Polt's Palace

Sunday, July 12, 2026

My birthday song, my happy world (Part 319)....

Badass Birthday

On this date, in 1997, in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai was born.

You may not know who she is. Let me tell you some things she's done.

-Pakistani female eduation activist.

-Producer of films and television about positive female role models and issues.

-The youngest Nobel lauerate in history, having recieved the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17.

-Only the second Pakistani to recieve ANY Nobel Prize.

-Human rights activist for women and children

-Co-Founder of the Malala Fund, a non-profit organization

-At 11, wrote a blog of the BBC under a pseudonym detailing life under Pakistani Taliban who had taken over the region she lived in.

-At the age of 15 was the targer of an assassination attempt by the Taliban. She was shot in the head and hospitalized for quite some time, but she did recover. And when she had, she resumed the same work she had been doing before.

These are just some of the things she's accomplished in less than 30 years.

Surely just what I listed above qualifies for a Badass!

POLT

So, South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham died last night at the age of 71.

...*shrug*...

Mama always said, if you can't say anything nice about someone, don't say anything at all.

So, how about that Argentinca/Switzerland World Cup game last night, eh? Was that a game or what?

POLT

Put your love to the test (Part 1807)...

Where To Put It?

So this towel covered fella belongs where? Fetching Faces? Lucious Licks? Shirtless Mondays? Tooshie Tuesdays? Check This Out!?

POLT

When you open your mouth to speak (Part 319)....

Bros With Braces

POLT

You abandoned me, love don't live here anymore (Part 475)....

Abandoned Places

A sadly adandoned and ransacked mall.

This does sadden me. I just imagine this mall, 40 years ago, in 1986, on a Friday night, how it would be packed full of people. Of all ages and races. Some shopping, some brousing, some just out to see and be seen. All were equal, all were just..there. Sad.

POLT

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5472)....

Check This Out!

POLT

Out of control, cause this dog ain't new (Part 686)....

Heavenly Hounds

That would be the Best. Train. Ride. EVAH!!!!

POLT

I used to live in a tiny bubble (Part 584)....

SUDS

POLT

The truth is I never left you (Part 1776)....

TRUTH In Spite Of Convicted Felon Mar-A-Taco tRump

POLT

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5471)...

Check This Out!

Oh NO! The dreaded Hydragoose! Run! Runaway! Hide from the honking!!!!

POLT

Let's get unconscious honey (Part 910)....

UNCONSCIOUS MUTTERINGS

Here are 10 Random Words. I'm listing the first word or words that come to mind when I hear them.

1. Fog :: Mist

2. Admission :: Ticket

3. Merchant :: Trader

4. Burst :: Explode

5. Ready :: Set, GO!

6. Brink :: Edge

7. Deadly :: Fatal

8. Predict :: Medium

9. Title :: Book

10. Houseplant :: I killed them all, sadly, except for ZuZu (so far)

Props to LunaNina, she ran this from her blog for years and years.

POLT

I drive my mini-Cooper and I'm feeling super-dooper (Part 879)....

Superman Sundays

This week we have Superman Foods!

Superburger

Supercake

Superchocolates

Supercookies

Superchocolate covered strawberries

Superice cream

Superpeanut butter

Superpie

Superpizza

Superwatermelong (complete with cape!)

POLT

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5470).....

Check This Out!

Been saying this for years. Democrats care about people, Republicans care about money/property.

Look at their stances on nearly any issue. Democrats come down on the side of people, Republicans come down on the side of money/property.

The parties are NOT the same.

POLT

I took the road less traveled by (Part 4115).....

MAPS!

Who are all the people in Turkey having sex with? But even more important, what's the time frame? They can't mean number of partner in a LIFETIME, can they?

I mean...I'VE had 14 sex different sex partners in the last three months alone!

POLT

If I were a hero, I'd be Martin Luther (Part 4609).....

Superhero Anydays

Today, by the Always Amazing Alex Ross we have his painting of a bunch of DC heroes, past, present and future.

