Oh! I thought I was first, despite the deluge of the remains of Elsa giving us crappy sat internet service. We need the rain! The water is actually moving down stream. Yay!
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia group, gave a voluntary lengthy interview to the FBI in May about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — against the advice of his lawyer. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1413593834500628482
Is there a better example of everything wrong with man than Afghanistan?
On the local's side they savagely, unendingly and unremittingly resist any improvement of their lot and allow themselves to be ruled by a minority of psychopaths and criminals.
On the furriner's side how many thousands of years of empires going there to die will it take before one of them says 'yeah, no, we're not even going to try"?
Even when partially successful like Alexander's remnant, the locals just bide their time and swallow them up.
And in those brief interludes where something blooms besides opium poppies and grave stones and it looks like they might finally break the cycle, either the locals, another dumbass empire or more commonly both conspire to destroy what little progress had been made.
They were bad enough before allah came along. With that cultural millstone they may as well abandon hope. As should any fools trying to make it into what it so assiduously refuses to be.
Well clarice, given Tibet and Xinxiang the Chinese might finally be the ones to crack that nut.
If you have an unruly population that refuses to be ruled, depopulate the place and replace it with your own kind. Presto.
I could see Xi doing that.
Henry. The area ruled by the Northern Alliance was the only effective stop on the Taliban. Remember that Al-Qaeda assassinated the NA leader hours before 9/11.
Years ago a friend climbed a steep mt to meet with the Dali Lama . When the Lama found out he was American he called my friend to him. My friend thought he was going to get some words of wisdom, instead he was asked how "Diane Feinstein's campaign was going.My friend thought it was because the Lama was interested in her campaign and supportive. In retrospect, I think he realized the Chinese had a friend in the Senate was was about to win reelection.
Well, I watched three videos the FBI says depicts new monsters of insurrection.
In each one it looked considerably more like protesters getting beat on by cops and possibly resisting getting beat on. Is resisting a cop shoving you with his night stick when you're just standing there a crime?
We made the same mistakes we did in Vietnam. We never brought it home to the enemy. Obama launched some mavericks, but we left their bases and their income stream alone.
We spent hundreds of millions on make work projects that basically helped the warlords grow and process more opium. A more human friendly version of Ranch hand was clearly in order.
We were the nice westerners and got played for saps.All the tollybons understand is fire and brimstone and that was never really applied.
And our leadership, ever wearing the rose colored glasses, never admitted that it is an utterly corrupt country.
It's funny. I have a t shirt from very early on from Karzai's SEAL protective detail. Even then there was no one he could trust. Sort of a bad sign moving forward.
And the f'ing Pakistanis were right there every step of the way planning and supporting the worst terrorist attacks. Now those same Pakistanis have become buddies with China. Some ally. But I guess that is also the new Great Game.
And to top it off, one ugliest, nastiest most foulmouthed cows on the planet is going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated, not that I am judging her looks or anything.
Well whoever (probably the late colonel imam) who designated the senior haqquani as an aid recipient of our largesses. Hamid gul probably didnt bother with such minutia
After exposing how corporate news is allowed to break @YouTube's #Covid misinformation rules by showing videos still up on @NBCNews and @CNN channels, #YouTube has suspended ME - not them. This proved my point: YouTube targets independent creators and leaves legacy press alone. pic.twitter.com/84x3RAAKrT
--And to top it off, one ugliest, nastiest most foulmouthed cows on the planet is going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated, not that I am judging her looks or anything.--
At least it appears she does not now and never has had a penis.
These days you gotta take your victories, small as they might be, where you can.
This babbling barrage of bunghole buffers is the montage of the year. That they could be in lockstep creaming over a lump of shit like #Avenatti is incomprehensible. Their mass insanity has influenced elections, however. Not an insignificant issue. pic.twitter.com/i5HL4rHXgs
“The Police decided to stand with pedophile anarchists while hauling Christian Pastors off to jail, but only after they allowed AntiFa to assault and beat them bloody.
When BLM comes for their defunding, they’re on their own. The police have clearly made their choice.”—Lauren Witzke
Good Morning! We lost the internet last night about 6 o'clock as Elsa pushed some strong rain and wind inland. Woke to a beautiful sunny morning.
In other news...video evidence from the detention hearing held in Malden (MA) District Court on Friday shows Jamhal Latimer, the leader of the "Rise of the Moors" group telling Mass. state police "we have land near Bangor, Maine." Latimer is also known as Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey. What a bizarre story.
*Stang
@Zieleds
The Pennsylvania Department of State has issued a directive prohibiting county election boards from cooperating with the Senate's election audit.
Senator Mastriano says IT IS ON BICHEZZ!!
At one time Palm Coast was known as the main hidie-hole for FBI mobster snitches. One of them ran a pizza joint off of PC Parkway. He once had a customer bring back a calzoni and complain about it. The guy jumped over the counter and assaulted the customer. It made the news as a criminal complaint.
The next day a black Lincoln Continental with NJ plates pulled up and a big Italian looking guy got out went inside and asked for the owner who was smart enough to disappear once the news got out.
