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After the roller coaster crack was discovered and front page news, the park CEO made the statement that safety was the number one priority and the ride is inspected daily.
He probably meant safety and inspections the same way Oceangate does ( or did, now that they are dead in the water, so to speak).
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[Via CFP] There is now a Chinese invasion of the U.S. homeland.
Chinese migrants are entering the United States on foot at the southern border. Almost all are desperate, seeking a better life for themselves and their children. Some, however, are coming to commit acts of sabotage.
Many [Chinese], however, are short-circuiting the long waits at the consulates. At the southern border, Chinese migrants are entering the United States in unprecedented numbers.
Once here, the military fighters can link up with China's agents already in place or Chinese diplomats.
How many of the PLA fighters have slipped into the United States this way? Some estimate 5,000, others 10,000. Those numbers sound high, but whatever the actual figure more are coming.
These are China's shock troops. The concern is that, on the first day of war in Asia they will take down America's power lines, poison reservoirs, assassinate officials, start wildfires, spread pathogens, and create terror by bombing shopping malls and supermarkets.
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This should scare the crap out of you, our critical infrastructure is incredibly vulnerable to disruption and the resulting chaos will paralyze the Clown Show. Second and third order consequences of the loss of sequential sections of the main high-voltage transmission grid for example. Consider the places in the West where millions are dependent for water shipped hundreds of miles, and pumped over terrain all in unguarded, above-ground systems. How big a fifth-column do you think is needed to overwhelm Military/FEMA response assets with dozens of widely placed events? Now imagine such a crescendo of events timed to an external demand for war-fighting in the South China Sea.
#6
^ “Women have a harder time with upper body strength; people who are in more support MOSs like cyber don’t necessarily focus on the same kind of fitness as people who are in combat MOSs,” Sylvester said
The Bulge, Tet, the 507th Maintenance Company in Iraq. At anytime, everyone is an infantryman.
Remember that female Army truck driver who was captured in Iraq? She wasn’t intended to be anywhere near the tip of the spear. But suddenly combat found her and her team, who were not at all ready for it, and they paid the price.
#9
Or all those secretaries in their nice high heels in the Pentagon on 9/11.
The son of a local friend just retired after four years in the Marines — he was an armour specialist attached to their Special Forces. A very nice kid, but he is decidedly chunky. This did not suddenly happen after he took off the uniform, which makes me wonder how he kept up when they were out in the field in the exotic locales that kind of work requires.
[American Greatness] The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000.
The antecedents to its current madness were once previewed in the old party’s extremist wing of campus radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. They were accentuated by Black Lives Matter and Antifa during the Obama years, forged during the COVID lockdown and George Floyd riots, and polished during the era of Trump derangement syndrome.
On almost every issue, Democrats have repudiated their prior reverence for the Supreme Court.
They distrust individual liberty and free expression.
They now worship the money and clout of corporate America.
Racial ecumenicalism and integration are seen as passé.
There is little need for borders to protect vulnerable American workers, given the advantages of inviting in millions of poor illegal immigrants without audits.
Democrats have transmogrified into a Soviet-style socialist binary of rich and poor, run by an elite nomenklatura that dictates its orders to its foot soldiers of the underclass. An entire new left-wing vocabulary—clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, chumps, ultra-MAGA, semi-fascists—has come to express their hatred of the middle class.
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On almost every issue, Democrats have repudiated their prior reverence for the Supreme Court.
Remember when San Fran Nan said a Supreme Court decision was like the word of God?
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The Word of the Lord, or of Gort,
Once Supreme, now supremacist, [snort]
All-knowing while Roe-ing,
Starts Democrats crowing,
"Woohoo, we're aborting the Court!"
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The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000.
Hanson give Bill Clinton too much credit. Actually, he gives Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter too much credit as well.
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07/07/2023 12:09 Comments ||
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Democrats have transmogrified into a Soviet-style socialist binary of rich and poor, run by an elite nomenklatura that dictates its orders to its foot soldiers of the underclass.
