Archives for category: Alternative Media

Above: Port Hadlock Transit Center

What Others Are Saying

The Jimmy Dore Show

Valhalla VFT

Related:

USMC News

 

Glenn Diesen Clips

FOX 10 Phoenix

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom

Related:

Early Iran Strike Commentary

The Post 911 Era

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

The Jimmy Dore Show

Please see 1:51 below.

Sentinel

Whatever Happened To Democrats & Republicans Of The Past?

JFK speaks of presidential leadership and the role of the press in a free society.

Americans do not live in a free and honest society.

 

Some version of REAL ID has been required at border crossings and ports of entry since 2009.

More cartel drug overdose deaths now, or before REAL ID?

Any questions from newspeople?

Pentagon & REAL ID

Why It Matters

Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.

If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

More here:

Cartel Boss Removed – Supported By Intelligence From Washington

 

Related:

Made For TV Federal Awards Show

None of The Above

Patriotism

Uniparty

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

The Post 911 Era

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

USA- Home of The Fantasy Newsperson

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

This federal panel is not the place for questioning and discussion. It’s not a debate club.

The Young Turks

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

Tennessee Brando

Possibly of interest:

Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Count Now At 145

USA 250 – News Reporting

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

Altenative media is OK with asking questions while TV newspeople still do their thing.

WatchlistTYT

More related to news content here:

Puget Sound Life

Newspeople Not Asking Questions

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Grays Harbor Fentanyl & Meth Not Stopped By Kristi Noem

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

Over in Island County

Has the Island County Homeland Security-funded patrol boat been involved in any arrest or seizure related in any way to the US/Canada border?

Newspeople remain silent.

Whidbey Homeland Security Grant Money- Newspeople Remain Silent

 

Above: Rosario Beach

Alternative Media

Not yet banned:

The Daily Show

US History

Puerto Rican Medal of Honor recipients:

Remembering the fallen: Puerto Rican Medal of Honor recipients

By Sgt. 1st Class Deziree Lau 99th Readiness Division

 

Puerto Ricans Represented Throughout U.S. Military History

By Shannon Collins – DOD News

Oct. 14, 2016

 

Possibly of interest:

Photo- Plt 3049 MCRD SD September, 1979

 

Also not yet banned:

The Young Turks

Related:

The Post 911 Era

Approved Flag Images

Patriotism

 

Above: Shallow water beachcombing at Keystone Harbor.

 

Alternative media questions wars:

The Young Turks

Mainstream Media Functions Like Paid Actors Reading A Script

Americans do not live in a free and honest society. Today, the mainstream media will function like paid actors reading a script:

Would any TV newsperson ever ask:

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?

Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?

 

Related:

The Post 911 Era

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

Super Bowl Flyovers – Propaganda Update

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Approved Flag Images

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

Secure Border BS – Just Ask The DEA

Drug War Scam Rolls On

250 Years For The USMC

Replace The Phrase?

The Invisible Veteran

The country struggles with:

Cultural Honesty

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

We were told we needed to send troops to Vietnam. Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Some may have become skeptical along the way.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

 

The Jimmy Dore Show

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of US troops sent to distant lands to protect American rights and freedoms.

MAGA Update:

Legal Concealed Carry – Not Just Anytime You Want To

Valhalla VFT

Some may say ICE wasn’t created until after the catastrophic military failure of 911. Ditto for the US Dept. of Homeland Security.

Face the Nation

Bystander cameras record the event.

We post often Re: Operating A Camera In A Public Place

WatchlistTYT

At 2:15 below, the FBI Director speaks.

At 7:30, Kristi Noem explains how it all went down:

LE Traditions Of The Past

We enjoy the Murder Chose Me TV series.

Rod Demery made a point on the show of saying that he believes it is proper to do his job wearing a suit and tie.

He is bringing in homicide suspects. He is not a fictional character.

Above image credit/source:

Spectrum

LE At The Federal Level Today

Shock and Awe, show of force, one size fits all crackdowns conducted by militarized LE authorities who do not answer to locally elected leaders.

Happy 250 USA

Bill Hicks: You are free to do as we tell you.

At 4:17 below, Bill Hicks delivers his message.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

A giant flag ritual at the next ball game will make it all good.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

 

Related:

Local Law Enforcement Does It Differently

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Approved Flag Images

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

The Post 911 Era

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

MAGA – Concealed Carry

 

Above: Salt Creek

 

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

 

Glenn Greenwald takes a look at what is going on:

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

 

Homeland Security Interactions

Institute for Justice

TYT Sports

Armed Forces Recruiting – 1980s

Part of what made it work:

We found a period of Cold War-era peacetime stability. The US Armed Forces were on the back burner, right where they are supposed to be.

In past decades, people could do time in uniform, then return to the US with a feeling that they were living in the best country on the planet.

They believed it and their parents and grandparents believed it.

Those who did may have wished to hand down a better version of the modern American society to their kids and grandkids.

Today-

Standards have deteriorated. The troops return to an ongoing breakdown of society.

Both major parties have taken turns in power over the past 40 years or so. For sure, there is a chunk of public policy that has become worse, not better.

Emergency/crisis/chaos mode is what we get now.

Welcome Home Troops

KIRO 7 News

Would any newsperson ever ask:

Has any WA gun control measure or public policy effort of the past 20 years slowed down the gunfire between say, Everett and Tacoma?

What works? What fails?

Newspeople remain silent.

 

Craptastic won’t do for the big game:

Seattle’s ‘Hawk Alley’ cleared of RVs, tents ahead of Seahawks playoff game

Lauren Donovan – KCPQ

Jan 14, 2026

“The city of Seattle cleared the long-standing homeless encampments along Utah Avenue in SODO on January 13, just days before the Seahawks’ major home playoff game.”

 

Seattle businesses under more financial strain now than at the COVID pandemic’s peak

KOMO News

Jan 15, 2026

Many comments are posted with the article above.

Bringing Politics Into The Workplace

Breaking Points

Supporting ICE & Homeland Security

The Jimmy Dore Show

Any Newsperson Anywhere

Please let us know when Seattle area drug addicts have any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice.

Any questions from newspeople?

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

1-(800) Kristi Noem

Firefighters: Unresponsive puppies brought to fire station likely OD’d on fentanyl

KOMO News

Jan 12, 2026

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

Sponsored by a local Invisible Veteran chapter.

 

Possibly of interest:

Welcoming Visitors – USA 250

Imagination Run Wild

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

National Parks Hospitality & Goodwill Program

Illegal To Record Videos of ICE?

USA – 250 Years

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Blame It On Gen Z – Armed Forces Recruiting

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

35 Years Past Desert Shield

“…Gen Z is the least likely generation to enlist…”

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

 

Tennessee Brando

At 2:19 he speaks of:

“The whole don’t tread on me crowd.”

Valhalla VFT

Welcome Home Troops

We still want to know if Seattle area drug addicts are having any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice.

Newspeople remain silent.

MS NOW

 

Possibly of interest:

Welcoming Visitors – USA 250

 

Above: Mostly gone now.

A tide calendar.

A common sight in Puget Sound area homes and business back in the 1970s. Fun to have now, when they can be found.

 

David Pakman Show

Possibly of interest:

Bait and Switch Patriotism

Welcoming Visitors – USA 250

National Parks Hospitality & Goodwill Program

Approved Flag Images

USA – 250 Years

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

Take An Oath To The Constitution

 

Above: Beachcombing – Washington Coast

 

From the web:

The Trump Administration Says It’s Illegal To Record Videos of ICE. Here’s What the Law Says.

By C.J. Ciaramella – Reason

From the Feb/Mar 2026 issue

“The Trump administration believes you don’t have the right to record Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in public. This stance is both factually wrong and an attempt to chill free speech by conflating it with violence.”

