This…

Posted on by April 6, 2026

Could get ‘interesting’ in any number of ways…

DHS Secretary Mullin raises the possibility of pulling CBP and customs officers from airports in large sanctuary cities, citing lack of cooperation with the federal government and funding refusals. International arrivals would be unable to clear customs at those airports. “It’s something we’re looking at,” Mullin said.
Via@BillMelugin_

Markwayne Mullin is coming out swinging, no question!

So, Boston, Philly, NYC, Chicago, Seattle, SFO, LA, and, if Spanburger has her way, Dulles could lose their customs services. Which would severely impact the airlines as they would have to find somewhere else to clear international travellers.

Can you say Florida and Texas???

I knew you could. The other thing this would do is affect the types of aircraft the airlines could use on the international routes when they have to add 2-3 hours of extra fuel to reach a ‘cleared’ airport.

It might be time to look at your hole card if you were thinking about travelling overseas anytime soon…

Just sayin…

And one other thing, while I’m thinking about it…

WHO leaked we only got ONE of the F-15E crew back? WTF? Did nobody ever hear of OPSEC???

Nothing like giving the entire friggin country a license to headhunt one guy! Thankfully, he was recovered yesterday, apparently in a fairly sophisticated rescue. And it was very involved to keep the Iranians unsure of where exactly he was located.

Sigh…

A little humor…

Posted on by April 5, 2026

To start the week!!!

And a few St. Paddy’s jokes… They took the slow boat…

  • Definition of an Irish husband:  He hasn’t kissed his wife for twenty years, but he will kill any man who does.
  •    Murphy told Quinn that his wife was driving him to drink.  Quinn thinks he’s very lucky because his own wife makes him walk.
  •    The late Bishop Sheen stated that the reason the Irish fight so often among themselves is that they’re always assured of having a worthy opponent.
  •    An American lawyer asked, “Paddy, why is it that whenever you ask an Irishman a question, he answers with another question?”  “Who told you that?” asked Paddy.
  • Question – Why are Irish jokes so simple? Answer – So the English can understand them.
  • Reilly went to trial for armed robbery.  The jury foreman came out and announced, “Not guilty.”

“That’s grand!” shouted Reilly. “Does that mean I can keep the money?”

  • Irish lass customer: “Could I be trying on that dress in the window?”

Shopkeeper: “I’d prefer that you use the dressing room.”

  • Mrs. Feeney shouted from the kitchen, “Is that you I hear spittin’ in the vase on the mantle piece?

“No,” said himself, “but I’m gettin’ closer all the time.”

  • Q. What do you call an Irishman who knows how to control a wife? A bachelor.
  • Finnegin: My wife has a terrible habit of staying up ’til two o’clock in the morning.  I can’t break her of it.

Keenan: What on earth is she doin’ at that time?

Finnegin: Waitin’ for me to come home.

  • Slaney phoned the maternity ward at the hospital.  “Quick!” he said.  “Send an ambulance, my wife is goin’ to have a baby!”

“Tell me, is this her first baby?” the intern asked.

“No, this is her husband, Kevin, speakin’.”

  • “O’Ryan,” asked the druggist, “did that mudpack I gave you improve your wife’s appearance?”

“It did surely,” replied O’Ryan, “but it keeps fallin’ off!”

  • Did you hear about the Irish newlyweds who sat up all night on their honeymoon waiting for their sexual relations to arrive?
  • My mother wanted me to be a priest.  Can you imagine giving up your sex life and then once a week people come in to tell you the details and highlights of theirs?
  • Paddy and Mick get a pilot to fly them to Canada to hunt moose. They bag six.

As Paddy and Mick start loading the plane for the return trip, the pilot says, “The plane can only take four of those.”

The two lads object strongly. “Last year we shot six, and the pilot let us put them all on board; he had the same plane as yours.”

Reluctantly, the pilot gives in and all six are loaded.

However, even with full power, the little plane can’t handle the load and down it goes and crashes in the middle of nowhere.

A few moments later, climbing out of the wreckage, Paddy asks Mick,

“Any idea where we are?”

“I think we’re pretty close to where we crashed last year,” says Mick.

  • Paddy says to Mick, “Christmas is on a Friday this year”

Mick says “Let’s hope it’s not the 13th.”

  • Mick walks into Paddy’s barn and catches him dancing naked in front of a tractor.

Mick says, “Oh no, Paddy, what ya doing?”

Paddy says, “Well me and Mary haven’t been getting on in the bedroom lately & the therapist recommended I do something sexy to attracter…..

  • The Irish have solved their own fuel problems. They imported 50 million tons of sand from the Arabs and they’re going to drill for their own oil.
  • Paddy says to Mick – I’m ready for a holiday, only this year I’m going to do it a bit different.

