In an alternate timeline, Commander Ilyana Rossa (right) commands a covert unit stationed on the distant Starbase “Vega 17.” A fierce tactical specialist and intelligence operative, she’s as lethal as she is elegant. Today, she patrols the corridors, ready for any threat, her gaze steely and unyielding—yet carrying an air of mystery.
You may be asking yourself why all the women in the future are hot space chicks. Simple: They’re all robots, and running around with exposed thermoplastic skin on a space station is no different than wearing a more traditional uniform. The question of whether future bots will be comfortable in their skin is one that I can’t tackle here in 2024 when Musk is still working on the I-Robot-like Optimus models. They shouldn’t need EVA suits if they leave the spacecraft. And no, I have no idea whether androids dream of electric sheep.
Bullet Points:
** What happens when the B-52 arc lights your position by mistake? I know the Zoomies here on the blog will assert that the USAF never makes mistakes. But you know.
** Pro Tip – Don’t go Christmas caroling in a psychiatric hospital. The “Do you hear what I hear?” thing doesn’t work as well as it might elsewhere.
** Pete Hegseth, in his own words: “Americanism has been President Trump’s mantra and must be ours. Regardless of our color, gender, creed, or class— we are Americans, dammit. We will not apologize for it. Never. And we’re not Republicans or even conservatives’ those small, boring, and limiting labels won’t suffice anymore— not even close. We are Americans; only a full investment in Americanism can save our country. The Republican Party, by default, has become the only party of America— they must embrace this… or we will leave them, too.”
** According to an Air Force release, the Air Force will begin removing its A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft from Osan Air Base, South Korea, in January 2025. Osan Air Base is the Warthog’s last location overseas. The aircraft’s removal will mark the end of its run abroad. There are currently 24 A-10 aircraft stationed at Osan Air Base, and they are all slated for withdrawal by the end of fiscal 2025. The USAF generals hate the Warthog, but the rest of us love them and the people who fly them and get into the battle space with us.
** There is a big flap in DC over Pres. Trump’s selection of Matt Gaetz as his attorney general pick allegedly does not meet “Washington’s standards.” Those standards include Eric Holder, who openly defied a congressional subpoena; Loretta Lynch, who discussed Hillary’s case with Bill in plain sight days before the dropping of all charges against his wife; and the detestable Merrick Garland, who jailed hundreds of Trump supporters. DC fears retribution for a decade of prosecutorial persecution of Trump and his team. I am not a fan of Gaetz, who I consider to be a wingnut — but President Trump should assemble the team he wants to carry out his agenda. The Swamp is unhappy. But it’s the Swamp.
West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito, a former Cherry Blossom Princess in DC when her daddy was a congressman, is up for re-election in 2026. (Murkowski is another former Cherry Blossom Princess. Same reason.) She might want to consult Liz Cheney on what opposition to Donald Trump can do to a Republican.
** UK drawdown – Soon, there won’t be anything left to drawn-down from (h/t Claudio)
** Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth.
The Gates Vaccine
The FDA has approved the first phase of human trials for a self-amplifying mRNA bird flu vaccine developed by Arcturus Therapeutics, funded by the US government and the Gates Foundation. This vaccine, targeting the H5N1 virus, introduces an enzyme prompting cells to produce more mRNA, leading to sustained antigen production. Experts warn that this could lead to prolonged immune activation and unknown health risks.
Epidemiologist Dr. Nicolas Hulscher described the FDA’s approval as an opportunity for Arcturus to “experiment with injecting humans with H5N1 bird flu replicon mRNA.” The clinical study is funded by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of HHS focused on pandemic preparedness. Arcturus also recently received a $928,563 grant from the Gates Foundation, which has long supported mRNA research.
Writing on Substack, immunologist and biochemist Jessica Rose, Ph.D., said the new vaccine has “major red flags.” She told The Defender, “Self-amplifying mRNA products should not be used. This is an absolute disaster waiting to happen.”
According to Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at Children’s Health Defense, “Arcturus’ self-replication platform has all the hazards of the other synthetic modified mRNA wrapped in a lipid nanoparticle, just much worse. With self-replication, it can become immortal, forever antagonizing your — or your fetus’ — immune system with antigens.”
The Transition (not tranny)
(Post) “Since his victory, Trump has ignored many rules and practices intended to guide a seamless transfer of power and handover of the oversight of 2.2 million federal employees. Instead, the president-elect, who has pledged to fire thousands of civil servants and slash billions of dollars in spending, has almost fully cut out the government agencies his predecessors have relied on to take charge of the federal government.”
The tail has wagged the dog, the dog’s owner, and the doghouse.
