[American Greatness] There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the past has failed abysmally.
Bad and bankrupt ideas, protocols, and ideologies—like McCarthyism, communism, various cults, or fascism—resurface not because of their intrinsic or lasting value or record of success, but because civilizations become less vigilant and allow human vanities, ignorance, arrogance, and evil to reassert themselves.
JOE MCCARTHY IS BACK
Our Tail Gunner Joe (of semi-truck driving expertise and brilliant legal training fame) in a single week smeared roughly half the country as un-American "semi-fascists." Then in one of the creepiest speeches and background sets in American political history, Joe Biden railed that "Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country." Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan in careful, sober, and exacting presidential tones; Joe Biden all but declared war against half his own people like a raving lunatic.
All that was missing from the rant was Biden waving to the crowd a purported list of names of prominent MAGA threats to our collective soul and screaming, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 members of the MAGA Party!"
Yet Biden never quite told us what was subversive about the "MAGA Scare" or wanting to "Make America Great Again." It was merely a sort of conservative version of George McGovern’s call to "Come home, America." Both slogans, like Obama’s "hope and change" banality, suggest things were either better before the present or will be better afterwards.
Unable to acknowledge this, a more-than-usual angry, snarling, and nearly incoherent Biden screamed his McCarthyesque attack amid an eerie red-and-black lit background, punctuated by two U.S. Marines on guard in the shadows of the red glow. (Gen. Mark Milley was uncharacteristically silent about the use of military props for executive political agendas). The resulting lurid visual effect was a cross between an outtake from "Triumph of the Will" and a bad version of "Phantom of the Opera."
Biden barked out all sorts of fantasy enemies of the state, as he lumped 75 million people together as a collective existential threat to the soul of America. Left unsaid but understood is what Biden and the "good" other half are supposed to do with such an existential danger posed by millions of their fellow Americans.
Are they to ferret out MAGA supporters in the manner Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin promised to cleanse the Pentagon of mythical white supremacists? Will Biden unleash his new battalions of IRS auditors? Will they call back Mark Zuckerberg to infuse another $419 million of dark money into the ballot counting to absorb the work of state registrars in the upcoming midterms?
Will Biden now recall FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith to alter more government documents, or hire another informant such as Clinton lackey Christopher Steele, or round up 50 more intelligence "experts" to swear that Hunter’s next lost laptop is proof of Russian-Trump collusion?
What exactly is fitting preemptive punishment for Biden’s soul-threatening un-American enemies—solitary confinement in a D.C. jail for a year without charges? Leg irons? SWAT teams awaiting them in their driveways? Early morning raids at their houses while they are still in their underwear? Phone grabs while dining out with their wives at restaurants or in airports?
Or will Biden and the Left be content simply to unleash another 120 days of the "good" sort of riots, arson, and protests, while reissuing the 2020 promises of now Vice President Kamala Harris, that they are "not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day."
To preserve the soul of America, will Biden be content with just following our now progressive norms: screaming out threats to named Supreme Court justices with mobs at the court doors led by U.S. senators? Or mobs massing at the justices’ homes?
Or will the White House continue to ignore assassins who show up in the justices’ neighborhoods? Or will it raid another home of an ex-president? Or use the FBI to retrieve family diaries, lie about embarrassing lost laptops, leverage private social media companies to censor embarrassing stories, or stalk and surveil parents at school board meetings?
To fight such fascistic unicorns, will Biden be recreating his sidetracked government Ministry of Truth? To save democracy, will the Left once more be promising to pack the Supreme Court, junk the Electoral College and filibuster, and supersede state balloting laws? Will he bring out of retirement intelligence pundits James Clapper and John Brennan, known mostly now for lying under oath to Congress?
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How many Antifa look like they'd survive basic training? How many at gay pride parade? There are some but not in the same numbers as those avoiding the woke.
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I wouldn't serve under this administration either.
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The mandatory jab business.
Outsourcing recruiting to tiktokers.
