BLUF:
[PJ] Also potentially problematic is the timing of the spy operation, because it could indicate that the FBI has not been straight with congressional investigators about when their counterintelligence investigation started. The bureau insists that the basis for their probe was George Papadopoulos' drunken ramblings in July of 2016. But if the spy was put in place prior to that, the FBI has some explaining to do.
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The traps need to be run on both the Stefan Halper and Carter Page potential involvement. I'm not at all certain everyone on Capital Hill actually wants to know however.
#4
POTUS needs to have little sit down with NSA Director ADM Mike Rogers.
This to be closely followed by a sit down with Sessions, Rosenstein, and FBI Diector Wray. Both COS Kelly and Rudy Giuliani need to also be in the room.
If Sessions, Rosenstein, and Wray do not have the correct answers, all three should be fired on the spot.
Using GCHQ (British Signals Intelligence) as a 'cut out' to collect on US Persons involved in a presidential election campaign is very serious business.
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to collect on US Persons involved in a presidential election campaign is very serious business.
But.... but... but... Stormy!
This is why the media is in a tizzy over some minor affair which nobody really cares about. As this widens watch for something 'big' to be staged to distract the public.
We just received internet in our mountain valley and we have been watching “Game of Thrones”. In light of our current political situation, I have started comparing the program’s characters with our current politicians.
Tyron Lannister = Trump - both are intelligent, daring and slightly flawed individuals.
Lysa Arryn = Hillary Clinton
Robin Arryn = Bill Clinton - Lysa nursed Robin much to long - she was in love with power and died because of it.
Theon greyjoy=mueller - a nutless traitor to our nation
It is becoming clearer by the day that despite all the national calls for confiscating guns and imposing new gun laws, the antigun people expect to make gains only in some state and local elections, not nationally. And with those gains we can expect to have more draconian gun laws imposed, all without consent of the governed.
We keep hearing about all the bad news, and a little good news with regard to civil rights, but what we are seeing now is this in New Jersey (quote is from a private pro gun group):
Went to a “debate” on the second amendment with the Brady Bunch last night. They intend confiscation with Governor Murphy in their pocket. 2a people were shut down and subject to lecture. Mid meeting we all got up quietly and left as were are no longer being heard. That was necessary but it’s not a good sign when no one is talking.
Where this is going is clear to me. Antigun people want challenges to their laws in court, because they must figure the courts will side with them in local gun control. The courts have passed down some awful decisions with regard to gun rights and I suspect they will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
A US court is the only government entity that can be convinced that a Constitutional amendment is unconstitutional.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were steady. Rifle ammunition prices were steady.
Prices for used pistols were higher. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
Pennsylvania: 30-30 Winchester Lever Action: Winchester 94: $225
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Cheapest, 50 rounds: Foundry 35, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
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.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, Reloads .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Extreme Reloading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Gun Buyer, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: Wholesale Hunter, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Magtech, RNL, Brass Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Prvi Patizan, RNL, Brass Casing, .24 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (7 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Able's, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
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7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
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.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
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.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
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.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
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h/t Gates of Vienna
...Yet, while US policy-makers are trying desperately to stabilize Afghanistan, a shift is being orchestrated by China, which stands to gain from what Afghani author Mushtaq Rahim recently referred to as Beijing's "economic development agenda."
China, he writes, "has been looking at Afghan affairs with a 'wait and see' approach and has gone into hibernation most of the time in debates regarding future of Afghanistan.
"While one can argue that the size and extent of the Chinese economy may not need Afghanistan for its growth and expansion agenda...A fractured or failed Afghanistan will pose significant security threats for China... challenging a major part of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) i.e. China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)...
#1
The US will have difficulty winning a war in a landlocked country where China's ally, Pakistan, controls the supply of troops and regulates the operational tempo through its support of the Taliban and the Haqqani network.
After nearly 17 years, an absolutely blinding flash of the obvious.
