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Tomorrow we head to VA for 2 weeks to go play with the Navy at the air terminal. While there, I hope to tour the Battleship Wisconsin and see the Mariners' Museum which has some artifacts from the USS Monitor.
NewTexas, Talitha macer, and Queen falcona stark
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Issues Test Bed and Talitha macer
Hi all, nice to meet my fellow Texans!
NewTexas, Issues Test Bed, Talitha macer, and Ukraiwan
FBI training material recently escaped into the wild. That training material says that people displaying the Gadsden Flag (Don't tread on me), The Original US Flag (Betsy Ross flag), the Gonzales Flag (Come and take it), and other symbols from US History may be a terrorist.[1]
This training material made it to capitol hill where Sen. Ted Cruz (Hero-TX) grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on the matter.[2] At one point, Cruz asked Director Wray, "What are you doing?"
My thoughts ran parallel with Greg Gutfeld who wondered why there were no images from Antifa or BLM in that collection of images.
J. Edgar would be spinning in his grave if he was alive to see what his FBI is doing today.
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[1] https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/08/leaked-fbi-doc-labels-extremist-betsy-ross-flag-2nd-amendment-gadsden-flag-and-more-report/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFPI4lLHqY
NewTexas, United Kodiaks, and Talitha macer
Where’s Joseph McCarthy when you need him
Yee haw partner!
Not sure if it's just Norfolk, but the meal times are kind of odd. Supper ends at 5:30 pm. I'm usually just starting to think about a meal at that time. Guess I have to adjust my schedule during these two weeks.
About the poll: During my time on the ambulances I've delivered 27 and a half children. Those locations have been:
- In someone's home.
- On the floor of a high brow, high dollar conference room.
- In a gas station restroom. (Ewww...)
- In the back of a taxi.
- In he back of a van the couple was living in.
- In a 737 on the tarmac at Stapleton Airport.
- In jail.
None of those slippery little tykes came into this world in the back of the booboo bus. The reason for that is if mom is that far along (noticeably bulging or crowning), we are not going to pick her up and move her. That is for mom's safety and baby's safety. Most importantly it is for our safety too. Causing a woman that kind of pain while she is operating on weaponized hormones is a good way for the first responder to lose a limb, an eye, consciousness, their life, etc...
NewTexas and Talitha macer
what I'm concerned about in your statement ITB is the half part did someone just take a hacksaw and fall back to US Civil War Battlefield Doctor.
Hahahaha... Not exactly.
That was a Frank Breech that went very badly. We took extraordinary action to get the umbilical away from the child's throat while the baby was still in the birth canal and used some meds to ease up the contractions. Then we all made a mad dash for the hospital where the delivery was completed. (That freakin' hurt just to watch.) Mom did not have a good time, but both mother and daughter came out of the ordeal ok.
United Kodiaks and Talitha macer
Singer-songwriter and actress Olivia Newton-John — a four-time Grammy winner and star of beloved movie musical Grease — has died. She was 73.
"Dame Olivia Newton-John passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family's privacy during this very difficult time," her husband, John Easterling, announced Monday on Newton-John's social media channels.
United Kodiaks, Issues Test Bed, and Talitha macer
Let's take a look at recent history...
Hillary released highly classified email into the wild through the illegal use of a private and unsecured email server in flagrant violation of 18 USC 793-Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, not to mention a half dozen record keeping requirements. Once it became clear someone was going to subpoena that server, she had it professionally wiped, a clear violation of civil and criminal law.
Hillary and the DNC created a fake dossier. They used government connections to give that fake dossier to the FBI. The FBI figures out that it is fake almost immediately. But the FBI still leaks it out into the wild as real. There were FBI agents and Justice Department attorneys conversing in text messages about interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Two of those people talked about an "insurance policy."
Hunter Biden's laptop detailed verifiable corruption of the US VIce President's office with Hunter acting as bag man. We are talking under the table deals with Russia, The Ukraine, and China. Let us not overlook the photographic and textual evidence of interstate transportation of illegal drugs and conspiracy to transport those drugs. Then there is one of IRS's all time favorites: Income without a clear source.
Were there any FBI raids in the wake of any of that? No.
Whose home just got raided? President Trump's home.
Who have the FBI been targeting? People who worked for President Trump.
If you don't think there are two sets of standards for prosecution in the United States, you are not paying attention.
NewTexas, United Kodiaks, and Talitha macer
The AMC Terminal here in Norfolk is an interesting conundrum. Air Mobility Command, AMC, is one of the Major Commands of the US Air Force. However, this particular terminal is situated on a Navy Base. It's run and primarily staffed by Civilians with a handful of Navy augmentees. Most of the sailors working at the terminal are there because they're on some sort of profile because of injuries or pregnancy.
