Wow! I don't drink Bud either but that is an incredible ad. They've hired someone with a brain that knows they better tighten up and that their market is MAGA!
I sent the losing hearing out of my left eye via message to my husband. I could hear him burst out laughing all the way on the other side of the house.
I have a percolator, a small one on top of it. I was looking for a coffee pot with no plastic, this is called "Mixpresso". Works great and I love to see the coffee perk!
I have two cups of coffee every morning, without fail. On the weekends, I use Bailey's instead of Half&Half. Coffee is probably the most consistently consumed product I use...
You know, all the fraud is really starting to weigh on me. I would be first in line to say, no thank you, I'll just hang onto my tax payment this year until you can end the abuse of my hard earned dollar. The reason I don't? I know they wouldn't miss a beat freezing my bank account and disrupting my business. So, why can't they move that swiftly on these fraudsters? It's rhetorical. Just frustrating as hell.
Personally, I worry that Jill and I are burning out our readers with all of these essays exposing fraud and corruption. It is a target-rich environment for the "Malone Institute" mission, but even I feel the pull of the dark place that this leads us to. I wish that there were more "feel-good" stuff to write about in this "Health Politics" space that Substack assigns to Malone.News. The truth is that I am getting discouraged. It just goes on and on. And the folks on our side in the USG seem all too often to get distracted by shiny objects and fail to focus and follow through on the big issues.
Dr Malone, please don't stop sharing. Burn out? Maybe, but your narrative is easy to digest for us laymen as disheartening as it may be from time to time. Those of us that are SSRI free know how to weigh the bad with the good (you did inform us and keep us safe during COVID!) and still keep our love of our country in sight.
The shiny objects wouldn't be so distracting if they didn't end up in our leaders pockets. We all know this is why the fraud is slow to end.
Finally, I can't imagine a morning without coffee. It's one of those items that is plentiful in the pantry... just in case. 😉
I really like how you said all of this Barbara, including the SSRI part. that is my battle with my wife and her health.
And I love my starting each day with my dark roast with nothing in it and 2 cinnamon graham crackers followed by a walk in the woods with my 2 best friends, Layla and Rudy my rescue pups!
A belief in a higher power and the intrinsic decency of people is my best shield when thinsg get dark. I get accused of seeing connections and conspiracies everywhere, but the flip-side of this is that I also see a lot of good, too. Little gestures whose light shines so strongly, augmented by a power greater than our own. Facebook pages for niche interests and lost/found pets is always a good starting place. Seeing people helping each other, just in passing. Young people being kind and respectful to the elderly and fragile in their community.
Winter is a hard time for the human psyche. We need to rest, sleep and restore, and there has never been so much unwelcome blue light in the history of the world. We need to believe that God has got our backs. That new people will come along and be anointed for the battle as we pass from it. That our part is small, but the battle is long and larger than we can see. We are so lucky to all be connected to each other in a way we could never have dreamed about when that the 1995 Budweiser frog advert ran. All is well in the macros, if not the micro. And we as humans are gifted with being able to move from one to the other. From deep state to Friday Funnies. From The Man in the High Castle to the Hallmark Channel. We can and do do it all and that is our strength.
On the horse front, I cannot imagine. I had a pitched fight with the hen coop door yesterday, and was despairing after about 3 minutes of 1C weather.
I'm a horse lover since childhood. It is so wonderful to learn how a horse's body adapts to the cold. I read and saw a post re: how horses adapt to the cold. AND needless to say being a herd animal is so good for them in many ways. As with us non-hibernating animals movement is such a healthy thing! ... and being physically with others.
Just as we can’t digest how $1T>>$1M the fraud scale is off the charts. How it managed to operate for so long with the stewards of our money ignoring it. Corruption of too many.
We are in a war, both spiritual and physical. I look at all the information coming out is a revelation. It is like the spigot is wide open and the truth is pouring out for all who will look. We need to see it and the opposition wants to discourage us. Your Friday Funnies, and Sunday Strip Helps us deal with everything else we see. Along with yours, Bad Cattitude's Sunday meme and mean pools, and Tyler Zed's Sunday "You Laugh You Lose".
