Bullet Points:
** ICE arrests a Chinese spy—only 100,000 more to go. Whether Ming Xi Zhang will be PNG’d and deported, or traded for somebody in Chinese custody, remains open. Ming (61) runs a restaurant and is not a student, but while I’m on the subject, all students from the PRC or countries allied with the PRC need to have their visas revoked and should be allowed to go home without deportation. Just pack and leave. Or, as an alternative, they can study abroad in the EU, where they’ll be welcomed.
** The call in Alberta, Canada, to separate itself from the rest of Canada is becoming more strident, and the people behind the movement say that they have the votes to do it. Whether they become a separate nation or whether they join the US as the 51st State is something that would have to be worked out. (right) They’re tired of being part of a socialist state that milks them for money and gives nothing in return. The Democrat Party in the US will oppose US statehood because senators and representatives are likely to be conservative/Republicans.
** The Swamp is being drained. (Breitbart) According to Fox News, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit against Arizona’s 15 counties “on behalf of EZAZ.org” and Yvonne Cahill, a registered voter and naturalized citizen. In the lawsuit, AFL argued that “the counties had not been following a state law” requiring people to prove their citizenship to vote in state and local elections. Nearly 50,000 individuals failed to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, and their names will be removed from voter rolls. Breitbart News has previously reported that states such as North Carolina and Virginia have removed thousands of foreign nationals and non-citizens from their voter rolls.
** Your Weight – Discussed – Gravity accelerates you toward the ground because, as you advance through time—or more specifically, as your worldline progresses through time—the local direction in which you advance through time, near and on Earth, is slightly tilted through space toward the planet’s center of mass.
** Health and Human Services Investigation – discussed here. DHS is leading efforts to conduct welfare checks on these children to ensure that they are safe and not being exploited, abused, and sex trafficked,” McLaughlin continued. “Unlike the previous administration, President [Donald] Trump and Secretary Noem take the responsibility to protect children seriously and will continue to work with federal law enforcement to reunite children with their families.” McLaughlin stated that Noem and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “have already reunited nearly 5,000 unaccompanied children with a relative or safe guardian” after former President Joe Biden’s administration lost track of 320,000 unaccompanied migrant children.
** The Rift – (caption) – It’s interesting to see subcomponents of the EU cutting different trade deals with the USA. Some go with the EU flow, and others feel it’s in their best interest to arrive at a fairer arrangement. In almost all cases, they think that the USA owes them something. President Trump assures them that while we will honor our NATO agreement, we’re not their mother. At the same time, conservative movements across Europe and the EU (including the UK) tend to threaten the “new world order” they’ve created. So maybe in the end there won’t be a rift.
** VDH discusses the University system, foreign influence, and government funding. It’s worth a view.
** It’s a Death Cult. They marry religious fanaticism to Alinskyite tactics, and the precious Left is too afraid to state the obvious. When an entire religion’s open statement is “convert or die”, maybe you should believe them? And not let them into your country? Just spitballin here…
Remember the Week
US Navy Maintenance (Fat Leonard revisited)
The “Fat Leonard” scandal involved Leonard Glenn Francis, a Malaysian businessman who bribed numerous US Navy officials with lavish gifts, cash, and prostitutes to secure lucrative contracts for his ship-servicing company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia. In return for the bribes, Navy officials gave Francis classified information, including ship schedules and locations, and helped him steer Navy ships to ports controlled by his company. The scandal led to the arrest and conviction of dozens of Navy officials and contractors, including the first active-duty admiral to be convicted of a felony. You’re right if you think this blog has been on a Navy roll lately. The Navy and its Marine Corps (expeditionary warfare) deserve a greater focus than the Army—not a greater focus than space, though. I’m not saying that the Army is irrelevant. I don’t think that it is. I believe it should be about half its current size, and tactical air responsibilities should be given up by the Air Force and then folded into the Army’s toolbox. The Air Force (air supremacy, strategic bombing, and nuclear deterrence) should focus on its key role, not everything that flies. It doesn’t need its organic special forces contingent (PJs). I’m not anti-PJ in the least, but I don’t think that it’s an Air Force job. The Space Force should focus on lethality in space and defending what assets we have in space from all foreign and domestic enemies.
Back to the Navy. Drydocks, maintenance, and associated industries should not be outsourced to foreign creeps like Fat Leonard. I realize that he provided a better quality of whore, limos and cocaine to corrupt US Navy officers in exchange for lucrative contracts, but its that sort of rot (which is also present in the US Congress) that destroys from within. The scandal referenced laid bare a lot of vulnerabilities. The Navy is an engineering service and operates globally. Engineering/hardware in a combat environment means damage control at sea, repair capacity ashore, and forward deployment with reliable equipment capable of defeating enemy capabilities. DEI should not be a consideration. Trannys need not apply. Freaks and misfits need to be weeded out and discharged. The Marine Corps has done a good job keeping itself clean; the Navy has not.
