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Good morning.
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Howdy Shannon
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We have to start eating babies !!! It’s also disappointing to find out bombing Russia won’t save the climate.
This woman wins the internet and enters the Master Trolling Hall of Fame.
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The hysterically funny part is that Occasional-Cortex treats it like the troll is serious
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EPIC TROLLING!! She did it so well, I laughed.
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Master Troll! But in fairness to AOC there are lunatics in her party that might say the same very thing. 😀
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Well, AOC *did* want us to eat the rich. Perhaps we eat the rich babies?
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So yesterday morning we had a Monday Page and now today we have a different “Monday Page” so I wonder happened to the first one?
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I woke up early and saw there was no Monday page scheduled. So this is what you got.
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Not complaining I like it. 😉
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Tedtam may have rescheduled it for April 28 2055,…….. 😀 >>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAAM>>>>>>>>>>
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I was not aware of all the intrigue going on at the Second Baptist Church.
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Whoa.
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1 billion in assets ? Incredible.
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As a “Side-Bar” I’ve always despised Ed Young.
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Captain Rebecca Lobach, piloting the Black Hawk, was undergoing an annual flight evaluation at the time, while her co-pilot, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, served as the flight instructor. Air traffic controllers had warned the helicopter crew about a nearby passenger airliner, and both Lobach and Eaves acknowledged the warning, opting to proceed under “visual separation.” This is a method where pilots are allowed to continue flying in the area by using their own observations rather than adhering to instructions from air traffic control.
plus,
“Turning left would have opened up more space between the helicopter and Flight 5342, which was heading for Runway 33 at an altitude of roughly 300 feet. She did not turn left,” the New York Times reported.
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Paging El Gordo?
But then there’s this;Lobach served as an aviation officer in the Army since July 2019 and had around 500 hours of flying time in the Black Hawk, the Army confirmed in a release. She was also a White House military social aide under the Biden administration.
Diversity hire? Oh and WTH is a Military Social Aide?
Also 500 hours is very low time and yes, I know you have to start somewhere, just saying. But in my Aircraft days we had a saying about 200 hour doctors being the most dangerous pilots in the air. After about 200 hours the get confident and cocky IF they’ve not had a pucker event. Later, after about 500 hours AND one pucker event they become much safer if they are even still around. The other joke was “why did they build Bonanza’s? So we would have too many doctors” 😉
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While we were in Hotlanta we walked over to a Tex Mex place a couple of blocks from the Omni and it turned out to be dang good. Tex Mex and Cajun combined?! I looked it up and the two guys that started the restaurant traveled from New Orleans to San Antonio checking out restaurants and dives along the way. Dos Bocas. Check out the video. FWIW; I got Enchilada’s with Charro Beans and Rice and my wife got Blackened Mahi Mahi. Both entrees were very good.
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Colorado Springs…again. ICE video at the link. Even I’m shocked by this.
TERROR: TdA gang members employed more than twelve armed active duty US soldiers to protect their underground club engaged in human and drug trafficking in Colorado Springs. Army CID has custody of the soldiers working for the designated terrorists.
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Even I’m shocked by this.
Put me on that list! BTW; has anyone seen how the Lamestream Media is covering this? I haven’t but I bet they’re saying the mean ICE dudes broke into a Night Club and kidnapped a bunch of nice immigrants just enjoying their Cervaza’s.
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GJT, here Ya’ go; Pontiac R.I.P. 🙁
GM got rid of Pontiac and Oldsmobile but kept Buick?! I wish someone could explain that to me.-
Apparently Buick is very popular in China.
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My son says that mostly blacks and really old white people buy Buicks. No judgment just the facts as he sees them. His years in the tire business colored his Buick image. 😉
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My 66 GTO and 67 Camaro are tied for first of cars I’ve owned.
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GJT
Daddy had a black/black GTO of the same or near-same vintage. He would take me out west of the Addicks Reservoir to learn how to drive.
Loved that car. One of his step-sons got a hold of it and wrecked it.-
Mine got wiped out parked along the curb at a buddy’s house on Kempwood, couple of idiots racing and one of them plowed into the rear. Car flipped on it’s end and landed in the front yard. I cried.
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Iran Explosion Caused by Missile Fuel Supplied by China: Report
I read the article, it took about 10 minutes. Something tells me that this was no accident. Sodium perchlorate is the culprit in this case; perhaps improper storage combined with it getting too hot on the dock?
