[Independent] Millennials have had to get used to being characterised as lazy, selfish and narcissistic. Now this much maligned generation face the more serious accusation of being traitors to their country. The right front tire of my garden tractor has a slow leak. I blame bros. Charles and John Deere.
In the wake of this week's Wikileaks dump of top secret files, a former CIA director has broken cover to point the finger at the millennial generation for the growing trend in damaging security blunders.
"I don’t mean to judge them all," Michael Hayden told BBC2's Newsnight on Thursday, "But this group of millennials...simply have different understandings of the words loyalty, secrecy and transparency than my generation did."
Just so everyone is in no doubt who he is talking about, Hayden named Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning as the worst cases of millennial treachery.
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Increasing proof that we should just euthanize all "former government employees" for the common good.
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Millennials failed the 'Deep State.' Only about half of all millennials bothered to vote in the last presidential. Of those who did vote, 55 percent voted for Clinton.
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Wait, so he thinks Hillary is a millennial? Because I have little doubt that Hillary was one of the foremost "secrecy" problems that this country has ever had.
[Right Scoop] Retired Lt. Colonel Tony Schaeffer tells Sean Hannity that it was former members of the NSA that hacked the Democrats and made it look like the Russians. Of course, Hannity loved the idea, since he’s been pushing it for a while now.
I’m not sure why Hannity has such a bug up his Obama to exonerate Putin, but he’s been on this conspiracy theory for a while. Unfortunately for him, Schaeffer doesn’t put the blame on Obama, but he puts it on anti-Hillary Americans who happen to be former NSA or other intelligence officials. This all seems very unlikely to me, but I have to admit the argument is helped when it’s a former intelligence official backing it up.
BUT, what makes me very wary of all of these conspiracy theories is one fact ‐ Trump could very easily get evidence of all of this within minutes, and has the power to declassify all of it. So why doesn’t he?
[DAILYWIRE] The Day Without A Woman was idiotic for many, many reasons. Here were the stupidest things about it: So we had a day in which men worked and women stayed home. How ... progressive...
1. No Purpose. What exactly was the purpose of Day Without A Woman? Was it to shut down the economy? If so, giant fail: most women worked, and so did most men. If the marching women were so indispensible, you’d have expected to see the country come to a crashing halt. You’d also have expected employer costs to rise dramatically, since supposedly women work for far less than men. It didn’t happen. Instead, a bunch of women didn’t get paid for the day, heightening the aggregate wage gap, for which they’ll presumably blame the patriarchy. Or something. Probably they did get paid, taking a vacation day or calling in sick. Thus a cost-free, danger-free, ummm... whatever it was.
2. Idiotic Ancillary Causes. It wasn’t just radical Muslim Linda Sarsour getting herself arrested at the Day Without A Woman. It was the event organizer Rasmea Youseh Odeh, a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the murder of two Israeli men. The march also focused on abortion and “solidary [sic] with the sex workers’ rights movement.” That'd be hookers to the rest of us. Butts, bosoms, and BJs for cash.
Not sure how the women behind the event expect to reach consensus with such broad-based policies. It’s also hard to reach consensus on walking out of your job when women actually work to feed their families, and don’t have the luxury of leaving their job with the local public school to make a fuss. If there's neither purpose nor sense involved then any old excuse will do. Or multiple unconnected excuses. Let's not kid ourselves like they're kidding themselves.
3. No Smiling. According to The Washington Post, some feminists spent the day refusing to smile. “Some feminists say the happy face they sport by habit – or on command – is a form of unpaid ‘emotional labor,’” reported The Washington Post. This, of course, is fake news: feminists never sport happy faces, and certainly don’t do so by habit. But it’s also insane. If you want to win friends and influence people, growling at them is sure a rotten way to do it. Speaking of which, what’s wrong with society inculcating in people that it’s good to be friendly? Do we want a society of men and women who go around frowning at each other? Does that sound like fun? The phrase “grin and bear it” doesn’t just apply to women. To the scowling faced hairy old bitches of the world, Lynn Stewart's systers in resystance, I say Bite My Ass. I may spend a hundred bucks or so and have a tasteful pre-printed banner made up to that effect.
