In China, a construction company put together a 10-story apartment building in just 24 hours.
The phrase that immediately popped into my mind was, "Uh, you first!"
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Contractions function almost identically to the full two word phrase, but are only appropriate in some places in a sentence.
It's one of the weird quirks of the language we've.
Some people say English is a confusing language, to which I say . . . It's. That's the kind of linguist I'm.
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Lines:
Instead of cleaning the house, I just turn off the lights.
Alligators can live up to 100 years, which explains why they will probably see ya later.
I'd give up sarcasm, but then that would leave only interpretive dance as my only means of communication.
I miss the 90s when bread was good for you and nobody knew what kale was.
My superpower is picking the slowest moving checkout line at the grocery store.
I've finally reached the Wonder Years: I wonder where I parked the car. I wonder where I left my phone. I wonder where my car keys are. I wonder what day it is.
Bury me with my old records, it'll be my vinyl resting place.
In Israel, archeologists have discovered a 2700-year-old toilet and, as you would expect, the lid had been left up.
Fart when people hug you, it makes them feel strong.
I survived the social media blackout of 2021.
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Georgia's Secretary of State announced Friday that over 100,000 names will be removed from Georgia's voter registration rolls in an attempt to keep the state's voter files "up to date."
Among those names removed from the official rolls: Amanda Hump, Annie Position, Ben Dover, C. Mike Rack, Curley Pubes, Harry Johnson
Oh, I could go on and on. So I will: Howie Feltersnatch, Iva Biggin, Ivanna B. Spanked...
Okay, I'm good.
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First Freshman in Math Exam: "How far are you from the correct answer?"
Second Freshman in Math Exam: "About two seats away."
Quote of the Times;
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? – Harvey
Link of the Times;
https://nypost.com/2021/10/04/pandora-papers-world-leaders-defend-secret-dealings-in-report/
Issue of the Times;
Decriminalizing Gang Bangers by Thomas Lifson
Soros prosecutor Kim Foxx declines to charge five arrested in fatal gang shootout, citing ‘mutual combatants’
Chicago now is like Dodge City before Marshal Dillon arrived: a fatal shootout on its streets is no crime because both sides were shooting. The Windy City already is world-famous for shootouts on its streets, with an astounding 3,625 shootings so far this year, 623 of them fatal. (That death toll would be higher save for the city’s superb medical care for gunshot victims, made possible by all the practice its trauma surgeons receive.) But how many more shooting matches will start now that the word is going out that you can escape charges in a gang shootout -- even if someone is killed -- if both sides are shooting?
An escalating number of shootouts is the inescapable implication of the decision of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to release all five suspects arrested in a fatal shootout between rival gangs in the city’s Southside Austin neighborhood, not too far from the Obama Monument. The head of that office, Kim Foxx, was elected with considerable financial support from George Soros, who has helped elect many soft-on-crime prosecutors across the US. Tom Schuba writes in the Chicago Sun-Times:
Five men linked to a deadly gang-related shootout Friday in Austin were released from custody after prosecutors declined to charge each of them with a pair of felonies, including first-degree murder, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
The brazen mid-morning gunfight, which left one shooter dead and two of the suspects wounded, stemmed from an internal dispute between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, according to an internal police report and a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation.
The source said police sought to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery. By Sunday morning, a Chicago police spokeswoman acknowledged the suspects had “been released without charges.”
In a statement later Sunday, Cristina Villareal, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, explained that prosecutors had “determined that the evidence was insufficient to meet our burden of proof to approve felony charges.” Police officials agreed with the decision, Villareal added.
While she wouldn’t specify what other evidence prosecutors needed to file charges, the police report acknowledged that victims of the shootout weren’t cooperating with investigators.
But the report also framed the state’s attorney’s office’s decision to decline charges in a different light: “Mutual combatants was cited as the reason for the rejection.” Mutual combat is a legal term used to define a fight or struggle that two parties willingly engage in.
WGN-TV provides more details on the show the “mutual combat” shootout went down:
Friday morning, residents in North Austin were surrounded by a heavy police and SWAT presence after officers were called to a home near the corner of West Potomac Avenue and North Mason Avenue.
According to this account, SWAT already was there, and then:
Two vehicles then pulled up, with occupants leaving the cars and firing shots towards a home.
The people inside the home returned fire, eventually killing one of the gunmen from outside, with multiple other people being injured.
So, if the people being shot at return fire, no charges? Even Lori Lightfoot, the city’s equally eccentric Democrat mayor can’t handle that. Craig Wall of WLS-TV:
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and some West Side aldermen called on Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx to reverse her decision on the case.
"If they do not feel like the criminal justice system is going to hold them accountable, we're going to see a level of brazenness that will send the city into chaos and we cannot let that happen," the mayor said Monday. (snip)
Lightfoot, herself a former prosecutor, believes there's evidence to make a case.
"I think that there's evidence there. We've got videotape, we have a marked squad of uniformed officers who were on the scene observing it," she said. "At a bare minimum, the individuals who initiated the firefight must be prosecuted."
"I think it goes beyond frustration, I'm furious about it," said 29th Ward Alderman Chris Taliaferro, who oversees the ward where the shooting took place.
Elizabeth Matthews of Fox32:
It happened in the 1200 block of Mason in Austin around 11 a.m. last Friday. The shooting was caught on a pod camera and police say more than 70 shots were fired. Two groups of gang members were shooting at each other. One of the alleged shooters died and two others were wounded.
"She's got to explain to the public, why? Given that evidence, a pod camera right there that captured the entire thing and police officers on the scene in uniform, and a squad car there, why that isn't enough," said a furious Mayor Lightfoot. (snip)
"If the bad guys that are out there that are picking up guns and shooting without any regard for the sanctity of life, do not believe that there's accountability for them, the brazenness will not end. It will escalate, it will continue and our communities will not be safe," Lightfoot said.
Foxx’s office is explaining that there is not enough evidence, but what about gunpowder residue tests on the hands of those arrested? Even if you can’t prove that a specific individual’s shot killed someone, firing a gun in a fatal shootout is a crime. If it is a felony, then the doctrine of felony murder should apply – all who participated in a felony that resulted in a murder are equally guilty of murder.
Less than a week ago, Foxx’s office declined to prosecute another murder, this time with a knife, that was also recorded, where lack of evidence shouldn’t have been a problem, because only two people were involved, and the attack was recorded. It was the same excuse: “mutual combat”:
This is the same result that came from a deadly fight between two teens in Schaumburg last Tuesday.
Manuel Porties Jr. died after being stabbed during a one-on-one fight that was recorded by bystanders. Porties Jr.’s family told WGN that prosecutors declined charging the other teen, saying it was mutual combat.
It looks a lot like the Foxx standard for prosecuting now is to let everyone off unless one side fails to respond to an attack by fighting back.
Foxx’s office is sticking to the lack of evidence story, blaming the police, but leaving the door open for future prosecution (just in case public pressure becomes irresistible?)
The Cook County State's Attorney's Office released a statement in response to the mayor's calls, saying: As a former federal prosecutor, the Mayor knows of the ethical obligation of the prosecutor to only bring forth charges where the facts, evidence, and law support it. She is also fully aware that as a prosecutor we are obligated not to try cases in the media. It is unclear why she has chosen to make such statements, especially absent the full information that was presented to our office by CPD. The detectives reached out to our office on Friday and acknowledged at the outset that given the chaotic nature at the scene they were unable to determine how the events unfolded. We reviewed the evidence that was presented to us in consultation with the detectives and they agreed we were unable to approve charges based on the evidence presented. However, as always, as additional evidence is gathered we stand ready to bring charges when appropriate. Additionally, the facts the mayor presented today simply are not in line with what was presented to us by CPD, and not born out by the evidence we received. The staggering violence that is devastating our communities is horrific, however, we must still adhere to both our ethical and legal standards in evaluating charges. As a former prosecutor, she knows that.
Better see what George Soros has to say. His prosecutors have been alienating a lot of voters lately.
News of the Times;
https://thenewamerican.com/democrat-operative-admits-we-ve-been-rigging-elections-for-50-years/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/safety-signals-covid-vaccines-full-transparency-cdc-fda/
https://tv.gab.com/channel/white__rabbit/view/breaking-pfizer-scientists-your-covid-antibodies-615b96bcd7e866584941980f
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/brutal-domestic-homicide-spars-backlash-against-soros-prosecutor/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/taiwan-says-preparing-war-china-sends-record-52-warplanes-taiwan-airspace/
https://conservativebrief.com/appeal-52265/
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/10/risk-was-never-low-it-was-only-hidden.html
https://www.privacyaffairs.com/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-forum/
https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/thousands-cleared-judges-ruling-seek-gun-arrest-damages/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/ag-merrick-garland-instructs-fbi-mobilize-parents-oppose-critical-race-theory-covid-mandates-public-schools/
https://www.womenarehuman.com/male-transgender-youth-arrested-for-raping-4-year-old-girl-distributing-videos-photos-of-the-act-jakob-dakota-nieves/
https://redpilled.ca/watch-the-gruesome-gang-brawl-that-caused-a-school-shooting-in-texas-today-video/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/never-forget-facebook-eliminated-top-conservative-pages-2017-following-trump-victory-facebook-killed-off-top-pro-trump-pages-election/
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/06/financial-records-show-facebook-whistleblower-is-less-a-concerned-employee-and-more-a-radical-democrat-activist/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/conflict-interest-ag-garlands-family-getting-rich-selling-critical-race-theory-materials
Bangers?
Laconia?
Threw a ball for my dog.
It's a bit extravagant I know, but it was his birthday and he looks great in a Tuxedo.
