I think the MI6 ident was a little over the top.
A Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) trooper arrested a man on New Year’s Day for feigning to be a federal agent after a woman in the man’s vehicle waved in apparent distress, an arrest report seen by the Daily Caller alleged.
Jorge Alberto Alfonso, 61, born in Cuba, was arrested after his white Ford F-150 pickup truck drove past the arresting trooper’s stationary FHP vehicle in Naples, according to the arrest report. The vehicle was allegedly outfitted with flashing emergency lights and other law enforcement paraphernalia. The trooper wrote that he spotted a woman “waving her arms, appearing upset or distressed” from within the truck. He claimed the truck’s bed was open and carried a backpack and other suitcases. The truck was registered to Alfonso, who was the passenger according to the trooper.
“When I approached the vehicle and began explaining the reason for the stop, the male passenger interrupted, claiming his K9, seated in the back, accidentally activated the red and blue lights,” the trooper wrote. “He identified himself as a federal agent, providing a CIA Counter Terrorism Unit ID, a CIA emblem coin in a badge wallet, and an MI-6 ID.”
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The format and design of the IDs “didn’t match known federal ID standards,” the trooper alleged.
Alfonso also allegedly wore a skullcap — prohibited for law enforcement IDs — in the ID photographs and had a challenge coin for a badge.
FHP troopers impounded Alfonso’s truck and allegedly found firearms, passports — with blank ones among them — badges ostensibly for federal agents, bulletproof vests, pills without labeled bottles, money and jewelry.
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Ummmmmmmmmm…..yeah.
Jubilee Hall was big, old octagonal wooden dance hall exactly like the ones you find in Central Texas, but it sat on a full open square city block at Bagby and McGowen a block or so behind the original Spec’s Liquor Store on Smith Street. I’m sure the old hall is gone now but it was a fine old building, maybe the largest octagonal wooden hall I ever saw.
This was one of my earliest albums. I sat outside under the window behind the stage of the old wooden Jubilee Hall near downtown Houston to hear these guys when I was too young to be allowed inside.
Shannon, this is the ultimate cover of that Guns n’ Roses song – honestly. Once you see and hear this, it will never be the same in your head.
Well dr phil,
It looks like, once again, they rolled all the Hamsters back into their rooms so they could have their late afternoon Jello before bed.
Time to rock, baby!
No way to know if it will help, but there have been suggestions that you contact your Texas House Representative and make known your position on whom they should vote for in next week’s Texas House Speaker election. I’m fairly certain that mine needs to have his mind changed.
I heard Salcedo mention the film grid down-power up on his show so I watched about 35 minutes. wasn’t that impressed. lots of Russia Russia Russia hacking mentioned, some China hacking mentioned and Iran as well. also noticed all the news clips were from propagandist news organization. no thanks. the players they left out were the malevolent deep state players themselves. imo they’d hack our own grid and blame Russia. could this be their own event 201 prefab? and besides. The blood money sucking Vampyres aren’t interested in upgrading our grid when there’s gillions and gillions to be made off… Read more »
It’s impossible to not laugh at these arrogant asshats. The resulting spit-take perfectly suits this latest broadside from four European Union leaders. After years of attempting to interfere with Elon Musk’s social media platform, this quartet is suddenly shocked, shocked that Musk has decided to participate in their electoral processes to protect his own interests:Tech billionaire Elon Musk is getting wide pushback in European capitals as he tries to extend his recent political success to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Leaders in four European countries — France, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom — denounced his influence in separate statements Monday, warning… Read more »
I think ‘pimp hand’ of justice is going to ‘B slap’ some miscreants.
This is interesting and also to some extent true.
Manage that Trigger.
It’s all a spooks Inc., deep state production.
Jeremi Sensky traveled from his Pennsylvania home to celebrate the New Year with his family in New Orleans. Sensky is a paraplegic and has been wheelchair-bound for years after a car accident left him paralyzed. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was hit by the truck during the attack on Bourbon Street.Sensky survived his ordeal but suffered fractures to both legs. He was transported to the University Medical Center, where he underwent surgery to repair his damaged legs. His wheelchair was not only left in pieces but was also being held as evidence by police… Read more »
The Vegas truck bomber was a reality TV star ? Does life get weirder ?
