It seems that the Haitian "refugees" in Ohio have an extensive menu.
Not only do they snatch and cook ducks from various ponds around Springfield; they also snatch and cook cats, dogs, and horses.
Some of the smaller animals are used in Santeria practices, too.
This gave rise to some new memes!
Up here, we know about Penzey's.
Kamala Harris on Saturday visited a spice store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and it was a total PR nightmare.
This is why Kamala Harris’s handlers try to hide her from the public.
A reporter asked Kamala Harris about her debate prep.
“Best part of debate prep for you? What’s your favorite part?” a sycophantic reporter asked Harris.
“Being at this spice store!” Kamala Harris said as she cackled....
There you are!! Another Kammy non-answer.
A Certain (very small) Group of People is determined to pound Tucker Carlson into the ground for his greatest sin to date: promoting free discussion of war-mongers.
You know why, right?
Those war-mongers are frightened to death that a Certain Middle-Eastern State might have trouble dragging the US into the next Forever War.
Google "Tucker Carlson WWII interview." You'll find items from Mediaite, the Hill, the Atlantic, CNN, and MSNBC all repeating the same talking points. Imagine that!
Here's the condensed version: Tucker interviews some dude who doesn't like Churchill, so it's obvious that the dude is a Holocaust denier anti-Semite HATRRRRR. And so is Tucker. Plus PJ Buchanan, and maybe Tulsi Gabbard, too.
(Rend garments here.)
This is called the "S**t against the wall" play. They'd love to run the De-Monitize Play against him, but Tucker is subscriber-supported--and those subscribers are not going away.
What's the over/under on the date when noisy, disruptive, demonstrations begin?
This is not surprising at all. The Empire of D.C. is imitating Stalin in almost every way except the physical brutality and purging-by-gun. (So far.)
...Washington has doubled and tripled down on statism, in everything from NATO expansion to foreign “forever war” military interventions to an almost parabolic expansion of the federal bureaucracy. Rather than a peace dividend, the U.S. government now runs nine-figure deficits annually as a matter of course, and meddles in citizens’ lives in everything from vaccine mandates and (corporate lobbying–distorted) nutrition guidelines, to who is allowed to use boys’ and girls’ bathrooms in public institutions, to the water pressure of showers and toilets at home, to Title IX policing of speech and behavior in workplaces and on college campuses—and then spends still more taxpayer money promoting similarly questionable policies around the world. The U.S. capital is more imperial than ever before, its obscenely expensive suburbs occupied by unaccountable employees of the 429 federal agencies of the permanent administrative state, who vote lockstep in numbers approaching 100 percent for the “party of government”—America’s undeclared version of a ruling Communist party – while blithely ignoring the social pathologies and miseries affecting the provincial peons whose taxes pay their generous six-figure salaries....
Don't forget: Kamala will install price controls and set up a tax eat the rich protocol, doubling down on all of the above "adjustments" to your lifestyle.
But that's hardly the end.
...Perhaps most shocking of all has been the embrace of Communist-style censorship policies by the U.S. and other Western governments once pledged to uphold freedom of speech and the press...
...Robert Reich, a former U.S. Secretary of Labor, demanded in the Guardian that “regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest”...
...Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social media giant Facebook, confessed in a public letter to Congress that “in 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.”...
Trump says he will clean the stables.
Not likely. He won't have the time, nor the tools, necessary for a thorough cleaning.
Too bad.
The NFL chose Brazil for its foreign adventure/money-grab this year.
Brazil is ruled by a fascist government. That's why 100,000 people turned out to protest.
The NFL? It chose poorly.
These 88 "Top 1%'ers" are all for Kamala.
They are not brain-dead. They know which side of the bread has the butter--for them.
As for the rest of the citizens of the US? Let them eat cake!
Roger Altman, Founder & Senior Chairman of EvercoreNow you know. Knowledge is power.
Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream
Carl Bass, former CEO of Autodesk
Tom Bernstein, President and Co-Founder of Chelsea Piers
Afasaneh Beschloss, Founder & CEO of Rock Creek
Jeff Bewkes, former CEO of Time Warner
W. Michael Blumenthal, 64th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and former CEO of both Bendix and Unisys
Rosalind “Roz” Brewer, former CEO of Sam’s Club; former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance; former COO of Starbucks
Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox; Chairwoman of Teneo; Founding Partner of Integrum Holdings
Maverick Carter, CEO of The SpringHill Company
Ken Chenault, Chairman & Managing Director of General Catalyst; former Chairman & CEO of American Express
Peter Chernin, Co-Founder & Partner of TCG
Tony Coles, Chairperson & former CEO of Cerevel
Tim Collins, Founder, CEO, and Senior Managing Director of Ripplewood
Ron Conway, Founder & Managing Partner of SV Angel
Robert Crandall, former President and Chairman of American Airlines
Mark Cuban, Various entrepreneurial endeavors and a “shark” on Shark Tank
Richelieu Dennis, Founder and Executive Chair of Sundial Group of Companies
Barry Diller, Chairman & Senior Executive of IAC and Senior Executive of Expedia; Former Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Fox, Inc.
John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins
Arnold Donald, former CEO of Carnival Corporation
Blair Effron, Partner & Co-Founder of Centerview Partners
José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearlake Capital Group
David P. Fialkow, Co-Founder & Managing Director of General Catalyst
Anne Finucane, former Vice Chair of Bank of America
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Chief Executive of E.L. Rothschild
Ken Frazier, former Executive Chairman, President & CEO of Merck
Mark Gallogly, Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Three Cairns Group; Co-Founder of Centerbridge Partners
Chad Gifford, Former Chairman of Bank of America
David Grain, Founder and CEO of Grain Management
Logan Green, Chairman and former CEO of Lyft
Daniel J. Halpern, Co-founder and CEO of Jackmont Hospitality
Bruce Heyman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada and former Managing Director of Private Wealth at Goldman Sachs
Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments; Chairman of Starbucks
Roger Hochschild, former CEO and President of Discover Financial Services
Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock Partners and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn
Glenn Hutchins, Chairman of North Island or Co-Founder of Silver Lake
Blake Irving, former CEO of GoDaddy
Tony James, former President, CEO & Executive Vice Chairman of Blackstone; Founder of Jefferson River Capital
David Jacobson, Senior Advisor and former Vice Chair of BMO Financial Group; Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada
Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises
Brad Karp, Chairman of Paul, Weiss
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Founder & Managing Partner of WndrCo
Ellen Kullman, President and CEO of Carbon3; former Chair and CEO of DuPont
Todd Lachman, Founder of Sovos Brands
Chris Larsen, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Ripple
Jeff Lawson, former CEO of Twilio
Ted Leonsis, CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO of Box
Ed Lewis, former Chairman and CEO of Essence Communications, co-founder Essence Magazine
William M. Lewis, Jr.
Michael Lynton, Chairman of Snap, Inc., former CEO of Sony Entertainment
Tracy V. Maitland, President and Chief Investment Officer of Advent Capital Management
Helena Maus, CEO of Archetype and Marker Collective
Marissa Mayer, co-founder and CEO of Sunshine Products, former CEO of Yahoo!
T.J. McGill, Co-Founder of Evergreen Pacific Partners and Suzanne Sinegal McGill, Co-Founder of Rwanda Girls Initiative
Danny Meyer, Founder & Executive Chairman of Union Square Hospitality Group
Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder and CEO of Asana
Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford
Anne Mulcahy, former Chairman and CEO of Xerox
James Murdoch, Founder & CEO of Lupa Systems; former CEO of 21st Century Fox
Laxman Narasimhan, former CEO of Starbucks
Indra Nooyi, former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
Peter Orszag, former Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget and CEO of Lazard
Deven J. Parekh, Managing Director of Insight Partners
Sean Parker, Founder of Napster; Founder and Chairman of Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Charles Phillips, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Recognize; former President of Oracle and former CEO of Infor;
Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder and President of Emerson Collective
Penny Pritzker, 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce; founder and Chairman of PSP Partners
Vasant Prabhu, former CFO and Vice-Chair of Visa
Spencer Rascoff, Founder and CEO of 75 & Sunny Ventures; Co-Founder and former CEO of Zillow
Punit Renjen
Rachel Romer, Founder of Guild Education
Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary; Senior Counselor at Centerview Partners
Kevin P. Ryan, Co-founder, MongoDB, Business Insider, GILT Groupe, Zola, Pearl Health, Affect Therapeutics, and Transcend Therapeutics
Faiza J. Saeed
Dan Schulman, former President & CEO of PayPal
Jim Sinegal, Co-Founder and Former CEO of Costco
Dan Springer, former CEO of Docusign
Tom Steyer, Founder and former Co-Senior-Managing-Partner of Farallon Capital
Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp
Scott Stuart, Founding & Managing Partner of Sageview Capital
Larry Summers, 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury and President Emeritus of Harvard University
Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder & CEO of Chobani
Daniel Weiss, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Angeleno Group
Steve Westly, Founder and Managing Partner of The Westly Group
Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna
Robert Wolf, former CEO of UBS Americas
Dane County is a sanctuary county, you know.
