If this isn’t bluster and BS, but a realistic way to illuminate and eliminate the waste, graft and corruption of rent seeking entities operating under the guise of legitimate governmental function, I want this across every gov’t agency down to the homeowner’s association. Let’s get the unnecessary gov’t leeches off our collective backs.
Then apply the same concept to insurance companies.
I’ve just watched 5 different versions of the Zelensky debacle at the White House. Each was worse than the one before. I’ve never seen anything like this in my 72-1/2 years.
No carbon monoxide poisoning in the Gene Hackman case. No apparent physical trauma. Hackman’s pacemaker stopped on the 17th, a week earlier. According to the Sheriff.
I had to feel sorry for the County Commissioners Court wrestling with this issue. They made it very clear to the public that their hands are tied in many cases like this.
It could be that legislation passed two years ago by Conservatives could be having unintended consequences.
NASA Sis is reporting a shooting at a school near her in Pasadena. She texted a photo sent to her from a neighbor, and it shows a teen boy aiming a gun at another boy who was only a few feet away. From what she hears, the trigger was pulled. Other than that, I don’t know what happened.
Texpat @ 2:06 Related: Austin County Commissioners Court just denied a development plan to a Company wanting to develop a large Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility. This type facility would provide power to the state grid in an emergency. The location is within the ETJ of Bellville, but is subject only to County rules. The County Attorney and County Engineer confirm that the Company has satisfied the few requirements and the Court anticipates being sued over the denial. A protracted legal battle will get very expensive for the County taxpayers. There are residences less than 100 yards from the… Read more »
This is very good news. Better news would be the feds dropping all these subsidies for wind and solar putting everything on a level economic playing field. It allows them to claim a tax credit for every kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity they generate of up to 30% for up to 10 years. The Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act created additional subsidies. Wind companies, especially in Texas, were major benefactors. and, “Because the federal subsidies are incentivizing wind and solar and because ESG is cutting off capital to natural gas plants, that’s why we felt like we had to do something,” state… Read more »
I approve. This is one serious warrior. Cao, who served in the Navy for 25 years after he fled communist Vietnam in 1975 just before the Fall of Saigon, would be the second-highest civilian official in the Navy if confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He also served in various government roles throughout his career, including stints at the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force. and, “I am pleased to announce that Hung Cao will be our next United States Under Secretary of the Navy,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Hung is the embodiment of the… Read more »
The Z man came to the party and promptly dropped a clod in the punchbowl, he stepped on a rake and smacked his country, and suffered a self inflicted head wound. His ambassador was in the room and she held her face with her hand; I don’t think Z will be around much longer.
Trump says Zelenskyy can ‘come back when he is ready for Peace’ after fiery White House exchange. Conversations about a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia came to a screeching halt Friday, after a tense meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy led to a canceled press conference and a minerals deal off the table, a White House official confirmed. Trump accused Zelenskyy of “disrespecting” the U.S. during their Friday meeting, and said the Ukrainian leader was not ready to secure peace for his country. “I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace if America is… Read more »
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Rangers to investigate both, saying, “Texans must be able to trust in our state’s lottery system and know that the lottery is conducted with integrity and lawfully. Texans deserve a lottery that is fair and transparent for everyone.”The first involved an anonymous player who won a $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot in April 2023, the third highest in state history, after purchasing nearly all 25.8 million number combinations. The feat was allegedly orchestrated by a gaming entrepreneur operating out of Malta, The Houston Chronicle first reported. “The single winner took advantage of a state law… Read more »
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ended federal lawsuits that the Biden administration had filed against local police and fire departments over their merit hiring policies.
Under the Biden administration, the DOJ’s Office of Civil Rights sued local first responders for refusing to hire based on race and instead hiring based on merit only.
This is downright hilarious coming from the editorial board of the New York Times. The idiots running the NYT have no self-awareness. This is a paper dedicated to woke language. The NYT has no problem using “preferred pronouns” and distorted language to describe males pretending to be females and women pretending to be men. They describe terrorists as militants and resistance fighters. The NYT has no problem characterizing IDF fighters as the army of oppressive enforcers of apartheid. The NYT has its own stylebook to dictate to its writers and readers how they should think and speak. However, they declare… Read more »
Just in case you do not have access right now…..
Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Zelenskyy are having a shouting knock-down drag-out on live television from the Oval Office.
