Happy St. Valentine’s Day

Let’s start the day off with a nice cup of coffee.

You’ll need it to fortify yourself against the onslaught of Valentine’s Day. Remember, this is not just an exhibition, it’s also a competition replete with candy, flowers, cards, puppies and poetry.

Not bad for a made-up holiday. I’m not sure St. Valentine would approve of the materialism of the day but who could object to a day dedicated to love?

Oh yeah, the religion of peace.

The rest of you, enjoy the sweets be they animal, mineral or vegetable.

Happy Valentine’s Day, I wuv you all!

Throw Back Thursday

…open thread.

Michelle Still Schtruggles

Will this woman ever stop whining?

 

Michelle Obama: As black women we don't articulate our pain,

"Because it's almost like nobody ever gave us permission to do that."pic.twitter.com/Zpgkg9w5mg

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 27, 2026

First of all, what’s with the macrame hair-do? Secondly, has this woman ever done an interview with out talking about race? It’s as if that’s the only thing she cares about. Third, what pain has Michelle experienced that we have not already heard ad nauseum about? And fourth, what does one of the most fawned over, privileged, wealthy women in the country have to whine about in the first place?

And if she does have something to whine about let me remind her that she’s has been “articulating her pain” every time she opened her mouth for the last 15 years. She should really check in with her pal Gweneth Paltrow to learn a bit about “practicing gratitude,” clearly a concept she’s unfamiliar with.

And what right does a woman wearing $100,000 worth of gold around her neck have to complain in the first place?

I apologize, I’m simply in no mood to countenance this woman’s narcissistic grievance airing. Carry on, we’ve still got a lot of illegal aliens to deport.

The Smartphone Evolution Revolution

Let’s not talk about the ongoing ICE protest in Minneapolis. Instead let’s talk about the device that made the protests possible in the first place: smartphones. They are critical transformative tools for modern activism, used to organize over 80% of recent social movements, enabling rapid, real-time coordination through encrypted messaging social media, and live streaming  According to AI smartphones have revolutionized the speed and scale of mobilization. They facilitate mass mobilization, allow for quick, decentralized planning, and serve as tools for citizen journalism and documentation of events.

Beside organizing riots our phones have changed every other aspect of life in the 18 years since the first iPhone was introduced in 2007. Let’s review some of the things our phones have replaced in those 18 years:

Cameras

Maps

GPS devices

Calculators

Alarm clocks

TV’s

Radios

Camcorders

Pay phones

Yellow pages

Answering machines

Newspapers

Calendars

VCR’s

Flashlights

Watches

Timers

Compasses

Mail

Cookbooks

Keys

Cash

Airline tickets

Photo albums

Magazines

Money

Voice recorders

Scanners

Walkie talkie

Translators

Playing cards

Diaries

Travel guidebooks

Foreign phrasebooks

Portable speakers

Takeout orders by phone

CDs, DVDs

Encyclopedias

Compact mirrors

Bank branches

Checks

Address books

Parking meters

Rolodexes

Dictionaries…and on and on:

mp3 players ,portable cd players, audio cassettes, cassette players, tape decks, vhs tapes, beepers, pagers, handheld game consoles, film rolls, instant cameras, slide projectors, slide viewers, fax machines, typewriters, notebooks, planners, receipts, coupons, flyers, catalogs, brochures, instruction manuals, itineraries, tickets, boarding passes, parking permits, bills, invoices, memos, letters, landline phones, wallets, tape measures, thermometers, fitness trackers, remote controls, business cards, printed photos, phone book,s cd-roms, floppy disks …(Compiled by Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) January 17, 2026)

 

If you are a millennial or younger you likely don’t know what half the things on the list even are. . I don’t really have a point to this post other than to point out how our lives have been upended by a little piece of technology that has done nothing less than transform the world.

…and not necessarily for the good

Portland on the Mississippi

Yes, things are getting ICE-y in Minneapolis, Portland would be proud.

Two children, including one who was 6-months-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety.

The first question that comes to mind is who in their right mind would take a baby to a riot in the middle of the night in 10 degree weather? Morons. Maybe they were just a family driving home from a basketball game, still morons. Have they not been living in dystopian Minneapolis for the last 2 weeks? Take a longer route.

The place is crazy nuts and dangerous thanks to crazed liberals, mostly women, who are so taken with illegals that they put them ahead of safe streets and neighborhoods, their ideology puts criminals ahead of their own children. That’s not empathy, that’s pathology. They make Karens appear to be stable by comparison.

Here’s an interesting new theory on Liberal women’s obsession with immigration. These are sad people with deeply emotional issues, their activism is an outlet for empathy, purpose and identify. “Basically, women throwing energy into illegal migrants absorbs emotional surplus that no longer has a stable place to go.”

Their reactions seem so extreme because “they aren’t grounded in outcomes or solutions. They’re expressions of inner chaos that has manifested into “political activism.” The theory explains some of the TDS too.

Lord, please deliver us from all these narcissistic theater kids.

No Kings

The Truth Is Out There

Well you can’t complain that 2026 is getting off to a slow start. Civil uprisings in Iran and Minnesota and soon in a blue state near you. A deposed dictator in Venezuela. Ships seized on the high seas. Oh, and a shooting in Minneapolis.

So now the only story the media is concerned with involves the angry mobs of astroturfers protesting ICE.  They’ll get back to screaming about all of Trump’s other illegal actions after they’ve settled down a bit. For now they’re working hard to make the Minnesota mom the latest martyr of the cause in order to justify riots across the country.

These provocateurs are like deranged football fans who want to string up the referee when they disagree with his the call on the field. They’ve seen from one angle that the foot was in bounds. Never mind that there are 4 more angles that show the foot clearly out of bounds. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of indisputable video from a different viewpoint. That’s “their truth.” There’s a reason for instant replay.

My truth, my reality; it’s a narcissistic approach to life where there’s no such thing as objective truth and everything is relative.

But the truth is out there.

Happy New Year 2026: Long May We Run

I’m keeping resolutions to a minimum this year in order to ensure success.

May we all stick together for another year to help each other celebrate life’s joys, mourn its sorrows and give each other strength to get through whatever obstacles are thrown our way.

So Happy New Year to all the MOTI! Long may we run.

Christmas 2025

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.  And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Raj and I would like to wish all of our wonderful friends here a very, very Merry Christmas. We all deserve to set the world’s burdens aside and simply embrace the beauty and miracle that is Christmas.            

We send our love to each of you and wish you all a wonderful Christmas. Fill it to the brim with all the merry and the bright you can muster, for we are indeed blessed.

A reprise post,  but as relevant as it was first time around.