Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"President-elect Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon has vowed to “take down” tech billionaire Elon Musk, calling him “truly evil.”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/5081681-steve-bannon-says-he-will-take-down-the-truly-evil-elon-musk/

In your opinion is Bannon being:

1.  Delusional

2. Realistic

3. Optimistic

4. Something else

Originally Posted by James Brown

Maybe we'll get real lucky, and Musk etc. will increase government efficiency and limit government waste.  I doubt it, but I am happy to see them try.   

Regarding Rod's original poll, I'm with Brian.   Bannon is trying to scratch and claw his way back to relevance.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Rich is one of those strange people who can hurl homophobic and misogynistic insults all day long and then, in the same breath, claim he's not homophobic because he has a gay nephew and insists he's not misogynistic because he likes women (at least as objects of sexual desire, as far as we know). Apparently, in his mind, trying to insult someone by claiming they are committing acts primarily associated with gay men is not homophobic, similarly when it comes to his attempts to insult people by assigning what are traditionally considered to be effeminate characteristics to them. That is a whole lot of cognitive dissonance and lack of self-awareness.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

You can't make this stuff up!

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5097933-trump-ymca-dance-inaugural-ball/

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

American tariffs on Russia and Putin is supposed to care? What a joke!

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270883/trump-threat-russia-ukraine-war-tariffs-sanctions

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Jim,
Thanks for your comments and kind thoughts. We did have to evacuate on Wednesday but we were able to return on Thursday afternoon. 

The fire consumed approximately 10,000 acres but most of that was in hilly and brush covered terrain with the large lake in castaic serving as a natural fire break so, as far as has been reported, no structures were lost. Humidity in the area has been 6% or less and that level of dryness turns the brush into kindling, ripe for a fire.

The Cal Fire department was on top of it with heavy duty tankers and helicopters with a short trip to the lake for refills and that enabled a quick response to the fire line.

We finally have rain predicted for the weekend so we may get relief from the abnormally hot and dry conditions through SoCal.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi James, Jim - thanks, and no worries.  I actually think Rich understood my point.  Sadly, Rich lies so easily, for example, that he did not put "The TORMENTOR" on his own account profile, that I don't know what to think when he grossly and laughably misstates one of our points of view.  Either Rich is a pathological liar, or he has a serious, disabling mental illness.  Either way, I'm happy to ignore him.   

I did put in another post that I was 99% certain that our Constitutional system would hold if Trump provoked a constitutional crisis.  I'm still good with that number although it may be too optimistic.  Heck, according to the ESA on the A-Mart front page, we are only 98% certain that a fairly large asteroid AR2024 AR4 will miss Earth in 2032!   Not much is 100% certain!   

One thing I am sure of is that you guys, Russ, David, Rod, and anyone else who reads the posts here understood my points.  J

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi David:

We may or may not disagree on nuances of Trump's strategy with regard to Russia/Ukraine, but I do have concerns about your endorsement of the alleged Ukrainian soldier's alleged comments.   

If you really think Putin = Bin Laden,
If you really think Putin is not a legitimate leader,
If you really think a phone call is an outrage; 

then it seems reasonable to ask if you and Canada are willing to support and encourage the US to invade Russia and eliminate the threat?  Just like we did with Bin Laden and Al Queda.   Are you really that eager for us to launch a nuclear WWIII?  

I doubt it.   So, why oppose and ridicule efforts at diplomacy?   I suspect that you are reflexively opposing everything Trump does, just because he's Trump.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Got lots of good wide angle and close up data.   The solar close ups are easier to process, here is one.  I'll work on a full disk wide angle later.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Someone in the gallery took a longer video of everything that was said, and boy, that was a doozy of a national embarrassment.