Gotta play host this weekend… I know better than to do this…
But… We’re doing Foolzcon again. Should be an interesting mix of people, between writers, pilots, shooters, and various ‘other’ folks… and folks started showing up last night.
Contrary to ‘popular’ opinion, this was NOT a requirement!
So what I’m saying is there will be light commenting and maybe light posting the next couple of days. Just sayin’
Sigh…this truly ISN’T my Navy anymore…
Under the Navy’s new Departure & Separation Program, sailors on six surface ships were provided access to licensed counselors and specially trained educators during their first two to six weeks of deployment.
Full article, HERE.
I literally have no words for this… none…
In the True/False question of the day, was this character based on a real person or not?
Answer below the fold-
Or logic from an uncluttered Mind …
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.
The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’
The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’.
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God.’
The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’
A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six-year-olds. After explaining the commandment to ‘honor’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’
From the back, one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill.’
One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?’
Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Mummy, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?’
The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. ‘Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor.’
A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’
‘Yes,’ the class said.
‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary positions the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’
A little fellow shouted, Cause your feet ain’t empty.’
The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note and posted on the apple tray: ‘Take only ONE. God is watching.’
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.
A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples….’
And then there is common sense… which seems to be lacking today…
Sooooo, those people who ‘claim’ they can’t get any ID can’t do any of the other things? Is that what I’m hearing???
Funny, that doesn’t seem to be how things work out in real life… Just sayin…
1966: Long hair
2021: Longing for hair
1966: KEG
2021: EKG
1966: Acid rock
2021: Acid reflux
1966: Moving to California because it’s cool
2021: Moving to Arizona because it’s warm
1966: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2021: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
1966: Seeds and stems
2021: Roughage
1966: Hoping for a BMW
2021: Hoping for a BM
1966: Going to a new, hip joint
2021: Receiving a new hip joint
1966: Rolling Stones
2021: Kidney Stones
1966: Screw the system
2021: Upgrade the system
1966: Disco
2021: Costco
1966: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2021: Children begging you to get their heads shaved
1966: Passing the drivers’ test
2021: Passing the vision test
1966: Whatever
2021: Depends
Just in case you weren’t feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year’s incoming freshmen. Here’s this year’s list:
The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1998.
They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
The CD was introduced 7 years before they were born.
They have always had an answering machine..
They have always had cable. They cannot fathom not having a remote control..
Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
They can’t imagine what hard contact lenses are.
They don’t know who Mork was or where he was from. They never heard: “Where’s the Beef?”, “I’d walk a mile for a Camel”, or “de plane, Boss, de plane..”
They do not care who shot J. R. & have no idea who J. R. even is
Mc Donald’s never came in Styrofoam containers.
AND EVEN WORSE…
They don’t have a clue how to use a typewriter.
President Biden will nominate David Chipman, an adviser to the gun control organization founded by former Representative Gabrielle Giffords, to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or A.T.F., according to two people with knowledge of the move.
Full article, HERE.
John Richardson has a new post up about Chipman, with a different ‘perspective’, HERE…
Somehow I don’t think Chipman is going to make it through confirmation… Just sayin’
Or power play???
It appears the ‘swamp’ is on a rampage to ensure they never lose power again. Xiden is not in charge, honestly I wonder if he even knows what he’s doing half the time…
BUT, he’s ‘signed’ 38 executive orders, 13 presidential memoranda (which are de facto EOs without legal backing), 37 proclamations, and 10 notices.
He came out yesterday with this key statement: “But no amendment, no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.” In other words, he believes the Constitution that he swore to protect and defend can be changed at will.
And…the left if working to pack the court, article HERE. Do away with the filibuster in the Senate, and ram through HR-1/SR-1 (Crooked politicians act).
It is my ‘guess’, and I pray I’m wrong, that they are going to do their damndest to dismantle our current (flawed but currently controlled by the Constitution and Bill of Rights) form of government and install themselves as a one party system from 2022 on. They would also effectively take all forms of checks and balances between the three divisions of government away, leaving them to ram through anything they wanted, Constitution and Bill of Rights be damned…
And we’re seeing that play out in real time as the MSM, Big Tech, Universities, and others (BLM, SPLC, PP, etc.) drive what gets in the media or shared on social media. The dumbing down is coming too… Math and now English/writing are deemed to be white supremacy, therefore they must be ‘adjusted’ to allow ‘minority’ success…
Even as they plan to gut the military, force it to do CRT training, and take needed money away from maintenance to fund ‘incentives’ for others.
In their initial budget submission to Congress released Friday, White House officials said the compromise number will provide “resources to defend America and deter adversaries” while still allowing the federal government to better balance defense spending with other domestic priorities.
Full article, HERE.
And lets not forget the ‘crisis’ on the border. 170,000 illegals last month, 19,000 of them ‘children’… $60Million/wk to care for/feed/house them. And no testing, pushing them into the economy, without even a reporting court date (as if they would show up anyway). If HR/SR-1 go through, that’s 151,000 ‘new’ democratic votes a month… That’s another 2,890,000 democratic votes next November…
Somebody please tell me I’m wrong… PLEASE…
After Xiden’s word salad announcements yesterday, and the announcement of the EXTREMELY anti-gun former agent David Chipman (who was part of the Branch Davidian scandal) as the new head of the AFT (like I said, word salad he ‘meant’ ATF), He went on to say this among other things…
“Nothing, nothing I’m about to recommend in any way impinges on the Second Amendment. They’re phony arguments suggesting that these are Second Amendment rights at stake for what we’re talking about,” he argued.
Then came the key statement: “But no amendment, no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.”
Full article, HERE.
This is especially troubling in light of their ‘redefining’ the term infrastructure to mean whatever they deem appropriate to their cause (which apparently includes paying people not to work)… and a large percentage of the new ‘Infrastructure’ bill going to everything except what ‘we’ nominally consider infrastructure (like bridges, roads, etc.). Gillibrand (D. NY) had some doozies!!! Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure.
And interestingly there were THREE mass shootings in the last six days, one in Tuscaloosa, AL (apparently outside a bar, black on black, so no coverage), one in South Carolina, and one in Bryan, TX. And then there is the usual in Chicago, HERE.
Almost makes one wonder…
Cars, trucks, and… A Land Rover…
Mid-1930s (I ‘think’ 1936) Chevy pickup, running an old school 327. Didn’t hear it run, but it looked GOOD!
The paint job was intriguing, almost a mix of patina and color that made you look twice at it. 
And we saw this one in a parking lot at the restaurant. Lawdog had to look at it, mumbling something about “Memories, so many memories…” This one is a 94, TDi 100 Defender, RHD, probably ‘imported’ from England, by a USAF type based on the license plate surround.
It has obviously seen a lot of use, but it has also been well cared for. All of the pieces and parts are there, including the luggage rack and other parts built in London!
Like I said, right hand drive, 5 speed, and the obligatory fuzzy dice!!!
And last but certainly not least, 1968 Corvette. It looks all original, so I’m guessing probably a 327/300HP motor. It didn’t have either the front spring ‘droop’, nor any 427 badging.
And it was an automatic, so that leads to my 327/300 guess. The interior wasn’t perfect, nor was the paint, so again a guess that this is probably a 10-15 year old restoration, but one that was well done back on the day.
And it did have period correct rims on it, American Racing Torque Thrust mags from the 1960/70s. They were old school, with the engraved metal centers and old lettering. 
Overall, a nice older car, obviously out for a Sunday drive! I hope they had a good day and enjoyed themselves!
Sooo, two Yemeni males on the terrorism watch list were arrested in California in January and March. It made conservative media, but the MSM ignored it. When there were questions raised about the arrests, a strange thing happened to the CPB notification-
U.S Border patrol revealed recently that they have arrested two men on the terrorist watch list as they tried to cross the southern border. Both men were from Yemen and the arrests were made in January and as recently as March 30th.
Now, that report has been ‘scrubbed’ from the CPB site-
Try it yourself… https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/two-yemeni-men-arrested-border-patrol-identified-fbi-s-terrorism-0
Bet you got Access denied, didn’t ya?
Full article, HERE.
Add this to the whole mess on the border and the LACK of transparency of this administration, and there are now a lot of questions being asked, quietly for now, but I’m thinking they’re going to get louder and louder. Harris has yet to hold a press conference, much less go to the border, even though she is ‘supposedly’ in charge of fixing that mess.
This makes me think they literally have NO idea how to fix the monstrosity that they have created. Apparently 40% of current CBP man hours are being used just to ‘process’ all the border crossers… sigh…
It’s pretty bad when CNN actually has to do a ‘positive’ piece on a Pub…