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-Great Cultural Revolution
Poll: One in Five Americans Want to Take Back Their 2020 Biden Vote
[Breitbart] A remarkable one in five President Joe Biden voters said they regret voting for the 78-year-old in the last presidential election, according to the latest Zogby poll released on Friday.
Zogby is strongly in the Democrat camp...
The Zogby poll was taken before Kabul, Afghanistan, was conquered by the Taliban jihadist organization, and Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal turned deadly, killing 13 U.S. services members and injuring more.

There was also 76 percent of the respondents who said “no” they do not regret their vote, and four percent said they were “unsure.”

However, while the 20 percent do not specify if they would have voted for former President Donald Trump. Zogby Analytics points out that looking at the 2016 and the 2020 elections closely, both were only decided in a handful of battleground states by only tens of thousands of votes, not hundreds of thousands, meaning this can hurt the president’s chances in 2024.

Younger voters in the 18 to 29 (29 percent) and 30-49 (30 percent) age groups were more likely to regret their vote than the 50 to 64 (ten percent) and the 65 plus (six percent) age range.

Broken down by registered party preference, Republicans who voted for Biden regret their vote more than Democrats and independents, 29 percent, 21 percent, and 14 percent, respectively.

The Zogby poll also found that urban voters were about twice as likely to regret voting for Biden as suburban and rural voters, 28 percent, 14 percent, and 12 percent, respectively.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/04/2021 10:11 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think if people who would "take back their vote" just didn't vote in the first place, we'd all be better off...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/04/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2  If they didn't show up, they'd still would have voted.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/04/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  And the other four in five never voted for him in the first place?
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/04/2021 15:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Makes no difference. Dominion hasn't changed its mind.
Posted by: Angstrom || 09/04/2021 18:46 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^^ #3

The rest were unavailable to comment...

Posted by: Vernal Snaigum4662 || 09/04/2021 22:00 Comments || Top||


Supreme Court sanctions GOP's vigilante strategy to stay in power
[MSN] When Justice Anthony Kennedy cynically retired the next year so that the Republicans could solidify their hard core majority by installing a political hack by the name of Brett Kavanaugh, it was all over but the shouting. The 5-4 majority to overturn Roe vs Wade was on the court.



Liberal Tears with a whine chaser.

And the sad thing is that there are people who believe this (highly entertaining) crap!
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, free diaphragms to teenagers should work. How likely the holy folk will support this?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2021 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2 

Who will be hardest hit by reducing the time-frame for Abortion on Demand?

CDC TABLE 5 DATA

US CENSUS & CDC DATA
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, make up
60.1% of the USA population and account for 38.7% of all abortions reported.

Black or African American alone, percent make up 13.4% of the USA population account for 33.6% of all abortions reported.

Hispanic or Latino,make up 18.5% of the USA Population and account for 20% of all abortions reported.

Asian and others etc. account for 7.7% of all other abortions reported.

85.2% of all Abortions are unmarried situations.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/04/2021 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  You get more of what you subsidize.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/04/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  People too dumb, lazy or stupid to use contraception should not reproduce. Sterilization, not abortion, is the answer to that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/04/2021 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Who will be hardest hit by reducing the time-frame for Abortion on Demand?

The ones who'll have to pay for all these unwonted & unloved children. Upbringing first, incarceration later.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Sterilization, not abortion, is the answer to that.

Politically unfeasible - so abortion on demand made a working compromise.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2021 11:55 Comments || Top||

#7  People too dumb, lazy or stupid to use contraception should not reproduce. Sterilization, not abortion, is the answer to that.

My impression is that people who abort babies are in a much better position* to bring them up than people who keep them in order to have a lifeline to welfare bennies. Many abortions are carried out so that young people can go to college or career women can continue working without the bother of a child. The welfare leeches don't abort their kids. Think of the foster child racket but with a biological link. For welfare leeches, kids are a meal ticket, so abortions are a no-no.

