Much smaller con this year, primarily due to the WuFlu… Good folks trying their best to put on a good little local con. Kudos to them!
Not many panels, but the ones I made were interesting, and the sidebars made up for it. Our little group showed up in spades, and I think everybody had fun and/or made contacts they were looking for.
I’m wore out, I’m too old to stay up that late… LOL
Back to regular blogging on Monday!
This one is…so far out of bounds it’s not funny. When courts conspire with the lawyers and guardian ad litems…
The Eastern District Court of Missouri has recused every one of its judges from a lawsuit alleging shocking corruption in the Missouri family court system.
Attorney Evita Tolu filed the lawsuit in the 21st Judicial Circuit Court of St. Louis against guardian ad litem (GAL) Elaine Pudlowski, psychologist Dr. James Reid, and therapist Jennifer Webbe VanLuven, alleging that the trio conspired to diagnose her with a fraudulent mental disorder and use her custody dispute as an opportunity to get rich while sentencing her children to life with their abuser.
Full article, HERE, and links to the previous investigative reports…
Don’t read this if you need BP meds… just sayin…
I ‘thought’ this was a joke… dammit…
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., sent a letter to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) archivist David Ferriero outlining his concern about the “blanket application” of a “Harmful Language Alert” on the nation’s pillar documents.
“Most disturbing is use of the alert for our nation’s founding documents, including the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights,” Lankford wrote in the letter exclusively obtained by Fox News. “It should be removed immediately.”
So I went and looked…
And yes, there is an alert…
So I went to their FAQ page, and there is an ‘explanation’ of what ‘may be harmful’…
Sigh… Full article, HERE.
As an OBTW, light commenting and possibly posting the next couple of days, off at FenCon in DFW.
The things people throw away are sometimes… Interesting…
Based on the translation by a Japanese lady, this is an original WWII Kamikaze pledge flag, signed by over 100 Kamikaze pilots late in the war. The money at the bottom is two WWII 100 Yen notes.
The irony is, nobody knows who turned this in to be destroyed. It was in a bunch of US flags that were to be destroyed.
And I was given this by somebody who was going to throw it out…
This is a 1955 pilot’s computer for computing airspeed at various altitudes and temperatures. Of note, it does NOT have a Mach scale on it, because Mach speeds were still the province of the military, and very few (early F-100s and F-102) production aircraft were capable of it, and this computer was produced for airline pilots.
If this is true, Milley SHOULD be court martialed and sent to prison…
In a jaw-dropping report, it’s been revealed that Milley pledged to the Chinese military to commit treason in order to undermine Donald Trump. The move to alert the CCP would have taken place via a secret backchannel set up by Milley and not sanctioned by the White House.
Full article, HERE.
Treason? Sure as hell sounds like it to me. How many troops was he willing to sacrifice with his ‘heads up’???
And the other question is, if it’s true, WHY did they set on this story??? Are they complicit???
On the anniversary of September 11, Pam Keith tweeted that January 6, 2021 had replaced September 11, 2001 as the “worst thing that happened to America in my lifetime” and that “it’s not even close.”
Keith, a Democrat, ran against Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) in 2020 for his Congressional seat in the 18th district of Florida.
Full article, HERE.
It’s about to get interesting down in Austin!
Retaliation. Witness tampering. Felony criminal conduct.
These charges are being aimed at the man Travis County, Texas, voters elected to prosecute criminals in November 2020. And the charges stem from one of José Garza’s highest-profile and most controversial cases.
Det. Fugitt’s direct accusations against Garza, which include new evidence and also implicate the two leaders of APD.
This is all going down in relation to the Perry case, the Sgt that shot the protester that was pointing an AK47 at him.
Full article, HERE.
We’re going to need more popcorn for this one! Just waiting for the Rangers to get called in… LOL
Today is the 20th anniversary of the 9/11/01 attacks on the United States by four sets of al-Queda hijackers…
These images were burned into our consciousness that day…
American Airlines Flight 11, and United Flight 175 hit the two towers at the WTC.
American Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.
And United Flight 93 (destined for Washington, DC) crashed in Shanksville, PA after fighting between the hijackers and the passengers, bringing the term “Let’s Roll.” into the lexicon.
