TheWarPrayer

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Forward: Things that make you go "hmmm."

Mus' be gremlins.

-------- Forwarded Message --------

What we know about Epstein death announcement dated day before he died

What we know about Epstein death announcement dated day before he died

The Department of Justice announced Epstein's death on Aug. 10, 2019, but files released in 2026 included a stat...

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

The Trump Pipeline

Political cartoon

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Sunday, January 25, 2026

131 evil ICE agent cartoons

And that's not even counting the murder Saturday in Minneapolis of the 37-year-old US citizen and Veteran's Administration ICU nurse by Trump's goose-stepping NAZI goons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5z_REsKdI8

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Reply: He actually posted this

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026, at 9:14 PM, Glenn Meyer wrote:

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Saturday, January 24, 2026

He actually posted this

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Friday, January 23, 2026

Welcome to the club

https://theweek.com/cartoons/political-cartoons-january-23-2026

A man and a woman sit on a couch watching a large television. The image on the screen is a group of angry-eyed ICE agents that carry weapons and are masked. The man says, “What happened to all the gun nuts who said they needed their arsenals to deter government tyranny?” The woman points a finger at the screen and responds, “They joined ICE.”

A man and a woman sit on a couch watching a large television. The image on the screen is a group of angry-eyed ICE agents that carry weapons and are masked. The man says, &ldquo;What happened to all the gun nuts who said they needed their arsenals to deter government tyranny?&rdquo; The woman points a finger at the screen and responds, &ldquo;They joined ICE.&rdquo;

This cartoon is called &ldquo;Mar-A-NATO.&rdquo; An angry Donald Trump, his belly hanging over his belt, is outside a club flying the NATO flag. Trump carries a putter named &ldquo;sledge putter&rdquo; and is eating a bag of &ldquo;Greenland Rare Earth Chips.&rdquo; NATO members are in the background watching and one says, &ldquo;Maybe we don&rsquo;t want to be in a club that would have him as a member.&rdquo;

This editorial cartoon is titled &ldquo;New Plan For Greenland.&rdquo; It depicts a large, icy cliff that rises above the coast and a small, Greenland city. A large cave has been cut out of the side of the cliff and labeled &ldquo;Epstein Files Repository.&rdquo; There&rsquo;s a hole leading down to the cave where someone can drop things. Nearby, a ship from the Department of Justice is on the water. It&rsquo;s overloaded with boxes and moves toward the cave.

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;ICE Agent Group Photo.&rdquo; It shows a mob of masked insurrectionists outside the U.S. Capitol building. There is a &ldquo;TRUMP&rdquo; flag, a Confederate flag, and the Gadsden &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Tread on Me&rdquo; with a coiled snake.

A woman and man leave a movie theatre where the words &ldquo;Melania: The Movie&rdquo; are prominently displayed on the marquee. The man says, &ldquo;The CGI was terrible. Real people don&rsquo;t look or act like that.&rdquo;

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Trump insults our allies again, so what else is new?

"If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking German"

Donald Trump insults European leaders in Davos address: Read speech in full

Donald Trump insutls European leaders in Davos address: Read speech in full

Trump said certain places in Europe are "not even recognizable" during his address at the World Economic Forum.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

DJT Productions (Scared Ketchup): Gimme all the awards!

https://youtu.be/CgfWn1csMgY?list=RDCgfWn1csMgY

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Thoughts and prayers

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Borowitz Report: New Study Links Botox to Pathological Lying

New Study Links Botox to Pathological Lying

ANDY BOROWITZ

JAN 14, 2026

Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (The Borowitz Report)—A new study published on Wednesday by Harvard Medical School has found a link between the overuse of Botox and pathological lying.

"Repeated injections of Botox to the face interact with proteins in the brain," Professor Harland Dorrinson, who supervised the study, said. "The result is an acute allergic reaction to the truth."

