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Putin Orders Partial Military Mobilization Amid Setbacks In Ukraine, Warns West 'It's Not A Bluff
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-Obits-
Military veterans are killing themselves at more than TWICE the official rate, mostly due to uncounted drug overdose suicides, says an alarming study on the real costs of wearing the uniform
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Rate of suicide tragedies of former service members ‘much higher’ than previously thought

  • Experts uncover uncounted suicides and drug overdoses to add to grim tally

  • True number of suicides and self-harm deaths is 2.4 times official rate

  • Deaths in Alabama, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, and Oregon were assessed

  • Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) stands by its own lower calculation

  • Veterans, service members and relatives can get help via counseling hotline on 877-424-3838 and select option 1
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2022 06:56 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Its about time this comes out, sort of. Most vets already know this. They also know nobody gives a shit. So why is this here? No comments, no one really cares. Even the VA cares less. But the VA does care about diversity, they care about trans gender feelings... DOD even set up a special office for it. But the troubled vets? Here's a number at the bottom of the page, gee thanks! Stop reminding us.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/21/2022 20:10 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Veteran gay rights protester, 74, who was at 1969 Stonewall Riots is attacked by pro-trans mob at Pride event for sign dismissing transgenderism as 'Woman Face'
  • Fred Sargeant, 74, was attacked at the 39th Burlington Pride Parade in Vermont, after showing up to protest the 'misogyny' and 'homophobia' of the trans community

  • Sargeant is famously known in the gay rights movement and was a co-founder of the first 1970 pride parade in New York City known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day march

  • He also participated in the 1960 Stonewall Riots in New York City that broke out after police raided a gay club in Greenwich Village

  • Fans were quick to support Sargeant, especially those who have recently detransitioned and others who have been pressured to transition
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Wasn't long ago the trans community was trying to take credit for the stonewall riots.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/21/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||



-Short Attention Span Theater-
Memes of the week.
Lots of memes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  heh, stealing them, I am.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/21/2022 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Repayment
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/21/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it fandango Friday yet?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2022 15:35 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin 'should have nuked Queen's FUNERAL' because so many Western leaders were there, Russian TV military pundit declares
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Thought it was just me.
  • Olga Skabeyeva said Russia should have nuked the Queen's funeral yesterday

  • Putin's 'Iron Doll' said funeral a perfect target with world leaders attending

  • Vile comment was made just hours after Her Majesty's body was laid to rest

  • Propagandists issuing threats to disguise extent of Russian failures in Ukraine
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So where is the problem, many people in LA where probably thinking the same. The scribes are calling this trash, “Elites “
I call them, rapacious class , a societal menace, an aberration that has to be eliminated.
Posted by: ACA JOE || 09/21/2022 2:58 Comments || Top||

#2  "Olga Skabeyeva said...."

Another queen, Lindsey Graham, said nasty things about V.V. Putin....guess it all evens out.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/21/2022 3:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Really? Does he really believe that if Putin had done that that Russia would exist afterword? Kamala would immediately just offer Putin Lewinskies but France and England would probably nuke Russia out of existence.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/21/2022 4:56 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ France and England would probably nuke Russia out of existence.

Any use by Vlad of a tactical nuke could see this become an instant reality.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2022 6:05 Comments || Top||

#5  ...His Majesty's Ships Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance might have something to say about that.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/21/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Skabeyeva did say 'all the best people', God help her she must watch too much TV. The leaders, so called are more simpleton than actual problem and a sub minority at that.

They could be dealt with in a simple ceremony. Line them all up, if they could summon that kind of concentration and then slap them all like the 3 Stooges. Might need a golf cart. But as with the genie tasked with straightening the hair they would be in a perpetual quandary and thus even more ineffective than they are if such a thing is even possible.

The bureaucrats are another issue altogether. Fortunately most capital cities are pretty flush with lamp posts and trees.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/21/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Gee, if there was anything that could convince the world that Russia isn't a rogue power, as much a danger to everyone as, say, Iran...

THIS WASN'T IT.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/21/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Putin and his buddies have way too much money in Brit banks to ever shoot at them.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/21/2022 10:07 Comments || Top||

#9  This Russian TV military pundit doesn't realize that removing half of our elites would remove half of the West's problems.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/21/2022 10:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Does this crunt realize just how much Russian oligarchs' high end London real estate it would destroy?
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 09/21/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||

#11  most attendees were probably like slo-joe and would be no great loss.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 09/21/2022 17:02 Comments || Top||

#12  Does this crunt realize just how much Russian oligarchs' high end London real estate it would destroy?
…….All of them with Israeli passports and citizenship, living in Eilat or Tel Aviv, and few of them in Dubai Toronto and Montreal
Posted by: ACA JOE || 09/21/2022 17:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Russia Channel 1: The CNN of Russia.
Posted by: badanov || 09/21/2022 17:46 Comments || Top||

#14  and again ACA JOE has a JOOOO issue
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2022 21:03 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Vax-injured advocates meeting with Feds
[American Thinker] A group of advocates for people injured by COVID-19 vaccines is meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. on Monday through Wednesday of this week to discuss the scope of the problem and the need for compensation for vax-injured people and survivors of those who have been killed by the vaccine and related issues.

React19 leaders will be meeting with federal senators, members of Congress, and Food and Drug Administration officials primarily to discuss changes they say need to be made to the government's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The VICP currently is not compensating most COVID-19 vaccine-injured people for their injuries, though many have reported being injured by one or another of the hastily approved government-mandated COVID-19 vaccines. Vax-injured advocates say a small percentage of all injures are being reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) because health officials are strongly discouraging doctors from diagnosing such injuries as such and reporting them.

