Pirate's Cove

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America! The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and my new Overdrive pedal is freaking awesome! Maybe I’ll write about it at the end of this post or another one. This pinup, something a bit more modern, is by Joe Chiodo, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

1. Moonbattery: More Inductees Into Trans Violence Hall of Horrors
2. Outside The Beltway: Norway Cutting Off Fuel to US Navy
3. Pacific Pundit: Media still silent after American journalist Gonzalo Lira was tortured to death in Ukraine after criticizing Zelenskyy
4. Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To All Smooth-Brained DFL Social Media Smurfs
5. Shot In The Dark: The New York Times and the control of language
6. The Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk Explains the ‘Non-Profit’ Grift That George Soros Has Been Running on the U.S. Government and Taxpayers (VIDEO)
7. The Last Refuge: U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson Rules the Bureaucracy Controls the Executive Branch, Not the President
8. The Lid: More Un-American Craziness Discovered by DOGE
9. The Other McCain: Zelenskyy Self-Destructed, So Why Are Media Acting Like Trump Is to Blame?
10. The Right Scoop: BREAKING: SecDef Hegseth orders 3,000 more troops to the border with armored combat vehicles
11. This ain’t Hell…: Dems oppose Fentanyl restrictions
12. Vlad Tetes: Keir Starmer signs 100 year partnership with Ukraine, hints at conscription in the UK
13. Independent Sentinel: Panicky AOC Asks AG Bondi If She Is Under Investigation
14. Climate Change Dispatch: FBI Probes For Fraud In Biden EPA’s $20B Green Fund Giveaway
15. And last, but, not least, Climate Depot has Net Zero is Dying Around the World But the Diehards Live on Helped by Vast Amounts of Chinese Coal

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

• Starting with The Daley Gator (now over at If You Are Left You Ain’t Right), which has some DaleyBabes. And more babes. And Saturday Links.
• 357 Magnum has Saturday links. And Friday Links. And father defends daughter.
• 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny has hot pick. And girls with guns. And morning mistress. And way more of all three during the week.
• AcidCow has Acid pic dump.
• A View From The Beach features Rule 5 Saturday Babe. And Palm Sunday. And a floatsam and jetsam.
• Animal Magnestism has Saturday Gingermageddon. And Rule 5 Friday. And more during the week.
• bluebird of bitterness has your funnies.
• Bookworm Room has the Bookworm Beat.
• Bunkerville has passel of fun and mayhem.
• Diogenes’ Middle Finger has a Good Monday Morning.
• Don Surber has highlights of the week.
• Doug Ross has Larwyn’s Linx. And Friday’s Larwyn’s Linx.
• Evil Blogger Lady has Rule 5 Girls With Guns. And more during the week.
• Flopping Aces has the Sunday Funnies. And the week in radical leftism.
• LMAO has cartoons and memes.
• Izismile has weekend pic dump.
• Klyker has pic dump.
• Knuckledraggin My Life Away has women who are surely taken. And has fun GIFs. And has more fun all week long.
• Maggies Farm has Links. And more links. And does this all during the week.
• Ned Hardy has beautiful photos.
• Sonoran Conservative has some rule 5.
• The Feral Irishman has memes and things, and lots more stuff during the week.
• The H2 has Big Boob Friday. And some Rule 5 for the ladies .
• The Other McCain has Rule 5 Sunday. And In The Mailbox.
• The Chive has tan lines.
• The Right Way has Friday Babe. And Linkorama.
• The View from Lady Lake has Twisted Hillbilly.
• Theo Spark has better cars.
• This ain’t Hell… has your feel good stories. And stupid people of the week.
• Victory Girls Blog has Sunday morning cafe cocktails linkage.
• Vlad Tepes has interesting stories.
• And wrapping up with Woodsterman, who has Rule 5 Woodsterman Style, and plenty more during the week.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

Regarding the foot pedal, it can be tough to find ones, because there are only so many at the guitar stores, and, really, if you go to Guitar Center they are all expensive. Can’t go to Sam Ash stores anymore. So, Internet stores. I’m not that good at guitar anymore, but, I try. I love playing. I wanted a pedal to give me some distortion. The Fender amp, a G-Dec Junior (if you can get one they are one of the best values), has a lot of choices for this, but, I wanted more control. I tried a distortion pedal, but, it goes quickly from 80’s hair metal to just mush, where you can barely tell the notes on chords. Single notes, fine. Chords? Nope.

So, an overdrive. Something that can give you nice, easy OD like a Jeff Beck to more like Hendrix and Page up to Black Sabbath and Judas Priest (Tony Iommi actually never used a pedal. Like most he overdrove the amplifier). All you can do these days is listen to videos. And there are tons. Joyo has 19 OD pedals. Caline has like 9. Other brands have multiple. You have British style. American style. Blues. Standard OD. Too many. The Mellow sounded great, and, after 20 minutes of playing it is the one. It is not really mellow. It is smooth. I can get all the distortion I want for all the stuff I play. I can even get much harder metal, like Megadeath, Slayer, Opeth, and more. The voice nob gives great control. And you can really hear the notes when playing chords, even with heavy OD.

BTW, the others from Caline were very interesting, especially the Orange Burst, which is a little harsher. Pure Sky goes even harsher, but, can give a nice OD. The Green Mamba sounds more like the hardcore Yamaha green.

Have a great Sunday.