The Crevalle Rescue

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Today is Cary Grant’s birthday (born in 1904 and died 11/29/1986) and I went in search of interesting facts about my favorite Cary Grant movie—Operation Petticoat.  I found out it was loosely based on the real rescue of civilians during World War II by a submarine called the Crevalle.  I found this story about the rescue on the pacificwarmuseum.org website:

The island of Negros, located between the islands of Panay and Cebu in the Philippines, was a center of sugarcane production since Spanish colonial times, known for its sugar haciendas. The workers of these haciendas, or sugar mills, were notably not considered as property or segregated by race, and they were free to move about, not tied to mills or locations as many plantations bound slaves. After the Philippines was liberated from Spain, many Americans visited or went to live on Los Negros, often intermarrying with the locals and starting families. Some Americans came as missionaries, some came as entrepreneurs, and some as laborers. There were mothers and fathers, students, teachers, workers, businessmen, and missionaries living across the island throughout the early twentieth century. But the lives of the people of Negros changed when the Japanese invaded in 1941.

Once Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 7 December 1941, it continued to attack territories and rapidly gained control of various islands in the Pacific. The struggle for the Philippines was prolonged, but it finally fell into Japanese hands in May 1942. The peaceful island of Negros became dangerous for those of American ancestry. Guerrilla fighters in the Philippines fought fiercely against occupation, and Japan finally ordered in November of 1943 that all Americans must give themselves up or be hunted down and killed. The United States’ response was to send the USS Crevalle, a Balao-class submarine, to Negros to evacuate American families from the island to Australia. In May 1944, Crevalle’s orders were to rescue twenty-five passengers and “important documents” awaiting them on Negros. They encountered forty-one people—men, women, and children who had risked their lives running from the Japanese and escaped to the beach for their chance of salvation.

The refugees came from all walks of life—missionaries, planters, former prisoners of war, sugar mill owners, businessmen, and even young children. Few of the refugees knew each other before meeting on the beach, but the one thing they had in common was that the Japanese were hunting them, and they were leaving their homes to survive. Colonel Abcede, leader of the guerillas and the organizer of the evacuation, was dismayed to find that they had far exceeded the promised 25 passengers for the Crevalle, but when the submarine arrived her captain, Francis D. Walker, Jr., assured him they would take them all.

Captain Walker assumed command of the Crevalle in March 1944 for her third war patrol and sunk two Japanese ships in less than two weeks. Walker’s command style was described as “aggressive,” and not always as a compliment, but he had twice earned the Silver Star for command decisions—once during his time aboard the USS Searaven and again as executive officer and navigator of the Crevalle in December 1943. Just after the Crevalle sank the second ship on her third war patrol, Walker received orders to terminate the patrol and head for Negros for this special mission. Walker was dismayed at having to call off what had been a rousingly-successful patrol, but he followed orders.

This was not Captain Walker’s first experience with a special rescue mission; while Walker was serving aboard the Searaven, their war patrol was called off to rescue thirty-three Australian aviators. Now, as captain of the Crevalle, he found himself with forty-one extra passengers and a mysterious box containing documents that the U.S. military was eager to receive. No one told Walker at the time, but these documents held the Japanese plans for a decisive, all-out battle against the Americans, called the “Z Plan.” The plane carrying this plan had crashed in the Bohol Strait off the island of Cebu, just east of Negros, and two native Filipinos found the box on the beach. The Allied Intelligence Bureau learned of the crash and requested, among other things, all the documents from the downed plane.

…SURFACE. AND RECIEVED FROM BOAT FLYING U.S. COLORS TWENTY-FIVE PASSENGERS AND IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS.

Top secret orders received by Captain Walker

Once everyone was aboard, the Crevalle got underway, headed back for Australia. Several families, including the Reals and the Lindholms, had young children who amused themselves as best they could, occasionally finding themselves underfoot of the Crevalle crew. There were also soldiers like 25-year-old Howard Chrisco, who had survived the Bataan Death March and now desperately awaited the return home. When the passengers from Negros boarded the submarine and got underway, they believed they had made it, that the worst was over. But there was more to come for the Crevalle.

