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Fun! Some of those are basic people stuff, though mostly I have to sneak using the chainsaw when Mr. Wife isn’t looking because he worries that I’ll accidentally cut off his favourite bits.
#2
That sorta thing is why I dson't use power tools anymore. Be careful!
I know. I sound like Olive Oyl...
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08/21/2021 11:23 Comments ||
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<3 I haven’t cut off anything yet, Fred, and I promise I’m careful. When I bought Mr. Wife his first chainsaw, I also gifted him the safety gear that should go with it.
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The only Pat Mac story I will tell (I have a few...) Circa spring 2002 I was at Bragg doing stuff and Mac about the DC sniper. He said - in no uncertain terms - there ain't no white van. Its 2 dudes shooting out of the truck of an old beater US model sedan. I asked why do you think that to which Mac replied - causes that's how I'd do it. This was 5 months before the shooters were caught. He's a legend in that community and rightfully so.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy ||
08/21/2021 13:02 Comments ||
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Long. Like Besoeker's piece about the SigInt (if that’s the right term) translator, worth reading every word for lessons learnt.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] While watching the West’s lamentable flight from Afghanistan this week, it has been impossible not to cast back my mind 20 years. To ‘liberated’ Kabul in the first spring after what was then seen as the Taliban’s final defeat.
Much of the outskirts of the capital lay in ruins after two decades of war. But peace had come. And so I found myself perched in the gods of a derelict cinema that had been closed down by the joyless mullahs of the ousted regime.
Unfolding below me was apparent proof of an extraordinary sea change; as sudden and antithetical to what had gone before as the shaming scenes at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport are to us today.
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[AmericanSpectator] For the first time since 2001, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... controls most of Afghanistan. US intelligence estimates made public just over a week ago predicted that the Afghan government could fall within 90 days. It fell in less than a week. While most of the country, including the capital of Kabul, is under Taliban control, there is a brewing resistance in the Panjshir Valley.
First, it is worth noting just how disastrous the Afghan National Army performed in their "resistance" against the Taliban. US intelligence should have expected such a disastrous outcome. Biden and various other administration officials have repeated the line that the Afghans had 300,000 military personnel. This is a blatant lie that even legacy media acknowledges. This figure includes nearly 100,000 Afghan National Police officers. Even with this fake third, 200,00 supposedly "well-trained" and certainly well-equipped troops were expected to hold against a roughly 75,000-man strong Taliban equipped with Soviet-era arms. The Afghan National Army, which the United States spent decades training and billions of dollars equipping, fell because of corruption and a lack of will. This 200,000 figure is likely a large overestimation, as corrupt Afghan military officials create "ghost soldiers" to line their pockets. When Afghan military leaders included fake or dead people on their rosters, they can pocket their salaries, wasting money and creating a false sense of military strength.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] Christopher Skeet
There's not much to say that hasn't already been said regarding Biden's unconditional surrender to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , and it's only the first week. Bookshelves will be filled with analyses of these events, and we won't understand their full ramifications for decades. My two cents, for what they're worth, are that the left doesn't consider the fall of Kabul and the betrayal of our allies to be a tragedy. Rather, this is deliberate foreign policy strategy, and it's right on track.
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#1
I'm getting the feeling that every Federal employee needs to be fired at a bare minimum; the Rantburg dictum for not advocating death for certain Americans hangs precariously in the balance. They have brought us to this point, not us.
#3
I think Skeet is right. The Left hates this country and all of it's values, to the degree they are even capable of allegiance it is essentially to anything but us. The dates were far from random and even a compulsively wrong nit wit like Biden could grasp the immediate importance of Bagram.
[SCEPSIS] During the Revolution and the Civil War, nationality became one of the most pressing issues. In the agitation and propaganda materials of the anti-Bolshevik forces, he began to occupy not the last place. The theme of the Jews, their responsibility for the military-revolutionary events invariably found their place in public discourse. This issue was presented in the most detail in the work of OV Budnitskiy, who examined the degree of participation of Jews on the side of various political forces during the Civil War [1]. A thorough analysis of the history of national relations was done in the works of Tomsk researchers IV Nam [2, 3, 4, 5] and NI Naumova [6, 7]. Omsk historian A.V. Sushko gradually covered various aspects of the national question in Siberia during the functioning of anti-Bolshevik political regimes [8, 9, 10, 11].
