Biden On The Road

Joe Biden brings back the Terrorist Fist Jab while in Saudi Arabia greeting MBS, the man believed to be the impetus behind the brutal murder/ dismemberment of Khashoggi. Biden's backers (The Few, The Proud...) say the fist bump was chillier than alternatives, but the Saudi PR team was pushing videos so I'd guess they were happy with the photo op they got.

And in the background, there remains a real mystery as to the Saudi oil production capability.

Comments

[Narciso]

right salman who has gone after all the terrorist financiers

https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/warm-words-and-empty-gestures

[Jim Eagle]

How do you say Iran in mutual security speak?

[Narciso]

talk to the hand

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/saudi-arabia-doubles-russia-crude-imports-it-prepares-brics-inclusion

[Narciso]

ticking off everybody

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-israel-irish/2022/07/15/id/1079023/

[jimmyk]

Glad to see both JiB and GUS back to posting.

[Pinandpuller]

Israel murders a journalist and American citizen and beats up her pallbearers in the open and no one bats an eye.

Saudi Arabia appears to murder a journalist in darkness and everyone loses their mind.

[Neo]

Bloomberg Law reports a new lawsuit filed in California claims that Skittles contain a dangerous toxin called "titanium dioxide," rendering the candy "unfit for human consumption."

On Thursday, plaintiff Jenile Thames filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California against Skittles-maker Mars Inc., alleging consumers who "taste the rainbow" of sugar "are at heightened risk of a host of health effects for which they were unaware stemming from genotoxicity – the ability of a chemical substance to change DNA."

"titanium dioxide" is what makes white paint white.

[Rocco]

The Khashoggi Passion Play 02/27/2021

This brings us to Khashoggi. As Lee Smith reported after he was found dead in the Saudi consulate in Turkey, there were a lot of things about Khashoggi that made him a strange hero for Americans of any stripes. He was a Qatari agent of influence. He was a former Saudi intelligence officer who sided with the Wahabist jihadists in the royal family who supported al Qaeda. He was friends with Osama bin Laden and mourned his death. The al Qaeda, ISIS, Iran and Hamas supporting Qatari regime was essentially writing his columns in the Washington Post.

https://carolineglick.com/the-khashoggi-passion-play/

[clarice]

B.S. pin--On one side you have creeps firing wildly and on the other trained marksmen careful to avoid civilians.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11021329/Trump-aide-claims-Covid-came-box-ready-infect.html

[jim nj]

One assessment of the Ukraine war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-16

[clarice]

Good morning JOM!https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/dont_bang_on_my_teakettle.html

[henry]

Thanks Clarice. So much nonsense it’s hard to keep track.

[sbwaters]

Clarice, a pleasure to see uncommon sense.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Excellent Pieces, clarice. I only take issue with this bit

I’m old fashioned, I suppose. I think the most important jobs of the federal part of our federal republic are to protect the borders (and our sovereignty), defend the country from attack, keep the food supply secure, and maintain adequate energy for decent lives and production.

The Feds can stay right the hell out of food and energy and we'll have more of both and they'll both be cheaper.

[Narciso]

its somewhat understandable the pa authority said the loud part quietly that the weapons used on the square were not the idf's

[clarice]

Thanks. Iggy, the Interstate commerce clause, it seems to me, is to ,inter alia, prevent supply chain snafus , the direct results of federal energy and California green policies.