3 years ago I went to Spain and Mary got pregnant.

2 years ago I went to Italy and Mary got pregnant.

Last year I went to Majorca and Mary got pregnant.

Mick asks – So what are you going to do this year?

Paddy replies, I’ll take her with me

  • Paddy calls Easyjet to book a flight. The operator asks “How many people are flying with you?”

Paddy replies “I don’t know! It’s your frigging plane!”

  • Paddy and Murphy are working on a building site.

Paddy says to Murphy “I’m gonna have the day off, I’m gonna pretend I’m mad!” He climbs up the rafters, hangs upside down and shouts “I’M A LIGHTBULB! I’M A LIGHTBULB!”

Murphy watches in amazement!

The Foreman shouts “Paddy you’re mad, go home” So he leaves the site.

Murphy starts packing his kit up to leave as well.

“Where the hell are you going?” asks the Foreman.

“I can’t work in the  dark!” says Murphy.

  • Paddy, the electrician, got sacked from the U…S. Prison service for not servicing the electric chair. He said in his professional opinion it was a death trap!
  • Paddy is said to be shocked at finding out all his cows have Bluetongue. “Be Jeysus!” he said, “I didn’t even know they had mobile phones!”
  • Mick and Paddy are reading head stones at a nearby cemetery. Mick say “Crikey! There’s a bloke here who was 152!”

Paddy says “What’s his name?”

Mick replies “Miles, from London !”

Happy Easter!!!

Posted on by April 3, 2026

To each and everyone I wish you a Happy Easter, may your day be filled with Love and Joy!!!

THE EASTER LILY HOLIDAY TRADITION

Each holiday is marked by cherished traditions that bring joy, comfort, and warmth, and provide continuity from one generation to the next. Easter has its share of traditions: egg decorations and hunts; gift baskets and chocolate bunnies, sunrise church services, parades, and, of course, the Easter Lily. For many, the beautiful trumpet-shaped white flowers symbolize purity, virtue, innocence, hope and life – the spiritual essence of Easter.

History, mythology, literature, poetry and the world of art are rife with stories and images that speak of the beauty and majesty of the elegant white flowers. Dating back to Biblical lore, the lily is mentioned numerous times in the Bible. One of the most famous Biblical references is in the Sermon on the Mount, when Christ told his listeners: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet….. Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

Often called the “white-robed apostles of hope,” lilies were found growing in the Garden of Gethsemane after Christ’s agony. Tradition has it that the beautiful white lilies sprung up where drops of Christ’s sweat fell to the ground in his final hours of sorrow and deep distress. Churches continue this tradition at Easter time by banking their alters and surrounding their crosses with masses of Easter Lilies, to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and hope of life everlasting.

Since the beginning of time, lilies have played significant roles in allegorical tales concerning the sacrament of motherhood. Ancient fables tell us the lily sprang from the milk of Hera, the mythological Queen of Heaven.

The pure white lily has long been closely associated with the Virgin Mary. In early paintings, the Angel Gabriel is pictured extending to the Virgin Mary a branch of pure white lilies, announcing that she is to be the mother of the Christ Child. In other paintings, saints are pictured bringing vases full of white lilies to Mary and the infant Jesus.

The legend is told that when the Virgin Mary’s tomb was visited three days after her burial, it was found empty save for bunches of majestic white lilies. Early writers and artists made the lily the emblem of the Annunciation, the Resurrection of the Virgin: the pure white petals signifying her spotless body and the golden anthers her soul glowing with heavenly light.

It seems the thirteenth-century Barthololmeus Anglicus had this in mind when he wrote: ‘The Lily is an herbe with a white flower; and though the leaves of the floure be white, yet within shineth the likeness of gold.” So goes the saying, ‘To gild a lily is to attempt, foolishly, to improve on perfection.” To many artists and poets it seemed that, if any flower could have one, the lily had a soul.

In yet another expression of womanhood, lilies had a significant presence in the paradise of Adam and Eve. Tradition has it that when Eve left the Garden of Eden she shed real tears of repentance, and from those remorseful tears sprung up lilies. The spiritual principle held here is that true repentance is the beginning of beauty.

A mark of purity and grace throughout the ages, the regal white lily is a fitting symbol of the greater meaning of Easter. Gracing millions of homes and churches, the flowers embody joy, hope and life. Whether given as a gift or enjoyed in your own home, the Easter Lily serves as a beautiful reminder that Easter is a time for rejoicing and celebrating.

Ironically, the white (Easter) lily is a native plant of Southern Japan…

Interesting…

Posted on by April 2, 2026

And not in a good way, IMHO…

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the legality of an executive order from President Donald Trump that would restrict birthright citizenship.