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[FOX] States with Republican governors are leading the U.S. economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, while those run by Democrats — which tended to impose lengthier and stricter lockdowns on businesses — are faced with significantly higher unemployment rates.
Labor Department data published last week shows the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates are all led by GOP governors — while the 10 states with the highest percentage of out-of-work Americans are run by Democratic governors.
Blue states including Nevada (7.7%), New York (7.6%), New Mexico (7.6%), California (7.6%) and New Jersey (7.3%) had substantially higher unemployment rates than the national average of 5.4% in July, the data shows. By comparison, red states — such as Nebraska (2.3%), Utah (2.6%), New Hampshire (2.9%), South Dakota (2.9%) and Idaho (3%) — were well below the national average.
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Yes, and the media constantly attacks them. Soon Flu season will be upon us and never too soon for a Democrat. They want this to churn on month after month, year after year.
[Esquire] The Iowa State Fair is at full boil. It’s a little light on the political tourists because it’s not the summer before a year ending in 0, 4, 8, 12, or 16. Which is not to say that it is entirely devoid of migrant politicians from other states, or the media they drag around in their wake. On occasion, these are politicians you should keep an eye on because they have national aspirations. On other occasions, these are politicians you should keep an eye on to make sure they don’t get into the poultry barn and start biting the heads off all the chickens. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
[EmeraldDB3Substack] Three years ago, I wrote an essay on “The Collapse of the Never Trumpers" that caused quite a stir. Rush Limbaugh talked about it on his radio show, while Nigel Farage congratulated me in the halls of Parliament. Hundreds of people wrote me "thank you" notes. The haughty Never Trumpers, not so much. My modest proposal was that the 3% of Republicans who never approved of President Trump should stop pretending that they were spokesmen for the 97% of Republicans who did. In the corporate media, where 97% of that 3% were keeping a high profile on cable news, the distortions became preposterous. This seemed to me elementary logic. But for the tiny group of delusional Never Trumpers, my modest proposal fell on them like a ton of bricks.
In the end, my essay ignited a kind of public war among conservative intellectuals that helped to bring down the neocons and the Never Trumpers in the media. Not only did the Weekly Standard shut down, but the National Review kicked out Jonah Goldberg, and the neocon's peewee prince Bill Kristol went to work for Democrats - all in six months. How did that happen? They had no base of support outside of the Beltway, and they were in willful denial about their own unpopularity. This dynamic was obvious at all levels of media, but let's take a high visibility example: the old panel at Fox New's Special Report with Bret Baier. Now, Bret Baier is obviously a very quiet Never Trumper but if you stacked your daily panel with Stephen Hayes, A. B. Stoddard, and Jonah Goldberg and these were the “conservative” pundits you picked to defend President Trump's policies then it's obvious what Bret was doing.
A week or so after my essay appeared, I got a very short and shrill phone call from one of Bret's staffers - who was a rabid Hillary Clinton supporter, no less. When I picked up the call, she was angry and breathless and did not want to do small talk. She said: "You don't know what you've done, you don't understand the damage you've caused to this show." I asked her to calm down, and be specific. She hung up instead. Read the rest at the link
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The leftist mind focuses on harm reduction as its only value. No wonder she was angry, he wrecked the show with his truth bombs. That she might be in the wrong doesn't occur to her, and neither does that other people might have different values.
#2
"Indeed, a wipe out is exactly what conservatives who betrayed the conservative movement during the Trump Era deserved and they all bit the dust: Kristol, Hayes, Goldberg, French, Frum, Sykes, Sabato, Charen, Ponnuru, Gerson, Noonan, Meachum, Boot, Brooks, Lowry, Scarborough, Stephens, Erickson and Rubin. It sounds like a list of demented reindeer. Their stockings will always be stuffed now with coal."
