By Jean-Leon Gerome
Contemplative Wednesday Open Threads
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Y’all tired of winning yet? I’m not, even the news media has admitted that they can’t keep up with the whirlwind that is DJT. Another warm day here and this will last the rest of the week. It was 82 yesterday and we had a fine day cutting and clearing. I started out by gassing and oiling up the three chain saws and also sharpened the chains, first of the season I guess.
I’m only barely keeping up with all that is going on but I’m trying.
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Y’all got to wake up now. My granddaughter will be here in a few minutes and she is in charge.
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Oh yes! You’ll have a blessed but very busy day. Mazel Tov, I believe? 😉
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This is a truly delicious story John A. Konrad tells on X.
A liberal friend of mine has a very liberal friend—let’s call him Marko. Everybody loves him. He’s rich, always relaxed, has a ton of friends, never gets stressed. One of those guys who somehow never works but lives like a prince.
I described him to Grok to get his image and it’s fairly close except Marko has a touch of artistic or European flair.
To continue… we all assumed Marko was independently wealthy. Turns out… he wasn’t.
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Apparently, Marko’s cushy life was funded by government grants. For what? Was he managing a USAID diversity grant to fund LGBTQ+ artists in the Congo that @DOGE just shut down? Who knows. Who cares. What I do know is that Marko does something with the government and nobody has ever seen Marko do anything that looks like work.
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“I don’t care, Margaret.”
BAWHAHAHAHA!!!! I love it! this is pure gold and Marko is SOO deserving in losing his ass!
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John Tierney on the FAA at City Journal. I’ve never been afraid to fly, but reports like this could make most folks very concerned if not downright scared.
The problems were obvious 20 years ago, when I visited control towers in both Canada and the United States. The Canadians sat in front of sleek computer screens that instantly handled tasks like transferring the oversight of a plane from one controller to another. The Americans were still using pieces of paper called flight strips. After a plane took off, the controller in charge of the local airspace had to carry that plane’s flight strip over to the desk of the controller overseeing the regional airspace. It felt like going back in time from a modern newsroom into a scene from The Front Page.
It was bad enough to see such outdated technology in 2005. But they’re still using those paper flight strips in American towers, and the Federal Aviation Administration’s modernization plans have been delayed so many times that the strips aren’t due to be phased out until 2032. The rest of the system is similarly archaic. The U.S. is way behind Europe in using satellites to guide and monitor planes, forcing pilots and controllers to rely on much less precise readings from radio beacons and ground-based radar.
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Our immigration system has been dysfunctional since Teddy Kennedy rewrote it back in 1965. I’ve been advocating a complete overhaul for decades.
Today’s immigration system prioritizes diversity and inclusion over merit and skill. About 1 million new permanent residents arrive annually, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That number includes roughly 140,000 older parents of previous migrants coming through chain migration. The current system also randomly selects 55,000 people from “underrepresented” countries and gives them green cards.
These relatively unskilled and older immigrants are admitted immediately, while highly skilled immigrants can wait decades for green cards, even after paying more than $100,000 in taxes as temporary workers. Even a Nobel prizewinner from India, who would qualify for the so-called Einstein visa reserved for the highest-skilled workers (EB-1), cannot obtain a green card without waiting for more than a decade.
A rational conservative immigration system would eliminate all DEI from immigration. It would redirect the 55,000 “diversity” visas to the highly skilled categories. It would stop granting green cards to older relatives and other entitlement recipients. It would select immigrants based on their English proficiency, ties to America, education, and job offers.
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OK Stop the Presses! You have to scroll down and check out Texpat’s @ 6:17 AM! It is pure gold and should be an O.C. piece. 😉
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Have y’all been contemplating the “Early Effect” much lately? I know I have. 😉
The Early effect, named after its discoverer James M. Early, is the variation in the effective width of the base in a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) due to a variation in the applied base-to-collector voltage. A greater reverse bias across the collector–base junction, for example, increases the collector–base depletion width, thereby decreasing the width of the charge carrier portion of the base.
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Oklahoma Republicans have repeatedly backed these scams and I don’t understand why. Are they really Democrats pretending to be conservatives to get elected ? Or are they actually this stupid ?
