Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue –
1. Drones
2. Musk
3. Pardons
4. Hegseth
5. KBJ
6. Garland
7. Nukes
1. Drones. One of the more interesting stories out of the last week were drone swarms operating mainly in the Mid-Atlantic states. There was also drone activity on the left coast. The orchestrated nature of the story and the carefully worded denials about knowledge of what was going on and why indicate to me that the feds know what is going on, who is doing it, and aren’t prepared (or willing) to tell the general public. With that as our opening bid….
2. Musk. Quite the week for Elon Musk. Not only was he specifically targeted by the Harris – Biden Censorship Industrial Complex, but he participated in killing this year’s porkulus out of congress and by week’s end was targeted by democrats and their flying monkeys in the media in an op to separate him from Trump. The old saying that when you are taking a large volume of incoming flak, you are over the target.
- Harris – Biden spent $300 million sending 11 federal agencies after Musk to look into him and his companies. Lead media entity was Reuters who got a Pulitzer Prize for their participation. This story has been scrupulously ignored by the democrat-friendly media.
- His best work this week was his part in publicizing the content of the 1,500+ piece of garbage congressional leadership tried to pass on their way out of town for Christmas. With the assistance of Vivek Ramaswamy who actually read it, Grok AI assisted summaries, and the ongoing discussion on Twitter / X, the attempt was killed in its tracks, replaced by a continuing resolution (CR) one tenth the size for the next couple months that would keep the government open. The original CR was the standard last minute pork fest coupled with an array of poison pills aimed at protecting congressional democrats, RINOs and other Bad Actors from the incoming Trump Justice Department and FBI.
3. Pardons. Now that Dementia Joe is well on his way to issuing over 10,000 pardons on the way out the door (pretty good work for someone doing well to remember how to sign his name) one would wonder how to follow the money, specifically who paid what to who for a signature on a pardon or commutation. I mentioned this a couple weeks ago in context with Hunter’s pardon and that of his business associates (cronies). My guess would be that it is a non-zero number. There is increasing concern that Biden will sign blanket pardons for everyone in his regime, shielding them from future prosecution. These are being called preemptive pardons, a subject that will end up in front of SCOTUS. The precedent for a preemptive pardon is the one that Gerald Ford signed for President Nixon. Don’t particularly agree with that worldview, but don’t know enough about the legalities to talk intelligently about the issue. Suffice it to say that once again, Biden manages to trash and otherwise destroy something in this country that has been working for a very long time. And that destruction will be reversed one way or another.
4. Hegseth. West Point and Pro Publica came after SECDEF nominee Pete Hegseth last week. Pro Publica was about to publish a story claiming Hegseth was never selected to attend West Point. They had the story written, called Hegseth’s team and gave them a whole hour to comment. Hegseth produced a letter from the Superintendent of West Point saying he had been accepted to attend and released it to the public. Pro Publica, a leftist muckraking operation (as long as the muck to rake is on the right), got the response, dropped the story, smugly claiming that this is how journalism works. Not so fast. As it turns out, their source from the story was someone at West Point, as yet unidentified, who made the claim. Given the leftists who infest all the military academies, just like academia elsewhere, it wouldn’t surprise me if West Point made the initial call, dropping the conveniently timed story so as to do the most possible damage in his nomination fight. My guess is that the other service academies have similar problems lurking just below the surface. Hegseth is going to have his hands full cleaning out this particular corner of the swamp.
5. KBJ. The first day or two after I came across this story, I was sure it was a deep fake of some sort. That lasted until I saw the video of SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (KJB) prancing across a Broadway stage in a green and white dress while her fellow cast members smiled and clapped. Reportage was typically breathless and supportive, though there were some ugly comments on her lack of acting skills. Apparently the one time only performance fulfilled a lifelong dream of the SCOTUS Justice. Like book contracts, this is precisely the sort of thing the political left does to their mascots, those who further the greater cause. The kindest thing I can say about this is that if this is truly the lifelong dream of KJB, go for it. Today. If not today, sooner would be better than later. Of course, should she resign to pursue a career as a performer, I will wish her the very most happiness and success in the rest of her life, practicing a profession she will no longer be able to reach out and touch mine with idiotic judicial opinions.
6. Garland. It’s always interesting when election results don’t turn out as expected for the outgoing regime. One example would be Merrick Garland’s (In)Justice Department (Do(In)J) which withdrew support for a privately funded lawsuit aimed at recouping significant losses for the taxpayer on a failed solar thermal plant in Nevada. In this type of lawsuit, a private entity sues the entity to recoup taxpayer dollars alleging fraud, misuse, or theft. The project dates back to the O’Bama years. Do(In)J backed the lawsuit, withdrawing their support for it as the exit polls showed a Trump victory. Cresent Dunes was a 1,600 acre solar thermal plant which would use nearly 10,000 mirrors to concentrate sunlight on a tower, boiling salt to run a generator. This was a Harry Reid operation, apparently as it maximized the flow of green dollars into the Reid (and democrat) political machine in Nevada. Depending on whose bogus numbers you believe, somewhere between $200 – 700 million simply disappeared. This one was actually built and operated for a bit before going into bankruptcy in 2020. Like a similar plant in the California desert, this one was famous for incinerating birds flying through the concentrated sunlight. Do(In)J slow-rolled the lawsuit for years before giving the OK to proceed, approval that was reversed on election night. What is Garland hiding? We may be about to find out.
7. Nukes. One of the things we will see out of the incoming Trump administration is a complete and vigorous embrace of new nuclear reactors. These are variously referred to as Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Generation IV nukes. We’ve only built a couple here in the US as the NRC slow-rolled the licensing regime. The rest of the world, particularly China and India, are fast tracking the machines. We are about to. Polling on nuclear energy has shifted remarkably here in the US over the course of the last decade or so. The anti-nuke consensus created by the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and cemented by Jane Fonda’s The China Syndrome was locked into place by the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The Fukushima accident caused by Great East Japan (Tokohu) earthquake in 2011 didn’t help. Either did the incredibly toxic and destructive response to that accident by the NRC led by former Harry Reid (there’s that name again) aide Greg Jaczko. Jaczko hyped the radiation release, demanding widespread evacuations. It turned out that the evacuations were far more deadly than the radiation release based on human lives lost. These were mainly elderly residents due to the evacuation and disruption of their daily schedules. Yet just 13 years later, reactors, especially new design reactors (Gen IV) that use nuclear waste as fuel are once again popular. The problem with this is that popularity has a gender gap, with men favoring and women opposing reactors. This gender gap stretches back to the 1970s. Current numbers have men supporting nuclear energy with a support of over 50%. Women today are split and have a couple percent net opposition to a move to reactors to produce energy. The issue seems to be concerns over safety. Why are women more concerned with safety other than being women? My guess is that this is entirely based on where and how they get their news, which operates as anti-civilization brainwashing operation these days.
More later –
- AG