Sigh…

My shocked face, I have it around here somewhere…

Rand Paul released some bombshell documents on Monday proving that the authors of the now-infamous “Proximal Origins of COVID-19” were never confident that the virus was not engineered and had not escaped from a lab, and that their suspicions grew over time that it was. 

You may have missed this story because…almost nobody covered it, and those who did were all in the conservative media. The paper, used by the media and the COVID mafia to insist that COVID had a natural origin, was a total fraud, as were the authors who maintained in public the line Anthony Fauci wanted them to. 

They even coordinated with the Intelligence Community to maintain the fiction. 

Full article, HERE from Hot Air.

Granted Paul has had a hard on for Fauci since the first hearing, but he IS digging out the paper trail, memo’s and other ‘bits’ that have been ignored.

In the research world, it is ALWAYS about funding, grants, and who gets what for how long…

And even though the authors ‘knew’ things were off, to put it mildly, they kept their mouths closed in public. Because they knew if they did…

They got the bottom line-

Yet they participated in the cover-up and got huge grants soon after. 

Like I said, it’s always about the money… sigh…

TBT…

Since we’re back in that mess again…

Detachment flight schedules sometimes got interesting…

Det flight sked

Jeddah more so than most… Stuck off in the far right corner of the airport, you never knew who or what might show up in the middle of the night…

Dets tended, over the years, to be ‘interesting’ regardless of when/where one ended up. They ranged from one crew/one airplane, to 6-7 airplanes from multiple locations with minimal support, basically whatever could be scrounged at that particular location. Air Force C-130s were always a good source of parts for the P-3s, as we had the same engines… Just the 130s had theirs upside down! 🙂

h/t Frito

More weather…

Maybe…

Tropical Storm Bertha is causing impacts along the northern Gulf as coastal communities in parts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana brace for strong wind gusts, heavy rain and coastal flooding.

Bertha formed Monday in the northeastern Gulf, becoming the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.

The storm has turned westward, and tropical storm conditions are spreading over portions of the Florida panhandle, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

As you can see below, Bertha’s track has been anything but stable. And it is unusual for one to continue this far west without turning north…

This thing has turned around twice, pointed in multiple directions, and the computer tracks… well, this is one of the ‘better’ sets of predictions…

The only real ‘advantage’ to the westward direction, is that the strongest rain bands are out over the Gulf and will probably stay there unless it takes the HAFS-B or HWRF tracks. There will still be a good amount of rain, and some storm surge, but not as bad as it ‘could’ be. But Texas and Louisiana have already had major rain events in the last week or so, and there is really no where for the water to go.

So if you are anywhere near the path, keep an eye on the weather, and be ready to head to high ground!

Wow!!!

Israel, much like Italy is a ‘fount’ of history, and any construction often gets. ‘interesting’…

PJ Media had the story, HERE.

Charred beams pulled from the earth in Jerusalem’s City of David are forcing archaeologists to rewrite their timeline of the First Temple’s destruction — and offering the most tangible physical evidence yet of the catastrophe the Bible describes in stark, unflinching detail.

Excavators working the Givati Parking Lot dig, a joint project of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University inside the Jerusalem Walls National Park, uncovered massive wooden beams burned when Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian army destroyed the First Temple in 586 BCE. The beams once formed the roof of an inner courtyard in a First Temple-period building. When the structure collapsed in the fire, the beams fell to the floor — and there they stayed for roughly 2,600 years, preserved by an unlikely agent: melted plaster.

Full article, HERE from Isreael365News.

Some folks think the Bible is made up, but things like this tends to make folks wonder…

I am not going to tell you what to think, or not think,  or believe, that is up to you.

A little humor…

To start the week…

And I honestly can’t say I disagree, sigh…

Drafting Guys over 60—-this is funny & obviously written by a Former Soldier-

New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I’m too old to track down terrorists. You can’t be older than 42 to join the military. They’ve got the whole thing ass-backwards.. Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn’t be able to join a military unit until you’re at least 35..

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds.  Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven’t lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. ‘My back hurts! I can’t sleep; I’m tired and hungry. We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a  while.

An 18-year-old doesn’t even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, ‘I’m tired and can’t sleep and since I’m already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical SOB….

If  captured, we couldn’t spill the beans because we’d forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real stretch.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys.  We’re used to getting screamed and yelled at, and we’re used to soft food. We’ve also developed an appreciation for guns. We’ve been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course, however. I’ve been in combat and didn’t see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I’ve never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He’s still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl.  He still hasn’t figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his  head.

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm’s way.

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.

***How about recruiting women over 50 ….with PMS !!! You think men have attitudes !!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my Lord!!! If nothing else, put them on border patrol……we will have it secured the first night!

This…

Is going to get interesting!!!

The Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the United States Postal Service can move ahead — for now — with a rule change with major implications for mail-in ballot reform and state compliance with federal review.

The court granted the motion for stay in the case of the NAACP v. USPS, based on the strength of the appellants’ arguments. In other words, the court agreed that USPS is likely to win its case based on the Constitution and on the timeframe which the Postal Service has to implement a framework for ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the central district of California, posted, “This ruling is a win for election integrity and would have significant implications for states like California that refuse to submit their voter rolls to verify compliance with federal election laws.”

