#1 This movie week 1980-----The Long Riders Official Trailer #1 - David Carradine Movie (1980) HD

Much criticism, little understanding!-----Something to think about with the Truman’s deployment.

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Something to think about with the Truman’s deployment.

1. She departed home port September 23, 2024

2. A sailor died onboard from a medical emergency on October 1st.

3. Entered Straits of Gibraltar November 25, 2024

4. Transitted Suez Canal December 12, 2024

5. Had an F/A-18 Shot down by friendly fire December 22, 2024

6. Collided with a merchant vessel while at anchor on February 12, 2025

7. New CO February 20,2025

8. Conducted evasive maneuvers due to being shot at with missiles- that required a DDG to use her CIWS due to how close the missile got, losing another F/A-18 over the side in progress on April 28, 2025

9. Arresting wire #2 snaps while recovering F/A-18’s losing their 3rd jet in 4 months, and the second in a week on May 6, 2025

It is May 8, 2025 and this strike group has been deployed 7 months with no return in sight. They are exhausted. They’ve been in constant combat operations since December, and the crew is tired. The equipment is tired.

We (media and speculators) can sit here and talk about how “Today’s Navy is soft” and “These kids can’t hack it” all we want. But a US carrier has not conducted 6 months of non stop COMBAT operations since the 20 teens. We have not had a situation where these young men and women are having to brace for shock in a real life situation for the first time in their lives, in a very very long time.

I understand that in Vietnam, and the early days of the Gulf War’s, this was standard. But it’s no longer standard. There is no uniform we’re fighting. There is no nation we’re fighting. There’s no clearly defined enemy anymore. It’s time to sit back, and pray for these kids and what they’re going through.

Having been shot at by Houthi’s in 2016, I understand. I know what that is like. I know the panic and fear that sets in. These are no longer errant MiG’s, or RPG’s or 1970’s missiles being shot at us. There are extremely high speed, low flying missiles that have very real chance of hitting, and killing ships and sailors.

Let’s think about this before we criticize the Navy of today.

#1 This day 1958-----All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers

Where democrats rule!-----Midwest city's downtown is now Mad Max-style hellhole where locals are scared to go out after 8pm | Daily Mail Online

Downtown Kansas City has become a hotspot for illegal street racing and reckless ATV and dirt bike riders tearing through the neighborhoods - chaos that escalated last month when a police officer was hit by an ATV -  KELLY GARINO 

Now, frustrated business owners and locals are weighing whether to abandon downtown altogether, blaming the Dem-run city's leadership and law enforcement for failing to curb the chaos and restore a sense of safety.
'This isn't a race issue, this isn't a political issue, this is a safety issue,' David Lopez, a local business owner, told Fox News, noting how chaos right outside is a constant occurrence, posing extreme danger for the surrounding community...

Never forget the murderous atrocity!

 

Gavin Newsom, California Face Another Budget Shortfall; $10-$20 Billion

Gavin Newsom, California Face Another Budget Shortfall; $10-$20 Billion: 

California Governor Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are bracing for a $10 billion budget shortfall — even before federal spending cuts undertaken by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Newsom and the Democrats took a near-$100 billion surplus in 2022– partly fueled by federal coronavirus funds under the Biden administration — to a near-$50 billion deficit in 2024.

India Loses Its Top Fighter Jet, Implications for Future Air Combat

3 Advanced Rafale Fighters Downed - Stephen Bryen 

Three Rafale jets were shot down plus at least one Sukhoi and one MIG plus a large Israel reconnaissance drone were destroyed by Pakistan's Air Force...

Pakistan was operating over Pakistani air space when its J-10 jet (Chinese but co-produced in Pakistan) launched Chinese PL-15 air to air missiles. 

• The PL-15 is China's answer to the US AIM-120D AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) which is an all weather, beyond visual range (BVR) missile. It has a range of 200 to 300 km (124 to 186 miles). 
• By way of contrast, the French MICA air to air missile has a significantly shorter range, around 60 to 80 km (37 to 50 miles). 

Thus the Chinese PL-15 as a stand off weapon has a significant advantage. It seems that paid off in the recent encounter...
Russia also has a BVR air to air missile, the R-77 which is being upgraded...

