25th is becoming more and more…

Posted on by July 9, 2022

Applicable…

It’s difficult to think of anything funny to write about Joe Biden’s latest gaffe. The astonishing mental decline of this man is frightening, and if Democrats had an ounce of care for the United States, they’d either have an intervention to get Biden to leave or put pressure on the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and have him removed constitutionally.

Full article, HERE.

This is especially scary since we don’t know WHO is actually pulling the strings behind the scene, much less who is actually in charge at the WH. It’s becoming obvious that it is NOT Joe…

This is NOT something we need to be dealing with right now, especially with the turmoil going on in the world and the left’s continuing wussification of the military with pronouns, etc.

At last count, something like 11 countries are in uproar/coups in progress/other actions against the powers that be. The formerly Great Britain earlier in the week, and now Sri Lanka just being one of those, albeit a bit more…out there than some.

Sri Lanka crisis live: Sri Lanka’s beleaguered President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in the capital on Saturday after protesters demanding the leader’s resignation stormed the president’s official residence. Soon after that, PM Ranil Wickremesinghe resigned, making way for an all-party government.

And they burned the Prime Minister’s house last night…

Full article, HERE from the Times of India.

Twitter deal is off!!!

Posted on by July 8, 2022

Elon Musk has said the Twitter deal is off, due to material breach of contract…

I think it’s coming down to the issues of bots and real users, but that’s just my guess.

The amount of popcorn needed for this one is gonna be EPIC!!!

Billionaire Elon Musk called off his deal to buy social media company Twitter, according to a filing on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler said in a letter to Twitter’s chief legal officer that “Twitter has not complied with its contractual obligations.”  For nearly two months, the company has failed to provide Musk with information about fake or spam accounts, the letter said. 

Full article, HERE from USA Today. Full letter details is HERE, to the SEC from the lawyers…

And apparently the Twits are now going to sue Musk to go through with the deal. Huh…

This is going to be interesting…

Posted on by July 7, 2022

Boris Johnson is out as the UK prime minister…

Apparently among other things, the Queen has lost confidence in his ability to lead.

The U.K.’s next prime minister is likely polishing their campaign pitch after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced — belatedly, when all other options had evaporated — that he would be stepping down.

  • Half of Johnson’s government, some 59 ministers, had resigned by the time he approached a podium outside Downing Street to announce his exit (something he insisted through Wednesday evening he would not be doing).

Full article, HERE from Axios.

There are a number of dominos in play with this statement. Among other things, the future of BREXIT, NATO status, relations with the USA, and support (both monetarily and weapons) for Ukraine.

The next couple of months could be really interesting on the world stage. And one wonders what ‘our’ administration (whomever is running it) will do in response. I don’t know and honestly, I’m afraid to guess.

What say you?

Get woke, go broke…

Posted on by July 6, 2022

Is not just here…

Halifax Bank in England went off the deep end…

Halifax Bank in the UK decided to do some virtue signaling, unveiling ads celebrating their pronouns. When customers objected, the bank tweeted “If you don’t like it, close your account.”

Full article, HERE from Battlesworm.blog

This is just so perfect a comeback from the customers, er…FORMER customers…

h/t Stretch

Compare and contrast…

Posted on by July 5, 2022

Soooo, we have something interesting here…

First, prayers for ALL of those shot this weekend, and their families.

The Highland Park shooting, seven dead and thirty-seven injured. The shooter is in custody after a short search. The FBI, multiple agencies (possibly including the Secret Service), etc. all got involved almost immediately after the shooting. Even the President commented on it last night. And everyone is decrying the ‘mass shooting’

President Biden led a moment of silence Monday for the victims of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade near Chicago — two hours after he stunned listeners by hardly mentioning it in a speech on the White House lawn.

Full article HERE from the NY Post.

Now the contrast…

CHICAGO — Seventy one people were shot , eight fatally, in 4th of July holiday weekend shootings across the city, Chicago police said.

Full article, HERE from ABC7 Chicago.

But where was the outcry? Where were the FBI and other agencies? Where was the President?

