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Fun! Some of those are basic people stuff, though mostly I have to sneak using the chainsaw when Mr. Wife isn’t looking because he worries that I’ll accidentally cut off his favourite bits.
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That sorta thing is why I dson't use power tools anymore. Be careful!
I know. I sound like Olive Oyl...
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<3 I haven’t cut off anything yet, Fred, and I promise I’m careful. When I bought Mr. Wife his first chainsaw, I also gifted him the safety gear that should go with it.
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The only Pat Mac story I will tell (I have a few...) Circa spring 2002 I was at Bragg doing stuff and Mac about the DC sniper. He said - in no uncertain terms - there ain't no white van. Its 2 dudes shooting out of the truck of an old beater US model sedan. I asked why do you think that to which Mac replied - causes that's how I'd do it. This was 5 months before the shooters were caught. He's a legend in that community and rightfully so.
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The patients we are seeing in North Texas hospitals that end up hospitalized for respiratory support due to Covid19 Pneumonia are unvaccinated. Oddly enough, they are almost all between 20's and 50's. The 65+ crowd that showed in large numbers last year (and died) aren't in this wave. Seems Texas vaccinated nearly all the 60+ folks. Source: I work in utilization management for a large insurance company so we get all the hospitalization authorization requests, and that's my region. The numbers aren't as bad as last year, but they have definitely jumped, but not among the vaccinated.
People, get your shots if not otherwise contraindicated. You're taking a massive unnecessary risk of serious illness if you do not. The numbers do not lie.
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And don't believe the hype on masks. If its not an N-95 type mask/respirator, then its just decoration! Especially useless are all the neck gaiters and fancy designed cloth masks. Get the vax, it works well enough to either prevent getting infected or else reduce the severity if you do get a variant. Masks do not.
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Well what did they expect?
The media made front page news of every adverse side effect or allergic reaction
Which was their perverse Trump bashing and now they are making every breakthrough case headlines without mentioning what this doctor is saying. The vaccine reduces COVID to Avery bad head cold
They want to lake the adverse side effects and breakthrough infection Trump’s fast tracking of the vaccine and portray all of the unvaccinated as ignorant knuckle dragging Trump supporters
But yet they appear dismayed by people refusing the vaccine?
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Our local news has interviewed the CMO of both of our regional hospitals. Unvaxxed make up a large percentage of those hospitalized. Multiple under 30 deaths from Covid
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Looks like about 11% of the hospitalizations are of vaccinated patients compared with about 33% of the population so on the grossest level vaccination reduces risk of hospitalization by about 2/3. Pretty significant but by no means perfect.
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New? User Maggie Stalin3718 shows up claiming access to secret data. These data contradict generally accepted facts (people under 40 with no comorbidities have low risk of COVID hospitalization) but corroborates a story from a compromised source (MSM). Anyone buying this?
Long. Like Besoeker's piece about the SigInt (if that’s the right term) translator, worth reading every word for lessons learnt.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] While watching the West’s lamentable flight from Afghanistan this week, it has been impossible not to cast back my mind 20 years. To ‘liberated’ Kabul in the first spring after what was then seen as the Taliban’s final defeat.
Much of the outskirts of the capital lay in ruins after two decades of war. But peace had come. And so I found myself perched in the gods of a derelict cinema that had been closed down by the joyless mullahs of the ousted regime.
Unfolding below me was apparent proof of an extraordinary sea change; as sudden and antithetical to what had gone before as the shaming scenes at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport are to us today.
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Lots of folks here are more familiar with the TB and how they operate, but it sure looks like they are consolidating and defining command and control, and have mastered how to use the Biometrics/personnel databases they captured. If so, they night be establishing a MANPAD sites and are telling our folks on the ground that they will determine who can come to the airport for evacuation, and intend to vet each allowed departure against the databases. This allows them to define those that are deemed enemies of the state and provide them a more grim exit terminal. It also allows them to start demanding concessions and fees to permit our cits to leave. The fruits of indecision and top down management by the foolish children that are the National COmmand Authority these days.
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army’s 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations. I understand that the British officer firmly rejected the request.
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It is impossible to overstate how awful Biden and this administration is. This tragic, avoidable debacle is the culmination of electing ignorant, arrogant fools who were given total top cover by a useless MSM.
I have heard several retired senior officers say, and I totally agree…any O-3 worth his/her salt could have planned the withdrawal and foreseen what is transpiring.
I was on a brigade level staff as a gofer O-2 in the S3. I walked away after 6 months with the basic skill set about how to plan a military operation.
If I had to guess, I’d bet that Biden and his civilian boot lickers and strap hangers that are totally responsible for the single worst operation since Little Bighorn.
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You wouldn't want to be eating a smores made over the flames of one of these. Never use a cooking fire where you need a respirator when you put it out.
Does anybody else thing maybe GM should have been let die 20 years ago?
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Three possible endings of Biden’s “presidency:
1. Biden gets COVID and is killed on the ventilator.
2. Kamala becomes president and Bill Clinton becomes vice.
3. Election is proven stolen and Trump is put back in.
[Esquire] The Iowa State Fair is at full boil. It’s a little light on the political tourists because it’s not the summer before a year ending in 0, 4, 8, 12, or 16. Which is not to say that it is entirely devoid of migrant politicians from other states, or the media they drag around in their wake. On occasion, these are politicians you should keep an eye on because they have national aspirations. On other occasions, these are politicians you should keep an eye on to make sure they don’t get into the poultry barn and start biting the heads off all the chickens. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Ric Grennell was on FOX this am and said the dissent memo was signed by 22 of 23 staffers in Kabul
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The cable in question arrived in Foggy Bottom through the "Dissent" channel. That was an indication that some of the rank and file in Kabul disagreed with the Washington policy. It is likely a career killer for some.
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Biden and his boot lickers are responsible. When you combine senility, dementia, stupidity, arrogance and absolute lack of wisdom…this is what happens.
[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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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
[FOX] States with Republican governors are leading the U.S. economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, while those run by Democrats — which tended to impose lengthier and stricter lockdowns on businesses — are faced with significantly higher unemployment rates.
Labor Department data published last week shows the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates are all led by GOP governors — while the 10 states with the highest percentage of out-of-work Americans are run by Democratic governors.
Blue states including Nevada (7.7%), New York (7.6%), New Mexico (7.6%), California (7.6%) and New Jersey (7.3%) had substantially higher unemployment rates than the national average of 5.4% in July, the data shows. By comparison, red states — such as Nebraska (2.3%), Utah (2.6%), New Hampshire (2.9%), South Dakota (2.9%) and Idaho (3%) — were well below the national average.
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Yes, and the media constantly attacks them. Soon Flu season will be upon us and never too soon for a Democrat. They want this to churn on month after month, year after year.
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If approved does that mean they can be sued?
Which also allow discovery leading to accurate numbers of adverse reactions vs. the "reported" numbers.
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Stages of Vaccine Development and Testing
In the United States, vaccine development and testing follow a standard set of steps. The first stages are exploratory in nature. Regulation and oversight increase as the candidate vaccine makes its way through the process.
First Steps: Laboratory and Animal Studies
Exploratory Stage
This stage involves basic laboratory research and often lasts 2-4 years. Federally funded academic and governmental scientists identify natural or synthetic antigens that might help prevent or treat a disease. These antigens could include virus-like particles, weakened viruses or bacteria, weakened bacterial toxins, or other substances derived from pathogens.
Pre-Clinical Stage
Pre-clinical studies use tissue-culture or cell-culture systems and animal testing to assess the safety of the candidate vaccine and its immunogenicity, or ability to provoke an immune response. Animal subjects may include mice and monkeys. These studies give researchers an idea of the cellular responses they might expect in humans. They may also suggest a safe starting dose for the next phase of research as well as a safe method of administering the vaccine.
Researchers may adapt the candidate vaccine during the pre-clinical state to try to make it more effective. They may also do challenge studies with the animals, meaning that they vaccinate the animals and then try to infect them with the target pathogen.
Many candidate vaccines never progress beyond this stage because they fail to produce the desired immune response. The pre-clinical stages often lasts 1-2 years and usually involves researchers in private industry.
