Monday [1]

(0505) Apocalyptic looking morn out there and a fairly abstruse looking long tweet to open with. Morning all, have a productive day. (0545)

 

Joseph L. Trahan for Senate District 15 writes

I’m NOT saying CLOUD SEEDING caused hill country flooding. I’m clearly and quite rightly pointing out that a 31 person committee of Abbott donors ONLY… with NO expertise in weather, meteorology, earth physics, or anything at all to do with rainfall, rivers and reservoirs… UNDER the SOLE Supervision of DADE PHELAN Has let SOMEONE order and PAY FOR MASSIVE CLOUD SEEDING ongoing for years.

MORE cloud seeding in the last year than many years combined. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? WHO IS PAYING FOR ALL THIS CLOUD SEEDING AND WHY? Cloud Seeding…we’ve used it in time of drought in agriculture and ranching to help get a little moisture on the ground to prevent crop and herd die off from lack of water. It is an evolving science with more than 80 years of solid agricultural practice.

Why the Texas Legislature removed that oversight from the Texas Agriculture Commission with an oversight board of ranchers, farmers, reservoir analysts, meteorologists and NOAA input was a strange move in 1989.

NEVER in the history of the world have we seen SO MUCH cloud seeding that the last 18 months. The flight logs of cloud seeding in the last year are astronomical. It defies logic and those that could explain aren’t talking.

DID IT HAVE AN EFFECT ON THE HILL COUNTRY FLOODING? We can’t say for certain, but, that much cloud seeding non-stop daily over such a large expanse for weeks on end could NOT have been helpful. THAT is something we can agree upon. We have a flight logs -of 3 cloud seeding companies -that seeded vast swatches of cumulous cloud layer -spanning multiple counties on the west side of the Hill Country -for 11 and 14 days -EACH and EVERY day.

Rainmaker stopped its cloud seeding there on July 2nd, confirmed by flight logs West Texas Weather Modification LLC (subsidiary of Weather Modification LLC) and SOAR (Seeding Operations and Atmospheric Research) had hundreds of flights over the western range of the Texas Hill Country seeding daily all through the flash flood deluge. We know from flight logs every grid they flew, pilot, plane and manifest was silver oxide cloud seeding for more than two weeks.

What we don’t know is: WHO paid them to seed these clouds? WHY does TDLR (Texas Dept of Licensing & Registration) NOT have a committee NOR a single person of the 31 Greg Abbott appointees on TDLR board that has ANY weather, meteorological, ground water, flood water, reservoir, lake, river or even civil engineering experience whatsoever?

TDLR is the clandestine state agency that oversees cloud seeding. Abbott appoints the 31 members, DADE PHELAN runs that “Department” for Greg Abbott like a perfect robotical errand boy. 31 Abbott donors get to say “they have an appointment from the Governor” and they have sub committees on licensing massage parlors, hair salons, so on… but, not a single damn one of all 31 of them has even a remote notion of rain, weather, crops, reservoirs, rivers, lakes, dams, or meteorology and ZERO relationship with NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, a NASA related agency).

THAT is something the legislature took away from the Texas Agriculture Commission decades ago in 1989, where it likely rightly belongs. WHO paid those 3 companies to seed daily, everywhere on the entire western range of the hill country? THAT answer will be a good start to find out what the hell is really going on.

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JH: Right, I’m putting it to the few thou readers dotted across the west that is is not as abstruse and irrelevant a post to us as it might seem … there are certain commonalities between a district in Texas (?) and where you are right now.

First task, before any other, is elementary homework:


Question for me is … whom is Abbott beholden to and how? Why is he in power? Who are the names who ensured he was doing these things? Was it plain graft or was it this nasty ideological destruction we’re seeing right scross all legislatures, executives and judiciaries?

The theme continues now into Monday 2 …..

Sunday [11 till close of play]

(1637) Very late jazz, was waylaid this afternoon, things going on in RL. I only have two jazz songs, both with something extra about them.

 

15. Hell it was warm


14. Mark W does not usually get this direct


13. Conscience


12. Steve at 1105

Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . Dan Wootton

11. Jazz

Some consider the dancing very much part of it, I also wish they’d retained the saxophone in the band:

Once again, the sax and the dancing:

Wimbledon report

 

As an ex-teacher, obviously I would say this but the one thing professional sport and media has going for it is these human moments … signs of humanity en masse. And kudos to the players too, plus the umpire, getting into the spirit … I’m sure everyone wanted it all to go well.

And the thrill for all kids watching too … US baseball knows the formula … sadly football, for example, seems not to have these things.

