TBT…

Sigh…

Granted the minimum wage was $1.25/hr, but I swear it went a LOT further back then… That was six gallons of gas, compared to the $15/hr vs. $4/gal today.

A Woolworth menu, supposedly from the late 50s/early 60s…

And our favorite drive in when we were old enough to drive… Many a night circling between the two in town!

And a couple of car ads from back in the day…

Yes, Baldwin/Motion Performance was one of the ‘white sheet’ or COPO dealers that could order directly without approval from ‘higher’ in Chevrolet…

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Another smuggler bites the dust…

Or water in this case…

Elements from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard intercepted a vessel last week carrying a “massive” Iranian shipment of explosive materials bound for Yemen, according to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

Full article HERE, from Navy Times.

170 tons of urea fertilizer and ammonium perchlorate in this haul, a few months ago a different ship got 40 tons, also going to the Houthi rebels.

That is a LOT of boom…

And back stateside, we have this…

A federal indictment was unsealed today following the arrest of three defendants and their initial appearances in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Kentucky.

According to court documents, Phil Pascoe, 60, of Floyds Knobs, Indiana; Monica Pascoe, 45, of Floyds Knobs, Indiana; Scott Tubbs, 59, of Georgetown, Kentucky; and Quadrant Magnetics LLC are charged with wire fraud, violations of the Arms Export Control Act, and smuggling of goods for their roles in an illegal scheme to send export-controlled defense-related technical data to China and to unlawfully supply U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) with Chinese-origin rare earth magnets for aviation systems and military items.  

Full article, HERE from DOJ!

 

Huh… didn’t know about this one!

Musk is apparently on a roll, if you will…

Elon Musk’s Twitter has slashed its contract workforce by 80 percent with none of the company’s internal teams being notified in advance.

Full article, HERE from Breitbart.

Guess there were a bunch of full timers that were making contractors do their work… So that means Twitter actually had about 12,000 ’employees’, when you count all the contractors.

Interesting… And that could help explain the $4mil a day losses!

One thing I do have to say for Musk, he’s not pulling punches. When he makes a mistake, he’s owning up to it and stating that more will probably follow as he tries to get the costs and functionality under control over there.

Add another ammo manufacturer to GA!!!

Bryan County, Georgia is booming right now; the population grew by almost 50% between 2010 and 2020 and Hyundai just broke ground on a massive new factory that’s slated to create 8,100 jobs when it opens in 2025. The car maker isn’t the only company that’s expanding into the county; Ammunition maker Norma Precision just announced a $60-million dollar facility that will be staffed by some 600 workers.

Full article, HERE!

The way things are ‘going’, we may need them…

Just sayin…

Isn’t that interesting…

Earlier in the week, Dems were saying she should go to Only Fans to earn a living…

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) inches closer to her Democrat opponent Adam Frisch in a tight race to represent Colorado’s Third Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

As of Saturday morning, Boebert unexpectedly took the lead with 162, 040 votes while Frisch has 160, 918 votes, leading by just over 1,000 votes. 

Full article, HERE, but the margin of cheat hasn’t kicked in yet… And they are now saying it may be December before the ‘actual’ outcome is verified.

Why can’t we go back to paper ballots, one day of voting, and count all the #@$%#@% VOTES THE SAME DAY and be done???

Grrr…

The ‘game’ continues…

This was one of the reasons we always hauled ass when we heard a Soviet sub surfacing…

In the video, a Norwegian Lockheed P-3 Orion reconnaissance aircraft can be seen dropping a sonobuoy in front of the Russian nuclear submarine, ‘Knyaz Vladimir.’ The incident occurred in the Barents Sea when the Russian submarine had surfaced and was returning from its mission.

In response, the crew of the Knyaz Vladimir simulated using a Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) against the MPA. To drop the sonobuoys accurately, MPAs must operate at medium or low altitudes over the sea, thus making them vulnerable to MANPADS.

Full article, HERE from Eurasian Times.

I can’t help but wonder if that will be a standing order if Putin goes stupid in Ukraine…

Veterans Day…

Or Armistice Day, Remembrance Day depending on what country you are in…

To all those who’ve served, THANK YOU!!!

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day for November 11, 1919. In proclaiming the holiday, he said

“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.”

