And the lawfare begins…

The left, et al, are ramping up the lawsuits to ‘defend’ the country from Trump’s plans…

A massive liberal organization filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in order to understand how the agency could be utilized for President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement goals.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the agency on Monday in an effort to obtain information about ICE Air Operations, the network of chartered flights used to repatriate thousands of illegal migrants every year after they’ve been ordered deported. The ACLU says it aims for the findings to shed light on how ICE Air Operations could be expanded to carry out Trump’s pledge for mass deportations upon entering office.

Full article HERE from the Daily Caller.

Sooooo, Trump is not even in office, nor has anyone been approved for any positions, but the ACLU is preemptively sueing ICE…

Even though they didn’t sue ICE or the Xiden administration over the missing illegal children, the illegal flights into the US from selected countries, etc.

I don’t know what they expect to find, or whether this is just a fishing expedition, hoping for find ‘something’ that can be used for the next round of lawfare.

The ACLU turned hard left a number of years ago, and has definitely taken up ‘identity politics’ as one of their principles, of late.

In other news-

I found it funny that a shredding company’s truck was parked outside DOJ yesterday, making me wonder what was being shredded that the inhouse shredders couldn’t handle (DEI stuff maybe), or documents that they are supposed to be retaining???

Somehow, I don’t think they got a big enough truck… And I wonder if there is one at the FBI, Pentagon, and where else???

I think they’re pissed…

They tried to steal it. They failed. It was a weird dynamic where this event in Pennsylvania’s Senate race was shocking but also not too surprising given liberal America’s penchant for engaging in election shenanigans when results don’t go their way. Republican Dave McCormick defeated incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), but he refused to concede. Even with no path given how much vote is left and how provisional ballots land, with most being rejected due to not meeting the benchmark requirements for authenticity, McCormick’s lead was viewed by both Republicans and Democrats as insurmountable. Most of the outstanding ballots were in red counties, like Cambria. It was over, but Casey and lawyer Marc Elias were finding ways to steal it.

Full article, HERE, from Town Hall.

After Bucks Co, PA and a couple of other counties said they were going to count the illegal votes regardess of what the PA Supreme Court said…

The PA Supreme Court has ruled: STOP counting the illegal mail-in ballots.

Now we’ll see if those counties will once again flaunt the Supreme Court…

This one is stunning, simply because of the blatancy of the steal, not only by the counties, but by Casey and his lawyer. Even if the illegal votes all go for him, there aren’t enought outstanding (from what I’ve heard), to overcome the numbers McCormick put up, but I can’t help but wonder if ‘other’ votes might have mysteriously ‘switched’…

Book promo…

Presenting the fourth anthology in support of our little local library. Cattlemen

Click on the cover for the Amazon link!

 

The blurb-

An anthology of stories with the theme Texas Cattlemen. The grit of the cattle trail, adventure, romance, fantasy, spirit world there is something for everyone within this book. Find your new favorite author.

Stories were generously donated by the authors to benefit the Tom Burnett Memorial Library.

So far, we’ve raised a little over $3000 for the Tom Burnett Memorial Library for the children’s programs.

Everything is donated, the covers, the editing, and the stories. We don’t get anything but ‘exposure’, with all profits going directly to the library. If you can spare a buck or three, or have Amazon Prime, we’d really appreciate a read and an honest review.

Thank you!

Long overdue…

Back in the fall of 2020, after the New York Post published a bombshell story about Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell,” the Biden campaign worked behind the scenes to dispute it. The campaign eventually recruited 51 former intelligence officials to sign on to the letter suggesting that the laptop was Russian disinformation. The letter was published three days before Biden debated Trump, which allowed him to dismiss the story during the debate. 

“Look, there are 50 former National Intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan,” Biden said in the debate. “They have said that this has all the characteristics — four —  five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him, his, and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”

But it was way worse than that. The letter was used by Big Tech as cover for social media platforms to censor speech about the laptop. The letter stands out as the most significant example of genuine election interference in our nation’s history.

