Irons in the Fire
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Friday, April 26, 2024
Having vented some spleen about some politicians,
Have I mentioned how sick I am of politicians?
This is one of the great challenges of our current political climate. Some people would rather have nothing if they don't get everything they want on an issue. I am a proud conservative, but I also see the national security risk of doing nothing day after day. I worked for months to make some progress closing our wide open borders, rather than just complain about the problem and hope it magically gets better on its own after a press conference. We still have work to do, which is why I was back at it again this week to make progress on closing our open border.
So he voted for it with NOTHING for the border, and we really should shut up about it because it's annoying him. My interpretation.
The FISA bill ...included 50 new limits on the authority, protections for Americans, and consequences on anyone who abuses the law. There were significant new civil liberty protections in the final version, which I supported.
Because the FBI and others have shown SO much concern for the laws that tell them not to violate said laws, and others, and people's rights.
FISA only applies to foreign intelligence. It is illegal to use that authority to spy on Americans, and the new version of the bill includes fines and jail time for any abuse.
Yet the FBI and others were violating that before, and they will again, but "We made new laws about it!" which is supposed to make it all better.
And the final:
I understand that some people did not want FISA renewed, but as a member of the Intelligence Committee, I am very aware of the importance of learning about terror plots before they happen. We should not ignore the very real threats coming at our nation from foreign terror organizations, even in the past few weeks. We can protect American lives, while also protecting our civil liberties.
Want to bet the FBI & Co. were violating that before it was even signed?
And, though he doesn't mention it, this crap gave the FBI even MORE latitude for doing warrantless searches.
Am I being fair to him? Well, his statement on the vote included
“Our open southern border has allowed in millions of people from around the world. Without this authority, we cannot investigate if a foreign terror organization is preparing another attack on Americans from one of the many people already on US soil. The United States is a constant target for terrorists, and nearly every day, our intelligence community stops an attack before it happens.
First, hey, know what? If the Stupid Party had had the integrity and balls to, y'know, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE BORDER THAT WOULDN'T BE SUCH A THREAT. But there's always a excuse/reason not to, it seems("You can't get everything!", etc.)
Second, 'every day stops an attack before it happens.' I have to call Bullshit. Sounds so much like the TSA insisting they stop lots of terrorists but there are never, that I've heard of any details. Probably because it's said bullshit.
I think the other Senator, Mullin, said basically the same crap. I don't think my Rep., Bice, has said anything(it's possible she did and I hadn't heard).
So yes, I'm pissed at all of them. The usual "If you knew what I did you'd understand" excuses. I'm going to sign off before I descend into really bad language.
Oh, said politicians: if you have people looking through social media to see if people are upset with you, damn right we are. And I think you've earned it.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Once again, Biden & Minions want to damage the firearms industry in any way possible
The Outdoor Wire has learned the Commerce Department plans to make that “pause” on the issuance of new export licenses for firearms, related components and ammunition permanent.
That announcement, we’ve learned, could come as soon as tomorrow and “most definitely” by the first of next week.
More than a few United States Senators are already less than thrilled at what they call yet another example of Biden administration bureaucratic overreach, but there’s little they can do at this point.
So yell at the clown you have in Congress. Myself, after their most recent surrenders, I don't know if my asshats will even bother to say anything.
Med schools worrying more about DEI and marxism
Know what you call that? Disaster in the making. Also "What medical school did you go to? No, thank you, I'll find another doctor."
The Republican(?) Speaker of the House:
"How dare you show that video! I'll have the Sergeant at Arms fine you if you don't take it down!"
Really?
Then comes the "Oh crap, this is attracting too much bad attention to me!" moment.
Is there something in the air around there that causes people to want to surrender to what Democrats want?
A bit more info here
The new head of NPR is upset that people are reading and hearing what she's done
Now I have gathered additional facts that raise new questions about Maher’s role as a regime-change agent, both foreign and domestic. She has brought the Color Revolution home to America.
In the first part of her career, Maher seemed to follow the wave of U.S.-backed revolutions through the Middle East and North Africa.