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08/21/2021 13:21 Comments ||
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Congrats. No, seriously.
Much more of this and you're gonna be in one of Larry Correa's MonsterHunter stories. (Zombies and all...)
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08/21/2021 17:18 Comments ||
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#5
A quibble. Jonah Goldberg still writes for NR upon occasion, and is hardly "out" of the conservative movement. In fact, his podcasts are quite enjoyable.
[Main Street Gazette] Geraldo Rivera, a seasoned journalist, and correspondent-at-large for Fox News who tends to lean left on most issues, likely stunned the network’s viewers on Wednesday with his commentary on President Joe Biden’s failure to show leadership on the disastrous situation unfolding in Afghanistan.
According to Fox News, in the wake of Biden’s press conference on Wednesday in which he only spoke of COVID-19 booster shots and failed to make a single mention of Afghanistan or take questions about it, Rivera blasted the president for giving a "pitiful" speech at a time when Americans — and the world — deserve much more.
"Can I just say something about the president’s Ill-timed speech? It was pitiful," Rivera said, admitting that he’s given Biden as many chances as he could in the past.
"It was pathetic. I try to give him every due respect. He’s the president of the United States. I think he’s a nice person," the 78-year-old veteran reporter said, adding that Biden was "blinking and missing words" in the tone-deaf address to the nation.
Rivera doubled down, pointing out that virtually nobody is concerned about COVID-19 booster shots when one of the most disastrous and humiliating foreign policy blunders is unfolding live on television screens around the world.
"What the hell that COVID speech had to do with the price of beans, I don’t know," Rivera said. "He delivered it as if someone said, ’Here’s a good idea. Why don’t you speak about the COVID booster and take their minds off of what they’re seeing on the TV news.'"
Rivera also questioned why U.S. military commanders gave up Bagram Airfield, which would have provided a defensible, a much safer and logistically sound method for evacuating the tens of thousands of Americans and Afghan allies that remain trapped behind enemy lines.
In rare form on Wednesday, Rivera went on to completely shred Biden’s lack of leadership on such a monumental and impactful issue.
"He’s a failure in deed and now word, and to get up in front of the American people and say nothing about the Americans and allies stranded in Afghanistan and the disaster that unfolds in front of our faces," Rivera concluded.
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Tory and Labour Party in the UK stand against Biden's exit from Afghanistan; Kudlow: Biden has become neither feared nor loved in international affairs
[1 day old story - Fox Business News - Video]
Posted by: Herman de Medici8066 ||
08/21/2021 0:31 Comments ||
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[ZeroHedge] At this point, it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that the Biden Administration plan to provide COVID-19 booster shots before the FDA even has a chance to sign off isn't actually based on any actual "science". And some of the mainstream scientists are starting to speak up about it, opening themselves up to the possibility that their posts might be purged by Big Tech "misinformation" censors.
Just as new data show that young people are at heightened risk for rare side effects like heart inflammation (with the Moderna jab carrying a higher risk), scientists are claiming that the push for boosters represents a rush to judgment, since it's still unclear whether the waning protection against 'breakthrough' infection also leaves patients more vulnerable to severe illness. While one might be tempted to assume that more infections means more hospitalizations and deaths, 'breakthrough' infections tend to be far milder, and only the most vulnerable patients are likely to be impacted severely.
Almost as surprisingly, a report about scientists' objections was published by Reuters, a mainstream media organization with a massive reach. The frenetic push for vaccination betrays a sense of urgency. They can't keep this cat in the bag forever.
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.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] Christopher Skeet
[FOX] States with Republican governors are leading the U.S. economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, while those run by Democrats — which tended to impose lengthier and stricter lockdowns on businesses — are faced with significantly higher unemployment rates. 
[Right Scoop] On Thursday, 
[Main Street Gazette] Geraldo Rivera, a seasoned journalist, and correspondent-at-large for Fox News who tends to lean left on most issues, likely stunned the network’s viewers on Wednesday with his commentary on President Joe Biden’s failure to show leadership on the disastrous situation unfolding in Afghanistan.
