"Jesus will still love you as you age, even if you have a few wrinkles on your face, according to a Vatican document issued on Wednesday."
I would hope this was obvious. But in crazy times, the obvious needs repeating.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Not Surprising Pronouncement From Catholic Church But Still Good
3/4/26 Reuters reports the Catholic Church is warning its members not to let vanity cause them to engage in cosmetic surgery as part of the "Cult of the Body":
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Painful Learning Experience
Painful only on time. I tried to get around that problem that my mill vise could not hold the vise in an orientation for side milling the workpiece to .620" so I put so that I could face mill it to that width...
That should have been easy: slice .001" per pass at low speed. But instead cutting on the 1/8" wall just bounced everything around enough to knock it out of the vise. So I went back to the chop saw and worked very had to make a slice. 625". I got .6". Close enough.
As i was writing this is realized another method that I did not try but I might try tomorrow just to see if it works. Put the 4" wide piece in the vise with half of it above jaws. Side mill to width. Turn it upside down. Repeat.
If I do this again, I will use 1/4" wall.
That approach also did not work. Trying to mill such thin material just sets the material to vibrating, which simply shakes it loose from the vise and causes the vise to shake loose from the clamps to the mill table.
PM Starmer
Now he is saying that they are deploying F35s to protect allies against Iranian attacks. Also the U.S. is again free to use bases in the U.K. for the Iran war
No Gun? No Problem
Absence of a gun is not usually a problem:
Rockville, Md. (1968)
01/25/1969: The son, 15, murdered his mother and three
siblings with “a hatchet, knife, croquet mallet and kerchief garrot.”
Category: family
Suicide: no
Cause: unknown
Weapon: blunt, knife, hatchet, strangle[1]
Iran Missed the Memo From the English Caliphate
Cyprus: Drones struck the British Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, pulling the U.K. and the European Union into the conflict. Cypriot press reported the strikes likely came from Hezbollah.
And Starmer had refused to give U.S. permission to use bases in the U.K. Fat lot of good it did them.
Article V Event?
NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading toward Turkish airspace, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday. It was unclear whether the missile was targeting Turkey, a NATO member state bordering Iran.
An attack on Turkyie (or however they want it spelled now) seems unlikely. Perhaps the Iranians in their confusion are just pressing red buttons at random. But such an attack requires NATO members to come to their defense.
ICE Arrest in Boise
It is fashionable to imagine that ICE is engaged in random arrests of people who it thinks are illegals. 3/3/26 KTVB:
BOISE, Idaho — Nearly a month after a father was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) near a Boise daycare, the agency is responding publicly for the first time, saying the arrest was targeted and tied to a prior conviction.
In a statement to KTVB, ICE said the man has a 2024 conviction in Boise for “theft by alteration.”
The agency described the arrest as “targeted” and said officers were never at a preschool, adding that the man was detained about 200 yards away.
The man’s family has asked that his name not be released at this time for privacy reasons.
Attorney J.J. Despain said theft by alteration typically involves switching price tags in a store to pay a lower price, rather than removing merchandise without paying.
Despain said even relatively minor offenses can draw renewed attention from immigration authorities.
“It could be, I haven’t seen this happen so much in Idaho, but in other places in the country, they really are just looking up old cases because they want to boost their numbers,” Despain said.
Or enforce the law. If you are here unlawfully, you get immediate deportation. Even if you do not break any other laws, you are here illegally and are subject to immediate deportation.
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