The order would deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States to mothers who are unauthorized immigrants or have legal temporary status at the time of the child’s birth if the father is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident.

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In 2023, mothers who were unauthorized immigrants or had legal temporary status in the U.S. had 320,000 babies, representing about 9% of all 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. that year. About 260,000 of those babies would not have qualified for birthright citizenship if Trump’s executive order had already been in effect. This includes:

  • About 245,000 babies born to mothers who were unauthorized immigrants and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents
  • About 15,000 babies born to mothers who had legal temporary status and fathers who were not citizens or lawful permanent residents

Full article, HERE from the Pew Research Center.

Of note, a significant percentage of the ‘temporary status births’ were what is called birth tourism, with many of those being Chinese. Interesting, isn’t it???

And we all remember the sob stories about the pregnant females stopped at the southern border by the new administration in 2025, right? Did anyone wonder ‘why’ all those pregnant females were wailing and moaning about being stopped? If they had the kids in Mexico, no US citizenship!

Much like the whole feet wet/feet dry Cuban refugee status, ironically ended by Obama in 2017, HERE.

The Pew report only goes back to 1990, but the numbers they posit are pretty large, making up possibly 1/3 of the total illegal immigrants currently in the US, if those birthright citizenships had been denied.

Section 1 of the 14th Amendment has been open to discussion for many years, HERE. Much of the issue revolves around the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” and what that really means.

IMHO, birth tourists and illegals do not meet the requirement of being subject to the jurisdiction, since they are not American, and are not in the process of being naturalized.

Your thoughts?

TBT…

Posted on by April 1, 2026

Hard to believe this was 51 years ago… sigh…

Digging WAY back in the vault…

Of memories, and the few operating brain cells that remember…

Setting the way back machine to 1974-5 thanks to a conversation last night with an old shipmate, he sent me a picture of the bar map from Olongopo, RP from 1973 (note- These were probably good for two or three days… Then somebody would change their bar’s name, and the Shore Patrol would have to go re-do it). Sorry it’s basically unreadable, and can’t be blown up any further!

There were over 100 bars and ‘restaurants’ in about 4-5 blocks of Magsaysay… interestingly, ‘our’ bars were on the first street to the right, Gordon Avenue, and NONE of them are listed…LOL

The picture below is from the cruise book from 1975, kinda says it all… The Mayaguez rescue, Jenny the donkey in Diego Garcia, and a monkey in the BOQ at Cubi eating popcorn it had stolen from a room…

VP4 pic

The donkey loved beer, and would actually drink it from the can (until she got too drunk, then she’d go lean against the Butler hut that was our ‘hangar’)…

A ‘normal’ road trip was 6 weeks, 7 countries and about 11-12,000 miles of just transits, not counting the operational flying…

Fun stuff, and good memories (the bad ones have been long forgotten)! An interesting side note, we never called ourselves ‘combat’ air crews, just alpha crews (You had to complete multiple qualifications to meet all the requirements to actually be certified to perform all the P-3’s missions), unlike the specialized crews today…

We could have a surveillance flight one day and an ASW flight two days later, or a mining evolution…

Another teacher…

Posted on by March 31, 2026

Exploiting teens…

A 22-year-old high school special education teacher is facing decades behind bars after authorities say she engaged in sexual relationships with students and provided them with alcohol at her apartment.

Nadia Horn, who co-taught World Studies at Eau Claire North High School, made her initial appearance in Eau Claire County Court on Monday on felony child sexual assault charges.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by WEAU-TV, the investigation began on March 25 when the Eau Claire Area School District flagged a “potential inappropriate relationship” to a School Resource Officer. The subsequent probe revealed a pattern of grooming and exploitation involving multiple 16-year-old victims.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

But as usual, we don’t see the outrage when it is a male teacher and underage females…

Why???

How is this any different than when a male does it? When a male is involved, the immediate call is rape! Is this not also rape?

And this is not a ‘one off’, as there have been at least 10 similar cases I can think of off the top of my head.

And those boys will be dealing with that the rest of their lives.

Grrrr…

No kings???

Posted on by March 30, 2026

I found it interesting that London ‘supposedly’ had 11,000 protesters for a No Kings rally against a country without a king, while IN a country WITH A KING!!!

And this one is bouncing around from various folks, a great recap, and much better one than I can do from Yogi on X, HERE. It’s long, but worth it…

No Kings explained for people who think they’re fighting fascism. You’re standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You’re holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits.

A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left’s definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who’s voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That’s the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king. Okay buddy. You don’t hate kings. You hate kings that aren’t yours.