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During much of 2011, Maher worked for the National Democratic Institute, a government-funded NGO with deep connections to U.S. intelligence and the Democratic Party’s foreign policy machine. The organization was “set up to do independently what CIA had done covertly worldwide,” says national security analyst J. Michael Waller. While initially some distance supposedly existed between NDI and the intelligence services, that relationship has devolved back to “the gray zone,” per Waller, and it appears that they often work in concert. “NDI is an instrument of Samantha Power and the global revolution elements of the Obama team,” Waller explains. “It has gone along with, and been significant parts of, color revolutions around the world. It is very much a regime-change actor.”
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Over time, however, some of those dissidents grew skeptical of Maher, who seemed to be using the same platforms to penetrate activist and opposition circles. In 2016, after Maher became the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation—to the puzzlement of some observers—one of her Tunisia contacts accused her of working with the CIA. “Katherine Maher is probably a CIA agent,” said Slim Amamou, a digital activist and cabinet minister in Tunisia’s transition government, who had spent a significant amount of time with her. “[S]he was constantly trying to get introduced in the activist social network.”
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Maher, for her part, was not shy about her political agenda. As I have reported, during her tenure as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, she advanced a policy of censorship under the pretense of fighting “disinformation.” I wrote:
In a speech to the Atlantic Council, an organization with extensive ties to U.S. intelligence services, she explained that she “took a very active approach to disinformation,” coordinated censorship “through conversations with government,” and suppressed dissenting opinions related to the pandemic and the 2020 election.This is just some bits and pieces from the article.
In that same speech, Maher said that, in relation to the fight against disinformation, the “the number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States.” These speech protections, Maher continued, make it “a little bit tricky” to suppress “bad information” and “the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.”
Maher’s general policy at Wikipedia, she tweeted, was to support efforts to “eliminate racist, misogynist, transphobic, and other forms of discriminatory content”—which, under current left-wing definitions, could include almost anything to the right of Joe Biden.
Another "Why don't you trust the system?"
Also the FBI & Do'J':
House Judiciary GOP: FBI Is Tracking Parent Protesters
Wray: No Evidence for Garland to Target Protesting Parents, But FBI Made Threat Tag to Identify Them
Garland Defiantly Pledges Feds Will Continue Monitoring Parents Protesting At School Boards
Dozens of FBI Agents Raid Respected Pro-Life Advocate’s Home While His Wife, Seven Children Watch In Terror
Report: FBI Targeting Donald Trump Supporters as Threats to 2024 Election
Garland Memo Fallout: RI Assoc. of School Committees To “Coordinate” With FBI And Gather Information On Public Meeting “Issues”
Note also, the FBI head has lied under oath, blown off subpoenas, and if you or I did anything approaching his actions, we'd be in a cell: he's still the Director of the EffingBI
An American hostage, crippled by Hamas,
Anybody believe Biden gives enough of a damn to actually do anything?
This is how it's supposed to work
Texas isn't New York, though, and when DPS officers in riot gear showed up at the University of Texas, beautiful chaos followed.
I'll bet a bunch of the university clowns are all upset. And who cares?
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
"Why don't you trust the system/courts/FBI(or other appropriate agency)?"
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Once finalized, the settlement will resolve 139 tort claims filed against the DOJ and the FBI in 2022 by the long list of athletes and patients who reported abuse by Nassar, including Maggie Nichols, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.
Bad enough, right? Now add this in:
The claims, which in total sought roughly $1 billion in damages, were filed after the department said it was declining to pursue criminal charges against agents whom the DOJ's inspector general found failed to properly investigate allegations of abuse by Nassar.
The watchdog report found the FBI was notified of Nassar's behavior but failed to act for more than 14 months, a period where Nassar is alleged to have abused at least 40 more girls and women.
At this point someone will have to come up with a reason to trust the Do'J' and FBI about ANYTHING...
Tyrant wannabes gonna tyrant, and she really wants to be
Short version: an aloha snackbar type stabbed a church official in Australia.
The 'eSafety
Said Commissar(yeah that's deliberate) is pissed because X won't take it down in ALL countries because she ordered it.
And it goes from there.
Get this from one Aussie senator:
“I think he’s a social media knob with no social conscience, he has absolutely no social conscience,” she said.
