Ronald Rowe Jr., the Secret Service deputy director, was tapped Tuesday as the acting director of the embattled agency while the Biden administration searches for a new leader following the near-assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month.
The agency’s current director, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned earlier Tuesday, one day after enduring blistering criticism by bipartisan lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee for the agency’s failures in nearly allowing a 20-year-old sniper to kill Trump during a Pennsylvania campaign rally on July 13.
After her disastrous ‘lack’ of testimony on Monday which was so bad even democrats were calling for her resignation, she’s gone!
The deputy at least has been on the detail (with Bush 2004-08), so he knows what it takes. And he’s been there over 20 years, so he’s got a lot of corporate knowledge. Let’s hope he can get things straightened out before something ‘else’ happens!
I wonder if we will ever get straight answers to ALL of the issues from last week’s attempted assassination, especially with the Fibbies and DHS effectively investigating ‘themselves’…
California is awash in incomplete and misleading publicly-collected data, and experts say it’s letting policymakers and politicians get away with running the state into the ground.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao touted in recent months a massive decrease in crime, but it was later revealed that Oakland published misleading non-violent crime data by comparing incomplete 2024 figures with complete figures from previous years, giving the false impression of improving crime to policymakers and the public. The crime statistics in Oakland are indicative of a larger issue in the whole state, which has routinely used misleading and incomplete data to hide the magnitude of serious issues like homelessness, the COVID-19 pandemic and crime that have ultimately harmed average citizens, according to experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
As is typical for them, there is NO accountability for anything that happens. It’s always ‘sumdood’, or ‘I didn’t know’, or some other BS…
Which is why my daughters are paying over $6/gal for gas, power is sketchy (but buy more EVs), companies are leaving as quickly as they can, (X et al), some in the middle of the night even.
And the drain is impacting their tax collection, insurance companies are quitting doing business there (too expensive), and law enforcement has their hands tied by .gov and the cities…
Sigh…
Can we just give it back to Mexico, build a wall, and be done with it???
After days of saying he was ‘in it to win it’, we got this today!
He didn’t endorse Kamala Harris in the letter, that endorsement came later on Twitter. I think this was probably to keep access to the money in the Biden-Harris campaign cookie jar. If they go for anybody other than her, they lose the access to something over $200M in campaign funds (if I understand the law correctly).
It’s going to be really interesting to see who the Democrat party elite decides to run since they got rid of Joe. The Democrat convention could be REALLY interesting if they go with an open convention, with the most popular two running as failed candidates in November.
My question is if Biden has acknowledged to no longer be fit and cannot handle running for reelection due to his age and infirmities (which seems to be what he’s done), is he still staying on as President? If so, how?
Is there a 25th Amendment action coming?
Beats the hell outta me, but it is fun to watch the left absolutely melting down and somehow making this Trump and Vance’s fault!!!
First up is John Van Stry with the fourth Wolfhounds book- War Child
As always, click on the cover for the Amazon link!
The blurb-
Speaker Phillip T Neill has finally gotten his hands on Chase, and he’s definitely got plans. First there will be a little lesson taught. Then there will be a show trial! A big fancy show trial with all of the media there as it’s broadcast live across the entirety of the Democratic People’s Republic of Solaria!
While the outcome may be predetermined, it doesn’t matter to Speaker Neill, he knows that Chase is a fraud and the idea of destroying the little gutter snipe before the entire Republic makes him smile. Then, after he’s done and the fake prince has been sentenced to death, Speaker Neill has a show planned for the Morgan pretender that the people will remember for a long time.
Of course Chase has other plans about how this trail is going to proceed, even if the ending is predetermined. One of those is to go down swinging, while exposing Phillip for the stupid and vicious man that he really is.
And maybe, just maybe, there are other people out there who have plans of their own as well…
Next is James Totten with the 9th in his Breaching series- South Korean Blues
The blurb-
North Korea gets real quiet when the Chinese Communist Party Kingpins die in an orbital strike from the US Space Force. South Korea gets presented with a once in a generation oppertunity to reunite Korea with Seoul in charge. Will crossing the DMZ going noth present that much of a problem? What can be done to prevent the NKPA from rushing reinforcements to the DMZ? The NKPA has special forces that can enter the South through invasion tunnels. What about the North Korean leadership and the nucelar weapons? Will the US get directly involved or sit on the sidelines? What in the heck is “Rapid Weseal?” Find the answers to all of these questions and more in this fast paced novel of World War Three becoming a global conflict.
