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Administration's contradictory messaging, foreign aid payments...

"Administration's contrair messaging, foreign aid payments & ending the migrant protocol's encourage illegral ill immigration"

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So we will pay countries to keep people from coming to our borders....

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Isn't that just like paying RANSOMWARE ?  ?

 

*Michael Ramirez

Entry #1,394

This isn't just your father's left-wing revolution

In this Aug. 16, 1969, file photo, rock music fans relax during a break in the entertainment at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, N.Y.

 

Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it.

One of their favourite mottos was “Change it or lose it,” even as protests focused on drugs, music, race, class, sex, fashion — almost anything and everything.

Sixties radicals tutored America on long hair; wire-rim eyeglasses; who was a drag, a square, a bummer; and who was hip, cool, groovy, mellow and far out. Most of these silly revolutionaries were not unhinged Weathermen killers or SDS would-be communists, but just adolescents along for the good-time ride.

With the end of the draft in 1972, the winding down of the Vietnam War, the oil embargoes and a worsening economy, the ’60s revolution withered away. Cynics claimed the revolution was mostly about middle-class students with long hair kicking back during the peak of the postwar boom, indulging their appetites and ensuring they would not end up in Vietnam.

It is not even true that the ’60s at least ensured needed reform. The civil rights movement and equal rights for women and gays were already birthed before the hippies, as were folk songs and early rock music.

Instead, what the ’60s revolution did was accelerate these trends — but also radicalize, manipulate and coarsen them.

The grasping “yuppies” of the 1980s were the natural successors to let-it-all-hang-out “hippies.” The ’60s were at heart a narcissistic free-for-all, when “freedom” often entailed self-indulgence and avoiding responsibility.

By 1981, the Reagan revolution finished off the dead-enders of the Woodstock generation. Most eventually grew up. They rebooted their self-centred drug, sex and party impulses to fixations on money, status and material things.

Sixties radicals tutored America on long hair; wire-rim eyeglasses; who was a drag, a square, a bummer; and who was hip, cool, groovy, mellow and far out. Most of these silly revolutionaries were not unhinged Weathermen killers or SDS would-be communists, but just adolescents along for the good-time ride.

With the end of the draft in 1972, the winding down of the Vietnam War, the oil embargoes and a worsening economy, the ’60s revolution withered away. Cynics claimed the revolution was mostly about middle-class students with long hair kicking back during the peak of the postwar boom, indulging their appetites and ensuring they would not end up in Vietnam.

 

It is not even true that the ’60s at least ensured needed reform. The civil rights movement and equal rights for women and gays were already birthed before the hippies, as were folk songs and early rock music.

Instead, what the ’60s revolution did was accelerate these trends — but also radicalize, manipulate and coarsen them.

The grasping “yuppies” of the 1980s were the natural successors to let-it-all-hang-out “hippies.” The ’60s were at heart a narcissistic free-for-all, when “freedom” often entailed self-indulgence and avoiding responsibility.

By 1981, the Reagan revolution finished off the dead-enders of the Woodstock generation. Most eventually grew up. They rebooted their self-centred drug, sex and party impulses to fixations on money, status and material things.

Sixties protesters mainlined divorce, abortion on demand, promiscuity, drug use and one-parent homes. But by the late 1970s and the 1980s, most veteran cultural revolutionaries had gotten married, were raising a family, bought a house, got a job and made money.

This time around, their offspring’s left-wing assault is different — and far more ominous. The woke grandchildren of the former outsiders are now more ruthless systematic insiders. The woke and wired new establishment knows how to use money and power to rebirth America as something the founders and most current Americans never envisioned.

Name one mainline institution that the woke left does not now control — and warp. The media? The campus? Silicon Valley? Professional sports? The corporate boardroom? Foundations? The K-12 educational establishment? The military hierarchy? The government deep state? The FBI top echelon?

The left absorbed them all. But this time around, members of the left really believe that “by any means necessary” is no mere slogan. Instead, it is a model of how to disrupt or destroy American customs, traditions and values.

Woke revolutionaries are not panhandlers, street people or Grateful Dead groupies. They are not even a few nutty and murderous Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists fighting against “the Man.”

They are “the Man.”

Our 21st  century revolutionaries are multibillionaires with flip-flops, tie-dye T-shirts and nose rings, but with the absolute power and desire to censor how half the country communicates — or cancel them entirely.

