It’s Wednesday, March 8th, 2023…but before we begin, discussing the perilous state of the Republic with TLJ over another delicious dinner brought to mind this line from Bryan Brown in Breaker Morant:
While Merrick Garland and Chris Wray busy their departments chasing what they dutifully deem the greatest threat to America, Christians and White Nationalists, actual terrorists, both foreign and domestic, struck again in Atlanta:
“Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the violence seen on Sunday marked a “significant escalation” in violence and the number of suspects involved. “This wasn’t about a public safety training center. This was about anarchy, and this was about an attempt to destabilize. And we are addressing that quickly,” Schierbaum told reporters Sunday. “Actions such as this will not be tolerated. You attack law enforcement officers, you damage equipment, you are breaking the law. This was a very violent attack that occurred this evening.” Schierbaum said he has been clear on what a protest is versus violence, and that “legitimate protests” would have the “the full protection of the Atlanta Police Department.”
Instead, Schierbaum said the incidents on Sunday were “criminal activity.” “This is not a protest. This is criminal activity. And the charges that will be brought forth will show that,” he said.
Both Schierbaum and [Georgia Attorney General Chris] Carr have highlighted to the media this week that the majority of suspects detained on Sunday were not from the state of Georgia, let alone Atlanta. Out of the 23 charged, two were from the Peach State. “So this is a national network, an international group of people that are organized to come to our state to undermine a public safety training center,” Carr said…”
Which begs the question of both Garland and Wray…
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We open with some thoughts on the initial release of the January 6 videos. First, Tucker Carlson was the wrong courier to deliver this message, particularly in light of recent revelations of his gross misconduct as part of FOX’s Stealgate. Had we been Kevin McCarthy, we’d have chosen a herals of unimpeachable credibility; Brit Hume comes immediately to mind.
Still, it requires a willful suspension of reason to view this video of the Capitol Police calmly escorting a behorned imbecile through the Capitol…
…and reach Mitch McConnell’s curious conclusion:
For the record, here’s the Capitol Police chief’s letter, erroneously entitled “Truth & Justice”:
So many half-truths and misrepresentations, so little time. We’d love to have the Chief respond to the following three questions under oath:
(i) Whose fault was it your officers were outnumbered?
(ii) “De-escalation tactics”; Is that what you call Michael Byrd’s interaction with Ashli Babbit…
…a response which came without warning and imminent threat to Byrd’s body or person?
(iii) Outside of your absurdly foolish “common sense” fallacy, what MEDICAL evidence, if any, can you offer in support of your claim Brian Sicknick’s January 6 exertions directly resulted in his death the next day? Your honor, counsel is introducing unprovable assertions which DO NOT constitute evidence!
Here’s the juice, in the form of two more thoughts: One, in the interest of fairness, Michael Byrd didn’t know what Ashli Babbit had in her backpack; then again, he could have…and should have…fired a warning shot prior to using deadly force. Two, by the same token, if one chooses to define the attempt by a minority of the trespassers to disrupt the certification of the electoral votes as an “insurrection”, must one not, in fairness, term a conspiracy on the part of Dimocrats, the MSM, DOJ, FBI, Facebook and Twitter to change the outcome of the election an “insurrection”…or at the very least a concerted effort to steal it?!?
Just sayin’.
In a related item detailing deliberate deception at the highest levels of government, NRO‘s Caroline Downey recounts how…
“…On Sunday, the GOP-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed that the nation’s leading epidemiologist in February 2020 directed and approved a paper titled, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which he later cited to cast the lab-leak theory as a myth. “New evidence released by the Select Subcommittee today suggests that Dr. Fauci ‘prompted’ the drafting of a publication that would ‘disprove’ the lab leak theory, the authors of this paper skewed available evidence to achieve that goal, and Dr. Jeremy Farrar went uncredited despite significant involvement,” a memo from the committee read.
On February 1, 2020, Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Francis Collins, then director of the National Institutes of Health, held a call with several scientists to discuss the origins of the virus. A group of evolutionary virologists on the call informed Fauci and Collins that Covid may have stemmed from a lab accident and may have been genetically engineered, according to the memo. Three days later, four of the experts who attended that meeting drafted a research document, which was forwarded to Fauci upon completion for editing and approval. The paper, later published in Nature Medicine, argued that Covid had “mutations” that supported the explanation that it had been transmitted to humans from animals.
One of the four authors, Dr. Kristin Andersen, admits in a cover email sent to Nature that Fauci “prompted” the paper’s drafting in order to “disprove” the lab-leak theory. “There has been a lot of speculation, fear-mongering, and conspiracies put forward in this space. [This paper was] Prompted by Jeremy Farrah [sic], Tony Fauci, and Francis Collins,” Andersen wrote in the email, released Sunday by the House committee.
In April, 2020, Fauci addressed reporters at a White House press conference alongside former president Trump, pointing to the paper as justification for his belief that the lab-leak theory was a far-fetched conspiracy. Fauci did not acknowledge his own role in commissioning the paper and feigned ignorance as to the identities of its authors. “There was a study recently where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences … in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human,” Fauci said at the time.“So, the paper will be available. I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you,” he said.