Last but not least, Raconteur Press is out with anthology number 32- Or All Will Burn- At All Costs
The blurb-
Whether in a murky forest, the void of space, or under the bed, the innocent are often in peril. Hazards abound in the outer darkness and only a parent stands between it and their children. Here are tales of parents wiling to endure whatever perils they must to ensure the safety of their kids, at all costs.
A major cyber outage has grounded flights and disrupted businesses and media organizations throughout the world.
The technology glitch caused chaos on Friday morning with Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines issuing statements saying that their flight operations had been impacted. Emergency response systems were down at police agencies and healthcare providers in Phoenix, Arizona, forcing some police and ambulance providers to dispatch cars manually, per The Arizona Republic.
Banks and financial services firms from Australia to India and Germany warned customers of disruptions.
Full article, HERE from Fox News. And HERE from the AP.
So, Windoze machines worldwide got the infamous blue screen of death this morning. Servers and who knows how many more machines???
And it’s not an easy fix. MS has to be booted in safe mode, then ‘cleaned’, THEN the new patch reapplied. That is not a 30 second issue.
Meanwhile, folks were without credit cards, ATMs, bank operations, etc. Soooo, if they didn’t have cash on them, they were…broke. Most folks ‘I’ know carry at least a $20 stuffed away somewhere in their wallet or purse as a ‘just in case’. I know I’ve had to use that a couple of times when travelling and needed gas and the station’s credit machines weren’t working. I’ve also seen it happen at a major grocery store chain before too.
Much less the issues with airlines worldwide having to resort to…’paper’ to do things, and lines hours long with little/no results (and no hotel vouchers, so they were stuck at whatever airport they were in), with little hope of getting a flight anytime soon.
Microsoft has always had ‘issues’ with the kernel, which is usually what causes the blue screen of death, but to have a security update do it is… sad, because MS has NEVER been a graceful failover system since the DOS days.
Thankfully, MAC and Linux machines didn’t have the issue, otherwise, I believe we would have seen and entire world stoppage!
And I can’t help but wonder what some folks would have done with that…
So much for those offshore wind farms being safe and not a problem…
Nantucket beaches were shut down to swimming on Tuesday after a Vineyard Wind offshore wind turbine broke and beachgoers began finding debris from the blade damage incident.
The offshore wind development company on Tuesday said it was sending debris recovery teams to Nantucket’s southern-facing beaches, adding that the cause of the breakage remained unknown. Vineyard Wind’s operations have also been temporarily shut down following the incident.
“Vineyard Wind is fully committed to a swift and safe recovery of all debris, with an unwavering focus on community safety and environmental protection,” the company said in a statement.
Edit- Added pic thanks to Stretch! That brown stuff on the column is leaking oil!!!
I find it interesting that no mention is made of any ‘other’ damage, like oil leaks or anything else. At 300+ feet long, those are some BIG blades, and I’m sure there is a lot of lubrication and other products in those units that aren’t good for the environment, but hey, it’s ‘wind’, so it’s all good, right? Right???
Sigh…
Meanwhile, the Dutch are falling away from wind power, HERE. And Germany is getting rid of wind farms to open coal mines.
And I don’t even want to get into the birdstrike issues…
The Senate is considering a sweeping legislative Bill sponsored by the Democratic Party that will provide new benefits for many more Americans. The Americans with No Abilities Act is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills and ambition.
“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said New York Senator, Chuck Schumer. “We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability (POI) to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”
In a Capitol Hill press conference Nancy Pelosi pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons with No Ability (63%).
Under the Americans with No Abilities Act, more than 25 million mid-level positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.
Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability (POI) into middle-management positions and give a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the Americans with No Abilities Act contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory hiring interview questions such as, “Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?”
“As a non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint , Mich., due to her inability to remember “righty tighty, lefty loosey”. “This new law should be real good for people like me. I’ll finally have job security.” With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Illinois Senator Dick Durbin: “As a senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.”