* And by better position, I mean more intelligent and more conscientious, with all that implies.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 09/04/2021 21:25 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global warming is actually causing COLDER winters because its making the polar vortex stretch south into US, Europe and Central Asia, report finds
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Another model? Only time will tell if this one is better at predicting reality.
  • Normally a polar vortex stays high in the stratosphere above the North Pole

  • But increased temperatures in the Arctic Ocean weaken the vortex and cause it to stretch down to the midlatitudes, which include the US and Europe

  • Researchers say vortex stretching caused Texas' deadly cold spell in February

  • They hope their findings dispel misconceptions about how climate change can impact temperatures
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/04/2021 08:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So we are back to the 1970 Global Ice Age?
or was that some other 10 year cycle Climate PANIC that never happened?
Posted by:  NN2N1 || 09/04/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||


#3  That's why they now call it "Climate change" rather than "global warming". Any change can be called climate change - hotter, colder, drier, wetter, more hurricanes, fewer hurricanes, anything.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/04/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Only marxist - democrat - totalitarian - Science™ morons could look at chaos itself and see a man-made phenomenon.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/04/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  White "man-made phenomenon."
Posted by: Dale || 09/04/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Texas law opens door for other states to pursue the saving of humans
[The Hill] The Supreme Court’s refusal to block the Texas "fetal heartbeat" law, the most restrictive abortion legislation in the U.S. to date, is expected to inspire more Republican-led states to follow in the Lone Star State’s footsteps.

Politicians in Arkansas, South Dakota and Florida, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), have already committed to at least looking into implementing a version of the Texas six-week abortion ban in their states.

The court’s 5-4 decision not to intervene in the Texas law that went into effect Wednesday did not determine whether the law is constitutional, while courts have ruled previous six-week bans unconstitutional.

"What they did in Texas was interesting, but I haven't really been able to look at enough about it," DeSantis told reporters on Thursday. "They've basically done this through private right of action. So, it's a little bit different than how a lot of these debates have gone. So we'll have to look, I'm gonna look more significantly at it."

Similarly, Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson (R) said the state’s lawmakers will consider mimicking Texas’s law, saying in a statement to The Hill that the legislation "represents a new approach," and the Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene is "encouraging."

"As an adoptive child myself, it’s important to me that we do everything we can to promote adoption and prevent abortion; therefore, I think it’s worthwhile to take a look at the Texas law and see if there is more we can do here in Florida," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/04/2021 02:08 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, who's going to raise these unwonted children? The State?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2021 3:00 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Good question, orphanages or adoption agencies possibly. Texans appear to be rejecting the Federal Gov't 'final solution' strategy however.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/04/2021 3:04 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Nope. Just deferred until they're teenagers - like "13 years old shoots at the cops, is killed"
So sorry, all you sanctity of life people - but it takes like 20 years of TLC to produce a human.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2021 3:09 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess it means Abortion Tourism comes back.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2021 4:53 Comments || Top||

#5  or OTC birth control is OK'd.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/04/2021 8:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Pfizer to announce breakthrough on monthly birth control vaccine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/04/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#7  but it takes like 20 years of TLC to produce a human.
So pretty much anything is a capital offense before age 20?
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/04/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#8  So, who's going to raise these unwoanted children?

Adoption Statistics

Maybe those subject to the biological imperative can buy domestic.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/04/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#9  ^For 2017, the Guttmacher Institute reported 862,320 abortions (in USA)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/04/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Seems a lot of Americans have gone overseas to adopt. About the only group that will adopt regardless of color, race, or creed.

I remember the usual trouble makers in South Korea complaining about Americans adopting till it was pushed back that Korans only adopted in the family blood line and the Americans didn't care about that issue.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/04/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, better murder them all, then. It's the only way to be sure.

