Yet it could have been a tragedy comparable to 9-11.

Omani pilot stabs Indian captain of 737 and tries to crash it.

You’d think an international air carrier would be vetting their people better.

Especially arabs.

Aaron has even more

Why does out media try to hide Muslim Extremism?

This time, it’s diesel:

Why Blocking U.S. Diesel Exports Could Make Fuel More Expensive

Lots of excuses as to why the US should sell it’s diesel to the rest of the world, even though it makes the pricing in the US abnormally high.

Since we have the excess refining capacity (and Europe and other countries don’t because of “Green Policies and other reasons),  the US is a net exporter of diesel…and yet the arguments are all about how we shouldn’t stop sending diesel out beyond our borders so that the price of diesel elsewhere in the world is lower….But our market price is higher.

As it is, we subsidize the entire rest of the world in medicines, our pricing is higher than anywhere else. Why should we also subsidize them for energy sources?

Fuck the rest of the world, We need to keep, and put, our people and our economy first.

If after 90 days there is a (significant) surplus of diesel and jet fuel and other petroleum fractions (as predicted) in the US, then (and only then) we should sell it on the world market. In the meantime, lets keep the pricing low for the US citizens.

Once again, it appears that President Trump’s advisors are Globalists….And that they don’t have the US citizens welfare at the top of their priorities.

ETA:

Of course, the shrill arguments from the rest of the world are getting ever louder as it looks like the ban on exports might happenhttps://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Hidden-Tradeoffs-of-a-US-Diesel-Export-Ban.html

“Don’t whine when you get what your actions earned”

“Don’t waste time trying to change things you cannot control”

“No one risk their lives to go to communist countries, it’s always to escape them” (And have you ever noticed that people who preach Capitalism/Socialism never move to countries where it is practiced?)

“In order to grow, you must learn, in order to learn, you must have an open mind”

“Comfort zones are where dreams go to die”

“It is really hard to talk yourself out of jail, but very easy to talk yourself INTO jail….Shut up”

“Knowledge without perspective is nothing”

“Pain is temporary, Pride is forever

“Life is not a matter of having a good hand of cards, but of playing that hand well”

This continued drawdown of the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) isn’t good. It weakens out country.

The drawdown isn’t making a dent in the price of oil, (Or at the pump, which is  different issue).

It is making our ability to make war less and less, at little gain anywhere else.

Selling oil earmarked for times of limited supply (like war) isn’t what the reserve was designed for…selling it on the open market where it helps other countries doesn’t help the US….it isn’t like any of them are helping with the issue in Iran either.  None of them are actually “allies”.  The US needs to look out for the US first, not the rest of the world.

I don’t know who is advising the President, but they aren’t giving him good advice here.

I mean, is anyone surprised?

They expanded hugely, without bothering to vet their new recruits, apparently only caring that they had once held a badge, could read, and could fog a mirror…..

Then they bought (rather than lease) a bunch of warehouses to use as bases, only to find out that they had bought buildings that, while cheap, were in really poor repair….requiring millions of dollars to make them even marginally usable.

Then some rocket surgeon decided that they could put the detainees in tents, except that the tents they bought didn’t meet the (low) standards that ICE had for such tent cities….and there were no refunds on the tents.

Then, of course there is the $50K signing bonus they gave out to each new recruit that they didn’t bother to do a background check on…, at least 30% of whom they are firing because the (too late) background checks are demonstrating why these folks were so eager to sign up and leave their former jobs….

There are a LOT of failures of managements here, And it all falls back on the appointees that Trump put in place…..Ms. (Barbi) Noem, Mr Gregory (“Agents are always right, even before we know the facts!”) Bovino , and Tom (“Deport everyone, let God sort them out”) Homan, and their underlings.

Tens (Nearly Hundred million (so far)) of millions of dollars, that even a BIT of forward thinking could have saved, wasted by bad choices.

Piss Poor Management.

The blame for this really rests on Donnie, as it was his people, that failed so utterly.  (Or perhaps they simply didn’t care how much money they wasted and how many people they got killed…..)

Toldya:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun quietly firing new officers hired during the agency’s push to recruit thousands of “Homeland Defenders.” The results have been deadly.

ICE has started to dismiss some of its newest recruits, citing poor performance and red flags that should have been identified in the vetting process, three former DHS officials told The Washington Post Tuesday.

ICE (and now, of course, Border Patrol also) had many new recruits who had nothing to lose by applying…..being one step in front of a review board at their former jobs….and there was that wonderful $50K signing bonus.

When you hire substandard people you get substandard results.

Related

Thanks to MC for the hint

Trump proposes a $5 BILLION fund to “Rebuild Persian Gulf Infrastructure”…Because some of the states surrounding the Persian Gulf have been attacked “due to the presence of US Military in their country”…

That same military is what keeps them from being invaded for their oil….It isn’t like we charge for the security we provide, which also cost BILLIONs of dollars.

Unlike NATO, they don’t even pretend.

It isn’t like they sell their oil to the US at a discount for that protection either.

Let em fix their own infrastructure….If they don’t like the presence of US troops, then we can always pull out and let them defend their own soil…..(Not that they could, or (mostly) would be able to).

I mean, then of thousands of people like me are “Journalists” is you want to define us as such.

Do we also get access to the While House?

Why should CNN, MSNow and Politico get special treatment and have their access restored?

Access to the White house and the President is a privilege, not a right.

And if you claim “Freedom of the Press” then you show that you haven’t bothered to lean the Constitution, and thus demonstrate your ignorance.

If anyone can demand access then there’s gonna be flood of us.

I’ll expect my press pass to the White house (and Air Force One) momentarily?

(I missed last week, thing got out of hand on the homestead. Shit doth occur at times)

“The right to bear arms is not present in our Constitution so that we can impose our will on others via gunpoint, but rather so that others cannot impose their will on US at gunpoint”

“Counting to 10 only makes it premeditated….”

“Learn something new every day: The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die”

“Fear is temporary, regret is forever”

“Just do it”

“Other people’s opinions won’t pay your bills”

“Worrying never prevented anything from happening”

“Someone will judge you no matter what”

Not just the ban on Burquas, but the limits on the number of foreign students.

Integrate, assimilate, or Get the Fuck Out.

Italy is preparing to ban face coverings in schools and to cap the number of foreign students per class, Prime Minister Giorgia ​Meloni said on Sunday.

I am all for immigration: I am the descendent of immigrants, and I have worked for several people who were immigrants to the US. All great assets to their new country.

But none of them were INVADERS. If you aren’t gonna learn the language and culture of the country you emigrate to, you are not an immigrant, you are an invader,  a colonist, and a pestilence upon the host country.