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-Great Cultural Revolution
Southwest Airlines Offering Free Flights To All Passengers Who Are Vaccinated And Can Fly A Plane
[Babylon Bee] A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines has announced delays in flights due to strange weather that seems to pass over competitors’ planes, only affecting their own signature blue and orange aircraft. The airline has stated these delays have no connection to their pilots protesting vaccine mandates.

The spokesperson then announced a new Southwest Airlines incentive program for potential passengers: All flights, domestic or international, are free to any passenger who is vaccinated and can also fly a plane.

"The requirements to take advantage of these incredible savings are simple," said Southwest CEO Bob Southwest to a crowd of customers who have been stuck at the airport all weekend and were frothing at the mouth in anger. "Show us proof of vaccination against COVID-19 and promise us you know how fly commercial airliners, and your flight is on us."

The CEO then mentioned other skills that were not required, but beneficial: Experience calming herds of rabid, sleepless passengers, expertise in flying through mysterious, invisible weather events, and the ability to land the plane.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/16/2021 12:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Its an entirely different kind of flying, altogether
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/16/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||

#2  "Woah, dude! I'm like 8 miles high."
Posted by: SteveS || 10/16/2021 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  The Bee has some talented writers. I'm old enough to remember when Saturday Night Live was that funny.
Posted by: jpal || 10/16/2021 15:56 Comments || Top||

#4  RE: #1
OK, " Its an entirely different kind of flying!"

Hat tip to "Airplane!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/16/2021 20:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Does Microsoft Flight Simulator count?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/16/2021 21:02 Comments || Top||

#6  FL X issa better than nothing.

Got it for the kids; ends up I use it most simulating dual props doing a medical emergency flight. The idea being learning how to do spotter drones for fire department.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/16/2021 23:10 Comments || Top||


‘Airplane!' creator slams joy-killing threat: ‘Twitter 9 percent'
[NYP] Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the release of "Airplane!," the comedy I wrote and directed with my brother Jerry and our friend Jim Abrahams. Just before the world shut down, Paramount held a screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, followed by a Q&A in which an audience member asked a question we never used to receive: "Could you make ’Airplane!’ today?"

My response: "Of course, we could. Just without the jokes."

Although people tell me that they love "Airplane!" and it seems to be included on just about every Top Five movie-comedy list, there was talk at Paramount of withholding the rerelease over feared backlash for scenes that today would be deemed "insensitive."

I’m referring to scenes like the one in which two black characters speak entirely in a jive dialect so unintelligible that it has to be subtitled. I’ve lost count of the number of people who have said to me, "You couldn’t do that scene today."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2021 08:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Watch some millennial first-time viewings of Airplane and Blazing Saddles. They generally get the humor, just are amazed either film was ever made.

On the other hand, I saw one turn into a Mel Brooks fan-girl, so some of them get the movies entirely.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/16/2021 9:12 Comments || Top||

#2  "Excuse me while I whip this out..." Another is Blazing Saddles.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 10/16/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/16/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Kentucky Fried Movie.

Sad truth is they couldn't even make the more watered down movies in this genre UHF or Don't Be A Menace. I had to watch Tropic Thunder the other day just to flush the vanilla from my system. Been catching East Europe/Russia/India/Korea films because they don't dribble in the nonsense. Even China has a decent movie here and there which isn't laden in propaganda.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/16/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||

#5  This communist cancel culture sucks all the joy out of life without making the world better. Time to cancel them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/16/2021 16:52 Comments || Top||

#6  You can still be yourself in select company. Once you retire and no longer have to worry about being fired, you can cut loose. Just don't, as has been pointed out here by many, put it out on social media.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/16/2021 16:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Most of cancel culture is a small group of SJW with twitter accounts that magnifies their message and makes it look like they have broad support.

The people opposed to cancel culture need to get twitter accounts and drown out the SJW. Show everyone the anger brigade is small in numbers, embarrass and humiliate them for their lack of humor and tolerance and just outright call them a hater when appropriate.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/16/2021 19:55 Comments || Top||

#8  People who oppose Cancel Culture aren't allowed on Twitter.
That's the whole point of Twitter's censorship - to filter out opposing views and magnify the SJW crowd far beyond their actual size.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/16/2021 20:18 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Tucker Carlson piece on the growing Havana Syndrome pandemic
[FOX] Carlson interviews Robert Emerson Bartholomew, PhD, medical sociologist, University of Auckland, NZ

Dear Dr. Bartholomew:

I much enjoyed your excellent short presentation this evening on Tucker Carlson regarding the mysterious Havana Syndrome pandemic. I've not heard of Kiwi or Fijian diplomats coming down with this strange anomaly. Feckless Aussie politicians also appear to possess immunity. Is sticky date pudding or the Māori Haka effective antidotes? I have an old French UN colleague who reports no incidents in France. What have I missed ?

