There is a whole lot of WTF were you thinking in the DOT’s latest propaganda video, not the least of which is showing all of those employees crammed into cubicles with no chairs!
How about you guy’s (I use the term loosely considering Pete’s preferences) focus on fixing the shit you broke. Jeeez, this entire administration is a bad dream.
Don’t shoot the messenger .
Fucking insane: a woman identifying as lesbian argued with a counter-protester over trans inclusion in women’s spaces while a man carrying a hybrid LGBT/confederate flag joins in.
I can no longer keep track to which/what fuckeduppidness society has allocated the higher moral ground. It’s going to be Monday all day today.
The bill prohibits a school, political subdivision or government from “usurping the fundamental right” of a parent in raising their children, allows a parent to bring a civil suit against any government entity or official that violates the Parents’ Bill of Rights in Arizona law, gives parents the rights to all written or electronic records from a school about their child — including a students counseling records — and requires schools to notify parents before a survey is conducted of students, among other changes.
Once a few of these liberal idiots start paying dearly for unduly influencing developing minds, much of the bullshit will end.
When the world was a simpler and less gentle place I was a jumper. I didn’t go to school at Benning however, I attend a course steeped in pain and presented by the 7th SFG at Ft. Sherman in what used to be the Canal Zone. 400 folk showed up for the PT test on day one of the course. 200 passed it. All would have passed it, but the instructors/graders had a nasty habit of walking away while you were pushin up or sittin up and (given that the ‘rules’ stated he could only count a repetition that he saw were correctly performed) that doomed everyone that couldn’t do at least 100 of each. As I recall (which is a difficult task so don’t hold me to it) the minimum passing score for each was 40.
What the cadre knew and we did not was that they were limited to using one C130 and there would be a shitload of strap-hangers on the final jump. Their mission was twofold: cull 164 legs that somehow managed to squeak past the PT test and to embed enough rote/muscle memory into the class to keep them from splattering on the drop zone or affixing themselves to side of the aircraft.
Three weeks later we were down to 36 student jumpers and 20+ strap-hangers. We had the commanding general, his aide and COS. 8 SF instructors, an SF CO, CSM, 1SG, and believe it or not: the 7th SFG Chaplin.
Once my tour in Panama ended I moved on to the 82nd at Bragg. We jumped C130’s and 141’s. Always the door, never the ramp. Watching the next generation ‘hopping and popping’ out of C17’s is amazing. That door is huge. Only two fucking things to remember once the light turns green: control that static line all the way to the Jump Master and vigorously clear the aircraft.
How then can these folk not even fall out of the aircraft? Yeah I get it you have shit in your ruck. Well boo hoo, try carrying a medic’s ruck, that’s one heavy bag. There was a time when everyone I knew used short lengths of coat hanger to reinforce the rucks quick release so it wouldn’t fail because of the weight. I’ve seen jumpers jump PRC 77’s, secure sets, spare batteries for both, the cabling, head, and head elements for a 292, but I’ve never seen a jumper fail to clear the doorway. Never. NEVER.
Seems like someone needs a little remedial PT. Lets start off by beating your boots!
OBTW, here is what will keep you watching your static line: the SF Captain that honcho’d my jump school was once a ‘towed jumper’. Just before our first jump he removed his blouse and showed the class what a mangled mess a static line can visit upon the flesh. That’s all it took for me!.
Warner Bros. Discovery will reportedly shut down CNN+ 23 days after announcing the streaming service.
Warner Bros. Discovery will nix the streaming service on April 30 just after CNN after having fewer than 10,000 daily views, according to reports.
Celebrating the life of CNN+
Originally tweeted by Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) on April 21, 2022.
Axios reports that CNN executives believe the launch has been successful. Yeah, well, these are the same CNN execs who spent five years spreading:
the Russian Collusion Hoax the Jussie Smollett Hoax; the Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax; the Trayvon Martin Hoax; the Donald Trump Jr. Wikileaks Hoax; the 17 Intelligence Agencies Lie; the “Very Nice People lie; the Trump Fish Food Hoax; the Governor Cuomo Is on Top of COVID Hoax; the Republicans Funded the Russian Dossier Hoax; the Racist Covington Kids Hoax; the Brett Kavanaugh Rapist Hoax; the Melania Trump Is Missing Hoax; and on and fucking on.