I heard the term “defining moment” thrown around a lot, especially in the last years…
My recollection from that day-
On 9/11, I was in my office at the University when I got a call from one of the University pilots who is a retired Marine helo pilot; he told me to “get to a TV, somebody just hit New York with an airplane!”
I finally found one in a conference room upstairs and turned it on, as it happened it was on CNN…
Others started to wonder in to see why I was ‘violating’ University policy, and the pilot called me back, about that time. I do remember something to the effect of “a terrible accident has occurred” being said on TV about the time the pilot saying this wasn’t an accident, it was an airliner and something bad was going down.
As we talked, the second airplane hit the second tower, and we agreed about the fact that America was under attack, but at that point we had no idea who had done it… Anger was the prevalent feeling, and frustration, since there wasn’t anything we could directly do for those folks…
About a half an hour later, I was called into a meeting with law enforcement about securing/protecting facilities and infrastructure; we were interrupted by the announcement that the Pentagon had been hit, and the tone of the meeting changed from what if, to we need to prepare NOW! I also remember driving back to my office and hearing about Shanksville and UA 93 during that time. We set our emergency response plan into effect, sending folks home and going into a 24 hour response cycle.
I stayed at work, coordinating with various folks, but I noticed a lot of my co-workers were in shock that anyone would attack America, much less why attack us… I wasn’t shocked, I was PISSED…
The few of us that were ex-military tended to not say anything after the first couple of arguments, since we had a significantly different perspective. We knew the military had been placed on elevated alert, and folks were either airborne or sitting in cockpits on strip alert…
In the days that followed, I didn’t get a lot of sleep; watched a lot of coverage. When the list of casualties came out, I found out I’d lost three good friends in the Pentagon, and I wrote to Navy Personnel volunteering for recall to active duty. Sadly, I wasn’t recalled…
Why did I post these pictures? Because they are REALITY… Not sugarcoated, apologized for, sanitized talking points, or spun by whomever. We, the USA were attacked on our home soil by terrorists who are STILL determined to bring America to her knees, since we are the “Great Satan”… 20 years later, the terrorists are still after us, and the Taliban/al Queda are back in charge in Afghanistan…
Today, Biden and the other pols will horn in on the various memorials for the obligatory photo ops (well, apparently Biden will give a ‘video’ presentation). They won’t speak, and will keep those who actually DID THE WORK out of the memorials. Friend of mine who is a nurse and worked the pile for over 2 weeks at the Towers asked, and was told not to bother showing up, she wouldn’t be allowed in.
Where were you, and what was your response, and more importantly, what are your thoughts today???
Capt Larry Getzfred, USN; Capt Jack Punches, USN ret; AW1 Joe Pycior all died in the Navy Ops Center in the Pentagon. Never forget…
And steel from the Towers was used to build the bow of the USS NEW YORK (LPD-21).
She, and the USS ARLINGTON (LPD-24) and USS SOMERSET (LPD-25) were named for the other locations where the planes hit. All three ships are San Antonio Class Amphibs.
Victor Davis Hanson nails the California ‘experience’ in this article!
California once was run by conservatives and mostly centrist Democrats.
True paleo-liberal governors like Pat Brown greatly expanded the welfare state. But they also believed in pushing integration and building freeways, dams, aqueducts and power plants, while preventing forest fires, directing the mentally ill into state hospitals, and ensuring that the state enhanced the housing, timber, oil and gas, nuclear and agricultural industries.
Full article, HERE.
I know that I saw a lot of changes during the times I was stationed there in the early 70s, late 70s, and late 80s… And NONE of them were for the good (well, maybe cleaning up Haight Ashbury was good)…
But to see Larry Elder get attacked by a white woman in a gorilla mask, all of that caught on video, and yet that didn’t make ANY papers in California? Definitely shows which side the MSM is on out there, but we already knew that…
Hanson among many other leading lights including Thomas Sowell are members of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Frankly, I’m surprised the institution is still AT Stanford, considering how far left that school has gone!
Or do they???
Guess it depends on what day of the week, and who is saying what…
The CDC has apparently changed the @#@$%@% definitions of vaccine and vaccination!!!!
The old-
Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected.
Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation.
The new-
Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected.
Vaccine: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.
Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation.
Full article, HERE.
I’m old, and I can’t keep up with all these definition changes… Hell, what am I supposed to think and say??? Oh yeah, I’m supposed to ‘wait’ until I get the direction from teh partay, aren’t I???