Instead now, Jim Acosta was presented the choice to change time slots to the midnight opening OR go away. So… he went away… and claims he will be going independent on SubStack. Bwahahahaaa!!
The good news is that he thinks that’s the place that makes the sandwiches.
February 2, 2025 at 1:10 am
JTC
So funny/ironic…a while back that church joined with other socialist orgs in calling out and trying to kill businesses that they called “predatory”; pawn shops* like mine, check cashers, FFL’s, that’s calling that priest frock black huh?
*Years ago when similar do-gooder campaigns tried and failed to kill pawn shops, Friedman said (alluding to the premise of having to put up collateral to obtain one) “Pawning is just about the most disciplined loan one can get”.
Some people never learn.
The Catholic Church went through this process of corruption by self-serving bureaucrats before, and the result was the Reformation.
Now, in this era of almost universal access to information, the CC is courting obliteration.
Or at least reduction to the crazy corp of 25%.
February 2, 2025 at 1:10 am
James/G
If *any* true reporter did so, the ‘Journalists’ in the press room would make like Biden before the Pope and s**t themselves.
Not a problem; as long as the money comes in, the Pope says Slow Joe and Nanners can do whatever they want.
Buying indulgences with Other People’s Money. It just doesn’t get any better than that.
That’s prime Born Fighting heritage straight out of the Appalachian mountains. It also means that at some point his ancestors stood shoulder to shoulder with Wade’s and Zed’s ancestors, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
I still want to see Mia on the 1000 meter line at the range with her mother Naomi, However, T-Bone’s and Mia’s child way be the one to really watch.
Once upon a time, I was transferred to a Sqn that was just ‘standing up’ after having been dormant for a few years (we rotate operational Sqn’s in and out of service).
I got there a few weeks before any real activities started and most of us ended up having a few drinks in the Canex bar every night after working on getting the hangar and equipment ready for A/C arrival and catching up on courses and qualifications, etc. it was an all-ranks bar and grill that everyone went to eventually.
I happened to wind up talking to someone who, like 80% of the others, I’d never met before. I was a little taken aback when he called me by name before I’d given it but assumed he’d heard me talking to someone else or heard someone mention me since some of us were playing an ‘online’ trivia game and I was winning…nationally 🙂
I said hello, etc. and asked him his name. He answered “I’m 416”, the Sqn number, I said “So am I, we all are”, he just grinned and repeated it.
In short order I figured out that he was our new CO, out for a drink with the boys and girls, which he did regularly, and later found out that he and his wife had taken the time to sit down with the personnel files and memorize the faces and names of every single member of the Sqn before it even stood up.
Out of all the CO’s and other senior officers I’ve ever met, he was the only one I’d follow blindly into anything and not care if I came back. He actually cared about his troops and did things legal and ‘sort of’ legal to protect us that can’t be listed here 😉
Trump knowing a ‘pretend reporter’, as the msm would call her, by name reminded me of that and I sincerely hope he carries on the same way for his term and his successor does the same. Our CO should have become a General but he didn’t speak French well enough and anything above LCol is a political appointment not a promotion. He did go on to be an MP though, until a liebral managed to sneak past him by 7 votes, with a lot of questions about where most of hers came from in a pretty conservative area…
Up here our illustrious PM wouldn’t piss in your ass if your guts were on fire, he’s more interested in the bought-and-paid-for media than anyone who might ask him a question he doesn’t have an answer for and can’t lie his way out of.
In my nearly 32 years, no OIC went that far. A couple of them were decent folks but probably the best OIC I worked for never got commissioned. He was acting OIC as a “stretch assignment” but the position ended up being filled by a DEI officer. He returned to his old job long enough to put in his resignation.
When he first took up the acting position, he met with each of us, asked what we were working on and what we saw as problems. I was honest and brutally frank with him because I was qualified for pension ergo fireproof.
About 3 months later, he took me out for coffee and said he made a mistake; every item I highlighted was exactly as I’d cautioned but he thought I was being pessimistic. Now he knew better. So he asked for advice on how to approach on a vexing personnel issue with someone above my rank. I said unless he was willing to begin a formal discipline process, the best he could hope for is to get the guy reassigned with the cooperation of the CO.
As an acting officer, he wasn’t willing to make the kind of waves that a formal discipline process would generate; I said I understood but pointed out that was part of his job. He grinned and asked why I wasn’t doing the job. I said it was because I had a bad habit of speaking my mind.
Long story short, we met for coffee several months after he resigned and he said he wishes he’d pulled the trigger on that discipline.
On a related note, the DEI hire officer ended up having the same issue. Although she did not seek my advice, when there was a confrontation between me and the problem child in her presence, I put it out there regardless. After waffling around for a couple of weeks, she went to the CO who transferred the problem to another unit where (surprised!) he created exactly the same kind of toxic workplace issues.
