Bullet Points:
** Why was 90s Country Music so much better? Elsa answers the question. And the Bellamy Brothers also weigh in. I admit that I’m old. My playlists all contain “old music” for that reason. No excuses, no further explanation.
** The Coup Attempt – Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, just released documents revealing that the Russians DID have dirt on a 2016 presidential campaign. It was Hillary Clinton’s campaign. According to the intel, Russia knew the DNC was concerned about Clinton’s health. She had “intensified psycho-emotional problems,” was on heavy tranquilizers, and was obsessed with power. In other words, the Russians were protecting Hillary’s campaign — not Trump’s. Obama knew all of this – yet he ordered his administration to release what they knew were phony accusations against Trump. This was a meticulously planned and well-coordinated attempted coup. They just did not anticipate Trump winning the election. Obama and Hillary must be held accountable.
** The California Fire Scam – “California’s Fraudulent ‘Disaster Recovery’ Is a Land Grab,” Edward Ring argues that the state’s post–wildfire rebuilding efforts amount to a massive power grab by bureaucrats, corporate interests, and unions. What was touted as streamlined permitting and protection against predatory investors has instead unleashed new, burdensome regulations that effectively prevent most homeowners from rebuilding. Ring highlights a “Resilient Rebuilding Authority” proposal that would centralize control, impose energy mandates, levy new fees, and steer displaced families toward financially backed reservations in multi‑family housing. Ultimately, he contends, this system risks stripping families of their privately owned land—redirecting it to politically connected developers, while turning victims into perpetual tenants under a technocratic regime.
** Her Chinese husband died, and things got worse.
**Debanking is becoming increasingly popular in some Canadian provinces. It’s also known as de-risking, and refers to the practice of banks closing or restricting access to financial services for individuals or organizations they deem to pose a reputational risk. If you’re woke, you’re fine. Nobody will debank you.
** The 30% tariffs announced by the Trump administration for Mexico over not doing enough to stop drug cartels show that U.S. officials appear to be seeing through the lies presented by their Mexican counterparts. Key cartel figures continue to operate with complete impunity throughout Mexico. When you consider that Mexico is a narco-state, you shouldn’t be surprised.
** The most Dutch man in the world. Never pay full price.
** Ghislaine (Jiz) Maxwell, serving a 20-year federal sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation, is asserting an expectation of a presidential pardon—specifically from President Donald Trump. Her defense team argues that a now-concluded investigation into Epstein, along with a prior non-prosecution agreement from 2007, provides her with a strong case. She is reportedly preparing to meet with DOJ officials, potentially offering new information in hopes of securing clemency. Meanwhile, the White House publicly denies any intent to issue a pardon, leaving Maxwell’s claims at the center of political and legal debate.
** President Trump is signing an executive order that pushes cities and local governments to REMOVE HOMELESS PEOPLE from the streets. Federal funds will be redirected to ensure that these homeless individuals are transferred to rehabilitation and treatment centers. “Ending Vagrancy and Restoring Order.” Thus, solving an issue, unlike the Democrats, who want to let homelessness run rampant and fund an endless welfare state.
Never Ready for Prime Time
The concept for this rather unusual aircraft design, known as the MP, was proposed by Russian engineer V. S. Vakhmistrov in 1935.
He suggested developing a suspended seaplane-torpedo carrier that could be launched from a TB-3 carrier aircraft. Two of these aircraft would be mounted under the wings of the TB-3 bomber. Once released in flight, the aircraft would carry out a torpedo strike against the enemy and then independently return to base, landing on water.
Piracy
It is still a thing. One thing of note in this regard is that piracy in the Baja California area has increased as the drug revenues have decreased with the Big Beautiful Border Wall. At the moment, a lot of the narcos are waiting for the passing of the Trump Administration for the happy times to reappear. I recently received a phone call from an attorney in the San Diego area. He said that Hunter Biden’s announced intention to run for the US Presidency was greeted with enthusiasm by the depressed and more dispondent narcos. Another Biden presidency with an open border might or might not decrease piracy in Baja.
Identify the Aircraft
1
Iconic and adaptable.
