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by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 369 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at January 26th, 2025 - 5:23 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Thx, Bunk!!!
The Warning were featured guests at the Monterrey Sultanes professional softball game today. Dany got to throw out the first pitch:
Colombian President Petro capitulated on repatriating illegals just 17 minutes after Trump announced punitive tariffs.
https://x.com/PollTracker2024/status/1883584110578593876
3 years ago Allen West did some very polite bitchslapping.
https://youtu.be/o68OWCd2fLg?si=Cn31bNVs9UC5MP8v
Well all the libs are spewing the taunt that now our Valentine Day flowers and coffee are going to be 50% more expensive because Petro is imposing tariffs and how do we like Trump now?
And every time they get bitch slapped with “it’s worth the lives of every Laken Riley” and it got real quiet
I have a question. We have about 3 air bases in Colombia if google results are to be trusted. Could Petro deny us landing rights there? Why couldn’t we just use those?
Seriously this is like the 7 plagues of the pharaohs
Flash Flood Warning including Malibu CA until 11:00 PM PST
https://x.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/1883722030195061048
Someone made an excellent point about this whole Colombia dust up
My favorite part of this battle: this by proxy is taking on the decades of Soros influence in other countries through his Open Society Foundations….
https://x.com/JosephWats59674/status/1883592558334672922
Holee Crapolee. You have to read this interview with Marc Andreeson.
[Andreessen:] And my only conclusion is what changed was basically the kids. In other words, the young children of the privileged going to the top universities between 2008 to 2012, they basically radicalized hard at the universities, I think, primarily as a consequence of the global financial crisis and probably Iraq. Throw that in there also. But for whatever reason, they radicalized hard.
Douthat: But when you say they radicalized, what did that mean for Silicon Valley? What did they want?
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Andreessen: Revolution. What I now understand it to be historically is a rebirth of the New Left. So it’s very analogous….
It turned out to be a coalition of economic radicals, and this was the rise of Bernie Sanders, but the kids turned on capitalism in a very fundamental way. They came out as some version of radical Marxist, and the fundamental valence went from “Capitalism is good and an enabler of the good society” to “Capitalism is evil and should be torn down.”
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Andreessen: Of course. So I had this moment with a senior executive, who I won’t name, but he said to me with a sense of dawning horror, “I think some of these kids are joining the company not with the intent of doing things for us but destroying us.”
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We were able to meet with senior staff. So we met with very senior people in the White House, in the inner core.
We basically relayed our concerns about A.I., and their response to us was, “Yes, the national agenda on A.I. We will implement it in the Biden administration and in the second term. We are going to make sure that A.I. is going to be a function of two or three large companies. We will directly regulate and control those companies. There will be no start-ups. This whole thing where you guys think you can just start companies and write code and release code on the internet — those days are over. That’s not happening.”
We were shocked that it was even worse than we thought. We said, “Well, that seems really radical.” We said, “Honestly, we don’t understand how you’re going to control and ban open-source A.I., because it’s just math and code on the internet. How are you possibly going to control it?” And the response was, “We classified entire areas of physics during the Cold War. If we need to do that for math or A.I. going forward, we’ll do that, too.”
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The political dimension of it, overwhelmingly. I mean, it was just crystal clear. You can see it in the eyes. You can see it in the words. You can hear it in the words. You can see it in the behavior. We have a lot of Democratic friends of good standing who are major donors in both the Biden campaign and even the Kamala Harris campaign. They came back with the same reports. It’s completely consistent, which is that social media was a catastrophic mistake for political reasons.
Because it is literally killing democracy and literally leading to the rearrival of Hitler. And A.I. is going to be even worse, and we need to take it right now. This is why I took you through the long preamble earlier, because at this point, we are no longer dealing with rational people. We’re no longer dealing with people we can deal with.
And that’s the day we walked out and stood in the parking lot of the West Wing and took one look at each other, and we’re like, “Yep, we’re for Trump.”
https://instapundit.com/698615/
I’ve excerpted it. Read the whole thing
BREAKING: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. secured the release of American citizen Anastasia Nufer who was detained in Belarus during the Biden administration.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1883566469067460704
Who? Belarus?
A friend just called to tell me about her flight back to Florida from the inauguration in D.C.
The pilot actually came on over the speaker and said:
“Can I make an odd request and please ask people in MAGA hats to stop pointing and laughing at people wearing masks? Thank you”
It’s going to be a glorious 4 years
https://x.com/ArynneWexler/status/1883690720864743884
YES ‼️ Checkpoints in California are now ACTIVE
This is San Clemente, California. Normally in California you just drive right through this, there is NEVER anyone here. Checkpoints have been basically not operating for years. WE ARE BACK!
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1883665826563407885
video at the link
@ eaglesoars:
This is pretty strange. Nobody seems to know who she is or why she was being held:
eaglesoars wrote:
Those checkpoints are on most of the Interstates and other major highways coming from the border. They tend to be about 50 miles inland, because that’s how far Mexican nationals are allowed to travel into the US without a visa. They’ve been closed for the last couple of years because the Border Patrol has been forced to pull all their people into the stations in order to process illegals to be released into the country.
@ lobo91:
Wouldn’t be surprised if Trump made Lukashenko an offer he couldn’t refuse.
So do you have an opinion on why we couldn’t use our air bases in Colombia to repatriate the illegals w/o Petro’s ok?
One of the more interesting things about our Congress critter Tim Burchett is that he’s really into this UFO stuff
Trump to Release UFO Files — Rep. Burchett
“President Trump has confided that in fact he will be releasing some of these. I plan to have that conversation again with him very soon.”
https://x.com/UAPJames/status/1883740767572914256
Burchett is a good one……….
Funds run by BlackRock Inc voted in favor of a recent shareholder proposal that would have required Tesla Inc to replace Elon Musk with an independent chairman.
BlackRock-managed funds voted for a measure requiring the chairman be an independent director, according to BlackRock’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The proposal, which was defeated, would not have affected Musk’s standing as Tesla’s chief executive officer.
“BlackRock’s approach to investment stewardship is driven by our fiduciary duties to our clients, the asset owners,” a BlackRock spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. “Our approach to engaging with companies and proxy voting activities is consistent with our commitment to drive long term shareholder value for our clients.”
https://x.com/josettecaruso/status/1883757737298866651
Yeah your clients are globalist would-be tyrants of the “you will own nothing and be happy” type. Fuck right off
eaglesoars wrote:
Not without a lot more information on things like the particular agreements surrounding those bases.
Pete Hegseth reports for duty:
eaglesoars wrote:
Part of this is the drum I’ve been beating for a long time. The left is pushing hard to find a murderous totalitarian to take over. It is interesting to read how social media and the lefts manipulations have caused a new generation of radical marxists.
What a mess. Somebody has got to do something about lithium batteries
“It is very likely that these batteries were not all consumed in the fire, so now they’re damaged, which means they’re all dangerous,” he said. Myers explained that the battery systems in hybrid and electric cars are well-protected, so even vehicles that were damaged by the fires may still have charged batteries.
Handling the batteries “requires a great deal of technical sophistication and care,” Calanog said. The EPA team must wear flame-resistant clothing underneath disposable protective suits. Masks cover their faces, and either come with insertable cartridges to filter out chemicals or attach to air tanks. The crew blocks off the area where it’s working and keeps water on site in case flames erupt.
Before they can be sent to a waste or recycling facility, the collected batteries must be de-energized so that they hold no charge or very little. To do that, Myers said, the EPA will likely use a process developed after the Maui wildfire in 2023, which involves submerging the batteries in a solution of saltwater and baking soda. Once the batteries have lost their charges, they can be crushed with a steamroller or shipped to a facility in special packaging.
https://x.com/josettecaruso/status/1883930303707910360
Being this stupid should hurt
This is a Cali Dem
I’m introducing legislation (SB 222) to ensure oil companies pay for the climate-fueled disasters that are burning & flooding California.
Californians are bearing these costs with explosive insurance premium increases that make CA less affordable. That has to change
First up is
Allows victims of climate disasters to seek damages from fossil fuel companies in court
https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1883955455103492229
https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1883955457171337402
@ eaglesoars:
You can “seek” anything you like. Good luck actually proving your claim in court (or finding a lawyer willing to take the case on contingency)
@ eaglesoars:
They don’t know anything and should really be left on the curb to peddle their revolution like every other degenerate.
@ eaglesoars:
Who exactly are they going to sue. Climate change/global warming is a planet wide problem caused by everyone on the planet using fossil fuels.
@ Possum:
Oh and do not waste 5 minutes Binging and Googling for SB 222 text.
I did it for you. It ain’t written yet, it is just a proposal.
@ Possum:
I always fact check myself. I even make sure I log my daily calorie intake down to the last teaspoon of tomato powder.
The media are reporting bill SB222, but none are giving link to the text of it.
A think I noticed is this X from Senator Scott Wiener.
https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1883955468600762569
ARE co-authoring, not co-authored.
This is a typical example of
1, Steal underpants.
2, ?????
3, Profit!
@ Possum:
15g ~1/2 Ounce of tomato powder is 38 calories consisting of 0g fat, 1.5g protein, 9g of carbs of which 2g are fiber and 17mg of Sodium if anyone is interested.
I has a spreadsheet!
JUST IN – CDC orders all public health officials in the United States to stop working with the WHO, effective immediately.
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1883983607246774293
@ Possum:
The problem with creating a spreadsheet of the nutritional values of food is that one then tends to eat the same things repeatedly.
My spreadsheet is broken down into ingredients. So I can “build a meal”
Without being boring I know how many calories is in that meatloaf I made and then divided into four portions.
Soups and stews, I know what I put in the slow cooker, then when it is done I weigh the slow cooker pot, subtract 1250g which is the weight of the pot and I then know the nutritional values of the individual portions I made. Usually 3 or 4 portions per pot.
Point is, introducing more ingredients to my diet involves typing. But LMAO currently there is nothing I currently desire that is NOT in database.
I do not get takeaways delivered anymore because the math is to be honest a fucking nightmare. Except a Whataburger #1
That is in my database. LOL
Jt statement by GOP AK Sen Murkowski & Danish parliamentarian representing Greenland: The appeal of Greenland is easy to understand. It is strategically located for defense, shipping, and more. It is also a storehouse for all sorts of minerals, the building blocks of society that will determine who leads—and controls—the industries of the future. Of course, a businessman turned president would be interested. But Greenland is not for sale. The question has been asked and firmly answered by the government of Greenland, Naalakkersuisut. As legislators representing Greenland in Denmark and the United States, we see a better path forward. The United States, like Denmark, should recognize that the future will be defined by partnership, not ownership. To ensure our alliance reaches its full potential, Americans must view Greenland as an ally, not an asset. Open for business, but not for sale. From our work on Arctic Parliamentarians, we are certain that U.S. ambitions for national security can be achieved without altering Greenland’s autonomy. We see that in Pittufik Space Base. Dialogue and cooperation can strengthen our ties; diplomacy can pave the way for a relationship and alliance that fulfills our mutual interests.
https://x.com/ChadPergram/status/1884002301498585561
Murkowski got played. Trump was never going to buy, invade or annex Greenland. He just wants access to the minerals and to keep China out. A business deal. Now these geniuses think it’s their idea
Oh and a casual cooking post.
Monday groceries arrived!
A loaf of French bread, a can of Pringles, BBQ flavour, a five liter of Cabernet and a 30 pack of Busch light.
Now, to enjoy the Walmart $1 per loaf of fluffy bread it has to be eaten within a couple of days. No preservatives and shit.
Afternoon snack is going to be burgers. Well one quarter pound frozen beef patty carefully molded into two patties that fit the slices of French bread. To do that you let them thaw first, and add 1/2 ounce ( 14g in metric) of very finely chopped pepperoni.
Trust me, then for that single person burger experience you only need a quarter of a thinly sliced onion, four slices of the French bread, a restrained dolop of Mayo and a gentle squirt of ketchup.
OR, a can of chicken soup…..
uh oh
BREAKING: Congress has summoned Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
https://x.com/ResisttheMS/status/1884008482606916006
Also Bessent has been confirmed as Sec Treas.
And Chicago mayor Johnson
and Denver and NYC
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1884003316176412946
The very best part of living in a big American city is when you are watching a TV show wearing headphones ( Third Watch ) and it is a quiet part where they are having lunch or something and you hear sirens and think, yeah there is going to be action!
Nah, fooled again. It isn’t New York PD or FDNY making noise on TV.
Meanwhile, in the “Land of the Free”
J6 Defendant Details Horrific Abuse & Corruption He Suffered While Prosecuted Under Biden
A January 6 defendant who was pardoned by the Trump administration along with 1,500 other J6 political prisoners detailed the extensive corruption and abuse he endured during his prosecution.
J6 prisoner Michael Shane Daughtry, a former police officer and gunsmith who was put on house arrest by the Biden regime had his civil rights violated despite never setting foot inside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
“I’m going to relay it in the exact same way that he wrote it out. Just when you think his story cannot get crazier, it does. His story is one of full-on corruption, and he exposes names,” Fields wrote.
Daughtry’s account begins below:
My name is Michael Shane Daughtry and this is my January 6th Story.
I was a Police Officer with SWAT and Sniper Certifications, 20+ years Police experience and over a thousand hours of training. I’m also a Master Gunsmith with a Federal Firearms License and a Gunsmithing Business with over 10 years experience.
On January 6th 2021, I traveled to Washington DC with my wife Tammie to watch the Trump Rally. As the rally was completing, the President of the United States told the crowd to go to the West Lawn and “peacefully” protest, which we did. As we arrived at the West Lawn, the police officers removed the barricades and waved us onto the West Lawn. I had video of this but the FBI later raided my home and confiscated this Video. I never went into the Capital Building or damaged any property but I did later observe people causing damage to the Capital Building so I took a few pictures of these people and then returned to my motel room, we returned home the next morning.
On January 16th, I was charged with trespassing on the West Lawn on January 6th even though the President had ask me to go there and the police had moved the barricades and waved me onto the West Lawn.
The FBI contacted me around midnight and asked me to turn myself into the Federal Marshalls at the Federal Courthouse in Macon by 9:00 am the next morning. I voluntarily turned myself into the Federal Marshalls at the Federal Courthouse in Macon Ga. Upon arrival I was advised by Federal Marshalls that Pelham Police Investigator Adam Lamb, Assistant Chief Rod Williams and Chief Mccormick had turned me in to the FBI after finding out I was in DC.
In 2020 I was working as a Police Officer for the Pelham Police Department and also owned a Firearms Gunsmithing Company named “Cazy Coon Armory” My business was named after my pet Raccoon that was named Rocket but we always called him “Crazy Ole Coon”. On November 13th 2020, Pelham Police Department Investigator Adam Lamb had showed up to my home stating Police Cheif McCormack had fired me for having a Logo with a picture of a Racoon on it with the words “Crazy Coon Armory” telling me that the logo had the word “Coon” on it and that made it a Racist Logo. The police department said they didn’t know I had an outside business with that name even though it was on my resume and on my application for employment. I had also worked on several of of the Pelham Police Department weapons including pistols and full auto rifles at Crazy Coon Armory.