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What's the difference between a train wreck and the Biden administration?
With a train wreck you know the disaster is going to end!
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A 4 year old boy was asked to give thanks before a big dinner. The family members bowed their heads in expectation. He began his prayer, thanking God for all his friends, naming them one by one. Then he thanked God for Mommy, Daddy, brother, sister, Grandma, Grandpa, and all his aunts and uncles.
Then he began to thank God for the food. He gave thanks for the turkey, the dressing, the fruit salad, the cranberry sauce, the pies, the cakes, even the Cool Whip. Then he paused, and everyone waited and waited.
After a long silence, the young fellow looked up at his mother and asked, "If I thank God for the broccoli, won't he know that I'm lying?"
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These glorious insults are from an era; "before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words":
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
Moses Hadas
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
Winston Churchill, in response
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
Irvin S. Cobb
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
Paul Keating
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
Charles, Count Talleyrand
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
Andrew Lang
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder
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Quote of the Times;
“Last month, Joe Biden claimed that no military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence in Afghanistan. Today, General Milley and General McKenzie both confirmed their recommendation that 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan. Which is it?" - Senator Tom Cotton
Link of the Times;
https://nypost.com/2021/09/26/alejandro-mayorkas-7-border-lies/
Issue of the Times;
Laconia Incident by David Stubblebine
12 Sep 1942 - 17 Sep 1942
The British RMS Laconia was a 600-foot long, 20,000-ton ocean liner of the Cunard Line launched in 1921 and capable of embarking 2,200 passengers. At the start of World War II, she was converted into a troopship and armed with deck guns, depth charges, and asdic equipment.
The German U-156 was a Type IXC submarine launched in 1941 and commanded from the beginning by the very capable and very successful Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartenstein. The U-156 was lost with all hands, including Hartenstein, midway through the war on 8 Mar 1943 but not before Hartenstein had sunk or damaged 21 ships totaling 116,000 tons. But that came later.
In the late summer of 1942, Laconia sailed to Cape Town, South Africa loaded with Italian prisoners of war. She left Cape Town bound for Freetown in West Africa carrying 463 officers and crew, 80 civilians (including the wife of the British Governor of Malta), 286 British Army soldiers, 1,793 Italian prisoners of war, and 103 Polish soldiers acting as guards. When Laconia was still 950 miles south of Freetown and 700 miles off the African coast, U-156 fired two torpedoes at her shortly after dark on 12-Sep-1942. Both torpedoes struck Laconia causing her to immediately go dead in the water and take on a heavy list. Hartenstein brought U-156 closer and saw several full lifeboats with hundreds more people in the water. He was surprised to hear the survivors shouting for assistance in Italian. Once Hartenstein learned what Laconia's compliment had been, he began straightaway conducting a large-scale rescue operation. Several survivors were taken inside the submarine, several more were put on the U-Boat's deck, and lifeboats were taken in tow.
About an hour after being torpedoed, the Laconia sank.
Hartenstein requested instructions from his headquarters and Admiral Karl Dönitz assigned three other submarines to assist. The Vichy-French Government also dispatched three ships toward the area. Hartenstein then broadcast a general, uncoded call for assistance in plain English and the British redirected two merchant ships to the area. U-156 remained on the surface for two days with her decks packed with survivors until joined by the other submarines. Together, they began heading for the African coast.
Four days after Laconia's sinking, the submarines were still making for West Africa but U-156 had become separated from the other submarines. In the middle of the day, Hartenstein was overflown by a B-24 Liberator long-range bomber from the 343rd Bombardment Squadron. The aircraft was transiting eastward from a very secret base on Ascension Island on toward Africa. U-156's deck was still crowded with survivors, she was towing as many as four lifeboats loaded with people, and she had a large Red Cross flag draped over the gun deck. The B-24 circled low over the U-Boat for 30 minutes assessing the situation and then flew off to the west. The B-24 pilot radioed a report of what he had seen and asked for instructions. The reply was clear and direct: "Sink the sub."
The B-24 returned and the pilot tried his best to do as he was ordered. He dropped bombs and depth charges that caused only minor damage to the submarine but destroyed two lifeboats and killed dozens of Laconia survivors (perhaps hundreds). Hartenstein had no choice but to cast the lifeboats adrift and put the survivors on his deck back into the sea so that he could dive and save his boat. As the B-24 was beginning its second pass, U-156 submerged. The B-24 pilot saw this and reported that the sub had been sunk. He was credited with a submarine "kill" and was later decorated for this action.
The following day, the Vichy-French ships arrived in the area and began collecting survivors. In all, 1,113 of Laconia's original compliment of 2,732 survived the sinking. Nearly all of the dead (88%) were Italian prisoners of war.
The attack on a submarine that was engaged in a mission of mercy while flying the flag of the Red Cross angered the Germans generally and Karl Dönitz in particular. In response to this attack, he issued a sweeping order to the entire U-Boat fleet that became known as the Laconia Order. The central portion of this order said: "All attempts to save survivors of sunken ships, also the picking up of floating men and putting them on board lifeboats, the setting upright of overturned lifeboats, and the handing over of food and water are to be discontinued. These rescues contradict the primitive demands of warfare to destroy enemy ships and their crews." This order changed the very definition of submarine warfare. Up to this point, German U-Boats operated more or less under the prevailing maritime doctrine known as the Cruiser Rules, which called for ships to engage in the kinds of actions Hartenstein had done in this case. The Laconia Order unleashed the new and brutal doctrine of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare that remained in place for the rest of the war with dire consequences for many merchant seamen.
During the post-war Nuremberg Trial of Karl Dönitz for various War Crimes, the Laconia Order was displayed prominently in the case against him, a decision that squarely backfired on the prosecution. The German side of the Laconia Incident came out for the first time and US Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz provided unapologetic written testimony on behalf of Dönitz saying the US Navy in the Pacific had engaged in very similar unrestricted submarine warfare since the very first day the US entered the war.
There were no War Crimes charges brought against the American officer who ordered the B-24 pilot to attack U-156, Captain Robert C. Richardson III; there was no discipline at all or even much of an inquiry from the Americans. Captain Richardson's reasons for giving the order to attack were that he believed the rules of war at the time did not permit combat ships to fly Red Cross flags, he feared the German submarine would attack the two British freighters responding to the area, and he assumed the German submarine was only rescuing Italian prisoners of war. Further, he believed the submarine may have discovered and shelled the fuel tanks at the secret Ascension Island base, cutting off a critical Allied resupply route to Africa and Asia. Captain Richardson went on to become a career US Air Force officer, retiring in 1967 at the rank of Brigadier General.
Werner Hartenstein, along with U-156 and all hands, were lost on their next cruise. They were victims of another aerial depth charge attack on 8-Mar-1943 while 350 miles east of Barbados, this time from a PBY Catalina patrol aircraft from US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-53 flying from Chaguaramas, Trinidad.
News of the Times;
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/how_is_tucker_carlson_still_alive.html
https://en-volve.com/2021/09/30/media-panic-over-news-that-fbi-organized-jan-6-riot-then-come-up-with-hilarious-excuse-its-not-a-big-deal-its-kind-of-normal/
https://defiantamerica.com/manufactured-crisis-a-map-of-the-cargo-ships-currently-incoming-and-in-holding-pattern-offshore-ignored-by-the-msm-photos-video/
https://principia-scientific.com/major-law-firm-confirms-fda-deceived-america-with-its-approval-of-pfizer-vax/
https://vdare.com/articles/the-february-6-1934-crisis-enabled-a-leftist-coup-that-caused-the-fall-of-france-sound-familiar
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/09/look-photo-taken-during-joe-bidens-booster-shot-sparks-questions/
https://news.yahoo.com/china-power-crunch-spreads-shutting-060437092.html
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/09/28/the-obscene-gaslighting-on-afghanistan-begins-as-bidens-house-of-cards-come-tumbling-down-n449289
https://fee.org/articles/most-of-europe-is-a-lot-poorer-than-most-of-the-united-states/
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/mlb-ships-jobs-to-china-to-build-closer-relationship-with-ccp/
https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/now-nba-players-sound-more-rational
https://rescue.substack.com/p/how-ivermectin-saved-louis-gossett
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/29/democrats-latest-3-5-trillion-spending-spree-includes-1-3-billion-media-bailout/
https://www.ff.org/fdrs-policies-prolonged-depression-by-7-years-ucla-economists-calculate/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/economy/bacon-prices-skyrocketing-pork/index.html
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ari-j-kaufman/2021/09/29/so-wheres-that-crisis-the-left-predicted-after-supreme-court-struck-down-eviction-moratorium-n1520570
It's a bit extravagant I know, but it was his birthday and he looks great in a Tuxedo.
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What's the difference between a train wreck and the Biden administration?
With a train wreck you know the disaster is going to end!
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A 4 year old boy was asked to give thanks before a big dinner. The family members bowed their heads in expectation. He began his prayer, thanking God for all his friends, naming them one by one. Then he thanked God for Mommy, Daddy, brother, sister, Grandma, Grandpa, and all his aunts and uncles.
Then he began to thank God for the food. He gave thanks for the turkey, the dressing, the fruit salad, the cranberry sauce, the pies, the cakes, even the Cool Whip. Then he paused, and everyone waited and waited.
After a long silence, the young fellow looked up at his mother and asked, "If I thank God for the broccoli, won't he know that I'm lying?"
