JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT; Coalinga-CA

Today is a scheduled 'Fast Day' - and I held to it 📅📌

'Fast' Days scheduled; & they are working for both of us.

And, I entertained myself by having fun with a couple things that popped in and out, on my Newsfeed … just for the fun of it 😉

Holland says, 'Bullshit!'- but I'm sticking with the automated assessment 😘

PETE HEGSETH vs MOUTHY MARK KELLY

GOOD 👏

Speaking as a military brat, born in a Naval Hospital & raised military, I hope this gremlin-faced devil 👿 will be stripped of his military awards, lose his DC seat … and in MHO, prison, with ALL penalties related to TREASON 🤬 should follow.

Pentagon investigates Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy illegal orders: 

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7VWXZNmvJ4)

And that frame of mind should be extended to EVERY PERSON who joined Kelly in his smart-assed seditious video clip, he rebelliously released to the public, encouraging treasonous behavior and action.

The obamanite mantra is always, "no one is above the Law!"

Kelly, and his dimwitted, goose-stepping morons, are about to feel the effects of their mutinous bitchiness.

‘BACKFIRED’: Sen Mark Kelly faces possible court martial over ‘illegal orders’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc1b4ANtxEY

{{Pete Hegseth takes action against Sen. Mark Kelly, who egged on military to defy Trump in viral video

~Story by Andi Shae Napier

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday began taking steps to demote Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly from his current military rank over his role in a viral video telling U.S. service members and spy agencies they must “refuse illegal orders” by the Trump administration.

Hegseth posted a statement to social media saying the Pentagon is taking administrative action to initiate retirement grade proceedings to demote Kelly from a retired Navy captain to a lower rank, with a corresponding deduction in pay. Hegseth also announced a formal letter of censure, outlining Kelly’s “reckless misconduct.”

“Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice,” Hegseth wrote in a Monday morning X post.

“Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret),” the War Secretary added. “The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.”

“Captain Kelly’s status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action,” Hegseth’s statement added.

Kelly responded to the Pentagon’s move in a statement later Monday, saying there’s nothing “more un-American” than the message he says Hegseth is trying to send by the move to demote him.

“Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong,” Kelly wrote in the statement.

“If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it,” the Arizona Democrat added. “I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.”

Five other Democrats appeared in the Nov. 18 video which President Donald Trump blasted as “seditious.” Kelly’s upper chamber colleague, Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a former intelligence officer, was the only other senator to participate in the video. Slotkin in December 2025 moved to create her own legal defense fund while the FBI pursues an inquiry into the six total Democratic lawmakers.

House Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, who are all military veterans, were also in the video.}}

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: January 6, Five Years Later—Were We Played?

Of course Americans were played!

It's the obamanite way.

It was needed to establish socialism-communism in every State across this great Nation … and if Americans do not wake up and get with the program … those obama-bootlicker-political snakes, just may gain the upper hand.

barak ussein obama and his he-she sidekick, michael robinson, were groomed, and placed, in The People's House to establish a muslim strong-hold in American politics & to systematically set about destroying America from within.

The 'January 6th!' demonrat debacle was the wild card.

The covid insanity was the winning card - by which they could effectively shut down the entire country, and tweak things in DC to their favor.

Victor Davis Hanson: January 6, Five Years Later—Were We Played? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml1DjtnYhM8)

DOROTHY ANDERSEN~Historic Discovery of Chronic Lung Disease

Dorothy Hansine Andersen:  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hansine_Andersen)

They denied her surgical training because she was a woman.

So she went into the basement, studied dead children—and uncovered a disease that had been killing thousands in silence.

New York City, 1935: The basement morgue of Babies Hospital was cold, heavy with the smell of formaldehyde and cigarette smoke. Dorothy Andersen stood over the body of a three-year-old girl, scalpel in hand, eyes sharp with dissatisfaction.

The chart read: Celiac disease.

It was a familiar label. Too familiar.

Children who wasted away. Children who ate constantly but starved anyway. Doctors prescribed banana diets and hope. Most of the children died.

But Andersen had seen too much to accept that answer.

These children weren’t dying like classic celiac patients. Their bellies were swollen, their limbs skeletal—and their lungs were always clogged with thick, glue-like mucus. Celiac disease didn’t do that. Not ever.

So Andersen lit another cigarette and cut deeper.

Dorothy Andersen had been underestimated from the beginning.

Brilliant, driven, and ambitious, she had applied for surgical residency after medical school—only to be turned away. Not because she lacked skill, but because she was a woman.

Surgery was for men.

Women, she was told, could study pathology. They could study the dead.

So Andersen became a pathologist.

She wore hiking boots instead of heels. Built her own furniture. Smoked through autopsies without apology. She took up space in a profession that didn’t want her - and once relegated to the basement, she decided she would not waste the position.

If she had to study death, she would do it until it saved lives.

Inside the child’s abdomen, Andersen found the pancreas - and froze.

It was wrong: instead of healthy tissue, the organ was hard, scarred, riddled with cysts. The ducts that should have released digestive enzymes were completely blocked. The child hadn’t starved because she couldn’t eat.

She had starved because her body couldn’t digest anything.

This wasn’t celiac disease.

This was something else.

