[Babylon Bee] FORT BENNING, GA—Billions of dollars of military equipment were destroyed today after several women were asked to park the tanks, even though women are really bad at parallel parking.
"Whoops, that was a mistake," said Staff Sergeant Darrel Cruthers, who gave the order. "I told Specialist Casey, Specialist Smith, and Corporal Bradley to carefully park the tanks along the curb over there, but I forgot that was a bad idea due to them all being women. Lesson learned I guess."
According to witnesses, the three women kept moving forward and back again and again while scuffing up the curb and leaning out the hatch to say "sorry" to each other very politely. After smashing several cars and destroying 18 tanks, the women finally gave up and left sticky notes on the tanks apologizing to whoever would have to use them next.
The corporal and two specialists have since been reassigned to the airfield to park helicopters.
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LOL. You sure this is the Bee?
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(American Greatness)The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The new secretary of defense relayed his "revulsion" for Carlson’s questioning the role of women in combat—a position that had been the military’s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby even compared Carlson to the Communist Chinese military: "What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host, or the Chinese military."
The now-cocky Department of Defense website further boasted, "Press Secretary Smites Fox Host."
So what was the biblically "smitten" Carlson’s crime?
He objected to the military’s fixation on race and gender in high-profile appointments—and questioned whether standards were relaxed to permit women in combat units.
Carlson objected that the Capitol is currently domestically militarized. More troops are on guard against purported American "insurrectionists" than are currently serving in war zones in Afghanistan.
He noted far too many defense secretaries—he singled out the current secretary, retired General Lloyd Austin—revolve in and out from corporate defense contractor boards and billets.
His subtext is that too many of our retired top brass virtue signal their wokeness, while otherwise seeking to make a great deal of corporate money from their prior and often future government service and contacts.
Aside from the fact that the military usually does not use its top officials to react to journalists, the Pentagon should try to refute Carlson rather than comparing him to the hostile Communist Chinese.
The Pentagon might instead seek to reassure the public that no physical standards for combat troops have been lowered to accommodate front-line soldiers of any sex.
Kirby also could attempt to reassure the public that defense secretaries and top-ranking Pentagon officials have not recently served on defense contractor boards before or after their tenures. He might object that defense budgets are not soaring in part due to administrative bloat and social welfare costs.
The Pentagon might also explain the ubiquitous barbed wire and troop presence in Washington—the greatest militarization of the nation’s capital since Confederate general Jubal Early marched on Washington in July 1864.
No one arrested in the January 6 violent Capitol assault was found to have possessed or used a firearm. No ringleaders were discovered planning a coup. Instead, the dangerous riot was more likely a one-time assault than an ongoing "armed insurrection."
Last summer during the nationwide Antifa and Black Lives Matter civil unrest, more than 280 retired top-ranking officers and security officials signed a letter blasting President Trump’s consideration of sending in federal troops to restore calm. They claimed the mere idea "risks sullying the reputation of our men and women in uniform in the eyes of their fellow Americans and of the world."
OK—yet none of those signees voiced objections when the Pentagon recently oversaw 30,000 National Guard troops within the borders of our capital.
The military has announced it is now conducting internal audits to root out American soldiers suspected of harboring supposedly dangerous ideas. What is going on?
One, the Left now dotes on what it envisions will soon be a woke military. It believes the chain of command can green-light progressive social changes—from women in combat units to subsidies for transgender transition surgeries to timely displays of massive force on the streets of Washington—without bureaucratic red tape or opposition from Congress.
Two, federal agencies in therapeutic fashion often dilute their traditional missions to accommodate social awareness agendas.
Under Barack Obama, NASA director Charles Bolden, a retired Air Force major general, sought to reset the space agency: "Perhaps foremost, he [Obama] wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."
"Feel good" does not ensure rockets reach outer space.
Three, there grows a new class rift between the rank-and-file military and the Pentagon’s top current and retired brass.
Increasingly, some brass spend extended tenures inside the Pentagon or within the beltway attached to the White House or Congress. They master the contours of the military-industrial complex, and profit from them upon retirement. Many acquiesce to now-orthodox progressive ideology omnipresent among federal bureaucracies and much of the Congress.
