#6
Ironically - she might be the sole reason they're keeping Papa Joe in the seat. She is the evil of 2 lessors...
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#7
If they'd move her up to Prez, they have no one to break dead locks in the Senate. A new VP is picked by Congress - see Ford. They can't break a dead lock in the Senate on the nominee. Check.
#8
Procop, I am not certain that is true. The 25th does not explicitly say the VP relinquishes that position and responsibilities if she becomes President. It could, and would, be interpreted that she is both until a new VP is confirmed, and the Supreme Court would have to make a determination, and we know how hard they will resist having to do that.
#13
Currently she occupies the only constitutionally authorized duel seat in the federal government. Once she becomes Prez the ineligibility clause comes into play. The president can not hold office in the Senate concurrent with his/her office in the White House.
#14
Sounds like the Chicoms needed to get her 'local' to make adjustments, before matters proceed further.
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#15
"OMG, on the box, Mom, it's Kaaawm!" "As you see, I'm knee-deep in the nom!"
"Is it heaven on earth?"
[several seconds of mirth]
Myna squawks "WTF?" from a palm.
[FOX] The Taliban, on the heels of a steady, monthslong military blitz, retook control of Afghanistan last week, just four months after President Biden announced he would withdraw U.S. troops from the embattled nation and nearly 20 years after the militant group was first ousted.
One of the biggest questions the Taliban has faced after sweeping so quickly into power is how it got the cash to seize control and govern the country.
Afghanistan, already one of the poorest countries in the world, is heavily dependent on American aid. About 80% of the nation's budget is funded by the U.S. and other international donors, according to John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
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#8
Our rules of engagement are going to be exposed when the Chicoms send in about half a million troops and go scorched earth on the locals
If the Chicoms control those rare earths they can effectively compromise our electric car industry’s demand our semiconductor industry
It has been all about rare earths for years while we have been fighting the Taliband and Al Qaeda we should have been developing the resources
You did absolutely nothing wrong as far as I can tell, my dear. It just sometimes needs to be banged a bit with a wrench, for reasons that are completely unclear to me. No doubt one of Rantburg’s many computer mavens can explain using words I don’t understand, which may or may not advance your comprehension.
Literally I opened the article in Edit and closed it again, without making any changes whatsoever.
#7
Sound technical advice: Sometimes just cussing at it and hitting refresh works.
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08/21/2021 11:25 Comments ||
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#8
And such a reassuring, warm image.☺
I married an engineer, Dron, as I’ve mentioned from time to time. A basic of the profession, it seems, is “when in doubt, use a bigger hammer.” Not being an engineer, I use whatever tool-like thing is within reach, regardless of what it was designed for. This can be distressing for those who understand and appreciate tools properly...
#10
I gather somebody already found a patron saint for computer managers, but I still think Barbara would be a good choice for those days when artillery would be the tool of choice for adjusting a recalcitrant server.
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[DW] The Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, is Germany's key foreign intelligence agency. It is tasked with collecting, collating and evaluating information, and with providing the government with an early warning system on critical developments in the fields of foreign and security policy.
Now the BND's image has been seriously tarnished, both at home and abroad, by its failure to alert the German government of the impending disaster in Afghanistan.
This has in turn put the government itself under massive pressure to explain how such a fiasco was possible. As recently as June, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told the German parliament, the Bundestag, that it was inconceivable "that the Taliban
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#1
Yet unconfirmed, but I was told last evening that a shouting match ensued after the 82n Abn CO instructed the Brits to terminate their SOF repatriation efforts outside the airport perimeter.
#3
I think a simple rule of thumb can be applied: Anyone who wants to be a politician, intelligence official or "policy wonk" probably should be rejected as unsuitable on principle.
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08/21/2021 17:22 Comments ||
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#4
Don't worry. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Problem is, it will likely not be distributed.
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Oil prices rose, during trading today, Friday, moving away from its lowest level in 3 months, but it is still on its way to incur a weekly loss of more than 5%.Brent crude futures rose 0.4%, to $66.69 a barrel, after falling 2.6% yesterday, Thursday, to the lowest closing level since May 2021.
And US West Texas Intermediate crude futures for September 2021 delivery rose 0.6 percent, to $64.07 a barrel, after falling 2.7 percent yesterday. The October 2021 contract, the most active, rose 26 cents to $63.76 a barrel.
New lockdowns in countries facing increasing cases of the mutated delta strain of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... have dampened the outlook for fuel demand.
And China imposed new restrictions in light of its policy of the Corona virus, which requires not to allow any cases of infection, which affected global shipping and supply chains, in the meantime, the outbreak of the "Delta" strain in Australia and New Zealand led to the imposition of strict public isolation measures.
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Usually when oil is under $70 a barrel, gas is around $2.50 a gallon. What is keeping the price up $0.50 higher than commonly usual?
#2
Massive inflation is being factored in to every capital expenditure forecast and investment strategy by OPEC et Al would be my guess. Oh, and the Hunter Biden art program with 10% for the Big Guy?
[AlAhram] Most of the recent migrants colonists traveling from Belarus are believed to be originally from Iraq and Afghanistan
A Polish refugee rights group said Friday that 32 people who fled Afghanistan have been trapped for 12 days in an area between Poland and Belarus while caught up in a standoff between the two countries.
Belarus is making all sorts of friends with this nonsense.
The group, Fundacja Ocalenie, called on Polish authorities to allow the people to apply for refugee status in Poland, saying they have the right to do so. Polish authorities are refusing to let them in, and Belarusian guards will not let them return.
``In accordance with the law in force in Poland, each of these people should be allowed to submit an application for protection,'' Piotr Bystrianin, the president of the group's management board, said in a statement.
Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia accuse Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of sending migrants colonists across their borders with his country in what they have called an act of ``hybrid war.'' Their borders also form part of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's external border, and the countries believe Lukashenko is acting in Dire Revenge for sanctions the EU imposed over his disputed reelection and crackdown on dissent.
Most of the recent migrants colonists traveling from Belarus are believed to be originally from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Poland has deployed hundreds of soldiers to the border and is reinforcing it with barbed wire. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Thursday that he sympathized with the migrants colonists, but insisted that they were ``a tool in the hands of Mr. Lukashenko'' and vowed that Poland would not succumb to ``this type of blackmail.``
Fundacja Ocalenie said it arrived at the spot where the migrants colonists were stuck, near the village of Usnarz Gorny, on Wednesday to bring them items such as food, tents, sleeping bags and power banks. They were not given access at first but were successful on Thursday.
Tahmina Rajabova, a member of the foundation, reported speaking to the migrants colonists and learning that they are 32 people from Afghanistan who all want to apply for refugee status in Poland. They included a 15-year-old girl and some people who were ill.
A few days earlier, about a dozen people from Iraq _ women and small children _ were stranded with them, but Belarusian authorities allowed them back into Belarus, Rajabova said.
``It is an inhumane and scandalous situation that Poland, together with Belarus, condemns these people to imprisonment on the border, in conditions that offend human dignity and are life-threatening,'' said Maciej Konieczny, a left-wing Polish politician who joined the humanitarian workers at the border.
Lawyers with the foundation plan to submit applications for protection on behalf of the migrants colonists, the group said.
#4
...well technically, they'd be classified 'white' by our census people, so it does appear to be 'white' rage. Bonus points for qualifying as inherently anti-Semitic, which is a selling point for the Left now in power in the Swamp as well.
#8
Falling on his sword, you say? I predict a glancing blow as this buffoon will make gravity malfunction. Oh and let's not forget a suitable decoration.
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.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
