Juan has another update on the helo-CRJ collision. He makes an interesting side comment about how the NTSB has made numerous recommendations to the FAA for improved safety and all have been ignored. I immediately thought of how the focus of the FAA under Biden was more on DEI than aviation safety. Anyway:
Reading from the sheet, Leavitt went through line by line: ‘$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru’ … As the liberal mainstream press stood before the 27-year-old stunned, Leavitt hammered home the point … ‘I don’t know about you, but as an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going toward this crap and I know the American people don’t either and that’s exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do – to get the fraud, waste and abuse out of the federal government,’ she said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of all nationalities as well as violent criminals now imprisoned in the United States …’He’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents’ …’President Bukele agreed to take back all Salvadoran MS-13 gang members who are in the United States unlawfully. He also promised to accept and incarcerate violent illegal immigrants, including members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but also criminal illegal migrants from any country,’ State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement.
3) Elon Musk unleashes nerd army of college-aged engineers to dismantle government waste with DOGE – DEM Progressives don’t mind innocent young Children being groomed for sex or having sex changes, but they are already whining about ‘Six baby-faced men with little-to-no government experience’ helping Musk ‘dismantle America’s foreign aid agency.’ And one is “just a teenager“!?!?!
Don’t like this makeover at all, other than the choice of hair color. I understand that he is going to be focused on what will make a big Wow impact when the carefully lit and photographed reveal video is made but all I see is a very hard to maintain hairstyle and a ton of makeup with contouring for the camera.
Another amazing transformation is someone losing an enormous amount of weight. The “new” person appears – visually – to be an entirely different person.
speaking of the Federal budget and waste; I will surmise that about 20% to 30% of the budget for entitlements – which is where the vast majority of the Federal govt spends our money is wasted due to fraud and inefficiencies.
I will surmise that about 20% to 30% of the budget for entitlements – which is where the vast majority of the Federal govt spends our money is wasted due to fraud and inefficiencies.
==
I won’t.
“It’s a very exciting event. We’re going to have a Sovereign Wealth Fund, which we’ve never had.” — President Trump
“We are going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet for the American people; we’re going to put the assets to work,” Bessent said. “We’re going to study best practices as done around the world. It’ll be a combination of liquid assets, assets that we have in this country as we work to bring them out for the American people. I think it is going to create value and be of great strategic importance.” — Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary
“The extraordinary size and scale of the U.S. government and the business it does with companies should create value for American citizens,” — Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary nominee
“If [the Department of] Interior was a public company its stock would be in the tank, revenue has been declining, production of revenue for American taxpayers is down … we have to produce more energy, we’ve got to produce more critical minerals … if it was a company [the Department of Interior would have one of] the largest balance sheets in the world, 500 million acres of public land, 700 million of subservice, over two billion of offshore acres, these are all assets that belong to the American people – We all talk about the debt that America has the 36 trillion, we have perhaps hundreds of trillions of dollars of assets that we need to manage smartly, sustainably, for the benefit and use of the American people.” — Doug Burgum, Interior Secretary
• Have commented before that I was pleased when Trump spoke about creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund. And was pleased when Burgum spoke in September [,and on Jan 31,] about one of my favorite potential revenue streams for the fund (i.e., natural assets).”
• Have also commented that I never have any problem with Trump the executive expressing “whiteboard ideas” – see External Revenue Service – because I recognize that he is both challenging the Status Quo/ Conventional Wisdom, and stimulating the collective Thought Process – in order to address the Need.
• Also recognize that the Trump Doctrine is one of the most important doctrines in this nations’ history: Economic Security is National Security.
“…We’re going to have a Sovereign Wealth Fund, which we’ve never had….”
Not entirely true:
The country DID have one but it was controlled entirely by the Democratic Party and was used as the party’s very own personal slush fund (which is why good governance and fiscal responsibility never had to be a Democratic Party priority).
Meanwhile, Liberal journalistic PRIORITIES continue to be alive and well—and on splendid view at the All-the-Sh**-that’s-Fit-to-Print NYT… https://instapundit.com/700409/
Of course there is tremendous fraud and graft in federal spending. As Willie Sutton famously said when asked why he robbed banks, “That’s where the money is.”
There is no greater bank in the history of the world than the U.S. Treasury, so, naturally, people have concocted myriad schemes to take from it.
I suppose everyone has seen the reports of El Salvador’s supermax prison.
