows exactly how to administer the cure, though he must be aware that he  will receive absolutely no credit for his work until long after he's out of Office.  Now, if the Democrats don't go right in and destroy everything good he has done. . .their avowed, unfolding goal. . .

Pope Nope:  When the Vatican gives the world's poor all of its gold, art and other valuable treasures so it may truly embrace poverty, maybe I'll listen to a word or two from this current heavenly representative.  Meanwhile, I patiently wait for a solution to the UFO mystery -- which may never fully arrive -- because I think there's enough there to literally devastate all established religions.  The most powerful vacuum cleaner on the planet so far is the collection plate, taking in new monies but providing in return the same old answers.

Los Angeles Psycho of the Day:  Police shot and killed a woman attempting to kidnap and harm a three year old boy at a Walmart.  Unfortunately, they weren't able to blow her ass away before she cut the kid's face and head (his wounds were prominently displayed on TV news).  Just as I'm tired of people blaming the social network for emotional ills with which their children or themselves have already been infiltrated far in advance, I'm equally put off by every other freaking news report involving a murder or catastrophe involving "mental illness."  As L.A. police demonstrated, there is indeed a compassionate, yet permanent cure for this kind of mental illness, and the cure requires only (1) a bullet fired from a gun and (2) a deranged human head.  Simple and effective, maybe even a tad on the romantic side, and no doctor's notes or drug prescriptions are necessary.  Oh -- and the woman noted here did apparently steal the knife from Walmart and her estate should be properly billed.

The end is near or why isn't it?  The magnitude acquired by organized sports in the world is amazing as well as troublesome.  While the world's attention is focused on athletics, who's watching the gangster politicians doing things behind our backs?  Had I only known how sports would leap from backyard baseball to exerting a gargantuan hypnotic grip on every modern society.  I wish the inventor of the ball would have made them square or triangular, never round! Let's see how THAT would have played out in the industry.  Every time I happen upon one sports event after another, engaged in by shouting fans or players who sometimes resemble a possible missing link incarnate, I simply ask myself -- why are we not yet extinct?  Are we really here to chew tobacco, spit on the field, endure concussions and break bones during play?  Where oh where is that damned planet killer asteroid, bring it on!

You Could Go Blind, But Your Prostate May Be Fine

(A special note to Canadians on behalf of my long-deceased Canadian ancestors who moved to the USA:  Like we in the states, you folks know what it's like to have a government dominated by leftist lunatics.  Until you vote in a more conservative government, you're stuck with one which (1) apparently delights in curing your illnesses with suicide assistance and (2) demands that you turn in your guns because you never know when a gun will rise up and shoot itself without a human pulling the trigger.  As you may recall, after Australia confiscated innocent people's guns crime increased considerably.  Canada, DON'T be Australia!  Hide your guns under the cat or behind that glistening wall photo of  King -- hmm, is it Andrew?  Well, I really can't remember, but you do, I'm sure.  Nevertheless, let's hope you can wait out this outrage because you may need those weapons one day for any variety of reasons.  In the meantime, maybe you can decorate guns as flagpoles holding maple leaf flags -- or perhaps try convincing your lunatic legislators that guns must be saved and used as hospital suicide instruments under the guidance of now applicable Canadian laws.  After all, as Mark Carney himself might agree, legal is legal and laws are laws.)


A side-effect of working in a medical specialty, as I did in Air Force hospitals long ago, is a tendency to take bodily functions for granted.  Becoming embarrassed by the mere mention of genitalia is impossible once one has seen it all.  Remarking to a friend or even to a stranger on the street that you've noticed something about their physical appearance indicative of a necessary visit to a physician can be helpful -- or insulting to the person whose bodily facade you have just violated in a cascade of medical words.

So I hope you'll forgive me today for getting right into masturbation.  

No, silly, it's not what you think.  This is about masturbation, not actively performing it as you read. Nope, not me, either.

I was gratified (stop it!) by an article in the New York Post of April 3 in which medical science seems to reiterate what has been hypothesized before -- that frequent sex and/or masturbation may keep hazardous substances from remaining in and causing cancer within the male's prostate gland.

The article quotes physicians familiar with the subject and there appears a current consensus among some that 21 ejaculations a month are necessary to keep a healthy prostate.  Why not 20 or 22 is a mystery to me, but maybe 21 holds some mystical relevance to medical science.  Perhaps even, as opposed to odd, numbers are the work of Satan in this instance, I do not know.

All of this reminds me of the "old wives' tales" warning children that masturbating a lot will cause one to go blind, or that excessive hair will grow on one's knuckles and apparently society will look upon the masturbator as equivalent to a sex-starved caveman or something.  However, considering the fact that "old wives" don't have prostates from which to judge effects, I think it is more in line to believe that such nonsense was fostered so that males would use their sexual moments to produce children with women instead of indulging in self-pleasure of which only the devil himself  (or herself) would approve.