#3
Whoever said the objective is to win? It's not. The objective is endless war to enable handsome profits. Plus the globalists get a foothold in Central Asia which is vitally important for some strange reason.
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Calling this war is like calling the hard Left liberals. A kinder gentler war is not war. Like Hollyweird productions it has all the flash and sounds, but the world is not altered when you leave the theater.
What do you call the never ending on and off conflict on our internal frontiers from 1790-1890? Regardless of what the pseudo moralists proclaim we did not go full genocide on the natives. We did not mobilize our population as we had done 1861-65 to solve the issue. The handsome profits were made during that 4 year conflict.
The problem all along has been virtue signalling by our oligarchy. The one goal of the war was and is the security of the US and its people. They chose to instead play at war while demonstrating their 'civility'. It hasn't worked.
#5
Look at a map. Where is Afghanistan? Where is the Line of Communication, the Logistics route where the beans n' bullets travel from the US to there? Looks really stupid, doesn't it?
The Original Punitive Raid, or as the Victorians quaintly called it a Butcher and Bolt campaign, made some sort of sense. The 9/11 Operation made us very mad and Everybody, starting with the Taliban, needed to get the word that Punishment was the result of such activity.
Trying to civilize Afghanistan ... maybe if you partitioned Afghanistan/Pakistan, erased the Durand Line, and redrew the borders to make a new country called Pushtun-i-stan. (The national flag being a field of poppies) After that dig a deep moat around the new country, fill it full of crocodiles and let the natives 'do their own thing' as long as they stay at home.
But, Nooooo, the Jet-Set Meddlers got involved and here we are almost two decades later.
[WarOnTheRocks] Before agreeing in April to support President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, Sen. Rand Paul said Trump "told me over and over again in general we’re getting the hell out of [Afghanistan]." Based on my experiences during two combat deployments to Afghanistan in 2005 and 2011, the president’s instincts are spot-on correct.
Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the 1978 coup that violently brought communist rulers into power in Kabul. Two years later the Soviet Union invaded. Ten years later, they withdrew, laying the foundation for the Mujahideen Civil War that led to the rise of the Taliban in 1996 and their war against the Northern Alliance. This war was still raging on 9/11 when the U.S. military entered the scene. The fundamental causes of these various civil wars still remain today. After 40 years of fighting, the Taliban’s fight against Kabul is not going to simply end due to U.S. intervention.
The sooner Trump translates his instincts on ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan into policy, the better for America. A withdrawal will improve American national security and strengthen economic prosperity. Extricating U.S. troops from Afghanistan will not be easy, however, because there are many in Washington ‐ senior military leaders among them ‐ who want to defend the status quo at any cost. There is no benefit to the United States in trying to fight yesterday’s failed battles but trying to do it "better." The strategy has failed, not the tactics.
Many in the Washington establishment incorrectly believe leaving Afghanistan in its current state will increase the threat to America and make it "once again" a safe haven for terrorists who might one day want to attack the U.S. homeland. This is an argument based on a flawed understanding of what conditions on the ground in Afghanistan are like and on what military power over there can accomplish. And it also includes a willful blind spot to the actual outcomes of their policy choices over the last decade and a half.
It’s long past time Washington recognizes the facts on the ground mean the fight on the ground is Afghanistan’s and will never be resolved regardless of U.S. intentions or taxpayer-funded assistance. No number of American military troops will ever change their political dynamics.
The people on the ground who have to live with the outcome are the only ones who can manufacture a lasting resolution. Until ‐ or unless ‐ they come to a decision on their own, U.S. blood and taxpayer dollars will pour indefinitely into a bottomless pit, without even the possibility of achieving something that benefits Americans.
Trump’s instincts and Paul’s emphatic requests to end the U.S. mission in Afghanistan are both correct. For the sake of American security and economic interests, it is time to turn Afghanistan over to Afghans and focus on rebuilding our military for fights against near-peers who might actually pose an existential threat to America. Get us the hell out of there already. Of course, nobody in Washington wants this outcome because endless war is highly profitable.
