- People who have no guts are trying to deal with Putin who has lots of guts. All you do is tell him is that if his guys do not clean up the ransom attacks, NSA/US Cybercommand will wreck his little economy and you have to mean it. Cowboy up p—y Democrats.
- Harris in Central America. What a joke! She wants open borders. Just give the gente decente the money as their usual bribes.
- The Indian nutter woman shrink. She is not white? She has Parsi written all over her. Cancel this murderous bitch’s medical license permanently.
- I would advise Bezos et frere to take a ride on a Musk spate ship. His chances would be better pl
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I assume Geriatric Joe is a valuable Putin asset, bumbling and harmless. What gain in changing that status remain in place after their “summit”? I expect Putin will come to praise Biden; not bury him.
Geriatric Joe gets to fluff his “diplomatic creds”, opening a new era in warm US Russia relations. While Putin laughs up his sleeve, all advantage to the Russkies who were supposed to be bad, bad, bad as long as Trump was in charge .But now suddenly are our BFF’s.
Willing to change my mind.
Very glad to have you back in the saddle COL Lang!
The following comment is rather off-subject (not current news), but this appears to be something of an open thread, so I will post this for the moderator’s consideration.
The following is the text of a letter I mailed recently to both of my U.S. Senators (Moran and Marshall, both R-KS):
Fifty-four years ago, on June 8, 1967, the air and naval forces of the State of Israel attacked the USS Liberty (AGTR-5), an intelligence collection ship, in international waters in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. This attack, which virtually all evidence suggests was intentional and authorized by the highest levels of Israel’s leadership, resulted in the deaths of 34 members of the Liberty’s crew and the wounding of an additional 173.
It is common knowledge among those familiar with the Liberty attack that there was never a proper investigation of this incident. In fact, particulars were covered up to protect the reputation of Israel. The Navy Court of Inquiry (COI) completed its investigation on June 16, 1967, a mere eight days after the date that the attack took place. No testimony was taken from any member of the Israeli military. The resulting report was only 158 pages long. In contrast, the COI report produced following the North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo was 3,400 pages long and the testimony took four months to complete.
Captain Ward Boston JAGC, USN served as the senior legal counsel to the USS Liberty COI. In 2004 he prepared a declaration to clear up the record regarding the attack on the Liberty and its aftermath. I have included a copy of CAPT Boston’s declaration with my letter.
In his declaration, CAPT Boston states, “I know from personal conversations I had with Admiral [Issac] Kidd [president of the Navy COI] that President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered him to conclude that the attack was a case of ‘mistaken identity’ despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”
The Liberty COI was a white-wash and a cover up! Both the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense ordered the COI to find no malicious intent on the part of the State of Israel before a single sentence of testimony had been heard.
We are still paying for this shoddy white-wash today. In June of 1967 the government of Israel learned a powerful lesson. Israel could do anything, to include the premeditated murder of the military personnel of the United States, and they would not be taken to task for their crime. Today Israel continues to disregard international norms in its relations with its neighbors and the Palestinian people they govern through occupation, and the United States remains silent.
It is way past time for the Congress to conduct a proper and comprehensive investigation into the events of June 8, 1967. The State of Israel should be held accountable for their actions on that date. After 54 years, the United States owes this to the surviving crew members of the USS Liberty and the families of those who have passed on.
End of letter…………..
Of course, I expect no action on this, but it doesn’t hurt to refresh memories regarding the Liberty attack.
The text of Ward Boston’s declaration can be found here:
https://www.wrmea.org/004-march/declaration-of-ward-boston-jr.-captain-jagc-usn-ret.html
The Indian nutter shrink has verbalized violent hate speech that is, apparently, nevertheless acceptable and exempt from consequence to many on the Left. Just try substituting “black” for “white” in these statements – part of her lecture – “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind”, and see how quickly the rest of your [likely foreshortened] life is ruined:
“I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a fucking favor.”