The article below caught my eye while scanning the webs this AM. Who would have thought that the black democratic leadership of Detroit would do such a thing to the black democratic followship of Detroit. A little digging seems appropriate as I empathize with the dilemma my fellow taxpayers are/were experiencing.
The direct article referenced by the head line reads:
About 100,000 Detroit’s residents lost their homes to foreclosures because the city overcharged them for property taxes. The city owned up to the mistake, but the residents are still waiting to be reimbursed five years later.
Detroit owes the mostly Black residents $600 million, according to reports. Between 2010 and 2016, the city assesses properties at 85 percent of their market value, going against state law. The Michigan Constitution prohibits property from being assessed at more than 50 percent of its market value.
Many Americans work to accomplish the goal of homeownership. However, for Black Americans, the dream of the white picket fence could be harder to achieve, data shows. Advocates said the over-taxation of the Detroit residents is racial injustice issue that blocks inter-generational wealth.
Before looking at the first two paragraphs I’d like to admit that as my mind ages it looses it’s ability to rightly rationalize. If it was working properly I’d be able to see how this is a racial injustice issue (as stated in the third paragraph) if everyone was treated equally. But then again when black folk treat black folk poorly I guess it really is whitey’s fault.
As for the first two paragraphs. 2010 to 2016 is 7 years. $600 M divided by 7(years) is $85.7M annually. $85.7 divided by 189,000 (number of Detroit households= 270,000 of which 70 % are homeowners= 189,000) equals $454 annually or $38 dollars monthly in over payment in property tax.
So if 100,000 folk lost their home in to foreclosure. And I expect that they are double or triple counting people (versus households) because if they were not, then well more than half of every home purchased ended in foreclosure!
But lets keep the 100K number. It seems to me that some of those 100,000 tax payers must have known they were overpaying and raised an alarm during that 7 year period. Unless, unless……they were not paying their taxes and did not care.
Doncha wonder? Here is how some of that happens (this taken from the link in the first paragraph below the very first graphic above):
In 2011, Detroit native Anna Bolden purchased her first home. She purchased the brick bungalow in a tax foreclosure auction for $4,800, according to the Detroit News. Yet when Bolden received her first tax bill from the Wayne County treasurer, her bill was $2,600, as if her home was valued at $57,000.
“My taxes shouldn’t be this high,” Bolden told the Detroit News. “My house was only $5,000, why am I paying this money?”
“I went down [to city and county offices] to ask questions, but it’s like everybody is giving you the runaround,” she added. “It makes you feel like they are cheating you…but what can you do?”
In the years that followed, Bolden’s home was assessed at a rate higher than its true value. Finally, in 2017, local tax officials lowered the value to $28,000, after the property was reappraised.
Bolden, who currently owes the Wayne County treasurer at least $4,600 in back taxes, is scared she will lose her home to foreclosure.
So here is the bottom line, when she closed on the home she was told what the taxes would be. She closed anyway. She currently owes the same amount in taxes as she purchased the home for (in unpaid taxes). That means that (assuming the taxes were more than halved in 2017 to roughly $1,300 annually) she has not paid her property taxes in 4 years. That’s a sweet gig if you can get it!.
And Detroit? Well it’s population is running at about 80 percent POC so you know it must be a racial injustice issue.
As seen on Breitbart (here)
Five associates of Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign are invoking their Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate with Special Counsel John H. Durham, according a filing in federal court revealed later Friday in Washington, DC.
The revelation emerged in a motion filed by Durham to oppose the efforts of defendant Michael Sussmann and the Clinton campaign to withhold some documents from evidence by asserting attorney-client privilege.
Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI in 2016 when he informed the FBI about a fraudulent link between then-candidate Donald Trump and the Russian government via Alfa Bank. Sussmann allegedly presented himself as a concerned citizen, and hid the fact that he was working for the Clinton campaign.
