BUCKNACKT'S SORDID TAWDRY BLOG We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
11 June 2026
6JAN21 PARDONED INSURRECTIONIST, WHERE ARE THEY NOW? White nationalist influencer jake lang in Dallas County Jail, bond set at $1 million for a ‘terroristic threat’ 10JUN26
Last spring, Jeff Metcalf, the father of the slain Frisco ISD student Austin Metcalf, asked Jan. 6th insurrectionist Jake Lang to stop politicizing the death. Despite that request, Lang arrived at the Collin County Courthouse on June 4 holding a poster that displayed Metcalf's school photo alongside the message "White Lives Matter."
Emma Ruby
ANOTHER of the no class drippings NOT MY pres drumpf/trump pardoned for their participation in the 6JAN21 insurrection. These people are traitors and threats to the American public just like drumpf/trump, along with the corrupt drumpf/trump-vance administration and the gop / greed over people-republican party. This from the Dallas Observer.....
White nationalist influencer in Dallas County Jail, bond set at $1 million for a ‘terroristic threat’
Jake Lang has been causing racial trouble across the country since being pardoned by the president for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack.
June 10, 2026
One of the loudest voices stirring racial conflict in North Texas is in the Dallas County jail after being arrested on Tuesday.
Jake Lang is charged with making a terroristic threat to place the public in fear of serious bodily injury, interrupting public services, or influencing a government following his repeated appearances at rallies outside of the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney over the course of the Karmelo Anthony murder trial. He was seen around the courthouse holding signs reading “White Lives Matter” among other things over the past week.
According to jail records, Lang’s bond is set at $1 million.
According to the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, an unnamed “representative” for Lang posted on X that Lang was removed from an airplane and [handcuffed], but did not specify from which airport the plane in question was located. “The post said Lang was arrested for saying that if the jury did not find Anthony guilty, he ‘would take care of it himself,’ the Morning News report later added. We reached out to the Dallas county sheriff with questions, who referred us to the Collin County Sheriff with our questions. Collin County referred us to the Texas Department of Public Safety and to the Collin County District Clerk. This article will be updated should we receive further information.
The Observer’s Emma Ruby was in McKinney late last week when Lang held a sparsely attended “Justice for Austin Metcalf” rally. From the scene she reported that Lang, a convicted January 6 insurrectionist who was pardoned last year for his role in the 2021 Capitol attack by President Donald Trump, used racially charged language when addressing the rally attendees days before the trial ended in a guilty verdict on Tuesday.
“Karmelo Anthony should be hanging from that tree,” he yelled at one point, before adding that if Anthony is found not guilty and is freed, Lang intends to kill him. When Anthony’s supporters, most of whom were Black, reacted in anger, Lang accused them of “chimping out,” and having “low impulse control.”
Lang’s appearances during the Anthony trial come on the heels of several other headline-grabbing outbursts of his in Collin County. In May, Lang, who is not a Texas resident, threatened Frisco City Council members during a contentious meeting while discussing the amount of immigrants and Indian residents the county has welcomed in recent years.
Kelly Dearmore is news editor of the Dallas Observer. He’s held the position since November 2022. Since joining the team, Kelly has covered topics such as state and local politics, crime and public safety, education and immigration. A native Texan, Kelly has contributed to other publications including Texas Monthly, Dallas Morning News, Success Magazine and Cowboys & Indians Magazine.
09 June 2026
Fact or myth? Ticks can drop out of trees like paratroopers. & About Ticks and Tickborne Disease 8JUN26&15MAI24
TICKS, those nasty creatures that are made even more creepy to me because they are of the same "family" as spiders, are a serious and dangerous problem this year. I am really paranoid about them and use a lot of bug spray trying to defend myself. I have also tucked my pants in my socks and then sprayed a heavy coating of OFF on them. One myth this disproves is about opossums, I hoped it was true. This from Popular Science, please share and be careful out there.....
Fact or myth? Ticks can drop out of trees like paratroopers.
Tick season is in full swing, so it's time for some myth busting.
