Cold and probably wet. We’re in a “possible” rain zone today, but should be clear again tomorrow. And I don’t think it will warm significantly. So, cold and wet. Yuck. Stayed clear all day Sunday though, an it was on the chilly side of “warm enough”.
Spent the day doing little things. Domestic bliss. Maintenance. Some work for my client. Some auction stuff. Doesn’t feel as good as remodeling the bathroom, but it was all stuff on the list.
Today is “family visits the dentists” day. We see a father/daughter team practice, and we all go at once. Saves time. As RBT used to say, we’ll be getting our fangs cleaned.
Then the children will be returned home while I pick up the stuff I won. Good stuff for the BOL mostly, with a thing or two for the house here.
Pennies on the dollar at best, dimes on the dollar at worst. It’s worth the time it takes, to me anyway.
Time to get moving on the bigger projects too.
Do what you can when you can. And stack.
nick
Up, with coffee brewing. Time to herd some cats.
n
Rain started. Gah.
n
Defense Secretary Austin Scandal Is Even Worse Than We Thought
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/01/06/defense-secretary-austin-scandal-is-even-worse-than-we-thought-n4925274
First, this is absolute proof that our free press is irretrievably broken, filled with partisan hacks, and totally effin’ clueless about their responsibilities.
Second, this is absolute proof that our military is irretrievably broken, filled with partisan hacks, and totally effin’ clueless about their responsibilities.
We can’t fire the press. We can turn their crap off and tell their advertisers why. Maybe a few will starve.
We can clean up the military.
Austin needs to be gone. Immediately. Skin color is not going to protect gross dereliction this time. He either retires himself immediately, or gets fired and brought up on charges. If he elects retirement, it’s conditional on full disclosure.
Then start with the video from the hospital. Identify everyone from Dec 31 onward that had contact with SecDef Austin. Serve them all with subpoenas.
Then the military lawyers and require signed statements :
“From Dec 26 to the present, have you consulted, discussed, or had casual conversation regarding the hospitalization of SecDef Austin? Explain any affirmative answers.”
Anyone with affirmative answers gets a subpoena. Here it gets tricky, because Biden won’t cooperate and there is no one with the authority to order this group not to have any discussion on the subject. Give them a strong suggestion, then give then copies of their oath to the United States, and remind them that “but” does not appear.
Then convene Congress, line up the military lackeys and start:
Swear them in before questioning:
“Did you know that Austin was in the hospital”?”
If no: “Go sit over there in Section 1 and listen.”
If yes:
“Were you told explicitly or in so many words or was the intent communicated to you in any way to keep it a secret or cover it up?”
If no:
“Did you become aware at any time that his hospitalization was not reported, or that the knowledge of such was not being handled in accordance with protocol? And if so, what actions did you take”
If no:
“Go sit over there in Section 2 and listen.”
If yes to either of the above:
“Who was telling you what, and who did you talk to? Did you get any instructions on what to say or not say today?”
“Go sit over there in Section 3 and listen.”
Then you bring in everyone from the hospital. Start at the top and work down to the people on the floor. Start their questioning by asking: ” Did you get any instructions on what to say or not say today?”
End with: “Go sit in Section 4.”
Question to Section 4:
“is there anyone who would like to change their testimony?”
“Is there anyone who has heard someone say something that is different from your direct knowledge?”
Take any revisions offered from that group.
Staffers should be monitoring the testimony and flagging any that is contradicted by video evidence.
Then you go back to Section 2:
“Do you have any knowledge that contradicts the statements of anyone in Section 1?
“Do you have any knowledge that contradicts the statements of anyone in Section 2?”
“Do you have any knowledge that contradicts the statements of anyone in Section 3?”
Take testimony and move people between groups as indicated.
Between statements from Austin trying to salvage part of his life, and those in Section 2, there should be a fairly good picture.
Indeed. Absolutely nothing on CNN, ABC, CBS, or NBC about the event. The news stations in the U.S. are completely silent. Which also begs the question of the white house cronies informing the news stations to report nothing on the story. I briefly saw a story yesterday but that has quickly disappeared. The sponge brain has in the past attempted to force his version of events by restricting social media sites. At this point I would put nothing beyond the scope of corruption and manipulation with the current regime.
I am waiting for Biden to give his “For the good of the country, I am declaring Martial Law …”.
Yep, the corpse puppeteers definitely want ML. What better way to stuff ballot boxes than using the military and LEO.
I think there’s a portion of the ‘wait and see’ group that would interpret martial law as a signal to go active.
