I HAVE BEEN AVOIDING THIS AS MUCH AS I COULD, BUT ...

 Let's talk Lindsey (sp?) CClancy .... oh wow.

Okay - so as you may have heard by now, she has had herjury released - the judge having declared a MISTRIAL.

Her lawyer, doing what all lawyers do, argued that the jude should have det th ONE JUROR aside and choden a NEW ONE from the alternates, thn redo the deliberations all over again.

Um, NO - that's not the purpose that they hav alternates, dude!!

Altrnates aren't there because you didn't get the result you wanted ... they aren't there to replace jurors who you don't like ... they aren't there to fill in for somone who feels a certain way.  OMG - can you imagine the vcan of worms this would present to the court system??

Well, the judge said no, that he was going to declare a mistrial, and then called to jury into court ...

This is where her lowyeer lost his f'ng mind IMO .... he rocks in his chair a few times - then stands up and says he wants to appeal the judges decision NOT to replace the joror ....

WHAT??

So get thus straight - you are on a jury, you have gotten word that the you are wanted back in court, so you are gettingting into line - they all come in the same oor, so they have to line up - and suddenly you ar told to wait??

Oh Jesus!

So, herr lawyer wants to wait unil SATURDAY Tto get a verdict from the Appeals court, the judge didn't think they would do that - the lawyer daid they would .... I think the judge knows better, sir ... but - just to be "fair" the judge gives him ONE HOUR to get a stay, IF he can actually find anyone at the Appeals court.

You have to realize - that this is all happening at 11:330am their time ... well close to it ... so chances are - unless he has a clerk sitting at the office with a draft of the appeal right there, it's likely it won't get heard.

Well, It sounded like it was heard and DENIED ... I'm guessing they told him the same thing I said, that's not what the Alternates are for.

Duh.

But, either way - they will be re-trying the case in about a month or so, fepending on how the courts are booked - I know one of the Prosevuton lawyers said she was going to be out of town for about a week in Oct.

So w will see ...

But, not to be deterred - her lawyer, ass that he is, goes out to the microphone and wlays it all on the shoulders of the person who refused to be a lemming and just go with the crowd.

Holy Crap!!

Dude - first off.  At this point NO ONE KNOWS how they would have voted ... all we know is that the juror wouldn't follow the ruling regarding "reasonable doubt" ... and that's it.

Maybe it was 11 jurors thought she was guilty ... and he just didn't feel it.
Maybe it was 11 jurors thought she was not guilty, and he didn't feel that either.

We.  Don't. Know.

Yet.

I'm guessing, there's gonna be some books ... memoirs ... coming out, soon.

Holy Crud.  

I have an opinion - because of the testimony - but I will not share that right now.

NAME ONE, I DARE YOU ....

 So, per usual - I am a littl bit behind on my news shows ... but just todays stuff.

So I'm watching Good Morning America IABC) when they are doing a story on their favorite subect .... Trump ... and they are talking about some Arrabian sheik who, apparently, has some stake holding in "a Trump Family business" .... what do I cae at this point - it's obviously not one of his businesses, its a FAMILY business, according to them (so its likely one of his kids) ... but EVERYTHING  Trump is assumed to be his.

Anyhow, the reporter goes on to say:
... never before has someone like him (him being the sheik) been a part of a sitting President's family business ..."

Well - that got me thinking ....

Which othr President has even HAD a "family business"??

I cannot think of one .... can you???

Carter was a farmer, which is a business but I'm not sue how strong it was at the time...

Truman was a failed habardasher (hat man)

I don't think we've ever had an active businessman before.

Huh?

It's kind of a stupid question if you ask me ....

MN FISH TANK

 What oh state does this???

Every fish zavaiilable in our lakes!

WOW!  

OBITUARY: TIM CURRY, AGE 80

 If you need a bigger clue as to how big Dolly's death was - she completely push Tim Curry off the news cycle .... he also passed on 2026Aug25

Wow - if you don't know who he was, you are either really young or totally out of touch ....

In 1975, he starred in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. he played Dr. Frankfurter, the Transvestite ... and while he wasn't the first man to dress as a woman, he is likely one of the most famous.  I was (am) as straight lace as they come, and even I knew who hee was in high school.

If you are younger than that, you might remember him from Home Alone 2, where he played the Consierge who tries to catch the kid in the room alone. (yeah, I know I spelled that wrong)

He lent his voice to a LOT of cartoons/animated movies as well .... including Star Wars stuff 

And he even appeared in Cranford on Masterpiece Theater/PBS

In 2012 he had a major stroke which put him in a wheelchair - but it did not effect his speech so he was still able to work.

We will miss you Tim ... I remember you mostly from The Molly Dodd show, where you played her ex-husband who moves in the hotel she runs.

He never married, never had children - but no explanation as to why ... I always thought he was gay/homosexual, but I have no real idea.Nor should it matter.

UPDATED OBITUARY: DOLLY PARTON, AGE 80 ....

So, I've learned a bit more .... Dolly Parton died from CANCER .... but there hasn't been any type of cancer given - yet.  We do know she suffered from stomach/bladder issue these last few years .... likely it was one of those issues.

She never had children - I thought I had heard at one time it was because she had a bad abortion, but checking out her IMDb.com page, I find it is listed as being from an allergic reaction to early birth control pills .... interesting.

OBITUARY: DOLLY PARTON, DEAD AGE 80

OMG 0 so I was listening to the Garage Logic to day when they - the guys of GL - popped on with the news that Dolly Parton had died.