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These glorious insults are from an era; "before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words":
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
Moses Hadas
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
Winston Churchill, in response
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
Irvin S. Cobb
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
Paul Keating
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
Charles, Count Talleyrand
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
Andrew Lang
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder
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Quote of the Times;
“Last month, Joe Biden claimed that no military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence in Afghanistan. Today, General Milley and General McKenzie both confirmed their recommendation that 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan. Which is it?" - Senator Tom Cotton
Link of the Times;
https://nypost.com/2021/09/26/alejandro-mayorkas-7-border-lies/
Issue of the Times;
Laconia Incident by David Stubblebine
12 Sep 1942 - 17 Sep 1942
The British RMS Laconia was a 600-foot long, 20,000-ton ocean liner of the Cunard Line launched in 1921 and capable of embarking 2,200 passengers. At the start of World War II, she was converted into a troopship and armed with deck guns, depth charges, and asdic equipment.
The German U-156 was a Type IXC submarine launched in 1941 and commanded from the beginning by the very capable and very successful Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartenstein. The U-156 was lost with all hands, including Hartenstein, midway through the war on 8 Mar 1943 but not before Hartenstein had sunk or damaged 21 ships totaling 116,000 tons. But that came later.
In the late summer of 1942, Laconia sailed to Cape Town, South Africa loaded with Italian prisoners of war. She left Cape Town bound for Freetown in West Africa carrying 463 officers and crew, 80 civilians (including the wife of the British Governor of Malta), 286 British Army soldiers, 1,793 Italian prisoners of war, and 103 Polish soldiers acting as guards. When Laconia was still 950 miles south of Freetown and 700 miles off the African coast, U-156 fired two torpedoes at her shortly after dark on 12-Sep-1942. Both torpedoes struck Laconia causing her to immediately go dead in the water and take on a heavy list. Hartenstein brought U-156 closer and saw several full lifeboats with hundreds more people in the water. He was surprised to hear the survivors shouting for assistance in Italian. Once Hartenstein learned what Laconia's compliment had been, he began straightaway conducting a large-scale rescue operation. Several survivors were taken inside the submarine, several more were put on the U-Boat's deck, and lifeboats were taken in tow.
About an hour after being torpedoed, the Laconia sank.
Hartenstein requested instructions from his headquarters and Admiral Karl Dönitz assigned three other submarines to assist. The Vichy-French Government also dispatched three ships toward the area. Hartenstein then broadcast a general, uncoded call for assistance in plain English and the British redirected two merchant ships to the area. U-156 remained on the surface for two days with her decks packed with survivors until joined by the other submarines. Together, they began heading for the African coast.
Four days after Laconia's sinking, the submarines were still making for West Africa but U-156 had become separated from the other submarines. In the middle of the day, Hartenstein was overflown by a B-24 Liberator long-range bomber from the 343rd Bombardment Squadron. The aircraft was transiting eastward from a very secret base on Ascension Island on toward Africa. U-156's deck was still crowded with survivors, she was towing as many as four lifeboats loaded with people, and she had a large Red Cross flag draped over the gun deck. The B-24 circled low over the U-Boat for 30 minutes assessing the situation and then flew off to the west. The B-24 pilot radioed a report of what he had seen and asked for instructions. The reply was clear and direct: "Sink the sub."
The B-24 returned and the pilot tried his best to do as he was ordered. He dropped bombs and depth charges that caused only minor damage to the submarine but destroyed two lifeboats and killed dozens of Laconia survivors (perhaps hundreds). Hartenstein had no choice but to cast the lifeboats adrift and put the survivors on his deck back into the sea so that he could dive and save his boat. As the B-24 was beginning its second pass, U-156 submerged. The B-24 pilot saw this and reported that the sub had been sunk. He was credited with a submarine "kill" and was later decorated for this action.
The following day, the Vichy-French ships arrived in the area and began collecting survivors. In all, 1,113 of Laconia's original compliment of 2,732 survived the sinking. Nearly all of the dead (88%) were Italian prisoners of war.
The attack on a submarine that was engaged in a mission of mercy while flying the flag of the Red Cross angered the Germans generally and Karl Dönitz in particular. In response to this attack, he issued a sweeping order to the entire U-Boat fleet that became known as the Laconia Order. The central portion of this order said: "All attempts to save survivors of sunken ships, also the picking up of floating men and putting them on board lifeboats, the setting upright of overturned lifeboats, and the handing over of food and water are to be discontinued. These rescues contradict the primitive demands of warfare to destroy enemy ships and their crews." This order changed the very definition of submarine warfare. Up to this point, German U-Boats operated more or less under the prevailing maritime doctrine known as the Cruiser Rules, which called for ships to engage in the kinds of actions Hartenstein had done in this case. The Laconia Order unleashed the new and brutal doctrine of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare that remained in place for the rest of the war with dire consequences for many merchant seamen.
During the post-war Nuremberg Trial of Karl Dönitz for various War Crimes, the Laconia Order was displayed prominently in the case against him, a decision that squarely backfired on the prosecution. The German side of the Laconia Incident came out for the first time and US Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz provided unapologetic written testimony on behalf of Dönitz saying the US Navy in the Pacific had engaged in very similar unrestricted submarine warfare since the very first day the US entered the war.
There were no War Crimes charges brought against the American officer who ordered the B-24 pilot to attack U-156, Captain Robert C. Richardson III; there was no discipline at all or even much of an inquiry from the Americans. Captain Richardson's reasons for giving the order to attack were that he believed the rules of war at the time did not permit combat ships to fly Red Cross flags, he feared the German submarine would attack the two British freighters responding to the area, and he assumed the German submarine was only rescuing Italian prisoners of war. Further, he believed the submarine may have discovered and shelled the fuel tanks at the secret Ascension Island base, cutting off a critical Allied resupply route to Africa and Asia. Captain Richardson went on to become a career US Air Force officer, retiring in 1967 at the rank of Brigadier General.
Werner Hartenstein, along with U-156 and all hands, were lost on their next cruise. They were victims of another aerial depth charge attack on 8-Mar-1943 while 350 miles east of Barbados, this time from a PBY Catalina patrol aircraft from US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-53 flying from Chaguaramas, Trinidad.
News of the Times;
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/how_is_tucker_carlson_still_alive.html
https://en-volve.com/2021/09/30/media-panic-over-news-that-fbi-organized-jan-6-riot-then-come-up-with-hilarious-excuse-its-not-a-big-deal-its-kind-of-normal/
https://defiantamerica.com/manufactured-crisis-a-map-of-the-cargo-ships-currently-incoming-and-in-holding-pattern-offshore-ignored-by-the-msm-photos-video/
https://principia-scientific.com/major-law-firm-confirms-fda-deceived-america-with-its-approval-of-pfizer-vax/
https://vdare.com/articles/the-february-6-1934-crisis-enabled-a-leftist-coup-that-caused-the-fall-of-france-sound-familiar
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/09/look-photo-taken-during-joe-bidens-booster-shot-sparks-questions/
https://news.yahoo.com/china-power-crunch-spreads-shutting-060437092.html
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/09/28/the-obscene-gaslighting-on-afghanistan-begins-as-bidens-house-of-cards-come-tumbling-down-n449289
https://fee.org/articles/most-of-europe-is-a-lot-poorer-than-most-of-the-united-states/
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/mlb-ships-jobs-to-china-to-build-closer-relationship-with-ccp/
https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/now-nba-players-sound-more-rational
https://rescue.substack.com/p/how-ivermectin-saved-louis-gossett
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/29/democrats-latest-3-5-trillion-spending-spree-includes-1-3-billion-media-bailout/
https://www.ff.org/fdrs-policies-prolonged-depression-by-7-years-ucla-economists-calculate/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/economy/bacon-prices-skyrocketing-pork/index.html
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ari-j-kaufman/2021/09/29/so-wheres-that-crisis-the-left-predicted-after-supreme-court-struck-down-eviction-moratorium-n1520570
Back?
Double standards are the worst.
One flag is enough.
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Blanche: Herb, if you don't stop snoring, I'm going to toss you out on your ear!
Herb: Does it upset you that much?
Blanche: Not just me, the entire congregation.
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Lines:
I'm waiting for Pfizer and Moderna to seek F.D.A. approval for vaccine dart guns.
Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich now says he will get the COVID vaccine after initially refusing. Had he stuck to his guns, he would have become the first Cougar to ever turn down a shot of anything.
32% of people say they are really good at being humble. I'm great at it!
Tristan Thompson has declared his love for Khloe Kardashian after their breakup. I'm no expert, but I think he's got those out of order.
An octopus at a Florida aquarium has learned how to paint using his tentacles. You'd think with 8 of them going at one time, it shouldn't take him long to do a house.
A 1981 Ford Escort Ghia that Prince Charles gave to Princess Diana sold at auction this week for $72,000. The fact he gave her a Ford Escort is a pretty telling sign about their marriage.
Bill Cosby's conviction was thrown out by a Pennsylvania court. Afterwards drinks were on him, yet most everyone passed.
A new study says that lack of sleep causes dementia and an early death. After hearing that yesterday, I was up all night.
33% of men say that torturing their siblings in the back seat is their fondest road trip memory as a child.
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Mr. Fienstein called the FM radio station and said "I've found a wallet with $400, a credit card and an ID card belonging to Mr. Smith, No.13,Halls Rd, Jackson, TN."
To which the radio jockey says " Oh, how honest. So you want his wallet returned back to him?"
Mr. Fieinstein says "NO... I just wanted you to play a sad song for him".
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You matter.
Until you multiply yourself by the square of the speed of light.
Then you energy.
Quote of the Times;
“One thing is for certain, China didn't call General Milley to warn us about the China virus.” – Bolen
Link of the Times;
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/pandemic-border-biden-haiti/
Issue of the Times;
No Racism? No Problem! College Racial Hoaxes Are Back by Kevin Downey Jr.
Don’t you just hate it when there is so little racism that you have to fake it?
