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Into the Valley of Death...

Today's title is courtesy of Tennyson's poem "Charge of the Light Brigade" which describes another group of soldiers sent on a senseless suicide mission that accomplished nothing. The mission to open the Strait of Hormuz is reminiscent of the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli which had tragic results as Doug Macgregor relays in his conversation with Danny Davis below. Our politicians, much like Sam Cooke, don't know much about history or geography. This war of choice isn't working out well, and looks as if it might cause a global depression. Trump's ego won't let him admit defeat and withdraw from the Middle East, besides his Zionist owners won't allow him to do so. So on we go sowing more senseless death and destruction in our effort to maintain global hegemony.

So, let's take it from the top:

Afternoon folks!

It's blues by the bucketload this week... Starting off we've got a fantastic live performance from B.B. King from 1964 when he was pretty much at the height of his playing. After that we've got a compilation of alternates and unreleased songs from Larry Williams, one of the great New Orleans r&b piano player/singers followed by some raucous live slide guitar blues from Hound Dog Taylor. Following all that is some blues rock Texas style from Toni Price and then an album from Kingfish, a band that features the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. We finish up in the diversity department with a sampler from John Prine's record label that features a few songs from him followed by some other interesting artists.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! If you are reading this, you are still here!

My latest AI experience: I ordered a food supplement from the same company I order it routinely. This time, it clicked on sale completed before I could review the order. What was confirmed an hour later was my order for 2 products I had never heard of, and the product I did order was not a 4 pack, but a one pack with a forever monthly subscription.

The reason I didn't buy the product from Amazon is it is only a monthly subscription.

I got an AI back and forth to straighten things out. It went on for hours. I finally said to the bot to fix it or I would report this as fraud to my credit card and the FBI. I soon got a bot with a name and number who corrected things, even leaving a name to ask for if things were not resolved.

What had never taken me over 5 minutes took 6 hours and multiple phone calls.

I am short...

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

Hooray! We've managed to make it through another week without the whole world completely imploding. Keeping my fingers crossed that smarter heads prevail and that holds for a lot longer.
Locally it's been a week of early morning fog and hot sunny afternoon's here in the lower left. I've had the windows open at night to keep the house cool. Normally I don't have to do that until May or June. If the last few weeks are any indication it's going so be a blazing hot summer.

Some old familiar faces and some new friends from my last few visits to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Good Morning

First calf of the season on the ground, a bullock, red like his mother. Dexter throw small calves. I needed to move him to another pasture and he is small enough for me to lift. The 80 to 100 lb calves were getting too hard for me to handle without assistance. Looking forward to making a variety of cheeses this season.

No nectarines or peaches this year. Enjoyed the blooms signaling spring had arrived. A few blooms survived the 22 degree night, last night was 16 degrees none survived. Typical, I consider them ornamentals for a short bloom in spring and beautiful fall color.

Here are Daniel Davis and Joe Kent talking about a war: