[Babylon Bee] Disgusted and I'm a native San Diegan - one of the few
California is currently on fire, having also been plagued by darkness, earthquakes, and hippies. State leaders are claiming they have "no idea" why God keeps lighting them on fire, though they just voted to reduce penalties for pedophiles in the name of equality for the LGBTQ+ community.
"It's unclear here what exactly we're being punished for," said Governor Gavin Newsom at a press conference as the state burned down around him. "We are a progressive utopia. We're the other states in fast-forward. We pass amazing legislation that shows our love and inclusiveness of pedophiles of all sexual orientations. We are doing exactly what Socialist Jesus would want us to."
"God should be thanking us. He or she didn't build this land of progress."
State legislators, trying to figure out why God keeps unleashing bowl after bowl of wrath upon California, cast lots and threw all the remaining Republicans in the state into the Pacific Ocean in hopes that the plagues would subside. Both men were swallowed by a great fish and are expected to survive.
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Oh, I like that, "Both men were swallowed by a great fish and are expected to survive".
Michael Scheuer worked for the CIA for 22 years and was responsible for leading the first agency task force to hunt Osama bin Laden in the 1990s
While his former colleagues say he has always been an ‘extremist’, since retiring from the agency in 2004, Scheuer has undergone a self-radicalization
Last year he announced that he is a believer of QAnon, a conspiracy theory that claims Trump is waging a secret war against a cabal of Democratic pedophiles
Amid nationwide unrest Scheuer has increasingly voiced belief that the war on terror is now domestic and had called for violence in the streets
According to Scheuer, Black Lives Matter is a ‘terrorist organization’ and ‘semi-human mob’ who are 'rioting in the honor of felonious scum'
He also accused activists of destroying ‘more property’ than al Qaeda, making them ‘absolutely’ terrorists who deserve punishment 'not seen before' in the US
All the while, Scheuer calls Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged for the murder of two demonstrators in Kenosha, Washington, a ‘young hero’
He said if Joe Biden wins the election, Democrats would be ‘silly to imagine it’s going to preserve their lives.'
[Federalist] On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich joins Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech to discuss the 2020 election season, President Trump’s political strategy, the media, and the future of America and American politics.
"We are in a period of decadence and we’re in a period where decadence is dominant," Gingrich said. "And if you don’t want to be decadent, you better keep your mouth shut."
"Power is never given up," Gingrich added. "Power is taken."
According to Gingrich, this demonstrated moral decline signals how the external circumstances of the world are significant and will have an effect on the election and direction of the country.
"You could imagine in February, Trump getting 25 percent of blacks, could imagine him coming close to carrying the Latino vote. Then everything blows apart with COVID. Then the government creates an artificial depression. Then you have George Floyd killed and then you have the massive uprising of the primary polluters," Gingrich said. "Now, we’re in a very different environment. And it’s not quite clear to me how it’s going to shake out. But what I sense is ... there’s a different spirit out there."
While Gingrich is unsure of all of the results of these swift changes, he is certain that there are bigger implications than just the election.
"This is one of the great transition periods," Gingrich explained. "I think the most important thing to recognize is that this is a historic rather than a political period."
[American Thinker] Soon after arriving in a South American country to work in 1978, after some years in South Asia, I was talking with a local mechanic about a used car I was trying to get fixed. The fact that it was a Chevy seemed to excite the mechanic, and he commented on the vehicle's overall quality by saying it was "mah-dey en oo-saw." When I responded that I had no idea what he had just said, he looked at me with absolute perplexity and said in Spanish, "You are a Yankee. You should know what 'mah-dey en oo-saw' means!" It finally dawned on me that he was transliterating "made in USA," pronouncing the English words with Spanish sounds rather than translating them, which would have been "Fabricado en Estados Unidos de América," something I would have caught immediately.
It used to be that "mah-dey en oo-saw" had all kinds of local pronunciations around the world, and they all signaled that something had been well made and was a solid product. It's been a long time since the 1970s and a very long time since North America topped the list in the world's opinion for turning out quality products, with the possible exception of German manufacturing.
Now with China producing most of our consumer, medical, and electronic products, it's only old guys like me who remember what a solid American product looked like and how it actually functioned. And with the COVID-19 crisis and China's predatory marketing as well as financial bullying, we are looking at the empty hulks of our former factories and longing for the good ole days.
At a "Made in the USA" event in 2019, Trump touted new U.S.-based factory jobs and American-made products and plans another at the White House this October 5. Joe Biden has been trying to play catch-up with his "America First" campaign, while accusing Trump of actually continuing to close plants and ship jobs overseas. Whether Trump or anyone else will be able to bring home the factory jobs and whether we can realistically rebuild our supply lines from within the country are legitimate questions that can only be answered by the formation of a broad coalition of entrepreneurs and financiers as well as the crafting of regulations (or de-regulations) that will again give oo-saw sustainable conditions for profitable industry.
In the meantime, we can continue to say with somewhat reduced pride that many good products are presently "dey-seeg-ned en oo-saw" (designed in USA) or at least "cone-soom-ed en oo-saw" (consumed in USA).
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Quality. I once talked to a British man who restores WWII tanks. He said he could take a part off one British tank and it wouldn't fit another tank without some serious working. He could take a part off an American tank and it would fit another tank without any reworking.
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He could take a part off an American tank and it would fit another tank without any reworking.