The official start of summer is days away, and after a particularly long and cold winter in parts of the United States, many are ready to enjoy the outdoors again without risking frostbite. Warm weather comes with another type of bite, however. One that comes with an unwanted guest attached to your body.
Along with mosquitos and flies, ticks are among our most disliked insects. However, their infamy comes with a lot of myths, and with tick season in full swing, it’s important to straighten out a few misconceptions.
False: Ticks can fly
If you’ve heard that ticks can fly and/or jump, you’ll be relieved to know that they can’t. In fact, their legs are pretty unimpressive appendages, according to Escher Cattle, an entomologist at the Regional Government of Cape Cod.
“They have some pretty good grabbers on their front legs and their other legs are pretty decent as well, but really all a tick has the equipment to do is walk around and grab stuff,” Cattle tells Popular Science.. They’re not muscular like those of grasshoppers, for example. As for locomotion more generally, ticks don’t have wings, nor are they aerodynamic. As such, they’re also “not physically geared to be dropping out of trees like some kind of paratrooper.”
While a tick might attach onto an animal that takes it up into a tree and then fall, the chances that the skydiving insect will land on you is infinitesimal, Cattle says. In fact, ticks generally exist beneath an elevation of at most three feet.
The way a tick actually attaches to a host is by climbing to the top of a plant, sticking its arms out, and waiting for something alive to brush by—a behavior called questing. It does so after sensing chemical cues of something warm, moving, and blood-filled.
False: Opossums help remove ticks by eating them
Speaking of blood-filled things, one tick myth that Cattle is sorry to dispel is one that paints opossums as tick-eating machines. You may have read that opossums are good to have around because they eat lots of ticks. This popular notion is founded on the results of a study in which researchers put ticks on opossums, among other animals, to investigate how these animals reacted to the pest.
Because the team wasn’t seeing any ticks dropping off the opossums, they assumed the mammals were eating them all. As of now, there is no direct evidence known to researchers of opossums eating any ticks.
One similar belief is that birds such as turkeys and guinea fowl eat ticks. While that’s true, they also carry them around, so having one in your backyard doesn’t automatically mean you’ll have less ticks.
True: They can carry disease
What isn’t a myth, though, is that ticks can be vectors of disease. These include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, ehrlichiosis, and most infamously, Lyme disease.
The good news is that you can decrease your chances of catching the disease from a tick bite if you remove the tick within 24 hours. But sometimes, tick bites go unnoticed, so it’s important to check yourself when you come back indoors during warm weather.
Ticks are shockingly cold-resistant, but they usually keep to themselves during the colder seasons. They still can come back out as soon as the sun starts shining—including on those randomly very hot February days.
True: A ‘dorky’ look helps prevent tick bites
If you do find a tick, don’t try to burn or suffocate it off your skin. Use a trusty pair of tweezers, grip it near the mouth parts, and pull it off. If anything gets left behind, your skin will naturally push it out with some time. If you’re not sure how long the tick has been on you, you should contact your doctor.
As for tick bite prevention, “I know it looks kind of dorky, but tucking your pants into your socks is a really good tip. Making it so that there are barriers between ticks and your skin as much as possible is extremely good as a strategy,” explains Cattle, who also teaches about tick-borne disease prevention for Cape Cod Cooperative Extension.
You can also apply a synthetic pesticide called permethrin on their clothes and insect repellant on any exposed skin.
Ticks are “very good at what they do,” he concludes, but “I think adopting just a couple habits at a time really makes a difference.”
About Ticks and Tickborne Disease
May 15, 2024
Key points
- In the United States, ticks can spread bacteria, viruses, and parasites (pathogens) that cause human diseases.
- Many tickborne diseases can have similar signs and symptoms.
- Ticks transmit pathogens that cause disease through the process of feeding.
Diseases transmitted by ticks
In the United States, some ticks carry pathogens that can cause human disease, including:
Symptoms
Many tickborne diseases can have similar signs and symptoms. If you get a tick bite and develop the symptoms below within a few weeks, see your healthcare provider.
The most common symptoms of tick-related illnesses include:
- Fever/chills. All tickborne diseases can cause fever.