Naval ship design and deployment have been expensive embarrassments. LCS/Zumwalt, etc., have been unpleasant distractions, and those responsible for these disasters were not held accountable and cashiered. The mess surrounding the redesign of the FREMM frigates is headed in the same direction, and we don’t seem to be able to build enough submarines to meet the present need. Aircraft carriers are only valid because there are submarines to protect them and their air warfare support ships (CGs and DDGs). Without enough submarines, they’re only expensive targets. Of course, submarines have many other critical missions, and they must be purpose-built to achieve them. In the coming war with China, we need to be able to seal off critical waterways with naval mines. They can be delivered by air and surface platforms, but it’s better if they’re placed by submarines (manned/unmanned).
Naval Aviation must be reviewed, and the developed air platforms must have unrefueled range and engine redundancy at the top of the priority list. Can the drones work if the Chinese take out our satellites? If not, it’s best not to put too much stock in drones. They have their place but are vulnerable in a peer/near-peer war. Stealth aircraft (all stealth aircraft) require EXTENSIVE maintenance to fly. That works if you’re fighting bush people in Africa or an isolated Iran, but not in a theater conflict. If you want to put an F-22 into combat, bring three, so you can hope to have one flying at any time. And I haven’t even addressed the spare parts supply chain nightmare. The Air Force says that they’ve got this handled. Right. At sea, everything is three times as difficult.
The Search Continues
…for the Idiot of the month. It’s not easy. There are so many contenders.
The first example comes from the story you probably heard last week: a female fencer refused to compete against a male and was disqualified. The male, Redmond Sullivan –a violator of Simpson’s Rule of Life #146: Never trust someone with two last names – fenced in the previous year as a male, and came in 29th in his last competition. (I’m assuming that that was out of no more than 30 competitors, tops.) But when he switched to “female,” he won.
UNEXPECTEDLY!
Many media outlets called him a “transgender woman,” as well as “her” and “she.” Because, of course, they did. But the outlet that took the prize – I think it’s called “Sports Grail,” but that might be the site that repeated this – used this headline: “Fencer disqualified after she refused to fence with someone she believed was transgender.” She believes him to be a male. Because…wait for it… He’s a Male! You idiots!
But wait, there’s more.
When my girls were in school, they were propagandized to believe that all Indigenous peoples were noble proto-environmentalists, living in Edenic conditions of peace and love until the wicked Europeans invaded and colonized their lands, teaching them the evil ways of capitalism and the Judeo-Christian worldview. Things like, “If we were to give the Black Hills back to the Indians who lived there before whitey showed up, should we give it to the Sioux, or the tribe that the Sioux slaughtered and stole it from, or to the tribe from whom that tribe had stolen it, etc. And, “If the descendants of white southern Democrats who owned slaves should pay reparations, should the black Africans who captured those slaves in the interior of Africa and then took them to the coast and sold them to Arabs or Europeans also be forced to pay reparations? And speaking of the Arabs, how much should they pony up, since they took many more slaves than the Europeans did?”
Slavic people and the Welsh, who are both almost as white as Liz Warren, were some of the most enslaved people in olden times. The word “slave” comes from the word “slav,” and “Wales” and “Welsh” come from a Germanic root meaning “slave.” Anglo-Saxons in western England owned more slaves than those in eastern England, because the west was closer to Wales, where the Welsh/slaves were conveniently nearby.
I saw CBS’s report on a recent discovery of an altar in Guatemala that dates back to Mayan times. The archaeologist who made the discovery reported that the bodies of three young children were found there, and concluded that the site had been used for child sacrifices. CBS could have stopped right there. But then the network would be just “C.” But you can’t have CBS without the “BS.” So they found an “expert” to parachute in and correct any impression that perhaps the altar builders might have had just a dusting of “bloodthirsty child murdering” along with all of their lovely, indigenous ways.
Enter (right) María Belén Méndez – she has three accents over the vowels in her name, so you know that she’s super credible – who is identified as “an archaeologist who was not involved with the project” says that the nasty stuff at the altar was just a part of the native religion’s reverence for the sun and moon: “[The child sacrifice] was a practice; it’s not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.” (You hear similar claims about the Aztec festivals during which the mostly peaceful brown folks ripped the hearts out of their living victims, or beheaded them by the thousands, and then rolled the heads down the steps of their temples…. But only because they wanted to ensure a good harvest, you see.) Ummm…. I’m no child-sacrifice-ologist, but I’m pretty sure that whatever else you might say about people who murdered toddlers on an altar, you can’t credibly say, “it’s not that they were violent…” By the way, do you think these cultural apologists would EVER say, “It’s not that the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition were violent. They wanted to find out who the heretics were.”
