We are officially one week away from my wedding so I am busy as all get out. Joelle is arriving on Saturday evening at midnight, so I have about 45 hours to get the house ready and it is nowhere near it. But that is ok because even though I quit drinking coffee, I still have an espresso machine if needed. And let’s not even talk about the back yard, please.

At any rate, I need to work with Watergirl and start getting those of you who are interested a link so you can watch the zoom feed of the proceedings, which I have been assured will last no more than twenty minutes. Joelle got her hair did yesterday and is doing something with her eyelashes today and I wish I could tell you more about what she is doing but my eyes glazed over when she talked about the process. Something about not having to use fake eyelashes because she hates them and I didn’t even know there is something wrong with her real eyelashes, but this is not an area I think I am going to invest a lot of thought into. Do what makes you feel pretty and happy, kid. I’m not gonna say no either way.

In other news, there was a small anti-ICE protest hosted by the local college’s political science club held at my local church (yes I am an atheist/agnostic/unaffiliated but it is still my church because reasons), and we had a decent little turn out of townsfolk and students. My folks even rode up on Freddie (the golf cart) with Callie in tow.

You can actually see the front of their golf cart to the far left. It was nice to see a good mix of folks I know are politically active and some normies (like my parents). I have no idea how I bluepilled or whatever the fuck it is I did with my parents, but I am super delighted and completely aware of how fortunate I am they were radicalized in this direction, especially after hearing how so many of my friends have gone basically no contact with family.

In other news, Mayor Shirley Kemp’s last term ended this summer and the new Mayor, Mr. Furbee, asked if I would be willing to sit in on the town council for someone who stepped down, and I told him the same thing I told Mr. Eisenhauer- “Of course, and I won’t be offended if you come to your senses and find someone else.” So we will see what happens.

I know you all know it, because you are not fucking morons, but I am really not sure if folks in the MAGA movement are aware that over 55% of the military (according to latest data) are non-white. So it is really fucking bizarre to me that they keep putting out just purely racist policies:

The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that causes painful razor bumps and scarring to be kicked out of the service — an issue that disproportionately affects Black men.

The new guidance, expected to take effect in the coming weeks, would bar permanent shaving waivers and require medical personnel to craft formal treatment plans for affected troops, according to multiple service officials and internal documents reviewed by Military.com.

I will never forget the smell of the chemicals a lot of the black dudes in my unit used instead of shaving. And it was really awful what shaving did to some of those guys- massive infected ingrown hairs, painful rashes, just awful. That’s why they had shaving profiles (the army term for a medical excuse to not shave), and I am here to tell you that it did not impact readiness at all. As a side thought, it is only later on in life that I realize how fucking lucky I was that the majority of the people in my platoon were black or hispanic, because as a white person from WV I don’t know if I would have learned so much from and about those communities.

Black people are 18% (thereabouts) of military personnel. But don’t worry- they have a plan:

Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruiting campaign that would encourage young people to honor the legacy of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk by joining the military, according to two officials familiar with the planning.

The idea would be to frame the recruiting campaign as a national call to service, the officials said. Possible slogans that Pentagon leaders have discussed include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors,” according to the officials.

Anthony Tata, who serves as undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, is leading the effort, the officials said.

As part of the potential new campaign, Pentagon leaders are considering using chapters of Kirk’s political organization, Turning Point USA, at schools across the U.S. as military recruitment centers, the officials said. That could include inviting recruiters to be present at events or advertising for the military at the chapters, one of them explained. President Donald Trump has credited Kirk and Turning Point USA with helping him win the 2024 election.

Drive out brown people and directly recruit brownshirts, heckuva plan. Except the numbers aren’t there. The Turning Point shit and the people they are targeting are on college campuses, and those people aren’t going to say fuck it and go enlisted after getting a college degree.

The only upside to this nonsense is they are not going to have enough people to pursue their wars of choice.

The Disney fallout continues as expected. Everyone is outraged and nothing will happen, but I cancelled my shit and am writing an actual physical letter. He asked me why and I said “no money for nazis.” The dark irony in all of this is if Bob Iger or whoever runs Disney had any fucking courage whatsoever, Disney already has a shitload of anti-Nazi propaganda in the vaults- WWII saved Disney. I used a bunch of their films in a propaganda course I taught 20 years ago or so.

I feel like I had something major to say but am forgetting so I reserve the right to babble more later on. Oh- two questions:

Why does everything raccoons do look like a heist? And it can’t just be the bandit masks:

And also, if we win the upcoming civil war, can we finally fucking convert to metric?