IND Application
A sponsor, usually a private company, submits an application for an Investigational New Drug (IND) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The sponsor describes the manufacturing and testing processes, summarizes the laboratory reports, and describes the proposed study. An institutional review board, representing an institution where the clinical trial will be conducted, must approve the clinical protocol. The FDA has 30 days to approve the application.
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.
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Sound technical advice: Sometimes just cussing at it and hitting refresh works.
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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...
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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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[ZERO] President Biden said the U.S. has helped evacuate 13,000 people from Afghanistan since Aug. 14 and is pledging to Americans still trapped in Afghanistan: "We will get you home."
"This is one of the largest, most difficult airlifts in history and the only country in the world capable of projecting this much power on the far side of the world with this degree of precision is the United States of America," Mr. Biden said Friday in the East Room of the White House.
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Biden has no choice but to trust the Taliban. They control the ground. The Taliban leadership is allowing airlifts for now. It would be foolish to rock the boat as long as he can evacuate. Untimely it will show he has no respect for the military, NGO, evacuees, and American public by getting into the worst hostage crisis since Iran. Then he will use the crisis thru the media to distract from all his other mistakes.
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Hey media, what about the Taliban 2.0 narrative?
This is one of the largest, most difficult airlifts in history
Because nobody has done an emergency air evacuation from the middle of Asia after promising an airlift effort war could be won?
Its almost like us dumbasses, with our books and shit, were noticing flaws in this plan fifteen fucking years ago, but I guess The Managers needed to hew the ground to bear the fruit of Milley Pyrus and Lunch Vader.
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The guy stutters and stammers while trying to read his teleprompter then he turns his back on the media and walks away from them without answering any questions. No matter what their corporate bosses say, that has to piss them off.
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URL fixed. It had gotten doubled somehow, so I erased the extra bit.
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#11 Can you imagine if your job 24/7 was to think of good things to say about Joe Biden? That by itself would drive even the most progressive reporter over the edge. "The President didn't piss his pants today... No, that won't work... Let's go with: There is no definitive proof that the President pissed his pants today... Wait, I got it... The President candidly and forthrightly pissed his pants today, fulfilling yet another campaign pledge."
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"Is it true, Mr. Pres--"
"Kiss my fist!"
"That you're, quite understandably, pissed?"
"Yes! Hey diddle diddle... I'm calling a piddle. You, clean up this mess! Class dismissed."
[The Hill] Capitol Police have formally exonerated an officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on Jan. 6 following an internal investigation, NBC News reported.
NBC News obtained an internal memo from Capitol Police officially clearing the officer, who has not been named,
...that’d be Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who has had other moments of carelessness during his career...
for fatally shooting Babbitt, capping off the investigation.
The commander of the Capitol Police’s Office of Personal Responsibility said in a memo following the officer’s exoneration, "no further action will be taken in this matter," according to NBC News.
Capitol Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill. An 'Internal probe' holds no legal standing, or am I wrong ?
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Internal Probe Rx: 2 Jabs (1 to Family - 1 US People) with follow on Booster Jabs every month until the story is dead.
Note to Internal Probists:
Keep buying #90 indefinitely
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I'm just trying to imagine that would've happened if a group of protesters tried to occupy Knesset.
Or British Parliament. Or Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal.
A leaked FBI initial Jan. 6th Report. (take it with a grain of salt).
Basically says that the FBI initial findings are 95+/- % of the Jan. 6th Congressional Trespassers were just individuals walking around and following few others.
Less than 5% were actually working in any level called a organized manner. Def: Organized manner being 1 or more 2 way radio/cell conversations.
Of that 5%, the most openly destructive and violent are known to have participated in similar Violent Roles during various Anti-Fa riots, involving Gov. & Private property damages and arsons.
In short a know group of Anti-ANYTHING Subversive Radicals that get off on causing Riots, Mayhem and Arsons.
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If Ashli was part of the 95% then there should at least be a trial. The Minnesota cop and the 3 other officers standing around were arrested and charged before an autopsy was performed for a non-shooting death of a suspect.
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. Supreme Court justice on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that would require Democratic President Joe Biden to reinstate a contentious immigration policy implemented by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump.
The brief order by conservative Justice Samuel Alito puts the litigation on hold while the high court considers how to handle the Biden administration's request seeking to impose a longer-term block on the judge's ruling that would require the government to revive the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program.
The Biden administration turned to the Supreme Court after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Thursday denied a government request to delay the effective date of the lower court judge's ruling a week earlier.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk "requires the government to abruptly reinstate a broad and controversial immigration enforcement program that has been formally suspended for seven months and largely dormant for nearly nine months before that," Acting Solicitor General Brian Fletcher wrote in papers to the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, including three justices appointed by Trump.
The Justice Department wants the court to act immediately, with the judge's injunction due to go into effect on Saturday.
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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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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.
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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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Don't worry. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Problem is, it will likely not be distributed.
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[Garowe] In what could be a show of their presence in Somalia, the ISIS gunnies late last night captured a strategic town in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , a move that could ignite tough battles with security forces in the Federal State which is facing a terrorist threat.
According to reports, the ISIS fighters captured Balidhidin town in the Bari region, becoming the first city in years to fall to the murderous Moslems, whose presence in Puntland has been expanding according to analysts. The bandidosbully boyz are mostly domiciled in the Golis mountains.
During the raid, authorities said, the bandidosbully boyz killed District Commissioner Ahmed Mohammed besides injuring a civilian. It's not clear why they eliminated the commissioner but the bandidosbully boyz have often targeted security forces and senior government officials.
The fighters stormed the city at around 20:00 hours, ransacking government premises before taking over the town. Authorities in Puntland have condemned the attack which is the latest terrorist incident in the region.
But over the past months, Puntland Security Forces [PSF] have been intensifying crackdown against both al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... and ISIS gunnies across the state, even managing to destroy their camps besides capturing a number of them.
Dozens of the bandidosbully boyz have also been killed in the process. Particularly, the security forces have managed to eliminate imported muscle working with IS-Somalia murderous Moslems, who have been training locals in parts of Puntland according to intelligence reports.
The IS-Somalia has tried to develop a base in Puntland but they have been getting resistance from the rival al-Shabaab group. The two groups have often clashed, almost giving security forces an advantage in the fight against the murderous Moslems.
President Said Abdullahi Deni, the president of Puntland, has also signed various security pacts with other states especially Galmadug, in what will further help in the fight against violent mostly peaceful extremism within Somalia.
[AmericanSpectator] For the first time since 2001, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... controls most of Afghanistan. US intelligence estimates made public just over a week ago predicted that the Afghan government could fall within 90 days. It fell in less than a week. While most of the country, including the capital of Kabul, is under Taliban control, there is a brewing resistance in the Panjshir Valley.
First, it is worth noting just how disastrous the Afghan National Army performed in their "resistance" against the Taliban. US intelligence should have expected such a disastrous outcome. Biden and various other administration officials have repeated the line that the Afghans had 300,000 military personnel. This is a blatant lie that even legacy media acknowledges. This figure includes nearly 100,000 Afghan National Police officers. Even with this fake third, 200,00 supposedly "well-trained" and certainly well-equipped troops were expected to hold against a roughly 75,000-man strong Taliban equipped with Soviet-era arms. The Afghan National Army, which the United States spent decades training and billions of dollars equipping, fell because of corruption and a lack of will. This 200,000 figure is likely a large overestimation, as corrupt Afghan military officials create "ghost soldiers" to line their pockets. When Afghan military leaders included fake or dead people on their rosters, they can pocket their salaries, wasting money and creating a false sense of military strength.
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[IsraelTimes] Child treated at airport hospital and later reunited with father; US military also releases series of photos of soldiers helping children of those fleeing country
A heart-breaking video showing a US Marine lifting a baby over a razor wire-topped wall at Kabul’s airport caught global attention Friday, amid the chaos of thousands trying to flee Afghanistan newly controlled by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... The video, which shows the infant, its diaper slipping off, being pulled up by one arm high above a crowd of Afghans seeking to enter the airport, took over social media nearly one week into the airlift to evacuate foreigners and Afghans from the war-torn country.
It put a tender edge on the tense evacuation, in which nearly 6,000 heavily armed US troops have taken control of the airport, while their long-time foe the Taliban patrol the streets outside and begin to exercise what many fear will be a harsh and anti-American rule.
Pentagon front man John Kirby said the Marines were told the unidentified baby was sick and were asked to help.