Agree, but please stay strong. We will never tire of wherever your interests take you. Love the crow! We rescued a baby raven when the kids were younger; such a delight; it would still swoop down and land on our arms as an adult.
I find it very reassuring that there are others like you out there shinning a light on it all.
I said probably 20 years ago when pharma was the advertiser for the nightly news that MSM would never cover anything bad with them.
It is still there and my hope is like cigarette adds it gets outlawed.
On February 4th will be my 1 year anniversary of trying to get my wife back from the health care system and big pharma. You have pointed the way several times for me.
One in particular was "Unshrunk" and the telling of your wife's sister's story.
After 1 year we are only marginally better, Christmas day was 2 visits to the ER and her in search of a magic pill to take anxiety away instead of working at it as the pills can't do it. One good ER doctor said he could prescribe her 10 pills but it wouldn't change the fact you have to work at.
Thank you again for putting up the good fight for us unseen and unheard voices out here.
I do agree. Maybe, as MAHA Action seems to be trying out joining the legislators in their campaign events, bringing them in to round tables (to counsel on legislative possibilities (?). It's going to be a long and challenging road to Nov.
MD, VA and the CA airheads not withstanding all our reasons for participating are still valid. You and Dr Jill are our hero and heroine leaders in our pursuit of a better world. Your efforts are appreciated and taken to heart!
My discouragement stems from the fact that republicans don't seem to be interested in using the hammer we gave them and instead, are content to bloviate and bluster over the fraud and end up doing nothing.
What do they say about pleasing everyone? Ok. Your readers love your style! Otherwise, they wouldn't read you to jump start their day. You and Jill bring light and humor into our otherwise chaotic, smoggy with stench, political climate. I too felt burned out, but not on humor, just my own over indulgence of information. Repent I did and quarantined my info seeking to justify where I absorb info and when I should get moving. Haha, and my dogs love the get moving part...even when it takes me 5 minutes to layer myself and our older heeler because fresh air (as much as possible) and movement will essentially clear out the cobwebs and brighten our lives anyway! You may consider bending toward not only coffee perks, but nature/outdoor perks. Even those who are less mobile, could use the sunshine of just sitting outside, yes, even in winter.
Last 3 years, January has been more sucky than other months for me, maybe for other Truth Tellers/Sharers too. The frigid doesn't help, even for me, a winter lover. This is my 3rd year doing BinY (Father Mike Schmitz) - and I notice, especially in January, I get much needed boost from it. Why - cause the 3 readings/day plan, covers all of the book of Job. FMike sums it up, "Even suffering has meaning." Sucks still but ...that.
I believe that there are works of Satan being done by people who believe that they are following Jesus Christ and who would claim him as Lord and Savior. I believe in God the Father, creator of the Universe, Jesus the Son, co-creator and God who came in human form to die as the sacrifice necessary for the atonement of our sins of rebellion against God, and the Holy Spirit, also co-creator and who inspired the writings we believe and comes to us individually to live within us to be our guide and counselor and purifier through His baptism.
When ICE started their targeted missions with Greg Bovino as the Commander last year, they were the tip of the spear. That means they took the brunt of the attacks and performed amazingly—but they were being brutalized by rioters, politicians, and the media—yet, they never backed down.
IMO, the optics of taking Bovino out without thanking him and his brave men for what they did, was demoralizing. That depressed me, and was a sign of backing down. When you are the tip of the spear, you encounter the most difficult push back and casualties than anyone else, like the first wave on D-Day—those who follow had an easier path.
We cannot let the Left win on any front, and if Walz, Frey, or Ellison, walks away with no accountability, then they win and we lose—that’s why I’m depressed. It will signal to the other Blue Cities how to wage war and win.
For me, as I follow several writers and journalists and most are covering fraud of some sort, when I am feeling a bit overwhelmed and beginning to feel hopeless about the never ending fraud and evil - I take a little vacation from them and just don't read any more of those types essays/articles for a few days while I instead study more on what God says and what He promises. That's my fix and it works without fail. Add a walk in the woods, time with grandkids, working a hobby, and I'm "reset".