Identify the Aircraft
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Parting Shot
Age and lethality…
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Identify the Aircraft:
1. Supermarine Type 508
2. Supermarine Swift
3. Boeing Insitu MQ-27 ScanEagle
4. Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck
Wow. That was faster than I expected.
Fat Leonard – I asked one of my first Div-O’s who advanced to a high rank and with who (whom?) I stayed in touch with , about Fat Leonard . He kind of skirted around the subject , said he knew of him , but had not dealt with him and we went back to talking about GMT 400 Trucks we both own . It was not something he wanted to talk about . I am sure he was not involved , but saw it as an embarrassment .
Bar girls in Olangapo and up the hill in Subic City could tell you your ships schedule , with incredible accuracy . Never play pool with them , hours of boredom made them expert sharks at the game , they will run the table . Funny thing too , watch a 3 stooges movie with them and they will laugh to the point of tears , very good , fun loving people .
The bar girl culture in Asia (PI and elsewhere) is widely misunderstood in the West. Anyone who has taken time to get to know them will come away with an understanding of the girls, of mamasan and her role, and their broader role in Asian (Confucian) societies. When traveling in Asia, I have routinely brought things they value with me, both to give to mamasan and to offer as prizes in pai gow, majong, or whatever they’re gambling on at the time, including billiards. There is a genetic disposition toward gambling in Asia that borders on illness, and when somebody offers a prize for victory, they like it. Johnny Walker (Black or Blue label) could be purchased at the PX for very little, and a gift to mamasan (which she would resell at exorbitant prices) was always a good opener.
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You’re right, Boats, never gamble with the girls. They’ll win. It’s more enjoyable to watch them compete against each other.
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In a place where marriages are arranged and the pressure of family is intense, bar girls are more like psychologists and entertainers – a relief valve – in society than they are whores. There is the sexual dynamic, of course, but their place in society runs very deep. Unless they’re addicts, most of the money they earn goes back to Mom and Dad in the village to buy a cow or to improve their shack. When they’re finished as bar girls, and that career has run its course, they go home and marry a local boy.
That was my impression of the bar girls outside Clark AB, Philippines, too. Some were certainly damaged, but I suspect many of those were damaged before they left home. It was still entertaining to gamble small things with them, so long as you understood you were almost certainly going to lose. It was also occasionally entertaining to flip the tables on them and take them bowling on base.
That reminds me of an incident involving a deaf-mute bar girl. She, of course, knew sign language, but it wasn’t ASL. Instead, she played the 20 questions game with pen and paper. She’d been chatting up this one guy for a while that I knew from another radio shop in the Comms Group, not for the first time, I think, when a couple of other guys came into the bar. This guy had been good friends with one of them back in tech school, and he’d been assigned to Wallace Air Station, well north of us up at San Fernando on the South China Sea. There was much laughing and back-slapping, and then he made clear to the bar girl he was going with his old friend. She was kind of peeved and wrote, “Who is that? Is that your he-bitch?” That provoked a lot of laughter and became that poor sap’s new nickname. It followed him back to Wallace via the buddy he’d come down to Clark with, and then through the grapevine to his next assignment in the UK, where he was greeted warmly in his new shop as He-Bitch. :D
Regarding stealth (F-22, F-35, B-2 plus whatever else lurks in the shadows) aircraft, I thought these were ‘kick down the door’ weapons for use at the beginning of hostilities to open the way for the bomb trucks (B-52, B-1, F-15, F-16, F-18)?
There are different schools of thought. I may not be qualified to answer (though I will), and the USAF types, such as EdB, can overrule me. There is a definite advantage to deploying a stealth platform that can launch a longer-range (beyond visual) missile, such as an AAMRAM, to take out an enemy fighter in an attempt to achieve air supremacy. I guess that’s how they kick down the door. Used in conjunction with the EW aircraft (F-18G, for example) that can fool enemy SAMs and radar, they’ve been successfully used by Israel, most notably because they’ve been doing most of the shooting with live weapons against advanced Russian platforms in the Middle East.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, it brought its best equipment along and lost it. CIA teams in the country purchased it, boxed it up, and shipped it home for evaluation. Those results are naturally classified, and I’m not privy to them. The point is, in 2025, the USAF/USN/USMC have an excellent idea about what works against Russian hardware and what doesn’t. Iran bought their stuff. Oooops. So, stealth is magnified by an order of magnitude, having already fought against the opposing equipment and having been evaluated in realistic scenarios.