The meetings were facilitated by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz., 8th District), who was made aware of the plight of COVID-19 vaccine-injured people and the need for changes to the VICP by her former constituent, Steve Wenger. He's a former Arizonan who was vaccine-injured in Arizona and now lives in Rogers, Minn. Wenger and other React19 members will stress to federal officials the need for changes to the VICP, among other issues, including the hasty approval of those vaccines despite what they say was inadequate testing of them.

Wenger reluctantly got the jab while working as a construction project manager on a Native American reservation in Arizona, where COVID-19 had hit the community hard. He was pressured to get the vaccine, and after he did, his health took a nearly deadly downward spiral, including being a quadriplegic for months. He's been diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a disorder where the immune system attacks the body's nerves and can ultimately paralyze.

Wenger's health has improved considerably due to treatment, but his balance and ability to walk are still greatly compromised since he has no feeling in his legs from the knees down. It's easier for him to ride his motorcycle than it is for him to walk with a cane, because walking on any uneven surface such as grass can make his ankles give out.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2022 03:21 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Oh, this is gonna get slow-walked until everybody is dead. No way the Feds will ever admit wrongdoing on this.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/21/2022 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm on my hand held. Could someone attach our flight of four C-123's spaying Agent Orange at 500 ft AGL graphic ?

Seems for some reason, appropriate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Come a long ways since merely suggesting that there possibly could be side effects, even mild ones, would get you labeled a flat-earther anti-science granny-killing genocidal maniac.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||


New York Times Attempts Portraying Linda Sarsour as a Victim of Russian Disinformation
[Red State] Trump Derangement Syndrome may have reached a new high — more accurately, low — on September 18th, 2022, when the New York Times printed an article blasting Russian trolls and disinformation for pushing the idea that Linda Sarsour was antisemitic. No, seriously.
The Hamas Louse? Nooo!
It singled out an element of the Women’s March that might, at first, have seemed like a detail: Among its four co-chairs was Ms. Sarsour, a Palestinian American activist whose hijab marked her as an observant Muslim.

Over the 18 months that followed, Russia’s troll factories and its military intelligence service put a sustained effort into discrediting the movement by circulating damning, often fabricated narratives around Ms. Sarsour, whose activism made her a lightning rod for Mr. Trump’s base and also for some of his most ardent opposition.

One might think it was Sarsour herself who was responsible for the belief she was antisemitic based on her own words and associations with individuals such as Louis Farrakhan. Obviously, this is not so. It’s all because Sarsour wears a hijab. And Trump, of course.

Linda Sarsour awoke on Jan. 23, 2017, logged onto the internet, and felt sick.

The weekend before, she had stood in Washington at the head of the Women’s March, a mobilization against President Donald J. Trump that surpassed all expectations. Crowds had begun forming before dawn, and by the time she climbed up onto the stage, they extended farther than the eye could see.

More than four million people around the United States had taken part, experts later estimated, placing it among the largest single-day protests in the nation’s history.

One can hear the protagonist in most every Scooby Doo cartoon crying out that he would have gotten away with it were it not for that meddling #OrangeManBad ... er, meddling Russians. How do these people get through the day without their minimum TDS requirement? But I digress.

Given how, during the 2020 campaign, the Biden camp first distanced itself from, then immediately pivoted toward apologizing to, Sarsour, it comes as no surprise that the NYT would attempt playing the RussiaRussiaRussia card in an effort to at least partially rehabilitate her. That, and the Times’ own antisemitic problems.

Freelance journalist John-Paul Pagano described Sarsour’s problem — or, perhaps more accurately said, the problem with Sarsour — in a 2018 story for The Atlantic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2022 02:55 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I like Gowron's Sarsour piece. Can we still meet the NYT September 18th publication deadline ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/21/2022 3:08 Comments || Top||

#2  The Old Guard is not keen on sharing their grift, but it never was really theirs to begin with.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/21/2022 11:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AOC Tearfully Recounts How DeSantis Yanked Her From Her Venezuelan Home And Human Trafficked Her To Martha's Vineyard Where She Died
[Babylon Bee] MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MA. — Critics of Governor Ron DeSantis are outraged at yet another death that has allegedly occurred thanks to his political exploits. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tearfully recounted how the Florida governor yanked her from her Venezuelan home and human-trafficked her to Martha's Vineyard, where she died.

Following her martyrdom, Ocasio-Cortez expressed hopes that Taylor Swift sing at her funeral.

After DeSantis recklessly shuttled .0001% of the nation's illegal immigrants to a couple of posh, liberal towns, Democratic lawmakers vowed to investigate whether any laws were broken. After finding no laws broken, the lawmakers then proposed a bill specifically aimed at preventing the use of immigrants as political pawns, appropriately named The Inflation Even More Reduction Act.

"This wasn't the first time I was human-trafficked and killed against my will," said Rep. Ocasio-Cortez from the steps of the City Hall in Martha's Vineyard, while soldiers escorted other Venezuelan immigrants out of the sanctuary city. "And so help me, if it means saving just one child from dying in one of Ron DeSantis' human trafficking airplanes, it won't be the last!"

Following the somber funeral service, the body of Ocasio-Cortez will be returned to her homeland where it will be fed to starving Venezuelans.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2022 11:40 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants



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