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But...but...what about the opium?
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It's flooding into America is the form of opiates. Any more questions why the status quo is preferred?
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[Townhall] Like most people I’ve spoken with, I have no innate, inflexible antipathy to ethanol in gasoline. What upsets me are the deceptive claims used to justify adding mostly corn-based ethanol to this indispensable fuel; the way seriously harmful unintended consequences are brushed aside; and the insidious crony corporatist system the ethanol program has spawned between producers and members of Congress.
What angers me are the legislative and regulatory mandates that force us to buy gasoline that is 10% ethanol ‐ even though it gets lower mileage than 100% gasoline, brings none of the proclaimed benefits (environmental or otherwise), drives up food prices, and damages small engines. In fact, in most areas, it’s almost impossible to find E-zero gasoline, and that problem will get worse as mandates increase.
My past articles lambasting ethanol (here, here, here and here) addressed these issues, and said ethanol epitomizes federal programs that taxpayers and voters never seem able to terminate, no matter how wasteful or harmful they become. That’s primarily because its beneficiaries are well funded, motivated, politically connected and determined to keep their gravy train rolling down the tracks ‐ while opponents and victims have far less funding, focus, motivation and ability to reach the decision-making powers.
Ethanol got started because of assertions that even now are still trotted out, despite having outlived their time in the real-world sun. First, we were told, ethanol would be a bulwark against oil imports from unfriendly nations, especially as the USA depleted its rapidly dwindling petroleum reserves. Of course, the fracking (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) revolution has given America and the world at least a century of new reserves, and the US now exports more oil and refined products than it imports.
[NR] White House Chief of Staff John Kelly spoke with John Burnett of NPR yesterday on a wide variety of topics. A large part of the interview addressed immigration, in the course of which Kelly said:
The vast majority of the people that move illegally into the United States are not bad people. They’re not criminals. They’re not MS-13. Some of them are not. But they’re also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society. They’re overwhelmingly rural people in the countries they come from ‐ fourth, fifth, sixth grade educations are kind of the norm. They don’t speak English, obviously that’s a big thing. They don’t speak English. They don’t integrate well, they don’t have skills. They’re not bad people. They’re coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws. But a big name of the game is deterrence.
Obvious facts, you might think. But then, if you’re reading this, you’re probably not a leftist ‐ because to leftists, it was like swearing in church. ThinkProgress called it a "racist rant," Splinter called it a "racist rant," a New York Daily News columnist called it a "racist rant" and, for variety, Rolling Stone called the remarks "racist comments," Karen Tumulty called it "know-nothingism," and the Plum Line decried Kelly’s "terrible immigration lies." There are plenty more, but you get the idea.
#1
The Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut people possess skills, cultural and genetic traits that are not necessarily compatible with those found among the indigenous tribes of Sub-Saharan Africa. Relocation may be problematic.
#2
"Common Sense" is not that common. It's more likely that sanity, logic and reason are inherent traits not affected by social interactions. You can't teach these progs either critical thinking or good manners. Like teaching pigs to sing.
#3
The First Commandment of Liberalism Totalitarianism: Do not Go Against the Gleichshaltung! The Group Think must be worshiped, no matter how insane its applications are in practice.
Watching the Fox segment where the guest blathered on and on, vaguely!, about how the General's remarks were 'philosophically wrong' ... whatever that means.
[Wash Examiner] Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., will seek a financial audit of special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into whether President Trump colluded with the Russians ahead of the 2016 election.
Meadows, who sits on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in an interview for C-SPAN's Newsmakers airing Sunday that the audit is needed to ensure the Mueller team is properly spending the millions of dollars allocated so far to the Russia collusion probe. The audit would also provide information about the scope of the investigation, which the Mueller team has resisted providing to Congress.
Meadows said he would ask next week to have the Government Accountability Office conduct the audit, although it's not clear if Mueller would be compelled to turn over the information.