2
7 built
3
544 built
Identify the Armor
4
Parting Shot
And while in Shelby, be sure to visit
Pleasant Mart
A big shout-out to Tiffany, our cart attendant. She’s recovered carts from not only the corral but the woods, creek, and Rite Aid down the street. That’s why we are proud to bump her pay from $7.25/hr to $7.52!
We take your hard work and initiative very seriously, Tiffany, and are pleased to have you as part of our Pleasant Mart family. We will also be ordering a round of Top’s pizza for you and the rest of our staff (one slice per employee, please )
Congratulations Tiffany
A big shout-out to Jeremy and Wanda for getting engaged in our candy and chip aisle. It’s such a beautiful thing !! We will also be doing the wedding ceremony in the meat section, the date is TBA, but all are welcome.
There is a bridal registry at the cash register.
Happy Shopping
Pleasant Mart, Shelby, NC
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Identify the Aircraft:
1. Lockheed U-2S
2. de Havilland Albatross
3. de Havilland Dove
Identify the Armor:
4. Hetzer
Yes.
The Democrats have the unerring ability to project what THeY are doing onto their opponent, whether the Republicans or mor targeted, PDJT…let alone good [born here] Americans. Those two, along with their scumbaggery compatriots need to find the inside of a prison cell…okay if it’s t one of the country club ones, they can learn to code and play pickle-ball.
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Land Grab- This was obvious from day one. Palisades residents need to follow PDJT’s lead on this, come together to form a self-administered property owner group, then rebuild…MAKE Bass and her thieving greedy cohorts Red Tag all of them for rebuilding on their rightful property. THEN…The Palisades Rebuild Group should sue the pants off the local and state “officials” for dereliction of duty and loss. I’d chip in a C-note to help them. (Caveat: Likely this would never happen…because…California ‘fruits and nuts’, who manage to elect nitwits and oppressors then wonder why “there is no train for $20B spent except an overpass in front of some farmers house out in the sticks.)
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Pleasant Mart: Ya gotta love Suthun hospitality at the local Pick-n-Pay grocery…it’s a beautiful thang…bless their hearts.
Arrr..typos galore on the ip-pad. (reaches for the strong coffee)
Blaming the computer gives you little traction…
I know…lame. At least it can’t talk back…yet. (aaannnd, it was the Ip-Pad with brightness set low…my more better excuse. Feel free to reuse.)
To err is human. To really fsck things up, use a computer.
“to really fsck things up, use a computer”
I guess? But I don’t get it. Why would anyone try a file system consistency check if they weren’t using a computer?
mike_c > /dev/null
“sue the pants off the local and state “officials” for dereliction of duty and loss. ”
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Pacific Palisades
Those Zip Codes voted overwhelming for Cackles. My Sympathy Meter still rests on the left peg.
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The ‘unhoused’ problem stated in the 1970’s with the de-institution movement. Close the sate homes and move the people into community group homes. Pitfall was easily seen; few community group homes were ever created. Next, add raising the minimum wage. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Can you imagine if Hillary and Kamala had been the ticket?
“Cankles and Cackles! You’re going to end up voting for them whether you want to or not.”
So you might as well pull the lever and bite the pillow. Just don’t expect lube, much less the common courtesy of a reacharound. (Jimmy Carr joke: Tears are not the best lube. It’s blood.)
C&C not as good as the Weiner-Holder ticket, but then again nothing is. Not even “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”.
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Someone, I forget who, was alt-timelining current politics: “Imagine if, instead of driving Tulsi from the Democrat party, they had put HER in the VP slot to check the ‘woman’ and ‘brownish’ boxes. Imagine if we had had an actually competent person who DOESN’T hate the US as Biden’s VP.” And now she’s a Trump cabinet member and coming hard after the Bidens and the rest of them. Then again, while we’re at it: Imagine if Patton hadn’t died as a result of that totally random traffic accident. Imagine if Forrestal hadn’t thrown himself out of a high-story window after leaving an supposed suicide note in someone else’s handwriting, but instead started a newspaper, as he had intended and had the means and connections to do, to challenge the information monopoly by the NYT and other establishment press. Imagine if JFK and RFK … well. That’s enough wondering for now.
Expert Opinion Requested: Just read this…is it real or merely someone looking for an excuse?
