Young Elsbeth

A good article about Carrie Preston’s 19 original performances of Elsbeth on The Good Wife and The Good Fight, starting with season 1 Ep 20 and 22. I’d been wanting to go back and watch them.

Found a treasure trove of Yellow Submarine merch. Interesting shirts. Thought about ordering a Yellow Submarine, then realized that I already have a Yellow Submarine Hot Wheels. Somewhere.

Entered to win a pair of Yellow Submarine Crocs.

Did you know that the new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth played basketball at Princeton? In high school in Minnesota his dad was his coach. Pete saw little action, but the Princeton coach was impressed with Pete’s ability to spot weaknesses in the opponent’s defense from the bench.

Gives a whole new meaning to the Secretary of Defense. Kinda like Reggie White or Bobby Jones.

I finished Pete Hegseth’s book “The War on Warriors”. He seems to be an old school Army type, who has a lot of support from the troops. Like me and Trump and Biden and literally everyone else, Hegseth did not live a perfect life. Like me it took years of struggle to become the man of God he is today. He has a tattoo of a Jerusalem cross on his chest, which led to his dismissal from service at the Biden inauguration because he was an “extremist”.

Denison on USAID: it seems obvious that some measure of change is needed. USAID’s history includes a number of acts of which we are not proud. Far too many questionable projects still exist, like $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq, $19 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam, $1.5 million to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia. Even the aid that was intended to help those truly in need suffered because of corruption and theft. USAID spent over $12 billion in Syria to help those suffering from the civil war, but millions were stolen and diverted to armed combat groups instead of the refugees. In Afghanistan, USAID spent an estimated $17 billion on efforts that failed to bear much fruit: $335 million on an underutilized power plant, $486 million on planes that rarely left the ground, and $106 million on an unused consulate. While some waste and corruption may be unavoidable given the scope and scale of USAID’s efforts, the agency still does great things throughout the world. But just because the good may outweigh the bad does not mean the bad should go unnoticed and unaddressed.

ME: just adding up the few numbers mentioned here, $35,000,000,000.00 of the $72 billion in taxpayer money distributed in 2023 was wasted – an astounding 49%. One USAID employee knowingly distributed over a billion in fraudulent payments. Over $4 billion to Haiti but 98% went to firms in DC. $530 million to a couple of organizations run by George Soros, whose mission in life is to destroy the United States. This waste needs to be stopped immediately, not just have Congress “study” the problem – especially considering there are reports that congressmen have been recipients of tens of millions from USAID.