As I learnt here, leading up to World War II American tanks were redesigned to maximize the number that could be packed into a ship for overseas war, and standardized so that the tank crew could do most of the repairs themselves at the side of the road, rather than needing to be hauled off to the base mechanics shop far to the rear. I don’t recall if Henry Ford was involved, but the philosophy was the same — a Democratic peoples’ tank that trusted the yeoman on the ground to be able to diagnose and repair his vehicle without the need for specially trained specialists.
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When I was growing up in a marginally middle-class neighborhood, not that long after WW2, all the guys wanted to be auto mechanics and all the girls wanted to be beauticians, more or less. Bringing your car to an auto shop was like coming out of the proverbial closet.
And that's how our tanks kept rolling. Not every nationality had the same attitude.
Old German WW2 joke:
"One Panther tank is worth 10 Shermans!'
Reply: "Yes, but there are always 11."
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[The Hill] A line in the sublime Hilary Mantel trilogy of Henry VIII’s fixer, Thomas Cromwell, perfectly encapsulates the highest aspirations of the political risk profession. The goal must be always to "Study the world without despising it. Understand the world without rejecting it. Have no illusions, but have hopes. Do not sleepwalk through life."
During my decade in senior Washington foreign policy circles, during the bad old days of the Iraq War and the bipartisan utopian efforts at nation-building that followed, just such intellectual sleepwalking fast became a nightmare.
The besetting sin of our foreign policy elite is intellectual sclerosis — that what once worked during the halcyon days of our Cold War supremacy is carved in stone, forever being the way for America to operate. The strong, usually unspoken belief of our foreign policy blob remains the misguided notion that foreign allies invariably will knuckle under to American blandishments and do as we say. To put it mildly, after living and working for the past 14 years in Europe, this is simply not the world I wake up in every day.
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Well since the wall came down and the Soviet Union fell, they haven't really had any reason to align themselves completely with the US. We were asking why the hell we were still over there and NATO existed in '93 when I was in the military. I bet a lot of Germans felt the same.
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Former East European nations are better allies because being under the bears paw is still fresh in their memories. Plus, they are first inline if there is a Russian Empire re-incarnation.
[Babylon Bee] KISSIMMEE, FL—Biden made a campaign stop in Florida this week to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and reach out to his favorite voters: the Hispanics. In an effort to appeal to the voters, he performed a cultural celebration of Hispanic heritage by dancing in a sombrero and fake mustache, eating a burrito, and firing a pistola in the air.
"Hey there, fellow Latinx!" Biden said. "Before I begin, I would like to show you my Mexican celebration dance which I will perform to the tune of 'La Cucaracha,' Enjoy!"
Biden then turned to a cassette player on the podium and pressed play. As the well known Spanish folk song began to play, Biden performed a dance in his traditional Mexican clothing he had recently purchased at a Spirit Halloween Store. Halfway through the performance, he yelled out, "You kids ain't seen nothing yet! Watch this!"
Biden then began to hop around and shoot an old fashioned Mexican pistola into the air. When he was finished, he sat down on the stage and ate a giant burrito for about 20 minutes.
When he was finished, the hall erupted in applause as the audience of several individuals stood on their feet to cheer the performance. "the audience of several individuals" *snort*
Biden knew he had nailed the performance, and that the Hispanic vote was in the bag. He was then put back on ice in the basement until he is needed to go win over other ethnic groups.
[American Thinker] By now, it's the worst kept secret in the world that Joe Biden is having cognitive difficulties. He's tethered to a teleprompter, is fed only pre-approved questions, and speaks in short increments to friendly audiences. Rumors are floating about that his dementia is quite advanced. Rush Limbaugh came up with a theory that suggests that those rumors are correct.
On Sunday, Thomas Lifson reprinted a post that's been circulating on the internet. It purports to come from a former Biden staffer who quit the campaign and cannot keep quiet about Biden's mental incompetence. Briefly, it says Biden has advanced dementia and that the medicine he takes for it causes incontinence. Although the post accurately describes Biden's behavior and his brief appearances, an anonymous author means that it has dubious utility.
Rush Limbaugh, however, has noticed another piece in the puzzle, and this one yields to empirical evidence rather than firsthand knowledge. This is the fact that, other than the long-ago Democrat debates and his acceptance speech (which may have been live, rather than prerecorded), Biden is never seen at night. In that regard, he is the "un-vampire."
Indeed, most of Biden's appearances are early in the day. He may do this because he tires easily and, by afternoon, is running on empty. Rush, though, posits that Biden may be suffering from sundowning, something strongly associated with dementia in the elderly, especially with Alzheimer's. Sundowning is so named because it consistently appears as the sun is setting.
I've seen this firsthand with both my parents, neither of whom had Alzheimer's but both of whom sundowned badly as they developed age-related dementia. What I learned was that, for the people sundowning, the illusions are real. These are not nightmares from which they can awaken. You cannot "snap" them out of it. They cannot be perked up and trotted out with a little medicine. While sufferers are sundowning, they're gone.
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As I understand it, incontinence and UTI goes with dementia as the mind 'forgets' or cannot control the body as well.
Later, choking becomes an issue as the person 'forgets' how to eat, then to even eat and drink at all.
There are medications even for us peasants which help, until they don't, then things apparently go downhill quick.
When wife was working in such a field, Sundowners was part of the post-work cooldown; her and her co-workers would half fight who had to work on full moons.
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.
[Babylon Bee] 
[Babylon Bee] KISSIMMEE, FL—Biden made a campaign stop in Florida this week to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and reach out to his favorite voters: the Hispanics. In an effort to appeal to the voters, he performed a cultural celebration of Hispanic heritage by dancing in a sombrero and fake mustache, eating a burrito, and firing a pistola in the air.