The American taxpayer is bankrolling online censorship in Europe. Multiple organizations involved in enforcing the EU’s draconian Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes massive fines on American tech platforms found guilty of carrying “misinformation” or “hate speech,” are American entities backed by American government funding. Supporters of these efforts, many of whom are deeply tied to the legacy US foreign policy establishment, admit that the goal of these efforts is to shut down free speech for Americans. The pressure is about to mount, as the previously-voluntary EU code of practice on disinformation becomes a mandatory regulation governing tech companies operating in the… Read more »
C&C, cont.: You are probably wondering, what connects Starmer, Trump, and Epstein? I’ll tell you. One of Epstein’s highest-profile buddies was Prince Andrew. The men go way back. Andrew was a frequent Epstein visitor and plane-flier…. One of Epstein’s sex slaves was flown about to service the royal. Virginia Guiffre eventually sued the Prince for multiple rape charges and he settled her suit with $12M in hush money. I have a British friend, and she tells me that the populace calls him “Randy Andy,” which is a good moniker since he’s been stripped of a lot of his royal accoutrements and the royal family is trying… Read more »
Mr. C. moves from the Epstein ‘debacle’ to other stuff: That’s just the first and most obvious possibility. Now let’s pull the camera back out a little bit more. What else was happening at the White House while the Trump Team was staging the dramatic Epstein non-event? Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives to meet with Trump, for one. The goal was to encourage Trump to play nicely with the EU and keep sending Ukraine our taxpayer dollars and be mean to Russia. Europe is like an insane, unfaithful girlfriend who is always trying to convince you to go fight her… Read more »
Today’s C&C roundup: Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday. It’s also the end of the first full month of Trump’s second term as President of the United States. I was all set to tackle an irreverent ‘first 40 days’ roundup when the Administration fumbled a Jeffrey Epstein-sized hand grenade into the national conversation. Was it Trump’s first mistake—or was it a genius masterstroke? A C&C special edition. *** Let’s try to make some sense out of yesterday’s Epstein catastrophe. Newsweek’s headline blared, “Jeffrey Epstein file release “debacle” unites both sides.” Was the disastrous non-disclosure an unforced error —case not closed— or… Read more »
I was in a purple mood today, making two rosaries in that color. I have errands to run and my prayer workshop starts tonight, so I guess I need to do the C&C review now.
BTW, read the Baldwin story. Wow. I’m not a fan of anyone harassing anyone else, funny or not, but it does look like Baldwin has anger issues and certainly can’t take what he dishes out. He’s used to being validated, I guess.
The school administrators and faculty should be charged with fraud under the RICO statutes. I’m not kidding and this goes on all over America. Alesha Ortiz is 19 years old and dreams of one day writing stories andmaybe even a book. That may sound like a reasonable aspiration for a teenager recently out of high school, but for Aleysha it will be much harder.Despite graduating last June from Hartford Public High School in Hartford, Connecticut, and earning a scholarship to college, Aleysha is illiterate. She says she cannot read or write.Many high school seniors feel proud and excited in the… Read more »
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
“For those of us who have investigated Mexican cartels for many generations, this is truly an historical moment,” said Ray Donovan, the former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration. “We have never seen this many sent from Mexico to the U.S. in one day.”
From Texpat’s CNN Jake Tapper book story @ 7:26, I saw this; I mentioned that Original Sin isn’t the most disastrous book launch I have ever seen. That belongs to The Education of Brett Kavanaugh. It was written by Times reporters Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin. Journalist Mollie Hemingway was able to get an early copy of the book, which was published in the fall of 2019. Hemingway torched a bogus story that was being sold by the book’s authors. And,… In reporting the story, Kelly and Pogrebin, the authors of The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, left out this fact.… Read more »
Breaking exclusive from the Free Beacon. TEL AVIV—Israeli decision-makers plan to resume the Gaza war in four to six weeks with overwhelming force, sending in tens of thousands of troops to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas. Incoming military chief of staff Eyal Zamir has, at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz, started developing the plan, according to several current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of high-level discussions. Under the plan, Israel will deploy more troops to Gaza than it has to this point in the war—over 50,000—before… Read more »
This is further proof the riots and pro-Palestinian protests in the US are orchestrated, astroturfed BS funded by places like Qatar, Iran and Egypt. The poll, conducted by the Israel on Campus Coalition in partnership with Schoen Cooperman Research, reveals a resounding endorsement of Israel’s position among Americans. Of the 1,000 U.S. adults surveyed, 81 percent affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself—an 11 percent increase compared to a poll the two groups conducted last month.Thursday’s survey also identified an even sharper increase: 82 percent of Americans believe a final ceasefire agreement in the Gaza conflict should remove Hamas from power, up from 57… Read more »
People like Jake really do think you are all this stupid. There are no words to describe this. Mollie Hemingway is a dignified, serious commentator and I’ve never seen her resort to censored profanity before. Axios’ Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper are publishing a book on May 20: Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.When the announcement was made, the internet went berserk. Old videos resurfaced of Tapper, a Democratic mouthpiece, defending Biden in the 2020 election cycle. When President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, criticized Biden zombie appearances in his campaign, Tapper wrote… Read more »
Monica Barbaro’s father is Italian and her mother is Mexican, German and Nicaraguan. I would have to endorse that genetic soufflé. She started early as a ballerina and who doesn’t love ballerinas ?
