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117 comments:
Buy bitcoin.
Now.
Hyper inflation is here.
50$ for a sheet of OSB.
Gas prices are exploding.
Buy houses now before house prices reflect building costs. Get out of cash.
This is all Trumps fault of course.
But.."Uncle Joe"'s sending me $1,400!
(And if I'm good, I can grill a Biden Burger on Independence day!)
@Achilles:
Hyper inflation is here.
Want to make a bet about this?
Facts About Dolphin
Is anybody else bothered by uniformed officers in the military using official channels to push back against a civilian journalist?
Seems to me we should never hear from any of them.
And then only to say 'Thank you for paying our salaries.'
Last time I checked it was an all-volunteer army...nobody forced them to put on a uniform...
Gas was up another dime this week. That's 55 cents since Napping Joe assumed office.
Indeed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9357535/Trump-makes-surprise-appearance-Mar-Lago-fundraiser-helping-rescue-dogs-China.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
A brilliant explanation of what quantum field theory is. 15 minutes https://youtu.be/MmG2ah5Df4g
Joe Smith
I remarked on it yesterday. I think the commandant of the marines must resign. He has failed to instill discipline and an adherence to duty and military law.
It’s like there is no one left in any institution who understands that they should not use the powers entrusted to them to push their own agendas or interests. In the military though there is the uniform code, to which they agreed and under which they can be charged.
I have no idea what to think of Bitcoin.
I understand that non fiat currency can be money. Cigarettes in prison or Germany after the war. I also understand such money can lose its value very fast.
I know a lot of smart people who say Bitcoin is the future.
I know a lot of stupid people who say they can ban whatever they want.
The stupid people are pretty convincing on this point. Try buying Sudafed if you doubt me.
I know quantum computing has the possibility to completely upend Bitcoin, in an hour. There won’t be any advance warning of that hour.
@Ken B
Trump should have fired every single employee who served at his pleasure who was a registered Democrat on day 1.
Everyone...right down to the janitors.
He did a lot of things right, but he didn't clean house and that is the reason he is not in the White House today.
I have pretty serious doubts that we could win any kind of war with China at this point.
Trannies, pregnant women, and soy generals against hardened Chinese troops who know their place and know their role.
Good luck with that.
J. Farmer said...
@Achilles:
"Hyper inflation is here."
Want to make a bet about this?
--
Tight counter!
But then, the COVID times pressure on kids into child counseling services is a boon to some.
A portion of those "potential secondary side-effects" Da Fauch mused about.
Ah well..
Joe Smith
I share your pretty serious doubts.
Both about capacity and about willingness.
I have a Rumanian friend who asked me a few years ago if I thought Romania could still rely on US security promises. I said, probably (definitely yes for Poland, probably not for France). Now, I wonder. Some days I wonder if you'd defend Hawaii if it were invaded.
Joe Smith,
Despite being labeled Hitler!, he needed to be truly ruthless re the bureaucracy.
Should have stuck a boot up Lindsay Graham's ass at recent visit.
Now, I wonder. Some days I wonder if you'd defend Hawaii if it were invaded.
Besides Tulsi Gabbard, is there anyone living there we should care about?
The chinese aren't in any better shape. Their youth are weak like ours, and often spoiled. Their equipment is based on stolen tech and often subpart. And they are still trying to shift from a massive peasant army to a more streamlined high tech force.
Ditto
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1371108860413538307
This is why it would likely go nuclear very quickly.
What's the news from Canada, Ken?
Skip the wannabe/day-player American bit and inform us of the good things happenin' up Nort.
@Joe Smith:
I have pretty serious doubts that we could win any kind of war with China at this point.
How do you win a thermonuclear war anyway?
Yes tell us
https://www.rebelnews.com/shock_video_rebel_reporter_attacked_by_alberta_ndp_thug
Walter
The news is the same as it ever was: we're like Americans, but better. So much being better we get sick of all the being better.
Thanks for asking.