Full article, HERE. From PJ Media

They should have lost their clearances a LONG time ago… Along with a lot of other people (like generals, admirals, senators, congressmen, etc.)

If you’re a peon, you get a maximum of 2 years to reactivate your clearance if you change jobs, but those above get to keep theirs forever!

The old some pigs are more equal than others holds true in this case for sure…

There is no realistic reason for those clearances to be extended, as most of those folks are no longer involved in anything where they ‘need’ clearances, and if they are, the company they are working for should be carrying the clearance.

That would be one more thing I’d add to the ‘housecleaning’ list, if I were in charge!!!

Rulze…

THE RULES FOR CITY SLICKERS TO ENTER THE COUNTRYSIDE-
1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.
2. Let’s get this straight; it’s called a “gravel road.” I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you’re going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
3. They are cattle & feed lots. That’s what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don’t like it? I-10 or I-40 goes east and west, Pick one.
4. So you have a $60,000 car. We’re impressed. We have $400,000 combines that are driven only 3 weeks a year.
5. So every person in every pickup waves. It’s called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
6. If that cell phone rings in hunt camp while a deer is coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time
7. You bring “coke” into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice. You bring “Mary Jane” into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
OK, confession time. Before I posted this, because of my out of date, old fogie, life style, I called our child and asked what a “Mary Jane” was. I am SO afraid I will unknowingly post something dirty or offensive! For any of you other “so green ye could plant ’em” senior citizens….it is marijuana.
Sigh…

What is that saying???

A lie has been around the world twice before the truth gets its pants on…

The Washington Post’s fact checks have by and large been tools of partisan politics. We saw this most notoriously in Oct. 2020, when the Post undercut reports that Hunter Biden arranged what looked to all the world like an influence-peddling meeting between one of his foreign business clients and The Big Guy, that is, his father, who was vice president at the time. 

The fact that the Post’s “fact checks” are largely designed to intimidate, confuse, and undermine foes of the left’s agenda makes it all the more striking that on Wednesday, the Post’s fact-checking spotlight was shining on none other than Nancy Pelosi, who must have been all the more indignant that it wasn’t PJ Media or Fox catching her lying, but one of the left’s principal propaganda organs.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

The WAPOs ‘header’ says Democracy Dies in Darkness.

After 8 years of fact checks against conservatives while the left’s lies go through with no comments at all, to actually SEE the WAPO fact check Pelosi and give her four pinocchios is amazing!

I can’t help but wonder if there is a swing back toward the middle or an attempt to stop the loss of subscribers (over 200000 at last count), and an attempt to remain relevant in today’s current climate.

The left’s policy of America Last, Open borders, and excessive spending may now actually get some coverage, but is this too little, too late???

Your thoughts?

As if…

Xiden can remember any of the promises he’s made, so…

Left-wing groups are pressuring President Joe Biden to commute sentences for all federal death row inmates before he leaves office, which includes infamous murderers like the Boston Marathon bomber and Charleston church shooter.

Hundreds of Democrat-aligned organizations have signed onto a petition urging Biden to uphold his campaign promise to abolish the death penalty by commuting the sentence of every inmate, writing it is “not too late to act decisively.” 

Full article HERE from the Daily Caller.

Democrats are in full blown disarray, with literal meltdowns, tears, finger pointing, and wondering how they spent so much to gain so little…

How about them being totally disconnected from the reality of the world we live in, and now Comcast is trying to spin off Bravo, E!, Syfy, Oxygen True Crime and USA Network, as well as news networks MSNBC and CNBC. Of note, some are also saying they will outright sell them if anybody is stupid enough to buy them.

Also, Trump’s list of cabinet posts and personnel is even MORE upsetting to them. A former democrat in the administration (Gabbard), Gaetz for AG, Hegseth for SecDef, and others who are NOT politically correct.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head what he’s calling the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) (and they’re doing it for nothing)!

