Write about whatever blows your skirt up, but I recommend this WSJ video explaining the history of William McKinleys tariff policies. I can now see why Trump is so enamored with McKinley and his tariffs, but I don’t think he realizes this is no longer the Gilded Age. Even McKinley became a free trade advocate.
https://m.wsj.net/video/20250204/38a9364c-142b-4656-afe3-b6f7f4f504e2/2/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8
The poor performance of Hezbollah’s rocketry
I give Hezbollah an ‘A’ for their ground army. They held the IDF off at the border yielding, at most, only 7km. But what happened to their vaunted missile arsenal? Yeah, they were holding back at first but once Israel started the invasion and killed Nasrallah there was no political advantage to show restraint. Oddly, I have heard nothing about this in the Alt-media, so I am posting the question here.
I have ONE theory. Hez, did / does have a massive arsenal but they have not mastered the art of mass launches. The key to overwhelming Iron Dome is a large, simultaneous barrage. If you trickle out your attacks they can be effectively countered by modern AD.
Christian J Chuba,
Hez won’t overwhelm Iron Dome, even if they can, logistically, because the US Med fleet + air assets from Turkey, would join the fight. Once the US reduced Hez, competing groups in Lebanon would finish the job and Hez would cease to exist, which scares Hez and scares Iran. So Iran, the poodle that tries to bark like a pit bull, advises Hez to restrain itself and it’s an easy sell to Hez who aren’t so stupid as to fail to understand the threat.
Sorry, but the hope that Israel will be destroyed by islamic bloodlust is just another left-wing/antisemite pipe dream. Israel is here to stay.
Interesting drone-swarm-killer tested by Brit military. Reportedly took out a 100 drone swarm. It’s huge though. Can it ever be made smaller to be of use to front line units?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYIJVPs2fIo
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/04/17/in-first-british-army-uses-radio-wave-weapon-to-knock-out-drone-swarm/
your link does not work for me, WSJ:
https://tinyurl.com/Trumps-idol-McKinley
https://x.com/joshua_landis/status/1912917365932589331
The new Islamist regime makes use of it’s power to enrich it’s supporters. Taking land from Alawite heathens.
The more horny supporters goes for some new slave women.
https://x.com/joshua_landis/status/1912926354271580402
Poul,
Yeah. It’s really bad and it will get worse. The Syrian victims can thank NATO members Turkey and the US as well as Ukrainian pigs, all of whom sided with the allegedly reformed jihadis (taqiyya is alive and well and somehow still works on woke deeps state villains).
much like our Nasty Regime… they’re doing the worst things that close observers predicted they would. sick revenge motivates those of bad consciousness.
Ked,
Try to control your leftist media induced hysteria and be a little more reality based. Trump is deporting criminal illegal aliens, deep diving for government corruption and waste and leveling tariffs against unfair trade practices and, especially, arch enemy, China. Hard to understand how anyone could be opposed to any of that other than total brainwashing. Anyhow, the new Syrian jihadi government is literally en masse executing, raping and enslaving Syrian citizens. Your attempt at equivalating shows that you are a jihadi stooge and enjoy down playing what they are doing.
Eric Newhill,
Trump is deporting criminal illegal aliens at the same rate that Biden did. The only difference is that Trump is making a theatrical production of the whole thing. DOGE is flailing at finding corruption and waste, but they are doing well in halting any program that Trump doesn’t like. Trump’s tariff war is targeting most of the world, not just China.
TTG,
Disingenuous response on your part. U.S. President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished U.S. Department of Homeland Security data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the **last** full year of Joe Biden’s administration.
The Trump admin is still ramping up.
The GAO itself – not DOGE – has stated that there is at least $236 billion of federal govt waste and fraud in overpayments alone. They stated that prior to Trump’s election. Here – https://www.gao.gov/blog/federal-government-made-236-billion-improper-payments-last-fiscal-year
But spin away if it helps you keep the faith in your vision, which has been rejected by the majority of Americans. Your bubble will increasingly become smaller and more isolated.