In front we have the JSA of Earth-2's WWII era: Hourman, Dr. Fate, Hawkman, Johnny Thunder, The Flash, Spectre and Green Lantern

in the middle we have the modern JLA of Earth-1: Aquaman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, The Flash and Green Lantern

And in he Time Bubble above them all, we have the three founders the Legion of Super-Heroes from the 30th Century: Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy

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And today we also have a double-flexing Wonder Man cosplayer.

POLT

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5469)...

Check This Out!

Damn right. I don't agree with much from Steve Schmidt (He's responsible for hoisting Sarah Palin on the country), but here I can't disagree with him one single bit.

POLT

Put your love to the test (Part 1733)......

Where To Put It?

So this hottie in the auto, were does he belong? Fetching Faces? Luscious Licks? Wifebeater Wednesdays? Maybe Thrusday Thighs? Check This Out!?

POLT

Out of control, cause this dog ain't new (Part 685).....

Heavenly Hounds

I think he's gonna have a lil problem reaching the handlebars, and I don't see a helmet that would fit him, but it doesn't matter, look how freakin' happy he is to just BE there!

POLT

Just wish I knew the color of my hair (Part 18)......

Hairthing Happenings

POLT

Check this out, real quick, dont know if everybody know (Part 5468)...

Check This Out!

POLT

Just repeat history, just repeat history (Part 135),,,

Vintage Vusion

POLT

The truth is I never left you (Part 1775)....

TRUTH In Spite Of Convicted Felon Mar-A-Taco tRump

I've him ranting and raving about this like the lunatic he is. Reading his statements like this just make me laugh and laugh.

1) He ordered the assassination of Iran's leader back in March. What in the hell makes him think they WOULDN'T plan a similar thing? But even so....

2) This also shows he doesn't understand, among many many many other things, how power works under the Consitituion. If he is assassinated, once he's dead, the powers of the presidency devolve to the Vice President. The military is not going to launch ANY attack without authorization of whoever has the powers of the President. They're not going to launch an attack based on anything that a prior president said, ordered to instructed.

Reminds of some king announcing that upon his death, his daughter will take over, and everyone agrees. And then he dies, everyone ignores the daughter and the fights being amongst other possible successors.

Saying things like this just shows again the orange shitgibbon's ignorance.

But it really shouldn't surprise anyone, his level of abject ignorance.

POLT

A people, a tongue and a nation (Part 1026)....

Luscious Licks

POLT

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5467)....

Check This Out!

Looks like the upper left guy just gave up, what with 'flying' the white flag and all.

POLT

My birthday song, my happy world (Part 318).....

Badass Birthday

On this date in 1767, in Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams was born.

He was the 6th President of the United States from 1825-1829. He was the son of the 2nd President John Adams. He was the first president to be photographed (though it was after he left offce, James Polk was the first to be photographed IN office). He was well known to take morning swims in the Potomac River buck ass naked. He was born a citizen of Great Britain as the US Revolution was still a decade away.

Before becoming Presdient he was the 8th Secretart of State, Minister to Great Britain, Prussia and Russia, and a senator from Massachusetts. Two years after leaving the presidency, he was elected to the US House of Representatves from Massachusetts (the only ex-President to serve in the House) until his death over a decade and a half later.

He had a part in negotiating the Treaty Of Ghent which ending the War Of 1812, and the Adams-Onis treaty in 1819 which transferred Spanish Florida to the US. He also helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine, which still is used to keep European interference out of the Americas.

He wasn't a terribly successful president due to Congress being in the other parties hands and refusing to approve his proposals. And while later serving the House, he was passionate in his advocacy for abolition of slavery, against the expansion of slavery, and for Native American rights. Unfortunately, the wasn't terribly successful in those things either, due to the makeup of Congress. He DID successful defend enslaved mutineers on the Armistad before the Supreme Court when he was 73 years old. Seven years later he died while IN the US House chamber, at his desk, in 1848.

While he's generally ranked as an average/slightly below averge President, he IS considered on the most succesful diplomats and negotiators this country's ever had.

And surely had can be considered a real Badass as well!

POLT

My baby's got a secert (Part 1001)...

Secret Saturdays

These come each week from www.postsecret.com

This week we have Just Random Secrets!