Though over-injecting Botox makes it difficult for a user to move the facial muscles necessary for speech, he said, "to the extent that the person's mouth is capable of moving, it will be lying."

The study revealed other negative side effects of Botox, such as swelling in the cranium that requires the user to wear an enormous hat.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Thursday, January 15, 2026

The Supremes - Political cartoons for January 15 | The Week

This cartoon is titled Supreme Leaders. The Ayatollah sits cross-legged on a carpet on the left and Donald Trump on a carpet on the right. Both wear Ayatollah-style hats. They share a speech bubble as both say &ldquo;We have the right to shoot domestic terrorists whose protests challenge the legitimacy of our regime.&rdquo;

Two skeletons in suits and badges labeled &ldquo;EPA&rdquo; talk to each other in front of a factory belching out dark-colored, evil-looking smoke. One skeleton says, &ldquo;Clean air? Who gives a (expletive)?&rdquo; The other responds, &ldquo;All it does is hinder economic growth!&rdquo;

A shocked-looking Uncle Sam sits at a psychic&rsquo;s table upon which rests a crystal ball. The psychic at the table is speechless, crouched over in pain and his head buried after having glimpsed the future.

A farmer in overalls and his son look out over a field filled with buildings that connect to power lines. A man in a suit, who looks strangely like a robot, points to the field and is near a large sign that reads &ldquo;Data Farm.&rdquo; The boy asks his dad,&rdquo;What are they growing?&rdquo; The dad responds, &ldquo;Alarm!&rdquo;

This political cartoon is titled &ldquo;Weighing His Options.&rdquo; Donald Trump is outside a restaurant that looks like a McDonald&rsquo;s but is named &ldquo;McDominination.&rdquo; Trump stands on a scale that registers 350 pounds and is straining under his weight. He holds a giant cheeseburger that drips blood and has the word &ldquo;warmongering&rdquo; written across the beef. Trump says, &ldquo;RFK Jr. says red meat is good.&rdquo;

Donald Trump is drawn with two mouths in this cartoon and speaks out of both of them. From the left mouth, he says, &ldquo;The senseless killings of protestors must stop.&rdquo; From the right mouth he says, &ldquo;Talking Iran here, not Minnesota.&rdquo;

This wordless political cartoon depicts a man seated in a chair, smoking a cigar. The man and the chair are drawn in a clever way to resemble a factory made of bricks and concrete. His shoulders belch smoke and his cigar looks like a smokestack. The smoke he blows out collects down and covers people in a cloud of dark smoke. A man in a hardhat has stepped out of the smoke cloud and coughs more smoke.

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;How Trump Would Like It.&rdquo; Jerome Powell is on his knees at the Federal Reserve. Donald Trump says, &ldquo;Jerome Powell&hellip;sit, stay&hellip;lower interest rates!&rdquo;

This cartoon is titled &ldquo;The New Food Pyramid&rdquo;. It depicts RFK Jr. in a suit standing next to some suggested things to ingest. They four things on top are &ldquo;Beef&rdquo; with a picture of a cow head, &ldquo;Raw milk&rdquo; with a picture of a milk jug where flies buzz, &ldquo;Protein Powder&rdquo; with the words &ldquo;sick gains bro&rdquo; on a bottle and then a bottle of Ivermectin with a horse on the side. The next level down has a sharp syringe and the words &ldquo;testosterone, human growth hormone&rdquo; and &ldquo;botox&rdquo;. The next has &ldquo;essential oils&rdquo; and a skull and crossbones over the words &ldquo;unregulated supplements.&rdquo; The final part of the pyramid shows a bear&rsquo;s head and the words &ldquo;tainted bear meat.&rdquo;

Three United States Marines in military gear walk across a frozen landscape. The marine in front holds his foot in pain and says &ldquo;Gah!&rdquo; because he&rsquo;s just stepped on something sharp. The other Marines say, &ldquo;They said the only defense Greenland and Denmark has was two dog sleds. Denmark makes Lego! We forgot about the Lego!&rdquo;

