Hours 1 and 2:BZ had the honor and pleasure of speaking to LARRY LAIRD, Vietnam veteran, who was the crew chief of USMC VMO-3 Huey helicopter gunships, as we discussed Vietnam, helicopters, law enforcement, and law enforcement helo flying.
Larry Laird in Vietnam, ca 1967, with belt-fed M60 machine gun, rocket pod, and handgun shoulder holster, on Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter.
LARRY was one of BZ’s supervisory deputies when he was a reserve officer in the 1970s, and hadn’t seen LARRY LAIRD in at least 30 years! What a great reunion, with great stories and tales!
BZ with first reserve deputy TO, Hugh McGraw. 1975.
Ah, we were so young then.
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Hours 1 and 2:BZ and LONNIE POINDEXTER addressed today’s schism in race, noting that the division between races is purposeful and taught to our young by Demorats and those on the Left who profit, monetarily and politically, by said division — which only serves to make Conservatives easier to suppress and destroy.
Tonight we had two men, one black, one white (and only mentioned because Leftists couch everything in terms of race or sex or both), whom Leftists insist should have nothing in common — only to clearly display they have everything in common.
They are Conservatives.
Their only difference? Paint jobs. And that means nothing.
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At the age of 70, radio host Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer early Wednesday morning, after having been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer a year prior.
Yes, before the question is even asked, Rush Limbaugh was a smoker, first of cigarettes and then of cigars.
So I’d like to take you on a journey to more fully understand and appreciate Rush Limbaugh.
That’s the point of writing this. Because I too was in radio for a number of years, both in AM and FM as a proverbial musical “disc jockey” and also in talk radio, as well as various forms of support to include Traffic Reporter, FM Programmer, News Editor — all at KFBK — and Station Manager, Program Director, Promotions Director, and on-air talent at numerous other stations.
Rush Limbaugh was a radio icon, a great supporter of America, and single-handedly responsible for providing a voice to Conservatives who, heretofore, were mostly voiceless.
America discovered Rush had passed away when his wife Kathryn spoke at the beginning of his Wednesday show, February 17th.
Here is her statement presented on YouTube, if you cannot play the above.
And that is how we discovered that a true American icon had died.
Rush Limbaugh’s last show was on Tuesday, February 2nd, where he was able to provide us with two hours of broadcasting excellence.
For his last words from the EIB studio, start at 1:52:50.
His last words were “see you all next time.” And we will. Just not in the radio format.
Radio on KFBK in August of 1986. Note the reel-to-reel tape deck, the voluminous cart rack, and the Shure SM7 microphone. Producer Kitty O’Neal talks with the then-35-year-old Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh provided the voice and the venue for those of a Conservative bent and a movement was started. There are those who would credit the political process itself for the Right finding its voice — and certainly the Ronald Reagan years should not be discounted as it was during the temper of these times that Rush Limbaugh worked his way to syndication in 1988.
From there the culture wars may have officially begun. After literally decades of ruling all forms of media and, moreover, its content, liberals were most chagrined to discover AM radio shortly became the bastion of conservatives. It took literally years for the Left to even attempt inroads to AM radio via Air America — and we all know how solvent and powerful Air America is currently.
From there, the internet blossomed. Conservatives took to the net like fish to water. This in turn led to various conservative magazines with links to the internet, Fox News and, most recently, to my venue — the blog. Conservatives are big in the Blogosphere.
As grew the voice of Conservatives, so the Left and liberals felt (because, let’s face it, they were) more challenged. Not everything they said and espoused was accepted by rote. Persons actually had, egads, the temerity to speak up and attempt to refute what the MSM said and wrote. And, egads, it was proven time and again that the MSM occasionally seemed to omit some very salient things from their stories — some people call them facts.
Mind you, this is me in 2006. Only two years after I started my blog in 2004.
Liberals then, during that transition and now (witness this book and others) feature themselves the victims in this heinous and oppressive power grab by the Right.
What happened is this: common people found a voice. They found an outlet for their frustrations. People from the heartland. People from the working class who wanted to get ahead and didn’t want the government to do it for them. People who wanted to be left alone to prosper. People who believe in Capitalism and believe that hard work should yield benefits. People who believe in a higher being as did our Founding Fathers, who believed in justice, in ethics and morals.
So in truth, Conservatives haven’t “fought back” — they just had the gall to voice their beliefs and concerns in a way they never had before.
And that’s what’s threatening to liberals.
It began with a word: information. And the dissemination of and access to information.