The Post said, “As his team considers hundreds of potential appointees for key jobs, he’s so far declined to let the Federal Bureau of Investigation check for potential red flags and security threats to guard against espionage — instead relying on private campaign lawyers for some appointees and doing no vetting at all for others. Trump’s transition team is considering moving on his first day in office to give those appointees blanket security clearances, according to people familiar with the discussions who spoke anonymously to disclose private conversations.”
Trump won’t let the FBI — an organization that openly defied him in his first presidency — investigate his nominees. They raided his home and confiscated 100,000 documents, falsely claiming that 100 were classified.
A federal judge finally threw the bogus charges out of court.
The Post said, “Trump’s transition team has also dispensed with the FBI’s role, in place since before World War II, in performing the background checks that form the backbone of security clearances for political appointees. By law, federal employees must perform these checks, not private contractors with no agency oversight, to ensure that key public trust decisions are made by ‘accountable government officials,’ according to federal statute.” (you should read the whole article at the link – Pres. Trump is doing it legally, but his way, not the way that the Swamp wants him to.
Oprah DENIED
…receiving payments from the Ho for her endorsement. Here are the campaign filings showing that Oprah is a big, ample-bodied liar.
Given the Caption Art, ID the Airplane
1
2
3
Two views – should be very EZ
4
Back when US Military jets were colorful
Yes, too EZ
5
Three graphics to aid your ID
Identify the Ship
6
You’ll need a hint because they do look a lot alike—the first warship in history to be sunk by a guided weapon.
Parting Shot
No taxation without deportation.
End
3 is Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen
4 is Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
5 is Piasecki X-49 “SpeedHawk compound helicopter
6 is Italian battleship Roma sunk by Germans after Italy surrendered.
(1) SM-79 Sparviero.
(2) AH-1Z Super Sea Cobra / Viper.
(3) SAAB Viggen.
(4) A-4 Skyhawk.
(5) Piasecki X-49 Speedhawk.
(6) RM battleship Roma.
*
– Kle.
ID the Airplane:
1. Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero
2. Bell AH-1Z Viper
3. Saab SF 37 Viggen first photo, AJS 37 second photo
4. Douglas A-4M Skyhawk
5. Piasecki X-49 SpeedHawk
Identify the Ship:
6. Roma
Surly gave the more complete answer but everyone did a good job.
Not meeting their standards. They say that like it’s a bad thing. As their standards produce a series of increasingly malodorous swamp gas I think skipping them once in a while would be a positive.
Their standards are simply this, “If you rig the system for me, you’re perfect for the job.” Hopefully Gaetz won’t rig anything and he’ll be an honest broker. I don’t know that he’s capable of doing that, but it’s important that we give the guy enough rope to do the job – or hang himself.
The swamp ain’t gonna drain itself.
I’m not sure that Gaetz has the gravitas to pull the plug. He’s a wild man. I do not doubt his character in that respect. He’s a trust fund baby, and while that’s also true of Trump and RFKjr, he lacks the scars and bullet holes that we need from a real monster that’s required to be President Trump’s AG. We need Godzilla. Maybe he will grow into the role. Or perhaps the swamp will roll him. If he fails, he has enough of Daddy’s money to see him through the rest of his days. That always worries me. To fall back to history (and art), James Braddock, a genuine boxer, made a comeback, and in 1935, he fought Max Baer for the world heavyweight championship and won. For this unlikely feat, he was given the nickname “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon. (good film by the same name). Baer fought for fame, and Braddock fought for milk to feed his children. We need an AG who is like the third monkey on the ramp to the Ark when the rain falls heavy on his head. Is that Gaetz? We will soon find out.
People asked me how I went from being a poor country kid to where I am today. I explained that I worked as if every day was my last day (you’re only as good as your last game), and I’d be chopped if I didn’t deliver. I fought for milk. There was and is no safety net for me. LSP and I were on the phone last night talking about London and other topics. He asked if I’d fly there later this year for a week and hang out. I said that I had no idea where I’d be at that time – but – if I have a week to blow in London, it means I’ve failed to achieve. That’s just how my mind works. Even my vacations must have a purpose beyond me wasting time. There is no safety net.
With as many “I can change reality with the words I speak” types in DC, maybe siccing a loose mouth cannon on the lot will separate the wheat from the chaff.
Or, it could just be a head fake by Trump.
It could be either. Gaetz resigned from Congress recently to avoid the presentation of findings on a sexual misconduct allegation. He’s hoping the AG nomination will pass or he’ll go home to live on the old man’s money. Pres. Pres. Trump could be using it to draw fire from other nominees.
