Cool again, low 50s? and then warming a bit. Yesterday was beautiful. Sunny, cool, and not raining. I’m hoping for the same today.
I didn’t get anything at all done in the morning. After taking the kid to school, I came home and crashed out at my desk. Woke up 4 hours later. Too little sleep, and too many carbs, and I was out.
In the afternoon, I did some smaller things from pretty far down the list. I had to move some stuff that had been sitting in the foyer and living room, so I decided to just install it where it belonged. Of course that wasn’t completely straightforward… and took more time than I’d hoped. Ran out of daylight and that was that.
So today I get to finish that job (replacing a camera on the roof) and then do the other stuff on the list. With the added short list of stuff I need to do to get ready for the Hamfest. I’m really not feeling it this year, but I’ve got stuff to sell, and the Hamfest is the easiest way.
I’m even taking a look at my test bench to see if I can reduce it some more. Sold several pieces last year, and haven’t even powered on most of what’s sitting there in years. I have to wonder if I’ll ever learn enough about fixing radios to get any real use out of the radio test set… Maybe the compromise is take it, and see if I can get a good price. I don’t want to give it away just to get rid of it. On the other hand, someone else could use it to fix radios and get them back into circulation. I’m less likely to do that with every passing day.
I get ‘enthusiasms’ and then don’t have the time to pursue them at the level I was hoping to. I’m better at managing that now than I was, but I’ve got the legacy of that sitting on my bench and in my workshop. Some of you guys here give me hope that I WILL get to it at some point, but maybe I need to concentrate a bit more on actual doable stuff…
Feeling a bit introspective I guess with my 20 year wedding anniversary and 59th birthday both coming up in the next couple of months.
Anyway, I’ve stacked some stuff that I think I might never really learn to use, and that (unlike medical supplies) I’m unlikely to be able to provide to someone that could help me because I have it. Re-thinking and re-evaluating as your circumstances change is part of prepping. Maybe time for me to do some of that…
And then I can stack something useful.
nick
On the road, just can’t wait to get back on the road again. Thanks Willy.
Leaving early to miss rush hour in Memphis. And first post.
Safe travels RT and Company.
Wave as you pass thru Houston…
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44F this morning. A tiny bit colder than I expected frankly.
And the sun is up, so it must be time for a time change.
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Good coffee brewing.
Sun over the horizon.
Day begins anew.
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n
The SxSW bacchanalia begins tomorrow in Downtown Austin. The first Friday of the event is usually low key until nightfall, but the weekend will be busy.
Everybody has been heading back to work at big companies and various levels of government over the last couple of weeks. Traffic is really noticeable around Round Rock, where it hasn’t been since the Pandemic kabuki started.
It’s funny, how particular ages and anniversaries suddenly have more impact than others. For me, it was 25 and 60 years old. Also 30 years together with the wife.
I am increasingly looking forward to retirement, although a bit worried whether we will be able to maintain our standard of living. The disadvantage of both of us having weird histories – neither of us has anything resembling a full retirement portfolio. We’ll be fine at the start, but a decade or three of inflation after retirement will definitely have an impact.
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For anyone following Germany’s politics, it’s a sh!t show. The guy who will become Chancellor ran his platform on two important promises: “we will close the borders”, and “we won’t raise the national debt ceiling”. He’s not even in office yet, and he has already said “no one wants to close the borders” and “we need to raise the debt ceiling”.
That level of blatant, provable dishonesty ought to be sufficient reason to throw him out of any and all governmental roles.
“If you like your doctor, you’ll be able to keep your doctor. Period.”
I’ve been personally responsible for educating over 10,000 patients about that being a crock across three states.
Very much agree. I am disgusted with the antics. The Christian democrats and the socialists, who have agreed to enter a grand-coalition government in order to keep the “far-right” Alternative for Germany away from the levers of power, are now setting up to use their majority in the outgoing (i.e. caretaker) legislature to modify the fundamental law to allow government deficit borrowing. This is a slap in the face of the voters and the elected, but not yet constituted, incoming parliament. I am not hopeful that the constitutional court will forbid it.
I suspect this behaviour will, long term, facilitate an AfD victory in the next elections. Of course, in the intervening years, the other parties will use the machinery of the state to ban the AfD, and to spend as much of other people’s money as they can.