I am getting cancellations for my rosary class. I expected this, folks’ll reserve a spot before thinking it through or checking their schedules, or….life. There was one lady who digitally jumped the line to get a spot. We hadn’t announced the class yet, but she somehow got to see an email where it was discussed. How? Anyway, several weeks before we got the time and place verified she was already requesting a spot for her and her friend. The notice in the bulletin clearly stated that RSVP’s were necessary, as I was sending out “pre-class instructions and a materials list’… Read more »
Since Hubby and I are Byrna owners, the company sends us emails and videos on how to use, when to use, and owner’s experiences: Adam Alexander was pulling out of his parking spot on his way to his night shift at work when a person swerved past him and then immediately threw the vehicle in reverse to start a confrontation with Adam. Thankfully Adam had been prepared to defend and took his Byrna out of his bag and quickly dialed 911. Quickly Adam assessed that other driver who had exited his vehicle was clearly intoxicated and not armed with a… Read more »
BTW; I just finished up Bone’s @ 8:08 AM yesterday.
Victory Davis Hanson’s Conspiracies Too Awful to Imagine?And even though there wasn’t any “new” news in the piece it was worth reading just to put all the Biden Administration’s corruption into context.
Good grief.
Ditto that!
Mr. C. takes a brief foray into the wonderment of uber liberal Oakland, CA recalling two Soros-funded office holders. Will wonders never cease? Has the pendulum finally gone too far for those folks? Then on to the tree hugger news: Every once in a while, the narrative cracks, and a little ray of truth shines through. Of course, it’s hard to see the truth through the cracks, especially the whole truth, but at least you can see that the truth is there. It happened yesterday, when the Atlantic ran a curious weather science story headlined, “Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to… Read more »
One facet of the Trudeau departure from office: In the murky mechanics of parliamentary systems, Trudeau’s ‘resignation’ (he will continue to serve as a lame duck until replaced), the setting of a new general election, and the Prime Minister’s suspension of the Canadian parliament until the end of March were recognized as politically savvy maneuvers. It has something to do with giving Trudeau’s liberal party more time to campaign and select a quick Kamala-Harris-like last-minute replacement, and to avoid the imminent “collapse” of the now-minority liberal government.It is all an overly complicated political process that I could explain but it would cause… Read more »
Mr. C. tackles the “see, we’re not election deniers and we’re definitely not like the Jan 6 insurrectionists” interpretation of history and the election certification. He brings up a previous, actual bombing of the Capitol – by leftists: Don’t bother asking progressives about the literal bombing of the Capitol in 1983, or the Congressional mass-murder plan, since they’ve long-since miniaturized the actual bombing story, in a narrative-reducing process that is rhetorically comparable to turning juicy bunches of grape into a handful of dry raisins. It means nothing, a mere fringe event, especially when compared to the mass invasion of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021,… Read more »
Before I get real busy, I’m going to my happy place: The C&C roundup: Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! 2025 seems to have settled down and is proceeding well. Your terrific Tuesday roundup includes: House sets records certifying Trump’s election in a quiet, productive half hour; Canada’s national nightmare ends with Castro lookalike resignation; Trump doubles down on teased plan for largest USA expansion in history and Demark arms up; McDonalds ditches DEI under pressure from conservative activists; nation’s most progressive town deletes woke mayor and woke DA for being too progressive; and you’ll never guess what a new study… Read more »
Finally plopping myself into my chair. It’s gonna be a busy day – errands during the day, some ‘portant pooter stuff to do, and a meeting in the Katy Area starting at 6. I told Hubby I wanted to be on my way out there by four, hoping to miss the worst of rush hour traffic.
As Texpat said to Squawk :”My dreams are high, but my expectations are low.”
