Gah…

Posted on by August 18, 2021

Austin and Milley finally stuck their heads out in a joint presser.

Austin flatly stated there is NO plan to send forces out to retrieve people. He obfuscated and hemmed and hawed, about ‘coordination’ with unspecified people.

Milley refused to answer, saying he was not going to divulge operational plans.

When pushed, he added “That is a State Department function. We have a ‘capability’ and will execute however directed.”

Austin then muddied the waters by saying there was no capability to go collect ‘large numbers’ (undefined) of people.

Meanwhile, the Brit SAS folks are going out in town and ‘collecting’ their folks…

Austin was then pushed on his answer and said, “That is a State Department function. We will ‘facilitate’ the entry points 24/7.”

When asked about the missing weapons, neither would own up to that either, or the issue of closing Bagram before the civilians were evacuated!

And more interesting, when asked then pressed about the ‘timeline’ of failure, neither would say anything about what the ‘military’ thought.

Milley said, “There was nothing, that I or anybody else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days,” Bulls**t! They had the Lead Inspector General report on Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (OFS) in hand, and it spelled things out!!!

Talk about dereliction of duty, and leaving US citizens and others in the lurch! Damn… They should resign IF they had any honor… but they don’t…

And what did Xiden do yesterday? Snuck in, gave a presser on the WuFlu update, and bolted again without answering a single question! HE should also resign, if he had an ounce of honor, but we know he doesn’t…

Well, well, well…

Posted on by August 17, 2021

Funny how the CYA is in FULL force today…

This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report on Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (OFS) summarizes historical oversight activities from April 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021, and provides background about events leading up to recent, significant and fast moving developments in Afghanistan. Future Lead IG quarterly reports will further highlight these and other developments in Afghanistan.

Complete report HERE, .pdf at the bottom of the page.

Note that it was released publically yesterday… Strange, that…

And in other news, now we know where those 5 Taliban that Obummer traded for Bergdahl went… They showed up in Kabul as the ‘leaders’ of the Taliban, and apparently one of them was the ‘negotiator’ that US officials were speaking with in Switzerland!

This is just getting weirder and weirder… It’s almost to the point that I’m beginning to wonder if this was malicious incompetence on the administration, State, and DOD’s part!

Oh, and last but not least, apparently DOD has absolutely NO idea how much ‘stuff’ the Taliban now has in the way of weapons, technology, etc! Unfrikkenbelievable!!!

And Baghdad Bob Kirby had this exchange on getting the US people out-

“From a military perspective our focus is at the airport,” Kirby said. “Right now though I don’t want to set the expectation that we are equipped and able to go out into the countryside and physically move people into Kabul. Our focus right now, the troops that we have there, are at the airport. The idea is that we can get the air operations, not only have they resumed, but to keep them in place for as long as possible.”

Berman then pointed out the obvious: “If they can’t get to the airport what does it matter if you have the capabilities to get them out from the airport?”

Kirby had no answer for Berman—only acknowledging the security situation is “not ideal.”

Full article, HERE.

Grrr…

Posted on by August 16, 2021
Taliban and al Qaeda are declaring victory over the US, as expected. And it’s playing well with their minions around the world…
Kabul airport was closed most of yesterday due to being overrun… People have been shot, and according to reports one or two have fallen from C-17s as they took off. Photos indicate the Afghans are doing their usual, pushing women and children to the front, Marines order them to stop, they squat, and the men break around them and penetrate the perimeter. That tells me the ROE is VERY restrictive…
Depending on whom you believe, as few as 100 Americans or up to 400 have been flown out. No indication that anyone has gone into town to recover those who were told to shelter in place, and apparently no attempt to bring out any of the Afghans that worked for the embassy, especially the females. Taliban are, according to boots on the ground, going door to door looking for those interpreters/embassy workers.
Oh, and the Russian and Chinese embassies? Open with NO issues. What a surprise!
Biden, Harris, Blinken, Austin, Milly, this blood will be on YOUR hands. You had 7 months to plan and coordinate a SAFE withdrawal… Shows how much you care about your people and our military…
All I can do is to say a prayer for those who are being left behind. Hopefully your death will be quick and you won’t be raped…

Xiden gave a ‘defensive’ press conference yesterday afternoon, trotted out the old saw from Harry Truman of the “Buck Stops Here”, but only after he blamed everybody and everything including Trump and his ‘rushed’ plan that had ‘boxed him in’… That was in addition to lying mis-speaking about facts (as usual)…

He then went on to say that the US ‘would’ strike at terrorists “over the horizon”… whatever that means, since we’ll have NO assets to actually track al Qaeda that are active in at least 10 provinces in Afghanistan TODAY!

Article HERE, HERE, and HERE.