Snerk…

Of course the lawsuits will start on 21 January from everybody and their brothers to ‘try’ to slow Trump’s role. All the while, the Dems will be bleating about bipartisanship, we didn’t do nuffing, and let’s just forget the last four years, ummkay…

Meanwhile .govs are now checking their hole cards and trying to tapdance to a tune they don’t know, as Trump doesn’t play games….

What say you?

At least…

They’re trying…

The VA is once again trying to expand telehealth.

Veterans Affairs leaders plan to eliminate all co-pays for telehealth services and award grants for telehealth clinics in rural areas, part of ongoing efforts to expand virtual care options within the medical care system.

In an announcement Monday, department officials said the moves could help “lower costs and expand access to care for all those who served.” Both proposals will have to go through a months-long rulemaking process before either could be put into effect.

Full article, HERE from Navy Times.

This was talked about in 2021, but nothing went forward. If you’re a disabled Vet, this can be a real boon, saving lots of transit time, especially for those who can’t get around well.

Frankly, this is long overdue, and I have used it a couple of times. No, it’s not perfect, but it beats sitting home suffering without help.

Sadly, as usual, there is no timeline attached to it, but if it’s offered and your only option, PLEASE make use of it!

A little humor…

In the greatest days of the British Empire , a new commanding officer was sent to a jungle outpost to relieve the retiring colonel.

After welcoming his replacement and showing all the courtesies (gin and tonic, cucumber sandwiches)   that protocol decrees, the retiring colonel said , “You must meet Captain Smithers, my right-hand man, God, he’s really the strength of this office.

His talent is simply boundless.”

Smithers was summoned and introduced to the new CO, who was surprised to meet a toothless, hairless, scabbed and pockmarked specimen of humanity, a particularly unattractive man less than three foot tall.

“Smithers, old man, tell your new CO about yourself.”

“Well, sir, I graduated with honours from Sandhurst , joined the regiment and won the Military Cross and Bar after three expeditions behind enemy lines.

I’ve represented Great Britain in equestrian events and won a Silver Medal in the middleweight division of the Olympics.  I have researched the history of …”

Here the colonel interrupted, “Yes, yes, never mind that Smithers, the CO can find all that in your file.  Tell him about the day you told the witch doctor to get f___ed.”

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Equal opportunity offense…

Blonde Men-

A friend told the blond man: “Christmas is on a Friday this year.”

The blond man then said, “Let’s hope it’s not the 13th.”

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 Two blond men find three grenades, and they decide to take them to a police station.

One asked: “What if one explodes before we get there?”

The other says: “We’ll lie and say we only found two.”

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 A woman phoned her blond neighbor man and said: “Close your curtains the next time you & your wife are having sex.

The whole street was watching and laughing at you yesterday.”

To which the blond man replied: “Well the joke’s on all of you because I wasn’t even at home yesterday.”

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 A blond man is in the bathroom and his wife shouts: “Did you find the shampoo?”

He answers, “Yes, but I’m not sure what to do… it’s for dry hair, and I’ve just wet mine.”

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 A blond man goes to the vet with his goldfish. “I think it’s got epilepsy,” he tells the vet.

The vet takes a look and says, “It seems calm enough to me”.

The blond man says, “Wait, I haven’t taken it out of the bowl yet”.

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A blond man spies a letter lying on his doormat. It says on the envelope “DO NOT BEND “.

He spends the next 2 hours trying to figure out how to pick it up.

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A blond man shouts frantically into the phone “My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!”

“Is this her first child?” asks the Doctor.

“No”, he shouts, “this is her husband!”

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A blond man was driving home, drunk as a skunk. Suddenly he has to swerve to avoid a tree, then another, then another.

A cop car pulls him over, so he tells the cop about all the trees in the road.

The cop says, “That’s your air freshener swinging about!”

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A blond man’s dog goes missing and he is frantic.

His wife says “Why don’t you put an ad in the paper?”

He does, but two weeks later the dog is still missing.

“What did you put in the paper?” his wife asks.

“Here boy!” he replies..

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A blond man is in jail.. Guard looks in his cell and sees him hanging by his feet.

“Just WHAT are you doing?” he asks.

“Hanging myself,” the blond replies.

