TBT…

Hard to believe this was 51 years ago… sigh…

Digging WAY back in the vault…

Of memories, and the few operating brain cells that remember…

Setting the way back machine to 1974-5 thanks to a conversation last night with an old shipmate, he sent me a picture of the bar map from Olongopo, RP from 1973 (note- These were probably good for two or three days… Then somebody would change their bar’s name, and the Shore Patrol would have to go re-do it). Sorry it’s basically unreadable, and can’t be blown up any further!

There were over 100 bars and ‘restaurants’ in about 4-5 blocks of Magsaysay… interestingly, ‘our’ bars were on the first street to the right, Gordon Avenue, and NONE of them are listed…LOL

The picture below is from the cruise book from 1975, kinda says it all… The Mayaguez rescue, Jenny the donkey in Diego Garcia, and a monkey in the BOQ at Cubi eating popcorn it had stolen from a room…

VP4 pic

The donkey loved beer, and would actually drink it from the can (until she got too drunk, then she’d go lean against the Butler hut that was our ‘hangar’)…

A ‘normal’ road trip was 6 weeks, 7 countries and about 11-12,000 miles of just transits, not counting the operational flying…

Fun stuff, and good memories (the bad ones have been long forgotten)! An interesting side note, we never called ourselves ‘combat’ air crews, just alpha crews (You had to complete multiple qualifications to meet all the requirements to actually be certified to perform all the P-3’s missions), unlike the specialized crews today…

We could have a surveillance flight one day and an ASW flight two days later, or a mining evolution…

Another teacher…

Exploiting teens…

A 22-year-old high school special education teacher is facing decades behind bars after authorities say she engaged in sexual relationships with students and provided them with alcohol at her apartment.

Nadia Horn, who co-taught World Studies at Eau Claire North High School, made her initial appearance in Eau Claire County Court on Monday on felony child sexual assault charges.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by WEAU-TV, the investigation began on March 25 when the Eau Claire Area School District flagged a “potential inappropriate relationship” to a School Resource Officer. The subsequent probe revealed a pattern of grooming and exploitation involving multiple 16-year-old victims.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

But as usual, we don’t see the outrage when it is a male teacher and underage females…

Why???

How is this any different than when a male does it? When a male is involved, the immediate call is rape! Is this not also rape?

And this is not a ‘one off’, as there have been at least 10 similar cases I can think of off the top of my head.

And those boys will be dealing with that the rest of their lives.

Grrrr…

No kings???

I found it interesting that London ‘supposedly’ had 11,000 protesters for a No Kings rally against a country without a king, while IN a country WITH A KING!!!

And this one is bouncing around from various folks, a great recap, and much better one than I can do from Yogi on X, HERE. It’s long, but worth it…

No Kings explained for people who think they’re fighting fascism. You’re standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You’re holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits.

A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left’s definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who’s voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That’s the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king. Okay buddy. You don’t hate kings. You hate kings that aren’t yours.

And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you’re a citizen before you vote? That’s oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That’s how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove “humor and satire.” They literally went after people for making fun of them.

UK does it better tho… Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn’t stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children’s identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao’s Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn’t hold your dying mother’s hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable. Liberals who went to Trump rallies: “I never felt unsafe.” “The experience changed me.” Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated. One side talks. The other side screams.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday. Their stated purpose in their own words: “Revolution.” Not reform. Marxism. The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud. 500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.

The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing. “Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind.” Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.

Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over. Today his own party would call him a fascist. The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth. The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote. The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.

Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here’s who checks the boxes in 2026: Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.

Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.

Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.

State ideology forced on families. Democrats.

Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.

Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.

Cult of personality. Both sides.

Ultranationalism. Republicans.

Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.

You marched against kings on Saturday. You marched FOR kings.

You just didn’t know which was which. Stop being gaslit. I hope you understand what’s at stake.

About the only thing Yogi didn’t mention was the Soros connection, but that is well known.  Well done, sir! WELL DONE!!!

