Brian Visser

@BoeingDefense There’s a life limit for these. Corrosion, cracks, systems, etc. Great plane, but be careful. Build a new one? You have all the drawings, tooling is largely gone but can be built again. The USA is in a unique situation. Need drones, etc but existing planes fine for 30yrs.

The B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program held its Critical Design Review. This milestone enables the program to move closer to modernization of #B52 aircraft with fuel-efficient engines and advanced systems into the 2050s. Learn more: aflcmc.af.mil/NEWS/Article/4…

Long live the Warthog.

BREAKING NOW Over 121 EMPTY oil tankers are on their way to the United States to buy fuel - 68 of those tankers carry 2 MILLION barrels each - following President Trump's historic naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz: "China can send their ships to the U.S., China can send their ships to Venezuela...empty oil carrying ships from many nations are all headed to the U.S. to load up."

Charles Schwab ran the largest steel company in the world. He had access to every consultant, every system, every productivity tool available in 1918. He said a 15-minute conversation with a man named Ivy Lee was the most valuable business advice he ever received. He paid him $25,000 for it. The advice fit on an index card. Ivy Lee was not famous. He was not a philosopher or a scientist or a professor at a prestigious institution. He was a productivity consultant who had spent years watching extremely capable people fail to do their most important work, and he had developed a precise theory about why. The theory was not complicated. It was uncomfortable. The reason most people never do their most important work is not that they lack time. It is that they never decide what their most important work actually is. They arrive each morning at a pile of tasks with roughly equal claim on their attention, choose based on whatever feels most urgent or easiest in that moment, and spend the day moving through a list that was never designed to move them forward. They are busy in a way that feels productive and accomplishes far less than it should. Lee asked Schwab for 15 minutes with his executive team. Schwab agreed. Lee walked them through six steps. He asked them to try it for three months and pay him whatever they thought it was worth. Here is the system. At the end of every workday, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Not ten. Not twenty. Six. If you cannot decide what matters enough to make that list, you have already identified the real problem. Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance. Not urgency. Not ease. Importance. The thing that will matter most three months from now goes first, regardless of how uncomfortable it is to start. When you arrive the next morning, begin immediately on item one. Work on it until it is finished. Do not touch item two until item one is complete. Do not check email. Do not attend to whatever walked through the door. Item one, until it is done. Move through the list in order. If you reach the end of the day and items four, five, and six remain untouched, move them to the next day's list without guilt. They were not the most important things. The most important things got done. Repeat this process every day for the rest of your working life. That is the entire system. Six steps. Four minutes the night before. No app required. No morning ritual. No tracking software. An index card and a pen. What Lee understood that most productivity systems miss entirely is that the bottleneck in human performance is almost never capacity. It is prioritization. The average knowledge worker has more than enough hours in the day to accomplish something significant. What they do not have is a forcing function that makes them decide, the night before, in a calm moment free from the noise of the incoming day, what significant actually means for them tomorrow. The morning is the worst possible time to make this decision. The morning brings email and notifications and other people's priorities and the accumulated urgency of everything that did not get done yesterday. By the time most people have decided what to work on, an hour is gone and the decision was made by their inbox rather than by them. Lee's method moves the decision to the evening, when the day's noise has settled and the mind can assess without distraction. The prioritization is done before the chaos begins. Which means the next morning, there is no decision to make. There is only execution. The second insight embedded in the system is the single-tasking constraint. Item one, until it is finished. Not item one until something more urgent appears. Not item one until you have checked in on items two through six. Item one, finished, before anything else receives your attention. This runs against every instinct that modern work has trained into people. The entire infrastructure of the contemporary workplace is designed to fragment attention. Email expects a response within hours. Slack expects a response within minutes. The open office assumes that any question is more important than whatever the person being asked is currently doing. The result is a workforce that is in constant motion and making almost no progress on anything that actually matters. Lee's method is a direct refusal of this dynamic. It does not negotiate with urgency. It does not make exceptions for whoever shouts loudest. It asks you to decide, once, what matters most, and then protect that decision from everything that will try to override it the next morning. Charles Schwab ran Bethlehem Steel. He had seven hundred employees. He had more operational complexity, more competing demands, more legitimate urgency than most people reading this will ever face. He tried the system for three months. Then he sent Ivy Lee a check for $25,000 and a note saying it was the most valuable business advice he had ever received. The system has not changed. The morning has not gotten less chaotic. The inbox has not gotten smaller. The only variable that was ever under your control was what you decided the night before. Six things. In order. Starting with the first. The most valuable productivity advice in history is still free. Most people will read it, find it obvious, and go back to checking email.

@Bible365_ Isaiah 57:1-2 NLT

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@TCNetwork Are you an idiot…? He’s not considering using nuclear weapons against Iran…

President Trump said the US is considering using nukes against Iran. Tucker reacts.

God specializes in doing the impossible.