Canoo, the electric vehicle startup that was promised $100 million in incentives, files for bankruptcy,” read the headline from The Oklahoman in mid-January, angering Oklahoma taxpayers opposed to both tax subsidies and the “green energy” agenda.
It’s one more of the many green energy scams draining the pocketbooks of taxpayers across the nation — think Solyndra and its $570 million bailout.
For the answer, we can look at a pattern. Though former Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin revoked tax credits for new wind energy companies in 2017, wind energy company NextEra received $191 million in Oklahoma Investment/New Jobs credits during both 2022 and 2023, and the wind power generation industry has hauled in an estimated $1.25 billion in subsidies since 2013. Oklahoma employed about 400 people in the “wind electric power generation” sector from 2021 to 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. With $191 million in tax credits, Oklahoma is paying about $382,000 per worker — about seven times more than the average Oklahoma wage.
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I say massive Kick-Backs.
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Don’t you just hate the Lamestream Media? On the local news they mentioned that Pam Bondi was to become the AG of the USA and said something to the effect that she was a former DA and Cooperate Lobbyist! AND that she said she would let politics interfere in any of her decisions …Lobbyist?! Really?! Pam Bondi spent 90% of her life’s career in public service as a Prosecutor and the Florida AG and yes she worked for a time at a law-firm that did lobbying but it wasn’t a bag part of her career. They’ll do anything to make any of Trump’s appointees look bad…. ~SPITS~
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This is an excellent rebuttal to all Dems and squishy Republicans criticizing shutting down the USAID. If for no other reason, it cuts off the CIA’s slush fund for overthrowing foreign governments like forcing conservative Brazilian President Bolsonaro out of office because Biden’s people didn’t like him. Fortunately, they were unable to sabotage Argentina’s Javier Milei.
The most common argument you’ll hear from those defending the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is that the grant dollars in question are just a fraction of the federal budget — less than one percent! Even if the Trump administration eliminated USAID altogether it wouldn’t put much of a dent in the deficit or help control the national debt, is the argument. Everyone from the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC to Jim Geraghty at National Review are repeating this line.
But trimming the federal budget and reducing the deficit aren’t really the point of this exercise. The point is to expose USAID for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become, and to shut it down. In the six decades since it was established, USAID has gone from fighting poverty, spreading American ideals, and undercutting Soviet propaganda, to becoming a woke propaganda operation of its own that actively undermines the pillars of western civilization. It’s gone from exporting democracy to exporting deviancy, and it’s time to shut it down.
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It just occurred to me Obama used USAID funds to try and get Bibi Netanyahu defeated in an election some years ago. USAID funds supposedly went to Israel for some altruistic purpose, but they ended up in the bank accounts of anti-Bibi activists. I believe it was $60 or $70 million.
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This DEI hire subcontractor for Obama’s library has filed suit because the design engineering firm on the job has pointed out his work is crappy.
Robert McGee, owner of II in One, is seeking to recoup roughly $41 million in additional costs his firm allegedly incurred as a result of Thornton Tomasetti’s discriminatory actions, which “directly undermined the Obama Foundation’s DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) goals and commitments and mission to bring transformative change to the construction industry and local community,” according to the lawsuit. The company was now “on the brink of forced closure because of racial discrimination by the structural engineer.”
Thornton Tomasetti has strenuously denied the allegations, writing in a 2024 memo to Obama Foundation executives that the cost overruns and delays “were all unequivocally driven by the underperformance and inexperience … [of] what everyone knows was a questionably qualified subcontractor team.” The memo also included images of cracked slab and exposed rebar from the construction site. “We cannot stand by while contractors attempt to blame their own shortcomings on the design team,” the firm wrote. Obama Foundation spokeswoman Emily Bittner, who previously worked as a senior adviser to Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D., Ill.), told the Chicago Tribune that the foundation had “no reason to believe that Thornton Tomasetti acted with racist intent.”
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Marc Andreesen reposted this comment on X with a bullseye target emoji. Elon’s crack team of software developers are mapping out the entire federal government into a master database that has never existed before. They are using the most advanced AI levels and will start revealing all the corruption and waste never before seen (or conveniently ignored by MSM).
For the first time in history, a presidential administration will have a clear and comprehensive realtime view of every dollar spent by the Leviathan.Just Loki
@LokiJulianus
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With @DOGE, people are going to discover just how fast 5 or 6 “cracked” Zoomer devs using the latest-gen AI can operate on large, heterogenous data sets. Security thru obscurity as a principle of governance will be over.