The obvious lesson taken from the NY Post article appears to be:  Do it frequently and if you need to fit in all 21 times a month don't hesitate to cancel appointments which might get in the way.  However, don't forget to feed the cat or pick up the mail in between sessions -- and as far as the radical Islamists among us go, I guess we could agree that medical science believes it's perfectly okay to. . . 

Masturbate in the caliphate.

Let's give a big hand to the New York Post for this article.  A really big hand.

Call Me By Your Brain

Even with participation by celebrities such as singer Bruce Mainstream and faded actor Robert Delete-o, Saturday's nation-wide demonstration by the "No Kings" mobs begs the question:  Where were all of you and your signs during the four years when King Biden and the gang illegally allowed millions of strangers whose backgrounds were unknown to enter the country? Not to mention multiple murders committed by invading border monsters! That President Trump and his cleanup crew now need to attempt a reversal of what may have bordered on treason is a direct and necessary result of dangerous actions orchestrated into pure chaos by a radical segment of the Democrat Party which a growing number of Americans are coming to know and despise.  Unfortunately, as midterm elections approach some of us are absolutely convinced that uninformed and feckless voters will bring most of the old UNreliables back to continue chewing our laws and expectations to bits (are you listening, New York?).

 

(Note to Readers: Today I am adding a link to MEMRI,org,  (Middle East Media Research Institute) a site which keeps track of and translates radical Middle Eastern voices and writings into English.  This service prevents extremists from spreading their messages only among fellow terrorists, believing that few in the West will have the ability to understand their dangerous or, similarly, insane words.  Ha!  And they thought I wrote hate speech?  You haven't seen anything until you check out this new link.)

Bits and Pieces for March 2026

Democrats inflicting pain:  Once again, "the American people," as Sen. Chuck Schumer calls them, are suffering extraordinary punishment under these wonderful Democrats, many of whom now proudly proclaim themselves to be socialist Democrats or Democratic socialists, choose your pleasure. These desperate folks have fallen so deeply into the "Hate Trump" mode that using American air travelers, Homeland Security and especially TSA employees to expand their tantrums is now their apparent policy.  Unfortunately, they are given such perfect cover by the mainstream media that many voters will remain clueless regarding the fools and chaos perpetrators for whom they obediently and characteristically vote in the midterm election.  One cannot simply wish away politically engineered trauma by voting for the same smiley-faced puppet string-pullers every time -- but that's exactly what will happen come November when Americans with either short memories or no information at all exercise their right to elect badly, very badly.

Eat the Press:  We loved watching Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent being interviewed by Kristin something or another on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press," where their question and answer back-and-forth seemed, as always, akin to a rocket scientist trying to explain physics to a kidney stone.

When the only good one is a dead one:  As I recall, when actress Joan Crawford died (and again, oh how I wished I had gone to see her at a Pepsi bottling plant appearance in Valdosta, Georgia during my Air Force years, just down the road. . .) fellow actress Bette Davis was asked to comment.  Remarking that it wasn't nice to say anything about the deceased unless it was something good, Davis allegedly said, "Joan Crawford is dead.  Good."  Which brings us to Donald Trump and his remark that he was glad Robert Mueller had died.  Yes, Mueller had an exemplary military past, but when we consider how Mueller and so many others went on the attack against Trump for falsehoods and invented crimes, don't we wonder where the breaking point comes in?  Trump shouldn't have been so harsh -- but I understand from whence his comment came after extended abuse by officials using their immense power to do bad things to one man.

Chuck Norris dies:  A true motion picture and television legend, the kind whose numbers are seriously in decline, and yet again an actor with former military experience adding to his "edge."  We're quickly getting down to actors and actresses who know little of life more threatening than tripping over their shoelaces on a pickleball court, and it shows on the screen.  I like watching something on recent TV and putting the sound on mute, just watching the acting and facial expressions -- and after laughing I turn off the TV and go back to radio or music!

Illegal migrants continue to kill:  Another one from the past year, this time a young woman shot dead by a tuberculosis-ridden criminal let in under the evil Biden gang.  This will not appear on Democrat re-election posters.

Thank you Obama: For flooding Iran with pallets of cash way back.  They sure put that money to good use, if missiles and nukes are defined as good use.

AI and suicides:  It was only a matter of time before everybody's hands reached into the Internet pie to regulate, ban, censor, arrest and condemn social media instead of simply leaving it alone.  Look, I'm sorry if some beloved teenager sparked a "conversation" with artificial intelligence and in so doing was helped along to killing himself or herself -- but if parents continue holding everything outside the family unit responsible for personal tragedy instead of looking within, difficult as that may be, then all communication skills and tools are in jeopardy.  Just as making temporary shrines of places where roadside automobile accidents claimed the lives of teenagers is no permanent solution to death, attempting to manipulate and legislate the Internet continuously interferes with its true value.  And frankly, this rush to "protect" children on the Internet at the expense of making it restrictive or treacherous for adult use when protection is a parental responsibility is simply wrong.  If somebody on the Net is suicidal or accomplishes the deed, their problems started long before they encountered the computer or smart phone.  This is the bitter pill that few of the parent or guardian class are willing to swallow.

