Kennedy questions Choudhury about anti-police comments in Judiciary

My senator, John Kennedy of Louisiana is a staunch advocate for conservative values.

Below, he questions a Biden nominee over her past statements and tries to discern what she truly believes.  It's quite illuminating.  This gal seems to believe that voter ID laws are racist and that cops kill unarmed black men every day.

She claims that those statements were made in an "advocacy" role, and has no basis in truth, simply that she was lying to make a point.  Now, Biden is nominating her for a judicial job.

Elon Trolls

 Ya gotta love this guy, he's trolling everyone now.  A screen grab from Fox News.

He also said he was going to buy McDonalds and fix the broken ice cream machines.

Friday Errands

 My old truck is inspected.  I was going to get lawnmower fuel today and noticed that the inspection sticker was out of date, but on reflection, it hadn't left my acre since it expired.  So, on the way to get fuel, I had it inspected. It's a 2001 F150 with nearly a quarter-million miles on it.  I need a truck, but I don't need a truck every day.  I normally drive a Honda Odyssey as my daily driver, but I don't like putting fuel cans or butane bottles in the passenger compartment of the van, so there is the truck.

After filling the gas can with non-ethanol fuel, I put the nozzle into the truck and ran it until it hit $50.  That put about half a tank of gas in the truck. Because I don't use the truck every day, I run non-ethanol in it so that I don't have to worry about the problems with corn-based fuel.

I'll wait another hour until the sun moderates, then crank the lawnmower.  Or, I may wait until morning.

One Wonders

 One might wonder why I maintain that the FBI should be disbanded in it's entirety.

We hear a lot about "good" FBI agents.  They should start arresting the crooked agents and clean the agency up from the inside.  The agency must be cleaned from the inside, or disbanded entirely.  The "good" agents can take their choice.

Reminds Me of a Story

Reminds me of a story

During Desert Storm, shortly after I got there, I was running the MP shop for Fort Pok.  Most of the active MPs had been deployed, so the reservists started running the law enforcement mission.  Fort Polk had doubled in size over-night.

Just outside one of the gates was a Subway sandwich shop in a little strip mall.  The manager contacted us and asked if we could have an MP car roll thru the parking lot when they closed at midnight, to make sure that the daily deposit got safely into an employees vehicle.  He asked how any MPs I had on the night shift, and I told him 12.  He said that the employee closing the store would have 12 foot-long subs in a bag for the on-shift MPs.

Those guys and gals on the night shift ate a lot of Subway

That's Odd

 It seems that the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office has released some video that they obtained regarding the shooting on the Rust set when Alec Baldwin killed  the cinematographer.  

That is odd.  I can't imagine a Sheriff releasing video that might be used in a criminal prosecution.  Which begs the question: Will there be a criminal prosecution?

Odder than hell.

Disinformation Board

 What is this fresh hell?

The ink isn’t even dry on Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter and make speech free again, and the authoritarians in the Biden administration are nakedly acting to lock down the flow of information. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is creating a new agency called the Disinformation Governance Board.

Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a how-to manual. 

DHS should be disbanded in its entirety.  Give Immigration to Dept of Interior, and disband the rest of it.

Bodock

 Several years ago, a decade or more, I was clearing a trail on a deer lease and cut a bodock sapling that I thought had character.  So, rather than putting i in the burn pile, I dropped it in the back of the pickup truck.  When I got home, I put it in the corner of the shop and forgot about it.

Bodock, or bodark, or bois d'arc is a hard wood when dried, with a lot of toughness.  It's springy, but not very. It is tough.  It makes great canes or walking sticks, because it so light and tough.  I put it away a decade or so ago, thinking it had character and would make a ice walking stick.  It may be time to do something with that piece of wood.  It is certainly seasoned.

I'll start scraping the bark off of it during odd moments and see what it turns in to.

"Garry Owen

Belle and I were talking over cocktails this afternoon, and I was reminiscing about the Cavalry, and abut Garry Owen, and then I found this clip.

Suddenly, it got dust in here.  I guess I need to change the filters.

He Bought It

 It looks like Musk managed to make a deal to buy Twitter, and he prepared a statement that seems reasonable.

The Left is going crazy and revealing their true motives.  Suddenly, the Democratic party is opposed to fee speech and open transparency.  They know that they are going to have trouble controlling the narrative without pushback.  There are competing ideas that may gain traction outside the beltway.

I don't quite know how to break this to them, but those competing ideas have already gained traction.  Teir eco chamber has suddenly had a good opened into it, and the chaos of the outside is soon to invade their previously quiet space.

The Drama Continues

 I was piddling around int he shop today, working on a couple of projects, and I realized that I hadn't looked at the news.

It seems that Twitter may be poised to sell itself to Elon Musk.  That would cause quite a stir in the internets.

I'll be watching this.  Not much going on in the local area, with rain showers coming and going.

Remembering Spiro

 Spiro Agnew was the running mate for Richard Nixon and became the vice president of the United States. His experience may be instructive to the current political situation.

Joe Biden's poll numbers are in the doldrums, and his VP, Kamala Harris isn't helping things one bit.  Her poll numbers are even lower than Biden's and many speculate that a Harris presidency would be an even more spectacular failure than Biden's (if indeed, that is possible).  A Harris presidency does not seem to be in the books, failing a medical crisis in Biden's health.

