I KEEP GETTING THESE STUPID WEATHER ALERTS ON MY iPHONE: Just this week:

A moderate severity wind alert: "sustained winds 10-20 mph; gusts to 30 mph." When I lived in the desert areas of New Mexico and California that that was called a 'light breeze'.

A moderate severity freeze warning: "sub-freezing temperatures expected as low as 32F". Last I checked, 'subfreezing' meant below 32F (usually well below).

The source for all this nonsense is our very own National Weather Service. Anyone (besides me) for cutting their funding?

IF THE U.S. WON'T STRIKE BACK, MAYBE ISRAEL WILL: Israel is on high alert in the aftermath of an airstrike that killed an Iranian general earlier this week, prepping its defenses against a possible retaliatory strike.

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS when a Virginia police officer comes upon a street takeover. It's in Springfield, Virginia, one of the wealthiest and most Democratic counties in the country.

The comments are not kind, and they give you a sense of what's to come.

THEY HAVE NO PLACE TO GO: Bureaucrats hunker down to protect themselves in anticipation of a Trump victory.

They'll die without the government teat to support them.

SON OF HAMAS COMMANDER delivers takedown of pro-Hamas activist:

There is no difference between Hamas and the so-called ‘Palestinians’, as the vast majority of them support Hamas.... There are no ‘Palestinian’ people. There are conflicted tribes, and without Israel as the common enemy, they would kill each other.

Read it all.

FINALLY SPRING, WEEK 5: Kinda-sorta on time this week. Not much has happened weatherwise. Here's the usual pond photo:

Brighter than last week, clearly, and the tulip magnolia has pretty much lost all it's blossoms, but the leaves have started to come out finally. We're on the way to summer.

The dogwoods are finally coming out of hiding. These outside our kitchen window have just begun to bud; hopefully we'll have more by next week.

Further down the hill toward the creek there are more dogwood trees, and they've now begun to come out of hibernation a bit early. Usually the trees leaf first, hiding the dogwoods from view.

The fire pit view is next, and nothing much has happened. Trees behind it are still mostly bare, though there are fits-and-starts beginning to show.

Along the road, the trees are beginning to show life at the very tops. Certainly the greenish pollen that comes with every spring has begun to show up on the cars, though it certainly hasn't reached its peak.

Until next week....

ANOTHER INEPT ORGANIZATION: Amtrak Twitter account goes woke on climate change.

THE ORWELLIAN NATURE of 'sex assigned at birth'.

Every time I see 'gender' on a form, I cross it off and write 'sex' in place.

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG HATES YOUR CAR, but mostly he thinks you're an idiot.

'Let's be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can't pretend otherwise.' This is like telling a death row prisoner that he's moving towards the electric chair and can't pretend otherwise. The prisoner might not want to make the "transition" to the next life, but the government has set a date for him — just like the Biden administration is trying to transition the entire country to EVs.

This from a guy(?) who's driven to work in a gas-guzzling limousine?

EVERYTHING BUT A BAGGIE OF CHEERIOS — Media is always babysitting Biden.

IN A NATIONAL DIVORCE, what happens to Missouri?

KURT SCHLICHTER: Use their calculated insults against them.

[They] are vulnerable to our power, ruthlessly exercised. Look at Ron DeSantis in Florida, scoring win after win, using his power without apology. Trump needs to do that when he wins – and he is promising to. The enemy will then try to do what it always does – leverage our values against us to get us to act as it wishes. They will seek to call us “authoritarians” who “hate democracy” whenever we exercise our power. Laugh at them. Suggest they cry more.

They can’t stop us; they can only try convince us to stop ourselves.

Don't let them.

THEY'RE GETTING NERVOUS. To keep the bureaucracy in place and functioning even without a progressive president, the Biden-Harris administration has issued a new rule that will make it difficult for Trump to clean house during his second term.

VIA 'WATTER'S WORLD' TONIGHT, Biden's 'growing economy' is a result of an illegal immigrant job fair.

I'M A DEMOCRAT; THE LAW DOESN'T APPLY TO ME. Nathan Wade in hot water for ‘reneged’ court-ordered payments to wife amid separation.

THERE’S CONTEXT and then there’s context-context.

Like Whoopi Goldberg's 'rape-rape'?

THE RACE HUSTLERS are terrified that Trump will end racism.

By eliminating Democrats (and Progressives, but I repeat myself) from power....

Update: Even some Democrats are having their 'come to Jesus' moment as a pro-Israel Democrat group is looking to oust two controversial far-left "Squad" members from their seats in Congress.

WELL, THE REAL MINIMUM WAGE IS ZERO: Fast food workers left in 'shock' over layoffs as former manager warns more are coming.

DO YOU APPROVE OF DEI? If so, you must be a 'DWEIB' [Diversity, Whinging, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging] (pronounced 'dweeb').

NEWS OR SATIRE? Judge orders Trump to stop noticing that the people trying to put him in jail are Democrats.