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119 comments:
I was out driving when I heard of the attack and there was no mention of race or motive. I immediately knew he was not white and hated Trump - as turned out to be the case. We'll never know why he did what he did.
Good Read
Real Clear Investigations
New Yorker
How Bellingcat Unmasked Putin’s Assassins
'In November, Christo Grozev, a researcher at Bellingcat, an open-source investigation collective, called Alexey Navalny, the Russian opposition leader. Three months earlier, Navalny had fallen grievously ill on a flight departing the Siberian city of Tomsk; he was evacuated, in a coma, to Berlin, where the substance that had nearly killed him was identified as Novichok, a Russian-made nerve agent, the use of which appeared to lead straight to the Kremlin. When Grozev reached Navalny, he was recuperating in Ibach, a small town in Germany’s Black Forest. As Grozev recalled, he told Navalny, “I think I may have found the people who tried to kill you.”...'
https://archive.is/AprM0#selection-609.0-621.887
Mike Cernovich
@Cernovich
Democrats move the line.
Republicans hold the line.
Democrats move the line.
Zaid Jilani
@ZaidJilani
President Biden encouraged them to boycott Georgia (despite opposition from virtually all Georgia Democratic politicians) but hasn't encouraged them to boycott China.
Global Times:
MLB to build its presence in China despite Sino-US spat
By Global Times Published: Apr 01, 2021 10:34 PM
SPORT / BASEBALL
MLB to build its presence in China despite Sino-US spat
By Global Times Published: Apr 01, 2021 10:34 PM
Baltimore Orioles’ Richie Martin (No.1) is tagged out at second base by Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Freddy Galvis during their Major League Baseball game on Monday in Toronto. Photo: IC
Photo: IC
Major League Baseball (MLB) will continue to be aired on China's online streaming platform Tencent Video, it was announced Wednesday, despite the diplomatic spat between the two countries.
Tencent Video will offer viewers MLB spring training, the regular season, the All-Star Game and playoffs.
At least one live MLB game per game day will be featured, the MLB said in a statement with Tencent, with at least 200 live game broadcasts and on-demand offerings available throughout the season.
MLB has been broadcast on Tencent since 2018, and has cultivated a solid baseball fanbase online.
Another broadcasting deal has also been reached by MLB and Oriental Pearl New Media, allowing the 2021-23 seasons to be shown on cable TV in China.
Rochelle Walensky is back in the news. Even vaccinated people should not travel.
From what reject pile do the Democrats keep getting idiots like her?
Has anyone gotten sick of the word 'surge'? I am. Everything surges. Word is overused. Then AOC made that ridiculous statement about the surge of children at the border. Apparently 'surge' is a right wing dog whistle word - due to the similarity to 'insurgent'?
For. Fuck's. Sake. I weep. First I'm sick of the word, then some half wit comes out with a statement related to it proving she can't use a dictionary. Again - for - fuck's - SAKE!
I've been ruminating about naked women. I just watched Chaplin--the 1991 biopic starring Robert Downey. The movie details how his underage wives took advantage of his trusting nature, maneuvered him into marriage, and then took him to the cleaners in the divorce proceedings. The movie quickly passes over his marriage to the fifteen year old, but takes some time to detail how the sixteen year old seduced him. Fair amount of nudity in the scene. Here's an interesting detail--his sixteen year old child bridge was played by the then sixteen year old Milla Jovovich.....It was a crime the way those girls took advantage of him. In some ways they were worse than J. Edgar Hoover who persecuted Chaplin for his progressive views...The movie tried to set the record straight about Chaplin's tortured genius and moral grandeur.
When I hear "surge," I think of the ocean and tides, which makes me think of Alabama. Which probably means it's racist.
So, I committed to a Rockies game with a friend on Thursday. Now, MLB has cancelled the Atlanta All Star game because of Georgia's new voter ID law. Looks like I'm done with MLB just like NBA and NFL. Since we've got the tickets this will probably be farewell.
Dave Roberts said he couldn't manage the NL team in such a state. What's next? All MLB teams in states with voter ID forfeit all regular season games? (After all, how can Dave Roberts and the Dodgers be expected to play in Atlanta during regular season?)
I was getting ready to watch the Final 4 games in Indianapolis on Saturday and Monday. Has anyone checked to see if Indiana has voter ID? If so, how can the NCAA allow it to continue?
Joe Biden tells MLB to cancel Atlanta All Star game and boom, its done. But Trump was the dictator. Right.
I do believe if this is the war Democrats want with Republicans it is a war Republicans can win if they choose to fight. We went without baseball last year. Free states could take the offensive here and do some serious damage.
I think the time has come to start fighting back. Not sure leadership feels the same but we'll see...
Economic sanctions hurt totalitarian regimes, despite what you may have heard here...
Here's one for Chuck, LA Times on the Capital incident today. No mention of the race of the perp, none of Farrakhan, Islam or any motive. It is just one of those mysteries.
Belling the cat, seems to be good at grabbing low hanging fruit first at salisbury plain now 3astern russia
Just build your own MLB.
tim maguire said...
When I hear "surge," I think of the ocean and tides, which makes me think of Alabama. Which probably means it's racist.
Oddly, I think of George W, having lost the war in Iraq in 2004, being advised to actually fight it.
Fallujah II.
More dead sons of America...
When I hear "surge", I think of Black Eyed Joementia promoting a "surge" to compensate for the reduced crossings due to Trump's policies.
I'm guessing part of the perp's issue is that NASA has not resurrected the Muslim Math Recognition priorities from Obama's era.
Doc Jill: See say puadre!
We've finally gotten approval for our building permit. We have to pay the issuance fees and record some documents against the title. So final issuance will be next week. Then, we'll start on reconstructing the bridge across the stream at the end of next week and clearing the land around April 23rd. It'll probably require about two months of site preparation then 7 months of home construction. Move in around December.
Yeah!
Heard about the baseball thing and thought crap I stopped watching years ago. Maybe I should start again so I can stop next time they pull something like this.
Did you know that an Islamist insurgency is besieging a small city in Mozambique?
As for MLB, just let your local team know that you're pleased to attend without a ticket, as tickets are racists. You know your local team is not racist and would never indulge in such a racist behavior as requiring tickets.
My memory ain't what it used to be. I was intending to re-read the great Little Big Man, and discovering that it wasn't easily had at the big libraries here, I ordered from the local bookstore. (Sorry, Prof, but I'm becoming downright Amazonophobic in my curmudgeonhood.)
Anyway, I had NOT read it before--I recall the first few pages, I recall some scenes from the movie, but not the book as it unfolds. It's a funny and knowing work, historical fiction on the level of Barth's Sot-Weed Factor, and obviously inspirational to later writers on the West (including G M Fraser).
Foreword by McMurtry, who also liked it.
Narr
More Berger in the reread pile
And just that quickly, a Nation of Islam follower causes more Capitol Police deaths than the entire Trump-supporter "insurgency".
Baseball used to be my link to my late father.
Now, that is gone.
Where we are headed, reasoning is hopeless. Prayer is all I’ve got.
We are possessed now by demons.
Narr
Nice to see a Sot-Weed Factor fan. Brilliant and hilarious book. Awful bums.
Great news Mike of Snoqualmie! I'd say congrats but am the superstitious sort. We didn't have the site prep that you do but the house build from ground breaking to our moving in took about 7 months. Unless you run up against some material or manpower shortages that should work out for you too. All the best.
With the warming weather and softening earth we are starting to think the paved driveway is not that far off, likewise finished grading of the yard and addition of a lawn. We've started meeting some folks, out and about for walks and such. It's fun getting to know a new place and meet new people.
Eldest grandchild turned 9 yesterday, which now puts her in her 10th year. Son, our eldest child, will be 37 at the end of the month. Time flies, and fast.
Next to Christmas Eve (#2) and Christmas Day (#1), Holy Saturday (#3) is my favorite day in the Christian Year!!!!
Nice to think of all those thousands of good-hearted souls waiting thousands of years in Sheol and finally
"the light shines from above".
(Yes, technically, the miracles of redemption associated with Holy Saturday begin at 3:01 PM on Good Friday. In matters of love and compassion, though, none of us are or should be pure geometers of time).
imho
One Eye said...
Heard about the baseball thing and thought crap I stopped watching years ago. Maybe I should start again so I can stop next time they pull something like this.
Not the point.
The point is everything American is being destroyed whether you're tuned in or not. You not tuning in is exactly the goal.
Thanks for patting yourself on the back for not giving a fuck.
"Seeing you makes my heart soar like a hawk."
One of my favorite movies.
Ted Cruz calling for the end of baseball's special antitrust exemption when he's powerless to do anything about it. They had it when you had the power to do something about it, Ted.
He's supposedly the smartest one...
@Mike of Snoqualmie, any chance you'll set up a blog so we can watch the house go up?
@ALP:
Has anyone gotten sick of the word 'surge'? I am. Everything surges. Word is overused. Then AOC made that ridiculous statement about the surge of children at the border. Apparently 'surge' is a right wing dog whistle word - due to the similarity to 'insurgent'?
I was sick of it by early 2009. "The surge worked' was the motto. Petraeus and Bob Gates were heroes Obama wanted a "surge in Afghanistan." In 2008, it was still too politically risky to be against both wars. Democrats had to temper their anti-Iraq War stance by saying it distracted us from the "good war" in Afghanistan. Once Obama
The "surge' accomplished exactly what it was supposed to accomplish: a face-saving withdraw that didn't look like we'd been driven out by insurgents. An opportunity to give a "mission accomplished" speech and get the hell out of dodge. Hence the right-wing myth that the Iraq War had been "won' by the surge but then ruined by Obama's troop withdraw. That was the last refuge of the Iraq War defenders. After Trump used the Iraq War to destroy Jeb Bush in the early stages of the Republican Primary, the last of the war's cheerleaders (Boot, Kagan, Kristol) became Never Trumpers.
Mike of Snoqualmie said...
We've finally gotten approval for our building permit.
Congratulations Mike. King County is a bitch . . .but they are sweet pussycats compared to Redmond or Kirkland (We live in unincorporated King County as well).
"Ted Cruz calling for the end of baseball's special antitrust exemption when he's powerless to do anything about it. They had it when you had the power to do something about it, Ted."
Just more useless yapping by the Republican Senators. They're so happy to be out of power, since they can talk big, and talk tough, knowing it means ZERO. Notice that Chicom Mitch, aka Mitch the Bitch, our so-called leader, says ZERO.
Republicans just need to stop watching MLB. Stop putting $$$ in the pocket of Billionaire owners who hate you.
What's next? The NFL pulls it games from Texas because it doesn't like how the Republicans drew the Congressional district lines?
I'll look into it.
Ann, can you recommend blogger as as blog engine?
I’m finally hearing it from Democrats on social media.
That year of violence, riots, arson and attacks on cops was not the work of Antifa and BLM.
No, it was white extremists.
God help us. We are headed into utter madness.
Obama wanted a "surge in Afghanistan." In 2008,..
Yea, no.
No issue with the rest of your post, but this remark is just silly. Obama wanting to defeat a muslim country in open warfare is beneath your reasoning.
The Pentagon wanted a surge (80k), Obama OK'd 25K troops (so long as they didn't kill anybody).
"I was getting ready to watch the Final 4 games in Indianapolis on Saturday and Monday. Has anyone checked to see if Indiana has voter ID? If so, how can the NCAA allow it to continue?"
Good question. we've now reached the point where Corporations and Sports Leagues are pressuring our elected Representatives because they don't like voting laws that favor R's, or because they want Transgendered men playing Girls sports. If we keep giving in to this blackmail it will never end. They supported the BLM/Antifa Rioters and kneeling for the US anthem. Mark Cuban just wants to get rid of it altogether.
I think Billionaires who own MLB, NFL, and the NBA are sending a message to those of us on the Center-Right. Its: "Fuck you, we hate you". And I'm willing to accept that, and not give them any of my $$, directly or indirectly. Hopefully others will feel the same, but there are a lot "cucks" out there. You can piss their face and they'll call it ice cream.
MLB, HP, UNDER ARMOR,DELTA, COCA COLA and now over 200 major companies calling out Republican voting restrictions throughout the country. It's what works, you always "hit the $$$" Corporations could care less about the concept they are only interested in not losing the bucks! Don't mess with the money, it will bite. Its the biggest noise that can be made. Its the American way. GOOD FRIDAY IT IS.
There is an opportunity here in taking Biden at his word.
All pro sports should ensure women are paid the same as men. So, WNBA now costs ... 3.7 BILLION a year. Plus feeder teams. Plus coaches. Plus recruiters. Plus announcers. Getting up there!
Think of the incentive now to play women's basketball.
AND the women's teams must accept transgendered players. With no medical tests or interventions, just “identifies as”.
Think of the incentives. Think of the consequences. Brought to you by Bidenharris.
There were calls on Twitter for the PGA to boycott the Masters over the voting law. hahahaha. That gave me a sought after laugh.
My Dad thought watching Pro sports was ridiculous. "Real Men" played sports and went hunting and fishing. Caring about Pro sports was for kids. I thought he was an old stick in the mud. But I've changed my mind. I gave up the NBA and never looked back. Now I'm willing to give up MLB and the NFL. why watch a bunch of overpaid man-babies who hate me?
Cops shot and killed an unarmed black man - he only had a knife. Will BLM riot?
Rcocean
Watching millionaires sweat.
Yes they are crazy zombies, what elseis new.
@rcocean
I’ve given up all big time sports. The racism hectoring was the final straw.
My time is too valuable and is better spent focusing on athletic disciplines that I can actually participate in. Spectating on pro sports doesn’t really do a damned thing for my health or mental state. The dopamine hit of the final 5 minutes of a football or basketball game isn’t worth the 3 hours of sitting on my ass to get to the climax.
So, I spend my time on weight lifting, yoga and bicycling. Things I can actually do that benefit me.
It really pisses me off that I already have no interests in spectator sports, don't fly Delta, and don't use Coca-Cola products. I suppose that I could peacefully protest by damaging and disarraying Coke products in my grocery store, but that doesn't harm Coke, that only harms Publix. And that is the difference between civilized people and Democrats. Democrats don't give a fuck who is harmed in their pursuit of power and grift.
Cops shot and killed an unarmed black man - he only had a knife. Will BLM riot?
Knives are lethal weapons within 21-ft. He wasn't unarmed. Yes, BLM will riot. It's what they do.
Yes, @I'm full of soup, I know you were being rhetorical. Just needed to answer for any of the swamp creatures present.
This will be the first season I have never once watched a single moment of college basketball. I almost did it last year, but surfed through a few games on a couple of weekends. I haven't watched an NBA, NFL, or MLB game in over 3 years now. I am basically down to two sports I watch at all- golf and some college football, but not a lot either this past year. I will be watching the Masters this year, though, just to witness the madness that is sure to show up.
I am sure the Braves need some things from the state to operate as a business. If I were the legislature, I would target those directly. It is time for tit for tat. Maybe they can move to Fresno.
"I've been ruminating about naked women."
Puzzling, sort of like how it is puzzling that President Joe Shitforbrains lies. Mysterious reasons.
Blogger rcocean said...
There were calls on Twitter for the PGA to boycott the Masters over the voting law. hahahaha. That gave me a sought after laugh.
That didn't work out too well for Martha Burke ... but it was a glorious weekend of golf for the fans.
Robother said: Looks like I'm done with MLB
What took you so long.
When other countries see a weak US shenanigans ensue.
Last week Ukraine signed what is essentially a declaration of war against Russia over the Crimea.