What happened to India in the latest firefight is bad news for NATO, which appears to be falling behind technologically and it is a warning to the United States to speed up development of an AMRAAM replacement...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 12

History for May 12 - On-This-Day.com 

Yogi Berra 1925 - Baseball player, manager

• 1885 - In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.
• 1926 - The airship Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
• 1949 - The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade.
• 1975 - U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces in international waters.
• 1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.

Soros-Linked Groups Sue to Stop Trump's Migrant Child Trafficking Crackdown

Soros-Linked Groups Sue to Stop Trump's Migrant Child Trafficking Crackdown: 

Democracy Forward, which is behind a separate lawsuit trying to stop Trump from deporting illegal alien gang members, lists left-wing organizations like the Center for American Progress, National Immigration Law Center, Color of Change, UnidosUS, Common Justice, and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, among many others, as clients and partners.

The Alex Soros-chaired Open Society Foundations has funded several of Democracy Forward’s clients and partners. For example, in 2023, the Open Society Foundations awarded Color of Change a $3 million grant after giving the group nearly $1.5 million in funding in 2018 and 2019.

Similarly, and perhaps most significantly, the Open Society Foundations remains one of the largest donors to the Center for American Progress — a group that is considered the unofficial policy wing of the Democrat Party.

In 2023 alone, the Open Society Foundations gave the Center for American Progress nearly $4 million in grant funding.

The way we were-----🔴 VE Day 80th: World War II In Color Uncensored

Definitive vaccine myocarditis paper

Here we go again: Left-wing outlets fear toilet paper shortage due to Trump tariffs

The media is dialing up the doomsaying over the impact of President Donald J. Trump’s foreign tariffs and is going back to the well of perhaps the most successful fearmongering campaign of all time. - Chris Donaldson
According to one left-leaning mainstream outlet, the tariffs could lead to a repeat of the great national toilet paper shortage of 2020, when mass hysteria stoked by the media sparked a panic that drove Americans to hoard bathroom tissue, leaving stores with barren shelves and forcing retailers to impose rationing measures...

Contradictions - by Michael Smith - Unlicensed Punditry

Progressivism and its contradictions have found a home in the Democrat Party. That's why the Democrats can't find a way out. - Michael Smith

In 2019, I joined with a group of parents in Park City to oppose the implementation of an "anti-bullying" program at a local elementary school – even though all three of my kids had long graduated from the school system and matriculated to university. 

• On the surface, the program seemed well-intentioned, but it was part of a broader initiative by the Human Rights Campaign to inject LGBTQ ideology into elementary schools under the guise of combating bullying. 

The curriculum raised concerns among parents - conservative and progressive alike - who saw it as less about protecting kids and more about promoting a specific social agenda to young, impressionable students who were essentially captives of the classroom.
The resistance we mounted wasn’t without backlash...

Trump Announces First 'Full and Comprehensive' Trade Deal of the Tariff Era

Trump Announces First 'Full and Comprehensive' Trade Deal of the Tariff Era: 

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the first deal reached since Trump announced tariffs on America’s trading partners.

“The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement. Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!” Trump wrote.

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Smuggler Caught With 5-Year-Old Mexican Child at Southern Border - Border Hawk

During questioning, the child told officers he was “being taken to live with a man he didn’t know.”

A child smuggling attempt was thwarted by federal authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the bust, which unfolded on April 29 in Yuma, Arizona.
ICE agents, along with Customs and Border Protection, intercepted a woman who was traveling with an unrelated 5-year-old boy...

“Even more vile, in this case the child’s own mother handed him over to strangers—mules—who attempted to smuggle him into the U.S. using fake identity documents. The woman posing as his guardian also admitted she was going to leave him with a man she didn’t know.”...

Lunch video-----"This Is The Minority Creating The Chaos" - Jordan Peterson

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'Book your free flight now!' Trump tells illegals how to self-deport * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

'Book your free flight now!' Trump tells illegals how to self-deport * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff: 

The White House Friday posted a video of President Trump explaining to illegal aliens how they can easily self-deport by booking a free flight to anywhere outside the U.S. And he also warns them what will happen if they do not get out of America and are caught. "We making it as easy as possible," Trump explains, noting he signed an executive order laying out the details.

Why??!!

 

Trump’s Necessary Foreign and Domestic Revolution - Clarice Feldman

It’s a fool’s game to try to predict President Trump’s audacious new moves.  - Clarice Feldman

Tommy Vietor was the latest to learn this. 