Because it’s all about the power and, for the first time in recent political memory, around 1988, the Democrats didn’t have an absolute stranglehold on the control of information and, consequently, their power diminished. Because, after all, information is power and where politics are concerned, it’s always about power and money.
When did this begin? What dynamic changed the situation?
In my opinion, it wasn’t a dynamic, it was a person. One little bitty radio person who started a talk show on KFBK in my home town, Sacramento, Fornicalia. Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh gave voice to an entire generation, and to generations after, an entire strata of persons who thought they had no voice, who had no idea there were so many others just like themselves. Conservatives began to realize: I’m not alone.
Perhaps I’m simplifying things but I think not; Rush started an actual revolution of conservative self-realization — a very important concept and a base upon which was built subsequent generations of conservative talk show hosts attempting to capitalize on Rush’s success, his cash and, more importantly, fundamentally conservative leanings.
Rush Limbaugh created, particularly in 1988 when his national syndication took off, a starting point for a trend that has mutated into an entirely new paradigm of how we, as Americans, access and process our news and information. And how we have become much more politically aware of what goes on about us.
Make no mistake: Leftist dogma is every bit a religion; Leftists believe the greatest enemy is the United States. We already know how that goes. We saw it with the Leftist-Anarchist Summer of Hate in 2020.
So I submit that where we are now is because, in great part, to Rush Limbaugh. Not in a negative fashion, but in a positive fashion.
Because if Conservatives never found a voice, the Republicans would be in even worse, smashed, pounded, shape than they are now. And moreover, Conservatives, as individuals, as groups, would possibly have continued to evolve at a much slower pace.
Rush Limbaugh is that important to two critical areas:
The format of radio — as an effective communications tool which could, simultaneously, inform, entertain, and poke fun, and
Republicans and Conservatives finding their own voice and, once found, using that voice to advance Conservative thought and agendas
So make no mistake, Rush Limbaugh was a Republican but — then — a Conservative mover and shaker.
I tried to think of all the bullet points that would be applicable to Rush Limbaugh, otherwise I’d simply have to write a book. Here goes:
It could be said that Rush Limbaugh revitalized all of AM radio, which had been drying up courtesy of the FM radio challenge.
As AM radio was “dying” Limbaugh single-handedly brought it back during what might be considered “the worst of times” for Conservatives as President Clinton was in office in 1992 — despite that his listenership exploded.
I could say that without Limbaugh there might not have been House control in 1993, as Speaker Newt Gingrich confirms.
He made politics fun, with parodies of himself and others.
Just as he was eternally optimistic, he showed us all that, overall, Conservatives are much more optimistic, happy and, more importantly, oriented towards creativity and building.
He emphasized that contrast so it became obvious that Leftists are negative, unhappy, and focus on destruction.
He emphasized that America is fundamentally decent, good, caring and charitable.
He shared some characteristics with President Trump, insofar as he was the initial outsider, a trend setter, who spoke his mind and was attacked for it.
He said, of the American people, “simply get out of their way and let them triumph.”
Limbaugh was self-taught. He had no college. He failed any number of times and kept going, persevered, and got better and more facile with each radio job.
Rush Limbaugh paved the way for Fox News, which went live in October of 1996.
It could be said he cleared the way for President Trump — whom he supported.
His clear key was: “I simply validated what everyone already felt.”
So who was “everyone” to Rush Limbaugh? Was it the elites? I submit: No. It was the same people for whom President Trump fought. The average working man or woman, who pulled a wage, paid taxes, whose “paint job” didn’t matter — but who was voiceless, ignored, used like a Kleenex and then thrown away first by Demorats and then by Republicans today — which is more than abundantly clear.
What were some of the attributes that you felt Rush Limbaugh possessed?
And what did Rush Limbaugh mean to you?
For that matter, what does radio in general mean to you?
But things didn’t just start at KFBK in Sacramento. It took Rush Limbaugh twenty years to even get there. And “there” was in fact the “50,000 watt flame thrower” of AM radio stations, as KFBK was licensed back when AM stations could be licensed for 50,000 watts of power.
Limbaugh dropped out of college in 1971 and then was subsequently fired from four radio stations. He got involved with sales with the Kansas City Royals in 1979, then went back to radio in 1983. He was fired after a year then, two weeks later, got hired by KFBK to replace Morton Downey Jr, who called a local politician a “chink.”
Here’s a Rush Limbaugh aircheck from 1974, at station KQV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Limbaugh’s first show on KFBK was October 14th of 1984. An ominous year, yes? 1984?
But it was the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine—which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast—by the FCC on August 5, 1987, meant stations could broadcast editorial commentary without having to present opposing views.