Gordon G. Chang
@GordonGChang
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1h
#China’s rapid buildup of #nuclear weapons suggests it no longer is content with a “minimal deterrent.” It is seeking, from all indications, the world’s largest arsenal. Why the fundamental—and ominous—change in strategy? See: https://bit.ly/3xscAg6. @GatestoneInst
Michael Smith
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I know those of us who read the Twitter thread from MartyrMade were nodding our heads in agreement but again, I must stress that this is not new – perhaps it has been taken to new heights of perfidy, but what we are seeing is not new.
As proof of my thesis, I want you to read the following quotes and guess when they were uttered:
“We live in an age of disbelief, in which citizens increasingly do not believe what their government says, or, for that matter, what is accepted as true by popular culture.”
That is straight down the line with what MartyrMade typed into his Twitter feed. How about this one:
“The theme of this presidency is not just that the media is on its side and invested in its redistributionist vision, but that the administration is so certain of that fact that it need not worry even about the most blatant evidence of dissimulation and untruth.”
Or this one:
“There is a third contributor to our increasing disbelief. Socialism is scary because it envisions heaven on earth if we are just willing to employ the necessary means to obtain it. To question those means is to question why someone should not have as much as someone else. In theory, the advocates of socialism should not be Hollywood stars, Washington grandees, trust-fund beneficiaries, and high-paid professors and lawyers, inasmuch as their largess must, in such zero-sum thinking, have come from someone else. In fact, promoting socialism has become a therapeutic exercise for the better off: it offers psychosocial comfort for those who have a lot, with the assurance that they have so much that their own redistributive plans would not make that much difference to themselves.
The resulting disconnect is that capitalists par excellence promote redistribution, and feel no word or act is out of bounds to achieve that noble goal — and the rest of us believe almost nothing they say.”
Could all be about the Biden campaign and administration, right?
But it was not. These were written a decade ago by historian Victor Davis Hanson in an article titled “Do We Believe Anymore?”
And yet, here we go again. Once more into the breach.
We have not ridded ourselves of these troublesome progressive priests and priestesses because we never get to the root of the issue, and the issue IS NOT CRT, illegal immigration or “democratic socialism”.
Those are symptoms of a philosophical shift in our culture, a belief in the nihilist and existential contradictions of something I have come to call Unreal Reality. We live in times that are not only post-truth and post-constitutional, but it is also post-everything - and so much so, lying comes as easy as breathing.
And nobody cares because nobody expects the truth. Society no longer values the truth, so we have learned to expect the lies and have rationalized how to internalize them - but lies are dangerous when the Constanza Rule is applied to large groups, like a political party, for long periods of time, because believing lies and acting on them is psychopathic. A liar knows he is a liar, a psychopath has no idea – and to the best of our knowledge, there is no cure for psychopathy.
Postmodernist thought psychopathic, and that is the problem. I know my repetition is getting old, but for the past 50 years, this relativist ideology masquerading as philosophy has corroded and eroded our society, our culture and our discourses and now it threatens to destroy our children, our future and our nation.
Even as many postmodernists reject a relativist label, many of the characteristic doctrines of postmodernism do constitute or imply some form of metaphysical, epistemological, or ethical relativism.
Postmodernists deny that there are aspects of reality that are objective, and they reject the notion that there are statements about reality that are objectively true or false; that it is possible to have knowledge of such statements (objective knowledge); that it is possible for human beings to know some things with certainty; and that there are objective, absolute, moral values.
Postmodernists posit that reality, knowledge, and value are constructed by discourses; hence reality can vary with them. History has no value as the only thing that matters is what happens today. Since it has no relevance or usefulness, why bother?
This even explains the vehement adherence to “climate disruption” (or whatever it is called this week) because a postmodernist view means that the discourse of modern science, when considered apart from the standards of evidence internal to it, has no greater purchase on the truth than do alternative perspectives, including astrology and witchcraft. Postmodernism allows political motives to be treated as equal to scientific method – remember, it does not matter what the data says – the important thing is how we feel about it today.
Unsurprisingly, postmodernism and communism have a nexus. Karl Marx theorized that the proletariat had no objective reality of its own, that it was a slave to the reality created for them by the bourgeois who had power over them. In true Marxist tradition, the “progressive” forces understand that collective reality means centralized power. What Marx really endeavored to do was to create a collective reality where people like him were in charge.
I cannot emphasize it enough, prosperity protects the Costanza’s among us because it distances them from the basic realities of life. The Costanzas can get away with a life built on lies because prosperity insulates them from the inevitable consequences. People struggling to survive have little patience or use for lies prosperous societies tell themselves. Transgenderism or fourth wave feminism is of little concern in the slums of New Delhi, Bangkok or many countries in Africa.
Having spent time in those areas, I can tell you they have adopted the Steely Dan interpretation of America’s “beautiful gestures”:
“The things that pass for knowledge, I can't understand…”
The closer we come to nature, the less need we have for beautiful gestures. Our advances in bending nature to human will has convinced us we are gods – and if we are, we are arrogant and prideful gods.
The only hope for our world is a return to rationality.
Arrogant and prideful gods always fall. Nature always wins.
@ForeignPolicy:
China has its eyes on a prized piece of geopolitical real estate—one located 1,800 miles from sensitive U.S. military installations in Hawaii. https://buff.ly/3AA1K9N
9:16 PM · Jul 9, 2021
@ddgcd123 Replying to @Jkylebass:
CCP logic, if you believe, then they win.
