barack hussein obama, notorious national socialist, joined at the hip with the Democratic majority in Congress has nationalized/socialized:
The classic book on the attack on Pearl Harbor is “At Dawn we Slept” by Gordon Prange.
One of the best books on the Battle of Midway is “The Shattered Sword” by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully.
Do I love Valentine’s Day? No.
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Aztlan |
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Trump Rally Protest Photo |
And that brings us to Donald Trump, the least likely American leader to cede US territory to a few hundred Chicano racists. It’s not surprising that his talk of deporting the foot soldiers that these grievance peddlers want to mobilize must keep them awake at night. They hope for a guerrilla movement where Mexico rises again…except it was Spain, not Mexico, that explored some of the western portion of North America. And that the thing that makes Mexican food good was the French occupation of Mexico and their distinctive love of sauces.
Nobody celebrates Cinco de Mayo in Mexico. But you can bet your last pound of carnitas that the radical Chicano movement will be swilling cerveza and gulping pulque by the gallon (peasant liquor). They don’t have much sense of themselves, but they’d like to retake California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
To many including me, it means that some of my favorite food of the year will be served. I will avoid the crowds to the extent humanly possible and will buy wares on-line and have them shipped.
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Saint Nicholas and his assistant, Black Pete Different countries, different customs. |
For children in Europe, there is the fear of Black Pete, appearing as if by magic, to kick the crap out of them if they’re bad. In the USA, there is no negro to accompany Santa Clause/Kris Kringle on his journey.
Is that fair? Some opine that it’s racist to discourage a person of color from helping the Jolly Old Elf on his rounds.
Black Pete, adds insult to injury by stealing back the presents that Santa delivered if children don’t measure up. In Detroit, Baltimore, the St. Louis suburbs, Watts, the Dallas slums, Harlem, and Chicago’s South-Side, Santa himself is often waylaid while ringing a bell, collecting offerings for the poor – usually by Black Pete.
I was commenting on Old NFO’s Blog and the thought struck me…
https://oldnfo.org/2019/04/23/words-they-mean-things/#comment-96662
Hey, OLD NFO, what if we nuked (tactical nuke) the black meteorite that the Muslims worship in Mecca (not during hajj, so you don’t kill a million of them)? Would that be “somebody somewhere did something to someone?”
I also found it interesting the Somali-American congresswoman said that we killed 1,000 Somalis during the “Blackhawk Down” action. My reaction was, “That was all we killed, how embarrassing. There must have been more than that.” Sometimes those Army guys can be weak when figuring the body count. It swings with political wind, but in a place like that, you always invoke the law of averages.
Had I been king (and lucky for the skinnies that I wasn’t), I’d have dispatched every AC-130H in inventory and would have ordered a ship full of 20 MM in to refill the guns, and replacement barrels, and would have placed a round every six inches in Mogadishu. I lost a friend there and another took 3 rounds from an AK-47 in his back and barely survived
I need to run for Congress in Arizona so that I can sit on the floor of Congress and call those people to account. Sure, I’d be a one-term hero, but who cares?
LL for Congress. Send cash only to my exploratory committee…
I’m only kidding about Congress, but you can still send cash if you really want to. It will go to my favorite charity. I’d like to buy a backhoe & trailer, but the price point currently frightens me.
And no, I will not release my tax returns.
The blog post only contains open-source information.
There is concern, with ample cause for concern, that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) programs will be focused on the American domestic population now that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has openly stated that white Americans are the greatest threat to the nation.
The Mind’s Eye program seeks to develop in machines a capability that exists only in animals: visual intelligence.
This program pursues the capability to learn generally applicable and generative representations of action between objects in a scene directly from visual inputs, and then reason over those learned representations.
A key distinction between this research and the state of the art in machine vision is that the latter has made continual progress in recognizing a wide range of objects and their properties – what might be thought of as the nouns in the description of a scene. The focus of Mind’s Eye is to add the perceptual and cognitive underpinnings for recognizing and reasoning about the verbs in those scenes, enabling a more complete narrative of action in the visual experience.
Mind’s Eye is designed to add artificial intelligence to Gorgon Stare, which we discussed on the blog yesterday.
The research to make Mind’s Eye a reality began a decade ago.
Scoring
We look at China, and China’s surveillance and scoring system, and a lot of people say, ‘well, thank goodness we don’t live there.’ In reality, we’re all being scored, all the time, including here in the United States.
We are all grappling, every day, with algorithmic determinism. Somebody’s algorithm somewhere has assigned you a score, and as a result, you are paying more or less money for toilet paper when you shop online, you are being shown better or worse mortgages, you are more or less likely to be profiled as a criminal extremist in somebody’s database somewhere. We are all being scored. The key difference between the United States and in China is that China is more transparent about it.
