Source: Seymour Hersh.

This story inspires many questions.

• How was the journalist able to source it?
• What will the legal, even Constitutional, consequences be?
• Is the timing meaningful?

Curious.

 

Capitol building occupied 

OK, so it’s Oklahoma, but it’s the same thing.

https://tinyurl.com/ypw5fpxk

United States Senator Steven Daines (R-MT) had his Twitter account suspended when he chose this image for his banner. You can post such pictures, but Twitter forbids use of “sensitive material” in banners. “Sensitive material” includes gore which includes the killing of animals. This magnificent pronghorn antelope has blood dripping from its dead mouth and blood splatter on its legs. Where some people – like GOP politician Ryan Zinke – see a happy, wholesome family picture others see grinning cowards glorying in the blood and suffering of an innocent animal (see the Twitter comments). Twitter sees a violation of its policies.

Zinke congratulates the apparent shooter with a “Great shot, Cindy.” I dunno. Do you have to see a beautiful living creature snuffed out of existence to validate your shooting skills? Personally, I have no problem with hunters and anglers putting meat on the table – I eat meat myself – but I have never had any respect for “trophy” hunters who kill for sport and sport alone – People like this . . .

Source: The Wall Street Journal (free link).

Here is the existential question: Turkey and Syria are enemies of the U.S. They have been hurt by an act of God. Do we help them?

I say yes. Let’s send all the food, clothing, shelter, doctors and nurses we can. Lets even coordinate with Russia and China to save and rebuild lives.

The writer explores a contrarian hypothesis.

The conspiracy theories have it exactly backward. The real threat isn’t coming from outer space, but from across the water. The military isn’t trying to start a war, it’s frantically trying to stop one. And if that means passing off Chinese spy gear as UFO’s, it’ll be far from the first time.

Continue reading “The UFO Craze is a Chinese Spy Balloon Crisis” →

MAGA-Republicans have their hair on fire over the Chinese balloon flying over the United States. It shows, they say, how weak President Biden is and how little respect the Chinese have for him. Well, an inconvenient truth has now come to light. There were not one, not two, but three such balloon incursions during the Trump administration. Not only were they not destroyed, their existence was kept from the American people.

https://tinyurl.com/4a6ek6nt

Personally, I think such balloons are not a big deal and I do not fault Trump for keeping mum about them for diplomatic or other reasons. But what does stand out is the mammoth hypocrisy and double standard evidenced in these MAGA-Republican leaders.

Source: American Thinker.

This story is of interest for symbolic reasons more than practical ones, although the practicalities certainly deserve attention.

Continue reading “FBI to get massive new edifice” →

I didn’t know Miley Cyrus could sing, but here you go.

Continue reading “Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma” →

Children ejected from Smithsonian for hats

The hats, worn to identify members of a catholic school group and keep them together, had “Pro Life” embroidered on the hems. Docents told them they were not allowed and that the museum was a neutral zone where their rights did not apply.

I wonder if the courts will be selling tickets for those arguments.

VA Dems Block requirement for notifying parents

Louise Luca’s “Blue Wall” promising to kill anything the GOP passes in the House is going to come back to bite her. She is rapidly cementing the GOP identity as the “Parent Party” which was what carried Youngkin to victory.

But carry on,