"The video you are talking about — the parent asked the Marines to look after the baby because the baby was ill," he told news hounds.
"So the Marine you see reaching over the wall took it to a Norwegian hospital that is at the airport. They treated the child and returned the child to the child’s father," he said.
"It was an act of compassion because there was concern about the baby."
He said he did not know who the family was, or their status — whether or not they had been accepted to immigrate to the United States under a special program for Afghans who worked for the Americans or were otherwise at high risk from the Taliban.
While the video of that act appeared to be independently filmed, the US military released several other officially approved photographs of soldiers helping out children of people hoping to escape Afghanistan.
In one, a soldier in his combat gear sits with a blanketed baby in his arms, smiling at the child like the father of a newborn, while his fellow soldiers stand nearby on alert.
[In anoth]er, two female American soldiers hold babies in their arms.
Still another depicts one of the US troops giving water to a little boy.
"This is the America we need to be," said US congressman and military veteran Peter Meijer on Twitter of the images.
The official Pentagon images stood out amid a stark lack of independently taken pictures from inside the airport, where thousands of people waited Friday amid difficult conditions to board US C-17 cargo aircraft bound for Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... In the Gulf state, they will still face days of waiting to be cleared by US immigration officials.
[KSTP] A judge has promised a quick ruling on whether people with permits to carry firearms can bring their guns into the Minnesota State Fair, which opens in one week.
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus asked Judge Laura Nelson to issue a temporary injunction prohibiting the fair and the Ramsey County Sherriff’s Office from enforcing the fair’s ban on bringing guns onto the fairgrounds.
The judge said she'll rule before the fair begins next Thursday.
The gun owners argue that the ban violates state law and the Second Amendment. But the fair argues it has the authority to protect the safety of visitors. Well, I can see their point, seeing how many state fairs are shot up by permit-holding citizens.
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A lot of the problems happen in the parking lots, as groups who aren't in 4H decide to settle scores. At least that's the experience around here and at the State Fair.
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Can't we just tell Corn Pop that the fair starts next month?
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sounds like the Chicoms needed to get her 'local' to make adjustments, before matters proceed further.
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"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.
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I've heard there is a fee or billing attached, yes. Not sure of the amount. Tucker was quite interesting tonight. He centered his piece on the distancing of CNN and others on the WH staff from Plugs. Also mentioned CNN as a Klingon information agency. While I'm certainly not doubting it, I've not heard the obvious connection made openly of late. Our old friend John Brennan had little difficulty landing a senior position at CNN, so there is that.
Upshot appears to be (unspoken of course), plugs will be gone soon.
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“All passengers will need to reimburse the U.S. Government for the flight. A promissory note for the full cost of the flight, which may exceed $2000 per person, must be signed by each adult passenger before boarding,” the form stated.
[APNEWS] Amid the continuing crisis in Afghanistan, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... postponed plans to head to his Delaware home on Friday and instead will spend the night in Washington.The White House announced the latest schedule change hours before Biden spoke about the chaotic evacuation of American citizens and allies from Afghanistan. The president has been under mounting pressure over his decisions in Afghanistan, which ultimately led to last weekend’s collapse of the U.S.-backed government and complete takeover of the country by Talibs.
The U.S.-led evacuation effort has been complicated by a range of obstacles, from armed Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... manning checkpoints to airport pandemonium to cumbersome red tape.
Though the pace of evacuations has picked up, tens of thousands of people are still waiting to leave. Biden has set an Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
The White House offered no explanation for the schedule change, which came near the end of a topsy-turvy two weeks that Biden had planned to spend in Delaware.
He was now expected to head to Wilmington on Saturday and stay through the weekend.
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I have a suspicion his handlers have directed Biden get away from D.C. and the media. The stupid level has just gotten too out of hand. With Kam in Vietnam, it will be interesting to see who surfaces as the real 'leader' of the free world.
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Retired FEMA people directed to present themselves to Pentagon. I wonder what that is about. Also FEMA trailers being moved now. To where not known. Hurricane, like really!.
[SCEPSIS] During the Revolution and the Civil War, nationality became one of the most pressing issues. In the agitation and propaganda materials of the anti-Bolshevik forces, he began to occupy not the last place. The theme of the Jews, their responsibility for the military-revolutionary events invariably found their place in public discourse. This issue was presented in the most detail in the work of OV Budnitskiy, who examined the degree of participation of Jews on the side of various political forces during the Civil War [1]. A thorough analysis of the history of national relations was done in the works of Tomsk researchers IV Nam [2, 3, 4, 5] and NI Naumova [6, 7]. Omsk historian A.V. Sushko gradually covered various aspects of the national question in Siberia during the functioning of anti-Bolshevik political regimes [8, 9, 10, 11].
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[Gateway] Lt. Col. Oliver North joined Sean Hannity tonight to discuss the Biden catastrophe in Afghanistan.
Oliver North told Sean Hannity that the outer perimeter at the Kabul Airport has serious problems because the Taliban now has lists of the names and phone numbers of every Afghan who has worked for our country in the last 20 years.
The evolving Afghanistan bloodbath lays at the feet of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Lt. Colonel Oliver North: They’ve got the bank records. They got it all thanks to the embassy... It is being reported that the Taliban has captured the payroll data from the American embassy and the Kabul banks showing the names, addresses and phone numbers for locals now being hunted down. If so, an unforgivable security lapse. All that stuff is supposed to get the thermite kiss-off.
Number Five: There are 50 or more Afghan Air Force fixed wing and helicopter aircraft now safely on the ground in neighboring countries. The senior Afghan officer has appealed directly for help. I have his phone number. Is anyone going to answer his calls? If not, if you’re in the government of the United States, give me a call. I’ll give you his phone number. He’s desperate that the 500 who came out with him get somewhere safe before they are bounced out of Uzbekistan or Tajikistan or God knows where else.
Number Six. The Communist Chinese are apparently on scene working with the Taliban in ways to further disgrace the USA...
[POLITICO] Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told politicians Friday that Americans trying to leave Afghanistan have been beaten by Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters, according to several people who participated in a briefing call with Austin and other brass hats.
Austin’s remarks to House members appeared to directly contradict President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... ’s assessment from minutes earlier, in which Biden said the U.S. was not aware of Americans having trouble getting through Taliban checkpoints and to the airport in Kabul — the only evacuation point in the country that is not controlled by the Taliban.
During the briefing call, Austin called the reports of Taliban beatings "unacceptable," but did not elaborate on efforts to ensure Americans’ safe passage to Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International Airport in Afghanistan’s capital city. He specifically declined to "rule in or out" the possibility of U.S. troops moving beyond the airport to help Americans and others get to safety.
"We’re also aware that some people, including Americans, have been harassed and even beaten by the Taliban," Austin said on the call, according to multiple sources. "This is unacceptable and [we] made it clear to the designated Taliban leader."
Austin added that "with the exception of those cases, we continue to see Americans and appropriately credentialed Afghans continue to move through."
When asked about Austin’s remarks, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby reiterated that the U.S. has told the Taliban that it wants "free passage through these checkpoints for documented Americans," adding: "By and large, that’s happening."
The House briefing — which included remarks from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley — was the first of several in the coming days as politicians demand answers about the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s stunningly rapid ascension to power.
A source tells me, “Situation [in Afghanistan] is rapidly deteriorating… We’ve had Americans get beaten throughout the night.” One of them, an American woman, was beaten “twice” even though she was carrying a U.S. passport.
[AUDACY] A Monroe County judge said it was one of the worst cases he's ever seen during sentencing of a man found guilty of murdering and beheading his grandmother. Bastard. I had a grandmother too.
Kenny Wayne McBride of Temperance, MI will spend the rest of his life behind bars after the jury delivered a guilty verdict on Thursday after just two hours of deliberation.
He was sentenced to life without parole on a first-degree murder charge, as well as 114-480 months in prison for the disinterment and mutilation of a dead body.
On February 16, 2020, 79-year-old Cecilia Gibson was brutally beaten and beheaded in her Temperance home. She had been living with her son, Kenneth Reece, the defendant’s father.
McBride, who had previously been estranged from his father, had been staying in the Monroe County home for several weeks.
When Reece returned home from work early that February morning, he discovered a body and a significant amount of blood in the living room, and called the police.
Police later learned that Gibson had been beaten to death with a ceramic piggy bank and metal baby gate, and discovered her severed head thrown into the yard.