In the filing, Durham noted that while one witness, identified as “Researcher-2,” was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony, “at least five other witnesses who conducted work relating to the Russian Bank-1 allegations invoked (or indicated their intent to invoke) their right against self-incrimination.”
Snap Shot’d from Yahoo this AM
Don’t be like the clowns above, let Plaxico show you good trigger control.
You would have thought that with all of the ridicule that sane Americans visited upon the media (and government) for the bizarre over hyping of COVID, that they could have crafted a different set of words. Friggin idiots in the press, and absolute sheep within the population will soak this common cold for all that it is worth.
Here are some of the words that went along with the Bloomberg headline:
The rise of Covid cases in some regions of the U.S., just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect. In fact, the country could be in the midst of a surge right now and we might not even know it
OBTW, here is a little hint that we may be living in a dystopian world:
“Despite groundbreaking scientific advances like vaccines and antivirals, public health experts say the U.S.’s Covid defenses appear to be getting weaker as time goes on, not stronger”
What vaccine ? What antivirals? What ‘defenses’ (other than trampling on the rights of the people) are you talking about?
I smell a rat
Not everyone will understand the title used in this post. Those that do recognize the title are folk that have a difficult time telling you what the 60’s were like.
My first thoughts on this are : good on them. Not sure how they evacuate the holding tanks but suppose for folk that have no other place to crash that ‘inconvenience’ can be overcome.
I do expect that once the floodgates are opened on our south side we’ll see more and more of this.
I’ve seen several of this guys videos, he has absolutely no qualms about busting the cover on stolen valor perps. In this video he shares some of the calls he takes while verifying the service of Navy SEALs
Here’s another.
Peter was said to have thrice denied a relationship with Jesus as he (Jesus) was being arrested. The White House communications office has the same relationship with the truth as Peter did.
During the third presidential debate in October 2020, Biden stated emphatically that “nothing was unethical” about his son’s foreign business deals.
Biden also claimed, “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China.
The moderator of the third debate, NBC’s Kristen Welker, questioned White House communications directer Kate Bedingfield about Biden’s statements during the White House press briefing on Thursday.
“We absolutely stand by the president’s comment” Bedingfield replied.
Pressed by other reporters about Hunter Biden, Bedingfield refused to address any further questions about the new reports about his son’s laptops and his lucrative foreign business deals.
“I don’t have anything further to add from this podium,” she said, when asked about Biden’s reaction to the new stories.
“I don’t have anything additional to add from this podium,” Bedingfield repeated after another reporter questioned her about Hunter Biden.
“I don’t have anything additional to add on this from the podium. But thank you,” she repeated after a third reporter asked if President Biden had even read the latest stories about Hunter Biden.
Before anyone should brush off criticism of Biden as more political blather, it’s not Biden I’m so thoroughly sickened by.
Know what I mean?
Good ole Me Ma Max got deep into a reporter’s shit and told them they should back away from a story about her and her constituents. It seems that Maxine attempted to leverage an event to her advantage (I think this is called ‘Gorilla Marketing’) at a homeless encampment in Los Angeles.
The New York Post reported she was present and when the crowd became unruly, Waters reportedly told them, “I want everybody to go home.”
Telling a large group of homeless folk that they need to go home is not the kind of thing that soothes the savage breast. “We don’t got no home, that’s why we’re here!” member of the crowd shouted. “What home we gonna go to?”
Waters then grew frustrated and said, “Excuse me, there’s nobody in Washington who works for their people any fucking harder than I do. I don’t want to hear this. No, no, no.”
Smelling a story, a Los Angeles Times reporter thought it a good idea to contact Waters: Nope, bad idea. Here is what Water told him :
“You’ll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together without background,” “I don’t want you to start trying to write it, you won’t understand it.”
The reporter (Conner Sheets) must have had one of those ‘deer in the headlights’ moments as we’ve not heard a peep from him on the topic since.
Good ole Mad Max, never a dull moment.
Sometimes the Bee hits it square on the head. The logic below is truthful, poignant, and totally lost on those who stumble through life with blinders affixed.