Sometimes I go back much later and read an essay I chose to skip at the time, and sometimes I don't. But I always appreciate the time, research and care that goes into publishing an essay or article, whether or not I feel I should read it at the moment.
All of this is also why we so love your homesteading essays! Plus the Friday and Sunday memes. Memes have a way of allowing us to see truth while laughing at the same time. And no one does memes better than the "right."
I agree. I too have often thought, well you have 'lost' enough of my money so I won't file taxes this year. But, as you stated, it is a corrupt system and there would be no time wasted in our consequences.
Our young adults have voiced the same opinion. Though seriously, the gov is so far in debt even if the entire nation held their taxes, the only ones squawking would be the state clean up crews, air traffic control, and Congress.
I also prefer the real thing, as I watched a sharp- shinned hawk at my bird water the other day. I often see eagles flying, as I live close to the Mississippi river. The sound of the sharpies is recognizable too!
Sorry. As an Engineer and Pastor I religiously hate deception and delusions of how physics and nature actually work. I therefore hate AI generated content no matter how uplifting it tries to be. I believe that the greatest threat to humanity is AI in its various forms. It is analogous to nuclear energy. Useful to make electricity but unimaginably horrible when used as a weapon against humanity.
Let’s make a law that any use of atom splitting or atom fusing MUST be for good and righteous purposes.
THEN, we can draft a codicil to that Law requiring the same for AI! <- but, before that, can we please change the type font so that AI doesn’t look like Al (cap A cap eye vs cap A little ell) 😉
What a hoot today! I like the John Kennedy quote the best!
I'm reading his book: "How to Not Test Positive for Stupidity, and Why Washington Never Will". It's right up there with other quotes that are phenomenal.
I also have to come on and say that I had a blast from the past today, when I came across a mask-wearing lunatic in the supermarket who gave me a dirty look. They came up behind me and made the "your not wearing your mask you scumbag" look. Before having to go past me and carry on because I didn't move out the way to give them their space.
And I realised that I am finally through the trauma of those years of masks, (I tried them in the first few months when everyone said not to, and was over them before they changed the advice). I just stared back. They were clearly mentally ill, or have cancer, and I have run dry of compassion for this, now, either way. I'm just keeping a good eye on them to make sure they don't come too close, and don't do something crazy.
A small step in the right direction. Don Lemon was arrested this morning for taking part in disrupting a church service in Minnesota resulting in parishioners fleeing the church in fear for their safety.
Not all melanin enhanced individuals who see racism under even the smallest of turds will they themselves scream "racism" when they themselves are indicted for their petty dastardly deeds.
Telling is if search on the Lefty's "Reddit" - no conservative/sane comments are seen, but you do see "deletes". They pdq delete all Sane comments. Reddit is so horribly Culty. If ever you want to learn how easy it is to spread Lefty/Socialist nonsense, look there. It's a Lefty bull-horn.
Thank you the humor and lightness and truth you share in your posts .. and Jill’s too! I love and admire your life on the farm and enjoy those glimpses into your world there! We had an old farm house in Michigan and acres and those were wonderful days .. but hard work too!
In challenging times laughter so is healing!
The Gavin one today is funny .. except unfortunately it is true !!! Thank you for the effort invested and gift of these posts!
I am fortunate enough to have the kind of inflammatory illness that makes it impossible to consume wheat, sulphites, and other many other substances besides, with any certainty that I won't "make myself sick". So, I pick my fights. I might consider a sulphite free, organic spelt beer, but by the time I have tracked that down, I will have almost certainly lost interest. As a result, I consume roughly 2 units of alcohol a year. I should add that I get all my (considerable amount) of tannins from coffee and tea, (preferably strong Yorkshire leaf). So the Bud missed me completely until the Dylan Mulvaney thing. Then I decided that if/when I accumulate enough wealth to be able to gamble on stocks, I will look out for the DEI nonsense and avoid those. I have never seen anything crazier.
You sort of imagined marketing doing a mass lay-off of seasoned old hands, and taking on a crowd of young dipsticks to save costs, who managed to persuade the company that there was an untapped market of transvestites who were not consuming Bud Light and could be persuaded to do so.