Nothing says “free world” like banning political parties.
n
Soylent Green has to start somewhere.
Isn’t the leader of AfD a gay woman married to an Asian female?
Nothing says “Nazi” like an interracial marriage and homosexuality.
“Tesla planning new factory in the Houston area for ‘megapacks’”
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/tesla-megapack-factory-houston-20206095.php
“Waller County approved a tax abatement with the Texas EV maker on Wednesday, pushing forward plans for Tesla to operate a factory for “megapacks,” which Tesla describes as a powerful battery that provides energy storage and support. Real Property Improvements, the owner of the Empire West industrial park where Tesla will operate the factory, was also approved for the tax deal.”
“The plant, which could have 1,500 employees by its third year, would be the first such ‘Megafactory’ in Texas. Tesla recently opened one in Shanghai, China, and runs others located in Lathrop, California, and Sparks, Nevada. Tesla boasts that its megapacks can help stabilize the electric grid and prevent outages. One megapack can even store enough energy to power about 3,600 homes for one hour, Tesla claims.”
Leaving early to miss rush hour in Memphis. And first post.
Is the Missus manning the belt fed gun on the roof for going through Memphis ?
“House formally censures Rep. Al Green for Trump speech protest”
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/al-green-censure-trump-20206066.php
“Ten Democrats joined Republicans to punish Green for disrupting Trump’s speech.”
Must not make comment about how we have found the missing link.
Oops. Jesus will make me do 100 pushups for that one.
I have been on hold for the Social Security Administration help line for 30 minutes. The website says that I am banned from creating My SSA account. Looks like somebody stole my SS account number.
@Lynn
If you haven’t created an account previously, it may simply mean that theyare requiring some verification steps, specifically a phone call with a live person.
Jason at SSA answered the phone after 30 minutes on hold and promptly hung up on me. He did not call me back so I have to start the process over.
BTW, I have known Al Green for around 35 years. He is a grifter par excelence. He is a master at working the system for himself.
And the T and Cs on the SSA website say that once I get a My SSA account, they are now green and will no longer mail documents to me. I will have to login to their pitiful website and download my documents. What a pain !
You’d think that would be pretty solid evidence that the AfD is anything but far right. However, you cannot expect people to let facts get in the way of their preconceptions.
Al Green and Maxine Waters need to be referred to DoJ for prosecution under the same statues used on the Jan 6 tourists, only setting the bar lower because those two idiots actions were deliberately disruptive.
“Walmart Asks Chinese Suppliers To Absorb Tariff Costs”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/walmart-asks-chinese-suppliers-absorb-tariff-costs
This gets better by the day.
China should have never been given Most Favored Nation status with zero tariffs.
My experience is that calling SSA always takes about 30 minutes to reach a human. Enough experience to make me wonder if they’ve mechanized it to a minimum wait time.
Between handling my brother’s SS stuff and my own, I had to make a half-dozen calls and one in-person visit.
In-person visit: 3 of 10, do not recommend. If you must go, show up an hour before opening and bring a folding chair.
Also, regarding IRMAA, there is an appeals process if you can document a drop in income, like quitting work. Unfortunately, if you have a subsequent year with an unusual event such as real estate sale, it jumps back up again.
Memphis isn’t a problem if you stay on the freeway.
Once across the river, it is “Fury Road“ all the way to Texarkana, however.
If you stop in Arkansas, don’t venture too far from the exit.
What The Actual F:
Sanctuary city scandal: Migrant who set fire to woman as she slept on NYC subway avoids deportation
tRump needs ICE to kick ass, extricate this murder, try him under Federal Law, and execute him.
“Treasury Kills Enforcement Of Beneficial Ownership Reporting – Small Businesses Rejoice”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/treasury-kills-enforcement-beneficial-ownership-reporting-small-businesses-rejoice
I already paid my accountant over a thousand dollars to fill this out for my big business.
Yeah. I think my accountant charged a bit less than a grand for my little business, and my (very limited) HOA’s officers had to take a course to save some money submitting it. So now .gov is going to send us all rebate checks, right?
IM-2, Athena, didn’t have a good landing. Maybe tipped over on its side, again. No photos yet.
This sucks.
Well, hopefully they can still get the little moon rover out to do its mission.