@sbwtweet: “If you believe, then they win.”—Succinct explanation of #Leftist #postmodern #Democratic #politics. The rot of misrepresentation and lying become socially acceptable to those who, without #humility, #reciprocity, or #senseoftime, tear down the very fabric of society with others.
The two-line fuel system on an oil-fired furnace consists of a supply line and a return line. The supply line delivers fuel oil from the holding tank to the fuel pump. The return line sends excess oil not used by the furnace back to the oil tank.
Now imagine you switch to a single line above ground tank which is hooked up to the supply inlet, but the installer leaves the return attached.
After running the initial 50 gallons thru in a week or so, roughly 30 gallons are in the ground.
And the sooner that is dug out and remediated, the cheaper that will be before it spreads into groundwater. The property has zero value until that is fixed.
Insurance Companies and Lawyers ASAP. The Installer's insurance is the first stop.
kandahar is Psashtun Central, so no surprise there that the Taliban is back. However, they also seem to be in the north, which is more problematic.
Most of the warlords kept their heavy weapons, so now we will see if the country reverts to the last iteration of anarchy.
Afghanistan is sort of like Africa in its ability to just swallow up any modernization and revert back to the old ways a la Congo, not that Congo ever really changed.
--As proof of my thesis, I want you to read the following quotes and guess when they were uttered:--
Here's another; -- every man did that which was right in his own eyes--
Give up? Three thousand years ago. That's the last line from the book of Judges when Israel rebelled from the relative freedom of the era of the judges that God had established and demanded a King to reign over them instead. That demand would not only make them less free it would eventually lead to the destruction of Israel and their captivity at the hands of the Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians.
How about this one; --“Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”--
IDK, 8,000 years ago? Long before VDH. It's God asking Cain why he is envious of and angry at his brother Abel, right before Cain kills him.
Our progs beg for the right to do as they please in their own eyes while simultaneously begging for a strongmanotherkin to rule over them. And they are working themselves up into a murderous lather over those who they envy and hate - us.
The situation Michael smith describes is as old as man.
"Look how far the left’s war on liberalism has gone.
Due process? If you’re a male on campus, gone. Privacy? Stripped away — by anonymous rape accusations, exposure of private emails, violence against people’s private homes, screaming at folks in restaurants, sordid exposés of sexual encounters, eagerly published by woke mags. Non-violence? Exceptions are available if you want to “punch a fascist.” Free speech? Only if you don’t mind being fired and ostracized as a righteous consequence. Free association? You’ve got to be kidding. Religious freedom? Illegitimate bigotry. Equality? Only group equity counts now, and individuals of the wrong identity can and must be discriminated against. Color-blindness? Another word for racism. Mercy? Not for oppressors. Intent? Irrelevant. Objectivity? A racist lie. Science? A manifestation of white supremacy. Biological sex? Replaced by socially constructed gender so that women have penises and men have periods. The rule of law? Not for migrants or looters. Borders? Racist. Viewpoint diversity? A form of violence against the oppressed. "
That's a bizarre statement by Kamala on many levels. Doesn't "voter ID" normally just involve bringing your ID to the polls? Or to wherever you go (DMV?) to register to vote? I suppose she's thinking about absentee ballots or vote-by-mail, but absentee ballots have been around forever. The fraud problems have only come with VBM and sending out ballots unsolicited by voters.
All that's aside from the fact that her image of "rural voters" seems to be right out of "Hee Haw."
California has some of the most lax voter registration laws in the country. If you apply for a driver's license you are automatically registered. Your county registrar's office or the local library are other options among many.
Their argument is being dismantled by the facts. 75%+ across demographics want strong voter ID rules. Same with proper police funding, anti CRT sentiment, and pretty much across the board.
The Left is be-crapping their own bed.
And yes, Clarice, Sullivan is still a knucklehead, but it is telling hat he and a few other deranged liberals are waking up to the fact that the new Red Guards are approaching some form of end state.
declared racist in the past few weeks:
Fireworks
The American flag
KFC
National Anthem
Second Amendment
Psychiatry
Medical journals
everything
who doesn't have an IPhone to take pictures of their ID.
Form vote by mail, you need to print the photo as well. In my rural area, the gas station / quickie mart / McD’s has pay per page photocopier. Worst case, spend a dime next time you fill your tank, grab beer, or snag a Big Mac. We are rural. Not stupid like elected city folk.
I first became aware of the issue years ago, when I used to listen to Coast to Coast AM and the large numbers of kids missing from Indian reservations and national parks. At the time, I thought it was right there with UFO’s and Sasquatch.
Over the years, I have become more convinced that there is a creepy pedophile underground which stretches from the entertainment industry to non-profits to government. It really upsets me, as I can see how those girls who do work for me could be lured by fake modeling jobs.
People need to wake up about this issue. Glad Bannon put a spotlight on the issue.
Might as well thread-jack right off the bat.
How do I know Mom's a Biden voter?
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 09, 2021 at 05:27 PM
Oh! I thought I was first, despite the deluge of the remains of Elsa giving us crappy sat internet service. We need the rain! The water is actually moving down stream. Yay!
