Happy Saturday, good people!
To starts things off, if you think you are not being helped by government, this might give you an idea why:
They don't kill you... They invoice you until you die!!! An interesting take on the plan for depopulation pic.twitter.com/PFykWwOKAk
— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) January 25, 2026
So the saying goes. There is a version of it in the far east as well, described as an insider mechanism of political power in China in the video I'll link to below. General Zhang Youxia,张有侠 recently purged from the PLA Central Military Commission, is the key figure. He was no 2 in the PLA power structure only after Xi himself. A staff General on the commission Liu Zhenli was also purged, leaving Xi alone at the top after previous removals of other generals on the commission.
Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.
Went grocery shopping this morning. 1 lb ground beef $6.99. 1 doz jumbo eggs $6.99. 1 gal whole milk $4.99. 1 lb bacon $11.39. 7 oz package swiss cheese $6.99. 48 oz jar of mayo $10.49. I'm glad I'm only shopping for one. Can't even imagine how large families get by. At least the weathers been nice (sunny and mid 80s) and will continue to be nice through next week.
Since the weather has been nice I finally got out with the new macro lens and photographed the honey bees that have been visiting my Rosemary plants. I mixed in some shots of a White-faced bumble bee I took a few weeks ago with a long (600mm) lens while out photographing birds. It was a good thing the bumble bee showed up cuz I didn't get any decent bird shots that day.
Morning,
The moving pieces on International and Domestic policies keeps going in circles faster and faster. No time to catch a breath. Up is down, down is up. Danger stalks the local communities and in far away places. Is it possible to focus on creating some calmness? Is the constant spinning to keep US off balance?
It is an odd moment in time when on the same day Pepe Escobar, Erik Prince and Alex Jones are doing videos trying to prevent a disastrous a war with Iran.
Ice, Ice Baby
Like just about everyone else, I like the song which is the title of this post better than Ice. And I don't even like that song that much (I'm too old).
A couple of days ago Ken Klippenstein wrote an article about what at least some immigration officers are saying about how ICE is acting now. It's a good article. Apparently there is quite a bit of division in the Homeland Security Peeps (calling them that is mean to baby chickens, isn't it?) over the killings of Alex Pretti and others.
Bovino. He's out, as I'm sure you know, and is going to end up in California. What the hell did California do to deserve that? He should be in Mar-a-Lago, arresting men who abuse young women... ohh wait, he'd have to arrest Trump... (image from Klippenstein's substack article)
Feeling Underwater?