I’m watching a Twilight Zone episode with Wally Cox and the banker Mr. Drysdale from the Beverly Hillbillies.
It’s pretty silly.
Cool pic. I stole it from Ace. Dubai.
Desantis is out in 26 due to term limits; Byron Donalds announces his candidacy.
If this isn’t bluster and BS, but a realistic way to illuminate and eliminate the waste, graft and corruption of rent seeking entities operating under the guise of legitimate governmental function, I want this across every gov’t agency down to the homeowner’s association. Let’s get the unnecessary gov’t leeches off our collective backs.
Then apply the same concept to insurance companies.
I’ve just watched 5 different versions of the Zelensky debacle at the White House. Each was worse than the one before. I’ve never seen anything like this in my 72-1/2 years.
No carbon monoxide poisoning in the Gene Hackman case. No apparent physical trauma. Hackman’s pacemaker stopped on the 17th, a week earlier. According to the Sheriff.
This case is getting weirder by the day.
My 3:01pm
I had to feel sorry for the County Commissioners Court wrestling with this issue. They made it very clear to the public that their hands are tied in many cases like this.
It could be that legislation passed two years ago by Conservatives could be having unintended consequences.
”HB 2127 bars cities and counties from creating local ordinances that go further than what’s allowed under broad swaths of state law — including labor, natural resources and finance.”
Update: Here’s the news link:
https://youtu.be/77eVqZLRbHQ?feature=shared
NASA Sis is reporting a shooting at a school near her in Pasadena. She texted a photo sent to her from a neighbor, and it shows a teen boy aiming a gun at another boy who was only a few feet away. From what she hears, the trigger was pulled. Other than that, I don’t know what happened.
Pray for all of those involved.
Malone’s Friday Funnies.
😀 😀
Texpat @ 2:06 Related: Austin County Commissioners Court just denied a development plan to a Company wanting to develop a large Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility. This type facility would provide power to the state grid in an emergency. The location is within the ETJ of Bellville, but is subject only to County rules. The County Attorney and County Engineer confirm that the Company has satisfied the few requirements and the Court anticipates being sued over the denial. A protracted legal battle will get very expensive for the County taxpayers. There are residences less than 100 yards from the… Read more »
in other news:
I don’t think Pope Frankie is going to make it out of the hospital.
This is very good news. Better news would be the feds dropping all these subsidies for wind and solar putting everything on a level economic playing field. It allows them to claim a tax credit for every kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity they generate of up to 30% for up to 10 years. The Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act created additional subsidies. Wind companies, especially in Texas, were major benefactors. and, “Because the federal subsidies are incentivizing wind and solar and because ESG is cutting off capital to natural gas plants, that’s why we felt like we had to do something,” state… Read more »
Daughter just texted me, she got a 3.4% raise and a $5,100 bonus. Yahoo!
Pope’s on a ventilator.
I approve. This is one serious warrior. Cao, who served in the Navy for 25 years after he fled communist Vietnam in 1975 just before the Fall of Saigon, would be the second-highest civilian official in the Navy if confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He also served in various government roles throughout his career, including stints at the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force. and, “I am pleased to announce that Hung Cao will be our next United States Under Secretary of the Navy,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Hung is the embodiment of the… Read more »
Fox News is reporting that the lunch with Z has been cancelled and he was basically kicked out of the White House.
Z way overplayed his hand, thinking that he could run roughshod over Trump as he did Bidet and Co. He thought wrong.
The Z man came to the party and promptly dropped a clod in the punchbowl, he stepped on a rake and smacked his country, and suffered a self inflicted head wound. His ambassador was in the room and she held her face with her hand; I don’t think Z will be around much longer.