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Stealth doesn’t work if the enemy can see you visually, so it’s a stand-off advantage. Vectored thrust and other fly-by-wire features to modern aircraft give them some exotic features in air combat maneuvering, but their stealth aspects work against them to some extent. If you’re close enough for an AIM-9 to get a lock on your heat signature, the stealth value is zero.
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In my limited experience, the maintenance problems associated with these 5th Gen aircraft, along with the significant expense involved in flying them, are very substantial. It’s consistently underplayed to the public. So they may kick down the door in their way and pave the way for “bomb trucks” once the SAMs and their associated radar systems are degraded. But it’s a lot more complicated than that against a near peer IMHO.
I’m no expert, but I do know that was the thinking in Europe during the Cold war. The waves of stealth would take out the Russian air defense and leave room for air superiority behind.
Maintenance cost is high but is getting lower for Low Observable (LO) products and treatments. Techniques, tools and experience come into play.
The big benefits I observe (frequently) for LO airborne platforms is the combined ability to get in closer while undetected, use “enabling technologies” to gather and distribute information otherwise not obtainable by conventional means and launch attacks/defense from an undetected (SURPRISE!) angle.
To a certain degree, I agree, they are the “door kicker” allowing eventual access by less-enabled products. Bigger non-LO platforms may handle more sensors and distribution mechanisms but cannot “take the fight to the enemy” like a LO platform can and are big targets (HVAA).
Staying out of visual detection range is ideal, otherwise it degrades into a “knife fight in a telephone booth”. Not optimal, but the improved maneuverability and speed of some (F-22) 5th Gen gives options for E&E.
The “SURPRISE” factor in combination with data distribution/data sharing makes 5th Gen/LO the tool that it is.
IMHO.
Finally: I was maintaining aircraft at Edwards AFB when the YF-22, YF-23, and B-2 were first flown. Some of the aircraft I worked on were chase for these milestone platforms.
That last paragraph, regarding maintenance hoggishness of 5th gen aircraft and stealth aircraft, are why the USAF is doing the whole F-15 missile truck thingy. Have the stealthy aircraft identify targets, have the F-15s fire from way out of range.
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This is nothing new. When the F-22 first came online, the USAF worked with using the F-22 as bird-dogs and F-15s as launch vehicles far behind the F-22s. And it works. Tom Clancy wrote about it in “Debt of Honor.”
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What’s galling is that the USN gave away the range of both the F-14 and the Phoenix for the much shorter range of the F/A-18 and the AMRAAM. And they have no real plan to go back to long-range warfare. Dumbasses
Oh, I totally agree on the loss of range with the F-18. The Navy NGAD is supposed to have a whopping 25% increase in range.
I can’t wait to see if the BUFF will become a bomb truck. Imagine the number of AIM-174 missiles that could be carried. Lots of big things, and the BUFF has the space in the airframe for lots of electronics. Offensive and otherwise…
One of the more interesting concepts to replace the F-14 Tomcat as a long-range missile fighter was to… have land-based Navy-owned B-1B-s. Seriously, Lancers. Outfitted with Phoenix missiles. Internally each B-1 could carry something like 20 Phoenix missiles. And a set of Harpoon anti-ship missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles. Just internally.
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Think about that. Long range. Stealth. Huge capacity.
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Targeting supplied by various means, from AEGIS systems afloat to AWACs to fighter aircraft.
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Could have been a neat concept.
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And, of course, it was one of the things proposed for the mighty War Hoover. Turn the S-3 Viking or it’s modernized and widened C-3 COD (the Viking as a cargo/multi-purpose aircraft) into a missile truck, with, yes, potential to carry upgraded Phoenix or other long-range missiles. But, no, Big Navy got rid of the Viking and didn’t pick up the C-3 COD version.
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Then there’s the Super-Tomcat. Yes, the upgraded Tomcat design basically built with more modern tech and systems that the Navy could have had, which could have taken the Tomcat and turned it into a 4+ Gen semi-stealth long-range fighter/attack craft.
Whom. Objective case, object of the preposition, “with.”
Grammar Nazi ObersturmfUhrer,
Thank You Sir ! Thought so , it was early . freind and friend , receive and recieve , backspace and retype every time . I pride myself on grammar . Then and than are commonly misused these days , and makes it past editors , pisses me off to no end .
“[The child sacrifice] was a practice; it’s not that they were violent, it was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.”
In other words, ” Mostly peaceful ritual murder ” .