Farmer
Does “any kind” mean thermonuclear? If I answer “any kind” when my wife asks me what beer to buy do I need to worry?
A shame but then again they have rarely done it well
https://youtu.be/AbmpgH75Wbo
@Ken B:
I have a Rumanian friend who asked me a few years ago if I thought Romania could still rely on US security promises. I said, probably (definitely yes for Poland, probably not for France). Now, I wonder.
A better question would be why security promises were even made to Romania. They joined NATO more than a decade after the alliance became obsolete. You could ask the same question to last year's new member North Macedonia. NATO should be dissolved, not expanded.
Big Mike said...
Now, I wonder. Some days I wonder if you'd defend Hawaii if it were invaded.
Besides Tulsi Gabbard, is there anyone living there we should care about?
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Gross.
"Should have stuck a boot up Lindsay Graham's ass at recent visit."
Don't give Graham anything to look forward to : )
"How do you win a thermonuclear war anyway?"
You don't, but you can at least try to win the proxy wars.
I'm kind of surprised that Xi hasn't invaded Taiwan yet...
Farmer
Well we have already established you'd exclude some American states from any defense arrangement, so we can take your position as read.
The pandemic has not been good to Mark Tatulli's Lio, and I am about done with the strip.
Somehow a fun comic about an Addams macabre kid-genius and his loving but weary dad turned into a year of mask scolding and politics.
I really just want to see Itchy and Scratchy, The Movie.
@Ken B:
Does “any kind” mean thermonuclear? If I answer “any kind” when my wife asks me what beer to buy do I need to worry?
Other than proxy, what kind of wars did you have in mind? If we fought a war against China, what would ensure that only conventional military weaponry was used and not WMD?
Arturo Ui said: “Gross”
Ah, you've met Big Mike.
I was speaking about live action versions of animated films.
China won't have to invade Taiwan. Once the Taiwanese realize the US Navy can't save them, they will negotiate a settlement that reunites the two countries.
Farmer
Which thermonuclear wars have been fought?
It really isn’t the case that every arrest for murder turns into a ten hour gun battle with thousands dead.
@Ken B:
Farmer
Well we have already established you'd exclude some American states from any defense arrangement, so we can take your position as read.
No, that's just some horseshit you made up. I've never said anything even remotely like that.
The first was a very stylized series of short films set in some enigmatic far future dystopia most were silent so the images told the tale.
"No, that's just some horseshit you made up. I've never said anything even remotely like that."
Ah, you've met Ken B.
@Ken B:
Farmer
Which thermonuclear wars have been fought?
It really isn’t the case that every arrest for murder turns into a ten hour gun battle with thousands dead.
We haven't fought any direct war with a nuclear-armed state. Our ability to win a war against China "at this point" was the topic at hand. If we launched a war with China, what would keep nuclear weapons off the table?
We've lived out the blueprint for how to take down the US.
Just needs a bit O' fine tuning, which we will likely fund.
Yancey Ward said...
"China won't have to invade Taiwan. Once the Taiwanese realize the US Navy can't save them, they will negotiate a settlement that reunites the two countries."
With Taiwan getting to keep its present government structure for 50 years, just like Hong Kong. (We know how that turned out.)
I'm reading Edmund Wilson's "The Twenties". It's a selection from his notebooks and diaries of that period. Wilson writes about the people he knew during this period. There's a lot of names that I almost recognize: Elinor Wylie, John Chapman, John Peale Bishop. They were famous in the twenties. The fame flame still flickers on other candles: Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Dos Pasos, Robert Benchley. Wilson writes about them. He goes to the Round Table and is turned off by the shallow wit of that crowd.... F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda appear. They don't deserve it, but they're the names that gave the twenties their legend. They remain the big stars of that era. Their romance, such as it was, comes across far more romantically in Fitzgerald's books than in Wilson's anecdotes. He tells of how Zelda cornered one of Fitzgerald's friends in the bathroom and asked him to give her a bath. Maybe it looked madcap at the time...Sacco and Vanzetti were a big deal. You judged people on how they judged Sacco and Vanzetti....Wilson and his acquaintances were wrong about quite a lot of things and particularly those things that they believed most fervently.
