Complications

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Larry-Lambert

 

Claudio was riding the NYC Subway Yesterday – see his report below.

 

 

 

After Action

(h/t Claudio) The Israeli military reported hitting “precise” military targets in Iran, while Iranian state media shared reports of multiple explosions. Israeli sources clarified that these strikes didn’t target any energy facilities. Iranian state media stated that military sites in three provinces (Tehran, Ilam, and Khuzestan) were impacted, though it claimed that its air defenses kept the damage “limited.” Israeli officials noted that this strike on Iran’s military assets also involved F-35I Adir stealth aircraft and came after weeks of intense discussions in Israel’s security cabinet, considering both the timing and extent of the response.

US F-16s from the 480th Fighter Squadron based at Spangdahlem AB, assets specialized in SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) have deployed to Israel. Maybe there will be a round two?

 

 

Bullet Points:

** Will an industry that makes its money from sick people give you a “free shot” to make you super healthy?

** People treat you in exactly the way that they feel about you.

** Are designers training AI to lie? Musk thinks so, and so do I. There must be objective standards in programming rather than political standards. If an AI tells you that a biological man can bear children, you need to flush that AI.

** They discovered a Dilithium mine in Sedona, Arizona, by accident. The dental floss farm was experiencing mysterious fungus growth on the trees. The Dilithium crystals emit rays interacting with the dental floss buds, causing the fungus. I believe they will shut down the mine operation to preserve the dental floss farming.

** Israel is playing chess to everyone else’s checkers. It makes me wonder if they didn’t hand over these plans to the US, KNOWING they’d be leaked — hoping they would. We will never know, of course, but the Israelis have proved themselves the Masters of the Wilderness of Mirrors.

Map of the Israeli attack on Iran.

Israel reportedly destroyed all the radars of Russian S-400 and S-300 systems, leaving Iran’s entire airspace blinded. In a second onslaught on Saturday, it struck near Shiraz, Isfahan, Mashhad, and the northern region near Kurdistan.

** This week, owners of two newspapers the Left regularly relied on to provide free campaign advertising, the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, refused to endorse Harris for president, overruling their woke staffs. The nerve of the men who pay the pipers calling the tune! Many writers at the LAT resigned. At the Washington Post, Robert Kagan, husband of Ukraine war Hawk Victoria Nuland, did so.

** Recommendations to the Trump Transition Team:

  • Suspend all UNRWA funding
  • Name an acting deputy secretary for civil rights in the DoJ and have that person abolish every DEI office of every college and university, with the suspension of all funding for everything unless they do
  • Indict HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine for her role in dropping age requirements for transgender surgery on minors.
  • Pardon every person convicted for non-violent crimes on J6
  • Revive congressional committees on internal security to investigate Iranian penetration in “or influence over our government.”
  • Remove useless or obstructive civil servants, order them to work at home, and then cut off all email and access to department computer servers. And then terminate them when you’re able to.
  • Demand that environs like Martha’s Vineyard and Marin County take their share of migrants granted asylum…and deport the rest of the aliens who haven’t been relocated there.

 

Coffin Nails

 

Race

 

Identify the Armor

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Parting Shot

 

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54 thoughts on “Complications”

  1. Identify the Armor:
    1. M44 APC
    2. FV402 Armoured Observation Post
    3. All I can come up with for the nonce is perhaps something Swedish. Coffee is needed.
    4. Vickers 6-ton
    5. Renault R40

  3. I would change your Recommendations to the Trump Transition Team:

    Suspend all UN funding to $1 per year, Suspend all NGO funding, Suspend all foreign funding until our debt is paid off.
    Name an acting deputy secretary for civil rights in the DoJ and have that person abolish every DEI office of every college and university, with the suspension of all funding for everything unless they do
    Indict HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine for her role in dropping age requirements for transgender surgery on minors. Also look at other departments and lower level people that were part of it.
    Eliminate the Department of Education, but until it can be done stop funding any school or college that is doing DEI or anything except merit based process.
    Eliminate foreign purchase of land and companies.
    Pardon every person convicted for crimes and under indictment on J6
    Revive congressional committees on internal security to investigate Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or other foreign penetration in “or influence over our government.”
    Move as many agencies as possible out of DC to various regions, specifically midwest, west, northern.
    Demand that environs like Martha’s Vineyard, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and Marin County take their share of migrants granted asylum…and deport the rest of the aliens who haven’t been relocated there.
    Identify NGOs and Government people involved in illegal alien crossings and start the indictment of all. As the removal of illegals are started and are tried to be blocked by Judges, indict the Judges for treason and continue to remove the illegals.