And now Gaetz has withdrawn his nomination. Wonder what that was all about…
I think that the sexual misconduct allegations were going to be ugly and provable.
He resigned from THIS congress, still own his seat. Might get interesting.
Geez LL, no fair between the two pictures, draw us in with Pic1 (yet another fit but super tough gal hero that defies reality) then hammer the eyeballs with that degenerate goofball in Pic2. Not fair first thing.
-Ps. Watching Lioness, finished S1…it’s good…but exhausting to watch (how they hay does Sheridan know to write this stuff? The guy is a mutant). While I get the story line premise…I do…Jill Wagner’s character is believable as the Navy Seal turned CIA Special Op, but the ‘Asset” needs to eat a few cheeseburgers.
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Goetz – Well now, let’s show America the files on EVERYONE in Congress, this garbage against him is fabricated. I like the guy, in fact PE-DJT needs to get a few more “wingnuts” to add into the mix in order to keep the Dem’s nutzoid and distracted. Heck, find a spot for MTG, that’ll get ’em going. In-Your-Face works for me.
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More mRNA? Just peachy, another Not-A-Vax Culling Agent funded by Gates and his evil FedGov partners? What could possibly go wrong. And why the hay are We The People funding this crap?
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Sidebar: Last night’s Commissioner Hearing in Bucks County was refreshing…targeting that Dem Operative – arguably the most famous county commissioner in the world – Chair Diane Ellis-Marseglia (weirdly dressed in canary yellow). Residents – to her smug face – stated they will be filing a lawsuit against her for violating election laws. She then tried to warm it all over by saying she was misunderstood. Main sentiment: “Sorry toots, not working this time around, you said what you said, time to pack your bags…you work for us.”
I’m glad that you enjoyed Lioness. Season 1 had more tradecraft in it than Season 2 (to date, I don’t know how it will end). The complaint with Season 1 was a lack of constant action and he worked to compensate for that in Season 2. In Season 2 he didn’t have to spend time to develop characters in the same way as Season 1 and he wrote himself into the first episode of S2, as you’ll see. I think that it holds together in the same way that his other productions have. I expect a Season 3, but I do no know where he’ll take it. People advise him on technical details (same with Sicario), and he listens, so it works.
Here’s what struck me…two aspects:
1) That highly trained “personnel” had to be at the ready to “move” when called but sit and wait, sometimes for days, until the call to action comes in. I go bonkers waiting. But also shows that high levels of training makes a machine that can switch on at a moments notice….be all in in seconds. I found that very interesting and admirable. High respect.
2) That the political hierarchy meddle to the degree they do in order to control the optics in “how this will affect themselves, or in this case, POTUS”. I really felt those late night meetings were realistic yet infuriating. Meddlers trying to stop an Op at the last second without a modicum of understanding of what their self-serving decision means. Similar to Biden et al putting that evil piece of illegal human debris out on the street, in The Roosevelt, then on a night plane flight to Athens, GA…so he could stalk and murder Laken Riley. “Who’s culpable?” Those who allowed him that freedom. Yet politicians never seem to get their comeuppance, skating at every turn…washing their dirty hands like Pontius Pilot. Riley’s murderer should not be drawing another breath, but the Soros DA (surprise!…another Lefty chick – see Bucks County above) took the death penalty off the table, basically giving the Riley’s another smack in the face by the system. This scum should not being housed and fed in our prison on our nickel, drop him off in Uzbekistan…from a significant height. (Altho he will likely be dead inside of of a month by other inmates…same result so maybe some justice.)
Gates and his family won’t be taking his vaccine. It’s for the rubes. Cut the funding for that, and his nuclear company too. Let him use his own money on the later and regulate the former out of existence.
Exactly, too much gong on there…but those involved in such backroom dealings (etc) are running like the rats they are. The visual is their folly ship going down and they are dumping themselves into the drink to get away. It’s refreshing to watch who the cheats are…they are showing themselves at every turn…and today “feels” a little lighter, like the last 2 weeks have been. Winning is good…and dammit, We The People deserve to be left alone while the Great Pig Stye gets cleared out, similar to when Hercules redirected the rivers to clean the Augean stables in short order…can’t happen fast enough.
Gates has always been a thief. He built Micro$oft, and as it got bigger, they began stealing code for their own products., and being just about the only game in town, they got away with wrist slaps and fines.
The entire company was built on a stolen version of CP-M.
– Kle.
From the Xerox RnD Lab boys, who freely gave their in office GUI etc. to him and Jobs (Accidental Empires…great book).
Americanism is not a new religion, it’s not a new faith; it’s been in existence since the 18th century. It doesn’t erode your religion; it has no desire to replace G-d or the way you worship Him; it’s simply a display of the love for our country and one’s fellow citizens.
