Al-Rooters. Message sent to President-for-Life Xi
The visit of a U.S. aircraft carrier to Vietnam for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War is a powerful symbol of the growing strategic ties between the former foes. But the arrival on Monday of the USS Carl Vinson also illustrates Hanoi's complex and evolving relationship with Beijing over the disputed South China Sea.
For months now, Vietnamese envoys have been working to ease the concerns of their giant Chinese neighbor over the visit and the prospect of broader security co-operation between Hanoi and Washington, according to diplomats and others familiar with discussions.
Vietnamese diplomats and military officers have repeatedly stressed the country's independent foreign policy and its desire for broad foreign relations - hoping to maintain stable ties with China while standing up to it over the South China Sea, the sources said.
The Vinson will mark the biggest U.S. military presence in the country since 1975 when it berths in Danang for a five-day stay.
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[NYPost] There isn't much that Turkey's president can do these days to further debase his reputation in the West. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has crushed peaceful protests at home and abroad, closed newspapers, threatened American soldiers and collectively scapegoated Kurds. But over the weekend, Erdogan managed to go even lower.
At a rally at Kahramanmaras, the Turkish leader brought a trembling 6-year-old girl on stage dressed in military garb and told her she would be honored if she died as a martyr. He sounded like a terrorist. We expect this kind of child abuse from the fanatics in Hamas or Hezbollah. Erdogan though is the leader of an important NATO ally.
Turkey is beginning to resemble Pakistan, a perpetually failing state whose military leadership has tolerated and advanced a vision of political Islam deeply hostile to US and Western interests.
To be sure, Turkey is not quite there yet. There is still a majority of Turks who want to eventually join the European Union. The Turkish economy is stronger than Pakistan's, and its banks are more trusted.
And unlike in Pakistan, the driving force to further Islamize society has come from Erdogan, an elected leader, not the military.
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Turkey is not quite there yet.
How much longer will the West wait before striking back at the invading hoards?
Anyone that looks can see what is coming, what the Moslem end game is, why wait for that?
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Turkey voted for this. This is what their people really want. This is not a departure from the norm, this is a regression to the mean. Turkey's secular government was the aberration. The Deep State was repeatedly warned what free elections would mean and they insisted on holding them anyway. This is their own damn fault.
[DAWN] ONLY in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... the identity of a citizen is a matter of national security. That’s why the population registry in Ankara was until now a closed book, its details a state secret. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s definition of "Ottoman Turkishness" was "anyone who is attached to the Ottoman Turkish state as a citizen". Turks came from a clear ethnic identity, untainted by racial minorities or doubtful lineage. That’s one reason why the Nazis lavished praise on Ataturk’s republic, their newspapers mourning his death in black-bordered front pages.
After all, as Hitler was to ask in several newspaper interviews ‐ and to his generals before he invaded Poland ‐ who now remembers the Armenians? Ataturk had supposedly inherited an Armenian-free Turkey, just as Hitler intended to present his followers with a Jew-free Europe. The Armenian genocide of 1915 ‐ denied by the Ottoman Turkish government today ‐ destroyed a million and a half Christian Ottoman citizens in the first industrial holocaust of the 20th century. Almost the entire Armenian community had been liquidated. Or had it?
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her real Armenian name was Heranus
That's a very unfortunate name if you live in an English-speaking society.
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I wonder if the release of genealogies, showing that many Turks are actually of Armenian descent, is actually intended to create a new class of those assumed to be disloyal so that, like the Gulenists, they can be arrested and stripped of their assets?
And now that Armenia has broken off normalization, there is a country that will welcome them, and which can be blamed — possibly even a potential war in the making, as there now is against the Kurds...
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A comment I'd like to make, partly in response to TW's, and partly in response to the article itself: you can tell the Turks that are part Greek/Arab/Armenin/Kurdish/whatever instead of being Turkish because they're the ones that aren't short, black-haired, yellow-skinned, and with black slanted eyes.
In short, you can tell the ones that aren't really Turks but instead are some racially inferior halfbreed sub-human thing because they don't look like East Asians, and they look like, well, Erdogan.
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My point being, they can't afford the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about Turkey and racial purity. They don't look like Turks from the turkish homelands back in Kazakhstan or Tuva. For comparison, look at the current Russian defense minister, who's half Russian and half Tuvan.
[Townhall] I know Donny Deutsch only too well. A stereotypical, spoiled-brat, New York liberal. CNBC had two fair-haired boys they were grooming to be the stars of their network in the early 2000’s: Donny Deutsch and Wayne Allyn Root.