“If not me, then who? If not now, then when?” - Lorne Sanny

@shanaka86 Are there other insurance options besides the London one? For instance, US govt. sponsored emergency program?

The White House says 4 to 6 weeks. The mechanism says 6 to 18 months. One of them is catastrophically wrong. The entire global allocation framework depends on which. Nine days into Operation Epic Fury, the kinetic campaign is succeeding by every traditional military metric. Iranian air defences are 80% destroyed. Missile launches are down 86% from opening-day peaks. Forty-three warships sunk. Three thousand targets struck. Air superiority achieved in 48 hours. Oxford Economics projects intense strikes wrapping within 1 to 3 weeks, settlement attempts within 2 months. Trump’s press secretary has repeated the 4 to 6 week timeline three times. None of this matters for the question that actually determines global market pricing. The war does not end when missiles stop flying. The war ends when the London reinsurance market decides it is safe to underwrite a VLCC transit through the Strait of Hormuz. That is a sequential institutional process involving actuarial recalculation, treaty reinsurance recapitalisation, individual vessel re-underwriting, and sustained safe-transit data accumulation. It cannot be compressed by executive order. It cannot be accelerated by naval presence. It operates on its own clock. After 26 months of Houthi Red Sea attacks that sank four ships and damaged over a hundred, war-risk premiums never returned to baseline. Traffic volumes never fully recovered. That was a low-intensity, intermittent campaign by a non-state actor in the absence of any leadership decapitation or insurance-market withdrawal. The 2026 Hormuz crisis is a high-intensity state-on-state war with the Supreme Leader assassinated, 31 autonomous IRGC commands activated, seven P&I clubs withdrawn, zero tanker transits, and a nuclear stockpile the IAEA cannot locate. The reference class is not the June 2025 Twelve-Day War, which involved no Hormuz closure, no insurance withdrawal, and no counterparty fragmentation. The reference class is the Tanker War of 1987 to 1988, where Operation Earnest Will required 30 warships escorting reflagged tankers for 14 months before normalisation. And that war had a centralised Iranian government capable of negotiating a ceasefire. This one does not. The 31 autonomous IRGC provincial commands operating under Mosaic Defence doctrine cannot collectively agree to a ceasefire because they do not have a unified command structure. Trump demands unconditional surrender. Iran’s Foreign Minister says “we are not asking for a ceasefire.” Ali Larijani says Iran “will not negotiate with the United States.” The Senate rejected War Powers 47 to 53. The Pentagon is preparing a $50 billion supplemental. The interceptor arithmetic sets a hard military clock. THAAD production runs at 8 per month. Iran produces over 100 missiles per month. The Stimson Center projects critical magazine depletion within 4 to 5 weeks of sustained operations. The campaign must end before interceptors run out but cannot end without a counterparty the campaign is destroying. This is the temporal trap. The kinetic war has an expiration date. The commercial war does not. Brent futures still price normalisation by the third quarter. The mechanism says the disruption persists through 2027. Every allocation model built on a 4 to 6 week resolution is mispricing duration by a factor of three at minimum. The positions built on those models are the most vulnerable in global markets right now. The war ends when the reinsurance market says it ends. Not when the White House says it ends. Full analysis is on my Substack! Paywall removed! open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

“And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” (Matthew 24:6-8)

One day, a nation more righteous than our own may rise up to attack—and perhaps even conquer—America. Their justification will be stark and unyielding: we have dismembered and beheaded hunreds of millions of our own preborn children in the womb. It will be more tolerable in the day of judgment for Sodom and Gomorrah... "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. Though with patience he stands waiting, With exactness grinds he all." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

@marklevinshow @MayeH78338 “But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.” Luke 6:35 NIV

I’ll deal with this deranged traitor, Tucker Carlson, more fully later. For now I’ll say he’s a disgusting Woke Reich lowlife. He trashes our country and president in the middle of a military campaign against an enemy that has murdered over 1000 Americans and maimed thousands more. This bum has pranced around the Middle East giving aid and comfort to our enemies. And today he’s stabbing the president in the back and smearing our nation. He lies and propagandizes, and spews his cancerous bigotry, antisemitism, and Cristian-trashing.  Even Qatar is condemning Iran. But not Carlson . He attacks his own country. You’ve every reason to despise him. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@VDHanson Please, please, …don’t have people on your show who drop the f-bomb. Thanks.

Truckers went from being revered in pop culture as the archetype of the “last American cowboy” in the 1970s and ’80s to teetering on the edge of irrelevance today. Why has the perception of the trucking industry by the American public “gone completely down the toilet”? There are many reasons the rugged individualists of yesteryear have fallen from glory, but chief among them may be staring us right in the face: cheap foreign labor, explains @GordMagill, author of the forthcoming “End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers,” on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” @jackfowler youtu.be/HJPLnZN_-dU?si…