“This is the cost of talking to white people at all — the cost of your own life, as they suck you dry”
“There are no good apples out there. White people make my blood boil.”
That she felt she had license to utter such racist and hateful speech so freely, in public, to a Yale University audience (when word got out there was a tsk tsk disavowal by the school) shows us the sorry, degenerate state of education these days. We can only hope that no one has been incited to violence by it.
Now she’s trying to say that she was just funnin’ us; i.e., she was just role playing to draw out the toxin, get us wypipo to own up to our Systemic Racism, doncha know.
Not flyin’. It was a moment of unfortunate self-revelation, and we got to see what this muslim pakistani supremacist really thinks. Ya know, we should have a lot more of these people among us, expressing their hatred for the superannuated British Raj, and their wildly misplaced hatred for this country and the white folk who built it that they have now come to loot.
But never fear, the Uniparty is working the case, keeping those borders porous, democrats and republicans alike. We got played, and let down our guard, but not without decades of assiduously inculcated minoritarian propaganda, poured into the ears of our children by people well-practiced in these techniques of dissolution of a culture deemed inconvenient to their interests. And we were made to feel sorry for these people, sorry enough that we were disarmed before their corrosive onslaught.
Aruna khilanani is Indian origin, from a Hindu family. Based on her phots, she seems mentally disturbed https://bit.ly/3pwAC6s
It’s strange that these US born type Indians (what we call ABCDs or American Born Confused Desis) would bear this hatred for their host country and its people. Normally, Left thinking is more common among the bright Bengalis who migrate to the US as professors, researchers. Based on her name, this lady is Sindhi. Her people tend to be hard headed and business minded, usually voting republican in the US and BJP in India. We have a saying, faced with a snake or a sindhi, you know which one to strike first😃
Most educated people here in India would like to migrate to the US or the West given half a chance, particularly now with the shitshow under the current government.
Colonel,
There is an old Turkish song, ‘Drama Köprüsü’, where the singer asks the protagonist “Did you think killing people was a game, O Hasan?” I wonder if the “nutter woman shrink” ever looked up the barrel of a gun. She might benefit from the experience.
Ishmael Zechariah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDRAIXFcVDE
Colonel,glad you are feeling better.Mr Lindgren writes a great letter,thanks mark
This may be from a source that is beyond the pale (don’t publish it if is too outré)
but I’ll at least mention it for consideration, as a parallel to the NYC hate-filled psychologist:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/12/03/hate-filled-hindu-priti-patel-is-sycophantic-to-jews-psychopathic-to-whites/
What you see here is the Coalition of the Fringes at work. Its constituent Tribes may not love each other very much, but they work together to take out the white culture.
Minoritarianism.
This must be a joke. Grenada was the last war the US won, Russia is not Grenada. If the US NSA/Cybercommand could do what you say, they would have done it by now.
The liberal elite class are afraid, hesitant, and at best skeptical about using American power abroad where it matters, instead they hide behind their little tricks and the so-called ‘Soft Power’ nonsense that they have been pushing in order to get things done. As an observer of American (geo-)politics, I can’t figure out an answer to the question of why don’t the liberal elite policymakers do the Right thing? IMO, the Democrats as the dominant polity wielding the biggest share of power and influence today, have been working hard 24/7 since the collapse of the Soviet Union to prevent the U.S. becoming a real national interest-oriented nation-state. Instead what they want, is the U.S. to submit its power, wealth, and capacities into global institutions and super-structures to the benefit of the few instead of the citizens who live inside America borders. Whenever they think the momentum is building up among the populace in the direction of nation-statehood, they crash and burn the country and it’s all over again… This time around, they think Trump is the harbinger of nation-statehood. In the 90s it was the paleocons, and before that it was the ‘Paranoid-Style Politics’ of the 50s and 60s and before them it was Robert Taft and the original ‘America First folks’ who valued liberty, freedom and limited government and had a dim view of human nature when it came to the idea of mass political enfranchisement (i.e. democratization), the style of political order that the nutjobs in the revolutionary France subscribed to. To give a comparison between liberty and democracy the facts are crystal clear:
France since 1789 has experienced:
2 Monarchies
2 Empires
1 Semi-Autocracy
5 Republics
America Since 1789 had experienced:
1 Constitutional Republic
Just completed The Great Courses lecture series on the French Revolution (Prof. Desans) – highly recommended, superb course, many parallels to our current US political strife, lessons to be learned and lessons not to be repeated.
