Monday, April 06, 2026

Who Is "Trell"?

Curious that ALL FOUR Milwaukee TeeVee stations ran obituaries for Tremayne Montgomery a/k/a "Trell" who was shot outside a bar Saturday night.

Curious because Montgomery has a very long page on Wisconsin's CCAP.  DUI, driving after revocation, possession, smacking up a cop......

Curious. 

Sunday, April 05, 2026

A Changing of the Mind on Iran?

It is notable that PowerLine published this essayPerhaps they are anticipating a crash-landing of the Bibi/Trump-War effort and softening the ground......?

 
  • Seen from a long-term angle, all three protagonists in this war risk emerging as losers. Without a clear regime change in Tehran, neither Trump nor Netanyahu could justify the huge cost in treasure and prestige of this war.

  • A fishtail outcome would remind Americans and Israelis that Hamas is still in control of a third of the Gaza Strip and recognized as a negotiating partner by the Trump administration. Meanwhile, Trump's Board of Peace is morphing into another of his impressionistic nature-morte tableaux.

  • The US and Israel may also lose the Iranian people as one of the few nations known for their positive view of both countries. The theme of "you came and destroyed our industrial, economic and scientific infrastructure, but left our torturers in place" is gaining currency among Iranians both at home and abroad.

  • Of those three, the last is by far the most significant.

      

  • He Is Risen!

     Bach celebrates Easter:  Kommt, Eilet und Laufet!!

    The joyful, dancing, triple-beat under four-beat of the first movement was also used in the Magnificat--and, of course, in D Major, the key of joy.  

    The Lion of Judah!  Heaven, lift your drawbridges!! 

    Celebrate with JSBach. 

     

    Saturday, April 04, 2026

    "Highly Trained Professional Journalists", Eh?

     From the MOST "Highly Trained Professional Journalists".  

    They're in New York so they know better than you.  That's a fact.  Ask them.

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    Trump vs. "Day Care". Why??

     The latest Hair-On-Fire occasion for the MSM is Trump's statement to the effect that the US Treasury should not be paying for "day care" when the War Department needs a bunch of cash.

    As usual, Trump is leading up to something.

    .

    .. it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here. basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives 

    extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic....

    Two very important things to note here:  1)  Medicare/Medicaid are funding a HUGE chunk of this; and 2)  Biden's Autopen disabled or removed all the accounting/auditing controls for these programs.

    What Trump wants?  A serious discussion of "Vote-Bribery-by-Welfare Check" (see, e.g., the Somali Scam, repeated but far larger in the Armenian Scam in California.  There will be more....)

    How to get that?  Toss a bomb into the press pool.

    More:

    ...people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T) ...

     ...the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. [Universal Basic Income (through fraud)] the purpose of the system is what it does. of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker....

    I always wondered why DOGE took a powder that fast.  On the other hand, one suspects that DOGE is still operative but in stealth mode and JDVance is using the Hell out of it as we type.

    Repeat:  Biden/Autopen disabled all the accounting/audit controls on Medicaid/Medicare/Fed payments for social services.  All of them.

    How many months before the "Highly-Trained, Professional Reporters" of the MSM catch up with this?  Over/Under bets may be placed in the combox.  Hint:  you can't really go TOO long.....

     

    Friday, April 03, 2026

    "Get the Uranium"???

    Sam Faddis has a response to 'Moronic Mark' Levin.

     ...Here’s the God’s honest truth. We don’t know exactly where this uranium is. We don’t know how it is being protected. We have no idea what our guys are going to find on the ground when and if someone is mad enough to drop them into a giant kill box because talk show hosts who have never heard a shot fired in anger say we should....

    By the way:  one does not grab a box full of HE uranium and walk over to a truck with it so the truck can take it to a recycling center.  Ask anyone who works in an nuclear power plant.

    Faddis has creds.  He's an ex-CIA officer who spent a lot of time in..........the Middle East.

    Moronic Mark?

    He spent a lot of time being a Kansas City lawyer and now jabbers incessantly. 

    Must Keep: Tulsi

     Last Refuge publishes THE reason for Trump to retain Tulsi Gabbard.

     ...If you want to hold the Spygate/Russiagate folks accountable, it’s not going to be the DOJ who matter; not directly.  It is the Intelligence Community that matters.

    If you seek accountability, and if you want to stop Lawfare from exploiting the silo defenses, it’s the IC that matters; not the Dept of Justice.  The transition team was putting emphasis on the wrong syllable.  Remember, my emphasis was on the need for institutional accountability on Spygate and Russiagate, and the DOJ is a tool toward the goal but not the ultimate weapon.