Maybe we could lease Guantanamo when they run out of space at their prison.
has got to have A LOT of people very, very nervous this morning. Brilliant!
For those of you who don’t click on links, it’s an X post from DataRepublican, which is one of the main communication accounts used by DOGE. It states that they have computationally dragged the entire USAID database for EINs (business, not-for-profit tax IDs). They state it will take a bit of time to pick out all relevant information, but as an example of what’s coming the account posts an image of the hydra/hornet’s nest of NGOs affiliated with Bill Kristol’s NGO.
They are using AI to quickly connect all the dots and overtly show what so many covertly created to obfuscate their grift!
The new administration is moving so quickly, and creatively, their opposition is forced to play defense. It’s hard to organize an astroturf protest when you know your questionable network to hide the dollars you skim from U.S. tax payers is about to be shown to the world. And it’s going to be very hard to garner any sympathy when those impacted by the graft are all U.S. taxpayers.
Brilliant!
Doesn’t sound very fair to me.
Shouldn’t seasoned—and creative—criminals be allowed to destroy their country (and political opponents) while enriching themselves?
Can Ron Paul’s dream of auditing the Fed be far off?
Will we learn Fort Knox is empty?
Time to start putting “nonprofit” in scare quotes. Maybe also “NGO”.
About five years ago, I got a gorgeous hair cut and fantastic color. the stylist noted the color details in my account, and I took a OT of phots of my cut. The next time I made appointment, that stylists was on maternity leave and I got someone else.
I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN AS GOOD A CUT AND COLOR AS THAT ONE TIME.
I can’t find the woman who cut and colored my hair — after she went on maternity leave, she didn’t return to the same place.
Can Ron Paul’s dream of auditing the Fed be far off?
== Will we learn Fort Knox is empty?
==
Fort Knox is run by the U.S. Mint, not the Fed. It’s been about a dozen years since I crossed paths with a paulbot yapping about ‘auditing the Fed’. Not one of them ever said what they expected to learn from such an audit and what they thought the policy implications would be.
==
We do not benefit from gold. We benefit from responsible stewardship on the part of central bankers and legislators alike. We get more from the former than the latter, hence the federal deficit.
@FOAF:Time to start putting “nonprofit” in scare quotes. Maybe also “NGO”.
“Profit” is an accounting and taxation label. No organization can survive long if it doesn’t collect more than it spends. “No money, no mission”.
You can call that “more than it spends” what you like, but if you call it “profit” it’s exposed to taxation. But the thing itself is not different.
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Juan has another update on the helo-CRJ collision. He makes an interesting side comment about how the NTSB has made numerous recommendations to the FAA for improved safety and all have been ignored. I immediately thought of how the focus of the FAA under Biden was more on DEI than aviation safety. Anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mAUks0krI
1) ‘crap’ DEI projects -PS Karoline Leavitt hammering DEM’s MSM activists…again:
2) US strikes ‘extraordinary’ migrant deal with El Salvador to accept deportees from any country – including dangerous criminals
3) Elon Musk unleashes nerd army of college-aged engineers to dismantle government waste with DOGE – DEM Progressives don’t mind innocent young Children being groomed for sex or having sex changes, but they are already whining about ‘Six baby-faced men with little-to-no government experience’ helping Musk ‘dismantle America’s foreign aid agency.’ And one is “just a teenager“!?!?!
Don’t like this makeover at all, other than the choice of hair color. I understand that he is going to be focused on what will make a big Wow impact when the carefully lit and photographed reveal video is made but all I see is a very hard to maintain hairstyle and a ton of makeup with contouring for the camera.
Another amazing transformation is someone losing an enormous amount of weight. The “new” person appears – visually – to be an entirely different person.
speaking of the Federal budget and waste; I will surmise that about 20% to 30% of the budget for entitlements – which is where the vast majority of the Federal govt spends our money is wasted due to fraud and inefficiencies.
I will surmise that about 20% to 30% of the budget for entitlements – which is where the vast majority of the Federal govt spends our money is wasted due to fraud and inefficiencies.
==
I won’t.
https://youtu.be/0hgWLHGDnVs
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-orders-plan-for-a-united-states-sovereign-wealth-fund/
*** relevant, Feb 3 comments are below ***
https://youtu.be/LUshtwtY-7c?t=181
• Have commented before that I was pleased when Trump spoke about creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund. And was pleased when Burgum spoke in September [,and on Jan 31,] about one of my favorite potential revenue streams for the fund (i.e., natural assets).”
https://x.com/i/status/1832782962695209086
• Have also commented that I never have any problem with Trump the executive expressing “whiteboard ideas” – see External Revenue Service – because I recognize that he is both challenging the Status Quo/ Conventional Wisdom, and stimulating the collective Thought Process – in order to address the Need.