- Aches and pains. Tickborne diseases can cause headache, fatigue, and muscle aches. People with Lyme disease may also have joint pain.
- Rash. Lyme disease, Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI), Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), ehrlichiosis, and tularemia can cause distinctive rashes.
Your healthcare provider should evaluate the following before deciding on a plan for treatment:
- Your symptoms,
- the geographic region where you were bitten, and
- lab tests, depending on the symptoms and the geographic region where you were bitten.
How it spreads
How ticks find their hosts
Ticks find their hosts by detecting animals´ breath and body odors, or by sensing body heat, moisture, and vibrations. Some species can even recognize a shadow. In addition, ticks pick a place to wait by identifying well-used paths. Then they wait for a host, resting on the tips of grasses and shrubs. Ticks can't fly or jump, but many tick species wait in a position known as "questing".
While questing, ticks hold onto leaves and grass by their third and fourth pair of legs. They hold the first pair of legs outstretched, waiting to climb on to the host. When a host brushes the spot where a tick is waiting, it quickly climbs aboard. Some ticks will attach quickly and others will wander, looking for places like the ear, or other areas where the skin is thinner.
How ticks spread disease
Ticks transmit pathogens that cause disease through the process of feeding.
- Depending on the tick species and its stage of life, preparing to feed can take from 10 minutes to 2 hours. When the tick finds a feeding spot, it grasps the skin and cuts into the surface.
- The tick then inserts its feeding tube. Many species also secrete a cement-like substance that keeps them firmly attached during the meal. The feeding tube can have barbs which help keep the tick in place.
- Ticks also can secrete small amounts of saliva with anesthetic properties so that the animal or person can't feel that the tick has attached itself. If the tick is in a sheltered spot, it can go unnoticed.
- Ticks suck blood anywhere from minutes to days, depending on the tick species. If the host animal has a bloodborne infection, the tick will ingest the pathogens with the blood.
- Small amounts of saliva from the tick may also enter the skin of the host animal during the feeding process. If the tick contains a pathogen, the organism may be transmitted to the host animal in this way.
- After feeding, most ticks will drop off and prepare for the next life stage. At its next feeding, it can then transmit an acquired disease to the new host.
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Mark your calendars for these two nationwide events 8JUN26
FROM Patriotic Millionaires, information on two nationwide events planned and organized by the loyal opposition to the neo-nazi fascist drumpf/trump-vance administration and the gop/greed over people-republican party. These actions are also being promoted by No Kings, MoveOn, Indivisible, Refuse Fascism just to name a few, check with whatever opposition organization you are involved with or click the links in this e mail.....
We know that summer calendars tend to fill up far too quickly, which is why we wanted to snag two minutes of your time to tell you about two dates you should definitely have marked and saved on your end if you don’t already: First, on June 14th, No Kings is partnering with the Committee for the First Amendment for Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment event on June 14th! As event organizers put it, “As America approaches its 250th anniversary, we have a choice about what story we tell.” This time, rather than having participants take to the streets, this can be done from the comfort of your home (or favorite community spot or local business!). It’s a 90-minute concert event that will celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by our First Amendment—of speech, religion, press, assembly, and protest—and how it’s the people’s power that both fuels these rights and is essential to guarantee them. Click here to find a Rise Up, Sing Out event near you. Then, later in the month, there is another nationwide mobilization effort ahead of planned July 4th celebrations. On June 27th, All Of Us is launching a nationwide campaign for a unifying day of marches, rallies, and protests to reject the whitewashing of our past and future! Event organizers will come together in communities across the country to “repair our history rather than erase it, ensuring America lives up to its foundational ideals for all of us.” It’s up to us to beat back against the oligarchical forces trying to keep us apart. Instead, let’s come together to celebrate all that we are, how far we’ve come, and commit to finishing the work to make America a place where freedom and equality are truly for all. Click here to learn more about and find an All Of Us event near you. We can let strongman politics and corruption define the moment. Or we can make the story of America about people coming together to defend our rights and build a future rooted in people power. Thank you for all you do, The Patriotic Millionaires |
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