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Know Your Domestic Terrorist

This is a three-panel cartoon labeled &ldquo;The Good&rdquo; &ldquo;The Bad&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Ugly&rdquo; from left to right. The Good panel depicts an image of a smiling Renee Nicole Good. The Bad panel shows a skeleton dressed as a masked ICE agent who holds a smoking gun. The final panel of The Ugly depicts Donald Trump and Kristi Noem with comically long, Pinocchio-style noses. Trump says, &ldquo;She&rsquo;s a domestic terrorist.&rdquo; Noem says, &ldquo;She tried to kill him.&rdquo;

This image is titled &ldquo;Minneapolis.&rdquo; The Statue of Liberty is bloodied and on its side, stuck in a giant frozen block of ice.

This cartoon is set in a room where ICE agents are being trained. The teacher at the front of the class points to a whiteboard and says, &ldquo;If a suspect tries to flee, fire a warning shot into her head.&rdquo;

A masked ICE agent with sunglasses points a gun at his image in the mirror. He says, &ldquo;Domestic terrorist!&rdquo;

(Image credit: Rick McKee / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Thursday, January 8, 2026

We must ship these criminals out of the country.

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Trump L'oil

Bramhall's World for Tuesday, January 6, 2026. (Bill Bramhall / New York Daily News)

Bramhall's World for Monday, January 5, 2026. (Bill Bramhall / New York Daily News)

Bramhall's World for Friday, January 2, 2026. (Bill Bramhall / New York Daily News)

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Happy New Year!

What are we doing for New Year's Eve?

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Who cares?

https://theweek.com/cartoons/5-highly-amusing-cartoons-about-rising-health-insurance-premiums

Political cartoon

Political cartoon

Political cartoon

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Friday, December 26, 2025

Scrooged

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Scrooged

--   Sent from my Linux system.

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Saturday, December 20, 2025

The sky's the limit

https://theweek.com/cartoons/political-cartoons-december-20-2025

Two elephants cling to debris in the ocean as a &ldquo;GOP&rdquo; ship sinks in the background with people jumping off the side. The ship sinks because it&rsquo;s being bombed by a fighter jet. One of the elephants looks at the ship and says, &ldquo;The rats have jumped the ship! Hopefully Trump will reward those of us who kept hanging on!&rdquo; The other elephant looks at the fighter jet and says, &ldquo;Wait. Is that Pete Hegseth?&rdquo;

A large billboard on the side of a building reads &ldquo;Affordable Care Act.&rdquo; Two workers are painting over it with white paint, slowly removing the words.

A man in underwear and T-shirt is in a doctor&rsquo;s office. He sits on the examining table as the doctor says, &ldquo;Remember, Mr. Jones, whatever doesn&rsquo;t kill you makes your health insurance premiums go up.&rdquo;

(Image credit: Harley Schwadron / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Friday, December 19, 2025

Taunts and prayers

Donald Trump&rsquo;s small hands sign a sympathy card with a Sharpie. The left side of the card reads &ldquo;Things Happen.&rdquo; Trump signs his name on the right sight under the words &ldquo;Taunts and Prayers.&rdquo;

A grumpy elephant is dressed as Santa at a mall. A line of four children wait to see him. They each have long lists and look sad. The elephant holds up a box with a toy that is named &ldquo;Health Care Costs: Sky Rocket!&rdquo; He says, &ldquo;No wish lists. Everyone gets the same thing.&rdquo;

This cartoon is set in a wood-paneled laboratory that looks like a scene from the late 1800s. A scientist with a beard looks concerned as he sits at a desk with a microscope and other scientific equipment, including beakers and smaller glass bottles. A man in a suit says to the scientist, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sorry Dr. Pasteur, but your vaccines don&rsquo;t pass the RFK Jr. smell test.&rdquo;

A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.

Subscribe to: Comments (Atom)