Early the next morning, 12 May, a Japanese Betty bomber dropped out of the clouds when the submarine was on the surface. The submarine was ordered to dive, but the bombs fell close to the vessel. Everyone aboard heard and felt the explosion, which woke most of the boat. The Crevalle stayed submerged for over an hour before coming back to the surface. The bomber was soon sighted again, and the Crevalle would be bombed, submerged, and surface again multiple times throughout the morning. Later, while the vessel was still submerged, the crewman on watch sighted through the periscope a Japanese convoy. Since Captain Walker’s orders to retrieve the passengers and documents from Negros hadn’t forbidden attacking the enemy, he chose to engage the convoy. An enemy plane dropped a smoke signal above the submarine, marking the sub’s location. It wasn’t until the last moment that Captain realized they’d been spotted—just before the first depth charges went off.

The submarine was rocked as the charges exploded, sending loose equipment, belongings, and children’s toys flying. The attack only lasted about a minute, but managed to inflict heavy damage. The concussive blasts had slammed into the hull and caused leaks that the crewmen raced to slow or stop. Equipment had broken, including the sonar and both periscopes, leaving the Crevalle blind. The frightened children were hushed, and all forty-one passengers and eighty crew members stayed silent as they listened to the enemy sonar pinging as it looked for the submarine. For some of the passengers, like eight-year-old Berna Real, the experience was terrifying, but others, like Berna’s older brother Billy, found it quite exciting—until the second barrage hit suddenly and without warning.

Although the Crevalle managed to survive the second barrage, everyone aboard was shaken, and all aboard spontaneously agreed without orders to run silent, shutting down all equipment that could make noise and alert the Japanese to their position. This included the ventilation system, and the submarine quickly grew very hot. They stayed submerged in this way for hours, sweating profusely and waiting for whatever was coming next as they crept slowly along underwater. Finally, blinded by the smashed periscopes and not entirely sure what he might find at the surface, Captain Walker made the decision to surface. Luckily, there were no other ships or planes in sight. The worst had passed.

The Crevalle rendezvoused with the Chinampa, a trawler that took the Negros passengers aboard and brought them the rest of the way to Australia, and to safety. The documents carried by the Crevalle were transported immediately to American intelligence, who transcribed and decrypted the Z Plan and sent this new intelligence to Admiral Nimitz. This information on Japanese naval tactics enabled them to react and respond to Japanese strategy, gave them insights as to the strength of the present Japanese military, and informed the American naval strategies for the rest of World War Two.

The refugees were relocated to the United States, although many had never lived there before or had not been there in years. The Lindholms, a missionary family whose father Paul elected to stay behind on Negros, went to live with Paul’s brother until Paul himself rejoined them after the liberation of the Philippines in 1945. Bataan survivor Howard Chrisco returned to his parents in Salem, Missouri where he met and married his wife Elsie and eventually became a cattle farmer. The Real family landed in San Francisco and moved to the small town of Albany, just across the bay. None of the Real children had ever lived in the United States, and they regarded it as a fascinating new adventure, exploring their new home. Although the children were young when it happened, none ever forgot the experience of their tumultuous rescue from Negros.

In Fall 2024, the National Museum of the Pacific War will open its “submersive” experience, The Rescue, based on the escape from Negros alongside Berna Real, whose testimony contributed to the development of this experience.

SOURCE: PACIFICWARMUSEUM.ORG; Margaret Dudley

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    1. Good morning! Still not too cold @ 11 – maybe they’ll prove to be wrong….again…..regardless, that oil heater will definitely heat up the entire back half of the house. I set it on low and checked it this morning – toasty! After I got my coffee going, I turned on the light on the patio and there stood Wheezer, looking for his food. Fascinating story – I had never heard about any of this. Oh, I’m sure such things were brought up in HS History but I don’t remember much from those classes – for the most part, it was just boring.

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      2. THAT MEANS YOU – Mary McCord, Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann – who all spent much of their careers trying to destroy Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters BAMN (by any means necessary) – !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    2. Good morning, GA! Wheezer showed up this morning – not too cold yet, only 11. The deep freeze will be tonight and tomorrow night.

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  7. staffers wanted a 32 hour week–they withdrew their letter after both sides of the aisle panned it.
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    The letter had been widely panned by both sides of the aisle, with former Hill staffer and Democratic communications consultant Tim Hogan writing, “lol read the room guys.”