A suspected Venezualan gang member who is not a U.S. citizen now has an ICE detainer hold after he was accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile female in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, according to Prairie du Chien Police Chief Kyle Teynor.
The suspect, Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate, 26 of Venezuela, is believed to be a member of “Tren de Aragua,” a violent Venezuelan gang...
... since 2023, Zarate has been wanted on warrants out of Dane County, where he was charged, but never showed up for court, with a slew of violent crimes....
And stupid is as stupid does:
... Mr. Coronel Zarate was brought to Prairie du Chien from the Dane County area. The victims in this case knew Mr. Coronel Zarate, this was not a random event,” Teynor wrote. “This incident highlights the need to be aware of the dangers that affiliates of these transnational criminal organizations pose to our communities...
These are not nice people.
But Harris/Biden and the lunatics in Dane County Government love them.
While Johnson is at it, he should "declare" his position on Rabbi Schneerson.
...Schneerson describes the difference between a Jew and a non-Jew and he says: ‘Thus we do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level. The body of a Jewish person is of totally different quality from the body of all nations of the world.’
And he talks about ‘the substance of the Jewish body’ versus the substance of non-Jews, saying that the inner quality ‘is so different and so great that the bod[ies] should be considered completely different species.’
So that is a belief, and you can go through his speeches and you will see that he continually talks about how non-Jews should be treated and that again we are a different species. ...
It has been proposed that Schneerson's theories are prime motivators in the Israeli government's Zionism.
We all know that Schneerson and his ilk--Talmud follower--are "fringe."
Johnson should say so. You know: DECLARE.
Since Mr. Johnson of PowerLine has a snippy little question for JD Vance:
...Senator Vance issued this statement to Jewish Insider yesterday: “Senator Vance doesn’t believe in guilt-by-association cancel culture but he obviously does not share the views of the guest interviewed by Tucker Carlson. There are no stronger supporters of our allies in Israel or the Jewish community in America than Senator Vance and President Trump.”
That “guilt-by-association” thing is an unbecoming dodge. Carlson wasn’t “associating” with Cooper. He was promoting him.
The Vance statement went on: “As Senator Vance and President Trump stand steadfastly in support of our allies in Israel, radical Kamala Harris continues to cater to the antisemitic Hamas wing of her party.” True, but what about your buddy Tucker? It’s time to declare....
Well, let's get around to "declarations," Mr. Johnson.
...The Talmud teaches that Jesus Christ was illegitimate and was conceived during menstruation; that he had the soul of Esau; that he was a fool, a conjurer, a seducer; that he was crucified, buried in hell and set up as an idol ever since by his followers....
That's just the start. Here's a bit more:
...Since Christians are regarded by the Jews as idolaters, all their forms of worship are idolatrous. Their priests are called priests of Baal; their temples are called houses of lies and idolatry, and everything they contain, such as chalices, statues and books, are regarded as made for the serving of idols; their prayers, both private and public, are sinful and offensive to God; and their festivals are called days of evil....The Talmud is 'the book' of modern Judaism. Its teachings are believed and followed by almost all practicing Jews.
So Mr. Johnson: it's time to declare. Talmud for you??
The Liberalism practiced in Cdl. Newman's day is the very same Liberalism we see today. So we thought we'd post his points as a help to those of you who are swimming in an ocean of the stuff. Newman was primarily concerned with the religious 'liberalism,' but note that it bleeds over into the political.
1. No religious tenet is important, unless reason shows it to be so.
Therefore, e.g. the doctrine of the Athanasian Creed is not to be insisted on, unless it tends to convert the soul; and the doctrine of the Atonement is to be insisted on, if it does convert the soul.
