From the dining room window.
Bullet Points:
** How many illegal aliens can you stuff into a stolen Ford Mustang?
** Your word of the day.
** “HRC approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level,” Benardo wrote. “The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue. Say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel menacing since both POTUS and VPOTUS have acknowledged the fact that IC would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable,” he clarified.
There is no statute of limitations for criminal conspiracy, and conspiring to commit a misdemeanor remains a felony because it requires two or more people to commit the crime. Conspiracy to commit petty theft is a felony; as is conspiring to commit sedition. HRC and BHO’s coordinated lie cost the American people over $40 million to investigate. It was BS from jump.
** I went to an antique auction yesterday and only two people bid on me…they bid low.
** For those of you who have been following events at Pleasant Mart, a grocery store in Shelby, N.C. – the Sheriff has been forced to take action. Fights over supplies of potted meat (primarily potted liver) won’t be tolerated.
** When you’re flying with MRSBRM, you need to hold on. Enough said.
** Why don’t drag queens like Big Mike Obama ever go and read to the elderly? I don’t think he’s been to Pedo Joe’s house once since he left office.
** The Justice Department is opening a federal grand jury investigation of former Obama administration officials who allegedly conspired to whip up a scandal about President Trump’s purported links to Russia during the 2016 election campaign, The NY Post has learned. The major legal development opens the door to criminal charges against prominent Cabinet members who served then-President Barack Obama, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former FBI Director James Comey. It was not immediately clear whether the grand jury would be based in heavily Democratic Washington, DC, or elsewhere.
Camping – with WSF (12B)
Every meal a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade.
Monkey Business
This is a short rant because I have a headache (earned). Doing business in the US has been a challenge in part because the US government has its thumb on the scale, and to overcome that, one needed to spend money to keep that thumb manicured. It was easier when you just took the $100K in cash to the White House and paid the honorarium to Obama for basic access. Pay to play. The Biden regime presented a challenge because nobody knew what was going on. In the end, you still had to deliver the cash to Obama after paying money to minor factotums like narcoson Hunter, which ultimately totaled $200K for basic access (10% to the big guy +).
Getting through the door to the democrat-sponsored regimes was expensive, but everybody understands honorariums, mordida, baksheesh, the vig – whatever. That wasn’t the end of pay-to-play; it was the beginning. Regulations could be waived, the right committee chairperson could make time for you to bring yet another honorarium in cash to the table. Everything legal, shipshape, and swampy. The total payout could be millions, and they’d help you recapture your “overhead” costs – add a green energy element to whatever you were doing.
The Trump Administrations (both Trump 45 and 47) have been chaotic because the traditional way of doing things is upended, and the permanent Washington, D.C. administrative state (the Swamp) is not amused. I chatted with MikeW about an old friend of ours who has gone full anti-Trump swampian during 47, but that old friend is not the only one. I have many friends who were content within the system until the system that fed them vanished. The biggest hammer to fall has been the end of USAID. In the olden days, if you wanted to do something in the Third World (where it is admittedly a big challenge to do business), you’d call a friend there to grease the skids because they applied grease in the Beltway (kickbacks from Congressional largess through NGO front men) and in the third world where they promoted homosexuality (maybe 2% of the outlay getting into queer hands). The USAID skim was profound, and now it’s gone. There’s still a lot of skim, but much less than there was, and USAID, Public Broadcasting, and other cash cows have been slaughtered.
Save the Date (in history)
The Battle of Crécy, fought on August 26, 1346, was more than an English victory—it was a seismic shock that announced the death of chivalry. For centuries, the battlefield was dominated by the elite: the heavily armoured, aristocratic knight on his warhorse. He was the ultimate weapon, a symbol of power and a cornerstone of the feudal social order whose battlefield invincibility was an accepted truth.