    ♦ Secondly, and specifically because of this issue, if you don’t confront the IC bad actors directly, if you don’t disassemble their power structures, you are going to end up with Main Justice in a constant position of defense, because the DOJ is downstream from the determinations of the Intelligence Community....

     Why?

    Because SCOTUS agrees:  if  the Intel Community says something is classified/national security, it CANNOT be used in open court trials.

    Gabbard is de-classifying all sorts of information which should never have been "classified" in the first damn place.  A lot--if not all--of it will embarrass a number of US (and certain FOREIGN) officials.

    That is the reason that you read rumors, coming from CIA/FBI insiders through London-based "news" outlets, that Tulsi is on the chopping block.  You can bet that some of those "foreign" officials are from a certain little country in the Middle East which has well-monied friends in the US--which friends make large political contributions to all sorts of Executive AND Legislative-branch figures.

    That's why Tulsi is invaluable to ordinary Joe Lunchbox Americans.

    Keep your eyes on the real ball.....  

    More here. 

    Fanatic Zionist Disses JDVance

    We read PowerLine regularly; often they publish excellent 'splainers on the Constitution and law.  They have also been one of the very earliest outfits to notice the utter, permeative, corruption of the Minnesota and Twin Cities governments.

    But they also publish the unhinged screeds of Scott Johnson, an absolutist Israeli shill.

    So when Johnson denounces JD Vance, you can rest assured that Vance is in the crosshairs of a lot of very well-financed alleged "conservatives"--which will lead to Marco Rubio's nomination for the next Presidency.  (It is also possible that the Sea Island bunch will jam Ron DeSantis onto the ticket--an equally dismal possibility.)

     ...Ben Shapiro has proved to be a lightning rod on this issue. In “Vanz Kant Danz,” I cited Vance’s speech at TPUSA’s AmericaFest this past December, Vance explicitly refused to call out the likes of Tucker Carlson. Alluding to Shapiro, Vance said: “I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform. Let me just say the best way to honor Charlie [Kirk] is that none of us here should be doing something after Charlie’s death that he himself refused to do in life.” He opposed “self-defeating purity tests.” He’s a “no enemies on the right” kind of guy.

    President Trump is not that kind of guy. Trump has applied “a self-defeating purity test” to Carlson via Douglas Murray. By contrast, Vance is sticking with Carlson and Carlson’s friends. We know where Vance is at, so to speak. If Vance ever purports to see the light, it will be too little, too late for anyone who cares about decency in the conservative movement....

    By "conservative movement" he means The Israel-Uber-Alles movement

    Newsflash, Scott:  not even US Jews agree with your Iran War position.  Actual US Conservatives don't, either. 

    US Jews Contradict Teddy C. and Mikie H.

    J Street is a well-established lobbying outfit primarily dealing with Jewish affairs.

     

    The majority of American Jews oppose the US war with Iran, viewing it as a reckless escalation without a clear mission or exit strategy....

     ...“This data is a wake-up call for anyone claiming to speak for the American Jewish community while beating the drums of war,” said J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami. “Most American Jews see this war for what it is: A reckless, unforced error by a President who has no clear, achievable goals or an exit strategy. This poll proves that the ‘pro-Israel’ position is the pro-peace position – and that means stopping this war before more lives are lost.”...

    Wait, wait!!  Both Teddy Cruz and Mikie Huckabee insist that the REAL pro-Israel position is to reduce Iran to a pile of rubble and kill every Iranian who objects.

    Are Teddy and Mikie (and their heretic "Christian" pastors) all wrong?

    This cannot be!!

    Except that it is.

     ...60% of American Jews oppose “the US military action against Iran.”
  • A staggering 77% of American Jews do not believe “President Trump has a clear plan and mission for the war in Iran.”
  • By a 26-point margin, American Jews believe the most effective way to address concerns regarding Iran’s nuclear program is through diplomacy and sanctions (63%) rather than military action (37%).
  • 58% of American Jews believe the US military action against Iran weakens the United States.
  • 70% of American Jews oppose unconditional military and financial assistance to Israel....
  • That 70% number is very significant, but that 60% number is a close second. 

    Curious Timing of Hit Job on Iranian Diplomat

     One wonders how this could have happened.

     A joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike critically injured Kamal Kharazi, the senior Iranian diplomat reportedly coordinating back-channel negotiations to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Vice President JD Vance and Tehran’s leadership.

