Trump Grounds Blinky

Remember back when Blinky first became speaker? She went on a junket to Europe and the Middle East pretending to be president. Well, she was gonna try that stunt again by flying along with a bunch of Dimocrat congresscritters, to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan. While she and her delegation were on the bus to the airport, Trump sent her a letter.

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Best! President! Evah!

So here were these Dimocrat congresscritters on this bus and the calls were flying to the State Department, the Pentagon, and the White House and the bus was driving circles around the Capitol. No dice Blinky. Then to continue the epic beatdown, Trump had the luggage delivered to Blinky’s office.

How dare Blinky and the Dimocrats go on a PR junket while there are 800,000 starving gummint employees who are about to lose their homes! It shows just how much she cares for those poor beat down employees.

While Trump is at it he should cancel the flights she takes to her district using military jets. Let her fly commercial. Or better yet, let her use her broom.

Isn’t it nice to finally have a Republican president who fights back? Well played Mr. President.

Ronsday – FRT

Ron regales us with a new study he came across.

Anthropological and Sociological Researchers working diligently and tirelessly at the World Truth Foundation (WTF) have identified and isolated a previously unexplained sector in the human genome which they’ve labeled the FRT (Fact Resistant Thread).

Located in a segment of the helical structure long written off as “junk” DNA, or undecipherable stretches which seemed to have no purpose or effect on human development and behavior, the FRT is now behaving as if recently triggered by some unknown influence and is now affecting cerebral function in afflicted adults.

Led by Dr. Usuf Neuinkarn of the Mengele Studies in Neuropathic and Behavioral Capriciousness (MSNBC), the team has announced that a particularly virulent and potentially dangerous strain of FRT in the brains of government employees and politicians makes them essentially immune to comprehension of verifiable knowledge.

At first Dr. Neuinkarn and his associates believed the DNA segment of FRT was simply a form of protein crenation, or brain shrinkage often seen in career lawyers, politicians, and methamphetamine junkies. “It has all the symptoms of GEBS,” he said, quickly explaining the acronym as meaning “Government Employee Brain Shrivel.”

“But this is much different, much more aggressive and completely resistant to all attempts at slowing or reversing the condition with internal medication. At present, the only effective treatment seems to be complete isolation in padded living quarters with uninterrupted viewing of Mr. Wizard lectures and Ronald Reagan speeches.”

His colleague, Dr. Ivana Barph, shared a lengthy list of examples of individuals stricken with the syndrome, beginning with Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“Everyone is familiar with her staggering unawareness of how things work in the real world,” Dr. Barph said, enumerating examples of misconceptions by the youngest women ever elected to Congress. “Some of her remarks are up there on par with Congressman Johnson’s fear that the island of Guam could tip over if too many more military personnel were assigned there.”

“And FRT affects persons of all ages. For a while we thought the condition was limited to elderly individuals, such as Maxine Waters or Dianne Feinstein or Bernie Sanders or Nancy Pelosi. But Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has made it clear that FRT isn’t age discriminatory, as has Congresswoman Tlaib and the wannabe Chicano ‘Beto O’Rourke,’” Dr. Barph told us, shaking her head and popping a small white capsule.

“What disturbs us most is that these fact-resistant individuals cannot seem to comprehend the direct relationship between increasing numbers of poorly educated, nearly illiterate, poverty-stricken, non-English-speaking foreigners and the rise in all forms of crime, from mugging and pickpocketing to rape and murder,” Dr. Neuinkarn added.

Most puzzling to the team was the failure of afflicted individuals to see that Islam and unrestricted illegal immigration present a far greater danger to American culture than climate change and toxic masculinity.

“We simply do not see this ending well,” Dr. Neuinkarn sighed. “I mean, we’ve always had fools and morons and idiots running around, and on occasion one might get elected to high public office, such as Gropey Joe or Ted Kennedy. But what we’re seeing today is an epidemic, a pandemic in which reportedly educated people insist that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’ despite the fact that nearly all terrorist activities in the past 25 years carried out by Muslims, or that a kindergartener should be able to choose which gender to be regardless of what the chromosomes say.”

“Yes,” Dr. Barph agreed. “We don’t yet understand the blockage which prevents these fact-resistant people from retaining and understanding data. We suspect that something in the DNA is intercepting information being passed along the optic and auditory nerves, and then either altering or discarding it.”