They don’t flock to campus free-speech areas; they are the campus administrators who ban free speech.

They don’t picket outside the Pentagon; they are inside the Pentagon.

They don’t chant “eat the rich”; they are the rich who eat at Napa Valley’s French Laundry.

They don’t protest “uptight” values, because they are more intolerant and puritanical than any Victorian.

They don’t believe in racial quotas based on “proportional representation,” because they are racists who demand under representation of “bad” racial groups and over representation of “good” groups. The colour of our skin is their gospel, not the content of our character.

They are top-down revolutionaries. None of their agendas, from open borders and changing the Constitution to critical race theory and banning clean-burning fossil fuels, are ever favoured among a majority of the population.

~V.D. Hanson

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The difference between 'potentially' and 'realistically :-)

The difference between 'potentially' and 'realistically'

 

A young boy went up to his father and asked him, "Dad, what is the difference between 'potentially' and 'realistically'?"   

 

The father thought for a moment, then answered  ,      "  Go ask your mother if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. Then ask your sister if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars, and then, ask your brother if he'd sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. Come back and tell me what you learn from that."   

 

So the boy went to his mother and asked, "Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?"

 

The mother replied, "Of course, I would! We could really use that money to fix up the house and send you kids to a great university!"   

 

The boy then went to his sister and asked, "Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?"

The girl replied, "Oh, good heavens! I LOVE Brad Pitt and I would sleep with him in a heartbeat. Are you nuts?"   

 

The boy then went to his brother and asked, "Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?"

 

"Of course," the brother replied. "Do you know how much a million bucks would buy?"   

 

The boy pondered the answers for a few days and then went back to his dad. His father asked him, "Did you find out the difference between 'potentially' and 'realistically'?  "

 

The boy replied, "Yes, 'Potentially' you and I are sitting on three million dollars, but 'realistically' we're living with two hookers and a future congressman."

Entry #1,391

The Woman Marine Pilot :-)

The Woman Marine Pilot

 
The Woman Marine Pilot :-)
 
The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.   The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories. There were all the regular types of stuff: spilled milk and  pennies saved.
 
  But then the teacher realized, much to her dismay, that only Janie was left. "Janie," she asked, "do you have a story to share?"
 
  "Yes ma'am. My daddy told me a story about my Mommy. She was a Marine pilot in Syria, and her plane got hit.  She had to bail out over enemy  territory, and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol, and a survival knife.  She drank the whiskey on the way down in case the bottle broke, and her parachute landed her right in the middle of 20  ISIS troops.  She shot 15 of them with the pistol, until  she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife till the blade  broke, and then she killed the last ISIS fighter with her bare hands.
 
''Good Heavens,' said the horrified teacher.  'What did your Daddy tell  you was the moral to this horrible story?"
 
 "Stay away from Mommy when she's been drinking.
Entry #1,390

The White house Fence :-)

 The White house Fence

 

Three contractors bid to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Kentucky and the third is from New Orleans. All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.

The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.

"Well," he says, "I figure the job will cost $9,000. That's $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me."

The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $7,000. That's $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me."

The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys. How did you come up with such a high figure?"

"The Chicago contractor whispers back, "$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence."

"Done!" replies the government official.



The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$27,000."

The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys. How did you come up with such a high figure?"

"The Chicago contractor whispers back, "$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence."

"Done!" replies the government official.

Entry #1,389

UFO expert says aliens may or may not be out there but 'technological artifacts exist way beyond our

 

 

 

UFO expert says aliens may or may not be out there but 'technological artifacts exist way beyond our comprehension'

UFO expert says aliens may or may not be out there but 'technological artifacts exist way beyond our comprehension'
Sarah Al-Arshani
Mon, June 7, 2021, 6:50 PM
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The image from video provided by the Department of Defense labelled Gimbal, from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds, traveling against the wind. “There's a whole fleet of them,” one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. “It's rotating." The U.S. government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects, under orders from Congress, and a report summarizing what officials know is expected to come out in June 2021.  (Department of Defense via AP)More

  • A former US Navy pilot said pilots saw UFOs in the sky almost daily.

  • A UFO expert says there is no concrete evidence aliens exist but the idea is not off the table.