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More about Texpat’s 9:35 post:
The illegal alien raid in Colorado reveals a cancer in our military
The evil seeds planted by JugEars have sprouted and are spreading poison.-
Good read, thanks for posting.
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Press Secretary Leavitt and Tom Homan got the press out of bed early this morning to highlight the border security gains made during the first 100 days.
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For all you electronic types; O Scopes N Signal Generators. 😀
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Responding to Wagonburner @ 10:27 AM I mentioned my son’s career in the tire industry and once, not long after he became a manager I asked him “who is the worst customer that you have”? And he said; “Indians in Toyota Camry’s, without a doubt”. 😀
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Hey!
I’m one of them! I’m a great customer!
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Oh, I think he was talking about dot Indians, not the Okie variety.
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What he said “Indians” not “Injuns”
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Mr. Crazy Granny should enter this.
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Ugly, way ugly.
We were better than this in my church baseball league when I was 12 and 13. Just think, these guys get millions to do this. Good heavens.
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You don’t see that low level of competence at the pro level very often. Absolutely underwhelming
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Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving baseball organization.
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Dude was totally gassed when he slid in.
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Canadians Vote to Replace Justin Trudeau in Election Reshaped by TrumpIT is the leftist Carney v Poilievre. Please ELOHIM, let the Canadians use their brains and make an intelligent choice.
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Here is the complete, in front of the paywall, article in the NYT on the DC helo/plane disaster I linked earlier. Lots of new information.
In the meantime, data recently analyzed by the board revealed that National Airport was the site of at least one near collision between an airplane and a helicopter each month from 2011 to 2024. Two-thirds of the incidents occurred at night, and more than half may have involved helicopters flying above their maximum designated altitude.
Given those findings, the F.A.A. recently banned most helicopter flights along a portion of the route the Black Hawk used.
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Wow. I logged in and was surprised to see Shannon’s post — I had one lined up but it’s nowhere to be found now. I can’t find it possibly misdated nor in the trash pile. It’s been vaporized. I had accidentally set up the ‘Monday’ post to publish on Sunday. When I realized my brain fart I went back to unpublish it and put in the correct date. Perhaps I confused WordPress so much that it just decided to forget it ever existed rather than deal with the date change migraine.
Shannon, thanks for taking over.
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I guess it’s time to review the C&C:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! It’s a brand new week, and to start it off right, here’s your roundup: recognizing —as best I can— Trump’s first 100 days; WSJ asks the wrong question; what comes next will be spicy; more arrests made, in SNAP abuse cases; Ag agency gives illegals reason to self-deport; domestic US manufacturers are looking forward to tariffs; and President Trump saves Christopher Columbus and his special day from a band of wild indians.
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Regarding the C&C and it’s mention of the predictable coverage of Trump’s first 100 days – at best minimizing and at most scathing lies, Mr. C. says this:
After a first term mired in media-manufactured scandal, and ten thousand and three intermediate felony convictions, Trump should have made easy pickings. But he roared back into office at 90 m.p.h. —not weakened, but emboldened— and moving with a rushing political velocity unparalleled in living memory. In just 100 days, amidst a record-shattering flood of carefully drawn and coordinated executive orders, Trump has seized operational command of the federal government in a way no president ever has, embedding DOGE teams deep inside resistant agencies, sidelining bureaucratic inertia, pruning payrolls with a political chainsaw, and beginning the long-called-for but never-started Sisyphean task of restoring direct executive control over the administrative state.
In just 100 days, Trump has obsoleted the worn-out joke about modern presidents being just TV bobbleheads while the permanent career bureaucracy really ran things. In other words, get this, Trump’s already re-defined the presidency itself. In other words, he’s overturned the creeping acquiescence to Executive Branch control of the president instead of the other way around.
I can’t argue with that. His monologue on the whole thing is, as usual, worth reading, IMHO.
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It’s so hard to select only certain passages…
The awe-inspiring audacity of Trump’s second term lies deeper than mere policy reversals. Trump is doing something no modern American president has dared even to try: to reverse the natural entropy of government itself. Bureaucracies are built to slowly metastasize, accumulating power and funding until they choke off the system they were meant to serve.
See, e.g., the Roman Empire.
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Entropy is considered scientifically inescapable. Trump’s mission then is nothing less than trying to defeat the iron laws of physics themselves. Physicists have coined a clunky word to describe the hypothetical ‘opposite’ of entropy: negentropy. Negative entropy.
I myself have viewed our country as sliding into the inevitable social entropy. Mr. C. is saying the same thing.