[clarice]

Yuck it up, Kamala:https://www.wnd.com/2022/07/piercingly-perceptive-kamalas-quotes-assembled-posterity/

[Narciso]

also matt simmons was the one that pushed peak oil, I saw that book on the discount bin,

it's just agonizing they inflict this shrill harpy on us, it shows what they really think of their target audience,

[Narciso]

re khashoggi, he was robert lacey's ghost in inside the kingdom, that showed the true face of that byzantine emirate

[clarice]

He was a damned liar and fixer, narciso

[Narciso]

when they start talking about his bravery and honor, I check the silverware,

from his point of view, he wanted the taliban, hamas and the algerian islamists to win, anything that contributed to that goal was fair game,

[Narciso]

Robert Malley is exactly of the same mindset, bremner is just his designated puppet,

[Narciso]

oh really now,

https://raheemkassam.substack.com/p/red-is-the-new-yellow

[Narciso]

wait we still don't get any oil

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-no-regrets-fist-bump-mbs-saudi

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The interstate commerce clause was, and is, to give the Feds the power to prevent states from interfering in commerce between the states.
It was essentially an internal NAFTA. It was to prevent states from imposing internal tariffs on other less favored states and forming trade blocs as they had tended to do under the Articles of Confederation.
It wasn't to allow an EPA, DOE, DOI or DOA to impose regulations from on high regarding pretty much anything, not just light bulbs, showers and toilet tanks and sure as hell not CO2.

In fact I'd be perfectly happy were the entire Federal government DOA except for the DOD and the Treasury, and they're skating on thin ice.

[Narciso]

those organs haven't covered themselves with glory however

https://t.me/The_Library_II/80816

[Narciso]

wait what,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11021799/Ukrainian-cargo-plane-crashed-Greece-carrying-11-TONS-mortar-land-mines.html

[Narciso]

how would you even fit that many officers in one complex,

https://www.disclose.tv/id/1548733740293230594/

[Davod]

Found at Ace

"This is the Central Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. It's fairly large, holding almost 1.5 million volumes, along with over 300,000 journal and magazine issues and over half a million theses. Each of the walls of the exterior represents aspects of Mexico's history, from pre-Columbian times to the modern day. In a weird sort of way, the library exterior is itself a book, as anyone who understands the "code" can read the history of Mexico on its walls. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's certainly eye-catching"

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/071722-Library.jpg

[Davod]

Ace's Saturday night joke.

"The Saturday Night Joke

A Greek and a Jew were sitting in a Starbucks one day comparing their two cultures.
Over a double latte, the Greek mentions “We built the Parthenon, you may recall, along with the Temple of Apollo.”
“Well, it was the Jews who discovered the Summer and Winter Solstices.”
“But it was the Greeks who gave birth to advanced mathematics.”
“Granted, but it was the Jews who built the first timepieces.”
Knowing that he’s about to deliver the coup de grace, the son of Athens points out with a note of finality: “Keep in mind that it was the ancient Greeks who invented the notion of sex as a pleasurable activity!”
“True enough, but it was the Jews who got women involved.”

[Narciso]

heh

https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1548531431735009280?t=ghNDHv6YiN_gRqpOTZ-z0Q&s=19

[Davod]

The US cavalry:

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=62D8CC09

[clarice]

And Iggy, California's trucking rules ARE interfering greatly in interstate commerce which was my point.

And now scarf lady admits she lied:https://brownstone.org/articles/dr-birx-praises-herself-while-revealing-ignorance-treachery-and-deceit/

[Davod]

Let's teach Joe Bidon why the Palestinians are not like the Irish. By Mike Konrad.

This is an enlightening article. At the end, the writer includes this statement which is included on an Irish website - https://www.irelandisrael.ie/blog/hamas ... tionalism/

"[A]t no point [during the campaign against English rule in Northern Ireland] was there a desire to wipe out the United Kingdom. Nor was there ever a stated desire to commit genocide against British people. By contrast, Hamas and Fatah regularly try to outdo each in other in calling for Israel to be wiped off the map."

https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... irish.html

[Davod]

Correction - https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/lets_teach_joe_biden_why_the_palestinians_are_not_like_the_irish.html

[Narciso]

now there were some elements of the ira, like frank ryan, who was the real counterpart of devlin in the eagle has landed, who had been with the lincoln brigade but had switched side after time in a spanish prison, and having been recruited by an abwehr officer, he trained as an adjunct to operation sealion,

[Davod]

True statement:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/wtm%201%20071722%20funny%20scaled.jpg

