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More than a million troops to get temporary pay hike with payroll tax deferral — but there’s a catch

| September 9, 2020 | 12 Comments
More than a million troops to get temporary pay hike with payroll tax deferral — but there’s a catch

Jeff LPH 3 reminds me we need to talk about this payroll tax deferral. From Military Times; More than a million military members earning $8,666.66 or less per month will see their paychecks increase by 6.2 percent of their basic pay beginning with the mid-September paycheck — but get ready for the bite out of your paycheck when […]

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Stop It Before It Starts

| July 3, 2020 | 15 Comments
Stop It Before It Starts

It seems that A the OC and her bestie Ilhan Omar have banded together to find a way to relieve property owners of their real estate, through a proposed bill that, on first read, seems innocuous enough. However, it’s real purpose is to confiscate property from legitimate owners through a federal law. That it is […]

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Waffle House temporarily closes 365 restaurants 

| March 26, 2020 | 60 Comments
Waffle House temporarily closes 365 restaurants 

ATLANTA – Over 350 Waffle House restaurants have closed throughout the Southeast as officials work to reduce the spread of the deadly coronavirus. In a Tweet Tuesday, the Atlanta-based chain said that it has temporarily closed 365 restaurants throughout United States. Waffle House ?@WaffleHouse #WaffleHouseIndexRed: 365 Waffle House restaurants closed. 1,627 open. . Them little red dots […]

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Conflict With Reality

| December 27, 2019 | 20 Comments
Conflict With Reality

The guided-missile destroyer Carney in the Black Sea on her sixth patrol that ended. ( Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Kyle Steckler/Navy) Impeachment hearing testimony conflicts with reality, per Military Times. https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2019/12/26/new-for-2020-black-sea-patrols-have-remained-consistent-under-trump/ From the article:  Christopher Anderson, a U.S. foreign service officer, testified before lawmakers that Trump had ordered the Black Sea patrols be canceled […]

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A List of “Worse Than Watergate” References

| December 2, 2019 | 72 Comments
A List of “Worse Than Watergate” References

What is going on in Washington, DC, is worse than Watergate? Really? I guess it depends on your point of view. Having sat through the Watergate hearings, which displaced everything else on TV back in Them There Olden Times of Antenna TV, and realizing before it all ended that Pres. Nixon had approved of and […]

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Attorney Kevin Creed, Pleads guilty to stealing $1.4 million from Veteran charity.

| August 31, 2019 | 39 Comments
Attorney Kevin Creed, Pleads guilty to stealing $1.4 million from Veteran charity.

I constantly get flack for holding my position that civilians should stop giving money to veteran charities.  Ya, Ya, Ya,  I know there are a few of the over 30,000 registered veteran charities that do some good work.  Toys for Tots is probably at the top of that list. The tsunami of fraud, waste, and […]

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Mueller Probe Concluded..

| March 23, 2019 | 154 Comments
Mueller Probe Concluded..

Mueller ..No Further Indictments. Fortunately, that bastion of integrity and political truth, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) opines the investigation no doubt will discover “The facts and evidence here are likely to show a lot of criminality, a lot of wrongdoing, and law-breaking that is not indicted here.” almost before the ink is dry on the […]

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Sheila Jackson-Lee ousted as chair of Congressional Black Caucus

| January 25, 2019 | 53 Comments
Sheila Jackson-Lee ousted as chair of Congressional Black Caucus

The entitled Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee has had a rough ride back in economy class, where the great unwashed have to ride. Seems a lawsuit filed by “Jane Doe,” said she was raped by a Congressional Black Conference Foundation employee in 2015, when she was a 19-year-old intern, and her attacker was the 30-year-old coordinator of […]

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