Trump says Zelenskyy can ‘come back when he is ready for Peace’ after fiery White House exchange. Conversations about a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia came to a screeching halt Friday, after a tense meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy led to a canceled press conference and a minerals deal off the table, a White House official confirmed. Trump accused Zelenskyy of “disrespecting” the U.S. during their Friday meeting, and said the Ukrainian leader was not ready to secure peace for his country. “I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace if America is… Read more »
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Rangers to investigate both, saying, “Texans must be able to trust in our state’s lottery system and know that the lottery is conducted with integrity and lawfully. Texans deserve a lottery that is fair and transparent for everyone.”The first involved an anonymous player who won a $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot in April 2023, the third highest in state history, after purchasing nearly all 25.8 million number combinations. The feat was allegedly orchestrated by a gaming entrepreneur operating out of Malta, The Houston Chronicle first reported. “The single winner took advantage of a state law… Read more »
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ended federal lawsuits that the Biden administration had filed against local police and fire departments over their merit hiring policies.
Under the Biden administration, the DOJ’s Office of Civil Rights sued local first responders for refusing to hire based on race and instead hiring based on merit only.
–Just the News
This is downright hilarious coming from the editorial board of the New York Times. The idiots running the NYT have no self-awareness. This is a paper dedicated to woke language. The NYT has no problem using “preferred pronouns” and distorted language to describe males pretending to be females and women pretending to be men. They describe terrorists as militants and resistance fighters. The NYT has no problem characterizing IDF fighters as the army of oppressive enforcers of apartheid. The NYT has its own stylebook to dictate to its writers and readers how they should think and speak. However, they declare… Read more »
I’d be really interested in hearing what the body language experts see in the video.
Here’s a link to the presser mentioned before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3WD9CUNgEE
Trump unloaded on Zelensky during a press conference. Holy cow, being taken to the woodshed with cameras recording it.
I only caught part of the last few minutes. I am looking forward to the replay on Youtube or Rumble later.
Just in case you do not have access right now…..
Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Zelenskyy are having a shouting knock-down drag-out on live television from the Oval Office.
Un-freaking-real.
The American taxpayer is bankrolling online censorship in Europe. Multiple organizations involved in enforcing the EU’s draconian Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes massive fines on American tech platforms found guilty of carrying “misinformation” or “hate speech,” are American entities backed by American government funding. Supporters of these efforts, many of whom are deeply tied to the legacy US foreign policy establishment, admit that the goal of these efforts is to shut down free speech for Americans. The pressure is about to mount, as the previously-voluntary EU code of practice on disinformation becomes a mandatory regulation governing tech companies operating in the… Read more »
C&C, cont.: You are probably wondering, what connects Starmer, Trump, and Epstein? I’ll tell you. One of Epstein’s highest-profile buddies was Prince Andrew. The men go way back. Andrew was a frequent Epstein visitor and plane-flier…. One of Epstein’s sex slaves was flown about to service the royal. Virginia Guiffre eventually sued the Prince for multiple rape charges and he settled her suit with $12M in hush money. I have a British friend, and she tells me that the populace calls him “Randy Andy,” which is a good moniker since he’s been stripped of a lot of his royal accoutrements and the royal family is trying… Read more »
Mr. C. moves from the Epstein ‘debacle’ to other stuff: That’s just the first and most obvious possibility. Now let’s pull the camera back out a little bit more. What else was happening at the White House while the Trump Team was staging the dramatic Epstein non-event? Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives to meet with Trump, for one. The goal was to encourage Trump to play nicely with the EU and keep sending Ukraine our taxpayer dollars and be mean to Russia. Europe is like an insane, unfaithful girlfriend who is always trying to convince you to go fight her… Read more »
Today’s C&C roundup: Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday. It’s also the end of the first full month of Trump’s second term as President of the United States. I was all set to tackle an irreverent ‘first 40 days’ roundup when the Administration fumbled a Jeffrey Epstein-sized hand grenade into the national conversation. Was it Trump’s first mistake—or was it a genius masterstroke? A C&C special edition. *** Let’s try to make some sense out of yesterday’s Epstein catastrophe. Newsweek’s headline blared, “Jeffrey Epstein file release “debacle” unites both sides.” Was the disastrous non-disclosure an unforced error —case not closed— or… Read more »
I was in a purple mood today, making two rosaries in that color. I have errands to run and my prayer workshop starts tonight, so I guess I need to do the C&C review now.
