Friday Brunette Open Comments

I’ll jump into the brunette pool: Shawnee Smith

Shawnee Smith

 

And she identifies as a conservative!


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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Another “Brunette” that I’m not familiar with but she is pretty, I approve. A little warmer here @ 54 and heading to mid 70’s so today will be the nicest day so far but we’re heading back to L.A. in a bit.That said, yesterday was real nice with the high about 70, little wind and not a cloud in the sky. Oh and have y’all seen the comet? My wife has been looking for that thing all week but the giant moon has been pretty. It’s hanging low in the south western sky as we speak.
    We went to Saltwater Grill over on Middle Beach Road for supper and it was really good. A bit fancier than most places we go to here but the grub didn’t disappoint. BTW; I did soemthin I NEVER do here on the Gulf, I had their outstanding Prime Rib, rare with smashed taters N sauteed green beans. The horseradish sauce was tasty but not very warm so I asked for the real deal and got my sinuses cleaned out real good. 😀 Wife had the Stuffed Flounder Almondine and since it was her birthday she had Caramel Cheesecake. Good stuff Maynard.
    Oh and Mornin’ Gang

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    IT’S FRIDAY!!!!

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Coffee. Good.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I noticed last night the guy in Massachusetts in the pro-Israel parade who ended up shooting his attacker in self-defense lost his job. The cops arrested him immediately, but took a day or two to arrest the asshat in the hospital.

    Scott Hayes, the victim, was fired from his job at the gas utility company because he did what normal Americans do. I was angry and decided to check if there was a GoFundMe account in his name. Sure enough, there is an account there for Hayes that has raised $267,233 and made feel a little better. Although, he may end up having to spend it on legal defense fees.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    “trans non-binary naturalist, youth educator, and community engagement professional”

    People who describe themselves like this are people who don’t have real jobs, but have figured out how to game the government money system.

    Under Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota funds an organization that hosts no-parents-allowed wilderness excursions where children as young as 11 can discuss “queerness” with an adult who identifies as transgender.

    The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources gave $10,500 to Clean River Partners, which sponsors the “Queer Unity, Environmental Education, and Recreation for Youth” program. Led by Heron Mahr, a self-described “trans non-binary naturalist, youth educator, and community engagement professional” who uses “they/them” pronouns, the group convenes monthly “to offer a safe space for young individuals in Northfield and Faribault to connect, learn outdoor skills, and explore the intersection of queerness and nature,” an Instagram post advertising the program states.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Cleaver’s 1959 Plymouth Fury from season 3. You can’t see it but it had a Continental Kit. 😉

  7. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    So the left is screaming in fear that if Trump is elected he will imprison his political enemies. Said Mr. Pot to Mr. Kettle. Methinks thou dost protest too much.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Gavin Newsom and his band of idiots have now passed an absurd law requiring all refineries to maintain huge stockpiles of fuel and additives for blending. Newsom claims it will save citizens billions of dollars. Yeah, I know, I can’t stop laughing either. These rules will absolutely increase the prices at the pump.

    Boom ! Bye-bye says Phillips 66 as they permanently shut down their refinery near LA.

    Chevron is already packing up and leaving after 145 years in California.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I can’t imagine trying to run a business in Commifornia – any business from a refinery to a convenience store. You have nonbusiness idiots calling the shots about businesses and yet have no idea how business of any kind actually operates. It looks like California has collectively taken Atlas Shrugged as an operating manual instead of a warning. IDIOTS.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        I keep hoping Super Dave’s son and family will finally be able to get out of there.

  9. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Good morning all, just thought I’d say hello. It is 26F here this AM. Fall is upon us. The garden is all in and we are pleased with the results and it is time to put the garden to bed. Straw over the strawberries, till it up, remove excess roots and things. The usual.
    Later gator… maybe.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Got to the end of this rosary, counted and recounted my decades. Overlooked counting spacers. Gotta take it apart. /Kicking self/

    About 3:00 a.m. I banged my head hard as I was opening my window. Had to lay in bed with an ice pack until I got up. Gave myself quite a goose egg. /Hurts/

    I’m going to tell people it was Hubby.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Three older, white guys won the Nobel Prize for Economics 4 days ago. Did you hear anything about it ? I wouldn’t have known except for Reason magazine writing about it.

    This year’s laureates in the economic sciences – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson – have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better. The laureates’ research helps us understand why.