4. Wearing Red. The media were plastered with women wearing red. What was the purpose? Commies wear red. Hookers supposedly wear red, though in my younger days I saw them sporting all sorts of colors.
No purpose. Just to show solidarity with other women. And to commemorate Lynn Stewart's death?
And if you didn’t wear red, presumably, you weren’t a woman I'm not. Never have been. Unlike Bruce Jenner, never even wanted to be.
or you hated women. ... just like most people who've never had a mother.
This was virtue signaling at its finest, and to no purpose. We're down to protest for the sake of protest.
It’s one thing to wear a garment in solidarity with an actual cause. It’s another to do so in support of a majority demographic group that attains most of the degrees awarded in higher education each year in the United States. That feels more like preening than activism. It sounds like they had nothing better to do.
5. Shutting Down Public Schools. Several public schools shut down entirely over the Day Without A Woman. That’s because two of the sponsors of the Women’s March are the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. Which just shows that public sector unions destroy American education and the state and federal budgets at the same time. My granddaughter's was among them. I don't want them growing up with the sort of nonsense shoved into their heads.
6. Saying Silly, Silly Things. Some of the greatest quotes in modern history came from yesterday’s event. In either an attempt to demonstrate that stereotypes about women and math are true, or simple outright stupidity, the Women’s March tweeted this quote from Nelini Stamp from the Working Families Party: “Women birth half the population and we are half the population!” So, who births the other half? Arnold Schwarzenegger in Junior? The other half are brought by storks or found under cabbages. I found one once in a potato patch. Cute little booger, too.
Women who identify as men? That's probably how we got Al Franken, a grown male who identified as a baby until elected to the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.
SCIENCE! Other hilarious quotes came from such sources as Elizabeth Warren, who proclaimed that she couldn’t take the day off because her job was just too important. As opposed to the other women’s jobs. Certainly more important than teaching a room full of brats, half of whom were birthed by womyn.
7. Hillary Clinton Is Back. Hillary earned her own slot on this list. She showed up with a video she posted to Snapchat, looking like a refugee from NSYNC. That's what they need, by Gum: Young faces, with fresh ideas.
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Did they stop for lunch? Who made the sammitches?
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Meows scarlet detachment of wymmyns
In seminars, sucking persimmons:
"O Lawsy, Miss Prissy!
Somebody said, 'Missy!'"
"You's gone wid the wind, Charlotte Simmons."
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Women birth half the population. The other half is aborted.
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I especially liked the part where rather than just celebrate women's progress, instead some participated in self defense classes worried about men. Nice.
Thare area bout 20 men dying from work accidents for every woman. What does that eman? that men and women don't the same jobs. And BTW the risk of losing life and limb translates into $$$.
I don't know but in France about 90% applyin,g for engineer schools are 90% men. Very few women undertake the brutal selection process for entering them. Know what? If you majored in women studies don't come whining becaus eyou get paid less than en electronics engineer.
Then thtre ia part time (mostly women), workaholics and programmer geeks who are mostly men (that is because men don't know what to do of their lives) and the fact women freqnetly interrupt their careers so they have lesse seniority.
When you account for all these afactors then according to Thomas Sowell there is a slight salary gap in favor of women.
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Yesterday Milo Yianopoulos published a video of tow middle class American women of European stock at a mosqueperforming the bowings and kneelings of the Muslim. One of them was wearing the p,k cap of those protesting against Trmp's sexisms.
Women are being stoned, flogged, sold as sex slaves and raped, mutilated, beaten, foprced to wear veils, discriminated in every way and these shameless b.tchs wearing pink hatts and praying at a mosqu!
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Preparing to deliver or receive I wonder?
I'm waiting for a NKor orbital launch with a following blast. They don't really need a 'rangy' ICBM against commercial sats that haven't been hardened.
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More likely gearing up for extended blackmail than a first strike. However...
During the Cold War, the US and the Soviets played Mutual Assured Destruction. Despite snark about the acronym MAD, this worked because ICBM flight time between the two countries is roughly 30 minutes which meant no one could get in a first strike sucker punch.