The latest bogus racism looks a lot like all the other fake racism: anti-black graffiti, swastikas, and perhaps a noose, followed by local outrage and lots of virtue signaling. The culprit is arrested and liberals try to hide the vandal’s identity because… awww shucks, you know why.
Fake Racism
The recent “racist” attack at Emory University is no different. Graffiti depicting racial epithets was discovered near where two black women work, graffiti depicting a swastika was found near the office of a Jewish guy, and some vending machines were vandalized.
Outrage
Cue up the outrage. Emory University released a statement after the “attack” on their Autism Center:
These acts of racism and antisemitism are painful for all of us at the EAC and in the Emory community. They will not be tolerated and every effort will be made to bring the perpetrators to justice. Our priority remains the wellbeing and safety of our faculty, staff, learners, patients and their families, and upholding our values and Emory’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
“Diversity, equity and inclusion” - the three buzzwords of the left - are about to become important.
Arrest
Not surprisingly, the “bigot” isn’t a white goober in a MAGA hat. The culprit is a part-time, temporary Emory employee, who happens to be a middle-aged black man named Roy Lee Gordon, Jr. He was arrested last week and was somehow only charged with burglary in the second degree. I guess painting a swastika is no longer considered a hate crime.
Emory released the name of the offender but no information on Gordon’s race. So much for diversity, equity and inclusion. If their “priority remains the wellbeing and safety of our faculty, staff, learners, patients and their families,” why not tell the students and faculty there isn’t a racist prowling the campus after all?
A similar “attack” occurred at Albion College in Michigan. “KKK” graffiti and outrage. Roughly 450 virtue-signaling students and faculty marched against the “racism” found on campus and many boycotted classes.
Same old, same old: A black student was busted and the school didn’t mention the race of the criminal.
Earlier today, we identified the individual responsible for the racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in Mitchell Towers. The student, who was acting alone, acknowledged their responsibility for these incidents. (1/5)
— Albion College (@albioncollege) April 7, 2021
A 17-year-old BLM activist and student at Viterbo University set fire to her own dorm. At first, she claimed it was yet another racist attack against her. She later admitted to police that she set the fire herself, but pleaded not guilty in court. The school’s president released a statement saying that the police had a person of interest, and that that person would no longer be a part of the Viterbo community, but failed to even name the student.
A black student at Wayne State University in Detroit egged her own door, hoping to snag a leadership role at the school’s Black Student Union.
A letter full of racial hatred was recently sent to black student groups as the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The letter, full of grammatical errors, reads like a KKK manifesto.
This racist email was sent to Black-centered student groups at @UMassAmherst. The increase in anti-Black sentiments at the college is repulsive. Students of color deserve to feel safe on their campus! The administration MUST find who is responsible and hold them accountable NOW!
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) September 25, 2021
It’s too soon to say whether or not this is yet another hoax, but I will be watching for it at https://fakehatecrimes.org/
News of the Times;
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/09/27/massachusetts-state-police-covid-vaccine-mandate-resignations/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nc-hospital-system-fires-about-175-workers-in-one-of-the-largest-ever-mass-terminations-due-to-a-vaccine-mandate/ar-AAOUXBa
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/09/22/hot-takes-aclu-rightfully-ripped-to-shreds-after-butchering-an-rbg-quote-to-omit-women-n446772
https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-billionaires-hoard-wealth/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/not-making-headlines-az-audit-not-find-identity-86391-voters-dont-appear-exist-73-8-democrat-no-party-affiliation/
https://wendyrogers.org/41-legislators-from-multiple-states-write-a-letter-to-the-american-people-calling-for-a-50-state-audit-decertification-where-appropriate-and-possible-convening-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-wanted-2-million-to-help-libya-unfreeze-its-assets-while-joe-biden-was-vp-report
https://spectator.org/arctic-ice-coverage-is-up-substantially/
https://pjmedia.com/culture/stacey-lennox/2021/09/23/voting-with-their-feet-parents-taking-their-kids-out-of-public-schools-in-astounding-numbers-n1480656
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2021/09/28/japan-to-lift-all-covid-restrictions-n419019
https://www.thecollegefix.com/half-of-college-students-fear-expressing-ideas-in-the-classrooms-survey/
https://vdare.com/articles/kenn-gividen-woke-justice-blacks-allowed-to-murder-whites-now
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/after-mandating-masks-outdoors-oregons-active-covid-19-cases-increased-73-percent/
https://trendingpolitics.com/sickening-gofundme-nukes-fundraiser-for-asu-students-who-were-viciously-attacked-for-simply-being-white/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-09-25-covid-hospitalizations-due-to-other-causes.html
One flag is enough.
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Blanche: Herb, if you don't stop snoring, I'm going to toss you out on your ear!
Herb: Does it upset you that much?
Blanche: Not just me, the entire congregation.
*.*
Lines:
I'm waiting for Pfizer and Moderna to seek F.D.A. approval for vaccine dart guns.
Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich now says he will get the COVID vaccine after initially refusing. Had he stuck to his guns, he would have become the first Cougar to ever turn down a shot of anything.
32% of people say they are really good at being humble. I'm great at it!
Tristan Thompson has declared his love for Khloe Kardashian after their breakup. I'm no expert, but I think he's got those out of order.
An octopus at a Florida aquarium has learned how to paint using his tentacles. You'd think with 8 of them going at one time, it shouldn't take him long to do a house.
A 1981 Ford Escort Ghia that Prince Charles gave to Princess Diana sold at auction this week for $72,000. The fact he gave her a Ford Escort is a pretty telling sign about their marriage.
Bill Cosby's conviction was thrown out by a Pennsylvania court. Afterwards drinks were on him, yet most everyone passed.
A new study says that lack of sleep causes dementia and an early death. After hearing that yesterday, I was up all night.
33% of men say that torturing their siblings in the back seat is their fondest road trip memory as a child.
*.*
Mr. Fienstein called the FM radio station and said "I've found a wallet with $400, a credit card and an ID card belonging to Mr. Smith, No.13,Halls Rd, Jackson, TN."
To which the radio jockey says " Oh, how honest. So you want his wallet returned back to him?"
Mr. Fieinstein says "NO... I just wanted you to play a sad song for him".
*.*
You matter.
Until you multiply yourself by the square of the speed of light.
Then you energy.
Quote of the Times;
“One thing is for certain, China didn't call General Milley to warn us about the China virus.” – Bolen
Link of the Times;
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/pandemic-border-biden-haiti/
Issue of the Times;
No Racism? No Problem! College Racial Hoaxes Are Back by Kevin Downey Jr.
Don’t you just hate it when there is so little racism that you have to fake it?
The latest bogus racism looks a lot like all the other fake racism: anti-black graffiti, swastikas, and perhaps a noose, followed by local outrage and lots of virtue signaling. The culprit is arrested and liberals try to hide the vandal’s identity because… awww shucks, you know why.
Fake Racism
The recent “racist” attack at Emory University is no different. Graffiti depicting racial epithets was discovered near where two black women work, graffiti depicting a swastika was found near the office of a Jewish guy, and some vending machines were vandalized.
Outrage
Cue up the outrage. Emory University released a statement after the “attack” on their Autism Center:
These acts of racism and antisemitism are painful for all of us at the EAC and in the Emory community. They will not be tolerated and every effort will be made to bring the perpetrators to justice. Our priority remains the wellbeing and safety of our faculty, staff, learners, patients and their families, and upholding our values and Emory’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
“Diversity, equity and inclusion” - the three buzzwords of the left - are about to become important.
Arrest
Not surprisingly, the “bigot” isn’t a white goober in a MAGA hat. The culprit is a part-time, temporary Emory employee, who happens to be a middle-aged black man named Roy Lee Gordon, Jr. He was arrested last week and was somehow only charged with burglary in the second degree. I guess painting a swastika is no longer considered a hate crime.
Emory released the name of the offender but no information on Gordon’s race. So much for diversity, equity and inclusion. If their “priority remains the wellbeing and safety of our faculty, staff, learners, patients and their families,” why not tell the students and faculty there isn’t a racist prowling the campus after all?
A similar “attack” occurred at Albion College in Michigan. “KKK” graffiti and outrage. Roughly 450 virtue-signaling students and faculty marched against the “racism” found on campus and many boycotted classes.
Same old, same old: A black student was busted and the school didn’t mention the race of the criminal.
Earlier today, we identified the individual responsible for the racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in Mitchell Towers. The student, who was acting alone, acknowledged their responsibility for these incidents. (1/5)
— Albion College (@albioncollege) April 7, 2021
A 17-year-old BLM activist and student at Viterbo University set fire to her own dorm. At first, she claimed it was yet another racist attack against her. She later admitted to police that she set the fire herself, but pleaded not guilty in court. The school’s president released a statement saying that the police had a person of interest, and that that person would no longer be a part of the Viterbo community, but failed to even name the student.
A black student at Wayne State University in Detroit egged her own door, hoping to snag a leadership role at the school’s Black Student Union.
A letter full of racial hatred was recently sent to black student groups as the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The letter, full of grammatical errors, reads like a KKK manifesto.
This racist email was sent to Black-centered student groups at @UMassAmherst. The increase in anti-Black sentiments at the college is repulsive. Students of color deserve to feel safe on their campus! The administration MUST find who is responsible and hold them accountable NOW!