Also, TTG, your sources are confusing deportations from the interior with deportations at the border. Cute rhetorical trick. Illegal border crossings are down 94% since Trump took office. The vast majority of Biden deportations were at the border. Now there are not many to deport at the border. Biden did not deport many from the interior and Trump is doing so at a significantly higher rate, that despite rogue judges fighting his efforts.
long-standing deep hate stains reason, discounting all else. you may not get past it, or even wish to.
ked, double pleonasm but yes, loads of bilious venom beneath a thin veneer of rationality.
The new sex slaves of Syria
https://x.com/joshua_landis/status/1914364526461345900
Plus we see the religious political goal of the new leader of Syria.
A Syrian identity based on Sunni-islam. and if you’re not Sunni? Well, that will suck.
https://x.com/joshua_landis/status/1912526235411902973
“Ahmad Sharaa has long been obsessed by the notion of creating a Sunni entity (kayan sunni)….
“Sharaa formulated the “kayan sunni” concept while in Idlib, stating in a televised meeting in July 2022 that the goal of the revolution was no longer just to end tyranny and oppression but “to create a Sunni entity.”
…
“He has chosen to consolidate his power base among Sunni Arabs by deploying Umayyadism as an ideological weapon and by positioning himself as their indispensable Lord Protector. The brutal suppression of the coastal revolt in March, though widely condemned abroad, boosted his standing among many Sunni constituencies. “
Poul…..I Like Your Post..Interesting tp Read..
Jim
Poul,
No one cares.
This will also be Europe’s fate before too long. Virtue signaling liberals/progressives will label you a racist for even mentioning it. In Germany or the UK you will be called a racist and thrown in jail. Same self-righteous a-holes are griping, falsely, about Trump being a dictator. They said that HTS is a kinder gentler islamic rule. Progressives are a bad joke and everything they touch, or don’t touch when they should, goes to shit because life and people just don’t conform to their idiotic fantasies. They can’t learn from history because today is day 0 of the progressive revolution. Jihadis will cease being jihadis because we wish it to be so. We’ll just show them love and acceptance and they will respond in kind. Idiots.
The woke pope is dead, thank goodness. Sadly he’ll most likely be replaced by another phony suicidal advocate of islamic mass immigration. Islam will win because the west is populated by and led by such degenerate narcissists who try to fill their emptiness with cheap easy gestures of “fairness”, “universal love” and other meaningless garbage, while turning their heads away from the victims of their buffoonery, from US citizens raped or killed by illegal gangster aliens or ancient Christian and Alawi communities in Syria pillaged by modern day barbarians, and millions in between.
https://www.wsj.com/business/more-people-are-bringing-lunch-to-work-thats-a-bad-economic-indicator-9693fddd
2017: You can’t afford a house because you buy avocado toast.
2025: I can’t afford my business loan because you don’t buy avocado toast.
The WSJ article may as well have been written by Gurner.
Resentment is a durable emotion. It can wait, unphased by our highs and lows, present below the surface and ready for recall. People will remember the business whining and — later — name-calling politicians resorted to get their RTO to get their tax streams back. A severe recession seems likely. Governments can go after the brogarchs when revenue dries up.
“…This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear…”
Appeals Court Judge Wilkenson’s opinipn rakes over Trump administration deporting of immigrants…A very conservative Judge appointed by President Reagan, who was on the short list to replace Justice Scalia on SCOTHUS.
He’s not exactly a bleeding heart liberal. And yet, he just shredded Trump, the DOJ and Homeland Security.
The depth of this opinion should elate libertarians and those that believe in the “rule of law”. Wilkerson’s inclusion of President Eisenhower’s comments on Courts interesting!
Judge Wilkerson’s opinion:
“… The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive’s robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.
It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all.
The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order.
Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.
This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.
The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order.
Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or “mistakenly” deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right?