The paperwork they asked me to sign stated I was being fired for being a Racist. I refused to sign this separation letter. After I was fired, without even being giving a chance to resign, I decided to expose the Pelham Police Department and it’s very corrupt Chief for several of the crimes they had committed and were committing including insurance fraud, illegal gambling and cover ups. I was posting this corruption on my Facebook Page and the City of Pelhams Facebook Page every night which made the Police very angery and this was the reason for turning me into the FBI so they could silence me.
After the Marshalls read me this affidavit, I was put into a jail cell for several hours before being brought before a Federal Magistrate Judge. Even though I was a Law Enforcement Officer with no other criminal record, I was placed in handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains and was advised not to speak. And even though I’m a certified Law Enforcement Officer, have never been arrested or charged with any other crime in my life and had gotten up before daylight and driven over 100 miles to turn myself in, the judge advised me that I was a flight risk and ordered me to wear an ankle monitor, be place under House Arrest, placed on Pre Trial Probation, forced to post $25,000 bond and was placed on Tap 4 internet restrictions saying I couldn’t use any computers our internet. At that time I was not allowed to make a plea and was not allowed to plea until over 18 months later.
I was appointed a public defender without even being asked. I had a very experienced federal attorney that was willing to take my case for free but I was advised that I could not have an attorney of my choosing and could only hire an attorney from the Washington DC District that was certified to take cases in federal court in DC. The only attorney I could find meeting these requirements wanted over $100,000 plus $10,000 per hearing which I had 5, which would have been a total of $150,000.00 and my case isn’t even over yet.
Upon my release from jail late on January 16th, I returned home where my home and firearms business was immediately raided by Federal Agents that were waiting at my property. Numerous Federal Agents searched my home and property without a warrant and all my weapons and ammo were confiscated from my home and from my licensed firearms business, all for a crime that I would not lose my 2nd amendment rights even if I were convicted.
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
I was forced, with threat of prison, to give Federal Agents:
*My Email Passwords and User Info with written permission to access these accounts.
*My Bank Account Passwords
*My Bank Account Numbers with written permission to access these accounts.
*My Safe Deposit Box Info with written permission to search this box
*All my Social Media User Names and Passwords with written permission to access accounts.
*I was not allowed to change any password or information without permission from the Federal Government.
*I’m not allowed to take out any new lines of credit without prior Government approval.
*I was forced to swear under oath that I did not have any money, firearms or other items buried anywhere or have any storage units.
*I was forced to swear under oath that I did not have any photographs or videos hidden or buried.
*I Was not allowed to possess any phone, camera or recording devices other than the one phone I was allowed by probation to have and the FBI took that phone the next day and kept it for weeks.
*I was forced, with threat of prison, to fill out a financial statement listing:
*My Checking account balances and passwords
*My Savings account balance and passwords
*Credit Card Balance, and account information and password.
*My vehicle loan information and value
*My Vehicle Tag #, Year, Make & Model
*My home loan information and home and property value.
*The amount of cash on hand.
*The value of my clothes.
*The value of my home furnishings.
*Names, Addresses, Birthdays and Social Security Numbers of all my family members.
*Names, phone numbers and Addresses of my friends.
*Names, Addresses and Birthdays of any Ex Wives and Children.
Early the next morning Federal agents confiscated all my FFL files including my FFL Log Book and 4473 files. Later that day, my home was raided again by Federal Agents who confiscated my phone and searched all my computers and electronic devices. My phone was not returned for 2 weeks. I was under court order to not use any other phone or computer so I was without any communication with friends, family or my attorneys for two weeks. This also gave the Federal Government access to all my email and text message communications between my attorney and myself.
I was then forced to pay for home phone service and to pay for phone monitoring services and monthly fees for my ankle monitor.
Approximately a year later my home was again searched without a warrant and without any explanation and I was threated with a probation condition violation if I complained about the searches of my property and that a probation violation would have a 17 year felony sentence.
Three weeks later, my home was again raided and all my electronic devices including my phone, computer, thumb drives, hard drives and memory cards were searched then confiscated. My desktop computer was confiscated without explanation and Federal Agents said they didn’t know when my computer would be returned. This computer contained all the files needed to file my taxes that month, all my social security files I needed to file for my retirement benefits and all my private correspondence between my attorneys. This computer also contained all the software needed to run my business. My computer and phone were not returned for two weeks. When I received my phone back I noticed that all my pictures and videos that I had taken January 6th were missing including the video evidence I had of the Capital Police removing barriers and waving me onto the West Lawn of the Capital that I was charged with trespassing on. I also noticed my FFL Digital Logbook had been removed from my computer and my FFL Logbook backup files had been removed from my Google Drive Account that I had been forced to give the login information. Federal Agents had already taken my hardcopy FFL Logbook and 4473 files in a previous search of my firearms business so they now had all my FFL Files not even leaving me a copy.
Even though I’ve only been charged with a non violent, misdemeanor crime, I’ve been on house arrest for almost two years for a crime that carries a maximum punishment of less than a year. I have not been allowed to plea in this case.
When I asked about my 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial, I was advised by Federal Court Judge Randolph D. Moss that the Sixth Amendment had been suspended due to Covid-19 and the large number of arrest made from the January 6th incident. The Sixth Amendment also gives me the right to a Fair Trial, does this mean I didn’t have the right to a fair trail either? I’m not sure how a Federal Court Judge can legally suspend one of the Bill of Rights.
In June 2022, I was told by prosecutors that I could plea guilty to Trespassing on the Grass or face going to court in Washington DC on several other (made up) felony charges that they knew I had not committed. So because I had no chance of a fair trail and facing several false charges, I was forced to plead guilty to Trespassing on the Restricted West Lawn. My plea agreement stated the maximum amount of probation I could receive would be one year but for this non violent misdemeanor crime, I was sentenced to:
1: Two additional months of House Arrest with Location Monitoring for a total of 18 months.
2: Three additional years of Supervised Federal Probation with travel restrictions for a total of 4 years and 8 months of Supervised Federal Probation even though the plea agreement I had signed stated a maximum of 1 year probation.
3: Firearm Confiscation and Restrictions in clear violation of my 2nd amendment rights.
4: Mandatory random drug testing even though I have no drug history. I have passed all these tests.
5: Mandatory mental health evaluation, even though I have no mental health history. I passed this test.
6: $525.00 in restitution for damage to the Capital Building even though I never entered or even touched the Capital Building. I paid this fine.
7: 60 hours of community service. I completed all the community service.
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
After my sentencing, my home was again searched by a Federal Probation Agent who searched backpacks, closed closets, closed drawers, including my girlfriends underwear drawers even though they had a court order advising that Probation Agents could only take illegal items that are “In Plain Sight”.
My home has now been searched 7 times in 4 years. It’s been searched by the FBI, the Federal Marshalls, the DOJ, and Federal Probation several times. Everyone always come wearing SWAT vests and heavily armed even though the only crime I’ve ever been accused of is illegally walking on the grass.
The government then, using a fake name and phone number, attempted to send firearms to my FFL business through http://www.guns. on two different occasions in one week. I recognized this persons voice as Assistant U.S. Attorney Graciela Rodriguez Lindberg. Another person then, using another fake name and number called asking if they could bring a firearm to my business for an appraisal. I recognized this person’s voice as my probation officer even though he was giving me another name. I told the person that I could not look at the gun and advised him that my business was closed. I also lied and told this person that I was out of state at the time so they would leave me alone. I’m on travel restrictions and can’t go out of state so my probation officer almost immediately called and asked my location and when I told him I was home, a person stating he had just spoken to to me about the gun appraisal arrived at my home even though I had refused to look at the gun and had told him I was out of state. This person had a different voice, was extremely pushy and would not take no for an answer even when I told him several more times that I couldn’t look at his firearm. This person then opened his vehicle trunk stating he was going show the gun to me anyway. At this time I drove away on my off road buggy leaving him at my home. When I later returned home this person was gone.
I was then contacted by Police Officer Safety & Training Officials stating my law enforcement certification is being revoked for not reporting my arrest to them even though the federal government had taken my phones, computers, I had federal imposed internet restrictions and was on house arrest with no way to contact POST. Also the Federal Agents who confiscated my phones and computers advised me they would contact P.O.S.T. for me because of all my communication restrictions.
Now I’ve been contacted by the Department of Justice stating they were processing my request for a refund on my FFL renewal even though I haven’t requested a refund. The D.O.J. then contacted me by phone and stated my Federal Firearms License is being revoked even though I haven’t committed any crime that would prevent me from possessing a firearm or FFL.
Today I was contacted by my probation officer stating the ATF had contacted him stating that the ATF had requested me to send my FFL files to the ATF and that I had not responded to their request. I hadn’t received any requests from the ATF and can’t understand why they contacted my probation officer. The ATF has my phone number, Email Address, Mailing Address, and Physical Address that’s required for my FFL, I’m very easy to contact. Even though the ATF field officer is required to do regular inspections of my FFL Business, I haven’t be contacted by the field officer since I was arrested three years ago and the only correspondence I’ve had with the ATF was a letter in February 2023 stating I owed them $90 for my FFL renewal. I sent this letter back with a check which they cashed.
Today the ATF Agent contacted me stating my FFL renewal was denied because I failed a background check and stated I was now a convicted felon and could never own a firearm again. After notifying my attorney, the agent called back the next day stating that the FBI had “accidentally mis-coded” my case into the computer and I was not a felon or restricted person but they refused to give my FFL back even though they now had no reason to deny me. The ATF advised me that I was required by law the send them all my FFL Files. I advised the agent that all my FFL Files had been confinscated the day after my arrest.
Now I’ve been contacted by an ATF Agent who stated he couldn’t find any agency that would admit taking my files and then threatened me several times with felony charges for Retention of Files for not returning 4473 files that the government had already confinscated 3 years previous. I advised the ATF that my files had been confinscated previously by two unknown government agents who took my files and left without identifying themselves or giving me any paperwork. The ATF Agent called me a liar several times and every time he called me a liar, I hung up on him. I advised the agent that I would try to find a backup copy of my digital log book somewhere but I was going out of state to take my wife to court as a witness in an unrelated case for about a week and that I had court approval for this trip. A few days later I traveled to court about 5 hours away in Tuscaloosa Alabama and asked my neighbor, who is a Newton Georgia Police Officer, to watch my property and feed our animals until we returned home. On the third day out of state, I received a notification from my security system stating my power had been off but was back on. I was told by authorities that the power had went out for about 30 minutes in the entire city of Newton for an unknown reason. I looked at my security cameras to check on my home and animals and noticed a package holding my storm door partially open and it had been placed there while the power and my cameras were out. I asked the officer to check the package and asked if he would make sure someone hadn’t mailed a firearm to my home FFL for repair because I’m restricted from possessing firearms. The officer stated that the box didn’t have a shipping label and appeared to contain FFL files and folders. It appears that the Federal Agents (DOJ, I believe) who illegally took my files got scared of all the inquiries and returned my files. The only markings on this box was my federal case number. The Officer took the FFL files into evidence, put them into the evidence room at Newton Police Department and contacted the ATF Agent. The next day the officer called me to say he had notified the ATF about recovering the files and that the ATF Agent was going to recover the files from the police department. The ATF continued to threaten me with felony charges of Retention of Files even after the files were recovered by the ATF Agent.
I’ve contacted my court appointed attorney’s office 6 times over the past year advising them that I needed to speak with my attorney with no response other than the secretary advising me that the attorney is very busy.
It’s now September 2024 and my home has again been searched by the Federal Government who again found nothing illegal in my home.
On January 30th 2024, I contacted my attorney’s office and asked for a transcript of my motion for a speedy trial. During this previous hearing, I was advised that I didn’t have the right to a fair and speedy trial because the 6th Amendment had been suspended by the Federal Court because of Covid and the large number of arrest during January 6th. My attorney’s secretary told me that there was no transcript because the judge said there was no court reporter during this hearing and the video of the proceedings are not available to the public. I was also warned at the beginning of that Speedy Trial hearing that it was a Federal Felony for me to record my own hearing.
This is the type of government corruption that all January 6th defendants have faced and if they can do this to me then they can do it to you one day also. This is just 1 of over 1500 similar stories with many of them much, much worst than mine.
January 20th 2025
President Donald Trump issued Me and 1500 other January 6th defendants a Full Presidential Pardon.
Somewhere Stalin is smiling!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
the u.s.gov’t is going to be shelling out MILLIONS
#BREAKING: President Trump has just placed MULTIPLE USAID officials on leave for failing to follow his executive orders blocking foreign aid, per RCP’s
@susancrabtree
Trump is NOT screwing around!
These workers were conspiring to circumvent Trump’s orders halting foreign aid and DEI spending, so the Active Administrator stepped in and put a stop to it.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1884040653690044492
notice at the link
BREAKING:
California is dropping ALL charges against pro-life journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who exposed Planned Parenthood selling baby body parts
https://x.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1884028794685775907
Did Kamala bring those charges?
@ eaglesoars:
I really think Trump should just fire these people outright. Let them sue. I seriously doubt that the Supreme Court would find that the president–the head of the Executive Branch–doesn’t have the authority to fire Executive Branch employees.
@ eaglesoars:
Xavier Becerra, her successor, did. But it all started under her.
lobo91 wrote:
got it
lobo91 wrote:
They’re double checking to be sure they’re on solid legal grounds. No reason to get involved in lawsuits you don’t need to be
Breaking Gun Battle At Texas Mexico Border: Mexican Drug Cartel Attempts To Ambush And Kill Border Patrol Agents Resulting In Major Gunfight
https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1884016533963432000
wonder how that ended……..
@ eaglesoars:
Nobody was hit on either side, apparently. I think they just wanted to see what would happen. Now they know.
BREAKING: Jim Acosta has departed from CNN after he was officially pulled from its programming schedule.
https://x.com/ResisttheMS/status/1884071504264286212
JUST IN: China agrees to take back its illegal immigrants living in the US after President Trump threatens tariffs and sanctions.
https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1884054862251581786
This is Curtrina Martin & her son.
A few years ago, the FBI set off a grenade in their home & smashed the door in. But their suspect wasn’t there. Because the FBI had the wrong house.
The family was barred from suing—and the Supreme Court just agreed to hear the case. A thread.
https://x.com/billybinion/status/1884062552977707016
There appears to be a trans terror cell in the U.S. involved in serial killings. The Vermont
@CBP
U.S. Border Patrol officer shot dead on Inauguration Day was the fourth known victim.
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1884003639259521409
BREAKING Tucker Carlson’s son Buckley will become VP JD Vance’s Deputy Press Secretary
https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/1883983828123054448
Avery in ‘shock’ after revealing deadly disease from Ozempic
Singer Avery has told fans her shock at discovering she has a debilitating bone-thinning disease after taking Ozempic for just a year.
https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1883934662180872312
who in their right mind takes that crap for a week let alone a year?