“Someone like that should be in jail and the key be thrown away. That bloke should not have a right to be out there on his own ideology platform and creating hatred, showing all this stuff out there to our kids and doing all the rest,” Lambie added.
Awww, her feelings are all upset because she cannot order the world around.
I do wonder, how much of their upset is because the stabber is a protected species?
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
And the public schools strike again
"I'm gonna murder you," shouted the trans-identifying student at Pennbrook Middle School as the 13-year-old blindsided a 12-year-old girl last week and bashed her skull repeatedly with a Stanley cup. The victim had to be hospitalized, her scalp stapled back together, and she had to go through a concussion protocol, according to police.
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The Daily Mail reported Monday that another 12-year-old female student — remaining anonymous because of her age, like the victim and the thug — made a public statement that "she and two fellow students filled out paperwork explaining what they knew was going to happen if nothing was done and said that she was warned 'watch your back' at lunch."
"You could've stopped it," she said. "It was five hours from when I told you it was going to happen. I don't get how you couldn't have stopped that."
Because they didn't want to risk being called names by someone, much easier to let someone get the crap beat out of them.
Go to the Daily Mail article, you can have the full flavor of a bunch of school bureaucrats assuring everyone they feel terrible about this. Yeah, I'm sure, it's causing them all kinds of problems and attention they don't want.
More reason to distrust the CDC: politics above medicine
They've been playing these bullshit games for years. Only fix I can think of, since the anti-2nd Amendment clowns involved aren't likely to change, is cut their funding by the amount this nonsense costs. THAT the bastards would pay attention to.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Another reason to keep kids out of public schools, or at least
Business Insider's Matt Drange revealed in a recent report about the epidemic of teacher relationships many of the sordid details - including emoji-filled text messages, transcripts from investigations and disciplinary files.
Drange said, the pages 'documented grooming and groping, the sharing of d**k picks and porn, sexualized comments in classrooms, oral sex in bathrooms, and statutory rape,' that in some cases continued for years.
His report highlights a disturbing pattern that 'school administrators across the United States catastrophically failing to prevent abuse,' and there is no federal agency, he said, that tracks teacher sexual misconduct.
Drange said during his investigation, he requested disciplinary records and severance agreements from the ten largest school districts in all 50 states, and license revocations from every state's Department of Education, but his request was met with opposition.
Alabama, Iowa, and Virginia refused to release any records, he said. While other districts, asked to be compensated, in order for the request to be filled.
In his report, he wrote that the Hawaii Department of Education asked for $75,060. The Katy Independent School District in Texas wanted $125,352, and the Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska invoiced $243,836.
While other districts, he revealed, never provided records, including Alaska's Bering Strait School District. In 2019, the BSSD paid $12.6 million to 13 sex abuse victims involving an instructor at the school.
And a real winner, from the People's Republic of Massachusetts,
Springfield Public Schools in Massachusetts, was another district he cited, that would not release any records and claimed it would be an 'invasion of the teachers' privacy outweighing any possible right of the public to know.'
Which, to suspicious me, sounds like "Go away, we're not admitting anything!"
Throw in this from Chicago. So kids are getting often lousy educations, and may be abused by teachers, and the schools- like in some of the crap that came out about the Edmond school district in Oklahoma- want to hide it or just make it go away.
Speaking of yanking federal(our) money from NPR,
Gee, once again a lot of rich brats decided they know how everyone should be properly controlled, and allowed to live. Because they're so much smarter than everyone else, and care so much.
Been said before, but finally going before the Supremes: Jack Smith is not a legal Special Counsel, and what all he's done is illegal.
Speaking of rich brats and 'Higher' Education, a collection of stuff at Insty. Includes both a bunch of overpaid college brass and screeching rabid howler monkey students who want to destroy things, and the fact that most of America is disgusted by it.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Yank all federal money(OUR damn money, remember) from Yale
And you'll notice the asshole in the foreground who doesn't look happy to find out he's on camera. Probably doesn't want to deal with any heat for his part in this shit.
Jeez, no wonder Californicated has so much trouble protecting kids
From another piece:
“The reason we find pedophiles … in kids TV is that’s where the kids are,” the host continued. “DeSantis wasn’t wrong. We’re so tribal now, the left will support child fucking if the wrong party calls it out.”