• Also recognize that the Trump Doctrine is one of the most important doctrines in this nations’ history: Economic Security is National Security.
“…We’re going to have a Sovereign Wealth Fund, which we’ve never had….”
Not entirely true:
The country DID have one but it was controlled entirely by the Democratic Party and was used as the party’s very own personal slush fund (which is why good governance and fiscal responsibility never had to be a Democratic Party priority).
Meanwhile, Liberal journalistic PRIORITIES continue to be alive and well—and on splendid view at the All-the-Sh**-that’s-Fit-to-Print NYT…
https://instapundit.com/700409/
Regarding entitlements: Medicare costs around 1.5 trillion a year. HHS estimated around $51 billion in “improper payments” occurred in 2023. Seems optimistic at a glance. It may be in HHS’s interest to understimate this figure.
Social Security costs 1.5 trillion. The SSA estimates only $13 billion in improper payments, which also seems a little low to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmfudW7rbG0
Nonapod,
Of course there is tremendous fraud and graft in federal spending. As Willie Sutton famously said when asked why he robbed banks, “That’s where the money is.”
There is no greater bank in the history of the world than the U.S. Treasury, so, naturally, people have concocted myriad schemes to take from it.
I suppose everyone has seen the reports of El Salvador’s supermax prison.
Maybe we could lease Guantanamo when they run out of space at their prison.
‘Worst of the worst’: Go inside El Salvador’s fortress prison for gang members
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Oz14D5sz0
Holy Snikeys!
This, https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1886647920566636637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886647920566636637%7Ctwgr%5E652f176bb4638e0eefd73c955994bb4cc10f1db4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F700429%2F
has got to have A LOT of people very, very nervous this morning. Brilliant!
For those of you who don’t click on links, it’s an X post from DataRepublican, which is one of the main communication accounts used by DOGE. It states that they have computationally dragged the entire USAID database for EINs (business, not-for-profit tax IDs). They state it will take a bit of time to pick out all relevant information, but as an example of what’s coming the account posts an image of the hydra/hornet’s nest of NGOs affiliated with Bill Kristol’s NGO.
They are using AI to quickly connect all the dots and overtly show what so many covertly created to obfuscate their grift!
The new administration is moving so quickly, and creatively, their opposition is forced to play defense. It’s hard to organize an astroturf protest when you know your questionable network to hide the dollars you skim from U.S. tax payers is about to be shown to the world. And it’s going to be very hard to garner any sympathy when those impacted by the graft are all U.S. taxpayers.
Brilliant!
Doesn’t sound very fair to me.
Shouldn’t seasoned—and creative—criminals be allowed to destroy their country (and political opponents) while enriching themselves?
Can Ron Paul’s dream of auditing the Fed be far off?
Will we learn Fort Knox is empty?
Time to start putting “nonprofit” in scare quotes. Maybe also “NGO”.
About five years ago, I got a gorgeous hair cut and fantastic color. the stylist noted the color details in my account, and I took a OT of phots of my cut. The next time I made appointment, that stylists was on maternity leave and I got someone else.
I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN AS GOOD A CUT AND COLOR AS THAT ONE TIME.
I can’t find the woman who cut and colored my hair — after she went on maternity leave, she didn’t return to the same place.
Can Ron Paul’s dream of auditing the Fed be far off?
==
Will we learn Fort Knox is empty?
==
Fort Knox is run by the U.S. Mint, not the Fed. It’s been about a dozen years since I crossed paths with a paulbot yapping about ‘auditing the Fed’. Not one of them ever said what they expected to learn from such an audit and what they thought the policy implications would be.
==
We do not benefit from gold. We benefit from responsible stewardship on the part of central bankers and legislators alike. We get more from the former than the latter, hence the federal deficit.
@FOAF:Time to start putting “nonprofit” in scare quotes. Maybe also “NGO”.
“Profit” is an accounting and taxation label. No organization can survive long if it doesn’t collect more than it spends. “No money, no mission”.
You can call that “more than it spends” what you like, but if you call it “profit” it’s exposed to taxation. But the thing itself is not different.