  • Advanced technology beyond current comprehension could also be at play.

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An expert on UFOs said while there's no concrete evidence to show whether aliens may or may not be out there, there are technological artifacts that exist "way beyond our comprehension."

In May, a former US Navy pilot told CBS's 60 Minutes that  pilots training off the US coast sighted UFOs - also known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) - nearly every day.

In 2019, the Department of Defense launched a special task force to investigate videos of UAP. A report on the sightings found no evidence that  UAP sighted belong to aliens, but said so little is known that it can't be ruled out.

University of Southern California  Professor Madhu Thangavelu  told Insider that what pilots saw may not be extraterrestrial in origin, as there still isn't any public evidence that aliens exist - but that doesn't mean the possibility is off the table.

"[In the] scientific field, the material evidence is important," he said.

NASA is now also looking into UAP

NASA's new chief, Bill Nelson, told  CNN  last week that the agency is setting up an investigation to further look into the flying objects.

Nelson said he doesn't think the UFOs prove the existence of aliens, but said he referred to scientists who could better explain what they are.

"We don't know if it's extraterrestrial. We don't know if it's an enemy. We don't know if it's an optical phenomenon," Nelson said. "We don't think [it's an optical phenomenon] because of the characteristics that those Navy jet pilots described ... And so the bottom line is, we want to know."

Thangavelu, who works in both the Engineering and Architecture departments at USC, said these videos do show things that can't be easily explained.

"It's possible that we will see more evidence as things happen," he said, referring to the Pentagon report and further investigations into the UFOs. "There's also the possibility that the technologies that are employed are what is causing these rapid movements that they talk about that cannot be explained using our physics or our engineering," he said.

However, whatever is piloting these craft is not likely human. Or if they are human, they're probably not on board.

"Very simply, when they talk about these things that are moving very fast ... if there was a human being inside, they would simply be crushed because of the acceleration."

The interactions were too far away to identify

However, Thangavelu said when talking about other life forms, it's important to categorize what's being seen into three categories based on the proximity of the interaction. The first being where someone sees something they can't explain from far away. The second is when something is witnessed in close proximity. Finally, the third is actual face-to-face interaction with an alien.

Thangavelu said all the interactions being talked about so far are from afar, which makes it harder to really tell what the Navy pilots are witnessing.

Advanced technology could be at play

Thangavelu said our technology and innovations span over a relatively small amount of time in history and it's possible what we're seeing are innovations that we haven't completely understood, so whether it's aliens, new technology by other countries, or top-secret projects by the US, the ability to understand it is hindered by the scope of what we know.

NPR, however, said the report found the objects witnessed were not created in classified programs by the US or the Pentagon.

To put it more simply, Thangavelu quoted the inventor and writer Arthur C. Clarke who said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

However, even if what's being seen is the work of aliens, Thangavelu says there's no reason for anyone to panic. And while he said this could be advanced technology, he rejected theories that they're being used to spy on the US by rivals and said if they were, we would feel the consequences.

"If it were a spying operation then we should see the consequence of it that in some of our actions and I'm not aware of anything that suggests that whatever is looking at us or running around ... is affecting our intelligence community to date, because if they were, we would know it," he said.

Read the original article on  Insider

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Are Americans becoming Sovietized ?

Americans becoming Sovietized?

Servicemen of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) gather at the Red Square to prevent a pro ...
Servicemen of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) gather at the Red Square to prevent a protest rally in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
By Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Content Agency
May 8, 2021 - 9:00 pm
 
 Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin’s lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives?

Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition.

1. There was no escape from ideological indoctrination — anywhere. A job in the bureaucracy or a military assignment hinged not so much on merit, expertise or past achievement. What mattered was loud enthusiasm for the Soviet system.

Wokeness is becoming our new Soviet-like state religion. Careerists assert that America was always and still is a systemically racist country, without ever producing proof or a sustained argument.

Entry #1,384

Defending Our Constitution: Limits On Federal Authority

Consider:

A statue of George Washington is seen near the New York Stock Exchange building along Wall Street in New York City on Aug. 1, 2018. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Defending the Constitution: Limits on Federal Authority

https://www.theepochtimes.com › defending-the-constit...
May 16, 2021 —  Robert G. Natelson is a former constitutional law professor and historian who serves as senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the ...v
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