    Rep. Ritchie Torres wrote, “Why not be bold and ask for a 0-hour workweek? I wonder how blue-collar Americans would feel about white-collar workers demanding a 32-hour workweek.”

    GOP Rep Chip Roy wrote, “No. I was a staffer. I worked 100 hours a week and loved it. I once pulled back to back all nighters to kill a really bad bill. I’d do it again. Grow up.”

    “You want to work 32 hours but get paid for 40? Nope. The taxpayers aka your boss, deserve folks who hustle and work hard FULL TIME on their behalf. This is public service after all,” Rep Kat Cammack wrote.

    https://thepostmillennial.com/left-wing-congressional-staffers-withdraw-letter-demanding-32-hour-work-week-after-bipartisan-backlash

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    1. I rarely worked for an hourly wage, except when I was working thru the temp agency – secretaries were on salary and were expected to be there when needed. I literally worked all day and thru the night into the early morning to get a proposal ready; went home, showered and changed, and came back at 8 am to pick it up again. And yes, we got the contract! These pansies have NO clue what work really is!!! And don’t even get me started on the # of work hours on the horse farm and racetrack. The HORSES determine the clock.

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      2. I still say piece rate is the way to go. i easily made $12 an hour back in the 1980’s. AND if you got too many repairs back? your pay was docked. we learned to be good and fast.
        and then you were rewarded with better jobs that paid more. meritocracy!

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            2. I worked on a temp job at an AT&T plant in VA that was unionized; since I was a temp, there was no question of me joining so, thankfully, they left me alone.

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  8. the fire at the lithium battery plant reignited

    sunnydaze
    January 18, 2025 12:41 am

    Fire at Lithium Battery plant in CA. reignited today.

    A second fire has broken out at the world‘s largest lithium battery facility at Vistra Power Plant in Moss Landing, California. pic.twitter.com/F6VfjctpkN https://t.co/uyHt7UdYCA

    — Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) January 18, 2025

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      1. How to Extinguish EV Fire

        Putting out an electric vehicle (EV) fire requires specific methods due to the nature of lithium-ion batteries. Here are some key approaches:

        • Water: Substantial amounts of water can be used to cool down the battery and extinguish the fire. However, this method can be time-consuming and requires a large volume of water, often tens of thousands of gallons. For example, a fire in a Lincoln Aviator hybrid required over 40,000 gallons of water to extinguish.
        • Fire Blankets: These can be used to contain the fire and reduce the environmental impact. Fire blankets are designed to envelop burning EVs and hybrids, subduing toxic fumes and preventing the spread of the fire. They are typically used in conjunction with special hose nozzles to cool the battery cells from underneath.
        • BEST System (Battery Extinguisher System Technology): This device, manufactured by Rosenbauer America, uses a high-pressure air spike to penetrate the battery pack and flood it with water from the inside. This method is claimed to extinguish the fire in around 45 minutes using less than 500 gallons of water, compared to traditional methods that can take hours and thousands of gallons of water.
        • Submerging the Vehicle: In some cases, firefighters have resorted to submerging the entire vehicle in water to extinguish the fire. This method is used when other methods are not effective.

        It’s important to note that even after an EV fire appears to be extinguished, latent heat can still spread within the battery cells, posing a risk of reignition. Therefore, firefighters often wait for extended periods to ensure the fire is completely out and the vehicle is stable.

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        1. Yep – Lithium batteries reignite!

          I use lithium battery powered yard tools – a mower, blower, trimmer/edger and a trimmer converted into a round buzz saw to trim the woods. I keep those batteries indoors in my air conditioned laundry room – they are not around children or pets – and I handle them very carefully – almost like I would handle fire arms. I joke that I tote that big Ego mower battery with both hands – like I would the nuclear football.

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        2. AND – if they ever wear out or are damaged in any way – I would take them out to our county dump’s hazardous waste disposal facility.

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  9. Just The News: “The House Oversight Committee on Friday announced that the Department of Health and Human Services officially cut all federal funding and disbarred EcoHealth Alliance and its former President Peter Daszak for five years.

    The company and Daszak allegedly facilitated and passed taxpayer money for to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, which is a suspected source of COVID-19, and did so without proper government oversight, according to the committee. 