Sobering to also reflect societal evolution is never static –even when nominally the US has had “only one Republic”. Shifts between liberals and conservatives are cyclical and timeless, it appear when reviewing the past few centuries of the “modern era” after the fall of absolute monarchies and serfdom. Our era.
With the recent rise of the large unelected government administrative state in the US, essentially answerable to no one regardless of changes in elected leadership, does the US Constitution continue to contain us and protect us?
I think not.
The Constitution is just but a piece of paper and by itself cannot and will not do anything to protect individuals from tyranny. Awareness, adherence and conviction regarding the absolutism of the Constitution matters the most IMHO. What is important is to convince people especially the Z-gen that the reason the nation is No.1 in the world in any metric (albeit declining most prominently in terms of culture and social responsibility) is because of the magnificent job the framers did in drafting the best Constitution in human history and integrating the best ideas of the Ancient Greece (Democracy and rights), Rome (the structure of the Government and bureaucracy), and the Holy Bible (justice, the rule of law and the idea of ‘ordered liberty’) to ultimately founding the liberal constitutionalism of the U.S’. political regime.
I think the “shifts” you mentioned between conservatives and liberals throughout the America history and the struggle between reason vs. revelation -or more enlightenment-ishy that is between absolutism vs revelation- gains meaning and relevancy when the so-called liberals (in the American sense, not the British) try to push or accelerate history thought their ideas and utopian pushes. This is different than the gradual but natural evolution of society in which science is but a tool and not an end in and unto itself. When science is employed by utopianism of the progressives and liberals this is when chaos and instability emerges and revolutions akin to the French, Cuban, Russian, and Iranian revolutions take place and then we have Robespierre-style ‘reign of terror’. But if and when human intellect serves not the refinement of mankind but stability, prosperity and order good government blooms.
The “elites” by “education” and living in an echo chamber of common experiences do NOT like America, as they see it: sexist, racist, overbearing, populated by religious gun-owning rednecks who didn’t go to the “right” schools.
Most of these people are, naturally, Democrats.
Republicans tend to be people who EARNED their money and had to follow the rules; “elites” are above mere rules.
The Democrats have loathed America for a long time and Trump caused the last mask to fall.
He so enraged them (“America first”) that their heads began exploding.
Do NOT expect them to do anything in American national interest.
You can be an American or you can be a Democrat, you can’t be both.
I think your last sentence sums it up the reality of the situation today correctly. When your identity is fixated on whatever the Democratic polity disseminates to you to mindlessly accept and obey, i.e. genuine hatred of not just America, but more importantly the essence of the nation that I describe as “Americana”, it is over. Plain and simple. The Democrats here serve the same role as the ‘grim reaper’ (metaphorically) does, when it detaches you from whatever attachment you have with your social and cultural roots and ultimately who you are. I see the Democratic Party as a death cult, whose sole existence is to uproot civility, culture, humility and responsibility and replace it with pure sewage. It is really terrible and sad to see the younger generation nowadays whose minds and souls are captured by hatred, see life and society through the prism of race, discrimination, and whatever they are thought at their schools, colleges and universities (e.g. critical race theory). The sadder part is that they would never last a single day in Communist China or Cuba or Venezuela, yet they call the founders, the Constitution and the nation’s heritage all kinds of names…
Parsis are of Persian origin, from Iran, land of the Aryans.