Later, Maher pointed out how Brian Peck — who was convicted of sexually assaulting a Nickelodeon child actor in 2004, which was later revealed to be Drake & Josh star Drake Bell in the docuseries — was hired by Disney to work on a children’s show after serving his time in prison. (The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that Peck voiced the role of a mirror on three episodes of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody for Disney Channel, and worked away from the show’s set, in a voiceover studio. THR also learned that Disney fired him immediately after learning of his conviction.)
“For pedophiles in Hollywood, it’s a small world after all,” Maher added.
When he's right, he's right. But that ending of 'giving kids a break from our culture wars at least until the election is over' bothers me. Makes it sound like part of the reason he's upset is that this crap is hurting the Democrats. It may not be that, but it really bothers me.
Let's start this with Wuhan letting a bunch of people pull their control freak out
Google doing more evil.
Considering the things they've been caught at, he's not wrong about the EffingBI
Speaking of, I found out both my Senators and my Rep. in Congress voted to let the warrantless search crap- with extended powers!- continue for two more years. And, considering these rat bastards, I doubt they'll ever actually try to stop it.
No, I haven't been yelling at them yet. Partly because the urge to tell them exactly what I think of them is so strong, and because they've demonstrated it won't do any good. I now find myself in the situation that voting for these bastards would, in far too many ways, just be voting for the leftists, because said bastards don't have the guts or desire to stand up on really important things like this.
Oh, I'm sure they'll have some "We had to for national security!" excuse for their abandoning that oath to uphold the Constitution, and I've not got the stomach to listen to it right now.
Somebody coined the name 'Londonistan' a few years ago;
"You're openly Jewish, you have to either leave this area under escort or you'll be arrested for causing a breach of the peace."
I will refrain from further comment.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
The days having rolled around again to one of those evenings,
Oh, this has the Didn't Earn It people in an uproar
"You can't discriminate against someone because they're white, or male, just because you claim you're 'trying to make up for past discrimination'." Which has all the Usual Suspects crapping themselves.
DEI offices and consultants and other racists hardest hit.
Hey, remember Pres. Gropey's order to build a dock in Gaza
Last October I wrote about the potentially catastrophic state of our country's maritime support system, the U.S. Maritime Support Fleet. Biden has someone in charge right now they mockingly refer to as "The Ghost Admiral." We have already lost the capacity to mobilize a tanker fleet to fuel our naval vessels at sea in event of a large scale conflict.
What this exercise attempting to cross the Atlantic has proven is that we may not need tankers. Our poorly maintained and continually neglected naval vessels, be they Navy or Army, may not be capable of making it to the conflict to begin with.
Read it. Calling this a cluster would be raising it in status. And the personnel trying to do something with all this mess are screwed.
On this day in 1775
Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second grenadier and mortally wounded a third. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment had reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked.[7] He was subsequently shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found by colonial forces, trying to load his musket to resume the fight. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore recovered and lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 98.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Speaking of treacherous, backstabbing politicians,
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"RCM bills itself as an operation which houses functions for Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), which helps illegal aliens enter the United States," Oversight Project said, adding that disgraced Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas "is a former board member of HIAS, which received numerous grants from Soros' Open Society Foundation over the years."
And the Democrats and their hounds in the intelligence agencies and 'Justice' Department will keep giving him a pass
They were HIGHLY CLASSIFIED and relevant to current national security threats.
We need an immediate damage assessment from the Intelligence Community.
— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) April 17, 2024
On the latest "Let's make up a law" crap,
If you're in a state where it may do some good, yell- politely- at the Congresscritters, because the more noise made about this, the better.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Just how fornicated is Californicate?
No excerpts, just read it for the full flavor of the- well, 'idiocy' doesn't cover it.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Even if I had no other problems with the World Health Organization,
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and any of his successors would have unrestricted authority to implement WHO regulations.
The treaty would provide “a framework for international cooperation and solidarity” and address issues like surveillance systems and responding to outbreaks, Ghebreyesus said when announcing the treaty during a March press conference. “The world cannot afford to wait until the pandemic is over to start planning for the next one.”