All I can add is the attached link the tired old admonitions.... "What you reward, you get more of" and of course don't forget to.... "follow the money."

Regards, Besoeker


The Hill - 21 Sept 2021 - House passes bill to compensate 'Havana syndrome' victims
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
America's leftist judges are out of control
[American Thinker] Thirty years of litigation work in the San Francisco Bay Area, which some might consider Ground Zero for activist judges, left me with a deep and abiding disrespect for leftist judges who are more concerned with their prejudices and feelings, than with facts and law. Two recent stories perfectly exemplify this.

The first story involves an Obama appointee who is reaming people arrested because they dared to do what leftists always do: Enter government property, including the Capitol, to protest. The second involves a father who is being barred access to his son until he gets a totally unnecessary vaccine.

Tanya S. Chutkan sits on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and has been there since Barack Obama appointed her in 2014. She is a stone-cold leftist. In 2017, she ordered the Office of Refugee Resettlement ("ORR") to ensure that a girl in its care got an abortion. Eventually, she ordered the government to make sure that all girls in ORR custody got to have abortions.

Chutkan also ruled against Betsy DeVos because Chutkan felt DeVos wasn’t doing enough to identify racial disparities in children identified for special ed, restrictive classrooms, and discipline. One of the things we know is that ending discipline based on race has been a disaster for schools.

Another Chutkan initiative was to try to block the federal death penalty by claiming that the federal government, by changing its lethal injection protocol, was violating the Federal Death Penalty Act. That decision is now pending before the United States Supreme Court.

But it’s Chutkan’s latest acts of leftism from the bench that are truly disgusting because they punish political opponents: She is imposing harsher sentences on people swept up in the January 6 dragnet than even Merrick Garland’s prosecutors are seeking. Leftists storming the Senate chamber during Brett Kavanaugh’s hearings were exercising their First Amendment rights and avoided serious consequences. Walking through the Capitol if you’re a conservative is a dire crime that must be punished severely.

Chutkan’s take on things is hard left, as happened with Matthew Mazzocco, who was charged with "parading":
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2021 04:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chutkan supports every radical leftest and Obama cause that makes it way to her bench. Want a clue as to where this may be headed? What type of causes and justice do you suppose these people support ?

Please note the diversity and inclusion.

SouthAfrican Judiciary
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2021 4:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Pound for pound federal district judges are the most powerful figures in the federal system. You can't vote them out of office. No one can fire them. You can impeach them, but only if you have videotape from multiple angles of them sticking their hands deeply into the cookie jar. And the most the appellate courts can do is reverse their rulings and fuss at them. An issue that doesn't get discussed very often is how cases are allotted within a district to specific judges -- it should be basically random, but is it?
Posted by: Matt || 10/16/2021 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  "parading"?? WTF?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/16/2021 15:33 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
What, how and why Russia gave up to Japan in 1905
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Airapetov

[Regnum] On June 7, US President Theodore Roosevelt invited the belligerents to gather in a conference to discuss the terms of peace. Tokyo immediately agreed to Washington's proposal. In this situation, on May 30 (June 12), Nicholas II was forced to accept the invitation to peace talks. At the insistence of Japan, the city of Portsmouth on the Pacific coast of the United States was chosen as the place of negotiations - the Japanese did not want to transfer them to Europe.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 10/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See: Financing a Foreign War: Jacob H. Schiff and Japan, 1904–05,Gary Dean Best,American Jewish Historical Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 4 (JUNE, 1972), pp. 313-324 Published By: The Johns Hopkins University Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/23880523
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 10/16/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  " of the greatest empire who has had a little trouble"

That's the funniest thing I'll read all day.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/16/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  It has been many years since I had read the History of The Russo Japanese War. China played its part as it normally did. That is basically why I have such a low opinion of them today. Look at Biden what he is doing as an contemporary example. Greed, graft, corruption are all in play. Getting anything done or corrected is at best an afterthought.
Posted by: Dale || 10/16/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Former Director Of National Intelligence Issues Warning Over Biden Buying Chinese Drones For Feds
[SUMMIT] Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe warned Sunday that the Biden administration is putting national security at risk by buying Chinese drone technology for federal law enforcement use.