Daniel Henninger wrote, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, “Ronald Reagan tore down this wall (the Fairness Doctrine) in 1987 … and Rush Limbaugh was the first man to proclaim himself liberated from the East Germany of liberal media domination.”
The end of government-mandated “fairness” — translated: equity. Guaranteed equal outcomes. Not guaranteed opportunity.
Limbaugh failed and failed a number of times. KGO in San Francisco turned him down. But he persevered because doing radio was something he loved, had a passion for.
Limbaugh became syndicated in 1988, left KFBK, and continued on, first to WABC in New York — the proverbial big time — creating millions of listeners per year.
Here is an April 29th, 1993 re-broadcast of Rush Limbaugh from KFBK. This, by the way, was Bill Clinton’s 100th day in office.
From there, any number of controversies occurred.
Limbaugh lasted a few weeks as an ESPN commentator in 2003. Then stated the obvious.
I don’t think he’s been that good from the get-go. I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team
“Social concern”? Rush Limbaugh nailed “Social Justice” before there was such a thing. And frankly, as history proved, McNabb wasn’t that good. So off of ESPN went Rush.
If you recall, Rush Limbaugh announced that he was addicted to painkillers on air, in 2003.
The radio talk show host said he first became addicted to painkillers “some years ago,” following spinal surgery. However, he added, “the surgery was unsuccessful and I continued to have severe pain in my lower back and also in my neck due to herniated discs. I am still experiencing that pain.”
In April of 2006, Rush Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities, on a warrant issued by the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s office, and was arrested “on a single charge of prescription fraud” His record was later expunged.
Worse yet, for broadcasters — particularly in radio — Rush Limbaugh revealed in 2001 that he was suffering from rapid-onset hearing loss as a result of a rare condition called autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED).
Could a common painkiller have contributed to Rush Limbaugh’s well-known hearing loss?
Research findings suggest the radio talk-show host’s apparent addiction to Vicodin could be the culprit behind his mysterious attack of deafness two years ago.
Doctors over the past several years have reported dozens of cases of Vicodin addicts who became deaf and, in some cases, only regained their hearing with the help of cochlear implants such as the ones received by Limbaugh.
“It’s pretty clear that there is this association,” says Dr. Jeffrey Harris, an ear specialist at the University of California, San Diego Medical School. “The ear is sensitive to drugs, and this particular association with Vicodin has become more relevant as people are getting their hands on it as a recreational drug.”
However, the full extent of the problem isn’t known, and researchers aren’t sure how painkillers may harm the ear in the first place.
How frightening it must have been to lose one’s hearing in radio.
He was diagnosed in May of 2001 and told his listeners in October that he was almost entirely deaf as a result of an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He said he had lost 100 percent hearing in his left ear and 80 percent in his right ear.
He successfully had a cochlear implant placed in his left ear to restore his hearing. He announced in January 2002 that he could hear his own radio show “for the first time in nearly four months via a medical marvel.”
Until then, he relied solely on a TelePrompTer and his staff’s assistance to understand his callers.
Did anyone listen to Rush during his days of using a TelePrompTer? That’s extremely difficult yet Rush continued. He persevered. Like Dr Donald D Rose at KFRC in San Francisco.
Despite his cheerful persona, Rose suffered over three decades of debilitating pain from assorted medical problems. In 1972, he underwent a botched heart surgery, which caused chronic knee infections that required 11 more operations and led to his losing his kneecap. He broadcast his daily radio show flat on his back from his home hospital bed for months. In 1984, after a fall made the knee problems worse, he had the damaged leg amputated.
Perseverance. Dogged determination. Doing what you love, with passion.
But let’s talk about the risk, reward, and the work.
Because the Rush Limbaugh gig was three hours of talk radio with commercial breaks, for 33 years. In that amount of time he had no guests. Correct. Zero guests to take some of the time and weight from your shoulders — with some exceptions like the president and other difficult “gets.”
What Rush Limbaugh had was an endless, cogent, insightful, logical narrative — day after day, week after week, year after year. Quality broadcasting for 33 years.
And he made is seem completely effortless, so smooth, so seamless. But he definitely believed in what I believe: Show Prep.
Not Rush. The man was notorious for prepping. He also was exceptional at effortlessly weaving narratives. More importantly, he made you look at the same story everyone else was discussing from an angle you hadn’t considered. That made The Rush Limbaugh Show appointment listening, the kind that made you sit in a parking lot long after reaching your destination to hear Rush finish his point.
His secret? The old military training rule: “The more we sweat in training, the less we bleed in war.” Your average ta
lk radio host wings it by showing up, flipping through a newspaper and depending heavily on callers.