Flight time between NKor and Japan looks to be about 3~4 minutes. With so little time for the defender to respond, if push comes to shove, making the first move starts to look pretty attractive.
Note: the same situation exists with India vs Pakistan.
"You Can Tell What Leftists Are Doing By What They Accuse Conservatives Of Doing"
In other words, "if you want to know what the liberals are up to, just listen to the lies they are telling about conservatives." Cavorting with Russians? It wasn't Trump, but how about selling 20% of US uranium interests to Putin? That would be something the Clintons arranged.
Talking to Russian banks about ending sanctions? That would be Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, Hillary's campaign manager, who took $170K last year from Russia's largest bank to help end one of the sanctions imposed by the Obama administration on Russian financial institutions.
The whole Trump/Russia meme is a tower of groundless insinuation built upon baseless fantasies of malfeasance. What we actually know is almost nothing. Maybe there was a FISA warrant requested by the Obama administration against persons and hardware located at Trump Tower in June that was denied. Maybe a narrower warrant was requested and granted in October. That's what has been reported and repeated endlessly to a chorus of "where there's smoke, there's fire."
BLUF: [PJ] In any case, under this assumption, we must therefore infer that after the election, the Obama administration was not only using national security resources to intercept the communications of the president-elect and his team, but were then using selective leaks to cooperative press outlets to damage that incoming administration. Oh, and also committing federal felonies in the process.
Or, (2) in fact all those leaks about wiretaps were lies, planted by members of the Obama administration with cooperative press outlets, in order to damage the Trump administration.
Given the recent outright denials on the record by the ex-DNI and others, maybe that's the more likely explanation -- in which case, we know that members of the Obama administration were perfectly happy to lie to damage their successors, no matter the consequences.
In either case, however, given the number of open stories about how Trump's insiders were being tapped before Trump complained about it, the assertion that there is no evidence behind Trump's tweet is transparent nonsense.
And the evidence against Colonel Mustard is piling up.
He explained that it was solely an attempt to consolidate intelligence from many different intelligence agencies (page 285):
I needed ... the President needed at that time a central organization that would bring all the various intelligence reports we were getting in those days, and there must have been a dozen of them, maybe more, bring them all into one organization so that the President would get one report on what was going on in various parts of the world. Now that made sense, and that's why I went ahead and set up what they called the Central Intelligence Agency.
But in the 1970s, he told his biographer, Merle Miller (page 285):
I think [creation of the CIA] was a mistake. And if I'd know what was going to happen, I never would have done it.
Why, they've got an organization over there in Virginia now that is practically the equal of the Pentagon in many ways. And I think I've told you, one Pentagon is one too many.
Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don't just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there's nobody to keep track of what they're up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they'll have something to report on. They've become ... it's become a government all of its own and all secret. They don't have to account to anybody.
That's a very dangerous thing in a democratic society, and it's got to be put a stop to. The people have got a right to know what those birds are up to. And if I was back in the White House, people would know. You see, the way a free government works, there's got to be a housecleaning every now and again, and I don't care what branch of the government is involved. Somebody has to keep an eye on things.
And when you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damn secret, why, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix. And if what happened at the Bay of Pigs doesn't prove that, I don't know what does. You have got to keep an eye on the military at all times, and it doesn't matter whether it's the birds in the Pentagon or the birds in the CIA.
Similarly, President Kennedy said he wanted "to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds". But he was assassinated a month later.
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They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they'll have something to report on.
And so it would seem a budget cut really is in order.
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A good housecleaning is called for in the intelligence community and the State Dept. Possibly, some of the CIA intelligence load can be shifted to the military branches.
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
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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.
[Independent] Millennials have had to get used to being characterised as lazy, selfish and narcissistic. Now this much maligned generation face the more serious accusation of being traitors to their country.
[Right Scoop] Retired Lt. Colonel Tony Schaeffer tells Sean Hannity that it was former members of the NSA that hacked the Democrats and made it look like the Russians. Of course, Hannity loved the idea, since he’s been pushing it for a while now.
[DAILYWIRE] The Day Without A Woman was idiotic for many, many reasons. Here were the stupidest things about it:
