"Why don't you trust the system/courts/FBI(or other appropriate agency)?"

The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced it has reached a $138.7 million settlement deal with victims of the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to resolve their claims of wrongdoing against the FBI in its failures to investigate allegations of sexual abuse.
...
Once finalized, the settlement will resolve 139 tort claims filed against the DOJ and the FBI in 2022 by the long list of athletes and patients who reported abuse by Nassar, including Maggie Nichols, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.
Bad enough, right?  Now add this in:
The claims, which in total sought roughly $1 billion in damages, were filed after the department said it was declining to pursue criminal charges against agents whom the DOJ's inspector general found failed to properly investigate allegations of abuse by Nassar.

The watchdog report found the FBI was notified of Nassar's behavior but failed to act for more than 14 months, a period where Nassar is alleged to have abused at least 40 more girls and women.
At this point someone will have to come up with a reason to trust the Do'J' and FBI about ANYTHING...

Tyrant wannabes gonna tyrant, and she really wants to be

a tyrant in all countries.
Short version: an aloha snackbar type stabbed a church official in Australia.
The 'eSafety Commissar- oops Commissioner, and a bunch of other pro-censorship types ordered it taken down.
Said Commissar(yeah that's deliberate) is pissed because X won't take it down in ALL countries because she ordered it.
And it goes from there.
Get this from one Aussie senator:
“I think he’s a social media knob with no social conscience, he has absolutely no social conscience,” she said.

“Someone like that should be in jail and the key be thrown away. That bloke should not have a right to be out there on his own ideology platform and creating hatred, showing all this stuff out there to our kids and doing all the rest,” Lambie added.
Awww, her feelings are all upset because she cannot order the world around.

I do wonder, how much of their upset is because the stabber is a protected species?

Judge who needs to have that black robe removed,

and their law license:
She told us, ‘Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.'

And the public schools strike again

"Yes, we were warned about his hit list, but if we actually do anything someone might call us anti-trans!"
"I'm gonna murder you," shouted the trans-identifying student at Pennbrook Middle School as the 13-year-old blindsided a 12-year-old girl last week and bashed her skull repeatedly with a Stanley cup. The victim had to be hospitalized, her scalp stapled back together, and she had to go through a concussion protocol, according to police.
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The Daily Mail reported Monday that another 12-year-old female student — remaining anonymous because of her age, like the victim and the thug — made a public statement that "she and two fellow students filled out paperwork explaining what they knew was going to happen if nothing was done and said that she was warned 'watch your back' at lunch."

"You could've stopped it," she said. "It was five hours from when I told you it was going to happen. I don't get how you couldn't have stopped that."
Because they didn't want to risk being called names by someone, much easier to let someone get the crap beat out of them.

Go to the Daily Mail article, you can have the full flavor of a bunch of school bureaucrats assuring everyone they feel terrible about this.  Yeah, I'm sure, it's causing them all kinds of problems and attention they don't want.

More reason to distrust the CDC: politics above medicine

According to a report from Law Enforcement Today, recent revelations have exposed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for allegedly suppressing data on defensive gun use (DGU). This action has ignited debates over the transparency and potential politicization of the agency’s research on gun policy and public health.
They've been playing these bullshit games for years.  Only fix I can think of, since the anti-2nd Amendment clowns involved aren't likely to change, is cut their funding by the amount this nonsense costs.  THAT the bastards would pay attention to.

Another reason to keep kids out of public schools, or at least

keep a damn close watch on things.
Business Insider's Matt Drange revealed in a recent report about the epidemic of teacher relationships many of the sordid details - including emoji-filled text messages, transcripts from investigations and disciplinary files.

Drange said, the pages 'documented grooming and groping, the sharing of d**k picks and porn, sexualized comments in classrooms, oral sex in bathrooms, and statutory rape,' that in some cases continued for years.

His report highlights a disturbing pattern that 'school administrators across the United States catastrophically failing to prevent abuse,' and there is no federal agency, he said, that tracks teacher sexual misconduct.

Drange said during his investigation, he requested disciplinary records and severance agreements from the ten largest school districts in all 50 states, and license revocations from every state's Department of Education, but his request was met with opposition.

Alabama, Iowa, and Virginia refused to release any records, he said. While other districts, asked to be compensated, in order for the request to be filled.

In his report, he wrote that the Hawaii Department of Education asked for $75,060. The Katy Independent School District in Texas wanted $125,352, and the Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska invoiced $243,836.

While other districts, he revealed, never provided records, including Alaska's Bering Strait School District. In 2019, the BSSD paid $12.6 million to 13 sex abuse victims involving an instructor at the school.
And a real winner, from the People's Republic of  Massachusetts, 
Springfield Public Schools in Massachusetts, was another district he cited, that would not release any records and claimed it would be an 'invasion of the teachers' privacy outweighing any possible right of the public to know.'
Which, to suspicious me, sounds like "Go away, we're not admitting anything!"

Throw in this from Chicago.  So kids are getting often lousy educations, and may be abused by teachers, and the schools- like in some of the crap that came out about the Edmond school district in Oklahoma- want to hide it or just make it go away.

Speaking of yanking federal(our) money from NPR,

they get a lot more than they let on.


Gee, once again a lot of rich brats decided they know how everyone should be properly controlled, and allowed to live.  Because they're so much smarter than everyone else, and care so much.  


Been said before, but finally going before the Supremes: Jack Smith is not a legal Special Counsel, and what all he's done is illegal.


Speaking of rich brats and 'Higher' Education, a collection of stuff at Insty.  Includes both a bunch of overpaid college brass and screeching rabid howler monkey students who want to destroy things, and the fact that most of America is disgusted by it.

Yank all federal money(OUR damn money, remember) from Yale

since the hate the US so badly.  And the administration has no apparent problem with this.

And you'll notice the asshole in the foreground who doesn't look happy to find out he's on camera.  Probably doesn't want to deal with any heat for his part in this shit.

Jeez, no wonder Californicated has so much trouble protecting kids

from being molested: so much of Hollywood and the politicians seem invested in either doing it, or protecting those who do.


From another piece:
“The reason we find pedophiles … in kids TV is that’s where the kids are,” the host continued. “DeSantis wasn’t wrong. We’re so tribal now, the left will support child fucking if the wrong party calls it out.”

Later, Maher pointed out how Brian Peck — who was convicted of sexually assaulting a Nickelodeon child actor in 2004, which was later revealed to be Drake & Josh star Drake Bell in the docuseries — was hired by Disney to work on a children’s show after serving his time in prison. (The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that Peck voiced the role of a mirror on three episodes of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody for Disney Channel, and worked away from the show’s set, in a voiceover studio. THR also learned that Disney fired him immediately after learning of his conviction.)

“For pedophiles in Hollywood, it’s a small world after all,” Maher added.
When he's right, he's right.  But that ending of 'giving kids a break from our culture wars at least until the election is over' bothers me.  Makes it sound like part of the reason he's upset is that this crap is hurting the Democrats.  It may not be that, but it really bothers me.

Let's start this with Wuhan letting a bunch of people pull their control freak out

The World Health Organization’s Dr. Hanna Nohynek testified in court that she advised her government that vaccine passports were not needed but was ignored, despite explaining that the COVID vaccines did not stop virus transmission and the passports gave a false sense of security. The stunning revelations came to light in a Helsinki courtroom where Finnish citizen Mika Vauhkala is suing after he was denied entry to a café for not having a vaccine passport.


Google doing more evil.


Considering the things they've been caught at, he's not wrong about the EffingBI

Speaking of, I found out both my Senators and my Rep. in Congress voted to let the warrantless search crap- with extended powers!- continue for two more years.  And, considering these rat bastards, I doubt they'll ever actually try to stop it.
No, I haven't been yelling at them yet.  Partly because the urge to tell them exactly what I think of them is so strong, and because they've demonstrated it won't do any good.  I now find myself in the situation that voting for these bastards would, in far too many ways, just be voting for the leftists, because said bastards don't have the guts or desire to stand up on really important things like this.
Oh, I'm sure they'll have some "We had to for national security!" excuse for their abandoning that oath to uphold the Constitution, and I've not got the stomach to listen to it right now.

Somebody coined the name 'Londonistan' a few years ago;

they were right.
"You're openly Jewish, you have to either leave this area under escort or you'll be arrested for causing a breach of the peace."

I will refrain from further comment.

It's now the other eve, so

here we go

The days having rolled around again to one of those evenings,

you have a good idea what's below the fold

Oh, this has the Didn't Earn It people in an uproar

Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Reverse Discrimination Is Good Cause for Lawsuit; Left Frets That This Ruling Will "Complicate" Their Desire to Discriminate Against Straight White Men
"You can't discriminate against someone because they're white, or male, just because you claim you're 'trying to make up for past discrimination'."  Which has all the Usual Suspects crapping themselves.

