Weekend Open Comments

The Leftist Machine behind the Attempts to Assassinate Donald Trump

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Nor are Sunday’s events merely indicative of the volatile lows that political discourse has reached in the Western world in the 21st century — after all, conservatives firmly believe that the political Left is a threat to essential rights, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and its machinations are responsible for the slaughter of tens of millions of unborn innocents on the horrifying altar of abortion. Yet Vice President Kamala Harris has not been shot in the side of the head, nobody has poked a rifle through the fence to take aim at President Joe Biden while he golfs — or, what is more likely, while he naps on the beach.

Some have said that Thomas Crooks and Ryan Routh — the two men who have, thus far, attempted to assassinate Donald Trump — have been “radicalized.” This is most certainly true, but it is a far deeper, more complicated, and more sinister affair than political pundits and keyboard commentators may suggest. A 20-year-old student and a 58-year-old construction worker are not convinced to attempt murder because they read or hear or watch a few frightening news reports centered on a politician over a period of weeks, months, or even a few years. Were that the case, everyone who watches Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson would be hunting Washington’s elite, believing them to be brainwashed by demons. No, the foundation was laid years — even generations — prior to motivate everyday civilians to take a shot at the president.

There are three chief institutions which come into play in this ploy, and one which plays a supporting role: the education system, the media, the family, and the government. Over the past 60 years or more, the education system has been responsible for drilling into every child’s head the conclusion that Adolf Hitler was the most evil and inhuman creature to ever roam the face of the planet. Of course, Hitler was evil, and he wreaked war and atrocities upon the world, but he may not even be the most vile, despotic genocidal maniac of his day.

[Comparison to Stalin and Mao Zedong’s death list – much larger, but Hitler is taught as the epitome of evil]

The media’s role, which is rightly noted as incessantly labeling Donald Trump as “Adolf Hitler” and his allies and supporters as “Nazis,” cannot be fulfilled unless the education system first fulfills its own role. In his apocalyptic novel “That Hideous Strength,” C.S. Lewis made the following observation regarding those who read newspapers:

“Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”

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The author goes on to describe how education, especially “higher education,” is designed to dull thinking skills and provide bots for the ruling class.  Since the cure for this is the family, the family must also be attacked, destroyed, and emasculated so it can’t ensure that their children aren’t placed into a real educational system that will teach them how to think instead of how to absorb and react. Part of this is the mocking of Christianity, which could heal the marital struggles and provide moral yardsticks for behavior.  Sound familiar?

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Enter the media: Donald Trump is painted with a Hitler mustache on magazine covers, he is repeatedly compared to the German autocrat over a period of four, now eight, now 12 years, and every rhetorical stretch is employed, every argumentative gymnastic move put to use, to liken his policies and agenda to those of the Third Reich… [ Never mind that he has no behavioral characteristics of Hitler]

Donald Trump is further labeled a “threat to democracy,” a phrase repeated online by Routh, just a few months prior to pointing an AK-47 at the 45th president. This claim has been amplified and repeated ad infinitum by the left-wing political establishment in government and media. Again, never mind that Donald Trump left office in January 2021, even amidst credible claims of election fraud. Never mind that his policies in office included upholding and respecting the separation of powers, instead of packing or discrediting constitutional courts. Never mind that he was democratically elected in 2016 and not only ran for office again but earned even more votes in 2020. No, he’s literally Hitler, you have to believe us.

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And the media drives this because they are seen as authorities of information, despite all the evidence to the contrary. The unthinking “smart people” swallow the media Pablum and regurgitate on our streets and in our businesses, sometimes with violence.   And then break their arms trying to pat themselves on the back, comforting themselves with the idea that they are better than everyone not like them, and therefore those not on their political side are worthy of mistreatment and disdain. Their actions to mistreat, abuse, or destroy others are justified, for they are the Privileged Ones.   They shall beat us until our morale improves, or until we say there are five lights.

Regarding the “dehumanization” tag: every dictator has identified a “threat” to the people, so they can rally behind a cause and feel righteous as they are manipulated into committing unspeakable acts. Pol Pot did that.  Mao took out the intelligentsia that way.  Hitler killed Jews, Catholics, and the disabled under the banner of building a stronger Germany.  And that’s how abortion is so protected: the unborn human is not a “baby,” but a “fetus”.  I’ve even heard it called a  “parasite in the mother’s body,” a term that makes my skin crawl but makes others feel comfortable enough for it to be legit enough to rip it apart and suction out the pieces, to be sold later to gruesome purchasers for whom souls are useless, but prenatal organs are precious.  If something isn’t human, it’s fair game.  Unless, of course, it’s a puppy or horse or cat or some other animal.  They don’t have to be “human” to be valued.  But a baby is inconvenient, so it’s able to be killed to make someone else not inconvenienced.  Just my two cents’ worth.