Things would rapidly escalate as the responses would be used as an indication that ML was necessary in the first place. And once the disappearances and assassinations start, the atrocities will follow, and then the next group will go live…
IOW, pretty sure ML would be the balloon, or a pretty decent approximation.
n
The base watchers will see plenty of movement, orders being cut, supplies laid in, etc. Word will go out.
n
I think there’s a portion of the ‘wait and see’ group that would interpret martial law as a signal to go active.
Things would rapidly escalate as the responses would be used as an indication that ML was necessary in the first place. And once the disappearances and assassinations start, the atrocities will follow, and then the next group will go live…
IOW, pretty sure ML would be the balloon, or a pretty decent approximation.
I suspect that the people in the White House are incredibly frustrated that they have not gotten their agendas implemented and are ready to do so by force in the last year of the Biden presidency:
CNN has had 6 or 7 stories about it since it broke. 2 on 1/6, 3 on 1/7, 1 today.
It’s on the front page of NBC, ABC, and CBS news right now.
Do them sous vide. I do chuck roasts and they come out super tender. Season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder (not garlic – not safe in long sous vide cooks). Cook for 36 to 48 hours at 135 F.
Day late, dollar short. Rather, a week late.
When I looked there was nothing. Enough time has passed to allow the White House clown circus to apply the proper spin and misdirection of information.
The only problem is that C-POTUS is about to assume room temperature or at least be incapable of even appearing in public.
The Puppeteers have to wait for The Kamel to assume POTUS. It is down to a year, no one will believe The Kamel can win an election.
C-POTUS leading from behind:
Chaos as Biden’s speech is derailed by pro-Palestinian protesters chanting ‘ceasefire now’: President, 81, says he IS working to get Israel ‘out’ of Gaza after demonstrator interrupted to ask if he ‘cares’ about civilian deaths
What happened to keep the proxy war “over there”? Dump billions into Ukraine and give the finger to Israel. The PLT Puppeteers must be a bunch of Jew-haters.
@Lynn
1A. orders to start seizure of all private gubs
1B. mass mutiny in the military and law enforcement organizations
1C. active resistance to any actual efforts
If they manage to transport goon squads from other geographic locations, they will get ID’d and find their homes and families are at play.
Same event under Trump would have been Numero Uno lead story everywhere: “Trump not in control of military” and Pelosi and Schumer going more berserk than usual.
DHS Secretary and future prison punk Mayorkas says that the borders are flooded due to “climate change.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/01/03/mayorkas-we-have-record-border-numbers-due-to-climate-poverty-authoritarianism/
Remember the inmate that took the beatdown in Reacher’s cell S1? He wants another match, this time with Mayorkas. Looking for the GoFundThug…
1A. orders to start seizure of all private gubs
1B. mass mutiny in the military and law enforcement organizations
1C. active resistance to any actual efforts
If they manage to transport goon squads from other geographic locations, they will get ID’d and find their homes and families are at play.
They are trying to build USA Army units out of illegals aliens right now. I have no idea how the effort is going.
“Introducing the ‘Church of the Holy Deficit’”
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/introducing-the-church-of-the-holy-deficit-148574/
“Religious freedom, for example, was one of the most important Constitutional arguments against many Medieval public health policies during the Covid-1984 hysteria.”
“The Supreme Court struck down several lockdown orders on the grounds that they violated Constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion, including Tandon vs. Newsom (California) and Roman Catholic Dioecese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (New York).”
“But one of the most interesting religious exemptions in the United States has to do with taxes… and it goes back to the year 1965.”
“Congress passed the Social Security Amendments Act that summer– which created the Medicare program– and it was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 30th.”
“But buried deep in the legislation is an obscure section carving out a special tax exemption for religious groups who are opposed to insurance.”
“This exemption still exists today under section 1402(h)-1 of the Internal Revenue Code; there’s even a tax form– IRS Form 4029– to apply for an exemption of Social Security and Medicare taxes.”
So we all need to form our own church like L. Ron Hubbard formed Scientology.
xkcd: Supernova
https://xkcd.com/2878/
I think that the bottom time scale is millennia.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2878:_Supernova
High wind, gusting like crazy, some rain, and thunder and lightning off in the distance. Whoo hooo. And it was sunny 5 miles from here.
n
The temperature just dropped here from 71 F to 51 F, the wind changed from the south to from the north, and we got another inch of rain.
It is suppose to be 39 F here in the morning.
A hard freeze of 24 F is coming next Monday.
Lying FauXi:
Senator Rand Paul Drops NUCLEAR Thread on ‘Lying’ Anthony Fauci, and He’s Brought the Receipts
I have Paul’s book. I’ll start reading it now.