[Breitbart] White House chief of staff John Kelly says he reads Breitbart News every morning on his way to work to prepare for his job serving President Donald Trump.
When I get in the car at 5:30 I have to read, basically cover-to-cover, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the CNN website, the FOX News website, Politico and a website I never read before until I got this job: Breitbart. So, you know, to get that end of the political spectrum.
Kelly made his remarks in an interview with National Public Radio which aired on Friday, as he described his daily routine as the White House chief of staff.
The former general revealed that a Secret Service drives him to work from Manassas, VA, where he lives outside of Washington, DC.
Kelly shared his frustrations with media coverage at the White House, revealing a conversation with one reporter who called him their "worst nightmare" for drastically reducing leaks from administration staff.
[Breitbart] President Trump allegedly laid into Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a White House meeting, as border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border continue to skyrocket, according to a new report.
In a cabinet meeting attended by advisers Stephen Miller, Kellyanne Conway, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Larry Kudlow, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump blasted Nielsen for failing to secure the southern border, the Washington Post reports:
Trump lashed out at his Cabinet, and Nielsen in particular, when told that the number of people arrested for illegally crossing the Mexico border topped 50,000 for the second consecutive month. The blowup lasted more than 30 minutes, according to a person with knowledge of what transpired, as Trump’s face reddened and he raised his voice, saying Nielsen needed to "close down" the border. [Emphasis added]
"Why don’t you have solutions? How is this still happening?" he said, adding later, "We need to shut it down. We’re closed." [Emphasis added]
Indeed, border crossings have continued to soar under Nielsen’s direction at DHS. For example, as Breitbart Texas reported, border crossings in March approached Obama-era levels of illegal immigration at the border. Last month, border crossings continued to increase, with nearly 40,000 illegal aliens crossing the border.
#1
Sorry, wrong person for the job. Unable to take criticism. Unable to provide answers. Her answer is 'fok it I quit.' She's now wounded and at some point, will turn on the boss. She needs to go.
Two men can have a 'knock down-drag out', call each other worthless SOB's, but at the end of the day have a beer and start tomorrow anew. It's a fairly well established gender difference. Just my observation over the past six decades or so, but I could be wrong.
#2
At least attempt to meet your bosses clear objective. Why anyone would be surprised or unprepared to be criticized by a man who had a successful TV show firing people for not meeting expectations is a bigger concern Nielsen.
#3
I seldom (not saying it never happened) went into a staff meeting NOT knowing I had an arse chewing coming. She's out of touch with the Chief of Staff, her boss, and possibly the mission. There should be no such staff meeting surprises. She was unprepared.
In a city park in a border state saw shattered pieces of a grill and a head light laying around the base of a tree along with two fresh reciepts of remittances to Guatemala. The tree was 50 yards from a big WWII sherman tank sitting in front of a National Guard facility as a monument or something. When the Guatemalan was cutting through the park and when his headlights lighted up that tank he made a hard right and crashed into a tree.
I put another notch on that old WWII tanks' gun barrel sitting in front of that Natińal Guard building.
[Breitbart] Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh speculated that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, and has expanded into an investigation of wrongdoing by Trump campaign operatives, has an ulterior motive.
Many have tried to compare Trump’s administration to that of Nixon during the Watergate scandal, but Limbaugh said the analogy of Watergate is more appropriate for the Obama administration.
According to Limbaugh, the Mueller probe has the purpose of covering up efforts by the Obama Department of Justice and FBI to taint Donald Trump’s presidency.
"If you want to draw a Watergate parallel, you have to draw the parallel not to Trump. Trump hasn’t bugged anybody," Limbaugh said. "Trump has not planted listening devices. Trump does not have informants. He did not have informants in the Hillary campaign. That was all Obama! Nixon’s Plumbers, they left a bug inside the headquarters. It didn’t work. Obama put an actual human being in Trump’s campaign! Nixon knew nothing about the ’plumbers.'"