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Ultimately, that’s what is behind the assassination attempts against Donald Trump: dehumanization. This machine consisting of the education system, the media, and the government operates on the principle that those who oppose its agenda — even those who simply do not accept it — are unfit to be called human. Again, ironically, this is alarmingly similar to Hitler’s own ideology, to his mythological Aryan ideal: all those who do not fit in are simply declared sub-human and eliminated. The radicalization of would-be assassins — not to mention the unprecedented lawfare campaign targeting Donald Trump — would also seem to fall under the purview of threatening democracy.

Donald Trump not only opposes the ideology of the diabolical elites — unlimited immigration from the third world, the destruction of America’s heritage and history, the economic oppression of every American family working hard to make a home — but is an existential threat to it. He must, therefore, be eliminated. After all, the elites will argue, he’s less than human. He’s a threat to democracy, he’s literally Hitler.

 


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124 responses to “Weekend Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I mentioned last night that I was talking to Lee from down under about the old LST days and it dawned on me that she might want to stop by here so I messaged her the link. She said she would take a peek so this will give the moderators a heads up. I do hope she says hello, I enjoyed her perspective back in the LST days, very conservative but in a slightly different way than most of us were.
    SO! Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh and let’s see if I can kill this dang thang. 😀

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If your wife starts wearing her sexiest lingerie to work everyday, you might want to check out paternity test services.

    In response to latest figures recorded in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has reportedly encouraged citizens to use their lunch breaks to bolster the nation’s declining population.

    A so-called “sex-at-work” initiative has been launched as part of a broader strategy to address the issue, which currently stands at around 1.5 children per woman — well below the 2.1 rate needed to sustain population levels.

    The issue has been exacerbated by the ongoing war in Ukraine, which has led over 1 million younger Russians to flee the country in fear of being sent to the front line.

    Putin has stressed that boosting the birthrate is of “the highest national priority,” claiming that the survival and future of Russia are at stake.

    “The fate of Russia … depends on how many of us there will be. It is a question of national importance,” the president said.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      From the comments and it is SOO true;

      Sadly, the people who are producing the most are the ones who have no jobs, and I mean this across all races and backgrounds. The movie Idiocracy has been real life for a while now.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat saved the day! 😉

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Vintage Road Test data panel of the day 1965 Corvette 396 Roadster test. The 1st Big Block Vette road car with the big port Forged 396 with 425 HP. Also the 1st year for 4wdb.

    62 MPH in First Gear! @ a screaming 6400 RPM! Mercy!

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Russell Moore is an Asshat,…jus’ saying;

    Trump’s Lie Is Another Test for Christian America
    FWIW; I’d never heard of this Jackass until I saw him on PMSNBC this morning but he claims to be a Christian and writes for The Atlantic and is all in for Kamala who is for abortion on demand, up to and after the third trimester. ~SPITS~

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    She’s putting the “Ha” in Harris. 

    An Oklahoma mother of five has earned more than half a million TikTok followers with her hilarious online impersonations of Vice President Kamala Harris — mimicking the White House candidate’s infamous “cackle” and labeling her character, “Mommala.”

    Tiffany Murray said she pokes fun at the “irony and hypocrisy” — and TikTokkers can’t get over how “spot on” her impression is. 

    “Has ‘Saturday Night Live’ reached out to you yet?” one asked.

    “The laugh is perfect,” another said.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Young boy uses rifle to save his father from black bear attack: ‘A hero’
    Ryan Beierman required 23 stitches to his left cheek after the bear attack.

    One Minnesota father is thanking his son for saving his life after a black bear attack.

    12-year-old Owen Beierman saved his father Ryan’s life on September 6 when a black bear they were tracking “charged and knocked [him] down.”

    The father-son duo was visiting their cabin in western Wisconsin on a hunting trip when Owen first shot the bear, which was wounded when it attacked Ryan.

    “He was in a stance like a cat about to pounce,’’ Beierman told the Minnesota Star Tribune. “The next thing I know he was on me. He charged and knocked me down. The bear was fighting for its life, and I was fighting for mine,’’ added Beierman.

    Beierman, a business agent for the Teamsters Local 120 in Blaine, Minnesota, credits his son Owen for stepping in and saving the day with a 350 Legend hunting rifle.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Fetterman not only said Trump has a special hold on his state; he also suggested the hold has grown stronger as a result of the first assassination attempt, which happened in Butler, Pa.

    Trump has created a special kind of a hold … and he’s remade the party and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania, and I think that only deepened after that first assassination attempt.

    And as is often the case in elections, Fetterman said voter “anger on the ground,” which is likely primarily among blue-collar workers, will also be a factor in the state’s election.

    I also want people to understand … there’s energy and there’s kinds of anger on the ground in Pennsylvania, and people are very committed and strong. Trump is going to be strong and … we have to respect that.

    Fetterman refused to bite when he was asked if he planned to give any advice to Harris.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Now, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention up top that Trump’s appearance helped earn the hour-long program its biggest audience ever since it began airing in 2021, boasting nearly five million viewers. To put that in perspective, it wasn’t just the top show of the night in primetime on a cable network; it overwhelmed every TV show being broadcast by any network.

