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On Gettysburg
[NR] Abraham Lincoln knew this, and he marked that place mere months after the battle with his famous address. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." We know from contemporaneous accounts that, as he concluded, Lincoln emphasized his words in a way that those who read them aloud today often neglect: "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." We visit the grounds of Gettysburg, and of the war, to sustain our memory of why those battles took place and still matter today ‐ in defense of the Union and its republican constitutional democracy, the form of government that best respects the natural equality and rights of all people.
It is grim, perhaps, to tread the steps where both armies marched, to revisit a time when our nation was at war with itself. It is grimmer still to cherish these places where Americans killed one another, to preserve them with care, to mark them with stones and placards and statues for the men we lost. But it is good for us to remember what they did, and why they did it.
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...I visited Gettysburg 24 years ago, and it is still one of the most powerful experiences of my life, especially up on Little Round Top where the battle was really decided.
Mike
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Historic battlefield visits are valuable.
When I was at Gettysburg some years ago an instructor from the Army War College was teaching his class at the same stop I was explaining the battle to my kids. Have also gone to Vicksburg and Chickamauga.
I have visited a similar suite of important Revolutionary War sites - Valley Forge, Cowpens, Fort Ticonderoga, Yorktown.
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Antietam is also well worth a visit.
Good to make a bike trip there: you can better appreciate the terrain and its impact on the course of the battle.
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If you live in the South, the reminders of the Civil War are ever-present wherever you go. In the North there are not the reminders of this important era in our history. Today, the geographical divisions such as the Mason-Dixson line have faded into history with the widespread mobility of people in the U.S. since the Civil War. Today, the divisions within the country are largely ideological but every bit as bitter.
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WRT Gettysburg. We took the advice to hire a driving tour guide. Unless you're very well versed in the details, you'd probably find it worth it too.
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[Real Clear Politics] America has the upper hand in the ongoing trade negotiations with China, and the temporary reprieve that President Trump recently gave the Chinese regime is only further proof that our strong economy grants us a degree of flexibility that Beijing can't hope to match.
There are a lot of misconceptions about the president's announcement that he is postponing certain tariff increases on China. deliberate misperceptions
It's true that this temporary delay addresses the one area where short-term access to cheap consumer goods has the potential to noticeably impact U.S. consumers: Christmas gifts. Overall, consumer goods are not rapidly inflating in price, and the postponement will ensure that nothing of the sort takes place during the busiest shopping season of the year.
But, the relentless pressure that President Trump's strategic counter-tariffs have put on China and its export-dependent economy is not stopping. Trump did not eliminate the tariffs. He partially delayed 10% tariffs on the half of Chinese imports yet to see increased levies. Some will still be implemented as planned on Sept. 1, with the rest going into effect Dec. 15 ‐ unless, of course, Beijing meaningfully demonstrates its desire to reach an equitable trade deal before then.
China seems to be playing hardball, trying to wait out the Trump administration in the hopes that a new administration will return to complacency toward China's rampant trade abuses. But that's a long time to endure the pain that Trump's tariffs are already inflicting on the Chinese economy.
For example, the president's recent delay gives American companies that are in the process of transitioning their manufacturing out of China more time to complete that transition. Big tech companies are already taking their manufacturing out of China. Retailers are pulling out as well.
According to the Nikkei Asian Review and The Wall Street Journal, Apple is considering moving 15% to 30% of its production capacity from China to Southeast Asia as part of "a fundamental restructuring of its supply chain." When announcing the recent tariff delay, the president noted that Apple CEO Tim Cook made a "very compelling argument" for delaying the tariffs as they would aid Apple competitors such as Samsung, which manufactures its products in South Korea.
Once supply chains move out of China, it will be difficult to get them back. Moving production out of a country can be expensive and time consuming -- as can moving it back. Diversification of supply sources makes sense in a turbulent region
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08/25/2019 09:52 ||
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Suppose years of "cheap Chinese" causes one US factory after another to close. And then thousands of retail jobs hinge on only one manufacturer who goes off the rails and sinks a US war ship. And warns that retaliation will result in no more products causing thousands of retail stores to close. Trump is right. Better start finding other suppliers before things go South for whatever reason.
[The Hill] Former Obama-era counterintelligence official Nate Synder warned Tuesday that the Trump administration should not take any short-cuts on its approach to Huawei. I would not want that young lady standing behind me with a Makarov.
"They are insidiously smart," Synder, who is now a senior adviser for Cambridge Global Advisors, told Hill.TV of the Chinese telecommunications giant.
"They are playing a long play here and they’re looking at all different angles," he added, noting that Huawei is building a 5G network across Russia and China. "I hope the administration doesn’t look at the short-sightedness of just saving profits and revenue."