"But what did Obama know about the mole in the Trump campaign and when did he know it?" he continued. "So if you really want to draw the Watergate analogy, it points right to Barack Obama. Note: None of that is being investigated. Not a single shred of it. Not a morsel of that is being investigated. In fact, I believe that this entire investigation of Trump is actually a cover-up of what the Obama intelligence community ‐ Department of Justice, FBI ‐ did to try to nail Trump during the campaign and to corrupt his transition period after he won the election to destroy or paralyze his presidency."
[Townhall] Bill Nye "the Science Guy," once the beloved figure of the popular PBS children’s show, fundraised and gave a talk for Planned Parenthood of South Texas Tuesday in which he renewed calls for population control in response to climate change.
Nye, whose actual, scientific credentials consist of a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, focused on climate change in his talk and reportedly discussed "evidence that explosive population growth is a major factor driving it."
He also praised the nation’s largest abortion provider for efforts to raise the quality of life for women and emphasized that this was one way to address climate change, saying this would lead to "fewer kids."
#3
Democrats love Planned Parenthood. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are ardent fans.
I expect California is definitely in for the Vote. I mean Planned Parenthood is something all Liberals stand behind, right?
Ever attended the Medical procedure when they perform an Abortion ? Its an education, you don't have to do anything yourself, the "doctor" will see to the actual work.
You can just stand there and watch.
#5
Do something positive, fake. Remove yourself first
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Ever notice that the people spewing this crap are never the first to themselves and their families be removed first for the good of the planet? It always has to be someone else.
#8
Between Nye and Jim Rodgers, bow ties are dead to me. You notice Tucker Carlson doesn't wear em any more. Too bad. Once they were cool. I went to the trouble to learn how to tie them. Now it's a necktie or bolo for me on those sorts of occasions.
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People who say "There are too many people in the world" really mean "There are too many OTHER people in the world".
As Saint Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa) once said "Saying there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers".
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[Wash Times] A retired general and Fox Business Network guest argued Thursday that torture works on detainees, and as proof cited the example of one of its principal opponents ‐ Sen. John McCain.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney went further though than criticizing the Arizona Republican’s opposition to confirming Gina Haspel as CIA director. He also called the Vietnam-era POW as "Songbird John," a word choice that prompted FBN host Charles Payne to apologize to Mr. McCain.
"The fact is, is John McCain ‐ it worked on John. That’s why they call him ’Songbird John,’" Lt. Gen. McInerney said in an appearance.
Mr. McCain was captured by the North Vietnamese when his Navy jet was shot down and held as a prisoner. His guards at the "Hanoi Hilton" tied him with ropes and beat him every two hours even though he was suffering from dysentery and had been injured in his plane’s crash.
Mr. McCain eventually signed a confession to being "a black criminal" and an "air pirate," though it didn’t end the beatings because he refused to sign more confessions. He said years later: "I had learned what we all learned over there: every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."
#8
McCain admits to breaking and talking. George Washington never surrendered as a young British officer to the French and then as a seasoned Continental Officer to the British. Being a POW is pure hell on earth.
As the ancient King David would say to his God, "I would rather be punished by your terrible wrath than to be handed over to the Philistines".
An aside, McCain most likely would have been less bitter today if he did not stay in politics all of his life. Another reason for term limits.
#10
and the last two years were pure "Anti-Trumper"
Yeah, the rest of it wasn't all that great either. Whether he sang or not I think it's pretty clear he was the Manchurian candidate. I hate to say it but I've come to the conclusion that we were actually better off with Baraq.
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I'm not going to disparage him for being a POW or maybe breaking under torture.
His political career is more than enough to disparage his character.
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
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[Townhall] Bill Nye "the Science Guy," once the beloved figure of the popular PBS children’s show, fundraised and gave a talk for Planned Parenthood of South Texas Tuesday in which he renewed calls for population control in response to climate change. 
[Wash Times] A retired general and Fox Business Network guest argued Thursday that torture works on detainees, and as proof cited the example of one of its principal opponents ‐ Sen. John McCain.