“It should be around your neck” says the guard.

“I tried that,” he replies, “but then I couldn’t breathe”.

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(This one actually makes sense…sort of…)

An Italian tourist asks a blond man: “Why do Scuba divers always fall backwards off their boats?”

To which the blond man replies: “If they fell forward, they’d still be in the boat.”

Veterans Day!!!

Words that bring a chill to anyone who studies history… 9,000,000 overall war dead, 21,000,000 wounded, 117,000 Americans dead and 5,700,000 civilians estimated dead…

At 5 a.m. that morning, November 11th, 1918, Germany, out of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The decision was made to hold the notification of the signing until 1100 to provide the symmetry that we know today.

It all started on June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, was shot to death with his wife by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

It led to trench warfare, biowarfare, with the gassing of troops on both sides, and battles across Europe and the Mediterranean, including the infamous Battle of Gallipoli, searing that name for every in the history of Australia and New Zealand, HERE.

Germany, France, Britain, and other countries lost pretty much an entire generation of young men, and scars from WWI still mar the landscape in Europe. Supposedly the war to end all wars, sadly became merely a prelude to WWII, around 20 years later.

My dad served in WWI as a rifle and pistol instructor at Camp Beauregard in Louisiana, because he was an expert with rifle and pistols prior to joining the Army. He also suffered from Influenza during the time, and that may have contributed to his early death in 1959.

The first unknowns were selected from among the British, French, and American war dead.

Following the custom inaugurated by other allied countries in World War I the Congress on March 4, 1921, approved a Resolution providing for the burial in Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Amphitheater on Armistice Day 1921 of an unknown and unidentified American soldier of World War I. The Secretary of War delegated to the Quartermaster Corps the duty of selecting the Unknown Soldier and accordingly the Quartermaster General directed the Chief, American Graves Registration Service in Europe to select from among the burials of America’s Unknown Dead the bodies of four who fell in the combat area in order that one from among them could be anonymously designated as the one for burial in accordance with the provisions of the Resolution. Four bodies of Unknown Soldiers were selected, one from each of the following cemeteries Aisne-Marne, Meuse-Argonne, Somme and St. Mihiel–and brought to Chalons where they were placed in the Hotel de Ville. The fact that the bodies selected were those of Americans was determined by the location of place of death, original burial and uniforms. The utmost care was taken to see that there was no evidence of identification on the bodies selected and no indication that their identity could ever be established.

After the four bodies were arranged in the Hotel de Ville, the next step was the matter of selecting the one from among them to represent all the Unknown American Dead. This ceremony though simple was most impressive. In view of his outstanding service,  Sergeant Edward Younger, on duty with the American Forces in Germany, was given the honor of making the final selection. On Monday morning, October 24, 1921, at 10 :00 A.M. in the presence of The Quartermaster General, the Commanding General of the American Forces in Germany, the Mayor of Chalons-sur-Marne, high officers of the French Army, distinguished French citizens and eminent American and French civilians the selection was made. While a French military band played an appropriate air, Sergeant Younger slowly entered the room where the four caskets were placed. Passing between two lines formed by the officials he silently advanced to the caskets, circled them three times and placed a spray of white roses on the third casket from the left. He then faced the body, stood at attention, and saluted. He was immediately followed by officers of the French Army who saluted in the name of the French people.

The rest of that story is HERE.

TODAY is the day to thank those veterans, and say a prayer for those currently serving in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard. To my fellow veterans, I would propose the toast, “Absent Comrades.”

And to the families- No one says thank you for your sacrifice. So let me say thank you to all of the significant others that hold the fort down while we go on long deployments. Thank you for putting up with all the moves. Thanks to all of the dependents who step up and do the extra chores around the house. When the veteran is deployed the budget has to be stretched. The significant other becomes the banker. Thanks to all of the families that hope for only good news. Thank you families for your service.

And to my shipmates in the P-3 all those years, and those onstation today, and my brothers and sisters from the other services… We did our jobs! And too many of us didn’t come home. But today is for us, the survivors!