Above: No hurry to change – Nordland
In The News
‘Packed to the brim’: Trump says 45K guests attend Great American State Fair rally
by Jessica Botelho
The National News Desk
June 27, 2026
The Fantasy Newsperson Asks
Did the advantage of US air power allow the undeclared wars in Iraq or Afghanistan to be prevented, won or shut down?
US jet aircraft have been able to strike targets in what wars won by the US?
What did the founders think of a powerful, centralized federal government and militarized pageantry for public events?
Whatever happened to the formal congressional declaration of war?
Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?
Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the Pentagon specializes in undeclared/unwon wars.
The Department of Defense was established in 1949. What part of DOD history involved US troops sent to locations where the constitution was threatened?
Take An Oath To The Constitution
Look for newspeople and school teachers to ask zero questions in these areas.
How Do The Troops Defend The Constitution?
Not asking about the oath of enlistment. Asking about what happens after the oath has been taken.
Love to see newspeople interview elected officials and let us know how sending US Troops to Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, etc., is somehow defending the constitution.
From 2004
“Today, however, the Congress has relinquished its delegated powers, giving the President license to do whatever he and his office determine that they can get away with. Consequentially, the presidential and legislative oaths to the Constitution have just turned into a great photo op on inauguration day.”
“It is a sad and hard realization for a grunt who loves the Marine Corps to admit that the organization is not used in the preservation of liberty, and has not been used toward that end for a very long time.”
Source:
By Casey Khan
February 14, 2004
The Dept. of Defense is the very best at militarized pageantry for pro sports events.
They are able to get the press to play the role of federal public affairs staff as authorities prepare for the Super Bowl.
TV newspeople perform like paid actors reading a script.
NORAD Santa Tracker
Here at Oak Bay Starfish, our commentary rolls on, no matter who has been elected to office.
A giant agency created to prevent Soviet attacks, with almost unlimited resources to defend N. America in 2021, is unable to keep crank call from going out live during big public relations event.
My audio commentary – duration 3:30
Podcast 10 NORAD Santa Tracker Allows Insult To President Biden Live On Air
Back Home
Greater Puget Sound area:
PSE electricity bills have skyrocketed. Can anything be done about it?
Seattle area’s outlier status on homelessness is only getting worse
Forced Charity:
WA’s rich are leaving? Another tax on wealth smashes records
A missing girl from Arizona was found in Olympia’s Jungle encampment, U.S. marshals say
“…found at the homeless encampment known as “The Jungle” in Olympia…”
“The agency described the area as having high rates of violence and community safety concerns. Back in 2023, a woman was found dead at the homeless encampment.”
Teen shot at south Seattle community center renews calls for youth violence prevention
Best federal efforts fail to keep 6.6 lbs of Cocaine, 4.4 lbs of Fentanyl from arriving in King County:
King County Sheriff’s office seizes 11 pounds of narcotics
Page down on the story linked above to see the sort of advertising KIRO 7 TV News is able to attract to their web page.
Several militarized/AI senior citizens drinking various odd beverages before bed to combat promoted ailments.
The Fantasy Newsperson Asks
Did the advantage of designating cartels as terrorist organizations back on Feb 20, 2025 reduce the availability of fentanyl in the Puget Sound area?
If Kristi Noem tells us on Feb 4, 2026 that the border is secure, how are drugs still coming in?
Standard newspeople remain silent.
Blowing up suspected drug boat crews, bold PR statements from Kristi Noem, sealed borders, designating cartels as terrorist organizations, DHS guarding Super Bowls, US troops at the border, massing US Border Patrol agents at the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the post 911 surveillance state (fusion centers, license scanners, Homeland Security grant money, monitoring of e-mails, text messages, & social media sites, no fly/terror watch lists, tracking of cell phones, best advances in REAL ID and AI technologies, etc.) fail to keep fentanyl from arriving in the Puget Sound area?
The Seattle drug situation appears to be no different in June of 2026 than it was under Biden. WTF?
Cartels continue to move product into all 50 states.
DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:
“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”
Common flashlight batteries remain locked up like diamond jewelry to keep drug addicts out.
The drug addicts that were not cut off by Kristi Noem and her giant and expensive Dept. of Homeland Security.
Welcome Home Troops
Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq, Afghanistan and other distant locations while working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.
Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:
The USA has taken a dive in the post 911 era.
Seattle was a world-class city in the last century. The WWII Generation had a modern society up and running in the 80s and 90s.
Even if we celebrate the best of American culture during the last century, that time is gone now.
Possibly of interest:
1967
Did the Joint Chiefs of Staff send The Troops to safeguard American freedoms?
Was it the Viet Cong that set up laws in 16 US states to prohibit interracial marriage?