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Remember seeing him running in the 1968 Dirty Dozen movie, while we were quartered at PHV in Germany. The Movie cost me my weekly allowance (25 cents Popcorn and a drink were another 25 cents).
Darn I'm beginning to feel more like a living antique everyday.
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Jim Brown might have been the last real connection to the Browns heyday. Last NFL championship was in 1964, and they have never appeared in the Super Bowl.
Still wonder how many more statistics he would have racked up had he played more than nine years and in the days when an NFL season was 12 games.
[Breitbart] An old video of beloved children’s television host Mister Rogers talking about boys being boys and girls being girls "from the beginning" has gone viral, with some fans calling it a warning against transgenderism.
The clip of Fred Rogers (a.k.a. Mister Rogers) first made the rounds on TikTok before moving onto Twitter and showed him singing his song, Everybody’s Fancy, about the differences between the biological sexes.
"Boys are boys from the beginning. If you were born a boy, you stay a boy. Girls are girls right from the start. If you were born a girl, you stay a girl, and grow up to be a lady. Everybody’s fancy, Everybody’s fine. Your body’s fancy and so is mine," he sings in the more than 40-year-old song.
"Only girls can be the mommies. Only boys can be the daddies," he also sings.
[NYPOST] Just two months ago, transgender influencer Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney ...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested... was flying high with endorsements from Bud Light, Nike and Maybelline, to name a few. Hot off her "365 Days of Girlhood" journey on social media, she was also enjoying an elaborate musical event staged at the Rainbow Room in her honor.
That was then. But now, after the backlash against Bud Light’s decision to partner with Mulvaney on social media and feature her face on beer cans, other trans influencers say they’re feeling the heat as well.
Some told The Post that, at a time when they are usually in high demand — the period leading up to Pride Month in June — brand partnership offers are drying up.
Rose Montoya, who has 1 million followers on TikTok and Instagram, said she’s noticed a big drop-off in the number of deals she’s been offered.
Prior to Pride Month last year, Montoya — a Seattle University graduate who bills herself as a content creator, trans advocate, model and actress — was getting up to 100 brand partnerships thrown her way. Now, she said, it’s been reduced to a trickle of maybe 12 or so offers.
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#1
Fred's auto edit algorithm needs a tweak. Any article about "trans" should replace "he/she/they/them" with "it."
I do it mentally already when reading stories like this one.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
05/19/2023 7:23 Comments ||
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#2
Where the NYP spends a quarter page touching itself under the dinner table.
#3
"she’s noticed a big drop-off in the number of deals she’s been offered"
Here, I got a deal to offer you:
How about you crawl back into whatever hole you came from, and take the rest of your happy tik-toker's with you. You won't be missed.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
05/19/2023 12:09 Comments ||
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#4
Ted Cruz has an interesting angle. Cruz questions who is Dylan's demographic and if his demographic are of beer drinking age. With Dylan's catch phrase 'girl power', is that a phrase that markets to older women or the youth? And if the youth, is this caricature any different from Joe Camel?
[BBC] A US airman suspected of leaking classified files was warned repeatedly about his handling of classified information, prosecutors say.
In a court filing, US prosecutors argued Jack Teixeira
...the somehow spoilt brat who managed not to understand discretion despite being a second generation intelligence guy, sharing copies of all sorts of interesting things with his international online gaming group...
should remain in detention because of his "wilful disregard" for protecting information.
He allegedly leaked files even after he was warned by his superiors on two separate occasions last year.
The 21-year-old has been in custody since the FBI arrested him on 14 April.
He was charged with the unauthorised transmission and retention of defence materials after dozens of classified files appeared in the online chat room Discord. They included sensitive information about US allies and the war in Ukraine.
A judge will soon decide whether he should remain in detention until his trial and is expected to hear arguments on Friday.
The court filing from justice department prosecutors on Wednesday alleged Mr Teixeira's superiors had flagged "concerning actions" around Mr Teixeira's handling of classified information.
It said that on one occasion he was seen taking notes and putting them in his pocket. His superiors then asked him to stop taking notes in any form on classified information, prosecutors said.
A month later, Mr Teixeira's bosses discovered he was "potentially ignoring a cease-and-desist order on deep diving into intelligence" after he went to a classified briefing and posed "very specific questions" about what was discussed. They told him to stop and "focus on his job", the court filing said.
Then, in February 2023, after someone saw the airman viewing intelligence information that was "not related to his primary duty", Mr Teixeira's supervisors were notified, according to the court document. It is unclear if he was disciplined.
Prosecutors have argued Mr Teixeira should not be released on bail because he poses a threat to national security, while defence lawyers argue he should be released with restrictions.
Prosecutors claim the airman has bragged to people online about violating rules on classified information. They say he acknowledged in December that he was "breaking a ton of UD regs", a reference to unauthorised disclosure, but said, he did not care "what they say I can or can't share".
Prosecutors say the posts make clear that Mr Teixeira "simply did not care" what the government or his superiors told him and that he would not listen to a court's instructions either.
Mr Teixeira's defence lawyer said he should be free to stay in his home in the presence of either relatives, Air Force personnel, or lawyers.
He denied his client posed a serious flight risk, and said suggestions by prosecutors that foreign adversaries would seek to take advantage of Mr Teixeira's release were rooted in "speculation".
#1
One warning is enough. Thence to the motor pool. His command, to the extent this is true, should go with him.
At best.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey ||
05/19/2023 0:36 Comments ||
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Possibly why the unit "leadership" looked the other way.
Thomas Dufault retired from the military in April 2019 after 34 years of service, including a stint as master sergeant in the same 102nd Intelligence Wing that his stepson ended up joining months later. Dufault was pictured snapping off a salute at a retirement ceremony at Joint Base Cape Cod, where Teixeira was also stationed.
#4
The usual questions.
Because, I am sure many of us have seen idiots lose their tickets for less.
What was the nature of the leaked info?
Did it target specific DC/Elite dealings, or national security as a whole?
Finally, given he is the loose cannon, they say.
Then how did DISA / DCSA review his SF-86?, conduct the usual background checks, review his poly test and still approve his TS/SCI ticket?
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#1One warning is enough. Thence to the motor pool. His command, to the extent this is true, should go with him.
At best.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2023-05-19 00:36
...Actually, there shouldn't have been a first warning - the first time he was seen to have been checking out things that he wasn't supposed to, he should have been transferred to the exciting world of grounds maintenance, and a couple of stripes lighter at that.
Without getting into a lot of detail, I once had my rights read to me over a possible inadvertent leak situation, and one that I had nothing to do with other than simply sitting at a typewriter (I think many of our vets will remember the term TEMPEST). After that experience, I have no sympathy for anybody who doesn't take it seriously.
#10
The underlying problem is, everybody's gotta have a clerk to do their paperwork for them.
Teixeira was a clerk. Manning was clerk (don't give me the bs about intel; I know someone that was a NCO on the line above him. He was a clerk.)
The army is legendary for it's paperwork, and it's become a security issue.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
05/19/2023 12:18 Comments ||
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I still don't comprehend how an Air Natl Guard unit had JWICS national briefing type info plus sensitive info regarding British, French, Israeli intel ops.
If AF leadership found out that this was happening, not only should they have yanked Teixera's clearances but they should have shut down their whole pass down procedures on intel.
Posted by: lord garth ||
05/19/2023 15:49 Comments ||
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It's always easy to say things should have been "shut down" after a bad apple does his misdeed.
If his AFSC stated that he required a certain clearance, TS/SCI, then that's what he gets to perform his assigned duties.
And he served at the 102nd Intelligence Wing. What, shut the wing down?
#14
I've never been comfortable with COMPO-II (National Guard) involvement in intelligence collection. Scott AFB used to provide a superb 24x7 menu of global flight information, country studies, daily updates, regional alerts, and threat postures. Been 22+ years, all over SIPRNET (collateral) as I recall.
Looks like foking COMPO-II mission creep to me. Perhaps there's something I'm not aware of. Stuff changes, etc, etc, etc.
