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Suspected Hamas members arrested in Germany, Netherlands and Denmark for planning terrorist attacks
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
When the man is right, he is right
[X]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2023 07:40 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He would know. Everything the Democratzis are doing to President Trump is right out of his playbook.

Well, except the part where he falls out a window. Hasn't happened... yet.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 12/15/2023 10:47 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Hands off my stove.
[US Oil & Gas Assoc.) Don’t believe them. The national movement to ban gas appliances is already underway. Dark-money leftist environmental groups and elitist elected officials are going to kick in our front doors and seat themselves at the very epicenter of our family life — right in our own kitchen. If successful they will be able to start dictating every other aspect of our lives; right down to how we prepare our meals, do our laundry, and heat our homes. This is a grotesque invasion of personal privacy. It is where we draw the line.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2023 08:12 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dark-money leftist environmental groups and elitist elected officials are going to kick in our front doors and seat themselves at the very epicenter of our family life

Gas stove or furnace? They'll just 'condemn' my property. I cannot live there. I cannot sell it. It soon becomes the property of the State.

I too, am now homeless and on the street. It all happened so quickly.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2023 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Jack Creanter7508 || 12/15/2023 8:43 Comments || Top||

#3  The truly sick part is if they can get a large population commie state to go along with it, it changes the overall economics of manufacturing stoves.

Once again, who cares who you voted for or more ridiculous, 'Why'? All they need is a coterie in a commie state legislature and Bingo.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/15/2023 9:49 Comments || Top||


Is it always necessary to apologize for the sins of the fathers?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Khudiev

[REGNUM] The US Conference of Catholic Bishops postponed the adoption of a document on pastoral work with indigenous peoples, fearing that an apology for the Church's past policies would lead to a wave of lawsuits claims. Apologizing for the sins of our fathers has become a risky business - and it's worth looking into why.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 12/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No, father apologies are impractical. Based on a lifetime of experience with my father, that would require a full time employee with a staff. I haven’t got that type of time.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/15/2023 5:44 Comments || Top||


#3  ""What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge'?
3 "As I live," says the Lord God, "you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel.
4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die."

--Ezekiel 18:2-4
Posted by: Tom || 12/15/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Hunter Biden and the Things Left Unsaid
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2023 14:48 Comments || Top||


The Collapse of Credible Authority-In the last couple of decades, almost all of our institutions have failed.
[AmericanThinker] I grew up in a world in which most authorities could be trusted most of the time. True, it was already a cliché that Washington, D.C. was full of liars. And yes, everyone knew about medical malpractice. Even people who weren’t Marxists understood that corporations, from time to time, were guilty of committing genuine wrongs against the public. Still, overall, the people who were running things were usually accountable. There was an ingrained, unspoken sense of decency and social responsibility long before the current twisted understanding of social justice (i.e., revenge) had a chance to muscle it out. People in authority may have seen themselves as a bit better than the common run of humanity, but they didn’t quite see themselves as an entirely different species. They were the best and brightest of us, but not yet an utterly alien aristocracy.

Read the rest at the link

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Tony Fauci immolated the last vestige of credible authority.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/15/2023 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  House Votes to Formalize Impeachment Inquiry into Joe Biden
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2023 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  There was an ingrained, unspoken sense of decency and social responsibility long before the current twisted understanding of social justice

Oh, that's when you had a foundation of Judaeo-Christian culture, as imperfect as you view it. You allowed the Marxists to replace that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2023 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  almost all of our institutions have failed.

Oh, I don't know...
my local gas station/grocery/grill/post office is as good as it ever was. Reminds me of my youth with a Nehi orange soda and a moon pie for lunch.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2023 14:55 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
First lady Jill Biden blasted over 'bizarre' White House Christmas video: 'United States of Bananas'
[FOX] First lady Jill Biden was blasted Wednesday night after posting a video to X showing dancers tapping around the holiday-decorated White House, whose theme this year is "Magic, Wonder and Joy."

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, the first lady shared the video from the official @FLOTUS account, along with a caption.

"A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite. Enjoy!" the first lady's post read.

But social media observers didn't seem to be enjoying the musical content.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2023 07:18 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jasper County, Illinois man said to be 'rolling over in his grave.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2023 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  If she's Wiccan it would explain much.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/15/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  There you go, Super Hose.
Nutcrackers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2023 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  And a Banana Republic it has become.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2023 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  It's part of the effort to make the abnormal into the 'new normal'.
Posted by: Raj || 12/15/2023 9:31 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/15/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#7  “I am a white tap dancer with Black cultural ancestors in a society that privileges white people and whiteness,” Michelle Dorrance, the company’s founder, writes in a note on the troupe’s website titled, “Why antiracism work is important to me.”
The comprehensive “antiracism” section of Dorrance Dance’s website includes links to numerous far-left organizations, such as Black Lives Matter and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence — the latter group trumpets the antisemitic slogan, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free!” on its website.
Dorrance Dance encourages visitors to “get involved in abolition work” linking to essays titled, “What Is Prison Abolition?” and “How I Became a Police Abolitionist.”
The prison abolition movement considers immigrant detention centers, city and county jails and state and federal prisons, “social evils” that “must be eradicated.”
Link
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/15/2023 10:29 Comments || Top||

#8  I would pay a lot of money to watch someone sew her fucking mouth shut.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/15/2023 11:09 Comments || Top||

#9  We had political theater; we have political dance.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/15/2023 11:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Joe is fascinated by the blinking lights.

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2023 13:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Wonky choreography.

Hillary Clinton Surprise! Face? Air Guitar? Wacky Wiggler Arms? Seem out of timing too.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/15/2023 13:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Somehow, given the moral vapidity of that entire family, a tasteless trailer-trash video of prancing gays and every imaginable Woke-themed costume on display is the epitome of this administration. I wonder what medication the Secret Service must provide to overcome the widespread outbreak of gag-reflex and gurd that each day brings?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2023 14:05 Comments || Top||

#13  the epitome of this administration

Hunter approved.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2023 14:45 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
No Air For You!
[Twitchy] Breathing. It's kind of important for survival. And we're fans.

But, we've also said for a while you are the carbon the environmental Left wants to reduce.

And now breathing -- that basic function of life -- is a threat to the environment.

0.1% of the greenhouse gas emissions.

One tenth of one percent.

Are they going to start taxing our exhalations?

Whether it's eating less meat or cycling instead of driving, humans can do many things to help prevent climate change.

Unfortunately, breathing less isn't one of them.

That might be a problem, as a new study claims the gases in air exhaled from human lungs is fueling global warming.

Methane and nitrous oxide in the air we exhale makes up to 0.1 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, scientists say.

And that's not even accounting for the gas we release from burps and farts, or emissions that come from our skin without us noticing.

They've let the mask slip in the past, but now they're just coming out and saying it: you are the problem.

0.1% of the 0.04% of the atmosphere that is CO2.

We are now living in the most scientifically ignorant era in history.

Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder just how much of the atmosphere is water vapor?

Seems that water vapor is an even bigger 'greenhouse gas' than co2 or methane.

Water vapor retain more heat than any of the other 'greenhouse' gases combined. (And release more heat as well.)

Yet there soesn;t seem to me much efforts taken to reduce water vapor.

I wonder why that is so?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/15/2023 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  I ask John Kerry and Al Gore to lead by example on an immediate basis.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/15/2023 5:47 Comments || Top||

#3  My plan for water vapor is to fashion a huge ocean covering tarp from used Starbucks detritus.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/15/2023 5:49 Comments || Top||

#4  No Air For You!

Now, about flooding those Hamas tunnels.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2023 6:13 Comments || Top||

#5 
A picture of 2 of the biggest violators
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/15/2023 6:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Seeking, when the Volcano erupted in the pacific last year it raised the water in the atmosphere by over 10%. This caused an immediate cooling effect on our atmosphere, it absorbed the heat, then once stabilized out planets temp went up as you say because it retains the heat. It was also responsible for the wet winter we had last year and the experts, not the climate gas lighters, are saying we will have for the next few years until the atmosphere gets back to normal.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2023 10:47 Comments || Top||

#7  50 million tons of water vapor from Tonga's eruption could warm Earth for years

and gave us the pretty moon halo.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2023 15:04 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
The U.S. Defense Industrial Base-It's Worse Than You Thought-For Example-Newport News is the only shipyard that can make U.S. aircraft carriers.
[RealClearDefense] Not what you thought it was and not what it needs to be

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with increased tensions in the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific region, has generated many debates. Debates about the stability of the international order, the cohesion of NATO, and many others. But for the United States, one significant debate regards the size and expansibility of the American defense industrial base. It’s a discussion that is well past due.

Last year, Under Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl testified to Congress that, “What the Ukraine conflict showed is that, frankly, our defense industrial base was not at the level that we needed it to be to generate munitions.” But the challenge with ammunition is more symptom than cause, in economic terms something of a “leading indicator.”

The ammunition shortage reflects the reality of a production base that over the past thirty years has shrunk from sixteen to five ammunition plants. But that is merely a specific reflection of a general concern applicable to aircraft, surface ships, submarines, missiles, and ground combat vehicles.

Simply put, the basic question is this: Is the current American defense industrial base large enough? And if not, what should we do about it?

Let’s go back to the origins of an enduring myth – the enormous size of the American “military industrial complex.”

When President Dwight Eisenhower gave his farewell address in January 1961, his comments included the caution, “we must guard against the acquisition of un-warranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” Although Eisenhower also cautioned against a lack of military preparedness, his “military-industrial complex” comment became the line for which the speech is remembered. And despite the passage of more than sixty years, the phrase has endured even though the “complex” itself has not.

At the time of Eisenhower’s speech some fifteen companies in the Fortune 100 were engaged in the defense effort. But, as a group, those fifteen were operating at a loss as the companies and their pentagon customers were still finding a moving “price point.” The defense business had changed after World War II, shifting from a largely government domain – now known as the “arsenal system” -- to the commercial sector. Tellingly, Eisenhower’s first two defense secretaries, Charles Wilson, and Neil McElroy, were former corporate executives.

When President Ronald Reagan initiated his “defense build-up” in 1981, the defense industrial base had experienced enormous growth. There were over forty major companies engaged in it, fourteen of them able to design and manufacture high-performance military aircraft. Today there are only three.

Since the end of the Cold War, the American defense industrial base has compressed from those forty or more firms down to five, driven by changing strategic circumstances and federal budget priorities.

The 2023 Fortune data finds that in its top 100 there are only three firms listed in the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) sector – Raytheon Technologies, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin. In the larger Fortune 500 there are eight, and in the Fortune 1000 there are sixteen.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Last I saw from the Dirty Harry movies, the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond are not being used. Shouldn’t take too much to fire them back up if we have a need,
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/15/2023 5:52 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Where would you take the trained tech people?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/15/2023 6:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I assumed that they were remote working. There used to be a good Rugby Pub down there. The neighborhood is sort of upscale. Skid row is not too far. There is room for the requisite dive bars, strip clubs and tattoo parlors. Planning note - all the drawings might need Spanish versions and versions that can be read by someone with 3rd grade reading capabilities.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/15/2023 6:11 Comments || Top||

#4 
I can see it now, some "Save The Sea Weed" Eco-Freaks, will demand it be shutdown. Then, Biden will direct the US Navy to have it built by Communist China. Hunter will be the point man for the building.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/15/2023 6:59 Comments || Top||

#5  ....Building them? Where the hell will we REPAIR them? HINT: Ain't gonna be NN.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 12/15/2023 8:12 Comments || Top||


#7  Fact is, the US can barely build ships at all anymore.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/15/2023 9:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Missiles are about to make ships horrendously obsolete floating foxholes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/15/2023 12:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Drone bombing of tanks and armored vehicles is certainly taking a toll.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2023 13:38 Comments || Top||

#10  "The Kaiser shipyards in Richmond are not being used. Shouldn’t take too much to fire them back up if we have a need,"

Where is the people to build them?
The next USN frigate will be an Italian design because US just keep making Arleigh Burke destroyers for 40 years, it is after all a 1980's design and lost know-how to design a frigate/destroyer.
Posted by: Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 || 12/15/2023 23:10 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice (This was all done by design)
[WhatFinger] Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice The Armenian Genocide was not a mistake. Holodomor was not a mistake. The Final Solution was not a mistake. The Great Leap Forward was not a mistake. The Killing Fields were not a mistake. Name your genocide—it was not a mistake. That includes the Great Democide of the 2020s. To imply otherwise is to give Them the out they are seeking. It was not botched. It was not bungled. It was not a blunder. It was not incompetence. It was not lack of knowledge.

Margaret Anna Alice web site.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2023 05:05 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you watch no other video.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2023 5:12 Comments || Top||

#2  And Lincoln would say killing the Indians was not a mistake. Gotta have that railroad built, ya know.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/15/2023 5:29 Comments || Top||


#4  /\ Could there be no more perfect an example Skid ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2023 7:47 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2023-12-15
  Suspected Hamas members arrested in Germany, Netherlands and Denmark for planning terrorist attacks
Thu 2023-12-14
  Army says hundreds arrested in ongoing Jenin raid
Wed 2023-12-13
  Several Hamas leaders have left Qatar for an unknown destination, turning off their phones and not accepting calls
Tue 2023-12-12
  Activists calling for Gaza ceasefire protest in US Senate office building
Mon 2023-12-11
  Netenyahu to Hamas: It's over. Don't die for Sinwar. Surrender - now
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  Hamas leader Sinwar said to have fled north Gaza by hiding in humanitarian convoy
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  French court convicts six teens in teacher's beheading case
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  Peace in the South Caucasus?
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  Dozens of Hamas terrorists surrender to Israeli soldiers
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  Military drone strike accidentally kills 85 civilians celebrating a Muslim festival in Nigeria
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  All telecom services in Gaza Strip have been lost
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  Al-Nujaba Movement Five members of the movement killed as a result of an American air strike in Kirkuk
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