• He posted that it was “really scary” that hostilities between India and Pakistan were escalating and that Trump was “completely asleep at the wheel.” 
• Twelve hours later Trump announced he’d mediated a peace deal between the two countries.

In Lebanon he has acted to substantially cut off Hezb’allah’s supply and revenue sources, making it more likely that country’s civilian government will be able to reassert control and enhance the peace of the area.

BEIRUT—Lebanon’s only commercial airport sits in the heart of a densely populated area of southern Beirut largely controlled by Hezbollah. The militant group has for years used it as a smuggling channel and a lever to assert its dominance in the country. 

Now the country’s new government, with U.S. support, is trying to take it back...

Woke NYC schools are failing teachers and pupils because they have no discipline — this is why the UFT’s Michael Mulgrew must be stopped By Mike Dowd

However, under his watch schools are requiring less and less of pupils, to the point where attendance is essentially optional and almost everyone is handed a passing grade.

Voting is underway to elect the President of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City. Michael Mulgrew, who has held the position since 2009, is expecting he can sleepwalk into another term.
Brooklyn-based Social Studies teacher Mike Dowd writes why it’s time for a change and for basic discipline to be brought back.

• Officials love to brag about the 84% graduation rate for New York City public-school students.
• But if you thought that was an honest measure of how many kids are passing, I have bad news. High-school grading policies have become so corrupt, class credits have become almost meaningless...

#1 This day 1949-----(Ghost Riders In The Sky) Vaughn Monroe

Fascinating!-----How Gates, Soros, and Ford Use "Equity" to Hijack Federal Grants

The moral halo of philanthropy is one of the most impenetrable armors in American public life. -@amuse

Wrapped in the rhetoric of generosity and reform, large foundations like the Gates Foundation, Soros' Open Society, and the Ford Foundation operate under the assumption that doing good excuses their methods. 

But methods matter. 

Especially when those methods amount to a private-to-public laundering operation, designed to seed ideologically rigid organizations with just enough early capital to unlock the federal coffers. 

What follows is not generosity, but influence peddling, and not in the margins, but at scale.
Let us begin with a familiar model: private equity. 

When George Soros breaks a currency or Bill Gates acquires a company, they begin not with domination, but with leverage. A modest injection of capital, paired with structure, timing, and most importantly debt, can produce wildly asymmetrical returns. That same logic is now applied not to companies or commodities, but to ideology. The left-wing philanthropic giants fund non-governmental organizations (NGOs) whose only product is political conformity. They seed them with grants, polish their proposals, and send them, briefcase in hand, to Washington. The return on investment is swift and staggering...

The scale is almost unfathomable. 

Private foundations make more than $100 billion in grants available to NGOs each year. Those NGOs, freshly seeded and polished, in turn raise nearly $900 billion from the federal government in additional grants. The leverage is nine to one. For every dollar a foundation donates, the federal government grants nine...

Every week. Every day! We learn something new!

 

Trump's NIH launches health study for East Palestine train derailment victims forgotten by Biden | Blaze Media

Trump's NIH launches health study for East Palestine train derailment victims forgotten by Biden | Blaze Media: 

"Shockingly, the NIH had not asked that question," he continued. "But what I'm looking forward to is that we're going to address the health questions and the health needs of the American people with excellent, gold-standard research." In February, Vance visited East Palestine on the second anniversary of the disaster. "President Trump and I have never forgotten the people of East Palestine, and we will never stop fighting for the cleanup effort in this community to be completed," Vance wrote in a post on X. "We are with you for the long haul." He guaranteed the community that the environmental cleanup would be completed, calling it "a tragedy and a shame" that the Biden administration failed to finish the effort. Former President Joe Biden took a year to visit the town after the disaster.

Great!!-----Making your dishwasher and washing machine great again!

The case for eliminating Energy Star - Jeff Luse

• The program is beyond the proper scope of the federal government.

On Friday, President Donald Trump released his budget proposal, which included targeted cuts to federal clean energy programs and ending funding to what the president calls "the Green New Scam." 

The Trump administration is now shifting its focus to energy efficiency programs. 

CNN reported Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to shutter the Energy Star program.

• First launched under President George H.W. Bush in 1992, Energy Star sets voluntary energy efficiency standards for appliances and buildings...

AM Fruitcake

History for May 11

History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com 

Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam

• 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
• 1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
• 1997 - In New York, Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
• 2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.