    Nick Arama put together highlight clips from the show.

    But there was a meaningful moment that you didn’t see on the program, a personal, real, “no cameras” moment that you won’t see on any social media post. It’s one that seems to have deeply moved Greg’s sidekick, Tyrus, and says so much about Donald Trump as a human being.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is highly illegal violating numerous federal laws and instituted by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump has already said he would fire this asshat if he gets elected.

    The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.

    Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown — at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force — issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.” Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program.

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I wrote this last night and forgot to hit the post button.

    Gavin Newsom eats dirt with his stupid 1st amendment violating ban on AI ads.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Another great video from Nicole Shanahan, RFK’s VP candidate.

    Suffering from TDS ? There is hope.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Once again the UN proves itself to be one of the most evil, corrupt organizations in the world.

    Pound sand, jackasses !

    (September 18, 2024 / JNS)

    Jerusalem’s Old City, in addition to Judea and Samaria, must be Judenrein within a year, according to a Palestinian-drafted resolution, which the U.N. General Assembly passed on Wednesday.

    The resolution, which passed by a 124-14 margin with 43 abstentions, is meant to give force to a July advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice, which declared Israeli presence to be illegal in any area over the 1949 armistice line.

    More than 40 countries sponsored the resolution, which was the first that Palestinians filed after being granted unprecedented privileges, for a non-U.N. member, earlier this year.

    The resolution calls on the Israel Defense Forces to withdraw completely from Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip within 12 months, which means evacuating all Jewish communities beyond the armistice line, including Jerusalem’s Old City.

    It also bans arms sales to the IDF of any equipment that would be expected reasonably to be used in the territory over the 1949 lines and calls for a boycott of all products produced by Jews in those areas.

    The resolution text lacks any mention of Israeli security concerns, historic ties to the lands or Hamas’s terror attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I guess this didn’t get voted against by the USA, who should hold veto power over absurd garbage like this. From the river to the sea, Israel shall be terrorist free.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is good news. I posted about this story months ago.

    Abilene Christian University will soon house an advanced nuclear reactor approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    ACU’s planned research reactor, the first of its kind constructed in over 30 years, will be built by the university’s NEXT lab and nuclear company Natura Resources.

    The project is a Molten Salt Research Reactor and had its final safety evaluation for the NRC’s permit on Sept 16.

    “The MSRR, which will not generate electricity, will use molten salt coolant with fuel dissolved in the salt,” NRC stated. “The facility will provide a platform to research molten-salt technology, as well as educational opportunities in nuclear science and engineering.”

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      From the article:

       “But as long as the ERCOT market remains unprofitable for reliable baseload power like nuclear and favorable to unreliable wind and solar, new nuclear technologies face a long, uphill battle to being deployed commercially in Texas.”

      Who controls whom is placed on ERCOT? How about we get some rational people on the board and ditch the irrational enviro-whackjobs so that we can have clean, reliable, affordable power regardless of the weather . . . . . . .hmmmkay?

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Got 2 1/2 rosaries made this morning (2 five decade, 1 one decade). That wasp sting hurt for a day, then nothing, The swelling was gone. Then yesterday and today it’s been itching like crazy. Aaarrghhh!

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today’s C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your Weekend Edition roundup includes: Mike DeWine whines about Springfield coverage of the Haitian Invasion; deviant covid czar covered in corporate media, sort of; Routh reporting continues to raise concerns; Republicans scheme to tweak Nebraska rules to help Trump; Georgia election board passes pallet of new rules to crack down on cheating.

  18. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    It would appear that every time the Dems haul out another nasty and false commentary about Mr. Trump, more and more normal Americans become seriously annoyed by such tactics. They are not amused by that zoo….

    And the Dems apparently haven’t stumbled upon that, which will come back to bite them, hard.

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The moral rot in the British Isles is reaching epic levels.

    The new sculpture unveiled on the 4th Plinth of Trafalgar Square features 726 plaster castings of actual transgender and nonbinary prostitutes.

    The 4th Plinth used to house statues of Baptist preacher John Chilembwe and British missionary John Chorley, who shared the Gospel with the people of Malawi. Now, temporary art displays like this one have replaced them.

    We covered one such installation that will occupy the plinth in 2026…

    The transgender prostitute monument was created by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, who is himself a dude that’s pretending to be a woman.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s contagious.

    SAVANNAH, GA — A local man was left completely stumped while questioning his wife about an issue with one of the family’s vehicles, having apparently been caught off guard by his wife’s insightful and engaging response.

    Trent Colson explained that he had arrived at the park to meet his wife and kids, only to find his wife’s car on fire in the parking lot, prompting him to rush to make sure she and the couple’s children were safe and find out what had happened.