The Supreme Court’s decision remains, as always, our guidepost. That decision rightly requires the lower federal courts to give “due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”
That would allow sensitive diplomatic negotiations to be removed from public view. It would recognize as well that the “facilitation” of Abrego Garcia’s return leaves the Executive Branch with options in the execution to which the courts in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision should extend a genuine deference. That decision struck a balance that does not permit lower courts to leave Article II by the wayside.
The Supreme Court’s decision does not, however, allow the government to do essentially nothing. It requires the government “to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.”
“Facilitate” is an active verb. It requires that steps be taken as the Supreme Court has made perfectly clear. The plain and active meaning of the word cannot be diluted by its constriction, as the government would have it, to a narrow term of art.
We are not bound in this context by a definition crafted by an administrative agency and contained in a mere policy directive. Thus, the government’s argument that all it must do is “remove any domestic barriers to [Abrego Garcia’s] return,” is not well taken in light of the Supreme Court’s command that the government facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador.
“Facilitation” does not permit the admittedly erroneous deportation of an individual to the one country’s prisons that the withholding order forbids and, further, to do so in disregard of a court order that the government not so subtly spurns. “Facilitation” does not sanction the abrogation of habeas corpus through the transfer of custody to foreign detention centers in the manner attempted here.
Allowing all this would “facilitate” foreign detention more than it would domestic return. It would reduce the rule of law to lawlessness and tarnish the very values for which Americans of diverse views and persuasions have always stood.
The government is obviously frustrated and displeased with the rulings of the court. Let one thing be clear. Court rulings are not above criticism. Criticism keeps us on our toes and helps us do a better job.
Court rulings can overstep, and they can further intrude upon the prerogatives of other branches. Courts thus speak with the knowledge of their imperfections but also with a sense that they instill a fidelity to law that would be sorely missed in their absence. It can rescue the government from its lassitude and recalibrate imbalances too long left unexamined.
The knowledge that executive energy is a perishable quality understandably breeds impatience with the courts. Courts, in turn, are frequently attuned to caution and are often uneasy with the Executive Branch’s breakneck pace. And the differences do not end there.
The Executive is inherently focused upon ends; the Judiciary much more so upon means. Ends are bestowed on the Executive by electoral outcomes. Means are entrusted to all of government, but most especially to the Judiciary by the Constitution itself.
The Executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport, but with powers come restraints. If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?
And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” would lose its meaning.
Today, both the United States and the El Salvadoran governments disclaim any authority and/or responsibility to return Abrego Garcia. We are told that neither government has the power to act.
The result will be to leave matters generally and Abrego Garcia specifically in an interminable limbo without recourse to law of any sort.
The basic differences between the branches mandate a serious effort at mutual respect. The respect that courts must accord the Executive must be reciprocated by the Executive’s respect for the courts. Too often today this has not been the case, as calls for impeachment of judges for decisions the Executive disfavors and exhortations to disregard court orders sadly illustrate.
The basic differences between the branches mandate a serious effort at mutual respect. The respect that courts must accord the Executive must be reciprocated by the Executive’s respect for the courts. Too often today this has not been the case, as calls for impeachment of judges for decisions the Executive disfavors and exhortations to disregard court orders sadly illustrate.
It is in this atmosphere that we are reminded of President Eisenhower’s sage example. Putting his “personal opinions” aside, President Eisenhower honored his “inescapable” duty to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education II to desegregate schools “with all deliberate speed.”
This great man expressed his unflagging belief that “[t]he very basis of our individual rights and freedoms is the certainty that the President and the Executive Branch of Government will support and [e]nsure the carrying out of the decisions of the Federal Courts.”
Indeed, in our late Executive’s own words, “[u]nless the President did so, anarchy would result.” Now the branches come too close to grinding irrevocably against one another in a conflict that promises to diminish both.
This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy, to which by dint of custom and detachment we can only sparingly reply. The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions.
The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.
t is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos.
This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.
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So, what can the Trump admin respond with?