A little humor…

To start the week…

*TWO IRISH WOMEN IN A BAR*

*Two women were sitting next to each other at a bar. After a while, one looks at the other and says: ‘I can’t help but think, from listening to you, that you’re from Ireland.’*

*The other woman responds proudly: ‘Yes, I sure am!’*

*The first one says: ‘So am I! And where about in Ireland are ya from?’*

*The other woman answers: ‘I’m from Dublin , I am.’*

*The first one responds: ‘So, am I!! And what street did you live on in Dublin ?’*

*The other woman says: ‘A lovely little area. It was in the west end. I lived on Warbury Street in the old central part of town.’*

*The first one says: ‘Faith, and it’s a small world. So did I! So did I! And what school did ya go to?’*

*The other woman answers: ‘Well now, I went to Holy Heart of Mary, of course..’*

*The first one gets really excited and says: ‘And so did I! Tell me, what year did you graduate?’*

*The other woman answers: ‘Well, now, let’s see. I graduated in 1964.’*

*The first woman exclaims: ‘The Good Lord must be smiling down upon us! I can hardly believe our good luck at winding up in the same pub tonight! Can you believe it? I graduated from Holy Heart of Mary in 1964 meself!’*

About this time, Michael walks into the bar, sits down, and orders a beer. Brian, the bartender, walks over to Michael shaking his head and mutters: ‘It’s going to be a long night tonight.’

*Michael asks: ‘Why do you say that, Brian?’*

*Brian answers: ‘The Murphy twins are drunk again.’*

Oopsie…

Seems like some ‘things’ got buried…for a while…

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday to rename César Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon’s legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31.

The state Senate approved the legislation earlier in the day with bipartisan support.

The change comes after allegations became public last week that Chavez had sexually abused girls and women during his days building a major farmworker labor rights movement in the 1960s in California’s agricultural heartland.

Full article, HERE from Yahoo.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

How much more stuff is out there about the ‘leaders’ that has been covered up over the years? Personally, I have no idea, nor do I really care… And no, it’s not ‘just’ the men, IMHO.

But I do have to laugh at California’s ‘quick’ response, almost like they ‘knew’ something was up, and are scratching like hell to cover up the issues and hoping something else will knock this off the front page.

And another oopsie…

For a group that loves to lecture as if they are the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, Democratic state leaders refuse to learn from their failed policies. When it comes to operating state budgets and functioning as a responsible entity, these soft-brained blowhards sure do resist the temptation of common sense. Just look at recent results.

After insulting the citizens and telling opponents to go down to Florida, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently changed her tune and attempted a tone-deaf siren song to lure back those who fled. As soon as Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger was sworn in, she pitched her campaign pledges into the firepit and hiked taxes statewide. Then,Boeing took flight out of Virginia.

Following the same “Soak the Rich” playbook, Bay State leaders in 2022 pushed new tax legislation that depends on the wealthy doling out more dollars to the public coffers. The state would issue a new four percent surtax on those with $1 million in assets. What is forever the miscalculation by these politicians is that they feel the rich will just need to suck it up and pay out. 

Full article, HERE from Townhall.

It is enough to make one wonder if the powers that be even realize they are shooting themselves in both feet, or they just don’t care! Why would you not take a hard look at your budget and look at realistically cutting funding back to be within the amount of money coming in???

Nah, that would mean they wouldn’t be able to ‘fund’ all those illegals they’re being a sanctuary for, right?

Sigh… Just glad I live in Texas now. And I don’t have to travel weekly anymore! Friend took the redeye back from San Diego to DC last week, FOUR hours in line at San Diego for a @#$%#! redeye!!! Needless to say, he was NOT happy.

Sigh…

The ocean IS unforgiving…

The Mexican Navy announced on Thursday that it has begun a search-and-rescue mission in the Caribbean Sea for two sailboats carrying “humanitarian aid” to Cuba.     

Reuters describes the vessels as “sailboats” and says they left Isla Mujeres, in the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, last week. They did not arrive in Havana as scheduled on Tuesday or Wednesday. The journey is about 300 to 350 miles, depending on the route. Combined, the two boats had nine people on board, including eight adults and a four-year-old child.  

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Why oh why does this sound like Thunberg ver whatever???

And how much aid were they really carrying? I’m pretty sure it was probably less than 500 lbs combined, considering the pictures appear to be of two catamarans.

Oh yeah, and let’s not even talk about the pirates who just ‘love’ those types of idjits in those waters…

Where did they leave from on Isla Mujeres and where were they going to go??? Anybody??? Bueller???

I hope they are found in one piece… sigh…

h/t Stretch

Ummm…errrr…

Snerk…

The University of Southern California cancelled a planned California primary gubernatorial debate because all of the candidates invited were white, multiple media outlets reported.

USC and KABC-TV invited Republicans Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton as well as Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer to the debate based on a formula that combined poll standings and campaign funds, the New York Times reported. The decision drew complaints from excluded Democratic candidates, including former Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former California State Controller Betty Yee, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Full article, HERE from Daily Caller. And the NBC report, HERE.