    “I was born into a middle class family,” his wife, Beth, began. “Where I come from, car fires are the very least of concerns. What is far more important is putting food on the table, keeping the lights on, and knowing your family has a safe home. It is these things that people across this country are focused on, not a vehicle engulfed in flames in the driveway.”

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: PAGING ALL CATS!

    Just when you thought it looked like the Week of Cat Memes was going easily to the top of the box office charts for a second week, along comes Operation Grim Beeper to knock it out of the top spot instantly. OGB surely has to rank in the top five schadenfreude moments of all time. One thing we know about radical Islamic culture is that they hate being humiliated more than being defeated or even killed. I’ll bet they’re really mad now! But not to worry—we aren’t done with cat memes just yet. In fact, maybe we can find a way to combine them. And oh yeah—I almost forgot: Someone tried to shoot Trump this week. Again.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Tried to LOL to some of these! “From the liver to the knee”. “Achmed has left the chat”. OMW – so many good ones!

  22. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Super Dave led me here with his bad album covers link yesterday.;)

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    MANHATTAN, NY — All three people who watch The View were completely unaffected by the talk show’s recent decision to replace their entire cast with shrieking feral pigs.

    According to Matylda Männer, an unemployed 45-year-old Kamala voter and antique hoarder, the show swapped out Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and the rest of the cast for a newborn brood of clamoring pigs, but it hasn’t actually changed anything about the show.

    “I plopped down to hear some wisdom from Whoopi Goldberg,” Männer said. “And then I realized — there was no Whoopi Goldberg. So I watched the show through anyway. Not bad. The new squallers were unusually quiet compared to the normal hosts and they were a little easy on Trump today, but I’ll survive.”

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Lol

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It’s been many years since I bothered to do an internet search of my name. It seems my name has become popular among a few black folks.

    Since I have such an unusual first name there appears to be only two three other guys and two females in the world with my name – a hiphop D-level gangsta black movie actor in California, a black teenaged boy, two black women and a South Korean boy band pop star.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I did a search on my name and I am still the only one.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Christine Rosen at Commentary writing about the limp, lame, impotent press in America:

    Some of this incuriosity is no doubt the result of careful cultivation of the media by Harris in the last two years. As Semafor’s Max Tani reported in late July, Harris has “invited a parade of prominent television anchors and media executives to dine with her at the Naval Observatory, given personal tours of her garden to journalists from diverse backgrounds, and shaped trips to do media appearances with the outlets serving Democratic-leaning groups the White House refers to as ‘coalition media.’” Harris has fêted the hosts of Morning Joe over dinner, as well as Meet the Press’s Kristen Welker, and doesn’t discriminate between prestige and nontraditional media. As Semafor notes, “Staff from gossip site The Shade Room snagged an invite to her holiday party,” and off-the-record meetings included visits by the authors of “fairly niche abortion Substacks.” 

    Instead of running down the story themselves, media outlets have scolded Republicans who posited their own theories about Biden’s departure and its resemblance to a bloodless coup. In a piece that included charts and an extended note on its “methodology,” the New York Times decried the use of words such as “coup” and “cover-up” and claimed, “A vast majority of prominent Republicans have treated the development [Biden’s exit] with suspicion or scorn.” New York magazine declared such speculation “lurid,” stating, “This line of argument is as feeble as it is loud and insistent. If Biden could be brushed aside against his will, why did it take so long, and why did the alleged orchestrators of the ‘coup’ insist that Biden himself make the decision?”

    A willing media have continued to serve as the Harris campaign’s boosters by avoiding asking difficult questions about her policy positions. As New York’s Gabriel Debenedetti wrote recently, a “popular media narrative” suggests that Harris should take clear policy positions on important issues, but “people close to Harris” say “her primary job now is to win an election and that most voters need to understand her values and priorities, not her white papers.”

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve recommended these Anker Power Banks here several times to keep phones, iPads and laptops charged. If anyone followed my advice and bought one in 2024, they need to read this recall notice now. I have three, all purchased before 2024.

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    If you currently own any of Anker 334 MagGo Battery (PowerCore 10K)/Anker Power Bank/Anker MagGo Power Bank, please follow the below steps:

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Is Anker a branch of the Mossad, perhaps?

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Alright, this really is hilarious. I mean it. Some ridiculous online game company decided to collect donations from their moronic customers to buy a lot down in Boca Chica to STOP RACIST DONALD TRUMP FROM BUILDING THE WALL.

    It just so happens Elon Musk has a space launch division there and bought up land around these clowns’ lot. They also parked some heavy equipment and materials there. OH NO !!!

    Cards Against Humanity also set up a website to publicize its lawsuit. “We have terrible news,” the website says. “Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump’s very stupid wall. Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire—Elon Musk—snuck up on us from behind and completely f**ked that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage.”

    The website claims that SpaceX made a “lowball offer” to buy the land after Cards Against Humanity complained…

    and this one is a howler,

    “If we win, we’ll equally split the lawsuit’s net proceeds among all 150,000 of our original subscribers, up to $100 each,” the company said. “While this isn’t enough to compensate our subscribers for the anguish they’ve suffered witnessing Elon Musk defile their once-verdant land⸺where wild horses galloped freely in the Texas moonlight⸺we think it’s a pretty good start.”