1) More BS and continue to defy SCOTHUS’s order to EFFECTUATE return
2) Formally request El Salvador to release Garcia and turn over to US Embassy for return to US
3)Press criminal charges against Garcia and initiate extradition proceedings in El Salvador
4) Cut off $$ to El Salvador if they do not release Garcia
Al,
By all means keep defending a wife beating, criminal, gang member, illegal aliens. Please keep demanding that criminal illegals be protected and allowed to stay in the US – and that the borders remain unenforced so that more can enter the country. A liberal US Senator traveling to El Salvador and having margaritas with Garcia is icing on the cake. You progressives are never going to be elected again. You’re showing everyone exactly who you are and the majority don’t like you.
And no, some random judge doesn’t get to be Emperor. He has no power over this matter and he is, correctly, ignored by the Trump admin.
You are being played, Eric. Those “margaritas” were placed there by a government guy and neither of the two touched them, realizing what was going on.
Other than that, federal judges have vast powers, as some Trump idiots are about to find out. You would think that some people have figured out that they don’t want to be Rudyied. Obviously not.
oh oow, Lars, the margaritas weren’t real. Way to miss the point entirely. A US Senator went out of his way to visit a deported guy with MS13 inked onto his knuckles; a guy who’s wife put a restraining order on him and who was in the country illegally. And you’re worried about the accuracy of the pictured margaritas, like were they consumed or not. Sheesh. That’s all you got?
Eric Newhill,
You’re the one crowing about sipping margaritas. Why do that? He is an illegal who was granted limited protective status in 2019. I doubt that will stand if he is brought back and put before an immigration hearing.
TTG,
Your fellow travelers here think all of the illegals should stay here. I guess you tone that down a bit by suggesting that maybe they would be deported after staying here for years and eventually having a hearing, assuming they bother to show up for the hearing.
Garcia, margaritas aside, was granted temp asylum pending a hearing, by the politicians you like, because, as an MS13 gang member, he claimed he was at risk of being killed by a rival gang in his home country.
It is verging on autistic, on your part, to be so insensitive and unaware of how this situation appears to the typical America. Seriously. I guess if you exist in an echo full of people with a similar handicap, it is harder to realize how out of touch you are, but believe me, you – and most commenters on this now leftist forum – are way out of touch.
Eric Newhill,
Garcia was granted a stay from deportation in 2019. The Trump administration failed to contest that stay. That stay still stands. He may be an MS13 member or not. He’s definitely MS13 adjacent or that rival gang in El Salvador wouldn’t be gunning for him. He hasn’t been charged or convicted of any gang related activities. Bring him back. Prove he’s MS13, vacate his stay from deportation, then deport him.
Your problem, Eric, is that you believe the MAGA media mush that you habitually ingest. Legal processes are working against the extra judicial shenanigans deployed against this man. You may want to read up on the Blind Man and the Elephant story and realize that your calculus is not working. When this guy is brought back and given due process, he may very well prosper due to the government’s illegal actions. Most Americans still believe in fairness.
Lars,
First off, there are millions of illegals and giving every illegal a hearing is impossible and the Left knows that. The wait for hearing is years, if the illegals/asylum seekers even bother showing up. So, de facto, crossing the border and claiming asylum is a sure fire means of getting to stay in the US indefinitely, as things sat under the Biden admin.
Now, re; elephants, blind men and the Garcia case, Garcia was deemed a gang member and was deemed deportable. The issue is not that he was deported. Rather, that he was deported to El Salvador, where Garcia claims he can’t be safe because a rival gang might kill him. The court wants him returned to the US and his claim of being in danger heard and then….?
What do you want? A criminal gets to stay in the US because his criminal activity might lead to his death in his country of origin? Really? That’s your stance? Please continue.
Or perhaps you think Garcia could be deported to some other country. Which country can be forced to take him?
His country of origin has him and doesn’t want to return him. How do you think a sovereign nation can be forced to send a citizen to the US? Why wouldn’t his country of origin be responsible for protecting him from the rival gang?