    1. All great moves in the right direction. My only adder would be “defund the Federal Government” to the point where those in DC actually have to do the actual work of the elected* jobs they were tasked and constrained by The Constitution. Time for them et al to feel the pain We The People have been subject for 90+ years at the hands of these self-important imbeciles.
      * even that aspect is massively suspicious, 98% of it in Democrat strongholds (Gee, why would that be? Nah, couldn’t be THAT). But ya gotta start at the epicenter then move outwards from there to excise the cancerous rot.]

    2. JG, I’d add one to your list. Establish a Czar to “Review and Cancel Stupid EPA Decrees”. Although not a top 10 priority, dump the requirement for hand carry portable fuel containers to have pouring spout automatic closure devices that are engaged when the container is not dispensing liquid.

  4. My 2 cents…or is it 25cents due to inflation? EO for mandating that no naturalized citizens are to be granted security clearances at any level. Current naturalized citizens to lose access immediately.

    1. The security clearance issue is significant. Barack Hussein Obama, closeted homosexual and former drug dealer, son and grandson of card-carrying communists who attended university as a foreign student, associate of criminals including members of the Weather Underground could not have obtained a clearance that allowed him to sort the mail – yet he had the ultimate clearance. I don’t know whether he was born in Hawaii or Kenya (sort of don’t care) but people in the Congress (Swalwell, Omar, the Squad, AOC, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schiff, etc.) should not be granted clearance based upon a vote of the great unwashed (either).

      1. Start by cancelling the security clearance of every retired flag ranked officer. Each can appeal. Probably follow up with retired Civil Service who hold security clearances. Shitheads like Milley get paid because of their access to information. Once the clearance is lost, they will use their contacts. When that happens the contact loses their clearance and likely their job.

  5. Urgent message for Ed B!
    The Vice President and Governor Walz will be in (near) his AO this afternoon and evening: Ann Arbor from 4 to 9pm. O! Frabjous Day!
    Don’t miss out on the opportunity to meet the next POTUS, Ed! (And the next next POTUS.)

    1. WE for sure need local boots on the ground…all Ed needs is to self-identify as a Dem. Heck,, he’ll get paid to attend her small gathering of 200 of her bussed-in paid operatives that’ll pay for lunch. Of course the media will maintain a tight shot of the gathering then cut-n-paste the view to make it look like a proper rally. Nice thing is Ed could place his burger order at 5-Guys on the way to the “event”, hit (oops…”attend”) the 5 minute staged “Leftist club members only rally”, then be able to pick up his order on the way back to the plant…all on his lunch hour (I’ll even buy…still have some VM Bucks left).
      —
      The real problem is “The No Longer-A-Boss” will be painfully struggling off-key thru a tired 70’s anthem, sounding worse than a 120minute worn out cassette driving tape stuck in a Taiwanese copy of a Pioneer tape deck.

      1. >Heck,, he’ll get paid
        So. I received an unsolicited text from Harris forces.
        HF: Hi, it’s Sam w/ Turnout the Vote! Election Day is almost here! We’re recruiting PAID Voting Ambassadors to make sure everyone knows how important it is to vote for Kamala Harris this fall. It’s fully remote and you can earn up to $700, but you have to apply today! Interested? Stop to Quit
        —
        Me: I get $700 to vote President Kamala? How to do this please.
        —
        HF: We’ve learned that people talking to their friends and family is the best way to get folks voting, so we’re running a Voting Ambassadors program to get folks talking to people in their lives about voting for the Democratic nominee, protecting access to abortion, fighting climate change, and the other issues at stake that affect our lives . It shouldn’t take more than a couple hours and the schedule is flexible. You can learn more here: [REDACTED]
        —
        Me: Not understanding, sorry. You will pay $700 for me to vote Kamala President?
        —
        They didn’t fall for it. ☹️

        1. Direct them to me, I’ll take the $700 (in cash – in an envelope – large bills ok) with the “promise” to vote for the Whore and Fudd. It’s true that I’ve already voted but I can “deem” myself to support the Whore if she can deem herself to not have a 5000 body count.

