Archive for 2024
October 17, 2024
I WANT TO BELIEVE: Former Pentagon Official Makes Disturbing Claim About UFO Drones Swarming Military Sites. “I make no claims regarding their origin, perhaps many are Chinese drones. But their brazenness, range, flight duration, reliability, resistance to countermeasures and indifference to detection are confounding.”
UNLOVED, EVEN BY “HIS” PEOPLE:
Mohammed, a 22-year-old who had been repeatedly displaced in Gaza, said the news of Sinwar’s death marked “the best day of my life.” pic.twitter.com/nCZjvlygWU
— Menschadoodle (@menschadoodle) October 17, 2024
WOEING: NASA Has Grounded Boeing’s Starliner — At Least for Now. “Do the Germans or the Japanese have a word for being shocked and not shocked at the same time?”
AND WE DIDN’T EVEN GET A LOUSY T-SHIRT: NASA Spent Millions on ‘Environmental Justice’ and ‘Equity’ Grants Despite Budget Woes. “Another grant, this time worth $250,000, was paid out to Los Angeles as part of NASA’s Predictive Environmental Analytics and Community Engagement for Equity and Environmental Justice (PEACE) program, per federal records. To remedy its observation that ‘people of color often face higher exposure to air pollutants,’ NASA’s PEACE program paid the city to provide pollution data to its residents in ‘a way that works across communities and cultural differences and specifically analyzes, engages and responds to needs for environmental justice.'”
SINWAR DEAD: The Israelis Get Their Yahyas Out! — Live in Concert.
For the State of Israel, Sinwar was literally the single most wanted man in the entire world, more so than any Iranian official you could name. Sinwar was the monster who planned and executed the most traumatic terrorist attack in Israeli history, kicking off a regional war. When the Israelis brilliantly targeted the leadership of Hezbollah a few weeks ago, the attacks were a spectacular execution of tightly orchestrated spycraft involving high and low technology, the sort of work that will be professionally studied by other intelligence agencies for years to come.
But this? Sinwar was apparently found completely by chance. A young IDF tanker merely nine months into his first deployment, doing a random patrol, spotted a terrorist poking his head out a window. An online friend suggested that the American analogy to this would be like Osama bin Laden getting taken out by a random artillery regiment of the Iowa National Guard instead of SEAL Team Six, but I prefer to think of it as Sinwar getting iced by the Israeli equivalent of Harold Ramis and Bill Murray in Stripes. (ZISKEY RATES HAMAS: “They’re P***ies!”) Either way, the world became a better place for his absence in it.
And as America’s Newspaper of Record reports: Washington Post Gives Entire Staff Day Off To Mourn Loss Of Hamas Leader.
The staff of CBS News, Te-Nehisi Coates, and Roger Waters are all likely in mourning as well, as well as many in the Biden-Harris administration:
UPDATE: And here we go!
“I DON’T SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR RELIGION:” DeSantis rips reporter on climate change: ‘Chance of me virtue signaling for people in media is zero.’
THEY HAVE EYES AND EARS, PRESUMABLY: Team Harris Knows the Fox News Interview Was a Disaster.
CHANGE: The ABA Retreats From Its Diversity Mandate—or Does It? “Holistic” admissions are an obvious backdoor to racial preferences. Yeah, you can’t trust them not to be racist.
WE HAVE ACHIEVED PEAK ATLANTIC:
The shoplifting surge is real, @mffisher writes. People think it’s okay to steal—and no one knows how to stop them. https://t.co/iX0r7ZL6Rb
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) October 16, 2024
I mean, it doesn’t seem to be a problem in the places that still punish shoplifters and it does seem to be a problem in the places that don’t. Maybe there’s something in that worth investigating.
KEEP ALL MODALITIES OF COCKINESS FIRMLY IN CHECK: Biden tells Obama ‘she’s not as strong as me’ — and ex-prez agrees ‘that’s true’ at Ethel Kennedy funeral.
EVERYONE’S GOING NUCLEAR ALL OF A SUDDEN: Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors.
