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Liberal madness, LOL, gotta luv it!


Happy Freija, I mean Friday!




May 31, 1916: the greatest naval battle of WWI begins. British naval forces commanded by Vice Admiral David Beatty confronts a squadron of German ships, 75 miles off the coast of Denmark. The opposing forces opened fire on each other, beginning the Battle of Jutland which involved a total of 100,000 men aboard 250 ships.


It was the largest sea battle of the WWI. Both sides claimed victory. The Royal Navy suffered much higher losses but succeeded in containing the German fleet. Directly after the war Beatty was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet, surpassing his former boss, Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe.


May 31, 1918: Lt. Edouard Victor Michel Izac (Dec 18, 1891 – Jan 18, 1990) was captured by German submarine U-90 after his ship USS President Lincoln was torpedoed. Keeping secret that he spoke German, Izac gathered valuable intel about German sub operations by watching and listening to the crew. After being transferred to POW camps, he attempted several daring escapes including diving headfirst through the window of a moving train. He finally succeeded by disguising himself as a German guard during a mass nighttime escape in which the American prisoners cut the power to the camp and he swam down the River Rhine. He was awarded the Medal of Honor and later served five terms in Congress. At the time of his death in 1990, he was the last living MoH recipient from WWI. When is the movie about his life?


The Hall Of Valor

He received the "Tiffany Cross" version of the medal. Only awarded to sailors and Marines and only 22 ever awarded. Served as Calif congressman in House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947. After leaving office, he moved his family to Gordonsville, Virginia, where he became a farmer and led a simple life raising cattle and growing various fruits & vegetables. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Survived by five children, nineteen grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren.

The Tiffany Cross (designed by Tiffany & Company) later became unpopular, possibly because it closely resembled the German Iron Cross. In 1942, the Navy returned to using only the original 1862 inverted 5-point star design, and ceased issuing the award for non-combat action. During the Tiffany Cross's active status, the next lower naval award was the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, followed by the Navy Cross. By congressional action on August 7, 1942, in the same act that terminated the Tiffany Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Cross swapped places, with the Navy Cross also becoming solely a combat award.

Book: Prisoner of the U-90 by Lt. Edouard Izac (1919)


May 31, 1988: in Red Square, a famous Football shot by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Joe Marquette (1937-2016).




Hmm, logo looks familiar...

Keir Starmer unveils logo of Great British Energy

Retweeting the logo will help keep the lights on. LOL.


Senator Joe Manchin (West Virginia) has officially left the Democratic party and registered as an Independent.




Phase 0: The Total Destruction of Hamas.




One of these things is not like the other... Banana republic & one jester. In other news apparently the fund raising tactic worked!



"It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the United States, if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences.

In other words, the Constitution cannot protect you, if you don't protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom — and all our freedom — to be eroded away, bit by bit. Our children and grandchildren may yet come to see the Constitution as just some quaint words from the past that people once took seriously."
— Thomas Sowell

"In order to achieve their end, collectivists must create power—power over men wielded by other men—of a magnitude never before known, and that their success will depend on the extent to which they achieve such power." — Friedrich Hayek


Former Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Burke Arrested by Feds on Bribery Charges.

A retired Vice Chief of Naval Operations was arrested Friday on charges of bribery stemming from an alleged government contract scheme between 2020 and 2022.

Robert Burke, a retired four-star admiral, allegedly worked with two CEOs to arrange a contract with their company to provide training for the Navy in exchange for a position with the company.

Burke is charged with bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, performing acts to affect a personal financial interest and concealing material facts. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted, according to the DoJ.

Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger, the co-CEOs of the company, which was not named in the Department of Justice release, were also arrested.

Allegedly, Kim and Messenger secured a government contract to provide training for a group in the Navy from 2018 to 2019, when the Navy ended the contract and ordered Burke to no longer contact the two CEOs.

Instead, the three met in 2021 to set up a situation in which Burke would use his influence as a Navy admiral to get the company a contract with the Navy, the release alleges.

“They allegedly further agreed that Burke would use his official position to influence other Navy officers to award another contract to Company A to train a large portion of the Navy with a value Kim allegedly estimated to be ‘triple digit millions,’” reads the release.

Retired 4-star admiral busted

Words for the utepils Weekend...




Buckle up your seatbelt and grab a tinfoil hat...