Still no apology from the White House, but... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/border-agent-on-horseback-falsely-accused-of-whipping-migrants-in-texas-now-awarded-for-his-service/ar-AA1o3arP One of the Border Patrol agents falsely accused of whipping migrants at the border in Texas and chastized by president Biden himself, has now been given an award by the same government. The agent — whose name has been withheld since the September 2021 incident to protect his identity — received a Border Patrol Achievement award from the agency Thursday morning, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source told The Post. The agent was recognized for his intelligence work on human smuggling cases, they added. The agent was one of the five photographed on horseback during the incident, where they were accused of whipping Haitian migrants at the riverbank in Del Rio, Texas, while trying to control members of a crowd of roughly 14,000 people crossing into the US illegally. The pictures were widely misinterpreted, with President Biden calling them “outrageous” and saying of the agents, “I promise you those people will pay.” A DHS source told The Post: “I find it hilarious and ridiculous that almost three years later, a Border Patrol agent who was accused of being racist and so vilified by this Biden administration now wins an achievement award for his efforts in preventing smuggling, before he gets a public apology.” Customs and Border Protection (CBP) conducted a thorough internal investigation into the incident, which concluded that none of the Haitians were harmed during the altercation and noted the agents did not carry whips or strike anyone with the reins of their horses. The probe, however, did determine that the agents used “unnecessary” force against the migrants, with one agent using “denigrating and inappropriate language” and maneuvering his horse “unsafely” at the time. I wonder who determined that the horse was being maneuvered "unsafely." Probably some guy who rides a desk, not a horse.

How timely! Last night I was trying to express to Lucas the ridiculousness of mainstream culture in the 60s. I pulled up an episode of I Dream of Jeannie on YouTube as a show that epitomized the era.

I think there is a good chance the move prevented injury to several people. Of course you can't say for sure.

Musk’s trolling is often quite good.

That was very neat to read and see.

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Kass - a story of politics and mayors and funerals: Years ago, when I was just starting out writing news columns, Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale was assassinated by a Gangster Disciple lookout during a drug deal at the Robert Taylor Homes projects. The young rookie officer was hit in the stomach. It took him a long week to die. It was horrible and the city was horrified. Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley wanted to go to the funeral. But he knew that police officers and some close to Ceriale’s family did not want him there. He went anyway. Because leadership demanded it. He delivered a stunningly emotional address in the beautiful and old Ukrainian Catholic Church I remember there were thousands of people in the street, and the church was full. The only sound was that of the church bell tolling. That bell tolled every 10 seconds. It tolled for hours. When it tolled the finality of it all cut through your heart. “The death of a young person is heartbreaking for a mother and father,” the mayor began, challenging everyone never to forget the young officer. Then his face changed and he tried to rush through his short speech before he was overcome. He didn’t succeed. Daley looked at the mother, then turned away. Daley understood the Ceriale family’s hideous and unremitting pain that is carried by parents who bury a child. In 1981, Daley’s own son Kevin, then not yet 3, died from spina bifida. “Less than two years ago, he stood at Navy Pier,” Daley said about Ceriale, tears coming, his voice breaking, remembering the ceremony of the young officer being sworn in. “He raised his right hand, he stood by that motto: We Serve and Protect. He was taken from us. “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of God.” I’m not lionizing him. Daley wasn’t stand up. He was weak in many ways. He backed down when it came to standing up to the Outfit’s unofficial Chicago chief of police, the late Chief of Detectives Bill Hanhardt, or acknowledging his administration’s role in the Hired Truck scandal that enriched Bridgeport trucking bosses he knew. But Daley was not a de-funder of police like the current mayor BLM Johnson. He didn’t hate cops or suck up to the cop haters. And he was not a proponent of pro-criminal legislation like Gov. J.B Pritzker’s “Safe-T Act.” Daley, for all his many faults, was law-and-order just like his father, the real Mayor Daley. And both men would have been horrified over what Pritzker, Johnson and Toni Preckwinkle have done to Chicago and Illinois with their so-called criminal injustice policies. These are Democrat policies that benefit repeat violent offenders like Octavious Crocket and Bruce Diamond. These are the policies that kill cities by first removing their will to live. When Daley was mayor, the newspapers would chase crime stories and put heat on prosecutors who failed the public. But now the papers don’t even bother, and they fear runing mug shots so readers and taxpayers (victims) can see for themselves. Read it all,

@89th said in Interesting two days coming up: but does the chairman have a self-portrait hanging in his office? Funny, but I thought the same thing!!!

Free lawn aeration. Winning.

@Horace said in Arizona and Nevada: Does anybody think abortion is a political win for the GOP? The data are in already.

@LuFins-Dad said in FAFSA Woes: But yeah, I’m glad your application wasn’t a PITA, @Doctor-Phibes , but many others have had serious issues with it. No, don't get me wrong, it was a PITA. But I seem to think it was considerably more fiddly before they changed it in 2020.

China has overshot on going cashless. We the USA can do better with electronic transfers of funds. It really should be much easier and lower (preferably near zero) cost for electronic fund transfers.

@Copper said in Mid-Air Refueling: What is that metal object below the fuselage? Is that some kind of control surface, like a giant flap, to allow the plane to fly very slowly? If you don't know, then we don't know. Yeah I'm guessing to help with speed/stability.

Note Trump's two major initiatives: Border & Immigration. Keeping his tax cuts. If he can do that, next up I think are Schedule F and reforming Justice. I think he will get only part of what he wants, but I think a Clintonian firing of Justice Department prosecutors and a shake-up at the FBI leadership would be good for the country. But I'm willing to put up with Trump's antics to get the judges. That is THE prize, particularly at the appellate and SCOTUS levels .

I was reading a fantasy novel last night and ran into this quote… “The Imperial Order says that no individual should have the right to achieve something on his own, to accomplish what someone else cannot, and so magic must be stripped from mankind. They say that accomplishment is corrupt because it is rooted in the evil of self-interest, therefore the fruits of that accomplishment are tainted by its evil. This is why they preach that any gain must be sacrificed to those who have not earned it. They hold that only through such sacrifice can those fruits be purified and made good. “We believe, on the other hand, that your own individual life is the value and its own end, and what you achieve is yours. “Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery. Pretty good description and response to DEI in a novel published a decade before Ibram X published, and from a time when equity meant assets that could be leveraged or were leveraged for a financial transaction.

@George-K said in California wants to kill the diesels: Perhaps @copper can elaborate. I remember everyone being terrified by this new lead-free alternative. The lead gives extra power needed to support a reasonable weight limit. The alternative fuel reduces power which would reduce payload and make a mess of expected performance. Of course we wouldn't have to worry about that because nobody could afford the maintenance needed to upgrade the engine to use the new fuel. The General Aviation fleet is old, GA airplanes fly for decades so you wouldn't get a quick turnover to the new technology. A significant percentage of the industry would just disappear.

@Axtremus said in 10 PRINT “HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY BASIC”: My favorite feature of BASIC is GOTO. I don't know if that particular geek joke will go over big here, but I get it.