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) September 25, 2021
It’s too soon to say whether or not this is yet another hoax, but I will be watching for it at https://fakehatecrimes.org/
News of the Times;
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/09/27/massachusetts-state-police-covid-vaccine-mandate-resignations/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nc-hospital-system-fires-about-175-workers-in-one-of-the-largest-ever-mass-terminations-due-to-a-vaccine-mandate/ar-AAOUXBa
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/09/22/hot-takes-aclu-rightfully-ripped-to-shreds-after-butchering-an-rbg-quote-to-omit-women-n446772
https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-billionaires-hoard-wealth/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/not-making-headlines-az-audit-not-find-identity-86391-voters-dont-appear-exist-73-8-democrat-no-party-affiliation/
https://wendyrogers.org/41-legislators-from-multiple-states-write-a-letter-to-the-american-people-calling-for-a-50-state-audit-decertification-where-appropriate-and-possible-convening-of-the-us-house-of-representatives/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-wanted-2-million-to-help-libya-unfreeze-its-assets-while-joe-biden-was-vp-report
https://spectator.org/arctic-ice-coverage-is-up-substantially/
https://pjmedia.com/culture/stacey-lennox/2021/09/23/voting-with-their-feet-parents-taking-their-kids-out-of-public-schools-in-astounding-numbers-n1480656
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2021/09/28/japan-to-lift-all-covid-restrictions-n419019
https://www.thecollegefix.com/half-of-college-students-fear-expressing-ideas-in-the-classrooms-survey/
https://vdare.com/articles/kenn-gividen-woke-justice-blacks-allowed-to-murder-whites-now
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/after-mandating-masks-outdoors-oregons-active-covid-19-cases-increased-73-percent/
https://trendingpolitics.com/sickening-gofundme-nukes-fundraiser-for-asu-students-who-were-viciously-attacked-for-simply-being-white/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-09-25-covid-hospitalizations-due-to-other-causes.html
Third?
Why did Bilbo Baggins live for so long?
Because old Hobbits die hard...
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Trump should never have said; "sh!t hole countries."
The correct term is "turd world countries."
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A 15 year old boy was at the center of a Dallas County courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulation requiring that family unity be maintained to the highest degree possible.
The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried and said that they also beat him. After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him.
After two recesses to check legal references and confer with the child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Detroit Lions, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.
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In Scotland, they are so mean with money that every home has double glazing installed.
So their kids can't hear the ice cream truck.
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I was sitting on the toilet, angry and late for work.
Thinking to myself, "I don't have time for this sh!t!".
Quote of the Times;
Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don’t like. – Harvey
Link of the Times;
https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/24/over-3000-doctors-and-scientists-sign-declaration-accusing-covid-policy-makers-of-crimes-against-humanity/
Issue of the Times;
The Afghanistization of America by Victor Davis Hanson
We are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.
The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength. It still produces more goods and services than any other nation—China included, which has a population over four times as large. Its fuel and food industries are globally preeminent, as are its graduate science, computer, engineering, medical, and technology university programs. Its constitution is the oldest of current free nations. And the U.S. military is by far the best funded in the world. And yet something has gone terribly wrong within America, from the southern border to Afghanistan.
The inexplicable in Afghanistan—surrendering Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night, abandoning tens of billions of dollars of military equipment to the Taliban, and forsaking both trapped Americans and loyalist Afghans—has now become the new Biden model of inattention and incompetence.
Or to put it another way, when we seek to implant our culture abroad, do we instead come to emulate what we are trying to change?
COVID Chaos
Take COVID-19. Joe Biden in 2020 (along with Kamala Harris) trashed Trump’s impending Operation Warp Speed vaccinations. Then, after inauguration, Biden falsely claimed no one had been vaccinated until his ascension (in fact, 1million a day were being vaccinated before he assumed office). Then again, Biden claimed ad nauseam that he didn’t believe in mandates to force the new and largely experimental vaccinations on the public. Then, once more, he promised that they were so effective and so many Americans had received vaccines that by July 4 the country would return to a virtual pre-COVID normality.
Then came the delta variant and his self-created disaster in Afghanistan.
To divert his attention away from the Afghan morass, Biden weirdly focused on an equally confused new presidential COVID-19 mandate, seeking to subject federal employees, soldiers, and employees of larger firms to mandatory vaccinations—right as the contagious delta variant seemed to be slowly tapering off, given the millions who have either been vaxxed, have developed natural immunity, or both.
Consider other paradoxes. American citizens must be vaccinated, but not the forecasted 2 million noncitizens expected to cross the southern border illegally into the United States over the current fiscal year. Soldiers who bravely helped more than 100,000 Afghan refugees escape must be vaccinated, but not the unvetted foreign nationals from a premodern country?
Scientists now are convinced naturally acquired COVID-19 immunity from a previous infection likely provides longer and better protection than does any of the current vaccinations.
Yet those who suffered COVID-19, and now have antibodies and other natural defenses, must likewise be vaccinated. That anomaly raises the obvious logical absurdities: will those with vaccinations—in reciprocal fashion—be forced to be exposed to the virus to obtain additional and superior natural immunity, given the Biden logic of the need for both acquired and vaccinated immunity?
Tribal Lands
We have Afghanistanized the border as well, turning the United States into a pre-state whose badlands borders are absolutely porous and fluid. There is no audit of newcomers, no vaccinations required, no COVID-19 tests—none of the requirements that millions of citizens must meet either entering the United States or working at their jobs. Our Bagram abandonment is matched by abruptly abandoning the border wall in mid-course.
Yet where the barrier exists, there is some order; where Joe Biden abandoned the wall, there is a veritable stampede of illegal migration.
Coups, Juntas and Such
Third-World countries suffer military coups when unelected top brass and caudillos often insidiously take control of the country’s governance in slow-motion fashion. The latest Bob Woodward “I heard,” “they say,” and “sources reveal” mythography now claims that General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, discussed separating an elected commander-in-chief from control of the military. Woodward and co-author Robert Costa also assert that Milley promised his Chinese Communist military counterpart that he would tip off the People’s Liberation Army of any planned U.S. aggressive action—an odd paranoia when Donald Trump, of the last five presidents, has proved the most reluctant to send U.S. troops into harm’s way.
If that bizarre assertion is true, Milley himself might have essentially risked starting a war by eroding U.S. deterrence in apprising an enemy of perceived internal instability inside the executive branch, and the lack of a unified command. (So, Woodward wrote: “‘General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable, and everything is going to be okay,’ Milley said. ‘We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.’ Milley then added, ‘If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.’”)
More germanely, when Milley called in senior officers and laid down his own operational directives concerning nuclear weapons, he was clearly violating the law as established and strengthened in 1947, 1953, and 1986 that clearly states the Joint Chiefs are advisors to the president and are not in the chain of command and are to be bypassed, at least operationally, by the president.
The commander in chief sets policy. And if it requires the use of force, he directs the secretary of defense to relay presidential orders to the relevant theater commanders. Milley had no authority to discuss changing nuclear procedures, much less to convey a smear to an enemy that his commander in chief was non compos mentis.
Milley has been reduced to a caricature of a caricature right out of “Dr. Strangelove”—and is himself a danger to national security. After Milley’s summer 2020 virtue-signaling “apology” for alleged presidential photo-op misbehavior (found to be completely false by the interior department’s inspector general); after leaked news reports that Milley considered resignation (promises, promises) to signal his anger at Trump in summer 2020; after his dismissal of the 120 days of rioting, 28 deaths, 14,000 arrests, and $2 billion in damage as mere “penny packet protests”; after his “white rage” blathering before Congress; after the collapse of the U.S. military command in Kabul; and after his premature and hasty assessment of a U.S. drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians as “righteous,” Woodward’s sensationalism may not sound as impossible as his usual fare.
Milley should either deny the Woodward charges and demand a real apology or resign immediately. He has violated the law governing the chain of command, misused his office of chairman of the Joint Chiefs, politicized the military, proved inept in his military judgment and advice, and may well have committed a felony in revealing to a hostile military leader that the United States was, in his opinion, in a crisis mode.
Yet, Milley did not act in isolation. Where did this low-bar Pentagon coup talk originate? And who are those responsible for creating a culture in which unelected current and retired military officers, sworn to uphold the constitutional order and the law of civilian control of the military, believe that they can arbitrarily declare an elected president either incompetent or criminal—and thus subject to their own renegade sort of freelancing justice?
As a footnote, remember that after little more than a week of the Trump presidency, Rosa Brooks, an Obama-era Pentagon appointee, published in Foreign Policy various ways to remove the newly inaugurated president. Among those mentioned was a military coup, in which top officers were to collude to obstruct a presidential order, on the basis of their own perceptions of a lack of presidential rectitude or competence.
We note additionally that over a dozen high-ranking retired generals and admirals have serially violated the uniform code of military justice in demonizing publicly their commander in chief with the worst sort of smears and slanders. And they have done so with complete exemption and in mockery of the very code they have sworn to abide.
Two retired army officers, colonels John Nagl and Paul Yingling, on the eve of the 2020 election, urged Milley to order U.S. army forces to remove Trump from office if in their opinion he obstructed the results of the election—superseding in effect a president’s elected powers as well as those constitutional checks and balances of the legislative and judicial branches upon him.
We know that these were all partisan and not principled concerns about an alleged non compos mentis president, because none of these same outspoken “Seven Days in May” generals have similarly violated the military code by negatively commenting publicly on the current dangerous cognitive decline of Joe Biden and the real national security dangers of his impairment, as evidenced by the disastrous skedaddle from Afghanistan and often inability to speak coherently or remember key names and places.
In short, is our new freelancing and partisan military also in the process of becoming Afghanized—too many of its leadership electively appealing to pseudo-higher principles to contextualize violating the Constitution of the United States and, sadly, too many trying to reflect the general woke landscape of the corporate board to which so many have retired? Like tribal warlords, our top brass simply do as they please, and then message to us “so what are you going to do about it?”