    Oh no ! These men said not all colonization was bad. Don’t print a word or announce anything about the prize. We can’t have Nobel winners ruining our indigenous victimology narrative. History is always wrecking our plans.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    At least my morning numbers were much improved. As one guru says, you can’t manage what you don’t measure.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here is how the abject stupidity of leftist environmental hysteria becomes a massive criminal campaign. The moronic assumption there is something evil or unhealthy about GMO foods is ridiculous and anti-science.

    Greenpeace and other anti-biotech activist groups have logged a win in a crusade that could ultimately blind and kill thousands of children annually. How? By persuading the Court of Appeals of the Philippines to issue a scientifically ignorant and morally hideous decision to ban the planting of vitamin A–enriched golden rice. The objective result will be more children blinded and killed by vitamin A deficiency.

    The World Health Organization estimates that 250,000–500,000 children who are vitamin A–deficient become blind every year, and half of them die within 12 months of losing their sight. In addition, children with immune systems weakened by vitamin A deficiency have an increased risk of illness and death from infectious diseases.

    The court also banned the planting of an eggplant variety that has been biotech-enhanced to resist insect pests. The same variety approved by Bangladeshi regulators has reduced pesticide usage and improved farmers’ yields by more than 50 percent.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I am not going to fully agree with you about GMOs being all good or bad. I suspect that the increase in gluten intolerance has quite a bit to do with how much the wheat genome has been bastardized. Remember the Starling corn disaster? It killed a bunch of bees and butterflies if I recall correctly. I trust big AG even less than I trust the FDA or CDC or DOJ for that matter.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        The StarLink corn controversy had a lot of smoke and not much fire. The biggest problem was the FDA allowing a corn for animal consumption, but not for humans. They are going to get mixed up and traces will be inevitably entrained into human corn. They now require any GMO corn to be approved for both humans and animals to avoid the situation.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here is another important Ronald Bailey piece from Reason about the distorted statistics CDC has been reporting about maternal deaths.

    One stupid little thing like adding a checkbox on a death certificate for pregnancy completely obscured the truth in America and nobody in the US government thought to fix it. It’s been 21 years since that little change was made.

    “U.S. maternal deaths keep rising,” reported NPR last year. PBS similarly observed, “U.S. maternal deaths more than doubled over 20 years.” CNN also reported, “US maternal death rate rose sharply in 2021, [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)] data shows, and experts worry the problem is getting worse.”

    This is a perfect example of how government funds and resources get misappropriated and private sector insurance monies are wasted.

    The researchers note that maternal deaths began to rise in 2003 when a pregnancy check box was added to U.S. death certificates. Consequently, if a woman who was pregnant and died in a car crash, from heart disease, or cancer the box was marked and counted as a maternal death in the CDC’s National Vital Statistics System. This statistical misclassification process is what has largely resulted in the reported steep rise in maternal deaths. As the press release accompanying the new study explains:

    The CDC method showed maternal death rates of 9.65 per 100,000 live births in the 1999-2002 period and 23.6 in the 2018-2021 period, while the alternative method calculated death rates of 10.2 and 10.4 per 100,000 live births, respectively. These startling statistics discount the previously held belief that the United States maternal death rates have been increasing.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Same thing happened with Covid.

      And alcohol in car wrecks.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If you’re a 23andMe customer you might qualify.

    The settlement provides for three main types of compensation, with a maximum payout of up to $10,000 for specific claims:

    Extraordinary Claims: Customers who experienced significant losses, such as identity theft or incurred costs for security services, may qualify for up to $10,000. According to HIPAA Journal and Tech.co, affected individuals in this category must provide documentation, such as receipts or records of related expenses. The category is capped at $5 million in total, meaning payouts may be prorated if there are numerous claims exceeding this cap​.

    Health Information Claims: Customers whose sensitive health information was specifically exposed can claim around $100. This category includes health information compromised as part of the data breach and is limited to $750,000 across all claimants.

    Statutory Cash Claims: Residents of California, Illinois, Oregon and Alaska are eligible for a general compensation amount, expected to be about $100, if they received a breach notification and can confirm residency in one of these states.

    This article links to a post describing how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In the discussions about a likely national mental health crisis in the event Trump wins in November, Glenn Reynolds commented the American Left is a “Cluster B” debacle. Professor Reynolds’ wife is a forensic psychologist.

    Here is your definition from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM):

    Cluster B (emotional or erratic disorders)

    Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, impulsive, self-destructive, emotional behavior and sometimes incomprehensible interactions with others.

