Had to double check this one

If it's too good to be true it generally is.

I heard that some liberal court threw out 84 of Biden's last minute pardons. Fake news, dammit!

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I have heard but am unable to confirm 100% that the crew on the Delta flight that flipped up in Canada had an all female aircrew.

I'm also aware that Delta is still running a DEI business.

I am certainly not going to even hazard to venture a guess over the competency of the crew. I have no idea but you can bet that if it is an all woman aircrew that Delta's DEI policy is going to have a lot of people question it. As of a few seconds ago a quick Google search says Delta is holding to their DEI policy. Same for United.

As of now Delta and United are on my no fly list because of the policy. When they decide to return to a meritocracy I'll start flying on them. 

There is no excuse for not running something like an airline on anything BUT a meritocracy. I don't want to get killed over some stupid social experiment. 

Needless to say, the airline officials say they hire on merit which is likely bull$hit because you can't have both.

Until recently I have not looked twice at a minority or female pilot or co-pilot because I simply figured that they had passed the same qualifications as everyone else. It's sad because now I tend to question things which I never used to.

What's interesting is the conversation I had with a female pilot. I asked her where she learned to fly. Was she military?

She gave me a proud smile and replied, "I learned the hard way."

She'd given lessons and flew the bush. I glanced at her hands and saw it was true. I was damned glad to have that skinny woman haul me across this great nation of ours. 

Nowadays?

I question things a lot more because of DEI. 

However I will not comment either way over the competency of the all female aircrew on that Delta flight. I WILL quietly wonder if DEI had anything to do with it.

 

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Kash is in.

Which means Adam Schiff is $hitting little green apples. 

And that is a good thing.

Of all of the arrogant faces I have seen in my life I have never seen one so deserving of having a pie thrown in his face. Where is Moe Howard now that wee need him.

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On a more serious note here, while I am all for the deportment of illegal immigrants, I have never forgotten that they are human beings.

I know why they came here and what they were looking for. For the most part, they are nothing more than people that came here to try and better themselves. My argument is they did it the wrong way.

Had they entered legally I would support them.

They didn't and therefore entered without a proper vetting and health check. They broke the rules and they should be deported.

I read on another website where a couple of bullies tormented an 11 year old illegal immigrant girl and as a result she committed suicide. 

Had they quietly called ICE I would have no problem but they took it upon themselves to torment her.

People have no business mistreating illegals. They should be reported but there is no excuse whatsoever to mistreat them.

We have enough cruelty in the world. 

 

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Whoops!

Missed a day.

Distracted by a doctor's appointment.

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The DOGE story.

The prep work was amazing and the speed of the auditing totally unbelievable and increasing an an astonishing rate. 

https://x.com/envisionalt7/status/1891316861133807774   

https://x.com/envisionalt7/status/1891316861133807774

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A mental health day off line.

Was relaxing once in a while.

It's OK to not knowing what's going on once in a while.

After all, half the country doesn't. 

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A deal for Bernie Sanders.

One day back in Massachusetts I was walking along Humarock beach after a pretty good storm and absently kicked a pile of seaweed. Something was in it so I reached down and dug whatever it was out of the pile. It was a lamp. I looked it over carefully and saw it was inscribed with 'Santa Maria  MCDXCII'. Wow! It was made in 1492!

Anyway, I shook the lamp and discovered there was still oil in it! I spied a dog walker and I knew the lamp was valuable. I stuffed it under my coat. After a short time the inside of my coat got rather warm so I looked inside it. The lamp was still lit!

Now, when RFKjr was getting grilled by Bernie and he was accusing Kennedy of possibly wanting to take money from Big Pharma, Kennedy threw it right back at him and pointed out to Bernie that he had accepted a pretty good amount of money from them himself.

Bernie went through the roof babbling that no CEOs had ever given him money. (Well, no $hit. The CEO tells the CFO (financial officer) to hand out the money. It's not like the CEO of a major corporation met Bernie in an alley somewhere and handed him a briefcase full of cash.

Bernie's excuse was 'The workers gave it to me'. That's kind of unlikely as I have a hard time believing that all the workers at a pharmaceutical plant passed the hat and came up with a million bucks. If anything, Bernie shook down one of the unions and claimed the money came from the workers.