Fauci told National Geographic a month later that Covid “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.”
…This month, the Department of Energy assessed that Covid most likely originated from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report included in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office. The FBI arrived at the same conclusion with “moderate confidence” in 2021, according to declassified intelligence report. Bureau director Christopher Wray went on the record with Fox News Tuesday with that opinion…”
While some, like the author of this commentary in the Journal, acknowledge mistakes were made but refuse to ascribe malice aforethought to the errors, it’s our opinion the sheer volume of patent prevarications and deliberate deceptions Dr. Faux Chi disseminated establishes a clear pattern beyond any reasonable doubt, just as a desire to conceal his direct involvement in funding the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that produced and then unleashed the COVID-19 on an unexpecting world furnishes motive. Yo, Tony…
Here’s a second shot of the juice: Truly there are lies, damned lies and then there’s any utterance from anyone remotely connected with Progressive politics.
As regards not only everyone involved in the COVID cover-up, but the January 6th committee, the Biden clown car and the Dimocratic Party in its entirety: Christ might well have been speaking to directly to them when he said in John 8:44:
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
We’ve all sinned and come short of the glory of God, but Faux Chi, Biden, Obama, Kerry, Kommielaa, Hillary, Cheney, Kinzinger, Schumer, Pelosi, they’re a breed apart as described by George Macready in Paths of Glory:
Since 2018, the military has shifted to focus on China and Russia after decades fighting insurgencies, but it still faces challenges to produce weapons and come up with new ways of waging war
“Clint Hinote returned from a deployment in Baghdad in the spring of 2018 to a new assignment and a staggering realization.
A classified Pentagon wargame simulated a Chinese push to take control of the South China Sea. The Air Force officer, charged with plotting the service’s future, learned that China’s well-stocked missile force had rained down on the bases and ports the U.S. relied on in the region, turning American combat aircraft and munitions into smoldering ruins in a matter of days. “My response was, ‘Holy crap. We are going to lose if we fight like this,’” he recalled.
The officer, now a lieutenant general, began posting yellow sticky notes on the walls of his closet-size office at the Pentagon, listing the problems to solve if the military was to have a chance of blunting a potential attack from China. “I did not have an idea how to resolve them,” said Lt. Gen. Hinote. “I was struck how quickly China had advanced, and how our long-held doctrines about warfare were becoming obsolete.”…”
Since we’re on the subject of ChiCom concerns, also from Journal, we learn the…
Equipment at U.S. ports could pose risk of surveillance or sabotage, officials say; China says concerns are ‘paranoia-driven’
“U.S. officials are growing concerned that giant Chinese-made cranes operating at American ports across the country, including at several used by the military, could give Beijing a possible spying tool hiding in plain sight.
Some national-security and Pentagon officials have compared ship-to-shore cranes made by the China-based manufacturer, ZPMC, to a Trojan horse. While comparably well-made and inexpensive, they contain sophisticated sensors that can register and track the provenance and destination of containers, prompting concerns that China could capture information about materiel being shipped in or out of the country to support U.S. military operations around the world.
The cranes could also provide remote access for someone looking to disrupt the flow of goods, said Bill Evanina, a former top U.S. counterintelligence official. “Cranes can be the new Huawei,” Mr. Evanina said, referring to the Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co., whose equipment U.S. officials have effectively banned after warning that it could be used to spy on Americans. “It’s the perfect combination of legitimate business that can also masquerade as clandestine intelligence collection.” Huawei has said its products aren’t a national-security risk.
A representative of the Chinese Embassy in Washington called the U.S. concerns about the cranes a “paranoia-driven” attempt to obstruct trade and economic cooperation with China. “Playing the ‘China card’ and floating the ‘China threat’ theory is irresponsible and will harm the interests of the U.S. itself,” it said…”
Yeah,…this from the guys who just floated a spy balloon over just about every sensitive military installation in the U.S…with a little help…
…from their friends!
Meanwhile, the Morning Jolt considers the possibility…
A bipartisan Senate bill that will be introduced today aims to “give the president the authority to respond to threats posed by TikTok and companies like it.” A separate Senate bill, cosponsored by Maine independent senator Angus King and Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio, would ban the app outright; TikTok would be allowed to continue to operate if the company relocated or were sold to a friendly nation. Twenty states have banned TikTok from state-owned devices — mostly red states.
And yet, “At least 32 members of Congress — all Democrats and one independent — as of early January had TikTok accounts, according to a review by States Newsroom. . . . At least half either currently sit or have previously served on committees dealing with foreign affairs, the U.S. military, investigations and national security.” As of this morning, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, New Jersey senator Cory Booker, Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman, Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar, Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib, and New York representative Jamaal Bowman still have Tik Tok accounts, among others. New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to have pulled her content.
Way to go, members of Congress. This thing is too dangerous to carry into the Pentagon, but you’re keeping it on your personal phone because you’re afraid you might miss the latest dance craze that’s going viral. And if the last three years of our lives have taught us anything, hasn’t it been that anything that comes to us from China and “goes viral” probably isn’t good for us?