This…sigh… I literally have no words, but then it IS California…

They passed this ‘thing’ called the Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, which means only the top two vote-getters in the primary election – regardless of party preference – move on to the general election.

This was done to ensure that Dems got the two top slots, based on their base voting for them. However, this time the top two are BOTH Republicans, Steve Hilton (former Brit, and director of strategy for prime minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2012, he became a US citizen in 2021) and Chad Bianco (sheriff of Riverside County). So it is very possible that the November election ‘may’ be for which Republican will be the next governor!

Not that I’d want anything to do with that CF…

But I do think it is ‘funny’ that California is so wrapped up in the whole DEI BS that ‘whiteness’ was a reason to cancel a debate…

TBT…

Yes, I’m old… sigh…

And I really DO need to clean out some cabinets…

You youngsters may not recognize this…

That is a real floppy disk…

And the up close version you can see it’s a start up disk for DOS ver 3.30 from 1987…

And I actually do have the book somewhere around here too…

And DOS commands STILL work on Windoze, regardless of what MS says…

Don’t believe me???

Here’s the command prompt where I typed defrag (a DOS 3.3 command) into Windoze ver 7 and guess what…

defrag cmd line

YMMV, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night (Yea!), IANALL, nor I do I play one on TV…

And yes, I no longer run ANY MS IOS on anything, I’ve gone to the dark side…LOL

About time!!!

Looks like the ‘chickens’ are finally coming home to roost for some of those protesters!

Good news, everyone: Justice is back on the menu in the USA! 

Yet another of the countless dividends of Making America Great Again is the potential restoration of faith in the justice system. This can only be possible when bad guys go to jail. And while absolute monsters are turned back out on the street in blue states until they finally commit a heinous enough murder to make national news, this is no longer happening on the federal level.

In real life, it turns out that you can’t stalk officials, dox their innocent families, or try to run them over with your car without getting into hot water.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

The sad part is the price the families pay for their husband/wife’s jobs. It’s bad enough when the agent’s life is put in danger daily, but when the kids are impacted, or the family has to move for their safety, that is, to me, well beyond acceptable.

Yet if those same doxxers get doxed? Oh the screams about invasion of privacy, yada, yada…

Tough. FAFO is a real thing in the reality ‘we’ live in, not the utopia the left thinks they live in.

And common sense is also coming back, along with justice. Now we just need that to propagate to Chiraq, NYC, Boston, and most of Virginia…

The young lady, Sheridan Gorman was murdered in Chicago by a illegal immigrant, NOT as the Chiraq alderwoman said that she ‘scared’ him into an ‘accidental’ shooting… Gah… HERE

And Pritzker and Johnson can’t even say they’re sorry, because they don’t care. Funny how the ‘problems’ with ICE only appear in blue states and primarily blue cities.

Interestingly, the whole ICE thing in Minnesota has completely knocked the Somali fraud out of the news cycle, surprising no one on the right… sigh

Yes, the dems managed to get rid of Noem as DHS, but now they’ve got Mullin, who is going to be even less of a pushover, and will not put up with any lip from the left, as we’ve already seen.

I think things are going to get ‘interesting’ in the next few months, as our focus shifts back to the USA and off the Iran mess… Other than rechecking a LOT of so called asylum applications from the Middle East.

This one…

Has been ‘interesting’, to put it mildly…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating whether two development companies behind a master-planned North Texas community formerly known as East Plano Islamic Center City discriminated against people’s religion or national origin.

The investigation comes after several state officials accused entities behind the development that marketed to Muslims and is now called The Meadow of religious discrimination. It also comes after the U.S. Justice Department quietly closed its own probe into the housing project, saying the developers agreed to follow federal fair housing laws.

Full article, HERE from the Texas Tribune and HERE from the Daily Caller.

It appears there is a ‘lot’ more to this than is covered in the news. It appears a company out of the Middle East was actually the true backer, and there were a number of stories told to the Collins County leadership in ‘private’ meetings that were…shall we say, less than truthful.

It also appears there was a two tier ‘system’ of buying in, with preferences given to muslims and apparently ‘members’ of the East Plano Islamic Center.

This mess is what led to Gov. Abbott signing a law in Texas that Sharia compounds and  laws is not allowed in Texas, HERE. Of course ‘that’ has upset the LWL and usual suspects…

I ‘think’ this was one more attempt to ‘get the nose under the tent’, so to speak. I, for one, am glad to see it fail. Assimilation is supposed to be the goal when people come here…

Supposedly…