And did you see the DOD presser? When asked, they have NO idea where the weapons, etc. are… And no plan to go get the people that are ‘sheltering in place’… Oh, and apparently lied about how many troops were there last week, saying they were ‘just today’ at 2500 troops on the ground…

And Baghdad Bob Kirby did his usual song and dance that the Pentagon WAS NOT at fault…  Article HERE.  Yeah, right…

And in the true irony of ironies…

So we got Saigon 1975, except with a the same BUNO 154038 Phrog, even though they put a new N number on it, and flown out of the compound rather than off the roof. And as one vet said, “No jungle this time!”

So… What is going to happen on 9/11 THIS year???

Automotive finds…

Posted on by August 15, 2021

Old school muscle…

74 Formula 400, fully built, short throw 4spd, disk brake and suspension upgrade. Didn’t hear it run, but obviously a LOT of work went into it… And a lot of folks stopped to look at it!

And just plain old school…

67 C-10, original owner still driving it. It’s had two paint jobs, but this is the original color. He admitted he did ‘upgrade’ the drivetrain to a 327 and a Powerglide. It’s got a few spots  he is cleaning up before he sends it to the paint shop, and a wiring issue with the @#$%% side lights (as he said). Oh, and disk brakes…

He shrugged and admitted it was a ‘little warm’ to drive in the summer, since it didn’t have AC, and he has a ‘new’ GMC as a daily driver… 🙂

And then there was this…

They are making no bones about where they stand! I just hope they never drive it in Dallas, Austin, or Houston…

Wow…

Posted on by August 14, 2021

Thanks to reader John S for pointing me to this one…

The Army National Guard is actively recruiting for a job position called “Internment/Resettlement Specialist.” People as young as seventeen years old are eligible for the gig, which includes “Search/Restraint” as “Some of the Skills You’ll Learn,” according to an Army National Guard job posting with a job location listed as Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, military documents show that the military can detain civilians here in America, including U.S. citizens. A leaked U.S. Headquarters of the Army document entitled “INTERNMENT AND RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS” describes an official category of detained person called “civilian internee.” A Department of Defense Directive published below discussed “civilian internees” and made it clear that military detainees can be U.S. citizens.

Full article, HERE.

HERE is the actual announcement…

And there really IS an Army manual on Internment… Issued in 2010… Note the distribution!

It’s stuff like this that just makes you wonder about the ‘real’ intentions of the left…

Which one will we see…

Posted on by August 13, 2021

In Kabul next week??? They have already been directed to destroy all ‘sensitive’ documents and computers…

I had a conversation the other night with a former Army guy who’d done a couple of tours… Apologies for the language…

Yes, I remember both Vietnam, I was flying out of Cubi during the fall of Vietnam, and participated in both Frequent Wind, and Eagle Pull. Also the little op known as the Mayaguez rescue. Our crew took this picture when we found the MV Mayaguez, although the Air Force took the credit since they ‘processed’ the film at Utapao… (which STILL pisses me off)…

Yes, those are two Swift boats tied up alongside the Mayaguez, but they were crewed by Khmer Rouge, and shot at us every time we flew by (thankfully they were lousy shots).

I also knew folks that were involved in the attempted hostage rescue in Tehran in 1979 that failed…

The one thing that kept running through my mind yesterday was- “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” Granted I’ve been retired for 29 years, but I still lay the blame for the clusterf**k now going on in Afghanistan directly at the feet of Xiden and SECDEF Austin.

Their ‘scramble’ to get out has been mismanaged from the get go, sneaking out in the dark of night after they turned off the lights at Bagram??? Really??? WTF happened to actually COORDINATING the turnover, knowing we’d still need a base to operate from if/when things went south? And the constant downplaying of the Taliban… Junior Varsity? Really??? “Oh, they won’t actually try to control the country, they don’t have that capability.”

Have anyone looked at a @#%$$ tactical map of Afghanistan lately? The ‘JV’ controls over 75% of the country!

And it’s obvious the Pentagon has its head up its ass, more concerned with ‘domestic terrorists’ and CRT than actually protecting its personnel. Kirby, who I think of now as ‘Baghdad Bob’ Kirby gave a disjointed confusing press conference about how the Puzzle Palace was ‘working the issues’ and believed that ‘negotiations’ would get everything resolved… Yeah, right, pull the other one, it has bells on it… There are contingency plans already worked out, you pull them out and say “Go!”…

Which drives me back to which one of the first two pictures will be the news lead next week…

Meanwhile, Xiden is nowhere to be found, either hiding in Delaware or at Camp David and Austin is throwing Kirby to the wolves…

At least, unlike the reception ‘we’ received when we came back, we made sure the GWOT kids GOT a real welcome home. But what will the administration say to those gold star families and those who came back with PTSD, missing limbs, and chronic injuries that they may or may not be getting treatment for? Or those who’ve lost veterans to suicide (20+ a day)…

Gah, I’m gonna shut up now, so I can go find my BP meds…

A little humor…

Posted on by August 12, 2021

And a really bad joke… I don’t write ’em (most of the time), I just send them along on recycled electrons…

A golfer in Ireland hooks his drive into the woods.