Whereas all administrations used to prioritize traditional military preparedness, now leftist administrations see the military foremost as a tool for accelerating their own progressive domestic changes.
The elite military echelon adjusts—given that careers and promotions are either enhanced or sidetracked accordingly.
As a result, many of our top brass often are far more politicized than in the past, and can grow more ideologically distant from their own lower-ranking officer corps and enlisted personnel.
This recent extraordinary, thin-skinned Pentagon effort to lump Tucker Carlson in with critics like the Communist Chinese military is one more illustration of this far larger—and increasingly dangerous—pathology.
BEIJING (AP) — China called on the U.S. to take measures to stem violence against people of Asian heritage after eight people were killed at Atlanta-area massage parlors.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Thursday that violence against Asians in the U.S. was "outrageous and distressing," leaving China "deeply concerned."
American authorities should "take practical measures to resolve issues of racism and racial discrimination at home, and earnestly safeguard and protect the safety and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens in the United States," Zhao told reporters at a daily briefing.
The 21-year-old suspect in Tuesday’s shootings reportedly told police the attack was not racially motivated. He claimed that he targeted the spas because of a "sex addiction." Six of those slain were identified as being of Asian descent and seven were women.
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This could shape up to be interesting. Godzilla vs King Kong.
Liberals love them some Chinese paychecks but also they've been covering up the crimes committed from members of the black community for decades. Can't stop the problem if you intentionally misdiagnose the problem.
Who do they love? My money is on the liberals loving the checks more.
Don't expect them to have any compunctions about Chinese sex slaves either.
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Think of the money to be made selling Beijing every instance of B on A brutality and crime. Beijing can tack to become the champion of all Asians in the country. Funding tort claims of racism by major institutions (Ivy League) and against DAs who allow this to go unpunished. Yep, caught between special interest groups could be fun to watch. Talk about deep pockets.
[AIER] Though money supply has been growing rapidly over the period since the Great Recession in 2008, not much of it has been put to productive use through credit extension to finance economic activity. Instead, the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) has incentivized the banking system to hold excess reserves at the Fed. The Fed’s policy was to provide a safe yield — the so named IOER, or interest on excess reserves — if reserves were parked in an account at the Fed. Required reserves.
Bank reserves zoomed to $2.8 trillion from $45 billion in 2010. Even required reserves, though a small portion of total reserves, increased from $43 billion to $208 billion by early 2020. Following the declaration of a Covid-19 pandemic, reserve requirements were dropped to zero on March 26, 2020. So, up until March last year, there has been no need by banks to take market risk when the Fed provided a safe return. That largely worked to sterilize the growth in money supply so that little new credit was extended to finance economic activity.
That is about to change. Interest rates are rising, suggesting greater opportunity costs (forgone returns) for not putting the money to work throughout the economy. It isn’t just banks that will face greater incentives. As a consequence, nominal economic activity will be stimulated and consumer price inflation is likely to reach higher rates. The implication is for increased monetary velocity that will push up nominal GDP and with it likely push consumer prices to 3.5% or more in the next few years. Our forecast is a full percentage point higher than the forecast embedded in the TIPS five-year forward inflation rate. While the Fed believes it has the tools to control price inflation, it has indicated that they are determined not to let it get out of control. To combat accelerating price inflation it will likely put them in a bind as they are forced to raise short-term interest rates. That will likely lead to adverse consequences for the stock market and real economic growth.
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Are the current crop of Dems trying to beat Jimmy Carter's record for stagflation in the 1970s? That era had double digit inflation and unemployment. Thank goodness Reagan replaced Carter. We had an era of prosperity--lowered taxes, good employment, low inflation that lasted into the Clinton Administration. Clinton tried to take credit for the Reagan recovery and good economy.
[NYPOST] "Democracy dies in darkness" has been The Washington Post’s oh-so-sanctimonious slogan these last four years, but what does promoting anonymous lies do for the republic?
The paper just had to run a correction that amounts to a huge retraction of its "scoop" last year about then-President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... supposedly telling a Georgia election official "find the fraud" in the state’s presidential voting so she could be "a national hero." The actual audio file of that conversation has turned up, and it turns out he used no such words.