The Supreme Court ruling merely says that Trump has to stop using the alien enemy law *until the case determining appropriateness of that use of the law has been heard in lower courts*. It may be that a decision is ultimately made in the lower court or in the Supreme Court that the use of that law is appropriate and may continue. That’s all it is. Much noise over nothing.
Someone is believing media mush, and it isn’t me.
Eric Newhill,
If giving every illegal a hearing is impossible, then how is rounding up and deporting them gong to be any easier? Hearings last minutes. Apprehensions and deportations take days. Just appoint/transfer enough judges to make it part of the process. Then you won’t have anymore cock ups like Garcia or that gay hairdresser.
TTG,
Garcia is only a “cock-up” in the progressive mind. He had his hearing X2 and was found, by judges, to be a gang member in need of deportation. Then he was deported.
Yes, the Trump admin initially said something about an administrative error, but they corrected that and said it wasn’t.
Which is more efficient, catch and deport; or catch and have endless hearings on every possible legal argument?
Your globalism, cloaked in meek defeatism, is noted. Something like this….well they’re here and it’s too hard to do anything about it. So I guess they get to stay forever!!!! And the border? Kids in cages! Kids in cages! The “wall” is stupid, like Trump. It won’t work. Cut the funding for the border. Let them in! They’re good for the economy, even the gang members! Plenty of money for the social services; just tax the rich. The rich don’t have enough? Tax the near rich. Still not enough? Hit up the middle class!
Shrugs and walks away patting self on back for being so open minded and big hearted for welcoming the world into the US. I’m doing what Jesus would do! Etc, etc, etc.
Eric Newhill,
The 2019 judgement was that the US could not deport him to El Salvador. I don’t know if it said he could not be deported at all. The Trump administration did not dispute that judgement in 2019.
The Trump administration also did not just say something about an administrative error, the DOJ lawyer declared to a judge in court that it was an administrative error. White House statements are not required to be truthful. They can lie all they want. Declarations in court must be truthful. Failure to do so is perjury.
The rest of your comment is just more MAGA rantings of fear and grievance.
TTG,
The lawyer who failed to faithfully perform his duties to the Republic as a lawyer with the Department of Justice was placed on administrative leave immediately after his purposeful failure to faithfully perform his duty to his client – The Republic of the United States of America. It reminds me of DOJ lawyer Clinesmith who fabricated false evidence to allow a FISA warrant to be placed on Trump/and or his aids. Did that escape your notice?
Fred,
Duty to client does not entail lying to the court. Clinesmith’s case proves this.
TTG,
More devious BS from you. Clearly your goal is no mass deportations. You seek to achieve that objective with legalese mumbo jumbo around the worst illegals, which makes it even more difficult to deport non-gang member, non-criminal illegals (the people you want to stay here to pick your crops, work in crumby factories, to serve your duty for your globalist masters and make you feel good about your alleged virtue).
Eric Newhill,
It’s true I’d rather see those like the Haitians who revitalized Springfield, Ohio stay. Deport all those who commit crimes or are never processed at the border (true illegals) ASAP. Those who were processed and are awaiting an immigration hearing should get that hearing ASAP. I believe most are deported after that hearing. Besides securing the border, which I can’t argue with, the immigration courts should be massively augmented.
If Americans choose to not grow and pick their own veggies or pack their own meat, they can do without.
Eric, Wilkerson was no “random judge” but the one of three Appeals Court Judges writing the order
You might note also at 1 AM today SCOTUS blocked Trump from sender a plane load of immigrants out of Texas….ONE AM! Only Thomas and Alito objected to the SCOTUS order
Eric, you lack serious concerns about our Nation’s rule of law, prefuring instead the rule of an immoral con man
Al,
The “law” hasn’t been decided. Trump says he can use the enemy alien law for deportations. Some lefties say he can’t. SCOTUS says Trump must stop deporting under that law until the question of that law’s appropriateness for that use is decided.
Get it? There is a question of what the law is. No court has says that Trump is violating the law.
