[Daily Beest] James Beauregard Beam was distilling bourbon well before Prohibition, and when Prohibition ended, he was eager to do it again. At the news of Repeal, Jim Beam (as he was commonly known) turned to his son Jeremiah, his brother Park Beam and Park’s two sons, Carl and Earl, and said, "boys, time for us to get back to work."
But the Beams were broke. Prohibition had not been kind to them. A family knack for success in the distilling business proved to be less than translatable to other endeavors, including a rock quarry and an orange grove. So, Jim had to scramble and find investors in Illinois to fund a new distillery. Once he got the money together, with his son and two nephews, they built a distillery in 120 days, doing a lot of the work themselves. Even though Jim was 70-years-old, he was on site every day. The new distillery opened on March 25, 1935.
Before Prohibition, the Beam family brand had been Old Tub Bourbon Whiskey. To Jim’s dismay, he learned that the rights to the name had been sold during Prohibition. Despite this setback, he was undeterred and that’s when the whiskey officially became Jim Beam Bourbon. Real man; real whiskey; true story.
It’s a great piece of whiskey history, but it’s only a small, small part of the Beams’ story. The family had a huge influence on distilling in America and helped build dozens of bourbon brands, including Maker’s Mark, Stitzel-Weller, Early Times, Four Roses, Michter’s, Barton, and, quite famously, Heaven Hill.
The Beams can truly lay claim to being America’s first family of bourbon. Read on for more about the family’s incredible legacy.
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Rode on Fred Noe's golf cart at the Charlotte NASCAR race a few years back. He remembered me from a whiskey tasting event in Pissburgh. Had some hospitality on the Jim Beam bus before the race.
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Wish I liked Bourbon. I'd rather support it than Scotland but there you have it.
The only one I've tried that is drinkable, for me, is Buffalo Trace and that's marginal.
My son makes up for it though which is why my bar cabinet has a big bottle of Jim Beam in it.
#3
My bourbon-drinking son swears by Evan Williams, which is pretty good and a lot cheaper than some others. Myself, I have developed a taste for Tullamore Dew, an Irish whiskey. Smooth!
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If I'm drinking a Whiskey/Coke, Beam is my choice
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I like Oban single malt whiskey. Been to the distillery twice, If I recall.
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[RightJournal] Two years ago, President Trump has been in the climate-change doghouse ever since he announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. Many people blasted Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord. They criticized President Trump’s decision, saying that Trump’s decision to back away from the Paris climate agreement would doom the Earth.
Last year things started to change. The German daily newspaper Die Welt has proclaimed U.S. President Donald Trump “the most successful climate protector in the world” after a new global climate report revealed that the U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped dramatically during Trump’s first year in office.
But the globalists don’t intend to stop with their global warming narratives.
UN ruled that “climate refugees” cannot be returned back to their home countries. This ruling forces the United States to allow all Central Americans into our country.
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Given that nothing done by UN groups below the UN Security Council level is binding, and that the U.S. has veto power in the Security Council... Nice try at another rotten stick to beat President Trump with.
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UN ruled that “climate refugees” cannot be returned back to their home countries. This ruling forces the United States to allow all Central Americans into our country.
The climate on their planet in Central America is different than the climate on our planet here in the US?
Given that every minute they are breathing, each of these refugees is emitting CO2, the deadly climate poison, the only humanitarian solution is to put them down. Do it for the children!
#7
If I move from Massachusetts to South Carolina because I'm sick of New England winters, does that make me a 'climate refugee'? Do I get climate reparations?
Please tell me I get climate reparations - I'm loading the U-Haul as we speak!
[Breitbart] Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg expressed disappointment Tuesday the world is neither listening or reacting to her repeated warnings of impending climate catastrophe, saying "basically nothing" has changed since she dropped out of school and began full-time climate protesting.
"Pretty much nothing has been done," Thunberg said at a World Economic Forum (WEF) panel convened in Davos, Switzerland. "Global emissions of CO2 has not been reduced and that is what we are trying to achieve."
The 17-year-old made her comments after she was asked what had changed since she launched her student climate strike movement in August 2018, France24 reports.
"In one aspect, lots have happened that no one could have predicted," Thunberg said. "This has sparked general awareness and a movement. All these many, many young people from many different places pushing together to form this alliance of movements.
#8
Nothing says "white privilege" like a child being able to leave school, travel around the world and staying in hotels at someone else's expense, meeting world leaders and celebrates while demanding everyone meets your expectations.
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Someone should show here what communist solutions did to the environment in the Soviet Union, or China, or now Venezuela.
If your solution are proven time and again to make things worse why should anyone listen? Especially when those solutions often have millions of bodies attached.
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Prince Charles praises ‘remarkable’ Greta Thunberg as he says he doesn’t want Prince George and Archie ‘to accuse me of not doing something’ on climate change and humanity ‘simply cannot waste any more time’
The wonder is that only one of his sons followed him into such silliness— Prince William clearly takes after his grandmother, the queen. Thank goodness Charles is already 72 — one shudders to think what he would have done to the royal family if his reign were as long as his mother’s.
[Nat Review - yeah...I know] Imagine you heard that someone got a "direct diploma" from Harvard but didn't actually have to do four years of papers and tests.
The term "veteran" wields a strange talismanic power in American politics today; the military is almost the only institution in American life that has maintained very high favorability ratings over the past 30 years. Invocation of the sacred words "military service" invariably grants a presumed license to make ad hominem arguments: "Oh yeah? What do you know about it? Did you serve?" A military past, regardless of how extensive it was, tends to be seen as a shining jewel on the résumé of a politician.
Democrats especially seem to think this way: A party that suspects, with excellent cause, that people have noticed its doubtfulness about the merits of the American experiment is if anything even more eager to find veterans to convey its message. The party hopes that having served in the military will immunize a candidate against doubts about a given candidate's patriotism. This theory reached a loony apotheosis when the 2004 Democratic party nominated for the presidency a veteran who had become famous for characterizing the U.S. military as a gang of war criminals and thrown away his medals in disgust. "We saw Vietnam ravaged equally by American bombs and search and destroy missions, as well as by Viet Cong terrorism," Kerry said, characterizing the military as racist and calling a vicious Communist regime that would later cause millions to flee South Vietnam "the threat we were supposedly saving them from." No way anyone could have any misgivings about this guy's patriotism! Or so Democrats think. Democrats are odd.
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The lefty electorate is loaded with people who fervently hope the military ranks have a lot of "frag the officers" types.
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Kyle Smith is one of the few National Review contributors (along w VDH, Andy McCarthy and on a good day, Kevin Williamson) worth reading.
Smith us a sharp-eyed cultural critic, he's honest and humble, and he can turn a phrase without being stupid and vulgar like Lucianne's no-talent whelp.
This article by Smith is devastating. Especially his astute catch about Buttfug's end-run around the commissioning process, skipping either ROTC or the service academies and the field training and other arduous hurdles that our officer candidates have to endure.
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Kevin (It's great when white people in Kentucky OD on oxy) Willaimson? Really?
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^ yeah-- that side of him is really obnoxious. Seems he's get a heavy crush on wealthy people (he used to be a society reporter (IIUC for some kind of Thurston-and-Lovey publication like Town and Country), but he writes well and can take a punch without whining. He didn't cry about being defenestration from The Atlantic-- that earned him a lot of respect in my book.VMMV.
Oh, add Conrad Black to the list. Best and most interesting writer of them all.
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Sorry. Actually not sorry. I Don't read NRO links and Williamson is a turd. The fact that a turd can write well doesn't change the fact it's a turd. Jen... George Will... etc.
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People I don't read (not a comprehensive list):
Instapundit
PJ Media
NRO
We Be Boring (War is Boring)
Loren Thompson
Propaglandular Mischanics
Robert hardly
Michael Yawn
You getting the idea here?
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Butt gig
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David Axegrinder
Kyle Miserable-o-kami
Andrew Whiney-bitch...
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Williamson wanted to get that sweet sweet lefty money. When that didn't happen, he was no tough guy taking a punch, he was a worm hoping to go back to NeverTrump Central, which is precisely where he currently is...
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Ref #5: I didn't know there was such a loophole as "direct commissioning." How does that work? Why does it exist?
Buttigieg joined the U.S. Navy Reserve through the direct commission officer (DCO) program and was sworn in as an ensign in naval intelligence in September 2009.[49] In 2014, he took a seven-month leave during his mayoral term to deploy to Afghanistan.[50][51][52] While there, Buttigieg was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks. Part of this was done at Bagram Air Base, but he also worked as an armed driver for his commander on more than 100 trips into Kabul. Buttigieg has jokingly referred to this role as "military Uber", because he had to watch out for ambushes and explosive devices along the roads and ensure that the vehicle was guarded.[53] In order to better communicate with the local Afghans, he learned some Dari (a dialect of the Persian language). Buttigieg was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal[5] and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award[citation needed] and was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2017.[54][55]
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MM, you can criticize to your heart's content, I usually disagree, but all sites have their bad moments. Glenn has been a RB supporter and used to read here and refer links
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I followed Insty's blog roll link to da Burg almost 20 years ago those are now the only two sites I check on regularly. YMMV
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I think my Dad spent more time training before he was deployed than this guy spent in active service after going straight from the street to deployment.
[American Thinker] Democrats conspired with foreign agents, lied, cheated, and denied due process to Donald Trump. If they were willing to do that to a duly elected president in order to obtain power, what should Americans expect them to do to them should they refuse attempts to be disarmed?
Democrats understand that an armed America can say, "No!" And they can’t have that. If they want to radically change the America extant for more than two centuries, they need to first disarm Americans. And they realize asking nicely is not going to accomplish this.
Therefore, the ever-equable Democrats have suffered a recrudescence of their desire for the disease of civil war... a disease that has lain dormant for more than 160 years.
Democrats will do their utmost to create a situation where blood is spilled and lives are lost to engender this war. They believe that only bloodshed will finally get the people on their side, willing to cede to them the control they need to "fundamentally transform the United States of America."
And they have reached a point where they think they can win.
The solipsist left believes they are on the side of all that is good, just, and reasonable and if Americans must die for them to be in control, it is a small price to pay to attain the country they believe America should be.
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Yes, the potential for violent resistance to the state is growing.
No, this is not a looming "civil war." There is no central issue that divides the country economically and along clear geographicall or socio-economic lines.
In 1860, about one-third of the nation's elite was directly dependent on slavery for their livelihood. Another large proportion was determined to aid and abet what they viewed as liberation of individual slaves and what the slave owners viewed as larceny. In addition there was the fundamental economic clash over tariffs that pitted North v South -- see Rantburg masthead's cartoon that shows an early Yankee manufacturer and a Southern farmer engaging in "civil discourse" with fists, knees and feet.
No reconciliation was possible of these positions on central, fundamental economic and legal issues that affected the very survival of the Southern planter elites who dominated nearly half of the American states. And those states, not the nation as a whole, were the source of American identity and political coherence in 1860.
None of that applies today.
There's certainly a rural-urban divide, especially re 2A, but this is not a fundamental economic or political divide. The media maroons and identity politics & race-mongers in academe would like us to believe there's a race war a-comin,' but that's not happening.
Race relations were FAR worse during the late 1960s and 1970s. Today, most African-Americans want a sane middle-class lifestyle for them and their kids; many working-class white Americans have succumbed to the pathologies that once were considered the unique attributes of the urban black underclass. They're merging. Is class conflict the foundation of this supposed looming civil war? I don't think so.
What seems more likely is a series of random standoffs like Ruby Ridge, or maybe the 18c Shays Rebellion and Whiskey Rebellion, along with continued bitterly-fought presidential elections. Also, a reversion to 1970s, Escape From New York-style urban crime, decay and corruption of the sort now visible in De Blasio's NYC Shitshow, also Chicago, Baltimore, SF and LA.
But that's nowhere close to a crisis like the secession of 13 states, or firing on Sumter. Let alone the storming of the Bastille or the capture and execution of a king or a Tsar.
Violence in our near future? Perhaps. But not "civil war."
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Re the "American Thinker" article: the guy's argument HS a mess. "Revolution"? Against which class, over what? Guns? Is this a joke?
Do he and the loons cluttering up the comments upon his article believe that gun ownership defines an entire economic and social class?