While I guess it's technically a joint asset, it sounds like neither branch fully supports it. You would think the Navy in particular would be more keen to support the operation as it benefits them more. Otherwise they'd likely have to send people to Dover, Delaware or McGuire, New Jersey for the next closest Air Terminal.
NewTexas and Talitha macer
The latter was rarely a problem when I was in the Navy.
Hey, what's the best place to live in Texas?
Let's talk about the FBI for a minute. The FBI director back in 2016 was James Comey, right? Historically speaking he was a Republican who worked with Bush's administration and was the deputy AG of Bush's cabinet. He's a Republican for all intents and purposes. So we must ask the question: If he is a Republican, and what you've stated is true, then wouldn't he have done more to prosecute Clinton? Well, maybe he's a never-Trumper who turned independent because of Trump, like Evan McMullin. Right? I don't think that explains things either. A friend of mine interned for the FBI around that time period (and I've had the opportunity to speak to him about his experience). The FBI is a workplace, so of course they discussed politics. From my friend's experience, Comey and the other people in the FBI were generally supportive of Trump because they felt they were treated badly by Hillary Clinton in the 90's. I would postulate, therefore, that if the FBI influenced the election that they actually did so in Trump's favor by actively drawing attention to the reopening of the email investigation two weeks before the election. Obviously, that was for a valid reason (new evidence from an unrelated investigation into Anthony Weiner) but one could argue, through this logic, not necessarily that Comey was biased- but that Comey was instrumental to Trump's win in 2016.
"Well", you might think "maybe there was undue interference. The Attorney General was a Democrat, maybe they stopped Comey from looking further." Probably not true either. During a 2017 probe by the GOP Congress (and the Senate judiciary committee) Comey said that Loretta Lynch, the AG then, instructed him to call it a "matter" instead of an "investigation". Comey testified under oath that this and a meeting between Loretta Lynch and the Clinton's made him decide to make decisions about the investigation independently and away from Lynch's guidance and to just make his investigation decisions public. Mind you, Comey was under oath for this. And congress was controlled by Republicans. If Comey was lying about that I imagine he would've been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, given Trump's dislike for him. As for Loretta Lynch herself, she was also investigated by this committee and by the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz. Horowitz is an Obama appointee, so take what you will from that, but his investigation essentially found that Comey broke FBI protocal but wasn't biased, and that Loretta Lynch's meeting was "bad for public perception" but not biased either.
Let's look at Trump's perspective here. Trump dismissed Comey specifically because he wanted Clinton's emails looked at again and Comey refused. He put Christopher Wray in his place (who is still FBI director. Yep, a Trump appointee raided Mar-a-Lago!). So then we have an important question. Jeff Sessions and later Bill Barr were attorney general (also both Trump appointees). Why didn't they reopen an investigation? They had full power to and could've dug up as much dirt as they wanted. Either three investigations, ran by various sides of the aisle, and both James Comey and Christopher Wray are completely incompetent, or they genuinely didn't find anything.
We can ask the same question about Hunter Biden's laptop. Under the precedent Comey set, Wray has full ability to investigate that, without Garland if he so desires. Why hasn't he? He could, theoretically, make knowledge of that investigation public similar to Comey. We must wonder why someone with full authority to do these things, with every ability in the world to investigate Hunter Biden or Hillary's emails. Is there nothing in there that holds Joe Biden in contempt? The "explanation" must be that either Wray, a Trump appointee with full ability to search warrant these individuals in a court of law or through Garland, is incompetent, or there is simply nothing there that holds either the Clintons or Joe Biden in a negative light.
The Trump raid is fairly recent so we don't have many details on that. Merrick Garland has gone through the motions to release the search warrant and Trump's team has until tomorrow (Friday) to file any objection to that. I presume that provided they don't do that, we'll probably see the warrant next week. Internal sources from Washington Post and other outlets indicate that Trump was holding on to some classified nuclear documents. Given the justice system does seem to have two tiers (we agree on this), one for the rich and one for the poor, it's honestly amazing it even got to this point. Especially since this sort of thing could have probably been settled in a different way. The word right now has it that a secret service agent testified for the warrant, so if that's the case then it would be fairly obvious and they've probably known for a while. Which would probably mean there were other recourses before the raid itself- ie you could provide Trump the evidence and testimony of these documents and ask him to hand it over. My current theory is probably that Trump wanted the raid himself as it would be strongly framed to his supporters as "ha look the neoliberal elite hate me!", when in reality he probably had many opportunities to comply on this matter before he was raided. Let's not fall for Trump's framing trap and understand that the DOJ would not take this sort of action if there was cooperation on Trump's part here. It is richly unprecedented that the DOJ would raid a rich person's house, because usually said rich person would either cooperate enough to get to the frame of innocence (essentially like what you believe happened with HRC) or fully cooperate and expect them to gloss it over for money reasons.