CNBC gave Donny his own TV show. They made the decision to give me two TV shows to host. My lawyer was on the phone with CNBC’s legal department finalizing my contract to become the new star of CNBC, when my phone rang. It was the Vice President of CNBC telling me the deal was cancelled. She explained CEO Jeffrey Zucker of the NBC parent company had overruled CNBC’s executives because he didn’t want my views on the air at CNBC.
My career was ruined at CNBC by a liberal who wanted to censor my conservative views- even though I’m willing to bet at least 70 percent of the people watching CNBC are conservatives. The CNBC audience is business owners, business executives, Wall Street brokers and high income earners. My kind of people: Republicans. I lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and millions of future dollars because of liberal bigotry and delusion.
Not to mention bad taste. Donny Deutsch spoke Zucker’s liberal language. So, Donny got the job and I didn't. But his show bombed. Donny was a dud. Boring. Not to mention too liberal for the viewers of CNBC.
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Just remember, everyone was shocked as hell when Trump managed to knock down Hilly in 2016. It's way too early to count on anything.
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2020 is some time away yet.
In the interim, I'd like to hear how the wall is coming along, whether Obamacare has been repealed and obliterated, whether anyone in the Obama/Clinton claque is doing a perp walk and how much of the Left's infrastructure of power has been dismantled.
Once I get the answers to those questions, I'll decide whether I want a second term for Trump or not.
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Fair enuf. Also ask if ANY alternative D or R would do any more on those points
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Gee, Trump hasn't been the all powerful OZ and walked on water in his spare time.
If the "never Trumpers", aka GOPE, want to do more of those things all they have to do is work in congress...I be the President would go along with almost all of it.
[CNN] In March of last year, a relatively unknown man made his way to the wings of the world stage thanks to a mention by then-candidate Donald Trump.
The real estate mogul and former reality TV star was ratcheting up primary wins and on pace to clinch the Republican presidential nomination. Asked to list members of his foreign policy team in an interview with The Washington Post that March, Trump included "Carter Page, PhD."
Since then, Page has faced questions over his Russia ties -- ties which are getting more attention as Trump's team endures greater scrutiny over interactions with Moscow.
At every turn, Page has rejected the notion that he engaged in any improper action.
During the campaign, he denied there was anything untoward about his visits to Moscow. Since it ended, he has denied specific allegations into his meetings with Russian government and business figures as well as any kind of liaison role between himself and the Trump campaign -- denials the campaign and now the White House have repeated again and again.
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Page stepped down from the Trump Campaign on 26 September 2016. Admiral Rogers visited Trump Towers on or about 17 November 2016.
Did Page (a US Navy Intelligence officer) discover he was a signals intelligence collection target? Did he, upon discovery, consult with US Navy Admiral Rogers, the Director NSA ?
[Politico] Dan Lipinski is the kind of candidate Democrats need more of for the party to win the House in November. But the national Democratic Party is refusing to endorse him.
The seven-term congressman from Chicago, who opposes abortion and voted against Obamacare, marriage equality and immigration reform, is one of the most conservative members of the House Democratic Caucus.
The question of whether the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will officially back Lipinski for reelection ‐ he faces a stiff primary challenge from the left ‐ has triggered an outbreak of ill will and finger-pointing from each wing of the party toward the other. With less than a month until the March 20 primary, tensions that have been brewing privately for weeks between the caucus’ centrist and progressive lawmakers are now spilling out into a messy public spat.
Caught in the middle are House Democratic leaders, who govern a caucus more aligned with Lipinski’s opponent, Marie Newman. But they are wary of appearing to kick one of their incumbents to the curb, aware of the potential long-term implications for a party that is struggling to regain its standing with blue-collar voters.
[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s "New Day," CNN National Security Analyst former Director of the NSA and the CIA Gen. Michael Hayden (Ret.) argued, "there is a bit of autocrat envy, in terms of the president’s attitudes towards the President of the Russian Federation."
Hayden said that there isn’t any logic to explain Trump not talking about Putin like he does about other world leaders. He continued, "I don’t know what created the dynamic, but we saw it during the campaign, right? And now, it may be just at a point, Chris, where it’s a thing for him now, that, in order for him to say something about Putin now would be implicit admission that he should have been saying other things. And he just won’t do it."