12:02 AM · Feb 5, 2025
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Incredible stuff.
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Fascinating!
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Wow
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Patience, patience, patience – waiting for the right time and the right technology.
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I guess you just take “cracked” “Zoomer” dev in context and figure it out the best you can.
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I was in rosary repairing mode this morning, and I made a new batch of rosary marker clips. All to be delivered to church this weekend.
Listening to my “Return to Tradition” podcast, which for the last week or so has discussed the corrupt USAID connection to the Catholic NGOs. Yep, it ain’t just the politicians who are wailing and gnashing of teeth. As a Catholic, I couldn’t be happier that my Church is going to go through a rough house cleaning.
On to the C&C before I head out for Important Business.
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I read in the last few days Catholic NGOs received $3 billion from USAID. I don’t what period of time that covers, but it was all directed to illegal immigration.
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There have been multiple conservative Catholic podcasters calling out the Catholic NGOs, especially Catholic Charities, for this malfeasance. The Lutherans, et al, have their own dastardly part in similar operations, but, as usual, the Catholics get most of the attention.
I say clean house and then return that clean house back to the Lord. It won’t be fun. It won’t be easy. But it is necessary.
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BTW – a caller into Salcedo this morning suggested that Trump move the UN headquarters to the new Gaza.
I LOL’d. There is so much upside to a move like that!
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Interesting interview Michael Berry had with Chad Norville at Rigzone.
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Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! The crushing pace of the Trump reset continued at full speed yesterday, and it’s still hard to take it all in. Your roundup today includes: we heard the death knell for USAID as most employees placed on leave and more importantly, ordered to come home; DOGE targets the heart of the deep state, the CIA; former Florida AG confirmed as the United States’ next Attorney General, replacing Grandma Garland at long last; Vice President Vance remembers the long-suffering residents of East Palestine; and an encouraging TikTok that suggests lunatic leftists have lost the war.
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I hope these embarrassing punks go out of business. They have betrayed the legacy of Mr. Pulitzer for a long time. I cannot wait for this Trump lawsuit to go to trial. It’s one of the more ingenious legal moves he has made.
This might even be worse than losing the lawsuit outright. Back in 2022, Trump sued the Pulitzer Board for defamation, because it shamed itself by granting Pulitzer Prizes in 2018 to the New York Times and to the Washington Post for, get this, their fake-news reporting on RussiaGate.
Last week, corporate media crowed with anticipatory delight over the Board’s excellent motion to prevent discovery, in which it argued that the internal emails and texts between board members would embarrass the Board and besmirch the vaunted reputation of the Pulitzer Prize itself. Scores of articles reported the Board’s motion.
Only Fox reported that after the hearing, the judge denied the Board’s dumb motion and ordered it to turn over the communications. Corporate media was silent yesterday.
As I’ve told you many times, discovery is a worst-case scenario for the Board. I’d bet a week’s salary the Board members are Trump-deranged lunatics, and their internal communications, instead of reflecting professional acumen, journalistic expertise, and wise restraint, probably more resemble a Discord channel of middle-school mean girls.
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Regarding the news that globally, USAID folks are being shunted off to the hinterlands:
Lest anyone feel tempted to sympathize with this particular group of unmanageable federal employees, consider the facts. Based just on the part we do know, it is fair to assume USAID funds Mexican drug cartels, paid for the stolen 2020 U.S. election, funded the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected government in 2014 (which in turn provoked the Proxy War), engineered the barbarian invasion of most Western countries including our own, and caused, negligently or intentionally, the covid pandemic and its resulting millions of deaths.
USAID probably also ensured the homogenous and catastrophic worldwide response to the virus that it helped create and unleash.
A greater hive of scum and villainy….
We never thought it could happen here. But like a deadly, mutant fungus, the poison grew quietly, unrecognized, right below the public’s noses in the State Department’s sub-basement. USAID’s “independent” bureaucrats shoving billions to criminals all over the world were, indeed, banal, bureaucratic, but no less blameless Adolph Eichmanns.
And within a handful of days, Trump just burned it all to the ground.