Adoption services are always short of children.
Posted by: Herb Bucket7723 || 09/04/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#12  For any state outside of the 5th Circuit, good luck.
Posted by: Angstrom || 09/04/2021 18:48 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China Throws An Inside Heater
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 BY STEVEN HAYWARD IN CHINA, CLIMATE
Thank you for adding the above, Abu Uluque. It enabled me to find the article after you forgot to paste the URL into the Source box and also did not put the name of the website in square brackets at the top of the text. But doing the other things would have been easier for both of us.
[Powerline]There is little doubt that China was already giddy that they get to deal with U.S. "climate envoy" John Kerry, but having watched Biden’s weakness in Afghanistan, they aren’t even being coy about it any more. They are openly telling Kerry that the U.S. won’t get any Chinese cooperation on climate change unless the U.S. backs off pressuring China on other issues, such as trade, human rights, etc. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday:

China Warns Kerry Climate Cooperation Depends on Overall Ties

HONG KONG—Senior Chinese officials told U.S. climate envoy John Kerry that continued U.S. hostility on a range of issues could jeopardize cooperation on fighting climate change, though Mr. Kerry said that working-level talks were productive in the run-up to a November climate summit.

Mr. Kerry, wrapping up a two-day visit to the northern port city of Tianjin, was warned repeatedly by his hosts that climate cooperation couldn’t be kept separate from worsening geopolitical ties between the two countries.

On Thursday, Yang Jiechi, leader Xi Jinping’s top foreign-policy aide, told Mr. Kerry in a video call that the U.S. had interfered in China’s internal affairs and harmed its interests, causing difficulties in the bilateral relationship.

A day earlier, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, while describing climate-change cooperation as an oasis in the desert, said that "cooperation on climate change cannot be divorced from the overall situation of China-U.S. relations."

Given how single-minded Democrats are on climate change, expect them to cave to China. And since China’s climate pledges always involve action many years in the future, they don’t actually have to do anything for the duration of the Harris-Biden administration.

Another sign that the ChiComms are fast learners: back in the Cold War, it was the U.S. that insisted on "linkage" in arms talks with the Soviet Union. Now it’s China that wants linkage, and the U.S. that is resisting it.
Whatcha gonna do about, Joe? How does a greenie-weenie president justify trade with a hostile totalitarian communist dictatorship that also happens to be the world's biggest emitter of hydrocarbon?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Can't anyone here play this game?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/04/2021 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  This is just one of the reasons China wanted Trump out, he held their feet to the fire and made them 'lose face' in both their local populace and the world.

And they would do anything to get him out.

Anything.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/04/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I am duly chastised, tw. I know better but I forgot. Probably focused too much on including the link to the WSJ (even though it's behind a paywall), or maybe it was the blockquote tags for the part that Hayward copied from the WSJ, or the fancy span tags for italics...or maybe I'm just getting old. I'll try to do better next time.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/04/2021 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Spoken like a gentleman and a Rantburger, dear Abu Uluque. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/04/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Hattusa - 3D Tour of the Hittite Capital
Posted by: badanov || 09/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Science? What Science?
[HotAir] We already discussed the political pressure being applied to scientists to meet Joe Biden’s arbitrary September 20th target for making COVID booster shots widely available. It was enough to cause a couple of them to resign. Yesterday, Allahpundit asked why the various players in the administration, the FDA and the CDC can’t seem to get on the same page for a policy that will potentially impact the health of hundreds of millions of people. Well, that 9/20 deadline was dealt another blow last night. FDA regulators have come out and said that it’s doubtful that Moderna can be approved for third shots by then. (NBC News)

U.S. regulators don’t expect to meet the Biden administration’s Sept. 20 timeline of making booster shots widely available to those who received the Moderna Covid vaccine, said a person familiar with the process.

Top health officials informed the White House they will need more time to review the Moderna application because the data the company submitted Sept. 1 was "found inadequate and needs strengthening," the person said.

But officials believe regulators are still on track to make a decision on boosters for Pfizer’s vaccine by Sept. 20. The FDA has an advisory committee meeting scheduled to discuss the Pfizer boosters Sept. 17, the person said.

Right from the beginning of this process, Moderna has had a lot more trouble with its applications and paperwork than either Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson. And it sounds like their documentation of the trials for booster shots is no different. That means that if the federal government tells America that September 20 is the time to start signing up for boosters, millions of people either won’t be able to comply if they received Moderna originally or they’ll have to switch over to Pfizer.

Question number one: Has anyone completed thorough trials on patients switching vaccines? And if not, are they at least working on that? We’ve already seen reports of people lying about their initial shots in their desperation to go get a third one. If the entire country wasn’t being stampeded into a panic by the horrendous messaging campaign coming out of the White House, perhaps we could be approaching these questions in a bit more rational fashion.

Also, keep in mind that it really isn’t the CDC or the FDA that’s conducting these trials. It’s the pharmaceutical companies themselves in conjunction with medical providers around the world. The government just collects the data from them so they can determine what the policy should be.

Now let’s look at the second half of that announcement. You’ll note that it says federal regulators "believe regulators are still on track to make a decision on boosters for Pfizer’s vaccine" by the time they meet to discuss it on September 17. That’s three days before the White House deadline. You know what that means, right? Pfizer’s boosters haven’t even been approved yet. And yet everyone has a deadline looming in a little over two weeks that’s apparently in place because Joe Biden picked a date out of thin air.

Is any of this sounding familiar? When Joe Biden selected August 31st as the date we needed to be out of Afghanistan he was warned by defense and intelligence aides that it was probably too soon. But having publicly announced the date once, he was obviously terrified of missing the deadline for purely political reasons. We all saw what happened after that.

Is that how we’re going to handle the next phase of the vaccination rollout? Once Biden announces a date, that’s when we go and the science can be damned? If the pharmaceutical companies can’t make the date, then they can’t make the date. The results of the clinical trials are the only thing that should be determining the schedule. I’m no longer sure who is actually running the show over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but they need to pull their heads out of the sand and start practicing what they preach when it comes to "following the science."
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/04/2021 09:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  BBC yesterday:
The UK's vaccine advisory body has refused to give the green light to vaccinating healthy children aged 12 to 15 years old on health grounds alone. As children are at such low risk from the virus, they decided that vaccination would offer only "marginal gain" and, therefore, there was "insufficient" evidence to offer mass vaccination for this age group.


Perhaps the Science is different in the UK.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 09/04/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Metric science. Or is it Imperial?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/04/2021 14:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Sience is questioning "The Science".
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/04/2021 16:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Science not sience. Spell check is your friend...when it's not stabbing you in the back.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/04/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Check hasn't cleared yet.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/04/2021 17:55 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2021-09-04
  Egypt pumps toxic gas into Gaza tunnel, three Palestinians dead
Fri 2021-09-03
  British-born ISIS "Beatle'' due to plead guilty
Thu 2021-09-02
  Taliban confirm that the group’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada will be top authority
Wed 2021-09-01
  Six Iraqis on death row executed, three for 'terrorism': medic
Tue 2021-08-31
  Final US evacuation flights leave, ending America’s 20-year Afghanistan war, equipment left behind disabled
Mon 2021-08-30
  US Airstrike Hits Suicide Bombers Targeting Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-29
  Last British flight evacuating civilians from Afghanistan leaves Kabul
Sat 2021-08-28
  Biden Pledges to 'Hunt Down' Those Behind Airport Attack
Fri 2021-08-27
  Karzai, Abdullah house-arrested by Taliban in Kabul
Thu 2021-08-26
  Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport
Wed 2021-08-25
  Taliban Vows to Help Fight Climate Change
Tue 2021-08-24
  Firefight at Kabul airport kills Afghan guard
16,000 more leave Afghanistan
Mon 2021-08-23
  US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport
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  9 Talbanis surrender to Resistance Forces in Andarab; 6 of them Paks
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  U.S. charges man who made bomb threat near U.S. Capitol


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