49 years ago today, I was 49 years younger.

I just want to tell you both, we're over Macho Grande.  Good luck.20250313

Oregon’s Mental Health Advisory Board Includes Member Who Identifies as a Turtle
March 13, 2025

□ [“Clinton Judge Orders Rehire Thousands of Fired Probationary Employees in Six Federal Agencies"]

Or what?  What are the penalties for defying this ruling?  Haven't seen anything about them citing actual laws being broken, other than 'separation of powers' and that's on them.  The judge here just says he's sad to see so many good workers get fired.  Leaving aside the emotion-based decision, when exactly did he meet these thousands of people and determine how good they were at their jobs?  Some "private" encounter perhaps?

Otherwise it just looks like both sides are making it up and guess what, there's more people on Trump's side.  The actually laws must be cited if you want to keep them in place, which brings us back to asking the consequences for ignoring the law.  Trump runs the executive branch, judges don't.  If you really want society to break down, the laws are the first things to be ignored.

□ [“Radical Mob Storms Trump Tower For Release of Mahmoud Khalil"]

Surprised they waited this long, I'd have thought they'd go for Trump Tower at least two months ago.  But it's obviously part of the plan.  Mahmoud Khalil was just arrested on March 8, not enough time for these people to come up with the idea of raiding Trump Tower.  He's been doing anti-Israel protests at Colombia University and Trump just shut down funding for universities like Colombia which promote Jew-hatred.

So this was probably just an excuse.  He'd get arrested and his followers would go after Trump Tower.  The New York legal system would immediately let them go because the laws aren't relevant here.  It's interesting how much of their schtick seems to rely on them being allowed to ignore rules that would get other people punished, and they'll be the ones to make the decisions.

UN Judge from Uganda Convicted of Bringing Woman into England as Her Personal Slave
March 13, 2025

□ [“Putin Accepts US-Ukraine Ceasefire Plan — But With Specific Conditions"]

So far, the only confirmed condition I can find is that Ukraine can never join NATO.  They also stress that it cannot just be 30 days off, they want an actual peace settlement.  Which is fine but there's no clue how that will be handled, even if everybody agrees to dump Zelensky.  [Maybe he can move to Moscow to live with Assad!]  If there's any Ukraine men left alive, what's to prevent them from all becoming suicide bombers?

Trump also made a point of using sanctions, which liberals hate, on banks, which liberals also hate, which handled money for Russia's oil sale, another thing liberals hate, to the EU.  Biden had specifically avoided any punishment of Russia's earth-killing fossil-fuels bringing in money, because Biden supported Ukraine or something.  But here Trump does it and suddenly Russia's a lot more willing to stop fighting the war.

Remember how gas prices suddenly started lowering in the months before the election?  It's almost like this was a deliberate agreement.  Hunter Biden had contacts with Russia, Ukraine and was sitting in on his father's meetings in 2024.  That would be a good time to make such an agreement.  Russia gets more money by selling oil, possibly even to the US, and they plan the supposed war.

Not sure who would be the puppet and who the puppetmaster, but this actually sounds believable.  And then Trump gets to show the Art of the Deal.  The sanctions could be a threat to show he knows who's responsible, or that he's going along with the others and they've decided to start a dramatic end to the war.

Transgender Democrat Congressman Calls Republicans “Weird” and “Bizarre”
March 13, 2025

□ [“EU Pivots on Mass Migration Policies, Unveils Plans for ‘Return Hubs’ for Illegals and Failed Asylum Seekers"]
□ [“EU Plans Donor Conference for Terrorists Monday – 'They are Killing Entire Families'"]

Because it's the EU, there's absolutely no reason to trust them.  They've been bringing in illegals all these decades, now they suddenly want to do something about it?  The 'donor' conference refers to the European countries giving money to Syria, even though there's no reason to give them money.  They already had to jump through hoops to avoid laws against funding terrorists, i.e. the people in charge of Syria, the ones who are making the massacres happen.  Yeah, they're going to do something about that too.

It's probably just a show.  They've been whining about Russia for the last three years and there's no sign it's made the slightest bit of difference.  Syria is basically treated the same way, just with a little less interest because it's non-whites doing all the dying and killing.  These meetings will probably just be rich people saying Europeans should be treated the same way.

So now the EU needs to act like they take things seriously and might possibly be considering a military action.  What a brave decision.  Good thing this happened right now, giving them an excuse to start drafting Europeans en masse for an EU Army.  Still a problem with that, they don't have one.  They can't get any actual Europeans to fight for them here at home, they aren't going to do a thing about Syria.

But this is another serious change, they need to at least pretend they care about such things.  With Syria, they had connections, but turning against the immigrants?  That's not something we ever expected to happen.  Maybe they finally received word that it's too late to do anything so they're free to pretend now, nobody saw that coming.

Guatemalan Illegal in Long Island Charged with Violent Murder of His Two-Month-Old Daughter
March 13, 2025

□ [“Schumer Caves on Shutdown, Will Vote to Keep Government Open"]

Dammit, we were so close!  Why did he have to do that?

He says he hates everything about the spending bill but shutting the government down would be worse, especially since Trump would still be able to work.  It looks like he really didn't have anything to fall back on.  The pet media insists the economy is doing horribly but it's not.  At worst, it's the way Biden left it.  Other countries are suddenly listening to the US which they hadn't done for several years, and suddenly problems are being solved.  The courts are trying to stop Trump but they're eventually going to have to admit that they aren't actually in charge of the executive branch, he is.  And that's not counting the last decade of *woke* propaganda which just irritates the public now.

So what could he rely on?  The voters?  That number's getting smaller every day until the party figures out a new way to steal elections.  Schumer had to ponder all this and the shut-down was getting closer.  It's not like he can say he's in Congress, it's not his job to stop government shutdowns.

But now what's the party supposed to do?  The peasants might be ready to revolt, or they might just shrug and go on with their Trump-derangement syndrome.  The old, rich party leaders keep insisting they'll stop Trump but they rarely even come close.  I keep wanting someone to ask Nancy Pelosi if she still stands by her insistence that Trump will never be POTUS.

Or put it this way, do they want Democrat headquarters around the country to be treated the way Democrats treat Tesla charging stations?  Because Democrats and their lawyers seem to think that's a justified form of protest and those people need to keep voting Democrat if the party wants to win elections.  So now they've got to deal with a smaller, cheaper government until the end of the fiscal year, at which point I assume Congress will pass a real budget.

They still need to approve the bill tomorrow.  Maybe the party will comply, maybe they'll break up.  Maybe some will just quit trying to be leftist and start acting more civilized while others do the opposite.  Let's see if they can survive the weekend.

American Airlines Flight Catches Fire at Denver International Airport — Passengers Evacuate Onto the Wing
March 13, 2025