Bonfire of the Vanities. Not just a book title. Mr. C. comments on the countries happy to see the “aid” disappearing. Including Africa:
Along those lines, consider how encouraging is this next clip. Some Africans are speaking out, and saying they don’t want the USAID. They support President Trump.
So, if Africans are supporting Trump, is Trump still racist?
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This is the Wired Magazine article everyone’s been talking about the last 2 days. It only fed the panic and hysteria of the Deep State hacks. The author, Vittoria Elliot, is your prototypical leftist “journalist”. Here is her
bio.Elon Musk’s takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college. Most have connections to Musk, and at least two have connections to Musk’s longtime associate Peter Thiel, a cofounder and chair of the analytics firm and government contractor Palantir who has long expressed opposition to democracy.
WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” The engineers all hold nebulous job titles within DOGE, and at least one appears to be working as a volunteer.
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Lol. She seems angry.
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Next up for trimming: the CIA. I posted the headline news last night that Trump had offered to buy out the ENTIRE CIA! I pondered the ramifications, but I suppose Trump & Co. have considered the pros and cons.
And I’m sure they’ll keep a close eye on those that stay. Mr. C. discusses how the American populace used to hold the CIA in high esteem (along with the FBI – I’m watching the old FBI tv show and boy, have times changed!).
But having watched the disastrous Trump 1.0 presidency and knowing the CIA’s role in its Crossfire Hurricane operation, the one that tried and failed to effect a coup, Americans’ mood toward the intelligence agency has, shall we say, soured. It worsened when, thanks to Trump 1.0 declassification, we discovered Kennedy’s assassin was on the CIA’s payroll mere weeks before JFK’s killing—with no coherent explanation forthcoming from the Agency.
Trump’s initial offer for federal employees to take early buyouts last week explicitly exempted workers with “national security roles.” That exception included all the intelligence services. But yesterday, all CIA employees received the same offer, becoming the first national security service to do so.
Everyone, including the WSJ, considers that offer a signal that the Agency is next in line for the bureaucratic pruning shears.
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I’ve thought about this turn of events myself: I’ve long opined that Democrats were getting kickbacks from the cartels. When Trump declared the cartels terrorist organizations….
The second it happened on January 20th, Deep State watchdog Mike Benz immediately recognized that the designation of the cartels as terrorists was a direct assault on the Swamp. As Benz noted, the cartels are largely Deep State assets. So Trump has ordered the Deep State to fight itself.
Well, the Left is all about division, so why not division within itself?
5D chess, yet once more.
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Good news: Vance visits those poor East Palestine folks.
The fact that Vice President Vance traveled to East Palestine during the first three weeks of the new Administration tells us everything we need to know about their excellent priorities.
Joe Biden did not visit the environmental disaster site for over a year, and without measurable effect.
Stand by for help.
God bless those victims.
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Trump’s lawsuit against the Pulitzer board moves into discovery. The PB had tried to block discovery, but a judge slapped that down.
Let the embarrassing emails be revealed. More Trumpian winning. Still not tired.
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Mr. C. then opens a discussion about the fracas over DOGE. He links to this clip, a tongue lashing with LOTS OF ADULT LANGUAGE, but spot on:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887037017361420749This just about sums up the situation:
The debate over DOGE is dividing people into two camps. The majority of the country includes we sane people, people of common sense, such as the salty young lady in the clip. And then there is a much smaller but usually much louder group of people who have permanent rooms on board the gravy train. Since DOGE threatens to evict all the freeloaders, they are freaking out. A serious showdown is coming, and we all must prepare for the fight.
I believe it was Texpat that warned about Dem-placed IEDs all along this road to better government. But Mr. C. points out that being liberal isn’t the all encompassing “feel good,” “trendy” place to be, at least not like it used to be.
I was conservative before conservative was cool. Maybe I should make that into a t-shirt. But I’ll have to walk around armed.
For once in our lifetimes, and maybe since the Founding, the good guys finally have a fighting chance. Trump’s order of operations is extremely promising, as in first dismantling USAID and disorganizing the FBI before tackling the CIA. It is a masterpiece of military maneuver, a carefully sequenced strategy to weaken the enemy before bringing a direct fight.
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DAYAAM I think that young lady is pissed off and that’s good, she gets it.
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The people breathe a sigh of relief while the gubmint seethes. I’m assuming.