Bill Gates caught on video admitting that his ‘experimental’ vaccine will CHANGE our DNA FOREVER.
https://x.com/CartlandDavid/status/1883987047318192381
video at the link
EXCLUSIVE— The @CIA and U.S. government are considering creating a “national laboratory” for Artificial Intelligence like the Manhattan Project did for nuclear weapons, Director @JohnRatcliffe told me
About Trump’s “Project Stargate,” RATCLIFFE: “ We could expand on that with a public-private partnership where a government element could participate, and we’ve done this before—our constellation of national laboratories can be traced back to the Manhattan Project”
RATCLIFFE spoke very highly of @elonmusk saying that his work with
@SpaceX is critical to getting the USA ahead of adversaries like Russia and China in emerging technologies
https://x.com/mboyle1/status/1883995136956281014
God help us
BREAKING: Microsoft in talks to acquire TikTok.
https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1884064991927845265
This is bullshit. The procedure is to back up everything FIRST. If there’a a failure somewhere you can start over
Listen to now former Secret Service Director address the fact that all of the text messages sent by the SS on January 6th were deleted due to a “data migration”.
https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1883576870043894179
@ eaglesoars:
I’ll bet she would come up with a way to recover them if someone had a 5 gallon can of water and a rag…
“I’m signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible and let hundreds of millions of gallons of water flow down into Southern California, and that’ll be a big benefit to you,” Trump said during his meeting with officials. The order was not published by the White House until Sunday.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-looks-to-seize-control-of-california-water
I will have more tomorrow bedtime
This is unbelievable.
“The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and under Emergency Powers TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the People are OVER. Enjoy the water California!!!
https://x.com/WifeOfCombatVet/status/1884100602185277811
I’m so gobsmacked I’m not even sure this is real. The U.S military?? Turns on the Water? (all typos mine)
@ eaglesoars:
US Army Corps of Engineers control nearly all lakes.
https://corpslakes.erdc.dren.mil/visitors/states.cfm?state=CA
@ Possum:
It is sort of like the thing where if you are rich and you buy 20,000 acres of land and make it into a private retreat or a golf course and there is a navigable river running through it you do not own the river.
As long as anyone walking up the river fishing or paddling a canoe does not step on the bank of that river on either side they cannot be trespassed.
I like that idea, natural rivers and lakes are not “owned” by persons or states.
The power of advertising.
While watching TV shows on Tubi, Peacock, Paramount, Pluto etc every 15 minutes or so there adverts.
Drugs to make my penis big and strong, drugs to make flaky skin go away, drugs to make my hair grow, drugs to make my HIV undetectable, cheap car insurance, online gambling, and buying a car online and choosing my down payment and monthly payment!
The food ones are the worst, sick of seeing Olive Garden new mash and chicken one, the Taco Bell and Jack in the box burgers.
At 1:30am no way am I able to get any of the food adverts products delivered, but I worked in that industry. The adverts subliminally implant a desire at times you cannot get the product so when you are able, as in when the stores are open, you will buy them.
Supper time is soon, and what am I going to have? All that money companies wasted trying to get me to eat their products and which one won?
Supper is going to be ramen noodles and something, but the noodles won!
All because of this video.
I am not really a dog person but I want what that dog is having.
https://x.com/DarksoulsThe0/status/1875624079992197240
A cat post.
Only a few weeks more to go until my male cat stops yelling when in the apartment and throwing himself at the door wanting to get out even I actually have the door propped open so he can get out.
That is how my beer gets stolen, door is always open.
He is looking for a girlfriend.
Due to feral dogs here I don’t think there are any potential girlfriends left, just one other male cat that my cat gets into a pissing contest with.
My instinct as a protective friend is never let him out.
My instinct as me is I will not ever restrict him. He is free to do what he needs to do.
Oh by the way, Natasha is asleep on the bed. Girl cats are the best. But never get two girl cats.
The saying CATFIGHT when watching two human women fighting in the street is for a reason.
The Brits had better get their act together
Shia Muslims take over Westminster Bridge in London and conduct self-flagellation in honor of Imam Musa Kazim Martyrdom Procession 2025
26th January 205 Westminster Bridge
Londonhttps://x.com/actualcoverage/status/1883861693157322910
Food post.
Looks like supper is going to be grilled cheese sandwiches, in skillet on low.
If I used an ounce of sharp cheddar thinly sliced of a block to make my sandwich then there would be zero fiber added due to the cheese.
If I used pre shredded sharp cheddar then I would be eating 1 gram of fiber!
Why does shredded cheese contain fiber?
A nutritional post.
Just do a 24 hour log of everything you eat. and not the calories, fat, protein and carbs thing but the other stuff.
We start with Iron. It is usually on the bottom of the nutritional label as a percentage of daily requirement.
Steak! It is meat and blood. Iron!
To get your daily needed intake of Iron then eating 680g aka 1.49914338 pounds per day of steak will do it.
Want fries with that?
@ Possum:
I know you are really wanting to know why shredded cheddar has fiber.
It either has potato fiber or sawdust from trees mixed in with it to stop the shreds sticking together and making a clumpy mess in the plastic sack it lives in.
Glen just came back home at 4:23am so door is closed, he is eating his food as if he has not eaten for days.
I can not sleep unless cats are inside, even though they lay on the tiny bed with me and make turning over a serious issue.
Life is good.
@ Possum:
We have 6 male and 12 female cats.
2 female in my office downstairs, one with FIV, and 4 in our bedroom.
In our early FAFO news we have
BREAKING: Tren de Aragua Ringleader behind Aurora, CO apartment building invasion arrested in NYC by ICE
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1884276967572414821
BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg considers running for U.S. Senate in Michigan – Axios
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1884271139901563074
look at this pic. Anyone else think he looks like Alfred E.Newman?
@ eaglesoars:
Michigan? I thought he lived in Indiana?
lobo91 wrote:
When has that ever stopped a democrat. We have one in our town that runs in a different district almost every election. She buys a house and claims it as her residence just long enough to meet requirements. Never lives in the place.
Press Secretary Leavitt reveals the drones that were flown over New Jersey were AUTHORIZED by the FAA for “research purposes”
“This was not the enemy,” Leavitt says
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1884305175965491691
looks like she’s gonna be a good one
lobo91 wrote:
Because no one in Indiana would be dumb enough to vote for him again and Gretchen Whitmer can crack the whip
: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under investigation for embezzlement.
Yeah, we’ve seen this movie before
https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1884283664902807839
You may be wondering why Gaza would need $50 million worth of condoms.
It’s because they use condoms as weapons to fly explosives into Israel.
Biden was going to fund terrorism.
The Trump admin stopped it.
https://x.com/i/bookmarks?post_id=1884333937788608962
BREAKING: Just heard NYT has another hit piece prepped on Tulsi after the rest all failed. They’re so desperate they’re going to claim she was on the No Fly List because she is secretly an agent of Hezbollah! Somehow an Army Lt Col is Hezbollah. Good luck with that, guys!
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1884284881360019915
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep.
https://x.com/BunkStrutts/status/1884341208459207077
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
That’s exactly what Adam Schiff did. Bought a 1200 s.f. condo, (supposedly) moved his entire family to CA so he could qualify as a resident and run for State Dickhead.
eaglesoars wrote:
I heard she also infected all those chickens with bird flu to drive up the price of eggs. She’s sneaky like that
President Trump’s White House just launched a Rapid Response Unit to combat fake news in real time.
This is what we didn’t have in 2017. The media was allowed to lie without any response, but now they can’t. This special unit will quench hoaxes before they spread like wildfire.
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1883993616227656042
Macron’s TikTok disaster: Bid to look cool backfires after president chats with ‘influencer’ who calls him a ‘dwarf married to his teacher’ who ‘runs a country the size of a potato’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14333601/Macrons-TikTok-disaster-Bid-look-cool-backfires-president-chats-influencer-calls-dwarf-married-teacher-runs-country-size-potato.html
Soros-tied Celeste Wallander, who became Biden’s top military strategist in Ukraine, has been booted from the Pentagon. I’m told she is no longer employed by DOD.
https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/1884348739180957835
hey y’all
welp…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-pulling-gen-milleys-security-detail-clearance-panel-may-face-demotion-retirement.amp
oh my, the crying,bedwetting and all-around gnashing of teeth will soon commence. the left will love him like no other
New SOCOM recruiting video just dropped. Not a lesbian or furry in sight:
What’s with all the benefits being on hold or something?
BREAKING: The Pentagon is pulling General Mark Milley’s security detail and clearance, effective immediately.
He may also face demotion in retirement.
https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1884363462064889910
The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the
@Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so.
Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1884365928038563880
right_wing2 wrote:
It has nothing to do with payments to individuals. It’s related to foreign aid, grants to non=profits, etc.
@ right_wing2:
And of course, a federal judge blocked it minutes after Trump signed the order, anyway.
Without Any Consultation With Residents, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Announces Pacific Palisades to Be Rebuilt by ‘Outside Consultant’
https://x.com/jjauthor/status/1884304152626659376
And you can bet she’ll get her cut
Stasi Starmer strikes again
BREAKING : Keir Starmer and the government are looking into the idea of requiring anyone who streams Netflix or Disney+ to pay the BBC licence fee.
This follows a drop of 500,000 people who stopped paying their TV licence in 2024.
https://x.com/Britlad95/status/1884297885568860173
I knows space things.
The two people that were “stranded” on the ISS could have been returned to Earth the day after the replacement crew of the ISS docked with two empty seats.
NASA and everyone involved decided to carry on as normal. The two “stranded” astronauts took over the experiments etc of the two left behind to make seats available for a February return.
Little known fact, when a new 4 person crew arrives at the ISS there is a few days before the returning crew departs. They do a handover.
For a few days there are almost twice as many up there than normal.
At any time they can all come home.
Elon musk ain’t saving them.
https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1884394805733761434
Trump just announced a voluntary buyout plan for federal workers. They’re being offered 7 months pay and benefits if they accept by February 6th
JUST IN: President Trump announces a STAGGERING 92.9% drop in illegal migrant encounters at the border since he took office
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1884398047951499579
WH Press Secretary Karoline Levitt is amazing.
https://youtu.be/f5eerz81IFY?si=kKBQG9NjNV__gHJg
Midnight and fireworks are erupting all around us.
Happy Tet!
And I was correct again!
I said in here a while ago that the word on the street and in the hood was the locals here are anti illegal immigrants and they were not welcome as they take day labor jobs away from my buddies.
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1884549107542360556
eaglesoars wrote:
This is a good point
I think it’s more zoning control. The “consultant” will redraw affluent Pacific Palisades into multi-family and mixed use zoning for greater “efficiency” and “equity”. You, a property owner, will have to conform, sell or let your property go into foreclosure. She’s a communist.
https://x.com/ShippMercy69832/status/1884601251318342108
@ eaglesoars:
Sell at a huge loss, too.
@ right_wing2:
oh they’re absolutely screwed. No insurance and what do you want to bet the state will declare eminent domain and and give them 10 cents on the dollar. Here’s another “they’re screwed” aspect. Some houses didn’t burn but all the houses around them did. The burned out properties will be rebuilt as ‘equity’ multi-family housing and what do you think that will do to the unburned property values?
@ eaglesoars:
I’m fine with duplex/4plex, and apartments. But I don’t want it right next door.
with Bernie screaming about onesies during RFK junior’s hearing, Kennedy should’ve responded “ I support someone’s right to sell such a onesie. I also a board a company right to sell more than two kinds of deodorant, much as you might dislike that.”
@ lobo91:
It will take a generation to rebuild. Obama kicked out all the war fighters to expand his social welfare / affirmative action hires and Pedo Joe was just the icing on the cake.
God forbid we get sucked into a regional war because they will draft, baby draft to get the numbers back up.
right_wing2 wrote:
what the hell are onesies?
@ eaglesoars:
Something you put babies in.
Former Dem Senator Robert Menendez was sentenced to 11 years
*snort*
The WHO is now FREEZING hiring amidst an increasingly “acute” financial situation after Trump pulled the USA out of the organization.
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1884581875307413763
Trump just announced that they’re going to turn the unused Gitmo facilities into a temporary 30,000 bed holding camp for illegals
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/01/usda-inspector-general-escorted-from-office-by-security-after-defying-trump-order.html
Security agents had to escort the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump Administration.
uh oh
To defend and burnish Tulsi Gabbard’s image as her political star was rising, her congressional campaign hired a public-affairs firm in 2017 that tried to suppress coverage of an alleged pyramid scheme connected to her Hindu sect, according to interviews, emails and Federal Election Commission records.
Gabbard, a former House member who is now President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, was raised in the Science of Identity Foundation, a sect tied to a direct-marketing firm accused of running a pyramid scheme in several countries. Neither Gabbard, the sect nor the firm, QI Group, wanted the relationships scrutinized.
Gabbard’s campaign paid Washington, D.C.,-based Potomac Square Group for the PR cleanup, trying to mask the connections. But the operation was directed by a Science of Identity follower—and longtime Gabbard adviser—who sits on the board of a QI subsidiary.
The revelations shed further light on Gabbard’s ties to the religious group—publicly described by some former followers as a cult that demands total loyalty to its founder—and to the Hong Kong-based QI, which has been a target of criminal and civil cases alleging fraud and racketeering in at least seven countries.
Lawmakers have looked closely at Gabbard’s connections with Science of Identity and QI ahead of her confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to people familiar with the matter. Gabbard’s ties raise questions about her judgment and loyalty, congressional staffers said.
Gabbard and many of her former Capitol Hill staffers are followers of the sect, people with knowledge of the matter said. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, has called Chris Butler, the sect’s leader, her “guru dev,” a Hindu term that is frequently translated as divine teacher.
Science of Identity is entwined with QI, according to real-estate and corporate records, as well as interviews with former followers. Sunil Khemaney, who serves on the board of one of QI’s subsidiaries, is a longtime political fundraiser for Gabbard. She has described him as an “uncle.”
Trump nominated Gabbard for one of the most sensitive roles in the federal government. Senate confirmation would give the 43-year-old former lawmaker the task of coordinating the work of all U.S. spy agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the intelligence branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Gabbard’s parents are followers of Butler, a former Hare Krishna disciple who founded Science of Identity Foundation in Hawaii in the 1970s. They raised Gabbard in the group, said former followers, who described Butler’s demands of fealty. Some adherents mixed Butler’s toenail clippings into their meals, two former followers said, as a sign of devotion. Others used his shoes as prayer totems, they said.
A spokeswoman for the sect declined to respond to questions, accusing The Wall Street Journal of “falsehoods, half-truths, and misrepresentations.” A QI spokeswoman said the company and its principals “refute any connection with Tulsi Gabbard.”
“The QI Group has no knowledge of, and has had no involvement in the Congressional Campaign of Ms. Gabbard,” the spokeswoman said.
Christopher Cooper, Potomac’s managing director, said the campaign hired Potomac for help managing “online attacks related to her religion” and didn’t seek to conceal Gabbard’s relationship with Butler. Potomac worked separately for the sect on media strategy, he said, “with no involvement from the Gabbard campaign.”