Unions can't use dues for political purposes, however many of them have PACs and they sometimes try shake down their membership for donations. It happened to me a few times but I squirmed out by explaining I had no cash on me, just a credit card. This was before cell phone credit card readers.

After the third or fourth time the business agent asked me why I never had cash with me. With a nonchalant air I explained that my wife cleaned out my wallet the night before I left for work to keep me from buying whores with it. He blushed and my longtime shipmate quickly said to him I was married to a mean, mean woman and excused himself to go below where he laughed himself silly.

A nearby deckhand looked at me wide-eyed and agape and I knew that story would go through the fleet like wildfire.

Back to Bernie. My best guess is that he he says 'the workers gave him the money' that they were shaken down for it by the union. so here's what I'll offer Bernie. 

If he admits he got money from what was most likely a union shakedown of the rank and file, I'll blow out my lamp.

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One of my pipe dreams was to go back to being a sailboat liveaboard.

Which means the inter-coastal waterway and figuring out a route between, say New England and Florida. I'd have to find dock space in Florida between Thanksgiving and early June. I start the northward  sail, say Memorial Day and gunkhole my way north.

Hurricane season begins around Memorial Day and ends about Thanksgiving. That's almost perfect because summer in Florida sucks.

Both my sisters live on the Gulf of (now currently America) coast which means I'd probably want to sail around the bottom of Florida to be near them. 

It would not have been a bad retirement gig but at this late date it's probably not a good idea as my health precludes it.

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Someone keeps pointing out that we need people to pick the various crops and do agricultural work to keep the price of produce down.

That's true enough. 

However I want those people out of here because they are here illegally.

I think that the first 10 million that self-deport should be automatically given a shot at getting a work visa assuming they check out and have clean records and are free of disease. 

If we have to throw you out then you don't get to return.

If we throw you out and you do return then you get thrown into a tent city in Arizona desert jail for a year or two while you await re-deportation. 

Strike three and you get thrown back over the wall with a trebuchet. 

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Take Grandma out of the freezer NOW!

Thaw her out. 

If she's got too much freezer burn you probably ought to have her cremated. If not I suppose you can bury her but make sure you cover the grave up with endangered flowers so it's illegal to dig her up.

Quickly report her to Social Security as just having died. Empty her bank account after Social Security evens up with things. They'll only recover what was paid to her after you reported her demise.

If you work fast you probably won't get caught up in the upcoming Social Security audit.

You should be OK.

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I wish President Trump would rename the San Andreas Fault

and change it to Newsom's Fault.

That is all.

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More screeching about the rich.

I hear people screech that someone's net worth has increased by a few million and that the few million should be taxed.

That few million is unrealized capital gains.

Most homeowners that have lived in their home have noticed that their home value has increased over time. The difference between what one paid for the place and what it's worth now is also an unrealized capital gain. 

Like the millionaire's stock, the working stiffs house has created a capital gain. 

The people that want unrealized capital gains taxed probably never thought of that one.

Over 30 years the value of my home has tripled. For this area that sounds about right.

The figure of 25% of a capital gains tax has been tossed around and that means if you bought your house and paid $100K for it and it's now appraised at $200K then you owe about $25,000.

As in sit down and write a check. 

Fair is fair and if the millionaire just had an unrealized capital gain of $4 million he should cough up a million bucks. 

If he has to, you have to and you better be able to sit down at the kitchen table and write a check for $25,000.

For those that say he isn't paying his fair share, he is. He's paying the same 25% you are. He's also writing one hell of a bigger check than you are.

While an oversimplification, you get the drift. 

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I just read where DOGE has found out that Medicare has been plundered for $2.7 TRILLION

which is about 7.5% of the national debt! 

(of which my share is about $102,000)

GET SOME, DOGE!

Musk's people have also discovered Social Security is paying people over 150 years old.

Medicare/aid isn't going broke. It's being outright ROBBED.

I have advocated an audit like this for DECADES! 

https://x.com/realdogeusa/status/1890164353053462911

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