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The young woman in Tedtam’s @ 9:53 AM comment is more than spot on. I get her passion, but the impact of profanity is most profound when it is used the least. I think she’ll be very convincing to the younger generations.
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I never thought this dream would come true in my lifetime.
Trump’s order would curb the Department’s power, though he would also require an act of Congress to abolish it completely–something that he is also working on achieving in tandem with his executive order, CNN reported Tuesday.
If the president succeeds, it will mark the fulfillment of his previous campaign promise to shut down the Department.
and,
The president has been a consistent critic of the Department, and has criticized the amount of spending that it requires: “In total American society pours more than $1 trillion a year into public education systems but instead of being at the top of the list, we are literally right smack — guess what — at the bottom.”
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We can only hope.
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Antique Stove Porn! Man I’d love to have that thing. Notice how the floor tiles reflects off that brilliant chrome. 😉
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It would probably be nice to use, but a real beyotch to keep looking nice.
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It reminds me of the real Chambers range that my second husband’s mother “gave” us… soup well, top broiler… only thing I had against it was that it only had 3 burners but I learned how to make do… I sure missed that stove
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Back in the 1970s, my close friend lived over near West Gray in Houston in an old 1930s duplex. He had lived there for at 5 or 6 years and it came with a huge Chambers stove similar to the one pictured but it had 6 burners, a soup well and 3 ovens.
It was in mint condition and the landlord said he could have the stove if he wanted it when he was moving out. We tried to figure out a way to get that 1-ton stove down a flight of old wooden stairs and decided wasn’t a good idea. We couldn’t get a forklift in the right position either. I told my friend he should just buy the duplex because the landlord had putt it up for sale for $35,000. Today there is a triplex of 3 story condos there…really ugly and really expensive.
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I just came in for water and got distracted, wasted 5 minutes on a couple of Rabbit Holes. BUT Tedtam’s @ 9:53 AM is worth seeing.
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The vile rag, Politico, has been getting big bux from We The People via various government agencies. Politico is nothing but a propaganda arm of the Deep State. Now for the good news: the last payroll for Politico bounced because of DOGE.
I predict that within 6 months DOGE will have eliminated over a $trillion in gov’t waste and fraud. Couple eliminating the waste and fraud, not to mention the senseless red tape, with a growing economy the national debt could be wiped out in less than 10 years.
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Wow. Politico on the government teat for $28 to $32 million over the last 4 years. There’s another leftwing media site that received 3 million just during the campaign season from Biden. I can’t remember who it was.
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I don’t remember the last time I saw a cabover tractor trailer rig but this week I’ve seen the same one twice leaving the new Valero store at the entrance to our subdivision. It has a fueling island for trucks. I guess he’s a local independent.
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I never liked cabovers. In a collision, there isn’t much between the driver and a mass of oncoming steel and glass. Conventionals always seemed safer to me.
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I clicked on this link at the CFP and got the message “Too many requests”.
/chuckle
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I may have to up my estimate of how much money DOGE will save the US Taxpayer each year to 2 Trillion.
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We used to have institutions to care for people like this…
The Post noted that “after Meta removed tampons from men’s bathrooms in company office buildings earlier this month, some employees started coordinating ‘quiet rebellions’ by bringing in their own.” Oh, for Pete’s sake. The lunacy, it burns. From this “quiet rebellion” at Meta, we learn not only that staffing the place is a significant number of women who think they’re men, but that these women are so determined to cling to these fantasies that they believe that a quiet and reasonable move to nudge them back to reality is some kind of oppressive measure that they must righteously resist.
The New York Times has reported that these courageous freedom fighters decided that the missing tampons constituted a hill on which they were willing to die: in order to “protest Mr. Zuckerberg’s actions, some Meta workers soon brought their own tampons, pads, and liners to the men’s bathrooms, five people with knowledge of the effort said. A group of employees also circulated a petition to save the tampons.” Yes, “save the tampons.” It does have quite the ring of “save the whales,” but the advocates of this case feel just as righteous as the whale-savers. Women must be able to pretend they’re men and get sanitary napkins in men’s rooms, or white supremacy wins, you see.
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I’d give my eyes the appropriate roll, but I think I’d hurt myself.
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How much fun would this guy be having right now. Rush was right!