          1. In fact, for enough gold, one ounce Krugerrands, the Democrats can buy an ad on VM. I just want to make it clear that it’s an equal opportunity blog (not full DEI but EEO)—for enough money. Nothing traceable, mind you. But gold is gold. Of course, you’ll all know it when you see an ad proclaiming that Big Mike Obama is a fine-looking chick (with a stick).

      1. Why use 5 letters when 3 will do? Good point. I’m about 100 miles north of Richmond right now (but not a rich man).

        1. I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day
          Overtime hours for bullshit pay
          So I can sit out here and waste my life away
          Drag back home and drown my troubles away
          –
          It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to
          For people like me and people like you
          Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
          But it is, oh, it is
          –
          Livin’ in the new world
          With an old soul
          These rich men north of Richmond
          Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
          Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
          And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do
          ‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end
          ‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond

  6. Thick content this morning, as always…my immediate thought:
    —
    “Why do I feel like I’m the “mark” in the middle of a governmental multi-level marketed pyramid scheme 3-Card Monty game?”

      1. I’m just a dystopian battery…albeit more unplugged at this point than prior (but not totally). (Still trying to figure out how SSA – a confiscatory tax on wages – is taxable? Galling to say the least.)
        —
        Time to starve the Corrupt Leviathan.

  7. Can anyone i.d. the fräu (lein) in the captioned photo?
    Additions to recommendations;
    + Whatever the transition team can do to pave the road to transparent and fair elections. Halt federal funding to states that don’t pass paper ballot and voter proof of citizenship.
    +Revive the save act to be passed in congress.
    +Redirect the green funding to SNR and SMR reactors.
    + redefine the ESG scores to reasonable and sound practices. Example = in 2025 many meat processing plants will be threatened to shut down according to a report I read recently.
    + DOD directive 5240, can this be revised?
    + any effective actions possible to stop the commerce (sales) of drugs and human trafficking ( consumers)?

    1. re “fräu (lein)”: were I only 60 years younger. IMHO, I think she is absolutely stunning. BTW, I think she looks more Czech, but that’s just my myopia. (massive masculine hands, though)
      re additions: all very interesting and strongly thought-provoking
      I wonder if LL would be agreeable to publishing your (greatly) expanded guest post

      1. I don’t have an ID for you, GW2. Sorry. And if you guys/gals/one of the 36 options want me to post something of yours that you’re proud of, e-mail it to me and it can be thrown up on the wall (not like barf or spaghetti, but real stuff) for others to attack like a school of sharks after a bleeding swimmer.

      1. Ed. Definitely not Etta Place. As far as I understand there are only two authenticated photos of Etta Place, one, a formal, posed photo, of her with Harry Longabough (The Sundance Kid) taken in New York in 1901, and the other of her, Harry Longabough, and Butch Cassidy, taken on their ranch in Argentina in the early 1900’s. The first was apparently taken at a photographers studio, and the second was apparently sourced from the Longabough family.

  8. More unsolicited texts.
    Lo: Hi Michael, I’m Lo, with Asian Americans Rise. I wanted to remind you that you can vote by mail! The deadline to sign up for mail-in voting is approaching quickly.Will you take a moment to sign up to vote by mail? It’s an easy way to make your voice heard.
    MC: Why do Asians need to vote by mail? Are we too incompetent or stupid to go vote in person?
    Lo: I’m not sure I understand what you mean. Not everyone likes to vote by mail. Election Day is November 5. You can find your polling location here: XXX Can we also count on you to remind 3 friends to vote?
    MC: If you want to remind people they can vote by mail, great. Don’t drag being Asian into it. And the group is “Asian Americans RISING” not Rise. Unless this is a new group of ethnic whiners. Asians will NEVER win the whining game. Get over it.
    Lo: Not everyone welcomes these texts! I can remove you from this list if you like?
    MC: How about getting rid of the entire list?

    2. Mike_C – Lo might not be his/her real name. I sense some closeted Sinophobia in this particular move. The RISE that Yun Hung Lo (or Lo Yun Hung if you will) that this particular anonymous advocate is promoting might not be precisely what is advertised. Did you also receive accompanying spam e-mail for pharmacological male enhancements such as Viagra or Cialis?
      –
      LSP recently returned from London where he purportedly ate at Le Ho Phoc on his Werewolves of London tour. Coincidence? He said that he had a pina colada at Trader Vic’s while on tour too. Not that the drink had anything to do with the beef chow mein that he scarfed down for dinner. I’ve cautioned him about his cultural appropriation in the past.