Memphis isn’t a problem if you stay on the freeway.
Once across the river, it is “Fury Road“ all the way to Texarkana, however.
If you stop in Arkansas, don’t venture too far from the exit.
My wife’s mother was born and raised in Arkansas, back in the hills in the Cherokee camps for the Indians who escaped the rez. Don’t go there unless you have an invite. They stop anyone who goes down their roads.
What everybody misunderstands about Social Security
OK. Just one finger though. That will be on the return trip from Conroe heading south to visit the ex-wife of the wife’s deceased father. The wife still stays in touch.
Round Rock tomorrow for two nights. Then on to Boerne so the wife can renew the flowers on her mother’s grave. Just a short stop over. Then on to San Antonio for one night to visit an old friend. Back north to Bryan for several nights before heading to Conroe.
Traffic into Memphis experienced a lot of container trucks. As many trucks as cars. And the usual truck doing 65.01 MPH passing a truck doing 65 MPH.
After Memphis there is a lot of truck traffic. The speed limit is 75 MPH, trucks limited to 70 MPH. Of course the usual passing of one truck doing 70 MPH passing another truck doing 69.09 MPH. Causes fairly significant backups of traffic. If a car takes too long to pass another car, and a truck is following, that truck will get impatient, ride the car’s bumper, and otherwise try to control the rode. When a truck clogs traffic, the truck driver’s think nothing of it.
I did get run off the road onto the shoulder passing a truck that camped in the left hand lane for about 5 miles. I finally decided to pass on the right and the truck decided it was time to move back over. I laid on the horn for an extended time, and when he could see me I gave him a salute consisting of a two digits, one on each hand.
Not far at all. We have stayed at this place several times in the past. I did wonder if I would have to blacken some teeth and put on my greasy jeans when I crossed the border.
They do that where I live when one wanders onto a back road in one of the “hollers”. Seeing someone on a porch with a shotgun, three washing machines, two refrigerators, and a rocking chair is not out of the ordinary.
“Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/top-10-catastrophic-climate-predictions-that-failed/
“Environmental freaks have warned of global apocalypse for decades”
Yup, just a bunch of liars. Especially Greta Doomberg who now appears to be an anti-Semite.
There are zero climate apocalypse predictions that have come true.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Social Security is welfare since Helvering v. Davis.
Congress determines what, if anything, you receive under the decison in Fleming v. Nestor.
They do that where I live when one wanders onto a back road in one of the “hollers”. Seeing someone on a porch with a shotgun, three washing machines, two refrigerators, and a rocking chair is not out of the ordinary.
Two of those old washing machines are roller machines, one with the human powered roller and the other with the motor powered roller. The motor powered roller was famous for sucking people’s hands in and flattening them. Hurts like the devil according to my wife.
“Checkmate: Universe (Perry Rhodan #74)” by Kurt Mahr
https://www.amazon.com/Checkmate-Universe-Perry-Rhodan-74/dp/4041660580?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number seventy-four of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands. The English books started with two translated German stories per book translated by Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth book. And then they transition back to two stories in book #109/110. The Ace publisher dropped out at #118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in pamphlets before stopping in 1978. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1975 that I had to be very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I now own book #1 to book #106, plus the Atlan books, and some of the Lemuria books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
BTW, this is actually book number 82 of the German pamphlets written in 1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Schach_dem_Universum
In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in their 1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of 500. It has been over seventy years since then and the Solar Empire has flourished with tens of millions of people and many spaceships headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania. Perry Rhodan has been elected by the people of Earth to be the World Administrator and keep them from being taken over by the robot administrator of Arkon.
Perry Rhodan has secretly sent Julian Tifflor and several other Terrans, including mutants, to deceive the Druufs and cause them harm. He told the Robot Arkonide Regent that the men have deserted Terra and hopes to set up a huge clash between the Druufs and Arkon. The Druufs end up setting Julian Tifflor in charge of their 14,000 space ship fleet protecting their home worlds.
Two observations:
1. Forrest Ackerman should have put two or three of the translated stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should read the totally awesome “Mutineer’s Moon” Dahak series of three books by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856?tag=ttgnet-20/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 5 out of 5 stars (3 reviews)
Lynn
Briggs & Stratton.