[Narciso]

some details here,

https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/frankryan/InterpretativeResources/HistoricalContext/FrankRyanArevolutionarylife/

the only way biden could have been more tone deaf if he had cited subhanda bhose and india

[Narciso]

why these programs are only good for dark humor

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/17/former-obama-economic-advisor-says-best-way-to-deal-with-inflation-is-to-raise-taxes-and-plunge-main-street-into-a-recession/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--obama-economic-advisor-says-best-way-to-deal-with-inflation-is-to-raise-taxes--

That's classic MMT. Under MMT they don't hold that it's impossible for the central bank to cause inflation. Nay, nay.
They acknowledge it can and in the most uncannily convenient coincidence ever they have also discovered that raising taxes is the method by which inflation is stanched, because it's caused by too many sawbucks floating around so the gubmint has to raise taxes to soak all those excess sawbucks up.

However, apparently "Modern Monetary Theory" is gaining a bit of unwanted notoriety as a notation for the theory so there are stirrings to rename it the Pea and Thimble Man School.

[Davod]

More good sense.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Bellamari8mazz/status/1548517199127748608

[Davod]

One of the comments to More good sense.

I heard big tobacco started adding puberty blockers to cigarettes so they could legally sell them to minors 😏

[Davod]

Ace landscape.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/7%2017%200nt.jpg

[Davod]

"...It is interesting to note that while Russian President Vladimir Putin sought ‘Finlandization of Ukraine’, five months into that pursuit he has achieved quite the opposite, that is ‘Natoisation of Europe’. For decades, two Nordic nations, Sweden and Finland, chose to maintain their military neutrality to accommodate their formidable neighbour while other states in the Central and East European region went about seeking security guarantees against Russia by joining NATO..."

https://theprint.in/india/why-natoisati ... n/1040303/

[clarice]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/17/soros-linked-group-wins-172m-contract-biden-help-border-crossers-avoid-deportation/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--he has achieved quite the opposite, that is ‘Natoisation of Europe’.--

I don't think that makes much difference to Russia in the long run, since it was inevitable, considering our uniparty warmongers, but Europe sure likes it.

The ones getting screwed and footing the bill, per usual, is us. Yippee!

[jim nj]

Two assessments of the Ukraine war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-17

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-144-summary/

[Ralph L]

This may already have been posted, but my sister forwarded me Danube of Thought's obit that his nephew posted on facebook:
Tom Mustin

[Dave (in MA)]

RIP DoT.
Thanks, Ralph.

[clarice]

Oh dear, what sad news.

[clarice]

DoT was such a great person to know even if only online.

[sbwaters]

Proud to have "known" DoT, even if it was at a distance.

How wonderful, the strength, insight, wisdom, and resolve that gathered here over time!

[Neo]

Got banned from Gateway Pundit

[Rocco]

What an amazing family, RIP DoT.

[Ralph L]

One of DoT's nephews became a rear admiral a few years ago. When Trump sent a Navy hospital ship to NYC in Spring 2020, he was involved and photographed with it. Of course, idiot Cuomo would rather send the sick to nursing homes to kill others than let Trump get any credit for doing something useful in the Covid panic.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I have missed DoT's commentary for the past 10 or so years. He was a great contributor to our discussions.

He lived a hell of a life and by that account, he was surrounded by friends and family all through his life and when he died. What more can a man ask for? RIP.

[Pinandpuller]

The main difference between Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden is that Joe Biden knows how to swing a hammer AND a sickle.

[Pinandpuller]

Jimmy Carter told everyone to save money by putting on a sweater.

Joe Biden tells everyone to save money by showering with your kids.

[Jim Eagle]

DoT aka Tom Mustin and I communicated privately for a few years based on my connection to Roger Staubach in our high school years.

Tom was a reservoir of everything Navy. He was proud, dedicated and duty bound. One of the great gentleman I got to know.

God bless his life here, and there.

