SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Another Kavanaugh Accuser Lied, Allegations Were A “Ploy” To Derail Nomination.

Vote for your local bonehead republican, even if he’s a RINO. Do not reward the tactics and enable a party that lies and destroys lives at will, all in the cause of power and world socialism.  Vote like your life depends on it. It very well might.  Time and enough to get someone decent in.  For now, vote against the deranged tactics and self-dramatizing of the “resistance.”  Contrary to the left’s screaming, they are not entitled to impose socialism on us. And we’re not hurting them by telling them no.  In fact, we might be saving their d*mnfool lives.

AND IN CASE YOU WONDER, YES, IT’S INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM, IN LATIN AMERICA, WITH MONEY FROM MISGUIDED IDIOTS, PLOTTING AGAINST OUR SOVEREIGNTY:  Examining the Migrant Horde- Pt 2—The Power Behind the Horde by Bill Reader.

Fuentes is described as a “Honduran Lawmaker” by Reuters and a “Social Activist” by NBC. I would call that an intentional mischaracterization. Let me add a couple of things from the Daily Beast article that explain that in more detail. First, his involvement in prior “caravans”: “When Fuentes first became aware of small groups dispersed throughout Honduras that were organizing among themselves to make the trek north, he decided to help out, just as he had done with a previous migrant caravan last April—and indeed throughout his life”. So, this wasn’t just nondescript social activism, but someone who has deliberately and repeatedly assisted specifically with illegal immigration. Now, let me sweeten the deal with the other interesting fact— ” … Bartolo sought refuge in Mexico himself after receiving threats. Central America’s right-wing death squads were notorious and his earlier participation in protests against the U.S.-backed Contras, who used his country as a staging ground in their CIA-backed war on Nicaragua’s Sandinistas, made him a potential target.”. I find that fascinating. Those “death squads” were often as not “revenge squads”. That he had a target on his back makes it likely a more apt description for Mr. Fuentes would be “Honduran Socialist”.

Go and read the whole thing so you’re prepared when the next political theater shoe drops.

MY FRIEND BILL HAS DONE A SERIES OF POSTS ON THE MIGRANT HORDE FOR MY BLOG. IN THE LATEST TWO HE DID A DEEP DIVE INTO THE LOGISTICS OF THE THING AND WHO ORGANIZED IT.  FROM YESTERDAY’S POST:  Examining the Migrant Horde- Pt 1—Planes, Trains or Automobiles? by Bill Reader:

Sources for the bona-fides of the dates of arrival are provided, though at this point it’s more or less a matter of record. First things first. The caravan started in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Sources vary slightly on the exact day they set off, with Fox and USA Today saying the 12th, and Daily Mail saying the 13th. By October 23rd, according to USA Today, they were interviewing people passing through Huixtla, Mexico. We also know that the caravan didn’t take the very shortest route per GoogleMaps, because some of the places noted in the NBC photo-essay—Quezaltepeque, Guatamala, and Chiquimula, Guatemala—are on a slightly more southern route. All told the distance traveled in 12 days—and that’s being generous, counting from the 12th, counting the full day of both the 12th and the 23rd as travel days, and ignoring that the caravan seems to have stalled out for almost a full day when it hit the border starting on the 18th— was 471 miles. That’s a pace of nearly 40 miles a day.

For comparison, I decided to research about how fast a trained infantry unit—notable for not carrying 5 year olds—can go in a day. This discussion on Quora puts a foot march at a 12-20 miles a day on the low end for infantry, with some elite units being able to move about 50 miles a day in full combat gear on good roads. This correlates well with a separate discussion here, which states: “The average soldier should be able to walk at a speed of 6.5kph for 20km carrying 32kg (LBE, pack & rifle)…”. 20 km is about 12 miles, and the same source states that “Humans can easily walk over 20 miles per day without tiring, even when carrying moderate loads and without much conditioning.” Remember, that’s half the speed this group is going by even the most conservative estimates. This simple estimate is consistent with the average speed worked out by the Daily Mail. That essentially random, lower-class Latin Americans, including women and children, would march about the double the distance that humans can easily accommodate, and indeed faster than the average trained infantry unit day-over-day, is suspicious as is, and points to the influence of vehicles being significant.

Read the whole thing, if nothing else so you have the necessary facts to beat friends and relatives to the ground when they talk about all those brave women and children walking all these distances only to be met by our army.

Also, when the inevitable pregnant woman gets “shot by our military” as a propaganda coup by the left, you can roll your eyes really loudly.

ALL CAREERS AND PROFESSIONS HAVE THESE.  TO LOSE THEM OR BE DELIBERATELY CUT OFF FROM THEM (THINK CULTURAL REVOLUTION OR WHAT THEY’RE TRYING TO DO HERE, CONVINCING EVERYONE THAT OLDER WHITE MALES SHOULD NEVER BE LISTENED TO) IS TO TAKE SEVERAL STEPS BACKWARDS:  Aviation and Oral Traditions.