Yes, it does. You only do it once.
My grandmother had one of those machines, electric powered. It was the only washer that could clean my grandfather’s clothes. He worked a road grader, no cab. Once my mother tried to wash his clothes in her automatic machine to upstage her mother. It did not work and mother gave up trying to get the clothes clean. One trip in the writer washer and the clothes were clean. It was a lot of effort between washing, rinses in two different sinks. The grandmother’s laundry room was designed around the wringer washer.
Social Security is welfare since Helvering v. Davis.
Congress determines what, if anything, you receive under the decison in Fleming v. Nestor.
But, is Medicare welfare ?
I have been on hold with SSA for 1 hour and 37 minutes.
My cellphone battery is in much better shape than I thought it was.
Yes. The Feds cannot set up an insurance plan any more than they can establish trusts.
Roosevelt had the fig leaf of the trust in the original Social Security bill even though the old commie b*stard knew that a case like Helvering would come along.
The Medicare Act didn’t even pretend.
Ringer, ringer, say it again, ringer.
Could a Bombshell Discovery Render All of Biden’s Presidential Actions ‘Null and Void’?
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/06/bombshell-discovery-could-make-all-of-bidens-presidential-actions-null-and-void-n4937648
Round them all up.
Let them get attorneys, if there are enough lowlife scumbag Democrat attorneys to go around–each can only represent one person, due to obvious conflicts of interest.
Bring each one into the interview room, where the table has one sheet of paper:
Start with Jill.
Keep this in mind when watching the open defiance of sanctuary city mayors and others:
8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324
Get a head start. Begin building more prisons and stocking up on nitrogen.
State Department to Revoke Visas of Pro-Hamas Agitators Here on Student Visas
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/03/06/its-happening-state-department-revoking-visas-of-pro-hamas-agitators-here-on-student-visas-n2653416
Put JATO units on the screen door so it hits them hard enough to launch them toward Gaza.
Confirmed: Biden Spiked Rescuing Astronauts Stranded at ISS
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/06/confirmed-biden-spiked-rescuing-astronauts-stranded-at-iss-n3800502
Yes, Biden is a scumbag.
But given years of suspicions, including major ones confirmed by recent revelations about the auto pen*, it would be worthwhile to do a little investigating into exactly how the offer was rejected by the White House.
I’d be willing to bet two nickels that the rejection was not personally transmitted to NASA by Biden, but by one of his many traitorous flunkies.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1897737448542568648
Yes, and it’s random coincidence that they’ve all been called in for audits by the new proctologist examiners.
I can’t decide if it was Biden or Bill Nelson, who is further down the dementia trail than Corn Pop.
Florida was afflicted with Bill Nelson as Senator for three terms until Rick Scott RINO-FL finally cobbled together another one of his narrow victory margins to boot Nelson in 2018.
Perkins Coie is hip deep in what’s been going on at least as far back as the 2010 midterms.
An in-law works for the Portland office, and back in 2012, she would talk about all of the paralegals in her department working late on a “special project” related to the election.
How’s your Summer Drive-In Films from the 1970’s knowledge?
Remember “Return to Macon County (1975)”?
Pretty sure that this is the movie with the line about the dead squirrel.
Anyone confirm?
auto pen*
So any pens purportedly used by Biden to sign bills are fraudulent?
Who’s running the FTC nowadays?
Well, I finally got on a line with SSA about starting my Medicare on June 1, 2025. The answer is maybe. They are all backed up with the new SS law passed in January and they are claiming that Musk fired half of their employees (which is a lie). Now half of their employees might have quit when Trump ordered everyone back in the offices which I would not argue about.
https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/social-security-fairness-act.html?tl=0
So someone from SSA is going to call me on April 30, 2025 at 11:05 am to discuss why I cannot login to their website and to get my Medicare application started. I am feeling a little irked by spending over two hours on hold today and the fact that nothing will happen for a month and a half. Talk about bureaucracy !
“So when I read Wired by whatshisname, Bob Woodward, about John Belushi, I read like five pages of Wired and I went, “Oh my God, they framed Nixon.” If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is probably soiled for me too.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bill-murray-bob-woodward-belushi-book-b2709418.html
Looking at some online photos of an upcoming auction.