    Kharazi’s Tehran residence was hit early Thursday, killing his wife and leaving the 81-year-old former foreign minister hospitalized with severe injuries...

    Almost as if someone doesn't want the war to end, eh?  Almost as if Chaos is the objective.

     ...Kharazi himself appeared to foreshadow this exact scenario weeks earlier.

    “While we were engaged in negotiations, they struck us,” he told CNN from Tehran....

    Israel is moving into Lebanon and creating problems in Syria.  Too bad that most of the victims of Israeli aggression in those countries appear to be Christians (Catholics).

    Chaos.  Hmmmm. 

    The WHOLE Sarsour Story

    The deliberately-ignorant local Lefty politicians screech over the well-deserved arrest of a terrorist-financing local Muslim leader.

    Let them screech like the little girly-girls they really are.

    Channel 6's Jason Calvi presented ALL of the story very well.

    ...A scholar with George Washington University's Program on Extremism said Sarsour's detention may be tied to historical investigations.

    "Understanding the history of the original U.S.-based Hamas network in this country is important to understanding why government action was taken against Salah Sarsour, which does not have anything to do with free speech," said Lara Burns, George Washington University Program on Extremism. who is also a retired FBI special agent. "I think that you have to peel back the curtain just a little bit and actually look at the facts of Mr. Sarsour’s history."....

    Oh.  Hamas.  Seems that Mr Sarsour was alleged to have been involved with outfits which shipped money to Hamas, your friendly local TERRORISTS.

    More:

     ...FOX6 asked ICE to explain the rationale for the arrest.

    "Salah Salem Sarsour is a terrorist convicted for throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli armed forces. This illegal alien from Jordan lied on his green card application to gain legal status in the U.S.," said Homeland Security Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis....

    ... "He ultimately entered the United States in 1993—under the Clinton administration—as a conditional resident. After lying on his application, he became a green card holder in 1998 under President Clinton."...

    So.

    The guy is "connected"--to Hamas.  He lied like Hell to gain entry and residency in the USA.  To actual US citizens, that means he is NOT "a legal resident" and SHOULD be drop-kicked out of our country.

    Bozos like Crowley and Chevy Corvair Johnson can drop dead. 

     

     

     

    Good Friday

     An accompaniment to your study of this sculpture is Ruht Vohl, (Rest well) the final chorus from Bach's St John Passion.

    Thursday, April 02, 2026

    Appeals Court Stays "Fund NPR" Ruling

    National Public Panhandler Radio's funding was deleted by President Trump.

    Naturally, NPR found a friendly court and sued to keep our money on the utterly ridiculous ground that NPR's "free speech" is endangered.  (NPR says they have a Constitutional Right to Our Money.)

    That lasted 2 days.  An appeals court stayed the "Give Them Money" order.

    (Found by AI.  No URL available yet.) 

    "Educators" Funding Anti-Ice School Disorders

    The NEA (of course) has dropped $1.4 million into something called the "Midwest Academy", an Alinsky-based outfit specializing in fomenting civil disorder.

    And disorder it will be!  

    A group funded by the largest teachers union in the country is training activists in preparation for a string of anti-ICE protests planned to take place outside of public schools on May 1, the Washington Examiner has learned.

    The organizers behind the recent No Kings demonstrations are gearing up for nationwide follow-up protests on May 1....

    Gee.  May Day!!  The Communist High Holyday!!

    Also note that the Geezer Rally (No Kings) is directly connected here.

    Question your school taxes, people! This is what you're paying for.......

    14% for "Green" Electricity. Happy??

    Channel Four runs an interview with a woman who obviously doesn't know what's going on.  

    She bought Green Crap for her house but still pays more for electricity, and is ignorant of the fact that Green Crap is THE single biggest reason for skyrocketing electric rates in Wisconsin.

    How much "skyrocket"?

    How about THREE HUNDRED PERCENT INCREASE SINCE 2000--and another 14% to come??

    WE bent over for any "green" demand made by the Feds or the State ever since Dick Abdoo set the precedent by cowering to the NRC a few decades back.  Since then, WE has cowered to Fed and State worshipers of the Green Goddess,  building and installing wind farms (useless when there is no wind), sun-catchers (useless about half of any calendar year), and "biomass" burners.  WE also intends to build a massive battery-backup system--which would be completely UN-necessary if WE had kept all of its coal- and gas-burners instead of installing "green" crap.

    WE wants you to believe that cutting trees and putting their lines underground is the reason for the last couple of enormous rate increases.  Uh-huh.  Sure, sure.