Posted by: Marlene | July 09, 2021 at 05:33 PM
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia group, gave a voluntary lengthy interview to the FBI in May about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — against the advice of his lawyer.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1413593834500628482
Posted by: Neo | July 09, 2021 at 05:39 PM
Barron Trump is already 6 feet 7 inches tall — even though he only just turned 15.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/barron-trump-shows-off-his-6-foot-7-height-in-nyc/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_6627255
Posted by: Neo | July 09, 2021 at 05:42 PM
When he's 30 he'll be 13' 2", if you go by NYPost math.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 09, 2021 at 05:45 PM
Yeah. Dems always assure defeat, then withdraw while presenting their ass [Biden] to the enemy.
Posted by: henry | July 09, 2021 at 05:49 PM
Checking in. Went to see my new GP this afternoon. I really like her. Very thorough and has a sense of humor.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 09, 2021 at 06:09 PM
We don’t want to admit it: The people we’re fighting are monsters.
John Zmirak's latest:
https://stream.org/will-the-remaining-decent-americans-drown-in-denial/?fbclid=IwAR3y8rGmWige2mbxpMrugh7BRRnqnIlqU9fyMVhvU82xads8JG9NY7d9XH4
Posted by: Momto2 | July 09, 2021 at 06:10 PM
--Ig-
Options started out as the only way to hedge indexers.--
Thanks Mel [and jimmy]
I nearly added at the end of my question that I assumed it was a hedging thing as it is in commodities.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 09, 2021 at 06:38 PM
Men have given their lives and limbs for 20 years the afghan army seems taxed by 20 minutes
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 06:44 PM
So Eric garcetti is moving from one dump to another.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | July 09, 2021 at 07:04 PM
Yep, failure gets rewarded.
Posted by: henry | July 09, 2021 at 07:07 PM
No good deed
https://mobile.twitter.com/iandprior/status/1413627782429650952
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 07:07 PM
Tomato tomatoe
https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/09/psaki-blames-military-not-political-leadership-for-afghanistan-war-stalemate/
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 07:13 PM
Is there a better example of everything wrong with man than Afghanistan?
On the local's side they savagely, unendingly and unremittingly resist any improvement of their lot and allow themselves to be ruled by a minority of psychopaths and criminals.
On the furriner's side how many thousands of years of empires going there to die will it take before one of them says 'yeah, no, we're not even going to try"?
Even when partially successful like Alexander's remnant, the locals just bide their time and swallow them up.
And in those brief interludes where something blooms besides opium poppies and grave stones and it looks like they might finally break the cycle, either the locals, another dumbass empire or more commonly both conspire to destroy what little progress had been made.
They were bad enough before allah came along. With that cultural millstone they may as well abandon hope. As should any fools trying to make it into what it so assiduously refuses to be.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 09, 2021 at 07:18 PM
I'm waiting to see how China fares there, Iggy.
Posted by: clarice | July 09, 2021 at 07:37 PM
Well clarice, given Tibet and Xinxiang the Chinese might finally be the ones to crack that nut.
If you have an unruly population that refuses to be ruled, depopulate the place and replace it with your own kind. Presto.
I could see Xi doing that.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 09, 2021 at 07:47 PM
Ig, yeah. Napalm the place and see who is still alive to protest.. then napalm them.
Posted by: henry | July 09, 2021 at 08:00 PM
Henry. The area ruled by the Northern Alliance was the only effective stop on the Taliban. Remember that Al-Qaeda assassinated the NA leader hours before 9/11.
Posted by: Davod | July 09, 2021 at 08:15 PM
Davod, yes. I remember that bit. Tossed to the wolves by Slick Willie.
Posted by: henry | July 09, 2021 at 08:18 PM
Biden fires Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, who says he isn't leaving
Posted by: Neo | July 09, 2021 at 08:18 PM
Neo. Yes he is.
Posted by: Davod | July 09, 2021 at 08:35 PM
We'll see, Iggy. Of course, we know all the humanitarian NGOs will be keeping watch and reporting any human rights violations.
Posted by: clarice | July 09, 2021 at 08:38 PM
Years ago a friend climbed a steep mt to meet with the Dali Lama . When the Lama found out he was American he called my friend to him. My friend thought he was going to get some words of wisdom, instead he was asked how "Diane Feinstein's campaign was going.My friend thought it was because the Lama was interested in her campaign and supportive. In retrospect, I think he realized the Chinese had a friend in the Senate was was about to win reelection.
Posted by: clarice | July 09, 2021 at 08:51 PM
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/washingtondc/news/press-releases/fbi-washington-field-office-releases-new-videos-of-suspects-in-violent-assaults-on-federal-officers-at-us-capitol-seeks-publics-help-in-identifying-them-070621
Posted by: clarice | July 09, 2021 at 08:57 PM
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/wuhan-lab-fauci-grants/
Posted by: clarice | July 09, 2021 at 09:00 PM
They seem to gettimg what thsy paid for with delouiette which is mostly bubkis
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 09:06 PM
Yep
https://mobile.twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1413639975371956226
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 09:12 PM
Two axis
https://mobile.twitter.com/omriceren/status/1413616185804038145
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 09:14 PM
Well, I watched three videos the FBI says depicts new monsters of insurrection.