Crimea is mostly ethnically Russian, in a referendum a few years back they overwhelmingly voted to remain part of Russia.
But Ukraine claims it is part of Ukraine. Now they want it back.
2. Approve the Strategy for de-occupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (attached).
https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/1172021-37533
I used the Brave browser (currently trying it out on my desktop and liking it) translate feature to translate the document.
I'm no indian but this sounds like war talk to me.
John Henry
"So, I spend my time on weight lifting, yoga and bicycling. Things I can actually do that benefit me."
Good for you! I'm fortunate to have a sit-down job, so I can get my exercise after work in a fun way too.
I feel sorry for the guys who watch sports on the weekend because their resting from 40 hours of physical work. They just want to sit down, have a brewski and watch some sports-ball. Now they got some asshole sports guy calling them a white supremist.
That didn't work out too well for Martha Burke.
Ah yes, the NTY jihad to get Millionaire women in the Masters clubhouse. Talk about insane SJW Bullshit. Because some guy at the NYT's cared about it, the whole MSM cared about it. Constant attention to this absurd non-issue by my local paper and the Sports news-talk guys. BTW, the white sports writers were extremely upset that Tiger didn't end up using his position to "fight racism". They were hoping he'd be the Malcolm X of Golf and were incredibly disappointed that Tiger considered himself 50% Asian and not a "Black Body". Its one reason they were so delighted when Tiger fell from grace in 2009.
rcocean: "There were calls on Twitter for the PGA to boycott the Masters over the voting law."
Actually, as easily as MLB folded to Biden's demand, why wouldn't he demand that the Masters be cancelled as well? My assumption is that it would be met with stiffer backbone from Augusta and the PGA, but these days, who knows? Every woke victory feeds the perception that they are invincible.
@robother
I don't play golf and find watching it worse than playing it, but I agree with you. They have proven in the last year that they can and will destroy anything they want if it benefits the cause of their power and grift. I would run out of fingers and toes counting the things that they have destroyed in the last year. Some really big things, like elections, economies, cities, the military, national borders... Destroying one PGA tournament is nothing, destroying the entire PGA is even small ball.
Destroying the PGA and golf in general has the added bonus of sticking it to Trump. I'd be amazed if they don't do it.
Local Madison "news" stations, affiliated with CBS, NBC, and ABC covered the attack on the capitol, failed to mention perp was Nation of Islam follower. Cowards.
The Masters will go on at Augusta National as scheduled. With increased security. There are some things you just don't change.
Blogger Darkisland said...
"Crimea is mostly ethnically Russian, in a referendum a few years back they overwhelmingly voted to remain part of Russia."
"But Ukraine claims it is part of Ukraine. Now they want it back."
Yes, but: "The number of Crimean residents who consider Ukraine their motherland increased sharply from 32% to 71.3% from 2008 through 2011; according to a poll by Razumkov Center in March 2011,[22] (Wikipedia)"
The Russian "referendum" was conducted AFTER Russia invaded Crimea, with a preordained outcome:
"After the overthrow of President Victor Yanukovych during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the territories of Sevastopol and Crimea were seized by the Russian Federation; the annexation was formalized following an unconstitutional referendum in which 96% of the Crimean population purportedly voted "Yes."
This move was denounced by the new Ukrainian government and disregarded by most UN states, which continue to recognize Crimea as part of Ukraine.[22][23] The Venice Commission (an advisory body of the Council of Europe in the field of constitutional law) issued an opinion in 2014, concluding that the referendum was illegal under the Ukrainian constitution and that "circumstances in Crimea did not allow the holding of a referendum in line with European democratic standards."[24] (Wikipedia)"
Crimea has been part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic since 1954...which became an independent country after the breakup of the USSR in 1990.
Putin breaks laws and treaties as he pleases...whenever he thinks he can get away with it.
“So will Farrakhan be getting banned from Twitter?” Stephen Miller
Darkisland: As I've recently been reading a lot about the prelude to WWI, it looks to me like WWIII isn't out of the question. And of course it will happen under a Democrat administration.
Good baseball news! I think MLB made a serious blunder. And I think the Georgia Democrats did too.
And remember, equal pay for women's sports KILLS the leagues dead, because it means equal number of teams, equal pay, equal stadium access. So I think it’s time to embrace this Biden policy. Equal pay or shutter your league.
I hope they do yank The Masters. I think they should also kick Duke and Clemson out of football.
Woke capital and the Democrats vs every sports team in Georgia!
Think of the political effect. Totally worth the cost.
And why stop at sports? Interstate closures.
Went to the Seattle Mariners home opener yesterday. They had 8,172 out of 9,000 butts in the seats. All ticketing was smart phone QR codes with fixed scanners at the ticket gates. The magnetometers ignored keys/smart phones so those could stay in your pockets. No bags allowed except for small clutch purses.
Not many concession stands open. It took about 15 minutes to get food and about 20 minutes to get the good draft beer. Of course, those were at different stands. The beer stand could only do one customer at a time, and the credit card machine and counter were wiped down in between customers. In previous years, the sales tax was included in the price, but this year it's added on since all sales are via credit/debit cards. They have kiosks to convert your cash into a debit card.
The seating was divided into socially-distance pods of various sizes from 1 seat to six seats. Masks had to be worn except when eating or drinking. The seats were far enough apart that you'd have been socially distanced except when someone walked by. Since the stadium is an outdoor stadium, that should have been ok even without a mask. Wearing a mask for hours at a time is a real pain.
The game itself was good. The SF starting pitcher kept the Mariners hitless. The bullpen imploded and let the Mariners go ahead by one run in the bottom of the 8th. The Mariner's closer gave up a solo home run to tie the game and push the game into extra innings. They're using the stupid man-on-2nd to start the inning rule this year too. The SF relief pitcher loaded the bases on walks, then walked in the winning run. Yeah for us.
"And remember, equal pay for women's sports KILLS the leagues dead..."
Equal pay for two leagues of every sport, both played by men, is a pretty interesting business model.
The people in King County permits were nice and helpful. I felt that their job was to get the permits issued, not to throw up as many road blocks as possible. But, their tracking system leaves a lot to be desired. Often, things only progressed after I emailed them about status of reviews. Then, just like magic, reviews were approved or actions taken.
I believe I just heard that the 4th of July fireworks at Mt Rushmore have been cancelled because of "appropriation of Chinese Culture."
(Covid-19)
Mike of Snoqualmie: I was listening to the Mariners game on the internet but gave up and went to bed about the fifth inning. My aunt emailed me and told me how it ended. While I root for my current home team, the D-backs, I root for the Mariners as a former Seattleite. Plus my mother was a YUUGE Mariners fan. Last home game I attended at Safeco Field was about 2012. Parking was ridiculous and we lost to Toronto.
"After the overthrow of President Victor Yanukovych during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the territories of Sevastopol and Crimea were seized by the Russian Federation; the annexation was formalized following an unconstitutional referendum in which 96% of the Crimean population purportedly voted "Yes."
The Soviets move into the Sudetenland and dare the world to do something about it. And no one does. Certainly not the Obama Administration, featuring the Great Joe Biden.
So will Farrakhan be getting banned from Twitter?” Stephen Miller
Never thought I'd see Stephen Miller compare Trump to Farrakhan, and I never would have thought of it myself, but who could argue?
After all, what was Trump but Farrakhan on a much grander scale? Inspired work, Stephen!
There were 82 MLM games scheduled in GA this year. MLB decided only one of them was worth canceling. What about the other 81? What about all the other states - like NY - whose voting laws are much more restrictive than GA and many other states? Shouldn't MLB move their HQ out of NY?
For those who don't think some things need to be fixed in GA, consider this: GA had 1.1M ballots cast by mail. 500K by USPS and 600K by drop-box. The law requires chain of custody documents be maintained on all the drop-box collections and deliveries. Last time I checked, 35 counties, in response to FOIA requests for those documents, have not been able to comply, including Fulton (Atlanta), Chatham (Savannah), Bibb (Macon), and Richmond (Augusta), all D strongholds. The requests cover 404K of the 600K ballots. That is, 35 GA counties cannot produce chain of custody - required by law - for 2/3 of the drop-box ballots. And drop-boxes were used for the first time due to the pandemic and were only allowed by the law covering the state of emergency. As soon as that is lifted, there would be no drop-boxes. The new law makes drop-boxes permanent and all counties must offer them. But that is somehow voter suppression.
@MountainMan
It's a financial decision. Someone posted here that MLB (like the NBA) has a huge contract with China for televised games. These guys are misguided and terrible at predicting what's best for their grandchildren, but they're not stupid. They obviously feel that China is giving them a deal more profitable than the entire US market. They've already run the cost/benefit of playing games in empty stadiums and very little US televised viewership. Why shouldn't they, we already built the stadiums for them. They hope that US viewership declines aren't severe, but they obviously have accounted for the possibility. They'll be playing some games in China 3 years from now.
The All Star Game is going to be in Georgia this summer.
@Browndog:
Obama wanted a "surge in Afghanistan." In 2008,..
Yea, no.
No issue with the rest of your post, but this remark is just silly. Obama wanting to defeat a muslim country in open warfare is beneath your reasoning.
The Pentagon wanted a surge (80k), Obama OK'd 25K troops (so long as they didn't kill anybody).
I've never seen those particular numbers before. Obama first made the case for more troops and greater effort in Afghanistan in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Institute in 2007. He repeated this in mid-2008. The first troop increase was approved in early 2009 and by December 2009 Obama announced the surge strategy for Afghanistan. McChrystal said he needed 40,000 troops; Obama approved 30,000 troops. When Obama took office, there were about 30,000 troops in Afghanistan. That reached 100,000 by 2011.
There was also the huge increase in the number of drone strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Libya. Obama was a bigger warmonger than Bush.
What a weirdo... A real president would have held up his massive hands and said, "nobody has ever added as many jobs as I have in the history of the world."
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Mutaman - now do the number of black children aborted in states where Democrats rule- three times as many as white children, because of the tax dollars that encourage Planned Parenthood to colonize black neighborhoods ---- whereas in Republican states abortions are limited and Planned Parenthood is rightfully prohibited from encouraging young black women to kill their innocent babies at an abortion mill ---- and remember that Biden was a big pal of KKK Wizard Robert Byrd ----
and look in the old man's eyes ---- Mutaman, you live in a sad world of ignorance if you do not know what I am talking about.
Shape up. Don't be fooled any more. And stop polluting these comment threads with your cold-hearted ignorance.
stephen cooper said...
---- and remember that Biden was a big pal of KKK Wizard Robert Byrd ----
Us folks what grew up in West (by God) Virginia know full well that the long-time Senator had not participated in the KKK during his final 60 years. He was 92 when he died in 2010, having served in the Senate since 1952. He diverted lots of Washington money into the poorest state in the union. Every place you go in the Mountain State you can find "Robert C. Byrd" somethings - highways, libraries, river dams and federal buildings. What you don't find in the state are numerous abortion clinics - there is only one in Charleston. What you also don't find many of are black folks.
I tell everyone who will listen that "West Virginia is a great place to be from . . ." And yes, Virginia, West Virginia has the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River in our Eastern Panhandle.
But that is somehow voter suppression.
“Voter suppression” is a Democrat dog-whistle meaning “they are trying to limit our ability to cheat.”
West Virginia has the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River in our Eastern Panhandle.
I beg your pardon! The Shenandoah, being one of the few rivers in the US that flow northward, begins near Staunton,VA and does not enter West (by God!) Virginia until just before it flows into the Potomac at Harpers Ferry.
gadfly stated without equivocation: "Us folks what grew up in West (by God) Virginia know full well that the long-time Senator (Byrd) had not participated in the KKK during his final 60 years."
The KKK was a highly secretive organization. How could you know he was no longer active in the KKK? Unless of course you had first knowledge. (Heh)
We don't really care about Byrd's background, just the Dems double standard on cancelling people with "problematic" pasts. That's why it's pointed out.
THEOLDMAN
Four of our high school friends gang went to Tampa to see a spring training game. I didn't as the tickets were $100 or more. I told our resident liberal who went not to kneel when they played the National Anthem as he might not be able to get back up (at his age).
The strangest tax I was ever assessed was a "move-in tax" of $1 when I moved into Northampton county (PA) in 1990. Why, I asked my neighbors? Response? The county government wanted to know who was in the county so as to get you on tax rolls.
In light of the "surge" (ha) on the southern border, it would be racist today.
Parking was ridiculous and we lost to Toronto.
It's funny what we remember. Last time I was down there I went to a Seahawks game at Kingdome and parking was ridiculous. Had to park in some sketchy lot and almost got in fist fight with some guy who felt entitled to the space I just paid for...
I don't remember who won the game...
Guess who got an old copy of iMovie?
iDid.
@Humperdink:
The strangest tax I was ever assessed was a "move-in tax" of $1 when I moved into Northampton county (PA) in 1990. Why, I asked my neighbors? Response? The county government wanted to know who was in the county so as to get you on tax rolls.
I don't understand. It's the real property being taxed, and it can't go anywhere. You didn't record a deed? The seller didn't notify the tax assessor?
Leave it to Crack to rhyme 'fraud' with 'broad.' Bouncing the rubble a bit on Cuomo though, I think. I was just in New York State and the guy is hated. Of course that was upstate, and they don't really count.
The salient difference between fascism and socialism is that fascism allows for corporations, but those corporations must serve the interests of the Party first, then they can make whatever money they can. Nominally private corporations like Delta and MLB who are forced to take actions that damage their profitability in the interests of the Party, and the Party will make it up to them later, perhaps by just allowing them to continue to exist.
I hope they boycott the Masters too. What a shit show that would be for the PGA, which already pulled a tournament from a Trump course, which is why I am now boycotting them.
Here is the question though, is it really a boycott if they have diluted or destroyed the product? If I won't buy shit sandwiches, is that a boycott? What if I used to like to watch sports to get away from day to day cares for three hours and the sports no longer provide that? That's not the kind of thing you can get over. I just watched an NBA game from 1996. What a game, I wish the NBA could be just about basketball again, but it isn't, and it never will be again. It's not a boycott, its just recognition that the product I once loved is gone.
Something that struck me a bit ago is that the Dems now have their pedal to the floor trying to destroy the country, since they gained control of our government earlier this year. Part of it is pure TDS and OrangeManBad. Whatever he did well, they would undo, regatdless, except when they couldn’t, like with COVID-19 vaccines, so they just took credit there. Trump made peace around the world, so with gross mismanagement, we are headed to war around the world - veery possibly with Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Middle East so far. Trump cut unemployment and grew the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, deregulation, and gaining energy independence. So, they are trying to drive corporate taxes back up, reimpose those regulations, and destroy our energy independence. Of course, since Trump managed to get the illegal immigration problem under control, the Dems absolutely had to reverse that, and announced to The world, and esp the uneducated illiterate peasants in Central America, that our borders were now open, and we would again pay to support them, if they came across the border and illegally voted for Democrats. So, we now face a worse humanitarian problem on our borders than we ever did under Obama. Meanwhile, the Dems in Congress, with probably the slightest control possible, they have seemingly concentrated on raping the economy for their pecuniary benefit at a level unthinkable even in the first two years of Obama, when they had decently strong control in Congress. The Porkulus spending bill of Obama, Palsi, and Reid was for less than a $Trillion. Right now, they have already doubled that, with their bogus COVID relief Bill, and want to double that, with their bogus Infrastructure bill, with over $4 Trillion of federal pork planned this year for Dem politicians to graft from. All with a handful of seats in the House and the VP breaking the 50/50 ties in the Senate.
Yes, that all is obscene, esp since they had to very openly and very blatantly cheat to get that power. You would think then that their top priority would be to institutionalize their cheating, such as by passage of HR-1/S-1. I would expect that if they were trying to entrench their power in the future, they would have done more than just introduced those bills first. Similarly, Feinstein really really wants to reimpose her AWB. The longer they dawdle here, the less likely they will succeed. The market for guns and ammo has been white hot for most of the last year, and that includes MSRs like AR-15s. Not only are they missing from the shelves, it’s gotten very hard to build them either. Critical parts that a year ago were plentiful, are now in short supply. If they truly worry about being forcibly evicted from DC at gunpoint, to end their years in Leavenworth, they probably should have passed gun control right after federalizing the stealing of elections before the end of January. They didn’t do either, but are concentrating, instead, on looting the treasury, cranking up COVID-19 rates by damming illegals together in their cages, and starting wars around the world. My question is why?
- Is the Great Reset a real thing, and they desperately want to crash the economy here, and thence around the world, in order to force the world to accept the Reset?
- Can they see their election fraud unraveling? GA and AZ at least seem dedicated to exposing the elections fraud and making sure it doesn’t happen again. What happens to their narrative of no significant fraud, when several of the states in which it was executes show that the fraud really was massive, and there the election to Biden and the Democrats?
- Did Trump really invoke the Insurrection Act, and the military is readying the roundup of the perps?
No doubt there are other credible reasons that I haven’t thought of here.
I do miss watching the last three hours of PGA on Sunday afternoon, but it's not relaxing anymore. There is always the undertone of politics so that watching sports raises my blood pressure rather than lowering it. Sports ratings suck now, and they are mystified as to why. People have been telling them that it's the politics, but the people telling them that are non persons in today's politics, so they are deaf to it.
I am sure the wokesters will develop a taste for the NFL any day now.
“ The salient difference between fascism and socialism is that fascism allows for corporations, but those corporations must serve the interests of the Party first, then they can make whatever money they can.”
I would instead treat fascism as a form of socialism, and contrast it with communism, where the state owns, and mismanages, the means of production. The unifying concept between them is government control over the means of production.
I bet that sports ratings are so low because people don't have time to watch them anymore, you know with the lockdowns and isolation, people are so busy.
Perhaps Delta should put it’s money where it’s mouth is and stop using Atlanta as its hub. I’m sure that Southwest would be happy to move in.
My wonderful daughter got awarded Masters tickets from her employer for working way above the call of duty on the vaccine rollout. She invited Dad and I am flying down from CT (where voter ID has been the law for as long as I can remember ) on...Delta (tickets purchased 10 days ago).
I would not miss it for the world—but damn am I pissed at those assholes.
Bruce asks: - Is the Great Reset a real thing, and they desperately want to crash the economy here, and thence around the world, in order to force the world to accept the Reset?
Yes.
Parking just south of the Safeco Field (T-Mobile Park) Garage was $4 or $5. The Garage parking was $25 or $19-prepaid.
Just call out MLB for voter suppression and election fraud. Call the advertisers of your local teams and demand they stop advertising because of MLB's racism and voter suppression/election fraud. Let MLB find out how nasty it can be when they start playing politics.
It struck me that expressway construction may well have been driven by Teamsters and the auto companies for obvious economic gains. Another question came to mind was how many of the houses destroyed in the construction were rentals. Imminent domain may have provided an incentive for the owners by cashing in on their holdings.
I just watched an NBA game from 1996. What a game, I wish the NBA could be just about basketball again, but it isn't, and it never will be again.
My wife loves football and almost goes into a depression after the Super Bowl most years. This past year she has been watching classic football games. I have some DVDs of Rose Bowl games I watch sometimes. This might be a time for those who like sports to watch games from past years, before politics took over. The only way I can identify football games from last season is the masks.
@Farmer. I rented a house at first to get the lay of the land. Some people do that.
Interesting Statement of Civil Rights Commissioner Gail Heriot on Stand Your Ground .
In the wake of the death of Trayvon Martin after he physically assaulted George Zimmerman, and tried to kill him, the Civil Rights Commission was tasked by the race baiters in chief (Obama and Holder) to show that Stand your Ground laws hurt minority, and esp Blacks. Turns out minorities in general, and Blacks in particular, are more often both sides of Self Defense killings, and if anything, Stand Your Ground (statutory abrogation of the retreat Doctrine) laws, if anything help minorities more than harm them, but at a level below that of statistical significance. The effect might be slight, or just missing. Statistically, they just can’t say.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, after a summer of BLM violence. The reality that the left wants ignored is that while Blacks, in particular are statistically more likely to be victims of violence than anyone else, they are even (slightly) more likely to be the perpetrators of the violence. And, similarly, while Blacks are sometimes the victims of racial violence, they are more likely to be the perpetrators of such. The reality faced by the Civil Rights Commission is identical - Blacks are significantly more likely, on a per capita basis, to be both the perpetrators and the victims of violence, than are Whites. The problem for the narrative is that they are slightly more likely to be the perpetrators. Nothing really surprising so far.
But Commissioner Heriot is a law professor in her day job, and her review of Stand Your Ground, and the associated Retreat Doctribe is interesting. In the English Common Law that we inherited, there was no Duty to Retreat, for innocent victims of violent attacks. It only app,ied if and when the person utilizing deadly force had voluntarily entered into the fight that resulted in the use of deadly force. And at the time, that meant dueling or other types of mutual combat. If A and B were engaged in a duel, and A shoots B, then A cannot invoke self defense against B if they were both trying to kill each other at the time. It was only later, in the later 19th Century that the Retreat Doctrine was taken out of the context of mutual combat, and applied to the situation where the person using deadly force had been an innocent party, attacked by the other.
Forgot to mention about all of the homeless tents near T-mobile Park. There must have been close to a dozen tents underneath the 4th Ave S./Edgar Martinez Dr/I-90/I-5 onramp intersection. The homeless tents are so ubiquitous in the I-90/I-5 interchange landscape that I didn't even pay any attention to them.
Morning y'all! I wasn't able to get back here last night--wife was Zooming with La Gabaldon and the other cultists.
Before I go back to the sports thread where I left off, I just wanted to note how much disdain corporatized sports (esp. Pro) has earned, as expressed by many here.
It's refreshing!
Narr
Now I know what "premature Anti-fascists" must have felt like
@tim in vermont:
The salient difference between fascism and socialism is that fascism allows for corporations, but those corporations must serve the interests of the Party first, then they can make whatever money they can.
This is a misunderstanding. The fascist notion of corporatism does not refer to corporations as for-profit business enterprises. It has to do with a conception of a society organized as a body. Corporations are the various economically-differentiated interests groups. Each group includes the owners and workers for that sector and is expected to settle disagreements among its members and represent their interests in concert with the state and other corporations in setting national policy. Portugal under Salazar was probably the closest iteration of this system.
Fascism is the core concept that all of the rest of the 'isms are based upon. Fascism' core concept is enforced unity. Everyone must support the Great Leader or Great Program or whatever. There can be no dissent. Socialism, Nazism, Communism, etc. wouldn't exist without enforced unity because people would are just downright ornery and don't want to do what they are told to do. The State/Party/Organization must use armed force to keep everyone in line or their programs collapse.
Public Law 109-2005 requires Indiana residents to present a government-issued photo ID before casting a ballot at the polls on Election Day.
FYI, NCAA headquarters is in Indianapolis.
@Mike of Snoqualmie:
Fascism is the core concept that all of the rest of the 'isms are based upon. Fascism' core concept is enforced unity. Everyone must support the Great Leader or Great Program or whatever. There can be no dissent. Socialism, Nazism, Communism, etc. wouldn't exist without enforced unity because people would are just downright ornery and don't want to do what they are told to do.
I don't quite understand what "enforced unity" means in this context. Do you mean any dictatorial form of government? If so, how is fascism unique from absolutism or autocracy?
Benito Mussolini describe fascism as "Everyone in the state, no one out of the state, everyone for the state." The boils down to "you'll going to obey the state and like it." The state is holy and must be obeyed without question.
During the Soviet age, there were two types of dictatorships: totalitarian and authoritarian. The communist states were the former while states like Korea were the latter. In the latter, there was more room for limited dissent and individual freedoms. In the former, the KGB rooted out all dissent and sent the dissenter to the gulags. Korea morphed from authoritarian to democracy while the soviet system took a total collapse to reach democracy.
“You would think then that their top priority would be to institutionalize their cheating, such as by passage of HR-1/S-1.”
I may have figured this out, listening to Rep Mike Walz (R-FL) being interviewed by a totally brain dead CNN bimbo. The problem appears to be the filibuster. Until they can get rid of that, nationalizing voter fraud isn’t going anywhere. They can get 50 votes for the legislation nationalizing voter fraud, but not 50 votes for eliminating the filibuster. And despite everything, thecDems in the Senate still have enough adults to worry about what that would mean long term (such as that the Republicans could have repealed ObamaCare, instead of just zeroing out the penalty). Remove the filibuster, and four years from now, by losing a handful of House seats and the Presidency, they could easily face legislation requiring government issued photo IDs to vote anywhere in the country, turning voter fraud into federal felonies, ban on drop off voting papers and ballot harvesting, etc. What happens to the Democrats when they lose the ability of their big city machines to steal elections? Not putting us back to 2019, but take the many decades old power away from dozens of their big cities across esp the Midwest to generate millions of fraudulent votes every election. All by eliminating the filibuster in the Senate.
@Mike of Snoqualmie:
Benito Mussolini describe fascism as "Everyone in the state, no one out of the state, everyone for the state." The boils down to "you'll going to obey the state and like it." The state is holy and must be obeyed without question.
Ah, okay. Hannah Arendt probably made the most famous case for why Nazism and Stalinism represented totalitarian forms of government, though she did not believe Italian Fascism did. Others have made the claim about Maoist China and DPRK.
During the Soviet age, there were two types of dictatorships: totalitarian and authoritarian...
This was the famous argument Jeane Kirkpatrick made in Dictatorships and Double Standards. I think her thesis is a total mess. While Arendt may have demonstrated that "totalitarian" has descriptive and evaluative merit, it doesn't have any real analytical merit. There is no such thing as a generic "right-wing autocracy" behaves in a predictable way. Subsequent events were the opposite of what Kirkpatrick's thesis would have predicted.
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