    Tiffany promises a change in rate-setting personnel at the Public Service Commission.

    What Tiffany SHOULD do is make the Chicago management of WE eat the cost of Green Crap.  Maybe that will give them some backbone. 

    Wednesday, April 01, 2026

    The Real Evers? A Loon. Plus: WWTD??

     That's short for "lunatic."  No coverage in Milwaukee TeeVee, either.

    ...Evers vetoed bills to ban boys in girls’ sports and locker rooms; to empower parents to make decisions about their kids’ pronouns and names; and to ban sex-change surgeries of minors. ...

    One wonders what Lunatic Tony would have done when--as a school principal--he found a boy in the girls' showers with the girlsOr now, on finding a random teenage boy in the girls' showers with one of his granddaughters?

    1)  Look at the floor and back away quietly?  2)  Look at the floor and say "Please leave the shower room.  Pretty please??"  3)  Look at the floor and loudly declare "I really want you to leave the shower room now!"  Or 4)  Supplex the pervert out of there and body-slam him in the corridor?

    Yah.  The answer is #1 above. 

    N.B.:  None of the "highly trained professional reporters" at Milwaukee channels 4, 6, 12, or 58 have mentioned this. Hmmmmmm.

    Can You Say "D.E.I."?

    This sad sack umpire also missed several ball/strike calls a couple of days ago.

    Now he REALLY screws up.  Not looking at the play, calls the runner out for 'missing the bag'.....

    Sad. 

    Tuesday, March 31, 2026

    Yup. It's a Consumption Tax

     Mitch Daniels, partly responsible for TRA '86, finally admits what we said back in January of '25:  it's a consumption tax.

     ...Even less transparent to the victim than a state sales tax or a VAT, taxation by tariff constitutes a step into consumption taxation, of people at all income levels.

    Everyone will have to chip in to the fiscal emergency plan that the country’s procrastinating, irresponsible national leadership, of both parties, has made inevitable. Taxation of consumption, regrettable as it will be, at least has the virtue of weighing less heavily on work and investment, and therefore growth, than further taxation of income. It is likely to be part of the safety-net rescue....

    Daniels, writing for his audience, decries the tariffs--but then admits that his tax policies have driven the US into 'walking bankrupt' status.  He also fails to mention that a true consumption tax is, generally, "progressive", as the top income people are far more "consumer" than the bottom.

    Heh. 

     

    Kirk Killing: NOT the Bullet??

    This is not too surprising.

     

    The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson, a bombshell new court filing states.

    Robinson, 22, is facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence for Kirk's murder at Utah Valley University on September 10.

    But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 'was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.'...

    We--and dozens of others--were skeptical when told by "experts" that a .30-06 bullet could not get through Kirk's neck bones at 200 yards.

    Now we're told that ........well.........maybe.......kinda-sorta.....it was NOT a .30-06 from the defendant's K-98.

    Huh.  Imagine that! 

    The Little Mayor That Self-Contradicts

     Mayor Chevy Corvair Johnson (Unsafe at Any Speed) delivered his annual report.  He contradicted himself; but then, he's a Democrat.

     ...Johnson also pointed to housing trends, noting Realtor.com rated Milwaukee as landlord-friendly in 2024 with vacancy rates below five percent. In 2025, the same rating listed Milwaukee as renter-friendly as more housing units became available....

    Hmmm.  Since Trump's election and ICE's crackdown on illegal immigrants, "more housing units became available."

    But Trump is a monster!!

    ... "The deadly and malicious immigration policy of President Donald Trump's administration is particularly egregious," he said. "I will be direct: immigrants make Milwaukee stronger, safer and richer....

     "Malicious"?  "Deadly"?

    Maybe Corvair confuses MS-13 and Tren de Aragua for ICE.  (Or maybe the far-more-deadly Planned Parenthood BabyKiller business.)

    But there is no question the Mayor cannot add and subtract.  Rental prices are down because there are less people wanting rental housing.  MS-13 and TdA members do NOT make Milwaukee safer.  

    And when he stamps his widdle feets about how "ties are broken" between the Feds and the locals....you want a translation of that crap?  "THEY AREN'T GIVING US ENOUGH MONEY.  Waah.  Waah."

    Because it is never enough. 

    Israel Taps Out of Ground Ops in Iran

    Really?  This is "our special ally"?

     Israeli media reported Monday that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will not aid any potential American ground operation inside Iran; Israeli troops are instead being sent to southern Lebanon.