HUGH HEWITT INTERVIEWS NRO’S NOAH ROTHMAN ON KAMALA’S FOX NEWS INTERVIEW (Video):
MANY MORE DETAILS AND JOYOUS REACTIONS: The Good Guys Score Another Win: Hamas Political Chief Blew Up Real Good.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Texas troopers arrest large numbers of special interest aliens, including men from Iran.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers working through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, continue to arrest “special interest aliens,” primarily men from countries of foreign concern. That includes Iran, a U.S. State Department designated State Sponsor of Terrorism.
Texas DPS first sounded the alarm about increasing arrests of SIAs last month, The Center Square first reported.
In the past week, DPS troopers have arrested dozens of SIAs, Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez said in a series of social media posts.
SIAs are noncitizens who, based “on an analysis of travel patterns,” are “known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism” who “potentially poses a national security risk to the United States,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security explains. Having an SIA designation does not necessarily mean the individual is a terrorist, but their travel pattern “indicates a possible nexus to nefarious activity (including terrorism) and, at a minimum, provides indicators that necessitate heightened screening and further investigation,” DHS says.
Texas is just doing the jobs Washington won’t.
PHONING IT IN: Harris Slated To Attend Famed Al Smith Charity Dinner ‘On Screen’ After Snubbing Catholic Group. “Harris was slated to be the first presidential candidate in decades to skip the event, which benefits Catholic charities that support children’s medical and financial needs. Now, Harris plans to join the Oct. 17 event ‘on screen, likely via video,’ according to a Friday email from vice chair of the Al Smith Foundation’s board of directors, Mary Erdoes.”
CORRECTION: IT WILL EXACERBATE THE EXISTING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. Halperin: Trump Win Will Trigger ‘Unprecedented and Hideous’ Mental Health Crisis.
DEMOCRATS SURE GOT IT GOOD:
BREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted,” Admits Shadowbanning Tactics
"Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted,”… pic.twitter.com/4DSkvzvKmO
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 16, 2024
50 SOUNDS LIKE A LOT, PARTICULARLY WHEN DEMOCRATS KEEP ASSURING ME HOW SAFE AND SECURE OUR ELECTIONS ARE: GAI Study Details 50 Threats to Election Integrity.
On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers tackle the many ways elections can be rigged and, more importantly, how to make sure that it doesn’t happen.
Many states have been conscientious about cleaning their voter rolls — removing deceased voters, voters who have left the state, voters who are not U.S. citizens but who were registered through their driver’s license applications, and so forth.
States such as Michigan, however, have not been so fastidious, as the GAI report and the Drill Down hosts explain. “We always talk about this because this continues to be a problem in [battleground] states that are poised to matter,” says co-host Eric Eggers. “In Michigan, we’re seeing the number of counties with voter registration rates over 100 percent.”
Eggers wrote a book in 2018 called FRAUD that detailed many of the different types of election rigging and fixing that have taken place in U.S. history. That book, however, was published two years before the 2020 COVID pandemic, and rule changes made by some states that were ostensibly to make voting safer during the pandemic had the effect of making election security much harder to ensure.
GAI’s report covers how those rule changes, which many states have since been repealed or replaced, may have affected the 2020 outcome and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election.
“We’re now seeing 53 counties in Michigan with more than 100% registration, which obviously means there are some names on there that don’t belong there,” Eggers says.
Read the whole thing.
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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Team Kamala Invoked the Mercy Rule and I Can’t Stop Laughing.
NICE SHOOTING:
The word that keeps coming to mind is “methodical.”
Seth Frantzman added: “If the Sinwar details are confirmed, imagine Doha today, their prized asset of Hamas and its genocidal leadership may be in question. They’ve been stringing along the US and others for a year of “talks” over a hostage deal, representing Sinwar and talking on his behalf to slow down the deal and sabotage it.”
That’s just the start of a thread you might want to dig into.
Anyway, Hamas and Hezbollah wanted a total war with Israel and now they’ve got one — how’s that workin’ out for ya, fellas?
Related (From Ed): Israel says it may have killed Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader and mastermind of October 7th attack in Gaza.