JIM JORDAN IS NOMINATED FOR SPEAKER.
I was happy with either him or Scalise. Now make him Speaker and move on, please.
Archive for 2023
October 13, 2023
WHY ARE LEFTY NEIGHBORHOODS SUCH CESSPITS OF RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY?
Welcome to another episode of dealing with LIBERALS in 2023 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/Djf2qWPSon
— CHRIS’WORLD (@CHRISsW0RLD) October 11, 2023
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Rashida Tlaib Urges Nation To Resist Commercialization Of Day Of Jihad And Remember The True Spirit Of The Holiday.
RECENT HISTORY TRIPS UP ‘MODERATE’ TEXAS DEM: Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) wants President Joe Biden to refreeze that $6 billion in Iranian assets. But Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who Allred is challenging in 2024 election, reminds voters about 2021 U.S. aid that the Democrat pushed may well have aided Hamas.
DOCTORS WITH BORDERS: The Divide between Physicians and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses.
MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: Israel to the 1.1 Million Terrorist Residents of Gaza City: Get the F*ck Out. “Andrea Mitchell will cry. But it’s time to Decolonize Gaza. It’s time to decolonize the living sh*t out of it.”
GRAMSCIAN DAMAGE: If you want to know how we got here, read this essay by Eric S. Raymond.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: I’ve Seen a Junker on the Highway Before but Never Like This. “It’s your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have a midnight bicycle drug delivery service, the used boxers thief, and Washington Man’s naked shopping spree.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Optimizing Your Home-Defense Handgun.
SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE IN WASHINGTON: Federal authorities accuse Menendez of acting as foreign agent. “The indictment charges Nadine Menendez — the senator’s wife — and Wael Hana, a North Jersey businessman, arranged a series of meetings and dinners with Egyptian officials and later acted as conduits between the senator and Egyptian officials. In return for Sen. Menendez’s influence on these and other matters, prosecutors say, Sen. and Mrs. Menendez received bars of gold, cash, and other items, accusations first aired in the initial indictment unveiled last month.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): It would be easier to make a list of people in Washington who aren’t on some sort of foreign payroll.
CONGRESS WOULD PROBABLY PREFER TO: We Haven’t Forgotten About Jamaal Bowman’s Fire Alarm Stunt.
I’VE BLOGGED THIS IN THE PAST, but you can send a pizza to IDF soldiers at this link. (Or even sandwiches to an entire platoon.) Thanks to Mike Williamson for the reminder.
PRIORITIES:
The Biden admin is funding drag shows in Ecuador but is forcing Americans trapped in a war zone to sign a note promising to repay the Government the cost of evacuating them. pic.twitter.com/O9hXIJbxbA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 13, 2023
Say, what’s become of those thousands Biden left behind more than two years ago in Afghanistan?
WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Eating spicy food probably won’t hurt you in the long run.
I DID NOT THINK THAT: Think Diversity Officers Help Minority Students? Guess Again.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: My computer science classes were too slow, so I dropped out to focus on my AI startup. Even my dad agreed.
JEFF GOLDSTEIN: How Dare Jew? Reflections on the collapse of the liberal order.
Understand this: Hamas and it’s supported aren’t engaged in a land dispute, or protesting “imperialism” or “colonialism.” Hamas is transparent in its aims: to wipe every last Jew off the face of the earth.*. Secular leftwing Jews who back every leftist cause, from BLM to “trans affirmation” to “Palestinian rights” — the cream of the self-haters and the sickeningly needy pleasers — will be killed with the same alacrity as Israeli soldiers, if Hamas and its supporters can manage it. They’ll slaughter babies and desecrate their tiny bodies; they’ll “dirty” women — raping them repeatedly — before torturing and killing them; they’ll execute any and all Jews whenever possible — and they’ll film and exhibit their barbarism while “innocent civilians” in Gaza celebrate, hand out sweets, attend mosques where the message is always the same: annihilate and exterminate every last Jew.
This is who and what they are — and the leftists and university activists and waffling media outlets and “world leaders” who sympathize with this animal behavior are complicit in it.
True.
PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO NOTICE THAT HIGHER EDUCATION HAS BECOME A TOXIC INDUSTRY.
For decades cowardly college administrators have enabled our universities to become nests of Anti-American/Anti-Western activism.
This week student groups at our most “elite” universities signed their names to proclamations siding with savages who murdered & mutilated babies…
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) October 13, 2023
MEET THE MERKAVA 5 –HAMAS IS ABOUT TO: Barak Does It Better
A year ago Israel introduced the fifth version of its Merkava tank. The Merkava 5 was quietly developed, built, tested and deployed in small numbers during late 2022. This was ahead of schedule because the original delivery date was supposed to be early 2023. Like the earlier Merkava models, Merkava 5 is an improved version of the previous model and proved to be such an impressive upgrade that it was given a name; Barak.
It’s StrategyPage’s latest How To Make War ARMOR update.
RELATED: (1) 2018 photo of a Merkava on a training exercise. (2) 2005 photo of an early model Merkava. (3) 2017 photo Israeli female tankers in front of a Merkava. and (4) Posted in 2018 but the propaganda imagery dates from 2016. Hamas/Hezbollah terrorists celebrate on fake Merkavas. In the lower left photo the tires of a wheeled vehicle are visible beneath the fake tank.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Just 1% of all US homes changed hands so far this year.
Just 1% of all US homes changed hands in the first half of this year, the lowest share in at least a decade, according to data from Redfin.
Only about 14 out of every 1,000 existing homes moved from one owner to another in the first half of 2023, compared to 19 of every 1,000 during the same period in 2019. That means home buyers have 28% fewer homes to pick from than before the pandemic upended the US housing market.
The pre-pandemic turnover rate is fairly typical for the modern housing market, according to Redfin, but a more active market would have a rate closer to 40 or 50 of every 1,000.
The main reasons so few houses have sold so far this year is that there aren’t many on the market to buy and people can’t afford higher mortgage rates.
No one can afford to buy and no one can afford to sell.
LET’S HOPE THE MALARIA VACCINES WORK WELL: Endemic malaria found in high, dry northwestern Kenya.
STRATEGYPAGE’S LATEST INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Hamas Goes Rogue and Beyond : Jim Dunnigan’s “How To Make War” series examines Israel’s intelligence failure.
The lede for Friday the 13th:
The October 7th Hamas attack on Israel was an embarrassing failure of Israeli intelligence services. One reason for the surprise was that the planning did not involve a lot of foreign supporters. It was apparently just Iran, quietly increasing its supply of guided rockets, munitions and training personnel.
Ah but:
The Israeli military is one of the best in the world and not in need of the kind of aid sent to Ukraine. Israel needs more cooperation from its Arab neighbors and further Israeli economic cooperation depends on some Arab diplomatic and intelligence support. The Hamas attack was a major intelligence failure for Israel and the Arab neighbors realize that this was an Iranian intelligence victory. If Iran could do this again it would most likely be used against one of the Arab states that oppose expansion of Iranian influence in the region. Expending Hamas to accomplish this attack on Israel reminds Arab states that it could happen to them. Iran is a common enemy or threat to Israel, Arabs and Turks.
ASIDE: The meaning of “lede.”