DEI offices and consultants and other racists hardest hit.

Hey, remember Pres. Gropey's order to build a dock in Gaza

to give Hamas the stuff to keep killing Israelisfeed the poor abused Gazans?  How's that going?
Last October I wrote about the potentially catastrophic state of our country's maritime support system, the U.S. Maritime Support Fleet. Biden has someone in charge right now they mockingly refer to as "The Ghost Admiral." We have already lost the capacity to mobilize a tanker fleet to fuel our naval vessels at sea in event of a large scale conflict. 

...
What this exercise attempting to cross the Atlantic has proven is that we may not need tankers. Our poorly maintained and continually neglected naval vessels, be they Navy or Army, may not be capable of making it to the conflict to begin with.
Read it.  Calling this a cluster would be raising it in status.  And the personnel trying to do something with all this mess are screwed.  

And so are we.

On this day in 1775

On April 19, 1775, British forces were returning to Boston from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening engagements of the war. On their march they were continually shot at by American militiamen.

Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second grenadier and mortally wounded a third. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment had reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked.[7] He was subsequently shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found by colonial forces, trying to load his musket to resume the fight. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore recovered and lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 98.

Speaking of treacherous, backstabbing politicians,

The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project posted an image on X of what they say is a flyer from a non-governmental organization operating in Mexico encouraging migrants to vote for President Biden once they arrive in the United States.
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"RCM bills itself as an operation which houses functions for Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), which helps illegal aliens enter the United States," Oversight Project said, adding that disgraced Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas "is a former board member of HIAS, which received numerous grants from Soros' Open Society Foundation over the years."

And the Democrats and their hounds in the intelligence agencies and 'Justice' Department will keep giving him a pass

I just reviewed a portion of Biden’s classified documents that were taken from his basement by Special Counsel Hur.

They were HIGHLY CLASSIFIED and relevant to current national security threats.

We need an immediate damage assessment from the Intelligence Community.

— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) April 17, 2024

On the latest "Let's make up a law" crap,

Irish has a rundown.

If you're in a state where it may do some good, yell- politely- at the Congresscritters, because the more noise made about this, the better.

"That's right, she's hot,

now keep your distance."

My, such an incestuous group

 The ‘whistleblower’ who sparked Donald Trump’s first impeachment was deeply involved in the political maneuverings behind Biden-family business schemes in Ukraine that Trump wanted probed, newly obtained emails from former Vice President Joe Biden’s office reveal.

The new head of NPR

The whole thing with audio is here

Just how fornicated is Californicate?

This fornicated: a bill that basically says "It's illegal to screw kids" is controversial.  And bleep, the amendments...

No excerpts, just read it for the full flavor of the- well, 'idiocy' doesn't cover it.

Even if I had no other problems with the World Health Organization,

this crap would be a deal-breaker:
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and any of his successors would have unrestricted authority to implement WHO regulations.

The treaty would provide “a framework for international cooperation and solidarity” and address issues like surveillance systems and responding to outbreaks, Ghebreyesus said when announcing the treaty during a March press conference. “The world cannot afford to wait until the pandemic is over to start planning for the next one.”

The World Health Organization “global pandemic treaty” includes a plan for a mandatory, universal digital passport and ID system. Article 4 of the draft outlines the treaty’s overarching “principles,” including “universal health coverage,” “equity,” “transparency,” “inclusiveness,” “gender equality” and “diversity. “ Also, the treaty targets “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
Throw in all the other crap, and there's a simple response:

It would appear that there's not punishment enough for the bastards who helped create the Wuhan flu

And God only knows how many people are dead or dying because of their doing so, and their efforts to hide their part in it, and pushing a vaccine that's... bad.

I doubt anyone not connected would get the same consideration

Carroll testified in court in January that she had the "high standard revolver, nine chambers" and ammunition near her bed. "I still do not have a license," she said of the firearm while testifying.

The local police who paid the February visit to Carroll's home said she surrendered the firearm after authorities "offered to secure the weapon at the police station's property for safekeeping" until Carroll obtains a New York pistol license, per NBC News.
Bleep, what a load of crap.

"I caught it!"

 "Shut up, dog."

If there's a war and they're involved, the Brit Navy is screwed

Britain's £6billion fleet of Royal Navy destroyers have gyms where land attack missiles should be due to the weapons being too expensive to buy.

The lack of weapons on the Type 45 warships has raised concerns the Navy is falling even further behind the United States, with drastic shortages of sailors also prompting warnings.
Well, you crap on your military, want everyone all woke or gone, and decide you'd rather spend on social(ist) crap than keep your forces ready, what do you expect?

Like our military, in fact.

'Anti-War' my ass: as long as someone attacks the US or Israel,

they're as pro-war as can be.

With this shit proving it:
A smile creeps across her face as she tells me: “They’re part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA.”


(about the tag: this may not meet the legal definition, but that's what this is)

The new head of NPR: New boss,

same and just as leftist as the old boss.

You can just feel the desire to report both sides of things, can't you?

Have to wonder if one of the reasons for the Iranian drone/missile attack

was to tell President Gropey "Screw you, we'll do what we want.  Now give us more money."

One of my least favorite people in the country,

Rashida Tlaib, who's made it to the House, is a member of the Squat, constantly bitches about how bad a country this is, and it seems would start handing out candy and dancing in the street* if a big terrorist attack hit us.

That big rally in Dearborn where the lead speaker went through is 'worst country, shouldn't even exist(ever notice these people never leave, though?), and then the chants of 'Death to America!' broke out.  Such wonderful people, aren't they?  Well, somebody actually committed journalism and asked her about this, since it was in her district:
Fox Business' Hillary Vaughn had caught up with the congresswoman, who, before even being asked a question, screeched "I don’t talk to Fox News! I don’t talk to Fox News!" As Vaughn managed to communicate that "at a rally in your district people were chanting 'Death to America,' Tlaib once more replied "I do not talk to Fox News!" before Vaughn could ask if the congresswoman condemned the phrase.

When Vaughn was able to get a word in to ask, Tlaib changed her answer, but only slightly, and it wasn't to offer any sort of condemnation. "I don’t talk to people that use racist tropes," she said.

"Why can’t you just say whether or not you condemn people chanting 'Death to Amer…' Why are you afraid to talk to Fox News," Vaughn continued to ask.
I'd say she's not afraid to, she's pissed that someone actually asked her about this, and made it worse by not backing down she the started the standard leftist line about 'racism'.  Because, apparently, quoting people is a 'racist trope' when she doesn't want to respond to a question.

If you want to see this, here's the X link.

The real question about this is why someone from Fox was the only Professional Journalist who asked her about this.

*As long as she thought she wouldn't be seen or the compliant media wouldn't report on it.

An evening in which some new data has become available,

and I shall share it.

What? Obama was protecting Iran and others from investigations?

If you're surprised, what's wrong with you?
In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
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But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.

The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.
I've only been through about a third of this, and holy SHIT...  If this isn't giving aid & comfort to the enemy, what is it?

And I'm sure someone will inform us that Politico is actually a secret right-wing organization that always hated Obama.

I hope Rand Paul has good security

In an op-ed, Paul revealed that at least 15 different federal agencies knew of experiments used to create a COVID-19-type microbe that was happening at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as early as January 2018. However, this information was kept hidden from the public.
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Paul also identified two additional parties who were part of the original plan to create chimeric coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab: the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the federal agency formerly headed up by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Dr. Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology and one of the authors of the now-disgraced “Proximal Origin” paper.
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“Anthony Fauci, for the first several months and really for years, has tried to call anybody who believes that it came from the lab or looks at evidence that the virus came from this lab, calls them conspiracy theorists, downplays them, denigrates them," Paul said. “He promoted journal articles to downplay and say it wasn't possible when all the while it looks like he knew it.”
Getting this all out is great.  The "Please don't do this/Don't you dare do this!" has got to be interesting.
And, don't forget, most of our Professional Journalists were doing what they were told, as opposed to actually investigating and giving a damn about the truth.

I don't like that beer, but

I'd buy it anyway

I agree, and we can't let the bastards forget that we know

I thought about what he said for a few minutes and then said that I think we all are using the wrong terminology. We have fallen into the habit of saying things like, “During Covid, we couldn’t even go to church,” “Because of Covid friends lost their jobs;” and the like.

I then said to my friend that we all needed to change the language that we had been trained and had become accustomed to using. I said to him, “Covid didn’t close your business, the government did. Covid did not make the insane decision to close down gyms while leaving liquor stores open; the government did. Covid did not prevent us from going to worship at the church of our choice; the government did. Covid did not chase down and try to arrest bikers, surfers, joggers, and others engaged in outdoor exercise; the government did. Covid did not prevent families from holding and comforting their parents and grandparents during their final hours of life; the government did. Covid did not shut down our schools; the government did (aided and abetted by Randi Weingarten and the teachers’ unions). Covid did not set arbitrary limits on how far apart we should stand everywhere from in grocery stores to national parks, how many people should attend Thanksgiving dinner or other family gatherings in our own homes, while either remaining silent or actively encouraging mass Black Lives Matter demonstrations; the government health bureaucracy and little totalitarians, such as Anthony Fauci and the ‘Scarf Lady,’ Deborah Birx, did.

Why no, I hadn't heard about this terrorist, for some reason

I wonder if who was attacked and by who had something to do with it...


Speaking of terrorism, six dead and a bunch wounded in Australia by someone with a knife.  And zero description of the murderer in this.
Which, in current conditions, generally means it was someone of a protected species.  Might not be the case, but it does tend to go that way.

Agreed

And we should never let the bastards forget we know it.

I then said to my friend that we all needed to change the language that we had been trained and had become accustomed to using. I said to him, “Covid didn’t close your business, the government did. Covid did not make the insane decision to close down gyms while leaving liquor stores open; the government did. Covid did not prevent us from going to worship at the church of our choice; the government did. Covid did not chase down and try to arrest bikers, surfers, joggers, and others engaged in outdoor exercise; the government did. Covid did not prevent families from holding and comforting their parents and grandparents during their final hours of life; the government did. Covid did not shut down our schools; the government did (aided and abetted by Randi Weingarten and the teachers’ unions). Covid did not set arbitrary limits on how far apart we should stand everywhere from in grocery stores to national parks, how many people should attend Thanksgiving dinner or other family gatherings in our own homes, while either remaining silent or actively encouraging mass Black Lives Matter demonstrations; the government health bureaucracy and little totalitarians, such as Anthony Fauci and the ‘Scarf Lady,’ Deborah Birx, did.

For this eve, I think I shall

provide a newly-assembled collection

Had Glenn Beck on for background noise, and he had some 'former Republican head of whatever' on Updated

who kept insisting that reauthorizing 702 of FISA was necessary for national security and 'the reforms in the bill, if the right people are in charge, will protect Americans from abuses.'

Bullshit.

First, nobody trusts the FBI or CIA or anyone else anymore because they don't just violate the laws and their own damn regulations, they seem to take it as a perk of the job to do so.  For instance, the FBI Directors and Deputy Directors and ranking Very Special Agents caught breaking laws- think of Comey lying under oath, part of falsifying evidence TO THE BLOODY FISA COURT, on and on, and they all seem to get away with it.  Hell, Comey's gotten rich giving his 'My Greater Obligation required I lie and break the laws(including my oath to the Constitution!' in speeches.  And remember the FBI senior lawyer who actually was fired, and lost his law license, and then- less than a year later as I recall- got his job back, with back pay and benefits, and his law license back?

Second: when none of the agencies you're asking us to trust give a damn about the law, and most of Congress seems willing to trash parts of the Constitution because 'It's necessary for Safety!', who the HELL ARE THE 'RIGHT PEOPLE' SUPPOSED TO BE?

Screw this.  I'll repeat, don't just let that section die, drive a stake through the heart.

I will refrain from suggesting proper punishments for those officials, appointed and elected, who're such vile oathbreakers, because I'm too damn mad right now.


Update:
Yes, they caved and passed it, with two provisos:
It's a two-year extension.
"...Johnson agreed to change the FISA reauthorization from five years to two years, keep a vote on the warrant requirement amendment and hold a vote in the near future on a separate data privacy bill, which was enough to get the hard-liners to agree to open the legislation up for debate."
And they have to have a final vote next week.

Ref the trans mess, it looks like Scotland wants to become- what,

a bloody mess?  Insane people pushing for easy transsexual treatments for kids who're often being used as basically party favors for the left?  This is really bad, and I'll let you read it yourself.

The one excerpt I'll use:

When you're that troubled by people wanting to go through data, you're generally either up to something, or scared to death of what they'd find. 

It's a really upsetting read.

