[Bee] On the heels of conservative media pundit Dennis Prager stating his belief that consuming pornography is acceptable if it keeps spouses from engaging in adultery, reports indicate the rest of the workforce at PragerU is now awkwardly making every attempt to avoid shaking Prager's hand.
"Yeah, it just feels...icky," said popular PragerU personality Amala Ekpunobi. "We all have a lot of respect for Dennis around here, but that statement definitely made us cringe a little bit. He seems like the type of guy who would be diligent about washing his hands, but...I don't know. Fist bumps are good for now."
Prager has come under criticism from many on the right for his statement, with other conservative personalities stressing their disagreement. "While Dennis is certainly entitled to his opinion, I think I'd prefer not to shake his hand right now," said one notable commentator who asked to remain anonymous. "Oh crap, he's not standing behind me, is he?"
Other employees at the PragerU offices were seen going out of their way to greet Prager in other ways, including winks, head nods, bowing Japanese-style, and pointing their index fingers at him as pistols and saying, "Hey, there, boss man!" Witnesses reported seeing other members of the team simply dart into nearby rooms to avoid any potentially awkward interactions.
At publishing time, Mr. Prager himself expressed bewilderment at the situation, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he had made everyone at the company feel weird and look for ways to avoid contact.
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Then there are ancient examples, such as St. Augustine & St. Thomas Aquinas, both of whom opposed attempts to outlaw prostitution. Oddly, this was never mentioned in all the religion courses I took in grade school, high school and college.
[FrontPage] The story of how Budweiser went from a patriotic traditional values company to launching a creepy Bud Lite campaign featuring Dylan Mulvaney, a man who claims to be a little girl, began with the Bush administration when, after 150 years, Anheuser-Busch ceased to be an American company. Today it’s just another subsidiary of a Belgian-Brazilian multinational.
Except for its St. Louis employees, few noticed the difference when Anheuser-Busch became InBev, and the United States government failed to object to the hostile takeover. While the majority of Americans, and the governor of Missouri, opposed the move, the Bush administration did not. The media fashionably sneered at a campaign against the hostile takeover which called for fighting the “foreign invasion”. Eventually the company surrendered.
The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed declaring, “Why John McCain Should Embrace Anheuser’s Foreign Takeover”. (Cindy McCain was a major shareholder.) The Journal urged, “free trade and globalization are in the national interest. So is the sale of Anheuser-Busch to InBev.” How does the national interest look now? Would the Journal care to rethink its position?
The Bush administration, staffed with Wall Street Journal readers, easily approved InBev’s takeover of Anheuser-Busch and another foreign deal that put 80% of America’s beers in the hands of foreign companies. As an article noted, “Suddenly, instead of 48 major brewers operating in the United States, there were two — albeit two offering consumers dozens of competing brands. Together, they accounted for nearly 80 percent of U.S. beer sales.”
Bush Republicans allowed America’s crown jewels to be sold off and taken over by foreign companies. Now they’re wondering why those companies seem hostile to American values.
Why wouldn’t they be? They’re not American. And they don’t even like us much.
AB InBev is a multinational monstrosity with major business interests in Cuba and China. Read the rest at the link
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that he supports a proposal from Reps. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) that would authorize the use of military force against Mexican drug cartels to target the criminal enterprises and dismantle them.
“I would do that,” Trump said when asked about the congressmen’s Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) legislation that they have recently proposed.
Trump had earlier this year released a policy video in which he explained he supported using the military to target the cartels, but this is the first time he has weighed in on the specific proposal before Congress to do so. In response to Waltz’s AUMF plan, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he opposes it and even threatened to interfere in U.S. elections to help Democrats and oppose Republicans in response to it.
“In addition to being irresponsible, it is an offense to the people of Mexico,” Lopez Obrador said in March. "And it would impact my income"
Trump, in his exclusive interview here with Breitbart News last week after his speech at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual gathering, noted that he does in fact have a good relationship with Lopez Obrador.
Trump called Lopez Obrador a “gentleman,” even though he is a “socialist” and argued that if elected back to the White House he believes he would be able to work with the Mexican leader to crush the cartels and use U.S. military assets to help.