Heh
GJT, if Zuck moves the FB content moderation team to Austin, it defeats the whole idea. I suggest Midland-Odessa myself. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook has done “too much censorship” as he announced the social network is scrapping its controversial third party fact-checking in favor of adopting Elon Musk’s “Community Notes” model on X.The 40-year-old tech tycoon — who dined with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after his Nov. 5 election victory, with Meta donating $1 million to his inaugural fund — claimed on Tuesday that the dramatic about-face was sign that the company is returning to an original focus… Read more »
I think I made Little Prince’s grown up rosary this morning, to be given to him when Mom and Dad feel it’s appropriate.
Prolific conservative X commenter DCDraino posts… From his mouth to God’s ear. If the Republicans fail over the next four years, they will fade into oblivion. We are about to experience something that’s never been done beforeRepublicans have only controlled the White House, Senate, and House for 10 years in the past centuryAnd you know how many of those years included a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court plus a powerful MAGA media ecosystem with hundreds of millions of followers to hold RINOs accountable?ZeroThis is why we call it the Golden AgeRepublicans have never held this much power in modern historyLet’s use… Read more »
You never know if some of these stories are true but a post on X claims Mark Zuckerberg is abandoning “Fact Checkers” in favor of an X styled “Community Notes” system. Winning.
Just when you thought you had peaked on your hate for Merrick Garland and Co, we have this: HEADLINE: Biden DOJ May Charge Up To 200 More Jan. 6 Defendants As Trump Takes Office/SNIP“Over the past four years, our prosecutors, FBI agents, investigators, and analysts have conducted one of the most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in the Justice Department’s history,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Monday. “They have analyzed massive amounts of physical and digital data, identified and arrested hundreds of people who took part in unlawful conduct that day, and initiated prosecutions and secured convictions across a… Read more »
California has now banned anything that runs on natural gas in the future. It will leave more gas for us to export and make money on with the Euros. Biden thinks this crap will stand. Hahaha. It’s not just “certain natural gas water heaters”, it’s the vast majority of gas heaters. The Biden administration is once again turning up the heat on household energy costs—this time by banning certain natural gas water heaters.In a move critics call a “lame-duck regulation,” the new restrictions are set to phase out scores of affordable, reliable models in favor of more expensive alternatives.While the administration… Read more »
Good old Lyndon, always lookin’ out for the other guy. Joe Califano told these stories to Robert Samuelson for his book, The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath. How do you think the eggs and high cholesterol myth started ? Shoe prices went up, so LBJ slapped export controls on hides to increase the supply of leather. Reports that color television sets would sell at high prices came across the wire. Johnson told me to ask RCA’s David Sarnoff [RCA was then a major TV manufacturer] to hold them down. Domestic lamb prices rose. LBJ directed [Defense Secretary Robert] McNamara to… Read more »
From the Wall Street Journal:
and,
RE: my comment at 8:54 AM
The California bill was not as oppressive as the proposed bill in Austin and even Gavin Newsom vetoed it.
In the end, TRAIGA/HB 1709 still retains most of the fundamental flaws I described in my first essay on the bill. It is, by far, the most aggressive AI regulation America has seen with a serious chance at becoming law—much more even than SB 1047, the California AI bill that was the most-discussed AI policy of 2024 before being vetoed in September.
Why do Republicans want to out stupid Democrats ? So we have this guy from northwest of Dallas in the legislature, a Republican, who has written the Mother of All AI Laws and wants all of his colleagues to vote for it. It’s a really bad idea and actually a speech code on stilts. Giovanni Capriglione may have the best of intentions, but we know where that road leads. If passed the bill will immediately draw First Amendment lawsuits like flies. George Mason University professor Dean Ball has the devastating criticism. The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) has been… Read more »
Took a walk around the house. No sign of oppressive heat and humidity – so you’ll not hear me complain. But even the slightest breeze cuts right through ya.
The winter weeds are coming on strong. I actually need to mow and get John to weedeat.
We’re tied with GJT at 28 currently (don’t know how low it actually got)… bright, clear, and sunny…
The Bitter truth? 😀
33 here, a bit warmer than they thought BUT TOO DAMN COLD!!!
Mornin’ Gang
At least it is not raining and the wind blowing with these low temps.
28 and clear, warming to 49 and repeat. I think weather’s record is stuck.