The Constitution as Construct
How paradoxical that the United States has sent teams of constitutional specialists to Iraq and Afghanistan to help tribal societies to draft legal, ordered, and sustainable Western consensual government charters that are not subject to the whims of particular tribes and parties. Yet America itself is descending in the exact opposite direction.
Suddenly in 2021 America, if ancient consensual rules, customs, and constitutional mandates do not facilitate and advance the progressive project, then by all means they must end—by a mere one vote in the Senate. It is as if the centuries of our history, the Constitution, and the logic of the founders were analogous to a shouting match among a squabbling Taliban tribal council of elders.
Junk the 233-year-old Electoral College and the constitutional directive to the states to assume primary responsibilities in establishing voting procedures in national elections. End the 180-year-old Senate filibuster. Do away with the now bothersome 150-year nine-justice Supreme Court. And scrap the 60-year-old tradition of a 50-state union.
Impeachment was intended by the founders as a rare reset of the executive branch in extremis. Now it is to be a pro formaattack on the president in his first term by the opposite party as soon as it gains control of the House—without a special counsel, without witnesses and cross-examinations, without any specific high crimes and misdemeanors or bribery and treason charges. And why not from now on impeach a president twice within a year—or try him in the Senate when he is out of office as a private citizen?
When private citizen Joe Biden is retired from the presidency, will his political enemies dig up his sketchy IRS records alleging that he never paid income taxes on the “big guy’s” “10 percent” of the income from the Hunter Biden money machine?
American Tribes
We may think virtue-signaling pride flags, gender studies, and George Floyd murals in Kabul remind the world of our postmodern sophistication. Yet, in truth, we are becoming far more like Afghanistan in the current tribalization of America—where tribal, racial, and ethnic loyalties are now essential to an American’s primary identity and loyalty—than we were ever able to make Afghanistan like us.
When we read leftist heartthrob Ibram X. Kendi’s endorsement of overt racial discrimination or academic and media obsessions with a supposed near-satanic “whiteness,” or the current fixations on skin color and first loyalties to those who share superficial racial affinities, then we are not much different from the Afghan tribalists. We in America apparently have decided the warring badlands of the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks have their advantages over a racially blind, consensual republic. They are the model to us, not us of the now-discredited melting pot to them.
How sad in our blinkered arrogance that we go across the globe to the tribal Third World to teach the impoverished a supposedly preferrable culture and politics, while at home we are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.
News of the Times;
https://iotwreport.com/norway-reclassifies-covid-19-no-more-dangerous-than-ordinary-flu/
https://noqreport.com/2021/09/25/the-arizona-audit-did-not-prove-joe-biden-won-and-the-reason-that-narrative-exists-should-infuriate-you/
https://rsbnetwork.com/news/nearly-400000-voter-identities-processed-in-arizona-have-no-match-with-social-security-administration/
https://lampshadesandsoap.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/burned-alive-covered-in-excrement-starved-driven-to-insanity-how-the-allies-created-the-greatest-german-refugee-crisis-for-women-children-2-million-died-without-mercy/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/25/pinkerton-the-mask-comes-off-in-a-two-tier-society-where-theres-one-rule-for-elites-and-another-for-the-rest-of-us/
https://cleverjourneys.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/christianity-growth-during-trump-presidency-continues-despite-socialist-liberal-agenda/?preview=true
https://dailyreportusa.com/a-doctor-in-idaho-claims-that-those-who-have-been-vaccinated-for-covid-have-a-20-fold-increase-in-cancer/
https://nationalfile.com/nicki-minaj-open-your-fking-eyes-to-covid-censorship-twitter-ban-is-making-me-think-that-theres-something-bigger-going-on/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-is-using-wokeism-to-erode-american-democracy-author-says_4002348.html
https://trendingpolitics.com/fbi-undercover-agent-on-january-6-received-text-that-confirms-no-trump-led-plot-to-overturn-2020-election-knab/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/satans-power-defeated-tonight-high-school-football-team-defies-godless-school-board-gathers-team-prayer-field-following-game-video/
https://reason.com/2021/09/22/bureaucrats-and-politicians-seem-determined-to-cripple-a-lifesaving-alternative-to-smoking/
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/09/22/another-russian-ransomware-attack-on-americas-food-supply-because-nobody-takes-biden-seriously-n1480663
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/jet_blue_passenger_chokes_flight_attendant_storms_cockpit_but_most_media_most_neglect_to_mention_he_shouted_allah_as_he_attempted_to_hijack_the_plane.html
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hhs-child-uac-migrant/2021/09/22/id/1037552/
Because old Hobbits die hard...
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Trump should never have said; "sh!t hole countries."
The correct term is "turd world countries."
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A 15 year old boy was at the center of a Dallas County courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulation requiring that family unity be maintained to the highest degree possible.
The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried and said that they also beat him. After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him.
After two recesses to check legal references and confer with the child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Detroit Lions, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.
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In Scotland, they are so mean with money that every home has double glazing installed.
So their kids can't hear the ice cream truck.
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I was sitting on the toilet, angry and late for work.
Thinking to myself, "I don't have time for this sh!t!".
Quote of the Times;
Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don’t like. – Harvey
Link of the Times;
https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/24/over-3000-doctors-and-scientists-sign-declaration-accusing-covid-policy-makers-of-crimes-against-humanity/
Issue of the Times;
The Afghanistization of America by Victor Davis Hanson
We are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.
The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength. It still produces more goods and services than any other nation—China included, which has a population over four times as large. Its fuel and food industries are globally preeminent, as are its graduate science, computer, engineering, medical, and technology university programs. Its constitution is the oldest of current free nations. And the U.S. military is by far the best funded in the world. And yet something has gone terribly wrong within America, from the southern border to Afghanistan.
The inexplicable in Afghanistan—surrendering Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night, abandoning tens of billions of dollars of military equipment to the Taliban, and forsaking both trapped Americans and loyalist Afghans—has now become the new Biden model of inattention and incompetence.
Or to put it another way, when we seek to implant our culture abroad, do we instead come to emulate what we are trying to change?
COVID Chaos
Take COVID-19. Joe Biden in 2020 (along with Kamala Harris) trashed Trump’s impending Operation Warp Speed vaccinations. Then, after inauguration, Biden falsely claimed no one had been vaccinated until his ascension (in fact, 1million a day were being vaccinated before he assumed office). Then again, Biden claimed ad nauseam that he didn’t believe in mandates to force the new and largely experimental vaccinations on the public. Then, once more, he promised that they were so effective and so many Americans had received vaccines that by July 4 the country would return to a virtual pre-COVID normality.
Then came the delta variant and his self-created disaster in Afghanistan.
To divert his attention away from the Afghan morass, Biden weirdly focused on an equally confused new presidential COVID-19 mandate, seeking to subject federal employees, soldiers, and employees of larger firms to mandatory vaccinations—right as the contagious delta variant seemed to be slowly tapering off, given the millions who have either been vaxxed, have developed natural immunity, or both.
Consider other paradoxes. American citizens must be vaccinated, but not the forecasted 2 million noncitizens expected to cross the southern border illegally into the United States over the current fiscal year. Soldiers who bravely helped more than 100,000 Afghan refugees escape must be vaccinated, but not the unvetted foreign nationals from a premodern country?
Scientists now are convinced naturally acquired COVID-19 immunity from a previous infection likely provides longer and better protection than does any of the current vaccinations.
Yet those who suffered COVID-19, and now have antibodies and other natural defenses, must likewise be vaccinated. That anomaly raises the obvious logical absurdities: will those with vaccinations—in reciprocal fashion—be forced to be exposed to the virus to obtain additional and superior natural immunity, given the Biden logic of the need for both acquired and vaccinated immunity?
Tribal Lands
We have Afghanistanized the border as well, turning the United States into a pre-state whose badlands borders are absolutely porous and fluid. There is no audit of newcomers, no vaccinations required, no COVID-19 tests—none of the requirements that millions of citizens must meet either entering the United States or working at their jobs. Our Bagram abandonment is matched by abruptly abandoning the border wall in mid-course.
Yet where the barrier exists, there is some order; where Joe Biden abandoned the wall, there is a veritable stampede of illegal migration.
Coups, Juntas and Such
Third-World countries suffer military coups when unelected top brass and caudillos often insidiously take control of the country’s governance in slow-motion fashion. The latest Bob Woodward “I heard,” “they say,” and “sources reveal” mythography now claims that General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, discussed separating an elected commander-in-chief from control of the military. Woodward and co-author Robert Costa also assert that Milley promised his Chinese Communist military counterpart that he would tip off the People’s Liberation Army of any planned U.S. aggressive action—an odd paranoia when Donald Trump, of the last five presidents, has proved the most reluctant to send U.S. troops into harm’s way.
If that bizarre assertion is true, Milley himself might have essentially risked starting a war by eroding U.S. deterrence in apprising an enemy of perceived internal instability inside the executive branch, and the lack of a unified command. (So, Woodward wrote: “‘General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable, and everything is going to be okay,’ Milley said. ‘We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.’ Milley then added, ‘If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.’”)
More germanely, when Milley called in senior officers and laid down his own operational directives concerning nuclear weapons, he was clearly violating the law as established and strengthened in 1947, 1953, and 1986 that clearly states the Joint Chiefs are advisors to the president and are not in the chain of command and are to be bypassed, at least operationally, by the president.
The commander in chief sets policy. And if it requires the use of force, he directs the secretary of defense to relay presidential orders to the relevant theater commanders. Milley had no authority to discuss changing nuclear procedures, much less to convey a smear to an enemy that his commander in chief was non compos mentis.
