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India’s Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has captured detailed images of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 moon landing sites.

Florida requires counties to ban “camping” in areas that are not specifically designated for camping. Volusia has become the latest county to do so. The city of Orlando has arrested 25 people for this so far, which tells me that the law is going largely unenforced. I can drive through downtown Orlando and find 25 people violating this law in less than an hour.

The left hates it, complaining about how cruel it is:

While the ordinance cites the importance of protecting the “health, safety, welfare, quality of life, and aesthetics” of communities, per the state law, it makes no mention of any obligation to assist individuals or connect them to resources before applying enforcement measures.

Note that what the bleeding hearts fail to mention is that, while there is nothing in the law requiring that local governments assist these bums, there is also nothing in the law that prohibits helping them, either. It’s almost as if the left won’t do anything unless the law tells them to.

Still, I don’t care. I have a lot of experience dealing with the “unhoused” people that the left loves so much. They aren’t average people who fell on hard times. Overwhelmingly, these people have two problems:

• Mental health issues
• Drug addiction

We got rid of the mental hospitals, so now they live on the street. Bring back mental institutions and the problem is largely solved.

You will note that the homeless population DOESN’T include illegal immigrants. They are staying downtown at the Ritz.

You get hired for a job. While at work, you unfurl a flag with a political message. Sure, you are fired. You will likely be banned from your employer’s property. Did you commit a crime, though?

I dont think so.

Here are some things that your tax dollars have been paying for:

1. National Squirrel Census $2.3M

2. Federal Committee on Sandwich Standards $5M

3. Bureau of Uneven Sidewalk Awareness $1.8M

4. National Soap Carving Championship Grant $700K

5. Bureau of Left Handed Scissors $250K

6. National Moth Appreciation Day Initiative $250K

7. The Federal Cheese Wheel Roll Off $1.2M

8. The Office of Inflatable Pool Regulations $500K

9. Duck Quack Research Fund $4M

10. National Database of Presidential Hairstyles $800K

11. National Pillow Fluffing Initiative $1.5M

12. Bureau of Elevator Music Standards $2.1M

13. Federal Bureau of Traffic Cone Counting $1.3M

14. Office of Seasonal Pumpkin Oversight $800K

15. National Chair Spinning Safety Council $400K

16. Federal Kazoo Orchestra Grant $2M

17.American Cloud Watching Fund $1.1M

18. The Department of Leftover Labeling $600K

19. The Bureau of Ice Cube Uniformity $2.5M

20. The National Velcro Noise Study $1.7M

21. The National Bubble Wrap Stress Relief Study $1.4M

22. Bureau of Mailbox Feng Shui $900K

23. Federal Balloon Animal Training Academy $2.3M

24. National Pretzel Untwisting Initiative $600K

25. Department of Sock Pairing $1.8M

26. Federal High Five Coordination Bureau $1.2M

27. National Ice Cream Cone constructural  Integrity Lab $700K

28. Office of Puddle Depth Measurement $3M

29. Bureau of Alarm Clock Testing $1.5M

30. Federal Litter Clean Up Task Force $2M

Of course, this isn’t REALLY where the money goes. This is a grift, so that people can steal money from the treasury.

I was asked why I hadn’t posted any stories on the DC plane crash. I replied that there weren’t yet enough facts, but I bowed to pressure from my readers and went ahead and posted a couple of stories.

It turns out that there are still more stories coming out about the pilot who was the apparent cause of the crash. Let me post a collage picture that shows you what I mean.

What do you know- a DEI hire because she hit the checkboxes for the Biden Administration- a lesbian LGTBQ activist.

This statement from her family reinforces that position:

Her sexuality wasn’t a factor in the crash, but her lack of experience was, and she was in the Whitehouse because of that sexuality. Once an Army officer is favored by the President, they tend to be promoted to and given opportunities that they are otherwise unqualified for. That certainly WAS a factor in the crash.

Sure enough, there are people who read this blog that are jumping to defend her because they don’t like to see me call out the military. One commenter said “It is enough time to know what you are doing, and he was an evaluator, which means his command thought he was experienced.”

So the commander of the helicopter squadron that has been responsible for transporting Democrat bigwigs all over the DC area would never bow to DEI pressure from the Whitehouse, I am sure. After all, we know that President Poopy Pants was in full command of his faculties, and there was absolutely no shenanigans from the lefties who were really running the show.

The left wants to know why Congress and the President are not supposed to be arrested while enroute to or in the midst of carrying out their mandated duties? This is why:

That’s Georgia State Senator Colton Moore being arrested for attempting to enter the Georgia State House chamber to attend the Governor’s State of the State address. He was banned by the Georgia Speaker of the House for daring to call the previous Speaker corrupt.

This is pure tyranny. He is a state Senator who is attempting to carry out his official duties and being denied that. Don’t tell me that you are protecting Democracy when the elected representatives of the people are being denied access to Legislative functions.

Don’t forget that it was Fulton County, Georgia that was so instrumental in the rigging of the 2020 election. This is where the supposed water main break allowed Democrats to add boxes of ballots to the vote tally virtually unobserved. It also gave iPads to Democrat attorneys from the ACLU, with those iPads having the ability to delete ballots without a record of the deletion.

• Fulton County, where this happened, supposedly delayed counting because a pipe burst. We now know that was a lie.
• In 2020, Biden beat Trump in Georgia by 11,779 votes.
• Also in 2020, Biden beat Trump in Fulton county 73% to 26%- which represents 242,965 votes.
• Votes cast in the Georgia election fell to an all time low in 2020
• 3.5 times more absentee ballots were rejected in Georgia in 2020 than in previous elections

Fulton County is also where the Grand Jury was empaneled that indicted Trump on election interference. It’s also where Giuliani was charged with similar crimes, and where he lost his defamation lawsuit against election workers.

Fulton County is the center of the leftwing communist movement in the South.

My wife sent me the following picture with the caption: This is your finance lesson of the day

The lowest 5 are:

1. Alaska
2. Wyoming
3. New Hampshire
4. Florida (tie]
5. Tennessee (tie)

One of the items in my discussion on the fires in LA, I posted that there are problems with building homes out of fireproof materials. Someone asked what that could be, and I would like to expand on that a bit. Let me begin by saying that I am not an engineer, so I will be giving you a firefighter’s perspective on this, meaning that my knowledge is broad but shallow on the topic.

Building homes to be entirely fireproof has long been a goal. Attempting this is how we wound up with things like Asbestos. One of the things that was tried in the wake of the Chicago fire in 1871 was to build homes with a fireproof roof. In the aftermath of that fire, a great many homes in the US were built with slate roofing tiles. It appeared as though the problem was solved. No more would fire brands land on your roof and burn down your house.

Until 1900, when a hurricane struck Galveston, Texas. The storm was estimated to be a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The winds of the storm, estimated to be over 140 miles per hour, ripped those slate tiles from the roofs of the homes, and many people were killed by these flying stone axes.

It’s difficult to find building materials that withstand all conditions, and when you do, those materials make building homes prohibitively expensive. Even were one to build homes like that, the radiant heat coming through the glass of the windows will ignite materials inside of the house.

It is still a cheaper and easier solution to manage forests, create a defensible space around your home, and take other preventative measures. The issue is that people who move to “the country” like having the woods and other plant materials growing right next to the house.