“I also have a very good relationship with the president of Mexico,” Trump told Breitbart News. “He’s a socialist but he also happens to be a gentleman. You can’t have everything, right? But he’s a great person. Certainly, I would deal with him. This is an invasion of our country — this isn’t just people walking over. This is an invasion. Many of these are people we do not want in our country. They’re very bad for our country. They’re very bad and dangerous. But this is an invasion of our country. Nope, we will stop it and we will stop it immediately.”
Trump is right that he and Lopez Obrador had a decent working relationship when he was president. In fact, that relationship was the foundation for one of Trump’s most consequential policies, the Remain-in-Mexico plan, which had asylum seekers stay on the other side of the border while their claims were processed rather than being released into the United States as current Democrat President Joe Biden is doing by the millions.
Waltz, in an exclusive interview last month at the House GOP conference retreat in Orlando, told Breitbart News that what his AUMF would open up is the use of military resources like space and cyber assets.
“It essentially authorizes military resources,” Waltz said. “So, space assets for targeting. Your Border Patrol — our law enforcement and border entities don’t have their own space assets. The military does. Offensive cyber — as opposed to just defending our networks here at home, but actually getting inside somebody else’s networks and start disrupting their money, their logistics, their ability to communicate. That all sits inside the Defense Department. So, this would authorize the use — this would authorize the use of military force, but I think it’s more accurate to call it resources.”
Waltz during that interview compared his proposal to something that former Democrat President Bill Clinton did with the Colombian government in the 1990s to use the U.S. military to help dismantle two major Colombian cartels. That mission, titled Plan Colombia, saw the U.S. military cooperating with the Colombian government to successfully destroy the Cali and the Medellin cartels.
Asked about that comparison that Waltz made back to Plan Colombia during the Clinton years, Trump told Breitbart News that “absolutely” he could see something like that with Lopez Obrador and Mexico if he’s back in the White House. Trump also noted that many people streaming across the border are sick or susceptible to spreading serious diseases, something recent statistics confirm. As Breitbart News reported this week, for instance, more than half of the border crossers brought to New York City are not vaccinated against polio.
“We’re being invaded. They’re invading our country,” Trump told Breitbart News. “They’re killing people. The crime is up because of the people that are coming in. Not all, but many, and they’re coming in from prisons and mental institutions. These countries are doing it. I had it stopped. I had it totally stopped. If other countries wouldn’t do it, we weren’t going to give them any money. We give a lot of money to these countries. I would have that stopped immediately and we would bring people out. But absolutely, this is an invasion. We have soldiers coming into our country. They’re making people sick. Many of these people are sick with very contagious disease and they’re spreading this all over our country. This is an invasion of our country. It has to stop. So if somebody is talking about military, I certainly wouldn’t rule that out.”
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Forget Russia and Ukraine. The real threats to our country are China and Mexico. Too bad our government is so corrupt that nobody is willing to acknowledge it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Clear and Present Danger is about a clandestine war that Americans are unaware of. It is unrealistic because it pits our Intelligence community against the cartels. Trump is talking about opening protecting our border from trafficking. It is the exact opposite of the Biden policy, nor is it an undeclared affair. It involves finishing the wall and nooses for traffickers.
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04/21/2023 12:33 Comments ||
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In response to Waltz’s AUMF plan, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he opposes it and even threatened to interfere in U.S. elections to help Democrats and oppose Republicans in response to it.
Heck, I thought the Democrats were already getting enough money from the cartels and the CCP.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/21/2023 12:35 Comments ||
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#3, Our intel community and the cartels? Seriously? If they weren't in bed together the cartels would already be kaput. I'm hoping for Trump to send the Air Force to bomb the cartels, send the Navy to blockade Mexican seaports and line the border with machine gun nests. Mexico and China are waging war against us and it's about damn time we fought back.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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No. Just... no. What better way to piss Mexico off than to piss on its sovereignty? Offer them help? Yes. Intelligence and intercepts? Yes. Special forces training for their troops? Yes. Invade their country? No. It will be Afghanistan all over again.