Yes, 2A is a fundamental right. But we're not talking about an issue so fraught as taxation without representation, or the extortion and strangulation of American merchants by a greedy and rapacious British crown.
The Shitshow is essentially a cultural phenom-- American kukturkampf-- along with a comical attempt at a praetorian guard's coup attempt.
But John Brennan and Adam Schiff make a piss-poor Robespierre and St-Just.
They're buffoons, mugging for the cameras, covered in face-paint, spouting nonsense and spinning ridiculous plots that are so stupid, they wouldn't make the final cut for an episode of "Get Smart."
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I am reminded of Benjamin Disraeli often times related to today's goings on; Crystal palace speech that follows is worth the time to review in my humble opinion as well.
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If a civil war does break out, it will be more along the lines of Bosnia, not the 1860s version. The left will be very bloody in purging those they don't agree with, but they won't have the guns or supplies to sustain their purge.
Then starvation will set in along with a very angry right that will start their own purge of leftist ideologues.
Any conflict in the future would look something like the craziness in the 60s. Protest/riots paid for by Commies (Soviets then, Soros now) and A handful of zealots committing crimes and using their rhetoric to justify things.
[Tom Dispatch] Call it a colossal victory for a Pentagon that hasn't won a war in this century, but not for the rest of us. Congress only recently passed and the president approved one of the largest Pentagon budgets ever. It will surpass spending at the peaks of both the Korean and Vietnam wars. As last year ended, as if to highlight the strangeness of all this, the Washington Post broke a story about a "confidential trove of government documents" -- interviews with key figures involved in the Afghan War by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction -- revealing the degree to which senior Pentagon leaders and military commanders understood that the war was failing. Yet, year after year, they provided "rosy pronouncements they knew to be false," while "hiding unmistakable evidence that the war had become unwinnable."
However, as the latest Pentagon budget shows, no matter the revelations, there will be no reckoning when it comes to this country’s endless wars or its military establishment -- not at a moment when President Donald Trump is sending yet more U.S. military personnel into the Middle East and has picked a new fight with Iran. No less troubling: how few in either party in Congress are willing to hold the president and the Pentagon accountable for runaway defense spending or the poor performance that has gone with it.
Given the way the Pentagon has sunk taxpayer dollars into those endless wars, in a more reasonable world that institution would be overdue for a comprehensive audit of all its programs and a reevaluation of its expenditures. (It has, by the way, never actually passed an audit.) According to Brown University’s Costs of War Project, Washington has already spent at least $2 trillion on its war in Afghanistan alone and, as the Post made clear, the corruption, waste, and failure associated with those expenditures was (or at least should have been) mindboggling.
Of course, little of this was news to people who had read the damning reports released by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in previous years. They included evidence, for instance, that somewhere between $10 million and $43 million had been spent constructing a single gas station in the middle of nowhere, that $150 million had gone into luxury private villas for Americans who were supposed to be helping strengthen Afghanistan’s economy, and that tens of millions more were wasted on failed programs to improve Afghan industries focused on extracting more of the country’s minerals, oil, and natural gas reserves.
In the face of all this, rather than curtailing Pentagon spending, Congress continued to increase its budget, while also supporting a Department of Defense slush fund for war spending to keep the efforts going. Still, the special inspector general’s reports did manage to rankle American military commanders (unable to find successful combat strategies in Afghanistan) enough to launch what, in effect, would be a public-relations war to try to undermine that watchdog’s findings.
All of this, in turn, reflected the "unwarranted influence" of the military-industrial complex that President (and former five-star General) Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans about in his memorable 1961 farewell address. That complex only continues to thrive and grow almost six decades later, as contractor profits are endlessly prioritized over what might be considered the national security interests of the citizenry.
The infamous "revolving door" that regularly ushers senior Pentagon officials into defense-industry posts and senior defense-industry figures into key positions at the Pentagon (and in the rest of the national security state) just adds to the endless public-relations offensives that accompany this country’s forever wars. After all, the retired generals and other officials the media regularly looks to for expertise are often essentially paid shills for the defense industry. The lack of public disclosure and media discussion about such obvious conflicts of interest only further corrupts public debate on both the wars and the funding of the military, while giving the arms industry the biggest seat at the table when decisions are made on how much to spend on war and preparations for the same.