Like they thought that they had pulled off such a coup getting women to become Budweiser customers as they became higher earners, so then they could get this new emerging consumer group of the trans woman. Sort of missing the point that the Trans women is in fact a bloke! I mean this dude already was/wasn't a Bud customer. He was the same male consumer base in a dress! So it wasn't going to meaningfully shift the dial on sales. But it did make red-blooded Men who were the back-bone of their customer base feel icky. And the whole thing had a pervy feel about it. In fact, it sort of fit in with the Epstein era.
And then I got to wondering if it was AI learning and failing still, with that campaign. Like someone had let the AI have a crack at replacing the marketing dept, while it was doing all of its deep machine learning over the lockdowns. And I imagine that whilst the rest of us were trying to make sure that our oldies didn't catch a cold, and get enough food delivered to the door, the AI was indiscriminately watching the traffic of absolutely everything. We were boring. Most hard-working people were still buying Bud. But, stuck at home, maybe transvestites were doing a lot of stuff, without the aid of a Bud Light and it looked like an open market. And to judge by the marketing campaign, one can only imagine what on God's green earth this new customer base were looking at if that's what the AI thought would catch their eye.
So, I for one am happy to see the return of the sentimental tub-thumping American Bud advert. I remember the frog one fondly, and I hope we will see more of that sort of nostalgia going forward.
Kennedy and crows pretty good. Lots of crows around here in CH and in our Mt pastures in Vt. Always chatting and in action. Have enjoyed the experiments showing the intelligence crows have. Crows and Kennedy, great intellects!
If someone sprayed a substance from a hypodermic needle on me, I’d probably want to be checked at an emergency room to see if it was poisonous. However, if it was planned and I already knew it was just vinegar, probably wouldn’t bother.
Such a strange one. Way back in 2016, cider vinegar was synonymous with the "Crunchy Mom" movement. Then it crossed to the TradWIfe movement. In addition to being a mystifying substance to assault someone with, (impugning her microbiome, maybe?), it is freighted with just about the most mixed message I have seen in a while.
Oh, they do! And they’re so delightfully mischievous. They love to tease the dog, and play hide and seek with the children’s shiny objects (the seek doesn’t work out so well. 🤣).
I am of a different mindset than I was when I was a teenager. I remember spending an entire afternoon crawling up on some crows perched in a cottonwood tree with the idea that if I could get close enough to a crow to shoot it, I was a pretty awesome and stealthy hunter. The moment my 22 caliber rifle was exposed they flew away.
Dr. Malone, I really laughed out loud reading your Friday Funnies today. Awesome read. Loved the ice covered face of the man saying no mosquitos. :-). And I also do not drink Budweiser beer, but this ad is totally wonderful. Keep your wonderful articles coming. I love them.
Belgian AB InBev, in the wake of Dylan Mulvaney, perhaps held a conference call and decided that any deliberate crashing of the company should be gradual. To pull out of the nosedive, they resorted to desperate measures that had fallen out of favor in the era of woke: Bald eagles and Skynyrd. It's enough to smear Dylan's mascara.
Wow! I don't drink Bud either but that is an incredible ad. They've hired someone with a brain that knows they better tighten up and that their market is MAGA!
I sent the losing hearing out of my left eye via message to my husband. I could hear him burst out laughing all the way on the other side of the house.
LOL. Old school coffee drinker. If only they could make percolators the way they use to.
I have a percolator, a small one on top of it. I was looking for a coffee pot with no plastic, this is called "Mixpresso". Works great and I love to see the coffee perk!
Gosh thanks for the tip. I will look it up.
I had one in my hunting camper, it made great coffee. Was probably made in the 50's.
I have two cups of coffee every morning, without fail. On the weekends, I use Bailey's instead of Half&Half. Coffee is probably the most consistently consumed product I use...
You know, all the fraud is really starting to weigh on me. I would be first in line to say, no thank you, I'll just hang onto my tax payment this year until you can end the abuse of my hard earned dollar. The reason I don't? I know they wouldn't miss a beat freezing my bank account and disrupting my business. So, why can't they move that swiftly on these fraudsters? It's rhetorical. Just frustrating as hell.