Crickets… Because this is pretty much a ‘normal’ weekend in Chicago, nothing to see, move along…

NYC, the same thing! Fifty shot and either nine or twelve dead, depending on the report. Outcry? Nope… Crickets too…

Full article, HERE from NY Post.

And then there is the major of Philthydeliphia. Where the mayor flat out said if he could, he would ban guns for anyone but LEOs.

“If I had the ability to take care of guns, I would,” he said. “But the legislature won’t let us. Congress won’t let us. The governor does the best he can [and] the attorney general does the best he can, but this is a gun country. It’s crazy. We are the most armed country in world history and we are one of the least safe. So until Americans decide that they want to give up the guns and give up the opportunity to get guns we are going to have this problem,” the mayor proclaimed.

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“The only people I knew who had guns in Canada were police officers and that is the way it should be here. But look, in my lifetime, it is never going to happen. A lot of goofballs out there with guns and they can get them anytime they want, so this is what we have to live with,” Kenney said, according to 6 ABC.

Full article, HERE with quotes… Which you cannot find on a Google search, by the way…

So, if it’s a dem stronghold, like Chicago, or NYC, or Philly, shootings are okay, since it’s mostly black on black, and not ‘important’ to the leadership.

But let it happen in an ‘upscale’ area, which apparently Highland Park is, and it is a white shooter (therefore MUST be White patriarchy) and it hits the news cycle for two days.

I’m waiting the usual 72 hours to actually comment on the Highland Park shooting particulars, because as we all know, ‘details’ change with amazing rapidity in the first three days.

How about blaming the shooters? Whomever they may be? Regardless of ethnicity? How about actually enforcing the laws on the books? How about requiring the mental health records actually be inputted to the NICS database?

How about realizing that criminals never have and never will obey the laws??? Is that too hard?

When you defund the police, what is actually going on is that a non-lethal means of apprehension/stopping crimes is removed from the system. In states with CCW, what you have done is put that means of stopping crimes on those who carry, and they don’t HAVE non-lethal as an option!

Sigh…

Posted on by July 4, 2022

I’ve mentioned before that I would NOT recommend the military to anyone today, due to the lack of leadership in the senior ranks…

But this article brings that out even better than I could!

Jump out of a perfectly good airplane, charge a machine gun nest, be stationed at Ft. Irwin – these are just three of the myriad miseries American patriots are willing to endure to defend our country. But today’s military is asking too much of our young people, as evidenced by the crashing recruitment rates that threaten to deplete a military already running short of soldiers. Have our young people suddenly turned from heroes to zeros, ne’er-do-well heirs of the brave warriors who confronted the forces of tyrannical gun control at Lexington and Concord? 

Full article, HERE from Town Hall

And I’m just thankful there isn’t any time travel… Can you imagine???

Michael Ramirez for the win (as usual)!

Happy Independence Day!!!

Posted on by July 3, 2022

While we celebrate on the 4th, the actual timeline was a ‘bit’ different…

On July 4, 1776,  the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence to announce the colonies’ separation from the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Library of Congress says.

The actual vote for independence actually happened two days earlier, History.com says – but July 4 is seen as the “birthday” of American independence.

The Fourth also isn’t when the Declaration of Independence was signed. According to the National Archives, delegates began signing the engrossed Declaration of Independence on Aug. 2 – starting with John Hancock’s famous signature.

John Adams wrote the following to his wife Abigail, on July 3, 1776:

“Yesterday the greatest Question was decided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was or will be decided among Men. A Resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony ‘that these united Colonies, are, and of right ought to be free and independent States, and as such, they have, and of Right ought to have full Power to make War, conclude Peace, establish Commerce, and to do all the other Acts and Things, which other States might rightfully do…’

The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable  Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival… . It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

Most of us will be doing just that, however there are some who…don’t agree with that sentiment.

Full article, HERE from the NY Post… Sigh…

For those of us in Tiny Town, Texas, we’ll be doing burgers, brats, and the usual sides with friends in SUPPORT of our independence!

Food and fireworks!!!