On that day in France, this truth was shattered. A smaller English army, composed mainly of common yeomen armed with the deadly longbow, faced a massive French force of nobles. The French charged with arrogant confidence but rode into a terrifying ‘arrow storm.’ With an incredible rate of fire, the English (and Welsh) longbows unleashed volley after volley, piercing the finest plate armour. The flower of French nobility was annihilated by commoners from a distance, many without landing a single blow.
This was a social revolution played out on a battlefield. Crécy proved that disciplined firepower in the hands of ordinary men had triumphed over noble birthright. The myth of the invincible knight was broken, forever changing the face of European warfare.
Crecy was a first for another significant battlefield innovation – the first use of cannon in a Western European battle. Previously, they had only been used in sieges.
Identify the Aircraft
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It never entered full production.
Identify the Ship
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Parting Shot
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The teasing of possible prosecutions of those involved with the corruption of elections is a constant barrage of rhetorical horse manure. My suggestion is to throw HRC in jail. Then leak to the media how she’s singing like a drunk bar floozy on Karaoke night. Whether it yields anything isn’t nearly as important as the satisfaction of seeing her in an orange prison jumpsuit.
I’ve worked cases with federal and state grand juries directly for decades so I’m aware of how they can produce results. I don’t know which jurisdiction they’ll use for the grand jury (maybe Texas?), but it could be any federal judicial district in the USA. DOJ will use a sharp Assistant US Attorney and I expect that it will produce the results necessary to bring justice to the situation. HRC, Brennan and associated scrotes should be concerned.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Mi-35M Hind
2. Boulton Paul P.111
Identify the Ship:
3. USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
4. USS Omaha (LCS-12)
5. HMS Warspite
6. HMS Dreadnought
You ran the table.
Prosecute the Previous Bums in Charge? Not holding my breath*…heck, Texas Juvenile DimBulb-a-Crats have once again fled to the most gerrymandered state in the Union to protest legal elected gerrymandering…so who knows what the Answer 8 Ball will come up with when it comes to a former President et al committing treason.
*(albeit with mondo fires in Cali and ‘our attic’ – Canukistan, and those our useless USFS somehow always manage to allow to go from 2 acres to 2,000 inside of three days ‘to allow Gaia to clear the deadfall” for them, I actually may need to hold my breath as these fires rage uncontrolled and floaty air particulate increases…altho, it was a Monet style sunset last night.)
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Pleasant Mart- Well, when you get rival seasoned citizen gangs on scooters this is what happens, altho from what I have read Shelby, NC, has nothing on The Villages (FL)…those boys down there party hard and race around in customized suped-up golf carts with all shameful decorum filters removed…because jail at that age isn’t a deterrent.
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Nice bull elk, he didn’t get that old without a few battles…but knows where he’s safe.
Was it the Babylon Bee that ran a story about Texas building a wall on its northern border to keep the Democrats out?
It isn’t a bad idea. Arizona has proposed building one along the CA border to keep them from swimming across.
While not a bad idea, better would be to wall off the entire southern half portion of the state, sorta like a weird perimeter wall like The Maze Runner dystopia…rats in a cage tend to eat each other.
The photo of the battleship does not match the plans. The photo has two turrets forward and one aft. The plan has one turret forward and two turrets aft.
The photo is of the HMS Warspite. The graphic is the HMS Dreadnought.
That second aircraft looks like the grandfather of the Boeing X-32. They both look like weird toads.
Robots – there’s a meme floating around showing some robots telling humans “We are here to replace you.” Followed by the robots standing around staring at their smart phones.
😳
No one is going to jail. It never changes. The swamp is the swamp.
Have a fabulous day. :)
I suspect you are correct but I hope you’re not.
I’d like to think (pretend?) we are still a nation of laws but I think that those above the law really are now…
I can’t say whether a judge will sentence anyone, but I’m willing to bet anyone a root beer float that the person or persons responsible will be indicted.
Camping – with WSF (12B)
All that crushed gravel brings back a memory of being “Jo Jo”.
