Soooo,,,

Posted on by January 24, 2025

Elements of the USAF is apparently disobeying the President…

When President Trump rolled out his earth-shattering executive order that forbade DEI throughout the federal government (Culling the Herd: Thanks to Trump’s EO, DEI Departments Are Shuttered, Employees Placed on Leave), he anticipated that the forces of the “resistance” would work behind the scenes to avoid obeying. He knew they would rename organizations and hide the DEI commandos in other positions so the whole hideous mess could be reassembled, like Frankenstein’s monster, at a future date. That is why the Office of Personnel Management required all agency heads to send this memo to every employee

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There is evidence of efforts by some USAF units to ignore the executive order. This is an example from Minot (North Dakota) Air Force Base. Here, you have a memo that laughs at the executive order and clearly states they have renamed the office.

Full article, HERE from Red State.

We knew when Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. too over as CJCS, he was 100% on board with DEI, and I can’t help but wonder if those who are refusing to follow the president’s direction think Gen Brown is going to either ‘cover’ for them, or bail them out.

Personally, I think it’s going to take a couple of years to actually root out the entrenched bureaucracy who support it. BATF has done the same thing with their DEI position, simply renaming the woman to a ‘senior executive’ without a job description.

From the outside looking in, I cannot say I’ve seen anything ‘good’ with DEI, as it takes away the rationale for merit promotions if you’re the wrong ethnicity, it has, to me, lowered the work standards, and made organizations and the military, LEOs, Medics, et al less safe.

I’m just glad I’m no longer in the workforce, or managing any personnel today…

What say you???

Well, well, well…

Posted on by January 23, 2025

Maybe now we’ll finally get the details on JFK, MLK, and Robert Kennedy’s shootings…

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. 

Trump had promised to release the previously classified documents during his 2024 campaign after decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about the killings. 

“Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

For years, and yes I go back that far, the assassination theorists have begged, sued, and attempted to ‘steal’ the documentation that .gov supposedly holds on all three of these.

I predict that there will be cries of ‘coverup’ on all three of them, and a lot of the files will be redacted to hell and gone.

There have been people making a ‘good’ living off their theories, books, and ‘investigations’, so maybe we’ll find out who was actually doing what, when, and where…

Do I expect definitive answers? Nope, not after the Warren Report. It was skewed to present ‘one’ view back in the day, and honestly, I don’t see the documents revealing much new, but I’m still going to look at them just out of curiosity.

Wow…

Posted on by January 22, 2025

The ‘weird’ weather along the Gulf got interesting yesterday! Funny how this didn’t even get to be a ‘named’ storm, like all the ones that go through the Midwest!

The Gulf Coast was probably the biggest surprise, especially Florida. Most people head down to the Sunshine State in January to get away from snow and freezing temperatures, but cities from Pensacola to Jacksonville got hammered with the white stuff. The Pensacola area seems to have been hit the hardest. According to AccuWeather, the panhandle city recorded an official 7.6 inches, while the Pensacola News Journal reports that some other local areas potentially saw up to nine or more. The record for the city, which is from 1895, was a whopping three inches. 

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Soooo, this storm dumped record levels of snow on New Orleans, Pensacola, and probably a lot of other places along the Gulf Coast, breaking some records that go back over 100 years.

Now I just want somebody to ‘splain to me how this is ‘globull warming’!

I know you folks up north are laughing at us, but the South is NOT set up for these temps or the snow. Probably the only snowblowers belong to the snowbirds that ‘forgot’ to take them out of their household good shipment…

And De Santis closed I-10 due to snow and ice, to keep folks from getting killed trying to drive in that mess. I-75 was also having issues in GA and North Florida as of last night.

But those folks will get through it, just like they do the hurricanes and tornadoes that are more ‘regular’ visitors. Although, with the new administration, they might actually get some help from the government if they ask for it!

Weather…

Posted on by January 21, 2025

Yesterday we had a real ‘oddity’…

David Jackson / FOX 26 Houston

Snow down on the Gulf coast from Texas to Florida.

Photos and videos from beaches along the Gulf Coast showed a rare and stunning sight Tuesday: snow. 

In Galveston, video from Galveston.com showed snow blanketing the beach, concealing the sand underneath. Waves crashed in the distance, with dark, gloomy skies behind them. 

States from Texas to the Carolinas are experiencing a once-in-a-generation snowstorm this week. It has already resulted in a Blizzard Warning being issued in Louisiana for the first time ever.

More visuals from Galveston showed the snow-covered beach, a sharp contrast to the usually green, sunny landscape. Reports from the National Weather Service indicate the area has received about 1-3 inches of snow. 

Article and video HERE from Fox News.

This is what happens when the Jet Stream really dips deep into the south! You get extreme cold mixing with warm moist air over the Gulf…

Ironically, we had blue skies, and COLD temps (for us), it was 10 degrees yesterday morning, but no moisture at all. It finally got to freezing late yesterday afternoon, with a high of 32.

Today it’s supposed to be in the 50s and 60s by the weekend!

It’s winter, what can you say???