The WSJ asked, what comes next? But who cares what the Journal thinks. I predict that, if anything, the pace will only pick up speed. As Trump’s new cabinet officers and agency heads get their sea legs, the deep state will begin to suffer a horrible death by a thousand cuts.
I can dream.
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More of this, please! Stop the gravy train!
Here’s Exhibit A: More arrests. Two days ago, the New York Post ran an encouraging story that escaped corporate media’s notice, headlined “Trump admin demands crackdown on illegal immigrants’ use of taxpayer-funded food stamps.”
… the Department of Agriculture last week required states to crack down on illegal immigrants improperly using food stamps (SNAP). Although illegal immigrants are already banned from SNAP benefits, the Administration is forcing states to verify applicants more aggressively …to root out waste, fraud, and abuse.
Before Trump, sharing of data between agencies/departments was verboten. This didn’t just crack the door to allow fraud, it threw it wide open, letting all of the cool air out and letting all the flies in.
I know you are probably wondering, how could there possibly be waste, fraud, or abuse in the food stamp program? [snuffle, snort] … new Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also announced that arrests for SNAP fraud have already started… “We’re going to be extremely, extremely aggressive,” the Secretary promised.
Stopping the gravy train. Without taxpayer dollars, the illegals may be better off going back home. Back home, the cost of living is lower.
All the pieces are designed to work together. And he assembled the machine under withering incoming fire during the first 100 days, while he was doing everything else, too. Give yourself multiple ways to win.
I’m reminded of a story a friend of mine told me. It was her week to provide snacks for the kids’ soccer team. Another mom told her that she’d go with her and pay for the food, since she had such a large balance on her food stamp card and couldn’t spend it all. Turns out she and another relative would “share kids” when they went to apply for food stamps. Example: Mom 1 had four kids, Mom 2 had five. Both mothers would take all nine kids with them when they each asked for the money.
I’m hoping they are among those getting arrested. When BCS’s husband was dying of colon cancer, he of course wasn’t working and BCS was caring for him and couldn’t work either. She was told she qualified for $11/month in food stamps. It wasn’t worth the effort. But what was most galling was when the social worker nodded at a guy sitting in a nearby chair. “You have to learn how to work the system,” BCS was told, “That guy’s girlfriend was in here yesterday to get money, and he’s here today to get it again under his name.”
/spits
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Next up, Trump’s plan to battle the income tax:
Bloomberg ran an exciting story this weekend headlined, “Trump Floats New Income Tax Cut in Bid to Ease Tariffs Bite.” Talk about underselling the headline. The proposal apparently aims to eliminate all income taxes on people making less than $200,000 a year.
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Maybe it will happen … right before next year’s midterms? That would be propitious timing.
And then there’s this bit of news:
American Giant founder and CEO Bayard Winthrop joined Yahoo’s Julie Hyman on Asking for a Trend, and the two discussed how tariffs have boosted the company’s sales, which sources and manufactures almost all of its products here in the US.
Bayard is optimistic. He said his clothing company isn’t worried about tariffs at all.
In the interview, Bayard told Julie that, “for us, when you make domestically, it is labor on which you’re primarily paying a differential. The sources of fabric and things like that are are quite equal to our international competitors.” He continued, “But we think paying more for labor is a good thing. We think that good quality jobs in communities that need them, particularly low-skilled work, is a critical piece that’s been missing in the American economy.”
Labor differential. That’s a good way of putting it.
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Next up, the ActBlue investigation and the related pearl clutching:
Yesterday, CNN’s political correspondent John King whined about the ActBlue investigation, calling it “ironic” that Trump campaigned on ending weaponization of government but is now busily investigating “small dollar donations” on ActBlue, as if ActBlue fraud is no big deal since the individual donations are small. (Which was the whole mechanism of the fraud, but never mind.)
Of course the discomfort is fund to watch. The Democrats’ version of food stamps is disappearing. Pass the popcorn.
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Uncle Bernie. Yup, that’s the truth. 😉
H/T Ole TimerLin
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I went outside to look at the garden. Holy molee – the biting bugs were out in force. Not just mosquitoes – it’s like a liberal diversity wet dream out there! I got bitten by mosquitoes, some green bug, a weird orange beetle looking thing….
I came back inside as soon as I could.
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You can always do this.
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I finally upgraded my mouse and keyboard to wireless. Now I have to keep up with AA batteries.
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Batteries last a very long time in newer mouses. Keyboards even longer.
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I love the wireless keyboards. So much freedom to move around.