Tools looked like leaving them out in the rain again might wash some of the rust off from the last time.
Leaving Butch and Suni in space; Starliner was supposed to be their last trips to space. They are ASTRONAUTS, they WANT to be in space, they wanted to LIVE in space. NASA bringing the Starliner back empty and telling them to hang out on the ISS for a while was probably heartbreaingly close to being ordered to take an extended vacation. Tough break about being away from their families, of course, but I’d be astonished if they hadn’t had a great time up there.
“Trump Executive Order: Those Who Challenge Administration Policies in Court Are FINANCIALLY LIABLE When They Lose”
https://gellerreport.com/2025/03/trump-executive-order-those-who-challenge-administration-policies-in-court-are-financially-liable-when-they-lose.html/
“Under this new directive, individuals or entities that file lawsuits against the Trump administration could face substantial financial penalties if they lose their cases. This initiative is seen as a way to deter what the administration perceives as frivolous lawsuits that challenge its policies, which Trump argues hinder effective governance and public service.”
We are way past time for loser pays.
“Sam Bankman-Fried on Life in Prison With Diddy, and How Democrats Stole His Money and Betrayed Him”
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-sam-bankman-fried
“1. What Has Prison Been Like?
2. Was SBF Ever on Adderall?
3. How Prison Has Changed SBF’s Perspective
4. The Future of Crypto Under Donald Trump
5. Does SBF Have Any Money Left?”
SBF lost / stole $8 billion ??? of other people’s money and lied to them about it. Hard to feel sorry for him.
The Rogan interview with Bill Murray is excellent, and I’m not a huge Rogan fan.
You have to read between the lines and consider the context when Murray says “they framed Nixon”.
Murray is a complex thinker, and my guess is that he wanted to see what the fuss was about with regard to Rogan.
I also wondered if Murray wanted to upstage Musk, who was on the day before.
Which cabinet secretary owns SSA?
I think DOGE and that secretary need to be informed of these excuses and lies.
Did you get the name of the person who lied to you?
Social Security is an independent entity. It used to be under HHS.
The Fleming in Flemming v. Nestor is Arthur Flemming, Eisenhower’s HHS secretary 58-61.
Cue Dean Wormer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkoPq5AOCOA
Ringer, ringer, say it again, ringer.
– nope WRINGER. because it wrings out the water from the clothes.
My mom used one for my dad’s work clothes. He was an engineer in a steel mill. Red iron ore dust everywhere… cars wouldn’t last more than a year or two. Ring around the collar could have been invented in a steel mill. I think she used it into the ’80s.
Still had TSP in the detergent too.
n
Was running around all afternoon, then went to see the touring version of Hamilton. Wasn’t a horrible show, but I don’t care for the music, and I’m shocked how many negroes there were in the Revolution and early US of A. George Washington, Hamilton, King George, and most of the other Founding Fathers were black! And all this time I thought they were old white guys.
I can’t wait to see the race swapped Nelson Mandela story, right after the MLK biopic…
n
Nah, I already said a bad thing today. I had better just keep my mouth shut.
“FAA issues ground stops at major Florida airports after SpaceX Starship breaks apart over Caribbean”
https://thepostmillennial.com/faa-issues-ground-stops-at-major-florida-airports-after-spacex-starship-breaks-apart-over-caribbean
“”As always, success comes from what we learn, and today’s flight will offer additional lessons to improve Starship’s reliability,” SpaceX said.”
Done has blowed up real good !
I will say that the cast was mostly very talented. Arron Burr was a bit weak, but the other’s had strong voices. George Washington had a fantastic voice.
Of course the whole first act is nothing but fast chanting with too much bass. Second act is much quieter, and you could actually hear the voices over the much reduced music.
If I heard it correctly (always a question, because the sound wasn’t great) there was the obligatory dig at Republicans.
The venue is still requiring guests to pass thru a metal detector, no guns or knives allowed. If the cop saw my knife in the bowl, he let me keep it this time. Last time I had to use the “knife check” girl.
Downtown at night… well, at least the theater district has a lot of cops on the streets. It’s a weird mix of abandoned and empty looking, and zombieland.
n
“Trump ‘Turns Off’ US Missiles in Ukraine”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/trump-turns-off-us-missiles-in-ukraine/
“On Wednesday the United States Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump ordered his missiles in Ukraine be ‘turned off’, preventing Ukraine from launching them at Russia. U.S. missiles have previously been launched deep into Russia under the Biden administration in a move that risked nuclear war.”