We’ve had ‘dei’ in the military for years…28% of promotions must go to francophones, even if they have to skip over half of the merit list to get to one.
It sort of shakes your confidence in the leadership when you know that their position may be dependent on what their first language is…case in point, my brother’s ‘first language’ was erroneously entered as French..he had to take an English test…and passed with flying colours 😉 His first promotion was in record time, he even said “I know I’m good, damned good,but not THAT good”, eventually he got tired of getting his paperwork in french and fixed it…after that, the promotions dried up to normal spee…for someone with even less tolerance for stupidity, and more willingness to call it what it is, than I have.
February 3, 2025 at 12:25 am
WayneM
Same issue in the RCMP. When they wanted me to come into Ottawa NHQ, they asked if I spoke French. I said I used to but it’s been years. They asked if I could learn on my own time and be “up to speed” within two years. I said, I’m married with two teenage kids so no.
I asked why, in a specialty where my skills were highly desired and my language skills (or lack thereof) was an issue. Headhunter said it’s political. I said if you want me, write up an exception. Otherwise, thanks for calling.
The next morning, I got an email making an offer for a promotional opportunity to a newly reclassified position (English Essential). My first OIC used to say I was the first one who swam against the tide.
That being said, it was my last promotion. I had +20 years so they weren’t going to send me to French Language Training and all promotions required bilingual language skills.
I noticed in my time in Ottawa, it wasn’t just being bilingual which was rewarded. More often than not, those getting promoted were born/raised in Quebec. Very strong in-group preference.
February 2, 2025 at 11:10 am
Raconteur Duck
NGO’s have become the “class of coloured people” that Booker T Washington warned of.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Ne…[Black] race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Ne…[Black] to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” ― Booker T. Washington (1911).
I see nothing anywhere in Scripture that you have to pay anything more than a ‘temple tax’, usually in food for the priests, or pay a ‘fine’ for transgression…not until you get to the ‘new’ testament and paul becomes the first pre-tv tv evangelist begging for money. G-d doesn’t need gold, Psalm 50 is pretty clear on that.
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A month ago, asking that question to Biden’s press secretary would have gotten Mia dragged out by the heels by the Capitol Police.
clear ether
eon
Instead now, Jim Acosta was presented the choice to change time slots to the midnight opening OR go away. So… he went away… and claims he will be going independent on SubStack. Bwahahahaaa!!
The good news is that he thinks that’s the place that makes the sandwiches.
So funny/ironic…a while back that church joined with other socialist orgs in calling out and trying to kill businesses that they called “predatory”; pawn shops* like mine, check cashers, FFL’s, that’s calling that priest frock black huh?
*Years ago when similar do-gooder campaigns tried and failed to kill pawn shops, Friedman said (alluding to the premise of having to put up collateral to obtain one) “Pawning is just about the most disciplined loan one can get”.
Well the current “Pontiff” IS a Marxist so why are we surprised at the Church following in lock-step?
Some people never learn.
The Catholic Church went through this process of corruption by self-serving bureaucrats before, and the result was the Reformation.
Now, in this era of almost universal access to information, the CC is courting obliteration.
Or at least reduction to the crazy corp of 25%.
If *any* true reporter did so, the ‘Journalists’ in the press room would make like Biden before the Pope and s**t themselves.
Not a problem; as long as the money comes in, the Pope says Slow Joe and Nanners can do whatever they want.
Buying indulgences with Other People’s Money. It just doesn’t get any better than that.
Oh. Another thing…
Whatever happened to “Separation of Church and State”??
Mia among a crowd of the usual Presstitutes would be like an Angel crashing a Demonic Convention.
The references to Johnny Cash are “Biblical.” Nicely done, Chris.
Man, I love that song.
I thought that last line sounded familiar. And in Mr Cash’s voice, too.
I had not realized Travis was a Bickle.
That’s prime Born Fighting heritage straight out of the Appalachian mountains. It also means that at some point his ancestors stood shoulder to shoulder with Wade’s and Zed’s ancestors, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
I still want to see Mia on the 1000 meter line at the range with her mother Naomi, However, T-Bone’s and Mia’s child way be the one to really watch.
Considering the other fictional character named Travis Bickle…
“May be the one…vice ‘Way be the one….”
Nice call out to Johnny Cash! That’s still in my list of favorites
The churches will make up the loss with school vouchers.
Gotta get that gummint money one way or another…
Once upon a time, I was transferred to a Sqn that was just ‘standing up’ after having been dormant for a few years (we rotate operational Sqn’s in and out of service).
I got there a few weeks before any real activities started and most of us ended up having a few drinks in the Canex bar every night after working on getting the hangar and equipment ready for A/C arrival and catching up on courses and qualifications, etc. it was an all-ranks bar and grill that everyone went to eventually.