    Antisocial personality disorder – pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, lack of empathy, lack of remorse, callousness, bloated self-image, and manipulative and impulsive behavior

    Borderline personality disorder – pervasive pattern of abrupt emotional outbursts, fear of abandonment, unhealthy attachment, altered empathy, and instability in relationships, self-image, identity, behavior and affect, often leading to self-harm and impulsivity

    Histrionic personality disorder – pervasive pattern of attention-seeking behavior, including excessive emotions, an impressionistic style of speech, inappropriate seduction, exhibitionism, and egocentrism

    Narcissistic personality disorder – pervasive pattern of superior grandiosity, haughtiness, need for admiration, deceiving others, and lack of empathy (and, in more severe expressions, criminal behavior with remorse)

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      These are all requirements to run for public office and/or federal bureaucracy, right?

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Liberalism is a mental disorder. I’ve always claimed that liberalism is codependency writ large – the inability to see where one’s individuality ends and another’s begins. This leads to taking everything personally; the inability objectively observe another’s actions instead of generating anger if said behavior isn’t “approved,” etc.

      But Cluster B certainly appears to be more accurate.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oops, they were wrong about second-hand smoke. Like everything else they touch…

    In 2003, UCLA epidemiologist James Enstrom and I published a study of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)—also called “secondhand smoke” or “passive smoking”—in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Using data from the American Cancer Society’s prospective study of 1 million adults, we concluded that ETS exposure was not associated with increased mortality.

    Since that conclusion flew in the face of the conventional wisdom that had long driven state and local bans on smoking in public places, our study understandably sparked a controversy in the public health community. But the intensity of the attack on us in the pages of a medical journal—by critics who were certain that our study had to be wrong but typically failed to provide specific evidence of fatal errors—vividly illustrates what can happen when policy preferences that have taken on the status of doctrine override rational scientific debate.

    A recent study by American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers underscores that point by showing that, contrary to what our critics asserted, the cancer risk posed by ETS is likely negligible. The authors present that striking result without remarking on it, which may reflect their reluctance to revisit a debate that anti-smoking activists and public health officials wrongly view as long settled.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      I’ve always figured that if someone wants to smoke, let them.

      I can see both sides of this debate. Venue operators may want to allow smoking for whatever reason and that should be their choice. OTOH, there’s a very sizable majority of workers and customers who don’t smoke and object to sitting in clouds of smoke.

      I suppose we could just let the market work it all out.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        I completely understand non-smokers wanting not be around smokers, at least while they’re smoking.

        But the fact they created this panic over second-hand smoke and claimed it was killing people was destructive, wrong and again – anti-science.

      2. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        I think we would have arrived at the current state of affairs anyway, where smoking isn’t permitted indoors in public places, especially once smoker numbers dropped below 20% of the population. It’s hard to fathom that I grew up in a time when there were smoking sections (loge) in movie theaters.

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    7:38 TP

    “naturalist”

    Does that mean that this guy provides this invaluable service to Minnesota children while nekkid?

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Bonecrusher mentioned the increase in gluten intolerance earlier. Celiac disease affects 1% or less of people and causes gluten intolerance. Here was my first introduction into the “gluten-free” world.

    Back around 2013 to 2015, I was attending regular Torah classes at my rabbi’s home once or twice a week. They began at 10 AM and ended with a potluck lunch at noon. There were roughly 13 women and 5 men from 40s to their 70s attending.

    A new member was the youngest and was a clinically diagnosed Celiac disease sufferer. She kept showing up with all this gluten-free food and starting discussions about it. At the same time, food products were suddenly being advertised gluten-free. Briefly, over the next 6 or 9 months each one of the women decided they were gluten intolerant. Not one of the men did.

    It took all of my willpower to avoid making snarky comments. Draw the obvious conclusions about how prevalent real, genuine gluten intolerance is in America.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      The front desk chick at our office has a son who has been clinically diagnosed with Celiac disease and I have a cousin with it. Genetically engineering human food plants to produce insecticide can’t be good for the humans the plants are intended for.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Why ? Virtually every food grown on the face of the earth has been genetically modified, including livestock. Shannon’s father-in-law created the Polled Brahman cattle breed, but it took him 63 years to breed the horns out of the herd. Today’s biotechnology could get that done far quicker.

        Today’s corn, wheat, rice and other crops have all been modified through selection and hybridization. The corn we eat looks nothing like the maize of the 1700s.