    I’ve been to Boca Chica. There are no wild horses – in the moonlight or the daylight.

  28. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Throughout Lebanon, Hezbollah has put up red flags:

    The red flag is raised instead of the yellow flag of the Lebanese Hezbollah, and the meaning is that the decision has been made and orders have been issued for revenge and response.
    In short, Hezbollah chose war!

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Stuff’s about to get real. But something tells me that either (1) Israel is ready and waiting, and/or (2) Hez is playing into their hands.

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh Israel is ready. They have ordered that Israelis limit the amount of people in a gathering. They are bombing hundreds of rocket launchers at a time. They have taken out more heads of Hezbollah one of which was involved in the bombing of the marine barracks in Beirut. Israel is softening them up. I waiting for Israel to start moving tanks to the border.

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey Dr phil
    Guess who has a new TV series this year?
    I figured he was in assisted living by now.

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Ok, pal.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I can’t stand medical shows. They’re always so ridiculous.

    3. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I bet the cruise industry is thrilled about a show with all kinds of people having weird medical events on the ship.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Okay, you win Comment of the Day award.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Once Israel had to activate Operation Grim Beeper and Operation Walkie-No-Talkie, they had to move fast. They had to strike while Hezbollah is in complete chaos and disarray. If they waited Nasrallah and his crew would start reorganizing. They are going to hit and hit hard over and over now. It’s the only way. Crippling Hezbollah is essential now.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Take your children out of the public schools and/or compel your children to do the same with your grandchildren.

    The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) held their “Leadership Conference” August 1-3. These “educators” are supposed to be the bright lights at the forefront of progressive education. If you have paid attention to any news surrounding the Los Angeles area school districts and who they really are, you know they’re dim bulbs in charge of the indoctrination plans over K-12 school children, whether parents like it or not. With the increased rise of antisemitism in Los Angeles universities and the targeting of historically Jewish neighborhoods, the Israeli-American Civic Action Network (ICAN) has increased their advocacy for reform in the education space.

    and,

    On September 18th at 6 pm, ICAN broadcast the full leaked video from the UTLA Conference exclusively on X, unveiling for the first time the disturbing antisemitic and anti-Israel discussions, strategies, and tactics being promoted within the Los Angeles public school system by UTLA the Los Angeles public teachers’ union. The footage features several educators, including UTLA Board Member and Santee Education Complex teacher David Feldman, Ron Gochez of Maya Angelou Community High School, Guadalupe Carasco Cardona at the Roybal Learning Center, Will Shattuc at John Adams Middle School, and Ingrid Villeda, a teacher at 93rd Street Elementary.

    The video, shared in its entirety, captures an hour of deeply alarming discussions that not only vilify the State of Israel and Jewish people but also promote strategies to integrate extreme antisemitic and anti-American political ideologies into public school classrooms, even targeting elementary school-aged children.

  34. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    TaumatawhakatangihangakoauauoTamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. On my bucket list of places to visit.

    A life time membership to Hamous.net and key to the executive washroom to the first person that can prove to me they pronounced that name correctly in one breath.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Oh, and it’s a nice 25 hour plane ride to get there. The only reason I never went to the Far East, Australia, Indonesia or New Zealand is because I knew I could never survive the ride with my back.

        1. squawkbox Avatar
          squawkbox

          I can sleep for 25 hours. Actually I would find a flight with stops and break it up. I’d stop stay the night grab some pictures eat some food go on from there.

          1. Texpat Avatar
            Texpat

            If I slept in a airline seat for 25 hours, I wouldn’t be able to walk for days.

            1. squawkbox Avatar
              squawkbox

              LOL.

      2. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        After watching a full live Flamenco while in Spain I think I can stand a Haka.

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          I’ve seen the real Spanish/Moors flamenco dancing in a dark, obscure nightclub owned by a guitarist from Spain where I was the only person speaking English. It was in Mexico City. He brought this Flamenco troupe from Seville in southern Spain and it was epic. The women all looked as if they were all biracial Spanish/Arab and beautiful. The dance, language and the ululating was amazing. it was nothing like the watered down version of Flamenco Americans had been introduced to.

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            squawkbox

            I saw mine in Malaga, Spain. the bar sounds the same and I was the only english speaking person there. Got strange looks. Brandy was 5 Pesetas for a triple shot and BBQ huge tiger shrimp were 3 for 5 Pesetas in those days about $2. Didnot understand a damn thing they say, but the guitar work was awesome.

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Texpat 5:18
    Israel is softening them up indeed. Chopping the head off the snake, if you will.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The Israeli Grim Beeper/NoTalkie/Walkie certainly holds first place in ultimate covert ops for the 21st century and possibly for the 76 year history of the nation of Israel.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        I’m going to put it up there with Washington crossing the Delaware and The Battle of San Jacinto with a tip of the hat to the Yellow Rose.

