Chet Collins

If you don’t have cold brew, or you don’t have heavy whipping cream, you’re not a coffee shop.

Kamala Harris Assures Public No One Has Given Her Single Classified Document - The Onion

“Please take comfort when I say I have no security clearance, on any level. My key fob doesn’t even work most days, and I have to text someone on my staff to come let me in. Yesterday, I stood outside the White House in the cold for 15 minutes before anyone came to get me.”

Crypto.com Cuts 20% of Staff, Citing Economic Hurdles and FTX Collapse - WSJ

Crypto.com is cutting a fifth of its global workforce, in a second round of layoffs in six months

Fortune doesn’t favor the brave.

Christmas gift from Alison, a reusable tea bag.

FAA Pilot-Alert System Breakdown Followed Years of Warnings - WSJ

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D., Calif.), who has advocated for overhauling the FAA’s Notam system, said modernizing its content and technology go hand in hand. “The pilots, the users, tend to not rely on it as much because they don’t have confidence that the system—both the content and the architecture—is reliable,” he said in an interview. 

False, false, false.

Pilots cannot legally operate any flight without checking NOTAMs.

There’s a lot of useless info in there, yes. But a lot of vital information, too.

Is there anyplace that Biden didn’t stash classified docs?

Bottom line: either we’re classifying way too many documents, or we’re not doing enough to hold people accountable for mishandling them.

Probably a bit of both.

What is a NOTAM? - Federal Aviation Administration

Changed the acronym NOTAM from Notice to Airmen to the more applicable term Notice to Air Missions, which is inclusive of all aviators and missions.

Thank goodness the government is focused on the issues that really matter.

Classified Documents Found at Biden’s Vice Presidential Center - WSJ

Earlier this year in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Mr. Biden offered his reaction to the news that Mr. Trump had taken classified materials from the White House, characterizing Mr. Trump’s actions as “totally irresponsible.” He also wondered “how that could possibly happen.”

Strong agree.

Beautiful sky.

Lego Introduces First-Ever Affordable Lego Set - Babylon Bee

Motivated by worldwide economic stagnation, engineers at Lego headquarters in Billund have developed the first-ever affordable LEGO® set: a single brick that retails for a meager $9.99.

Remaining Avengers Team Up To Battle Snow Plow - Babylon Bee

Using Hawkeye’s accident as a rallying cry, the Avengers vowed to defeat the evil Snow Plow and complete the job of clearing the driveway of Hawkeye’s ski retreat.

AOC Asks Why We Need A House Speaker Since Everyone Already Has Headphones - Babylon Bee

The room fell silent as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle turned to listen to Ocasio-Cortez’s wisdomly soliloquy as she described how the whole world surely receives piles of nice headphones in little gift bags from well-dressed lobbyists just like she does, begging the question: Why speakers?

Military to proceed with changing names of bases honoring Confederate generals - WTOP

The bases are the largest items the Naming Commission recommends renaming, but it has also listed more than 1,000 items in the military’s inventory that should be renamed, removed, or modified.

Many of the items to be removed are paintings of Civil War era scenes.

Maybe we can burn the canvases with the books and save some time.