As radio hosts know: always have a Plan B, a Plan C, D, and E. Because seldom does all go as planned.
Many people hung onto the cape of Rush Limbaugh — including Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, and many, many, more — to include myself and hundreds of other internet show hosts.
You would think that, with this amount of seniority and dollars, Rush Limbaugh would have been an Ego Shock Missile — but when meeting Rush, many were a bit taken aback by how quiet and almost shy he was. One of his quotes was “I socially distanced before it was fashionable.”
Not like a Michael Savage, whose line of “Borders, Language, and Culture” resonates massively — in other words, a great message. But in my opinion, one of the harshest and worst of messengers imaginable. Savage goes through producers like some people change underwear.
Not Rush. Kit Carson was around for years until his passing from cancer at 58, in 2015. And few know this his producer of many years, “Bo Snerdley,” is actually a gracious and facile man named James Golden, a black Republican, who has been Rush’s call-screener, Producer and Engineer since about 1992, beginning with Limbaugh’s TV show.
Here, Rush Limbaugh is interviewed on the CBS show “60 Minutes” by Steve Kroft in 1991.
And this is Rush speaking at CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Conference — in 2009.
And this is Rush Limbaugh’s last broadcast of 2020, on December 23rd.
Here, Rush Limbaugh receives the highest honor the country can bestow upon a civilian, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, delivered by President Trump and placed by First Lady, Melania Trump — at the State of the Union Address, February 4th of 2021.
We then received the news of Rush’s passing just yesterday, after having been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer on January 20th of 2020.
Leftists then commenced to spit on Rush Limbaugh, of course, because all Demorats and Leftists can do is destroy.
But when they spit on Rush, that means they are all spitting on you and me. Look.
If you want to read filth, read what the Huffington Post (now owned by Buzzfeed) wrote after Limbaugh’s passing here.
Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70
Limbaugh saturated America’s airwaves with cruelty and conspiracies, amassing millions of listeners and transforming the Republican Party.
The accolades rolled in, the testimonies, the stories. Mary Steyn wrote a beautiful tribute here on his website.
Throughout his entire time on air, there were genius GOP consultants who, in reaction to any electoral setbacks, would insist that what the GOP needed to do was come up with a way to ditch Limbaugh. As I said on air many years ago: Really? For almost a third of a century, Rush’s audience was over half the total Republican vote. How many do all you genius “Republican reformers” bring to the table? I’ve recounted previously the first time I was asked to guest-host, back in 2006, when I happened to be down in Australia and the Prime Minister, John Howard, asked me to some or other event a day or two hence. And I politely declined, saying I had to get back to America to host The Rush Limbaugh Show. “I hear that’s a pretty big show,” said the PM.
“Yeah,” I replied. “Twenty-five, thirty million listeners.”
“‘Strewth,” said Mr Howard. “Rush has more listeners than we have Australians.”
Indeed. And all these GOP clever-clogs never explain, once you throw Rush and his millions overboard, what’s going to replace them.
Indeed.
What are some of things Rush said?
What are your final thoughts on Rush Limbaugh?
Let’s go back a bit.
Rush Limbaugh used to say he had “talent on loan from God.”
Mark Steyn wrote the best finalizing sentence in his article praising Rush.
To modify Rush’s tag line: Talent returned to God.
First, let’s begin with the $900 BILLION dollar “stimulus” package that was pushed through by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who received roughly half of what President Trump proffered months earlier, but was refused by Her Highness. Back in October:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday that Congress is unlikely to enact economic relief legislation before the November 3rd election because Nancy Pelosi-led Democrats do not want to deliver anything that President Donald Trump could portray to voters as a win.
So Pelosi held up money which could have been distributed months prior, because she enjoyed playing politics with the lives of Americans.
She literally said so. There’s a new president, so she’s willing to deal. Why? Because she couldn’t give Trump a win before the election. It really is that simple.
Nancy Pelosi says she is willing to do a smaller covid-19 deal citing the “game changer” of Biden’s election and vaccine development:
“That’s OK now because we have a new president. A president who recognizes that we need to depend on science…” pic.twitter.com/Egk9kxWWJV
But Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas lays it all out with the truth.
It is one of the most craven, callous, cynical, despicable actions I’ve heard of, played for politics, by Demorats, in quite some time. And that’s saying something.
Senate Republicans have been trying since July to get more targeted, bipartisan relief into the hands of the American people. Until the election, Democrats kept saying no.
Refusing to open America up — whilst simultaneously playing god, dangling money in front of Americans and then snatching it away “because OMB: Orange Man Bad.”