#16
DooDaa, Manning was clerking for a medic unit. The paper pushers in Medical have access to everything.
The particular sarge in this story said when CID showed up (in unmarked uniform) to question him, he told them he's not allow to divulge info, and if you don't like it, go talk to the Major. While they being told 'no' by the Major, he looked them up and showed them their service records when they came back. "Be sure and salute, Corporal. Bye."
Medical has to know where all personel been, what they've been exposed to, and what they've been doing. The problem all this crap is cross-linked.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
05/19/2023 18:44 Comments ||
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Yes of course. Replaced by Global Command & Control System (GCCS) pronounced 'Geeks.' Spit, spit, spit.
Don't get me started on contractor heavy, proprietary SW rip offs.
I could have gone all evening without a GCCS memory jogger.
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[FoxNews] 'Terrible Tuesday'
Uninspected, mandatory Microsoft automatic upgrades applied.
Secure email server compromised. Where are the STIGs?
I would have fired someone that let that happen, before the FBI hauled them off.
[Townhall] In an at-times chaotic House Judiciary Committee hearing on the weaponization of the federal government, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) was not afraid to "name names" when it comes to the corrupt leaders within the administration of President Joe Biden.
"To be blunt, the leadership of the FBI and DOJ are corrupt," Hageman said. "I will name names: Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland are corrupt. They know it, we know it, and the American people know it," she added.
Citing "fundamental changes" made to the culture of the FBI and DOJ, Hageman explained how those changes have "led to the political capture of our flagship law enforcement agencies" and allowed Democrats to use them as their "personal political hacks."
"As the DOJ and FBI have become more political, they have amassed more power," Hageman continued. "And as they have amassed more power they have become more political." That "vicious cycle," she argued, "must be stopped."
Addressing the FBI whistleblowers seated before her to testify about what they say is political and ideological targeting that amounts to retaliation, Hageman said that "Congress needs whistleblowers like you so that we can conduct oversight and correct course."
Presciently, Hageman warned the whistleblowers that Democrats would "not focus on the substance" of their testimony or "engage in a discussion about how to protect our constitutional rights and institutions from the tyrants who are running these agencies."
"Instead what we will see is that they will deflect, they will call the witnesses names, they will scream 'MAGA' and 'extremist' at the tops of their lungs," Hageman continued. Democrats, she predicted, would simply try "to cover up the unforgivable and the indefensible which is the creation of a two-tiered justice system based on political beliefs and the corruption of our political elites."
[NYT via Townhall] Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is the one Democratic Senator that’s in the crosshairs of the progressive wing of her party. She’s pushing 90, her mental facilities have lost more than a step, and her absence over a case of shingles has clogged numerous Biden judicial nominees. who are so radical and/or incompetent they can't get a Republican vote
The age and mental competency have been weaponized by the far left on the Hill to take her out or at least place enough pressure on this longtime Senate fixture to break and turn in her papers. The California liberal already said she wouldn’t be taking any new roles in the upper chamber, specifically Senate Pro Tempore, which she’s entitled to, and declined to run again. This last term is it for her; she’s out of public life by 2025.
Yet, we’ve learned more about her condition, and it’s not good. Reportedly, she suffered more health complications than initially reported, and many in her immediate circle are shocked she’s even working in the Senate in her current state. I believe the term "frightened" was used in The New York Times article (via NYT):
#1
Shingles, flu, encephalitis...let's not get bogged down in ambiguous medical jargon. She votes the party line and has abundant aides to tell her just what that is. How many eyes does she need anyway?
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If the left had any brains they'd be pissed at the old-ones like Feinstein going up for reelection again and again to get rich and enjoy the power instead of allow the Democrat party to develop a bench of young folks. Damage is done, party is screwed for the next couple of decades.
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.
...the transexual 
[NYT via Townhall] Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is the one Democratic Senator that’s in the crosshairs of the progressive wing of her party. She’s pushing 90, her mental facilities have lost more than a step, and her absence over a case of shingles has clogged numerous Biden judicial nominees.