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy:  To me, brackets are something one uses for punctuation when writing, or for attaching a shelf to a wall. In athletics, it's something else involving teams and names and apparently life and death itself.

Everybody needs an enemy.  Everybody. Needs. An. Enemy.

You can look upon sports as a friendly competition, but it's not.  The opponent is an enemy and must be.  I'm a better player than you.  Mine is bigger than yours.  If I don't win this game I'll kill you.  I'm gonna put an end to your career.  You're going down.  Mine is bigger than yours.  Only one of us is coming out of this stadium a winner.  Mine is bigger than yours.

My neurosis of the day:  I suspect that our species will perish sooner than we expect.  Maybe we'll get to Mars, but as the future creeps forward we don't appear suited to become a "Star Trek" society.  Hatred and wanting what the other guy has is inherent in our genes and we will literally fight to the death unless some cosmic invader (rock or species) accomplishes the job for us.  Physically and physiologically we just aren't built for space travel without the assistance of something more, and we've already surrounded our own planet with space junk so hazardous that maneuvering through and around it becomes more problematic every day.  And we continue adding to the mix.

We are also sick, unhealthy from unsettled cradle to anxious grave.  Is it the food?  Is it the plastics we eat?  Is it the TV or computer?  Are we microwaving our brains into fine pieces of furniture as electronic beams from all manner of earth-based devices perpetually criss-cross our lives?

Maybe the innocents know -- the animals.  Do they not frequently bear the brunt of our "friendly competition?"  Are animals our enemies, too?  Determined, we erase their presence as we hysterically attempt to preserve ours.

Quick, select one:  Havana cigar or Havana syndrome?

I think we are screwed and afraid to comprehend the horrors and possibilities of situations insurmountable.  But fear not, for I am often wrong, and the musings of today so often merely become the toadstools of tomorrow.

You Don't Have to be MAGA

What did we expect?  United States presidents of both parties AND other international players have let Iran's religious throwback messengers of Islamic doom function for decades without taking them down and out, and here we are.

As petroleum products and everything associated with so-called fossil fuels rise in cost, we hope on a temporary basis, MAGA folk are taking the political hit, and those who dislike or flat-out hate Donald Trump continue to ramp up their hostility.  Oh, and midterm elections are coming up. . .

One need not subscribe to a Make America Great Again philosophy, though if one is a true American I don't know why attempting to improve and enhance our national identity is a flawed idea.  In Congress, the Republicans quiver and quake in their seats, seemingly afraid of now-radicalized Democrats whose options apparently have little to so with supporting a Republic over their vision of a "democracy" which only a dime-store communist could appreciate.

Trump's brilliance is, unfortunately, unseen by those unaware or uncaring that he is reorganizing the entire Western hemisphere in order to keep the USA safe and strong, and as a side benefit other nations may opt to embrace the freedoms which many have been unable to grasp.  How about no nukes from a distant Iran for starters?  How about a lesser Chinese influence reaching across the planet?

In the meantime, we mourn and honor our war dead, and while folks on the street may find it difficult to comprehend why a parent or spouse of a deceased military member would insist that Trump "finish the job," such words are perfectly normal for the military's bereaved as they deal with harsh realities of armed conflict.

In contrast, we again condemn the Academy Awards nonsense on ABC-TV, where none of the self-absorbed egos gracing the stage could bother thanking U.S. military members, both dead and living, for the sacrifices they make which allow such stupid ceremonies to even take place in safety year after year.  Communist f***s some, don't deny it.

We in the U.S. are in debt, terrible debt, much of it from being very kind to the rest of the world -- and by supporting border-jumping criminals (one and all) who wise citizens continue to hope will be tossed out in far greater numbers eventually.

The only possibility of an economic cure, despite current actions in Iran which were absolutely unavoidable, lies with Trump, hate him or love him.  If you still cling to the Democrats, hopeful of some leftist miracle to make our lives, country and world better, keep in mind that nearly every grand Democrat plan which has wormed its way through our national intestines in recent decades screams absurd costs, if not failure.

Not to forget:  Thanks also to the useless Biden and the gang who allowed illegal aliens in by the millions, we now have the worst of Islam invading every aspect of our nation, from government to schools to corporations.  While most Muslims wish to live in peace and do, radical Islam is quite another matter, a religion which is also a government absolutely incompatible with the U.S. Constitution (as you've heard a thousand times by now).  A reading of Sharia Law should chill you to the bone.  Want that here?  Islamists are trying to bring it, right now, in courts and state government seats everywhere.

And estimates that a third to a half of the national debt could go away if we just cut fraud in (mainly blue) states abusing tax dollars should turn every overtaxed and overcharged head in the country.  Wake up America!  Trump has a good chance of being a salvation, not an enemy to your household.  Patience is the recipe, and unfortunately patience is not an abundant human quality in this country right now.