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We don’t need no stinky oil and natural gas !!! We don’t even need nuclear power.
I just saw this. It is a stupendous life-threatening blunder now that we’ve reached net/zero intelligence in Europe.
Six days ago, Spain celebrated their national grid operating fully on renewable energy. Today, Spain, Portugal and parts of France and Belgium went completely dark.
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Today, I saw Steve Bannon interview an energy guy who said Spain is over 50% dependent on “renewable” resources now and rushing towards 100% dependency in a few short years. They will be living in the dark at night. And will not be able to support any heavy industry.
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Play stupid games….
Just wait until some ambitious foreign power decides that those are nice countries to have….I can see some sheik somewhere thinking “Well, we have half of the population already….”
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Let the stupid eurotrash freeze in the dark. DUMB$#!TS!
Or seeing as how we are entering summer, let em sweat buckets.
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Here is a full take on the rather squishy NYT report I linked earlier.
An honest headline would have read, “Helicopter Pilot Ignored Multiple Safety Warnings Before Fatal Crash.”
The liberal paper of record spent roughly a thousand words dancing around the obvious truth: A helicopter pilot directly caused this tragedy by ignoring multiple explicit warnings. But that wouldn’t fit their preferred story about “systemic failures,” would it?
Let me spell out what the Times buried deep in their article: The Black Hawk pilot received clear, explicit warnings about altitude from her co-pilot. The co-pilot explicitly instructed her to turn away from the passenger jet. And what did she do? She ignored those warnings and flew straight into the path of an American Airlines flight carrying 64 innocent people.
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Joe Biden Arrested For Harboring 11 Million Illegal Aliens. 😉
REHOBOTH BEACH, DE — Former President Joe Biden was placed under arrest today for harboring just over eleven million illegal immigrants.
Following the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin for attempting to help an illegal immigrant evade capture, Biden was arrested and charged with the same crime but “times eleven million.”
“We’re pretty sure it’s a record,” said FBI Director Kash Patel, after announcing the arrest. “Incredibly, this man apparently committed all eleven million crimes in the span of just four years. That’s over five crimes per minute for four years straight, assuming he never slept. And, we have reason to believe this man slept about 16 hours per day. It’s a crime spree like no other.”
According to sources, Biden will plead innocent, claiming that he has no recollection of bringing in eleven million illegal aliens or doing anything else of note over the past four years. “Ask anyone – I’ve been at the beach for the past four years, minding my own business,” said Biden. “I’ve got hundreds of witnesses saying I’ve been right here under this umbrella, sipping margaritas and baking in the sun since 2012. It wasn’t me, Jack.”
At publishing time, the FBI had entered day three of reading all eleven million criminal charges in court against Biden.
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I had a talk with Lovely Daughter earlier. Got caught up on stuff. Whipped out another quickie rosary while we talked.
I’m still working through the Ironside series. I forgot how they tried to make him into such a renaissance man, knowing so much about everything and friends with folks all over the world.
I’m in season 5, and I think this is the season that Quincy Jones took over the rewrite of the theme music. I do like it better, not such an affront to the ear, more smoooooth.
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Michael Shellenberger:
This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.
The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.
The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency actions.
If the frequency had fallen just another 0.3 Hz — below 49.5 Hz — Europe could have suffered a system-wide cascading blackout.
At that threshold, automatic protective relays disconnect major power plants, and collapse accelerates.
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It is just as stupid as Just In Time Inventory relying on parts shipped from the other side of the planet. Looks great on paper but it sucks in real life.
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A lot of folks don’t know that the frequency is more important than the voltage level. In this country we’re of course at 60 Hz and I think it’s not supposed to vary more than .01%. I could be wrong about the exact percent but the tolerance is very tight.
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RE: Texpat’s 5:45 pm
But – how does that work with all of those electric cars they want the EU folks to drive?
Short-sightedness has been the downfall of many.
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Eggheads with no real world experience (people who have never held a private sector job or run a private sector company) will doom Europe.
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Lol. H/T Michael Berry
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She’s been working on the Chinese Communist Party beat since she was 19.
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About GJT’s @ 7:27 PM; What’s the deal with the #1 Draft pick going in the last round? Was/is he any good?
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Oh it’s a delicious storyline. Deon Sanders son, he thinks he’s hot stuff and he and his dad thought they could dictate where he would or would not go and how it was gonna be. Sounds like every interview he had with coaches were just a cluster. They all got away from him as quick as they could. Except Cleveland, I guess…
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Great find. Repost it tomorrow.
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