As usual there's a LOT of crap flying around in the guise of 'news',

we'll know more as it sorts out.  Of course, we'll have to consider that the feds- and much of the news- may not tell us much, especially if it doesn't fit the Preferred Narrative.

One thing's for sure: from what I've read the Trump security people have been asking for a larger force for some time, and were turned down by the Secret Service bigshots, just ran across this

It seems heads need to roll, and not just the USSS Director's.

Added: I'd forgotten, the Director of DHS oversees the USSS.  And that's our favorite "The border is secure!" asshole Mayorkas.  Probable more political bullshit?  Most likely.

And, as Insty noted, the administration denied USSS protection to Kennedy, I wonder if they'll change their minds about that?

It having rolled around to that second evening of the week,

I have prepared a new batch of data

Well, this will make things real sporty

This 'prominent academic, author and NYTimes columnist' nearly got his wish.

Mcwhorter, you're a really stupid bastard.

Let's see what some of our Professional Journalists had to say:

And 

Followed by

My, these chickenshits can't tell the truth and whole story even about this.
I'm curious just what paroxysms of glee the left go into.  And I'll wonder if any of them realize just how close to a very dangerous edge this put us.

Hypocritical, arrogant arsehole, thy name is

John Effing Kerry

Another late day is here,

so,

Watching all the crap from our major media and Professional Journalists,

hell, if I'd lied and cheated that much for political reasons I wouldn't want to take responsibility for it either.

If they'd actually investigated and reported on Biden's condition in the last campaign, I doubt we'd be in this mess.

If they'd investigated and actually reported on his decline anytime over the last three years, same.

If they'd done that even in the last year, same.  It would've been obvious that Biden should not be running again(ignore the 'should not BE here NOW' part), the Democrats could've probably handled getting him to not run again and would've been having these conniptions then, not three months from the election.

Mind you, I'm all for their conniptions, they're entertaining as hell, both the official ones and the "I'm making excuses for Biden and insist he run again because BAD ORANGE MAN!" private ones.  Which is also disgusting: they hate Trump so much that they'd rather have a mentally unstable and declining man in the effing Presidency than him.  Also, I'm waiting for someone to start saying that Biden's corruption is somehow connected to his Official Duties and so he has immunity.

I include in the conniptions the "Since Biden has immunity he should have Seals kill Trump!" idiocy started.

Yes, it is.

Back to the media: A few of them have basically admitted "If we'd reported on this it might have helped the Republicans!" as their excuse.  So they've demonstrated they cannot be trusted on ANYTHING, because they'll slant their 'reporting' for political purposes.  And flatly lie to you.

That saying "No matter how much you hate the media, it isn't enough"?  Screw 'em, they earned it.

How bad has the military become?

This bad.
An anti-terrorism brief was held on Fort Liberty (Bragg) today where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as “terrorist organizations.”

The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East.

The organizations labeled by the army as terror organizations include National Right to Life and Operation Rescue.

They also included a screenshot of a license plate with “IM4IT,” which is a plate many Pro-Life citizens put on their car which implies normal citizens are terrorists if they display this plate.

The slide goes on to mention activities which these organizations participate in which include being Pro-Life, opposing Row v Wade, demonstrating and protesting (a 1st Amendment protected right), “Truth Displays,” and picketing.

They also falsely attribute the bombing of abortion clinics to National Right to Life.

Keep in mind they’re not labeling them as extremist organizations (which would still be crazy), but as terrorist organizations.

The military and Dept of Defense are insanely out of control. Service-members are being indoctrinated to view Pro-Life groups as the enemy.
I'd suggest click the link, they have a picture.

I wonder how many troops heard and looked at this and thought "What the FUCK?"   Hopefully a lot.

There is a place called PartsFish that sells motorcycle parts

They've got a big inventory, have just about everything for a number of brands, and they have some of the slowest shipping I've ever dealt with.

Ordered something just before the end of June.  When I checked status a week later it showed 'estimated delivery July 7-July 9'.

It actually shipped yesterday.  Which is, yes, a bit late.

I'd forgotten just how slow they are, if I'd remembered I'd have ordered from someone else.

Three things this morning

First was a trip to the range yesterday.  It's amazing how much difference it makes when the scope mount is locked down and not jiggling around(and has a drop of threadlocker on the mount screws so it doesn't happen again).  It was really off, so had to spend some time zeroing first.


Second, "You're his paid liar, and you lied to us, how could you do that?"
They really don't want to answer for not dong their damned jobs.  Considering how many did the 'Joe is great, all those videos are faked/out of context/shut up!' thing and are how following the 'Pressure Biden to quit' work, I wouldn't want to answer for it either.


Third, Iran was financing pro-terrorist protests.  You surprised?
Next question: how many of those protesters are foreign students, and wouldn't this be reason to void their visa and sent them back?
And if some of the native protesters knew they were getting money from a hostile power to harass, attack people, and damage the place, seems like that might be something that could be charged.

