Admiral "Bull" Halsey had a clear and uncluttered strategy for an Allied victory in the Pacific

 

Amazing Feats of Engineering.... North Of The Border...

 

 A snowy morning and Covfefe surfing leads to a rabbit hole from one picture.

 This one of the 18 wheeler:

 According to the comments on f-book this is early 1980's. The truck is from a company named

Transport Chaine Inc. Heavy equipment movers.  The tram is the funicular located at 

Shawinigan-2 Generating station in Quebec.

The history of the facility is quite amazing when you start searching for information. <<<<

All built in the late 1800's and expanded over the beginning of the 1900's

 

Here is the google maps image search. From what I gather, the red arrow , I added,  points to the landing turntable for the funicular.

 

 

 

 As I was scrolling around google earth I noticed this area North of the hydoelectric station

It was once a large paper and pulp mill. Now it's just demolished concrete covered in graffiti.

BELGO SHAWINIGAN

This image. I found, is from 1946:

 You can see the church, just above center on the left of the photo. In the aerial photo above

it's left- center.   Here is the church recently <<

 

 

Friday Femme Fatale Farrago...

 

 

 

 

Someone Left Shit In My Mailbox....

 

 Some excrement from "Granite For America"...

 

 I wonder who they are....  

search =  granite for america manchester nh

First result:

Hmmm.....       Doyle Strategy Group brittney   < search

 So some dumb bint dem strategist from Indiana is canvassing NH for Bidumb.... Sending tons of 

money to affect our election.

 

 Here's the other dumb bint listed:..

and, We Wait For The Weekend....

 

 

 

 

 In the meantime..... this was borrowed from HERE. Some more good ones over there to enjoy:

 

 

 

 

Phil's Brother From Another Mother... Vindication....

 

 

When you finally feel validated for not throwing out that one thing you’ve been getting told to throw out for years 🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/E0l3CAkdNv

— Shaughn_A (@Shaughn_A2) January 3, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

When It Smells Like Presidential Depends You Know Shenanigans Are Afoot...

 

 

NEW YORK, Dec 29 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors said they do not plan to conduct a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted last month of stealing from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange.

In a letter filed on Friday night in federal court in Manhattan, prosecutors said the "strong public interest" in a prompt resolution of their case against the 31-year-old former billionaire outweighed the benefits of a second trial.

Prosecutors said that interest "weighs particularly heavily here," given that Bankman-Fried's scheduled March 28, 2024, sentencing will likely include orders of forfeiture and restitution for victims of his crimes.

Jurors on Nov. 2 convicted Bankman-Fried on all seven fraud and conspiracy counts he faced. Prosecutors had accused him of looting $8 billion from FTX customers out of sheer greed.

Lawyers for Bankman-Fried declined to comment.

Bankman-Fried had faced six additional charges that had been severed from his first trial, including campaign finance violations, conspiracy to commit bribery, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.

 

SCREECH.....    HUH??

 

 Read that again:

Bankman-Fried had faced six additional charges that had been severed from his first trial, including campaign finance violations, conspiracy to commit bribery, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.

 

Now why would they separate those charges?? Inquiring minds want to know..... 

Could it be that there were campaign irregularities that the U.S. prosecutors did not want to be made public?

Let's rewind to December 2022 <<<<<<<<<

 /snip

 

Disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces a litany of charges tied to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange. But along with being an outsized figure in crypto, Bankman-Fried (nicknamed SBF) is also one of the largest political donors in American politics, and has been accused of violating campaign finance laws as part of a scheme to illegally funnel millions of dollars to candidates and political action groups ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

  /snip

Bankman-Fried contributed more than $70 million to election campaigns in less than 18 months, placing him among the nation’s top political donors. He personally gave at least $40 million to politicians and political action committees ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, mostly to Democrats and liberal-leaning groups, making him the second overall top donor to Democrats, only behind George Soros, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

  /snip

Other lawmakers that received maximum donations from Bankman-Fried include Democratic Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, and Cory Booker of New Jersey; and Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine.

  /snip

In total, federal election filings show that Stabenow and Hassan were the candidates to receive the most money directly from Bankman-Fried this year, at over $20,000 each.

 

Nah, ‘Trust the science’.

 Nothing to see here.... Move along......

H/t to PS

 

 

BTR*...

 

 /blink/

  *back to reality.

and just like that it's back to the salt mine. 

I like my current employment so it's not something I dread everyday. As with

any job there are good and and not so good days. This past week was quiet so I worked

part time and took some vacation time. Things to do around here, the holidays etc.

 Getting up in the dark and getting home in the dark kinda sucks. I think that's the worst part.

I'm looking forward to the longer days and warmth of the sun.

 Lately it's been mild around here, and only rain and many gray days. Sooner or later

we will be hearing about bombogenisis and snowmaggedon and cats and dogs living together.

I know the weatherpeople are dying to start the hype to sell more bread and milk.

I'll be around.