The storms have passed without having dropped any trees across the fences. There will be no need for me to track down and coax back wayward cattle. Two weeks ago I had one that took a liking to the neighbors pasture and escaped twice. Both times it took about two hours of running up and down hillsides until I could guide her back into a section of fencing I had removed to allow her back in. I finally found the spot that she had been using to slip through (although I couldn’t believe she would/could get through at that spot) and reinforced it with additional wire. She has stayed put.
Here is one of life’s simple truths: It’s easier to keep cows up than it is to put cows up.
I did want to get carrot and onions planted this week, but it’s going to be another day or two after yesterdays rain before the ground can be worked.
For the previous three years I’ve planted onions without a the slightest success. Undaunted (actually, I had completely given up) I happened across an article that explained the difference between ‘short’, ‘intermediate’, and ‘long’ day onions. Apparently, you have to match the onion variety day length to the area of the country where it is being grown.
Who knew?
Armed with this new info, I decided that I’d grow 4 varieties of bubling onion and one variety of bunching onion this year. Here is what I’ve seeded:
Flat of Italy (Intermediate) : Sweet, flat cipollini used in Italy for eating and cooking. It is said to be a beautiful, red “cipollini” type, flat gourmet onion from Italy. Bright red in color and very flat. A very old Italian variety that was mentioned by Vilmorin in 1885. 80 days to maturity.
Texas Early Grano 502 PRR (Intermediate): A vedalia type onion with excellent eating quality. The gloves are uniform, straw colored skin with a whit flesh. Good flavored with mild to medium pungent taste. Released by Texas Agricultural Experimental Station in 1944. 180 days to harvest.
Red Burgundy (Short): Smooth, glossy skin that is purplish-red. Flesh is white with pink shading near the skin. 95 Days to harvest.
Australian Brown (Intermediate): A 19th Century variety by Q Atlee Burpee. Extra fine, large, yellow-brown bulbs with suburb flavor. 100 days to harvest.
For a bunching onion I’m putting in ‘Heshiko Japanese Bunching’ It is said to be a tender 12-14 inch variety that is flavorful, mild not overly pungent and easy to grow. 60 days to harvest.
I’ve got 40 seedlings of each variety that are ready to transplant. I’ll place them on the outside portion of the raised beds. I’ve ‘planted’ old decomposing firewood in the bottom outside of 4 the 12 food beds and filled over the top of them with 6 inches of soil. I’ve read that the decomposing wood establishes a great ecosystem for all things beneficial in a garden so thought I’d give it a shot.
Within the centers of the beds where the onions are going Ill be planting carrots in three of them and leeks in the last two.
Hope all of you were able to pass through the storms with minimal discomfort.
There is always a penalty to pay when the temps ramp up to 80+ in late March. In addition to the tornado that was spotted in the Tunica area, They are reporting a couple of spotted twisters near Jackson Mississippi.
Anything that falls on a line that is drawn roughly from Tunica to Jackson can reasonably be expected to impact my area (north and west of Huntsville AL) two hours or so later.
Will Smith romped up on stage and slapped the shit out of Chris Rock and now all the ‘woke folk have lit up the socials with their commentary on how out of line Will is/was. They are all aghast and clutching at their pearls. Will apologized profusely a short while later. He was all teary eyed as he begged for forgiveness from the audience and the artistic community. His wish, he said, was that the incident would not keep them from having him back in the future.
Well congratulations Will, for 3 or 4 minutes last night you actually had a set of balls. Of course you ripped your own balls off shortly after that in order to gain acceptance from a crowd of fagots and child predators but at least for a few moments in your life you knew what it felt like to be a man.
If there were a lot more bitch-slapping and a lot less knee bending in this country perhaps the nation could find a way out of woke wilderness we’ve wander into.
In my neck-o-dawoods what he did is obligatory and a real oddity would be to insult another mans wife and not pay a price..
Others have noted that while Will’s singular act of chivalry is commendable, his faith in his wife may be misplaced:
How screwed are we? Here are a couple of quick ‘news’ articles I’ve grabbed from the inter-tubes this morning. If there is an overarching lesson to be learned it is this: The ‘government’ and the ‘free press’ have colluded. The collusion makes the deception both more complete and, given the multiple channels of communication used, more ‘authoritative’.