20 year Afghan war where they could be left at the drop of a hat, in real time TV and leadership showed cards that they are playing toy soldiers. I seriously think every Call of Duty type game *the recruiting pool grew up playing* has the level where the player has to hold off enemy swarms long enough for civilians to escape - here was the exact opposite. And a shoulder shrug about it.
So let's go do it again in Ukraine! For Biden! Qapla'!
Transition from a fighting force to a service force. Seriously, that video of the gal yelling at her superiors in front of everyone in the gym is not good.
10 years ago though, we had Joe the Red graduated from West Point with media honors, and what would now be called, 'The Duck out of Reveille Challenge."
Emasculation of the soldier and creed. I believe the soldiers coming into real leadership positions are of the age of being marched around the block in red heels.
Oh, and those kids you want who are self-motivated and sufficient, I wonder how many of them come from families who may be a bit upset about expenses basically tripling in three years getting called enemies of the state?
But that's OK Daily Mail. A great starting point would be the physical and mental health issues created by Governments' Public Policies.
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The Army won't meet its 2022 recruitment goal of 485,000
Someone got their numbers screwed up. That is the size of the active Army whose number is set by law.
What are the retention numbers compared with prior years? People join for various reasons, but in the 80s the retention was highest for those who reenlisted for traditional reasons [which the command now says is white supremacist].
BTW, you don't need as many if you cut all the extra-territorial commitments you've locked yourself into.
#5
Fat? Health problems? No wonder. Most kids these days spend most of their time watching TV and playing video games. And yet the schools cut back on PE classes. They don't have towels anymore so no showers so nobody wants to get sweaty. Then you feed them Frosted Flakes and Twinkies and then...I can't even talk about what you did to the scout troops. Dumbass.
Add endless wars, woke generals and a crooked president who is so senile that he needs his wife to lead him around by the nose.
Maybe you don't care if you lose Iraq and Afghanistan but someday we might get into a war in which our national security really is at stake. What then?
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Maybe these "generals" could help the country produce more Army grade recruits if they stopped shilling for the cultural marxist crowd.
Good luck with that...
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Someone got their numbers screwed up. That is the size of the active Army whose number is set by law.
Layers of fact checkers and editors, but ask them and they are God's Word in Covid and financial analysis.
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Looking at pictures of my class mates from Vietnam and my parents etc. from WW II I can’t find one single fatty. If only Cpl. Kilinger had known his ticket out of Korea was to eat like a pig.
[Twitter] The regime of censorship being imposed on the internet – by a consortium of DC Dems, billionaire-funded "disinformation experts," the US Security State, and liberal employees of media corporations – is dangerously intensifying in ways I believe are not adequately understood.
A series of "crises" have been cynically and aggressively exploited to inexorably restrict the range of permitted views, and expand pretexts for online silencing and deplatforming. Trump's election, Russiagate, 1/6, COVID and war in Ukraine all fostered new methods of repression.
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The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. This law states: “No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of a vaccine after October 1, 1988, if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”
Item #15 from the link, above:
You want to keep protecting manufacturers from liability once their emergency use authorizations expire thanks to Reagan’s 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Act, which gives them a pass as long as the product is administered to kids.
White House COVID response coordinator Dr. Jha: "I really believe this is why God gave us two arms, one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot."
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Or, gave two arms for two middle fingers, two legs to kick your ass, and left out the two fucks I give about the self professed ultra-clever people.
[Political Insider] My husband and I consider ourselves ordinary people. We rent a 3 bedroom town home and pay our taxes. We raise our children as best we can, and my husband homeschools our 6-year-old daughter. My husband is an artist, and I am a writer and content creator.
What makes us extraordinary is the cumulative 37 years of service to our nation. My husband was in the Air Force for 17 years, and I retired last year from the Air Force after 20 years and 8 months of service.
We both deployed numerous times to various locations, including Afghanistan.
We both saw varying levels of combat, including gunfights, explosions, enemy detention facility riots, and death on a scale that words cannot do justice.
And for all that sacrifice, we were treated to our President calling us extremists.
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...yes, because you are Americans. You are not part of the international socialist mind. "Everything in the party, nothing outside the party, nothing against the party".