Gabbard’s relative inexperience in national intelligence, as well as her past support for regimes in Russia and Syria, has raised concern among some national-security officials and lawmakers. Gabbard served two years on the House Homeland Security committee.
Gabbard seemed confused about a key U.S. national-security surveillance power in recent meetings with Senate Republicans. GOP lawmakers are expected to support her nomination.
Trump said Gabbard “will bring the fearless spirit that has defined her illustrious career to our Intelligence Community, championing our Constitutional Rights, and securing Peace through Strength,” in his statement announcing her nomination.
A spokeswoman in the Trump administration responded on behalf of Gabbard to emailed inquiries from the Journal by posting screenshots of the email to her X account on Friday, calling the questions and Journal findings “Hinduphobic smears and other lies about” Gabbard.
In a follow-up email, the spokeswoman said Gabbard would “speak truth to power and isn’t afraid to take on rogue bureaucrats and those who politicize the [intelligence community], and this is why President Trump nominated her.”
‘Ponzi scheme’
Science of Identity adherents believe that to achieve peace, they must break from worldly desires. Followers abstain from eating meat, taking drugs, drinking alcohol, gambling and having sex outside of marriage, according to former followers.
The group discourages relationships with anyone outside the group, which operates in Hawaii, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. It also has run sect-affiliated schools in Hawaii and the Philippines.
Butler, the sect’s leader, enforces a rigid hierarchy among followers, who are assigned a letter grade. A small number of people who work directly for Butler are designated with the letter A. They are the only followers allowed close physical proximity to Butler or to anything he touches, two former disciples said.
“It’s a cult,” said Lalita Mann, a former follower. “You’ve got a charismatic leader who is seen as a messiah figure…the only pathway to salvation.”
Science of Identity has described such characterizations as anti-Hindu bigotry.
Followers who attain a certain status in the group are initiated in a ceremony and given a new name, former disciples said. At least four former adherents said they believe that Gabbard was initiated and received the name Shraddha Dasi.
Science of Identity and QI have been linked since at least 2007, when QI purchased Healthy’s, the parent company of the sect-affiliated Down to Earth grocery store chain.
Sect followers founded and operated the chain, which has six locations in Hawaii. Down to Earth didn’t respond to requests for comment.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/tulsi-gabbard-science-of-identity-qi-group-ed51c890?st=bhx4W6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
more at the link, long article
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
4pm. New eruptions have begun. Some of the firecracker strings go on for more than a minute.
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1884753527299351019
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nazi-obsessed-democrat-county-chair-calls-for-violent-death-for-some-humorous-trump-supporters-in-epic-meltdown
This guy needs to go to the rubber room and then to jail once he’s declared fit (if ever).
Oh this would be GREAT! Roseanne Barr has come up with a new show she wants to get made
The new series, which will star Barr and be four to six episodes in line with the U.K. comedy format, is “a cross between ‘The Roseanne Show’ and ‘The Sopranos,’” she says, and centers on a small-town farmer in Alabama who is “saving the United States from drug gangs and China.” The protagonist dabbles in growing and selling drugs like cannabis and magic mushrooms.
“It’s silly and out there,” she says. “[It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm. And they have goats running through their house and stuff. It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii. They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism. It’s kind of like the Coen brothers thing.”
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/roseanne-barr-new-comedy-series-saving-america-1236285811/
People in Las Vegas think an ice cream truck is coming to deport them:
@ lobo91:
Ice cream trucks here at 11pm sell weed.
@ Possum:
Allegedly….
Where did everyone go? Watching the American air and Blackhawk that crashed in. DC?
oh no not again…………..
video of impact. was the plane landing?
https://x.com/PettusWX/status/1884791599122591905
better video
https://x.com/PettusWX/status/1884791599122591905
The plane was on final approach. ATC directed the chopper to turn behind the plane but got no response from the chopper. Confusing info on whether the chopper was military or DC police
Military helicopter. Might be a Blackhawk.
#BREAKING: Shared to me anonymously shows the Playback from official Air Traffic Control radar
#Washington | #DC
Watch as exclusive playback, sent anonymously by
@avgeekjake
to Rawsalerst, reveals official Air Traffic Control radar footage displaying the Collision Alert. This alert is not for an imminent collision but serves as a tool to draw heightened attention from the controllers to potential risks. The footage then captures the critical moment when both aircraft collided, emphasizing the urgency of the controllers’ split-second decisions. The radar data provides a detailed view of the events leading up to the crash, offering valuable insight into the sequence of actions and how the situation ultimately unfolded
radar video at the link
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1884827088437264387
Heres the latest news I have
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1884842482514473470
Calo wrote:
apparently. there is some talk that it was on the wrong frequency
Here is the Army’s press release. It was a training flight out of Ft Belvoir
https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/1884830433608683978
Timeline of air traffic controllers issuing warnings before American Airlines plane, Black Hawk helicopter collision in DC
https://x.com/nypost/status/1884849128582033480
from this, it looks like the helicopter pilot pilot visually mis-identified the plane he was supposed to avoid. Could he have impacted the plane from underneath?
There aren’t going to be any survivors. I’m going to bed.
@ Calo:
The flight originated in Wichita.
From what I read, it was likely the helo’s fault.
I have to laugh at the people who think Air Traffic Control is under the TSA. and since Trump fired the head of the TSA, this accident is his fault.
right_wing2 wrote:
The main purpose of the comments on videos is to allow stupid people to reveal themselves.
yep, we were right!
LA law requires that Pacific Palisades rebuilding after fires must include low-income housing
In the city of Los Angeles, which includes the Pacific Palisades — a “High Opportunity Area” — all apartment buildings built before October 1978 are subject to the city’s rent control ordinance, which means all units in such buildings would need to be replaced with units “affordable” to lower-income renters even if the existing tenants were high income.
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“Under the Resident Protections Ordinance, in most cases landlords will be required to replace apartments burned down in the Palisades with low income units,” said Los Angeles Housing Production Institute director Joseph Cohen on X. “Displaced residents will then find themselves ineligible to return because they won’t meet the income requirements.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/los-angeles-law-pacific-palisades-rebuilding-must-include-low-income
Russian figure skating couple Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won Olympic Gold together in 1994, were reportedly among the victims in the DC plane crash.
https://x.com/Pismo_B/status/1885069060872036604
A boring post. Walmart delivered my pot roast ingredients yesterday and today the numbers are in.
Unfortunately no pictures this time as it was raining yesterday so did not walk to by strange onions, used a course chopped yellow onion instead.
Ingredients are enough for 4 little slow cooker batches of stew. 2lbs beef, 8oz mushrooms, 1lb baby carrots and 24oz bag of expensive baby yellow potatoes. Plus McCormick slow cooker mix, half a pack per batch, and tomato powder.
Anyway, first batch was 300g beef, 200g onion, fuck weighing four button mushrooms, 100g carrots and 100g potatoes ( six cut in half )
Spreadsheet says that 968 calories entered the slow cooker.
Results were slow cooker weighed 2130g, then subtract weight of pot at 1250g gives me 880g of stew. About 1.94006791 pounds.
So, today meal will probably be half of the pot! I is hungry. Almost 1 pound of stew!
About 500 calories…..
@ Possum:
OK I am bored and Lucy works so hard to feed me and keep me healthy.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1885097468892721448
Seriously, there were four button mushrooms cut into quarters in the stew!
Somebody had a fit of sanity
After major backlash from Californians and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, the Assembly walked back a vote on Newsom’s $50 million slush fund to sue Trump.
Los Angeles is battling a catastrophic wildfire, and California faces a massive budget deficit for future years. The last thing we need is more political stunts from Governor Newsom as he chases his White House pipe dream.
https://x.com/SenBrianJones/status/1885097232074162298
After years of litigation and stonewalling by the @FBI , a federal judge ordered the feds to produce Seth Rich records by Feb. 7th. Today, the FBI told me it wants more time. Maybe @Kash_Patel and @realDonaldTrump need to hear about this…
https://x.com/Ty_Clevenger/status/1885055373549174906
This is odd
Fleet of abandoned ships is growing, leaving more sailors stuck at sea
More ships than ever are being abandoned around the world by their owners, according to the United Nations’ labor and maritime organizations, leaving thousands of workers stuck on board without pay or the means to travel home to their families.
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Some workers languish on board for years, such as Abdul Nasser Saleh, whom the Associated Press profiled last year in a story exploring abandonment in U.S. ports and abroad.
https://apnews.com/article/international-trade-abandoned-seafarers-labor-unpaid-wages-oceans-shipping-82a5481d277c31009c3a68e69da2f348
They never learn
Shell writes off $1 billion, exits US offshore wind project
https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/shell-writes-off-1-billion-exits-us-offshore-wind-project-93CH-3839351
DETROIT (AP) — Hours after being sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks — also a principal way that it regulates air pollution and addresses climate change. Duffy ordered the federal agency in charge of fuel economy standards to reverse them as soon as possible. The standards have been in place since the 1970s energy crisis and were intended to conserve fuel and save consumers money at the gas pump.
Here are five things to know about the action.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/things-know-trump-administration-order-173404507.html
I read the article and still don’t know what those 5 things are except the history of it
This is comedy gold. Kurt Schlicter takes the fire to some Brit Lord Snootfull talk show host – and gets kicked off the show!
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1885159094203396125
Thunder, lightening, rain. Fireplace on
I think this was last year
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine has announced it cemented the sewage lines of a Columbia building.
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1884828130013286516
PSA
Yesterday was Chicago Wednesday and it is Thursday so Chicago Fire, Med and PD are on Peacock.
Just started watching Chicago Med, I watch that first because it is boring usually. There is always a patient that is nuts and it takes half the show.
However! when I started watching it there were explosions and fire and shit in the recap and I wondered what I missed last week!
LOL this week is a three part crossover thing.
Watch Chicago Fire first.
FWIW
The pilot of the Black Hawk has been identified as Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2) Jo Ellis, a transgender woman. Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. Jo has been making radicalized anti-Trump statements on socials.
https://x.com/FakeGayPolitics/status/1885151698311889223
A food post.
Supper is going to be a 1/4 burger and 200g of boiled baby yellow potatoes.
The potatoes are going to be halved then sautéed in the burger grease. Sauté is French for jump.
Translate jump to French here. I knows French. You put shit in a very hot skillet and it jumps around.
https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=fr&text=jump&op=translate
Anyway, that is not the reason for this post. Reason is manufacturers make many different variants of products. Food, my frozen burgers are labeled as 80/20. But this 4lb bag has very little to no fat!
Hey I got premium beef cheaper! But going to have to ass coconut oil to the skillet to fry my potatoes.
It is the same with Integrated circuits/silicon chips/CPUs whatever you want to call them.
They manufacture a batch of them. Make sure they work at normal speeds, then take some and test them at higher speeds, stamp them with a different part number and sell them for $200 more.
That does not mean the ones left behind and cheaper cannot go faster! They are just not tested at a higher speed.
Hence, the whole thing about “overclocking” in the PC world. Just because the part number says it cannot don’t mean it can’t.
So my point. The place where my ground beef was packaged makes 73/27 and 80/20 and 93/7 I got a great deal!
Bought 80/20 and got way more leaner beef patties. Overclocking them, but have to ADD fat.
Cooking is fun…..
@ Possum:
And I never ass coconut oil to anything. Usually I add it.
Some typos are funny. Even I laughed at that one.
Well, burger and fries are in progress using my brand new ceramic non-stick pan.
Notice severe lack of grease and fat. Coconut oil will come to the rescue!
113g of meat, 200g of little potatoes and 8g coconut oil.
505 calories.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1885232151660028228
@ Possum:
It may look boring at this point. Heat was on very low just to thaw the burger, now 8g of coconut oil was added and the meal is on standby, as in heat off.
When I am hungry heat goes on full to brown the burger and potatoes, then they come out of the pan and set aside. Into the pan will go four or five thin sliced button mushrooms, onion powder and sage. Due to the severe lack of fat from the supposedly 80/20 burger we going to need another 8g coconut oil.
Once mushrooms are cooked heat off and 62g of Good Value ( Walmart ) Alfredo will be added to the hot pan to make a mushroom sauce.
That sauce will be poured over the beef and potatoes in an artistic way.
Gordon Ramsey is an armature compared to me.
@ Possum:
Um, this autocorrect spelling thing is something I must turn off.
An armature is part of an electric motor or generator.
LOL
The Telegraph paper – the UK’s version of the NYT – is a paper that requires a subscription except for the front page. Which is always fun.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/#source=refresh
Labour is proposing to cut the amount of land we allow farmers to grow food on by 10%, even as projections suggest millions more mouths to feed because of immigration. Food security is being sacrificed on the altar of net zero and Britain’s broken borders.
Tenth of farmland to be axed for net zero
Solar farms, tree planting and wildlife habitats to replace food production as Labour deals fresh blow to rural life
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/31/tenth-of-farmland-to-be-axed-for-net-zero-steve-reed/
Why were they operating anywhere near the business end of an active and busy runway at landing/takeoff altitude at night?
@ Possum:
We bought some of those ceramic pots/pans a while back. Love ‘em!
Trump shouldn’t have said a thing about assigning any blame over this tragedy. He should’ve said something about being able to speculate, but that he wasn’t going to do it.
eaglesoars wrote:
That story is false. There is such a person, but that’s not who was flying the helicopter.
An obvious clue is that it wasn’t a VA National Guard helicopter. It was from the 12th Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir (Davison Army Airfield). They’re the Army’s main aviation unit in the Capital Region.
coldwarrior wrote:
It really looks like it all comes down to altitude. The Black Hawk was apparently too high. The fact that it was flying past that runway is normal for that area. Military helicopters routinely fly up and down the Potomac when traveling in and out of DC. If you look at a map, they have to cross the flight path of the runways at DCA, because they all point toward the river.
One of the crazy theories people have been posting is that the helicopter deliberately crashed into the plane. That one apparently got its start from people looking at the radar track of the two aircraft. If you look at just the diagram that shows the flight paths, it does actually look like the helicopter was maneuvering toward the plane, as if to hit it. When you superimpose the radar track over a map, though, it becomes apparent that the helicopter was just following the river, as it was supposed to. It just happens that the river doesn’t go in a straight line.
eaglesoars wrote:
With the radicalized trans assassins hitting schools and such, this may need reassessed as to whether it was an accident.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Got it. Not the pilot. That’s good.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Typical internet BS. There apparently is such a pilot, but she had nothing to do with the crash.Fairly easy to figure out, since everyone involved is dead, and the pilot in question has reached out to media outlets asking them to stop mentioning her.