2. No one can believe what he does not understand.
Therefore, e.g. there are no mysteries in true religion.
3. No theological doctrine is any thing more than an opinion which happens to be held by bodies of men.
Therefore, e.g. no creed, as such, is necessary for salvation.
4. It is dishonest in a man to make an act of faith in what he has not had brought home to him by actual proof.
Therefore, e.g. the mass of men ought not absolutely to believe in the divine authority of the Bible.
5. It is immoral in a man to believe more than he can spontaneously receive as being congenial to his moral and mental nature.
Therefore, e.g. a given individual is not bound to believe in eternal punishment. {295}
6. No revealed doctrines or precepts may reasonably stand in the way of scientific conclusions.
Therefore, e.g. Political Economy may reverse our Lord's declarations about poverty and riches, or a system of Ethics may teach that the highest condition of body is ordinarily essential to the highest state of mind.
7. Christianity is necessarily modified by the growth of civilization, and the exigencies of times.
Therefore, e.g. the Catholic priesthood, though necessary in the Middle Ages, may be superseded now.
8. There is a system of religion more simply true than Christianity as it has ever been received.
Therefore, e.g. we may advance that Christianity is the "corn of wheat " which has been dead for 1800 years, but at length will bear fruit; and that Mahometanism is the manly religion, and existing Christianity the womanish.
9. There is a right of Private Judgment: that is, there is no existing authority on earth competent to interfere with the liberty of individuals in reasoning and judging for themselves about the Bible and its contents, as they severally please.
Therefore, e.g. religious establishments requiring subscription are Anti-christian.
10. There are rights of conscience such, that every one may lawfully advance a claim to profess and teach what is false and wrong in matters, religious, social, and moral, provided that to his private conscience it seems absolutely true and right.
Therefore, e.g. individuals have a right to preach and practise fornication and polygamy.
11. There is no such thing as a national or state conscience.
Therefore, e.g. no judgments can fall upon a sinful or infidel nation. {296}
12. The civil power has no positive duty, in a normal state of things, to maintain religious truth.
Therefore, e.g. blasphemy and sabbath-breaking are not rightly punishable by law.
13. Utility and expedience are the measure of political duty.
Therefore, e.g. no punishment may be enacted, on the ground that God commands it: e.g. on the text, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
14. The Civil Power may dispose of Church property without sacrilege.
Therefore, e.g. Henry VIII. committed no sin in his spoliations.
15. The Civil Power has the right of ecclesiastical jurisdiction and administration.
Therefore, e.g. Parliament may impose articles of faith on the Church or suppress Dioceses.
16. It is lawful to rise in arms against legitimate princes.
Therefore, e.g. the Puritans in the 17th century, and the French in the 18th, were justifiable in their Rebellion and Revolution respectively.
17. The people are the legitimate source of power.
Therefore, e.g. Universal Suffrage is among the natural rights of man.
18. Virtue is the child of knowledge, and vice of ignorance.
Therefore, e.g. education, periodical literature, railroad travelling, ventilation, drainage, and the arts of life, when fully carried out, serve to make a population moral and happy.
Note well: in #16 he said "LEGITIMATE" princes. That excludes those who, e.g., cheated like crazy to win an election in 2020.
A few days ago, someone shot and killed four riders, execution-style, on the CTA.*
The MSM failed to come up with a reason for the shootings.
There was one: the shooter is a tranny. And they are all mentally unstable in the extreme.
* How many of you know that "Chicago Transit Authority" is the first name of the band Chicago?
Kamala told us, so it must be true: Bidenomics Is Working!!
America's employers posted fewer job openings in July than they had the previous month, a sign that hiring could further cool in the coming months....
You will have no job and be happy, peasant!
That Venezuelan bunch which has taken over an Aurora apartment complex* and is moving in on Chicago and Dallas has a side-hustle: food delivery and ride-sharing!
... “As a DailyMail.com investigation revealed, Venezuelan migrants have infiltrated food delivery and ride-share apps, renting or buying accounts that do not belong to them and showing up at your door illegally.
In many cases, the migrants working under assumed names and identities don’t have authorization to work in the US or a driver license to legally operate a vehicle.
It raises huge concerns about the safety of the home delivery apps and the consumer’s ability to trust who is actually delivering food to their home and family – with customers’ personal information potentially placed in the hands of dangerous street gangs.”...