BTW, read the Baldwin story. Wow. I’m not a fan of anyone harassing anyone else, funny or not, but it does look like Baldwin has anger issues and certainly can’t take what he dishes out. He’s used to being validated, I guess.
BTW; Bones’ @ 9:46 AM; Poking fun at the sleezeball Alec Baldwin is worth a look. 😉
DOGE disclosures yesterday of your tax money being spent…
The school administrators and faculty should be charged with fraud under the RICO statutes. I’m not kidding and this goes on all over America. Alesha Ortiz is 19 years old and dreams of one day writing stories andmaybe even a book. That may sound like a reasonable aspiration for a teenager recently out of high school, but for Aleysha it will be much harder.Despite graduating last June from Hartford Public High School in Hartford, Connecticut, and earning a scholarship to college, Aleysha is illiterate. She says she cannot read or write.Many high school seniors feel proud and excited in the… Read more »
Poking fun at the sleezeball Alec Baldwin, driving Baldwin to threaten murder.
Baldwin took the bait hook, line, and sinker.
Mexico really doesn’t want those tariffs.
Today they extradited 29 cartel bigwigs to the U.S.
“For those of us who have investigated Mexican cartels for many generations, this is truly an historical moment,” said Ray Donovan, the former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration. “We have never seen this many sent from Mexico to the U.S. in one day.”
There are no weasel words coming from VP JD Vance. This is excellent.
From Texpat’s CNN Jake Tapper book story @ 7:26, I saw this; I mentioned that Original Sin isn’t the most disastrous book launch I have ever seen. That belongs to The Education of Brett Kavanaugh. It was written by Times reporters Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin. Journalist Mollie Hemingway was able to get an early copy of the book, which was published in the fall of 2019. Hemingway torched a bogus story that was being sold by the book’s authors. And,… In reporting the story, Kelly and Pogrebin, the authors of The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, left out this fact.… Read more »
Breaking exclusive from the Free Beacon. TEL AVIV—Israeli decision-makers plan to resume the Gaza war in four to six weeks with overwhelming force, sending in tens of thousands of troops to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas. Incoming military chief of staff Eyal Zamir has, at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz, started developing the plan, according to several current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of high-level discussions. Under the plan, Israel will deploy more troops to Gaza than it has to this point in the war—over 50,000—before… Read more »
This is further proof the riots and pro-Palestinian protests in the US are orchestrated, astroturfed BS funded by places like Qatar, Iran and Egypt. The poll, conducted by the Israel on Campus Coalition in partnership with Schoen Cooperman Research, reveals a resounding endorsement of Israel’s position among Americans. Of the 1,000 U.S. adults surveyed, 81 percent affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself—an 11 percent increase compared to a poll the two groups conducted last month.Thursday’s survey also identified an even sharper increase: 82 percent of Americans believe a final ceasefire agreement in the Gaza conflict should remove Hamas from power, up from 57… Read more »
People like Jake really do think you are all this stupid. There are no words to describe this. Mollie Hemingway is a dignified, serious commentator and I’ve never seen her resort to censored profanity before. Axios’ Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper are publishing a book on May 20: Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.When the announcement was made, the internet went berserk. Old videos resurfaced of Tapper, a Democratic mouthpiece, defending Biden in the 2020 election cycle. When President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, criticized Biden zombie appearances in his campaign, Tapper wrote… Read more »
Jack Keane Nails it.
Gen. Keane explains what Putin wants in potential Ukraine peace deal
Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) says Ukraine rare earth minerals deal negotiated by Trump administration is ‘overwhelmingly positive.’
Looks like a win-win to me.
I really like this story (17 minutes and some change) about how JD Vance dismantles an arrogant, leftist, ‘journalist.’
We have a brunette Friday and yes, it is Friday, time to Kick Start the weekend.
Mornin’ Gang
Monica Barbaro’s father is Italian and her mother is Mexican, German and Nicaraguan. I would have to endorse that genetic soufflé. She started early as a ballerina and who doesn’t love ballerinas ?
Here is a photo of the cast from Top Gun Maverick and if you never realized what a little feller Tom Cruise is then take a look.
I did not know that the USS Gettysburg shot down an American F/A18Jet attempting to land on the Harry Truman this past December.
The article is a must read to understand how the US Navy culture has declined. This can be fixed with good leadership.
IT’S FRIDAY!!!