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Well, lessee. If Tesla made fighter planes they'd crash in ways never seen before. If Virgin Space made fighter planes, they'd be designed to never release their weapons. If Blue Origin made fighter planes all the air force would have is an engine that never seems to come out of testing.
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The infamous "revolving door" that regularly ushers senior Pentagon officials into defense-industry posts and senior defense-industry figures into key positions at the Pentagon (and in the rest of the national security state) just adds to the endless public-relations offensives that accompany this country’s forever wars.
Same thing can be said of the non-uniform bureaucracy in the endless war on poverty, drugs, et al. Fundamentally, the pathology leads to the basics of massive government and endless financing of it. In 1960, nearly half the federal budget went to defense. The over all amount has always grown, but now its around 12 percent of the budget.
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Rantburg is the only web forum of any kind that consistently supports this. The only one.
Everywhere else, the MIC is utterly despised as the war-starting unaccountable atrocity that it is. If peace broke out the MIC would be destroyed. Why do you think we're in endless wars and there is such shrieking whenever Trump says he wants to end one?
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See what I mean? Proof positive in the article above that they can literally lie about war and nothing happens. Instead of getting their funding slashed, it gets increased. And still people on Rantburg will support it.
I repeat: this is the only web forum of any kind that I frequent that does this. You maybe get an idea of how insane supporting the military-industrial complex is?
"Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
-- Eisenhower, farewell speech, 1961
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Ref #7: And still people on Rantburg will support it.
Please be patient with us. Some days are better than others. We're all still trying to sort it out.
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The author of this OPINION piece: Mandy Smithberger
Mandy Smithberger rejoined POGO as the director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information in December 2014. Previously she was a national security policy adviser to U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) worked on passing key provisions of the Military Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act into law, which expands protections by increasing the level of Inspector General review for complaints, requiring timely action on findings of reprisal, and increasing the time whistleblowers have to report reprisals. Previously an investigator with POGO, she was part of a team that received the Society of Professional Journalists' Sunshine Award for contributions in the area of open government.
Ms. Smithberger received her B.A. in government from Smith College and her Masters in Strategic Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She also served as an analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency and U.S. Central Command.
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other notable alumni from the John Hopkins School: Madeleine Albright, Wolf Blitzer, Nicholas Burns, April Glaspie
Past and Present Faculty:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paul Nitze, Henry Paulson, Paul Wolfowitz...
All your best and brightest™
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How much of this is an internal squabble that the "welfare state complex" is not getting funds that are being spent by the "military-industrial complex"...? Both sides have a dismal record on being audited.
This a different concern from questioning the merits of this or that example of foreign adventurism. For example: What are we achieving by staying in Afghanistan?
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Gee, Herb, why did you stop there? Sort of skips over
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
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I'll be honest: SJWs have more of a base of support among Americans than support for the military-industrial complex.
Now do you people understand how completely insane you are? Think about how wildly unpopular SJWs are. And you're even a tinier and more unpopular minority.
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And you're even a tinier and more unpopular minority.
And Jesus too, since God is on our side. Notice that MIC + ZOG + Jesus form the vertices of a triangle. Determining whether this triangle is equilateral, isosceles, or scalene is left as an exercise for the Reader.
Semi-rhetorical question: is it possible for completely insane people to understand how completely insane they are? Asking for a friend.
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SJW would be the Educational Industrial Complex, and is wildly more dangerous.
The precursors of this strand of iconoclast have shown time and again putting down millions, burning a culture, and razing infrastructure in the name of dynastic rulers is the fun part of the great game.
I have no doubt they are Hillary! Popular, as the article writer in Denver arguing there are only two genders just found out, the Christian bakeries and wedding venues found out, etc etc etc
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Herb, I agree with you quite often. But you are telling me I'm insane. Fuck. Off.
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I believe he's referring to me and my ilk. But I actually agree with him some times. That makes Herb insane too
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Now do you people understand how completely insane you are?