““Crucial intelligence for long-range missiles such as Himars, which have been key to holding back the Russian offensive, went dark at about 2pm on Wednesday,” the Telegraph said Wednesday night. “White House officials said the U.S. would only lift the ban on sharing the data if it could ‘nail down negotiations’ with Ukraine, which are expected to cover the minerals deal that was put on ice after the clash in the Oval Office last Friday between Mr Zelensky and Donald Trump.””
No more realtime satellite data for Ukraine.
Himars = when you really really really want to deliver a small package at 600 mph up to 50 miles away.
They caught the booster though.
n
Which cabinet secretary owns SSA?
I think DOGE and that secretary need to be informed of these excuses and lies.
Did you get the name of the person who lied to you?
They were stating the same on their onhold jazz muzak that I listened to for 2+ hours today.
They repeated that info every five minutes or so. After a while, I wanted to break something like their jazz muzak player.
I don’t doubt that they are getting a lot of phone calls about the new SS law. People want their money NOW.
Ringer, ringer, say it again, ringer.
– nope WRINGER. because it wrings out the water from the clothes.
My mom used one for my dad’s work clothes. He was an engineer in a steel mill. Red iron ore dust everywhere… cars wouldn’t last more than a year or two. Ring around the collar could have been invented in a steel mill. I think she used it into the ’80s.
Still had TSP in the detergent too.
n
Sounds like when my grandfather worked in the Dow Chlorine / Magnesium / Bromine plant in Freeport, Texas from 1938 to 1968. By year three, his cars had huge holes in the bodies from the chemical rot. I remember his beautiful 1966 ? tan colored Ford Ranchero with the 390 in3 V8 that literally fell apart in his driveway after a couple of years. My mother grew up hearing the bromine pots relief valves and “shelter in place” sirens going off at least monthly.
I knew that, my fingers didn’t in an effort to correct my first mistake. So to to compensate I made another mistake. Two wrongs make a write. Correct?
2 wongs make a write?
n
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/03/07/doge-workers-just-embedded-in-an-african-aid-agency-n2653433
During a confidential briefing Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Acting USAID Chief Pete Marocco, a Trump appointee, reportedly told Congress he is considering criminal referrals regarding fraudulent spending activities within the U.S. international aid agency.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2025/03/07/usaid-criminal-referrals-n2653400
Sounds like one of those pipehitters I’ve been hoping for.
South Africa, once a prosperous nation, is descending into chaos. The country’s government is an incompetent kleptocracy, and their white minority, including families that have been in South Africa for centuries, are facing ever-increasing attacks and legal discrimination, up to and including outright seizure of their land and other property. The Trump administration is, according to the president and Secretary of Agriculture Booke Rollins, offering these actual refugees a home in the United States, with an expedited path to citizenship.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/07/south-africas-descent-into-chaos-and-americas-reaction-n2186394
Good. Now freeze aid to South Africa until we can set up a claims process where the refugees can get compensated for their land and property by a tribunal directly taking it out of those funds. Audit the aid for the last five years and shut it down if there is evidence of fraud and theft, or just shut it down, because what do you think they will find.
Trump just sent Columbia a $400 million bill for their anti-semitism:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/03/trump-admin-strips-columbia-of-400-million-in-grants/
They need to make it clear than “cancel” means “permanently gone–phht!” without possibility of “restore”. The ashholes were sure that Biden would never do anything, were too stupid to read the election tea leaves, and even more stupid to do nothing since Jan 20.
$4.6 billion left. The next bite at Columbia should be an even $1 billion, and they should pick three more universities immediately and start at $1 billion or 20% of their grants, whichever is larger.
Professor Steven Hayward at Powerline mentioned this in his short video today:
Dems Fight To Protect A $600 Billion Medicaid Tax Scam That Joe Biden Tried To Kill
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/03/07/dems-fight-to-protect-a-600-bil-medicaid-tax-scam-that-joe-biden-tried-to-kill/
“3. How Prison Has Changed SBF’s Perspective”
Let me guess: Facedown in the mattress?