When in fact the proper play would have been to SAVE that money and allow Americans to do what they’ve wanted for months: to get back to work.
We all know the numbers. We all know, as Americans, that we’ve been sold a massive bill of goods and that we have been gaslighted for over four years.
A small aside for a BZ Reality Check.
I’ve never worn gloves, a mask twice, I seldom wash my hands, I touch gas pump handles, groceries, goods in Costco, doors all over. I fear this like I fear the flu.
When I die, which won’t be that long, it’ll be due to a heart attack because I’m so fucking fat. I don’t fear death, and I’m not stopping living.
Too many have. Because of unreasonable government demands.
Which is why suicides have skyrocketed, OD’s have skyrocketed, Valium and other psychotropic prescriptions have skyrocketed, we’re ruining an entire generation of kids, keeping them from schools, from their pals and their friends, from necessary socialization.
We’ve set nursing homes on fire because they’re not the first priority, we’re watching domestic violence arrests, injuries and deaths skyrocket, people are divorcing, losing their jobs, their homes, their apartments, their cars, their savings, going bankrupt, becoming homeless.
All because government morons can’t understand the consequences of their actions.
And because THEY still have their jobs, have no skin in the game, go and do as they please despite their own orders — which tells me they don’t believe the bullshit they spew. And you can’t tell me there isn’t a punitive aspect to their strictures when they “feel” they’re being dismissed.
Their edicts clearly take precedence over something as stupid as some ancient, worthless document.
They’ll arrest “violators” of their Wuhan-19 regulations and put them in jail. But arsonists, rioters, assaulters, rapists, murderers, go free or with no bail.
We’re releasing felons, murderers, pederasts, but threatening normal people.
Here in Sacramento County, the Board is Supervisors are considering TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FINES for violations. Not for murder, but for Wuhan-19.
That’s insane. No business can afford that. No private person can afford that. It’s simply punitive and oppressive.
Unlock America. Let people live their lives. You can’t stop this crap. People who are fearful should stay home. Period. More on this in a moment.
Congress unveils massive $900B COVID government spending bill after months of negotiations
by Megan Henney, 12-21-20
The deal comes at an increasingly perilous time for the nation as it teeters on the brink of another economic downturn
Congressional leaders on Monday unveiled a mammoth agreement on a roughly $2.4 trillion spending package that includes $900 billion in coronavirus relief after a half-year stalemate, securing another tranche of aid as a surge in COVID-19 infections threatens to further derail the nation’s faltering economy.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged that lawmakers won’t leave the Capitol until the bill is passed, giving lawmakers and their offices just a few hours to review the massive 5,593-page bill.
STOP. Any and every bill — specifically like this and the ACA (Affordable Bill Act, which was everything but), which contains this number of pages — almost 6,000 — should be on its face immediately refused on its face unless a sufficient period of time, which should be weeks, is allowed for its processing and, more importantly, discussing openly in chambers.
This is simple insanity. No human can read a bill this large and totally understand it, much less be able to craft any form of a cogent series of questions about it, or even discuss it, in hours.
There is ONLY ONE REASON for doing so, and that is to create arbitrary pressure — which could have been relieved literally months ago — in order to pass provisions in a bill of this size that would revolt even the strongest of stomach, to create emetic conditions.
In other words, there are NO good reasons to remotely consider passing bills like this. It’s sheer insanity, intended to confuse AND to slip things by members that they would, under normal conditions, object to vehemently. It’s to pull the wool over your eyes and trick you.
Particularly when we know something about their infamous contents.
The bipartisan, bicameral proposal — intended to blunt the continued economic fallout from the virus-induced crisis — will be combined with $1.4 trillion in spending to fund government operations for the rest of the fiscal year, meaning the total package costs about $2.3 trillion.
And so what else did we find contained within?
$135 Million dollars to Burma
$85.5 Million dollars to Cambodia
$1.4 Billion dollars for the “Asia Reassurance Initiative Act.” Hello? CHINA.
$130 Million dollars to Nepal
$700 Million dollars to Sudan
$26 Million dollars to the Kennedy Center — why does the Kennedy Center get precedence every year? I know why. So DC elites have somewhere to go, drink cocktails on your dime, show off to each other and talk shit behind each other’s political backs.
$1 Billion dollars to the Smithsonian.
$154 Million dollars to the National Art Gallery
$167 Million dollars to the National Arts and Humanities (nice places for cocktail parties)
$10 Million dollars for “gender programs” in Pakistan. You know. The nuclear armed Muslim country that wants to wipe out India, forces women to wear veils, adores honor killings. You know, because Pakistani Muslims are some of the most understanding of “gender studies” on the planet. And that cash goes into the pockets of the bureaucrats to create more weapons against Pakistani enemies.
