So…

Posted on by October 11, 2021

Which is the truth???

From the Republican Daily…

Yesterday, mass chaos ensued for Southwest Airlines, with thousands of flights being canceled across the country. Passengers were left scrambling as refunds were denied and nonsensical excuses were presented.

The official story was that ATC “issues” and bad weather caused the meltdown, which hit Jacksonville, FL especially hard. That rippled through flights elsewhere as planes were not able to make their connecting legs.

One look at the radar and airport delays, though, shows there was absolutely nothing weather-related anywhere in the country (where Southwest Airlines operates) that caused this, much less in sunny Jacksonville. Rather, it was some mix of an air traffic controller and pilot shortage due to pointless vaccine mandates driving the cancellations. That’s made obvious by the fact that other major US airlines saw cancellation rates over 10x lower during the same period.

Further, it’s been confirmed now that the mass “sickout” was a result of the vaccine mandates.

From some ‘other’ sources…

Note the comment about the leave and banked personal time… I know which one of these ‘I’ believe…

YMMV, but I’d be careful about whom I book flights on for a while. Just sayin…

Sigh…

Posted on by October 10, 2021

All good things must come to an end, social gathering of the tribe is over for another year.

Now it is back to reality, the Internet, and news… Sigh

Regular blogging and comments will be back on Tuesday.

Fun times…

Posted on by October 9, 2021

No Internet, no TV, just sitting around shooting a few guns, and lots of lively conversation! I’m sure my blood pressure is down by at least 20 points after a few days! 🙂 And yes we are making things go boom!

Sadly the movie is too big, but 2 lbs of Tannerite makes a big boom!

 

Net humor

Posted on by October 8, 2021
I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later.

I don’t have to go to school or work.

I get an allowance every month.

I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew.

I have a driver’s license and my own car.

The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don’t have acne.

Life is great. I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds.

People get out of the way much faster now.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers.

Now they drink like their fathers.

Old age is coming at a really bad time.

When I was a child I thought “nap time” was a punishment.

Now it feels like a small vacation.

The biggest lie I tell myself is… ” I don’t have to write that down, I’ll remember it”.

I don’t have gray hair… I have “wisdom highlights”!

I’m just very wise.

If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would’ve put them on my knees.

Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators.

We haven’t met yet.

Why do I have to press one for English when you’re just going to transfer me to someone I can’t understand anyway?

Of course, I talk to myself.

Sometimes I need expert advice.

At my age “Getting Lucky” means walking into a room and remembering what I came In there for.

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can’t remember their names.

Now, I’m wondering… did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?

A question…

Posted on by October 6, 2021

Do you see rays of sunshine, or darkness???

Took this as the sun was setting the other night. What ‘I’ think you’re seeing is the bumps in the cloud tops blocking the sunshine, which gives the impression of  ‘rays’ of sunshine (but I really think they are rays of darkness).

YMMV…

Your thoughts?

Out of pocket…

Posted on by October 6, 2021

Light blogging and commenting the next few days, out in Big Sky Country…

Go read the folks on the sidebar.

Worth thinking about…

Posted on by October 5, 2021

Came over the transom from the mil email side of the house…

The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of “Men who wanted to be left Alone”. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.

They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.

The moment the “Men who wanted to be left Alone” are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these “Men who wanted to be left Alone” will fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.

They fight with raw hate and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these peoples’ doors, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the “Men who wanted to be left Alone”.

– Author unknown

h/t Guy

Hmmm…

Posted on by October 3, 2021

This is rather interesting. A follow up from yesterday’s post.

The Port of Houston, a critical piece of infrastructure along the Gulf Coast, issued a statement Thursday saying it had successfully defended against an attempted hack in August and “no operational data or systems were impacted.”

Full article, HERE.

More and more ships are making the transit of the Panama Canal and coming around to Houston to unload because it is cheaper than sitting and waiting for a west coast port to free up…

Port Houston is positioning itself as a viable option for handling more containerized imports from Asia, thanks to congestion woes for importers on the West and East coasts.

Full article, HERE.

And another article from 2 weeks ago. Bold/italic mine.

Global supply chain woes stemming from the pandemic continue to drag on, creating chaos in international markets. Many companies anticipate the issue will extend into next year. UPS, for instance, recently encouraged consumers to order Christmas presents now. Kroger and Toyota have also voiced concerns, as well as Walmart.

But it’s not all bad news for Houston, the country’s largest export market. In fact, container traffic at the Port of Houston is on track to set a record this year. 

Full article, HERE.

And there are rumors that the Feds tried to ‘take over’ the Port by declaring it Federal property. I don’t see THAT ending well in Texas right now.

Ouch…

Posted on by October 2, 2021

In addition to the problems with getting ships unloaded at ports on the west coast, prices per TEU are up AGAIN!

The cost to transport shipping containers between China and the United States surged to a record high in September. 

Full article, HERE.
For what it’s worth, I’d say order your Christmas presents NOW, if you haven’t already done so. This year is going to be ugly!
And another ouch is the latest Senate approval for the Bureau of Land Managment…

The Senate narrowly approved Tracy Stone-Manning as director of the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday over vehement opposition from Utah’s Republican senators, including one who called her confirmation offensive and insulting.

Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney argued that Stone-Manning, of Missoula, Montana, is unfit for the job because of her involvement with tree spiking more than three decades ago. Both described her as an “eco-terrorist,” and earlier called on President Joe Biden to withdraw her nomination.

Full article, HERE.

She was and still is an Eco-terrorist. If you or anyone you know depends on access to federal lands, I hope they have a fallback… sigh…

In for a penny…

Posted on by October 2, 2021

In for a pound…

Busy writing, so you get memes…

Two good ones guaranteed to piss off ‘somebody’…