When asked what types of experiments are in progress to suspend or reverse the data transmission glitches caused by FRT, Dr. Neuinkarn and Dr. Barph looked at each other for several seconds before Dr. Neuinkarn finally said,”

“Well, I’m sure you understand that some of our research must remain classified, and some of it could be viewed as radical by snowflakes and social justice warriors, but preliminary research indicates that victims of FRT show a tendency to be more receptive to reality, to factual data, when they are placed in an environment without political influence, without cash, without food, without bottled water, without cameras, and without microphones.”

Military Readiness

I’ve seen links to this Navy Times article on various sites. An excerpt.

Their report documents the routine, almost casual, violations of standing orders on a Fitz bridge that often lacked skippers and executive officers, even during potentially dangerous voyages at night through busy waterways.

The probe exposes how personal distrust led the officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, to avoid communicating with the destroyer’s electronic nerve center — the combat information center, or CIC — while the Fitzgerald tried to cross a shipping superhighway.

When Fort walked into the trash-strewn CIC in the wake of the disaster, he was hit with the acrid smell of urine. He saw kettlebells on the floor and bottles filled with pee. Some radar controls didn’t work and he soon discovered crew members who didn’t know how to use them anyway.

Fort found a Voyage Management System that generated more “trouble calls” than any other key piece of electronic navigational equipment. Designed to help watchstanders navigate without paper charts, the VMS station in the skipper’s quarters was broken so sailors cannibalized it for parts to help keep the rickety system working.

Since 2015, the Fitz had lacked a quartermaster chief petty officer, a crucial leader who helps safely navigate a warship and trains its sailors — a shortcoming known to both the destroyer’s squadron and Navy officials in the United States, Fort wrote.

Fort determined that Fitz’s crew was plagued by low morale; overseen by a dysfunctional chiefs mess; and dogged by a bruising tempo of operations in the Japan-based 7th Fleet that left exhausted sailors with little time to train or complete critical certifications.

But I’ll be willing to bet that they were up to date on their Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) and Sexual Harassment training.

As I’ve said before, the collision was totally avoidable. Six minutes after a contact is spotted on radar, the radar operator should already have the CPA (Closest Point of Approach) and if he is half way competent, the course and speed. I was an electronics technician who stood radar watches on the Iredell County (LST-839) and I could do it. Plus, there is a radar repeater on the con and any idiot with a grease pencil and a ruler could easily determine the CPA. The OODs on the Iredell County could.

And WTF was the matter with the ETs on that ship? I was an ET, and altho’ I was not a big fan of Navy discipline (I’m surprised at some of the stuff I got away with) I always kept my gear up to snuff. I don’t care how bad my morale was, I took pride in my work. For the last year of my enlistment, I was the only ET on board who could fix anything and everyone knew it which is why I got away with what I did. I kept all my equipment in top notch shape. The ET gang on that ship had to be a bunch of losers.

As for readiness, it is not solely a Navy problem. Over the holidays, I talked to an Army dude who has been in for 17 years (and is really looking forward to getting out in 3 more years). He was bitching about readiness and how it has taken a back seat to SHARP. He was really irate about this.

“What’s SHARP”, I asked.

He told me. SHARP is Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention. According to him, that is much more important than readiness training. He’s had to stand down from a training exercise to attend a SHARP class. Can you imagine that?

The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things but the dweebs at the Pentagon have decided that SHARP is more important. I’m sure it was on the Fitzgerald as well.

We’re doomed!

Bring On The Sob Stories

Oh the humanity! The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation is starting to write stories about the poor gummint employees who are suffering during the partial gummint shutdown. Golly, in one of the stories, the wife had to take a job as a waitress because her husband wasn’t receiving a paycheck. Sob! Sob! Sob!

Meanwhile Dimocrats are partying in Puerto Rico with the cast of Hamilton. Don’t they care about these starving gummint employees who are about to lose their homes because they won’t be able to pay their mortgages?

These poor downtrodden gummint employees are actually getting a paid vacation altho’ it may be a while until they get that pay. Congress has already voted to give them all of their back pay when the shutdown ends. The time they missed won’t count as vacation time. They are set to get a windfall. Do I feel sorry for them? Nope.

Gummint employees (I refuse to call them workers) get paid more than people in the private sector. Their benefits are better as well. This shutdown will eventually end and their lives will be back to normal. Maybe if they want to go back to work, they should pressure the Dimocrats, whom most of them voted for, to give Trump the money for his wall. In the federal budget, $5 billion is a pittance. It’s a rounding error.