Personally, I worry that Jill and I are burning out our readers with all of these essays exposing fraud and corruption. It is a target-rich environment for the "Malone Institute" mission, but even I feel the pull of the dark place that this leads us to. I wish that there were more "feel-good" stuff to write about in this "Health Politics" space that Substack assigns to Malone.News. The truth is that I am getting discouraged. It just goes on and on. And the folks on our side in the USG seem all too often to get distracted by shiny objects and fail to focus and follow through on the big issues.
Dr Malone, please don't stop sharing. Burn out? Maybe, but your narrative is easy to digest for us laymen as disheartening as it may be from time to time. Those of us that are SSRI free know how to weigh the bad with the good (you did inform us and keep us safe during COVID!) and still keep our love of our country in sight.
The shiny objects wouldn't be so distracting if they didn't end up in our leaders pockets. We all know this is why the fraud is slow to end.
Finally, I can't imagine a morning without coffee. It's one of those items that is plentiful in the pantry... just in case. 😉
I really like how you said all of this Barbara, including the SSRI part. that is my battle with my wife and her health.
And I love my starting each day with my dark roast with nothing in it and 2 cinnamon graham crackers followed by a walk in the woods with my 2 best friends, Layla and Rudy my rescue pups!
Thank you,
Bill
Lovely.
Wholeheartedly agree!!!
Perfect!
A belief in a higher power and the intrinsic decency of people is my best shield when thinsg get dark. I get accused of seeing connections and conspiracies everywhere, but the flip-side of this is that I also see a lot of good, too. Little gestures whose light shines so strongly, augmented by a power greater than our own. Facebook pages for niche interests and lost/found pets is always a good starting place. Seeing people helping each other, just in passing. Young people being kind and respectful to the elderly and fragile in their community.
Winter is a hard time for the human psyche. We need to rest, sleep and restore, and there has never been so much unwelcome blue light in the history of the world. We need to believe that God has got our backs. That new people will come along and be anointed for the battle as we pass from it. That our part is small, but the battle is long and larger than we can see. We are so lucky to all be connected to each other in a way we could never have dreamed about when that the 1995 Budweiser frog advert ran. All is well in the macros, if not the micro. And we as humans are gifted with being able to move from one to the other. From deep state to Friday Funnies. From The Man in the High Castle to the Hallmark Channel. We can and do do it all and that is our strength.
On the horse front, I cannot imagine. I had a pitched fight with the hen coop door yesterday, and was despairing after about 3 minutes of 1C weather.
Speaking of people helping each other, this wonderful story appeared in another comment section recently...https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/justified-monday-january-26-2026?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=205379418
I'm a horse lover since childhood. It is so wonderful to learn how a horse's body adapts to the cold. I read and saw a post re: how horses adapt to the cold. AND needless to say being a herd animal is so good for them in many ways. As with us non-hibernating animals movement is such a healthy thing! ... and being physically with others.
Just as we can’t digest how $1T>>$1M the fraud scale is off the charts. How it managed to operate for so long with the stewards of our money ignoring it. Corruption of too many.
Agree with Barbara, Dr. M, don’t stop if for no other reason than misery loves company. But seriously, …and this too shall pass.
The Malone Friday Funnies is such a nice break, even if some of it is not so funny but real. It's okay - go with it!
We are in a war, both spiritual and physical. I look at all the information coming out is a revelation. It is like the spigot is wide open and the truth is pouring out for all who will look. We need to see it and the opposition wants to discourage us. Your Friday Funnies, and Sunday Strip Helps us deal with everything else we see. Along with yours, Bad Cattitude's Sunday meme and mean pools, and Tyler Zed's Sunday "You Laugh You Lose".
Agree, but please stay strong. We will never tire of wherever your interests take you. Love the crow! We rescued a baby raven when the kids were younger; such a delight; it would still swoop down and land on our arms as an adult.
I find it very reassuring that there are others like you out there shinning a light on it all.
I said probably 20 years ago when pharma was the advertiser for the nightly news that MSM would never cover anything bad with them.
It is still there and my hope is like cigarette adds it gets outlawed.