EXACTLY! No sacrifice of somebody else’s child is too great if it will appease the gods (small G).
The 3 Accent She/Her is demented…did she go to an American University ‘not’ Hillsdale? Funny how so-called academics manage to torture logic so badly they can justify their whacked theories that are opposite of moral truth. But…PhD…says a lot. Maybe she got a USAID grant.
HOW DARE YOU! Dr. María Belén Méndez, PhD (Ethnic Grievance Studies) is a multi-axis minority (female, Hispanic, likely also a lesbian but who knows?) and a noted academic intellectual. She has the same sort of standing in the Swamp as U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg, darling of CNN and MSNBC, friend of Soros (whose name spelled backwards is also soroS). You can only aspire to be as cool as Boasberg, Belén-Méndez, or future California Governor Kamala Harris-Emhoff.
It’s not murder if you call it abortion. It’s not murder if Planned Parenthood does it.
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No. It’s murder.
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And stopping the quaint custom of killing people (especially children) to appease one’s big daddy figure is abhorrent and totally justified the Conquistadors smashin and killing and stomping those murderous bastards into non-existence.
“a total loss of over $35 million.”
Even adjusted for inflation, that’s a rounding error compared to the ridiculous, and in some cases literally demonic, stuff we’re paying for.
True…yet…”count the penny’s and the dollars will take care of themselves” comes to mind. In this case $35B is the penny’s…it all adds up one amount at a time.
Heard some media goofball spouting off that Honduras or Botswana or ‘some tiny island” country (can’t recall) had a total (smallish) GDP of ‘x’ and tariffs on that ONE nation would have no appreciable affect. (Notice the Left always finds “the one” exception then harps on it ad infinitum. Self serving.)
Add them all up and ya got something to talk about.
That’s the number CHARGED in the indictments, which means it can be proved in court. I suspect that the actual numbers are an order of magnitude higher. I cited the quoted numbers, not my speculated (closer to actual) amounts. In terms of military equipment, $35M is a rounding error. The embarrassment to the Navy was the whores, limos and cocaine that greased the skids all the way to the top.
More places to clean house, as it were. Multiculturalism and diversity (whatever those are in the real world) corrupt everything they invade like locusts. I want a strong and tidy respectable Navy, not an Animal House in serious need of repair and a paint job.
“The embarrassment to the Navy”
Yeah, I get it. The destruction of reputation and trust is far worse than $35 million, or even $350 million.
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It may say something bad about my moral perspective, but I’m less outraged that our politicians let themselves be bribed, than I’m disgusted that they sell out FOR SO LITTLE.
The appeal of whores, limos and cocaine in terms of #bribed cheaply is widely accepted as currency inside the Beltway.
Go outside when it’s snowing and see how small the snowflakes are. Then go to a mountain and see an avalanche. Little things can add up :)
Weight: That explains why some days I feel heavier than others, I’m accelerating towards the inevitable sudden stop at the end of my trajectory. Today I feel lighter so maybe the elevator has slowed some…or the barometer quickly changed as it it inevitably does this time of year.
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The EU is trying to make a deal with China…bad enough with Russia, but now the “Leadership” has decided…like our Democrats here…having reached the bottom, to continue to dig the hole deeper and can’t stop themselves. [pass the popcorn]
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As with the above comment, The Left is getting more lunatic, no need to stop them. They’d rather champion an MS-13 foreign reprobate (a media driven distraction), or that stunt with a gaggle of female (yes, actual females) attention seeker “passengers” (they were not crew) in blue jumpsuits that took a ten minute ride in a capsule. Some say it was staged, but no matter, Captain Kirk/Shatner did it last year at 90-something so…yawn…flying in an airline doesn’t make me an F18 ace because I sat in a seat with my beverage service while the captain flew the plane. So we should sit back [with our popcorn] and let them drive off their self-made cliff. Riley Gains is a better champion for woman (and some modern men) than Katy Perry or that narcissistic Gayle Whatsherface.
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Parting Shot: Quigley Down Under.
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The “This Week” montage: Gives one serious pause. Thank you for the visual…especially the last panel.
+1. “Just because I’m old doesn’t mean you’re out of range.
You can run but you’ll only die tired.
I’m stealing that.
(Seems there are quite a few ‘targets’ on the Left, having no idea they put themselves in the crosshairs, believing they are out in front prevailing. Works for me.)
O/T: Since when did Carhartt become a negro brand? Or was it always, and I just didn’t know. I thought it was a brand known for durable work clothes.