Milley has been reduced to a caricature of a caricature right out of “Dr. Strangelove”—and is himself a danger to national security. After Milley’s summer 2020 virtue-signaling “apology” for alleged presidential photo-op misbehavior (found to be completely false by the interior department’s inspector general); after leaked news reports that Milley considered resignation (promises, promises) to signal his anger at Trump in summer 2020; after his dismissal of the 120 days of rioting, 28 deaths, 14,000 arrests, and $2 billion in damage as mere “penny packet protests”; after his “white rage” blathering before Congress; after the collapse of the U.S. military command in Kabul; and after his premature and hasty assessment of a U.S. drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians as “righteous,” Woodward’s sensationalism may not sound as impossible as his usual fare.
Milley should either deny the Woodward charges and demand a real apology or resign immediately. He has violated the law governing the chain of command, misused his office of chairman of the Joint Chiefs, politicized the military, proved inept in his military judgment and advice, and may well have committed a felony in revealing to a hostile military leader that the United States was, in his opinion, in a crisis mode.
Yet, Milley did not act in isolation. Where did this low-bar Pentagon coup talk originate? And who are those responsible for creating a culture in which unelected current and retired military officers, sworn to uphold the constitutional order and the law of civilian control of the military, believe that they can arbitrarily declare an elected president either incompetent or criminal—and thus subject to their own renegade sort of freelancing justice?
As a footnote, remember that after little more than a week of the Trump presidency, Rosa Brooks, an Obama-era Pentagon appointee, published in Foreign Policy various ways to remove the newly inaugurated president. Among those mentioned was a military coup, in which top officers were to collude to obstruct a presidential order, on the basis of their own perceptions of a lack of presidential rectitude or competence.
We note additionally that over a dozen high-ranking retired generals and admirals have serially violated the uniform code of military justice in demonizing publicly their commander in chief with the worst sort of smears and slanders. And they have done so with complete exemption and in mockery of the very code they have sworn to abide.
Two retired army officers, colonels John Nagl and Paul Yingling, on the eve of the 2020 election, urged Milley to order U.S. army forces to remove Trump from office if in their opinion he obstructed the results of the election—superseding in effect a president’s elected powers as well as those constitutional checks and balances of the legislative and judicial branches upon him.
We know that these were all partisan and not principled concerns about an alleged non compos mentis president, because none of these same outspoken “Seven Days in May” generals have similarly violated the military code by negatively commenting publicly on the current dangerous cognitive decline of Joe Biden and the real national security dangers of his impairment, as evidenced by the disastrous skedaddle from Afghanistan and often inability to speak coherently or remember key names and places.
In short, is our new freelancing and partisan military also in the process of becoming Afghanized—too many of its leadership electively appealing to pseudo-higher principles to contextualize violating the Constitution of the United States and, sadly, too many trying to reflect the general woke landscape of the corporate board to which so many have retired? Like tribal warlords, our top brass simply do as they please, and then message to us “so what are you going to do about it?”
The Constitution as Construct
How paradoxical that the United States has sent teams of constitutional specialists to Iraq and Afghanistan to help tribal societies to draft legal, ordered, and sustainable Western consensual government charters that are not subject to the whims of particular tribes and parties. Yet America itself is descending in the exact opposite direction.
Suddenly in 2021 America, if ancient consensual rules, customs, and constitutional mandates do not facilitate and advance the progressive project, then by all means they must end—by a mere one vote in the Senate. It is as if the centuries of our history, the Constitution, and the logic of the founders were analogous to a shouting match among a squabbling Taliban tribal council of elders.
Junk the 233-year-old Electoral College and the constitutional directive to the states to assume primary responsibilities in establishing voting procedures in national elections. End the 180-year-old Senate filibuster. Do away with the now bothersome 150-year nine-justice Supreme Court. And scrap the 60-year-old tradition of a 50-state union.
Impeachment was intended by the founders as a rare reset of the executive branch in extremis. Now it is to be a pro formaattack on the president in his first term by the opposite party as soon as it gains control of the House—without a special counsel, without witnesses and cross-examinations, without any specific high crimes and misdemeanors or bribery and treason charges. And why not from now on impeach a president twice within a year—or try him in the Senate when he is out of office as a private citizen?
When private citizen Joe Biden is retired from the presidency, will his political enemies dig up his sketchy IRS records alleging that he never paid income taxes on the “big guy’s” “10 percent” of the income from the Hunter Biden money machine?
American Tribes
We may think virtue-signaling pride flags, gender studies, and George Floyd murals in Kabul remind the world of our postmodern sophistication. Yet, in truth, we are becoming far more like Afghanistan in the current tribalization of America—where tribal, racial, and ethnic loyalties are now essential to an American’s primary identity and loyalty—than we were ever able to make Afghanistan like us.
When we read leftist heartthrob Ibram X. Kendi’s endorsement of overt racial discrimination or academic and media obsessions with a supposed near-satanic “whiteness,” or the current fixations on skin color and first loyalties to those who share superficial racial affinities, then we are not much different from the Afghan tribalists. We in America apparently have decided the warring badlands of the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks have their advantages over a racially blind, consensual republic. They are the model to us, not us of the now-discredited melting pot to them.
How sad in our blinkered arrogance that we go across the globe to the tribal Third World to teach the impoverished a supposedly preferrable culture and politics, while at home we are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.
News of the Times;
https://iotwreport.com/norway-reclassifies-covid-19-no-more-dangerous-than-ordinary-flu/
https://noqreport.com/2021/09/25/the-arizona-audit-did-not-prove-joe-biden-won-and-the-reason-that-narrative-exists-should-infuriate-you/
https://rsbnetwork.com/news/nearly-400000-voter-identities-processed-in-arizona-have-no-match-with-social-security-administration/
https://lampshadesandsoap.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/burned-alive-covered-in-excrement-starved-driven-to-insanity-how-the-allies-created-the-greatest-german-refugee-crisis-for-women-children-2-million-died-without-mercy/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/25/pinkerton-the-mask-comes-off-in-a-two-tier-society-where-theres-one-rule-for-elites-and-another-for-the-rest-of-us/
https://cleverjourneys.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/christianity-growth-during-trump-presidency-continues-despite-socialist-liberal-agenda/?preview=true
https://dailyreportusa.com/a-doctor-in-idaho-claims-that-those-who-have-been-vaccinated-for-covid-have-a-20-fold-increase-in-cancer/
https://nationalfile.com/nicki-minaj-open-your-fking-eyes-to-covid-censorship-twitter-ban-is-making-me-think-that-theres-something-bigger-going-on/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-is-using-wokeism-to-erode-american-democracy-author-says_4002348.html
https://trendingpolitics.com/fbi-undercover-agent-on-january-6-received-text-that-confirms-no-trump-led-plot-to-overturn-2020-election-knab/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/satans-power-defeated-tonight-high-school-football-team-defies-godless-school-board-gathers-team-prayer-field-following-game-video/
https://reason.com/2021/09/22/bureaucrats-and-politicians-seem-determined-to-cripple-a-lifesaving-alternative-to-smoking/
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/09/22/another-russian-ransomware-attack-on-americas-food-supply-because-nobody-takes-biden-seriously-n1480663
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/jet_blue_passenger_chokes_flight_attendant_storms_cockpit_but_most_media_most_neglect_to_mention_he_shouted_allah_as_he_attempted_to_hijack_the_plane.html
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hhs-child-uac-migrant/2021/09/22/id/1037552/
Tell?
I tried one of those "Try Not To Laugh" challenges, but barely made it halfway before cracking up.
I guess you could say... I fought the LOL, and the LOL won.
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Hired a handy man and gave him a list.
When I got home, only #1, 3 & 5 were done.
Turns out, he only does odd jobs.
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Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a masterpiece of military strategy, yet General Mark A. Milley says he can make it even better. Milley believes the book needs to be updated to integrate all the advancements America's modern military has made in military tactics and strategy. To that end, he's updating several of Sun Tzu's famous paradigms:
"If you think you might attack an enemy, pick up the phone and give 'em a heads up. It's only fair."
"You have to be careful not to surprise your enemy. They really don't like it."
"Treason is not treason if it is the lesser of two treasons."
"Know thy pronouns, and know thy enemy's pronouns."
"The supreme art of war is to surrender to your enemy without fighting."
“All war is white rage.”
"If thy commanding officer sends mean tweets, thou need not follow orders or the chain of command."
"The enemy of my friend is my friend."
“Keep your friends close and your enemies on speed dial.”
“You cannot betray the one to which you were never loyal.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for China.”
"When retreating, leave most of thy armaments behind so you know what you'll be up against next time."
"Chinese bros before American hoes."
"He who turns on bad orange man gets big book deal."
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I tried to make a 'fancy' sauce last night at dinner, I mixed vodka, gravy and nitrous oxide,
Sadly, all I managed was making myself an Absolut laughing stock!
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What should you do when nobody laughs at your science jokes?
Keep trying until you get a reaction.
Quote of the Times;
The American Dream has turned into a nightmare under President Biden and the radical Democrats. They have declared war against capitalism, thumbed their noses at the Constitution, and empowered our enemies abroad. Rest assured, we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian. - Governor Henry McMaster
Link of the Times;
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/study-miscarriage-rate-covid-vaccine
Issue of the Times;
Here's How to Tell Within 5 Minutes If Someone Isn't as Smart as They Think by Jeff Haden
Science says people who do one thing tend to be less intelligent. And less competent.
I ordered a turkey sandwich and asked for double meat. The guy behind me said, "You shouldn't eat meat." I turned and shrugged.
"Seriously," he said, his voice getting louder. "Meat is bad for you."
"Maybe so," I said. "But I like meat."