The World Health Organization “global pandemic treaty” includes a plan for a mandatory, universal digital passport and ID system. Article 4 of the draft outlines the treaty’s overarching “principles,” including “universal health coverage,” “equity,” “transparency,” “inclusiveness,” “gender equality” and “diversity. “ Also, the treaty targets “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
Throw in all the other crap, and there's a simple response:
Monday, April 15, 2024
I doubt anyone not connected would get the same consideration
The local police who paid the February visit to Carroll's home said she surrendered the firearm after authorities "offered to secure the weapon at the police station's property for safekeeping" until Carroll obtains a New York pistol license, per NBC News.
Bleep, what a load of crap.
If there's a war and they're involved, the Brit Navy is screwed
The lack of weapons on the Type 45 warships has raised concerns the Navy is falling even further behind the United States, with drastic shortages of sailors also prompting warnings.
Well, you crap on your military, want everyone all woke or gone, and decide you'd rather spend on social(ist) crap than keep your forces ready, what do you expect?
Like our military, in fact.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
'Anti-War' my ass: as long as someone attacks the US or Israel,
With this shit proving it:
A smile creeps across her face as she tells me: “They’re part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA.”
(about the tag: this may not meet the legal definition, but that's what this is)
The new head of NPR: New boss,
You can just feel the desire to report both sides of things, can't you?
Have to wonder if one of the reasons for the Iranian drone/missile attack
One of my least favorite people in the country,
That big rally in Dearborn where the lead speaker went through is 'worst country, shouldn't even exist(ever notice these people never leave, though?), and then the chants of 'Death to America!' broke out. Such wonderful people, aren't they? Well, somebody actually committed journalism and asked her about this, since it was in her district:
Fox Business' Hillary Vaughn had caught up with the congresswoman, who, before even being asked a question, screeched "I don’t talk to Fox News! I don’t talk to Fox News!" As Vaughn managed to communicate that "at a rally in your district people were chanting 'Death to America,' Tlaib once more replied "I do not talk to Fox News!" before Vaughn could ask if the congresswoman condemned the phrase.
When Vaughn was able to get a word in to ask, Tlaib changed her answer, but only slightly, and it wasn't to offer any sort of condemnation. "I don’t talk to people that use racist tropes," she said.
"Why can’t you just say whether or not you condemn people chanting 'Death to Amer…' Why are you afraid to talk to Fox News," Vaughn continued to ask.
I'd say she's not afraid to, she's pissed that someone actually asked her about this, and made it worse by not backing down she the started the standard leftist line about 'racism'. Because, apparently, quoting people is a 'racist trope' when she doesn't want to respond to a question.
If you want to see this, here's the X link.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
What? Obama was protecting Iran and others from investigations?
In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
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But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.
The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.
I've only been through about a third of this, and holy SHIT... If this isn't giving aid & comfort to the enemy, what is it?
I hope Rand Paul has good security
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Paul also identified two additional parties who were part of the original plan to create chimeric coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab: the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the federal agency formerly headed up by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Dr. Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology and one of the authors of the now-disgraced “Proximal Origin” paper.
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“Anthony Fauci, for the first several months and really for years, has tried to call anybody who believes that it came from the lab or looks at evidence that the virus came from this lab, calls them conspiracy theorists, downplays them, denigrates them," Paul said. “He promoted journal articles to downplay and say it wasn't possible when all the while it looks like he knew it.”
Getting this all out is great. The "Please don't do this/Don't you dare do this!" has got to be interesting.
And, don't forget, most of our Professional Journalists were doing what they were told, as opposed to actually investigating and giving a damn about the truth.
I agree, and we can't let the bastards forget that we know
I thought about what he said for a few minutes and then said that I think we all are using the wrong terminology. We have fallen into the habit of saying things like, “During Covid, we couldn’t even go to church,” “Because of Covid friends lost their jobs;” and the like.
