Sawtooth Mountain
Sawtooth Mountain is in the Davis Range twenty-two miles northwest of Fort Davis, Texas.
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I read recently Big Bend Park was closed because it was crawling with coyotes smuggling people into the USA and deemed too dangerous for the public. If the Trump administration had closed Big Bend, it would have been national, front page news. Trump reopened the park and you barely heard a peep.
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Big John says to not waste the opportunity.
“You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities,” Fetterman said Wednesday in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon.
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Well, we know now which state delegation in DC has the most mojo.
After years of politicized delay by the Biden Administration, Alabama Congressman and Chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers announced that the headquarters of U.S. Space Command will officially be built in Huntsville.
Speaking on Auburn University’s McCrary Institute’s “Cyber Focus” podcast, Rogers confirmed that the long-awaited decision will be finalized this month.
“I expect sometime during the month of April, that space command will officially be assigned to build its headquarters in Huntsville,” Rogers (R-Saks) said.
“I’ve already talked with the contractor. He is ready to turn dirt on the day the announcement’s made, and we do expect it to be announced right after the Air Force Secretary is named.”
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The shocker is this was published in the Atlantic. This is how young Americans begin to get red-pilled.
America is not just suffering from a wealth gap; America has the equivalent of a class apartheid. Our systems—of education, credentialing, hiring, housing, and electing officials—are dominated and managed by members of a “comfort class.” These are people who were born into lives of financial stability. They graduate from college with little to no debt, which enables them to advance in influential but relatively low-wage fields—academia, media, government, or policy work. Many of them rarely interact or engage in a meaningful way with people living in different socioeconomic strata than their own. And their disconnect from the lives of the majority has expanded to such a chasm that their perspective—and authority—may no longer be relevant.
Take, for instance, those lawmakers desperately workshopping messages to working-class folks: More than half of congressional representatives are millionaires. In academia, universities are steered by college presidents—many of whom are paid millions of dollars a year—and governed by boards of trustees made up largely of multimillionaires, corporate CEOs, and multimillionaire corporate CEOs. (I know because I serve on one of these boards.) Once, a working-class college dropout like Jimmy Breslin could stumble into a newsroom and go on to win the Pulitzer Prize; today, there’s a vanishingly small chance he’d make it past security. A 2018 survey of elite newsrooms found that 65 percent of summer interns had attended top-tier colleges.
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Monday was San Jacinto Day.
General Sam was shot in the ankle.
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We’re packing up to head to Hotlanta and the NRA Convention. In no hurry to leave since the Check-In is at 4 PM?! FWIW; It’s only 3.5 hours away. SO! Check-In used to be noon but it’s been 3 PM for most of my adult life and now 4 PM? Hell at this rate it won’t be long before it’ll be midnight. 🙁
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Good morning, all. It’s still morning, but barely. I tried to walk in my back yard while praying my rosary, but the mosquitoes drove me back inside. The joys of Texas in the summertime, I guess.
I’m getting used to the new crown. It feels big, but my tongue is used to a hole there, so it’ll take a while to feel normal sized. I wasn’t expecting it to feel so smooth, though. But even though it’s missing opposing teeth and thus not helping much with chewing, it has made a difference in comfort. Food isn’t being jammed into my soft tissue where the hole was any more.
Hopefully I’ll get two more on the left during the third week of May. Then on to more surgery for the upper right implants….I’m entering the home stretch of this dental journey.
And if you know anyone in Houston who is looking for a lot of dental work to be done, I highly recommend the dental school. I’m paying at least half of what I’d pay retail, but I don’t get to pick my dentist and the work gets done on their schedule. I also understand that I’m a teaching tool, and the occasional instructor has had his hands in my mouth as he illustrates a type of stitch, inspects some work, provides guidance, or some such. As far as the quality of work, the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff, etc., – it’s been outstanding.