I don't know if it'll help, but I'd suggest calling your Congresscritter and saying some polite words about how bad

FISA is, and has been abused.  And that it would be a good thing to let it die.  Though driving a stake through its heart would be better.

And, considering this,
Though most of the reforms were agreed upon by both committees, the Intelligence Committee opposes warrant requirements for searching data of a U.S. citizen and Davidson’s Not For Sale Act, which would prohibit the third-party sale of U.S. citizens’ data and information without a court order.
I think we may need a new Intelligence Committee.  Staffed with people who remember their damned oath to the Constitution.

About the 'Who trained these people?' post

here, the general thought is 'the guy in charge of small arms hates his captain enough to do this to him' rather than simple "But it looked right!'

I'll throw in either said Captain didn't actually look through the scope(or at it, for that matter), or if he did look through you have
A: He didn't realize things didn't look right, or
B: "Nobody's going to pay attention, and I don't want to waste time having this turned around."

This is just bad.

My, this seems like the Fed needs either cleaning out,

or getting rid of.

From the past, I've said When an agency this this kind of contact with and influence over the Federal Govenment gets this hysterical over the word 'audit', they need one.  Badly.

I've been under the weather the last few days, and this would be a good time to take a minute

and do some clearing.

Gee, massive meddling in the hormone balances of kids could have bad results?

However could that be?*

This has been brought up before by a bunch of doctors, so it shouldn't be a surprise.

Makes me more certain that a lot of teachers and 'counselors' and doctors who push kids into this, especially since a lot of them were known to have mental problems(teenagers and below?  Really?) before they were pushed toward declaring "I'm trans!", need to be flogged for what they've done.

You're an adult and decide this is the right thing for you?  Go ahead.  LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE.


*Yes, the news site uses 'trans kids' to mean 'kids'; they're in (fG)Britain, what do you expect?

In which Biden demonstrates again he doesn't know what he's talking about

and much of the media is in the tank for him.
...from the very beginning, I used to teach the Second Amendment in law school, from the very beginning, there were limitations. You couldn’t own a cannon. You couldn’t — you could own a rifle or a gun, but there were certain things you couldn’t do. They weren’t weapons of war.
Cannon: false.  Weapons of war: false.  Etc.  Again.  

I think my favorite response is from one of the people involved in the Constitution, Tench Coxe:
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.

At about 1 minute the "Oh CRAP!" starts

and it literally goes downhill from there

This kind of garbage won't stop until the people involved

get criminally charged, prosecuted, and jailed.  And the people in charge who approve such are, at the least, fired.

I know, chances of that are just about zero, which is why it'll happen again.

"What?  Just arrest him at work?  Where's the fun in that?  We want to put on our ninja suits and kick doors!"

Holy crap, this is an indictment of the clowns in charge of training,

and why nobody in the Navy spotted a captain holding a rifle with the scope mounted backwards.
Another big reason why our troops seem to suck with small arms is the fact that the Generals and Admirals in Washington, DC would rather spend billions on new toys than invest in rigorous training. The United States Army famously removed the ubiquitous grenade throwing qualification from Army Basic Training because their new recruits were too weak and uncoordinated. The Army still issues grenades to the troops, but they are supposed to get the skill to use them somewhere else. They also dropped the requirement to successfully complete the land navigation course.

So, how is the Army going to fix weak and uncoordinated troops? Spend more money on toys, of course. The Army has allotted $331 million to purchase the “Next Generation Squad Weapons” and newer, more expensive ammunition. The new rifles and squad automatic weapons are larger and heavier than the M4 or the M249 SAW. So the new troops are weaker and more uncoordinated, but the solution is buy them bigger and heavier guns and ammo. Okay, got it.
I'd imagine some people are very unhappy with this situation, and a lot of others are unhappy with people talking about it.

The current state of 'Higher' Education

While Burke advised students in a message sent ahead of the photo shoot to avoid "displaying political messages as they may not represent all students," Yale officials "did nothing" and "still took the photo" after the banner was displayed, according to a Jewish member of the class.

"I was incredibly disappointed that there were over 5 school officials there that did nothing," the student said in an email to Rabbi Shmully Hecht of Shabtai, the Jewish society at Yale. "I felt that the Jewish students were targeted by this poster because there was no protest occurring at the time that was relevant to this banner. It was just about denouncing Israel for all memory and stating that it should not exist."
From the friends of the enemy running the school:
Burke acknowledged the ordeal in a follow-up email sent to Yale professors, administrators, and students. "The staff members present were in a tough position," Burke wrote in an email following the event, which included Yale University professors and other members of the media, adding that the sign "definitely broke the rules." She pledged to "destroy" the photo in question.