I then said to my friend that we all needed to change the language that we had been trained and had become accustomed to using. I said to him, “Covid didn’t close your business, the government did. Covid did not make the insane decision to close down gyms while leaving liquor stores open; the government did. Covid did not prevent us from going to worship at the church of our choice; the government did. Covid did not chase down and try to arrest bikers, surfers, joggers, and others engaged in outdoor exercise; the government did. Covid did not prevent families from holding and comforting their parents and grandparents during their final hours of life; the government did. Covid did not shut down our schools; the government did (aided and abetted by Randi Weingarten and the teachers’ unions). Covid did not set arbitrary limits on how far apart we should stand everywhere from in grocery stores to national parks, how many people should attend Thanksgiving dinner or other family gatherings in our own homes, while either remaining silent or actively encouraging mass Black Lives Matter demonstrations; the government health bureaucracy and little totalitarians, such as Anthony Fauci and the ‘Scarf Lady,’ Deborah Birx, did.
Why no, I hadn't heard about this terrorist, for some reason
Speaking of terrorism, six dead and a bunch wounded in Australia by someone with a knife. And zero description of the murderer in this.
Which, in current conditions, generally means it was someone of a protected species. Might not be the case, but it does tend to go that way.
Agreed
Friday, April 12, 2024
Had Glenn Beck on for background noise, and he had some 'former Republican head of whatever' on Updated
Bullshit.
First, nobody trusts the FBI or CIA or anyone else anymore because they don't just violate the laws and their own damn regulations, they seem to take it as a perk of the job to do so. For instance, the FBI Directors and Deputy Directors and ranking Very Special Agents caught breaking laws- think of Comey lying under oath, part of falsifying evidence TO THE BLOODY FISA COURT, on and on, and they all seem to get away with it. Hell, Comey's gotten rich giving his 'My Greater Obligation required I lie and break the laws(including my oath to the Constitution!' in speeches. And remember the FBI senior lawyer who actually was fired, and lost his law license, and then- less than a year later as I recall- got his job back, with back pay and benefits, and his law license back?
Second: when none of the agencies you're asking us to trust give a damn about the law, and most of Congress seems willing to trash parts of the Constitution because 'It's necessary for Safety!', who the HELL ARE THE 'RIGHT PEOPLE' SUPPOSED TO BE?
Screw this. I'll repeat, don't just let that section die, drive a stake through the heart.
I will refrain from suggesting proper punishments for those officials, appointed and elected, who're such vile oathbreakers, because I'm too damn mad right now.
Update:
Yes, they caved and passed it, with two provisos:
It's a two-year extension.
"...Johnson agreed to change the FISA reauthorization from five years to two years, keep a vote on the warrant requirement amendment and hold a vote in the near future on a separate data privacy bill, which was enough to get the hard-liners to agree to open the legislation up for debate."
And they have to have a final vote next week.
Ref the trans mess, it looks like Scotland wants to become- what,
The one excerpt I'll use:
When you're that troubled by people wanting to go through data, you're generally either up to something, or scared to death of what they'd find.
It's a really upsetting read.
I don't know if it'll help, but I'd suggest calling your Congresscritter and saying some polite words about how bad
And, considering this,
Though most of the reforms were agreed upon by both committees, the Intelligence Committee opposes warrant requirements for searching data of a U.S. citizen and Davidson’s Not For Sale Act, which would prohibit the third-party sale of U.S. citizens’ data and information without a court order.
I think we may need a new Intelligence Committee. Staffed with people who remember their damned oath to the Constitution.
About the 'Who trained these people?' post
I'll throw in either said Captain didn't actually look through the scope(or at it, for that matter), or if he did look through you have
A: He didn't realize things didn't look right, or
B: "Nobody's going to pay attention, and I don't want to waste time having this turned around."
This is just bad.
My, this seems like the Fed needs either cleaning out,
From the past, I've said When an agency this this kind of contact with and influence over the Federal Govenment gets this hysterical over the word 'audit', they need one. Badly.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Gee, massive meddling in the hormone balances of kids could have bad results?
This has been brought up before by a bunch of doctors, so it shouldn't be a surprise.
Makes me more certain that a lot of teachers and 'counselors' and doctors who push kids into this, especially since a lot of them were known to have mental problems(teenagers and below? Really?) before they were pushed toward declaring "I'm trans!", need to be flogged for what they've done.
You're an adult and decide this is the right thing for you? Go ahead. LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE.