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

The link from the SCOTUS wire is HERE.

Granted, this won’t do anything for ‘state’ elections, but it definitely will have an impact on Federal elections!

I find it interesting that the NAACP are the ones suing over this too…

Makes one wonder doesn’t it?

 

Well, well, well…

Isn’t ‘this’ interesting!!!

President Donald Trump’s speech about how China and other bad actors compromised American elections in 2020 and 2024 might be the biggest speech this side of “a day which will live in infamy.” Unlike the respect accorded to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, however, the news media at NBC, ABC, and CNN decided in advance that President Trump could not be trusted to tell the truth about the Titanic hitting America’s election iceberg. So they refused to give the president the time he requested to tell Americans, in the middle of vacation season, that America’s elections have been screwed up for at least the last two major election cycles.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

There is an interesting take HERE from the Washington Examiner, also.

It is no secret that the MSM does not want to cover anything Trump, and while there is no actual ‘rule’ about TV access, especially after the kerfuffle over The View and their political programming (you know it’s true if you only watch ONE episode, just sayin…).

But my question is, how much actual ‘coverage’ was given on their streaming platforms? And how large was the actual viewership?

Oops, there were some NBC and ABC stations that did carry the speech…

Sinclair used its own feed of the speech from the White House and preempted NBC and ABC programming to air tjhe remarks via its The National News Desk.

Fox also carried the speech, as did CBS, though for the latter CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil preceded the address by telling viewers, “Honestly, much of what the president has said on this topic is false.”

Info, HERE from Deadline.com

So, Fox, C-Span, CBS, and a few NBC and ABC stations did carry it. ‘Back in the day’, yes, I’m that old, when we only had three channels, any presidential speech from either party was on all three channels, and most radio stations too!

Sigh… Granted this was long before we saw the partisanship we are seeing today. I really don’t know what is going to happen in November, but I think it’s going to be interesting, and not necessarily in a good way…

Oopsie…

If we thought CA or NY had money problems…

Russia has a money problem, and while it isn’t unusual — the Kremlin wants to spend more than it takes in — increasing wartime pressures have the country’s richest moving their riches out of the country.

Three hundred billion dollars worth of riches just in the first half of 2026, according to a report today from Bloomberg News.

“Several billionaires moved some additional assets out of Russia recently, amid concerns about the banking sector, according to some of the people and documents including corporate filings and property purchase records” that were seen and reviewed by Bloomberg.

Paywalled linked, so I’m not putting the link in, sorry.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Interestingly, when the sanctions hit, a lot of the oligarchs ‘moved’ their money/companies/etc. back to Russia to ‘protect’ them.

Now, they are again moving offshore, as Russia is broke and Putin is going after any money he can find.

Another issue is the Ukrainians using drones to hit deep strikes into Russia, including the oil refineries and oil storage, creating a fuel crisis nationwide, and more importantly, to their mobilized forces in the Ukraine war.

This will only worsen as the year rolls on and it gets colder, when the farmers can’t get fuel to harvest their crops, or take the crops to processing facilities.

And the oligarchs are once again in the ‘sights’ of the US folks who are looking at arrests/confiscation of assets. The last round, they got $4B worth of yachts, HERE, in various countries, and that doesn’t include the homes, land, jewelry, and other items also confiscated…

This time, they’ll be looking in Turkey and the Maldives, as international pressure is being applied to both to turn over those Russian oligarch’s yachts that escaped the first round.

OBTW, now Russia can’t even sell the oil, because they can’t process it, and it’s not ‘good’ quality crude…

TBT…

Family things…

My Uncle Riley drew these in 1989, based on his memories of growing up on the ‘home place’ in Louisiana in the 1910s and 20sa…

Curtis history 2

I remember the old home place, it was what was known as a ‘dog run’ house, with a big central hall that ran front to back. That was the ‘cooling’ in the summer, open the doors and windows, and let the breezes blow through. And feather beds. It was a four bedroom house, with a kitchen and bathroom added on the back. Sadly it burned down back in the 1970s. Of the original three houses, sadly today only one is left.

The cotton gin was turned into a sawmill by Uncle Alvin who took over the home place, and he used it to make a living for a number of years as a finished carpenter (he built beautiful cabinetry out of Cypress). The Edward Curtis store was still standing in the early 1970s, but no longer used.

Seeing these brought back a lot of memories… Playing with the cousins at the reunions, butchering hogs and cattle, making sausages, eating all kinds of GOOD food, catching fish in the river, and the women making quilts. And home made ice cream… Oh yeah!!!

Sigh…

It’s ‘that’ time of year…

Living on the dry line is always an adventure, sometimes more than others…

South Texas is getting whacked, along with New Mexico and Arizona with monsoon rains over there. The hurricane in the Pacific is close to hitting the Mexican landmass, curving toward Mexico City, and will be bringing more moisture to south Texas in the next couple of days.

If it makes it into the Gulf, areas in south Texas could get between 6 and 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours!

Edit- I was wrong, some folks have already gotten over 6 inches of rain down south! Prayers we don’t get a repeat of a couple of years ago!

Up here, we get to watch the cute puffy little cumulus build into cumulonimbus as they move off to the East. So no rain for us…

Sigh…

But at least it’s a little cooler this week, only in the 90s!