She did not indicate whether the students who displayed the banner would face disciplinary action. A spokeswoman for Yale University did not respond to a request for comment.
The only 'tough spot' they were in was not having the balls or integrity to stop the assholes.  And how tough is that when they know jellyfish like Burke aren't going to do a damn thing about it?
'disciplanary action', fat chance.



Next, from the Leftist Republic of Berkeley:
According to the Daily Cal, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professor Jonathan Shewchuk was responding to a student’s online discussion post, which asked for advice on being unable to find a date in the Bay area and expressed worries about finding a job in computer science.

Shewchuk responded, writing that the student should “get out of the Bay Area” to find a girlfriend.

“You’ll be shocked by the stark differences in behavior of women in places where women are plentiful versus their behavior within artillery distance of San Jose and San Francisco,” wrote Shewchuk.
So, he told the truth. Which, of course, cannot be tolerated.
“We want to be absolutely clear that the offensive content of the original post goes against the values and Principles of Community we adhere to at UC Berkeley,” Berkeley spokesperson Roqua Montez told the Daily Cal. “The comment was hurtful and threatening to students - particularly women - in his class and beyond.” 
Etc.


And for the final today,
A trans-identified male who identifies as a “minor-attracted person” and has been running a “MAP” merchandise shop online is also working with a prominent pro-pedophilia group that has consulted academics. Katie Cruz, a pseudonym used by a man who calls himself Cali Miller, has been “working behind the scenes” with activist group B4U-ACT, which campaigns to have pedophilia recognized as a sexual orientation, and which has contributed to academic research at some of North America’s top universities.
...
On Patreon, Cruz has stated that his “age of attraction” is between 9 and 13 years old. He also claims to identify as having a “trans age” of between “13 and 17ish.”
So he's a pedophile working hard to make it easier for himself and other pedophiles to molest kids. And some universities consult with him.  Ain't academia wonderful?

A lot of leftists are returning to their roots

However Malcolm Harris, a former Occupy Wall Street activist and author of ‘Palo Alto’ and other books published through Hachette, explained that swastikas were progressive now.

“Israel’s genocide has literally reversed the meaning of a swastika on a synagogue from a Nazi threat to a condemnation of genocide,” Harris, who also writes for The Nation and Wired, argued.

Harris claims that he viewed vandalizing a synagogue with a swastika as “an anti-zionist condemnation of Israeli genocide.” And if vandalizing synagogues with swastikas, the ultimate symbol of Nazi behavior is only “anti-Zionist”, not antisemitic, then there really is no difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, and between leftist anti-Zionists and Nazi antisemites.

David Austin Walsh, a postdoc at the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, who has a book on the “far-right” coming out from Yale University Press, chimed in, “I’ll stipulate for the sake of argument that tagging a synagogue with a swastika has an ambiguous or multivariate meaning. How are we to determine which is the intended meaning?”

Marshall Steinbaum, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and a Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute, whined that, “I wish we lived in a world where spray-painting a swastika on a synagogue still meant Nazis”.
There's more at Insty.  I can't get to the full article for some reason, maybe you can.  Looks like a lot of leftists are accepting the national socialists as fellow socialists at last.  

Might as well, a lot of them have hated Jews for a long time, might as well go all the way.  The stupid bastards.

From one of the sages on 'The View'

“We’ve got a solar eclipse, we’ve got an earthquake… also, I learned that cicadas are coming!” Hostin said, as she didn’t have the time to do a quick Google pronunciation lookup of how to actually pronounce cicadas since she butchered that as well.

“Si-CAH-Dahs ar coming!” Hostin said again, prompting Whoopi Goldberg to correct her as “Si-CAY-Duhs” and the TV control room executive producer probably throwing their hands up in the air.

It didn’t stop there though. “For the first time in a hundred years or so [the cicadas are coming], for the first time in many, many years actually” before Whoopi then had to cut Hostin off again. “No, no. Every 17 years this happens,” Goldberg cut in as if she was back filming Sister Act and scolding a student.

“That’s not what I read,”noting before then brilliantly… and I mean brilliantly, saying the solar eclipse, earthquake and cicadas “would lead [people] to believe that climate change is happening.”
Etc.

Personally, I'd say this should mean 'negotiations ended'

Especially since we don't know if ANY of the hostages are still alive, last I heard.
"Israel made it clear that if Hamas agreed to commit to this point, Israel would agree to far-reaching compromises on the issue of the return of Palestinian residents to the northern Gaza Strip," but Hamas says that after six months of hellish captivity, 40 such hostages are no longer alive.

When someone admits why the media in general, and in this case NPR in specific,

are not trusted anymore:
Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.

But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming.

It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens. You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.

What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media.
No shit?
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But it wasn’t a pure distraction, or a product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials suggested. The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.

The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.
(bold mine)
When the essential facts of the Post’s reporting were confirmed and the emails verified independently about a year and a half later, we could have fessed up to our misjudgment. But, like Russia collusion, we didn’t make the hard choice of transparency.
From the sound of it, they didn't even see there was a choice.

Yesterday was a range day,

so some shooting was done before grocery shopping and such needed doing.*  And the shooting included an interesting result of the 7.62x39 subsonics.

REMEMBER THE DISCLAIMER: Neither of these were published loads, they were worked up by me and there's no guarantee they'll work or be safe in your guns.  So keep that in mind if you try them.
Wind was suitable so I gave them a try at 100 yards.  First the 11.7 grains A5744 under the 255-grain Sub-X bullet

First aiming point was the upper left diamond, and they hit in a decent group about ten inches down and about four inches right.  The scope is an old Leupold Pig Plex 1-4x; it has a ring around the center of the crosshairs, and a stadia line below and on each side of the ring.  Second group I used the stadia line below to aim at the diamond, which put the group nicely almost even vertically with the aiming point.  One thing you'll notice of you look close: those holes aren't quite round.  I'm guessing that the rifling pitch isn't quite enough to fully stabilize this long a bullet, and at 100 yards they're starting to cant just a bit.

Second target was the 11.9 grains load:

First shot was crosshairs on the upper left, which hit about the same point as the 11.7 load, so the second I used the stadia line on the same aiming point to fire two, one of which I pulled low.  The next three used the stadia to aim on the center diamond.  You'll notice two things: first, the 0.2 grains more powder gave no elevation increase from the ~60feet per second gain; second, one of the last three seems well on its way to keyholing.

My verdict is stick with the 11.7 load.  And 100 yards would be the max effective range, as long as you can compensate for both drop and right drift.

Oh boy, it's wonderful out there

Seems Brix and Pence were both a couple of backstabbing shits.


A visiting McGill University scholar wants an “Interpol-like agency” to monitor the internet and the licensing of journalists by the government — all in the name of combating “misinformation.”
I'd suggest control freaks like him be satisfied with screwing up Canuckistan; he comes here for this he should be welcomed properly.  Say, with a flagrum.


Sounds like what they found on the communists phones should be broadcast far and wide.
And the .gov clowns working with them, and the Professional Journalists, all be fired.  At the very least.


Well, Smith isn't eligible to be a Special Counsel in the first place, so everything he's done should be ruled invalid.
Then he should be removed from any government position.  Permanently.


A federal district court in Texas has concluded that the Department of Transportation (DOT) exceeded its statutory authority when it adopted a rule establishing a greenhouse gas (GHG) performance measure for federally funded highways. Under the rule, states were required to measure highway-related greenhouse gas emission, set targets for GHG emission reductions, and track progress toward such targets. The state of Texas objected to the rule and filed suit.


And the last, from the land of Jihad, USA,
Reality had no part in this propaganda display, for if it did, Bazzi would have had to take note of the fact that the Biden regime has betrayed and abandoned Israel both at the UN and in regard to its overall war effort. If Hamas survives this war, it will be because of the tender mercies of Old Joe and his henchmen, who have been doing their utmost to make sure that Israel is unable to succeed in its goal of destroying Hamas, and that Michigan remains comfortably blue come November.

Bazzi, however, clearly wasn’t interested in electoral politics. He invoked the Ayatollah Khomeini and charged that the U.S. was “the backbone of all oppression in the world,” to which the crowd responded with screams of “Death to America” (al-mawt li Amrika). Bazzi showed no reaction, but paused until the screams died down. Then Bazzi brought up Malcolm X, quoting him as saying: “We live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth.”
And Biden & Co. will screw Israel in the hope of getting these America-hating assholes to vote for him.  Because they don't give a damn about anything else.