POLT

Friday, July 10, 2026

I would not sell my collection, for if I did, I would cry (Part 128)....

Today In The History Of Polt's Comic Book Collection

Today, we travel back 40 years to July of 1986 and DC Comics' special one-shot The Last Days Of The Justice Society Of America.

A lil backstory: in the 1940s, DC Comics published the JSA. By 1953 or so, the only heroes still being published were Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, all the others were canceled, including the JSA title. IN the very late 50s, they became publishing renewed heroes (in addition to the big three) with new powers, secret identities, etc. In the very early 60s, some of them banded together, like the JSA, but known as the Justice League of America.

The heroes met, but it was decided the new heroes (JLA) would be on Earth-1 and the older ones would be on Earth-2. Basically the same civilization, but in a different parallel universe and with minor diffences. But it didn't stop there. Over the years DC added Earth-3, Earth-4, Earth-5, Earth-S, Earth-X, Earth-C, among many many others.

Twenty years later, in the early 80s, the powers that be at DC decided it was all too much and too confusing (which while being incorrect was also just stupid). Their "solution" was the 12 issue maxi-series: Crisis On Infinite Earths. At the end of it, all the paralle universes were wiped out, except for 5 of them: 1, 2, 4, S & X. But this meant than now, there were 2 Supermans, Batmans, Wonder Womans (Green Arrows, Aquamans, etc, etc, etc) one from the Erath-2 of 40s and one more modern from Earth-1. And there were the older members of the JSA, now into their 60s or 70s and the powers the be (again, erroneriously and stupidily) decided those old heroes wouldn't appeal to the fans, so they needed to go away. Thus, the Last Days Of The JSA.

It wasn't a great story. Through magic the JSA (except for a couple members who DC had plans with) were sent to fight Surtur and his allies in the Norse apocolype Ragnarok. And then they died, they were reborn to fight on and die and be reborn and fight on...forever. Should the battle ever end, they were told, then Ragnarok would end and the entire world would die in flame.

Dumb stupid idea, dumb stupid story.

And that's what this issue is about.

Thankfully, a few years later, DC found a way to undo this (I don't remember how, I like to forget the entire crap done to the JSA at this time) and the heroes returned. For a while. Less then 10 years later, DC tried got rid of most of the JSA again, through 'actual' death this time in Zero Hour. But that's another story.

This issue which I own was a low point in JSA history, and frankly, a low point in DC Comcis history for making it happen in the first place.

POLT

Price of gas at my local gas station:

$3.09 a gallon: Tuesday Mar 3 (before tRump started his idiotic war of choice on Iran)

$3.25 a gallon: Wednesday, Mar 4

$3.49 a gallon: Thursday, Mar 5-Friday Mar 6

$3.29 a gallon: Saturday, Mar 7 - Sunday, Mar 8

$3.26 a gallon: Monday, Mar 9

$3.38 a gallon: Wednesday, Mar 11

$3.39 a gallon: Thursday, Mar 12-Sunday, Mar 15

$3.51 a gallon: Monday, Mar 16-Wednesday, Mar 18

$3.59 a gallon: Thursday, Mar 19-Friday Mar 20

$3.69 a gallon: Saturday Mar 21-Monday, Mar 23

$3.79 a gallon: Tuesday, Mar 24-Tuesday, Mar 31

$3.99 a gallon: Wednesday, Apr 1-Monday, Apr 6

$4.09 a gallon: Tuesday, Apr 7-Thursday Apr 23

$4.03 a gallon: Friday, Apr 24-Monday, Apr 27

$4.29 a gallon: Tuesday, Apr 28-Wednesday, Apr 29

$4.24 a gallon: Thursday, Apr 20 - Friday, May 1

$4.39 a gallon: Saturday May 3- Saturday May 30

$4.33 a gallon: Sunday, May 31 - Thursday, June 4

$4.23 a gallon: Thursday June 4 - Monday, June 8

$4.13 a gallon: Monday, June 8 - Wednesday, June 10

$4.03 a gallon: Thursday, June 11 - Friday, June 26

$3.93 a gallon: Saturday, June 27 - Tuesday, June 30

$3.83 a gallon: Tuesday, June 30 - Thurday, July 9

$3.78 a gallon: Friday, July 10 -

POLT

SO....my day.