The Michigan state senate was slammed for considering using taxpayer dollars to fund an electric vehicle battery plant owned by Chinese tech company Gotion, a subsidiary of China-based company Gotion High-Tech
Furious residents condemned the proposal, which would see the Chinese subsidiary construct two 550,000 square-foot plants across 260 acres
Despite being fiercely confronted at a public hearing, the senate's Democrat-led appropriations committee approved the plan
[Bus Insider] Switzerland hasn't had a mass shooting since 2001, when a man stormed the local parliament in Zug, killing 14 people and then himself.
The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3 million people. In 2016, the country had 47 attempted homicides with firearms. The country's overall murder rate is near zero.
The National Rifle Association often points to Switzerland to argue that more rules on gun ownership aren't necessary. In 2016, the NRA said on its blog that the European country had one of the lowest murder rates in the world while still having millions of privately owned guns and a few hunting weapons that don't even require a permit.
But the Swiss have some specific rules and regulations for gun use.
Insider took a look at the country's past with guns to see why it has lower rates of gun violence than the US, where after a mass shooting that killed 6 at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, gun-death rates are now at their highest in more than 20 years, and the leading cause of death for children and adolescents.
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A firearm is at the top of the "better to have and not need than to need and not have" list.
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04/21/2023 8:30 Comments ||
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the leading cause of death for children and adolescents
I keep seeing this 'fact' repeated over and over. I do not know if they are pruning the data to get this result or just making sh*t up. The CDC says the leading causes of death for adolescents are accidents, homicide and suicide.
death rates per 100,000
Accidents.. 23.6
Assault.... 12.8
Suicide.... 10.9
Cancer..... 2.7
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Re#3 I don't believe 1 damn thing that comes out of the CDC after the "pandemic".
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04/21/2023 11:29 Comments ||
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the twin to Switzerland is Mexico
very restricted laws on gun possession, low rate of gun ownership (except for the criminal gangs)
very high rate of gun related fatalities
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04/21/2023 11:29 Comments ||
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Perhaps this has a lot to do with it as well:
Conscription. Switzerland has mandatory military service for all able-bodied male citizens, who are conscripted when they reach the age of majority, though women may volunteer for any position.
Swiss Reservists take they weapons and field gear home with them but most ammunition is stored at unit locations.
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Does Switzerland have lederhosen Clad gangs of young men committing felonies in apocalyptic cityscapes where DAs routinely fail to prosecute offenders or downgrade charges? Has Swiss culture been inculcated with criminal tenets like, “Snitches get stitches.” It is not the gun laws it is the culture.
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04/21/2023 12:51 Comments ||
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Re#3 I don't believe 1 damn thing that comes out of the CDC after the "pandemic".
Think they've been caught putting suicide by firearm and accidental discharge fatalities into the firearm violence stats. And for an organization which claims to know a thing or two about disease, they just can't seem to find firearm violence clusters.
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Its like groups will defend the reasons why they don't want to be a different group; the prime reason for diversity in the first place.
I think Caesar's Commentaries clearly outlines this. In fact, I think a person could make a good case that Alesia went to the Romans because the diverse gallic tribes were unable to make a good enough cooperative effort to coordinate a breach in the fortifications.
[IsraelTimes] A recent bid to bring down Israeli websites by a group believed linked to Moscow suggests Tehran is getting help upping its cyber warfare capabilities after years of being stymied.
When the websites of Israeli banks, telecom firms, the postal service, and more were taken down by hackers on Friday, the attack came as less than a surprise.
For years, the last Friday of Ramadan — dedicated to anti-Israel rallies championed by Iran
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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.
[Bee] On the heels of conservative media pundit Dennis Prager stating his belief that consuming pornography is acceptable if it keeps spouses from engaging in adultery, reports indicate the rest of the workforce at PragerU is now awkwardly making every attempt to avoid shaking Prager's hand.
[Bus Insider] Switzerland hasn't had a mass shooting since 2001, when a man stormed the local parliament in Zug, killing 14 people and then himself.