Minneapolis News

Valhalla VFT

Alternative media gets it done:

Kristi Noem describes the federal version of events:

WatchlistTYT

WatchlistTYT

Alternative media not yet shut down by DHS:

The Jimmy Dore Show

What Others Are Saying

A counterpoint:

Washington Gun Law

Mark Dice

Limited Powers

Law enforcement authorities in the US have limited powers away from border crossings and ports of entry.

In a free society- young people would understand this prior to graduating from high school.

It would be as well understood as memorizing a pledge to a flag.

Nothing about this knowledge is about being disrespectful or interfering with law enforcement operations.

Portland, Oregon News

KGW News

 

The Guardian

US border patrol agents shoot two people in Portland

Robert Mackey in Portland

Jan 9, 2026

America 250

We are hoping things begin to calm down inside and outside US borders. This is important because now is the time for a big America 250 celebration all across the US and we don’t want an ongoing (since I left high school 4.5 decades ago) breakdown of society to get in the way of all that.

WatchlistTYT

The Young Turks

Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom

To set the right mood for America 250 celebration events in the months ahead, please meditate on press briefings provided by Karoline Leavitt.

Former Minnesota Governor:

The Rational National

Puget Sound Area Updates/Ongoing Breakdown Of Society

KIRO 7 News

KOMO News

Armed Forces Recruiting – 1980s

Part of what made it work:

In past decades, people could do time in uniform, then return to the US with a feeling that they were living in the best country on the planet.

They believed it and their parents and grandparents believed it.

Those who did may have wished to hand down a better version of the modern American society to their kids and grandkids.

Today-

Standards have deteriorated. The troops return to an ongoing breakdown of society.

Both major parties have taken turns in power over the past 40 years or so. For sure, there is a chunk of public policy that has become worse, not better.

Emergency/crisis/chaos mode is what we get now.

 

Old Man Blog category:

Thoughts on changes in American culture relating to those born roughly in the late 50s & early 60s.

Original Old Man Blog here: https://oldmanblogdotcom.wordpress.com

New updates here: https://oakbaystarfish.com/category/old-man-blog/

 

Related:

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

Approved Flag Images

 

Above: On the trails.

A Lonely Voice

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

The US should maintain strong and ready military forces.

Look for newspeople and school teachers to ask zero questions in this area:

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.

Podcast 9 Defending The Constitution?

 

It feels like a society where honest and meaningful ideas stand up to questioning and discussion, but the questioning and discussion rarely takes place. Alternative media is good about asking questions and operating active comment sections.

Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom

America 250

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

A giant flag ritual at the next ball game will make it all good.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

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:

Why I Didn’t Reenlist

By Casey Khan

February 14, 2004

Years Ago

Stan Goff at 2:30 below:

In 8 conflict areas.

Never met an enemy of the US Constitution.

Related:

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

Approved Flag Images

 

Above: Delivery system for wall to wall US ads for meds that come with gruesome and quality of life threatening side effects.

Alternative Media Is OK With Asking Questions

Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom

Breaking Points

Any Newsperson Anywhere

Please let us know when Seattle area drug addicts have any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

Can Anything Be Done To Restrict Voices Of Dissent On TV This Year?

Let’s support Freedom 250 instead of asking questions.

Macho Swagger

Watch Secretary of War Pete Hegseth takes thrilling fighter jet ride with ‘Top-Gun’ pilots:

Since 1986 Top Gun:

The US Dept. of Defense was nowhere to be found on 911.

We haven’t won a war since.

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the people who run the Pentagon specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Is it understandable that young people and their parents and grandparents would take a dim view on all this?

TV Newspeople Function Like Paid Actors Reading A Script

TV newspeople:

Would any TV newsperson ever ask:

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?

Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

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:

Why I Didn’t Reenlist

By Casey Khan

February 14, 2004

 

Related:

Operation Macho Swagger – “CIA Squad Smashed Venezuela…”

New Dept. of War Brings Back Armistice Day?