Well, they're here because they were refugees from Venezuela, where they were persecuted or sumpin'sumpin. That's the story from Harris/Biden, and they're sticking to it.
And these guys are "good for business"--the story from the Chamber of Commerce, and they're sticking to it, as well.
See!! This is all to YOUR benefit! Now sit down and STFU, raaaaycisssss!
*The actual owners of those Aurora apartments have never been revealed by "the press." It's well-known that various cartels have purchased lots of properties in Arizona (and lots of politicians there, too) so are they expanding their real-estate holdings northward? Inquiring minds, and all that.
VDH pens an essay more-or-less defending Churchill's approach to WWII. He argues that Hitler actually started WWII, claiming that Hitler's promises of peace after taking France and Poland were fake, as were his promises regarding the Sudetenland. It is true that the question of Hitler's veracity--and his real intentions--are always going to be the most important contentious issue about "who started this."
We'll look at the terror-bombing section of his post:
...Who started a systematic campaign of terror bombing?
The Luftwaffe first indiscriminately bombed civilian targets in Poland to instill panic, terror, and mass death. It continued that tactic unapologetically in Holland by destroying the center of Rotterdam during the first two weeks of May 1940. And despite Hitler’s false claims that the Allies had started bombing civilians first, he soon honed his air strategy of incinerating civilians against Coventry and London.
In terms of soldiers lost versus civilians killed, Britain waged a less lethal war than most of the other belligerents, losing fewer soldiers than its two allies and killing far fewer of their enemies as well. Dresden and Hamburg paled before the American incendiary campaigns against Japanese cities between March and July 1945, followed by the two atomic bombs....
Umnnhhhh.....it would be nice if VDH addressed the issue raised by Cooper: that England, under Churchill's regime, was bombing the living Hell out of non-industrial German cities and its countryside--like the Black Forest. VDH also deflects, doing the "who's worse?" dance, comparing the US nuclear bombing of Japan to Churchill's fire-bombing of Dresden. Well, then, Victor, who WAS worse? Further, VDH blows foo-foo dust over the London bombings, conveniently 'forgetting' that London was a major industrial center--that is, that taking out London's industry was a legitimate strategic objective.
In brief, VDH succeeds in blaming Hitler, but fails in his attempt to exonerate Churchill, unless you agree that Truman was even more a war criminal.
One wonders why. Why is Churchill some sort of icon in the American mind?
There is another, very persuasive, element here, posted at PowerLine:
... For those who are wondering: yes, it is true, and denied by no historian of the period, that in June 1940 Hitler made a sincere offer of peace and rapprochement to Great-Britain.
Even apart from the fact that after Munich and everything else it was quite rational to doubt Hitler’s sincerity, there is a simpler and much more fundamental reason why neither Winston Churchill, nor any other prime minister of the United Kingdom, could have taken this offer: ever since it emerged as a coherent state, the overriding security imperative of the British government has been to prevent, at all costs, the appearance of a hegemonic power on the European continent....
IOW, Churchill stiff-armed Hitler's proposal on geopolitical grounds.
Maybe VDH should have included that in his essay!
Along the way, Hayward (PowerLine) takes all the usual swipes at PJ Buchanan that we expect from bitter old men whose comfy Republican Party has gone populist--exactly as PJB wanted it.
Too bad, so sad.
The Froggy Government has been very tight-lipped about this perpetrator.
A 19th-century church was partially destroyed in an arson attack on Sunday. Police say the main suspect in the case has not only been convicted of church burnings in the past, but was only just released from prison.
The 39-year-old suspect was arrested shortly after a fire consumed the Roman Catholic Immaculate Conception church in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. It was revealed Tuesday, September 3, that he had been convicted of prior church attacks, attempting to set fire to at least five different churches.
The suspect had been in prison since 2021 but was recently released....
But here's a hint:
...Social media reports have offered a name for the suspect and alleged he posted about Islam and Palestinian statehood, but such claims remain unverified as of the time of publication....
Pretty soon the French version of FEEBS will destroy all the records "accidentally."
We won't copy and paste the whole thread here, but the author makes it clear that: 1) he read a LOT of primary sources on Churchill's instigation of WWII; and 2) Churchill is a war criminal.