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Today’s C&C roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Today’s roundup includes a trio of progress: Zelensky seems intent on becoming the scapegoat for losing his own war; Trump’s poison pill that puts the blame squarely on Ukraine; gangster-loving New Mexico judge begins to feel the wheels of justice driving over his back; Trump signs more orders escalating his war against woke colleges; and in some overdue good Supreme Court news, the Justices tear woke school books a new orifice.
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Re Ukraine and the comedian leader:
Behold the emerging end-game narrative, as the Proxy War devolves into its predictable sorry conclusion. NBC ran its story yesterday below the headline, “Trump slams Zelenskyy for rejecting Ukraine-Russia negotiations, saying a deal was ‘very close.’ The sub-headline added, “High-level talks in London aimed at bringing a pause to fighting in Ukraine disintegrated after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff pulled out.” If he’s not careful, pugnacious comedian and understated dresser Zelensky is about to be left holding the bag.
It was all about Crimea. Z-man is just being stoopid. Go and get more of your people killed, the megalomaniac. Mr. C. gives the history of Crimea and the confusion regarding.
It’s beginning to look like the Ukrainians —Zelensky and the oligarchs really calling the shots— soon need to make some difficult decisions. But there’s so much war money sloshing around Europe right now that all the incentives are completely topsy-turvy.
As NBC’s headline showed, Trump is setting Zelensky up for the fall when this thing finally goes completely sideways.
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Trump is cracking down on DIE programs in “higher ed”:
The most important of the series of new orders ended use by any federal agency of the so-called “disparate impact” theory of racial discrimination, which allowed agencies to conclude there was de facto discrimination at a school or business if there were too few minorities as a statistical sample.
So, if you have a job that requires a level of mastery for a certain task – let’s say, being able to calculate how much lumber is needed to build a house – and too many folks of a certain pigment level are unable to do the calculations, then your house is going to be lopsided because those requirement would be considered “discriminatory”. Well, yes, they are. Employers need to discriminate between those that can do the job and those that can’t. Discrimination has become a dirty word, but it’s a necessary function for those in responsible positions.
Now imagine the same scenario, but linked to college SAT admission scores….
So, if too many pigmented students were unable to provide a certain SAT score, the argument wasn’t “How do we help those groups improve?” but “Those scores are discriminatory, and must be dropped.” Else – lawsuits.
In other words: disparate impact says that, if equal rules produce unequal outcomes, then the rules themselves are racist— even if they’re literally graded by Scantron machines instead of people.
Dropping disparate impact is a game-changer.
Another order aimed at college accreditors, who currently use DEI metrics in accrediting universities. The order directed Education Secretary and WWE boss Linda McMahon to hold accreditors accountable, with “denial, monitoring, suspension, or termination of accreditation recognition, for accreditors’ poor performance or violations of federal civil rights law.”
It also ordered DOJ to investigate “unlawful discrimination” in higher education.
The orders continued what the Guardian called “an all-out attack on US universities since the president took office in January.” Hilariously, the paper, trying to make Trump sound unhinged, reported “he has claimed universities have been taken over by ‘Marxist maniacs and lunatics.’”
Well. A rose by any other name is still a stinky plant, and so on.
Finally, some sanity.
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On to SCOTUS and the Maryland parents’ fight against forced indoctrination:
It’s not all bad news from the Supreme Court this week. On Tuesday, ScotusBlog published a story headlined, “Supreme Court likely to rule for parental opt-out on LGBTQ books in schools.” By likely, ScotusBlog meant they tore the school board’s drag queens a new lower access point.
/snuffle, snort! /
The case was a political powderkeg. The surprising lack of media coverage speaks volumes to where the culture is headed. (Activists held a twisted drag show outside the Supreme Courthouse during the arguments, which persuaded nobody, but spiked sales of eye bleach.)
/snuffle, snort! again!/
From the audio clips that I’ve heard, Ketanji is possibly the most arrogant and/or stupid justice ever to (dis)grace that judicial chair. This fight has joined all kinds of religious groups together, and KJB doesn’t understand why they feel so upset, or how their rights are being challenged. “You can just put your child in another situation,” she said. In other words, a private school. Religious school. Home school. And damn your argument that you can’t afford those options.
The Maryland school district didn’t want to allow parents to opt-out their kids from those periods of instruction, because so many parents were opting out. The district didn’t like that, and made up arguments as to why it was feasible to allow so many students to avoid the indoctrination periods. When justices asked “what’s the problem?” the lawyer was stymied.
Haha, the school board’s lawyer was hamstrung. He couldn’t afford to admit what the real harm was. The real harm the schools are afraid of is, in order to give parents an opt-out from the lessons, the schools will have to tell them the lessons are happening in the first place. I’ll bet $50 that 90% of Maryland parents have no idea what kind of gross stuff the teachers are spoon-feeding their kids. By “LGBTQ+ books,” they mean pornographic smut with erotic overtones.
Mr. C. makes a good legal point:
Were I there, I would have added that we’ve already found it constitutional for parents to opt out of public schools entirely and become homeschoolers. Why should letting parents opt out of parts of public school not also be constitutional? The whole, after all, is just the sum of the parts, and so forth.
Conservative justices didn’t like the argument that just “exposing” the kids to the material wouldn’t be compelling change in the students. Yeah, like kids aren’t impressionable. It wouldn’t take much to coerce a kid. The liberal justices pondered the wisdom of allowing parents to decide what their kids should be exposed to, because letting parents decide would lead to chaos!
Just imagine where we’d be if the WLR crisis hadn’t exposed what the teachers were teaching the kids by bringing the remote classroom into the homes where parents could hear what was going on! There’s a silver lining in almost every situation, if you know where to look for it.
It’s a funny old world. Who knows whether we’d have gotten to this place of sanity without the FBI raiding soccer moms for criticizing school board members. And recall that, earlier this week, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court also found that gender means biological sex.
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Catherine Herridge via X, link from CFP:
BREAKING: Top US Neuroscientist & Military Advisor Confirms Reports Are ‘Credible’ That Directed Energy Weapon Attacks Have Happened on US Soil And Targeted US Personnel Abroad; Exclusive New Records Reveal Exposure to “Microwave Weapon” After Intel Officer Discovered Secret Op.
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This cracked me up. Going where this man has never gone before.
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BAWHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Fox News reporter Rob Smith states why he thinks the Karmelo Anthony scam has remained a local DFW grift and why it will fade away.
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Kangarooed communist penguin polka continues.
republicant’s in congress still awol.ignore the tyrannical and communist Rooz Trump.
the people are behind you.
the constitution gives you the power.
Use it.you have an obligation and took an oath to defend and protect the USA.
take off the gloves because the communist and corrupt rooz are not going to stop their judicial coup attempt to steal the presidency.https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-proof-of-citizenship-voting-requirement
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It has been a long rough day for me trying to solve medical problems and insurance headaches. It looks like everybody is having a busy day. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
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I got a reminder that I need to make an appointment with the eye doc to have my retinal birthmark looked at. And have my boobs squished. And not in a fun way.
Not looking forward to either of those. Especially the latter.
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Tempo nam lingua Latine est.
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Dateline Hotlanta;
Reporting in from the fancy smancy Omni Atlanta Hotel @ Centennial Park.
We’re in 1680, the north tower and the view is pretty neat overlooking Centennial Olympic Park. We rolled in about 5 PM EDT after spending 20 minutes to go 5 miles near Newnan Georgia, dang construction! We had a couple of burgers at the Sports Bar downstairs and I’m stuffed. 😉-
We expect regular, detailed reports from the convention.
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Tomorrow we head up to the Crocket to my brother’s life long best friend’s deer camp, I don’t remember the acreage but north of a hunnerd, probably closer to two. Going with spouses this time, sister and her husband, brother and his wife, normally it’s us guys and our boys. Just tool around for three days riding side by sides and four wheelers, fish, eat good and drink beer. Wife is not too sure about it but she’ll have fun.
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She is the fisherman of the family, me I grew up around race tracks. She will like that part.
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Sounds like fun,be sure to have a big bon fire at night, wife will love that.
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