Trump instead urged the official, who The Wall Street Journal identifies as La Belle Frances Watson, to conduct a thorough investigation of Fulton County votes out of concern that "something bad happened" to ballots from the area. He also said she was doing the "most important job in the country right now." No threats, no assertion of certain fraud, no suggestion that she rig a recount or anything else nefarious.
Oddly, the correction appears online as a preface to the original story, yet the headline still accuses Trump of possible obstruction.
The paper originally relied on a single anonymous source for the tale, without letting readers know what (if anything) made that source credible. But the "news" so fit the anti-Trump biases of so many that it still spread everywhere, even becoming part of the "evidence" at Trump’s second impeachment.
Then again, Trump’s first two years in office were plagued by an investigation over supposed collusion with Russia in the 2016 election — a scandal created almost entirely by Washington Post and New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... stories similarly based on anonymous sources, sources whose damning claims were utterly debunked by the Mueller investigation.
Prestige papers are supposed to be better than this, but now their standards go out the window if it serves their partisan agendas.
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Why aren't they being sued for libel?
These aren't journalists. They're paid political hacks, vicious creeps whose stock in trade is Big Lies and agitprop.
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...because SCOTUS struck down the Constitutional protection of equal standing before the law declaring 'public' individuals do not have the same protection as 'private' individuals when it comes to libel. The court system also has since bought in to the argument that an individual automatically becomes a 'public' individual when the corrupt lame stream media simply publishes their name.
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[Spectator] - Eighteen months ago, liberals attempted to link the spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes to white supremacist actions. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and the ADL highlighted the activities of white supremacist groups in upstate New York, despite all of the assaults being in the New York City metropolitan area, overwhelmingly perpetrated by black men. This culminated with black men killing Jews in Jersey City and Monsey, New York. Attempts were then made to rationalize them away rather than focusing on the anti-Semitic beliefs of black-nationalist groups, including the Nation of Islam.
The same dynamics seems to be unfolding with the current spike in anti-Asian hate crimes. In a New York Times article, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos argued that both the wave of anti-Asian and anti-Latino hate crimes reflect the racism of white Americans. He noted, ’A common racist attack against the Latino community — and now increasingly, Asian Americans — is the demand, "Go back to your own country!"’ Nancy Pelosi also links this spike to white supremacist views.
White supremacists should be vigorously combatted. However, most victimized groups live in central cities where there are few white supremacists. Members of the Asian, Latino and LGBTQ communities may have much more to fear from young alienated black men whose pent up anger spills over into destructive, violent behaviors.
Using 2019 FBI statistics — the most recently available data — I computed black and white perpetrators of hate crimes as a percentage of men 18 to 44 years old in their populations. The black rate was 40 percent, 76 percent and 303 percent higher than the white rate for hate crimes against the Asian/Pacific Island, Latino and LGBTQ communities respectively. Even more troubling, black rates for hate-crime assaults were 94 percent higher while for property destruction and vandalism, they were 14 percent lower than white rates.
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Yup. Absolutely do NOT allow any dissent from the anti-white narrative. When blacks attack Jews, it's whitey's fault. When blacks attack Asians, it's still whitey's fault. It's never black people's fault, keep the focus on the Main Enemy.
"Critical race theory," "Black Lives Matter", SPLC, Democrat fantasies about "white supremacism": all of these are built upon lies. Concocted out of thin air.
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Wife watches the TV. Couple weeks back when this narrative was being introduces, big media wet their pants when a white dude in NYC jumped an Asian fellow.
Problem was, as I found the same picture a couple days later, the perp wasn't white, the picture used by the media was lightened enough to make him look white at the quick glance the segment gave.
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
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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.
[Babylon Bee] FORT BENNING, GA—Billions of dollars of military equipment were destroyed today after several women were asked to park the tanks, even though women are really bad at parallel parking. 
BEIJING (AP) — China called on the U.S. to take measures to stem violence against people of Asian heritage after eight people were killed at Atlanta-area massage parlors.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
