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Sparky likes President Johnson

November 5, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sparky wanted to recreate this photo of President Johnson holding his beagle up by the ears. With Sparky’s belly, I’m afraid his ears would come off. I obviously can’t tell him that, so just said that I can’t find my suit.

Sparky wasn’t impressed by LBJ shaking hands with his dog. He thinks Blanco looks like a dumb ass. Sparky is envious and suspicious of dogs with luxurious fur. He likes how his seal fur lets him slide through brush and brambles, and thinks that slick dogs should get more acclaim.

Yuki riding on the back of President Johnson’s Cadillac has the twin virtues of being fun and dangerous. Sparky is going to talk about this photo for weeks.

After seeing President Johnson howling with Yuki, Sparky says that being president seems like a pretty easy job.

Going back to the Moon.

November 4, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

With the normal stupid stuff going on, it’s easy to lose track of the impressive work being done. SpaceX routinely launches satellites into orbit and occasionally demonstrates an impressive new capability, but the big picture isn’t addressed very often.

The Artemis III project is planning to get people back to the moon in two years. NASA is leading the project along with the space agencies of Europe, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada, Israel and Dubai.

Humans haven’t walked on the Moon in over fifty years, and this time, we won’t be landing in an expedient contraption. SpaceX is building the lunar lander. The photo above shows the SpaceX HLS with other objects to show the scale. Notice the tiny Apollo Lunar Module on the right.

Sparky and the yellow jackets

November 3, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The last time we went into woods at the South Park trail, was the second time that Sparky was noticed by yellow jackets. Both times, a yellow jacket landed on his back, Sparky got frantic, I noticed his distress and slapped the yellow jacket off.

I don’t think that he was stung. Both times, the yellow jacket was trying to figure out if there was a dog underneath all of the seal fur.

Sparky no longer wants to go in the woods, and he’s gotten worse. Now, he’s reluctant to go for a walk up the hill. I’m trying cognitive therapy on him. Exposing him to the area, without going into the woods. Or entering the woods somewhere else.

Sparky and Mr. Moose don’t agree.

November 3, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Since I have been chronicling Sparky’s journey, this seemed like a data point that couldn’t be excluded.

Sparky pooped on Mr. Moose. Decorum compels me to mask the evidence. It was a walk on a dark night, so maybe I’m making too much of this, but that’s my main job, so I speculate.

It’s not uncommon to have a falling-out with someone who was once a cherished friend. I had a dear friend who had a vastly different political perspective. We had a disagreeable exchange on social media, and that was it. Sparky hasn’t expressed an interest in politics, but he would naturally have an affinity for Biden biting babies.

Mr. Moose has always been in the Bull Moose Party, supporting the formerly Republican, Theodore Roosevelt. TR has been dead for a hundred years and Biden isn’t running, but Sparky and Mr. Moose don’t keep up on current events.

Whatever the reason, Mr. Moose is out of the rotation until he gets washed.

Sparky picks a Halloween costume.

October 31, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sparky is trying out some Halloween costume.

His baby seal costume isn’t very convincing, but is easy.

He really wants to be “Sparkle, the saucy princess”.

Sparky doesn’t want to go with the obvious. He thinks that Snoopy is kind of a tool.

Whatever Sparky decides to go with, Halloween might get him a car ride. That’s about it.

Trump is having fun.

October 31, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Vote for whomever you’d like, but admit that this is funny shit.

It doesn’t matter if Biden meant that Trump was garbage, or Trump’s ideas, campaign staff or supporters. The words of a feeble dotard don’t carry much weight.

The rest of the Trump episode on Rogan’s show.

October 30, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sparky and I stayed up to watch the entire Joe Rogan episode with Trump. It’s possible that Sparky only stayed up to eat popcorn.

Interesting political survey if you are kind of bored.

October 30, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Survey to identify your ideology.

Vote for whomever you’d like, it’s none of my business. So close to the presidential election, it gets stupid. This year is stupider than usual. Trump gave a big speech at Madison Square Garden, just like the Nazis. Harris gave a big speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., just like the KKK. Like I said, stupid.

Joe Rogan’s Trump episode

October 25, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Joe Rogan’s episode with Trump was just posted on Youtube. It’s midnight, so I’m not staying up to watch it, but thought I’d check in. I was curious how Rogan presents himself.

Here’s Rogan from last week’s episode.

Here’s Rogan for the Trump episode.

Newsweek: They need a new playbook.

October 24, 2024 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Newsweek: Political realignment

This article in Newsweek is evidence that the elite class are finally starting to figure out why they are wrong all the time. The authors did make a fundamental mistake. Trump caused this political realignment. John McCain, Mitt Romney and other establishment Republicans were comfortable managing the decline of America. My younger brother called them puppet-dickheads.

This last week, during an interview with Republican Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance, ABC’s Martha Raddatz tried to dispel concerns about Venezuelan gangs infiltrating Aurora, Colorado by stating that only “a handful of apartment complexes” in the city were affected. Listen more closely, and that benign-sounding dismissal is actually more sinister than it seems.