  36. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Y’all need to watch the video now before it gets taken down. At the 15 minute mark there is a big blast on film and you can see the shock wave.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Her violin is much more interesting than her singing.

    2. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Apparently you missed the video of my last backyard bbq.;)

      🎸

    3. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Which will be my last backyard bbq.

  37. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Rear Adm. Flatley in 1985
    James Henry Flatley III (born January 9, 1934, in San Diego), is a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy. A naval aviator, fighter pilot, and test pilot, he is the son of Vice Admiral James H. Flatley.

    Career

    While a lieutenant (1963) at the Naval Air Test Center at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, Flatley and his fellow crew members, LCDR Walter W. “Smokey” Stovall and Aviation Machinist’s Mate (Jet). V 1st Class Ed Brennan, made history when they completed 21 full-stop landings and takeoffs in a Lockheed C-130 Hercules aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal; it was the largest plane, with the heaviest load, ever to successfully land on a carrier. Flatley later commanded the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. While serving as the commanding officer of the USS Saratoga in 1980, he completed his 1,500th arrested landing in an F-4 Phantom. He retired in 1987.

    Awards he received during his career include the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.[4] He has also been inducted into the U.S. Naval Aviation Carrier Hall of Fame and the South Carolina Aviation Hall of Fame.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      What an incredible life to live.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Yeah it was. Whoduh thunk it.

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Oh. Em. Gee!! WIP had a lot of material to pull from, hilarious! “Achmed has left the chat” was winner winner.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It is beautiful out there. It’s 62 degrees, humidity falling fast and clear blue skies.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Poor little Rashida.

    Far-left Democratic lawmakers, collectively dubbed the “Squad,” castigated a cartoon published by a conservative magazine and a right-leaning newspaper last week, accusing the outlets of promoting “racism” and “Islamophobia.”

    Last Tuesday and Wednesday, in a series of bombings attributed to Israel, thousands of pagers and hand-held radios exploded simultaneously in three separate attacks across Syria and Lebanon.

    The devices had been issued by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group to its operatives, and were apparently triggered after being packed with miniature bombs. Dozens were killed and thousands injured in the attacks.

    On Thursday, The National Review, a center-right magazine published a cartoon by Henry Payne, featuring Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American and member of the far-left “Squad,” with the remains of a detonated pager on her desk, saying “Odd. My pager just exploded,” implicitly linking the Israel-critic to Hezbollah.

  41. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Roll Tide!
    Mornin’ Gang

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Not only is the UN a criminal enterprise so is the US Department of Justice.

    The United Nations has filed paperwork in an American court in a bid to secure legal immunity for suspected participants in the October 7th atrocities in southwestern Israel who were employed by a UN agency at the time of the massacres, Channel 12 News reported Saturday night.

    and,

    While Israel provided the UN with information on over 100 UNRWA employees suspected of being active members in Hamas, the agency performed an internal investigation on only 19 of the employees, finding that 9 of them “may have been involved” in the October 7th atrocities, the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) ruled.

    plus this from US AG Merrick Garland,

    Now, according to Saturday’s report, the UN is working to shield the suspects from prosecution, relying on the functional immunity provided to the organization’s employees.

    In its filing with an American court, the UN invoked its functional immunity, arguing that pending legal action against UNRWA should be dismissed.

    “Since the UN has not waived immunity in this instance, its subsidiary, UNRWA, continues to enjoy absolute immunity from prosecution, and the lawsuit should be dismissed,” the UN is quoted as writing in the filing.

    The Justice Department has reportedly given its endorsement of the UN’s invocation of immunity.

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    What Did John Brennan Know ? About the Assassination Attempts and When Did He Know It ?

    When it comes to inflammatory language and outright hatred, it’s hard to top former CIA director John Brennan, author of Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies at Home and Abroad. Note the order in the subtitle.

    The CIA is tasked to counter foreign threats to the nation, but with Brennan, CIA boss from 2013-17, the enemies are at home and there is no greater threat than Donald Trump.

    and,

     In 2020, when Undaunted was published, Brennan says “my top-secret code-word clearances remain intact. I still have a CIA badge that allows me to access CIA facilities.” That same year, Brennan was signatory to the letter proclaiming Hunter Biden’s laptop “Russian disinformation.” Undaunted doesn’t cover that operation but in other ways the author tips his hand.

    also,

    According to former CIA analyst John Gentry, author of Neutering the CIA: Why U.S. Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences, “some IC agencies that triggered the attacks on Trump remain intact, available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.” 

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Brennan should rightly be charged with Sedition and Insurrection and Treason. Throw in Comey, Clapper, Strzk, and a few others just for good measure.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m going to attempt attending mass this morning, but will be sure to take another Tylenol before heading out.

    Challenges. But…..God.