Hayden also gave "a modestly darker" explanation, "He actually admires the way Putin does business. He ‐ you know, in his heart of hearts, he may look at what happened yesterday in the Russian Federation and have a certain sense, why can’t I give speeches like that? Why can’t I do those kinds of things? I think there is a bit of autocrat envy, in terms of the president’s attitudes towards the President of the Russian Federation."
Hayden added, "The way he is able to govern, the things Putin is able to say, the way things seem responsive to Putin without the institutions of government pushing back on him, yeah, I think he’d like that." Related: More Hayden anti-Trump blathering at Politico
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Still trying to sell the idea that President Trump is in bed with Russia.
The national media simply rotates different themes every few weeks. A few days ago it's White House TurmoilTM, today it's this. Next week - why isn't Trump doing a March Madness bracket? Tune in to Don Lemon at 10:00 tonight!
[atimes] Seeking to push Iranian proxies away from its border, Israel is taking steps similar to those in Lebanon years ago, and facing an unappetizing dilemma.
Iran is expanding its sphere of influence toward the Israeli border, possibly leading to explosive results. In mid-February an Iranian drone was shot down by Israel and an Israeli jet was in turn shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft fire.
However, the Iranians and their Hezbollah proxies are not deterred by possible escalation.
Never! Perish the thought!
An agreement signed in November by the United States, Russia and Jordan allows Iran to solidify its presence up to 5 kilometers from the Israeli border. There is no reason to assume pro-Iranian forces will not come even closer if they can.
Israel finds this situation unbearable. It attempted to influence the signatories to the November agreement to keep pro-Iranian forces 60km from the border, but this increasingly seems like a pipe dream. Instead it has adopted a policy seeking a narrower security zone (of unknown depth) into Syria.
It has pursued this using two major means. The first is increasingly tenacious and frequent bombing runs against Syrian, Hezbollah and Iranian targets. The loss of an F-16 jet and the fear of entanglement with the Russians has not restrained these efforts.
More secretly and controversially, Israel has stepped up aid to Syrian rebel forces near the border. In the early stages of the Syrian Civil War, Israel limited involvement to humanitarian aid, evacuating roughly 5,000 wounded warriors to Israeli hospitals. Attempts by leaders of the southern factions of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to persuade Israel to establish a no-fly zone near the border failed.
As the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Iran and Russia, gained the upper hand, the zone controlled by the FSA narrowed significantly. In January, the administration of US President Donald Trump closed the Central Intelligence Agency operations center in Amman, the Jordanian capital, which coordinated aid to rebel organizations in southern Syria. This terminated the already inadequate aid the US was providing to FSA troops in this sector.
During the past few weeks reports have emerged that Israel is upping its support to militias in the region. The Israeli government, by various means, is providing elements affiliated with the FSA with weapons, ammunition and money to purchase weapons on the black market. Support is probably also extended to more “moderate” jihadist groups, although neither side will admit it.
As a result, over the past six months the area has become a de facto Israeli buffer zone. The spokesman for the Fursan al-Joulan militia (not affiliated with the FSA) said: “Israel stood by our side in a heroic way. We wouldn’t have survived without Israel’s assistance.”
Israel has been the protector of some of these communities diplomatically as well as militarily. It has participated in negotiating reconciliation between the Assad government and some local militias. The goal of these agreements is to allow militias to continue to control their territory, while attaining the Assad regime’s seal of approval. By attaining deals of this sort, Israel hopes to bolster the Assad regime and wean it off its dependence on Iran. After all, Israel enjoyed a stable border with Syria in the past and hopes to do so again in the future.
Israel has also developed direct ties with the residents of the area, assisting in the construction of schools and hospitals. Local councils and community notables have participated in distributing Israeli rice, milk, flour and other products still in their original Israeli packaging. While initially weary of Israeli involvement, locals are warming up to it, mostly because no one else will support them.
The extent of Israeli commitment to militias and communities in the area places it on the horns of a painful dilemma. The FSA cannot hold off pro-Iranian forces independently. Upholding a buffer zone in western Syria will likely require ever-escalating Israeli logistical support, air power and elite-unit presence. In the long run if it determines that safeguarding its allies is a central Israeli interest, it may be tempted to send in an undisguised military presence to signal to Iran and Hezbollah that it means business.
(a) Neither Lebanon (with over 100000 Hezbolla missiles) nor Jordan are buffers.
(b) Israel is no longer in buffering business.
We just buying time until the working solution becomes politically feasible.
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"I thought Lebanon and Jordan were the buffers?"
Yeah, but the rockets are becoming longer range.
It's really the only option they've got, aside from hammering Iran direct.
