Photos to lighten your mood…Part Two

Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: Everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction.

Bloch’s quote would have been a good one to leave out of my daily calendar that I purchased to print for my readers. He needs to warm up in private.
-Sheila Tolley-

THE SPHINX—SPACE

It beats sending money to Minnesota.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/09/us-news/trump-tells-rnc-midterm-convention-he-must-finish-the-job-lays-out-plan-for-next-two-years-of-gop-control/

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The Great Barrier Reef is rebounding.

https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/09/09/great-barrier-reef-n2682675

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Trump to headline GOP midterm convention.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-headline-republicans/2026/09/07/id/1268571/

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Let it fall apart.

https://townhall.com/news/josephchalfant/2026/09/06/trump-was-just-proven-right-on-the-kennedy-center-n2682564

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Monkey news.   No red lines here.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2026/09/05/palestinian-journalist-calls-hakeem-jeffries-a-monkey-and-errand-boy/

https://nypost.com/2026/09/07/us-news/missouri-foster-mom-brenda-deutsch-accused-of-trading-teen-for-monkey-avoids-prison/

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Child abuse.

https://townhall.com/news/scott-mcclallen/2026/09/06/mount-sinai-to-pay-2-million-end-youth-gender-treatments-in-doj-deal-n2682574

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They look like Democrats.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/09/06/hot-takes-the-new-strangely-star-wars-like-space-force-uniform-n2206592

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He is unfit to be—even a lawyer.

https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/09/09/lindsay-clancys-lawyer-bashed-americas-juries-and-battered-another-pillar-of-justice-n3818759

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The Space Ace Editor:   What’s new, LL ?

Top Gun Cat:   Some old and some new.

https://townhall.com/news/josephchalfant/2026/08/30/nasa-launches-revolutionary-new-space-telescope-n2682126

Animation of how Rover and  Discovery got to Mars.

Inside a Shuttle launch.

Take off like a Top Gun.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ttake+off+from+aircraft+carrier+video#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6e500d87,vid:IpOBwbwg7-s,st:0

A real conversation.

https://theonion.com/happy-birthday-text-to-mom-spirals-into-whole-conversat-1846250378/

https://www.pnj.com/

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Run the Haiti office.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/30/bill-and-hillary-are-looking-for-help-and-what-theyre-asking-for-has-people-laughing-n2206261#google_vignette

https://www.breitbart.com/

Photos to lighten your mood…Part One

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Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
Dave Barry

THE SPHINX–KRAKATOA WEST OF JAVA

THIS WOULD BE PROGRESS.

https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/09/07/alzheimers-cure-monday-n2682483

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This lawyer is asking the President to break the law.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/us-news/lindsay-clancys-lawyer-asks-trump-to-consider-pardoning-his-client/

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She wouldn’t stand up for straight white women.  Go sell some Bud Light.

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/09/04/wnba-commissioner-out-after-a-year-of-burying-caitlin-clark-and-ducking-the-womens-sports-fight-n2206511

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Fix it.    How did supposedly educated people let this happen ????   They get their cut.

https://townhall.com/news/scott-mcclallen/2026/09/04/illegal-alien-charged-in-13-billion-medicare-fraud-money-laundering-scheme-n2682523

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Trump is the only guy who is his own man.   The rest depend on favors and other peoples money.

https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/09/05/gavin-newsom-says-he-got-permission-from-barack-obama-this-is-jaw-dropping-n2206537

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Go ICE.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/09/04/ice-breaks-record-arrests-nearly-51k-illegal-aliens-across-u-s-in-august/

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Build them a mosque at the WTC Memorial.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/05/opinion/mamdani-and-his-radical-left-crew-are-trying-to-reshape-and-dismiss-the-tragedy-of-9-11/

Is anyone surprised ?

https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/09/05/ice-captures-ms-13-killer-known-as-the-witch-a-biden-judge-just-let-him-go-n2206565#google_vignette

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The Volcano Editor:   This was a big bang, LL.

The Close My Ears Cat:   It sure was, this is my last volcano article.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/krakatoa-stifled-sea-level-rise-decades

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/science/krakatoa-eruption-environmental-impact

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=+live+shake+rattle+and+roll#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a37c95d6,vid:2YYli7oSxc8,st:0

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Whoa!!!

https://genesiustimes.com/trump-officially-renames-grand-canyon-grand-kamala/

https://www.thejakartapost.com/

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Progressive is next.

https://babylonbee.com/news/billie-eilish-introduces-new-fragrance-socialism-on-sale-now-for-72000

https://pjmedia.com/#google_vignette

Astronomy Picture of the Day

LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Merga
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

Explanation: What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs mid-stride (but some may see a squirrel instead). The featured image shows LDN 1295, also called the Giraffe Nebula, in the constellation of the mythical queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia). It is an object in the Lynds Catalogue of Dark Nebulas, compiled in 1962 by American astronomer Beverly Lynds, a pioneer for women in astronomy and astrophysics. Dark nebulas are interstellar clouds of dust and gas that block the visible light of the stars behind them. These nebulas are often faint and challenging targets for astrophotographers. Why do we see animal shapes and faces in nebulas, clouds, and pretty much everywhere? It is due to pareidolia, our tendency to look for familiar patterns. Pareidolia may provide animals with an evolutionary advantage, for example in identifying (and avoiding) predators.

Tomorrow’s picture: freewheeling

Bible Verse

Fun Facts: Food & Drinks Part 7

There are pink bananas that exist called Musa velutina, and they peel themselves when ripe. They’re often grown as ornamental, but have soft, sweet flesh and can be eaten. The seeds however are quite hard and can chip a tooth.

There are 3D printers that can print your dinner. The Foodini Food Printer makes everything from pizza to burgers to chocolate using fresh ingredients.

A free kitchen, operated by volunteers in India at the Golden Temple in the Indian city of Amritsar, serves 100,000 hot meals a day and has been doing so for over three hundred years.

We have the ability to eat an entire bag of chips without really noticing, because the chips have a vanishing caloric density. What that means is that it tricks our tongue and brain into thinking that we haven’t actually eaten anything.

Marigolds and other plants that contain the pigment Xanthophyll are added to chicken feed to make their egg yolks appear more orange.