McBride had been home at the time of the murder, but said he was unaware of what happened. He claimed during the trial that his grandmother could have been killed by someone to whom he owed money, but DNA, cell phone records and fingerprint evidence pointed to McBride.
Billy Jo Gibson, another one of the victim’s sons, spoke during the sentencing.
"This is a shock to us all. This is devastating. She was my mother and grandparent to my daughter. She was in bad health, but it was unnecessary what happened to her," Gibson said. "Even though capital punishment is not accepted in Michigan, I expect him to spend the rest of his life hopefully suffering like the rest of us have."
38th Circuit Court Judge Michael A. Weiper also addressed the courtroom during the sentencing, saying that case has caused the jury to learn that "pure evil" exists in the this world.
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You are mine now, and for evermore Kenny Wayne McBride....
Mooooo Haaaa Haaaaaa Haa Haaaaaaaaa!
In cases of well documented hideous murder with ZERO doubt as to the murderer. Why don't we have a death mandatory Death Sentence to carried in the same manner their murderer did theirs?
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Again, not sweating it; it's currently tracking almost to the MA / NY border where it's gonna... do a loop-dee and IT'S COMING RIGHT AT ME! YEAAAARRRGH!
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"Congratulations on your new houseboat" Snark O'The Day
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If you live near the Atlanic /Gulf coast, at some point you're going to have a tropical storm /hurricane.
If you live near water, at some point that water's going to come up. Can't ever happen, always does.
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I was in Boston for hurricane Bob. Rough on the coast, Boston and surrounding area not so much
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Real shame if it were to hit Cape Cod, just sayin'.
Despite the dramatic headline, Joe Bastardi is the real deal when it comes to weather forecasting.
tl;dr: Normally, New England is where storms go to die, but this time, the water temps off the coast are high which means the storm will spin up like one entering the Gulf of Mexico
Gary Hall • 7 hours ago
Looks like the Obama's caught a lucky break. Their mansion is sitting 9-10 feet above sea level, located on a south facing bay on Martha's Vineyard. Could easily be wiped out from the storm surge - worst possible location.
AZ Schumi • an hour ago
Dear Lord,
DIRECT HIT MARTHA’s VINEYARD
Pierre-Andre La Chance • a day ago
I have come to believe when this man says lookout, we should listen.
Poster Gleresh Guelph1920
I have the highest respect for Joe Bastardi - His background, experience and conservative prognostications are the generally 90 to 95 % correct (after all the data is analyzed by his peers - after the fact)
I have posted this for the sceptics; hopefully you are not living in the path of this storm.
In my view, as a former "spear point' analyst for the US Government for 25 years, take all precautions indicated for HENRI; You ARE living in a physical terrane, which magnifies the intensity of storms, CAT 1 impact is 2.0 - 3 effect, streams turn into rivers, valleys turn into fiords, rivers 2x their boundaries...why.... because you terrain is hilly to mountainous; no place to dissipate the raw energy of nature, that comes down upon you.
Please heed the warnings and directions of the State Governors and your State SEMAs.
May God be with you all, may you and your families be preserved...Amen
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Thank you Steve, very concise analysis, straight and direct. = I wish I could write that way - Really, Much Obliged... Monday, in NJ-NY and NE does not look good.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Amy Coney Barrett refused Friday to block the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... as demanded by an environmental group.
The groundbreaking for former President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... ’s namesake library and presidential archives center began earlier this week, but Protect Our Parks, an environmental advocacy group, asked the high court to stop the construction.
The group lost multiple requests in lower courts to halt the construction of the Obama center because it is located in a public park, Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side.
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...My understanding is that the OPC has the same rep in Chicago that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had in Cleveland - the local elites want it, but it's more trouble than it's worth and will never return enough of its investment to be worth the cost.
I just don't know that many people who will be going to freaking Chicago, for God's sake, just to make a pilgrimage to the Lightbringer. Myself, though, I'd like to think that Madam Justice Comey just gave the city of Chicago what it wanted.
Good and hard.
Mike
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It will make an excellent headquarters for the Gang Eradication Unit in 2032.
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For the wasteland that is CHicago it is fitting that Ozymandius
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] President Joe Biden vowed Friday get all Americans and Afghan allies out of Afghanistan
'Let me be clear, any American who wants to come home, we will get you home,' Biden pledged
When later asked about Afghans who aided the U.S. war effort he added: 'Yes, we're making the same commitment' about evacuating them
'This is one of the largest difficult airlifts in history,' he said amid the chaos at Kabul airport
'And the only country in the world capable of projecting this much power on the far side of the world with this degree of precision is the United States of America'
He insisted that the chaotic takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban did not taint the U.S.'s global reputation
'I have seen no question of our credibility of our allies from around the world,' he said
Biden then took questions from the press for the first time in nine days from a pre-approved list of reporters
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"I'm from the government. I'm here to help you."
[NEWSWEEK] The United States received permission from Germany to use Ramstein Air Base in western Germany as a temporary intermediate stop to transport Afghan refugees, Germany's foreign minister announced.
In a statement released Friday, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that Germany and its international partners are focused on a goal to evacuate as many people from Kabul "as is possible under the very difficult circumstances," the Associated Press reported.
Western countries, including Germany, have deployed military aircraft to Afghanistan to rescue German nationals and Afghans who assisted in their military missions before the Taliban seized the country in a stunning takeover.
"We agree with all our partners on the ground that no place on our planes should remain empty," Maas said in the statement.
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For Christians refugees I would say Yes and would even help settle individual families here in GA.
But I would have to say NO for Islamic Refugees.
Because Islamic Refugees:
1. Are not as threaten by the Taliban as Christains.
2. Have historically brought with them 600+ years cultural problems.
3. Refuse to blend in and become part of the America system. Setting up their own internal community Islamic controlled processes.
4. Have repeatedly demonstrated to become sources for domestic Radical Terrorists Anti-USA breeding grounds. eg. radical Islamic religious leaders preaching death to America while enjoying the freedoms.
[ToloNews] Family members of a number of former government officials on Thursday said their relatives have disappeared or are being held by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... since the arrival of the Taliban on Sunday.
Abdul Wali Wahidzai, the former governor of Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , and Lotfullah Kamram, the former police chief of the province, surrendered to the Taliban five days ago but they are still in Taliban custody, relatives said.
"The Taliban released all government officials, but Lotfullah Kamran was not released," said Abdul Ghani, a relative of Kamran.
Mohammad Hashem Ghalji, the former police chief of PD1 of Ghazni, is also missing.
"Release my father, because you have announced a general amnesty," said Mohammad Hashem Ghalji, son of Ghalji.
Afghan people have also urged the Taliban to deliver on their promises.
"The government released prisoners of Pul-e-Charkhi prison who were all members of the Taliban, but the Taliban has not released some prisoners," said Sadaqat, a resident in Kabul.
A Taliban front man said they had pardoned anyone who had worked in the military or civilian sector with the previous government.
[NYP] Disturbing footage has emerged of an Afghan police chief being executed by the Taliban — after he surrendered to the militants, according to reports.
Former BBC journalist Nasrin Nawa posted the gruesome video which appears to show Haji Mullah Achakzai, head of the police in Badghis province near Herat.
The man is seen in the clip blindfolded and kneeling before several bullets ring out and his lifeless body flops onto the ground.
[JUSTTHENEWS] The Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... ignored or jettisoned carefully designed plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, with the result being chaos and bedlam, a former national security official to President Donald Trump said.
"I don't even know that anyone could have made this awful scenario up," former National Security Council Senior Director Kash Patel told Just the News. "It's literally worse than you could possibly conjure."
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[AlAhram] Limbourg added that the homes of at least three other Deutsche Welle news hounds were searched by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Afghanistan in recent days and weeks
German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle says the Taliban shot and killed a family member of one of their news hounds in Afghanistan and severely injured a second family member. We call them "civilians". They call them "dead". Where's the outrage? Oh, right, it's not Orange Man Bad
The broadcaster said in a statement on Thursday that Taliban fighters were looking for the Deutsche Welle news hound and searching homes in western Afghanistan. It said other family members managed to escape.
Deutsche Well says the news hound himself, whose identity was not revealed, is already based in Germany where he is also working. Deutsche Welle didn't give further details on the killed and injured family members or say where and when exactly in Afghanistan the killing took place.