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[Townhall] The Romans spent almost 500 years as a republic before Julius Caesar’s adopted son Augustus became the first Roman emperor. The Romans moved on from having kings to becoming the first republic, to sliding backward into monarchy and tyranny and it’s not impossible that America will follow a similar trajectory. In fact, if you study Roman history, it’s not hard to see the parallels.
1) It’s Extremely Dangerous To Introduce Violence Into The Political Process: Tiberius Gracchus was an arrogant Roman Populist who cared little for the niceties of tradition and even less for the opinions of his opponents. He proposed confiscating land from the rich to give to soldiers and poor Romans. This was a terrible policy which helped lead to the fall of the Roman Republic, but unsurprisingly it was quite popular. However, there was quite a bit of resistance to the policy in the Senate and passing legislation of this sort without the approval of the Senate simply wasn’t done in ancient Rome. That is until Tiberius Gracchus found a loophole and did it anyway, earning him the outright hatred of the Senate. Later, a misunderstanding made the members of the Senate believe that their hated enemy was going to overthrow the government and make himself king. They responded to this misunderstanding by surrounding him, ripping the legs off benches and beating him to death. This was the start of a long, violent, slippery slope in Rome as political violence became ever more common. In time, politicians had their own gangs that fought in the street. Senators were knifed on the floor of the Senate and eventually, the leadership of the nation was determined by who could bring the biggest army to Rome. Here in America, we are now starting to see politically-motivated violence. Riots at Berkeley to keep conservatives from speaking. A white supremacist driving his car into the crowd. A Bernie Sanders supporter shooting up a Republican softball game. Protests where the protesters and counter-protesters bring weapons. This goes nowhere good and we would be wise to clamp down hard on this sort of violence before it gets out of hand. Four more at link. But you knew that.
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In my recent sickness I found myself listening to large parts (about the first 2/3 or so) of the History of Rome podcast.
It gave me a lot to think about. I'd like to offer some honorable mentions as far as the fall of Rome: The Gracci brothers' famous grandfather, Scipio Africanus, for coming up with the business model of using a legion to enrich both Rome and the Generals of that legion. When they started pursuing that business model instead of having a working economy, they'd occasionally get stuck and grind to a halt.
Sulla, for having the arrogance of thinking he'd come up with a system of political advancement that couldn't be gamed, the "Cursus Honorarium" or whatever it was called. Well, guess what, it could be gamed, and it took very little time for it to degenerate into another civil war.
What Marius did after his strokes was wrong but Sulla threw a lot of babies out with the bathwater when he took back power. IMHO.
Now that I think about it... Claudius, for centralizing the bureaucracy in such a way that you needed a competent emperor to make things work. AND THEN leaving everything to Nero.
(Oh well. Insert my dad's joke about the woman's third husband dying from a cracked skull, because he wouldn't eat the poison mushrooms).
[FreedomOutpost] However, I'd like to point out a specific school shooting that took place at the beginning of the 20th century in Chile, and it will sound like I'm pulling something from the kind of view that Everytown used to come to the numbers they did for this year, and I admit, in a sense I am. However, in giving full disclosure, I want you to see not just the site of the shooting in Chile, but who did it and why because this is the very reason we have the Second Amendment.
The shooting I'm referring to is commonly referred to as the Santa María School massacre and it took place on December 21, 1907 just days before Christmas.
The Santa María School massacre was a massacre of striking workers, mostly saltpeter works miners, along with wives and children, committed by the Chilean Army in Iquique, Chile on December 21, 1907.
One thing you need to keep in mind as I present what took place is that this was not a mentally ill individual who committed the crime like has been alleged in the Florida school shooting. Nope, it wasn't a high rolling gambler with bump stocks on his rifles like the Las Vegas shooting of 2017. It didn't even take place from Islamic jihadis like the Beslan school siege in Russia in 2004.
This was a state-sanctioned, cold-blooded murder of the people who were on strike along with women and children in a school yard. It was big government trying to force unarmed people to do their bidding.
Wikipedia has more on the what happened:
The number of victims is undetermined but is reliably estimated at over 2,000.[1] It occurred during the peak of the nitrate mining era, which coincided with the Parliamentary Period in Chilean political history (1891‐1925). With the massacre and an ensuing reign of terror, not only was the strike broken, but the workers' movement was thrown into limbo for over a decade.[citation needed] For decades afterward there was official suppression of knowledge of the incident, but in 2007 the government conducted a highly publicized commemoration of its centenary, including an official national day of mourning and the reinterment of the victims' remains.