On February 4th will be my 1 year anniversary of trying to get my wife back from the health care system and big pharma. You have pointed the way several times for me.
One in particular was "Unshrunk" and the telling of your wife's sister's story.
After 1 year we are only marginally better, Christmas day was 2 visits to the ER and her in search of a magic pill to take anxiety away instead of working at it as the pills can't do it. One good ER doctor said he could prescribe her 10 pills but it wouldn't change the fact you have to work at.
Thank you again for putting up the good fight for us unseen and unheard voices out here.
Bill
Damn, I send you all the strength I can muster.
I do agree. Maybe, as MAHA Action seems to be trying out joining the legislators in their campaign events, bringing them in to round tables (to counsel on legislative possibilities (?). It's going to be a long and challenging road to Nov.
MD, VA and the CA airheads not withstanding all our reasons for participating are still valid. You and Dr Jill are our hero and heroine leaders in our pursuit of a better world. Your efforts are appreciated and taken to heart!
My discouragement stems from the fact that republicans don't seem to be interested in using the hammer we gave them and instead, are content to bloviate and bluster over the fraud and end up doing nothing.
I'm beginning to think they are in on it too.
What do they say about pleasing everyone? Ok. Your readers love your style! Otherwise, they wouldn't read you to jump start their day. You and Jill bring light and humor into our otherwise chaotic, smoggy with stench, political climate. I too felt burned out, but not on humor, just my own over indulgence of information. Repent I did and quarantined my info seeking to justify where I absorb info and when I should get moving. Haha, and my dogs love the get moving part...even when it takes me 5 minutes to layer myself and our older heeler because fresh air (as much as possible) and movement will essentially clear out the cobwebs and brighten our lives anyway! You may consider bending toward not only coffee perks, but nature/outdoor perks. Even those who are less mobile, could use the sunshine of just sitting outside, yes, even in winter.
Last 3 years, January has been more sucky than other months for me, maybe for other Truth Tellers/Sharers too. The frigid doesn't help, even for me, a winter lover. This is my 3rd year doing BinY (Father Mike Schmitz) - and I notice, especially in January, I get much needed boost from it. Why - cause the 3 readings/day plan, covers all of the book of Job. FMike sums it up, "Even suffering has meaning." Sucks still but ...that.
I believe that there are works of Satan being done by people who believe that they are following Jesus Christ and who would claim him as Lord and Savior. I believe in God the Father, creator of the Universe, Jesus the Son, co-creator and God who came in human form to die as the sacrifice necessary for the atonement of our sins of rebellion against God, and the Holy Spirit, also co-creator and who inspired the writings we believe and comes to us individually to live within us to be our guide and counselor and purifier through His baptism.
Amen
When ICE started their targeted missions with Greg Bovino as the Commander last year, they were the tip of the spear. That means they took the brunt of the attacks and performed amazingly—but they were being brutalized by rioters, politicians, and the media—yet, they never backed down.
IMO, the optics of taking Bovino out without thanking him and his brave men for what they did, was demoralizing. That depressed me, and was a sign of backing down. When you are the tip of the spear, you encounter the most difficult push back and casualties than anyone else, like the first wave on D-Day—those who follow had an easier path.
We cannot let the Left win on any front, and if Walz, Frey, or Ellison, walks away with no accountability, then they win and we lose—that’s why I’m depressed. It will signal to the other Blue Cities how to wage war and win.
Barbara Byrd said it well.❤️
For me, as I follow several writers and journalists and most are covering fraud of some sort, when I am feeling a bit overwhelmed and beginning to feel hopeless about the never ending fraud and evil - I take a little vacation from them and just don't read any more of those types essays/articles for a few days while I instead study more on what God says and what He promises. That's my fix and it works without fail. Add a walk in the woods, time with grandkids, working a hobby, and I'm "reset".
Sometimes I go back much later and read an essay I chose to skip at the time, and sometimes I don't. But I always appreciate the time, research and care that goes into publishing an essay or article, whether or not I feel I should read it at the moment.
All of this is also why we so love your homesteading essays! Plus the Friday and Sunday memes. Memes have a way of allowing us to see truth while laughing at the same time. And no one does memes better than the "right."