The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years later on June 4, 1926, requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies.  A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday: “a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as ‘Armistice Day’.”

In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who died in World War I. Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day. Weeks led the first national celebration in 1947 in Alabama and annually until his death in 1985. President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the briefing for President Reagan, determined Weeks as the “Father of Veterans Day.”

U.S. Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress. President Dwight Eisenhower, also from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May 26, 1954.

Congress amended this act on June 1, 1954, replacing “Armistice” with “Veterans,” and it has been known as Veterans Day since.

Whether the current administration likes it or not!!!

Huh…

Appears the ‘red wave’ turned out to be a ‘red trickle’…

And things are still up in the air, with it possibly taking until Friday or Saturday in some places to get the votes counted to actually determines who controls what.

I can remember back when we had paper ballots, the votes were counted ON election day, and all results were usually known by midnight if not earlier. Why is it, with all these fancy new technologies, it takes DAYS to get results?

I just don’t get it… (or want to do the digging to find out if what I’m thinking is actually true).

Yes, there has been cheating since the second vote was ever taken, but damn…

 

Murphy’s Law(s)…

Just to take a break from the BS and ruminate on how ‘true’ these are…

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Everything takes longer than you think it will.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Mother nature is a bitch.

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

Every solution breeds new problems.

If anything can’t go wrong on its own, someone will make it go wrong.

If Murphy’s Law can go wrong, it will.

Knowing Murphy’s Law won’t help either.

Murphy’s Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn’t work.

Murphy’s Time-Action Quandary: You never know how soon is too late.

O’Toole’s Commentary On Murphy’s Law: Murphy was an optimist.

Proof of Murphy’s Law: Murphy’s Law cannot be proven, yet is correct, as when you try to prove Murphy’s Law, you will see that the proof is incorrect. This is obviously due to Murphy’s Law, therefore Murphy’s Law is correct and proven.

Stewart’s Corollary to Murphy’s Law: Murphy’s Law may be delayed or suspended for an indefinite period of time, provided that such delay or suspension will result in a greater catastrophe at a later date.

Zymurgy’s Seventh Exception to Murphy’s Laws: When it rains, it pours.

Enjoy and take a break from the BS… sigh

Wow… just wow…

This kind of disingenuous BS is why your vote is important!!!

During a “Fox News Sunday” interview, host Shannon Bream gave the Democratic leader a chance to reflect on his recent remark that the U.S. “is on track to repeat what happened in Germany,” and Clyburn stuck to his position.

“The facts are very clear,” he said. “I’ve studied history all of my life. I’ve taught history. And I’m telling you, what I see here are parallels to what the history was in this world back in the 1930s in Germany, in Italy.”

Full article and video, HERE. Even CNN did a spit take on it, HERE.
Remember this as you go vote today! During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous other state and local elections, will be contested. The results will determine the 118th United States Congress. This will be the first election affected by the redistricting that followed the 2020 census.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the first reinforcement of the 15th Amendment.

15th Amendment

Section 1.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The one person, one vote ‘rule’ is based on the above… From Cornell Law website-

One-person, one-vote refers to the rule that one person’s voting power ought to be roughly equivalent to another person’s within the same state.

The rule comes up in the context of strategically drafting voting laws and gerrymandering, used to increase the voting power of particular groups like rural voters to the disadvantage of other groups. Equal Protection as guaranteed by the 5th and 14th amendments require broadly that each person be treated equally in their voting power, but what equality means relies on a series of Supreme Court cases. The most relevant Supreme Court case is Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964). In that case, the Court held that states need to redistrict in order to have state legislative districts with roughly equal populations: “The Equal Protection Clause requires substantially equal legislative representation for all citizens in a State regardless of where they reside.” In Evenwel v. Abbott, 578 U.S. __ (2016), the Supreme Court held that when drawing legislative districts, state legislatures may use the total population of areas within the state, rather than being restricted to using the voting-eligible populations.

For more on the one-person, one-vote rule, see this University of Florida Law Review article, this University of Michigan Law Review article, and this article in The Atlantic.

GO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TODAY! GO VOTE!!!
We’ll probably talk about this on our livestream at noon today on my YouTube channel OLDNFO.