They are saying the quiet bit out loud now…
Tony Blair calls for mandatory digital IDs in the UK – this time, to “get tough on populism”
The former Labour prime minister, who backs identity technology systems and facial recognition, believes the public will gladly sacrifice privacy for efficiency
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/tony-blair-use-tech-tough-populism-crime-justice-commission-v58gsvndl
lobo91 wrote:
I didn’t read that as saying it was a Nat’l Guard helicopter, only as noting that she served there
from Trump
The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER. We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy. They can go find another sucker Nation. There is no chance that BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, or anywhere else, and any Country that tries should say hello to Tariffs, and goodbye to America!
https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1885140127468417159
Trump just banned the 51 intel agents who lied about Biden’s laptop from entering all federal buildings
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1885386312381063517
The DOJ just argued that your money isn’t actually property—so the government can take it at will. If that sounds insane, it’s because it is. A federal court will decide if this madness stands.
https://x.com/reason/status/1885354932955734327
This flooding is inside Walter Reed National Military Medical center- source tells me following years of neglect, a critical steam system failure has crippled all non-emergency operations. Critical situation at military medicine’s flagship institution.
https://x.com/BuckSexton/status/1885129606107132173
[pic at the link]
JUST IN: Understaffed FAA Sued For Allegedly Turning Away 1,000 Applicants Based On Race
https://x.com/FFT1776/status/1885410690598363562
NEW: The order that removed dozens of senior USAID leaders earlier this week was rescinded today by a career USAID official who called the purge “illegal” and a violation of “due process.” That official has now been put on administrative leave. I obtained his email to staff, which accuses DOGE representatives of engineering the purge
https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1885122929022681141
letter at the link
Unconfirmed. Sounds like OPM?
EXCLUSIVE:
MUSK AIDES LOCK CAREER STAFF OUT OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AT U.S. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL AGENCY, SOURCES SAY
https://x.com/PiQSuite/status/1885417904457605405
Here are some thoughts after over a year of litigating Brigida v Department of Transportion, a DEI Air Traffic Control case against the Biden FAA and DOJ:
The FAA pushed its radical DEI agenda for decades. It watered down the air traffic control aptitude test multiple times for the stated purpose of increasing Air Traffic Control(ATC) diversity, until finally a questionable character self-assessment was worth far more than the ability to understand flight paths and intersecting angles.
Under both the Obama and Biden Administrations, the FAA was influenced by DEI fanatics to change its air traffic control hiring process. Rather than stick with the science, the agency used an ATC aptitude test – if it can even be called that – that prioritized skin color and sex over actual competence.
During the Obama Administration more than 2000 qualified & vetted men and women were lined up to become air traffic controllers. They’d demonstrated their competence and eagerness to protect the American skies and were just waiting on orders from the government. The order that came was to remove them from the ATC queue altogether. The reason: Obama’s FAA decided they weren’t racially diverse enough.
The Obama Administration threw out the results of an ATC aptitude test proven to select the best candidates in favor of a 10 minute self-assessment that had zero guardrails against cheating and even less to do with air traffic. Anyone who failed according to the FAA’s secret scoring system was denied the job, no matter how highly they’d scored on the actual ATC aptitude test.
In the name of DEI, Obama’s FAA instituted an air traffic control hiring exam that awarded applicants points for being bad at science in high school, being unemployed, and having below average communication skills. The candidates who were actually qualified to be ATCs but were denied the chance to protect American skies because they didn’t pass this sham test sued to correct the injustice, but the Biden admin championed the DEI cause in court with even greater ferocity.
Back in 2013 the Obama Administration promised a “historic transformation” of the FAA. To make our skies safer? To become more technologically advanced? To study flight patterns of the busiest airspace? Obama’s promise was to make air traffic control a more diverse and inclusive workforce, and Biden doubled down on it.
Talent and experience for these jobs is a long pipeline. Losing so many qualified applicants out of only 14,000 Air Traffic Controllers, and losing potentially countless applicants since, has resulted in chronic staffing shortages and serious overtime.
No sane American cares about ATC sex and skin color, because they know it’s an obsession that, as I predicted many times last year and as recently as 2 weeks ago, would result in tragedy.
https://x.com/AdamLaxalt/status/1885375595338412419
Ward Carroll has an interesting video exploring the DCA crash, including insights from a Coast Guard helicopter pilot who has reportedly flown that corridor “thousands” of times. It sounds like the change of runway for the CRJ may have been a factor in why the helicopter crew was looking at the wrong plane. Normally, airliners land on Runway 1, but this one was diverted to Runway 33 (which the helicopter crew wouldn’t have known, because they were on a different frequency). They were probably looking for a plane landing on 33.
SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say
Musk allies wanted access to the system responsible for disbursing trillions in fed payments annually as part of DOGE
Treasury career staff saw request as highly unusual
David A. Lebryk, viewed internally as consummate nonpolitical civil servant, expected to exit after joining Treasury in 1989. Last week, he was acting treasury secretary.
https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1885303153567920604
#BREAKING: The Department of Agriculture has ordered that ALL references to “climate change” be removed from their website by end of day today, per ABC
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1885411920305418306
DOGE released a list on the DEI savings by agency. Look the the number for Office of Personnel Mgmt. HALF A BILLION?
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1885420298138247458
A former senior advisor to the Federal Reserve, John Harold Rogers, has bee arrested for allegedly conspiring to steal trade secrets for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China.
While in China, he secretly shared the stolen information during secret meetings in hotel rooms, all while pretending to teach classes at a local university.
He is facing up to 15 years in jail.
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1885441822954008657
eaglesoars wrote:
OPM is the government’s HR department, so it makes sense that they would have the biggest expense.
NEW: A Trump administration official tells me that Richard Grenell is in Venezuela today to get the country to take back their illegal aliens, including Tren de Aragua gang members.
This trip is being coordinated between the State Department and White House.
https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1885378466582823415
gotta find ’em first
I had no idea Sidney Powell was going thru this
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The State Bar of Texas LOST again. The Board of Disciplinary Appeals has just flat-out dismissed the #SBOT’s second attempt to disbar me. The Texas Bar has relentlessly attacked me for 4 years in two separate cases now, and we have defeated them at every turn. What will it take to stop this lawfare and political abuse of power?
https://x.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1885409449806094558
Two different reports stating that the squad which conducted the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and MAL raid in Florida have been walked out of
@FBIWFO
. That’s my old office.
The case should never have been opened, and they brought disgrace on the whole agency. Yikes.
https://x.com/KyleSeraphin/status/1885435591640187344
Private plane went down in Philly.
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1885476073271681058
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1885482600925438034
Just got word that the prosecutor in my Jan 6 case was FIRED and escorted out of the building today by security.
There is a rumor that the FBI agents who terrorized Jan 6er’s are fired too.
https://x.com/rallynate/status/1885489037776949736
WINNING! DOJ fires J6 prosecutors in D.C. US atty office
https://x.com/rallynate/status/1885489037776949736
WHOA!
Fox just reported about 100 FBI Agents have been fired across the country.
The FBI agents association gave them a statement that said this will hurt the country’s ability to investigate National Security threats.
When I read that, all I could think of was how all those leaders took their line agents off of those kinds of cases for YEARS in order to focus on J6 cases or parents at school board meetings or Catholic church attendees.
I will never forget
@RealStevefriend
testimony of how he was taken off of child trafficking cases for that nonsense.
The FBI mission will hopefully revert back to the original one.
Unfortunately, those who stood by or facilitated the weaponization and politicization of the FBI have to pay the price.
The message has been sent.
https://x.com/donwill94062871/status/1885467333906334113
BREAKING: A Chinese national, who was organizing pro-Hamas rallies at UCLA, has been arrested and had her visa revoked. She is being sent back to China.
https://x.com/akafaceUS/status/1885473712423518319
I didn’t know we had people being held in Venezuela
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We are wheels up and headed home with these 6 American citizens.
They just spoke to @realDonaldTrump and they couldn’t stop thanking him.
https://x.com/RichardGrenell/status/1885482064050610536
This thread has 3 different videos of the Philly plane crash. In the 3rd it looks like the plane is already on fire before it hits
https://x.com/APhilosophae/status/1885493875483050329
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It was a Learjet 55 air ambulance that had just taken off less than a minute before. Full load of fuel. Crashed into an outdoor mall of some sort
@ Possum:
It is nice not to have to scrape the stuck on food out of my non-stick pans.
The cheap black coated ones only last a year or so, even if I behave myself.
When they are past their non-sticky date I use them for heating up tortillas to the brown and bubble stage.
Felt strange to just slither three fried eggs onto a plate without having to scrape them loose!
@ eaglesoars:
I was listening to an interview with a pilot who’s familiar with that aircraft. It was climbing through 1600 feet when it went down. That’s apparently right where the pilot would have been reducing power after takeoff. They speculated that it might have been a catastrophic engine failure, which would explain the fire. And that’s a plane with an engine on either side of the fuselage just forward of the tail, so if an engine let go, it could have severed control lines to the tail.
right_wing2 wrote:
My last post was supposed to be a reply to RW not myself.
I may have fried egg intoxication…
I’m done posting so-and-so has been fired and frog marched out of the building stuff. I’ve seen so many I figure the Hoover building tomorrow will be occupied by 5 janitors and 2 security guards – and I’m not sure about the security guards
@ lobo91:
And there may have been oxygen on board
The cartels are about to learn the meaning of FAFO:
lobo91 wrote:
not survivable. How awful for those poor people.
Odd sequence of flight plans filed by xa-uci
Yep I know, you can file a flight plan and not do it.
Also I understand Flightradar24 flight plans and previous flights may not be accurate.
Usually aircraft fly from A to B then take off from B and go to C etc.
Aircraft was due out of Philadelphia (PNE) at 5:00pm to go to Springfield (SGF) due to arrive at 7:42 PM but never did that flight.
Looking at the pattern of flights that jet was one of these re-patriation aircraft. Not taking emergency patients to the nearest trauma center like the helicopters do but taking injured but stable patients home .
@ Possum:
Called that one. Re-patriation flight.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1885516082167128217
So not one of the accidents flying over and under power lines and in bad weather to get a patient to a hospital fast.
A routine flight.
@ Possum:
That would be more of a helicopter thing. Pretty sure nobody’s trying to fly a Lear 55 under power lines. And there wouldn’t be any reason to rush a patient from Philadelphia to Missouri, anyway. I’d imagine that they have perfectly good hospitals there.
???
Pentagon Resident Press Corp just kicked out the squatters from the New York Times, NPR, NBC, and Politico.
https://x.com/chiIIum/status/1885518236688564466
@ lobo91:
Yeah, that is what I am trying to say. It was a normal, planned flight.
So a normal reason for an aircraft to explode and crash into a fiery fireball.
Those medivac helicopter crashes are scary, and an example of pilots pushing the limits to save lives. You look at the comments on X and there are many confusing the two types of medical flights.
ATC audio from the Learjet crash. One moment they were there, then Poof! No mayday call or anything
DeSantis
RON DESANTIS: “They actually, in the bill – prohibit our state agencies [from] even talking to ICE without the approval of the commissioner of agriculture.”
“Who the H*ll do they think they are to say they need a ‘mother, may I?’ from the commissioner of freaking agriculture?”
https://x.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1885366977553662343
In FL the ag commissioner is not appointed by the Gov, it’s an elected position
BREAKING: Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth announces that Military Departments will no longer use official resources for celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months.
“This guidance is effectively immediately.”
https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1885498852880376229
The Pentagon has informed its resident press corps that NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico will “rotate out of the building” to give space to New York Post, Breitbart, OANN, and HuffPost.
https://x.com/halbritz/status/1885514813142405435
lobo91 wrote:
I’m laughing my ass off
MUSK AIDES LOCK CAREER STAFF OUT OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AT U.S. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL AGENCY, SOURCES SAY- RTRS
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1885418624329871367
“A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said…. The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.” RTRS
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1885474632838369324
TREASURY FINDS $31M IN SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS TO DEAD PEOPLE, CALLS IT ‘TIP OF ICEBERG’
Government discovers millions in payments to deceased recipients after getting access to Social Security’s death records.
Officials project $215M more to recover by 2026, but need permanent access to stop the payments.
Turns out stopping checks to dead people saves money – who knew?
Source: Associated Press
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1880039146623824350
FNN – By Monday, all OPM offices are expected to give political leaders staffing charts with plans for an initial 30% reduction for both feds and contractors
https://x.com/W7VOA/status/1885455314926887359
Somebody survived the plane crash. But they’re on fire
https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1885518345107067333
eaglesoars wrote:
That had to be someone who was on the ground. There’s no way anyone survived on that plane.
This is very cool
With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures
A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.
Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These cell-specific gene expression patterns, which ensure that a brain cell is different from a skin cell, are partly determined by the three-dimensional structure of the genetic material, which controls the accessibility of each gene.
MIT chemists have now come up with a new way to determine those 3D genome structures, using generative artificial intelligence. Their technique can predict thousands of structures in just minutes, making it much speedier than existing experimental methods for analyzing the structures.
Using this technique, researchers could more easily study how the 3D organization of the genome affects individual cells’ gene expression patterns and functions.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/with-generative-ai-mit-chemists-quickly-calculate-3d-genomic-structures-0131
BREAKING: U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos has announced his resignation.
https://x.com/TammieBellaWms/status/1885459375306793226
This hit me as odd until I read the comments
Good. They harassed and threatened me for months. Saying my address was randomly picked to fill out a 47 page piece of the most invasive questions imaginable. I didn’t comply and they sent letters (to “resident), left cards, and unsuccessfully beat on my door for days telling me it was the law. GFY buddy!
https://x.com/TammieBellaWms/status/1885459375306793226
lobo91 wrote:
yeah
@ eaglesoars:
Tabulation of the 2020 Census was completely botched, as well. It likely resulted in red states being shorted three House seats (and thus, 3 Electoral votes)
One of NASA’s stranded astronauts has revealed she has lost the ability to perform several basic tasks after being stranded in space for eight months.
Sunita Williams admitted this week that she has forgotten what it’s like to walk after spending 234 days in microgravity.
‘I’ve been up here long enough, right now I’ve been trying to remember what it’s like to walk. I haven’t walked. I haven’t sat down. I haven’t laid down,’ she said during a video call with students at Needham High School in Massachusetts on Monday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14338015/stranded-nasa-astronauts-trump-rescue-mission-elon-musk.html
This is insane. In the Idaho National Guard, an Officer was removed from command for his Christian views.
The investigating officer recommended NO CHRISTIANS IN COMMAND.
This is insane.
https://x.com/brinkofill/status/1885417750539231432
document at link
@ eaglesoars:
Again I called this one about eight months ago here.
Sunita Williams, look at her bio. She spent the longest time of a woman on the ISS in her prime.
Due to this crazy thing about legacy she was on the Boeing test flight at age of 58 as a retirement and end of career thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunita_Williams
She is not “stranded” it is a NASA choice not to return her to Earth.
Any medical issues are due to her age, she was OK to fly one last mission of eight days. Not fit for months on the ISS.
Coldest Day (-73°F) in Russian History: What happened in 1978?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYGUnrjIlBk&t=370s
this is pretty insane
@ eaglesoars:
The story behind all of that is really unbelievable. It all stemmed from his campaign for Mayor. Nothing to do with his military duties whatsoever.
https://lc.org/newsroom/details/011725-idaho-army-national-guard-sued-for-no-christians-in-command-policy-1
@ lobo91:
whoa. I’m going to have to read that again tomorrow when I’m more awake.
