Category: Crazy Town

I asked SI (Super Intelligence) for a 250 ft. Golden Arch for the President! Awesome! Bet Marine One could fly right through and land! No D.C Flight Path Restrictions or bothersome FAA Approvals! Wait’ll Natalie prints this and brings it to the Prez! So proud, my very first (and probably last) SI created image! But so embarrassing for an old, retired photographer! Who needs expensive cameras, lenses, lighting, sets, education, insight, passion, empathy, experience and craft? Not SI – Me mighty algorithm!

* My recent distraction and astonishment at the daily lunacy encompassing Washington, D.C. has taken me far away of the original intent for this blog. Soon, I’ll go back to basics. These “Crazy Town” posts et al will go away. I can’t afford the therapy!

Finally – Trump TV! Who needs cable when you can stream the “Natalie” and “Melania” channels! Hilarity as Stephen Miller deports Nursing Home aides!

A new White House Helipad! Wonderful words from the President! Xi will be so impressed! Here’s the Official White House Video: Ribbon Cutting at White House Helipad !

Not Fake News! Better odds than “Draft Kings” or “Fan Duel“! Make a reverse fortune! 1 USD of DJT Stock bought in 2022 is now 56 cents! A stunning -44.69% RoI! Genius! Put that bloated, ugly bulge of cash on a diet! Financial Wegovy! No White House access required!

“Trump Media & Technology Group is navigating significant challenges, reporting a $238 million net loss in Q2 2026, primarily due to unrealized losses in digital assets.” Crypto is awesome

* I started this blog primarily to display a post retirement retrospective of my final career as a photographer. Recently, I’ve been distracted and astonished by the daily lunacy encompassing Washington, D.C.. Instead of creating another blog, I decided to just add the category of “Crazy Town”. I am, just an Old Curmudgeon, colliding with a strange, new world. To borrow a punchline from a very old (like me) joke: “If it wasn’t for the booze, I don’t know what I’d do!” Mea Culpa and Peace Unto You.

My Thriftbooks purchase arrived today ($9.29)! It joins Confidence Man and Regime Change to complete my Trump Library! Highly entertaining! Trump sued the author for $5 Billion! Court threw it out, hilarious!

A sample review: Jose Lambient of The Palm Beach Post wrote, “Sarcastic at times, hilarious and irreverent at others, the book demystifies the star of The Apprentice as the poor man’s rich man and portrays him as a potty-mouthed P. T. Barnum with a bad comb-over.”

“Trump Goes to North Carolina and Declares State ‘One of the Worst in the Whole Nation” – “President Donald Trump criticized North Carolina in Gastonia Wednesday evening as he called its cities “blood soaked killing fields.”

Unsafe here but where to go? Palm Beach? Maybe, if I vote Republican, I’ll get $5K and can afford to move! Maybe I can get a job here!

Or maybe here, doing Pool Repair or Lawn Care or Installing Portable Fencing!

“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump posted on social media.

Ronald McDonald goes wild! Free Happy Meals in Secret Service Express Lane!

New Trainee with XXL Apron

Saturday, September 10 is in 2033! Should be all fixed by then!

 “…the National Park Service (NPS) will continue to impose temporary closures to the public of certain designated parklands at the National Mall and Memorial Parks until Saturday, September 10, 2026.“

 “…the National Park Service (NPS) will continue to impose temporary closures to the public of certain designated parklands at the National Mall and Memorial Parks until Saturday, September 10, 2026.“

I wonder if they can get the equipment out and re-fill it today?

Next, fix up the Mall Lawn where the July 4th stage was!

Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure

“The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.“

A worker pulling up a piece of the pool lining on Thursday.Credit…Salwan Georges for The New York Times

“But the bigger problem, the company said, was that the repair plan laid out in the contract called for the layers of liner to include two chemicals that turned out to be incompatible.”

Workers sprayed blue coating Thursday as part of ongoing repairs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington.Credit…Salwan Georges for The New York Times

Uh-oh, I thought September 10, 2026 was today! My bad! Twilight zone!

 “…the National Park Service (NPS) will continue to impose temporary closures to the public of certain designated parklands at the National Mall and Memorial Parks until Saturday, September 10, 2026.“

Except Today: Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool: The following areas will continue to be closed to visitor access until Thursday, September 10, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. (all times local).

Trump Promises Americans $5,000 Each if Republicans Win Midterms

Reading “Regime Change” this late afternoon, waiting for dinner to warm, I put it down and started re-reading “Confidence Man”. Halfway through the prologue, I knew where we are today. I’ll have another.

Donald’s Bad Hair Day in Dallas

Opening Thursday at Midnight (says the NPS Sign).

Today – Empty of rain from a recent storm!

Yesterday – After the storm blown fences and debris removed

The Reflecting Pool is beautiful American Flag Blue! Open in 1 week! And a brand new today, $2.7 Million Maintenance Contract! But wait, there’s more, even better than White House Bowling Alley lighting fix up or Kennedy Center Reno or the White House Ballroom!

“The federal government plans to start excavation over the next two weeks on a massive triumphal arch across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said Thursday “- CBS News

I’m way past ready for Autumn. Ready to pack & leave Camp Crazy Town!

Rename Lake Ontario!

Yay! Mission Accomplished! All those ships & troops can come home now!

A video shared on X on Wednesday by photographer Joe Flood captured workers pulling up “chunks” of loose blue sealant as they power washed the basin of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

7 April: Pool draining begins. “The president said the job of cleaning and waterproofing the pool with a new color he had chosen, called “American flag blue”, would cost $US 1.8 million and be done in a week. (ABC News)

23 April: “It’s going to last many, many years and it’s going to have no leaks, going to have no problems, going to be clean and beautiful,” he told reporters at a press conference at the pool. (ABC News)

2 July 2026: “U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro claimed that Hearn was seen “forcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner” of the pool with both hands.”

31 July 2026: Justice Department moves to drop case against ex-Olympian charged with damaging Reflecting Pool – ” Documents provided by the Interior Department …show that the damage was the result of a botched installation by a contractor as well as “the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026.”

10 September: Re-open! A mere 5 months! Great Job!

I wonder who was President a decade ago? He’s to blame!

Yes, the intelligence is, artificial: US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference.

• State Department says staffer hastily altered slide deck before Rio event
• Reuters analysis finds map image carries OpenAI watermark
• Map places Nigeria in Sahara and shifts Mozambique and Ivory Coast

I’m so proud of our President, keeping us safe from the worst of the worst! She could’ve killed someone with that Rosary walking to Mass!

Nun speaks out for first time about being detained by ICE while walking to Mass in Texas: https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-nun-who-was-detained-by-ice-while-walking-to-mass-in-texas-says-many-are-in-her-situation/