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“The US military is investigating its new service pistol after the fatal shooting of an Air Force guard — following claims that the gun can fire without the trigger being pulled.
The Sig Sauer M18, the military version of the popular Sig P320 handgun, has been at the forefront of multiple lawsuits alleging that the weapon can fire unprompted.”
The 320 platform has been a nightmare for SIG. Seems to be the fire control group. The M17/18 seemed to be immune because they have a manual safety….until now.
Thanks…was curious. But…then why would the US Military select such an iffy weapon as a replacement, like going backwards. (Never mind, rhetorical…bureaucrats making decisions because “they know better” – and/or – SIG engineers being told by the MBA’s and Loy-Yers how to design.)
A lot of us wondered why they bought the Sig.
They wanted a modular design, the FN 509 seemed the better choice to a lot of us.
That Chinese thing was time on target. especially for the Cantonese-speaking ones. As to Dungeness crab, haha, but also — one more thing to avoid. I already won’t eat tilapia.
I used to work with a lot of Dutchmen, and many of THEM would complain about the cheapness of the Dutch. For example, we were sitting at a Boston bar one day and my friend Paul was looking closely at the backs of the glasses. “What’s up, Paul?”
“I was looking for the level marks. You don’t have them here. I like this country.”
“What’s a level mark?”
“It’s a line painted, or scratched into? I don’t know the word, but it’s a line near the top to make sure you don’t get too much. That’s life in the Netherlands.”
That said, I generally got along well with the Dutch. I also got along with Swiss-Germans. But these were almost entirely Philips engineers or ETH STEM PhDs or MD/PhDs, so hardly a good sample for generalization. Oh, another bar story. Me and three physicists from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (“Et-huh”) got thrown out of a hotel bar in Philadelphia of all places. We were waiting for a dinner seating at the restaurant and told to wait in the bar. We got seated at a little table and ordered beers. The waitress brought a basket of saltines with the beer. There was a huge glass jar of ground horseradish on the bar table, so we happily ate crackers slathered with horseradish. After a couple of rounds of beers the waitress noticed we had eaten something like a third of the jar of horseradish. “What happened to the horseradish?”
Confusion: Uh, we ate it?
Furious: You’re not supposed to eat that! It’s for you to look at!
Me: What?
STEM/Swiss response: You should have informed us about that policy. Or there should have been a label to that effect on the jar. To avoid exactly this sort of problem.
Sputtering: Get out!
Swiss: We have not yet paid.
Literally spitting mad: I have your room numbers. You WILL get the bill. Now get out!
I still don’t know why that waitress was so angry about horseradish.
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But I like the idea of invoicing the girl for lost time. Maybe I should also look into sending a bill for liver damage. [What can I say? I’m a traditionalist, and some things Must Be Done in accordance with traditional forms. It doesn’t matter if you WANT to get drunk, or if you even like drinking to begin with. That’s not the point. Narrative structure in life exists for a reason.]
You simply have to write Stories “Abroad:My Adventures Without Even Trying” (not necessarily ‘a’ broad, but those too).
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He has more “happenstance” stories than a Wyoming rancher has t-posts…and hilarious to boot.
Gee, people now are figuring out Cankles the Gin Hag was mentally unstable? And that the whole Russian Collusion thingy was a big fakeroo run by Obama? Yeah…
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Corruption in California? And just where did that $100 million from the aid concert go? Yeah…
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As to things in Canukistan, looks like British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba all want out of Canada. Whether they’ll stand up as an independent country or ask to become territories/states of the United States is the question. Hatred of sending all their money to imperial Ottawa while imperial Ottawa sends edicts and punishments.
The Canadian Western Provinces have a lot to work out. I see more of a loose confederation than Western Canada United. The problem with BC is Vancouver and the endemic corruption there. Cartels, Triads, Canadian home grown organized crime, bike gangs. It’s a significant thing.
On the Sig ,,why ? The colt government model 1911 ,,is still available as far as I know. I bought mine in 1974,, it shoots everytime I pull the trigger ,,but only when I pull the trigger. And if you run out of ammo ,you can beat them to death with it.
Though I have options, my carry is a Kimber 1911.