Go learn from your tribal elders while you can. When they’re gone, knowledge of your field will diminish.  (And I’m forever blessed in having known and learned from Jerry Pournelle.)

YEAH, BUT YOU KNOW, THEY STOPPED BAD THINK AND BAD SPEECH, SO WIN FOR THEM:  ABC Orders Only One More Episode of Roseanne-Free “The Conners” After Ratings Do Exactly What You’d Expect Them To Do

NAH, BUT LET ME WARN YOU THAT FOR ABOUT A YEAR DRIVERS WILL BE BEYOND ERRATIC.  AFTER THAT THEY FIGURE OUT DYI LAWS DO APPLY:  Day after Weed Day: post-Apocalypse!

Favorite moment just post legalization in CO.  I got up early morning in our then downtown Colorado Springs neighborhood, and I decided to make a big breakfast before the kids got up.  I was out of something (possibly maple syrup) so I decided to drive to the grocery store half a mile away.  Beautiful morning, spacious tree-lined street of Victorian houses.  I realize there’s a car driving towards me on my lane.  It’s driving VERY slowly.  I change to the other lane in the same direction, and car goes by me.  New VW bug. Couple inside hadn’t cut their hair since the sixties, but hair had gone completely white.  I got the impression the gentleman was gripping the wheel with a death grip.  He was leaning forward, eyes wide. Clouds of pot smoke wafting out the windows.  Car doing about ten miles an hour on the wrong lane.  I figure they thought they were doing 80.  Or perhaps that they were on a busy highway or something…

GOOD:  Republicans Refuse to Let McCaskill Sidestep Kavanaugh Vote.

I DON’T KNOW. THEY TEND TO PUT ME TO SLEEP:  Are Hard Left Celebrity PSAs Losing Steam?

POSSIBLE.  ALSO, NOT ONLY DESERVED BUT EARNED:  Most Savage Tweet In the History of Twitter?

THEY REALLY REALLY REALLY LIKE WISH-CASTING.  NO. I MEAN REALLY:  Trump Is Finished, Because the Media Say So!

BUT FOLLOWING THE RED FLAG WITH THE HAMMER AND SICKLE TO GUARANTEED, HISTORICALLY  PROVEN HELL ON EARTH IS PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT FOR THIS INTELLECTUAL MIDGET:  Jim Carrey Says: “Don’t Follow The Red Hat To Hell.”

DEFENDING THE BORDERS, UNLIKE OH, REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH OR MESSING ABOUT WITH OUR HEALTH CARE IS ACTUALLY A LEGITIMATE FUNCTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT:  Mattis Flattens Media About Border Troop Deployment: “We Don’t Do Stunts.”

YEP. NEWS I PERSONALLY CAN USE:  Hydrate!  Since at least once I put myself in the hospital through severe dehydration.

YEP:  Hillary Says She Won’t Run Again, Which Means She’ll Probably Run Again.

FOR GOOD AND SUFFICIENT REASON?  Why An Anti-Gun Vet’s Claims Send Up BS Flags.

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP FOR THE CHILDREN OF PARENTS NO LEGALLY HERE IS SILLY, TO PUT IT MILDLY.  I MEAN THERE IS THAT THING ABOUT ‘SUBJECT TO THE LAWS THEREOF”:  Can Trump end birthright citizenship with an executive order?

SHOCKED, SHOCKED.  THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Thanks, Obama! The Five Taliban Prisoners We Traded to Get Back the Deserter and Traitor Bowe Bergdahl Have, Get This, Re-Joined the Taliban.

MEH. NO BIG SURPRISE. THEY MADE ME WHITE TOO:  How America Made Me White.  And by “they” I mean the left in the US.  Because I’m not part of the little brownz people who in their prophecies will bring about perfect socialism, therefore I’m white.  As for the rest.  BAH.  Having lived and traveled in Europe they’re far more obsessed with race than we are.  Which makes sense, since most of them are leftists, and our leftists are obsessed with race too, which is why Colbert’s joke works… when speaking to leftists.  Everyone else knows the man just ain’t funny, anyway.

I FOR ONE WELCOME THE NEW LINDSEY GRAHAM:  I’m at Ground Zero in This.

SIGH.  SOMETIMES EVEN SHUT UP AND SING IS WEAK SAUCE:  Barbra Streisand Writes Song For Donald Trump.

GOOD:   Federal Troops On the Border: More Not Less.

IS ENOUGH TO KNOW THE CORRUPTION IS DEEP AND WIDE:  What we have learned so far [with report].

SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Rampant Bias and Misinformation at the Guardian.  Being maligned at teh Grauniad was one of the high points of my professional achievement.

AS THEY SHOULD:  Missouri parents call BS on “racial equity” training.

FASTER PLEASE:  Potentially wonderful news for type 2 diabetics.