The director of Deutsche Welle, Peter Limbourg, sharply condemned the killing saying that, ``the killing of a close family member of one of our journalists by the Taliban is incredible tragic and a proof for the imminent danger that all of our workers and their families are exposed to in Afghanistan.''
He added: ``The Taliban are obviously conducting organized searches for journalists in Kabul and the provinces. Time is running out.''
Pentagon: In last 24 hours, 5,700 people evacuated from Kabul aboard 16 Air Force c-17s. That’s 356 per flight, just over max capacity and significant increase over day before.
12,700 people have now been evacuated since Aug. 14th.
US citizens were close to airport but could not cross huge crowd gathered outside ; 3 helicopters sent beyond perimeter to get them, potentially sparking conflict with Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
The US military in Afghanistan sent helicopters to rescue over 150 Americans unable to reach the Kabul airport gates, an official said Friday, in the first evidence that US forces were willing and able to go beyond the US-secured compound to help people seeking evacuation.
The news came as American officials confirmed evacuation operations from Afghanistan stalled for about seven hours Friday, because the receiving base in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... was overflowing and could not take in evacuees.
That left thousands more Afghans already cleared to leave their country for the United States waiting at the Kabul airport.
"It was early this morning, and it lasted about six to seven hours," Major General Hank Taylor told news hounds, adding the backlog was subsequently cleared.
The US State Department has been criticized for being overly bureaucratic and not having enough staff to process thousands of Afghans seeking to come to the United States.
Evacuee accounts from Qatar describe sleeping on the floor in sweltering heat in a US aircraft hanger for three days or more, with limited facilities.
Taylor said US aircraft flew some 6,000 people, including a couple of hundred US citizens, out of Kabul in the 24 hours to early Friday, until the bottleneck halted flights.
Flights from Kabul resumed late Friday after US operations in Qatar arranged for trips for many evacuees onward to the US military base in Ramstein, Germany.
US citizens and Afghans who worked for the US forces in Afghanistan continued to attempt to get to the airport in Kabul to leave the country.
There were numerous accounts of some struggling to reach and enter the airport, some impeded by Taliban fighters who now control Kabul.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... said Friday that US troops had to go beyond the perimeter of the airport to retrieve 169 Americans, potentially risking a conflict with the Taliban.
Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby downplayed the incident.
"They were very close to the perimeter of the airport. Very close," he said, adding later that they had been airlifted from the Baron hotel, near the airport, by three US Chinook helicopters.
The helicopters had been deployed due to concerns for the Americans’ safety in traversing a huge crowd that had gathered outside the airport’s Abbey entry gate.
"There was a large crowd established outside the Abbey Gate, a crowd that not everybody had confidence in, in terms of their ability to walk through it, and so local commanders on the scene took the initiative and flew these helicopters out there to pick them up," Kirby said.
[REUTERS] The United States on Friday charged a North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in his truck near the U.S. Capitol the day before, leading to a five-hour standoff with law enforcement.Floyd Ray Roseberry was charged with threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to use an bomb.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui ordered a mental competency evaluation for Roseberry after he said he could not understand the proceedings against him because he had not been able to take his medications for blood pressure and his "mind."
"My memory isn't that well, sir," Roseberry said, adding that his wife has power of attorney over his medical issues and he did not know the names of his medications.
Roseberry, 51, spread alarm at the Capitol and prompted the evacuation of nearby government buildings on Thursday. He live-streamed threats on Facebook about having a possible bomb while holding what appeared to be a metal cannister on his lap.
"The revolution's on, it's here," Roseberry said in the video. "I'm ready to die for the cause."
Facebook later suspended his account and removed the video.
Roseberry surrendered to law enforcement without incident, and police said they found possible bomb-making materials but no bombs inside a truck.
A law enforcement official said there was no evidence so far suggesting anyone else was involved in or conspired with Roseberry in staging Thursday's incident.
During Friday's virtual hearing, Faruqui appointed Roseberry a federal defender, and Roseberry told him: "I'm willing to do whatever you ask."
In a sworn statement, an FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... agent said that a local law enforcement official in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... County, North Carolina contacted the bureau on Aug. 18 to warn about Roseberry. A relative called with concerns that Roseberry had "expressed anti-government views and an intent to travel to Virginia or Washington, D.C. to conduct acts of violence."
Crystal Roseberry, the man's ex-wife, told Rooters in an interview on Thursday she had divorced him more than eight years ago, saying he made violent mostly peaceful threats against her and had multiple mental illnesses.
[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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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?
[AMERICANTHINKER] Christopher Skeet
There's not much to say that hasn't already been said regarding Biden's unconditional surrender to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , and it's only the first week. Bookshelves will be filled with analyses of these events, and we won't understand their full ramifications for decades. My two cents, for what they're worth, are that the left doesn't consider the fall of Kabul and the betrayal of our allies to be a tragedy. Rather, this is deliberate foreign policy strategy, and it's right on track.
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I'm getting the feeling that every Federal employee needs to be fired at a bare minimum; the Rantburg dictum for not advocating death for certain Americans hangs precariously in the balance. They have brought us to this point, not us.
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I think Skeet is right. The Left hates this country and all of it's values, to the degree they are even capable of allegiance it is essentially to anything but us. The dates were far from random and even a compulsively wrong nit wit like Biden could grasp the immediate importance of Bagram.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Israeli regime forces have brutally dispersed Paleostinians taking part in several protests against the illegal Zionist settlements across the West Bank.According to reports, the Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy ambulance service said a Paleostinian man had been hit by rubber bullets and dozens of others had suffered breathing difficulties due to inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli regime forces at the protest in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, on Friday.
For several months, Beit Dajan has been witnessing festivities between Zionist troops and Paleostinians protesting in areas threatened with seizure by the Israeli regime for the expansion of the illegal settlements. At least half of the total area of Beit Dajan has so far been seized by Zionist regime for the construction of the illegal settlements.
To the south of Nablus, Israeli forces suppressed a weekly rally in the flashpoint town of Beita on Friday.
Hundreds of people performed Friday noon prayers near Sobeih Mountain and marched toward the mountain to protest against a settlement outpost that has been recently established there, but they were met with force by Israeli troops, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets at them.
Moreover, Israeli forces cracked down on a weekly protest in Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya City, on Friday, using tear gas and rubber bullets. Tens of Paleostinians were maimed during the festivities.
Also on Friday, Israeli forces attacked a protest against the illegal settlements and settler violence south of the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil, using tear gas and sound bombs, and left dozens of people suffering breathing difficulties from inhaling the toxic fumes.
Hundreds of Paleostinians as well as foreign activists took part in the protest, in the Umm al-Shaqhan Village, which is threatened with Israeli seizure, east of Yatta City.
Three Paleostinians and two pro-Paleostine foreign activists were detained by the Israelis during the protest. This report is so biased it could've been on NBC
From ALGHADEERTV’s About us: Iraqi Arab media commission seeking to spread the noble principles, values and promote the culture of unity among people and spread the spirit of tolerance and dialogue between different cultures.
[KhaamaPress] Ever since the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... toppled all but Panjsher province on August 15, the fighters were engaged in their first armed conflict which erupts between them and the people uprising.
Tens of members of people armed uprising attacked the pol-e-Hesar district of northern Baghlan province and was cleared of the Taliban.
Local residents while claim two other districts- Deh Salah and Qasaan- have also been taken back from the Taliban.
If true, hopefully the start of the next defeat of the Taliban, even as they dance in triumph.
Former acting minister of defense, Bismillah Muhammadi who is now living in Panhsher province wrote on his Twitter that the people uprising has recaptured pol-e-Hesar, Bano, and Deh Salah district of Baghlan province.
Local residents have also claimed to have killed 40 Taliban fighters and maimed 15 more the Taliban have not commented on the conflict yet.
Defiant first vice President Amrullah Saleh and son of Slain Ahamad Shah Masoud have pledged to be resisting the Taliban and will never surrender to them. They said that resistance two will be commenced from Panjsher province and have asked foreign members of ANDSF to join them in the cause.
It comes as the Taliban are grabbing control of entire Afghanistan including the Afghan capital but are yet to fill the political vacuum now after six days.