        1. Tedtam Avatar
          Tedtam

          Fruits have also been selectively bred to be quite different from what they were years ago.

          I do have a problem with selectively breeding humans, though. I sense that is next. May already be happening; e.g., “your child isn’t perfect, here’s your abortion appointment”.

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Let’s not forget some unscrupulous buttheads that will graft DNA from unclean animals onto grains meant for human consumption. They may do this to alter the appearance or promote some trait they think is beneficial, but the end result is a grain that is not Kosher.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        I’m not advocating uncontrolled GMO, but I don’t believe it is evil or poisonous either.

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          Like any other technology, it can be used for good or sinister reasons.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I bought this nice, expensive stainless teapot for Her Highness 7 years ago and while we don’t use it everyday, it does get heated several times a week. It started leaking yesterday and I ordered a replacement since the warranty was only 5 years. My mother had a teapot that must have lasted 40 years.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Trump’s comedy routine at the Al Smith Dinner last night was brilliant and hilarious. Don’t miss the replays.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally finished wrestling with the beads – Today they were fighting me. What with miscounts, starting over, refusal of the beading string to slip through the crimp rings, dropping crap on the floor (and the subsequent search)….today’s rosary session took longer than normal.

    I just offer it up. Anyway, time for the C&C before I finally begin to forage for lunch…

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! I apologize for the timing and brevity of today’s post; I’m fighting off something that feels like an incipient head cold. It seems foggy-mindedness tends to slow the writing process. But it finally came together: Excellent Texas Attorney General sues University of Texas doctor under terrific new law forbidding the genderbending of kids; best example of corporate media “permissive structures” yet in classic NYT mind control piece invoking Generals Milley and Mussolini; and justice continues coming for Disney like a remorseless robot gunslinger after firing female conservative MMA actress.

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here you go, folks.

    This is The Extinction Clock. It is a comprehensive list of every lunatic environmental prediction made since 1970. Death, mayhem, destruction, apocalypse….

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      They were wrong how many times and how much money has been wasted trying to stave off that which was predicted? All of the predictions are false, grossly so.
      I have a prediction: If we keep listening to these ignorant, noxious, gasbags we will all die in poverty in a bankrupt country.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First up – transgender surgery lawsuits. Childers is pushing for Paxton to be the next US Attorney General, but I really don’t want him to leave Texas.

    Lawfare cuts both ways, just like gender surgery. The New York Times ran an encouraging story yesterday headlined, “Texas Attorney General Sues Doctor Over Treatment for Transgender Minors.

    Texas law currently disallows permanently mutilating kids who aren’t even considered emotionally adult enough to vote. It not only revokes the docs’ medical licenses, it also allows for personal damages to be litigated against the knife slinger. Childers throws in this zinger, which I just have to share because it would be so appropriate:

    … I heard a rumor that the law almost included a provision requiring noncompliant doctors to receive all the banned treatments they prescribed.

    /snuffle snort!

    Paxton is firing his first salvo in the “save our kids” war: Dr. May Lau, who is employed at UT, Southwestern Medical Center. It seems that not only has she “treated” over 20 kids against the law, she falsified medical records.

    So Dr. Lau is — allegedly — a forgerer, liar, fraudster, and a danger to children. I’m not exaggerating. … the Times gave her a chance to deny it, but she clammed up. Probably under the advice of counsel.

    Perhaps AG Paxton should consider adding claims for criminal insurance fraud, since one suspects that bleeding-hearted Dr. Lau and the oh-so-charitable Southwest Medical Center were not working for free. …

    It’s worth reflecting on the irony that all the people currently howling in outrage, such as the ACLU, are the very same people who, about ten minutes ago, also howled in rage demanding cancellation of doctors prescribing harmless ivermectin for covid infections.

    Good point, there. The “horse paste” cure was never legislated to be illegal, for any treatment, anywhere. The libs who wanted to kick those doctors to the curb – the ones advising legal and effective medical care – are the same ones who are crying that the lib doctors who are breaking the law and following up with a coverup of their illegal behavior are victims. I agree – they are victims of their own behavior.

    In fact, the only authority anti-ivermectin state medical boards could rely on was a single horsey tweet by the jackasses at the FDA — a tweet the Fifth Circuit later ruled was illegal medical advice the FDA wasn’t allowed to give in the first place.

    /snip

    I realize everyone has their favorites, and believe me, I am not counting any chickens, but … how about Ken Paxton for U.S. Attorney General?