I just boarded a plane for a zombie (past dying) rust belt city and two young negroes and an actual Semite (some MENA guy with a honker bigger than Adrian Brody’s) just slouched aboard. Carhartt hoodies (huge logo across the chest) with hoods up (of course), dead eyed expressions, tryna look deadly en shit. It’s all so tiresome.
Are you accusing those at-risk inner-city youth of cultural appropriation? If Barack (only half negro) can wear a cowboy hat in public, why can’t his half-people wear clothing more often worn by working Americans (working beyond the effort necessary to sell drugs is not a regular feature of at-risk inner-city people)?
Just spreading hatred and discontent as usual. The At-Risk Yoof turned out to be well behaved, including Discount Adrian Brody. The guy behind me however turned out to be a fidgety, F-bomb spewing annoyance who was literally kicking my seat. Whiteboy by voice. Visually verified on deplaning. Despite the deep would-be “alpha” pitch, little guy in late teens or maybe very early 20’s, looked like Bud Bundy from the Married TV show, traveling with his momma. Sigh.
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After I got off the plane a little old lady intercepted me. She’d taken my bag, and I had hers. I THOUGHT “my” bag wasn’t where I’d put it, but between <4h sleep and recovering from some URI I figured I’d simply misremembered. What are the odds of two khaki green Briggs & Riley rollaboards? It’s not as if lots of people have B&R. (And yes, I know. Apparently I have the style sense of a little old lady. In my defense I will say that I got my B&R for $20CDN at a London (Morontario) thrift shoppe. 😀
War Story: I arrested a mobster named Pete Carrasone in Newport Beach circa 1992. Prior to the arrest while in a room at the Newport Back Bay Marriott, one of his phone calls was to the actor who played Bud Bundy. “Bundy” complained on the call that mobster Pete gave him a bad case of anal warts. (ick). I’m just reporting the call, not judging the accuracy of the information conveyed. Pete was an accessory after the fact to the murder of Spencer Watts (aka Scorgioni Platerno) – a black man who always yearned to be Italian — in San Bernardino, CA on Labor Day of that year. In the case at hand, Octavio Romero fired a crossbow bolt into the top of Watts’ skull from point blank range. The wound, while garish was not fatal. Watts stood up and said, “Tavo, I have a bad headache.” Octavio then fired a dozen rounds at (some hit) Watts, one cutting his aorta.
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Buying your luggage at the same recycler old ladies use…
“a bad case of anal warts”
This seems to imply that there’s such a thing as a GOOD case of anal warts.
Must be a Hollywood thing.
I called David (Bud) Faustino, identified myself, and gave him the Orange County DA switchboard number. I then had him call that number so they could transfer him to me, demonstrating my bona fides. I asked him about his relationship with the mobster (about the same age). He said that they met at a Hollywood party, smoked way too much weed, drank too much Oh-be-Joyful, popped some pills, and that was it. I tend to believe almost all of what he told me at the time. I didn’t bring up the recorded phone call (still in evidence as far as I know because it was a homicide case).
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Hollywood is best known as a place to share/exchange STDs.
** can’t say I know any Albertans, but back in the mid to late ’60s a number of people I’d met in southern Manitoba were already discussing (quite seriously) becoming a part of the “North-Central U.S.”
** speaking of/thinking about “child sacrifice”, we’re currently “baby-sitting” my daughter’s 6 year-old son (extreme hyperactivity runs in the males)
** except for the plethora of trees, this almost reminds me of eastern North Dakota (stand on top of the tallest building in Grand Forks and see all the way over into Montana
don’t’ know why this came in as a reply to you???
One of my grandsons, who was particularly attached to his mother, just stopped nursing when I was asked to watch him. He had a cry that I labeled “the tarydactyl screach.” He cried for two hours without letup. I thought that he’d cry himself to sleep, but no. He’ll graduate from Jr. Highschool next month and is far past the tarydactyl phase — but I remember.
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Where is an Aztek high priest when you need one?
Same with the Dickies brand. Or even Levi Strauss. All once were clothing of the working class. Now? Uniforms of the elite leftists and murderous ghetto-thugs.
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Nothing is more galling as seeing some unwashed hippie druggie ‘female’ with stringy dirty hair, at least 4 face piercings, proudly sporting it’s Carhart beanie.
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Fire. Fire sterilizes. Much fire. Many more fire. Klause, bring me the flamwerfer!
Have you seen the cost of Carhartt clothing? $25.00 bucks for one T-shirt, that hoodie those two miscreants and a semite to be named later was at least $65.oo bucks! I can’t afford to buy Carhartt anymore, I bought two Wrangler T-shirts recently for $12.00 bucks a piece and Ithought that was pricy!
Canada is an interesting subject.