I happened to wind up talking to someone who, like 80% of the others, I’d never met before. I was a little taken aback when he called me by name before I’d given it but assumed he’d heard me talking to someone else or heard someone mention me since some of us were playing an ‘online’ trivia game and I was winning…nationally 🙂
I said hello, etc. and asked him his name. He answered “I’m 416”, the Sqn number, I said “So am I, we all are”, he just grinned and repeated it.
In short order I figured out that he was our new CO, out for a drink with the boys and girls, which he did regularly, and later found out that he and his wife had taken the time to sit down with the personnel files and memorize the faces and names of every single member of the Sqn before it even stood up.
Out of all the CO’s and other senior officers I’ve ever met, he was the only one I’d follow blindly into anything and not care if I came back. He actually cared about his troops and did things legal and ‘sort of’ legal to protect us that can’t be listed here 😉
Trump knowing a ‘pretend reporter’, as the msm would call her, by name reminded me of that and I sincerely hope he carries on the same way for his term and his successor does the same. Our CO should have become a General but he didn’t speak French well enough and anything above LCol is a political appointment not a promotion. He did go on to be an MP though, until a liebral managed to sneak past him by 7 votes, with a lot of questions about where most of hers came from in a pretty conservative area…
Up here our illustrious PM wouldn’t piss in your ass if your guts were on fire, he’s more interested in the bought-and-paid-for media than anyone who might ask him a question he doesn’t have an answer for and can’t lie his way out of.
In my nearly 32 years, no OIC went that far. A couple of them were decent folks but probably the best OIC I worked for never got commissioned. He was acting OIC as a “stretch assignment” but the position ended up being filled by a DEI officer. He returned to his old job long enough to put in his resignation.
When he first took up the acting position, he met with each of us, asked what we were working on and what we saw as problems. I was honest and brutally frank with him because I was qualified for pension ergo fireproof.
About 3 months later, he took me out for coffee and said he made a mistake; every item I highlighted was exactly as I’d cautioned but he thought I was being pessimistic. Now he knew better. So he asked for advice on how to approach on a vexing personnel issue with someone above my rank. I said unless he was willing to begin a formal discipline process, the best he could hope for is to get the guy reassigned with the cooperation of the CO.
As an acting officer, he wasn’t willing to make the kind of waves that a formal discipline process would generate; I said I understood but pointed out that was part of his job. He grinned and asked why I wasn’t doing the job. I said it was because I had a bad habit of speaking my mind.
Long story short, we met for coffee several months after he resigned and he said he wishes he’d pulled the trigger on that discipline.
On a related note, the DEI hire officer ended up having the same issue. Although she did not seek my advice, when there was a confrontation between me and the problem child in her presence, I put it out there regardless. After waffling around for a couple of weeks, she went to the CO who transferred the problem to another unit where (surprised!) he created exactly the same kind of toxic workplace issues.
We’ve had ‘dei’ in the military for years…28% of promotions must go to francophones, even if they have to skip over half of the merit list to get to one.
It sort of shakes your confidence in the leadership when you know that their position may be dependent on what their first language is…case in point, my brother’s ‘first language’ was erroneously entered as French..he had to take an English test…and passed with flying colours 😉 His first promotion was in record time, he even said “I know I’m good, damned good,but not THAT good”, eventually he got tired of getting his paperwork in french and fixed it…after that, the promotions dried up to normal spee…for someone with even less tolerance for stupidity, and more willingness to call it what it is, than I have.
Same issue in the RCMP. When they wanted me to come into Ottawa NHQ, they asked if I spoke French. I said I used to but it’s been years. They asked if I could learn on my own time and be “up to speed” within two years. I said, I’m married with two teenage kids so no.
I asked why, in a specialty where my skills were highly desired and my language skills (or lack thereof) was an issue. Headhunter said it’s political. I said if you want me, write up an exception. Otherwise, thanks for calling.
The next morning, I got an email making an offer for a promotional opportunity to a newly reclassified position (English Essential). My first OIC used to say I was the first one who swam against the tide.
That being said, it was my last promotion. I had +20 years so they weren’t going to send me to French Language Training and all promotions required bilingual language skills.
I noticed in my time in Ottawa, it wasn’t just being bilingual which was rewarded. More often than not, those getting promoted were born/raised in Quebec. Very strong in-group preference.
NGO’s have become the “class of coloured people” that Booker T Washington warned of.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Ne…[Black] race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Ne…[Black] to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” ― Booker T. Washington (1911).
Jesus and the money changers; miracle whip.
I will still attend Mass, but my money goes elsewhere.
I see nothing anywhere in Scripture that you have to pay anything more than a ‘temple tax’, usually in food for the priests, or pay a ‘fine’ for transgression…not until you get to the ‘new’ testament and paul becomes the first pre-tv tv evangelist begging for money. G-d doesn’t need gold, Psalm 50 is pretty clear on that.
“There’ll be a long, gold escalator reaching down…
When the Man comes around…