  45. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The question is, why didn’t the United States kill Aqil before Israel? After all, the Marine Barracks bombing was the deadliest attack on Americans until the September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda attacks.

    Why did America have to wait 41 years to see justice delivered for our 300 Americans murdered in 1983 in Beirut ?

    Michael Rubin is right. Reagan, George HW Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden – they were all either mistaken or didn’t have the guts to do what needed to be done to halt further terrorist attacks.

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Rod Dreher was working for The American Conservative five years ago when he wrote this column. This was when people began to seriously question the legalizations and effects of marijuana. More has been written since then, but much of it doesn’t get much attention since our stoned media industry is ignoring it.

    You don’t expect the New Yorker and Mother Jones to be places where you read anti-marijuana articles, but Tell Your Children, the new book by former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson is knocking some people flat. The book examines what we know scientifically about marijuana use, and it turns out to be pretty damn scary.

    Five years ago, most Americans were unfamiliar with Berenson. It was only after he became a defiant voice against mandates, lockdowns, masks and “vaccines” during the Covid Public Psychotic Hysteria that his name became widely known.

    Berenson begins his book with an account of a conversation he had with his wife, a psychiatrist who specializes in treating mentally ill criminals. They were discussing one of the many grim cases that cross her desk—“the usual horror story, somebody who’d cut up his grandmother or set fire to his apartment.” Then his wife said something like “Of course, he was high, been smoking pot his whole life.”

    Of course? I said.

    Yeah, they all smoke.

    Well . . . other things too, right?

    Sometimes. But they all smoke.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Man lightly hurt by shrapnel in terror group’s southernmost rocket fire into Israel since October….

    Hezbollah fired 24 rockets at the Jezreel Valley early Sunday morning, marking the terror group’s deepest rocket fire into Israel since the beginning of the war in October
    According to the Israel Defense Forces, all 24 rockets Hezbollah were intercepted by air defenses.
    Large pieces of shrapnel fell in the Jezreel Valley following the interceptions, causing damage to a barn in one area and slightly wounding a man in another.

    TimesOfIsrael

    That valley is east of Haifa

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      There is somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 people displaced from northern Israel. The White House and State Department never mention them. However, there are a lot of moshavs (farms) in the region producing food for the rest of the country so there are still skeleton crews working up there.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Jezreel Valley

    In Christian eschatology, the part of the valley on which the Battle of Megiddo was fought is believed to be the destined site of the penultimate battle between good and evil (with a later, final battle taking place 1,000 years later around Jerusalem[7] (Revelation 20:7–20:10)), the place being known as Armageddon, a toponym derived from the Hebrew Har Megiddo, ‘Mount Megiddo‘.

    — Wiki

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Her name is Zina Rakhamilova. She is on the new Jewish News Syndicate online podcast, The Quad*, with 3 other Jewish women discussing geopolitics and current affairs.

      *Clever play on The Squad

  49. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Always liked this political cartoon.

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So I was looking at Google Maps at a Vrbo that my wife found down in Baycliff and stumbled across what looked like 6 small power station (generators) near the old HL N P Power generating station was was decommissioned several years ago. Looked it up and sure enough it is a private company, PHR Peakers that provides a small amount of power (426 MGW) when needed. Power by natural gas BTW. Is this common in Texas and elsewhere? How did I miss this?

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      This is a new program from the State and ERCOT to incentivize private companies to install small generating capacity across the state to provide backup at peak demand times. I don’t know all the details, but it sounds like a good idea to me.

      I recently wrote about the one trying to get permitted in Sugarland, but the leftists newcomers there have gotten hysterical about it. Morons – one and all.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Yes, it is a good idea. I hope they get those small nuclear reactors online soon. I think a school bus sized one of them is a lot more powerful than these 6 natural gas generators.

  51. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I hear ERCOT is going to change their name to Endicott in hopes of improving PR.

    I bet uncklo was just like Endicott in his younger days.;)

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Heh.
      The book he was reading was In Praise Of Older Women.
      I plead guilty.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If y’all actually do a Baycliff stay I insist on renting a floor spot for a night or two. Sleeping bag size.

    If you recall, two years ago, I was all hyped up about staying on the Bay for a few days – something we never got around to doing while Fay was still here.
    I called for a cottage reservation and the Indian lady didn’t have time to talk with me – said to call back in a few days. That’s what I think she said….Her Engrish wasn’t so good. WTF? I was so disappointed that I blew it off. And they had such a cool website.
    🙂

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well Grandpa, I’m trying something different this evening. Friend gave me two big bags of Alaskan Pollock Filets.
    Found a Parmesan-encrusted recipe involving Panko bread crumbs – paprika – dried parsley – salt/pepper – parmigiano reggiano.
    On a bed of Jasmine rice.
    Looks so easy, even I can do it.

    Wish me luck.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Sounds good to me SO how was it?