You ask about the future – that’s it. Scoring of EVERYTHING you do and say.
— On the Lighter Side ——————————
The Athiest
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods. “What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals”, he said to himself.
As he continued walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes. Turning to look, he saw a 7-foot bear charging towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path. Looking over his shoulder he saw that the bear was closing in on him. His heart was pumping frantically and he tried to run even faster.
He tripped and fell to the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear raising his paw to take a swipe at him.
At that instant, the atheist cried out, “Oh my God!”
Time stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.
It was then that a bright light shone upon the man and a voice from heaven asked, “You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others I don’t exist and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?”
The atheist looked directly into the light. “It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps, could you make the BEAR a Christian?”
“Very well”, said the Voice. The light went out, and the sounds of the forest resumed.
And then the bear lowered his paw, bowed his head, and spoke: “Lord, bless this food which I am about to receive and for which I am truly thankful, Amen.”
Red Mist Update
The Novel Red Mist now has a publisher. Soon I’ll have a sense of when the book will be available. It will be available to you on every electronic platform and in softcover. The sequel (no working title yet) is underway. It will be a trilogy.
Meme-of-the-Day
Name the Mystery Aircraft
No, it shouldn’t be tough at all.
LSP, he’s not holding a Chinese menu in his paw – not a British wolf. Even so, if you run into him, don’t fear the reaper.
President Barack Hussein Obama promised to reach out to our enemies and to embrace them as friends. It was one campaign promise he made good. The president has a talent for embracing third world potentates and petty dictators. Chavez may be the very worst of the coterie of fans who have pandered to the narcissistic American.
Where will the US be in all this? Are we now an ally of Venezuela in Chavez’s vision of an expanded and “enlarged” nation? The US contained Castro – Obama seems content to get into bed with Chavez.
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Julia Ioffe, classless prog harpie |
SCUMBAG NEWSIE
Julia Ioffe, a now-ex Politico writer is set to join The Atlantic – after Ioffe tweeted regarding Ivanka Trump: “Either Trump is f—ing his daughter or he’s shirking nepotism laws. Which is worse?”
Politico swiftly cut ties with Ioffe, who subsequently deleted the tweet and apologized for the “crass joke.”
BY WAY OF FOLLOW-UP
“We are fully cognizant of the challenges to security of CPEC and Gwadar port.” Dawn reported that challenges to Pakistan’s maritime security have traditionally come from India. But Chinese involvement in Gwadar port and the launch of CPEC has complicated the security environment. India sees Gwadar as a foothold for China in the Arabian Sea and as a counter-strategy to threats at Malacca. Therefore, India is alleged to have stepped up its activities in the broader region surrounding Gwadar to undermine the project.”
The architect delivered preliminary plans for the White Wolf Mine residence/shack. I wanted to ask him whether he actually looked at my drawings which were more than gentle suggestions on my part. But I’m working with him on refining the plan. Part of the problem with the mindset in the remote area there is that people build weekend get-away cabins. There is a difference between where you are going to spend the weekend and where you are going to live. I told him that I prefer an open concept with space. He understands that but almost doubled the “space” from my drawings/scratchings. Double the space is double the price. As the design moves forward, the price tag naturally increases and managing that makes me sound cheap, but building a hovel (to code) isn’t cheap. I would prefer to pay cash for the place and not have any sort of mortgage/building loan. Since President Trump took office, my business expanded exponentially (Thanks Donald) but there will come a time when I want to become a gentleman of leisure, not a slave to a bank.
Welcome back to New York!
The White House hands Iran’s Ahmadinejad a global megaphone
Just a few days after the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to New York City. Once he arrives he will be handed a platform to incite violence and hostility from the center of the UN universe, just a few miles from Ground Zero.This is a man who openly advocates genocide, brazenly endeavors to commit terrorist attacks on American soil, kills and kidnaps Americans abroad, brutalizes his own people, sponsors terrorism around the world, and is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. Fox News
Why is the US prepared to allow this visit to take place?** Congress had stipulated that nothing in the agreement diminished or weakened “the right of the United States to safeguard its own security.”
**President Obama would argue that the 1947 Headquarters Agreement between the UN and the U.S. leaves no room for him to maneuver on this point. The deal that was struck states that the U.S. government “shall not impose any impediments to transit to or from the headquarters district” (a defined area in New York City’s east side) to a representative of a UN member state. However, USGOV denied Yassir Arafat the right to visit New York, citing security concerns. Given that it’s likely that the US will be at war with Iran within six months at most, this would certainly apply.