From 23 and me, I find I’m part Neanderthal. How can I leverage that as bipoc or something.
Colonel Lang, in your absence some events happened.
Mr. Ryabkov, Deputy FM of the RF, stated that before the Geneva Putin-Biden Summit, the current US adminsitration will be receiving some strong signals from Moscow…
Some days after that warning was published by TASS, they started to appear some videos at The Kremlin Stories channel ( which I ususally watch to get a hint of what is going on with those people…), being the most meaningful, imo, this one coming from Ministerstvo Oborony…It seems to be about red lines…
Take a look, please…This was before SPIEF.
Speaking, MO spokesperson, Comrade Konashenkov, known from the briefings he provided in the past on Syria SitRep…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tZOtksMVSE
The same day, or the next one, it was published this other, in the same line, this time by Mr. Lavrov…They seem deeply concerned by these “maneuvers” in their very noses, and the heavy weapons which will fall in the hands of radical neonazis in the Ukraine..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MReJdLoo0kk
As a European, I am also deeply concerned, since I do not see is a good thing heavily arming to the teeth another bunch of radical bigots, like in the past it happened with IS, of which we are still getting free of its remnants after so many destruction..No wonder the Russians are worried as destruction is highly likely to come after that, eventhough they will be wiped out in zero coma..
‘p_ _ _y Democrats’? How long did Trump, McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy spend in uniform defending the country? Let’s see their DD214s.
All three talk big, but talk is cheap and even trash talkers can be p_ _ _ies.
mike
How about Clinton. Biden and Harris? Yes, I know Beau died on Omaha Beach with so many other JAG officers.
Three for three sounds like a toss-up. As for the sons, we all know that Donnie Junior stalked and killed the lion all by his lonesome like Trader Horn. No help at all from his safari guides. He should come out here to the great NW, I’d be happy to show him where our local mountain lion ranges.
Mike, if you want the Forbes version of the safari or you still want to stick with the TMZ version, it is up to you.
But this must be offered to bring balance to your version of DJTJr 2012 safari hunt – a wildlife sanctioned “cull” hunt. TMZ certainly provided a clue what four years as POTUS would also bring for the senior Trump.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/?sh=2794e5f8effb
Never read TMZ, I don’t even know what it is or where to find it.
But it does not take rocket science to know that Donnie Junior flew by helicopter from a luxury Safari International hotel and landed in front of an unlucky and baffled lion or leopard. Did he take the shot from a helo? Or did he stand his ground in his Ralph Lauren Safari Jacket – backed up of course by professional big game hunters who had to take a kill shot?
I have nothing against hunting. I’ve done it most of my life from when as a 12-year old in the 1950s I used a 410 to bag pheasants for Grandma’s kitchen. Except lately I’ve quit as my vision is deteriorating in my old age. I never trophy hunted. Even Donnie’s father, DJT Senior, has said on twitter that “big-game hunting is a horror show”. Good on him.
Apologies – again! . Some text spilled to the bottom and I neglected to remove it.
As written –
Very glad you’re back from the hospital, Colonel. I hope you and your wife are recovered from the effects of the vaccination.
I’ve been looking at Defender Europe 2021. Russia has a population less than a fifth of the combined population of Europe and America. It has nothing like the GNP of Europe alone, even measured by PPP. It’s recovering from the near dissolution of the ’90’s and for all the talk of fancy weapons spends on defence only a fraction of what the NATO forces spend.
I think I’d be a worried if I saw only some of that NATO force assembled anywhere near the borders of my country. They say Defender Europe was cut back because of Covid but it still looks threatening.
I think the aim is to force the Russians to spend so much on defence, and to put such manpower resources into it, that it cripples the Russian economy and thus destabilises the country.
Since the only branch in which the Russians have anything like parity is in nuclear weapons I believe this is a dangerous game and we should not be playing it.
If she goes to El Salvador, she should be ready to pay in Bitcoin, because that’s now legal tender there.