Meanwhile, the AJC will continue running sob stories about the poor gummint employees trying to stave off starvation and home foreclosures. Most of us don’t care.

I don’t.

Saturday Bach

Today we are starting on Bach’s Cello Suite #5. This one is easy to find guitar (or lute) versions of since Bach transcribed this suite for lute for his Lute Suite in G minor, BWV 995. Here is the Prelude played on a lute.

AOTW 1-11-2019

Mittens Romneycare (Quisling, Utah) made a play to win a second straight AOTW Award when he shot off his mouth and warned Trump not to declare a national emergency to build the wall. It’s pretty obvious whose side this dickhead is on.

Jim Acosta made a valiant try. He appeared in front of a wall in McAllen Texas and said that there were no illegals trying to get in. That’s because there’s a fucking wall there Jimmy. Trump dunked on him on Twatter. So did Sarah Sanders. This is one of the best cases of someone pwning himself that I have ever seen.

But I’m giving it to Schmuck and Blinky. They refuse to give Trump $5 billion for the wall. In today’s multi-trillion dollar budgets, $5 billion is a rounding error. What’s really neat about the gummint shutdown is it is mainly hurting Dimocrats since most gummint employees vote Dimocrat. And soon when SNAP money runs out and the EBT cards quit working, it’s gonna hurt even more Dimocrat voters. Meanwhile, the rest of us are not affected. Shutdown? What shutdown?

And didja see Schmuck and Blinky’s response? Man, what terrible optics. They looked like a couple of mean ol’ coots. Thge memes on Twatter were hilarious. AlphaDelta linked to the following in the comments.

Here’s your award.

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Bitch Slapping Obungler

Day 20 of the shutdown and the world has not come to an end yet.

Didja hear about SecState Pompeo’s speech in Cairo?

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday launched an astonishing rebuke of former President Barack Obama’s foreign policy at the site of Obama’s famous speech to the Muslim world — declaring that “the age of self-inflicted American shame is over.”

Pompeo delivered his remarks in Cairo, where Obama famously spoke in 2009 and promised a new beginning with Muslim and Arab countries. He was criticized by conservatives for placing too much blame on the U.S. for strife in the region.

Pompeo, while not mentioning Obama by name, said that “it was here, in this city, another American stood before you” and “told you that radical Islamist terrorism does not stem from ideology.”

Whap! Take that you traitorous halfrican!

“He told you that 9/11 led my country to abandon its ideals, particularly in the Middle East,” he said at the American University in Cairo. “He told you that the United States and the Muslim world needed ‘a new beginning.’ The results of these misjudgments have been dire.”

Pompeo said that under Obama, the U.S. abandoned its allies and was “timid” about asserting itself, that the U.S. “grossly underestimated the tenacity and viciousness of radical Islamism,” and kept silent as Iranians tried to rise up against the regime in Tehran.

He also criticized Obama-era policy for “wishful thinking [that] led us to look the other way” as Hezbollah built up its weaponry in Lebanon, and for doing nothing as Syrian President Bashar Assad gassed his own people.

He then took another swipe at the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — from which the U.S. withdrew last year. The U.S. has since re-imposed economic sanctions on the country, including on oil exports.

I like Mike! America first! MAGA!

“Our eagerness to address only Muslims, not nations, ignored the rich diversity of the Middle East, and frayed old bonds. It undermined the concept of the nation-state, the building block of international stability,” he said. “And our desire for peace at any cost led us to strike a deal with Iran, our common enemy.”

But he promised his audience that the Trump administration was ushering in a new era of U.S. foreign policy.

“The good news is this: The age of self-inflicted American shame is over, and so are the policies that produced so much needless suffering. Now comes the real ‘new beginning,’” he said.

We are no longer led by a pussy. No more “leading from behind” bullshit.

His speech emphasized America as a force for good in the region. He cited accomplishments under Trump’s leadership — including the pushback of Islamic State, the withdrawal of more troops and personnel from Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and building a coalition to push back against Iranian influence.

“We have rediscovered our voice. We have rebuilt our relationships. We have rejected false overtures from enemies. And look at what we have accomplished together,” he said.

In two years Trump has reversed the disastrous policies of Obungler, Crooked Cankles, and Flipper.