No link to this, it's just an observation passed to me from a retired Law Enforcement professional. The math has not been verified, but you'll get the intended message.
[EMERALDDB3] It is not like Jared Kushner is hiding what he did. He openly boasts about how he — and a coterie of unregistered foreign lobbyists from Wall Street — effectively scuttled successful trade negotiations with Communist China.
In Kushner’s view, the compromise "Phase One" trade deal signed by President Trump with Communist China in January 2020 in the East Wing of the White House was a "massive victory" for America. In fact, this deal — which very quickly and derisively became known as the "Skinny Deal" — was a pale shadow of the one the United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and I had worked so hard on. And, as I sternly warned at that time, even with this Skinny Deal, the Communist Chinese would never meet their obligations — and they never did.
The problem that Lighthizer and I always faced in the West Wing trying to take a tough trade position — whether on China or NAFTA or whatever — was the back channeling of both Jared Kushner and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The Kushner-Mnuchin backchanneling was (in part) with their Wall Street handlers like Steve Schwarzman and John Thornton. And with Communist China, both Kushner and Mnuchin would directly contact the Chinese negotiators themselves, often without disclosing their communications in a timely way to Lighthizer, myself, or the other member of the West Wing’s trade team, Wilbur Ross.
The practical result of this Kushner-Mnuchin backchanneling was to severely weaken our negotiating positions. This was true whether it was with the Chinese on tariffs, or with the Mexicans or Canadians on NAFTA or steel tariffs.
To be clear here, the Trump White House had only one Trade Representative confirmed by the Senate — and only one Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the White House. Trade was our turf, and Lighthizer should have been both the unquestioned czar and quarterback leading the Trump show. Yet Mnuchin and Kushner not only constantly intruded on the trade issue — they both thought they had more authority on this issue than either Lighthizer or myself, as well as Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.
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That Kushner, the one Trump just HAD to give a TS/SCI clearance to.
Ever wonder if Kushner and Jeffy Epstein were connected?
[The Citizen] We will be electing a new city council member in Peachtree City very soon. Please vote for a candidate who does not want to create radical urban change in the city.
As with the previous city council, the current council (Mike King and Phil Prebor are carryovers from the previous council) is also raising the ire of the taxpaying citizens.
They are dead set on destruction, refusing to listen.
The councils of late are marching to the drumbeat of not wanting to follow the desires of the citizen taxpayers who elected them. We witnessed the previous council wanting to build thousands of multifamily residential units all over the place, literally proposing to level our beautiful parks and preserved green spaces and put apartments on the sites.
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What possible motive could he have had to take and keep such documents? (I might believe careless handling of less sensitive stuff but can’t see how his staff would let really serious stuff slip.)
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^ Did he? The Judge will weigh in, again, I suspect on the FBI/DOJ leaking things that may or may not be true. Given Russiagate, do you believe this? Regardless, should it be out - prosecuting by leaks to DNC media?
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[FoxNews] Little-known government agencies harness way too much power in name of climate change.
The Democrats’ aggressive push to criminalize various parts of the energy industry was further evident this week when states like California passed a rule making it illegal to purchase gasoline fueled vehicles by 2035. Even the Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Democrats and signed by President Joe Biden and the Democrats should have been named the Climate Change Obsession Act because of the billions of dollars being spent on making their carbon-neutral fantasy seam feasible.
Federal funds and state and federal legislation are part of a broader scheme by the Democrats to force Americans to change their behavior when it comes to using fossil fuels. They are also focused on nominating a parade of dangerous, anti-American energy nominees for top government jobs. The most recent of these nominees could end up doing the most damage to our already struggling economy.
In January 2021, Biden began his reign of energy terror by nominating Rep. Deb Haaland to serve as Interior Secretary. Her resume to that point included being one of the House sponsors of the Green New Deal, pledging to vote against all new fossil fuel infrastructure, and stating that she was "wholeheartedly against fracking and drilling on public lands."
Unfortunately, this time a politician kept their word. Since becoming Secretary, she oversaw Biden’s moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal lands and has held just one offshore oil and gas lease sale, but only because she was compelled by the courts.