I shall now take care of laundry and various other things, amuse yourselves somewhere else for a while.

"But I'm special, and I'm protected by Only Ones!"

Screw you, lady.
Two armed U.S. Marshals on the protection detail for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor shot a would-be carjacker in self-defense last week, casting scrutiny on her co-signing a 2010 Supreme Court opinion that decried such firearm protection as a Second Amendment right.
...
The incident sparked criticism of Sotomayor's Second Amendment positions during her tenure on the high court, including one decision where she co-signed a dissent that said the Constitution does not protect "a private right of armed self-defense."
You and every other judge like you.

Nice to be one of the Praetorian Guard, Updated

isn't it?
The FBI agent who accidentally shot someone while dancing at a Colorado nightclub in June can carry his gun again, both on and off duty, a judge ruled Tuesday.
...
Bishop was recorded doing a back flip on the dance floor when his gun fell out of its holster. The FBI agent went to pick it up, and while doing so, he unintentionally shot a bystander, 24-year-old Thomas Reddington.

The agent was then seen placing the gun back into his holster before walking off the dance floor.
Plain old citizen did this, he'd already be either in jail or fined to death, or both.  Especially when you add in this:
The agent will still not be allowed to drink or use drugs while his case is pending.
Really?  So had he been drinking when this happened?  Again, plain old citizen caught drinking while carrying would be on his way to jail pretty damn quick in most places.  Hell, most places you cannot carry into a bar even if you're only having a soft drink.

But then, they aren't a Very Special Federal Agent.

Update:  was advised he was charged and pleaded to third-degree assault.  And this says he's no longer with the EffingBI.
Ever read any of the Joe Leaphorn novels?  In one he's reflecting on working with the feds and he'd decided that one of the only things that would get you in real trouble with the Bureau was doing something that brought even slight bad publicity to the sacred Bureau.  I'd guess this covers it.

When the WEF once again announces what you should be allowed to eat,

and how it will be produced, from the farming they'll still allow to the factories where their 'save the earth' designed food products will be made, you can count on one thing:
It won't be good, it won't be enough, and eventually they'll use it as a weapon against you.
And it won't be where most, if any, of their own food comes from.

Think: these are people who whine about carbon footprints of average people while they're having their limousines flown to Davos, where they will step off their private jets and step into them to go meet and tell us how we should be allowed to live; you think they'll give up their fresh food, and beef/pork/chicken, for factory-made stuff?

But a lot of media still tell us "Starvation!!", and no correction

or apology for the BS they got from Hamas.
Indeed, what may come as a complete surprise is that according to the United Nations only 3 per cent of the residents of Rafah were poorly fed in May. In Khan Yunis and the central town of Deir al Balah, that figure stood at 6 per cent. The biggest challenges were faced by those who had failed to evacuate from the north at the start of the campaign; there, 13 per cent were found to be hungry. Overall, the overwhelming majority of Gazans had‘acceptable’ quantities of food.

In particular, in discussing food trucks and other methods of aid entering the area, the IPC had, for whatever reason, neglected to include in their original calculations commercial and/or privately contracted deliveries and World Food Program deliveries to bakeries in northern Gaza.

Before the conflict, in 2022, despite billions of dollars of aid money being poured into the Gaza Strip, 14 per cent of the population faced hunger. The reality would appear to be that they are better provisioned now than when Hamas was in charge.
Our media: overall you can trust them to be full of crap.

France and Britain voted, they're getting what they voted for,

and they are screwed.

Anybody who's succeeded and doesn't want it all raped away better leave soon, from the looks of it.  And if you're a Jew in France, you'd better consider packing up the family, because
Frances’s far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélanchon chose to be flanked by the antisemitic Rima Hassan wearing a keffieh while reacting to the first round of #FrenchElections. Hassan has recently accused the IDF of training dogs to rape Palestinian women.
Yeah, that's going to work.  Of course, it's going to get worse in Britain, too.

Jeez.

Conehead, as Second City Cop calls him, is really desperate to deflect blame

from the guilty.
In recent years, Chicago’s leaders have blamed a wide range of external factors for the city’s infamous street violence. They’ve pointed fingers at Donald Trump, Indiana, Kim Foxx, and gun manufacturers, among others. On Monday, after 108 people were shot, 19 fatally, during the Independence Day weekend, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson became the first leader to blame Richard Milhous Nixon.

“We are standing here today talking about a violent weekend because of generations of disinvestment,” Johnson told a room full of reporters.

“Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time,” Johnson claimed. “We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes and people mocked President [Lyndon] Johnson and we ended up with Richard Nixon.”
Oh yeah, couldn't possibly be leftist bail and catch & release policies, couldn't possibly be leftists destroying the schools in the name of 'equity', no, it's the Right!
And somehow 'disinvestment' doesn't count the God-only-knows-how-much of other people's money has been given the Chicago over the decades.  

HeyJackass even has a Nixon t-shirt for the occasion.