The site of the massacre was the Domingo Santa María School,[2] where thousands of miners from different nitrate mines in Chile's far north had been camping for a week after converging on Iquique, the regional capital, to appeal for government intervention to improve their living and working conditions. Rafael Sotomayor Gaete, the minister of the interior, decided to crush the strike, by army assault if need be.[3] On December 21, 1907, the commander of the troops at the scene, General Roberto Silva Renard, in accordance with this plan, informed the strikers' leaders that the strikers had one hour to disband or be fired upon. When the time was up and the leaders and the multitude stood firm, General Silva Renard gave his troops the order to fire. An initial volley that felled the negotiators was followed by a hail of rifle and machine gun fire aimed at the multitude of strikers and their accompanying wives and children. Continues.
[Recoil] Following President Trump’s comments regarding arming teachers in our schools, the American Federation of Teachers issued a press release, predictably bleating about the proposal and wondering aloud about how such a thing was ever possible. ‘How would arming teachers even work?’ mused AFT President Randi Weingarten. Well, if she’d ever poke her head out of either one of her cozy Long Island or Washington, D.C., bubbles and look at what’s happening in flyover states, she might actually get a clue.
The Road to Guilford Courthouse
The American Revolution in the Carolinas
John Buchanan
Wiley, 1999
What really caught my interest in this book was my fair ignorance of the southern efforts during the Revolutionary War. All things considered, I thought my history teachers throughout my youth were decent. Yorktown, sure. Cowpens, yup, mentioned. Swamp Fox, ok, but otherwise the southern experience was kind of glossed over with a wave of the hand.
This book cured that void, and in great fashion. I would suggest The Seeds of Albion, by Fischer, specifically the southern colonies as primer, but it is certainly unnecessary. Mr. Buchanan's work stands on its own, and he does a fine background before his personality and opinions are revealed.
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On the twin foundations of rice and slave labor the Rice Kings quickly built a brilliant if brittle society. Progress from a rough, crude frontier environment was quite phenomenal. By 1740, only seventy years after the colony was founded, the English evangelist George Whitefield noted in Charleston "an affected finery and gaiety of dress and deportment which I question if the Court end of London could exceed." This despite the various disasters that nature seemed to delight in inflicting on the Low Country. Pestilence and disease had been with them from the beginning, and in the year 1700 they suffered their first disasterous hurricane, which was followed by others, all of fierce proportion, all killers - 1713, 1728, 1752. "In such a case," wrote the colonial historian David Ramsay, "between the fear of pestilence in the city, of common fever in the country, and of an expected hurricane on the island, the inhabitants...are at the close of every warm season in a painful state of anxiety, not knowing what course to pursue, nor what is best to be done." Perhaps it was the monumental vicissitudes of life in the Low Country that helped persuade many merchants who made their fortunes early to return to England to enjoy their riches and pursue more. Most persevered, however, and from various parts of the world immigrants arrived. But there was a sizable group of Scottish merchants, and by 1750 enough Sephardic Jews to form a congregation. French Huguenots, from both the Continent or England, began arriving in the 1680s, and many of them assimilated quickly and became Rice Kings. There were also in the 1740s and 1750s and beyond poor immigrants destined for the Back Country: Germans, Swiss, and from Northern Ireland restive, pugnacious Scotch Irish Protestants.
Mr. Buchanan leads with The Battle for Sullivan's Island. Following the author's lead, this next quote is earlier in the book and captures what I would later find to be a very refreshing and well communicated writing style.
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The War of the Revolution was a little over a year old when the Battle of Sullivan's Island took place in Charleston Harbor. The action occurred four years before the serious British effort in the South, but it is a rousing tale and served to introduce a major theme of British strategy as well as some of the key players.
Mr. Buchanan's charisma is evident as the book progresses, his foreshadowing is incredibly helpful, but it is his reminders which are brilliant, tying together the story in a fashion I can only regard as the transcript of a top notch story teller. As movers and shakers enter and leave the story, Mr. Buchanan takes pause for the big names and how they enter, interact, and ultimately leave this story.
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About a year before first blood was spilled at Lexington, Nathanael Greene's personal life took a sharp turn. He fell totally and forever in love. Catherine Littlefield, known always as Caty, was born on the wind-blown Block Island to a well-connected Rhode Island family. She was nineteen years old in the summer of 1774, thirteen years his junior. She had looks and wit, and according to tradition "her power of fascination was absolutely irresistible." A contemporary described her as a "small brunette with high color, a vivacious expression, and a snapping pair of dark eyes." Following a swift courtship, they were married on 20 July 1774.