And--by the way--he intensely disliked Jews, which is why he encouraged the Zionists to go to Palestine and carve Israel out of the territory. Hitler was extremely bad. But Churchill--well, maybe he was worse.
...Let's rewind the clock to World War 1. Churchill is boss of the British Navy, and in 1915 he implements a hunger blockade of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Over the course of the war, up to three-quarters of a million Germans would die of starvation and hunger-related causes...
...Germany agreed to an armistice in 1918, expecting to meet at the table of peace to discuss terms. Instead, Britain maintained the blockade - even after the Kaiser had abdicated and a republic was declared - and starved Germany for eight more months. Some 100k more were killed....
(It is noted that Churchill was out of the Admiralty sometime in 1918 (when, exactly, is important) and that Lloyd George was Prime Minister at the time. Of course, Lloyd George's position is irrelevant to the discussion above; Chamberlain, while Prime Minister, had no control over Churchill's blood-lust, either.)
Moving along....
...Its 1920, and Britain is busy pacifying Iraqi tribes. Churchill insists the RAF must "proceed w/work on gas bombs, especially mustard gas, which would inflict punishment on recalcitrant natives... I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes."...
That's the "kinder, gentler" Churchill.
What about those Jews?
...On the other hand, he said Trotsky had "the organizing ability of a Carnot, the cold detached intelligence of a Machiavelli, the mob oratory of a Cleon, the ferocity of Jack the Ripper, the toughness of a Titus Oates... (And finally) he is still a Jew. Nothing could get over that." ...
...Like Hitler, Churchill blamed Jews for communism, and revolutions dating back to 1789, describing the Bolsheviks as a band of underworld Jews "(gripping) the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.".....
And Britain's favorite gambit: forgeries of deceit!
...During the 1924 election, Churchill circulated a forged letter purporting to be from Soviet leader Zinoviev, plotting revolution on the streets of London. Like Boomercons pointedly saying Barack *Hussein* Obama, Churchill cited "the letter of Zinoviev, alias Apfelbaum.....
(There is more than a little controversy about the true nature of the "Zimmerman letter" to Mexico. While Wiki doesn't offer the theory, some have claimed that the "letter" was created by the British in order to stir the US to action in WWI, which Wilson had studiously avoided.)
Hitler sent many messages to England asking the country to NOT go to war. He stated that he would negotiate a settlement with France and give back the parts of Poland which were not largely-Germanic occupied.
In response, Churchill began bombing civilian targets in Germany. He then escalated, bombing random cities all over Europe including Italy, and escalated again, bombing a French Navy yard.
What a gentleman!
After a while of this Chamberlain resigned, and Churchill became Prime Minister.
Then things got worse.
Note well: during all this time, Hitler did NOT allow the Luftwaffe to bomb England. That wouldn't begin until later, after Churchill had killed, starved, or maimed 100,000++ Germans with his bombing and blockades.
Read it all at the link.
The propaganda + baiting campaign is currently in play, too. It worked once, so......
The Captain brings this to the foreground; it's a column from Codrea.
...It’s not a matter of “Should felons have guns?” That’s the wrong question. Try “Should those proven violent and predatory have access to the rest of us?”
Ditto with “Should illegal aliens have guns?”...
Rather, this: "Should illegals be in the country at all?"
Yes, those are the correct questions.
Now can we have Governments--Fed, State, and Local--which act accordingly? Like that of Bukele?
That's a lot to ask.
Grim discovered this.
Elon should become very discriminatory regarding which countries he travels in.
That includes using extra caution in such countries as New York, California, Washington, and Oregon. If he's picky, there are a few places in Illinois where he'll be relatively safe.
You won't be surprised to see that this woman is a heretic of the Presbyterian persuasion.
...[Kamala] Harris recently hired a campaign director who has viciously attacked White Christians and claimed that America is an imperial "cult" and a "bloodthirsty beast." Did I mention that the new hire is not only Kamala's campaign "faith" director but that she's also a Presbyterian minister? Yeah.
So-called "Progressive" Rev. Jennifer Butler argues that "White supremacists" have "hijacked" the Christian faith — a "quality" that seems to fit perfectly with the Harris-Walz ad nauseam attack on White (and Black) conservatives. As a result, Butler's job will be to court people of faith — ahem — to the Harris-Walz ticket. Oh, and Butler runs a program that seeks to "root out" alleged "White nationalism" from the Christian faith....
