Prickly City by Scott Stantis for February 16, 2025

Johnsons Crossing

Ever watch the news where a felon steals the cop car? I get police might need to have instant access to their cars, BUT wouldn’t a FOB be safer than a key and denies the felon access to the car?

Can Stantis get even more irrelevant?

Robert Sheckley at the height of his powers for writing humorous SF might have come up with something like this news item I found on BBC:

The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but is struggling to let them know they should return to work, NBC News has reported.

The National Nuclear Security Administration workers were among hundreds of employees in the energy department who received termination letters.

An email obtained by NBC said the letters for some NNSA employees “are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel”.

The terminations are part of massive effort by President Donald Trump to slash the ranks of the federal workforce, a project he began on his first day in office, less than a month ago.

Last week, nearly 10,000 federal workers were let go, according to multiple US outlets.

That figure was in addition to the estimated 75,000 workers who have accepted an offer from the White House to leave voluntarily in the autumn.

The nuclear security officials who were laid off on Thursday helped oversee the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. That included staff who are stationed at facilities where the weapons are built, according to CNN.

Attempting to reach the workers, the email, which was sent to current employees, said: “Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people’s personal contact emails.”

Obviously DODGE policies and cost cutting don’t apply to DJT. He cost the taxpayers over 10 million dollars to attend the Super Bowl for a little while and now another 10 million plus to attend the Daytona 500 Hundred. He’s no NASCAR fan so it’s obviously for drama and show.

Loved the picture of two guys seated below his box seat giving him the finger – one a double and the other pointed down!

Is gas under $2/gal yet like Trump promised he would do before the election? This question has nothing to do with Biden and only with the actual words that Trump said when Trump made the promise.

My son drove a Zamboni for a while, he loved it.

Snoopy and Woodstock do it better