[Davod]

The Shambles, York, England, by Moumita

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/yorkenglandbymoumita.jpg

[Davod]

Hot days.. 😅

https://twitter.com/i/status/1547070238440792064

[Davod]

Mama blessings her puppy is the cutest thing I've seen today 😍👏❤️

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548325915264184322

[Davod]

Monkey pool party.. 😅

https://twitter.com/i/status/1546888044711743488

[Davod]

Can I borrow this?

[This is really good]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548465256787492864

[Davod]

Friends watch the rain

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548420121210671106

[Davod]

The song playing on the "Friends" video is "I Wanna know if you've ever been free."

[Davod]

Fan blown fur face.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548399122033434625

[Davod]

Time to repot the bunnies.. 😅

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548055784210108421

[Catsmeat]

What a truly eminent man was DoT, and his extraordinary family of valor! I was honored to read him so many years ago (I started here, admittedly without commenting, in Libby days). I remember some brawls (the usual sort between those of us with strong opinions) but I can't for the life of me remember what any of them were about. I bet he would have been generally on OL's side, if I am remembering his intellectual profile correctly. Clarice and Jane and Jack and others will know more.

[Davod]

Keep your friends close, keep your enemies even closer

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548323323838312449

[Davod]

Polite intruder

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548352337122512897

[Davod]

Emmanuel has no chill 🤣

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548354824269312009

[Davod]

Follow up to Emmanuel

https://twitter.com/i/status/1548418493967568897

[bubarooni]

RIP DoT.

Fond remembrances of his wit and wisdom.

[Davod]

In his review of Duty, Honor, Ambition. REVIEW: ‘Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD’ by Jason Kander. Edward Luttwak includes the following about his own experiences:

"...Having been in combat myself in more than one war, I am ashamed to say that I never experienced any subsequent stress, though artillery shells landing at random around me (it was no World War I barrage) must have been alarming at the time I suppose, and shooting at enemy infantrymen who were returning the favor must have been pretty exciting, and I do still remember that upon landing after my only lean-out-and-shoot helicopter ride, when I tried to undo the holding belt’s buckle I discovered it undone—I was only alive because the pilot pulled his turns all in the right direction..."

[centralcal]

So many wonderful memories of DOT. A true gentleman. Brilliant and astute sarcasm perfectly expressed (Fascist Hyena). May he Rest In Peace.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Hey centralcal! Good to see you.
He was a true gentleman wasn't he?
I especially enjoyed the times he and I emailed privately. Wish I had kept in contact the last few years.

[Ralph L]

Where are Old Lurker and Miss Marple? I had to bail around the inauguration of resident Biden.

[anonamom]

Ralph L, they are here:

elevendayempire.com/JOM2

Most moved after January 6th 2021.
James D is the administrator and has to OK you to post.

[clarice]

Luttwak was never in combat or in any military.

[jim nj]

One assessment of the Ukraine war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-18

In the future I'm going to post ISW here only when there is at least one other report like Militaryland available.

[GUS]

Jimmy Carter tried to show himself to be a COMMON MAN, by wearing a sweater. Even though his fireside chats SPEWED CO2 into the atmosphere.
Jimmy Carter was humble, a U.S.NAVAL ACADEMY SCHOLAR and GRADUATE.
BIDEN lied about being offered a COMMISSION to NAVY, and invoked another lie about his FOOTBALL LACK OF PROWESS by mentioning he didn't want to comptete with ROGER STAUBACH. Biden has tried to pretend to be a common man, by LYING ABOUT DRIVING A BIG RIG. "THIS HERE'S THE PUDDING CUP, and I'm about to put the HAMMER DOWN".. 10-4.
Jimmy Carter told PLAYBOY that he was GUILTY of LUSTING in his HEART. Biden was BANGING TEACHER JILL, AND DENTED BILL STEVENSONS CORVETTE.
People had an affinity and kind feelings toward Jimmy Carter. BIDEN SWAM NAKED IN FRONT OF SECRET SERVICE FEMALE PROTECTION. Yes, I am a BIOLOGIST.