When VP Agnew became embroiled in legal problems in 1973, he eventually pleaded no contest to charges of tax evasion and resigned his office "in the best interests of the nation".  Nixon accepted his resignation and appointed Gerald Ford to fill the remaining term.    Nixon eventually resigned and Ford served the remainder of Nixon's term as President.  This provides the framework for an orderly transition of power when the president cannot fill the entire term, and the person holding the vice presidency is completely unsuited to ascend to the office.

With Joe's mental facilities deteriorating, and the specter of a Harris presidency horrifying everyone in the country, it is instructive to look at the Agnew experience.

I am certainly not a political strategist, and no conspiracy theorists, but I acknowledge that history ofen rhymes.  I am left wondering how the puppet-masters will handle the situation after the midterms, and some possibilities intrigue me.

Sunday Morning Dawg

 Sitting on the deck.

Back In The Day

 I was scrolling through Instapundit and saw a picture that reminded me of an old acquaintance.

We called him Skinny.  He was a short statured, black drag queen, who hung around the old Belmont Hotel in Baton Rouge.  At the time I worked as a parole officer in north Louisiana.  When we went to Baton Rouge for training or a conference, we stayed at the Belmont, which was just blocks from the State Police Barracks.

Skinny sold sex fairly cheap, according to the BRPD guys who showed up to arrest him.  He was a frequent flyer at the Baton Rouge jail.  He was such a frequent flyer that when we got to Baton Rouge and he approached us, we would just "roll the gold" (show hi the badge) and he would scamper off.

When I saw that sign, I thought about ol' Skinny.  I wonder whatever happened to him?

Gotta Give Him Credit

 Ol' Joe from Scranton is getting a lot of credit in this blog lately.  Earlier this week, he got credit for simply being ambulatory.  Today, he's getting credit for surpassing Jimmah Carter's level of incompetence.  That's the headline at PJMedia:

“President Joe Biden has accomplished in just 14 months what many thought was impossible — surpassing President Jimmy Carter as the most incompetent steward of the American economy,” wrote Perry.

That is quite a record of accomplishment.  I'm old enough to remember Jimmah, and it was terrible.

Quoth For Truth

 

Imagine

 Consider for a moment, the ridiculous image of a football team that could never play offense, or a baseball team that never came to bat.  You wouldn't expect those teams to ever win a game, because while defense is important, it doesn't put points on the board.  Consider that metaphor for a while.

 The Democrats don't mind winning.  They put points on the board all the time.  The latest kerfuffle over Disney is the best example.  Disney decided to get out of the entertainment business and get into politics, led by the woke mobsters.  The Florida legislature is pushing back, hard.  Disney is abut to lose their special governance district, potentially  costing the millions of dollars per year.  Some squishy Republicans are saying that this move is vindictive retaliation.  No, it's not.  It's politics.  Disney would have been fine if they had not ventured into the world where lots of people see them as a threat to the children.

We have been playing defense long enough.  It's time to play offense.  It's not enough to simply stop the woe mob.  It's a play right out of the Obama White House.  Punch back twice as hard.

Gota Give Him Credit

 As much and I detest and deplore Joe Biden, I've got to give him credit for one thing.  He may be the most corrupt president in modern US history, but there is one achievement that truly surprises me.

When he was elected, I though he would be dead in a year.  Elected as a place-holder president for the far left wing of his party, I fully expected that he would expire within the first year of his presidency, would be mourned appropriately, and Kamala would take over.

As I watch him stumble across the second year of his tenure, I am shocked that he still exhibits what my wife calls "vital signs".  That is, he still has pulse, respiration, and blood pressure.  Whatever his other problems (and they are myriad), he continues to get up in the morning.

I expect any day now to get up in the morning, pour my cup of coffee, and turn on the computer to find that Joe has died peacefully in his sleep.  At that point, I will wonder for a fleeting minute who put the pillow over his face.

Hey, Netflix!

 Hey, Netflix!  I see your stock is tanking and your business seems to be heading down the tubes.

You gave some lame excuses about why your stock is tanking, including the war in Ukraine.  Bullshit.

I cancelled you several years ago, when you gave a contract to Obama. Who knew that I was an influencer?

One little phrase, Netflix.  Get Woke, Go Broke.  In a couple of years, your only relevance will be as a study case in Business schools around the country on how to mis-manage a company into bankruptcy.

Price hikes, poor content, a woke agenda.  It couldn't happen to amore deserving company.

Bite The Hand That Feeds You

 Even a surly junk yard dog knows better than to bite he hand that feeds him.  Disney Corp may soon learn that lesson.  Disney has got themselves into a pissing contest with the state of Florida over a parental rights bill that sent the woke mob into a tizzy.  Disney's statement:

“Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ [sic] bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law,” Disney said in a statement. “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.”

Disney needs to stay in their lane.  It is one thing to tacitly support a thing, it's another to actively get in a fight with a state that extends some fairly lucrative tax benefits  Disney is favored in some old legislation that extended some tax and governance benefits, What the legislature gives, the legislature can take away.

Disney should carefully consider how the loss of he Reedy Creek Improvement District may affect their bottom line.