BREAKING: The LA Times, the largest news site in California, just released an article confirming that President Trump’s orders are entirely responsible for the massive new water flow into Californian cities.
– The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers abruptly increased the amount of water flowing from two California dams.
– After President Trump signed an order calling for increased water deliveries.
– Local water managers, who were caught off-guard by the decision, said they convinced Army Corps officials to release less water than originally planned.
☝️In other words, Democrat leaders in California deliberately screwed the people over.
The next time you Liberal Californians turn on your showers or drink water, please take a moment to thank God for giving you Trump to undo the damage the Democrats have done to your state.
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1885538124094464171
So the Armey Corps of Engineers don’t answer to the Commander in Chief? I’m confused.
DELETED: GSA’s tech arm, a far-left agency that viciously subverted Trump during his first term, surrendered after an @elonmusk deputy took over. It deleted huge swaths of code dedicated to virtue-signaling rather than mission, such as its “inclusion bot” that lectured staff.
https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247
[same thread]
Federal government-wide computer office
@18F
, which to this day has a transgender flag as its logo, also deleted where its employee handbook instructed employees to explain what they look like at each meeting so blind people could know if there was sufficient racial diversity.
just read the thread. I’m convinced that all these people who claim to be anything other than straight male/female or lesbian/gay are actually insane. And altho the drugs they may have been given during their ‘transition’ phase may play a role, anyone claiming to be ‘trans’ is actually so mentally ill they need to be locked up
lobo91 wrote:
First you continue to aviate because otherwise you DIE every time
Second you navigate so that you don’t hit the cloud with a granite core hiding inside it and you DIE every time
Lastly you THEN Communicate with ATC because they aren’t inside your aircraft and can only talk, and more often that not can do squat to stop you from Dying almost every time.
This is all about PRIORITIES. Do the most important stuff to NOT die. After surviving you THEN get around to telling ATC. Talking doesn’t take the place of DOING something to NOTend up DYING.
I have been there five times on large airplanes and I talked ATC AFTER doing ‘pilot shit first’ to NOT DIE , then you can chat to your hearts consent with the ATC lady who has been trying to distract you from doing your pilot shit with the Blah…blah … blah ATC type shit.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup that is an anomaly that happened, I believe when during the WWII war in the Pacific whilst ‘island hopping’ most of the engineering staff operating earth moving vehicles were CIVILIANS on contract building airstrips on islands under fire quite often. The DoD for reasons known only to themselves seemed to like it that way as highly skilled heavy equipment operators would be hired on a case by case specialist basis, because it made sense financially and operationally. It never did change.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
would that be what we call the SeeBees?
@ eaglesoars:
Command helicopter pilots sit in the RIGHT seat (starboard) whereas command pilots of fixed wing airplanes sit in the LEFT seat. The ATC hire in the Reagan tower was doing two jobs because the other ATC person in the tower went home early. So the guy left with two jobs had to remember that the command pilots were sitting in opposite seats Port side (left) for the airliner and Starboard side (right) for the helicopter. Did anyone working in staff scheduling think about cutting staffing levels in ways that incorporated cutting safety standards that had an effect of preventing pilot flying was being visually masked from conflicting traffic?
As with almost ALL fatals it’s the ‘cock up load’ eventually kicks in and deaths eventually becomes inevitable!
eaglesoars wrote:
YUP
Right in one!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
The myth surrounding why chopper command pilots on the right (Starboard seat) was supposed when Sikorsky was the lead helicopter instructor who trained all of the brand new chopper instructors as helicopters started to be operated. And Sikorsky sat in the Nominal Command seat on the left, as the first of the very few core instructors to keep an eye on the new first batch of chopper instructors and the Right seat became the chopper Command Seat forever more!
🙂
Mrs. RW is convinced she’s going to be fired because of “President Musk’ and his downsizing of the federal government.
It’s gonna be a long 4 years.
Or 2, when she does retire.
Someone on X found this. Wm Buckley and Ronald Reagan
A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the Senate Should Ratify the Proposed Panama Canal Treaties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZO1bFaRNtk
I have to wake up.
This is interesting (but not surprising). There are 75 federal agencies listed in the Federal Register that actually no longer exist:
@ lobo91:
I think Texas should run the whole of the USA.
Here we do not pay even one cent in state income taxes.
@ Possum:
I am all for a system where you are taxed on what you spend and not on what you earn.
Don’t know what that system is called, probably communist or nazi or some other extreme right wing thingy but it works in Texas.
Update on my fear I has a brain tumor. Did I mention that here?
On closer investigation today it appears my symptoms are caused by the apartment two doors down leaving their trash bags outside for a couple of weeks.
Phantosmia (Olfactory Hallucinations)
Been smelling bananas for weeks! No bananas inside my apartment. Banana smell comes and goes randomly. BRAIN TUMOR!!!!!
Appears neighbor moved out, someone cleaned the place and left all their trash outside.
When they moved out they left their bananas behind.
Per Trump: Venezuela has agreed to take back all its gang bangers including Tren du Argua AND use their own transportation to do it
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1885717553604866099
This is delicious
Letter of “inquiry” sent by Acting DC US Attorney Ed Martin ……he is investigating Schumer for his threats against SCOTUS Justices.
https://x.com/DogRightGirl/status/1885687115150762489
video of Schumer at the link
Stasi Starmer is the enemy
Chinese spies set to be exempt from toughest new national security law by Starmer
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/chinese-spies-exempt-toughest-national-security-law-starmer-3512732?ito=twitter_share_article-top
@ Possum:
Lucy is a great photographer!
This is an example of what happens when you place organic material in a trash bag and leave it for weeks. It turns into a liquid.
Especially fucking bananas!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1885738418732138959
This genius, Mark Carney, is due to take over from Trudeau
Where Carney explains that his plan to put a big new carbon tax on Canadian steel won’t cost people because…he says… people don’t really need steel.
This is up there with “the budget will balance itself.”
https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1885504606416904655
@ eaglesoars:
Or “The price of oil doesn’t affect me because I ride the bus”
I knows science, and bananas and Ethane.
Bought three tomatoes last week, they were on the firm and green red side of ripe. Sensible purchase. However a week later they are still rock hard and a green/red.
Ethane is a gas that hastens ripening of fruits. It is naturally produced by ripe fruits. As in rotten bananas!
Now, if I sneaked next door, stole a rotting banana, put it in a brown paper bag with my tomatoes then tomorrow I will have nice ripe tomatoes for a salad.
It is good to have a plan.
https://www.weekand.com/home-garden/article/ripen-tomatoes-bananas-18022625.php
@ Possum:
That is how the silly decorative banana hook hangers actually do work to slow down your bananas getting all spotty and turning mushy.
They allow air flow around your bananas and dissipate the Ethane gas so they don’t ripen each other.
Ideally when you buy a bunch of bananas separate them and place each one in a separate room!
Actually the gas is Ethylene but I got it wrong and nobody fact checked me.
LOL
@ Possum:
Ethane is C2H6 Ethylene is C2H4 which means it has an unsaturated hydrocarbon with a double bond between its carbon atoms, classifying it as an alkene.
That makes it do the banana ripening thing.
If I never EVER smell or see a banana for the rest of my life I will be happy!
So, about my tomatoes….
I can’t stop laughing
President Trump said he ordered precision air strikes on Saturday morning targeting a “senior ISIS Attack planner” and others the unnamed individual recruited and led in Somalia.
“These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies,” Trump posted on social media. “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.”
Trump did not name the individual who was targeted in the strike. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said multiple individuals were killed in the strike and that no civilians were harmed in the operation, which took place in the Golis mountains.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5120850-trump-isis-precision-strike/
This agency has a $33 billion annual budget, oversees $66 billion in government purchases each year, and employs about 12,000 federal workers.
They falsified info on the grounds that a security feature was racist.
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1885569973461877043
@ eaglesoars:
I am not laughing.
US airstrikes in Somalia.
Do you have any idea as to how many relatives of those killed in Somalia by the airstrike by the USA are actually now living here?
It is not those killed we should fear any more, it is their family members in the USA.
lobo91 wrote:
cuz I can’t afford a car
@ Possum:
bring it
More than halfway through the NYT’s story of David A Lebryk resigning from treasury because of big bad @elonmusk they casually mention $236 billion of improper payments in one fiscal year?!
https://nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/david-lebryk-treasury-resigns-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://x.com/almostjingo/status/1885757635477274743
It’s a bloodbath…….
Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
https://apnews.com/article/trump-chopra-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-47b6b39d0eff05ea0c9bca4eacf55b79?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=share
@ eaglesoars:
And that’s precisely the kind of stuff Musk is trying to eliminate. They keep claiming that he wants to “cut” things like Medicaid, Social Security, etc., but nobody’s actually talking about cutting benefits paid by those programs. They want to cut spending. There’s a fraud and/or waste rate of between 10 and 40% in virtually every federal program that pays individual beneficiaries. Eliminating that alone would go a long way toward balancing the budget.
eaglesoars wrote:
I do not understand why you said that.
All I am saying is the hatred and desire for retribution spans generations.
Airstrike in Somalia by US forces will have consequences. History proves that fact.
I could go into a deep an meaningful diatribe about Britain and Ireland.
But I am cooking mushrooms in my new ceramic skillet.
LOL I love living here. Just got a text from apartment manager in English, used to be in Spanish only until I complained, well did not complain but asked nicely if they could also send it in English.
Seems like tennis court ( never knew there was one. going to check Google Earth ) has been invaded by a bunch of drunks.
And I was not invited!
@ Possum:
Wasn’t me, Honest!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1885769504099094598
@ Possum:
Should I text the apartment manager back?
I can text in Spanish also!
Or should I stay home and eat my mushrooms?
Lunch. As you all know I made beef stew a few days ago and ate some. Then I fried a burger and potatoes and didn’t eat it. then threw all leftovers into slow cooker pot and a can of diced tomatoes.
Into slow cooker went 1583 calories. Current weight of slow cooker is 2403g, minus 1250 which means there is 1153g food in it.
So, calculating things if I eat half of what is in the pot it will be about 800 calories.
But do not want! Lunch is a can of tuna and some lettuce. A tomato would be involved but the little fuckers ain’t ripe yet.
Afternoon nap time and Glen wants me to do the crazy frog thing. But I am tired.
We usually do it before afternoon nap and before night time sleep.
Ring ding ring ding Bam bam thing.
Possum wrote:
Consequences? You mean like consequences for harboring ISIS?
DOGE: David Lebryk controlled the computerized payment system responsible for $6 trillion in Treasury payments before he refused to give Trump’s DOGE team access to the system. His manager was a Nigerian immigrant appointed by Biden. He quit two weeks ago.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1885715410898559262
Trump needs to start pulling passports
This is the new head of the DNC. Besides being testosterone-free, he’s called Trump a traitor
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1885771639612203380
So, their new strategy is to become even nastier? Good luck with that
lobo91 wrote:
from that video I posted, this guy couldn’t throw a baseball
lobo91 wrote:
but he’s only going to soak the ‘good’ billionaires from now on
https://x.com/pmarca/status/1885815356352336310
this guy is an idiot
Mexican cartel bosses have authorized the use of weaponized drones & explosives against American troops & border patrol agents at the border.
https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1885789485054488952
dumb move
keep it up wise ass
Canadian MP Charlie Angus on Trump’s tariffs: “The threat comes, of course, from the president of the United States—a convicted felon and known predator.”
https://x.com/AlexandruC4/status/1885787678005727464
BREAKING: Bishop Mariann Budde’s Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) collected $53 million from Govt programs in 2023 for “Immigrant Resettlement”.
Now we know why she gave Trump the Multi-Cultural Marxist lecture – she warned him because money was on the line.
The “Immigrant Resettlement” programs are much larger and more profitable than even Gavin Newsom’s “Homeless Resettlement” programs.
https://x.com/OcrazioCornPop/status/1885697802665185290
BUSTED!
They have no idea why they keep losing do they?
HAPPENING NOW: Nikki Fried, the chair of the Florida Democratic Party just endorsed David Hogg to be DNC vice chair.
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1885824760095088757
eaglesoars wrote:
I think we need to encourage them on their current path
@ lobo91:
dammit
Notice of Removal from Federal Service
This letter provides official notice that you are being removed from your position at the Department of Justice, and from the federal service, effective immediately.
As President Trump declared on his first day back in office, “[t)he American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies… against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions.” Nowhere was that effort more salient than in the unprecedented prosecutions the Department of Justice vigorously pursued against President Trump himself.
You played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump. The proper functioning of government critically depends on the trust superior officials place in their subordinates.
Given your significant role in prosecuting the President, I do not believe that the leadership of the Department can trust you to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.
As a result, pursuant to Article Il of the Constitution and the laws of the United States, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately.
If applicable, you may have a right to file an appeal of this removal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) within 30 days of the effective date of the removal action. For more information on how to file an appeal with the MSPB. please visit www*mspb*gov
https://x.com/KyleSeraphin/status/1885772291973288351
fun clip of dogs getting caught stealing food
https://x.com/_ROB_29/status/1885765911564439980
DNC Chair vote today began with a “land acknowledgment” about how the USA is indigenous, stolen land
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1885855661935689743
Good. Leave
slow learner
Just In: Gov. Gavin Newsom signs executive order directing state agencies to capture and store as much water as possible with upcoming storms.
https://x.com/ZavalaA/status/1885450335751487614
Massive Fire at Californian Refinery reported
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1885844354528321976
video at link
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve always wondered what people who believe in that sort of crap think should have happened 500 years ago when Europeans first began visiting the Americas. Should they have made two entire continents off limits to exploration and colonization because a small number of Stone Age people were wandering around? What do they think that would have looked like today? There’s no reason to believe that they would have even invented the wheel by now, much less any other modern technology. Of course, if you asked them, the libs would tell you that they didn’t need wheels, because they rode horses.
Except they didn’t. Horses aren’t native to the Americas. They were introduced by the Spanish. All the so-called wild horses are actually descendants of them.
DNC SPOKESMAN: With the result of the previous 4 elections, the results are 2 male, 2 female. But to be gender-balanced, we MUST elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender. The process must be inclusive.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1885837636612329777
2 minutes of insanity. A complete break with reality. video at link
The level of crazy surrounding the DCA crash is pretty amazing. Many people seem to think it was some sort of AI-controlled helicopter, based on the existence of this video. Never mind the fact that there’s apparently exactly one of these test bed aircraft in existence:
@ eaglesoars:
Isn’t it about time for another of Kurt Schlichter’s Kelly Turnbull novels?
video of candidates for DNC vice chair
gawd
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1885855902550704264
eaglesoars wrote:
I am not CIA but I do think that Somalia is not ” harbouring” ISIS terrorists as in they are from another country.
The ISIS members in Somalia are native born Somalis.
Now that the USA went to war against native born Somalis the tens of thousands of Somali men of fighting age living in Minneapolis may be inspired.
That is all.
Ate half the pot of stew before afternoon nap. Zero mushrooms found in it.
Supper will be rest of crockpot of beef stew. Looking forward to supper.
As to the disappearing mushroom dilemma the remaining four mushrooms have been cooked on low heat with onion powder and Sage and coconut oil and WILL NOT be mixed into the stew. They will be served on the side.
Let us see if them mudderfuquers escape this!
Possum wrote:
Like I give a rat’s ass. ISIS is ISIS and they all need to be dead
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Congratulations to @davidhogg111 on winning the race to become Vice Chair of the Democrat Party! I endorsed him a couple of months ago and am thrilled that he won.
He will help Republicans win for years to come!
https://x.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1885894808461255104
eaglesoars wrote:
And USA citizens is USA citizens and they all need to be dead.
Seems like you and Muslims are kind of like the same people.
And the jews just stand back and laugh….
eaglesoars wrote:
Was he the one they chose for the “non-binary” slot?
These idiots are really trying to provoke a response that they aren’t ready for:
@ lobo91:
A standard snow plow attachment on the trucks, common in Iowa.
There, that fixed that problem!
Next.
@ Possum:
Next is run flat tyres.
@ Possum:
An AC-130 orbiting overhead would be more fun.
@ lobo91:
That is the one with the shooty things on the side.
I knows military shit!
Pilots have to be good. The bloody thing goes sideways when the testosterone fueled gunners in the back do there shooting thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA6VesnzAQw
@ Possum:
Nothing says ‘Merica like arming a cargo plane with a 105mm howitzer
All I ask is that they wait a week before they start blowing shit up. I’m flying to Mexico City Thursday morning and coming back on Saturday.
@ lobo91:
An awesome thing when you have air supremacy.
There are other videos out there which explain how and why they keep the brass from the expended rounds onboard to try to maintain the center of gravity and aircraft trim manageable.
Cats like watching “The Spooky”
@ Possum:
Yeah, it’s definitely not flying in contested airspace.
Possum wrote:
and you win the ‘dumbest post on the innernut of the day’
@ eaglesoars:
And you for a few minutes stepped into the mind set of the people who want to kill us all.
Do you not realise that?
You said they all need to be dead
“they all need to be dead”
KILL THEM ALL!!!!!
You and ISIS are two sides of the same coin.
BREAKTHROUGH DRUG REVERSES NERVE DAMAGE—RESTORES VISION & BRAIN FUNCTION
Scientists have developed a drug that repairs myelin—the protective sheath around nerves—potentially reversing damage from MS, strokes, and brain injuries.
LL-341070 dramatically sped up myelin repair in tests, restoring lost vision and brain function.
Researchers say it could be a game-changer for neurological diseases.
Human trials are still ahead, but experts believe this could be the first real step toward helping the brain heal itself.
Source: The Brighter Side
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1885921086464004461
Also trigeminal neuralgia, the 2nd most painful condition known to medicine.
After speaking with them on an urgent matter, I’m not sure the FBI fully grasps what’s at hand here regarding the trans terror cult linked to killings across the country going back years.
The extremism was in the open and this cell has members at large right now who are armed. One witness to an upcoming trial had his throat slit this month.
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1885158627402449195
There is something very wrong with trans people. I don’t know if it’s drugs they’re being prescribed or if being trans is an indicator of a malignant personality
This is hilarious. The DNC is going full tilt on identity politics and they’re having trouble with the math
I know literally no American cares about the DNC. But I wish more people saw this. The Democrats cannot even run their own meetings. They are sitting here confused over their gender-speak-nonsense. Now, an all-out debate is ensuing and nobody knows what’s happening!
Nikki Fried made a motion relating to dropping half based on gender balance (?) and nobody understands what’s going on. Utter, complete chaos and jargon.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1885871755165569416
Hoggy is going into politics.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/elections/david-hogg-wins-election-as-vice-chair-of-dnc/ar-AA1yg3op
Being groomed for the seat with the globohomos.
Hey Cold, did Phil see his shadow today?
@ eaglesoars:
So on top of reparations for slavery, they’ll want to pay reparations for stealing land.
Yes, the actions against tribes were horrible. I’ve read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’. The poverty, drug/alcohol abuse, and suicide rates are heartbreaking. Something needs to change.
but it’s another solution they’re offering that means punishing the people of today for something that happened generations ago.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Yep, Phil sez 6 more weeks of winter for yinz!
@ eaglesoars:
I wonder how many voters they would lose if the average registered Democrat saw that nonsense? Not the “free Palestine, eat bugs, trans everyone” lunatics, but the people they actually count on to poke their heads up from working and go to the polls every few years.
following some trade discussions I ran across a term I’d not heard before. ‘de minimus’. Apparently it gets killed for China at least as of Tuesday and everybody is thrilled. So here is the post that explains it
https://x.com/maphumanintent/status/1885911185939136631
“De minimus shipment” is a duty and tariff avoidance scheme that takes advantage of the de minimus rule, meaning any individual shipment valued at less than $800 does not require the same customs entry and duty payment as standard shipments.
Importers solve the potential logistics hassle of this by either shipping individual subsidized parcel packages from China, or consolidating all of their cargo into less than containerload (LCL) shipments with hundreds of individual “shipments” inside.
US-based logistics companies then “deconsolidate” the containers, sort, and reship the packages onto their final destinations, turning a bit of profit each on a massive volume of goods.
.
.
This practice ALSO reduces the likelihood of triggering a US Customs inspection since no full entry is filed, meaning these shipments have become a known way to ship fentanyl and precursors to the US for distribution domestically.
For many of us who work in global logistics and supply chains, and also care about national and economic security, this is an enormous win.
sheesh
BREAKING: West Point Military Academy and the Air Force Academy have both ended their “Diversity and Inclusion Studies” minors.
https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/1886052060564471927
video of the airstrikes on the caves in Somalia to take out some ISIS losers
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1885740103223648412
France developed it’s own AI module named Lucie and…it did not go well. This is hilarious and you should definitely read the whole thing
https://archive.is/SUdhr
It told one user that Herod the Great, the Judaean king, had “played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb”.
Another was informed that cows’ eggs were “considered to be a healthy and nourishing food source”.
When a third user suggested that Dougal from The Magic Roundabout had won the 2017 French presidential election, it replied: “You are right.”
It seems Ken Martin, the new DNC chair, wants Trump tried for treason.
In June 2020, Martin accused Trump of ignoring intelligence that Russia offered the Taliban bounties to attack Americans — an unsubstantiated claim the White House said in 2021 was based off little evidence, and a claim that was not verified by the CIA.
Trump “should be immediately impeached and then put on trial for treason. His actions led to the deaths of American soldiers. He is a traitor to our nation and all those who have served,” Martin said at the time.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/minnesota-democrat-who-wanted-trump-to-be-charged-with-treason-elected-dnc-chair/
BTW, what happened to DEI at the DNC? They just elected 2 white guys
@ eaglesoars:
What about chickens’ milk?
@ eaglesoars:
I never understood that whole story. Do people think the Taliban needed Russia to tell them to kill Americans?
lobo91 wrote:
It would look a lot like modern day Africa assuming the peaceful Indian tribes didn’t kill each other first.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Not really. Modern-day Africa shows what happens when Europeans colonize a place for a while and then leave. The population is still basically at the Stone Age level, but they’ve been handed modern technology that they can’t understand or repair. Mostly, they just got more efficient ways of killing each other.
Bernard Arnault, the billionaire boss of the world’s biggest luxury conglomerate LVMH, has picked a fight with the French government by suggesting that companies could flee France for the United States to escape a planned tax hike.
As the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is struggling to fine-tune a budget designed to tackle the country’s deficits and debt mountain, Arnault took issue with an expected key ingredient, a special tax on large companies.
“I have just returned from the US, and I have witnessed the wind of optimism in that country. Coming back to France is a bit like taking a cold shower,” Arnault said at this week’s LVMH earnings presentation
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/french-luxury-billionaire-sparks-tax-222740481.html
Long story short – France is planning to raise his tax to 40%. In the U.S. it would be 15%
eaglesoars wrote:
The wrong radio frequency you say?
Did you know that Los Angles International LAX has a 2500′ VFR sector running between…… the I-405 the four parallel active runways R/W 25L; R/W 25R; R/W 24 L; and R/W 24R ….. and Lincoln Boulevard and the adjourning beach. All arriving and departing traffic IFR traffic out of LAX operate beneath this VFR free for all visual flight rules corridor where light aircraft and helicopters don’t even NEED TO CARRY A RADIO to cross one of the world’s busiest airfields. I used to operate mostly at night on R/W 25R. Such are the crazy rules from FAA Air Traffic Control. The use of non standard communications protocols like ……. “cleared to the 50 yard line”( a local cute hip transmission about local football) …… when operating on ground frequencies transiting between the RW 24 , RW06 parallel runway pairing to the North of LAX and the RW 25 RW 07 parallel pairing to the South with a pair of cross pairing taxways running between the central core of gates. At night especially when the ground fog rolls in from the beach makes finding your way amongst a myriad of taxiway lights … challenging! Even more so with carriers where ‘American English’ is not a mother tongue!
Sometimes it’s dangerous out these in LAX land!
@ Aussie Infidel:
It’s not really a matter of them being on the wrong frequency. The issue is that US Army helicopters are equipped with UHF radios, while civil aviation operates on VHF frequencies. Normally, planes in the area can hear radio traffic between the tower and other planes, so they have a better idea of what’s going on. The tower has a UHF radio and can talk to the helicopters, but the other aircraft won’t hear it.
lobo91 wrote:
Nope
But when some Russian ALSO puts a bounty on American heads, the profit motive is an additional incentive!
🙂
Making a few extra bucks is always a good idea especially when you’d kill Americans for free anyway!
Army helicopters use UHF radios because their whole reason for existence is to support ground units, and that’s what they use.
@ Aussie Infidel:
If there was ever any truth to that claim, the Russians didn’t get much for their offer. There were very few US casualties in 2020.
lobo91 wrote:
How about No Settlement?! Go for the win.
lobo91 wrote:
Yup just as long as the UHF chatting guys stick to the strict Air Traffic specific rules are used to keep the UHF users separated from the VHF users. Toss ‘a witches brew’ of last minute RW switches (from RW 01 to RW 33) below 500′ between Localisers, and having Helicopter Command Pilots sitting in Starboard seats and fixed wing Command Pilots sitting in Port seats, ATC hires based on ethnic, gender based politics, with too much air traffic shoehorned into too little airspace, because egocentric idiots want to not have to drive for an extra 20 minutes to get home, and it stokes their ‘little wenner’ politicians self importance ……. you are going to kill a bunch of innocence sitting down the back.
lobo91 wrote:
Unless you were one of the poor schmiks who ended up getting ‘slotted’!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Go for the win every time.
After all politics is a ‘blood sport’ .
Forget the $$$$$
Just make ’em BLEED
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
That’s something I haven’t seen discussed much. The controller doesn’t seem to have given the helicopter crew enough information. My understanding is that 01 is the usual runway, so that’s probably where they were looking for traffic. Did they even know the plane they were looking for was on approach to 33?
@ lobo91:
From what I gather on other forums that helicopter was part of a fleet that is a VIP transport unit which is for evacuating VIPs
A kind of taxi service.
I would expect it to have more comfy seats in the back too.
As a military aircraft conducting air strikes etc then UHF radios would be used, however when it is operating as a taxi in civilian airspace then if I designed it the thing would have, and be using, civilian VHF radios.
But I do not design or build VIP taxi helicopters for a living.
Possum wrote:
It was a plain vanilla UH-60L, as far as I know. No different from what you’d find on any other Army flightline. The VIP transport is the VH-60M. The only unit that flies them is A Company, 12th Aviation Battalion.
The helicopter involved in this incident was from B Company, 12th Aviation Battalion. Same battalion, but different aircraft and mission.
lobo91 wrote:
I was ‘Bush Pilot Flying’ just before New Guinea got Independence. Their associate Finance Minister ‘tabled’ in Parliament a ‘Magik’ Stone that was supposed to solve the country’s balance of payment problems. Simply wrap a 1 Australian dollar bill around the stone, mumble the ;secret’ mumbo-jumbo and voila the $1 turns into $100 bucks! THIS actually happened in Parliament and about 20 % of Members believed it was the way to fix the economy!
🙂
As far as killing each other more efficiently. Traditional tribal fights would last for days involving hundreds of warriors. Casualties would be something like 3 dead and 20 wounded over 3 days of fighting. No night combat because the locals were all afraid of the dark! 🙂
After Independence everyone swapped bows and arrows without flights and were REALLY inaccurate for AK47s. Hundreds of causalities was the inevitable result.
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
Yup!
Correct!
Give the man a cigar!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Another thing I’ve noticed is that people seem to only be looking at things in 2 dimensions, using radar tracks showing a top down view. As a result, it looks like the helicopter was flying straight toward the plane, and everyone asks why they wouldn’t have seen a big plane right in front of their windshield.
But that’s not where it was. It was above and to their left. They were climbing, and the plane was descending. I’m not sure that they ever even saw it.
VH-60M
lobo91 wrote:
Exactly!
I’ll bet you that ‘London for a brick’ the Command helo Command pilot who was on a training flight was visually masked from the field wing traffic that had a last second switch from the RW01 LLZ to the RW 33 LLZ and was banking hard.
The mass of lights masks the traffic as well and ATC didn’t help by being cryptic in his transfer of information
….. just a matter of time ….. before folks get killed!
Good picture of a UH-60L interior, looking forward.
Right front is the aircraft commander (pilot), left front is presumably where the IP was. Behind him, in that seat facing out, is the crew chief. One the right side is the seat for a second enlisted crew member, which would have been empty in this instance.
As you can see, their view is pretty limited by the windows. In combat, they would probably be open, and that’s where the door guns mount. I doubt that they were open while flying over the Potomac at night in January, though.
lobo91 wrote:
Yep
The chopper was following the river but popped up a couple of hundred feet and the steeply manoeuvring civilian airplane was in BOTH the Command pilots (on opposite sides of their airplanes because of a old rule about Command pilots flying helo or fixed wing airplanes.0
The traffic was masked visually from each other’s Command pilot’s view of their traffic. The Helo breaking a crucial Hard Roof by a few hundred extra feet, whilst manoeuvring over a black river at night at a couple of hundred feet, didn’t help!
@ Aussie Infidel:
That don’t fly above 200ft and towards the East bank of the river down the river seems to be the rule that kept helicopters and landing ( and taking off ) fixed wing aircraft apart.
Further down the river and past the Bridge to the South helicopters can go up to 300ft.
Not a helicopter pilot buy I seem to remember things about engines failing and auto rotation and a softer crash landings and helicopters not liking to be below a certain altitude for safety unless taking off and landings.
Minimum altitude for successful autorotation is specific to helicopter type.
But, having to fly at 200ft or below does not seem like it gives much chance of a softer crash landing in case of engine fail. Helicopters drop like a rock for for a while.
@ Aussie Infidel:
There were definitely issues on their end, as well. But it’s nowhere near as simple as people are making it out to be.
@ lobo91:
Talk about cheesy quips from always unidentified civil pilots. They didn’t call France’s UTA … Uncertain To Arrive…… for nothing! Hell UTA used to serve a glass of wine to operating Aircrew during their meal service. After it’s uncivilised to eat without also drinking wine with the meal !!!!
🙂
During a crappy early morning after 14 hours of night across the Pacific we were stacked waiting for a bloody UTA ‘Frog-Air’ to go visual into Auckland RW23. It was foggy with a misty 2000 base. We were short of gas and Qantas on an early morning trip from Sydney was also stacked. The UTA refused to declare VISUAL and kept asking for lower decent in 500 foot chunks. We (Air NZ were getting close to out Bingo when we’d have to divert to our alternate in Christchurch and domestic B-737s were also in the mix. Frog Air and ATC were chatting as ATC tried to get the Frogs to go visual and the Frog kept saying that could only see the field intermittently. Then a VERY broad voice piped up as ATC kept asking UTA for their flight conditions and whether they were visual?
ATC said, “UTA 551 say your visual conditions”
(Hint ..hint )
The from replies … ” we are in and out of dee bottoms ”
A VERY obviously AUSTRALIAN transmission commented … ” Viva la sport MATE”
ATC asked who transmitted but there was only raucous laughter first from the unknown aircraft and then from ATC.
The Air Frog took the hint went visual and everyone got to go where they wanted!
🙂
from= FROG AIR
@ Aussie Infidel:
I understand the reasoning behind serving wine to the pilots. They function much better.
Shit, I can’t even operate my computer correctly unless I have had a couple of coffee mugs of Cabernet first!
🙂
Possum wrote:
I’m pretty sure the French would have you arrested for drinking box wine out of a coffee mug
@ lobo91:
Hell no! In the 70’s I had pictures of me on the top observation deck of the Eiffel tower drinking wine out of a plastic liter ( litre in French ) bottle.
Wine was cheaper than diet Sprite.
The President of Panama, José Raúl Mulino has announced that following his meeting yesterday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Panama has decided not to renew its 2017 Memo with China, regarding their “Belt and Road Initiative” and that they will look towards voiding their Agreements with the Chinese Government prior to their End Dates set for 2027 and 2028.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1886187355175837840
The Trump administration has officially DEPUTIZED the Texas National Guard, giving them immigration enforcement and arrest power, per
@AliBradleyTV
This adds another 4,000+ personnel protecting our borders.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1886162516524290258
eaglesoars wrote:
Looking forward to hearing the Dems spin that…
@ Possum:
Remembering past times.
Person that took picture was also a student at college at the time. Performance arts major. Her musical instrument was the Clarinet.
That involves knowing everything about music, stage production and films. In the 70s not one of these 2025 useless degrees.
Anyway, we took a vacation to Paris, not on an aircraft but the cheapest way we could get. A ferry then train to Paris, and when we got there Paris was closed. Parisiens all go on vacation in August. Found a cheap hotel and had a great time. That Moaning Lisa chick painting is really small!
Drinking wine from a plastic bottle on top of the Eiffel tower. Memorable.
What is more memorable is when we both went to South Africa a few years later. I was sent there due to my job and asked my friend if she would like to go with me. She said yes and off we went.
I was working all day and she spent all day at the library, or so I thought.
One day she told me ” I will be gone for a couple of weeks” I said “why?”
She said, ” I am the lead Clarinet player of the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra and we are going on tour”
I had absolutely no fucking clue!
BREAKING: Darren Beattie appointed to Senior State Department office
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eaglesoars wrote:
Darren owns the revolver.com blog and has done more than anyone else to investigate the J6 ‘bomb’
And this is,
the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe
@SenAdamSchiff not once, not twice , but three times attempted to overthrow the sitting President of the United States
@realDonaldTrump
Adam Schiff should be in prison for tampering with evidence,
“The person who planted the fake evidence shouldn’t be the one ruling on the admissibility of fake evidence.”
https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/1886148212106686627
from Trump
South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!
Meanwhile in La La Land:
this video is pretty shocking
My prosecutor, who was captured on video allegedly stabbing a man multiple times, is getting ready to walk on his charges.
Patrick Scruggs is his name.
I went to prison for trespassing, and this guy is being sheltered by the state of Florida.
https://x.com/lecternleader/status/1886236841508053049
Possum wrote:
great story!
eaglesoars wrote:
whites
Trump is also shutting down USAID. Good. I’ve heard enough fraud stories about that group from people in DC
Grammys tonite. Guess who won for best country?
Beyonce. Who is about as country as a Dior handbag.
But she’s black so that’s ok
lobo91 wrote:
UTA served aircrew the equivalent of first class meals in flight including a glass of serious premium wine with their meals. Most UTA flights ran throughout Africa but my contact with UTA happened between Tahiti and New Caledonia where UTA operated instead of the nominal Air France. The UTA Pacific routes were considered highly sought by most senior crew and sought after. Same as US carrier Continental where most crew were very senior but so sought after by senior Captains that they seldom flew on those legs making them the least experienced on Pacific routes. The Micronesian wing of Continental was completely different as they were young crews gaining experience flying exclusively in Micronesia.
The old and bold Continental crews were notorious and Qantas and Air NZ crews operating in the Pacific took care to stay away from Continental due to their poor airmanship habits of asking for 4000 foot block cruise climb tactics to minimise fuel burn as they got special bonus payments depending on how much fuel they saved. This buggered up flight planning for every other carrier flying in the same airspace as Continental. Even when hogging block altitudes and screwing other carriers by stopping other carriers from getting past the hogging of blocks of airspace and getting stuck under Continental unable to climb. This fuck the rest of you attitude by Continental aircrew.
One night a Continental ‘heavy’ overflew Nadi in Fiji with the whole crew asleep. They overflew Fiji at 35,000 feet and slept through ‘Selcalls’ on HF and VHF by Nadi Radar and by us. They were 20 Nm past Nadi still at cruise altitude before we woke them up. We were stuck above Continental at 37.000 feet and couldn’t get past their lower altutude. Nadi radar cleared them initially to 5,000 homing on the Nadi VORTAC Once they were defending Nadi cleared us (Air NZ) to step down to initially 10,000 feet over Nadi behind Continental’s DC10.
Unfortunately the old and rusty Continental crew homed onto VORTAC as instructed but they couldn’t find the Nadi airfield as the ‘duffuses’ didn’t realise that the Nadi VORTAC was located NOT at the airfield as 99% of VORTACS normally are but on the top od a 3,000+ mountain 6 Nm away from Nadi field on the top of a jungle covered mountain range.These 3 Continental morons crewing the DC10 asked for the lights at the field to be turned up to 100% to help them find it in the dark. They were looking at a mountain range and demanded that Nadi radar clear them down to 3,000 feet. The Continental crew were looking in the wrong place!!!!!
Nadi radar crewed by an Indian said NO . Under NO way you guys are to decend below 5,000 feet. MAINTAIN 5,000 feet. We (Air NZ) were still flying around in circles at 10000 feet listening to Continental arguing with Nadi Radar. We figured that they were lost and looking in the wrong place for Nadi’s approach lights. We could see Continental’s lights beneath us and figured the idiots didn’t realise that Nadi VORTAC was NOT co-located at the airfield and hadn’t checked their NOTAMS (lazy arrogant bastards!)
Air NZ still orbiting at 10,000 feet in a Boeing 747 -300 told Nadi radar to tell Continental to look up at 11 o’clock and they would see all out lights on at 10,000 feet and follow us at 5,000 feet until we led them around the extended ILS for Nadi’t centreline and when established with the centre line and Nadi lights in site for Nadi radar to get them out of the way and on the ground ASAP. Then once they are landed could we have a decent clearance to vacate 10,000 feet for an ILS approach. Once everyone was on the ground we passed for ”old and bold’ Continental morons leaving flight planning they refused to even make eye contact with us! Arrogant idiots!
Typical Continental arsewipes! Whenever other carriers in the SW Pacific knew that Continental was in the same airspace we all would offset the track on the Airways by some unusual distance like right of track 3.55 Nm offset and added a few hundred feet to our cruise level like 347 feet, and then turn on all of our landing lights to show bloody Continental where we were. We’d when call on the chatter frequency 123.45 MHz to look out for our lights. They never responded to our calls and just cruised by below us.
you have no idea some of the engineering airworthiness problems ground engineers had with un-airworthy Continental airplanes operating from Auckland NZ northbound to Nadi and Honolulu. A corrupt Senator got involved in clearing a Continental DC-10 to depart Auckland after Air NZ Engineering to clear the airplane for flight. The blue sani-flush had leaked into the aft floor and rotted out the aluminium flooring structure and replaced the flooring with a large piece of ply wood. The corrupt US Senator twisted FAA’s arm and got clearance to illegally load passengers, as well, and just roped off the corroded flooring structure down aft.
Some corporates are just plain evil and totally fixated on the bottom Line $$$$$$.
This stuff really happens in aviation.
🙁
Air NZ Engineering REFUSED to clear a Continental DC-10 for flight out to massive corrosion in the aft flooring due to leaking acidic ‘sani-flush’ toilet into the flooring aluminium structure.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
unreal
JD Vance is so good………
Holy Smokes: JD Vance just methodically scorched Hakeem Jeffries and his “Fight in the Streets” rhetoric:
“These people remind me sometimes of the folks that were still fighting World War Two in an isolated island like 30 years later.”
He is good at this:
“The American people have spoken. They are sick of the ridiculous performative politics.”
“For Hakeem Jeffries to go out and say that you need to fight in the streets, it’s dangerous. It’s disgraceful rhetoric. And it’s not at all what the American people ask.”
“Do you want a congressional Democratic leadership that fights in the streets or that makes your life better?”
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1886077857274712318
America’s welfare queen is New York. Federal dollars make up roughly 40% of the state’s budget.
https://instapundit.com/700144/
and their taxes are what?
*snort*
These pictures show the the newly poured, #DEI concrete at the #ObamaPresidentialCenter.
The DEI contractor who did the defective work is now suing for #racism, because someone complained about the cracks.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1886197018747429262
pics at the link
Why did USAID give $27 million to the US fiscal sponsor of the group controlling Soros-funded prosecutors and telling them which American citizens and politicians to prosecute?
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1886133990341431711
The same Government that hired 87,000 new IRS agents to shake us down on $600 transactions just lost over $100,000,000,000 in Ukraine.
(Just a drop in the theft bucket we’re gonna find)
Our Government is a crime organization.
https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1886172382143840613
London’s Frameless is the ultimate immersive art experience.
With 42 masterpieces in 4 different galleries, it’s the largest permanent multi-sensory experience in the UK.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1886280957503950915
just click on the link, it’s astonishing!
@ eaglesoars:
I enjoyed my time in Africa. Unfortunately it was only a six month contract.
Cannot remember if it was 1981 or 1982 but I have all my old passports and visas.
Will look for them tomorrow.
Actually about ten years after that job got my security clearance revoked. I was not a secret agent but fixed computers at some military and government contractors and some smart ass at Marconi Space and Defence in the UK flagged me as visiting South Africa.
What do do?
LOL, yes I did work in South Africa, yes I did computery things there, yes I did do work at Marconi Space and Defence in South Africa at their site just north of the Transvaal snake park.
Suddenly I was welcome to do service calls again!
I think me mentioning the Marconi place was near the snake park. Convincing, and them fucking snakes were awesome! They let you pet them and cuddle them and they are not cold or slimy.
eaglesoars wrote:
Unreal indeed but also corrupt on so many levels.
* First when Continental Engineers discovered the corroded floor in the aft toilet of a DC-10 aircraft they covered up the fact
* The Continental Airline engineering staff then either willingly or under duress failed to replaced corroded aircraft metal structures, by not complying to legal engineering standards, and replacing the structural integrity of the DC-10’s corroded structure, before the aircraft was returned to passenger service.
*The Continental Airline Engineering Standards were hidden and the air worthiness of that DC-10 was illegally hidden by Continental Airlines and passenger safety was knowingly compromised for an unknown period to keep that aircraft in productive service to maintain income for Continental.
*When Air NZ professional Dispatch Engineering Staff refused point blank to reissue a Certificate of Airworthiness, prior to the aircraft’s dispatch from NZ, Senior Continental Executive staff approached a US Senator to waive an immediate grounding notice, to allow the aircraft a Temporary Airworthiness Certificate to enable the aircraft to be returned to Continental Airlines in the US, for remediation of structural integrity engineering at the Continental Engineering base in the US.
* Legally that agreed Temporary Airworthiness Certificate was even legal under FAA Rules. If somehow Legal it was issued to Continental to operate, by allowing only a minimum operational crew to operate that aircraft, if it was even legal to grant such a waiver in the first case. Most of the Cabin Crew would have NOT been allowed to board such an aircraft.
Continental Airlines executive Staff had a duty of care to minimise the number of crew operating that DC-10 in returning it to the Continental for urgent maintenance prior to the re-issuing of another permanent Certificate of Airworthiness prior to using that airplane to legally carry Passengers.
* The Continental Airways Command Captain of this un-airworthy DC-10 illegally or under Continental Executive duress, to then use the extremely limited temporary Airworthiness Certificate, and/or knowingly under orders from Continental Executive staff required Continental Auckland based ground dispatch staff to load a full compliment of passengers onto this dangerous aircraft.
* it was never clear that the US Senator who allowed this variation in FAA Rules, knew that Continental Executives were operating outside the very limited scope of returning this dangerously damaged aircraft to the US for repair, or whether Continental Executing Staff kept that further dangerous and illegal fact from the ‘tame’ and ignorant Senator, who allowed the manifest illegally of allowing passengers to be carried on such an aircraft.
* Obviously The FAA Rules had been broken egregiously and one can only imagine if the DC-10 had lost its tail at altitude over the mid Pacific with a full load of crew and passengers aboard, the insurance case would have broken Continental Airlines, which was even then in financially ruinous trouble.
* I guess some Continental Vice President took a punt that in the case of the loss of this fuselage full of passengers, it would just vanish into the night in the wide Pacific, and end up lost under 10,000 feet of water. There was enough evidence from Air NZ Staff, who were none too happy with Continental’s Executives, using a weight of a Senator’s position to release this aircraft departure, even under a very restrictive Temporary Airworthiness Certificate issued by the FAA?
*Now did the senator know that he was OK-ing the loading of 280 passengers and the crew to operate on a dodgy Temporary Certificate of Airworthiness? Did the Continental Executives know that Continental Airways illegally loaded passengers in Auckland onto an airplane operating on a Temporary Certificate of Airworthiness? Was the Command Captain, who would have been liable ultimately for the safe operation of his aircraft?
* Was the Captain operating under duress from Continental Executives to operate the DC-10 illegally, with passengers aboard, to justify the fiscal case for maintaining the schedule and continue making money, whilst relocating the Aircraft to the US for engineering maintenance?
* Given the trail of evidence of gross illegality. Did Continental Executives, a US Senior, an experienced Command Captain , Continental Airlines Engineering staff and FAA all commit felonies?
* it seems based on the known facts that they all got away with attempted Manslaughter!
@ eaglesoars:
Senior = Senator
I hate predictive with a vengeance!
🙂
New threadliness.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2025/02/03/interesting-times/