There's essentially two possible explanations in these instances:
a) the FBI, which has existed for nearly 100 years in some form and has never been ran by an appointed Democrat in its entire history, is simply completely incompetent at investigating and addressing criminal acts from politicians.
b) the FBI has appropriately doled out justice when necessary, even to those who are "allies" of it
and B seems a more likely given that A the FBI would have been reformed a long time ago if a was true, and b there are instances (including Comey himself) of the FBI bucking the DOJ in an attempt to run an independent investigation into corruption and criminal acts from public officials
I feel sorry for the "slippery little tyke" who came into this world in jail and the "Frank Breech" mother and daughter :(
~Tessa
NewTexas and Talitha macer
Depends if you want to not worry about owning a car then cities like Houston, DFW, Austin, or San Antonio are the place you want to be same goes for being close to shops and restaurants or not wanting a long commute. if you like hot weather and nature El Paso, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Abilene or West Texas in general is your place. But for me personally I like Bryan/College Station not only because i was born here but were two hours from DFW & Austin, and 1-1.5 hours from Houston but in reality it's only up to you and your tastes.
NewTexas, Calebs Haven, Issues Test Bed, and Talitha macer
Yesterday after work we wandered down to the pier where the Navy boats are parked. The H.W. Bush had left a few days ago, but the Ford is still docked there along with several other ships. All but one I could at least ID the type of ship, if not also the actual name. The parking placards were a big help in figuring out which ship was which. I think the unidentified ship is some sort of supply vessel, don't know for sure. I asked one of the guards, but they didn't have an answer.
Today we went into downtown Norfolk and toured the USS Wisconsin. If a WW2 battleship is any indication, Navy ships are not designed for taller people. I didn't have to duck in the corridors, but only had a few inches of clearance. I would not have had any extra room in the bunks.
Not sure if anybody is doing anything exciting this weekend, other than sleeping in. Guess we'll find out tomorrow.
NewTexas, Issues Test Bed, and Talitha macer
***** Texas Saturday Breakfast *****
Tacos Ahora, Si! Delivered! Are you ready for some serious Saturday Breakfast, still All-Fresh? Bring out the Drones! The NewTexas Happy Taco Stands, in conjunction with the NewTexas Incendiary Corporation, has approximately 1 trillion of the fastest, lightest drones you have ever seen. This fleet is specially designed to deliver tacos to every man, woman, child, whatever, in Texas, all 2,553,692,000,000 of you.
Today's special breakfast will Saturday Huevos con Tocino y Hongos Breakfast Tacos [COVID-19 Week LX Edition]! The Head Chef is taking us way back to his childhood today! We are going super simple again by frying up a mess of crispy bacon bits, throwing in a mess of chopped mushrooms to brown in the bacon grease, tossing in a bit of chopped serrano to keep it real, and scrambling in billions upon billions of farm-fresh, Grade AA Large brown eggs. It is what some would call a "hot mess", but that is what makes it so muy delicioso. Just for good measure, a small smattering of Pepper Jack cheese tops it off before it is hand-rolled in a hot, fresh flour tortilla made on the premises multiple times daily. Remember, a whole egg in every taco!® Good stuff!
Today's Special Salsa is a new favorite everybody wants, the super-spunky - Jalapeño Ranch - this bad boy is nothing more than thick sour cream, chopped jalapeño peppers, fresh cilantro, a hint of garlic, a pinch of salt, and a touch of lime juice. The taco is hermetically sealed in a Stay-Warm® pouch wrapped in the same ol' aluminum foil we are all so familiar with for our breakfast taco. We are trying to keep it real, peeps. For your beverage accompaniment, a packet of Sanka, Tang and a Lipton Tea bag will be included with every delivery as well as salt and pepper and a napkin. Yes, it is different, but it works and you do not even have to leave your residence. Woo! And, watch out for the drones! Start your day off the right way; munch out and go back to sleep. You know you want to!®
Stay Safe Texas. Stay Well.
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Please register with your nation name. This is an excellent opportunity for nations old and new to Texas to find out what is going on! We chat, debate, talk about the weather, stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff, and more. But, it is never stuffy. Usually, it is about meeting your fellow Texans and talking about the latest and most interesting stuff in NationStates at the moment. But then again, sometimes NationStates does not even come up. It is wide-open chatting with peeps from around The World both IRL and NS. It is Texans, EuroTexans, WannabeTexans, ex-Texans, VirtualTexans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome.
We have added a new feature to Texas Chat, Texas Movie Chat! Chat with Texans while watching a movie. Fun stuff! So far we have watched Halloween, Shootout at the OK Corral, and Red, and recently a couple of new Star Trek series episodes. Want to watch something together?
Texas Chat, 901 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 18 years! Check it out! Good stuff!
Got that right. Saw more n00bs with forehead damage than I can remember.
any injuries from the knee knockers?
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