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The New York Slimes is up to its usual hijinks:

    The New York Times ran an unintentionally hilarious, page-one, top-of-fold story this morning headlined, “Harris and Democrats Lose Their Reluctance to Call Trump a Fascist.” In a very cowardly fashion, the Times disabled the article’s comments section, or they’d have felt the sting of my fiery remark.

    I thought that happened a long time ago….like minutes after Trump came down that escalator. Maybe I’m misremembering.

    The Times’s article — which I do not recommend reading — was a classic “permissive structure,” the latest example of what we’ve recently discussed. It’s how the deep state communicates telepathically with democrats, signaling what they’re allowed to say and to think without getting canceled by the liberal mob.

    Indeed, the Party’s Glorious Leader and Useful Numbskull has granted Democrats permission to call Trump a “fascist”: [insert quote from the Cackler to the popular black podcast host named after one of the most famous European emperors ever – yes we can use the word “fascist”.]

    Mr. C. follows with an interesting discussion on how NYT uses language to attempt to redefine the English language and confuse its readers. Like its readers needed more confusion, but that’s what works for the left. They are the part of division, confusion, social terrorism, and death.

    By the time readers reach the hypnotic, mind-numbing conclusion of the logorrheic article, they still have no definition of the single word that formed the center of the entire enterprise. Indeed, defining “fascism” would work against the article’s purposes.

    After all, a tangible definition could be argued and reasoned against. It’s better to set the term’s tangibility level at a consistency near warm jello. Which, ironically, is just what fascists do. Proper ones, that is.

    In sum, the Times’ entire argument consisted not of defining a fascist and then showing that Trump meets the definition, but instead just approvingly repeating Hillary Clinton and General Milley calling Trump a fascist, and giving readers explicit permission to emulate them.

    This article might be the best example of a Barack Obama-style permissive structure that we’ve yet examined.

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And finally – Gina Carano update re her lawsuit with Disney. Dang, the wheels of justice grind slowly! She is suing Disney because they fired her from the popular “The Mandalorian” series because she’s not lib enough. “The Mandalorian” started out non-woke and popular and had shades of the popular “Firefly” (also canceled stupidly ahead of its time). Carano had been cast to star in a spinoff of “TM” called “Rangers of the New Republic”.

    In 2021, Disney was furiously engaged in a laser battle with Governor Ron DeSantis over a Florida law banning sexual materials in pre-K-3rd grade, which it lost, badly and in a very humiliating fashion. Around that time, Disney also rudely fired Carano over a single conservative tweet, throwing the records-breaking Mandalorian into a tailspin, like a disabled tie-fighter. It has never recovered.

    FAFO, I say. TM lasted two seasons: once Carano was canned, the ratings tanked. There was a season 3, but it was so badly received that a fourth season died like it had one of those WLR jabs. Suddenly but not quite so unexpectedly. Carano’s fans were incensed.

    Musk is assisting Carano, since she was fired over a tweet.

    Carano’s lawyers pointed out a glaring double standard: at the same time, her male liberal co-star, Enrico Pascal, tweeted comparing Trump to Hitler. Despite the inflammatory, Holocaust-invoking nature of his own post, Pascal faced zero consequences—no firing, no reprimand. The contrast was stark and undeniable: Carano was shot out of the airlock for her conservative views, while Pascal’s controversial liberal tweet flew right under Disney’s woke radar.

    /snip

    Yesterday, in a terse, one-sentence order, the Court denied Disney’s request for an immediate appeal. That means it’s now high noon, and Carano’s lawyers will start discovering all of Disney’s internal communications about her and about what happened. Don’t worry, this is only going to hurt for a very long time.

    Discovery could be quite, quite painful. In all kinds of ways. Childers anticipates a settlement in lieu of sunshine and transparency. And embarrassment.

    This encouraging story includes a hopeful confluence of emerging factors: anti-wokeness, conservative lawfare, frontier justice, and Elon Musk once again moving the social needle.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    What America could become like under the rule of Harris/Walz and the DNC:

    A Christian pastor was arrested after he made comments about Islam and the binary nature of sex while street preaching outside Bristol University.

    In response to a question from a Muslim member of the public, Dia Moodley said he believed there were differences between the moral standards of the God of Islam and the Christian God.

    During his preaching he also expressed the belief that God made humans male and female and that this truth should not be denied.