I suspect it's more like the old Soviet Politburo than a nomenklatura...more like a small committee that uses Zoom or something like it for their meetings. In the old Soviet Union, the guy who controlled the Politburo was the guy with all the power...guys like Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. In the current American Politburo, Baraq might be a member, he is certainly the front man, but I'd be surprised if he's the chairman. We can only guess about who that person might be.
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#5
Head of Sales would be my guess, twitting about oppression while hanging with Tom Hanks on a luxury yacht in the Aegean.
Drug trafficking controls the government, which declared war on drug trafficking 17 years ago. In most of the provinces, the real power is in the hands of armed gangs of drug cartels. In recent years, the Mexican cartels have become full-fledged multinational corporations and control business in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, and in recent years there has been an inauguration of their criminal activities in Chile. Thousands of yesterday's military are hired by the cartels on salaries many times higher than the previous ones, and tens of thousands of police officers have been transferred to the army to increase its combat capability.
The murders and kidnappings of social leaders, along with journalists who are inconvenient for the authorities, are attributed to organized crime, without mentioning that it is organized and armed from above, and precisely by those whose duty it is to fight it.
The number of victims of the “war on drugs” in Mexico, officially launched by the government in 2006, according to official figures, from January 2006 to May 2021, is about 35,000 people, a figure that does not include 72,000 Mexicans who remain among the “missing,” that is, the abducted, murdered and secretly buried, those whose bodies are found almost every week in a country that has become a giant mass grave. The real criminals among those killed in clashes between clans and with the police - no more than 15% of the total, the rest are passers-by and suspected of collaborating with the authorities.
Although the power at its very top - the level of the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Administration, subordinate to the US Department of Justice - is more like a business administrator than an enemy. The United States is the main customer of drugs and their distributors - the main beneficiary of the business, from which the producing countries, in addition to hundreds of thousands of dead, have no more than 5% of the profit.
All prohibitions and all military operations against drug trafficking are more like a theater to maintain high market prices. In Colombia, the coca growing areas are the area with the most dense military and police presence. The Colombian army and police are forces directly funded by the United States. The pro-American government of the country created a model of agriculture, in which it is not profitable for starving peasants to grow anything but coca,
It is said that the weekly income of the average Peruvian cartel is several times higher than the entire state budget for the fight against drugs. Drug trafficking actively participates in democracy, financing presidential elections in most countries of Latin America, and often at the same time politically opposing forces.
Among other things, drug trafficking is an ideal pretext for constant US military and political interference in the affairs of any of the countries in the region. And if you dig a little deeper into the cesspool of history - the drug cartels in Latin America are the same trouble-free product of the US intelligence services as Al Qaeda, ISIS or the Kiev government.
The solution to the problem of drug trafficking and the related international mega-business lies not in increasing repression, but in creating decent living conditions for the population of raw material-producing countries and in changing the values of consumer societies. Instead of wanting a chemical escape from an unbearable possibility, people should feel the need to change it.
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Good. I’ll like to see our government respond but Bidens. The greenies will be squeezing to lift Chinese sanctions. It would be bad optics for the administration but Joe is at the point where he needs spotters to board an aircraft. We have reached that point where optics no longer matter as he officially embraces lame hair sniffing duck status.
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[Blaze] While the George Floyd riots may be over in America, they seem to have just started in France.
"It almost seems like France is experiencing their own ’Summer of Love’ that infamously happened after George Floyd’s death on video went viral," Lauren Chen comments.
French police are under the activists' microscope now after Nahel M, a 17-year-old boy of Algerian and Moroccan descent, was shot and killed last week by a police officer. The boy was attempting to flee a traffic stop in a Paris suburb.
In the video of the shooting, police officers are seen pulling Nahel over before he attempts to drive away. One officer is pointing a gun at Nahel and fires as the boy begins to flee.