“Step right up folks and see Jo Jo the dog faced boy. He crawls along his belly like a reptile. Show-em son”.
Kindly Corporal Arnold, gently improving attitudes.
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HRC We can only hope but I’m not holding my breath.
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** I went to an antique auction yesterday and only two people bid on me…they bid low.
At least someone bid. Imagine the humiliation if nobody bid.
Banner will still lick you if you suspend a pork chop from your neck.
Banner
Just need to walk past the treat bowl.
“junk on the bunk” without the bunk. Yet another way to make going to the field more miserable. How innovative.
And then it rained.
HAH!
The Army shouldn’t be afraid of a bit of mud.
Crecy: Looks like you’ve been reading some Cliff Rogers. He posits that the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) predates gunpowder infantry, and I think he makes a viable case with his interpretation of the Hundred Years War.
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Back in the 1950s, the “Roberts Thesis” of the RMA emerged, claiming that the change in the way war was fought and the way armies were composed can be traced back to the innovations of Gustavus Adolphus during the Swedish phase of the Thirty Years War. Then we had various military historians with variations on the theme, each claiming a different locus for the RMA: the condotierri in the Italian Wars around 1500, the development of the Atlantic “Round Ship” and ability to project power globally, the proliferation of Vauban-style fortresses…. All had the development of reliable gunpowder weapons as a key element.
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The Rogers Thesis agreed that developing the ability for commoners to inflict casualties at long range was central to the RMA, but demonstrated that the English had already done so before the musket or even arquebus made an appearance on the battlefield. Massed archers instead of massed musketeers.
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What gunpowder did was vastly expand the pool of commoners from which a nation could draw foot soldiers. The English had the saying (roughly) “…if you want to train an archer, start with his grandfather.” The longbow required both long-trained skill and physical strength for its operators to be an effective battlefield asset. The musket let a king grab any man with two arms, two legs, one eye, and at least two teeth that met…had to be able to bite the end off the cartridge…and with six months training turn him into a battlefield asset.
I had read that the French won the last big battle in the 100 Years War (the Battle of Castillon, fought on July 17, 1453.) against the English because the French had firearms against the English long bow.
** How many illegal aliens can you stuff into a stolen Ford Mustang?
Not since I went to the circus have I seen such a clown car.
X2
No different than packing a Phone Booth (remember them?) or Beetle in the late sixties…except these people are smaller in stature.
When you’re flying with MRSBRM, and Tom Cruise is along for the ride…
Spanish Lefty- Yup, and WTP want every bleeding heart lib to house a few of them…learn the hard lesson this one did (yet will she have a change of mind? Doubtful, and in typical form, expected the government to fox the problem for her). Thing is, when a bunch of “immigrants” got air dropped onto Maahthaah’s Vineyaard, the blueblood inhabitants got after “the problem” straight away. With a few desperate phone calls, problem solved…while holding their Black Dog mugs of special coffee while waving goodbye, happy the invaders were sent packing…to The $500/night Roosevelt (apparently a win all the way around, especially if you ask Vineyard Haven folks getting ready for their tee time at Mink Meadows. But the real question is who was cleaning their rooms after?)
“honorariums, mordida, baksheesh, the vig – whatever”
There used to be a (clothing?) store in downtown Sonoma, CA called “Baksheesh Fair Trade”. I don’t know if that was irony or stupidity behind the name.
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Paying for access to USGov is for amateurs. The pros get the US to pay THEM ($10,000,000 each day sounds about right) while getting to swan about pretty much as they please.
Yes, and green energy was one vehicle to make that happen where you’re paying them with their own money. My example on the blog was a simplistic one.
> The Battle of Crécy
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Morality is created to match technological reality. Morality and law are just a cache of past battle results, not an independent standard worked out by empathetic and logical means.
That’s an impressive Elk! And yes, ‘junk on the bunk’ never goes away, even if you are in the field!