HOAX: Fired TN Vaccine Chief Reportedly Sent “Threatening” Muzzle To Herself. “An investigation into the source of a muzzle sent to the office of Dr. Michelle Fiscus was purchased with a credit card belonging to Fiscus, according to a report released by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. The report states that the muzzle sent to Fiscus was purchased with a credit card in the name of Dr. Michelle D. Fiscus…It’s not clear what she hoped the muzzle hoax would do in terms of saving her job, but she did admit that she was using the national attention as a ‘platform.’”
Archive for 2021
August 17, 2021
FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED: It’s Tuesday and that means the sixth of seven installments of HillFaith’s series on Jesus’ great “I AM” claims is posted. And don’t miss the incredibly powerful scene at the end of the post from season one of “The Chosen.” No wonder this crowd-funded series has gone viral in a way unlike any ever before.
BETTER AT HIRING LAWYERS THAN BUILDING SPACESHIPS: Blue Origin takes SpaceX lunar lander contract fight with NASA to federal court.
For perspective, after one failed flight in 2019, Boeing’s oft-delayed Starliner had spent more time in space than Blue Origin has in its entire 20-year existence.
BIDEN TO AFGHANISTAN: DROP DEAD. “We had hoped that Mr. Biden would accept some responsibility and explain how he would fix this mess. He did none of that, making it clear that he himself is the main architect of this needless American surrender. It does not bode well for the rest of his Presidency. The world has seen a President portraying surrender as an act of political courage, and retreat as strategic wisdom. As we write this, the world’s rogues are looking for ways to give him a chance to deliver a similar speech about other parts of the world.”
VIA A FRIEND:
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN WE DIDN’T HAVE TO ASK… WHICH MAKES ME ONE YEARS OLD: OPEC+ Rejects Biden’s Call to Pump More Oil.
VIETNAMESE REFUGEE THUAN LE ELSTON FEELS THE AFGHANS’ PAIN: Fall of Kabul, fall of Saigon: Their horror was our horror. Anguished, we pray for a miracle.
HMM. I suspect the DEEP SEVENs are involved. Scientists say they’ve detected a new, mysterious layer at the center of our home planet. The discovery could unearth more about Earth’s history.
August 16, 2021
HMM: DID THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WANT THE U.S. OUT OF AFGHANISTAN? “However, an analysis of polling on the question suggests that perhaps only the party bases really wanted us out. A great many Americans didn’t seem to care one way or another and those who did care seemed fairly evenly divided.”
Plus: “But even with only a casual knowledge of the facts about Afghanistan, the American public was more astute about the matter than Joe Biden.” Well, yes.
TUCKER CARLSON: We are led by buffoons.
Related: Glenn Greenwald: Leaders Are Lying.
ANOTHER WAR GOING BADLY: Biden administration to announce most Americans will need coronavirus booster shots. “The administration’s health and science experts are coalescing around the view that people will need the boosters eight months after being fully vaccinated, according to the people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a decision not yet public. The decision is likely to be announced as soon as this week.”
MARK STEYN: The Afghan Humiliation: “Kabul Could Fall To The Taliban Within 90 Days, U.S. Intelligence Warns. Thank you, geniuses. That was Thursday. So it turned out to be well within ninety hours – which is close enough for US intelligence work. Was this the same ‘seventeen intelligence agencies’ who all agreed Russia had meddled in the 2016 election – and with whose collective intelligence only a fool would disagree? . . . To modify Hillary Clinton, what difference at this point would it make if the US government simply laid off its entire ‘intelligence community’? Indeed, what difference would it make if it closed down its military? Obviously, it would present a few mid-life challenges for its corrupt Pentagon bureaucracy, since that many generals on the market for defense lobbyist gigs and board directorships all at once would likely depress the going rate. But, other than that, a military that accounts for 40 per cent of the planet’s military spending can’t perform either of the functions for which one has an army: it can’t defeat overseas enemies, and it’s not permitted to defend the country, as we see on the Rio Grande. So what’s the point?”
STILL SELLING FAST: Kurt Schlichter’s The Split.
LEADERSHIP: THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST:
While the Taliban was plotting…pic.twitter.com/Jeis0BRYZy
— Dan Scavino🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) August 16, 2021
“GOD HELP THE UNITED STATES:” Why Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Speech Was A Disaster.