First up: Don’t believe your lying eyes, gas prices aren’t really that high.
Second: Trust the Science (and the Scientists)?
Notice that in the two following graphics the 1981-2010 chart uses soft cool colors while the 1991 to 2020 chart uses harsh red tones and a lush green that now permeates the upper portion of the nation.
A close inspection, and a careful reading of the words that accompany the charts show that absolutely nothing has changed across the two time periods except the colors used in the graphic. Not one (1) single area in the country has had the date of it’s average last frost changed and yet NOAA says: “Climate change is making the end of winter more dangerous” .
And then there is this:
The title of the article is kinda/sorta deceptive as what they are really promoting is the fourth shot (vice 2nd booster).
What’s really damning are the words within the article itself. They are, in part,:
However, multiple issues complicate the plan as the administration has to calculate when the next COVID-19 wave could hit the U.S., sources told the Times. The administration will want to get the second booster to the elderly before another wave hits, but not too far before that protection could wane.
WTF? They’ve got to pull out a crystal ball and guess at when to give the shot because it doesn’t last? Big pharma really learned their lesson with Polio didn’t they. They are not about to cure this MF as long as they can push of shots to the entire population of the world every six months for eternity.
Sometimes the press screws up and gives subtle indications that they are gaslighting the population. Here are the last few words of the article:
Other complications include how to explain the plan to the public and how long the second booster’s protection will remain strong, the Times noted.
In other words the complication is in how to message the deception. If there were no messaging problem, there would be no ‘complication’.
One final note on this article (as I’ve beaten this drum a little longer than was needed). I copied this article from Yahoo News. If you look just to the right of the graphic we find that is categorized as ‘Politics’ (not health?) and the source was ‘The Hill‘. Well, The Hill may have written the article, but the article is actually a report on a story published in the ‘Times’.
Finally:
There have been so many usurpation of our freedoms by so many tyrants (petty and profound) over the last 20 years that the collective ‘we’ can no longer claim to be the land of the free and brave. There are a few free/brave holdouts, but I submit that there are many hundreds of thousands that claim that crown that have no idea of what freedom is.
We have become conditioned to be more mouse than man.
I’ve long held that we’ve passed the tipping point as a nation and that our institutions have become so corrupt that there is no way to rebound. The actions of the petty wielders of power over the last couple of years highlights just how numb the nation has become to transgressions against their rights.
‘Leaders’ from the President down to the newest/lowest recently elected school-board official are drunk with power and position and the promise of personal enrichment. The balance of the nation trudges along aware of the graft but more concerned with matters closer to heart and hearth to push to forcefully against the ever growing, every crowding gaggle of tyrants.
What (assuming shit is as screwed up as I believe it to be) can be done?
1. Lead a good life 2. Encourage one another
3. Pass on what you can 4. Plan for the worst. Plan
Perhaps a little cryptic but here are a few related words that may guide your efforts when addressing #4:
From the words buried in the 21st saying in the Gospel of Thomas:: Arm yourselves with great strength lest the robbers find a way to come to you, for the difficulty which you expect will (surely) materialize. Let there be among you a man of understanding. When the grain ripened, he came quickly with his sickle in his hand and reaped it.
From the first paragraph of Albert Pikes Morals and Dogma: FORCE, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil and bruise itself. It is destruction and ruin. It is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone;–not growth and progress. It is Polyphemus blinded, striking at random, and falling headlong among the sharp rocks by the impetus of his own blows.
Meanwhile in today’s news::
So this guy in Florida decides that he’s had about enough and wants to act out a little bit. He dawns his LGB T shirt, spends a couple of buck on a plane ticket, and then places a pink thong over his head instead of the diaper that Fauci recommends. The result? Instant national attention as he insults the Plugs Biden and the ridiculous mask mandates.
Gorilla marketing at its finest!
This is what we can expect in the lower 48 if Joe and Blow remain in power. Seems to me that folk should just haul their ass out of Nome and let the blood sucking merchants choke on their own supply. (But that’s just me).
This is telling. The only thing they took were hammers, sledge hammers, and crowbars. In other words: the working tools for future smash and grabs.
Good luck to y’all over on the left coast.