Dos passos is interesting stylistically hes a little like pynchon or possibly ellroy half a century later.
China will have trouble selling its merchandise in America if America is a nuclear wasteland.....How long would it take Taiwan to develop a nuclear weapon: weeks or months? Maybe they already have one, but are keeping it on the down low.....The present arrangement suits China just fine.
We know that a nuclear weapon can be produced with 1940s technology in under five years by people who have no idea how to do it.
I am confident that with 21st century tech and people who know how it has been done, that can be somewhat reduced :-(
"Other than proxy, what kind of wars did you have in mind? If we fought a war against China, what would ensure that only conventional military weaponry was used and not WMD?"
Nothing...it is back to MAD, so we will only fight proxy wars for the foreseeable future...
In space (satellite killers. Moon and Mars colonization. Asteroid mining). In tech (IP theft, Quantum computing). Maybe in some shithole countries where the Chinese pour in money for geographic and resource advantages...
Nobody is dropping nukes any time soon. But if we don't fight the proxy wars above, then we might as well not fight at all.
They are pushing forward all over the world on all fronts while we are designing lovely flight suits for pregnant soldiers and paying for transgender surgery for others.
Holy fuck are we screwed.
With Taiwan getting to keep its present government structure for 50 years, just like Hong Kong. (We know how that turned out.)
Why exactly should the US be putting itself in the middle of Taiwan or Hong Kong and the mainland?
I'm kind of surprised that Xi hasn't invaded Taiwan yet...
What would China gain by doing this?
“We had many meetings in the White House and the Oval Office having to do with saving and helping dogs.”
"What would China gain by doing this"
Duuno.
They've really expressed no opinion on Taiwan.
Like Hong Kong.
Mr Wibble said...
The chinese aren't in any better shape. Their youth are weak like ours, and often spoiled. Their equipment is based on stolen tech and often subpart. And they are still trying to shift from a massive peasant army to a more streamlined high tech force.
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Here's a sober assessment of China's weaknesses vs. the US, from the Chinese themselves:
https://www.memri.org/reports/chinese-study-compares-40-indicators-shows-china-lags-behind-us-gap-wide-china-will-not
"According to a detailed report published by the Chinese media outlet Sina.com, 40 statistical indicators show a wide gap remaining between China and the U. S. as world powers. While Beijing says it is closing some of those gaps, overall they remain great, and "the gap between China and the United States in science, technology, and education indicators is even greater."
This is more than an eye-opener, it's a "must read". (Sina.com, from all I've been able to determine on the web, is in fact a PRC site. The MEMRI article cites "thumbnail" conclusions of the Sina piece.)
@Joe Smith:
They are pushing forward all over the world on all fronts while we are designing lovely flight suits for pregnant soldiers and paying for transgender surgery for others.
Holy fuck are we screwed.
I think that's a very over-the-top assessment. China is far behind the US in terms of military power. They have a single overseas base in Djibouti. The US has over 800 bases in more than 70 countries. We've been involved in nonstop war for 30 years in the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, and Central and southeast Asia. The last significant military conflict the Chinese were involved in was the invasion of Vietnam over 40 years ago.
"What would China gain by doing this?
They would gain Taiwan?
I don't know why they want it, but they do.
Not everything is cryptic and complicated.
"I have no idea what to think of Bitcoin."
I don't either. I try to follow the 'if you don't know how an investment makes money you shouldn't invest in it' school of thought. I've tried to read up on it, but terms like 'mining'. and 'blockchain' make it even more arcane. The most I can make of it is that the money is made by charging high tech electronic ATM and credit card transaction fees.
An uncrackable digital currency. Go ahead to tell me another one.
J. Farmer said...
With Taiwan getting to keep its present government structure for 50 years, just like Hong Kong. (We know how that turned out.)
Why exactly should the US be putting itself in the middle of Taiwan or Hong Kong and the mainland?
I'm kind of surprised that Xi hasn't invaded Taiwan yet...
What would China gain by doing this?
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I dunno...why not YOU ask the Chicoms why they've been threatening to do so for the last 70-odd years?
Might it be because there are conflicting claims regarding Taiwan historically being part of China?
Might it be because the Nationalist Chinese fled there after losing to the ChiComs in their civil War in the late 1940's, and the Chicoms since then having vowed to pursue and eliminate them?
Might it be that Taiwan's shaming the mainland by coming an economic power long before the Chinese started getting their shit together?
Might it be that the Chicoms would LOVE to humiliate the US by defeating it and showing it to be a "paper tiger"?
I dunno...but I'm sure that World-Historical GENIUS J. Famer will enlighten us all, after teasing us with his brilliant rhetorical question!!!
Or most likely, he will slink away in silence.
"An uncrackable digital currency. Go ahead to tell me another one.'
So it's high tech money laundering. Probably not a bad investment then.
Here is a thought. China develops a new killer virus, and a vaccine and antidote.
Naturally, they keep it secret until they need it.
Also naturally, United States and others are doing the same thing.
Yancey Ward said...
China won't have to invade Taiwan. Once the Taiwanese realize the US Navy can't save them, they will negotiate a settlement that reunites the two countries.
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Please tell us **why** the US cannot repulse an attack against Taiwan.
If it came to an attack, the US has infinitely more firepower, more advanced technology in East Asia to use against Chinese attackers AND targets on the mainland, than vice versa. Also consider the South Koreans and Taiwanese themselves, equipped with our advanced weapons systems.
Lacking stealth aircraft, and with the US having intense satellite resources, there could be no Chinese "surprise" attack. We would observe it coming.
An occupying force to subdue the population? A D-Day style invasion? Seriously?
So..how would they do it?
Peter dazdak is searching for new viruses in the caves of singapore so...
"Please tell us **why** the US cannot repulse an attack against Taiwan."
Because Biden's earpiece won't.
@wholelottasplainin':
I dunno...but I'm sure that World-Historical GENIUS J. Famer will enlighten us all, after teasing us with his brilliant rhetorical question!!!
You're right. You don't know.
@Joe Smith:
They would gain Taiwan?
I don't know why they want it, but they do.
Well, a large island off their coast is certainly something they'd be concerned about, particularly given the history with the Kuomintang. But for now, the system of allowing Taiwan de facto independence so long as they do not seek de jure independence. Neither side has much incentive to give to abandon the status quo, and for China to seize Taiwan would involve a costly and protracted military engagement. Lots of risk to get a situation that is arguably worse than the status quo.
We know that as soon as the votes were counted Mexicans and South Americans decided to start coming here and now they are here. We don't know what plans others made but they'd be just as quick to size up the new situation which is one of unparalleled wish to conform to whatever others want of the US.
Brace for impact.
Why would China swallow up Taiwan? Two words. Saving Face.
Fauci on Meet The Press, Feb. 27:
And when people start then pulling back on mitigation methods and mitigation activities, you have the risk, and it is a real risk, of seeing it go back up. And it's not something I'm imagining. Go back and take a look at the surges that we've had over the past year. It was always at a time where you wanted to pull back. Remember during the time we were going to open up the country and open up the economy, there were some states and some regions and some cities that did not actually abide by the recommendations. They pulled back too prematurely, and we had the big surges that came.
This is purified bullshit. This is not science. There is nothing in it that can possibly be shown to be wrong, or right.
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Old Blame Trump, new, Blame Tucker. Party of hate... and excuses. Base instincts.
A rich guilty person has a better chance in America than a poor innocent one. Wealth determines justice's outcome in America - not culpability - that's why it's so important for thieves to claim they earned it on their own.
Even to those they stole it from.
The NYT is mentioning Bill Clinton as a negative before the GOP does - that says it all.
Once the Taiwanese realize the US Navy can't save them, they will negotiate a settlement that reunites the two countries.
people! calm down. Shimmer is a desert topping AND a floor wax
Let's quit with the pretend wargames of who would "win" which Global War scenario
The Correct Answer is:
Once the Taiwanese realize the US Navy WON'T save them, they will negotiate a settlement that reunites the two countries.
It doesn't matter What our pregnant pilots Could do, IF
Biden has made clear, that we will stand by and just watch
wholelottasplaining,
Taiwan is only 100 miles off the coast. That is just a couple of minutes flight time for a hypersonic missile, meaning there would be virtually no warning of an attack if the Chinese chose. The increasing size, frequency, and complexity of their military exercises also significantly decreases the likelihood of being able to anticipate an attack. They could easily time one for when the USN presence is at a low point.
Would they? Probably not - if they are smart they will wait to see how things play out in the U.S. over the next 10 or so years - it would seem to be a safe bet that we will be getting weaker militarily while they grow stronger. (The biggest question for this will be what Japan/S. Korea/India/Vietnam/Australia are doing militarily.)
But to dismiss the possibility like you are is folly.
J. Farmer said...
"With Taiwan getting to keep its present government structure for 50 years, just like Hong Kong. (We know how that turned out.)
Why exactly should the US be putting itself in the middle of Taiwan or Hong Kong and the mainland?
I'm kind of surprised that Xi hasn't invaded Taiwan yet...
What would China gain by doing this?"
Because, traditionally, China has believed itself the center of the world. That all good things come from China and as such the rest of the world is inferior to China and must, in some way, pay homage to China. One you understand that this is China at it's core then you will understand Xi and the CCP. Hence the attempt to control the South China Sea. hence our carrier strike forces in the Pacific.
Why do I even bother?
The US doesn't necessarily have the firepower in the region to repulse a large attack. They could do a hell of a lot of damage, however, and the loss of a carrier would pull the US into war. The threat that the US has is not just our current military power, it's our industrial base, which is still formidable. Any war lasting longer than 30-45 days risks the US switching to a war footing. Ask the Germans and Japanese how that worked out for them.
The RT-PCR test has a false positive rate ranging from 0.4% to 4%.
Can we really say anything about whether cases are rising or falling now that the "positive" testing rate is around 2%?
@ Crack: Wealth Determines justice's Outcome in America
Excellent video there - worth the 25 minutes time spent watching it.
Unfortunately, white privilege for many people is not having to give a shit about things like this.
Hope Ann is ok this morning
- Krumhorn
@Rusty:
Because, traditionally, China has believed itself the center of the world. That all good things come from China and as such the rest of the world is inferior to China and must, in some way, pay homage to China. One you understand that this is China at it's core then you will understand Xi and the CCP.
Cultural chauvinism and self-centeredness are certainly not qualities unique to Chinese civilization. Western powers used the example of western civilization to justify conquering the globe. We used Manifest Destiny to justify attacking Mexico and stealing their territory. We used gunboats to force open Japan to foreign trade. After the Spanish-American War, we spent 10 years conquering the Philippines, or the "white man's burden" as Rudyard Kipling labeled it. During the Meji restoration, Japan fought the first Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War and became an overseas colonial empire.
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/xi-tells-army-to-get-combat-ready/
I don’t give a shit about Crack’s obsessions and ranting.
“ I'm kind of surprised that Xi hasn't invaded Taiwan yet...
“What would China gain by doing this?”
It’s a national pride thing.
War games that we routinely undertake show us losing to China faster and faster, if they undertake an invasion of Taiwan. As long as we don’t go nuclear. That is the place where we likely have a overwhelming advantage. Traditionally, we have used our nuclear Arsenal as our hole card against our enemies. Thus, not surprisingly, Obama seems to have tried hardest to weaken that part of of our warmakng abilities. Eight years, and he didn’t manage to destroy that part of our defense capabilities. But it takes Presidential approval to launch nuclear weapons. Senile Joe Biden is probably incapable, and his Obama era handlers very likely wouldn’t allow it anyway. Worse, Biden is heavily compromised by the ChiComs. His son, Hunter, got $1.5 Billion from them to manage. No doubt, they have probably more dirt on the Biden’s than any other American politician and their family. Moreover, the Chinese appeared to have played their art in stealing the election for Biden (and at least 3 Senators). In short, completely compromised. The ChiComs likely believed that Trump would go nuclear, as a last resort. They thought that Obama wouldn’t, and are probably certain that Biden absolutely won’t.
Moreover the big tech companies, along with the MSM, that destroyed Trump’s re-election and cheered the cheating that got Biden sleeping from afternoon on every day in the White House, would push the narrative that it was just an inside Chinese dispute, and, thus, none of our business. What we saw with Hong Kong, only much more so, because they are even more dependent on Chinese business. Much of this country is inured to their heavy handed political censorship, but it works. Even a lot of Luke warm Republicans buy into their propaganda.
Shouting Thomas said...
I don’t give a shit about Crack’s obsessions and ranting.
In other words, you didn't watch the video.
alan markus said...
Shouting Thomas said...
I don’t give a shit about Crack’s obsessions and ranting.
In other words, you didn't watch the video.
And all of their patriotic talk is revealed as just the manipulative blather they used to keep their little fiefdom going - not for any union we're supposed to be trying to make better.
Good man, Markus
"The use of homeopathy was significantly associated with the female sex."
Now why do you suppose women are suspending their critical faculties? And does anyone else find it significant they're doing it? What effect does women suspending their critical faculties have on a society, I wonder? And is homeopathy the only substance/practice/topic upon which women are suspending their critical faculties? (Nope.) Why are there whole industries devoted to helping women suspend their critical faculties?
The number of questions homeopathy use raises - as with what it reveals - are almost never-ending.
If significant numbers of women are collectively suspending their critical faculties - but not admitting it - they could be getting away with all kinds of things right under everyone's noses.
With Nancy Pelosi's blessing.
Precisely, Crack.
Nothing would make me go to your site.
I get enough of your Emperor of Wakanda bullshit here.
Putting up with your ranting here is plenty.
You can’t play me, sucker. Try somebody else.
Let me repeat, Crack...
Your mom and dad fucked you over by abandoning you to foster and group home care.
Deal with that instead of ranting about bullshit.
J. Farmer said...
@Achilles:
Hyper inflation is here.
Want to make a bet about this?
I already did.
You can lie to yourself all you want.
The dollar compared to Bitcoin long run is going to zero.
Yancey Ward said...
China won't have to invade Taiwan. Once the Taiwanese realize the US Navy can't save them, they will negotiate a settlement that reunites the two countries.
Taiwan should just turn the wrench and test a nuke.
The Crack Emcee said...
"The use of homeopathy was significantly associated with the female sex."
The quack practice of "touch therapy" is female promoted- and was taught (is taught?) in female led nursing schools.
Crystal healing- never heard of a man advocating it- totally a female thing.
Aromatherapy- female led and practiced. I'm fine with no extraneous smells myself...
Wicca- do we even need to mention it?
There are good reasons why the early church (referring to Christianity) and the Bible state that church leaders should be men who are married who have grown children who are good examples should be leaders of the Church. They've shown how it can be done, now they should be able to teach those practices to others. That's one Mormon practice I approve of- and it follows the New Testament lessons, though it may be in their own book. Like many others, I have a Book of Mormon on the shelf that I was given- but I've never read it.
And Shouting Thomas, you should head over to Crack's blog and peruse it. You don't have to agree with everything someone says to realize that some of it makes perfect sense. His railing against pseudoscience and New Age practices fit right in with what I've long observed. And most people continue to think they're harmless- and they're not.
Teh horror
https://mobile.twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1371479564250152963
No, I won't go to Crack's site.
Been there years ago.
I absolutely refuse to succumb to his player game of trying to twist my arm behind my back with white guilt tripping.
I just heard Tucker Carlson say Colin Powell advanced in the military - when few blacks could advance elsewhere - and then go on to complain about people being "woke" to the fact society was set-up so most blacks couldn't work when Colin Powell was advancing in the military.
I'm telling you, listening to political arguments like you're the Pitch Meeting guy really cuts through a lot of the bullshit.
Here we go with Crack whoring his site at Althouse's expense again.
No way I'm playing, oh great Emperor of Wakanda.
So, you've got no traffic of your own, Crack.
Thanks for that info.
The Crack Emcee said...
I just heard Tucker Carlson say Colin Powell advanced in the military - when few blacks could advance elsewhere - and then go on to complain about people being "woke" to the fact society was set-up so most blacks couldn't work when Colin Powell was advancing in the military.
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The crucial term is "was". Now we have black generals in Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/2020/09/01/military-diversity-army-shows-few-black-officers-top-leadership/3377371001/
(this article still bitches about a lack of diversity, but doesn't note the country's racial makeup. twenty black generals vs. 109 white generals exceeds the 13% of Americans who are black.))
See also:
https://www.blackpast.org/special-features/the-commanders-admirals-and-generals/
No one disputes the fact that things used to be different, but Benjamin Davis became a brigadier general back in 1940.
Colin got his first promotion, covering up mylai and hence jumpstarting sy hershs career
wholelottasplainin' said...
The crucial term is "was". Now we have black generals in Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines.
As usual, you miss the point - the point isn't the military but the state of the society it served.
Colin Powell got advanced WHEN MOST BLACKS IN SOCIETY COULDN'T.
You know, the average American citizen?
That's the point, Guys.
When medical studies show yoga and meditation lead to deceit amongst other things, doesn't it seem obvious Meghan Markle is a liar (she's a yogi and her mother is a yoga instructor)? Alec Baldwin's wife is also a yoga instructor - and she's been caught lying about her heritage. Chris Cuomo's wife is a yoga instructor and she sells quackery. I can't think of too many yoga people who haven't been caught being dishonest - it's what they do. And that raises a question:
Why does society promote it?
Then he covered for weinberger and schultz in iran contra, prince bandar was his patron for the interval between the time he became secretary of state
Don't you guys think that when cults are taking over places like Panda Express it's probably time for us to do something?
narciso said...
Then he covered for weinberger and schultz in iran contra, prince bandar was his patron for the interval between the time he became secretary of state
WHEN MOST BLACKS COULDN'T
Don't you guys think that when cults are taking over places like Panda Express it's probably time for us to do something?
Yes. Get in on the grift.
The crucial term is "was". Now we have black generals in Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines.
The several hundred thousand who were never under slavery nor diversity dogma. Several million under both institutions. Several million in the army, millions more, who never took a knee, and sacrificed blood and treasure to stand up to slavery and diversity progress. America wasn't a Hutu/Tutsi division. Aside from the democrat-affiliated KKK, not even the organized lynch mobs of post-apartheid progressive South Africa.
Crack was so buy playing Emperor of Wakanda that he neglected to take advantage of the wide open opportunity to become an officer in the military.
His railing against pseudoscience and New Age practices fit right in with what I've long observed. And most people continue to think they're harmless- and they're not.
Several hundred thousand and more excess deaths annually in America alone for social progress and social justice. A wicked solution brayed by the Progressive Church/Synagogue/Agency/Office/Chamber/Clinic etc. A Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, relativistic ("ethical") quasi-religion. Political congruence ("="), too. They can abort the baby, cannibalize her profitable parts, sequester her carbon pollutants, and have her, too. That said, diversity of individuals, minority of one. #HateLovesAbortion
Separately, So Now The Admission -- Next Is Retribution
Denial and stigmatization of effective, inexpensive, low-risk treatments at early and late-stage disease progression. Social contagion, misinformation, perhaps disinformation, driving herd stampedes. Restrictive mandates (e.g. masks less than N95 following strict protocol) that are equivalent to flipping a coin at best. Planned Parent/hood is one of the few venues and practices where there were excess deaths on a year over year basis, past, present, and progressive.