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Man it would be great to have him around now and also during the Doddering Old Fool’s Reign.
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Loved it, but I don’t think it was the Beach Boys. Mamas and Papas IIRC.
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What a great day, I worked around the Big Pond and my wife finished up the corner by the dog Pen. Now I’m about Tarred! But we’re heading up to Our Place to get some fine burgers as soon as my wife gets out of the shower.
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We rode down to the pond because my wife wanted to see what I’d done. And while my wife was chasing the dog, daughter called to thank me for the “I don’t care, Margaret.” link I sent her about the Jackass getting his comeuppance after sucking up all the USAID grant money.
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Right out of the chute:
In a bold move signaling a crackdown on sanctuary cities, newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi has issued a directive freezing all federal funding to jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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Wasn’t it Mark Cuban who said Trump was afraid of strong women? I’m thinking Bondi is just one more weight-lifter class woman that Trump has in his administration.
Take that! you moron.
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The manure is hitting the Westinghouse all over the place. Payroll checks bouncing at Politico is only one hot item. This is great. No, this is fabulous.
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Yup and President Trump didn’t sniff one of those girls hair. Watching the 5 Dana Perino said she couldn’t understand how the democrats couldn’t get behind this one since it’s favored 90%-10% by the public.
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BREAKING: New Jersey’s massive lawsuit accusing the oil industry of causing climate change was just dismissed with prejudice.
The case was pursued by the NJ AG, but funded by liberal NGOs. Similar cases in MD and Delaware have also been tossed.
H/T Instapundit
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“Dismissed With Prejudice” is icing on the cake.
The Sun rules his children, the planets…. Take up climate change with the Sun.
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Elon quietly trolling lol.
H/T Twitchy
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I missed this story, found it over yonder:
Band dads from The Pride of Pearland stepped in on Saturday at the TCGC Pasadena Memorial contest to subdue and disarm an active shooter.
Band parents are simply the best.
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I started to post this story, but I figured it had wide coverage locally and everyone had seen it.
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I quit watching local news some time ago.
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I saw Trump signing his EO today keeping the gender confused out of women’s sports. He was surrounded by fine examples of the young, feminine side of our species.
And all I could think of was: “If this was Biden, he’d be trying to touch or sniff as many as he could.”
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Jack Posobiec:
Remember when Politico leaked the Dobbs decision and conservative Supreme Court justices were almost assassinated?
Turns out that was govt-funded
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The IRS has been using AI to scan bank accounts without any warrants. Hello 4th amendment? The IRS needs to be gutted like a fish.
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I quit watching local news some time ago.
I will always watch the local news. At least once a day. What happens in Houston and Harris County affects this entire region. Whether it is politics, crime, police actions,….heck, even road closures. The ongoing story of the State takeover of HISD is a huge story – statewide. Not to mention the weather guys.
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You are right. I have a hard time staying informed on local politics here because there are really no credible sources anymore. It’s really bizarre, but it is true.
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Yes, I agree it’s the only way to see what is going on in the local area. And over here it can sometimes be very entertaining. 😉
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Seen elsewhere, a comment on the first weeks of Trump Part 2:
Its like we were expecting cake, but instead we got a surprise party, and a free car, and a free house, and our grandmother came back to life.
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Indeed, we all can be wonderfully delighted that Mr. Trump is keeping his word and faster than most folks thought he would or could.
And the Dems are so ditzy about it they keep making fools of themselves with stupid and nasty remarks, thereby only making Americans who voted for Mr. Trump very happy that they did.
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I mentioned that we were going to Our Place for burgers and here is my Big Bopper and man was it good. Voted best Burger in Alabama by the Alabama Cattleman’s Assn. And yes I ate too much but I did save some meat for Dawg. So she had a fine supper. 😉
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I want it on the record that I believe Axios and Pro Publica are just as big media whores as Politico. I want to find the money trails from USAID and others.
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I just got a notice from Linkedin that Andrew Abercromby PHD is resigning from NASA/JSC because he doesn’t want to move from his home in California and relocate back to Houston. FWIW; He left the Houston area in 2008.
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Speaking of local news GJT will be happy to know that they caught the dude that stole the Dodge Pace car from South Alabama Speedway over in Kingston.
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I did not know that!
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