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It ain’t southern pan fried catfish with Cajun-style cornmeal breading.
    But then I won’t have to spend 30 minutes cleaning up the kitchen either.
    🙂

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I found some Alaskan pollock recipes online that look pretty good. HH won’t let me cook fish in the house so I have to grill it or pan fry it outside on the grill.

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    You call back wid proper engrish two three days.

  56. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Actually I think that was Chinese or Japanese not Indian. Oh well.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m sure that the C&C will be covering this latest in the Missouri vs. Biden case on free speech:

    This will be a thread of the Plaintiff’s response to the Judge’s request. They started this lawsuit because of public comments made by officials in the Biden administration. When granted preliminary injunction-related discovery, they uncovered a coordinated censorship campaign—with some of the justices on the SCOTUS remarking this was the “most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”

    They make sure to point out that while both the district court and the 5th circuit court decided to uphold the injunction based on the *merits* of the case, the SCOTUS declined to do so and said so. They make sure to clarify that SCOTUS at no point did SCOTUS fail to allege standing adequate to maintain the lawsuit—ONLY for the INJUNCTION.

    They point out that there is a significantly higher burden for standing at the preliminary injunction stage when it comes to proving all aspects of a claim—but argue that the court already ruled in their favor on the motion to dismiss. Hence, they are, in fact, entitled to more discovery.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      After reading all of that link….I’ve pretty much given up on taking the LSAT.

  58. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Again with the across the street guy and his curvy, wavy mow lines. I’m hurtin’ over here.

  59. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    At least mow north/south vs east/west so I can’t see them.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      It takes me fifteen minutes longer to mow because my brain won’t let me mow in anything but straight lines.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Go team OCD!

          1. Bonecrusher Avatar
            Bonecrusher

            Just be glad he isn’t cutting special designs just to aggravate you.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      And don’t blow the damn Grass clippings onto the road!

  60. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I made it through mass, though I was silent through the whole thing. I popped some more pain pills before going, so I made it through. I met Magister before mass and a friend after, and they both said things that made me laugh. Or try to. It hurt.

    But I did get to see my five daughter family and get hugs all around. The Mom has a relative in need of dental work and had heard about the dentistry school. I was holding my cheek the whole time, but I was able to answer her questions. The girls are going to pray for my healing and I got another round of hugs.

    It was worth the effort. Love me some little girl hugs and smiles.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Here’s one way to handle the lawn mowing:

    I hired 100 people to mow my lawn

    there’s guy stuff after the grass cutting

  62. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Israel eliminated Hezbollah’s number 2 and head of military, together with dozens of top commanders.
    In retaliation, Hezbollah eliminated several cows in northern Israel today.
    Let’s call it a draw.

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heroic spy cows.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I finally watched President Trump’s appearance on Gutfeld this week, after 3 friends insisted that I do so.
    I agree. Go watch it if you haven’t. Better than anything else you might find to watch tonight.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I watched it yesterday. I agree, very good .

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      As usual Trump came off as a regular guy, he always does in those settings.

  65. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    NASA Sis texted she just saw six or seven UFOs heading for downtown. No light configurations that she recognized. “I tried to record them on my phone, but somehow I record the grass and not the sky, even thought it started out at the sky.” I guess she accidentally hit the selfie button.

    She said they were flying towards downtown, and wonders if anyone else is going to say anything about it.

    I just replied that it was about time someone came to rescue us.
    ***
    A follow up text indicates that there was no sound and they were in tight formation, like jets.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      OMG, it’s happening.

  66. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Get em while they’re hot.

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Now that is clever and likely to attract attention.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    By the way, the Parm encrusted Pollock was pretty darn good. And I will definitely be doing it again as I snoop around for some other recipes.
    Buying my very first box of Panko bread crumbs makes me one of the cool kids now, right?

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Only if you have a tree leaf salad as a side.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I’m sorry to have to upgrade you hillbillies, but Panko bread crumbs are the bomb – the real deal if you want to cook right.

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The pollock is so mild and delicate that you can’t go overboard on any seasoning or you might forget you’re eating fish.
    I’d liked to use the same recipe on some redfish fillets with a bit more bolder seasoning.

    Fish. It’s a good thing.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Pollock is a fish that you can fix for someone that doesn’t like fish and it will change their mind.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This looks pretty tasty to me…

    Crispy Baked Lemon Pollock Recipe

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      That’s Dana Sandonato, I’ve been following her for years. I first saw her on King Oscar’s page promoting things made with their sardines.I won a KO apron with my Nicoise Kipper Salad. I also got my Fisherman’s Eggs from her. 😉

  70. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Sadly, the Texans woefully lost to the Minnesota Vikings today, while my Green Bay Packers efficiently defeated the Tennessee Titans with ease. The Texans play the Packers at Green Bay on October 20th.

  71. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; My sister came over for supper and I had cooked a small Beef Roast in the Crock Pot all day and then I fixed some rice N gravy, butter beans, fried okra, corn on the cob and Hawaiian Rolls. Good stuff Maynard.
    Oh and Life is Good. 😉

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