Offhand, we'd guess that a lot of A.M.E. Christians are not 'white nationalist supremacists.' But that's just us.
Manhattan gets what it votes for.
...Across New York, recently arrived migrants are flooding the criminal justice system — at far higher rates than public officials have acknowledged.
Police sources shared with The Post a staggering estimate that as many as 75% of the people they’ve been arresting in Midtown Manhattan in recent months for crimes like assault, robbery and domestic violence are migrants. In parts of Queens, the figure is more than 60%, sources there estimate....
So don't ask why a Cuomo/Hochul aide was a Chinese Commie spy.
Just like the illegals-and-crime problem, it's what New York votes for.
And they're getting it, hard.
German workers are going to learn about 'mercantilism' the hard way: they'll lose their jobs.
Germany-based Volkswagen (VW) is considering closing plants in its home country as automakers in the European Union (EU) grapple with a flood of cheap China-made cars that are increasingly making up a share of auto sales in the continent....
Those Chinese cars are not cheap due solely to the cost of labor.
They are cheap because the government of Red China supports their auto industry with huge subsidies. That's called "mercantilism."
Yes, there's more to it. Red China does not have Green Goddess enviro regulations, nor pensions, nor wage & hour laws as does Germany (and the US.) Chinese manufacturers do not have to put up with ninnies demanding equity for women and minorities in hiring and promotions. Health insurance? You're kidding, right? Post-retirement health and social security? Bwahahahahaha.....
In Red China, unlike in most of the West, workers are just another commodity like iron or rubber or Kleenex. Use them once, throw them away.
Which system do you want?
Walking around in San Francisco is dangerous to your health, as a 49er's rookie discovered.
He got shot, even though California has sensible gun control.
...California is the No. 1 state for gun control in America. The controls include a red flag law, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, universal background checks, gun registration requirements, a 10-day waiting period for gun purchases, a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can buy each month, a ban on licensed concealed carry on college campuses for self-defense, a ban on K-12 teachers and staff being armed for classroom defense, numerous public sensitive places designations which prohibit licensed concealed carry for self-defense. and ammunition controls as well....
"Sensible" gun control also works in Chicago, where only 34 people were shot over the weekend and only 6 were homicides.
It seems that Speaker Johnson may do the right thing.
Underline "may."
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republican leadership are reportedly discussing attaching a bill that requires proof of citizenship to vote to a stop-gap spending bill.
The federal government will shut down on September 30 if Congress fails to pass a spending bill, and congressional leaders are eyeing a short-term spending bill that would fund the government past Election Day, November 5.
Johnson and Republican leaders are now considering attaching the SAVE Act, a bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote in a federal election, to the short-term spending bill that would continue funding the government until March 2025....
Johnson's record of doing the right thing is spotty, but in this case? 65% of actual Americans favor a proof-of-citizenship for voting. Think Johnson will P.O. that many people?
Stay tuned.
There's a certain wry humor here.
House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, said that there have been talks among members of Congress about modifying legislation to push the Pentagon to be tougher on Iran for attacks on U.S. soldiers.
"There is a discussion about that, and how do we deal with the Houthis," Davidson said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "I mean, they clearly are a terrorist organization, so the designation of them as a terrorist organization should be done."...
The problem is that Iran (and Red China) are backing the Houthis, who are attacking multiple US bases in the Middle East.
Which raises a point.
Why not close those US bases and let Iraq, the Sauds, Jordan, and Lebanon handle their own damn borders and internal control?
Oh--that's right: why is OUR oil underneath YOUR sand?.....
We've known for some time that Netanyahu's war in Gaza is not popular with all Israelis.
Israel has been brought to a standstill due to a nationwide general strike after the country erupted with protests over Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to secure a hostage release deal with Hamas.
The unions on Sunday announced the strike which has today fallen into action - leaving Israel facing mass disruptions and closures, including at its international airport.......Histadrut Labor Federation chief Arnon Bar-David made the strike announcement.
He said: 'Jews are being murdered in the tunnels of Gaza. It is impossible to grasp and has to stop'.
He chillingly continued: 'We are getting body bags instead of a deal. I have come to the conclusion that only our intervention might move those who need to be moved.