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

Candidate Trump Is Gone – He Didn’t Stay Long

Plan To Try And Celebrate – USA 250

Approved Flag Images

For the Marines, the War on Terror began before 911

250 Years For The USMC

Take An Oath To The Constitution

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Imagination Run Wild

 

Whatever happened to the formal congressional declaration of war?

This would be the time to hear from elected leaders and top generals Re: lessons learned on all the issues that have doomed the Department of Defense track record for winning wars since DOD was established back in 1949.

Look for newspeople and school teachers to ask zero questions in this area:

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.

Podcast 9 Defending The Constitution?

 

During the Vietnam War, US troops were sent to Vietnam.

Feb 25, 2024:

The Ohio National Guard is sent to “support Operation Spartan Shield and Operation Inherent Resolve.”

CIA Drone Strikes, REAL ID, Kristi Noem, Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Counts, Kinetic Pentagon Strikes & Regime Change In Venezuela.

Much checked off in recent months. Starting strong for 2026.

Real newspeople may ask:

Today-

Are Seattle area drug addicts having any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of all federal drug war efforts in recent months?

Will any US community announce that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Will any community anywhere in the US downsize or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats?

Any questions from newspeople?

What Others Are Saying

POTUS comments at 2:34 below:

Bracing Views:

Venezuela Attacks U.S.

President Trump and First Lady Captured; Will Face Trial and Justice in Venezuela

BILL ASTORE

JAN 03, 2026

“I’m tempted to write the U.S. has hit a new low on the international stage, but surely we know lower acts are coming. The optimism of the New Year died so quickly, didn’t it?”

Years Ago

Stan Goff at 2:30 below:

In 8 conflict areas.

Never met an enemy of the US Constitution.

 

Related:

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

Plan To Try And Celebrate – USA 250

Approved Flag Images

For the Marines, the War on Terror began before 911

250 Years For The USMC

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Please let us know when Seattle area drug addicts have any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice:

Operation Macho Swagger – “CIA Squad Smashed Venezuela…”

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Imagination Run Wild

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo-

Something from the last century

Post-Vietnam Guilt

The guilt doesn’t seem to work towards staying out of undeclared/unwon wars.

A giant flag ritual at the next ball game will make it all good.

 


Thousands of American families have now had a loved one who did one or more tours in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Will they encourage new enlistments?

Recruiting Crisis – Damage Control

Questioning Government Policies

Possibly of interest-

CIA Drone Strikes, REAL ID, Kristi Noem & Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Counts Fail To Keep Drugs From Arriving In Clallam County:

Port Angeles Homeland Security/CBP Unable To Keep Drugs Out Of Town

Are newspeople forbidden to ask questions related to Port Angeles Homeland Security funding and performance?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

After a Port Angeles CBP buildup that took place more than a decade ago, is there any follow up made by the press to inform the public on whatever results have been achieved?

If you run a government operation-these are the reporters you want to see on interview day:

“Comments are turned off.”

Local press:

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

CIA Drone Strikes, REAL ID, Kristi Noem & Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Counts Also Fail To Keep Drugs From Arriving In Atlanta:

$1M drug bust: Massive amount of drugs, 71 guns, and live grenade found in raids

By FOX 5 Atlanta

Jan 1, 2026

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

Macho Swagger

Watch Secretary of War Pete Hegseth takes thrilling fighter jet ride with ‘Top-Gun’ pilots:

Since 1986 Top Gun:

The US Dept. of Defense was nowhere to be found on 911.

We haven’t won a war since.

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the people who run the Pentagon specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Is it understandable that young people and their parents and grandparents would take a dim view on all this?

TV Newspeople Function Like Paid Actors Reading A Script

TV newspeople:

Would any TV newsperson ever ask:

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?

Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

 

Also:

Operation Macho Swagger – “CIA Squad Smashed Venezuela…”

Approved Flag Images

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

250 Years For The USMC

For the Marines, the War on Terror began before 911

Take An Oath To The Constitution

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

Launching Strikes In The Region Since 1991 Desert Storm

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

 

Cliff Mass Weather Blog

Dec25, 2025

Drought Deception

“Northwest drought is being exaggerated by a group including publicly funded agencies, the media, local government, and climate activists.

At its essence, it is ideological, anti-science, political, and self-serving.”

 

Above: Out to Westport

 

Valhalla VFT

Related:

Epstein Files

Unlimited Government

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Drug boat body count & Whidbey increase in illegal drug activity

 

Blog title taken from comments posted here:

Cliff Mass Weather Blog

Dec 21, 2025

How Unusual Were the Recent Floods? Did Global Warming Play a Significant Role?

Comment:

“Once again, the use of science based evidence refutes the Climste Lab claims. The art of selling newspapers often stretches or ignores the truth. And MSM wonders why their influence is waning?”

 

Above: Information suppression specialists ensign.

Approved Flag Images

 

At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and DAVID B. CARUSO
The Associated Press

Dec. 20, 2025

“At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.”

Face the Nation

Brian Tyler Cohen News

The Jimmy Dore Show

Valhalla VFT

Just Be Honest

This could be a slogan for government to live by, no matter what political party or personality is in power.

The US federal government has been involved in decades of various events where records were sealed or redacted and files were kept secret.

As the years went by, the public found out they were lied to.

Federal credibility is squandered over a period of decades. Now, people are scolded for wanting to be honestly informed on government activities. Well done. Something to get proud about.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

 

Old Man Blog category:

Thoughts on changes in American culture relating to those born roughly in the late 50s & early 60s.

Original Old Man Blog here: https://oldmanblogdotcom.wordpress.com

New updates here: https://oakbaystarfish.com/category/old-man-blog/

 

Above: Home for the Holidays

Thanks to my brother for his generous firewood deliveries this year.

 

Alternative Media

Breaking Points

 

Cliff Mass Weather Blog

Dec 16, 2025

Drought Exaggeration

“Drought during a period of flooding, moist soils, and above-normal reservoir levels.”

“During this fall wet season, most locations received MORE precipitation than usual.”

 

Unlike the mainstream press, alternative media is willing to ask questions.

Newspeople avoid asking:

If the CIA (est 1947) serves as an advantage to the US, why does the Department of Defense have such a poor record of winning undeclared wars going back to 1949, the year DOD was established?

Decades Of Undeclared/Unwon Wars Roll On

Liberty Vault gives us a look at how propaganda has been successful:

Judge Andrew Napolitano:

Narcoterrorist is not a legal term. It’s a political term.

Source:

Napolitano: Hegseth ‘should be prosecuted for a war crime’

By Ashleigh Fields – The Hill

Dec 3, 2025

 

At 4:29 below, Judge Napolitano tells us:

Narcoterrorist is a political phrase. No such phrase in the law.

Dan Abrams

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

 

Glenn Greenwald

At 12:20 below-

Kristi Noem sucks up to Donald Trump and praises him for saving hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine he blew up in the Caribbean:

Related:

Big Homeland Security Budgets

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Post-911 Surveillance State Falls Short

See Something, Say Something?

Approved Flag Images

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

Above: The Seal Rock Oyster

 

Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom

Possibly related:

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

Take An Oath To The Constitution

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Approved Flag Images

 

Fake News?

Asylum Granted – April 2025

Q: Why was asylum granted in April 2025?

A: Something, something, Biden.

Related:

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

 

Information Suppression Specialists In Charge

Just Be Honest

This could be a slogan for government to live by, no matter what political party or personality is in power.

The US federal government has been involved in decades of various events where records were sealed or redacted and files were kept secret.

As the years went by, the public found out they were lied to.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

 


Welcome Home Troops

Vegan order at 5:49 below:

Possibly of interest:

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask