2026 the year the federal work force changed

I have seen federal employees recently attacked and written up for trivial items, and these are people who have never been written up for anything in any job their entire lives. Yes, it is happening. The White House wants federal employees who are boot lickers, yes men, and, and they want you to be disposable, so you can be disposed of very easily. You must have extraordinary loyalty and be subordinate, just like a storm trooper in the movie Star Wars (or Return of the Jedi, or Empire strikes Back).

The character addition is very distressing to me. It is extremely easy to make up lies about a employee’s work. It is now written that these narratives can get you fired! You can now, as a federal supervisor or leader, add these into a little package and get a federal employee fired. Federal workers make sure you use every available route (grievance, ask your commander, ask your congressman) for fighting the lies made up about you because they NOW CAN GET YOU FIRED!!!!

Humphrey’s Executor v. United States – Wikipedia The recent US governments attacks on protections of executive leadership will cause strife and weakness in our government, as the best people will think twice before joining government service. With little protection from being fired instantly by the leadership, why work in the federal service? If we make it so easy to fire department leaders, we need to make it very easy to fire congress people, the president and his cabinet. The President and many congress people have way too many job protections, making it impossible to fire them even as they develop alzheimers disease, like Joe Biden did in his last years of Presidency. These federal workers who are called our leaders? These leaders, Right now, they feel safe and secure creating an empire. A friend told me the United States was never a democracy, ok, well its becoming a total doctorship at this point in time.

Will the people, the citizens, and the federal employees standby while the executive branch dismantles the systems that allow federal workers make the government better? If you want to whistle blow on fraud, waste and abuse, what happens now? The outlook is not good if federal worker protections are removed.

Remember also many federal workers lose rights while doing their jobs. They have always lost some freedom of speech, some rights most citizens have. To make it trivial to fire government workers based on bias and lies, we will have a weak federal workforce, is my prediction.

Copyright 2026 Rod Deluhery

References:

Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that the U.S. Congress may limit the power of the President of the United States to fire certain government officials, even though the president is the chief executive of the U.S. government.[2] The Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution allows Congress to restrict the President’s authority to dismiss the leaders of independent agencies that are “quasi-legislative” or “quasi-judicial” in nature.

Trump admin reshaping federal employee discipline, firing rules | Federal News Network

Jules Torti, counsel at Protect Democracy, told Federal News Network that she sees the Trump administration’s personnel process changes, taken together, as a “complete revolution” in internal government operations.

“Together these changes mean more control by political leadership, fewer substantive protections and much more limited availability to seek outside neutral review of the government’s personnel-related decisions,” Torti told Federal News Network. “One major concern is how this increases risk of bias or selective application of the rules — which could mean political bias, bias against certain work or simply personal bias.”

misery. strong drink.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

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Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

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Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

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Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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United states

i keep telling people that if you love israel so much, why don’t you just call your congressman?And have them become a state of the united states? I tell that to a person who says he’s a hundred percent with israel. I say, if you think israel’s doing so much good, why don’t you go vote for them to become a state? Ohh, is it because israel really doesn’t want to be a state of the United States. They dont want to join us or become a part of us. THey , Israel wants to own us!

pacific crest trail

Andy was just 19 when his family came to spend the day running on these trails.

“Boy if he was going to do it, he really wanted to do it really well, he didn’t want to goof around. He was a good guy, the world lost one of the good guys,” said Dean.

The morning of June 17th, 1989, Andy went back to the car by himself as planned, but was never seen alive again.

250 years

250 years was a good run for a country.

What a great country we had. In the last few decades, the military industrial conplex has continued to grow. And now we see that just by a vote of some of our appointed people, or let’s call them handpicked people, we continue to build the biggest military and now even more cooperation with Israel. There should be no cooperation, no training.No nothing with israel. Yet, a few people decided it was a good idea to unite with israel and actually go attack a country as a united force to kill and cause malice to another group of people in the midd l e east (Iran). And now they are putting it in paper.So that it’s authorized to share more and more and team, more and more with a middle eastern country. Why is that? Write your congressman and tell them this needs to stop. All coordination cooperation with israel in any military matter needs to be halted immediately.

