Bet they’ll think twice…

Posted on by November 25, 2024

If they ever decide to do that crap again…

A pair of climate activists who vandalized the National Archives Rotunda back in February when they dumped red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution have learned their fate. 

Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were sentenced to 24 months in prison and 18 months, respectively, in the Feb. 14, 2024, attack on the U.S. Constitution housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C., U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division announced on Monday.

Zepeda pleaded guilty on Aug. 15 to felony destruction of property for dumping a fine red powder over a display case containing the U.S. Constitution in the Rotunda of the Archives building.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

It has seemed that many of the climate ‘activists’ had gotten their hands slapped (at best), with a small fine, if not allowed to go free (well, there were those in Germany that the public yanked loose from the roadway).

I think that the new administration is going to not only taken a different look at climate change (spit), AND the protesters too!

It’s about time, IMHO!!!

A little humor…

Posted on by November 24, 2024

To start the week…

Starting with the Christmas jokes…

Hopefully the LAST time we get this PC Holiday Greeting-

“Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2024, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great.  Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere and without regard to the race, creed or color.

By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting.  It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.

This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.”

Wishing you a happy whatever.

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CHRISTMAS CAROLS FOR THE DISTURBED

  1. Schizophrenia — Do You Hear What I Hear?
  2. Multiple Personality Disorder — We Three Kings Disoriented Are

    3. Dementia — I Think I’ll be Home for Christmas

    4. Narcissistic — Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me

    5. Manic — Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets
    and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees
    and…..

    6. Paranoid — Santa Claus is Coming to Town to Get Me

    7. Borderline Personality Disorder — Thoughts of Roasting on an Open
    Fire

    8. Personality Disorder — You Better Watch Out, I’m Gonna Cry, I’ Gonna
    Pout, Maybe I’ll Tell You Why

    9. Attention Deficit Disorder — Silent night, Holy oooh look at
    the Froggy – can I have a chocolate, why are the French strange?

    10. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder — Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
    Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    Jingle,Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    JingleBells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
    Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    JingleBells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
    Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Ouch…

Posted on by November 23, 2024

Those chickens are coming home to roost…

THE WIND DIED ALONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT COALITION

And the cold weather came in just as it did. Part of the reason the government fractured? Ruinous green energy policies which exploded the price of electricity thanks to transitioning to unreliable renewables.

…The Greens are woke on steroids. Some years ago, their parliamentarians even floated the idea of legalizing pedophilia and incest. They have not met a progressive idea they do not like. Hence, they enjoy the support of garden variety radicals at universities and the youth vote.

The Greens support anything from deindustrialization and de-carbonization to transgenderism and abortion on demand. They embrace the inefficient pipe dream of “clean” energy — solar and wind in particular. On the other hand, they of course hate nuclear power that could save shivering Germans from Europe’s frigidity and high energy costs.

Full article plus links HERE from Hot Air.

Dayum… Spot price of electricity 800 Euro/MWh??? And twelve days of ZERO wind power production? Not good, to put it mildly, much less not even close to affordable!

I know we’ve had a number of conversations about Germany vs. California and the idiocy surrounding dumping Nuke plants, but Germany doesn’t have any backup for natural gas after the issues with Gazprom and the pipeline (which the greenies also want to get rid of). Although it is supposedly being cut, the average daily natural gas supplies to Europe in July reached their highest this year, up 5.7% compared with a year ago and 12% higher than in June. Basically, Germany is hoping the US will bail them out with LNG exports.

According to reports, it would take between 9 months and 2-3 years to restart any of the German nuclear plants, HERE from Radiant Energy Group.

Now what coach???

Even if they form a new government, what are their options to get power back in a timely fashion? And will it be affordable/clear the environmental hurdles of the EU?

 

 

Book promo…

Posted on by November 22, 2024

Raconteur Press has anthology 42 out! Space Cowboys- Fission Chips

As always, click on the cover for the Amazon link!

The blurb-

The story lines in this anthology run the gamut, from planetside, to open space, to Mars and beyond:

An old cowboy and his dog teach the new kid how to handle rustlers. Cowboys defend their ranch and others against predators and thieves. Good guys and gals vs. the bad guys while they learn about horses. ‘Ranching’ creatures come among the asteroids, lousy neighbors, and rustlers. Frontier sheriffs step up and solve a crime before things go badly for everyone in town. ‘Rodeo’ takes on a whole new meaning with LBJ in an alternate history. Learning occurs on a cattle drive, with a surprise ending. With rustlers in space, technology is in play, with the equivalent of Rangers. A cowboy and his girl take on train robbers to save the passengers. An old cowboy comes out of retirement for one more cattle drive on Mars.

Pam Uphoff has book 13 in her Chronicles of the Fall out – Empire of Japan

The blurb-

The Three Part Alliance is falling apart, with internal strife, and out-and-out war . . .

In the Japanese sector, everything is spiraling into a major crisis, but for two teenage boys, their personal problems seem more immediate. For Shato house Kujo the usual fate of a servant’s child looms, while his legitimate best friend and almost brother is powerless to help, while preparing for college.

But the murder of the Crown Prince is about to scramble everyone’s plans as Japan withdraws from the Alliance, and plans retribution.

Quick reminder, if you need to do any Christmas shopping on Amazon, if you enter Amazon through any of the links on my blog, whatever you buy I’ll get a referral. It costs you nothing and its a nice little tip jar for me.

Thanks in advance!

Given the choice…

Posted on by November 21, 2024

Which one would you want to buy?

I know which one my choice is…

What say you???

Sigh…

Posted on by November 20, 2024

Hamas is still at it in Gaza…probably with UNRWA cooperation…

The United Nations is finally admitting that aid being driven into the Gaza Strip is being looted, a fact we’ve known for a year. And yet, officials still won’t admit which “armed people” are doing the stealing. 

We know who is looting the trucks. It’s Iranian backed Hamas and many of its members work for UNWRA. The terrorist group steals the aid, meant for Palestinian civilians, and then makes them pay for it. Hamas is also murdering civilians who try to access the aid.

Full article, HERE from Town Hall with numerous X links.

97 of 109 trucks of humanitarian aid were looted by armed ‘civilians’, yet the UN blames Israel, but won’t allow Israel to actually escort the trucks. In what bizzaro world does this make ANY sense?

Much less having been going on the ENTIRE time there has been humanitarian aid moving into Gaza? What is the UN really doing over there?

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was established as a subsidiary organ of the United Nations General Assembly on 8 December 1949 and became operational on 1 May 1950. It is one of the largest United Nations programs, and we all know it is throughly infiltrated by Hamas, and has been since Hamas was formed. So they get up and pander to the world about how ‘bad’ things are, while, IMHO, they actively support the theft and Hamas activity.

It will be interesting to see what happens with Trump takes over. I believe there will be a significant shift to the level of support for Israel, and I also believe there will be a hard look taken at both the UN and UNRWA. I would not be surprised to see the UN kicked out of the US (long overdue in my opinion). Put them in some third world country that needs support, like Botswana, and stop paying all their bills!!!

The people in Gaza deserve better! Grrr…

 

And the lawfare begins…

Posted on by November 19, 2024

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…

Posted on by November 18, 2024

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…

Posted on by November 17, 2024

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…

Posted on by November 16, 2024

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!!!