In each one it looked considerably more like protesters getting beat on by cops and possibly resisting getting beat on. Is resisting a cop shoving you with his night stick when you're just standing there a crime?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 09, 2021 at 09:35 PM
Looked like that to me, too, but I thought it was just bad eyesight. In any event, let's see all the tapes..all of them.
Posted by: clarice | July 09, 2021 at 09:37 PM
But there lego sets were not in order, thos is when they drop the anvil on the python character.
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 09:38 PM
In a disturbing development,
https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/Legoland-New-York-fully-opens-Friday-16295985.php
Posted by: jim nj | July 09, 2021 at 09:59 PM
We made the same mistakes we did in Vietnam. We never brought it home to the enemy. Obama launched some mavericks, but we left their bases and their income stream alone.
We spent hundreds of millions on make work projects that basically helped the warlords grow and process more opium. A more human friendly version of Ranch hand was clearly in order.
We were the nice westerners and got played for saps.All the tollybons understand is fire and brimstone and that was never really applied.
And our leadership, ever wearing the rose colored glasses, never admitted that it is an utterly corrupt country.
It's funny. I have a t shirt from very early on from Karzai's SEAL protective detail. Even then there was no one he could trust. Sort of a bad sign moving forward.
And the f'ing Pakistanis were right there every step of the way planning and supporting the worst terrorist attacks. Now those same Pakistanis have become buddies with China. Some ally. But I guess that is also the new Great Game.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | July 09, 2021 at 10:01 PM
And to top it off, one ugliest, nastiest most foulmouthed cows on the planet is going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated, not that I am judging her looks or anything.
'Ho Lives Matter, I guess.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | July 09, 2021 at 10:04 PM
Well whoever (probably the late colonel imam) who designated the senior haqquani as an aid recipient of our largesses. Hamid gul probably didnt bother with such minutia
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 10:06 PM
So horns guy was a navy vet
https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/08/no-relief-for-lego-man-or-other-january-6-detainees/
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 10:12 PM
Less surprising than the ending to the crying game
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1413627159558557696
Posted by: Narciso | July 09, 2021 at 10:48 PM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 09, 2021 at 10:53 PM
Oh
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1413668295295868934
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 12:27 AM
--And to top it off, one ugliest, nastiest most foulmouthed cows on the planet is going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated, not that I am judging her looks or anything.--
At least it appears she does not now and never has had a penis.
These days you gotta take your victories, small as they might be, where you can.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 10, 2021 at 12:48 AM
I could solve the Homeless Problem with a time machine: I’d go back and kill the man who invented the shopping cart.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | July 10, 2021 at 12:53 AM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 10, 2021 at 01:24 AM
First they came for the Large Faggotworm...
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 10, 2021 at 01:44 AM
“The Police decided to stand with pedophile anarchists while hauling Christian Pastors off to jail, but only after they allowed AntiFa to assault and beat them bloody.
When BLM comes for their defunding, they’re on their own. The police have clearly made their choice.”—Lauren Witzke
Posted by: Pinandpuller | July 10, 2021 at 04:43 AM
But why’s it gotta be large, Dave?
Posted by: Pinandpuller | July 10, 2021 at 04:44 AM
Good morning.
Sun coming up painting a pinkish-purplish sky. Very calm sea.
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | July 10, 2021 at 06:29 AM
I feel their pain:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9772839/Mass-labor-shortage-exclusive-Hamptons-leaving-rich-cut-lawns.html
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | July 10, 2021 at 06:59 AM
But enough about our esteemed assembly rimshot
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 07:21 AM
Its like the ape counsel in poa classic
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/07/08/did-the-feds-lie-about-january-6-navy-vet-capitol-protester-says-so-and-wants-his-case-moved-out-of-trump-hating-capital-n1459952
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 07:27 AM
Good morning!
We have a gloomy sky and are supposed to get rain off and on all weekend. I could have predicted it yesterday as bad as my hip and knees hurt.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 07:27 AM
Good Morning! We lost the internet last night about 6 o'clock as Elsa pushed some strong rain and wind inland. Woke to a beautiful sunny morning.
In other news...video evidence from the detention hearing held in Malden (MA) District Court on Friday shows Jamhal Latimer, the leader of the "Rise of the Moors" group telling Mass. state police "we have land near Bangor, Maine." Latimer is also known as Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey. What a bizarre story.
Posted by: Marlene | July 10, 2021 at 07:29 AM
Cosmopolitan once named Jeffrey Epstein "Bachelor of the Month":
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 07:32 AM
We lost cable around 730 weird huh nothing happened with the actual.storm.elsa.
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 07:35 AM
In local weirdness
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/2021/07/09/palm-coast-city-councilman-victor-barbosa-believed-fugitive-costa-rica-mancave/7919322002/
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 07:50 AM
*Stang
@Zieleds
The Pennsylvania Department of State has issued a directive prohibiting county election boards from cooperating with the Senate's election audit.
Senator Mastriano says IT IS ON BICHEZZ!!
https://twitter.com/Zieleds/status/1413812820538388481
Posted by: Melinda | July 10, 2021 at 07:51 AM
Naeciso,
I see at the very end of that story that he is a GOP Trump supporter. That little detail sure was buried.