'I call on the people of Israel to go out to the streets tonight and tomorrow and for everyone to take part in the strike.
'It is impossible to stand by anymore and neglect as our children are murdered in the tunnels of Gaza... a deal needs to be reached, a deal is more important than anything else....
Israel's economy is being eaten alive by the war. Tourism is near-dead, Israeli reserve troops are called up--leaving their workplaces without workers--and consumer spending has plummeted due to the conditions.
Netanyahu is losing the real battle: the one for the hearts of the Israelis.
One of the eloquentia at AOSHQ:
... [...] brawn and brains that drove America to such great heights, and the honor of sometimes backbreaking work in the steel mills and coal mines and railroads and factories of America is something that we should never diminish.
Yet now we mock it!
Digging ditches as a teenager? Never! Bagging groceries, sweeping the shop floor, lugging parts from one bench to another, fetching tools, lubricating great machines? That's beneath us!
But that is the crucible from which the master machinist emerged. That is the classroom where the heavy equipment operator, who looks like he was born in the cab of his crane, learned his craft. That is where the welder who built the great war machines that saved the world learned how to do his magic. That is where the machine-tool operator who eyeballs a ten-thousandth cut learned his wizardry.
But we have spent generations denigrating that labor, and we are left with a nation that sees "labor" as a dirty word. Never mind that those laborers are responsible for the unimaginable wealth of America, and that without them we would rapidly fall back into a muddle of third world poverty and a decaying country that simply cannot be repaired.
Our youth dreams of web design and fancy offices and massage stations at work and never ever getting their hands dirty.
So what?
Here's what:
Change a tire? Call someone!
But one day that call will go unanswered...
Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll!
Trump completes the trifecta with his endorsement of dope-smoking in Florida. Previously, he announced that his Administration will force taxpayers (or their insurers) to pay for In Vitro Fertilization/IVF (a horrifically expensive way to murder multiple children).
Trump also likes to spend a helluvalot of money and put it on the tab.
Under LBJ, the Democrat Party tacitly or openly endorsed licentiousness, guns-and-butter spending/bonding, and 'personal amounts' of drugs. That's the era during which Trump "came up" and it's the era which he fondly remembers. At that time, America manufactured almost everything it consumed and accelerated the shedding of traditional mores; Trump is comfortable with that, in general terms.
The CIA/Military-Industrial Complex was far more open about making America into an empire (see VietNam and the ramp-up of aggressive anti-Russian efforts in Europe) for the sake of its industrial producers and petroleum consumers. While Trump makes a lot of anti-war noises, he failed to control his Pentagon and CIA, and never made even a small dent in the number of US Armed Forces bases around the world (now about 800!).
Of course there are differences between Trump and LBJ Democrats. But on the big issues like personal moral responsibility, budget excess, and Imperial ambitions?
He's another LBJ.
But that beats a brain-dead side-piece Marxist.
The FBI is more disgusting every day.
A troubling report authored by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz reveals a staggering lack of action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when addressing hands-on sex offenses against children. The Inspector General—which acts as a watchdog over DOJ operations—found “significant issues with the FBI’s response to serious allegations involving suspected child abuse: under the Biden–Harris government.
“[O]ur audit revealed instances where FBI employees did not comply with relevant law or policy for (a) mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse, (b) victim services, (c) transferring incidents between field offices, and (d) responding to allegations of active and ongoing child sexual abuse within 24 hours,” Horowitz’s report states. The Inspector General adds: ” In addition, during the course of our work, we forwarded 42 incidents, 13 percent of the incidents we reviewed, to FBI headquarters because of concerns that led us to believe that the incident may require immediate attention.”
The Inspector General contends FBI employees have repeatedly failed to comply with mandatory reporting requirements. In almost half of the incidents investigated by Horowitz’s office, suspicions or evidence of child abuse were not reported to state or local law enforcement or social services....
These bastards can spend 7 days/week 24 hours/day tracking down grannies who walked into the Capitol (OUR HOUSE!) and infiltrating Old Rite Mass parishes, but child abusers get a free pass.
By the way, would you care to speculate on this phrase:
FBI employees did not comply with relevant law or policy for (a) mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse,Umnnh.....who was the abuser? Hmmmmm? A friend? Relative? Another member of the "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" gang?
Inquiring minds, and all that.