Now they had said she died earlier this year, so I was kind of skeptical ... so I hit FB ... well, I have old, and I mean old technology, so it took a bit to find it = posted from out local station, bu just the one news station ....

kind of surprising since she is so well known.

But - I just saw it on The Five on FNC ... so sad.

They began talking about little girls named JOLENE after her song .... and I thought - wow, how many kids have been called Joleene (first, middle, nicknamed) ?

Y'all -- Jolene was a hooker!!!

Plain and simple - she even said so

So all you out there calld Jolene - you better think of changing your name.

But I got me thinking - what's the FIRST SONG you think of when you thought of when you heard Dolly had passed away?

I'm going to guess most people thought of JOLENE or 9 TO 5 .... or even HE'S ALIVE for some ....

I thought of this: 

Goodbye Dolly 0 you will live on for a few more decades then you will be like Hank Williams, Pats Cline, and Loretta Lynn .... just music in the wind.

We will miss you though - you had a great talent, and an even better sense of humor.

SOLAR ECLIPSE: AUGUST 123, 2026

 So, I missed when the eclipse happened this morning/afternoon .... I'm in Western WI so I'm not really sure .... but we are so far on the prenumbra (we would only see like a sliver here) that I was going to have to watch it onYouTub any how.

So I found this video from  CNN - they seem to have some pretty good carmera work, evren if most of their broadcasters are .... less than functional.

but you seel me .... what do you see at 1:25:00??  

 This drove me nuts ....

It doesn't make SENSE to me ...

Why are there flashes .... ON THE MOON??

AND ... for that matter .... on the DARK SIDE of the moon????

I'm telling you ....

There's something strange going on.

STUPIDEST THING i'VE HEARD (so far) TODAY ....

 Oh, and look it's only 10:30am .... on a Sunday, too.

So I'm watching Fox News Sunday (FOX-9, local station) and they had on a gal from the DSA - Deemocratic Socialists Association (not sure about the A part) and she is going through all the talking points of the "party" .... abolishing police, no border control, to ICE, etc.

Theen they got to the Senate .... here's the stupid part - and I have to wonder about today's school system, honestly - she said they want to get rid of the senate because it traces it's roots back to the House of Lords in England .... um .... NO it does not.

We were trying to distance ourselves from England, idiot - why the heck would be pull in something we had issues with in the first place?!

The Senate, with 2 people from each state, gave EQUAL POWER to each state .... big or small, rich or poor, farmers or industrialists ... didn't matter

A vote from the senator from Rhode Island held just as much weight as a vote from the North Carolinian senator!!

The issue with "power" actually leys in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ... there the number of members each state has is based on population of the state .... so while Minnesota has 8 representatives, California has over 30 representatives ....

That is less fair ... but for some reason this is acceptable to the DSA ... And here's where we begin to see the issues with Socialism, really.

They only want "equality" for as long as they are more equal than you.

She went on to try to explain who should be in jail - and to her jail is not about punishment, it's about SAFETY .... 

Raise you hand if the hairs just stood up on the back of your neck!!

PLEASE PEOPLE - think this through .... don't vote DSA

GET IT STRAIGHT PLEASE ...

This morning I turnd into Good Morning America (ABC) and got an update on the shooting of a man in Madison, WI ....

You'll notice that I did not mention his age ... or his race ... they are at this point insignificant ... until we know more, they are not necessary to mention ....

Now if only ABC news had receieved the memo!

First thing out of the reporters mouth was the race of the dead man - however all he said about the officers involved were their JOBS .... apparently, cops don't have a race these days ....

I'm sorry, but if the ethnicity of one is important, then the ethnicity of ALL should be equally important.

But ... that must just be me, I guess.

Any how -- as it turns out Madison police, for some rason, do not wear body cameras ... wait - how did this happen?  I thought all police were supposed to wear them??

I'm going to guess that it's an EXPENSE thing - and the city can't afford it .... even though Madison is a huge college town, it's got students from all over ... you'd think they'd have opted into the program but I guess not.

Story is....

Over the weekend, the police were called because a man was trying to open car doors without any keys .... and the police found him, tried to stop him, but supposeably he FLED ON A BICYCLE .... and they LOST HIM for about 1/2 hour.

Well, bikes are kind of slippery - they get to places police cars can't ... like stairs, skinny alleys, etc. etc.

well, they found him again 1/2 hr later and attempted to arrest the guy ... only this time (at least according to ABC News) he had a "fixed blade" weapon.

To me, we're looking at either a kitchen knife, or an ax, whatver - just not a pocket knife ....

And they tazed him - that's a lot of eletricity going through his body ... but the tazer didn't work!!!

Okay - now I'm thinkiiing, the guy has to be on something - it's pretty hot out, so I doubt he's got a down jacket on - THEN A VIDEO BEGINS ....

Yup, it took that long for a video to start ...

A small (4-6 officers) group of officers try to take him down .... the reporter said he was "on the ground on his side" - I didn't see that, I saw him sitting on his butt, on the ground, one arm in the air ... and then you can hear 3 shots ring out.

Last night, the Madison police  tried to give a news conference about what happened, when a man took over he mic/conference and wouldn't allow them to speak.

Ok -- I can see the guy being upset, but why not WAIT for them to say something before you take over?

Guys - If we don't get this under control, people like Manson, Hitler, and Stalin are going to win ...

Everyone - step back ....

Everyone - take a breath

Everyone - just LISTEN to the police first.

But most importantly ....

Everyone - look BEYOND the color of somone's skin ... right now, all we can say is that even if this guy had been white, the tragedy would still be the same.