I wonder how much Costa Rica charged to make up some charges which would allow the DOJ to investigate him.
This smacks of banana republic crap, if you ask me.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 08:02 AM
narciso,
At one time Palm Coast was known as the main hidie-hole for FBI mobster snitches. One of them ran a pizza joint off of PC Parkway. He once had a customer bring back a calzoni and complain about it. The guy jumped over the counter and assaulted the customer. It made the news as a criminal complaint.
The next day a black Lincoln Continental with NJ plates pulled up and a big Italian looking guy got out went inside and asked for the owner who was smart enough to disappear once the news got out.
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | July 10, 2021 at 08:08 AM
I suspected as much, they didnt check for a legos set.
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 08:18 AM
Crazy right
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/01/western-civilisation-and-other-things-i-like-about-white-people/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 08:27 AM
Creepy Andrew Weissmann Slips Up and Inadvertently Shares that the Feds are Spying on Whoever They Want and Sharing Results within the DOJ
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/creepy-andrew-weissmann-slips-inadvertently-shares-feds-spying-whoever-want-sharing-results-within-doj/
Posted by: Melinda | July 10, 2021 at 08:34 AM
More on that earthquake:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/magnitude-6-0-earthquake-strikes-near-california-nevada/977929
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 09:01 AM
Gordon G. Chang
@GordonGChang
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1h
#China’s rapid buildup of #nuclear weapons suggests it no longer is content with a “minimal deterrent.” It is seeking, from all indications, the world’s largest arsenal. Why the fundamental—and ominous—change in strategy? See: https://bit.ly/3xscAg6. @GatestoneInst
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 09:04 AM
And when Helen Girly Brown's Cosmo says "a cute Texas girl" they really mean "girl".
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 10, 2021 at 09:12 AM
Video at the link. HA!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 09:13 AM
Ignatz,
When did Cosmo disappear?
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 09:14 AM
Michael Smith
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I know those of us who read the Twitter thread from MartyrMade were nodding our heads in agreement but again, I must stress that this is not new – perhaps it has been taken to new heights of perfidy, but what we are seeing is not new.
As proof of my thesis, I want you to read the following quotes and guess when they were uttered:
“We live in an age of disbelief, in which citizens increasingly do not believe what their government says, or, for that matter, what is accepted as true by popular culture.”
That is straight down the line with what MartyrMade typed into his Twitter feed. How about this one:
“The theme of this presidency is not just that the media is on its side and invested in its redistributionist vision, but that the administration is so certain of that fact that it need not worry even about the most blatant evidence of dissimulation and untruth.”
Or this one:
“There is a third contributor to our increasing disbelief. Socialism is scary because it envisions heaven on earth if we are just willing to employ the necessary means to obtain it. To question those means is to question why someone should not have as much as someone else. In theory, the advocates of socialism should not be Hollywood stars, Washington grandees, trust-fund beneficiaries, and high-paid professors and lawyers, inasmuch as their largess must, in such zero-sum thinking, have come from someone else. In fact, promoting socialism has become a therapeutic exercise for the better off: it offers psychosocial comfort for those who have a lot, with the assurance that they have so much that their own redistributive plans would not make that much difference to themselves.
The resulting disconnect is that capitalists par excellence promote redistribution, and feel no word or act is out of bounds to achieve that noble goal — and the rest of us believe almost nothing they say.”
Could all be about the Biden campaign and administration, right?
But it was not. These were written a decade ago by historian Victor Davis Hanson in an article titled “Do We Believe Anymore?”
And yet, here we go again. Once more into the breach.
We have not ridded ourselves of these troublesome progressive priests and priestesses because we never get to the root of the issue, and the issue IS NOT CRT, illegal immigration or “democratic socialism”.
Those are symptoms of a philosophical shift in our culture, a belief in the nihilist and existential contradictions of something I have come to call Unreal Reality. We live in times that are not only post-truth and post-constitutional, but it is also post-everything - and so much so, lying comes as easy as breathing.
And nobody cares because nobody expects the truth. Society no longer values the truth, so we have learned to expect the lies and have rationalized how to internalize them - but lies are dangerous when the Constanza Rule is applied to large groups, like a political party, for long periods of time, because believing lies and acting on them is psychopathic. A liar knows he is a liar, a psychopath has no idea – and to the best of our knowledge, there is no cure for psychopathy.
Postmodernist thought psychopathic, and that is the problem. I know my repetition is getting old, but for the past 50 years, this relativist ideology masquerading as philosophy has corroded and eroded our society, our culture and our discourses and now it threatens to destroy our children, our future and our nation.
Even as many postmodernists reject a relativist label, many of the characteristic doctrines of postmodernism do constitute or imply some form of metaphysical, epistemological, or ethical relativism.
Postmodernists deny that there are aspects of reality that are objective, and they reject the notion that there are statements about reality that are objectively true or false; that it is possible to have knowledge of such statements (objective knowledge); that it is possible for human beings to know some things with certainty; and that there are objective, absolute, moral values.