      1. Mike_C, that was 40 grit* brilliant! Nice situational awareness.
        *(removes just enough moronic skin to make the insipid recipient think twice of calling on you again but not all of it in one scraping pass like 24 grit would)

      2. >closeted Sinophobia
        Closeted?
        —
        There is no ethnic discrimination here. I despise chinks, nips, gooks, and slants equally. You are ALL worthless, grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit! [And so forth.]

  9. totally off topic (TOT) I hope you don’t mind, but…
    I’ve been following the Houthi (sorta reminds me of the refrain from that song, “Goody, Goody” in “Mrs. Henderson Presents”), Ansar Allah attacks on commercial shipping; everyone is complaining about the increased costs of goods due to routing around the Cape of Good Hope, but I don’t believe I’ve read anything about the biggest loser: Egypt and their loss of Suez Canal revenue.
    I keep thinking that the mullahs are trying to unseat President Abdel Farrah el-Sisi and replace him with someone (highly unlikely to be Shi’a) more amenable to their regime; how far off base am I?

  10. Concur on cancelling all retired G.O.’s security clearances, and all those ‘special’ clearances held by former officials! And get rid of non-productive departments like NEA, TVA, etc.

  11. For your list of future relocations: The Bureau of Land Management has 13 Districts – 1 that covers EVERYTHING EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER and the other 12 are WEST of the Mississippi River!!! But ALL headquarters are in DC?!?

  13. To further riff on the Bureau of Land Management, immediately reauthorize all water and grazing rights that have been revoked for the last 50 years. Cancel all wind and solar programs on BLM managed lands. Reopen BLM lands to hunters and outdoorsmen (hey, libs, ‘outdoorsmen/man’ is a non-gender specific term so lump it.) Reallow mining and oil drilling.
    –
    EPA. Sigh. This is one agency that has some good roots but has gone too far. Scale back to ‘normal people’ levels and not ‘California’ levels. Seriously, unless it makes you sick at normal levels, well, slap a warning label on it and back the truck off.
    –
    OSHA. Sigh, another agency that has some good roots and gone too far. The average worker isn’t, yet, working in an environment as dangerous as Zero G Space. So, again, back the truck off of the over-regulation. Most issues and regulations can be solved by a 2 minute safety lecture or a handout. Most people understand you shouldn’t put a baby into a full paintbucket head first. And the ones that don’t will ignore any safety briefing or lecture or handout. So just stop it.
    –
    Whatever agencies (there are multiple overlapping ones) that deal with ‘protecting the smelt/snail darter/obscure variant of an existing animal/vegetable/fungus need their collective pee-pees smacked hard with a flanged mace hooked up to 440v AC. Some common sense needs to be applied. Seriously. Screw the smelt/snail darter/obscure variant of an existing animal. First comes humans. We need the food and the water and the air, not some minor variation of a sub sub sub sub species that is genetically identical to every other minor variation. Screw them all.
    –
    On the other hand, after getting rid of most of the DOJ/FBI, strengthen all child trafficking units and increase federal penalties for child trafficking and child sexual exploitation. If Florida can pass a law making sex with a minor eligible for the death penalty, so can the fed gov.
    –
    Turn Homeland Security into the Illegal Alien Elimination Division. And this means getting rid of TSA, which is a good thing. Make Homeland responsible for grabbing and deporting or imprisoning (in, maybe, northern Alaska or Johnston Atoll) all illegals no matter what unless the illegals are willing to pay out the nose for the privilege of living in this great land. Of course this also means immediately stopping any and all payments or support for asylum seekers and illegals and ‘refugees.’
    –
    As to ‘refugees,’ Copulate them, with rusty chainsaws. Send everyone back, especially Haitians and Venezuelans. Sorry, not sorry at all.
    –
    Anyone caught illegally voting or harvesting or collecting or signing up or… 10 years minimum Fed ‘Pound Your Ass’ Prison. Illegal Alien, Legal Alien, Citizen, violate America’s laws and Bu-Bye to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
    –
    Anyone in Gov-Supported programs from Welfare to Section 8 housing to Social Security. Do illegal drugs and no support for you.

    1. We have to collect all these excellent suggestions, yours and the above…then send them off in an executive summary format to the Trump campaign for implementation once PDJT reenters the (stolen) Oval Office and sits at the Resolute Desk where he belongs. The pen is mightier than the sword (heard that somewhere before).

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