Sunday [1 to 5]

(0714) A good time to open … morning all, sun here outside. (0740)

 

5. Moosh corner


4. Round up of reactions to Trump’s stupidity last night


3. Steve at 1104

  • President Trump Slaps Mexico and European Union with 30% Tariffs
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police Warns Citizens To Be Vigilant, for ‘People With Traditional Values Can Be Extremists’
  • Canadian Mountie Assigned to G7 Under Criminal Investigation for Making “Violent” Threats Against President Trump
  • Germany’s Rape Epidemic Skyrockets 50%
  • AG Bondi Axes 20 DOJ Staffers Tied to J6 (JH: Lowhanging fruit)
  • German missiles to Ukraine, goal smash Russia.
  • Kiev Mulls Donbass Retreat As Troops Despair
  • UK Parliament debates geoengineering and chemtrails; they are gaslighting us
  • The Food Is Poison, The Lobbyists Know It
  • Much more.

2. Have a lovely Sunday morn, y’all, y’hear?

What lovely sunshine out there.

1. DAD at 1104

a) The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal investigation into Elon Musk’s X platform for suspected manipulation of algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference.” The “suspicion” relates to manipulation in favor of the AfD…

b) Seven people suspected of being involved in migrant smuggling were arrested Friday evening near Saint-Omer in the Pas-de-Calais region. The suspects are four Romanians, a Somali national, an Iranian, and an Iraqi.

c) Across Europe, a new kind of politics is taking root. It is sectarian, identitarian, and increasingly shaped by the demands of Islamist interest groups, cloaked in the demands of progressivism and tolerance.

d) Prophesy regarding Pammy. Is Megyn correct?

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JH: DJT is certainly bewitched by her in full war paint.

Saturday [16 till close of play]

(1705) Evening all.

 

26. This looks very bad for Donald Trump, terrible optics

… ignoring his base, calling them “selfish people” and focussing on “files” and “lists”, which are irrelevant … it’s simply the names of perps, being charged, which MAGA has made quite clear they want … and were promised. 2026 is coming.


25. Last Refuge

“Keep in mind Mizelle was legal counsel to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, when all those sketchy determinations were made. Now Mizelle is the top lawyer assisting Bondi with DOJ transition…. Don’t say the signs were not there!”

24. Y’all have the most fabulous Saturday evening now

Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, tada.

23. Updates … more or less today

  • Gaetz pulled from Kirk event, summoned to DC
  • Raheem says not only Dan B but Kash plus many
  • Pammy’s ended the Pfizer investigation
  • Kathy Gyngell ditches Reform due to gang of three

22. My vote for post of the day


21. Is breaking the law a prerequisite in LA?


20. Sit down for this one, readers

… Pammy actually does something good for once and doesn’t lie about it:


19. Moosh corner


18. What a piece of work Paxton’s wife turned out to be


17. Just a local online front page from downunder


Mind you, it’s sensation seeking MSM but all the same … I briefly visited that school long long ago … you’d never have known it was a hotbed of naughtiness. Then again, how would we have known?

16. Steve at 1104 with war room

  • Mark Krikorian: President Eisenhower got illegals to leave on their own; most self-deported
  • Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: Corporations are getting away with hiring illegals, even children
  • Charlie Kirk On Epstein: “People Think That If You Have A Bunch Of Money You’re Immune From Justice.”
  • Steve Bannon: “I Am Totally And Completely Focused On Elon’s Destruction”

Sat Mat

 

Review:

“Directed by Montgomery Tully and adapted to screenplay by Maurice J. Wilson from the novel written by Laurence Meynell. It stars Tony Wright, Patricia Dainton, Sandra Dorne, Derek Aylward, Sam Kydd, Llewellyn Rees and Anita Sharp-Bolster. Music is by John Veale and cinematography by James Harvey.

When Jean Linton (Dainton) inherits a house in the country she hopes her hard drinking novelist husband David (Wright) will settle down and make something of himself and their marriage. However, when sultry Valerie Stockley (Dorne) arrives on the scene it’s not long before David’s head is turned and he begins to plot the murder of his wife. Jean is in trouble, but she has an ally, the resident poltergeist of Four Winds House…

Simplicity of plot and economical of running time and technical attributes, The House in Marsh Road should not be sought out by any “horror” fan craving poltergeist terror. This is a quaint and fun chiller for the most part, even with an air of jauntiness for the first half, in fact very much like The Uninvited (1944) in how the presence of a ghost is not seen as something to be outright feared. Then the mood for the latter stages of the play notably shifts into darker territory, here the dastardly David starts to put his plans in motion, something which signals time for the poltergeist to take a hand in proceedings. Which leads to a very good and genuinely edgy denouement at pics finale. 

It never lacks for atmosphere or period flavours, or indeed for competency of performances and direction, where although it never breaks out into the upper echelons of other classic British chillers, it’s still something of a “B” chiller worthy of inspection by those who don’t need to be jolted out their seats. As for “Patrick the Poltergeist”, he’s rightly kept off screen, or is he? One scene appears to show him? Either that or a prop guy is guilty of standing in the shot? See if you can spot the moment and judge for yourself. It’s just another fun part of a movie that provides gentle chills and honest entertainment.”