Is it the future of the Democrats?
I hope so, because if so, it means, finally, the death of this old horrific, racist, and now totalitarian political party.
Category Archives: War Commentary
Feinstein, Strzok, And The Russia Probe
Thoughts from Roger Simon.
The Unmasking Probe
Sharon Atkisson asks what ever happened to it?
I’d like to think that Sessions is doing more than appears, and perhaps there will be an October surprise.
[Monday update]
As noted in comments, Strzok was (finally) fired today.
#ProTip: Saying that Strzok was fired for "hating Trump" is as idiotic as saying Bill Clinton was impeached for getting a BJ. If people were being fired merely for hating Trump, probably most of the federal workforce would be out the door.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 13, 2018
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Space Force
Yes, we need one, or at least some entity dedicated to space. I don’t understand why they keep saying a “sixth branch of the armed services,” though. Are they calling the Coast Guard an “armed service”? I don’t think that’s right.
[Update a while later]
Only Nixon could go to China, and only Trump could go to space.
Not sure he’s being entirely serious.
[Update late Sunday evening]
OK, one more: How we can own the libs on space.
By the way, Jim Bennett’s analogy in comments is useful, and I did a Twitter thread on it.
People familiar with the history of the Air Force (i.e., not very many people, including most current enlistees of the Air Force), will understand this analogy of why we ultimately, if no immediately, need a space force. [thread]
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 13, 2018
BTW, for those who corrected me legally in comments on whether or not the USCG is an armed service, my concern is that by lumping it in, it fails to make crucial distinctions. It’s certainly a uniformed service with an academy, but it is more intrinsically civilian.
Appointing A Special Counsel
Six times the Obama administration should have done it.
But then they wouldn’t have been “scandal free.”
Cargo Rockets
Military cargo rockets.
Glad to see this kind of thinking going on.
Tommy Robinson
He’s free, for now, but it’s sad to see the degree to which even some conservatives in England have fallen.
Brennan And Clapper
Yes, pull their clearances; they’re dangerous, partisan hacks.
I will note, though, that there’s been a lot of confusion on this issue. One does not need to work for the federal government to have a clearance, and one doesn’t intrinsically give it up when one leaves government service. When someone leaves the employ of a contractor to go work for a different one, their clearance goes with them, and often when someone leaves government service, they retain their clearance so they can work on classified projects in the private sector, or as a consultant. But those two clowns have abused their privileges, both in office and out. I think they should not only lose their clearances, but be in jail.
Russian Jamming
They’re testing their latest weaponry on us in Syria:
“All of a sudden your communications won’t work, or you can’t call for fire, or you can’t warn of incoming fires because your radars have been jammed and they can’t detect anything,” said Laurie Moe Buckhout, a retired Army colonel who specializes in electronic warfare.
“[It] can be far more deadly than kinetics simply because it can negate one’s ability to defend one’s self,” she said.
But we’re also learning from it. Great story from Lara Seligman.
Britain
Is it lost? Bruce Bawer thinks so. I fear he’s right.
I would add that, in refusing to recognize the root cause, and saying that the rape gangs are “Asians,” they (including Nigel Farage) are in fact being racist. That’s right, they’d rather be accused of racism than of criticizing a religion. And I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the adherents to that particular religion react violently when it is criticized.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
It’s not just Britain: Lying about Amsterdam. I agree. As someone whose sister lives in a village a few kilometers east of the city, I’ve never noticed any problems like this in the city center.
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