Looks like getting rid of McCarthy was the right thing,

and too damn late.

Does sound about right

 I predict that we will see the following narrative develop, and further, that it will develop whether Biden stays in the office and on the ticket, or not. The narrative will be: that Kamala Harris has been acting as President all along, so it doesn’t really matter what kind of shape Joe Biden is in. If he stays in, nothing changes by re-electing him. If he leaves, we should elevate Harris to ensure that nothing changes by electing her to her own term.

Ah, Californicated, you never fail to disappoint

Currently, buying or soliciting sex from a minor is a misdemeanor, up to a year in jail and a $10k fine.  which is pretty damned lenient.  Law is being pushed to make it a felony, with sex offender registration and all,   And then,
True to form, they said that "this bill will disproportionately impact marginalized communities, especially members of the LGBTQ community, who already suffer from systematic biases within the criminal justice system, particularly when it comes to sexually-based offenses."
Apparently, in their minds, lots of the LGBetc. community, are child molesters, and treating them as such would be bad.  

Think about that: these idiots think a really serious penalty for BUYING A KID FOR SEX is bad...

Then they throw in
Somehow, another speaker threw racism in there, claiming that "under California law, defendants could face years or even decades in prison for sexual violence committed against minors."
All in chorus now: THAT IS THE IDEA, YOU MORONS.

Let's see... first "Actually punishing people for raping kids will disproportionately harm this group!", which is them saying "This group likes to rape kids."  Which, were I homosexual, I'd rather object to.  Then, 'Actually punishing people for this could put them in prison for years!" is an objection to punishing people for raping kids....

Californicated us run by idiots and socialists(certain amount of overlap there), and moral assholes.  And some Democrats want the governor in charge of it to be President.  

Oh HELL no.

For several years I didn't plant a garden

Between some medical work and Dad going downhill, then all the stuff after his death, it just wasn't worth it.  This year decided to plant a few things.

So two Arkansas Traveler tomatoes, two cherry tomatoes, two bell peppers, and some squash seed were bought and planted, finding a small extra in one of the cherry pots making that three, and they all took off.

The squash did nicely for a while, then died like the last few times.  The peppers get about 1/3 size and then either fall off or something is pulling them off.  The tomatoes, though... they're producing like none I've ever had before.  They're all covered, I have piles of the things and yes, I've been giving some away.  Damn things are good, too.  I need to harvest more, but the ground is so soft after the rains the last couple of days that they'll have to wait till tomorrow.

Dad always preferred the Arkansas Travelers, they're meaty and taste very good.  As some of those are ripening there will be BLTs on the menu.  So I need to get more bacon.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to dine.  Not only a long day, but I've finally been able to start some half-assed workouts again, and I'm tired and hungry.

Also adding to the "Why don't you trust .gov agencies?" is this

climate hysteria prediction group, which also involves "Don't trust the media":
NOAA’s prediction is heavily predicated on computer climate models that assume a huge acceleration in sea level rate of rise over the next 75 years.

In particular, NOAA’s Sea Level Rise Viewer, upon which the prediction is based, relies on estimates and models used in 2007.

These estimates are woefully outdated, and with the new generation of models now in use, the old estimates used by CBS don’t accurately represent the future of the current best projections. The predictions CBS cites are shown in Figure 1.

Brought to Chicago by a string of idiot socialist mayors:

Seventeen people have been killed and at least 83 wounded during shootings in Chicago over the extended Fourth of July weekend.

By the end of Friday, the tally of shootings — six people shot Thursday and 62 shot Friday, 12 killed over both days — surpassed the numbers for last year’s entire holiday weekend. Last year, 11 people were killed and 62 wounded over the holiday weekend, which stretched over four days, July 1-4.

This year’s holiday violence includes four mass shootings. In all, 24 people were shot, four fatally, in the mass attacks.
And this is just the latest in the string of disasters known as 'a Chicago holiday weekend'.

In a city which has all the Watts- and Biden-approved gun laws, and often lets violent offenders loose on low or no bail with an ankle bracelet.  Because keeping them in jail would be mean.

They always shriek that the problem is because surrounding states don't have the same gun-control laws, but those surrounding states, for some reason, don't have the same crime rates.  For some reason.

Also noted somewhere the other day, the billions of tax income the city has lost because people are getting the hell out of the craphole Chicago has been made into.

My Saturday began with the truck making that rattley sound

a vehicle makes when the battery doesn't have enough power to actually try starting.  Which, since I was going to work, was extra not fun.

Son was free, so was able to give me a ride, and a new battery was procured and installed.  Only about an hour late to work, too.

And it happened in the driveway, not in the parking lot at work or crapping out while I was driving.  So could've been worse.

The timing: when last changed oil they'd tested it and said "It's on the low end of 'good' range, so you really ought to change it soon."  And the day before, while getting to sleep, I'd thought "Next week I need to go ahead and get a new one."

It lasted five years, not bad for a battery around here.