Andersen pulled nearly fifty autopsy files labeled “celiac disease” and worked through them methodically. Night after night, she compared lungs, pancreases, intestines. The same pattern appeared again and again: destroyed pancreatic tissue, thick mucus, malnutrition despite constant feeding.

The disease had been hiding in plain sight.

She named it Cystic Fibrosis of the pancreas.

But identifying the killer wasn’t enough. These children were dying on pediatric wards across the country. Andersen needed a way to diagnose them before they reached her autopsy table.

So she created one.

She developed a test to measure pancreatic enzymes by extracting fluid from the small intestine—an invasive, difficult procedure, but revolutionary. For the first time, doctors could distinguish cystic fibrosis from celiac disease while children were still alive.

Then came the summer of 1948: During a brutal heatwave, Andersen noticed something alarming: her cystic fibrosis patients were collapsing from dehydration far more often than other children. Along with colleague Paul di Sant'Agnese, she discovered the reason - CF patients lost extraordinary amounts of salt in their sweat.

That insight led to the sweat test, a simple diagnostic tool still used worldwide today.

In 1938, Andersen published her landmark paper, “Cystic Fibrosis of the Pancreas and Its Relation to Celiac Disease.” 

Pediatric medicine changed overnight.

She didn’t just identify a disease; she:

Defined its pathology

Created diagnostic criteria

Developed testing methods

Enabled enzyme therapies that allowed children to absorb nutrients.

Dr. Dorothy Hansine Andersen.

In the 1930s, most children with cystic fibrosis died before age three. Today, many live into their 40s, 50s, and beyond.

Dorothy Andersen never softened herself to fit the system. She climbed mountains. Taught surgeons using hearts she’d studied in the morgue.

She never married - she never apologized.

When she died in 1963, a colleague wrote that her devotion to medicine was “complete.”

But her true legacy is simpler - and far more radical.

When medicine shrugged and said, “Some children just die,” Andersen said: find the real reason.

When textbooks were wrong, she trusted her eyes.

When denied the career she wanted, she created a different one - and changed medicine from the basement.

What Is Cystic Fibrosis? https://asthma.net/clinical/cystic-fibrosis

She was told women couldn’t be surgeons.

So she saved lives another way.

And thousands of children lived because she refused to accept a wastebasket diagnosis.

STRAW VIOLINS, ROAMING T-REX & TIRED LION; Coalinga-CA

January 4th: Sunday's are my husband's Day: I observe a 24-hour Messianic Shabbat (and Holland is loosening up about that as we enter our 3rd coupled year) - and knowing how Sunday people are (because I was doing Sunday Fellowships for a couple years before I went full on Messianic), I always make sure to keep Sunday's free for my husband to do his thing 😎 - he chose to enjoy it by waiting the rain out, then taking me on our favored loop drive 🚘, which favored us with a big, fat, rainbow showing … and ended up at In-N-Out Burgers in Kettleman-CA, where we bought a calorie-laden supper to enjoy by the dash light glow; it felt like an unplanned date night 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Coalinga-Avenal-Kettleman Oil Fields-CA

Shafts of light breaking thru clouds; Hydrill Oil Fields - the Hydrill Oil Fields are associated with the Kettleman Hills, which are located northeast of Avenal, California. The Kettleman North Dome Oil Field is a significant oil field in this region, and the term "Hydrill" refers to the oil fields around Avenal, including the Kettleman Hills.

Skyline Blvd. Rd thru the Hydrill Oil Fields; Avenal-CA

Oh 👀! A big, fat shafted rainbow end poking thru the clouds.

Still visible on the freeway, on our way to Kettleman-CA - but, totally faded away by the time we reached Kettleman.

In-N-Out Burgers in Kettleman-CA; we like the 1950's vibe that perfectly matches the 1950's juicy burger taste 😁

In-N-Out Burger: Exploring a California Classic's Humble Beginnings:  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAUbXNl5OrU)

There is a lot of lip service (besides biting down on a juicy burger) concerning In-N-Out in CA … and I admit that we, too, were concerned about losing this tasty treat to the demonrat socialist agenda toxicity; but the real story comes from the mouth of the owner, herself, in this interview:

‘We’re not leaving’: In-N-Out responds to rumors about California exit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5pS7aGPbpM

T-Rex cloud formation 😉 I can't help myself - I'm a dino freak & I have a wild imagination; Kettleman-CA

Taking the long way home 😘

Back home, my big guy 🔑❤️ snoozed 😴, while I settled in with an online movie 💻🎬 & finished up the last little item that will be going into Hanford with us, when we go that way - possibly next week. Brenda's funeral arrangements have been set 📅, and Holland wants to wear jeans instead of his standard wear shorts & tee; so, we will likely be driving into Hanford sometime next week.

MOD WIP  for the Hanford drop …

Original version~The Tokens - 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' lyrics: 

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZwHodpLtwc&list=RDJZwHodpLtwc&start_radio=1)

The rain dance is sapping what's left of our lagging energy 🦁💘

This is the version my personal lion entertains … tired, or not 😂🤣🤠💎

And, I love my 'God-thing-gift'; bless his heart - tired or not & young at heart - like me 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'~Peyton Parrish Cover: 

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4nMm-y3TYU&list=RDs4nMm-y3TYU&start_radio=1)