*Yes, the news site uses 'trans kids' to mean 'kids'; they're in (fG)Britain, what do you expect?
In which Biden demonstrates again he doesn't know what he's talking about
...from the very beginning, I used to teach the Second Amendment in law school, from the very beginning, there were limitations. You couldn’t own a cannon. You couldn’t — you could own a rifle or a gun, but there were certain things you couldn’t do. They weren’t weapons of war.
Cannon: false. Weapons of war: false. Etc. Again.
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
This kind of garbage won't stop until the people involved
I know, chances of that are just about zero, which is why it'll happen again.
"What? Just arrest him at work? Where's the fun in that? We want to put on our ninja suits and kick doors!"
Holy crap, this is an indictment of the clowns in charge of training,
Another big reason why our troops seem to suck with small arms is the fact that the Generals and Admirals in Washington, DC would rather spend billions on new toys than invest in rigorous training. The United States Army famously removed the ubiquitous grenade throwing qualification from Army Basic Training because their new recruits were too weak and uncoordinated. The Army still issues grenades to the troops, but they are supposed to get the skill to use them somewhere else. They also dropped the requirement to successfully complete the land navigation course.
So, how is the Army going to fix weak and uncoordinated troops? Spend more money on toys, of course. The Army has allotted $331 million to purchase the “Next Generation Squad Weapons” and newer, more expensive ammunition. The new rifles and squad automatic weapons are larger and heavier than the M4 or the M249 SAW. So the new troops are weaker and more uncoordinated, but the solution is buy them bigger and heavier guns and ammo. Okay, got it.
I'd imagine some people are very unhappy with this situation, and a lot of others are unhappy with people talking about it.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
The current state of 'Higher' Education
"I was incredibly disappointed that there were over 5 school officials there that did nothing," the student said in an email to Rabbi Shmully Hecht of Shabtai, the Jewish society at Yale. "I felt that the Jewish students were targeted by this poster because there was no protest occurring at the time that was relevant to this banner. It was just about denouncing Israel for all memory and stating that it should not exist."
From the friends of the enemy running the school:
Burke acknowledged the ordeal in a follow-up email sent to Yale professors, administrators, and students. "The staff members present were in a tough position," Burke wrote in an email following the event, which included Yale University professors and other members of the media, adding that the sign "definitely broke the rules." She pledged to "destroy" the photo in question.
She did not indicate whether the students who displayed the banner would face disciplinary action. A spokeswoman for Yale University did not respond to a request for comment.
The only 'tough spot' they were in was not having the balls or integrity to stop the assholes. And how tough is that when they know jellyfish like Burke aren't going to do a damn thing about it?
'disciplanary action', fat chance.
Next, from the Leftist Republic of Berkeley:
According to the Daily Cal, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professor Jonathan Shewchuk was responding to a student’s online discussion post, which asked for advice on being unable to find a date in the Bay area and expressed worries about finding a job in computer science.
Shewchuk responded, writing that the student should “get out of the Bay Area” to find a girlfriend.
“You’ll be shocked by the stark differences in behavior of women in places where women are plentiful versus their behavior within artillery distance of San Jose and San Francisco,” wrote Shewchuk.
So, he told the truth. Which, of course, cannot be tolerated.
“We want to be absolutely clear that the offensive content of the original post goes against the values and Principles of Community we adhere to at UC Berkeley,” Berkeley spokesperson Roqua Montez told the Daily Cal. “The comment was hurtful and threatening to students - particularly women - in his class and beyond.”
Etc.
And for the final today,
A trans-identified male who identifies as a “minor-attracted person” and has been running a “MAP” merchandise shop online is also working with a prominent pro-pedophilia group that has consulted academics. Katie Cruz, a pseudonym used by a man who calls himself Cali Miller, has been “working behind the scenes” with activist group B4U-ACT, which campaigns to have pedophilia recognized as a sexual orientation, and which has contributed to academic research at some of North America’s top universities.
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On Patreon, Cruz has stated that his “age of attraction” is between 9 and 13 years old. He also claims to identify as having a “trans age” of between “13 and 17ish.”
So he's a pedophile working hard to make it easier for himself and other pedophiles to molest kids. And some universities consult with him. Ain't academia wonderful?