    Israeli Channel 12 quoted official sources stating, “In case of a U.S. ground operation in Iran, Israeli soldiers will not be participating on the ground.”

    The report says that if there were an American ground operation, only American troops would be put in harm’s way on the ground. Israel instead would provide airstrikes, intelligence sharing, and special operations support. Israel has reportedly drawn a firm red line against sending ground troops....

    We can get that kind of help from NATO.  Why do we need Israel?

    Monday, March 30, 2026

    Ten Percent Dow Dump Since 2/10

     Looked at your 401(k) lately?

    Yah.....well.....

    The DJIA is down about 10 % since February 10's 50,121 mark.

    Gee.  What happened after 2/10? 

    A New Catholic Dogma on War?

     Pope Leo is not a careful speaker, so he often lets slip his un-hinged thoughts.

     ...The pope’s words during his Sunday homily denounced violence and said that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.” He cited the “meekness” of Jesus Christ as an inspiration for world leaders and referenced Christ’s suffering as a parallel to those caught in the crosshairs of war and violence in Europe and the Middle East

    “We turn our gaze to Jesus, who reveals himself as King of Peace, even as war looms abounds him,” said Pope Leo. “He remains steadfast in meekness, while others are stirring up violence.”

    The pope said violence, particularly war, should be rejected at all times and that Jesus’s life, and his last days before his crucifixion, should serve as reminders that peace, not violence, is the answer. 

    “He did not arm himself, or defend himself, or fight any war,” said the pope. “He revealed the gentle face of God, who always rejects violence. Rather than saving himself, he allowed himself to be nailed to the cross, embracing every cross borne in every time and place throughout human history.”

    Leo then admonished anyone who sought to use religion as a justification for war, emphasizing that God does not listen to prayers from such people. ...

     So much stuff, so little time.....

    It is, frankly, SILLY to compare the self-sacrifice of Christ to a war, particularly when many wars are wars of defense.  (One also wonders if he has condemned the Popes of the first and second Crusades with his comments.)

    In the instances where "war of defense, "self-defense" and "defense of others" are parallel, what does Pp. Leo have to say then?  That we should simply watch loved ones or ourselves become victims because .....Jesus?

    Serious men have serious differences with this guy.  

    The Church has been stung with two in a row.  Pray for the Church, even if you participate in wars.


    Sunday, March 29, 2026

    The Objectives Are.......???

    John Spencer runs a long post on X, but near the beginning is this:

     ...It is important to anchor any discussion in the stated strategic objectives. As articulated by senior U.S. leaders, the objectives of Operation Epic Fury are: destroy Iran’s missile arsenal and its ability to produce more, dismantle its navy and its ability to threaten global shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, and prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

    While regime change has been mentioned and questions have been raised about whether it would be good or bad, it is not the declared U.S. objective....
     
    Well, then, how come Israel has eliminated/eradicated/killed hundreds of members of the regime?
     
    Oh.  Maybe the US objectives and the Israeli objectives are different.....
     
    Or maybe Trump & Co. are not telling us? 
     
    Hmmmm. 

    Back to Viet Nam.....

     A book review by Mark Moyar has some very familiar themes.  This is about Viet Nam, the incompetent State Department (and ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge) and how it cost about 58,000 US lives.

    Here's the first VERY FAMILIAR theme:

    ... Only in the final chapter does Cheevers make a clear break with the orthodox school. Invoking the pro-Diem officials who inspired the revisionists, he embraces their conclusion that the Diem government fell because of American diplomatic malpractice, rather than Diem's inherent flaws. Cheevers faults Lodge and other State Department officials for promoting a coup with little comprehension of what would follow, and blasts Kennedy for letting them do so. He also chastises the Kennedy administration for trying to liberalize an authoritarian country in a time of war. "Kennedy would have been well-advised to stop hammering Diem to get rid of Nhu and let the brothers do their best to win the war," Cheevers writes. "Free and fair elections could never be held, nor strong democratic institutions established, until the Viet Cong were largely cleared out of the country."...

     Can you spell "I-R-A-Q"??  We left that sandbag in a state of total disarray--where it remains today, minus all of  the Catholics who were either killed or fled the country.  And when we achieve Netanyahu's fever-dream of regime-change in Iran------what's the plan, Donald?  Bibi?? 

    Next, and more of a concern:

     ...The book, therefore, would have benefited from greater incorporation of elements of the revisionist narrative. One such element is a deep skepticism of the Buddhist protesters. In revisionist accounts, the Buddhists are more dishonest, more sympathetic to the Communists, and more clearly intent on overthrowing the Diem government than in Kennedy's Coup, and therefore they show Diem's actions to be more reasonable, and his political standing to be stronger....