    Dr.-Peter-Daszak-HHS-Notice_Jan-17-2025_Redacted.pdf

    “Justice for the American people was served today,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer said in a statement. “Bad actor EcoHealth Alliance and its corrupt former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, were formally debarred by HHS for using taxpayer funds to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in China. Today’s decision is not only a victory for the U.S. taxpayer, but also for American national security and the safety of citizens worldwide.”

    The decision comes after the department suspended EcoHealth Alliance’s funding in May, and recommended a permanent ban on funding for the nonprofit. It also suggested the alliance’s and Daszak’s disbarment, because the nonprofit had repeatedly violated the terms of its National Institute of Health grant, but HHS did not made a final decision on the matter until Friday.

    “Given that a lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely origin of COVID-19, EcoHealth and its former President should never again receive a single cent from the U.S. taxpayer,” Comer said.”

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  10. EXCERPT: “Federalist CEO Sean Davis dropped some stunning details about the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life in a Friday conversation with Tucker Carlson on “The Tucker Carlson Show.”

    The conversation explored how, six months after the shooting, despite a congressional investigation, little is known — or has been released — about the shooter, and the incident quickly fell out of the news cycle.

    Davis began the interview by describing three critical things the American people need to know: the shooter’s background and motivations, how government agencies allowed the attempt to take place, and what happened to the people responsible for the security failures.

    “I refuse to believe this was just a series of unfortunate accidents and incompetence,” Davis said after outlining a number of explanations for how the attempt took place. “It’s just not.”

    Trump was shot in the ear by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who stood on the roof of a building outside the secure area of the Trump campaign rally. Crooks was shot dead by law enforcement with a freakishly high-power weapon, a .300 Win Mag with a Hornady 210 grain hollow-point bullet.  

    “For people who don’t shoot,” Carlson said, “that’s so much larger than the … round Crooks is shooting.”

    Davis and Carlson then discussed the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s lack of transparency in the aftermath of the assassination attempt. The FBI interviewed over 1,000 people, Davis said, with each presumably producing paperwork. But the FBI only gave House members investigating the security failures 81 documents relating to the interviews…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/17/federalist-ceo-sean-davis-drops-stunning-details-about-the-butler-trump-assassination-attempt-in-tucker-carlson-interview/

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  12. Wow! She is impressive! Evita Duffy-Alfonso, host of the Bongino Report-Early Edition about TikTok. Yes, she’s HER daughter! And Rachel is beaming from ear to ear, rightfully so!!!

    “Evita Duffy-Alfonso is part of a large family. She is the daughter of politician Sean Duffy and television host Rachel Campos-Duffy. Evita has eight siblings and is known for her work as a contributor for The Federalist and as the managing editor of The Chicago Thinker. She is married to Michael Alfonso, whom she got engaged to in August 2021 and married on June 24, 2022.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/evita-duffy-alfonso-why-my-generation-ditching-tiktok-another-communist-app

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  13. The more I think about it – and thanks to Duffy-Alfonso for laying it out so perfectly – the more this banning of TikTok pisses me off! FFS, Facebook SELLS customer data to China!!! And the US no doubt has their own agents implanted in the Chinese systems – indeed, all over the fricking world in probably 90% of countries!!! EVERYONE is spying on EVERYONE!!!

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  14. Aubergine

    Aubergine(@aubergine)

    Online

    Wolf

    January 18, 2025 10:13

    Guys, it has been a really rough four years, but, I hate to say it, it could have been MUCH WORSE.

    I read stuff like this, and I almost can’t believe the country has survived. It’s just unbelievable:

    https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1880602719754293249

    @CollinRugg

    NEW: During a one-on-one meeting, Speaker Johnson asked President Biden why he paused LNG exports to Europe, says Biden was completely unaware he had done so. The United States hasn’t had a president for four years. Johnson says Biden was completely unaware of an executive order he signed. The comments from Johnson came during an interview with @bariweiss

    . Johnson said after fighting for 9 weeks with Biden’s staff, he was finally able to get a meeting with the president. When he arrived, Johnson says he was “ambushed” by Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Biden, who apparently didn’t know what was going on, asked the others to leave so he could meet privately with Johnson. “It occurred to me he was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed. I walked outta that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble.’”