Pauls’ Xstream should put an end to face diapers once and for all.
Should. Won’t. You think it’s about science?
Dang it, I neglected to put in: Oh, my sweet Summer child, your naivete is so cute!
The bad weather didn’t last long.
Then my wife got home complaining that the car was hard to start. Some troubleshooting showed 10v at the battery under load, but 14v when car was running… and the battery is 3 ½ years old. So off to costco for a replacement.
120$ lighter. Got the full 3 years from this one, so can’t complain much.
n
Texas. Three years. Done.
The Gulf marine environment is generally more brutal so you are lucky you saw three years.
I laugh when I see the EV battery replacement cost horror stories from below the freeze line in Florida.
Yeah, Ford knows. They have (had?) a test facility outside Fort Myers going back to the days of Edison/Firestone/Ford family campouts in the Everglades.
BTW, if you don’t travel with a Noco big enough to jump start any of your vehicles, correct that situation ASAP.
The Good German always has his armband at the ready, waiting for the return of “the good old days”, when he will have to show his party allegiance on the streets.
United Airlines has now found “loose bolts” in their 737 door plugs.
The FAA and NTSB will be coming for Boeing, and Hell will be riding with them.
How “woke” is Boeing? How many big checks have been written to Biden and the DNC?
80% held by institutions, with Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard holding their usual 20%.
To be fair, Nimarata Haley sat on the board for about a year and, as Governor, facilitated the development of the South Carolina production line which will eventually be regarded as the beginning of the end for Boeing in WA State.
Boeing just moved HQ to DC, right across 395 from the Pentagon.
I think they survived as a company last time because of influence and deep pockets, and because it was foreigners dying far away and because it was explained as some weird computer issue with the new planes..
But the public understands what loose bolts mean in an airplane. It means the manufacturer doesn’t care if you die.
Seems to me that Boeing moved to curry favor politically. Being out in WA put them too far from the asses that needed licking. Chicago was a compromise. Now the truth comes, with a move to DC.
Or you could say that they finally figured out WHICH asses needed the most licking.
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Still getting the occasional lightning flash but not any real storm. Got a text from my buddy at the BOL, said some limbs were down but nothing bad that he could see. They got a whole bunch of bad wind too. He’ll re-check in the morning.
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Time to start getting ready for bed. School tomorrow.
n
before I forget-
Did you all notice they are cycling thru the “distractions” ?
– new covid might be deadlier/triple threat is a threat/next new pandemic is lurking
– aliens in Florida? Nah says cops, we don’t have aliens here
– school shooting, oh, trans, gone with that one simple trick…
– russians bad!!111!! Ukraine good!!11!!! War to end soon!! Or not.
– Trump’s a nazzi!!!!!
– Trump’s a pedo, just like us!!111!
– the election is going to be the end of the world as we know it (says grifter Barry’s wife, Bill C’s wife, and others)
When the distractions don’t work, they’ll amp them up.
n
Chicago was about United and the overall grief involved in flying to/from SeaTac from/to just about anywhere else in the country.
Until Meigs got buldozed, executive jets could operate out of that runway, a short cab ride from the Boeing HQ.
>> Then start with the video from the hospital. Identify everyone from Dec 31 onward that had contact with SecDef Austin. Serve them all with subpoenas.
Then the military lawyers and require signed statements :
“From Dec 26 to the present, have you consulted, discussed, or had casual conversation regarding the hospitalization of SecDef Austin? Explain any affirmative answers.”
You forgot to include suspension of the 5th Amendment.
at ech:
“garlic powder (not garlic – not safe in long sous vide cooks)”
Why ?? inquiring minds want to know 🙂
“When did it become okay for the Wall Street Journal to accuse Elon Musk of using LSD and cocaine without evidence?”
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/when-did-it-become-okay-for-the-wall
“On Saturday, apparently.”
“On Saturday night, The Wall Street Journal stunningly alleged that Elon Musk:”
“has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties around the world… In 2018, for example, he took multiple tabs of acid at a party he hosted in Los Angeles.”
“These accusations are deeply serious. People caught with even small amounts of cocaine or LSD can face felony charges. And Musk is not merely the world’s wealthiest person, he’s its most powerful private citizen, thanks to his control of X and the Starlink satellite network.”
“I read the article with interest, wondering what sources the Journal had relied on to learn Musk “often” used controlled substances. Had someone gone on the record? Had its reporters found a sworn statement, like a deposition from someone who’d provided Musk with drugs? Perhaps they’d seen photos?”
“2,500 words later, I had my answer on the Journal’s sources: None.”