I would say freedom of speech is gone. I would say it happened last year. Last year, many things went on in several countries that basically mark the sand in the line, a line in the sand saying that you no longer have freedom to speak your mind.

Freedom of speech means you cannot even show up for certain events. And if you do show up, you better be wearing dark sunglasses and a hat and put on a covid mask too. Because if you’re identified, there could be consequences.

Sure, you can post some things here on facebook and get away with it. You may be even working for the government and get away with it. If you say something controversial, and it gets enough views, you no longer have freedom of speech.

Its true. All it takes is some Jewish newspaper or some Israel loving outlet to magnify your post so that tons of people see it, and all of a sudden, you’ll see that you no longer have freedom of speech. See an example:

write, right and protest, and make sure you have your get your voice heard. We still have a bit of freedom of speech. But as you know, if you may have noticed, that’s going away. So use your freedom of speech. And stop any cooperation with israel.

EITaas service and 10 year contracts

I don’t know that much about this contract, and remember, this contract is so big, so expensive, probably no one single person knows all the contract details. It is billions of dollars, and multiple parties involved. It’s so big, forget trying to figure out what the heck is really supposed to be delivered. This contract is like the “banks are too big to fail” logic, which made no sense. I see the contract has some small business companies. Ok, thats great. But why is the contract 10 years? At most, should be 2 years.

Creating a 10 year contract is ridiculous. Really? How do we enforce performance to contractors when they have little reason to improve? I mean, the government could write them a letter of non-performance. Who would do that? And does it matter, when the contract almost NEVER EXPIRES!!!! The lawyers will laugh at you behind closed doors. This is just a bad idea, and it seems something the federal government does without a hitch, except here, they did have many complaints to the bidding process (through GAO??).

I think honest people who know contracting, they would never vote for a 10 year contract. Contract lifetimes of such length are foolish. We need someone to pass a law making such contracts difficult to do.

The contract is in waves, but who knows how that works? Something about blanket purchase agreements start at each wave? Why not call them gates? If they dont make it past a gate, they never get to the next gate, that is performance oriented.

For me, my main complaint is hold time. Hold time, call abandonment, and other phone call metrics are usually tracked for performance, these are documented as industry standard KPI key performance indicators, and they have industry standard formulas for KPI, and the kpi list for these? Eitass for my use seemed to have horrible hold times (which means many dropped calls, usually). I noticed they did NOT call me back when I hung up on them. My local hardware store called me back when I hung up on a long hold time. The air force can do this, if my hardware store can do it? They could if they wanted to!!

Any idea, why does the government create 10 year contracts?  I read this was a 10 year contract.  To me, its not open competition, you will  NOT get the best service when you lock in a service provider for a DECADE!!   THis is common sense.   Why not make the contract for 100 years and just say no competition is needed, no improvement of services.  It appears to be corruption to me, when I see a 10 year contract. Corrupt people and or government. Does anyone see any upside to this 10 year contract?

 It should be easy to ask the Air Force, 

1. have the metric improved since this contract was awarded?

2. why is hold time so long, and are the hold time and call abandonment metrics tracked?   

I believe this is the contract EITaas.  

EITaaS Wave 1 services awarded in $5.7B agreement > Air Force Life Cycle Management Center > Article Display

too much government?

the other day, I was thinking. How if the federal government seems to be removing worker protections. Yet they can’t remove all the state protections that states have. So because we have a state government and federal governments, it’s a good thing, right? Ok, so then we need, do we need local government?Do we need a city government body? In the united states, the fact is we have a lot of government.And i’m not sure it’s all necessary.

there are inefficiencies that come about when there are too many cooks in the kitchen.When there are too many liters and when there are just too many things happening in one place. This is why small business often innovates faster than large business.

what other problems do multiple governments have? One thing I see is that when you have multiple governments, you have a state government. You have local city government. Is that the state government will maybe make a law? Either limiting or empowering what the cities can do, and then the cities will go ahead.And do something and the state just kind of says, well, all they have to do is point the finger and say that wasn’t our problem! The state government will just say, you know, you should have.You should have worked with your local city.To prevent that from happening.

here’s an example. Quoted from Carl Demaio, his newsletter:

Rod — ‍‍Reform California Chairman and State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio this week blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom for signing legislation that allows local politicians in Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties to push sales tax rates to 11.25%.