In an appearance on Fox News Ratcliffe urged that Chinese companies supplying the technology are likely relaying back information on U.S. critical infrastructure to the Chinese Communist Party.

"Like so much that Biden administration has done on national security lately, this makes very little sense," Ratcliffe warned.

He added, "It’s harmful to our national security. And also, Chinese drone technology is not as good as U.S. drone technology."

"It’s hard to make sense out of what’s doing this, other than it is consistent with the Biden administration taking a softer approach, trying to promote a false narrative that somehow China is a competitor and not an adversary," Ratcliffe further emphasised.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2021 05:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please buy American made Flying-S drones.

Range fed organic beef and chicken also available.


Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2021 6:07 Comments || Top||

#2 

For us suspicious trust but verify types.

Were these drones inspected for a friend-or-foe (IFF) circuit?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/16/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Now we know which corrupt ChiCom bought Hunter's "art" last month
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/16/2021 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like a good way to inject Chinese hacks into our national security system. Of course using Chinese chips in US-made drones seems pretty risky too.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/16/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Of course it is. That's why Xi told Biden to do it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/16/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Fire Marine Corps Commandant David Berger
By Daniel Greenfield

[FrontPage] 11 Marines came home in boxes after the bombing at Kabul airport carried out by an Islamic terrorist freed from a prison near Bagram Air Base that had been abandoned by Biden. Other Marines were seriously wounded and hospitalized for months after the attack.

All across America there are recruiting billboards for the Marine Corps with the message, “For Marines There Are Only Battles Won”. But in the runup to the disastrous retreat from Afghanistan, the only things the Marine Corps really cared about were wokeness and race.

In April, Biden announced that he would be pulling all American forces out of Afghanistan. That same month the Taliban launched their offensive that would end with a takeover of the country.

When General David H. Berger, Commandant of the Marine Corps, testified before the House Subcommittee on Defense at the end of April, he did not refer to Afghanistan. Even while a skeleton force of hundreds of Marines remained in Kabul, Berger made no mention of them.

Instead, Berger spoke about racism.

Bizarrely enough, Berger began his presentation, not with the threats to the United States that the Marine Corps existed to fight, but by declaring that, “our nation has engaged in a long overdue conversation on race and social justice sparked by several visible incidents of institutional racism”. By that, Berger meant that Black Lives Matter mobs had torched a number of cities and their leftist allies had purged everyone who disagreed from every institution.

Berger assured House Democrats that he was happy to lead the purge of dissenting Marines.

“We have and will continue to actively work to identify recruits and Marines who hold extremist views and we look forward to participating in the Secretary of Defense's new Countering Extremism Working Group to develop additional methods of keeping extremists from within our ranks,” Berger vowed, declaring war on fellow Marines instead of on America’s enemies.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 10/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's a toss-up as to who is the biggest horsesarse: Berger, or Centcom commander Marine General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 10/16/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#2  What a Cluster F! Obama's purge of the military still bearing fruit.
Posted by: Warthog || 10/16/2021 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Same guy
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/16/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||



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  Lebanon on edge as funerals held for seven killed in Beirut gunbattle
Fri 2021-10-15
  Socialist Labour Party MP in Leicester, England and a BLM activist, has been convicted over threatening to throw acid on the face of a woman
Thu 2021-10-14
  Six dead, dozens injured as Beirut protest erupts into heavy gunfights
Wed 2021-10-13
  Antifa member files frivolous lawsuit claiming he was injured by cops while rioting
Tue 2021-10-12
  Iraqis nab ISIS finance chief with $5 million bounty on his head
Mon 2021-10-11
  NIA raids 16 locations across Kashmir amid fresh civilian killings
Sun 2021-10-10
  UN: 10,000 Displaced as Clashes Escalate over Marib
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  Suicide bomber kills at least 100 at Shi'ite mosque in Afghanistan
Fri 2021-10-08
  Now in Power, Taliban Set Sights on Afghan Drug Underworld
Thu 2021-10-07
  Tunisia police seize equipment used by pro-Ennahdha channel
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  Turkey seeks to merge al-Nusra and National Army in Syria's Idlib
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  Palestinian president hosts Israeli minister in West Bank
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  Children are dying of starvation in Afghanistan
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  Taliban say they have raided IS hideout north of Kabul

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