The lone GS-1 running the National Weather Service must’ve lost her Magic 8-Ball and is reduced to winging it, calling for “a slight chance of snow showers” here before 8 a.m.
As that hour has come and gone, we will not be breaking out the cross-country skis anytime soon.
Still, the weather is finally more or less seasonal for a change, so I can probably leave the lawn mower in the garage for a while, too.
In other news: 92,000 jobs swirled down the Gilded Shitter in February; the unemployment rate is up to 4.4 percent; retail sales fell in January; stocks drop amid “uncertain outlook”; gas prices jump again to their highest level in a year and a half; and a senator who can’t do his job helps the coppers do theirs.
So. Much. Winning.
Who can we bomb now? Are we bombing everyone yet? There must be somebody left unbombed. If we have any bombs left. …
Mad Blog Media 
He wants to rule the world.
Can’t even run the executive branch and wants to run the world. Classic nepo baby.
Meanwhile, in keeping with the strategy of always fighting the previous war (or the one before that, or the one before that), the Pentagon has been pitching multimillion-dollar interceptors (gift link) at six-figure Iranian drones.
Ukraine knows how to intercept and destroy a Shad-136 drone for about $1000 with an AI equipped drone. They also have other methods to down drones, including laser weapons. They are currently the experts in this technology and are assisting our middle East allies with it right now. Shahed 136 drones cost about $20 to $30 thousand. Cheaper than the average car in the US.
Cheaper than my car, for sure. Last I looked it was good for about $1,500. We orter be tossing 2005 Subaru Foresters at the enemy. And by “the enemy,” I don’t mean Venezuela, Iran, or Cuba.
Oh yeah! Well I have a good old broken down ‘Merican jalopy sitting in my driveway that could use a good toss somewhere. If Petey boy wants to send a Huey over and drop a line I’ll let him have it as a 4400 pound gravity bomb. Smart it ain’t but it sure would make a purdy splat.
I trust hopefully all of you are speaking tongue-in-cheek or sharing/venting your dissatisfaction with our current administration’s fickle, ricocheting, vacillating, and ever-politicized-in-a-midterm election year whipsaw actions. Think US COVID responses in an election year!
Re your dated (if any) combat experience (and mine too… SEA …. Iraq …. Somalia …. Bosnia …. Kosovo) I’d suggest our military is daily consulting with all the other ongoing conflict participants (Ukraine et al) and incorporating their experience/expertise/lessons learned as quickly as possible. Why? Because our troops lives are at stake, our nation demands that, and to do less would be negligence …. even if the military/industrial complex can’t respond in the minutes you seem to desire.
At the tactical level, where people’s lives (not armchair strategists’ or bureaucrats’ or blog contributors’ lives) depend upon rapid and frequent adjustment, it’s incessantly ongoing. Been there … done that.
So … please rest assured that our warfighters (not REMFs/bloggers/pundits, et al) whose lives are at risk 24/7 are smartly using their creativity and intelligence to best accomplish their missions given the equipment they have NOW under the ROE and political guidance they have NOW.
Please read Michael Beschloss’s book “Presidents of War”. for perspective!
NOTE: It’s not an easy read, but nothing worthwhile is, eh??!! 🙂