I’m working harder on being a fool and a drunkard, just to hedge my bets.
TOXIC SOCIAL MEDIA: ‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online.
Huh. Do tell.
“SELF-PLAGIARISM” ISN’T REALLY POSSIBLE, BUT LEAVE IT TO JOE BIDEN TO TRY:
Plus: Biden’s Disgrace:. “Remember when the press spent an entire week in a lather about President Trump’s lies about the size of his inauguration crowd? How should we react to far more consequential lies, lies that result in the mass rape of little girls and the mass torture and beheadings of men? How many will point out that Biden’s vow to restore America’s international reputation is in tatters, not even seven months into his administration?”
Plus: “Top military advisers were pleading with Biden to understand that just a minimal presence — say, 3,000 troops in Afghanistan — would go a long way toward maintaining a fragile peace. Biden rejected this out of hand: ‘There would be no conditions put on the withdrawal, Mr. Biden told the men,’ the New York Times reported. . . . Referring, apparently, to the Fall of Saigon, Austin’s warning to the president that, ‘We’ve seen this movie before,’ fell on Biden’s deaf ears.”
OPEN THREAD: More dope than heroin, sharper than a needle.
DANA LOESCH: The Blame for Afghanistan.
Here’s the issue: There are no good options for leaving, just options that would have prevented the fecal storm we saw all over the news the past 24 hours. We were in Afghanistan to rout out Al Qaeda from the country after they used it not just as their HQ but for their terror training camps. Afterwards we saw a revolving door of officials yoke an entire generation to an ever-changing mission creep redefined by each new politician’s politics.
We could not have closed Bagram AFB before evacuating American personnel and allies like interpreters and informants before announcing our full withdrawal. We could not have left behind our military equipment that we taxpayers bought for the Taliban to take and potentially sell, like our drones, to their financial backers in China’s communist party for them to reverse engineer. We could not have kept terrorist prisoners alive in the prisons that the Taliban freed and added to their armies on the way.
There was a way to do this smoothly and it required time to plan, time Biden did not want to give. Biden and his apologists were too busy trying to manufacture the outrage that none of this would have happened had we not, under Trump, begun negotiations with the Taliban. That is stupid thinking, argues my friend, Gulf War veteran, and retired Lt. Col. Kurt Schlichter, whose full thread you need to read, as these are just excerpts:
Read the whole thing. I expect the illustration atop it will be in wide circulation quite quickly:
Regarding the timing of its inspiration:
ROGER SIMON: Taliban Takeover Amid US Negligence a Disaster for Afghani Women.
Beyond the obvious rise in terrorism now almost inevitable from the disaster in Afghanistan, beyond the many friends and allies likely to suffer death or torture, beyond the disgraceful waste of twenty years of American people and treasure, more than anything, our so-called progressive leaders—in their negligence—have inadvertently instigated one of the greatest examples of misogyny in human history.
Think of what will become of the women of that country at the hands of the Taliban—aware, as opposed to “woke,” people remember the summary executions of females in their soccer stadium—as well as their treatment at the equally “feminist” hands of al-Qaeda and the rapidly renewing ISIS.
These are the same Afghani women who were attending universities and working like normal modern people under our protection while we were there. Now they will be left trying to survive under the most extreme and oppressive versions of sharia law, if they are not raped or shot.
Eli Lake has pointed out in an article that Taliban leaders are already preparing lists of young girls who will be “married” to their loyalists. One can only imagine the result.
As Charles Cooke writes: The Democratic Party Can’t Have It Both Ways on Afghanistan. “Rhetorically, Joe Biden’s party is trying to have it both ways. Leaving because it’s time to put ‘America First’ is a coherent course — albeit not one I would have counseled. Staying while talking about the importance of universal human rights is too. But leaving while talking about the importance of universal human rights? That’s a bad joke. Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that she was ‘deeply concerned about reports regarding the Taliban’s brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls,’ while praising Biden for his ‘clarity’ and ‘wisdom’ in taking a series of actions that will lead directly to that brutal treatment. This makes no sense. As of today, it is simply not possible to say that you think the United States should leave and that you hope it will all work out. The United States is leaving, and it is not working out.”