Random News and Notes 24 November
DOGE is done. Or so the reporting goes. In fact, at least according to the Office of Personnel Management, the mission and people still exist, they are just farmed out to the individual agencies.
The agency claims some $214 billion in savings on the official site DOGE.gov. The OPM claims the mission will continue.
Finally. President Trump announced that he was going to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization yesterday.
I do not understand how they had not been so designated previously. They have been labeled as such in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the UAE for a long time now. I wonder if CAIR – a wholly owned MB subsidiary – is going to get caught up.
Speaking of FTO designations, the Cartel de los Soles has officially been designated. For those unaware, Nicholas Maduro and his cronies in Venezuela are members of that cartel. It is also the cartel responsible for the vast majority of illegal drugs coming from Venezuela and Colombia. Anyway, there is a bunch of stuff building in that area.
Additionally, a flight of 2 B-52 s from Minot is currently winging it’s way down SOUTHCOM way. And a bunch of leave has been cancelled in that area. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’. . .
It seems the annual White House turkey pardon thing has turned into an online popularity contest.
While doing the research for this item I found a couple of interesting bits. The first President to spare a bird was Abraham Lincoln. The story goes, his son Tad had become attached to the bird they were going to eat for Christmas and Abe granted ‘clemency’. The tradition of presenting a turkey to the White House started in 1947 by an industry trade group. These birds were typically eaten. Bush 41 made it both a lasting tradition and started the ceremonial pardon thing.
Gobble gobble. . .
There is some sad news to report out of the music world. Reggae and Ska star Jimmy Cliff has passed. Cliff helped popularize the music coming out of Jamaica with songs like as “Many Rivers to Cross”, “You Can Get It If You Really Want”, “The Harder They Come”, “Reggae Night” and his cover of “I Can See Clearly Now” – his highest US charting song from the Cool Runnings soundtrack.
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Jimmy Cliff was 81.
Resquiecat en pace.