$1.3 Billion dollars to Egypt
$453 Million dollars to Ukraine
$33 Million dollars to Venezuela
$3.3 Billion dollars of Grants to Israel
$3.36 Billion dollars to Bill Gates
YOU get $600. YOU are an AFTERTHOUGHT. Why? Because so many of you reprehensible people both voted for Trump and refuse to wear your masks, sit down, shut up, and listen to your superiors.
The agreement was expected to provide $600 stimulus payments to millions of American adults earning up to $75,000. It would revive lapsed supplemental federal unemployment benefits at $300 a week for 11 weeks — setting both at half the amount provided by the original stimulus law. It would also continue and expand benefits for gig workers and freelancers, and it would extend federal payments for people whose regular benefits have expired. The measure would also provide more than $284 billion for businesses and revive the Paycheck Protection Program, a popular federal loan program for small businesses that lapsed over the summer. It would expand eligibility under the program for nonprofits, local newspapers and radio and TV broadcasters and allocate $15 billion for performance venues, independent movie theaters and other cultural institutions devastated by the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Climate Change Legislation Included in Coronavirus Relief Deal
by Coral Davenport, 12-21-20
The legislation calls for cutting the use of powerful planet-warming chemicals common in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
In the waning days of the 116th Congress, lawmakers have authorized $35 billion in spending on wind, solar and other clean power sources while curtailing the use of a potent planet-warming chemical used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
They amount to a rare party rebuke to Mr. Trump on the issue of global warming, after he spent the past four years mocking and systematically rolling back every major climate change rule. The comity may also signal that while President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is unlikely to secure his full climate plan, he may be able to make some progress in curbing global warming.
Advocates for climate change policy said passage of the climate measures — especially the limits on refrigerants — could signal to the rest of the world that the United States is ready to rejoin the global effort to slow the warming of the planet. The coolant phase-down would be one of the most significant federal policies ever taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to an analysis by the Rhodium Group, a research and consulting firm.
The new legislation would require the nation’s chemical manufacturers to phase down the production and use of coolants called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. They are a small percentage of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, compared with carbon dioxide from the fossil fuels that power vehicles, electric plants and factories, but they have 1,000 times the heat-trapping potency of carbon dioxide.
You know. The things that actually work and keep you cool. Keep technology cool. Keep the massive server rooms of Google, Twitter, Facebook and others cool.
But why is this in a Coronavirus relief package at all? Because Leftists and Demorats realize that “global warming” isn’t resonating any more. You’re more concerned with your stupid little jobs, your stupid little wages, you’re stupid families, your stupid grandparents, your suicides that don’t mean anything except to a small circle of friends, your puny apartments and houses, having jobs, running a business, all the ridiculously immaterial things.
So if YOU won’t pay attention, they’ll just round up your money any way. Fuck you taxpayers.
Everything is upside down in terms of the election as well. Patrick Byrne weighs in on the election and what’s been happening.
Pentagon Blocks Biden from Meeting with Military Intel Agencies
by Jack Davis, 12-6-20
The Pentagon has so far blocked meetings between the Biden transition team and officials with the intelligence agencies that are part of the Department of Defense, according to two new reports.
However, defense officials and the Biden team differ on the reason why the meetings have not yet taken place.
Presumptive potential President-elect Joe Biden has formed a transition team to facilitate a transfer of power. The General Services Administration has been given a green light to assist the transition team and meetings have been taking place with various agencies.
However, Biden’s transition officials have not yet met with representatives of the military intelligence agencies that are part of the Defense Department such as the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, according to CNN.
Pentagon weighs cutting most of its support to CIA’s counterterrorism missions
by Luiz Martinez, 12-10-20
CIA counterterrorism missions rely on military for logistical support, personnel
In a surprising move, the Pentagon has told the Central Intelligence Agency that it is weighing an end to the majority of the military support it provides to the agency’s counterterrorism missions, according to a former senior administration intelligence official.
It is unclear how the decision would impact the spy agency’s worldwide counterterrorism missions that often rely on the U.S. military for logistical support and personnel.
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller sent a letter to CIA Director Gina Haspel outlining the possible decision, according to the former official, who characterized the action as both surprising and unprecedented.
Is this because we’re discovering that Gina Haspel is an impediment to freedom when she refused to release documents President Trump had declassified?
Miller’s letter asked that the CIA provide a response by Jan. 5, according to a DOD official.