Synder’s comments come just a day after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed that the Trump administration is again delaying a penalty on Huawei until Nov. 19.
President Trump in May first directed the Commerce Department in May to place Huawei on its "Entity List." The move was seen as a death sentence for U.S. companies, who, under the guidance, are banned from doing business with the firm.
Bah! They have been manipulating barbarians according to the same playbook for millennia. Their chief advantage is they don't think quarter-to-quarter like our Wall Street 'Geniuses' . They are used to spending years and decades if necessary to corrupt and manipulate foreign agents to do their bidding. Their customs of "exchanging gifts for 'favors' ", what we would think of as "bribery", is just what they do as normal practice.
The level of geo-political acumen consistently displayed at this site is a continuing source of amazement. If it could only somehow be bottled and shipped to Washington.
Unfortunately, no amount of coaxing from the common man could convince our beltway betters to imbibe truth or common sense. They're inextricably linked to their globalist portfolios.
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As opposed to the US government, which only bribes countries with unfair trade agreements. The ones that ruined our working class. But none dare call it bribery.
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That comment makes absolutely no sense, just bile
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/25/2019 12:23 Comments ||
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I think HMcC meant "unfair to our working class."
Can't say I disagree with that assessment.
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"They are insidiously smart," Synder, who is now a senior adviser for Cambridge Global Advisors, told Hill.TV of the Chinese telecommunications giant.
If they're so smart, why can't they write their own software?
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It's not only about shutting off access to leading edge US components. You have to shut down the whole supply chain and technology transfer. Memory from Korea, chip making services from Taiwan, software from America, IP licenses from Japan and worldwide and chip making machines from America and Europe.
[Babylon Bee] SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT‐Ben & Jerry's has long been known for the ice cream company's political activism, introducing flavors that support many progressive causes.
The company has done it again with its exciting new Antifa-inspired flavors, the sale of which benefits the anti-fascist organization that bravely stops fascism by force and silencing those they disagree with.
The new flavors include Vegan Coconut Milkshake with Real Concrete Mix, Blood of the People You Disagree With, and Antifa Protester B.O. All the flavors are made with real ingredients, whether that's blood harvested from people that Antifa threw a brick at or actual sweat from Antifa rioters.
"Delicious!" said one Antifa taste-tester in Portland before throwing his half-finished Vegan Coconut Concrete ice cream at a conservative reporter standing nearby. "It's great to know I'm supporting a wonderful cause like fighting Nazis with my ice cream purchases. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to find undesirables and utilize violence against them."
At your local Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop, you can even get your Antifa ice cream customized with great new toppings like Molotov cocktail drizzle, real bread crumbs from a Soviet breadline, and bits of dog meat from Venezuela.
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I spotted Der Bee this time. I'm getting better at this.
Or maybe it's just because Ben & Jerry is so old-fashioned / non-digital / un-cool that ithis story even if true would never have been given play by the MSM
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Cherry Garcia was their signature ode to the counterculture.
But notice how UN-woke that is in 2018: the Grateful Dead are/were white hetero-normative cisgendered male patriarchy upholders with not a single POC trans or womyn in the mix.
They're just as much a part of the Oppressive Supremacist Order as those fascists, Jefferson and Lincoln
and MLK and RFK
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Lex, Donna Godchaux was in the Dead for a short, unproductive period
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Ben and Who??? I have never had it in any flavor, never will. Too many better options out there. Too much of their funds go to left wing political causes.
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BB is getting so good. Like Instapundit always says: "it's satire! Or, is it?"
OUCH
[Babylon Bee] HONG KONG‐As soon as Bernie Sanders heard about the democratic protesters in Hong Kong, he knew something had to be done. The U.S. senator quickly chartered a flight to Hong Kong in order to throw himself into the fray.
Sanders bravely stood in the middle of the conflict between police and protesters, shouting at the "ungrateful little dissenters" that they don't know how good they have it under a Communist regime.
"Remember, you could have it a lot worse---you could be in America!" Sanders bellowed as police officers for the totalitarian regime beat protesters in the background. "Hey, you! You on the floor there! You're not looking very appreciative of living in one of the greatest Communist countries on earth!" Sanders continued his long-winded rant about the need for the government to own the means of production, how great breadlines are, and how bad things are in capitalist America as protesters got dragged away by police to be disappeared.
"Just think---in America, we have to pick between 14 different types of deodorant!" he said, his fingers flopping around like limp sausages.
According to sources, Beto O'Rourke is planning on joining Sanders to inform Chinese citizens how lucky they are that they don't live in a racist country like America.
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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.
[Babylon Bee] SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT‐Ben & Jerry's has long been known for the ice cream company's political activism, introducing flavors that support many progressive causes.