When it comes to Alberta, I remember how the provincial government of Alberta persecuted Arthur Pawloski
But if I were in Western Canada and I looked at Eastern Canada and saw the invasion of those from India and Bangladesh I would wonder if I was a part of the same nation.
Huh. Now I’m listening to Tucker Carlson interview Maxime Bernier about Canada. And Alberta leaving is being discussed.
He thinks it’s a real possibility although he’d rather see the nation united. I think it’s in Alberta’s best interest to leave what’s become of the Eastern half of Canada.
They really do need a Trump figure there.
Proving that those in modern government are completely “misguided” (polite term, it’s Resurrection week) when it comes to governing, they believe reinventing the stalwart standard is somehow their genius legacy. They see themselves as God’s gift of brilliance to society, that if, left alone would do vastly better without their meddling.
When a good chunk of your nation is discussing leaving…that’s a clue. (Same with The State of Jefferson proponents that have been battling the Morons in Charge wrecking their part of the state.)
The State of Jefferson people have been at it for a long time…in 1941 they were in a good position to proceed with a divide, and they left So.Oregon on Saturday to meet with State officials on Monday Dec.8. Never recovered. I interacted with some of their Oregon officials several times in 2016?. Not gonna happen with that group. Left the crazies behind shortly after that. Watching from Arizona now, it seems like ‘greater Idaho’ crowd has more of their s*#t together.
The protracted SoJ ‘battle’ was their downfall…good concept bad (tough) execution.
Ed, I’m closely following developments in Alberta. The Eastern Canadians are still punking them, and I don’t think it’s funny to them anymore. There is a question of numbers in terms of a referendum, but they might be able to split the sheets. They have the money to do it and all that’s required is the will. The communists in Eastern Canada are helping them find the backbone. I suspect something short of joining the US in statehood will happen, but I wouldn’t rule out their becoming a US territory.
Trade them Washington state…please. Apparently just passed a law that the Statehouse et al has implicit authority over everyone in the state during an emergency, as defined by them (think Covid, only on steroids). Washington State government…reached bottom and still digging (well, them all watching ‘Bob’ dig with a gun to his head)
If you add Orygun and Caliwhatever to Washboard, I’ll back y’
Agreed. They’re insane, the whole lot of them. It’d be be nice to visit Canmore without a passport…Last of the Dogmen got me thinking about the area.
In a couple days it will be the anniversary of Lexington and Concord where some people had their fill of government oppression and just started shooting the oppressors.
I don’t know why that came to mind….
Follow the practice already set. Become a territory and then prove your economic, military and political worth and then become a state. That will give time for the US to absorb them while also giving them time to absorb US customs and laws. Basically like being engaged before being married.
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Same with Greenland when we acquire it. Territory first, prove they can handle statehood and make them a state. Or just leave as a territory. Small population but incredible economic possibilities
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Then look at the other territories, closely, for reasons to keep them as territories, up them to statehood or cut them loose.
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Which, of course, brings us to Puerto Rico. They can’t even keep the lights on, as they are currently, or just getting over, an island-wide blackout. Corrupt, a money sink, full of ungrateful non-English speakers who hate the US. Definitely on the ‘Cut them loose’ list.
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All other territories? I’d keep them, as territories. Hell, even nuked, gassed, polluted, bird-shit-covered Johnston Atoll is more useful than Puerto Rico since the Ricans stopped the USN from using one of the outlying islands for gunnery practice.
I agree. Puerto Ricans only want to milk the US. There’s no love at all. Just a big scam. Time to let them go their own way.
But most Puerto Ricans live in New York City.
Cut Puerto Rico loose. And then send all the Ricans home.
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Seriously, if they want statehood they need to prove it. If they want independence they need to just go away, all of them.
Puerto Rico wants statehood to solidify the scam on the US Treasury more fully. I haven’t seen anything that would suggest otherwise. They deserve their independence. No more birthright citizenship for them.
I don’t normally go for black powder stuff, but that is one seriously beautiful Sharps. Do want.
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There was a time, early on and until maybe the seventies or so, where if a nominally free Western Europe was to survive, NATO had to be propped up by the might and treasure of these here United States. But it seems to me that Western Europe have for many decades been financially capable of paying their fair share and morally degenerate for not doing so. Morally degenerate to the point of abdicating/abandoning their individual strengths whilst embracing other culture’s weaknesses. If “you” want to call whatever those are “cultures” of course. Not sure I do. Now perhaps they think the morally bankrupt Chinese are gonna save them. Right. Of course they do. Anyway. The essential question is: Is Western Europe self-salvageable? And if not, what part then should these here United States play in their salvation, yet again, if any?