Searching for his ball, he finds a little Leprechaun lying flat on his back, a bump on his head and golf ball beside him. Horrified, the golfer gets his water bottle from the cart and pours it over the little guy, reviving him.

“Arrgh! What happened?” the Leprechaun asked. “I’m afraid I hit you with my golf ball” the golfer says. “Oh, I see. Well, ye got me fair and square. Ye get three wishes, so whaddye want?” “Thank God, you’re all right!” the golfer answers in relief. “I don’t want anything, I’m just glad you’re OK, and I apologise”. And the golfer walks off.

“What a nice guy” the Leprechaun says to himself. ” I’ll have to do something for him. I’ll give him the three things I would want… a great golf game, all the money he ever needs, and a fantastic sex life”.

A year goes by and the golfer is back. On the same hole, he again hits a bad drive into the woods and the Leprechaun is there waiting for him.

“Twas me that made ye hit the ball here” the little guy says. “I just want to ask ye, how’s yer golf game?” “My game is fantastic!” the golfer answers. “I’m an internationally famous golfer now”. He adds “By the way, it’s good to see you’re all right”.

“Oh, I’m fine now, thank ye. I did that fer yer golf game, ye know. And tell me, how’s yer money situation?” “Why, it’s just wonderful!” the golfer states. “When I need cash, I just reach in my pocket and pull out a pile of $100 bills I didn’t even know were there!” “I did that fer ye also”. And tell me, how’s yer sex life?”

The golfer blushes, turns his head away in embarrassment, and says shyly “It’s OK”. “C’mon now” urged the Leprechaun “I’m wanting to know if I did a good job. How many times a week?” Blushing even more, the golfer looks around then whispers “Once, sometimes twice a week”. “What??” responds the Leprechaun in shock. “That’s all? Only once or twice a week?” “Well” says the golfer “I figure that’s not bad for a Catholic priest in a small parish”.

Y’all have a good weekend!!!

Smackdown…

Posted on by August 11, 2021

Copied from my friend, Midwest Chick… This doctor, an immunologist lays the smackdown on an Indiana School board…

I just wish we had copies of what he provided to the school board!

They actually let him finish, and the crowd gave him a long round of applause!!!

As if…

Posted on by August 10, 2021

Their profit isn’t high enough already…

So, it seems that Google, like many other companies want people to physically come back to the office, and this is their way to ‘nudge’ employees to do that…

Google has rolled out a new internal calculator to explain potential pay cuts to employees who choose to work remotely — and the early results suggests it will penalize its suburban staffers.

Full article, HERE.

And apparently Cuomo read the ‘handwriting’ on the wall, and resigned effective in 14 days yesterday.

Faced with mounting legal pressures and demands for his departure from President Joe Biden and others, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on Tuesday following an inquiry that found he sexually harassed 11 women, capping a startling downfall for one of the most prominent politicians in the United States.

Full article HERE, from Reuters.

And last but not least, again from yesterday.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has filed articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for presiding “over a reckless abandonment of border security and immigration enforcement” as the head of the agency.

Full article, HERE from Breitbart. Frankly, I doubt this will actually go anywhere, considering the makeup of the congresscritters… dammit…

So…

Posted on by August 9, 2021

Apparently the $3.5T dem wish list is being labeled a ‘human infrastructure’ bill!

Bernie Sanders is ‘in charge’ of the economy…

For too many years the people on top have been doing phenomenally well, while working families continue to struggle. The time is long overdue for Congress to address the long-neglected needs of ordinary Americans, and not just the 1% and wealthy campaign contributors.  And that is precisely what we’re trying to do right now in Congress through an historic $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” bill.  

It is unacceptable that the United States has more income and wealth inequality now than at any time in the last hundred years. Today, the two wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than the bottom 40% and the top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 92%.

Full article, HERE.

Bernie Sanders says budget includes:

— Child tax benefit — Universal pre-K — Paid family & medical leave — Tuition-free community college — Lower prescription drug costs — Dental/hearing/vision Medicare expansion — Housing — Homecare — Major climate $ — Immigration — Lower Medicare age — Obamacare expansion — Increasing physical supply — (Too many climate/clean energy plans to summarize here)

New revenue from: — Beefed up IRS tax enforcement — Taxing rich — Taxing corporations — Fees on polluters — Medicare negotiations

One of many articles, HERE.

Meanwhile…

Inflation is here, probably to stay as long as this bunch is in control…

YMMV…