I had a doctor's appointment mid morning (just an annual visit, a yearly checkup, nothing bad) so I had off work. Nice.

The doctor and I had a good visit. I like him, its apparent he likes me too. We talked about my work and about my upcoming retirement, of all things. it was longer than a usual visit I imagine. My appointment was at 9:45, he came in the room at about 10:15. I left right around 11:00. I also got the RSV vaccine, which both the nurse and recommended. Don't wanna be taken out by a respiratory illness if a vaccine could help.

After the appointment, since I'd not had coffee or breakfast yet, I drove to Sheetz and got both. Ate the Boston Creme Donut in the car, and then drove to Wal-Mart. Took my coffee in with me. Got a few things I needed (and a few things I didn't need, just wanted). As I left, I walked by the Subway/Auntie Annie's food area and smelled the Auntie Annie's soft pretzels. I took my stuff out to the car and then thought, I haven't had a soft pretzel in forever. SO I walked back in a got a cup of pretzel nuggets and a soda.

I was gonna stop by the Credit Union, but when I pulled towards it I saw the parking lot was packed, so I was like, nope, I'll go another time.

I then drove to CVS and picked up a prescription the doc had called in for me. And it was uncharacterically empty. Thank God. I HATE crowds of people in there, mostly cause they're usually old and slow or ill and coughing and hacking and shit. Anyway, not such issues this time.

When I got back in the car I saw that I was at just a quarter of a tank of gas. SO I drove to Rutters to get gas, using my Rutters card to get 51 cents off a gallon of gas! I came back home, did some stuff on the computer and then remembered I needed to do towels. So I've got one load in the washer and another in the dryer right now.

And then I settled in to watch the World Cup game between Spain and Belgium, which is currently tied and almost at the end of regular time.

Not sure what the rest of the afternoon and evening hold, but I'm certain it wont be as busy as what the day has been so far.

POLT

Check this out, real quick, don't know if everybody know (Part 5466)...

Check This Out!

You see this right here? This is a photo from DC, specifically around the Reflection Pool, on July 4th 1976, on American 200th birthday, the BiCentenntial.

Everyone together, everyone dressed up, celebrating, enjoying the day, enjoying themselves, having a great time.

This, THIS, is the orange shitgibbon stole from us this year. By making it all about himself (as he always does) instead of about the country, the nation, he turned it from something everyone should have been celebrating together into something that due to fences and barriers and threats of arrest, kept the public away from the Reflection Pool. And his oragne assholishness kept a lot of people away from DC in general. No one wanted to go. And why should they? Unless they're MAGAmorons, of course.

Under any other President ANY other one, this would not have happened. President Harris, President Biden, hell even President Rubio would NOT have turned the entire thing into a celebration of their person and turned OFF a vast majority of the country.

This is one of the main reasons I hate him. I know I mentioned this before, be has stolen so much from us, and not just millions of tax dollars. He stolen celebrations that should unite. He's stolen joy. He's stolen fun and happiness.

Fucking orange bastard.

POLT

If I were a hero, I'd be Martin Luther (Part 4608)...

Superhero Anydays

Today we have a panel from an Avengers comic book showing a mostly awesome lineup.

Left to right we have: Triathlon, Goliath (Hank Pym), Wasp, Ms. Marvel (aka Warbird), Vision, Scarlet Witch, and She-Hulk.

A prtty powerful team with some great heroes (except for Triathlon who was sadly pretty stupid). And Wanda's sadly in her 'gypsy streetwalker whore' costume, her worst. Surprisingly created by the Maestro George Perez one of his extremely rare misfires on costume design.

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And today we also have a Spider-Man and Batman teamup at a convention somewhere.

POLT

I took the road less traveled by (Part 4114)....

MAPS!

Well if you haven't heard, this week the orange shitgibbon made mention of the Islamic Republic of Japan. Having never heard of that, I went on a quest to find out more about it, and what do you know? Here's a map of it!