Ya know, I wouldn’t put it past the dems to try something like this to pander to their base…
Anybody else notice how ‘quiet’ the dems have gotten all of a sudden? Talk about pulling in their horns… And all of a sudden, the dems infighting is nowhere to be found on the MSM.
Found this one, of all places at Hindustan Times-
We all know this has been an ongoing ‘issue’ with rhetoric ramping up even more in the last year or so…
We now know who the shooter was, and I won’t be naming him. Trump was lucky in many ways, some are even saying divine intervention took place (not discounting that either). The shooter tried a head shot and missed by less than an inch. I’m not going to go down that rathole, shooters will know what I’m talking about. Sadly, one dead and two injured in the crowd behind Trump were the actual victims.
Corey Comperatore was killed protecting his wife and daughter. David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, are in stable condition. Strangely, the ‘best’ coverage is from the BBC, HERE. Those folks and families need our prayers.
Right after the miss, the media started blowing up across the board… And of course the cellar dwellers got in on it…
I don’t do tic toc, but apparently the Libs of tictoc collated a bunch of the more egregious ones, so you could go check them out for ‘lowering the temperature’…
Kudos to X for promptly shutting a bunch of that crap down!
There was definitely a breakdown in the protective coverage, HERE is a good precis of that. They did take too long to get him off stage and into the vehicle, and shouldn’t have let him be visible, but the female agents weren’t capable of actually blocking him, even though they tried. Shoes should have been the LAST thing they were worried about!!!
These are just a few of the reactions above. Of course the MSM immediately jumped in about how Trump should have NOT said fight, but should have immediately tried to defuse the situation… Welp, Morning Joe got yanked preemptively…. HERE. And there are bunch more HERE.
So the same Department of Justice who is pulling out all the stops to prosecute and jail President Trump, is going to investigate itself to determine what failures occurred in the assassination attempt… What we will probably never have, based on whom is investigating, is a true report on the actual breakdown, who did what, when, and how. We will always have ‘suspicions’…
There are plenty of ‘experts’ all over everybit of media, etc. giving their two cents worth for airtime, and filling the cycle, but I really doubt how much they even know of the actual event/leadup…
I’m NOT commenting on the assassination attempt for 72 hours, so you get humor…
YOU MIGHT BE IN THE AVIATION/AEROSPACE INDUSTRY IF …
You sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for 8 different managers. Or have moved 10 times in two years and have never known who your boss was.
Your resume is on a jumpdrive in your pocket.
Someone asks you what you do for a living and you lie.
You get really excited about a 2% pay increase.
Your biggest loss from a system crash, is that you lose your best jokes.
You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
Its dark on your drive to and from work.
Fun is when “projects” are assigned to someone else.
Communication is something your “group” is having problems with.
You see a good-looking person and know it’s a visitor.
Free food left over from a meeting is your main staple.
All art involves a white board.
All real work is done prior to 8:00am and after 4:30pm.
You’re already late on the assignment you just received.
Dilbert is your favorite cartoon.
Your boss’s favorite lines are …
“When you get a few minutes …”
“I have an opportunity for you …”
“Cross-charging is forbidden.”
“…the directional truth in a white water world …”
“We have a new culture that will enable us to …”
“We have a new engineering vice-president.”
“This reorganization will allow us to streamline our way of doing business, of becoming more competitive.”
99% of the people in your company do not know what you do.
99% of the people in your company do not care what you do.
Vacation is something you rollover to next year or a check you get every January.
Change is the norm.
Nepotism is strongly encouraged.
Your company announces no pay increase because it is investing money in a new aircraft development.
Your company announces no pay increase because the airline industry is in a downturn. And your boss gets voted “man of the year in aerospace “
Your fear to fly is becoming even worse.
Everyone at the company says that without his work there would be no aircraft.
An ordinary secretary has more power than an old engineer.
You read this entire list and understand it.
Not allowing firearms on company property is seen strictly as a suicide prevention measure.
The only people you forward this to are in aerospace too because no one else would understand!
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A metaphor for our government
The tribal wisdom of the Lakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.”
However, in government, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead
and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course…
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position!!