Posted on by July 2, 2022

We had our usual Saturday feed, with some additional folks and a puppy! Dave, Sarah, the kids, and their new puppy stopped by and joined us. Peter and Dot feted us with German foods fresh from Fischers over in Muenster, TX!

And then there was fireworks… This is looking down my street toward the highway. The lake is across the street, a half block away, behind the houses.

The kids loved the ‘screamers’…

And the finale…

Snerk… and as usual, they set the dam of the lake on fire… Fire Department was on hand and has put the fire out.

Musings…

Posted on by July 1, 2022

Made a deadline… 9300 word short done and submitted to the slush pile. Now the waiting begins!

Coming up on 4th of July and the long weekend, I was thinking back over the years and the things we do to celebrate the holiday. This whole thing got started yesterday in the grocery store when three of us in line (a LONG line), all retired military, starting talking about the ‘old days’…

Depending on where we were at the time, the 4th was another day at work for most of us in the military, at least if you were on the operational side. The retired USAF guy hit that nail on the head with his comment about ‘holiday’ for admin and ‘routine’ for everybody else! Sigh…

I do remember landing in Stavanger, Norway one 4th of July in a snowstorm! LOL

I spent a number of years in northern Virginia, and had an apartment with a BIG balcony, directly across the river from the Mall, so lots of folks ‘invited’ themselves over (and brought food), and we would sit on the balcony and watch the fireworks and eat.

Other times it was a holiday ‘celebrated’ on the road due to testing. It’s funny how other countries see our Independence Day, and their comments. The Italians  baked us a red, white, and blue cake! The Aussies wanted to talk about what America means to us, and that was question after question over way too many beers. That usually segued into discussions of sports played in the various countries and our complete lack of understanding of Cricket (STILL don’t get that)…

Now, six years into total retirement, well other than trying to write books, we’ve kinda established a ‘tradition’ with the North Texas Troublemakers. Supper on Saturday, burgers and brats on the 4th, and sitting in my driveway watching the local fireworks a block away, then the further fireworks displays…LOL

So 30 years later, I’ve come full circle. I’m still proud of what I did in service, and afterward working for DOD. I don’t regret any of it, and sometimes I have to work hard to keep my mouth shut at some of the things I see going on.

Patriotism has come, gone, come again, and now appears to be disappearing again (at least in the younger generations). Our little town was putting out flags yesterday, all over town, and the town flies a huge flag year round up by 287 that can be see for miles. I hear more and more people saying they are willing to leave the US, and it’s hard to NOT tell them to get gone.

They don’t realize how good they have it here! Freedom of speech, plenty of fresh food, clean water, ease of transportation, entertainment, etc. Their view of the ‘world’ is obviously one seen through rose colored glasses and their social media networks, never understanding that the ‘world’ they see is carefully curated to maximize the lure of those foreign locations.

They don’t see the abject poverty, the deaths from what would be minor infections here, the repression by the governments, the lack of food, clean water, etc. And they don’t realize there is no reset button that gives them a new life. That isn’t and never has been reality…

Anyhoo, I’m going to sit over here and enjoy what I have, and the friends I will spend time with over the weekend, and the food I will enjoy.

Another ‘win’ for the little people…

Posted on by July 1, 2022

The last two SCOTUS decisions came down yesterday.

The one we were watching has been pretty low profile, and that was West Virginia v. EPA on the overreach of unelected bureaucrats in government agencies making industry wide rules/regulations.

Well, SCOTUS gave a win to West Virginia!!!

While some commentators view this decision narrowly as a determination of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to promulgate regulations to address climate change, in practice, it sets a precedent that will limit the ability of all executive agencies to make regulations that shift entire industries without specific congressional authority to do so.

According to legal expert Jonathan Turley, “it will be much more difficult for President Biden to order sweeping environmental changes without congressional approval” in the wake of this decision.

Full article, HERE.

The real impact of this decision is that I believe now ALL government agencies will be on notice that they no longer have free reign to do as they wish, and this move will once again put the onus back on the congresscritters to actually DO what we pay them to do, and that is legislate.

YMMV…