Emergency Hospital Says Number of Patients in Panjshir Rising
[ToloNews] In the last 24 hours the number of maimed people arriving at Emergency Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul has stabilized, but the institution reported an increasing number of war-maimed patients at its health facility in Panjshir province north of Kabul.
The hospital received 37 patients, of whom only five were admitted as they were at death's door, the statement said, adding that the hospital had been extremely busy for several days and therefore the admission criteria were restricted to those with serious trauma and life-threatening injuries.
"The situation in the city seems to have improved, although unfortunately there was unrest again at the airport this morning to suppress the mass of people trying to catch a plane to leave the country. The situation is chaotic and it is difficult to understand what is really happening there. Last night, however, we heard Kalashnikov fire in our district," said Alberto Zanin, Emergency’s Medical Coordinator in Kabul.
The reduced influx of patients made it possible to return the hospital back to its regular working capacity of 100 beds. If the situation does not deteriorate, Emergency plans to widen its admission criteria imminently, the statement said.
"As far as our hospital in Anabah in the Panjshir Valley is concerned, unfortunately we have to report that admissions for war surgery are increasing and we are identifying some areas to be converted for the treatment of maimed people. The Surgical Centre for War Victims in Lashkar-Gah, on the other hand, seems to be relatively stable again," Zanin said.
Referring to the ongoing situation more generally, he said that their local colleagues remain concerned about the uncertainty and instability, "but we are confident that the new authorities will allow us to continue working in the country, which needs us more than ever at this time."
Massoud Junior readies for war while negotiating with Taliban
[THENATIONALNEWS] The leader of Afghanistan’s only region not to have fallen to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has said he would be willing to join a Taliban government, but only if the group proved itself to be inclusive and respect the rights of all Afghans.
Ahmad Massoud, 32, leads forces in the Panjshir valley and said that war was on the cards if the group attempted an attack on his region.
In his first interview since the fall of Kabul last week, he told The National he had seen little evidence the group had changed over the past two decades.
He poured scorn on the group’s promise not to seek Dire Revenge against Afghans who had worked for the government or foreign forces.
"The pardon that the Taliban mentioned is just a sham — it is not real," he said.
"They have been going behind the doors and the houses of the people who work in the government. They are going after each individual who has worked for the government in the past 20 years."
He added the group were "telling us good things, but their actions are something different".
On the phone from his stronghold in the valley, Mr Massoud described a scene of frenzy in Panjshir as much of the rest of the country fell to the Taliban in a matter of days last week. His home province is now the only holdout.
The Afghan leader added that hundreds of Afghan commandos, members of the special forces and pilots had fled to the safety of Panjshir, which has a population of 200,000 and 20 military bases. Last I heard, Afghanistan had a population of 22 million. That was thirty years ago, and I think it was a CIA Factbook guesstimate.
"They brought hundreds of Humvees, armoured cars, and we managed to bring five helicopters. We were flying them back to Kabul to bring more soldiers here," he said on Thursday. With uncharacteristic energy, I checked with Google. 38 million and change.
They aren’t the only ones. On Wednesday, Mr Massoud’s representative said refugees have already begun to arrive from other areas of the country and are being sheltered by Panjshiri families in their homes.
For the graduate of Sandhurst and Kings College London, resisting the Taliban is a family business.
His father, Ahmad Shah Massoud, led the Northern Alliance of tribes and militia groups as it battled the Taliban in the 1990s until his liquidation by the late Osama bin Laden ...... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel...... two days before 9/11. Now, many are looking to his son as Afghanistan’s only hope against The Taliban.
Mr Massoud acknowledged that while he is in direct communication with the Taliban, he is not optimistic a war can be averted.
"Our position is very clear: if the Taliban allow the people of Afghanistan to be a part of the government and have an inclusive government, then that’s one thing," he said.
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"If the intention is to single-handedly enforce your will on the people and to enforce your own ideas on the people, then we will not accept an unjust government."
He said Panjshir was preparing for war and was ready should the Taliban attack, but the region's leaders are also pushing for peace.
"We are not after war, we are after peace, but peace has some conditions — otherwise, things will evolve into another war," he said.
Amid rumours that the Taliban may soon launch an offensive to capture Panjshir, Mr Massoud fired a stark warning to the group.
"We are telling them that as soon as war breaks out in the Panjshir valley, then there is no going back. If something happens to our people, or our soldiers, there is no going back.
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... ’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has put a spotlight back on the controversial waiver Congress used to confirm the nomination of now-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Austin has come under fire for his admission this week that the United States military does not have the capability to help the thousands of Americans stranded outside the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport.
Austin said, "We don’t have the capability to go out and collect up large numbers of people."
Austin’s involvement in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan follows as Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), urged Republicans in January to vote against Austin’s waiver to allow him to serve as the defense secretary.
The RSC in a January memo said Austin "is not the right person for the job of Secretary of Defense," noting he "has a track record of failures of the [Central Command] head in Syria and Iraq and in the war on ISIS."
Banks opposed Austin as early as last December:
Austin received confirmation to become secretary of defense after receiving a waiver from Congress. Typically, active duty personnel have to wait seven years after retiring from service to become the defense secretary.
Congress has granted only two exemptions to this rule, which include when former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... nominated Gen. Jim Mattis and when former President Harry Truman nominated Gen. George Marshall in 1950.
The RSC Steering Committee said in a statement in January that Congress could learn from the lessons based on nominating the two generals:
General Lloyd Austin has not been out of uniform for the requisite seven years and thus requires a waiver from the U.S. House of Representatives to serve as secretary of defense. Based on the lessons learned after the House made the unprecedented move of granting a waiver four years ago, the Republican Study Committee will oppose granting General Austin a waiver.
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...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.
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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.
[ZeroHedge] At this point, it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that the Biden Administration plan to provide COVID-19 booster shots before the FDA even has a chance to sign off isn't actually based on any actual "science". And some of the mainstream scientists are starting to speak up about it, opening themselves up to the possibility that their posts might be purged by Big Tech "misinformation" censors.
Just as new data show that young people are at heightened risk for rare side effects like heart inflammation (with the Moderna jab carrying a higher risk), scientists are claiming that the push for boosters represents a rush to judgment, since it's still unclear whether the waning protection against 'breakthrough' infection also leaves patients more vulnerable to severe illness. While one might be tempted to assume that more infections means more hospitalizations and deaths, 'breakthrough' infections tend to be far milder, and only the most vulnerable patients are likely to be impacted severely.
Almost as surprisingly, a report about scientists' objections was published by Reuters, a mainstream media organization with a massive reach. The frenetic push for vaccination betrays a sense of urgency. They can't keep this cat in the bag forever.
[REUTERS] The FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.
Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.
"Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases," said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. "Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages."
Stone, a veteran Republican operative and self-described "dirty trickster", and Jones, founder of a conspiracy-driven radio show and webcast, are both allies of Trump and had been involved in pro-Trump events in Washington on Jan. 5, the day before the riot.
FBI Sherlocks did find that cells of protesters, including followers of the far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups, had aimed to break into the Capitol. But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside, the sources said.
[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.
[Main Street Gazette] Geraldo Rivera, a seasoned journalist, and correspondent-at-large for Fox News who tends to lean left on most issues, likely stunned the network’s viewers on Wednesday with his commentary on President Joe Biden’s failure to show leadership on the disastrous situation unfolding in Afghanistan.
According to Fox News, in the wake of Biden’s press conference on Wednesday in which he only spoke of COVID-19 booster shots and failed to make a single mention of Afghanistan or take questions about it, Rivera blasted the president for giving a "pitiful" speech at a time when Americans — and the world — deserve much more.
"Can I just say something about the president’s Ill-timed speech? It was pitiful," Rivera said, admitting that he’s given Biden as many chances as he could in the past.
"It was pathetic. I try to give him every due respect. He’s the president of the United States. I think he’s a nice person," the 78-year-old veteran reporter said, adding that Biden was "blinking and missing words" in the tone-deaf address to the nation.
Rivera doubled down, pointing out that virtually nobody is concerned about COVID-19 booster shots when one of the most disastrous and humiliating foreign policy blunders is unfolding live on television screens around the world.
"What the hell that COVID speech had to do with the price of beans, I don’t know," Rivera said. "He delivered it as if someone said, ’Here’s a good idea. Why don’t you speak about the COVID booster and take their minds off of what they’re seeing on the TV news.'"