Rather presumptuous of you to attribute this quality to all of us in a broad-based stroke, isn't it? Many, if not all of us have repeatedly supported the US to get the hell out of Afghanistan and other shithole areas of the world, but instead you lecture us based on the thinnest of reeds by comparing us to nutbag SJW's in college, academia and the press (to the extent you can tell them apart).
I've been waiting for a while to hurl an insult back your way for some slight on an old thread, but I will pass on that temptation and simply say this - you are an asshole for trying to put words in our mouths and disparage our obligation of defending ourselves. It's not pretty, of course, and you apparently don't like the fact that the conflict between the lead military power on the planet occasionally takes place on foreign soil.
Here's Kurt
[Town Hall] - Congratulations, Virginia ‐ you overcame the terrible peril that was patriots rallying in Richmond to peacefully express your disgust with Governor Jolson Klanrobe and his legislative back-up dancers’ attempt to strip you of your rights. You came, you saw, you protested, and then you swept up.
But the fight’s not over. It’s just starting. But know this ‐ you will win.
Let’s begin with a basic principle: You have no moral obligation to respect or obey unconstitutional actions by a government. None. And when a government acts outside its constitutional limits, you do not merely have the right but the sacred duty to reject and replace it.
That’s the issue for patriots in Virginia.
...First step: resolve that these garbage people, whether liberal pols, the media, Twitter blue checks, or Fredocon sissies who would have been all in with the Redcoats in 1776, can kiss your sweet Northam. When you don’t ignore them, mock them. They want to shame you into the shame of submission. They have zero moral authority. They are lying trash and worthy only of your contempt. Treat them accordingly.
Second step: turn your anger into votes. The gunfascists got into power because far too many of you thought, "Oh, we’ve had Democrats in power in Virginia before and it’s no big deal." Okay, wrong. The Democrats today are not the Democrats of yesterday. These are CA/NY billionaire-funded activists whose goal is to turn you into serfs by taking your power, your money, and your dignity.
...Step three: when they pass the laws fight them in court. Someday the Supreme Court is going to take another gun case and declare that there is no asterisk after the Second Amendment that leads to a note reading, "Just kidding."
Step fou[r]: resist unconstitutional laws. There is no moral obligation to respect them. Your sanctuary city and county proclamations are bold and powerful demonstrations of resolve.
...Notice what is not a step? Violence. Yes, the ultimate purpose for all those beautiful firearms is, if deterrence fails, to kill tyrants and criminals, but we are so far from that the rare people blustering about being on the edge of open warfare in VA are silly and unconstructive. Let’s leave that to fiction about when violent tyranny has no other remedy
This. 90% of our energy needs to go into ORGANIZING to get out the vote in November. All the digital tools and techniques are free and readily available.
"Get busy."
No excuses. GOTV this November. Every single voter matters.
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Step 6. Make sure the people you vote for don't get compromised or "grow in office".
Step 7: Ponder what you're going to do when electoral victories for your side are invalidated through the promulgation of conspiracy theories concocted by Deep State lifers.
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Yes, locust theory holds lefties move to lower tax states and import their retrograde politics. More likely the movers are people who have wised up.
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More likely the movers are people who have wised up.
#4
OK, you might get some lefties from California moving to Texas. But it's the illegal aliens from Mexico who will turn the state blue. That's what happened in California. That and all the New Yorkers who moved out here. Scratch a Californian and you're likely to find a New Yorker.
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#5
The way I understand it the Mexican-American community in Texas is very different than the one in California.
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.
[Daily Beest] James Beauregard Beam was distilling bourbon well before Prohibition, and when Prohibition ended, he was eager to do it again. At the news of Repeal, Jim Beam (as he was commonly known) turned to his son Jeremiah, his brother Park Beam and Park’s two sons, Carl and Earl, and said, "boys, time for us to get back to work."
[Breitbart] Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg expressed disappointment Tuesday the world is neither listening or reacting to her repeated warnings of impending climate catastrophe, saying "basically nothing" has changed since she dropped out of school and began full-time climate protesting.
[Nat Review - yeah...I know] Imagine you heard that someone got a "direct diploma" from Harvard but didn't actually have to do four years of papers and tests.
The author of this OPINION piece: 
Who me nuts? Well ok, but I bet you can't pick ! 