Imagine our discouragement!!! So thankful for you both & the reality funnies!!
I agree. I too have often thought, well you have 'lost' enough of my money so I won't file taxes this year. But, as you stated, it is a corrupt system and there would be no time wasted in our consequences.
Our young adults have voiced the same opinion. Though seriously, the gov is so far in debt even if the entire nation held their taxes, the only ones squawking would be the state clean up crews, air traffic control, and Congress.
The media spent a lot more time on that radical nurse than they did on the murder of Ashli Babbitt
And this was another winning crop.
I won't drink Bud even when it is free at a function. I buy something else. I did love the ad though. The Clydesdales are beautiful horses!
and who does not enjoy seeing a bald eagle on the wing! Even if it is AI.
I also prefer the real thing, as I watched a sharp- shinned hawk at my bird water the other day. I often see eagles flying, as I live close to the Mississippi river. The sound of the sharpies is recognizable too!
Sorry. As an Engineer and Pastor I religiously hate deception and delusions of how physics and nature actually work. I therefore hate AI generated content no matter how uplifting it tries to be. I believe that the greatest threat to humanity is AI in its various forms. It is analogous to nuclear energy. Useful to make electricity but unimaginably horrible when used as a weapon against humanity.
🤔
I agree.
Let’s make a law that any use of atom splitting or atom fusing MUST be for good and righteous purposes.
THEN, we can draft a codicil to that Law requiring the same for AI! <- but, before that, can we please change the type font so that AI doesn’t look like Al (cap A cap eye vs cap A little ell) 😉
Hard to imagine,how big they are. Brought them to the Texas Childrens Hosp. when my wife worked there and she was AWED.
What a hoot today! I like the John Kennedy quote the best!
I'm reading his book: "How to Not Test Positive for Stupidity, and Why Washington Never Will". It's right up there with other quotes that are phenomenal.
I read his book recently too. It was great!
Yes! I loved his book! And what a brilliant man! His folksy humor fools a lot of people.
Oh wow, gonna get his book. I have a list of Sen JKennedy-isms, in my cells "notes", for a handy go-to chuckle, when life needed it.
I also have to come on and say that I had a blast from the past today, when I came across a mask-wearing lunatic in the supermarket who gave me a dirty look. They came up behind me and made the "your not wearing your mask you scumbag" look. Before having to go past me and carry on because I didn't move out the way to give them their space.
And I realised that I am finally through the trauma of those years of masks, (I tried them in the first few months when everyone said not to, and was over them before they changed the advice). I just stared back. They were clearly mentally ill, or have cancer, and I have run dry of compassion for this, now, either way. I'm just keeping a good eye on them to make sure they don't come too close, and don't do something crazy.
love the alias!
A small step in the right direction. Don Lemon was arrested this morning for taking part in disrupting a church service in Minnesota resulting in parishioners fleeing the church in fear for their safety.
Bet he howls racism
Abbe Lowell is his SBag lawyer.
That was a racist comment!
Not all melanin enhanced individuals who see racism under even the smallest of turds will they themselves scream "racism" when they themselves are indicted for their petty dastardly deeds.
🤔 Will they? 🤨
Most likely
Yes! Good details on this Fox clip - https://www.foxnews.com/video/6388543038112
Telling is if search on the Lefty's "Reddit" - no conservative/sane comments are seen, but you do see "deletes". They pdq delete all Sane comments. Reddit is so horribly Culty. If ever you want to learn how easy it is to spread Lefty/Socialist nonsense, look there. It's a Lefty bull-horn.
Thank you the humor and lightness and truth you share in your posts .. and Jill’s too! I love and admire your life on the farm and enjoy those glimpses into your world there! We had an old farm house in Michigan and acres and those were wonderful days .. but hard work too!
In challenging times laughter so is healing!
The Gavin one today is funny .. except unfortunately it is true !!! Thank you for the effort invested and gift of these posts!