I know a lot of y’all are laughing at us, and that’s fine, but I don’t envy those of you that are in the negative numbers, and all I can say is STAY WARM!

Schedule change…

Posted on by January 19, 2025

If you’re one of our 570+ subscribers to my YouTube channel- https://www.youtube.com/@OldNFO

Ian’s schedule changed, so we’re changing our hours for broadcasting too!

Cedar, Ian, and I will do Tuesday at 1600 CST for our Bored Yet broadcast.

Ian, and I will do Thursday at 1200 CST for our Bored Yet broadcast.

So the days stay the same, just the hours are changing… And we still don’t have any rails… Feel free to drop by and join the chat!

And a meme for y’all…

At least…

Posted on by January 18, 2025

It’s not supposed to rain or snow..

But the cold nights are gonna suck!

And our electric bills went up 1 Jan, so it’s also going to be an expensive week!

I know this isn’t really ‘cold’ to those up north, but we’re not set up for this.

I’ma gonna be curled up with a computer and a heater, with a LARGE cup of coffee…

Bits and pieces…

Posted on by January 17, 2025

Does anybody ‘really’ care if Mike O, Pelosi, et al attend the inauguration or not?

I know I don’t care… There are only three people that are ‘required’ to be there.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who will administer the oath, Donald J. Trump, and Melania Trump to hold the bible. He is going to use his personal bible and the Lincoln bible for the oath.

And all that ‘globull warming’ is going to be so cold, they are moving it indoors…

I was in Arlington, VA for W’s second inauguration and both Obummer’s inaugurations, and believe me, there was DEFINITELY a difference in the crowds and attitudes. I stayed in all three times, especially the Obumbecause I didn’t want to deal with the ‘stupid’ on display as the flood of $$$, egos, and attitudes came into town.

I do find it funny that millions of $$$ are being ‘donated’ to Trump for access to the balls, meet and greets, and the inauguration itself. A friend got to go to one of W’s balls, and she said it was ‘tiring and overloaded with people’. She did enjoy seeing all the Texans in their cowboy boots and Stetsons, and noted how polite they were, but the tension of everyone waiting for W to show up was ‘irritating’ according to her.

In other bits, Fauxahontas is questioning those same high rollers as to why they are donating to the Republicans, HERE. Funny, they never did that when THEY were in power…

And Xiden commuted even more sentences yesterday, bringing his total to something close to 5000 criminals he’s (or whomever is running things) letting loose, HERE. The administration is doing everything they can in the last few days throw roadblocks in front of the Trump administration, including putting drilling off limits, more free passes for illegals from Guatemala, Venezuela, and I think Haiti. They are doing so many I can’t even keep up!!!

This one… BLM is ‘demanding’ a Safeway in Fillmore (SFO) remain open, even though they are losing $7000 a month in theft, cause there will be a ‘food desert’, HERE… Ummm, if they didn’t steal the store blind, they might have stayed open…just sayin…

Reminds me of when DC tried to strongarm Walmart a few years ago, after they bought land, and were going to open a store in the district. DC tried to tell them what wages they had to pay, jacked up what Walmart would have paid in taxes, and I ‘think’ there was a clause about the minimum number of years they had to remain open. Walmart just walked away from the whole deal, and I think they sold the land cheep!

And this one is just odd. Why now?

When Congress approved the ERA on March 22, 1972, it set a deadline of seven years for the necessary three-fourths of the states to approve it. That deadline came and went on March 22, 1979, with only 35 states approving of the amendment. Thirty-eight were needed, so that was that. In 2017, however, as the #MeToo movement was cresting, Nevada became the 36th state to approve the ERA, with Illinois following in 2018 and Virginia in 2020.

Full article, HERE. 40 years too late…

In the good news category, Israel has approved the cease fire with Hamas to bring the hostages home, HERE! This has been a long time coming, and I can’t help but wonder how much impact Trump’s statements made to ‘quickening’ the negotiations.

And Navy veteran Zachary Young won his lawsuit against CNN!!!

The basic award is $5M, with punitive damages still to come, HERE. Granted, lawyers will get a big chunk of that, but it is a win for the little guy! And it did expose CNN’s dirty laundry about what they think about us peons…

 

Sigh…

Posted on by January 16, 2025

I just… Really???

Modern-day Democrats have never been known to excel at “reading the room,” but a group of “progressive” Capitol Hill staffers seem intent on proving the left’s tone deafness with an amazing demand to Congressional leaders: they want to work fewer hours but still get paid a full-time salary.

You see, these poor souls are sometimes asked to work long hours and, gosh, isn’t that unfair? It’s only right that they be rewarded with lighter work schedules.

The group asking for this perk is called the Congressional Progressive Staff Association (CPTA), and they sent a letter to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) Thursday pleading with them to “consider adopting a proposal that would improve worker satisfaction, increase staff retention in Congress, and model a more sustainable approach to work on a national level.”

That proposal? A 32-hour workweek when Congress isn’t in session. 

Full article, HERE from RedState

Hell, I would have LOVED a short work week at full pay. But I knew there wasn’t a bat’s chance in hell I would even have a job if I was stupid enough to push something like that.