Pete Hegseth’s got it right; The Donald’s made a great choice – again.
Pete Hedgseth will be an iconic SECDEF.
X2
Hegseth needs to put the cleaner through the Air Force generals (not only them but the Army generals and Navy Admirals too), dispense with the agreement made decades in the past between the Army and the Air Force as to who flies what, and arbitrarily transfer the A10s to the Army. If the pilots want to go too, all well and good. If not, I am sure the Army can find enough pilots to fly them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened.
Make piloting the A10 a Warrant Officers slot. Then, as in Vietnam, with the slicks and, particularly the gunships, you would have 19 and 20 year olds flying them like they stole them.
+1
+10
Clear cell adenocarcinoma, which might occur in a young woman, is the result of her mother taking diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic estrogen which had been prescribed to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage.
I am not a Luddite by any means, but the (side) effects of medications/treatments have been shown to be multi-generational. I’m still shaking my head wondering how we, a “scientifically, medically advanced” society, ever were talked into a wholly unproven vaccine(s).
My comment: “heads should roll” – literally. But they won’t.
The ignoring of protocol by Trump is probably giving quite a few bureaucratic minions nights without sleep. Personally, I hope it gives the worst of the worst nightmares, clogged bowels, and incontinence so bad they can’t work thirty minutes without pissing their drawers.
The Protocols of the Elders of the Deep State should be ignored.
Jess, you should work up a more creative curse such as “May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the pubic areas of all Deep State actors and multiply twice nightly.” It doesn’t have to be that particular curse. I’m just throwing spaghetti against the wall.
may your head miss the basket and bounce off the platform into the mouth of a starving Dogue de Bordeaux
I’ve read the expression “I hope you die in a house fire.”
That seems hostile and full of anger. Tsk.
If someone I really really detest is badly burned in a house fire, well, I hope he lives.
3rd degree burns over most of the body…
yes. sounds more appropriate Mike C.
massive (eternal?) pain ( even opiates largely ineffective. multiple surgeries for multiple types of complications), suffering with gnashing of teeth.
sounds almost Biblical somehow.
👍🏻
Juan
Did I miss the news about millions of people dying from H5N1 bird flu? A few years back when that virus was supposed to kill us, only a few people were picked it up and even less died with it. For that matter, with the exception of those poor foul beings that were murdered for TV audiences, only a few chickens died from getting the flu. I simply must get out of my cave more often to observe the carnage.
It was a problem for the Chinese, not here.
So,
we prophylactically “cure” ourselves?
🧐
Juan
>>BREAKING NEWS<< Matt Gaetz withdrew from his nomination as Attorney General. I expect that there will be a consolation prize as a bureaucratic position that doesn’t require approval by the US Senate.
Just as well. There was (and is) something deeply creepy about Gaetz.
But what on earth do you mean by “the detestable Merrick Garland”?
Detestable? Did you not read his Wikipedia entry, man? There are multiple key words in there that make him immune to any criticism. MULTIPLE!
Why, merely disliking the man is some sort of crime.
Yes AG Garland is a professional victim. A sacred cow.
So, he is hindu (cow worhippers)?
coz those others that mention cow find them to be the very anti-sacred…
The swamp will fight back hard and dirty. Let us hope they are as incompetent in fighting as they are in administrating.
They did their best to imprison President Trump for four years and we can see how that worked out.
Wasn’t it Reagan that said “The Best and Brightest DON’T Go Into Government”?
Gaetz bailed. Pam Bondi has been named for AG. And not no, but HELL NO, I’m not taking that ‘vaccine’…
Pam Bondi is a Trump loyalist, has experience as the Florida AG, and shouldn’t have a problem in the Senate hearings.
My first and only pick would have been Aina Habba. She would have made the DOJ her bitch! Shes smart, intelligent, a killer in the courtroom and a first generation Iraqi which would bring a whole new level of “investigations and accountability to the office. Not to mention defendants would have a hard time seeing past her boobs and would sign anything put in front of them. haha
I am with you HbSS- Miss Habba!
Is anyone familiar with the Bond eye connection re: Trayvor Martin ( maybe not the name. POC in Fla. maybe 10 years ago. that attacked a security guard at night? Nearly sent him to his maker?)
She had some behind the scenes involvement iirc.
Juan
Aina Habba is hot, is ruthless, and is very smart. She’s too smart to take the AG job. She’s as ambitious as Lucifer. I know you’ll keep an eye on her…
“You may be asking yourself why all the women in the future are hot space chicks.”
RHSM, I’m not a Darwinist but… natural selection, surely.