So remember January 5th — to see what occurs on this date between the CIA and the Pentagon.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Then we suffered the greatest hack of the century. From CNBC.com:
The U.S. government is under the ‘hack of a decade’ after massive cyberattack grows
12-17-20
Hackers have breached America’s nuclear weapons stockpile, bringing grave risk to the U.S. government. Homeland Security issued a warning today. And a cybersecurity expert says there’s little doubt the hackers were from Russia.
How the US government hack happened, and what it means, explained by an expert
12-18-20
“This has only started,” Columbia University’s Jason Healey told Vox.
Suspected Russian government hackers breached the computer networks of the US Defense Department. The Commerce Department. The Treasury Department. The State Department. Homeland Security. Even the part of the Energy Department that oversees America’s nuclear arsenal.
It’s one of the largest and most brazen hacks in American history — and it may just be the beginning of a much larger global espionage effort.
What makes it even more troubling is that it’s still unclear precisely what they got access to. Some experts believe it may take years before the hackers are completely out of the US government’s networks and the full extent of their spying efforts are understood.
Some have said our nuclear launch codes were breached.
The FBI, the CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement on Wednesday night, December 16th, confirming they became aware “over the course of the past several days” of “a significant and ongoing Cybersecurity campaign” targeting US government agencies through SolarWinds software.
In the wake of the SolarWinds breach, the National Security Council has activated an emergency cybersecurity process that is intended to help the government plan its response and recovery efforts, according to White House officials and other sources.
The move is a sign of just how seriously the Trump administration is taking the foreign espionage operation, former NSC officials told CyberScoop.
The action is rooted in a presidential directive issued during the Obama administration known as PPD-41, which establishes a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) that is intended to help the U.S. government coordinate multiple agencies’ responses to the significant hacking incident.
So what happened?
The SolarWinds breach — in which suspected Russia-backed hackers concealed malware in software updates by SolarWinds, a company that serves U.S. government and private sector entities — has reportedly compromised targets in the National Institutes of Health and the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Defense, State and Homeland Security.
The breach is still being investigated. But the early signs indicate the reach of the stealthy supply-chain attack will have substantial aftershocks; SolarWinds claims to have 300,000 customers, including the National Security Agency, all five branches of the U.S. military, and entities in the health, technology, telecommunications, media and finance sectors.
Cybersecurity expert Jason Healey from Columbia University said:
The Russians, knowing they would struggle mightily to get into hard targets — the US government and also members of the Fortune 500 — instead found that they all used the same software for network management, made by a company called SolarWinds.
Rather than trying to come in the front door, they hacked SolarWinds and inserted their own code into the software. Then SolarWinds signed it and said, “Yes, this is authentic SolarWinds software.” Then all of those targets, and surely European and other democratic governments, also downloaded and accepted that Trojan horse unknowingly — and it’s been sitting there for months.
Oh. And they hit Microsoft also. Which means you. And me.
Lou Dobbs spoke on the 17th with Morgan Wright, former Senior State Department Security Advisor.
Add to all of this the carrier groups that have been placed off of both American coasts, the rumors of Chinese troops in Canada, the indicator that an F-16 pilot was killed in a Michigan crash on Tuesday, December 8th — and rumblings seem to suggest that he was shot down.
There were also rumors of a nuclear Chinese sub captured off the coast of Nova Scotia. And that the Biden family is somehow linked to the cyber attack. Notions that I wouldn’t kick out of my bed for eating crackers.
And, Attorney General William Barr has indicated he is leaving the Trump administration soon, and that he would not be recommending an independent or Special Counsel to investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop. Nor would he be going after any kind of voter fraud investigation.
This story from Forbest.com might shed some light on that.
How Attorney General Bill Barr Built A $40 Million Fortune
by Dan Alexander, 7-19-20
William Barr made his name serving as attorney general for two presidents, George H. W. Bush and Donald J. Trump. But he made his fortune out of office, collecting more than $50 million in compensation as an executive and director for some of America’s largest companies.
Today Barr, who did not comment for this story, has an estimated net worth of $40 million, after accounting for taxes, personal spending and modest investment returns. That figure is more precise than what’s on Barr’s public financial disclosure report, a document that deals only in broad ranges and shows assets worth somewhere between $24 million and $74 million.
Alright. When, where and how?
The money started piling up around 1993, when Bush left the White House and Barr reentered the private sector. The next year, Barr became general counsel at telephone giant GTE Corporation. When GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon in 2000, Barr stayed onboard as executive vice president and general counsel. From 2001 to 2007, he raked in an average of $1.7 million in annual salary and bonuses, according to documents filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Barr also received valuable stock options, some of which he traded while at the company, collecting an estimated $3 million after taxes from 2003 to 2007.
