[American Greatness] Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous.
Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result—history’s prescription for civilizational decline.
If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, there will be even more news of disasters and near-miss airline crashes.
Wokeness demands a McCarthyite suppression of free expression. No wonder a woke FBI recently hired out social media censors to suppress stories it deemed unhelpful.
Soviet-style, wokeism mandates strict ideological party-line narratives under the cover of "science." No wonder a woke government lied that requiring vaccines would prevent both infection and infectiousness.
Woke substitutes race for class in its eternal neo-Marxist quest to divide permanently the nation along racial lines, between victims and victimizers.
Yet wokeism recently has embarrassed itself as never before.
Take the COVID pandemic.
The Department of Energy has joined the FBI and is now attributing the origins of the pandemic to a leak of a likely engineered virus from the top-security virology lab in Wuhan, China.
Wokesters had long suppressed that reality, demonizing any who rejected its orthodox lies and spoke a larger truth: A dystopic China is not our global partner in greening the planet. Criticizing Stalinist China is not "racist." China is not building a progressive society that is a model for others.
The ongoing environmental catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio, following the train derailment revealed more woke moral bankruptcy.
Ostensibly the ensuing toxic spill and noxious plume have poisoned a poor and working-class small town. It should have galvanized the old Democratic Party that once voiced loud support for all green causes and championed the lower American classes.
But woke ended all that—substituting racial chauvinism for class concerns and ideology for genuine worry over the environment.
[Hot Air] We are used to arguing about the merits of the Imperial vs Metric systems of measurement. As we should. Imperial units are clearly superior to the metric system, as is proven by the fact that the Metric system was first adopted by France during the revolution.
Nothing good came out of the French Revolution.
The only country to have reached the moon—the United States, of course—uses the Imperial system. Inches, feet, miles, Fahrenheit, pints, gallons... All the useful units. None of that Frenchie stuff. Too bad Brexit didn’t extend to measurement units. Although the Brits still use "stone" as a unit, and I have no idea what that means.
How many stones did the Saturn V weigh? Who cares. We had the Saturn V, and the UK had Jaguars that couldn’t even start back then.
In any case, when it comes to asteroids the units of measurement are neither Imperial nor Metric. Rather, they are analogies.
An asteroid roughly the size of 14 flamingos flying foot-to-beak is set to skim past the Earth Wednesday, March 1, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.jpost
But 14 flamingos are probably more dangerous since this won't hit us.
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03/04/2023 08:48 ||
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Having recentlt retired from 40+ years in manufacturing, I will tell you this: Just about everything made in the US today is made to metric standards.
You basically have to if your're going to have any compatability with overseas components. They may say it's in Imperial, but when you get to the engineering drawings, it's metric.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
03/04/2023 10:00 Comments ||
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I love needing both metric and SAE tools when I work on my car...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/04/2023 10:01 Comments ||
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…..andSTILL cannot find the correct wrench. Good thing hammers are bilingual.
[FoxNews] Former Attorney General William Barr penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Thursday advocating for the use of the U.S. military to attack Mexican drug cartels within Mexico's borders.
Barr argued that the Mexican government has allowed fentanyl and other deadly drugs to be shipped into the United States and that, under such circumstances, the U.S. has the right to defend itself.
The article, titled, "The U.S. Must Defeat Mexico’s Drug Cartels", contended that the cartels are a national security threat "more like ISIS than the American mafia" and "America can no longer tolerate narco-terrorist cartels."
He supported legislation introduced by Republican Reps. Dan Crenshaw, Texas, and Michael Waltz, Fla., that would give the president "authority to use the U.S. military against these cartels in Mexico."
"Almost all illicit drugs coming into the U.S. are controlled by the Mexican cartels, principally those based in the states of Sinaloa and Jalisco. These paramilitary organizations use bribery and terror tactics to entrench themselves as essentially states within the state, controlling large areas of Mexico," the former Trump administration attorney general wrote.
Barr noted that the drug supply chain must be attacked directly.
"The head of the snake is in Mexico, and that is where the main thrust of our efforts must be directed," he said, pointing to a joint effort between the U.S. and Columbian governments to take out the cartels in Columbia in the 1990s.
With the Mexican government unable or unwilling to take on the cartels within its borders, Barr made the case that the U.S. must do it.
"Under international law, a government has a duty to ensure that lawless groups don’t use its territory to carry out predations against its neighbors. If a government is unwilling or unable to do so, then the country being harmed has the right to take direct action to eliminate the threat, with or without the host country’s approval," he wrote.
He advocated for "a significant U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence presence, as well as select military capabilities" inside Mexico.
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I would prefer we get even more serious and fight them like Catholics who want attend Latin Mass or Parents who attend school board meetings and ask questions about in school sexual assaults.
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So, we're going for regime chamge in Mexico now?
Posted by: ed in texas ||
03/04/2023 10:02 Comments ||
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Honestly, if JSOC was told that they had free hand with a mandate to destroy the cartels, no nukes allowed, I'd wager in 3 years there wouldn't be much of the cartels left. The way this stuff fails is when we let the lawyers and diplomats have decision making authority.
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Too much cartel money going into too many beltway pockets for any serious movement.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/04/2023 10:17 Comments ||
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Imagine a Tom Clancy novel where the bad guys win.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/04/2023 10:18 Comments ||
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It is a clear and present danger...asymmetric warfare conducted against us by the Chinese with intent to destabilize and ultimately paralyze. It is working wonderfully from their perspective, we even pay them for their efforts.
The FEBA for this war has arrived in a Anytown, US around 8 years ago. Fighting it tactically here doesn't work. The fight needs to be fought where we have an advantage - strategically...hitting the C2 nodes, financial and distribution centers of gravity.
The rub is going to be - how do we get an "lawfare" AUMF passed that is broad enough to prosecute the war that needs to be fought? Current authorities are not sufficient and the DEA is not robust enough.
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Shut the border and you only have to go after their fiberglas "submarines."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/04/2023 10:59 Comments ||
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I know its really difficult, but put a 'terrorist organization' classification on the cartels rather than Christians and concerned parents of school children.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/04/2023 11:07 Comments ||
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I am for designating the cartels as terrorists as a first step. I mistrust anything coming out of Bart’s pie hole going forward.
He is either trying to stimulate book sales, floating a flawed idea that his masters hope that Trump adopts or he’s crafting John Bolton’s campaign platform. I think the US special forces would be able to take down the cartels.
I don’t trust Miley and his generals with strategy and tactics. Miley just proposed a failed strategy for Ukraine that he seemed to have cribbed from the author of Mein Kampf.
My central point is that I don’t trust Barr. I would steer clear of his proposals as if they were a cartoon of Luckys found in a rice patty hooch just abandoned by Charlie.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
03/04/2023 11:37 Comments ||
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Anyone who has been in gummint for the last two three decades is part of the problem.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#12 frames it rather nicely. The tactical fight is local LE/DA focus, with clear use of what the Fusion Centers created by early DHS intended ( I was in that process for California) giving locals the wider perspective and connectivity linkages to get Order of Battle structure for regional cartel/retail street distribution groups.
The Operational focus has to be the porous border, the vastly under-scrutinized Ports of Entry and commercial importation inspection systems looking at commerce from China and the Middle East, with heavy emphasis on the widespread human smuggling components. Key to this is a vastly heightened deportation process to remove the human infrastructure, criminal gangs being imported to run the retail/wholesale distribution systems.
The strategic theater is military ops in Mexico and Latin America to crush the wholesale manufacturing nodes for fentanyl and other precursors, as well as the C&C leadership in Mexico and perhaps Venezuela and Nicaragua. In this theater we must also focus on interdiction of remittances from illegals, money laundering and frankly, the cartel alliances/business relationships with the CCP. It is at this level we will encounter direct thrat nodes from foreign governments. Crucial to this level of strategic ops has to be our OWN government corruption investigations and ruthless prosecutions. Our own political and business leaders who use the levers of our own nation power to slow or misdirect the protection of our own people in favor of our enemies must be revealed and removed.
This is an existential conflict, asymmetric to traditional military thinking, as political and cultural as it is criminal, but it is just as threatening to our continued existence!
[News with Views] "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." —Ayn Rand
"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth." —Martin Luther
On February 2 of this year (2023), the North Carolina Senate passed SB 49, which bears the deceptive title of "Parents’ Bill of Rights". It transfers massive open-ended powers over children to the federal and state governments and to the "governing body" of the school. The Parents are "granted" enumerated rights[1] and every such right is qualified by exceptions which may be carved out at any time by the various levels of governments. This is a profoundly evil piece of work; and if it passes the House, Parents in North Carolina with minor children would be wise to consider leaving the State and taking their children with them.
Civilizations — and Nations — arise on one belief system — and collapse on another. Let us begin by looking at the belief system embraced during our Founding Era respecting the Origin of Rights and the purpose of government. Then we will look at the belief system embraced from the time the first Colonists settled our Country respecting the parent child relation until the rise, during the 1840s, of public education.[2] Then I will show you the belief system respecting "Rights" which is being pushed on us by those who seek to strip us of our God given rights.
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.