[GUS]

Catsmeat. Back in the OLDEN DAYS, We had some very very SICK TROLLS here. I tried to play the ORKIN MAN a few times. And many, should be, good natured internnecine battles were waged. DoT, was not frivolous, but he was learned and experienced.
Our elder statesmen and women, are becoming so much more rare comodities. DoT, was a very good man, and many here learned a thing or 2 from him.
I'm very sorry to hear of his passing.
Remember man that you are dust.........

[GUS]

I am going to DIXON ILLINOIS tomorrow. I'm going to RONALD REAGANS CHILDHOOD HOME.

[Ralph L]

Most moved after January 6th 2021

I guess I bailed before that, it was all so discouraging, and I was spending too much time on line. I assume the Capitol riot caused a rift here--between commenters like Trump's first election did or with the blog owner? Too bad, either way.

[Davod]

Clarice.

Maybe I read the article too quickly, but to me, in paragraph 13, he is writing about himself:

https://freebeacon.com/culture/duty-honor-ambition/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Wiki says;

Luttwak was a war volunteer in Israel in 1967 and later worked for the Israeli Defence Forces.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I did read an interview of him awhile back that had the distinct air of embellishment around it.

[jimmyk]

I assume the Capitol riot caused a rift here--between commenters like Trump's first election did or with the blog owner?

Only with the blog owner. And it was more of a last straw after years of anti-Trump snark. I was fine with staying here, as he lets us say what we want, but others felt more strongly.

[clarice]

I don't think he ever was in combat. He may have volunteered for some intl work.
I'm with jimmy k--you can't demand the right to free speech and flounce off when it doesn't agree with you.

[clarice]

He's smart, creative and Iggy has him pegged

[DCSCA]

Biden's a bum — always has been. And a creep.

This generation of young journalists gave him a pass when pros in years past nailed his lying ass for plagiarism and endless fabrications to pad his self-importance. Perpetually incompetent and the consummate senatorial "windbag" - as Brit Hume called him to his face- the bum has been a creepy swamp creature from a small, inconsequential state for half a century, swam with other swamp creatures for decades– has an unelected wife who makes excuses for his swamp creature incompetence and a creepy, corrupt, swamp creatured, drug and sex-addicted kid who reflects how poorly he was raised by his politician parent. He’s a total POS. And meow: any Top Cat would bury him in the litter box.

[Narciso]

you parse the wiki, and you find luttwak was at the london school in 67, he published his coup d'etat pamphlet in 68, he was at john hopkins some years later, but his tablet interview with david samuels was very insightful, as is many offerings from that publication, it's not easy to find his work, unless you are looking for it deliberately, unlike the dross on twitter, of hot takes,

[Narciso]

the first I read about him, in the 90s, was that 'modest suggestion' to seize the saudi oil fields, at harpers under miles ignotus, i'm convinced this influenced the screenplay of three days of the condor,

[Narciso]

jason kander i've pegged because hes made a thing about being a crusader against 'assault weapons' based on that brief stint he had in afghanistan,
i imagine the sturm and drang of this memoir, was distasteful to luttwak, but there is little to commend him,

I have found many of these memoirs, to be unimpressive, mccrystals for instance, now that general flynn was the great mind behind his strategy I know why, one from the much libeled senior chief gallagher would be interesting

[Narciso]

heh

https://mobile.twitter.com/beyondreasdoubt/status/1549453298289229827?cxt=HHwWhoCyiZjk4YArAAAA

[Narciso]

a rather dense evaluation of the intelligence questions re the battle of the bulge, it was never as cut and dry as the narrative suggests,

[Narciso]

oops,

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/58650.html

[clarice]

I have a signed copy of Coup d'Etat, a house present for when we sheltered him while he was working in DC on a Nitze project.we've known each other for decades.

[Narciso]

how about that, a really inventive mind, no wonder he has little tolerance for the likes of kander,