“After placing their trust in God Almighty, a detachment of caliphate soldiers set out toward a gathering of Crusader coalition state citizens in the area of Danghara in Khatlon in Tajikistan, running them over and attacking them with knives. This left four dead and four wounded, praise and thanks be to God! We gladly announce to the Crusader coalition state citizenry what shall befall them, for what shall come will be more destructive and bitter, God willing!”
ID The Tank
More on this tank on the next VM blog. For now, can you ID it?
A Few Notes
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec, is a Chinese oil and gas enterprise based in Beijing. It is listed in Hong Kong and also trades in Shanghai. Sinopec Limited’s parent, Sinopec Group, is the world’s largest oil refining, gas, and petrochemical conglomerate, headquartered in Chaoyang District, Beijing.
I have business with Sinopec as far as the energy side of my consulting business goes. Dealing with the Chinese energy sector is challenging. If it was easy, everyone would do it. It’s not that the Chinese bureaucrats at Sinopec are trying to be difficult. That’s not the case. The system that they operate in is so highly moribund that you need to run an op to get anything done.
China has an oil supply problem. I don’t care what you read in the publications or watch on the news. The news, whether American. or Chinese is so ladened with propaganda that it’s very difficult to get at the truth unless you’re very close to the situation. A lot of problems that Sinopec faces have to do with thousands of layers of guanxi. The cultural burden that overlays even simple transactions creates an environment where nothing gets done. Even sending people to cut the proverbial Gordian knot is often not enough. And this situation applies to every single transaction. Sinopec Corp recorded a 6.9% decline in net income for 2022. It’s not surprising.
Then there are the teapot refineries and their political patrons…
I should be happy that things are f-ed up. If they weren’t, nobody would need me and pay the absurdly high rates that I charge.
China – Spicy or Mild?
Bullet Points:
** What about a glass of wine – or even a screwtop bottle or a box of the finest Costco vintage?
** Americans who make for than $200,000 per year have filed for unemployment benefits at a record pace in recent weeks. That could ultimately give employers more leverage over employees and lead to slower wage growth.
“An estimate of 113,793 unemployment claims were filed by Americans earning over $200,000. This is the highest level since the pandemic and the trend shows this is accelerating higher, with this week likely to be the crossover point where the unemployment claims of over $200,000 earners exceed unemployment claims of under $25,000 earners,” Fundstrat’s Tom Lee explained.
** As mentioned on Old NFOs blog – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s name will soon appear on a federal building in her hometown thanks to an item slipped into a massive must-pass spending bill that Congress is rushing to approve this week.
Tucked away on page 610 of the 1,455-page tome is a provision to rename the federal building located at 90 7th St in San Francisco, California, as “Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building” to honor the California Democrat who is stepping down from her longtime leadership post.
** The CBO report found that the debt limit plan would drastically cut the growth of spending between 2023 and 2033. The nonpartisan analysis agency found:
The bill’s cap on discretionary funding would result in savings of $3.194.5 trillion over ten years
Scrapping energy tax credits would save $569.5 billion
Reducing funding for the IRS would save $119.7 billion
Implementing work requirements [for] Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would save $120 billion
Rescinding funding for unspent coronavirus aid would save $29.5 billion
Requiring the Department of the Interior (DOI) to conduct oil and gas leases would save $3.4 billion
Swalwell
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Your Thought of the Day
(Washington Times) Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump’s estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.
Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked with colleagues to produce groundbreaking research on noncitizen voting, and this week he posted a blog in response to Mr. Trump’s assertion.
Based on national polling by a consortium of universities, a report by Richman said 6.4 percent of the estimated 20 million adult noncitizens in the U.S. voted in November. He extrapolated that that percentage would have added 834,381 net votes for Clinton, who received about 2.8 million more votes than Mr. Trump.
Bullet Points:
** The Golden Arch Empire
** Pedo Joe and Biden Crime Family Values – Mail – UK
‘I find myself (because I’ve chosen to alienate all my friends and family and employees and you and the kids and my kids etc..) very alone in dealing with rebuilding an income that can support an enormous alimony and my kid’s costs and myself,’ he wrote, ‘dealing with the aftermath of the abduction and likely assassination (that’s what NYT’s suspects) of my business partner the richest man in the world, the arrest and conviction of my client the chief of intelligence of the people’s republic of China by the US government, the retaliation of the Chinese in the ouster and arrest of US suspected CIA operatives inside China, my suspected involvement in brokering a deal with Vladimir Putin directly for the largest sale of oil gas assets inside Russia to China, a tax bill that Eric [Schwerin, his Rosemont business partner] left hanging over my business and… Dads running for president.’
** According to Heinlein: