Here we go again…

I guess they’re trying to slip this one in under the radar…

A new “disinformation office” has been quietly established by the Biden administration. This office will have the authority to arrest and prosecute citizens of the United States who publish content online that is deemed to be “false” by so-called fact checkers.

According to the announcement made by Director Avril Haines on Thursday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has established a new office to oversee the efforts being made by the intelligence community to combat “disinformation” in the United States.

Full article, HERE.

And The Intercept also chimed in, HERE.

Interestingly, it seems they will be tied in with State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), which has been caught censoring Americans on Twitter, FB, and other platforms. So it’s NOT just malign foreign actors the way I read it…

Dammit…

Comments? What say you?

A little humor…

To start your week!

One Sunday, when counting the money in the weekly offering, the Pastor of a small church found a pink envelope containing $1,000.

It happened again the next week!

The following Sunday, he watched as the offering was collected and saw an elderly woman put the distinctive pink envelope on the plate. This went on for weeks until the pastor, overcome by curiosity, approached her.

“Ma’am, I couldn’t help but notice that you put $1,000 a week in the collection plate,” he stated.

“Why yes,” she replied, “every week my son sends me money and I give some of it to the church.”

The pastor replied, “That’s wonderful. But $1,000 is a lot, are you sure you can afford this.. How much does he send you?”

The elderly woman answered, “$10,000 a week.”

The pastor was amazed. “Your son is very successful; what does he do for a living?”

“He is a veterinarian,” she answered.

“That’s an honorable profession, but I had no idea they made that much money,” the pastor said. “Where does he practice?”

The woman answered proudly, “In Nevada. He has two cathouses – one in Las Vegas, and one in Reno.”

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Reborn!

Far, far away in the tropical waters of the Caribbean, two prawns were swimming around in the sea – one was called Justin and the other called Christian. The prawns were constantly being harassed and threatened by sharks that inhabited the area.

Finally, one day, Justin said to Christian, “I’m fed up with being a prawn; I wish I was a shark, and then I wouldn’t have any worries about being eaten.”

A large, mysterious Cod appeared and said, “Your wish is granted.” Lo and behold, Justin turned into a shark.

Horrified, Christian immediately swam away, afraid of being eaten by his old mate.

Time passed (as it does) and Justin found life as a shark boring and lonely. All his old mates simply swam away whenever he came close to them. Justin didn’t realise that his new menacing appearance was the cause of his sad plight.

While swimming alone one day, he saw the mysterious Cod again and he thought perhaps the mysterious fish could change him back into a prawn. He approached the Cod and begged to be changed back, and, lo and behold, he found himself turned back into a prawn.

With tears of joy in his tiny little eyes, Justin swam back to his friends and bought them all a cocktail. Looking around the gathering at the reef, he realised he couldn’t see his old pal.

“Where’s Christian?” he asked.

“He’s at home, still distraught that his best friend changed sides to the enemy and became a shark,” came the reply.

Eager to put things right again and end the mutual pain and torture, he set off to Christian’s abode. As he opened the coral gate, memories came flooding back.

He banged on the door and shouted, “It’s me, Justin, your old friend, come out and see me again.” Christian replied, “No way man, you’ll eat me. You’re a shark now, the enemy, and I’ll not be tricked into being your dinner.”

Justin cried back, “No, I’m not. That was the old me. I’m no longer a shark“

“I found Cod. I’m now a Prawn again, Christian!”

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Two strangers get paired up at the public golf course, and just as the one man was about to tee off, the other man shouted, “Wait a minute!. That golf ball looks strange. Is that a legitimate golf ball?”

The first man replies, “Sir, let me tell you about this golf ball. It’s a NEVER LOSE EM golf ball. It has special properties that prevent me from ever losing it, no matter what.”

Second man: “That sounds like a load of shit! What happens if you hook the ball and it lands in the deep rough grass?”

First man: “Never a problem. The ball senses darkness which then starts a very loud siren. I follow the loud sound until I find myself standing over the ball. I play on. I cannot lose the ball.”

Second man: “Wait a second!!! What happens if the ball winds up in a tree?”

First man: “Never a problem. The ball senses altitude which opens a small trap door on the ball, releasing 50 feet of fluorescent pink line, at the same time the siren begins blaring again. When I locate the tree by listening for the siren. I simply tug on the pink line, the ball drops and rewinds the string. I play on. I cannot lose the ball.”

Second man: “Wait a minute! What happens if you hit the ball into a deep water trap?”

First man: “Also never a problem. The ball senses water

which opens another trap door where a small propeller extends and propels the ball to the surface. The ball then turns itself sideways where the propeller then drives the ball to the edge of the water trap. Then; the trusty siren begins to scream. I follow the sound. I locate the ball. I play on. I’m telling you I cannot lose the ball.”

The other man scratches his head, smiles, and says” I’m sold! Where can I buy one?”

First man: “Hell if I know. I found this one.”

Interesting…

I knew about Iceland, Turkey, and some other countries looking at geothermal, but this one was a surprise…

MASSIVE GEOTHERMAL PROJECT IN NEVIS: Nevis, the smaller of two Caribbean islands that make up the nation of St. Kitts and Nevis in the Leeward Island chain, has no street lamps, no major airport, and is just 36 total square miles around—roughly half the size of D.C.

In several years, Nevis aims to produce the cheapest, cleanest electricity in the region through a massive geothermal energy reservoir located beneath its surface. Experts say it has the potential to produce more than 1,000 megawatts of geothermal power—far exceeding local demand for the island of about 12,000 people, which stands at a national total of just 10 MW.

Full article, HERE from the Washington Examiner.

And then there is this crap from the NY Post… You’ll need your BP meds!

Veterans taking it in the shorts because of the illegals in NY!

Nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants, says a nonprofit group that works with the vets.

The ex-military — including a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan — were told by the hotels at the beginning of the week that their temporary housing was getting pulled out from under them at the establishments and that they’d have to move on to another spot, according to the group and a sickened local pol.

Full article, HERE!

I cannot express how pissed I am over this!

YGTBSM!!!

PA legislature has gone bat nuts!!!

Proposed Pennsylvania House Bill 586, introduced on March 20, 2023, proposes significant changes to ammunition regulations that would impact law-abiding gun owners in the state. The bill, which was introduced by 12 state Democrats, including prime sponsor Representative Stephen Kinsey, seeks to give the Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police and the Secretary of Revenue the power to enforce the new rules and collect a tax on ammunition to fund the changes.

Encoded Ammo Database, Pennsylvania House Bill 586

Full article, HERE from Ammoland.com
Shades of 2008, and, among other things the whole ‘smart gun tech’ BS that was going to ‘outlaw’ any standard guns…
As a friend said in a comment- They want to take my dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, furnace, car, electric light bulbs, red (or any color) meat, proper 3R-education, privacy, and any Constitutional means to object.
Where does it end? When do we take back our country??? 2024???
Sigh…

Things…

Sailors don’t talk about-
The culture shock of coming home from the ship and having to relearn how to be a part of society.
The moments you spend re-examining yourself in the mirror because you forgot what you really looked like out of the uniform.
The bruises, cuts and scars from working in the harshest environments and conditions.
Wearing normal clothes is the most comfortable feeling on earth. Even the jeans you barely fit into anymore.
Getting sick every time you come home because you are able to eat civilized food again and drink your favorite drinks.
Getting dressed with the lights on.
Amazed at how you lose so much weight without trying.
Having to sleep with a fan on because the room you are in now is too silent.
Suddenly being thankful for literally everything you own and experience in a normal day.
Showering without shoes on.
The water is a normal hot, and doesn’t switch to ice cubes then to burning steam before losing pressure. And no water rationing hours!
Folding laundry while sitting on the bed.
General Quarters! Man your battle stations!
Not being able to sleep because we are catching jets and you have to make sure that you hear them catch the wire… retract. The pilot is safe.
Not being able to sleep because you’re no longer in rough seas. The bed is still and the room isn’t moving. Its quiet.
Man overboard. They didn’t say it was a drill this time. Everyone gets to their stations a little quicker to make sure their guys are good.
Evening prayer.
You probably don’t notice how often you hit your head anymore.
“Medical emergency in compartment…” silence. Do I know anyone in that compartment? I hope they are okay, nothing major.
I don’t remember the last time I was alone in a room for more than 10 minutes.
Fire, Fire, Fire!…. These things are always catching on fire.
Coming home in a different season. The grass is green now. They harvested all the corn fields.
Oh! She had her baby, bless her heart.
Wow. It’s been years…where was I?
“First call. First call to colors.”
Coming home from all of this is so hard yet so easy.
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16 years…

Sixteen years ago I posted this-

I’m new to this whole arena, but thought I’d give it a try. I guess I fall in the “silent majority” as we have been deemed, I’ve never sought publicity, sued anyone for spilling my coffee, sure as hell ain’t a movie star; well, you get the drift…

I’m mid-50’s have a decent job, two decent kids trying hard to make their own way in the world today, and a lot of frustration with what is happening to the US of A. Being from the South, I hunt, fish, and shoot guns; so that immediately makes me one of those “rabid rednecks” to quote some out there. I did have a pickup, but it’s hard to park it where I work, so I drive a Pontiac… sure do miss the truck though… sigh…

As a retired military type, it really hurts to see the crap we are putting the folks in service through today. I lived through that in Vietnam, and I take the time to thank every Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine for their service when I get the chance. Most of the kids (I’m Southern so I can say that) are doing the best they can with what they have. They believe in the job they and others are doing in the Sandbox, and are pretty upset by the media coverage they get.

Anyway, I’m going to try this for a while and see what happens… thanks for reading and commenting…

Old NFO

Something over 5700 posts, 82,000 comments, and over 8 million views later, I’m STILL appreciative of the support from all you folks out there for reading my brain drippings!

THANK YOU!

The ‘joys’…

Of living on the Dry Line!

For those that don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s the dividing line, also known as the Marfa Line, of hot/dry air from the west and hot/moist Gulf air meeting over the central US.

It runs from Marfa, Texas north through where we are, all the way up into Canada, especially in the spring. I haven’t seen it yet this year, but I did catch one shot of weather last year that was one continuous front from Marfa all the way up through North Dakota! And that one spawned quite a few tornadoes!!!

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So we get to ‘watch’ the weather form, a lot of the time either slightly west of us, or right on top of us. Last week, we got 2 inches of rain in less than an hour. But, the last couple of days have been ‘interesting’ to put it mildly. Severe thunderstorms were predicted to pass over us right at sunset to midnight with heavy rain/hail and gusty winds.

Welp, we certainly GOT the winds! SW at 25, gusting to 40, switching to SE at 15, gusting to 25. BUT, not a drop of rain! SSW of us got 3 inches of rain, west of us got over an inch, north of us by a couple of miles got 1-2 inches of rain.

I swear it parted and went around us, while the winds just continued to blow! And the lightning was impressive, to put it mildly. It was intracloud, and stretched at least 20 miles across the cardinal points of the compass for probably 20 minutes, alternating between east/west and north/south. Needless to say, computers and TVs were OFF!

And we’re supposed to get more ‘storms’ Thursday and Friday…

Heh…

Maybe some folks are actually waking up to the get woke, go broke mantra…

Maybe the lessons of the Bud Light disaster are starting to sink in.

In a sign that American investors aren’t happy with the “go woke, go broke” ideas taking hold in too many corporate offices, Coca-Cola Co. shareholders last week soundly rejected three proposals pushed by leftist activists to push the company further into leftist causes.

And while Coca-Cola is hardly a paragon of conservative positions, the votes could well mean that even liberal-leaning corporations are seeing the costs to their bottom lines.

Full article HERE, from the Western Journal.

I just wonder how many other companies are now ‘rethinking’ their policies and procedures going forward after the SVB collapse, Disney’s situation, and now AB’s screwing the pooch.

More bank failures???

First Republic (good sized regional bank) has been sold…

Regional bank stocks plunged heavily on Thursday as turmoil in the banking system continues after JPMorgan Chase’s purchase of the failed First Republic Bank.

First Republic Bank was seen as the most likely next domino to fall amid the chaos of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure about two months ago. On Monday, it was announced that the bank was being taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and sold to JPMorgan in an effort to calm markets, but now the stocks of other major regional banks are facing fresh turmoil.

From the Washington Examiner, HERE.

I know we’ve mentioned Central Bank Digital Currency before, and I’m really beginning to wonder if these ‘failures’ are a move toward 2-3 major banks that control all banking in the US…

I, for one, don’t favor that. I don’t want everything I do tracked by ‘digital’ currency, much less have someone ‘control’ what I can and can’t buy.

Am I overthinking this? What say you?

Gone shooting…

Taught a basic pistol class yesterday, taking the folks to the range today…

Yes, at least a couple of them will probably go on to get their LTCs to be able to protect themselves, considering what is happening these days.

Gun control means hitting what one is aiming at!

Gone shooting 2

Go read the folks on the sidebar, they write GUD! 🙂

Re yet another ‘mass’ shooting in the past two weeks, does anybody beside me wonder ‘what’ is prompting these?

The ‘motivations’ seem to not get reported, screeds hidden, manifestos never published, etc. And depending on the ethnicity/background of the shooter, it quickly disappears from the media unless it ‘fits’ the left’s agenda…

Curiouser and curiouser…