Has Lufthansa Freed the Passengers Yet

       Where are the trapped 500 passengers, stranded on the Munich runways? Where , oh, where have they gone today?

Ukraine Peace Talks

    Peace? Talks? Russya? So, the war enters year 5. Yes, it's been over 4 years since MAd Vlad invaded his neighbor, Ukraine. How's it going, VOVA? NOt so good. He's emptying prisons with offers of pardons. Russ thugs are taking the bait, figuring with luck, they can survive the trenches in east Ukraine. Better than rotting in a Rus prison with all the other murderers and thieves and rapists.

    Yes, recruiting has become an issue for the Kremlin hypocrites.  Can they offer a time frame for the war? No. Can they offer a logic for the war? No. Well, what can they offer? The Usual Rus fake history. The puppets offer the false narrative that they are battling the US and the Western powers(Europe). Rus are victims, again.  Oh, so tiresome. Seems it's built into the Rus cultural history: we get no respect from the West; so, we must attack.

      How'd that workout with partner Adolf? Not so much. Perhaps Old Joe had mental illness and saw visions that scared him into a corner from which he had to murder millions of his own people to quell the nightmares. Who knows; who cares? Not the Rus.

     Peace talks? Not part of the Kremlin game plan. Stall, lie, stall some more. 

      

C.D.C. Deputy Director Resigns

     Goodby and good riddance. Go back to the Louisiana swamps where you belong. This vaccine skeptic has no place in national politics where he has floated his bizarre theories about medical practices. Sadly, the loonies in Louisiana will probably welcome him home and find him a niche job so he can continue his strange practice.

     He's a Republican but even they couldn't abide his wacko ideas. Now that is saying something. Maybe HHS Head Robert KooKoo Kennedy, Jr. decided it was starting to smell in the office of the deputy and time to clean out the source of the smell: goodby Ralph.

      While in Louisina, he ran a rural clinic, doubling as a veterinarian, helping cats and dogs get proper vaccinations. Humans, not so much. How did he get to the national scene and why did he quit after 3  months?

      Not even worth the time to list all the deficiencies obvious to all.

Maybe sTump will mention Dr. Abraham in his speech tonight; maybe not. The question tonight is : will any Supremes show up to be ridiculed by Mr. Bluster? Doubt it.  

How Are Things Down Mexico Way

   So, the failed state of Mexico is back in the headlines, again. No, it's not 'caravans' of migrants riding the "beast' north to the border. No, it's not the US sending planeloads of Mexicans homeward; no, it's not another  I.C.E. raid on an apartment in Minneapolis .

     It's another extrajudicial killing in     MEXICO .

     The leader of the JAlisco Cartel was killed by government forces.  sTrump will no doubt mention this tonight in his address to the world. 

    President Sheinbaum will have made comments, especially in the aftermath of the killing that includes terrorist activities in Mexico. Mayor's advice: avoid Mexico until further notice. Be safe; be smart. Stay home, or go north.   

Lufthansa Nightmare in Munich :Today, Feb 23rd, 2026

   So, one of Europe's premier airlines is boarding passengers on one of their fleet aircraft. The door is closed; the pilots pull back from the gate; the plane starts to taxi on the apron of the runway. And then the control tower orders the aircraft to ---W A I T. And wait, and wait, and wait some more.

      Then all the ground crews depart leaving the aircraft S T R A N D E D on the runway. What about all the passengers and crew on board? They are left out there - alone. No ground staff are available.  It's such an empty feelonh. The MAyor has been stuck like this- for hours on the east coast of the US. Not fun. The airlines have taken big heat from the FAA over this very condition. There is no excuse.

    There's no excuse in Europe either. Lufthansa will have to pay- big time. The lawyers are already writing their court documents/ The Mass Media are on it. The assengers? who knows? Maybe the customer service folks will recall what decision tree they used during tis incident. Whatever decisions they made, we all know it was to benefit the airline, not those trapped like rats on the plane. Shame, shame on Lufthansa. Money will help to sooth the feelings; a LOT of money. Euros by the thousands, if not more. I would be very angry, to say the least. And the airport operator should also pay, big time.

    Commercial aircraft operators have rules. Break those rules- you pay. Oh, yes, it's the "cost" of doing business. Lucky for those passengers they were on the ground, not in the air. 

deadly Ski Season at Lake Tahoe

   So, certified back country guides lead a number of flat landers into the alpine forests at high elevations. Weather is forecast to be heavy snow. As the group proceeds to their destination, they pass another group high tailing the place for " safer" territory before the storm arrives. Hmmm.

      And then the storm arrives; the group is outside; the group encounters an avalanche, 9 members of the group are now dead. 6 members were rescued. Not a good outcome for the decision makers in the group.

     Then at Heavenly Valley resort, two skiers died after accidents on the slopes. At North Star Resort, another skier died of injuries suffered while negotiating the ski runs there.  Is there something we know or don't know about winter? It's cold in the Sierra during winter. It is now winter season there. If one doesn't live in the Sierra, one is vulnerable to decision errors. Oh, depending on the advice of hired locals, get ready to add more errors in the decision -making process.

  Stay healthy, avoid Lake Tahoe unless you know about winter. 

State of the Union

        The Oval Office Occupant will blab on today about how things are going. Can you imagine: a bumbling old fool will stand before the 334 millions of Americans and tell us how we are doing?

      Nobody with a brain will accept whatever this BOOB says. Most of it will be fiction, unmoored from our reality. MAybe Stven Miller, assistant Chief of Staff, wrote the speech. Or maybe that junior Boob, Steve Bannon, jail bird, ex-Navy dipshit, will come out of rathole to sprinkle a few bon mots into a speech "He" thinks we'd all like to hear. Or maybe the bizarre head of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy,Jr., will include a few nuggets about his latest fitness maneuvers , or maybe the Super Legal Beagle, Todd Blanche, will emerge from the other nearby rat hole and include a few legal tidbits to tease those waiting for a paedon or two.

    Whatever the BOOB says, including anything about the economy or tariffs, or the Big Beautiful Garbage Bil, don't believe it.

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