Play for Keeps

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Larry-Lambert

 

Bullet Points:

** Budwizer.

** The Cato Institute pushed mass migration. Congress answered with a $170 billion deportation war chest, and 830,000 more Americans are back to work. Actions have consequences. And the libertarian lust for cheap labor and mass migration just took a backseat to putting working-class American Citizens FIRST.

** Mars and Venus – there is no pleasing women. Seriously, we men do try.

** How will Democrats launder funds in the future? One less “Independent Agency” operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Progressive NGO Carte. For years, USAID operated with minimal oversight, funneling billions into international “development” projects that often served the ideological interests of a transnational activist class rather than America’s strategic objectives. By folding USAID into the State Department, the administration isn’t just cutting bureaucracy—it’s cutting the umbilical cord between taxpayer money and a global web of left-leaning NGOs that saw U.S. aid as their personal venture capital. Now, at least in theory, foreign assistance will align more closely with U.S. national interests, rather than the agenda of unelected foundations and their “civil society” foot soldiers.

** Peterson discusses cows and cow leadership.

** California.- Two San Diego Beaches were closed for Independence Day due to Mexico dumping 5 MILLION GALLONS OF RAW SEWAGE into California DAILY! Eight more San Diego beaches have advisories due to high bacteria levels. More beaches north of San Diego County are under advisory, which means the bacteria levels exceed the state’s health standards. We’re above those bacteria levels.” WHY? In 2020, Gavin Newsom signed SB 507, which decommissioned pumps and lift stations, allowing sewage to flow into the United States via the Tijuana River Valley. The Sacramento democrat majority has done nothing about this issue. Instead, more than 10 beaches can no longer be used due to the health risks posed by Mexican raw sewage.

** Israeli Air Force Report from Beirut: Israel attacks Lebanon amid municipal elections. In less than 30 minutes, Israel carried out four bombardments on southern and eastern Lebanon, the most significant attack since the beginning of the truce in late November 2024. Tel Aviv had previously expressed its disagreement with municipal elections. Hence, the attacks eliminated a terrorist in Beirut.

** Fox News – Bryan Dean Wright argues that his ex‑boss, former CIA Director John Brennan, “belongs in prison.” Drawing on a newly released CIA report detailing the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) accusing Russia of favoring Donald Trump, Wright contends Brennan manipulated the process to fit a predetermined narrative. He outlines five alarming practices: lying about reliance on the discredited Steele dossier; controlling authorship of the ICA; directly intervening in its drafting; pushing for an unnaturally expedited release; and broadly distributing it—apparently to fuel leaks and discredit Trump. Wright insists these actions were politically motivated attacks that “destroyed Trump’s presidency—and the Republic itself.” Treason! Remind me what the penalty for treason is…and there is no statute of limitations.

** Mexicans in Mexico City are protesting Americans moving to their city. I feel their pain. Yankee go home! Hundreds of protesters gathered in Mexico City to speak out against gentrification and rising rents, fuelled by a surge in American remote workers settling in areas like Colonia Condesa. Locals say they’re being priced out of their neighbourhoods, with rents rising by 47% in just five years. Protesters are demanding fairer policies and legal accountability for wealthy foreign migrants.

** Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has officially BANNED illegal aliens from receiving SNAP and food stamp benefits, following President Trump’s Executive Order 14218.

 

In The Magic Kingdom

The reputational cost of normalizing ties with Israel may be too high for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Israel’s 12-day war, as well as its continued assault on Gaza, has cast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a destabilizing, militaristic force who is deeply unpopular among Saudi Arabia’s leadership, the Financial Times reported.

Saudi Arabia agreed to make billions of dollars of investments in the US during President Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Gulf and has kept diplomatic channels open to maintain its détente with Iran. But while a deal with Israel would curry favor in Washington — Trump predicted more signatories to the Abraham Accords as recently as Sunday — the crown prince appears in no rush, analysts said.

“I think they are in a sufficiently comfortable geopolitical position not to have to succumb to doing something that they wouldn’t want to do,” a senior fellow for Middle East policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies said.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran remained committed to a nuclear nonproliferation treaty, despite recently passing a law to suspend cooperation with the United Nations watchdog. The Shiia Twelvers can’t decide whether to shit or go blind.

 

Another Russian Spy Ship

Russia launched another spy ship, Vice-Admiral Burilichev, for operations near NATO submarine cables. It would be tragic if it inadvertently struck a torpedo in the middle of the ocean during a storm.

 

On this Date

After the destroyer USS Strong was sunk by a torpedo in 1943, former Alabama quarterback LT Hugh Miller washed up on the Japanese-held Arundel Island. Though wounded, alone, and without a rifle, he launched a month-long guerrilla campaign using grenades he found on a dead Japanese soldier. He attacked patrols and destroyed several machine gun nests before being rescued by a U.S. Navy J2F Duck float plane. Awarded the Navy Cross and two Silver Stars, Miller was also recommended for the Medal of Honor, but it was never granted.

 

In Russia

A lot of people fall from balconies and windows in the Worker’s Paradise. A Russian oil executive on Friday fell to his death from a window at his home in western Moscow in what has been ruled a suicide, the latest in a number of high-profile Russians who have died under mysterious circumstances, especially after falling out of windows.

Andrei Badalov, 62, vice president of the state-owned oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, was found dead Friday morning on the ground below the apartment block where he lived, European media outlets reported. “Badalov’s body was discovered at the bottom of a residential building on Rublyovskoye highway,” a law enforcement source told the Russian-owned Tass news agency. “The preliminary cause of death is suicide.”

 

Identify the Aircraft

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149 built

 

2

60 built

 

3

 

4

2 built – massive hint

 

Parting Shot

Democrats ask: How can you have an authentic parade

without a bunch of women dressed up like vaginas?

 

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57 thoughts on “Play for Keeps”

  1. Cowrisma. That’s what the boss cow possesses. When the top cow in a herd wants a drink of water or something to eat, the others will meekly move out of the way.
    Introducing another bull into a pen of bulls is always quite a show. Once they get everything sorted out everything is fine. My wife and I were driving through the Flint hills after having a steak at my favorite bar/steakhouse in Latham, and came across a large pasture full of breeding age bulls contently grazing and lying around chewing their cuds. She inquired as to how they were able to coexist together so peacefully. I told her because there weren’t any females out there stiring up shit!

      1. MraPaulM, when joking about such things: “One bull can’t get the job done, two bulls simply fight the whole time, three bulls in the pen are pals.”
        … but your answer FH, adds a whole new…shall we say, perspective. 🤣

    3. I think I mentioned this one before: time for the herd to get a drink of water and the boss cow was slow getting to the stock tank. Guess she figured to just push out of the way the one that was the closest. After the ram/push of the closest, who just happened to be the bull, said bull turned around, knocked her over, and pushed her halfway down the field. Even if you’re the boss cow, it pays to check your surroundings.

    4. On another note, one IT shop I worked at had a gal who grew up on a ranch in the Flint hills. At one meeting she mentioned that she was the one who taught her younger brother how to chew tobacco.

  2. Could be a paddock of steers.

    Using castrating pliers does leave male anatomy intact. As opposed to using a scalpel back when I about 10. Think I was in my late twenties when we switched to pliers for calves. My father’s version of a family holiday invite everyone home to help brand, inoculate, desex etc.

    1. We used pliers. Your father was a practical man with an eye toward saving his wallet.

      1. Never saw anyone pull out a scalpel when were playing “psychiatrist” with bull calves (as in castrating). Always used a sharp pocket knife as the tool of choice. Challenge was to be very aware of not accidentally cutting the hand of the old Cajun who was catching the oysters in a paper sack before they hit the ground and the dogs got ’em.

        1. I’ve seen ranch hands bite them off and swallow them. Most of the older men lacked a full set of teeth, so yes, pocket knives.

  3. Identify the Aircraft:
    1. Short SC.7 Skyvan
    2. Short C-23 Sherpa
    3. Short Seaford
    4. Lockheed XF-90

  4. The Tijuana Slough has been long known – since the 1959s – as an infectious broth. A friend doing field work for some state agency got seriously sick. Not just the water, but the plant life, road dust, et c carries bad juju. The New River flows from CA and passed into MX for a bit before returning to CA. The latter portion is seriously contaminated.

    Last night I was thinking of the illegal immigration. Reagan betrayed The People by breaking his promise. In the Bush II my friend had his brand new truck totalled. Not ins co totalled, but physically totalled. An unlicensed illegal driving an unregistered, uninsured pos car with poor brakes slammed into him at great speed. Sheriff deputy told the illegal to go. No custody, no charges.

    Another friend, a pre-dawn raid by the Sheriff SWAT. He, wife, four young children rousted out bed. Voluptuous good looking wife refused to be allowed to put on a robe. The children got to see their parents face down on the floor hand cuffed behind their backs. A case of the wrong address. The ranch next door had the illegals cooking meth.

    Sheriff deputy told me there was nothing he could do about my new neighbor obviously selling drugs, running day labor out of shack in the back yard, and operating as a half way house. Deputy said there is one like it on his street. Illegals is a federal matter. Deputy said if they arrest the illegals, they’ll just come back with a new identity. The Sheriff will have to start all over in surveiling who’s who. The feds won’t do a thing except maybe cut federal funds.

    Now word is ‘tough on illegals’ Trump is backing off. Reportedly he’s for leaving alone those in the AG fields and service industry. So now will ever illegal say they work in the fields or at a hotel?

    I’m so damn sick of the whole thing. It seems everyone is looting the Republic, grabbing what they can. Politician created, politician sustained, politician maintained.

    So now we are to clap that Congress (of all the people?) has funded 100s of Billions? Ha!
    Give one good reason why I should think this is not state sponsored grift?

  5. Apparently I do not know how to do paragraph breaks on this blog. To all, my sincere apology.

    1. My solution is to insert dashes.
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      If there is a better way, I’m all ears.

    1. Riverrider – I’ve always pictured you as a quintesential Fearless Leader type of Army guy.

  7. Not being schooled in navy matters, I’m surprised to learn there are errant torpedoes.
    Democrat funding. Terrible, now the Soros crime syndicate will need to spend their own ill gotten money. Perhaps a few window accidents will make the world a calmer place.

    1. George Soros (whose name spelled backwards is still Soros), could jump out of remorse and splatter satisfactorily.

      2. Done correctly, it’s hard to forensically reconstruct enough of the meat pancake to determine if it was an assisted suicide or not.
        –
        Fortunately, me being me, I don’t do heights. Like not even 2nd stories if possible. Ground is far enough from my head at ground level while standing up. So any rumors or stories about me jumping out a window of a tall building or climbing up on an antenna or bridge and taking the plunge are just ain’t gonna happen, without said ‘assisted suicide’ helpers and a lot of drugs to keep me docile.
        –
        As to the act of assisted suicide by falling from a window, defenestration has been one of my favorite words once I learned of it. Sadly there are far too few chances to use ‘defenestration’ in speech or in writing in these fallen times. You’d think ‘defenestration’ would become a popular sport, but, no. Especially in Florida, where high rises have 180mph wind resistant windows…

  8. We really need a “Who’s Who” of NGO grifters, so we can follow the flow of our tax money through the generations

    1. Start with all of Congress and the (shadowy) heads of all federal agencies, sub agencies and contractors…big group.

  9. Andrei Badalov-
    was he defenestrated, balconied, or balustrated?
    asking for a friend

  10. Ah…the C-23 Sherpa. A boneyard had a bunch of them from commuter airlines and they were forced upon the ARNG. The congress critter name in PA was Murtha. Imagine getting an aircraft that cannot land in the dirt, hard runways only. What a boondoggle waste. Glad he’s dead.

      1. C-23 Sherpas, a.k.a. Shorts Sh!tsky, were used in Europe in the 1980/1990 time frame by the USAF for short-haul transport of people and equipment. Daily rotator through the USAF bases for supplies. Serviced many a Sherpa when doing Transient Alert prior to later retraining. Smaller and more maneuverable than a C-130. Then it was later sent to ARNG. Then retired.

  11. The Mexican sewage closing California beaches makes me think of the Mexican president talking about suing SpaceX for polluting Mexico due to the Starship self-destroying on the test stand at Massey’s (part of SpaceX property that used to be a gun range). SpaceX built a reservoir that they pump tap water into, water rated safe to drink, and empty that onto the launch mount to keep it cool.

  12. Friend of mine was an instructor swimmer in HS-10. He died a few years ago of ‘multiple’ issues… Probably relating to spending time in that cesspool off IB. Re the Burilichev, at least they’re openly building it, but I do wonder how many torpedo tubes it has. And they are counting on there not being enough Navy ships to ‘watch’ it… Seen that before…

    1. I’ve been dropped in that sewage by the Warhawks before. You don’t just swim in it, you inhale it.

    2. You could always accidentally drop some mine-torpedoes (torpedoes set in a remote launcher) along your favorite undersea cable. That way you don’t have to be around when the torp ‘accidentally’ activates…

  13. RCC, we raised registered Holstein bulls for smaller dairy’s not quite as progressive as we were, having been doing artificial insemination since early in the 60’s. I know a set of testicals from a mile away. Penning breeding age bulls together is a pretty common occurrence in that area. Once they get their pecking order figured out all is well.

  14. Many ranchers will lease out a bull with the muscling, calving birth weight, and other desired traits for one breeding season, and then lease them to another small herd the next. Most will have a seman mobility and motility check, plus check for any disease before every lease. This keeps my brother the large animal veterinarian busy with his electro ejaculation machine. It’s quite a show if you have never witnessed it in person!

    1. Bull semen sales is big business in North and South America. I expect Australia too

      1. My friend, whose daddy has won a great number of accolades and was national breeder of the year, his operation inseminated 1,000+ cows per year.
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        My friend used to make good money flying around the country with vials of prized bull semen. Buy two seats, one for her, one for the refrigerated pack of vials. Very big money in that. Take a guess. Now add some zeros.
        Your family tree might go back several generations. Bull genealogy goes back to the very beginning.

        Anyone in Polled Hereford or Brangus has, or should have, known of Jackie Davis

  15. “Playing for Keeps”: PDJT is unmovable, EU agrees to tariffs. The man is a SISU MAGA force to be reckoned with. Love it.

      1. He never flinches, especially in economic chicken…born out of decades of real estate deals. At least this time around he knows the political playing field and players much better…he is a quick study.

  16. “The preliminary cause of death is suicide.”
    Perhaps Andrei Badalov can compare notes in the afterlife with SECNAV/First SECDEF James Forrestal about “suicide” by autodefenestration. Was Badalov found with the sash from his bathrobe tied around his neck? Did Badalov leave a sheet of paper with some lines of a poem, written in a hand other than his own, as proof that he was depressed and suicidal?
    It’s funny how often inconvenient Russians fall out of windows (or accidentally eat polonium [1], etc). It’s also funny how prominent but inconvenient Irish-Catholic Americans catch bullets from lone assassins who are then themselves killed in short order, or fall out of windows.
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    [1] During my time there, a PhD student in Chemistry at MIT died after ingesting a jar of arsenic. Her death was officially ruled “accidental” after an extensive inquiry. That told me a LOT about MIT. They’re not an Ivy, but for all practical purposes they might as well be. (This is not a compliment to either MIT nor to the Ivies.) My first year there a student “fell off” of the roof of one of the high-rise dormitories and pancaked himself on the sidewalk nine stories down. (I don’t remember if they ruled it a suicide or sanitized the story.) Needless to say, it was the talk of the campus for days, with people expressing horror about what must have happened to the body upon impact. The decedent landed a few feet away from a heating grate in the sidewalk. Apparently my observation of “At least he didn’t hit the grate and dice himself up,” was insensitive. Maybe so, but I’ve been told by several people that orientation tours at Cornell University used to point out the “suicide bridges” (students would jump off of these into various of the gorges in Ithaca, NY) as a sort of morbid attraction.

    1. Forrestal: “Despite the suicide ruling, various conspiracy theories emerged, including claims that he was murdered by Soviets, Zionists, or Palestinian extremists. Some theories suggested his death was connected to his knowledge of classified information about alien visitations.”
      That about covers all the bases. Of course some would have you think Mossad runs the PLO.

      1. I believe the official account of Forrestal’s death as much as I believe the official account of JFK’s death.
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        “PLO” you misspelled Hamas. [I think I’m being sarcastic, but who really knows? This is not meant as a condemnation of Israel overall, by the way. Our “own” intelligence agencies clearly are wildly out of control. No reason Israel can’t be in a similar state.]

        1. Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority from 1994 to 2004. If he had been a genuine enemy to Israel, Mossad or an IDF organization named for a room number would have removed him from the gene pool long before he shuffled off his mortal coil.

          1. On my understanding Arafat was actually an Egyptian. His Arafat persona was, it is alleged, manufactured by the KGB.

          2. He didn’t stay in power at the suffrance of the Russians. Arafat served everyone, and thus they all allowed him to live (and grow rich). He ran Force 17 against the Israelis but they didn’t kill him for it. And what do we take away from all that?

          3. Reference your reply to my comment. I did not mean he stayed in power as head of the PLO at the sufferance of the Russians. What I meant was that he was an actual Egyptian, born and bred, not a so-called Palestinian at all. It is alleged, or so I have heard, that he was selected by the Russians, when they had political cachet in Egypt, and given a whole new background, including political provenance, together with the name Arafat, and inserted into the PLO. I agree that he worked for many different, for want of a better word, “masters”, hence his longevity until, it is said, he upset one of them and they “offed” him.

          4. Agreed. I’m not sure what “a Palestinian” is actually. The definition is loose and they embraced a number of ethnicities. I think that Arafats selection, development, training and insertion came at a time when the USSR had a massive investment in Egypt – which they lost. KGB was very active in the PLO region and they had a number of Russian Israelis who arrived with the diaspora under their thumb. Israel had a quasi-socialist framework (within the British Mandate) that they hoped to exploit early on.
            .
            The Haganah that operated for the Yishuv in the British Mandate for Palestine was an amalgamation of previous existing militias. Some of those militias were Soviet funded/supported. Irgun and Lehi operated apart to some extent but even they received clandestine military support from Poland (and others). So the Arabs, backed by the USSR fought Yishuv, which also received clandestine aid from the USSR. Admittedly it was more complicated than that and eventually they purged most of the Russian influence.
            .
            Russian insertion of “foreign Arabs” who had been trained elsewhere and could become Palestinian agents of influence followed a classic Soviet pattern and the man who became known as Arafat was surely one of that cadre.

  17. It would be nice if we could get some of the window and balcony builders from Russia to come over here to put in a lot of windows and balconies in DC, NYC and a few other places.

  18. “A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Scott Ruskan, is being hailed as an American hero after saving 165 people from devastating flash floods in central Texas. He was part of a team that responded to the flooding on the Guadalupe River, where he served as the sole triage coordinator during his first-ever rescue mission. “

    1. Incredible. He’d likely say “was just doing what I was trained to do”. Those guys are built differently.
      –
      Heard on Charlie Kirk’s show earlier that area routinely seeds the clouds to assist the farmers. He, among others, was speaking truth and facts to the lies certain lefty media-ites were saying that those who died in this fast moving storm after a long dry period was PDJT’s fault “because he cut weather service personnel and budget”. This is flatly untrue, he increased the budget on the important things, plus Texas had additional weather service personnel on duty with the other pertinent “agencies” on standby at the ready.

  19. Even after the breakup of Soviet Russia, there was a Russian spy ship on station just outside 12nm off the coast. Bristling with antennas and electronic hardware, she could look right up the Columbia River. And who knows what else.

    *
    A Notice To Mariners said to give the ship a wide berth. IIRC, for electro radiation, but I don’t know. I wouldn’t have wanted to test that.
    *

    That’s above surface. I imagine the ship monitored the coming and goings of Bremerton and Whidbey, among others.

  20. So, the Mexicans are upset about foreigners in their country and want them to leave.
    Huh, how ’bout that.

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