    Video: @TheFP

    I think the United States has only survived the last four years because of our sheer momentum and weight in the world. We’re like this giant boulder rolling down a mountain. If there’s a big ditch in the way, if the boulder has enough momentum, it can jump the ditch. Biden (really Obama’s shadow pResidency) was the ditch. America is the boulder. Our status and force, gained in the past 248 years, have kept us rolling down the mountain.

    Thank God we only have two more days until a real President is back in charge.

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    1. Holy shit! That really confirms it! Man, did we ever dodge a bullet! And I’ll say this with certainty: had Donald Trump not been in the arena standing steadfast, they would have gotten MUCH further at destroying our country!!! His presence kept it to a minimum, believe it or not! Just imagine the last 4 years had he not been front-and-center thruout!!!

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  16. “It is (or at least was at one time) amazing what we as a country can get done when we put our hearts in to something…

    American M26 Pershing tanks on the production line at GM Grand Blanc Metal Centre (Fisher Body Tank Plant) – Michigan 1945″

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  21. Well, the pink hats are back; a large group of protestors, some with the hats, have gathered in front of the Lincoln memorial. They were bussed in from at least 10 states. OK, go ahead – freeze your ass off! Have fun!!! SMH

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  22. Hell yeah!!! I know it would be considered by some to be “classist” but the fact remains, I have a REAL problem feeling a lot of sympathy with someone who can afford houses worth that many $$$$’s!!!

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  27. Just The News: “President-elect Trump revealed on Saturday that he plans to visit Los Angeles probably at the end of next week to survey the wildfire damage.

    “We’re going to be demanding that the water be released from the north into the lower parts of California,” he said during a phone interview with NBC News. “I was going to go, actually yesterday, but I thought it would be better if I went as president. It’s a little bit more appropriate, I suspect,” he added. Trump said he has not yet spoken directly to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

    He also said an announcement on the handling of TikTok will take place on Monday. The app is set to be banned in U.S. app stories by Sunday since its owner has not sold it to a U.S.-based entity. The Biden administration has said it wouldn’t enforce the ban and instead allow Trump’s administration to handle the matter.

    “The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate. We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation,” Trump said. Trump told NBC he plans to issue a “record-setting” number of executive actions after taking office, putting the number at more than 100. 

    Trump has said moving the inauguration indoors was the “right decision,” given the low temperatures in the forecast for Washington, D.C.”

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  30. EXCERPT: “…..Now, in a new interview Saturday with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, Trump has floated a possible solution to the immanent ban–a 90-day extension of the deadline to either sell the platform or be banned:

    Trump said he hadn’t made a final decision but was considering a 90-day extension of the Sunday deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell to a non-Chinese-buyer or face a U.S. ban.

    “I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate. We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation,” Trump said in the phone interview.

    “If I decide to do that, I’ll probably announce it on Monday,” he said.

    NBC News notes that the law passed in April 2024 does allow for “a 90-day extension under specific conditions.”

    A Monday announcement, of course, will be too late to stop any interruption caused by TikTok going dark, if they choose to follow through with their statement…..”

    https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/01/18/trump-floats-a-solution-to-tiktok-ban-scheduled-to-start-sunday-n2184513

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  31. EXCERPT: “The incoming Trump administration is still staffing up key roles, replacing the Biden appointees with people who actually know what they’re doing. That’s an unalloyed good thing, but in this process, President-elect Trump is also bringing some justice to some people who were unfairly separated from the Armed Services. People like former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Matthew Lohmeier, who was discharged after criticizing the Space Force’s “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” (DEI) horse squeeze. LTC Lohmeier will be serving the Trump administration as Under-secretary of the Air Force.

    President-elect Trump announced Friday that Matthew Lohmeier will serve as the under secretary of the Air Force.

    “Matt is a former fighter pilot, and Space Force Squadron Commander, who has devoted his life to serving our Great Nation,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “He is a proud graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy.”

    In 2021, Lohmeier was fired from the Space Force, where he served as a lieutenant colonel, after criticizing the U.S. military on a conservative podcast. Lohmeier joined “The Steve Gruber Show” to discuss his book “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military,” which claims that Marxist beliefs have become increasingly common in the military. In the same appearance, he also called The New York Times’s 1619 Project “anti-American.”