Back in 2021, the Wall Street Journal published a terrifying exposé about how its reporters logged into TikTok as underage users, and were gradually exposed to more and more sexual material, outright pornography, and drug-related content:
TikTok served one account registered as a 13-year-old at least 569 videos about drug use, references to cocaine and meth addiction, and promotional videos for online sales of drug products and paraphernalia. Hundreds of similar videos appeared in the feeds of the Journal’s other minor accounts.
TikTok also showed the Journal’s teenage users more than 100 videos from accounts recommending paid pornography sites and sex shops. Thousands of others were from creators who labeled their content as for adults only.
Still others encouraged eating disorders and glorified alcohol, including depictions of drinking and driving and of drinking games.
This led to strong suspicions that the TikTok algorithm aims to steer people toward salacious content, because the numbers indicate that keeps the user’s attention the longest.Oh, by the way, apparently the Chinese version of TikTok shows kids completely different material — wholesome, educational material. You can’t find the sex and drugs on the Chinese version.
In their version of TikTok, if you’re under 14 years old they show you science experiments you can do at home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos and educational videos, and they also limit it to only 40 minutes per day. Now they don’t ship that version of TikTok to the rest of the world so it’s almost like they recognize that technology is influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach version of TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world.
He also pointed to a 2019 survey in which 56 percent of Chinese children ages eight to twelve said they wanted to be an astronaut when they grow up, while the most common answer among U.S. kids that age was “video blogger or Youtuber,” at 29 percent.
This isn’t just another app; this is effectively a state-run Chinese company deliberately trying to mess up the minds of our teenagers. And by golly, that’s not Xi Jinping’s job! We American parents can mess up the minds of our teenagers just fine on our own…”
Absent an unshakeable faith God is firmly in control, a well-justified fear for America’s future might well prove incapacitating.
Moving on, here’s another sextet of special selections certain to sate the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:
Q Can you speak to the incident involving four U.S. citizens in Mexico who have come under gunfire and have been kidnapped and how the administration may be able to get information out of Mexico or what the status of that is right now?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, I have a statement here that I want to read out to all of you:
We are closely following the assault and kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in Matamoros, Mexico. These sorts of attacks are unacceptable. Our thoughts are with the families of these individuals, and we stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance. U.S. law enforcement is in touch with Mexican law enforcement. The Departments of State and Homeland Security are also coordinating with Mexican authorities. And we will continue to coordinate with Mexico and push them to bring those responsible to justice. And, again, our hearts with — are with the families.
Q Any early indications as to the circumstances or any efforts to try to locate these Americans?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Don’t have anything to share outside of what I just laid out. Clearly, we want to be really careful here. There are privacy concerns. And so, I don’t want to share too much about the information on how we’re moving forward or even the individuals. We just want to be really mindful on that. But clearly, we’re on top of this.
Yeah,…like you were Xi’s spy balloon, East Palestine, Afghanistan, inflation, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
“Republican Susan McComas believes the bill, if passed, would lead to a spike in crime. “If this bill passes, you’re going to have kingpins, you’re going to have gangs use juveniles to do their dirty work“, said McComas.“
Okay, OTHER than that?!?
(6). We can only assume John Kerry is either disinterested in anything outside of flying via private jet…
…or when you marry a widowed gazillionaire ketchup heiress, $15,000,000 ceases to mean that much.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this from The Patriot Post, a meme with whose theme we thoroughly agree:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of an Buckeye who, upon conducting a quick cost-benefit analysis, determined Grandma had outlived her usefulness:
Suspect pleads guilty to killing grandmother in November, after a doctor recommended the elderly woman be placed in a costly nursing home
“…Police said the day before Heidi Matheny drowned her grandmother, she took her to a doctor’s appointment and was told she needed to be placed in a nursing home, which Heidi Matheny told police she could not afford. She also allegedly told police insurance would not cover the cost of putting her grandmother in a nursing home.
The two women had ice cream together at the elderly woman’s apartment before Heidi allegedly moved behind her grandmother as she washed dishes and dunked her head into the water until the bubbles stopped, police said. Heidi Matheny also allegedly told police she moved her grandmother to the bathtub to ensure she was dead.
“It’s nothing that she did,” Matheny told police. “She’s not…She’s not the perfect freaking grandma.”…”
Not having made Ms. Matheny’s grandmother, we can’t speak to her character. We can, however, conclude Heidi doesn’t exactly fit the textbook definition of the perfect freaking granddaughter.
Magoo
Video of the Day
As John Stossel shows us, not all students in the Progressive indoctrination systems which are our public schools, colleges and universities drink the Communist Kool-Aid.
Tales of The Darkside
In this clip from the Rubin Report, you’ll learn two things: Just how hypocritical Progressives have become, and precisely why Dimocrat Katie Hobbs refused to debate Kari Lake.
On the Righter Side
Courtesy of Prager U., Alex Epstein explains the true nature of the crisis climate hysteria has created.
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