And when you consider how ‘well thought of’ Congress is right now, along with the deep state, one has to wonder where their heads are at (other than needing windshield wipers for their belly buttons).

But I guess bureaucrats gotta bureaucrat, since they ‘know’ their jobs are secure.

Or are they?

Book promo…

Posted on by January 15, 2025

First, a mea culpa to John. I ‘thought’ I had promo’ed his latest Wolfhounds book, but I was told by a friend I had not…so…

John Van Stry has his 5th book in his Wolfhounds series out- Manifest Destiny

Click on the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

The Tomb has acknowledged Chase’s lineage, and declared him Emperor to the universe. But what good is being an Emperor if you don’t have an Empire? While the Wolfhounds have conquered, or perhaps liberated, a fair number of planets, the core worlds have not yet been touched. Furthermore, the crown jewel of them all, Cor Imperii, still stands under the control of Speaker Phillip K. Neill, and the rest of the members of the coup that seized control of the empire over a decade ago.

But Neill’s days are numbered, whether he fully realizes it or not, as his dictatorship is slowly dismantled, one piece at a time and he clings to whatever hopes he has left. While the road before Chase is still long, and still fraught with peril and a good many dangers. However, for Chase and the Wolfhounds, the end is finally within view – now it’s only a matter of time.

The challenges may be different, but they are by no means less than the ones he’s faced previously. In fact some of them he may find to be harder, now that he is no longer ‘pretending’ to be the prince, having proven to all his right to reign and having finally accepted the responsibilities that have now become his.

I’m happy to say I got to beta read this one, and it’s GOOD!

Next up is one that Larry Correia brought to our attention that was being throttled on Farcebook… Blaine Pardo and Mike Baron’s Tenure

The blurb-

Push a Good Man Too Far…

Braxton Knox was a veteran, a university professor, a conservative family man—a good person, commanding the respect of those who knew him. Until the day when one innocent slip of the tongue brought down the merciless wrath of the woke social justice mob—ultimately costing him his career, his family, his home, and almost his life.

Unfortunately for the SJWs, they chose the wrong person to abuse. They expected Braxton to do what so many do: roll over and take it. It never dawned on them that he would fight back.

Braxton unleashes a war against those who sought to ruin him. His unique brand of vigilante justice is vicious, violent, vindicating, and fraught with risk…

… but at this point, he’s got nothing left to lose.

From the minds of legendary comic writer Mike Baron (Flash, The Punisher) and political thriller/sci-fi author Blaine L. Pardoe comes the story of a new vigilante in an age that demands such a person. It is a mix of Falling Down, Death Wish, the Equalizer, and Reacher amped up on energy drinks and rage. Ripped from today’s headlines, Tenure is a powerful story of justice, vengeance, and open rebellion against everything deemed politically correct.

Braxton isn’t the hero we want… he’s the hero we need.

I’m about half way through it, and I can see it really IS ripped from the headlines! No wonder Farcebook is throttling it… sigh…

And a bit of humor…

Petty…

Posted on by January 14, 2025

Thy name is Kamala… One last hissy fit on the way out the door!

During this election, Democrats never missed an opportunity to lecture about their commitment to the peaceful transfer of power, but Kamala Harris, still lingering in the shadow of her humiliating defeat, is proving those claims to be nothing more than empty rhetoric as she opts for a spiteful exit.

As Vice President-elect JD Vance and his family prepare to move into the Vice President’s residence, they’ve encountered an unexpected roadblock: Kamala Harris. 

Apparently, Harris has declined to host a customary pre-move walkthrough or even a formal sit-down with Vance and his wife, Usha. The residence is typically handed off with professionalism and grace — two qualities seemingly absent in this case.

“When JD Vance, his wife Usha, and their three young children move into the Naval Observatory residence on Jan. 20, it will be their first time inside the white Queen Anne-style mansion that has been home to vice presidents since the 1970s,” reports CBS News. “Vice President Kamala Harris has not extended an invitation for a formal sit-down or tour, multiple Democratic and Republican sources told CBS News.

Full article HERE from PJ Media.

I can’t help but wonder what ‘else’ the administration will do to the White House and the West Wing???

This reminds me of the crap when W took over from Clinton. Clinton’s ‘people’ stole ALL the W’s off keyboards in both the White House and West Wing. This was verified by a friend who was on the WHCA…

And at Hegseth’s confirmation hearing yesterday, Tim Kaine (D-Asshole), IMHO, stepped WAY over the line by bringing Hegseth’s daughter up in the hearing. Kids always (at used to be) were off limits. Of course, during the previous Trump administration they did go after Barron, who was a teen at the time.

And Gillibrand (D-NY) went on a rabid rant about LGBTQ+ among other things. I don’t think she even asked him a question during that entire period…

But he did get a mic drop moment on Warren (D-MA), after she berated him about his comment about generals not being allowed to serve in government. His reply instantly shut down Warren’s line of questioning: “I’m not a general, Senator.” ROTFLMAO…

Anyhoo, we can now see how ALL of the cabinet hearings are going to, and kudos to Hegseth for putting up with the crap and not going off on them (like I would have).