We are (were, now DOGE’d)…sending billions to England for some sort of asinine nonsense, a nation plenty wealthy enough WTP do not need our [confiscated and abused] tax dollars propping up their clubhouse. Likely some backroom payoff deal that saw kickbacks to those involved on both sides of The Pond.
The tale is yet to run on all that. Can France incarcerate conservative politicians endlessly? Can Germany? The British worm may be turning since surprisingly they’ve just discovered that there is a difference between men and women. Will the UK become the first Islamic country with a nuclear weapon?
As long as I can watch Clarkson Farm and The New Grand Tour without interruption (and Jules…yeah…another Brit we can count on)…assuming they don’t end up blowing the country to smithereens trying to build some nuke with DEI hires.
But what about the Yukon? What say those people on joining the US?
Once the first domino falls, there will be more—Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and possibly the Yukon. If you’ve driven or walked around Vancouver recently, you’ll see that it bears little resemblance to the Canada of my youth. So maybe BC with a big, beautiful wall separating it from Vancouver? Vancouver may decide to become part of the People’s Republic of China.
Pretty much all the western provinces would be easy to absorb and probably good overall for them to turn them into territories, if they’re willing.
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All have abundant natural resources and mostly people that would make good citizens (can we have Canada keep Vancouver???)
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Nova Scotia and Newfoundland might be acceptable, maybe. Both have access to natural resources but both have a lot of leftist subjects and might be an overall pain-in-the-buttocks to try to absorb.
Being a dedicated land hugger, I usually give the Navy a passing thought, except when razzing cousins who served. That has changed with a granddaughter’s boyfriend becoming a nuclear engineer (excuse me if I get the terminology wrong – he graduated a 52 month school) assigned to the SSBN Pennsylvania. That sub is currently in dry dock in Bremerton still waiting for spares and unable to sortie. To keep the crews somewhat sea ready, they take short deployments on other subs, usually two months.
Prior to the overhaul, dry docks in Bremerton and Bangor had to be rebuilt (again) to accommodate Ohio class subs.
That surprises me. Back when Bangor was being built, I was marginally involved in building a roof for one of the docks, among other infrastructure, and the Ohio was the first sub to arrive.
As for the Army, when I served 63-66 in Germany, much of our equipment (float bridge company) was WWII vintage, including trucks with patched bullet holes.
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Giving neglect of maintenance leads to morale problems. If the enlisted swine stops giving a s**t, ain’t none of it going to work properly. Start diverting (or stealing) money for food will almost guarantee the SP 4 mafia will make life miserable for the brass. https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/02/14/over-151-million-taken-soldiers-paychecks-food-costs-spent-elsewhere-army.html#:~:text=%22It's%20just%20returned%20to%20the,BAS%20money%20collected%20from%20soldiers.
Let us hope Hegseth can’t reverse the wrong course all the military branches have taken. He must see scores of REMFs face court martial, IMO.
Hegseth will… he’s a no BS type forged in the medium, and now has a chance to make the difference he discussed for years. So far so good…but patience as the Queen Mary-level inertia is overcome and steered in the right direction. Once momentum starts it’ll build.
** The call in Alberta, Canada, to separate itself from the rest of Canada is becoming more strident
Yes, yes it is.
If Carney is re-elected, I think Alberta will leave. If not, they’ll try to work it out. And the election is next week. So we’ll see.
When I was working at a local state university in the admissions office, back in the late 1980’s, every male and lots of females from Communist China were either active or inactive military members. And they were coming in droves. It was so bad I got to calling the university, under my breathe of course, The University of Beijing in Gainesville. The ChiComs didn’t come over here without having gone through some military service. Every one of them. EVERY ONE OF THEM.
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So those who say “Communist China isn’t trying to infiltrate the US” have been ignoring what’s been going on for over 30 years, probably over 40 years. Military-age (and trained) students, who have access to US weapons and to legally rent storage units and buildings, buy cars and property. And that’s not counting the large and increasing number of military age ChiComs coming in illegally.
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We’ve been infiltrated and invaded for a long time. Our political ‘masters’ have just ignored or sponsored said infiltration and invasion, often for boatloads of cash.
That’s why all visas for PRC or PRC client state students must be canceled immediately.
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University of California Irvine = UCI = University of Chinese Immigrants. Same as your obs.
When I was taking my undergraduate and graduate nursing at Portland State University there was a lot of Chinese students back then, 1984 to 1989. I wonder if I saw Mike_C there… I mostly remember they were in the STEM and Mathematic courses. I didn’t interact with many of them, I couldn’t understand the jilted and broken English they spoke and they were quite shy around Americans.