Except for Garcia, where the court is agreeing that he can be deported (that decision was already made along with the determination that Garcia is an MS13 member), but that there must be a hearing prior to deportation to his country of origin because Garcia says his criminal activity could cause a rival gang to kill him. The court says Trump should have let Garcia have his hearing. It’s really a very small thing.
You people are acting like Trump is violating the Constitution, which he is not. These are all small quibbles over legal interpretation being turned into a lot of noise and blather by lefties who hate everything Trump does because they want illegals to swell the population of their districts so the get more power in congress and more federal funding, which Trump is also shutting down, which further pisses them off.
It’s all about money and power for the left – though you want to make into some kind of righteous crusade and a Constitutional crisis. More BS just like Russia collusion, except this time you’re fooling far fewer people; only the hardcore left and postmenopausal crazy cat women remain in your camp.
Al,
Thanks! great to read news like this. Trump is well on his way to become a dictator. Since Republicans in both houses are too scare of being primaried by Trump followers, the only hope we have now is having the Judicial Branch putting a check on his unlawful behavior.
not the only hope. … could also be a long hot summer for the Nasty Regime. nice one-two punch… conservative judicial branch (Article III duty to uphold the Constitution) & streets filled with citizens. lotsa dynamic range.
ked,
I think the university students might start “filling the street” first, and then others.
yeah because immigration isn’t subject to “rule of law”. Sure. “rule of law” is just some dumb phrase that bots repeat when it’s advantageous to them and forget entirely when it’s not. I hope you guys are opening your doors to some illegal MS13 gang members. You have a house and they don’t. You owe it to them.
Eric Newhill,
You should calm down. I don’t think we have any problem with deporting illegal immigrant criminals, if the original country accepts them.
What we disagreed is the lack of due process. Only authoritarian goverments ignore the law. We, as democratic country, must have due process.
Al,
What does effectuate mean? That is what the supreme court asked the district Judge in their ruling. Does dropping that instruction from the next ruling answer the SC’s instructions? Does the “facilitate ” mean talk to the foreign power whose citizen, now released from the “death camp” by the courageous Logan Act violating senator from Maryland, about having said person removed from the country to anywhere else on earth he could be deported too, such as Russia or Saudi Arabia?
No news worth the recounting from the Soggy Isle, TTG, except that one of its inhabitants is having the greatest difficulty cooking venison. It makes a superlative stew except that the meat itself invariably ends up unsatisfactory. So with all other methods of preparing it. Fried, roasted or stewed, it seems impossible to turn out anything other than a tough tasteless cardboard. Shooting one’s dinner is a common pursuit in the less crowded parts of the US, less so here, so if any of your contributors know the trick of cooking it afterwards …
EO…do not over cook venison. Best cooked rare.
Many white-tailed deer have been on my table, but in way past yrs.
al – combining your and Eric’s hints I have devised a revolutionary 4 stage strategy for preparing this troublesome ingredient. I shall disclose it in due course when I have run it past the stakeholders. These being, in order of importance, a somewhat sceptical SWMBO, the infants, and any guests unfortunate enough to be around for the trial runs. Watch this space.
Yes…EO….Someone Did..The Best Stews, made,,,Coast to Coast..Are
MADE IN AMERICA..
JIM
EO,
Lots of news in the UK, just not good news on Good Friday.
https://x.com/InspGadgetBlogs/status/1912915830221996247
https://x.com/recusant_raja/status/1912407284321296724
On a bright note, unlike our supreme court, apparently your justices don’t need a biologist to tell them what a woman is.
Very soggy headlines there.
EO,
Depends on the cut of venison. Some of it is best as a sausage. The “butterfly” cuts are tender and best pan seared with butter and mushrooms. Tougher cuts make an ok chili con carne. IMO, venison isn’t too good as a stand alone meat. Elk is better.
Eric – pity. It’s the cleanest and most humanely killed meat one can get hold of. We’re not allowed to home kill any other animal here bar chicken.
“Soggy” is too close to the bone for comfort. If the UK were a commercial enterprise we’d be done for trading while insolvent. Carry on as we’re doing and as far as the economy goes the whole damned island will be underwater.