Postmodernists posit that reality, knowledge, and value are constructed by discourses; hence reality can vary with them. History has no value as the only thing that matters is what happens today. Since it has no relevance or usefulness, why bother?
This even explains the vehement adherence to “climate disruption” (or whatever it is called this week) because a postmodernist view means that the discourse of modern science, when considered apart from the standards of evidence internal to it, has no greater purchase on the truth than do alternative perspectives, including astrology and witchcraft. Postmodernism allows political motives to be treated as equal to scientific method – remember, it does not matter what the data says – the important thing is how we feel about it today.
Unsurprisingly, postmodernism and communism have a nexus. Karl Marx theorized that the proletariat had no objective reality of its own, that it was a slave to the reality created for them by the bourgeois who had power over them. In true Marxist tradition, the “progressive” forces understand that collective reality means centralized power. What Marx really endeavored to do was to create a collective reality where people like him were in charge.
I cannot emphasize it enough, prosperity protects the Costanza’s among us because it distances them from the basic realities of life. The Costanzas can get away with a life built on lies because prosperity insulates them from the inevitable consequences. People struggling to survive have little patience or use for lies prosperous societies tell themselves. Transgenderism or fourth wave feminism is of little concern in the slums of New Delhi, Bangkok or many countries in Africa.
Having spent time in those areas, I can tell you they have adopted the Steely Dan interpretation of America’s “beautiful gestures”:
“The things that pass for knowledge, I can't understand…”
The closer we come to nature, the less need we have for beautiful gestures. Our advances in bending nature to human will has convinced us we are gods – and if we are, we are arrogant and prideful gods.
The only hope for our world is a return to rationality.
Arrogant and prideful gods always fall. Nature always wins.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | July 10, 2021 at 09:51 AM
@ForeignPolicy:
China has its eyes on a prized piece of geopolitical real estate—one located 1,800 miles from sensitive U.S. military installations in Hawaii. https://buff.ly/3AA1K9N
9:16 PM · Jul 9, 2021
@ddgcd123 Replying to @Jkylebass:
CCP logic, if you believe, then they win.
@sbwtweet: “If you believe, then they win.”—Succinct explanation of #Leftist #postmodern #Democratic #politics. The rot of misrepresentation and lying become socially acceptable to those who, without #humility, #reciprocity, or #senseoftime, tear down the very fabric of society with others.
Posted by: sbwaters | July 10, 2021 at 10:11 AM
The two-line fuel system on an oil-fired furnace consists of a supply line and a return line. The supply line delivers fuel oil from the holding tank to the fuel pump. The return line sends excess oil not used by the furnace back to the oil tank.
Now imagine you switch to a single line above ground tank which is hooked up to the supply inlet, but the installer leaves the return attached.
After running the initial 50 gallons thru in a week or so, roughly 30 gallons are in the ground.
Posted by: Neo | July 10, 2021 at 10:37 AM
"30 gallons are in the ground"
And the sooner that is dug out and remediated, the cheaper that will be before it spreads into groundwater. The property has zero value until that is fixed.
Insurance Companies and Lawyers ASAP. The Installer's insurance is the first stop.
Posted by: Old Lurker | July 10, 2021 at 10:48 AM
Good advice, OL.
Posted by: sbwaters | July 10, 2021 at 10:51 AM
Bannon is doing all 2 hours on child sex trafficking this morning. Horrific and it isnt just illegals but American kids.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 11:05 AM
Creepy cartoon.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 11:21 AM
Week in Pictures
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the-week-in-pictures-legos-and-logos-edition.php
Posted by: Len | July 10, 2021 at 11:27 AM
Has Pajama Boy Ethan Krupp turned conservative yet?
Posted by: sbwaters | July 10, 2021 at 12:40 PM
My nephew is big on this, MM. I don't know why. But the numbers of missing kids are staggering.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | July 10, 2021 at 12:45 PM
kandahar is Psashtun Central, so no surprise there that the Taliban is back. However, they also seem to be in the north, which is more problematic.
Most of the warlords kept their heavy weapons, so now we will see if the country reverts to the last iteration of anarchy.
Afghanistan is sort of like Africa in its ability to just swallow up any modernization and revert back to the old ways a la Congo, not that Congo ever really changed.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | July 10, 2021 at 01:07 PM
--Ignatz,
When did Cosmo disappear?--
I didn't know it did.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 10, 2021 at 01:16 PM
--As proof of my thesis, I want you to read the following quotes and guess when they were uttered:--
Here's another;
-- every man did that which was right in his own eyes--
Give up? Three thousand years ago. That's the last line from the book of Judges when Israel rebelled from the relative freedom of the era of the judges that God had established and demanded a King to reign over them instead. That demand would not only make them less free it would eventually lead to the destruction of Israel and their captivity at the hands of the Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians.
How about this one;
--“Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”--
IDK, 8,000 years ago? Long before VDH. It's God asking Cain why he is envious of and angry at his brother Abel, right before Cain kills him.
Our progs beg for the right to do as they please in their own eyes while simultaneously begging for a strong
manotherkin to rule over them. And they are working themselves up into a murderous lather over those who they envy and hate - us.The situation Michael smith describes is as old as man.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 10, 2021 at 01:36 PM
We are fighting not men but principalities and powers of the air.
