RSS- Open Thread – 28 January 2023
- A good yarn by Electra Rhodes – TTG
- Tanks are on the way… finally – TTG
- A retired FBI agent is charged with crimes along with a former Soviet diplomat, and separately after getting mixed up with men from Albania and Bosnia
- “Civil War general’s remains come back to his hometown” – TTG
- Mick Ryan on Ukrainian tanks – TTG
- VA hospital to drop Confederate name – TTG
- In for maintenance – TTG
- The Santa Fe, New Mexico District Attorney will say on 19 January whether a criminal case will be brought against Alec Baldwin for the shooting death on a movie set
- “Ukraine credits local beavers for unwittingly bolstering its defenses” – TTG
Category Archives: government
The Cat’s Meow
Happy New Year Everyone! Now sit back and get ready to enjoy a new, new, story from the New CNN, Chat Noir News. Nine lives, many tales. Now I know you are probably wondering just where Ray Epps is vacationing … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Fred, government, Gun Control, Humor, Media Ignorance and Idiocy, Politics, Ukraine Crisis
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Remember. Members of Congress are not cleared for secrets – republished 2023
I have written on this often. Members of the US Congress do not have vetted information security clearances. They have access to government secrets because of their constitutional office as elected representatives of the citizens of the US. This is … Continue reading
Posted in government, Politics
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The president is the sole authority on declassification – republished 2023
I wrote this in 2015 concerning HC’s e-mails but it still applies. Restating the case, the classification system in the US exists solely by Executive Order. It does not exist by law. All classifications of information are derivative from … Continue reading
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Freedom Caucus chair Scott Perry says they have a “framework” for Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker. Is it a framework or an agreement? Is it enforceable?
By Robert Willmann After two more unsuccessful votes today, 6 January 2023, for Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives, the House will start again at 10:00 p.m. eastern time tonight for more voting. However, in the two votes starting … Continue reading
The resistance against Kevin McCarthy continues as a 6th vote fails to elect a Speaker of the House
By Robert Willmann The writer Gore Vidal said that in the United States we do not have politics, we have elections. This observation has become more and more accurate. The Democratic and Republican Parties have maneuvered themselves into being the … Continue reading
“NSA Seems to Be Spying on UFOs” – TTG
This week brings a new DoD release through the Freedom of Information Act which opens up a whole new front in the endless “What does Uncle Sam secretly know about UFOs?” debate. Back in July, The Black Vault, which specializes … Continue reading
Posted in government, Intelligence, Space, TTG
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The Matt Taibi dump on Twitter thus far
We pretty much all knew that there was collusion in suppression of information on the various information meat markets, but now Musk has released internal Twitter correspondence that confirms. Taibi has a mass of Twitter documents and will release them … Continue reading
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A county in Arizona wanted to count all midterm election ballots by hand. The Secretary of State’s office said doing that would be illegal!
By Robert Willmann Cochise County, Arizona has a population estimated by the U.S. Census to be 126,050. In order to do its part to support democracy and have an honest election, it wanted to hand count the ballots in the … Continue reading
Unsolved mysteries: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963
By Robert Willmann For the record. On 22 November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was murdered on a public street in broad open daylight in Dallas, Texas by a sophisticated operation. An equally sophisticated coverup and whitewashing of the crime … Continue reading
Great News Everybody: 2022 Just Got a Whole Lot More Fun. So Did Next Year.
You’ve got it. Your very favorite president, well, let Hollywood tell the story. ““I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” … Continue reading