“The private sector been belly-belly good to me.”
The Verizon job came with other benefits. Barr got a $31,000 flexible spending allowance, $10,000 or so for financial planning, plus use of the company jet for personal purposes. The biggest benefit, however, came upon retirement. Barr stepped down from the company at the end of 2008, receiving a $17.1 million distribution from Verizon’s income deferral plan, according to an SEC filing. On top of that, company documents also detail an additional $10.4 million separation payment for Barr.
One might conclude that William Barr is not hurting for cash.
Retiring did not mean Barr was done working. The year after he left Verizon, he joined the boards of two publicly traded companies, Dominion Resources and Time Warner. From 2009 to 2018, Dominion paid Barr $1.2 million in cash and granted him another $1.1 million in stock awards, according to SEC filings.
Wait. Did you say Dominion? The company that owns voting machines?
Time Warner paid him $970,000 in cash and $1 million in equity awards for serving on its board from 2009 to 2016, when the company agreed to combine with AT&T. That deal was lucrative for Barr—he disclosed $1.7 million of income related to it on his financial disclosure report. But the merger was troubling to Trump, whose Justice Department tried to block it. During his confirmation hearing, Barr promised to recuse himself from the case as attorney general.
Barr also served on the board of Och-Ziff Capital Management, joining in 2016, the same year a firm subsidiary pled guilty to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Och-Ziff agreed to pay $412 million in penalties. It also paid Barr $190,000 in cash and $530,000 in stock awards from 2016 to 2018. The attorney general no longer serves on the boards of Och-Ziff, Dominion Resources or Time Warner.
The board. Of Dominion Resources.
Ahem.
Smell test?
As I’ve said numerous time, “you can’t write shit like this.”
Hour 1:BZ talked with Constitutional expert, Professor MICHAEL JONES, about the recent denial by SCOTUS to hear the Texas case involving election fraud, what it means, and why he said he’s terribly disappointed in SCOTUS for refusing to do the job for which it was created.
Professor JONES went into great detail about the Texas case, Constitutional law, and then went into more detail about what will happen on January 6th and then — so few people know this — in March.
After that, community activist GABRIELLE INGRAM returned to the Saloon in order to provide an update on how the County of Sacramento is handling Wuhan-19 lockdowns and how their plan was to originally levy fines up to $10,000 for struggling county businesses and, apparently, individual citizens. Please listen to her update, then visit her Facebook page, the group STAND UP SACRAMENTO COUNTY.
Don’t take the repeal of our freedoms and liberties lying down. GABRIELLE INGRAM is a citizen activist and you can be too. Withdraw your consent to be governed by Leftist authoritarians.
Finally, BZ played this rather succinct yet bombshellistic video wherein Patrick Byrne is interviewed, stating he was the bagman in terms of setting up Hillary Clinton for bribes — after she had already taken millions of dollars in bribes from Turkey. Watch.
Then there was this, released on Thursday night after the show, via Twitter.
Patrick Byrne better check the lug nuts on his car every time he travels, and better look under his car at the same time. “Suicides” are rising these days as well, we note.
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Hours 1 and 2: BZ had the honor and pleasure of speaking to LARRY LAIRD, Vietnam veteran, who was the crew chief of USMC VMO-3 Huey helicopter gunships, as we discussed Vietnam, helicopters, law enforcement, and law enforcement helo flying.
BZ with first reserve deputy TO, Hugh McGraw. 1975.
Hours 1 and 2: 
At the age of 70, radio host Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer early Wednesday morning, after having been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer a year prior.
Because it’s all about the power and, for the first time in recent political memory, around 1988, the Democrats didn’t have an absolute stranglehold on the control of information and, consequently, their power diminished. Because, after all, information is power and where politics are concerned, it’s always about power and money.
In my opinion, it wasn’t a dynamic, it was a person. One little bitty radio person who started a talk show on KFBK in my home town, Sacramento, Fornicalia. Rush Limbaugh.
If you want to read filth, read what the 
What are your final thoughts on Rush Limbaugh?
First, let’s begin with the $900 BILLION dollar “stimulus” package that was pushed through by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who received roughly half of what President Trump proffered months earlier, but was 
We all know the numbers. We all know, as Americans, that we’ve been sold a massive bill of goods and that we have been gaslighted for over four years.
A small aside for a 
Hour 1: 
Professor JONES went into great detail about the Texas case, Constitutional law, and then went into more detail about what will happen on January 6th and then — so few people know this — in March.