The new law removes existing taxpayer protections and gives local governments another way to raise costs on working families and small businesses already struggling under California’s cost-of-living crisis. DeMaio is urging voters to fight back by passing Prop 43 in November to restore the two-thirds vote requirement for local special tax increases. Read our top news story for the full breakdown.

it’s just government finger pointing. People couldn’t control the sales tax at the local level.So they asked the government at the state level to do it. The state level increases the amount of sales tax.And so now the cities can increase the amount of sales tax.

what do you think do you think we need more government layers ? There are places there are cities.There are countries that work just as well as us.And they have less government. I see. The Canadians are complaining about how they’re government is mushrooming in size and ends up costing the entire country a good percentage, just to pay all the government employees.

copyright Rod Deluhery 2026

Bicycle fixed

not sure why. Why why did it took so long to fix my bicycle. I’ve always ridden bicycles, and I went for almost ten months without riding the bicycle. I rode it for the first time today.For a couple miles and I just forgot how much I like it.

And the instructions that says follow the crank e sets manufacture instructions when installing crank arms to ensure proper bottom bracket bearing preload. I’m not sure what that means.And i’m not sure how when you install the cranks, it affects the bottom bracket bearing. I think after about another hundred miles. ..I’m going to look at it again and see if there’s any play or anything possibly tighten up the cranks.

so this was the fix, was I replaced the bottom bracket with this one from sunlite

Unicycles

Copyright 2026 Rod Deluhery

repair dyna-glo barbecue

the flame holders were all completely falling apart, and the pan had almost completely falling apart.The drip pan was completely just it had fallen out of the barbecue. So the repair process was repair.The flame holders clean it up and repair or replace the drip pan.

steps

  1. Use a sheet metal cutter and I cut some metal roofing into the correct size for the drip pan. We’ll see how it works. It may not be strong enough, but I think it’ll work.
  2. create new flame holders. So for this, I had some sheet metal from a cappuccino machine.Now it wasn’t ideal because it had a plastic coating.And but it was just about the right thickness, and I had pieces that were already about the right width, I just needed to cut them to length. It’s fifteen I think there are fifteen fifteen inches long. The trick to cutting these is you could sit there all day with a hacksaw, or you could get an electric sawzall. With a Metal Blade and get a couple metal blades because you’ll go through them, they get chewed up pretty quick. So get a couple saw blades and get a the biggest vice metal vice. You can find if you look at the one in the picture. The vice is bigger than my whole foot. But you want something really heavy to hold that sheet metal while you cut it with the saws all tool.m
  3. put everything back together and then, you know, run the run the barbecue at full heat. Meaning run it for full heat with no food in there.Nothing should try to cook off any of the contaminants and the plastic coating from the metal. You don’t want the plastic coating paint stuff getting in your food.But it will get in your food.Anyway, because even if you buy brand new ones, you’ll see their painted. So even if you buy new flame holders, you should do this.Make sure you burn burn them in run.The barbecues, as hot as you can

brother mfc-7840w paper jam

i followed this website’s instructions and just added an extra spring. Exactly like you see in the picture, you see 2 little Springs? The factory spring is very weak, and it just can’t pull the gear into place after years of use. I followed the instructions here,. That’s exactly what I did. I did NOT have to pull off the side cover, I was able to add the new spring after removing the corner cover. I just got another spring from my inventory. Connected it in there, and that was enough to pull that lever and make the solenoid work correctly.

Symptom: Printer prints one page, but page gets stuck and does NOT exit the printer completely. You can pull out the first page, and its good, print quality if fine, just will not exit the printer and next page gets stuck in printer. Printer shows JAM and instructions to remove paper.

i did try to troubleshoot the drum and clean the drum, but it wasn’t the drum at all. I knew it was something else that the paper feeding after I looked at the drama and saw that there was nothing wrong with it.So then I found this web page.It’s in russians, but you can translate it.But this is exactly what I did to fix it.