    The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF UK), which is supporting Moodley, said he was arrested and detained for 13 hours by Avon and Somerset Police in March.

    and this story,

    A British army veteran who served in Afghanistan was found guilty today of praying silently near an abortion clinic in England.

    Adam Smith-Connor breached a Public Spaces Protection Order by this action, according to the ruling at Poole Magistrates Court in the town of Poole near Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

    […]The court found Smith-Connor guilty for an act of a “disapproval of abortion,” though he was only thinking about his son, who had been aborted many years before, according to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International.

    Smith-Connor had slightly bowed his head and clasped his hands in prayer on a public green in a buffer zone near the abortion facility in Orphir Road, Bournemouth in November 2022. During a confrontation with police officers that he recorded, they asked him, “What is the nature of your prayer?”

  28. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sarge and i had many arguments about Posse Comitatus Act that regulated the military and their operations in civilian police functions. One of the big questions was, “Can our military kill Americans in the course of their duties?” The answer now is yes. It is codified in
    DOD DIRECTIVE 5240.01
    DOD INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES
    AND DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE COMPONENT ASSISTANCE TO
    LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CIVIL
    AUTHORITIES

    The 2024 update introduces a dramatic shift, particularly regarding domestic operations. Section 3.3.a.(2)(c) now explicitly permits lethal force in cases of imminent threats or national security emergencies, provided the action complies with legal oversight, specifically DoDD 5210.56, which governs the use of deadly force by DoD personnel. Key updates include: Use of lethal force: The directive allows military intelligence components to assist law enforcement in operations that involve lethal force. Conditions for force: The directive specifies lethal force can be used under conditions involving imminent threats. Legal oversight: Any use of lethal force must comply with DoDD 5210.56, ensuring proper legal frameworks are followed. https://greenmedinfo.com/sites/default/files/ckeditor/Sayer%20Ji/images/lethality_clause_3_3a2c.jpg

    I would strongly suggest you read the commentary here.

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Y’all need to RTWDT my last comment. Especially in light of Texpat’s comment at 1:29

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And do I believe the military would kill Americans? YES

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Sadly and regretfully, I have to agree.

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Here’s a cheerful scenario: Kamala get elected POTUS and she ‘makes a pathway to citizenship’ for all the military aged illegals she invited in – provided they serve at least x number of years in the Armed Services. They could even create a new division, like Trump did with Space Force, and call it Newcomer Enforcers Unit of the Deep State. Wouldn’t that be swell?

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    RE: DoD authorizing use of force on Americans

    Chris Salcedo brought this to light several days ago, and as he talks to various lawmakers and candidates, he’s informing them and talking to them about it.

    All of this talk from the left regarding unrest over the upcoming election is merely setting the environment for this.

    I wonder, should anything happen – would a convention of states be more likely to happen? Or even be able to happen?

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    There is no reason for officer safety to trump citizen safety. This is particularly true when the officer kicks a 18 y.o. kid in the face when he is on the ground.
    Both the cop and the chief belong in prison.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Lots of conservatives love to talk about how much they love law enforcement, but….January 6th, need I say more ? But I will…

    There were several white cops with the CPS woman there to take a black couple’s child away from them in Maryland. I watched a bunch of cops chasing a lone surfer on a beach in California arrest him during Covid lockdowns. Cops in Tennessee and Kentucky were driving through church parking lots with license plate scanners collecting names of people breaking unconstitutional prohibitions of religious freedom during Covid lockdowns. Federal marshals arrested a young surgeon in Houston for revealing Texas Children’s Hospital was performing illegal sexual mutilation surgeries on children. I watched a video of Minneapolis police officers driving around at night shooting people on their own front porches with paint ball guns during Covid lockdowns. Most of the US military will not be any different.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The guys who own Trump Burger in Bellville must have some Vietnamese friends.
    There are now no less than six yard signs in front of the restaurant “VIETNAMESE FOR TRUMP 2024!!!”
    Hilarious.

    (The Trump Burger guys are a bunch of radical right wing Indian-Americans.)

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Man, that is hilarious. I remember back when I reported on KSEV from the protests in Manhattan against Iranian President Ahmadinejad at the UN annual confab. Right when I walked up to the front of the police barriers, the Vietnamese protest contingent from Houston was there. Great people.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Now that’s funny.

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good interesting stuff in today’s comments.

    Not to hold breath, but it’s 1 minute to October 19.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tedtam took the bull by the horns this week.

    not good.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just kidding.

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