That officer has been detained on homicide charges as an investigation is conducted.
Riots and protests have since erupted across French cities, with hundreds of cars and buildings being destroyed and looted — and some law enforcement officials are even calling it a civil war.
[Just The News] Retired FBI executive Scott Nelson is criticizing the Justice Department for taking roughly five years to investigate Hunter Biden on alleged tax and gun violations, only to bring charges so light they appear politically motivated. Yes indeed, they've noticed that we've noticed. They simply don't give a damn. Comments welcomed of course.
"The Department of Justice, in my humble view, and in the view of many others, they're slow walking," he said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "They undercharged that to a point of it being almost ludicrous."
Biden in late June reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in which he would admit to two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony gun charge that could later be dismissed.
The Justice Department recommends he receive probation, and Biden, 53, is expected to go before U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika on July 26 in Wilmington, Del., to formally agree to the plea agreement, which is expected to spare him time behind bars.
Nelson spoke following recent whistleblower allegations from two IRS agents who worked on the case and contend Biden administration officials worked to slow the investigation and to prevent the worst charges from being brought against the president's son.
"I also understand ... that prosecution of him was downgraded to the point, I mean, I hate this word, but it's called a 'nothing burger.' And it became a nothing burger," he said. "Not only did he avoid paying taxes on a lot of money, but he avoided jail time for a gun-related charge that under any other conditions would have been prosecuted much more severely."
#7
Aw Hell, we been at Ludicrous Speed for almost 7 years now.
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07/07/2023 9:08 Comments ||
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#8
Found elsewhere
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07/07/2023 9:25 Comments ||
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#9
There is one silver lining - the evidence to date strongly suggests Hunter committed tax fraud as far back as 2014; there's no statute of limitations on fraud, so Trump or DeSantis can go get him in a few years.
#11
The Hunter plea deal is predicated on there being no other charges in the pipeline. It wipes the slate clean for most stuff because the Feds are in the possession of all the evidence on the laptop. If it is covered on the laptop, it gets wiped out by the plea, otherwise his lawyers will claim a piece meal prosecution. That is my non-lawyer understanding.
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All it takes is a federal judge ruling the plea bargain was made in bad faith. If the SCROTUS upholds such a determination, it's off to the races.
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#13
Many are finally noticing that there are lots of powerful people who are, in fact, above the law. It's just that you aren't one of them!
[The Wire] A new study has found that obese people are at risk for being diagnosed with more cancers than previously thought.
Those with larger body mass index (BMI) measurements have been associated with 13 different types of cancer, but a new study published in Nature Communications shows that the number of cancers connected to obesity has grown to 18. Previously, obesity was linked to breast, bowel, pancreatic, and kidney cancers, but according to the new study, being overweight is linked to a number of other common cancers too.
"This study shows that longer duration, greater degree, and younger age of onset of overweight and obesity during early adulthood are positively associated with risk of 18 cancers, including leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and among never-smokers, head and neck, and bladder cancers which are not yet considered as obesity-related cancers in the literature," the study’s authors wrote. "Our findings support public health strategies for cancer prevention focussing on preventing and reducing early overweight and obesity."
The study examined more than 2.6 million Spanish adults who were 40 or younger and cancer free in 2009, The Independent reported. Those included in the study were observed for nine years and 225,396 of them were diagnosed with cancer. The study found that those who were obese in early adulthood appeared to have an increased risk of cancer, along with those who were obese for a longer period of time.
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Perhaps you have noticed as have I, the clinically obese centenarian is about as rare as the white Rhino. I can reference no particular science, just an observation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Via CFP] There is now a Chinese invasion of the U.S. homeland.
[Blaze] While the George Floyd riots may be over in America, they seem to have just started in France.
[Just The News] Retired FBI executive Scott Nelson is criticizing the Justice Department for taking roughly five years to investigate Hunter Biden on alleged tax and gun violations, only to bring charges so light they appear politically motivated.
