Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing--Victor Davis Hanson

Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing
Afghanistan has been reinvented as the best-equipped terrorist nation in the world, basking in the prestige of humiliating the world’s superpower.

• Biden as Commander-in-Chief

The more Joe Biden mutters “The buck stops here” or “I take full responsibility,” the more we know he will not...and 2) the only true thing he could say was “I ordered a withdrawal in the most reckless manner in U.S. military history.”...

• Partnering With the Taliban

The Taliban are to al-Qaeda and ISIS as the Nazis in World War II were to fellow fascists of the Spanish Blue Division, the Hungarian Arrow Cross, and the Romanian Iron Guard—ethnic and ideological variants of the same radical nihilist cause. No act of terror goes on in Afghanistan without someone in the Taliban ordering or allowing it...Read all!

#1 This day 1964-----The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun 1964 (High Quality)

An update on Col. Scheller | Power Line

An update on Col. Scheller | Power Line: 

Colonel Scheller has just released the statement below updating us on his status via Facebook. 

I have embedded a screenshot. 

We wish him the best...Read all!

Government is NOT science!

 

Federal Judge Says California Recall Is Constitutional

Federal Judge Says California Recall Is Constitutional: 

A federal judge threw out a challenge to the constitutionality of the California recall process on Friday, ruling that it is constitutional and does not violate the “one person, one vote” principle.

People Biden Didn’t Forget

People Biden Didn’t Forget

• The President takes care of a key constituency.

"... Mr. Biden announced that he was invoking his legal authority under “national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare” to increase salaries for roughly two million members of the federal civilian workforce. 

Yes, after creating the veritable model of incompetent governance recently witnessed by horrified Americans and allies around the world, Mr. Biden has decided this is the moment to declare a swamp-wide pay raise. 

What on earth does this latest raid on taxpayers have to do with addressing national emergencies?
Jessie Bur at Federal Times says that bureaucrats scheduled to see a 1.9% raise this year will instead enjoy a 2.7% bump thanks to the President’s action. 

This taxpayer-funded increase is especially generous because the
average federal worker already makes significantly more than the average person toiling away in the productive economy...Read all!!!!!

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 31

History for August 31 - On-This-Day.com

William Saroyan 1908

• 1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.
• 1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
• 1920 - John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086)
• 1935 - The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.
• 1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.

Dem congressman unleashes on Biden's Afghanistan disaster in blistering interview: 'A total f***ing disaster' - TheBlaze

Dem congressman unleashes on Biden's Afghanistan disaster in blistering interview: 'A total f***ing disaster' - TheBlaze: 

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton unleashed on President Joe Biden in a new interview, blasting the president for facilitating a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that has now cost American soldiers their lives.

The way we were-----Cars Of The Future from 1948

China chip shortage: $1 trillion government funds/How a giant with massi...

"China's chip shortage continues.

An overseas Chinese recently shared on social media that a central level Chinese enterprise asked his friend to procure 20 chips made in Japan."

No worries, dem "dream-team" got everything covered!-----North Korea Restarts Weapons-Grade Yongbyon Nuclear Reactor Halted Under Trump

North Korea Restarts Weapons-Grade Yongbyon Nuclear Reactor Halted Under Trump

"North Korea apparently has restarted the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium, that had been shuttered since 2018.

...The IAEA called the move “deeply troubling,” and in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.

...Apparently, under Presidentish Joe Biden, North Korea feels freer to re-start its nuclear weapons program.

...Still reeling from the ongoing deadly chaos he set loose in Afghanistan, Biden has been accused of giving North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un a “blank cheque to rebuild North Korea nuclear programme.”

That’s according to Dutch European Parliament Member Michiel Hoogeveen, who “fears Mr Biden’s administration is guilty of a failure to understand the North Korean mindset which could increase the risk of future conflict.”...Read all.

Clarice Feldman
"The Great Iggy:

• Let's say you have a room that is half full of irresponsible, bratty, minor and somewhat slow children and half full of normal adults.

The adults sit back and are cowed by the toddlers who proceed to break everything the adults built and scream and squawk and mess their pants and take their clothes off and pee in the corner and generally construct this absurd fantasy world that they demand the adults indulge and pretend is a legitimate worldview even though it leads to a situation where some of the brats but even more of the adults are harmed and eventually some even killed.
Who is primarily to blame for the situation that room is in?
We have allowed this to happen by being cowed. 

Every time we bite our tongue so as not to offend some infantile pinko, relative or stranger, who makes no effort to control his or her own tongue we are contributing to this disaster. 

And every time we speak up and let ourselves be shouted down by some retarded punk we are contributing to it.
It's as if when the adults arrived at the Lord of the Flies island, they let themselves be captured and roasted on the little creeps spit rather than putting the little maggots back in their place.
The adults need to take back the place from the punks before they get us all killed. 

The only thing stopping us is our wholly unjustified timidity in the face of their tantrums."

Dem congressman unleashes on Biden's Afghanistan disaster in blistering interview: 'A total f***ing disaster' - TheBlaze

Dem congressman unleashes on Biden's Afghanistan disaster in blistering interview: 'A total f***ing disaster' - TheBlaze: 

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton unleashed on President Joe Biden in a new interview, blasting the president for facilitating a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that has now cost American soldiers their lives.

Why A Looming Copper Shortage Has Big Consequences For The Green Economy

We’ve Got a Way Bigger Problem than “Disinformation”

We’ve Got a Way Bigger Problem than “Disinformation”

"...Apparently, the FDA and the NY Times have decided that Joe Mercola is guilty of what’s turning out to be the defining sin of the 21st century: Disinformation.

I wonder if that word scares you as much as it does me.

...Re-education? 

Disinformation? 

It sounds like North Korea to me. 

The entire concept should be chilling to any American, and I don’t care where you stand on vaccination—or on anything else!

...The minute you accept the notion of “disinformation” you automatically buy into the notion that there’s one truth. 

...Who decides what the “truth” is going to be? 

And…for how long it’s going to be “true”?...Read all!

Lunch video-----A Palestinian Explains Hamas

"How do we make life better for those who live in Gaza? According to Palestinian political analyst Bassem Eid, we start by recognizing who is really responsible for the suffering that happens there."

Noon-toon

 

Miami Herald misleading headline about Florida COVID deaths - TheBlaze

Miami Herald misleading headline about Florida COVID deaths - TheBlaze: 

The Miami Herald used what many are calling a "misleading" headline on an article about COVID-19 deaths in Florida, which garnered thousands of clicks and shares from detractors of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

New Yorker 2019. You ain't seein' too many Biden blasts these days.

 

The Morning Briefing: The Odds on Biden Ever Getting Anything Right Are Horrible

The Morning Briefing: The Odds on Biden Ever Getting Anything Right Are Horrible

During our VIP Gold Live Chat last Thursday, Bryan, VodkaPundit, and I were running over the myriad ways in which Joe Biden and his handlers screwed up the decision-making process regarding the withdrawal from Afghanistan. It’s truly stunning in scope. 

It’s so bad, they were all probably wearing mismatched socks while “planning” this debacle.

My firm belief is that, even though these are dark days, we’re going to be just fine. Just not anytime soon. 

There is nothing on the horizon to suggest that this administration is ever going to get anything right...Read all.

#1 Movie this week 1960-----Psycho Official Trailer 1960 HD

Sensing Online: What will you do when they come for you?

Sensing Online: What will you do when they come for you?

"...There is a looming, severe cop shortage in cities across the country. 

Police who want to stay in the biz are fleeing to rural counties, but those counties have only so many slots. 

We will see the day when dialing 9-1-1 will basically be met with silence. 

What will you do then?

The wealthy are already hiring former cops or military to protect them ("Luxury apartment buildings in New York City are hiring armed security to protect wealthy residents amid fear of election day unrest"). 

I mean, Jeff Bezos will not need to call 9-1-1, let's face it. 

But you and I? 

It will be open season on us by a growing and emboldened criminal class, which will be free to range far outside their present working area. 

Your quiet, no-crime suburb will not stay that way. 

And the poor, including black Americans whose lives are supposed to matter, will suffer perhaps worst of all. 

Do you want to defund or abolish police? 

Okay, fine. 

I hope you find a way to abolish criminals, too. 

If you don't, what will you do when they come for you?...Read all.

#1 This day 1961-----The Highwaymen ‎– Michael 1961

DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE IDA - HOUMA, LOUISIANA

The Media Whitewashes Biden’s Afghanistan Blunders

The Media Whitewashes Biden’s Afghanistan Blunders

• The media scrutiny to which he has been briefly subjected is already ebbing.

"When the Biden administration’s feckless management of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan produced all too predictable chaos, the legacy media uncharacteristically reported on the debacle with remarkable candor. This was unsettling to a White House inured to obsequious coverage.

...it is abundantly clear that Biden studiously ignored advice from his military and national security advisors in order to adhere to his self-imposed withdrawal date of August 31.

• ...yet many in the media clearly yearn to absolve Biden of responsibility for his incompetent and deadly withdrawal. 
• Many insist that the real culprit is the man he replaced seven months ago. 

Even as the bodies were being counted in Kabul, NBC News published an opinion column by Sébastien Roblin titled, “The Afghanistan airport explosion happened under Biden but traces back to Trump.”...Read all.

Answer the question!

 

Teacher tells students pledge allegiance to pride flag - TheBlaze

Teacher tells students pledge allegiance to pride flag - TheBlaze: 

A California teacher instructed her students to pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag after she removed the American flag from her classroom because it made her uncomfortable, according to a report. The school district has allegedly launched an investigation into the incident.

"What difference, at this point, does it make?"

"At this point..."

• Maria: Who will take the hit? All these people advising Biden were integral parts of the Obama admin (DUH)
• Mast: "Feckless endangerment of Americans – that should be the charge."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHMVBnu3Yiw...

AM Fruitcake