Next was Tracy Stone-Manning, the eco-terrorist conspirator nominated to oversee the nation’s public lands. During her nomination fight, it became clear from past court documents and testimony that Stone-Manning sent a threatening, anonymous letter to authorities on behalf of "tree spikers"—who insert spikes in trees to injure loggers—and then spent years covering up their crimes. Only when she was promised legal immunity did she cooperate with investigators. She now runs the agency that determines if energy companies receive leases to operate on federal lands.
Finally, there was Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to the Fed. As the American people struggle with historically high inflation and energy prices, Raskin opposes fossil fuels and argued that banks should stop investing in oil, gas, and coal companies. Thankfully, the outcry from sensible Americans reached the halls of Congress, blocking her confirmation. We now need to do that again.
Then in May, President Biden nominated Richard Glick to continue serving as the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This little-known commission is responsible for approving natural gas pipeline projects and for ensuring American energy is getting from point A to point B.
But earlier this year, Glick and his fellow Democratic commissioners tried to undercut that mission. In February, Glick led the charge as FERC jammed through a new regulatory policy for natural gas infrastructure projects. Under the new rule, any company looking to build a natural gas pipeline would have to account for all greenhouse gas emissions while it’s being built and in operation. This task is essentially impossible and would significantly delay, or stop entirely, these important projects, creating an enormous burden on American energy companies and workers.
The bipartisan ire from Capitol Hill was swift and fierce. Glick and his compatriots were made to explain why they sought to kill natural gas projects while the American people struggled to pay their heating bills. The public shaming did the trick and Glick paused the regulation, likely with an eye toward his coming nomination fight.
[Breitbart] Former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr said Tuesday on FNC’s "The Story" that a federal judge agreeing to a special master in the Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI raid saga was "wrong" and would be overturned if the Department of Justice appeals.
Barr said, "The opinion, I think, was wrong, and I think the government should appeal that. It was deeply flawed in a number of ways. I don’t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up. Even if it does, I don’t see it fundamentally changing the trajectory. In other words, I don’t think it changes the ball game as and so much as we will have a rain delay for a couple of innings."
[scitechdaily] What distinguishes the human brain from that of all other animals — including even our closest primate relatives? Yale researchers identified species-specific — particularly human-specific — features in an analysis of cell types in the prefrontal cortex of four primate species. They reported their findings on August 25, 2022, in the journal Science.
What they found that makes us human may also make us susceptible to neuropsychiatric diseases.
For the study, the scientists looked specifically at the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC). This is a brain region that is unique to primates and essential for higher-order cognition. Using a single cell RNA-sequencing technique, the researchers profiled expression levels of genes in hundreds of thousands of cells collected from the dlPFC of adult humans, chimpanzees, macaque, and marmoset monkeys.
"Today, we view the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as the core component of human identity, but still we don’t know what makes this unique in humans and distinguishes us from other primate species," said Nenad Sestan. He is the lead senior author of the paper, the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience at Yale, professor of comparative medicine, of genetics, and of psychiatry. "Now we have more clues."
To answer this, the scientists first asked whether there are there any cell types uniquely present in humans or other analyzed non-human primate species. After grouping cells with similar expression profiles they revealed 109 shared primate cell types. They also discovered five that were not common to all species. These included a type of microglia, or brain-specific immune cell, that was present only in humans and a second type shared by only humans and chimpanzees.
The human-specific microglia type exists throughout development and adulthood, the researchers found. This suggests that the cells play a role in the upkeep and maintenance of the brain rather than combatting disease.
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 Citizen] We will be electing a new city council member in Peachtree City very soon. Please vote for a candidate who does not want to create radical urban change in the city.
[Breitbart]
UN globalists, communists, democrats, Washington politicians, liberal media, Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers......why do they hate us ? 
[scitechdaily] What distinguishes the human brain from that of all other animals — including even our closest primate relatives? Yale researchers identified species-specific — particularly human-specific — features in an analysis of cell types in the prefrontal cortex of four primate species. They reported their findings on August 25, 2022, in the journal Science.
