You know you really, really fucked up when the Gumball Machine lights up.

I don’t even know how many that makes anymore. 5, 6?

Every two years like clockwork and I’m not even joking.

Every other Summer I’m down there wipping out my card and paying a bunch of money on a stupid cell phone.

I am ABSOLUTELY NOT paying big money for one of the damn things either.

And for anyone who wants to say, “well there ya go ya cheapskate, you get what you pay for”.

Not so Grasshopper.

While I’m bitching and griping to the guy behind the counter about it, he tells me he has the same problem with THIRTEEN HUNDRED DOLLAR PHONES!!!

Screw that!

I don’t even know what just the phone cost because of course you have to get the screen protector and a new case.

Which has some kind of Orange shit all over it.

Excuse me people, I’m not 14 years old. I don’t give a rat’s ass about your bling.

I’m 66 fucking years old. I just want a plain old Black Plastic motherfucker that does the job, OK?

But no.

Don’t have those in stock.

Whatever.

Bonus round just for fun, the new phone comes with a charging cable but no wall wart.

Oh no no no, you gotta buy that separate!

Insert face palm here.

The one I have been getting don’t have the little SIM cards in them. Now they have to sit them side by side and download everything wirelessly. Of course those rotten fuckers at GOOGLE are involved because all my videos and pictures somehow automatically get sent to them and are stored in that ONE DRIVE cloud shit which I ABSOLUTELY HATE!!

I have tried repeatedly to shut that off but somehow every time I turn around it’s back.

Out the door, I think it all came to about $375 and it took an entire hour.

The old one shit the bed after I was texting my brother and sent him a picture.

It locked up tighter than a Preacher’s prick in a calf’s ass.

I tried restarting it and it went through all the bullshit like it always does and then the screen went black and wouldn’t do anything. So I tried it again with the same result.

Fuck hat noise!

Because I have to use these things at work all the time and they actually kick me an extra $60 a month to go towards my phone bill, I am not even playing around with this shit.

I had the choice of them giving me a work phone, which absolutely not, if I can help it or give me some extra money to use my personal phone.

Theirs came with an encyclopedia of rules and horse shit I ain’t even messing with.

So down to the phone store I went.

The old one will get tossed in a drawer in an old tool box with the rest of them I have collected over the last 10 years until the day I decide they are taking up too much space and I pitch them.

Hopefully this one will last until I am fucking retired and I won’t have to worry about even having one of the fucking things anymore If I don’t want to.

Especially because it’s Cop VS. Lawyer.

Mute your sound first per Igor…

I took my son down to Woodburn Oregon to the drags this morning. Actually, he drove. Unfortunately my Grandson was unable to attend due to a commitment at the last minute this morning which disappointed me severely. I was really looking forward to turning him on to some Vintage Iron.

Also unfortunately, I only got about two hours of freaking sleep last night and I can’t seem to doze off completely this evening to get caught up. But my son and I had a great time.

When we got there and got in, we found out it was a MOPAR Only meet and they did not disappoint. Lot’s of early 60’s and 70’s Dodge and Plymouth dragsters.

There was aslo SCADS of the later model Cuda’s and Challengers, like 50 of them.

There was a car show out front and there were some absolutely stunningly restored cars, going all the way back to the late 50’s with one ’48.

Several trucks and station wagons ran also, including one 1961 wagon that had my jaw dropped at it’s time and speed. High 9 seconds and over 130 miles an hour!

They were also running the full quarter mile which was cool.

So we had a great time!

I got to thinking about it and the last time I went to the drags was at that same track, clear back in the mid 90’s!

I just wish I had taken more pictures but it was good for my soul to see and hear a bunch of Big Blocks running full throttle with open headers again.

Even the little Slant Sixes were impressive.

Going to go do something I haven’t done in at least 30 years.

Going with my son the electrician and the Grandson to make some memories.

I’ll be back later with some pictures so stay tuned.

Holy crap,

I didn’t know anything about it until my brother texted me asking about it. The LA Times and Reuters Both didn’t have anything about it. I looked up his name on Brave and found this,

Lindsey Graham

American lawyer and politician (born 1955)

lgraham.senate.gov

Lindsey Olin Graham (/ɡræm/ GRAM; July 9, 1955 – July 11, 2026) is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina.

Then the Wifely Unit got in her phone and saw it on NBC and the Washington Post.

Breaking news

Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies after sudden illness, according to his office

Damn, there wasn’t anything about him being sick that I know of but apparently he has kicked the bucket.

Bibi Netanyahoo is going to be devastated, along with anyone connected to The Military Industrial Complex and Johnson and Johnson’s Sex lube department.

The guy was one of the biggest War Mongers we had in Congress.

This is freaking hilarious. The only thing that would have made it better would be the douchebag looking like a porcupine full of roofing nails.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Roofing/s/vCeWfrGqQW

It won’t let me download or embed the video so click on the link above, it’s pretty funny.

Get a load of all the evil shit all these other Presidents pulled, starting with the very first one!

Surprised?

I grew up with it!

I had to watch this a few times to savor it and let it all sink in.

Every POS politician, gun control freak, lawyer and bureaucrat should have to listen to this on a loop 24/7 for a week.

I also had to use AI to identify this beautiful soul.

Her name is Joanna Martin and she also writes under the pseudonym Publius Huldah.

She is a former Army JAG Corps Captain and retired litigation attorney who serves as a prominent conservative legal commentator and political activist. 

Watch this and enjoy every second of it.

More like it puts this clown into “I’m A Piece Of Shit, Raging DoucheBag” territory.

It’s blatantly obvious that they are keeping him on ice so that they can avoid a special election.

It’s evil genius and I love it.

Fuckin’ with the newbie, yeah buddy, make sure that anvil is greased up good!

I am SO proud of her!

I thank God that I was fortunate enough to be born in this country, before it went to hell.

I am part of the last generation to know true freedom and am fortunate enough to have been around for not only it’s Bi Centennial 200th Birthday but now it’s 250th!

There is still very much to be proud of but our biggest and most powerful resource is and always has been, it’s people.

As the rest of the world recently found out during the World Cup with people from all over the world coming to visit, Amreicans are the most generous people on the face of the planet.

We are a kind, friendly and caring people, no matter what anyone tries to say differently.

So be proud today. Celebrate the last bastion of freedom left and no matter what, be true to your heritage and take no shit.

And just in case you are a bit old and jaded, take a minute to look at this place from the viewpoint of someone who wasn’t born here but has come to love the place like we do.