EO,
Eat more fish!
When you go underwater that habit will really come in handy.
Or look at this way, at least you’re not asking for recipes for pangolins, eels, bats and bizarre aquatic arachnids, nor shopping at diseased oozing wet markets. So you’ve got that going for you. Just when you think you’re screwed, there always some backwards lot out there in the world that’s even more screwed.
West Point graduate becomes the first woman to compete in the grueling Army Ranger contest
https://apnews.com/article/army-ranger-competition-female-first-7182c5659e04162a4476eae2113b15d7
“First Lt. Gabrielle White, and her teammate, Capt. Seth Deltenre, were among the 16 teams that made it through the final events, where Ranger teams compete for accolades as the best of the elite military force. All together, 52 teams competed and all of the others were made up of only male soldiers.”
al,
Good for Lt White.
We should keep in mind – though many won’t – that a stateside contest is worlds apart from actual extended combat
btw Al,
How does anyone know that all of the other teams comprised of males? For that matter, how does anyone know that Lt White is a female? Maybe s/he identified as female at the time of three day contest and now identifies as male. Maybe the other ranger teams all identify as females. At least one Liberal Supreme Court Justice is unable to define what a woman is. So I don’t know how the hell you can be so judgmental and insensitive as to force a gender on Lt White.
Sitrep for the fourth year of the Russo-Ukraine War of 2022-2027 (the “Russo-Ukraine War”):
The Russo-Ukraine War is a violent dimension of conflict between the USA and Russia rooted in international competition between national government bureaucracies.
1. USA: Overall stance has shifted from “must win” in 2022 to “must not lose” due to risk-reward trade-off being increasingly unfavorable as we move up the escalation ladder.
2. Russia: Overall stance has shifted from “must not lose” in 2022 to “must win” due to country politics influenced by losses.
Risks:
1. USA inadvertently becomes a “loser” in public opinion.
2. Russia invades Europe and America.
Mitigations:
1. Brandy in a snifter.
A couple of good articles on the trade and tariffs situation.
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelpettis.bsky.social/post/3ln36fdozsk2l
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelpettis.bsky.social/post/3ln3wics3xc2i
250 years ago today was the first major campaign in America’s Revolutionary War. England’s bloody retreat through Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and Cambridge. King George lost 300 British Regulars killed, wounded and missing to New England farmboys. Out of those five towns Menotomy (now Arlington) chalked up the worst casualties for the Brits with 40 percent of the casualties.
https://x.com/Schizointel/status/1913702443059417508
TTG, I really think the turmoil at the top levels of DoD deserves a top-level post.
It is highly unusual and highly significant.
A case in point:
The dismissal of Dan Caldwell, former senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense.
Why was Caldwell dismissed?
DoD isn’t saying, but Caldwell gives his opinion:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/fired-pentagon-adviser-threatened-established-interests-00302336
The above quote is from Politico’s summary of Caldwell’s 90 minute podcast with Tucker Carlson:
” The Pentagon Didn’t Fire Dan Caldwell Over Leaks.
They Fired Him for Opposing War With Iran.”
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-shown-dan-caldwell
For what other dismissed DoD personnel have to say, see
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/caldwell-dod-hegseth/
As I said originally, I think this issue deserves a top-level post.
Keith Harbaugh,
Right now this looks like an overly dramatic soap opera involving Hegseth and his inner circle.Don’t know what to make of it, yet.
Yes, the situation is unclear.
But I am simply suggesting a post where people could discuss this particular issue,
as opposed to the many other issues around.
Dropping this article here for anyone who wants to read it.
Yahoo News repost from the Telegram
https://www.yahoo.com/news/beijing-fuelling-putin-war-kyiv-050000661.html
I worked in parts procurement for a number of years and recognize (really at instinctual level) those parts that were always choke points in procurement (mentioned also in that article). I recall Col. Lang speaking about supply being so important… Inventories tell us a lot.
KjHeart