Rivera also questioned why U.S. military commanders gave up Bagram Airfield, which would have provided a defensible, a much safer and logistically sound method for evacuating the tens of thousands of Americans and Afghan allies that remain trapped behind enemy lines.
In rare form on Wednesday, Rivera went on to completely shred Biden’s lack of leadership on such a monumental and impactful issue.
"He’s a failure in deed and now word, and to get up in front of the American people and say nothing about the Americans and allies stranded in Afghanistan and the disaster that unfolds in front of our faces," Rivera concluded.
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Tory and Labour Party in the UK stand against Biden's exit from Afghanistan; Kudlow: Biden has become neither feared nor loved in international affairs
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks it is interesting to look back and see how American culture has changed in that two-decade time span. Back then mainstream culture (sorta) rallied around God and country against our enemy, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and Al Qaeda. Today the culture sees those same people that believe in God and country as bad or worse than the Taliban. My, how things change. Maybe we need a "file under" heading for "Stupid."
In yet another example of how our society has gone off the deep end, Hollywood actor and Star Trek: Voyager star Tim Russ Who?
smeared religious Americans in a highly disgusting manner. The elitist snob actually tweeted how Americans that believe in God are "as fanatical" as the Taliban. Um, come again, Mr. Russ? You do know that religious Americans believe in religious freedom for all, right, whereas the Taliban just enslave, maim and/or kill whoever disagrees with their religious tenets. As a practicing Agnostic, I fall under the heading of "Non-religious Americans." Oh, how I've suffered at the hands of the Talibanistic religious folks who... ummm... haven't done anything to me. As a Christian, I am not above saying, "Go fuck yourself!"
After the horribly botched departure of American forces from Afghanistan which started last weekend, Russ took one look at the bloodthirsty Taliban forces, our Middle Eastern enemy for the last 20 years, and thought, "you know, there’s no difference between that and the little old church lady who smiles at me and says, ’God Bless you.’" Us agnostics don't do that. We just say "Have a nice day." Or we don't. That's how you can tell from those fanatical religious folk. What about the southern admonishment, "Bless your heart"?
Russ wrote, "The Taliban are as fanatical about their beliefs and culture as the millions of people right here in the U.S. who believe in religion, conspiracy theories, and alternate reality." Ahem, Mr. Russ, your bigotry is showing. So is your abject stupidity. So file under "Stupid" and forget about it. He's a dipshit. What'd you expect from an actor?
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[EmeraldDB3Substack] Three years ago, I wrote an essay on “The Collapse of the Never Trumpers" that caused quite a stir. Rush Limbaugh talked about it on his radio show, while Nigel Farage congratulated me in the halls of Parliament. Hundreds of people wrote me "thank you" notes. The haughty Never Trumpers, not so much. My modest proposal was that the 3% of Republicans who never approved of President Trump should stop pretending that they were spokesmen for the 97% of Republicans who did. In the corporate media, where 97% of that 3% were keeping a high profile on cable news, the distortions became preposterous. This seemed to me elementary logic. But for the tiny group of delusional Never Trumpers, my modest proposal fell on them like a ton of bricks.
In the end, my essay ignited a kind of public war among conservative intellectuals that helped to bring down the neocons and the Never Trumpers in the media. Not only did the Weekly Standard shut down, but the National Review kicked out Jonah Goldberg, and the neocon's peewee prince Bill Kristol went to work for Democrats - all in six months. How did that happen? They had no base of support outside of the Beltway, and they were in willful denial about their own unpopularity. This dynamic was obvious at all levels of media, but let's take a high visibility example: the old panel at Fox New's Special Report with Bret Baier. Now, Bret Baier is obviously a very quiet Never Trumper but if you stacked your daily panel with Stephen Hayes, A. B. Stoddard, and Jonah Goldberg and these were the “conservative” pundits you picked to defend President Trump's policies then it's obvious what Bret was doing.
A week or so after my essay appeared, I got a very short and shrill phone call from one of Bret's staffers - who was a rabid Hillary Clinton supporter, no less. When I picked up the call, she was angry and breathless and did not want to do small talk. She said: "You don't know what you've done, you don't understand the damage you've caused to this show." I asked her to calm down, and be specific. She hung up instead. Read the rest at the link
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The leftist mind focuses on harm reduction as its only value. No wonder she was angry, he wrecked the show with his truth bombs. That she might be in the wrong doesn't occur to her, and neither does that other people might have different values.
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"Indeed, a wipe out is exactly what conservatives who betrayed the conservative movement during the Trump Era deserved and they all bit the dust: Kristol, Hayes, Goldberg, French, Frum, Sykes, Sabato, Charen, Ponnuru, Gerson, Noonan, Meachum, Boot, Brooks, Lowry, Scarborough, Stephens, Erickson and Rubin. It sounds like a list of demented reindeer. Their stockings will always be stuffed now with coal."
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Congrats. No, seriously.
Much more of this and you're gonna be in one of Larry Correa's MonsterHunter stories. (Zombies and all...)
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A quibble. Jonah Goldberg still writes for NR upon occasion, and is hardly "out" of the conservative movement. In fact, his podcasts are quite enjoyable.
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden, speaking for only the second time about Afghanistan since the Taliban seized Kabul on Sunday, also said “I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world.”
The US departure, however, was condemned harshly during a UK parliament session. Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, called it “the biggest debacle NATO has suffered since its founding.”
US withdrawal from Afghanistan indicates occupation forces’ failure in our region: Houthihttps://t.co/45ibmawHLv
A leading member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... 's center-right Union bloc called Thursday for the United States to provide funding and shelter to those fleeing Afghanistan now.
'The United States of America bear the main responsibility for the current situation,'' Markus Soeder, the governor of Bavaria, said. 'Because of their decision to leave Afghanistan, in parts overly hasty, they have the main responsibility.''
Soeder noted that the U.S. had already provided security guarantees for the evacuation of foreigners and local staff from Kabul, and should do likewise 'when it comes to providing financial support to neighboring countries, especially for UNHCR and, if necessary, also for taking in people.''
The U.N. refugee agency has said that so far most displacement following the seizure of power by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has been inside Afghanistan. But some officials in Germany are already warning of a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis that saw hundreds of thousands of people from Asia and Africa come to Europe.
Soeder, who leads the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union, said fears about a fresh influx of migrants colonists should not be exploited in the campaign for Germany's upcoming national election.
'Of course it needs to be ensured that there's no uncontrolled movement of people,'' he said. 'But I also say that having no repeat of 2015 for us means no instrumentalization of the migration question ... in the election campaign.'
Soeder, who lost a bid to be the Union's candidate to succeed Merkel, was heavily criticized in 2018 for talking about the need to crack down on 'asylum tourism.''
#Indonesia police have arrested 53 militants suspected of planning an attack on independence day this week, including alleged members of networks blamed for past attacks like the 2002 #Bali bombings, the police said on Friday.https://t.co/dsVOxo8rk8
Some of those arrested were from the group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a jihadist network with ties to al Qaeda, or the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -inspired Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), blamed for a church bombing on Sulawesi island in March, police said.
Argo Yuwono, a national police spokesperson, told news hounds the arrests had taken place across 11 provinces in the week leading up to Indonesian independence day on Tuesday.
"They went after people from the government," he said, without specifying which people.
"They wanted to use the momentum of the independence day."
Argo said police had seized weapons, ammunition, and donation boxes used to raise funds.
A resurgence in attacks has been linked to the hundreds of Indonesians that went to Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State before returning.
More than 120 bully boyz have been arrested this year, said an official at the country’s counter-terrorism unit on Friday.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Mourners flooded the streets Wednesday and Thursday to pay their respects to 29-year-old reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Police Officer Ella French, who was killed in the line of duty.
"We'll continue to be courageous, brave, committed, and dedicated for Ella to protecting the city of Chicago," said Police Superintendent David Brown.
Processions made their way through the streets Wednesday and Thursday for her wake and funeral before fellow officers took her casket into St. Rita of Cascia Church. Over a thousand mourners poured through the streets Wednesday, and at least hundreds on Thursday.
French was shot and killed, and her partner was critically injured, in an Aug. 7 West Englewood traffic stop.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black... said the citizens of Chicago will always owe officers like French a debt of gratitude.