I ridicule ALL forms of NewAge nonsense.
My wife does yoga and seems to benefit physically--she knows that if she let on that there's some spiritual component in it for her, that I'd make fun, so if there is she keeps it to herself.
I don't know anything about Panda Express and have never used them.
Narr
Gotta run
Yoga is great.
Keeps my arthritis under control and keeps this old grandpa flexible and mobile.
I’m Catholic. The Church’s outlook is that doing yoga as a therapeutic and exercise practice is fine, but...
Leave the theology out.
Yoga instructors are almost uniformly airhead white women, preaching a combination of New Age and hippie BS. I don’t take classes often because my practice is well established, and I ignore their prattling when I do take classes.
Narr said...
I ridicule ALL forms of NewAge nonsense.
My wife does yoga and seems to benefit physically--she knows that if she let on that there's some spiritual component in it for her, that I'd make fun, so if there is she keeps it to herself.
If she calls it "yoga" and not stretching, then she is. That's what makes "homeopathy" different for water - it's belief system.
That's the basis for the cultism I keep mentioning. Think about it: you've set up a distrust mechanism already - she has to lie about yoga to do it or you'll tease. That could lead her to others where she can be honest, right?
Should should stop doing yoga - that's the key.
A re-write because I've got this new keyboard (to replace the sticky keys on the laptop) and it's wifi and does it's own thing, still:
If your wife calls it "yoga" and not stretching, then she is keeping the belief system to herself. That's what makes "homeopathy" different from water - it's belief system.
That's the basis for the cultism I keep mentioning. Think about it: you've set up a distrust mechanism already - she has to lie about yoga to do it or you'll tease. That could lead her to others, where she can be honest about her new beliefs, right?
She should stop doing yoga - that's the key.
Narr said...
"I don't know anything about Panda Express and have never used them."
Do you remember Werner Erhard's est in the '70s? They became Landmark and just got busted making Panda Express employees get naked.
Restaurants are a growth industry for cults.
I do recall Erhard and est, as it was covered by the major media.
She used to do yoga with a group of women, but the venues kept changing and when the old homo that taught it died, she didn't look for another group. She has DVDs from various yoga mavens, and if she gets something out of it, that's fine by me. She doesn't lie, she just doesn't bother trying to explain or justify it (not that she has to).
She also does workouts, for her health, and I benefit from that myself--bigtime. My wife's hotness is a matter of personal taste, but what she had she has maintained better than any of my friends' wives. It's noticeable.
She follows the routines of Sam Heughan's exercise coach, a spinoff of "Outlander." I don't make fun of that either, since I've never been one to fix things that aren't broke.
Narr
It works for us
Narr said...
"I do recall Erhard and est, as it was covered by the major media."
But not how they've evolved. They're huge now.
"She used to do yoga with a group of women, but the venues kept changing and when the old homo that taught it died, she didn't look for another group. She has DVDs from various yoga mavens, and if she gets something out of it, that's fine by me. She doesn't lie, she just doesn't bother trying to explain or justify it (not that she has to)."
I don't get you guys: yoga was used by Nazi concentration camp guards to de-stress and you guys are like "Nazis? Weird belief systems? Old gays leading the group? Whatever." All the practitioners are liars but not your girl doing it. You wouldn't know it if she was - you already said you'd tease her - so the distrust is already implanted there. NewAge is wonderful.
"She also does workouts, for her health, and I benefit from that myself--bigtime. My wife's hotness is a matter of personal taste, but what she had she has maintained better than any of my friends' wives. It's noticeable."
Good for her (rolls eyes).
I don't understand other people except as society-controlled MPCs.
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