Evidently that was not the right response. "A friend turned me on to a vegan diet," he said. "Only fools eat meat. Meat is terrible for you. There's not a single reason to eat meat. The science is irrefutable." Then he paused and moved closer, narrowing his eyes to stare intently into mine.
"It's changed my life," he said.
"I'm not sure all meat is bad," I said. "But that's really cool how being a vegan has worked out for you. How long have you been doing it?"
"This is my second day," he said.
Ah.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
His certainty provides a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a type of cognitive bias described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in which people believe they're smarter and more skilled than they actually are. Combine a lack of self-awareness with low cognitive ability and boom: You overestimate your own intelligence and competence.
As Dunning, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, says, "if you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent. The skills you need to produce the right answer are the very same skills you need to recognize the right answer."
As Bertrand Russell said, "one of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."
Or as my grandfather said, "the dumber you are, the more you think you know."
(On the flip side, people with high ability tend to underestimate how good they are. High-ability individuals tend to underrate their relative competence, and at the same time assume that tasks that are easy for them are just as easy for other people.)
But I shouldn't be too hard on the gentleman who had just adopted a vegan diet. I once spent 20 minutes trying to convince a motorcycle mechanic my bike handled poorly because of issues like spring rate and steering head angle and frame height, only to learn I had unknowingly turned my rear shock's rebound damping to its lowest setting.
Wildly overestimating my knowledge made me a D-K.
We all know people who do the same. They take a position and then proclaim and bluster and pontificate while totally disregarding differing opinions or points of view. They know they're right -- and they want you to know they're right.
Their behavior isn't an indication of intelligence, though. It's the classic sign of a D-K.
Wisdom Is Never Found in Certainty
As Jeff Bezos says, "the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking."
That's because wisdom isn't found in certainty. Wisdom is knowing that while you might know a lot, there's also a lot you don't know. Wisdom is trying to find out what is right rather than trying to be right. Wisdom is realizing when you're wrong, and backing down graciously.
Don't be afraid to be wrong. Don't be afraid to admit you don't have all the answers. Don't be afraid to say "I think" instead of "I know."
As my Inc. colleague Jessica Stillman says, "next time you're trying to determine if someone is actually super smart or simply bluffing, don't ask whether they're always right. Instead, ask when was the last time they changed their opinion. If they can't name lots of times they were wrong, they're probably not as smart as they want to appear."
Which means they're probably a D-K.
News of the Times;
https://fee.org/articles/4-ways-americans-are-fighting-back-against-anti-science-covid-restrictions/
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/federal-govt-whistleblower-goes-public-with-secret-recordings-government/
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/09/20/26_governors_seek_meeting_with_biden_over_border_surge_146434.html
https://www.rt.com/usa/535454-carlson-vaccine-army-takeover-covid19/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-footage-lawsuit-release-insurrection
https://vdare.com/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-are-the-us-and-china-stumbling-toward-an-islands-war
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/09/14/as-biden-says-islam-is-peaceful-d-c-imam-calls-for-jihad-n1478681
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPkrU23DG5A
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-chair-powell-owned-least-15-million-municipal-bonds-ones-fed-bailed-out-2020
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/09/20/new-york-times-credits-jill-biden-as-a-doctor-but-attempted-to-hide-that-rand-paul-actually-is-one-n445757
https://vdare.com/articles/michelle-malkin-the-manufactured-border-crisis
https://humansarefree.com/2021/09/covid-cases-high-schools-in-fully-vaccinated.html
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/09/stew-peters-medical-worker-forced-to-get-vaccine-gets-both-legs-amputated-after-jab/
https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/21/afghan-refugees-bringing-numerous-diseases-to-us-including-measles-malaria-and-tuberculosis/
https://www.newswars.com/afghan-migrants-gang-rape-mentally-disabled-swedish-woman/
I guess you could say... I fought the LOL, and the LOL won.
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Hired a handy man and gave him a list.
When I got home, only #1, 3 & 5 were done.
Turns out, he only does odd jobs.
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Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a masterpiece of military strategy, yet General Mark A. Milley says he can make it even better. Milley believes the book needs to be updated to integrate all the advancements America's modern military has made in military tactics and strategy. To that end, he's updating several of Sun Tzu's famous paradigms:
"If you think you might attack an enemy, pick up the phone and give 'em a heads up. It's only fair."
"You have to be careful not to surprise your enemy. They really don't like it."
"Treason is not treason if it is the lesser of two treasons."
"Know thy pronouns, and know thy enemy's pronouns."
"The supreme art of war is to surrender to your enemy without fighting."
“All war is white rage.”
"If thy commanding officer sends mean tweets, thou need not follow orders or the chain of command."
"The enemy of my friend is my friend."
“Keep your friends close and your enemies on speed dial.”
“You cannot betray the one to which you were never loyal.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for China.”
"When retreating, leave most of thy armaments behind so you know what you'll be up against next time."
"Chinese bros before American hoes."
"He who turns on bad orange man gets big book deal."
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I tried to make a 'fancy' sauce last night at dinner, I mixed vodka, gravy and nitrous oxide,
Sadly, all I managed was making myself an Absolut laughing stock!
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What should you do when nobody laughs at your science jokes?
Keep trying until you get a reaction.
Quote of the Times;
The American Dream has turned into a nightmare under President Biden and the radical Democrats. They have declared war against capitalism, thumbed their noses at the Constitution, and empowered our enemies abroad. Rest assured, we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian. - Governor Henry McMaster
Link of the Times;
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/study-miscarriage-rate-covid-vaccine
Issue of the Times;
Here's How to Tell Within 5 Minutes If Someone Isn't as Smart as They Think by Jeff Haden
Science says people who do one thing tend to be less intelligent. And less competent.
I ordered a turkey sandwich and asked for double meat. The guy behind me said, "You shouldn't eat meat." I turned and shrugged.
"Seriously," he said, his voice getting louder. "Meat is bad for you."
"Maybe so," I said. "But I like meat."
Evidently that was not the right response. "A friend turned me on to a vegan diet," he said. "Only fools eat meat. Meat is terrible for you. There's not a single reason to eat meat. The science is irrefutable." Then he paused and moved closer, narrowing his eyes to stare intently into mine.
"It's changed my life," he said.
"I'm not sure all meat is bad," I said. "But that's really cool how being a vegan has worked out for you. How long have you been doing it?"
"This is my second day," he said.
Ah.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
His certainty provides a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a type of cognitive bias described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in which people believe they're smarter and more skilled than they actually are. Combine a lack of self-awareness with low cognitive ability and boom: You overestimate your own intelligence and competence.
As Dunning, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, says, "if you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent. The skills you need to produce the right answer are the very same skills you need to recognize the right answer."
As Bertrand Russell said, "one of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."
Or as my grandfather said, "the dumber you are, the more you think you know."
(On the flip side, people with high ability tend to underestimate how good they are. High-ability individuals tend to underrate their relative competence, and at the same time assume that tasks that are easy for them are just as easy for other people.)
But I shouldn't be too hard on the gentleman who had just adopted a vegan diet. I once spent 20 minutes trying to convince a motorcycle mechanic my bike handled poorly because of issues like spring rate and steering head angle and frame height, only to learn I had unknowingly turned my rear shock's rebound damping to its lowest setting.
Wildly overestimating my knowledge made me a D-K.
We all know people who do the same. They take a position and then proclaim and bluster and pontificate while totally disregarding differing opinions or points of view. They know they're right -- and they want you to know they're right.
Their behavior isn't an indication of intelligence, though. It's the classic sign of a D-K.
Wisdom Is Never Found in Certainty
As Jeff Bezos says, "the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking."
That's because wisdom isn't found in certainty. Wisdom is knowing that while you might know a lot, there's also a lot you don't know. Wisdom is trying to find out what is right rather than trying to be right. Wisdom is realizing when you're wrong, and backing down graciously.
Don't be afraid to be wrong. Don't be afraid to admit you don't have all the answers. Don't be afraid to say "I think" instead of "I know."
As my Inc. colleague Jessica Stillman says, "next time you're trying to determine if someone is actually super smart or simply bluffing, don't ask whether they're always right. Instead, ask when was the last time they changed their opinion. If they can't name lots of times they were wrong, they're probably not as smart as they want to appear."
Which means they're probably a D-K.
News of the Times;
https://fee.org/articles/4-ways-americans-are-fighting-back-against-anti-science-covid-restrictions/
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/federal-govt-whistleblower-goes-public-with-secret-recordings-government/
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/09/20/26_governors_seek_meeting_with_biden_over_border_surge_146434.html
https://www.rt.com/usa/535454-carlson-vaccine-army-takeover-covid19/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-footage-lawsuit-release-insurrection
https://vdare.com/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-are-the-us-and-china-stumbling-toward-an-islands-war
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/09/14/as-biden-says-islam-is-peaceful-d-c-imam-calls-for-jihad-n1478681
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPkrU23DG5A
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-chair-powell-owned-least-15-million-municipal-bonds-ones-fed-bailed-out-2020
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/09/20/new-york-times-credits-jill-biden-as-a-doctor-but-attempted-to-hide-that-rand-paul-actually-is-one-n445757
https://vdare.com/articles/michelle-malkin-the-manufactured-border-crisis
https://humansarefree.com/2021/09/covid-cases-high-schools-in-fully-vaccinated.html
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/09/stew-peters-medical-worker-forced-to-get-vaccine-gets-both-legs-amputated-after-jab/
https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/21/afghan-refugees-bringing-numerous-diseases-to-us-including-measles-malaria-and-tuberculosis/
https://www.newswars.com/afghan-migrants-gang-rape-mentally-disabled-swedish-woman/
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