    Bear in mind that there are certain restrictions on active military members appearing at political events in uniform, but service members do not surrender their rights under the First Amendment, and appearing on a podcast to promote a book is not a prohibited activity.

    Lohmeier’s dismissal, at the time, provoked a sharp response from Republican lawmakers, The Hill reported in its story linked above:

    At the time, the Defense Department said it had lost “trust and confidence” in Lohmeier as the reason for his dismissal. His removal from the role was met with outrage from Republican lawmakers, including former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who called the department’s move “retaliatory.”

    On Friday, Trump wrote that in his new role, Lohmeier will work to “end the devastating ‘woke’ policies that have destroyed our Military, and make our Country STRONG AGAIN.”

    President Trump, in fact, is promising LTC Lohmeier an additional task beyond his duties as Under-secretary of the Air Force:

    https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1880485235122663828

    https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/01/18/trump-tags-space-force-officer-dismissed-by-biden-over-dei-criticism-for-undersecretary-of-air-force-n2184508

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  33. EXCERPT: “Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was always unconstitutional. I knew it. You knew it. Democrats knew it. Obama knew it. Yet somehow it always seemed to survive legal challenges. Well, finally, a federal appeals court has ruled that this Obama-era program is, in fact, unconstitutional—a timely gift for Trump mere days before he takes office.

    A federal appeals court on Friday declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy unlawful, casting a cloud of uncertainty over more than half a million unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

    A panel of judges before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that found that a Biden administration rule to codify DACA violated U.S. immigration law. The 2012 Obama administration memo that originally created the policy has also been found to be unlawful by federal courts.

    Unfortunately, there’s a bit of a catch. According to the article, “the panel of judges kept DACA alive for current recipients and closed to new applicants.”

    The ruling is nevertheless long overdue. For over 12 years, DACA has granted hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came here illegally or overstayed their visas as minors the ability to live and work here without fear of deportation. 

    As I mentioned above, even Obama knew the program was illegal…..”

    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/18/federal-appeals-court-hands-trump-huge-gift-on-eve-of-inauguration-n4936114

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  34. Loknath Brahmachari temple in Barodi, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh. | © Mahdin Shafiq Omi, Bangladesh, Winner, National Awards, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    Punta del Hidalgo lighthouse in Tenerife. | © Ana Skobe, Slovenia, Winner, Regional Awards, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    The warm light of the lanterns illuminates the hearts of pabbajja novices in the courtyard of Borobudur temple, Indonesia. | © Dhiky Aditya, Indonesia, Winner, National Awards, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    Competitors practice for Bon Om Touk, a traditional festival that is also known as the Cambodian Water Festival. | © Davuth Van, Cambodia, Winner, National Awards, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket transits the moon carrying the X-37B space plane into orbit. Shockwaves from the rocket cause a ripple effect across the moon. | © Pascal Fouquet, United States, Winner, National Awards, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

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  36. Jake is even fatter than this guy….

    Golden Gate, the bridge that couldn’t be built, but was. Wonder how long it would take and how much it would cost to do that today?

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  38. NOT ONE DAMN CENT!!!!

    WHO wants $1.5 BILLION in ADDITIONAL funding from countries for health crises including climate change.

    FTA

    The appeal emphasized that this $1.5 billion is intended for the W.H.O. Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE), not the general pool of funding for the W.H.O. The CFE is distinct from general funding in that it is easier and faster to use those funds and is intended, the agency explained, to “revolutionize how public health emergencies are addressed.”

    While claiming the funds will be used to address health emergencies explicitly, the appeal’s brochure repeatedly emphasizes the agency’s fixation on “climate change,” declaring it “a health crisis” itself “wreaking havoc on human health, societies, economies, and overwhelming health care systems worldwide.”

    “Climate-induced disasters, including floods, droughts, and heatwaves, are intensifying disease outbreaks and worsening health inequities,” the W.H.O. claimed. “WHO leads emergency responses and builds resilience in health systems to mitigate these impacts.”

    W.H.O. Demands World Give It $1.5 Billion to Handle Emergencies

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  39. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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