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 01:46 PM
A denial of that truth
https://www.openbible.info/topics/wonderfully_made
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 01:49 PM
"The situation Michael smith describes is as old as man."
One might say, down through the Ages...
:-)
Posted by: Old Lurker | July 10, 2021 at 02:19 PM
The ballots cast in Arizona’s largest county in the 2020 election will be counted for a third time on orders from the state’s Senate.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arizona-senate-conducting-new-count-maricopa-county-ballots
Posted by: Neo | July 10, 2021 at 02:19 PM
From Andrew Sullivan of all people:
"Look how far the left’s war on liberalism has gone.
Due process? If you’re a male on campus, gone. Privacy? Stripped away — by anonymous rape accusations, exposure of private emails, violence against people’s private homes, screaming at folks in restaurants, sordid exposés of sexual encounters, eagerly published by woke mags. Non-violence? Exceptions are available if you want to “punch a fascist.” Free speech? Only if you don’t mind being fired and ostracized as a righteous consequence. Free association? You’ve got to be kidding. Religious freedom? Illegitimate bigotry. Equality? Only group equity counts now, and individuals of the wrong identity can and must be discriminated against. Color-blindness? Another word for racism. Mercy? Not for oppressors. Intent? Irrelevant. Objectivity? A racist lie. Science? A manifestation of white supremacy. Biological sex? Replaced by socially constructed gender so that women have penises and men have periods. The rule of law? Not for migrants or looters. Borders? Racist. Viewpoint diversity? A form of violence against the oppressed. "
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | July 10, 2021 at 02:42 PM
There's still a lot of crap in Sullivan's text.
Posted by: clarice | July 10, 2021 at 03:19 PM
Ah, Clarice! Another reason you are so lovable!
Posted by: sbwaters | July 10, 2021 at 03:43 PM
Ah andrew you betcha
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 03:47 PM
Here's a recent reminder that out vice president is a bit out of touch ...
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/kamala-its-almost-impossible-for-rural-americans-to-get-voter-id/
For example: Around here, which is near her house on the westside of LA, all the "Kinko's" have for well over a decade been called, "Fed Ex."
Posted by: jimb | July 10, 2021 at 03:58 PM
(that was sloppily explained ... she says rural people don't have access to Kinko's ... and that's not the worst thing about her answer)
Posted by: jimb | July 10, 2021 at 04:01 PM
That's a bizarre statement by Kamala on many levels. Doesn't "voter ID" normally just involve bringing your ID to the polls? Or to wherever you go (DMV?) to register to vote? I suppose she's thinking about absentee ballots or vote-by-mail, but absentee ballots have been around forever. The fraud problems have only come with VBM and sending out ballots unsolicited by voters.
All that's aside from the fact that her image of "rural voters" seems to be right out of "Hee Haw."
Posted by: jimmyk | July 10, 2021 at 04:12 PM
who doesn't have an IPhone to take pictures of their ID.
Posted by: clarice | July 10, 2021 at 04:42 PM
Harris is;
A. Crazy
B. Stupid
C. An inveterate liar
D. A skank
E. A Phony
F. Incompetent
G. The Quintessential Democrat
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 10, 2021 at 04:49 PM
Right click;
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | July 10, 2021 at 04:53 PM
Yes
Posted by: Narciso | July 10, 2021 at 04:53 PM
Including their passports, Clarice.
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | July 10, 2021 at 05:00 PM
California has some of the most lax voter registration laws in the country. If you apply for a driver's license you are automatically registered. Your county registrar's office or the local library are other options among many.
Their argument is being dismantled by the facts. 75%+ across demographics want strong voter ID rules. Same with proper police funding, anti CRT sentiment, and pretty much across the board.
The Left is be-crapping their own bed.
And yes, Clarice, Sullivan is still a knucklehead, but it is telling hat he and a few other deranged liberals are waking up to the fact that the new Red Guards are approaching some form of end state.
declared racist in the past few weeks:
Fireworks
The American flag
KFC
National Anthem
Second Amendment
Psychiatry
Medical journals
everything
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | July 10, 2021 at 05:00 PM
who doesn't have an IPhone to take pictures of their ID.
Form vote by mail, you need to print the photo as well. In my rural area, the gas station / quickie mart / McD’s has pay per page photocopier. Worst case, spend a dime next time you fill your tank, grab beer, or snag a Big Mac. We are rural. Not stupid like elected city folk.
Posted by: henry | July 10, 2021 at 05:00 PM
For vote by mail
Posted by: henry | July 10, 2021 at 05:01 PM
Question; why hasn't someone nuked Sun Valley this week? It would seem that we could solve a lot of the world's problems that way.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | July 10, 2021 at 05:11 PM
Matt,
I first became aware of the issue years ago, when I used to listen to Coast to Coast AM and the large numbers of kids missing from Indian reservations and national parks. At the time, I thought it was right there with UFO’s and Sasquatch.
Over the years, I have become more convinced that there is a creepy pedophile underground which stretches from the entertainment industry to non-profits to government. It really upsets me, as I can see how those girls who do work for me could be lured by fake modeling jobs.
People need to wake up about this issue. Glad Bannon put a spotlight on the issue.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | July 10, 2021 at 05:24 PM