And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you’re a citizen before you vote? That’s oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That’s how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove “humor and satire.” They literally went after people for making fun of them.

UK does it better tho… Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn’t stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children’s identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao’s Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn’t hold your dying mother’s hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable. Liberals who went to Trump rallies: “I never felt unsafe.” “The experience changed me.” Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated. One side talks. The other side screams.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday. Their stated purpose in their own words: “Revolution.” Not reform. Marxism. The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud. 500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.

The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing. “Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind.” Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.

Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over. Today his own party would call him a fascist. The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth. The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote. The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.

Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here’s who checks the boxes in 2026: Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.

Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.

Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.

State ideology forced on families. Democrats.

Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.

Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.

Cult of personality. Both sides.

Ultranationalism. Republicans.

Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.

You marched against kings on Saturday. You marched FOR kings.

You just didn’t know which was which. Stop being gaslit. I hope you understand what’s at stake.

About the only thing Yogi didn’t mention was the Soros connection, but that is well known.  Well done, sir! WELL DONE!!!

A little humor…

Posted on by March 29, 2026

To start the week…

*TWO IRISH WOMEN IN A BAR*

*Two women were sitting next to each other at a bar. After a while, one looks at the other and says: ‘I can’t help but think, from listening to you, that you’re from Ireland.’*

*The other woman responds proudly: ‘Yes, I sure am!’*

*The first one says: ‘So am I! And where about in Ireland are ya from?’*

*The other woman answers: ‘I’m from Dublin , I am.’*

*The first one responds: ‘So, am I!! And what street did you live on in Dublin ?’*

*The other woman says: ‘A lovely little area. It was in the west end. I lived on Warbury Street in the old central part of town.’*

*The first one says: ‘Faith, and it’s a small world. So did I! So did I! And what school did ya go to?’*

*The other woman answers: ‘Well now, I went to Holy Heart of Mary, of course..’*

*The first one gets really excited and says: ‘And so did I! Tell me, what year did you graduate?’*

*The other woman answers: ‘Well, now, let’s see. I graduated in 1964.’*

*The first woman exclaims: ‘The Good Lord must be smiling down upon us! I can hardly believe our good luck at winding up in the same pub tonight! Can you believe it? I graduated from Holy Heart of Mary in 1964 meself!’*

About this time, Michael walks into the bar, sits down, and orders a beer. Brian, the bartender, walks over to Michael shaking his head and mutters: ‘It’s going to be a long night tonight.’

*Michael asks: ‘Why do you say that, Brian?’*

*Brian answers: ‘The Murphy twins are drunk again.’*

Oopsie…

Posted on by March 28, 2026

Seems like some ‘things’ got buried…for a while…

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday to rename César Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon’s legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31.

The state Senate approved the legislation earlier in the day with bipartisan support.

The change comes after allegations became public last week that Chavez had sexually abused girls and women during his days building a major farmworker labor rights movement in the 1960s in California’s agricultural heartland.

Full article, HERE from Yahoo.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

How much more stuff is out there about the ‘leaders’ that has been covered up over the years? Personally, I have no idea, nor do I really care… And no, it’s not ‘just’ the men, IMHO.

But I do have to laugh at California’s ‘quick’ response, almost like they ‘knew’ something was up, and are scratching like hell to cover up the issues and hoping something else will knock this off the front page.

And another oopsie…

For a group that loves to lecture as if they are the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, Democratic state leaders refuse to learn from their failed policies. When it comes to operating state budgets and functioning as a responsible entity, these soft-brained blowhards sure do resist the temptation of common sense. Just look at recent results.

After insulting the citizens and telling opponents to go down to Florida, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently changed her tune and attempted a tone-deaf siren song to lure back those who fled. As soon as Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger was sworn in, she pitched her campaign pledges into the firepit and hiked taxes statewide. Then,Boeing took flight out of Virginia.

Following the same “Soak the Rich” playbook, Bay State leaders in 2022 pushed new tax legislation that depends on the wealthy doling out more dollars to the public coffers. The state would issue a new four percent surtax on those with $1 million in assets. What is forever the miscalculation by these politicians is that they feel the rich will just need to suck it up and pay out. 

Full article, HERE from Townhall.

It is enough to make one wonder if the powers that be even realize they are shooting themselves in both feet, or they just don’t care! Why would you not take a hard look at your budget and look at realistically cutting funding back to be within the amount of money coming in???

Nah, that would mean they wouldn’t be able to ‘fund’ all those illegals they’re being a sanctuary for, right?

Sigh… Just glad I live in Texas now. And I don’t have to travel weekly anymore! Friend took the redeye back from San Diego to DC last week, FOUR hours in line at San Diego for a @#$%#! redeye!!! Needless to say, he was NOT happy.