Another aspect I found refreshing concerning Mr. Buchanan's style was his opinions on events, specifically the big names. 'Did this, or did this not happen, after much thought this is what I think, but here is evidence to the contrary, so consider for yourself.' And to top it all, Mr. Buchanan will have you feeling the cold wet clay on your bare feet. Highly recommended.
**Paired with a movie**
The Patriot starring Mel Gibson and feature a number of known actors at the time, is set in the South during the American Revolution. I bring it up, as I have recently been accused of watching old people movies. I guess not having an interest in animated food making fart jokes puts me into such a category. As more and more of us, especially the youngers, live 6" away, I would propose that The Patriot, about as accurate as Braveheart, may not be very factual but may capture the imagination of a younger enough that they’ll take interest in The Road to Guilford Courthouse.
**This Week in Emergency Preparedness**
Living 6" away. Spending your free time and too often work time looking at some sort of electronic device. Not passing judgment on how a person spends their time, only that doing so greatly decreases one's awareness. To me, it is easy to imagine Sir Robin of Florida checking his facespace and having to zoom out and recognize, hey shots fired. And his merry men, standing down, waiting for HAL to give them permission to open to pod bay doors. We are losing individualism and creativity to be Borg.
My daughter recently asked me to teach her chess, proud daddy here. My stipulation: put the electronics down and learn to play Yahtzee. With real dice, pencil and paper.
My point being, awareness is the keystone to passing the thread through the eye of the needle in a bad situation. Bad people and those with false passions are becoming emboldened and even aggressive. For the most part recently I have been doing real world things and still am accosted during morning coffee by all these pez heads who are all candle and no wick, evangelizing my way is wrong. Be aware, beginning with when the turd hits the water, you are your first responder. Take a minute and learn something which can be useful in a bad spot, such as how to apply a tourniquet. Come back to the exercise, and just glance around where you are, and what within sight could be used to apply a tourniquet in a pinch. Shoelaces and a pencil, dunno. Stuffed animal opened and stuffing used to pack a wound? Oh look, that plunger looks much more useful than a pencil.
Exercise that mind. Oh, daylight savings is coming up, time to start thinking about switching kits from cold to warm, and checking batteries. Also means those of us in the Central Time Zone should pay a bit more attention to the sky.
Link is to Amazon, Hard Cover option, The Road to Guilford Courthouse. Also available in paperback and electrons.
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what within sight could be used to apply a tourniquet in a pinch
Leather belt, not so much. Cloth/canvas/web belt, Much better. Shoulder strap from a purse, pretty good. Seatbelts, close to perfect.
Tampons plug bullet entry wounds. Sanitary pads are great compression bandages when tied on to a limb with socks. A wet tshirt knotted on the far side is great for keeping debris out of torso burns.
Stop the leaking life force now, cure infection after.
2) Apparently it’s Read An Ebook Week (3/4-3/10), and Smashwords wanted me to know all about their special offers. See here. Fred Pruitt and badanov (in his secret identity as Chris Covert) are published there. Others among us are also published authors — Sgt. Mom comes to mind —who might also be involved. If you are, please pipe up so we can check out your work.
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Re#1 - Skidmark, your advice reminds me of when I was in Navy OCS in 1970. We were taking a first aid course taught by a corpsman. He said when he was in Viet Nam, he went joyriding with some friend. They got ambushed, and one of the the guys ended up with a sucking chest wound. He didn't have his med kit, so they packed the wound with mud. We all gasped in horror -"but, but what about INFECTION??" His explanation was that antibiotics could treat the infection - IF the guy lived long enough to get to the hospital.
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Hi, TW - just got the message; my earlier books are on Smashwords as ebooks, and on Amazon Kindle, but the later are on Draft2Digital and provided to other vendors. (Just found D2D easier to format and publish - their website is not so clunky.)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Politico] Dan Lipinski is the kind of candidate Democrats need more of for the party to win the House in November. But the national Democratic Party is refusing to endorse him.
[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s "New Day," CNN National Security Analyst former Director of the NSA and the CIA Gen. Michael Hayden (Ret.) argued, "there is a bit of autocrat envy, in terms of the president’s attitudes towards the President of the Russian Federation."
[atimes] Seeking to push Iranian proxies away from its border, Israel is taking steps similar to those in Lebanon years ago, and facing an unappetizing dilemma.