"This is a time of grief and anger and frustration, but I hope that we use this as an opportunity of reflection on how we can live, each of us, a better life from where we stand, to show leadership and support for those in our city who are most vulnerable," Lightfoot said. "We need to continue to thank our brave men and women in law enforcement, our police department, fire department, the brave dispatchers, and call takers at the Office of Emergency Management Communications."
Two brothers were charged in the shooting .
Emonte Morgan, 21, allegedly killed French and shot her partner three times, police said. Eric Morgan, 22, is accused of driving the vehicle the officers had pulled over for expired tags. Ima say different fathers sperm donors
"Traffic is the most dangerous thing being a police officer, and for that to happen to one of our own, and one of the young ones, it was extremely hurtful," added Officer Ronda Pressley, who also works in the traffic unit.
In her almost three years on the force, French patrolled some of the South Side's most violent mostly peaceful neighborhoods and earned commendations and honorable mentions.
French is the first female Chicago police officer killed in the line of duty since 1988, according to NBC Chicago, and the first to be slain in the line of duty since Lightfoot took office.
[STARTRIBUNE] Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is extending a welcome mat for refugees from Afghanistan.In a letter to President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... on Thursday, Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan offered to to work with the federal government to continue Minnesota's history of welcoming refugees by assisting with the resettlement of people fleeing Afghanistan.
"Minnesota has a strong tradition of welcoming those who seek refuge and supporting them to rebuild their lives and become part of our communities," their letter said. "Minnesota is eager to uphold that tradition by welcoming families and children and providing the stable foundation they need to rebuild their lives, achieve their highest potential, and contribute to our state."
Tens of thousands of Afghans have been trying to flee their home country since the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... takeover, with desperate crowds thronging Kabul's airport.
Minnesota is already home to some of the largest Hmong, Somali and Liberian communities in the U.S., as well as a small Afghan community. The state has also drawn significant numbers of refugees in recent decades from Myanmar, Æthiopia, Bhutan, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bosnia and the former Soviet Union.
"New Minnesotans strengthen our communities and contribute to the social fabric of our state," Walz and Flanagan wrote. "They are our neighbors."
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Knowing the DFL (donk) gameplan, they'll be seeded in rural red areas (everyplace but Minneapolis and Duluth) and told vote DFL or you're going back.
[NYPOST] A COVID-19 outbreak has infected every member of a southwest Illinois police department, the town’s mayor said. I hope they gave it to every member of the local criminal element.
All three cops and the chief of police in Venice, a town of 2,100 outside St. Louis, have contracted the bug, forcing the department to shut down as they complete mandatory 10-day quarantines, Mayor Tyrone Echols told the Belleville News-Democrat Thursday.
"I think it’s everybody except for possibly two dispatchers," Echols said of the department’s impacted employees, including Police Chief Theo Adams.
"He sounded pretty rough," Echols said of the town’s top cop.
Venice will be patrolled by Illinois State Police and other law enforcement agencies throughout Madison County until its officers return to duty.
"I want everyone to know we are covered," Echols told the newspaper, adding that the department had at least eight cops at one point, but they "come and go" in search of better pay, leaving the agency short-staffed amid the ongoing pandemic.
The officers and Adams started getting sick late last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
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Yeah, it happens to the fully vaxxed too.
Yawn...
[NBCNEWS] The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt outside a door of the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been formally exonerated after an internal investigation, according to a department memo obtained by NBC News.
The officer, whose name has not been released,
...but who nonetheless has been named numerous times in comments (with corroborating links) as Capitol Police Lt.Michael Byrd, who has had other moments of carelessness during his career...
opened fire on Babbitt as she and a mob of other Trump supporters tried to forcefully enter the Capitol.
Video of the shooting showed Babbitt in front of a crowd of rioters trying to get through a door leading to where members of Congress were being evacuated on the House side of the building.
The Justice Department announced in April that no charges were being brought against the officer. The exoneration by the Capitol Police wraps up the last remaining investigation into the incident.
A memo from the commander of the Capitol Police’s Office of Personal Responsibility says "no further action will be taken in this matter" after the officer was exonerated for use of force.
The Capitol Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for Babbitt's family declined to comment.
Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was a decorated security forces controller who served multiple Middle East tours from 2004 to 2016, according to Air Force records.
In recent years, she posted numerous messages on social media indicating she was an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... and a follower and promoter of many well-known radical conservative activists as well as leaders of the QAnon conspiracy theory movement. Well, in that case I'm sure the execution was completely justified.
4 civilians killed and 3 more wounded in the Israeli airstrikes last night, mayor of Qarah tells a local radio. Syrian state media said the strikes targeted areas near Damascus and Homs.
Israeli Strikes on Syria Kill 'Four Hizbullah Fighters'
[AnNahar] Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Syria have killed four pro-Iranian fighters allied to the Damascus regime, a Britannia-based war monitor said Friday.
Syrian state media earlier said its air defense system engaged "hostile targets" over the capital Damascus late on Thursday.
"The Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack... targeting positions near Damascus and around the city of Homs," a military source told state news agency SANA.
"Our air defense responded to the missiles and shot most of them down."
Most. Hence the dead guys and secondaries.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Israeli missiles had targeted "arms depots and military positions" belonging to Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Hezbollah, in the Qarah area in the northwest of Damascus province, near Homs province and the Lebanese border.
The strikes killed four members of the Iran-backed group, but it was not immediately clear whether they were Syrian or Lebanese, the Britannia-based war monitor said.
Lebanese media also earlier reported two missiles had fallen in the Qalamoun region.
Syria’s air defense forces shot down 22 missiles launched by Israeli warplanes during an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against targets in Syria, the Russian military said Friday.
Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, head of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria, said six Israeli fighter jets targeted facilities in the provinces of Damascus and Homs from Leb’s airspace late Thursday.
Kulit said Syrian air defense units downed 22 of the 24 missiles launched by the Israeli warplanes with Russia-supplied air defense systems Pantsyr-S and Buk-M2.
Lebanese media also reported that two missiles fell in the Qalamoun region on the rugged border between Lebanon and Syria, though it was unclear if the projectiles were from the alleged airstrikes or errant interceptors.
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Syrian air defense units downed 22 of the 24 missiles launched by the Israeli warplanes
This is how a successful air strike against a defended position works. The defenders have a certain capability to stop incoming missiles. So you bring that many missiles to saturate their defenses + a few more for some damage. Excitement and fun for everyone!
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.
[FOX] States with Republican governors are leading the U.S. economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, while those run by Democrats — which tended to impose lengthier and stricter lockdowns on businesses — are faced with significantly higher unemployment rates. 
[Right Scoop] On Thursday, 
[The Hill] Capitol Police have formally exonerated an officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on Jan. 6 following an internal investigation, NBC News reported.
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. Supreme Court justice on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that would require Democratic President Joe Biden to reinstate a contentious immigration policy implemented by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump.
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
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[KSTP] A judge has promised a quick ruling on whether people with permits to carry firearms can bring their guns into the Minnesota State Fair, which opens in one week.
...46th president of the U.S. 
I have a suspicion his handlers have directed Biden get away from D.C. and the media. The stupid level has just gotten too out of hand. With Kam in Vietnam, it will be interesting to see who surfaces as the real 'leader' of the free world. 
...46th president of the U.S. 
[AUDACY] A Monroe County judge said it was one of the worst cases he's ever seen during sentencing of a man found guilty of murdering and beheading his grandmother.
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...Arabic for 
...knaves, footpads, and 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[REUTERS] The United States on Friday charged a North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in his truck near the U.S. Capitol the day before, leading to a five-hour standoff with law enforcement.Floyd Ray 
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...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...
[AMERICANTHINKER] Christopher Skeet
...Arabic for 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[Main Street Gazette] Geraldo Rivera, a seasoned journalist, and correspondent-at-large for Fox News who tends to lean left on most issues, likely stunned the network’s viewers on Wednesday with his commentary on President Joe Biden’s failure to show leadership on the disastrous situation unfolding in Afghanistan.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks it is interesting to look back and see how American culture has changed in that two-decade time span. Back then mainstream culture (sorta) rallied around God and country against our enemy, the 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Mourners flooded the streets Wednesday and Thursday to pay their respects to 29-year-old 
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
[NYPOST] A COVID-19 outbreak has infected every member of a southwest Illinois police department, the town’s mayor said.
[NBCNEWS] The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