    Gee.  Religion being abused by liars and Lefties.  Scofield-ites in the case of Iran.  And certain Catholic (and Protty) figures pushing immigration-at-any-cost, not  to mention openly Socialist "theology."

    Some things never change. 

    In Canada, the Party Begins This Summer

     The meaning of "party" here is congruent with the meaning in "Boston Tea Party."

    Canada passed a law requiring its citizens subjects to turn in certain firearms to the Crown.

    NINETY-EIGHT PERCENT of those subjects flipped the middle finger and did not comply.

    So.......this summer, retired RCMP and retired local cops will be collecting those guns.

    It's possible that the guns will be pointed in the wrong direction, of course.  Thus, volunteer collectors may be hard to find.

    This bears watching. 

    Saturday, March 28, 2026

    China Spying Here Courtesy of Biden/Mayorkas. Surprised?

    Disturbing incident here.

     Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, in Bossier Parish not far from Shreveport, was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9. The attack disrupted B-52H aircraft launches in support of Operation Epic Fury against Iran. It is the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened even in World War II....

    This is known as a "Wake-Up Call"

     ...The drone waves lasted around four hours each day, an extraordinarily long loiter time for a drone. It is not known if the drones were fixed wing or quadcopter types, or how they were powered (liquid fuel or electrical). Each wave consisted of 12 to 15 drones, and the drones flew with their lights on, intentionally making them visible....

    ...The airbase does have some electronic countermeasures that were designed to disable GPS and the datalinks between the drones and their remote operators. The electronic countermeasures failed to work....

     

    ...The drones could have come from a potential adversary, China being best equipped to produce a drone of the type that flew over Barksdale. From what has been observed, the drone design surpasses almost anything in the US arsenal.

    What we know is that the drones had extraordinary range, could resist broad spectrum jamming, and featured non-commercial signal characteristics. Even more provocatively, the drones used various ingress and egress routes and operated in dispersed patterns, making traceability (via trying to triangulate on signals) virtually impossible....

    Yes, Biden played a key role in this.

     ...the drone swarms over Barksdale suggest strongly that China is feeding Iran with critical intelligence as well as weapons, assuming that these drones came from China and were operated by the Chinese or by Chinese proxies.

    There is little doubt that the operators were well trained and smuggled the equipment into the United States. The operation was persistent and disciplined and highly sophisticated....

     Can Mayorkas or Biden be tried for treason yet?

    "Green" Disables USS Ford. Surprised?

    Several zillion dollars went into the building of this ship.

    It was "GREEN"!!!!  So it was wonderful!!!  Until it was not.

     

    It’s been a crappy week for the largest warship ever built.

    A raging fire in its laundry facilities and persistently clogged toilets have taken the $13 billion USS Ford aircraft carrier out of the Iran fight — and it could remain out of service for a year....

    The time-honored 'take a dump over the railing' method is a no-no?  Yes, yes.  It's a co-ed Navy now.

    So......

    ... The ship’s high-tech sanitation system has had problems since at least 2020, with routine clogs, pricey fixes, and a green design that has caused repeat maintenance problems costing at least $4 million. 

     “Those eco-friendly toilets are not pressurized in the same way — they don’t flush through,” naval expert Steve Wills told The Post.

    The issues stem from its vacuum collection, holding and transfer (VCHT) system, borrowed from the cruise ship industry.

    A General Accountability Office report from 2020 found it required “onerous” extra day-to-day maintenance to clean its narrow pipes, with each “acid flush” costing $400,000....

    Here's a sanguine observation:

    ... “Prioritizing environmentally-friendly systems over combat effectiveness is a big mistake,” said Bill Roggio, a senior fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies....

    Yah.  We know several 10-year-olds who could come to the same conclusion.  Too bad the US Navy has "experts" and "really smart" Kolleege Grads purchasing fuc***g toilets, eh?

    Then there's this:

     ...The vessel’s commanding officer, Capt. David Skarosi, said in February that some clogs “are the result of items being flushed that should not be introduced into the system” — raising the prospect that the crew’s action are partly to blame.

    “It only takes one pissed off, angry sailor to potentially cause trouble,” he added, without accusing anyone of outright sabotage....

    Or a couple of sanitary pads, Captain?  Was Tampon Tim on board?

    Go back to the sure-fire method:  over the rail.  It's common sense.  But  then, what does "common sense" have to do with anything these days?