I am fortunate enough to have the kind of inflammatory illness that makes it impossible to consume wheat, sulphites, and other many other substances besides, with any certainty that I won't "make myself sick". So, I pick my fights. I might consider a sulphite free, organic spelt beer, but by the time I have tracked that down, I will have almost certainly lost interest. As a result, I consume roughly 2 units of alcohol a year. I should add that I get all my (considerable amount) of tannins from coffee and tea, (preferably strong Yorkshire leaf). So the Bud missed me completely until the Dylan Mulvaney thing. Then I decided that if/when I accumulate enough wealth to be able to gamble on stocks, I will look out for the DEI nonsense and avoid those. I have never seen anything crazier.
You sort of imagined marketing doing a mass lay-off of seasoned old hands, and taking on a crowd of young dipsticks to save costs, who managed to persuade the company that there was an untapped market of transvestites who were not consuming Bud Light and could be persuaded to do so.
Like they thought that they had pulled off such a coup getting women to become Budweiser customers as they became higher earners, so then they could get this new emerging consumer group of the trans woman. Sort of missing the point that the Trans women is in fact a bloke! I mean this dude already was/wasn't a Bud customer. He was the same male consumer base in a dress! So it wasn't going to meaningfully shift the dial on sales. But it did make red-blooded Men who were the back-bone of their customer base feel icky. And the whole thing had a pervy feel about it. In fact, it sort of fit in with the Epstein era.
And then I got to wondering if it was AI learning and failing still, with that campaign. Like someone had let the AI have a crack at replacing the marketing dept, while it was doing all of its deep machine learning over the lockdowns. And I imagine that whilst the rest of us were trying to make sure that our oldies didn't catch a cold, and get enough food delivered to the door, the AI was indiscriminately watching the traffic of absolutely everything. We were boring. Most hard-working people were still buying Bud. But, stuck at home, maybe transvestites were doing a lot of stuff, without the aid of a Bud Light and it looked like an open market. And to judge by the marketing campaign, one can only imagine what on God's green earth this new customer base were looking at if that's what the AI thought would catch their eye.
So, I for one am happy to see the return of the sentimental tub-thumping American Bud advert. I remember the frog one fondly, and I hope we will see more of that sort of nostalgia going forward.
Just to add, we were so easily pleased in those days, (1995!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkavReH4LE0
Kennedy and crows pretty good. Lots of crows around here in CH and in our Mt pastures in Vt. Always chatting and in action. Have enjoyed the experiments showing the intelligence crows have. Crows and Kennedy, great intellects!
If someone sprayed a substance from a hypodermic needle on me, I’d probably want to be checked at an emergency room to see if it was poisonous. However, if it was planned and I already knew it was just vinegar, probably wouldn’t bother.
Such a strange one. Way back in 2016, cider vinegar was synonymous with the "Crunchy Mom" movement. Then it crossed to the TradWIfe movement. In addition to being a mystifying substance to assault someone with, (impugning her microbiome, maybe?), it is freighted with just about the most mixed message I have seen in a while.
The real question is - Do the crows like you? Because, if they don’t and they tell their friends, you are in trouble.
Oh, they do! And they’re so delightfully mischievous. They love to tease the dog, and play hide and seek with the children’s shiny objects (the seek doesn’t work out so well. 🤣).
I heard someone trained crows to attack MAGA hats. But, there's so much out there that is not to be believed!
I am of a different mindset than I was when I was a teenager. I remember spending an entire afternoon crawling up on some crows perched in a cottonwood tree with the idea that if I could get close enough to a crow to shoot it, I was a pretty awesome and stealthy hunter. The moment my 22 caliber rifle was exposed they flew away.
Dr. Malone, I really laughed out loud reading your Friday Funnies today. Awesome read. Loved the ice covered face of the man saying no mosquitos. :-). And I also do not drink Budweiser beer, but this ad is totally wonderful. Keep your wonderful articles coming. I love them.
Fulton County. I want consequences.
4 years of invasion, deception, treason, censorship, tyranny, misery, humiliation.
Belgian AB InBev, in the wake of Dylan Mulvaney, perhaps held a conference call and decided that any deliberate crashing of the company should be gradual. To pull out of the nosedive, they resorted to desperate measures that had fallen out of favor in the era of woke: Bald eagles and Skynyrd. It's enough to smear Dylan's mascara.
Like. Clever comparison, James Lord.