Friday, February 21, 2025

The way we were-----Ohio Air Guard KC-97 Stratofreighter 1964 145th Air Refueling Squadron I...

Is Today’s Heat Really Unprecedented? A Look at 125,000 Years

“If the full, horrifying truth about the murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas...

Clarice Feldman - @Osint613 Subscribe Israeli journalist... | Facebook
Israeli journalist @Tamir114: 
  • “If the full, horrifying truth about the murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, uncovered in the last 24 hours, were laid bare for all to see, not a soul in this nation would dare back any deal that leaves Hamas in control.
  • The IDF spokesman, with good reason, held back, revealing only a fraction of the grim details.”
  • (reports elsewhere that the bodies were torn up to make it seem they died in an air strike)


Read 'em all!-----Let's see how the patrons of Bluesky are handling Kash Patel's confirmation

Kash Patel was confirmed 51-49 by the US Senate today as the new FBI director ... and boy oh boy is the Left having a tough time with it. - Joel Abbott


USAID allegedly 'responsible' for scheme that shipped billions in American cash to Taliban * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

USAID allegedly 'responsible' for scheme that shipped billions in American cash to Taliban * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

In the aftermath of a decision by President Donald Trump's DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, essentially to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development and transfer a few remaining workers and responsibilities to the Department of State, a columnist has released a stunning report. It charges that USAID ultimately was responsible for the delivery of billions of dollars in American cash to the Taliban. A description of the events that transpired, leaving the Taliban with $2.9 billion in American cash, was provided by Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, at the Gatestone Institute.

"It's So Sad For Her" - Jordan Peterson On Greta Thunberg Impossible Sit...

JD Vance Delivers Blistering Response to Historian on Ukraine That Has People Cheering

Folks on the left seem content with continual war, with us pouring out support Ukraine with no end in sight, with seemingly no accounting. - Nick Arama
  • And that if you objected to it or wanted more of an accounting, it was somehow supporting Russia. 
  • You can believe Russia's invasion was wrong but still see that that this can't go on without a resolution.
  • But now under Trump, we're finally addressing that question and talking about options that Biden and many in Congress just didn't want to ever address...

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson: How California’s Incompetence Destroyed Its Own Wat...

Noon-toon



'Unmanned' flights: Amid rumors of all-female flight crew that crashed in Toronto, Delta CEO won't reveal identity of pilots * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Unmanned' flights: Amid rumors of all-female flight crew that crashed in Toronto, Delta CEO won't reveal identity of pilots * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

Amid rumors that an all-female flight crew was at the helm of the Delta Air Lines flight that crashed and flipped upside down in Toronto this week, the company's chief executive officer is refusing to identify the pilots.

"The truth is that not even a big and centralized government can successfully perform these functions. - Lynn Chu

[Protecting everyone against the hazards of old age, illness, and unemployment...floods and all other vicissitudes of fortune.]
This fact has been demonstrated over and over again—in the most extreme form, in the communist countries of Russia and China, where Marxist doctrine holds that citizens proceed on the principle 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.'
  • In those societies the principle never worked
Instead, government officials became 'the new class' of privileged autocrats, enslaving the masses. 
In our own country, one social welfare program after another has turned out to have effects opposite to those that were intended by the well-meaning people who supported them.
  • Good intentions alone are not enough. 
Governmental employees, no less than employees of private businesses, will put their own interests above the interest of others.
Calling them public servants does not alter that fact."

--Milton and Rose Friedman, Tyranny of the Status Quo (HBJ, 1983-4), pp. 38-9.

Where are all the FDA/NIH/CDC investigations of this disaster??!!

 

Criminal negligence!-----Ten Years and $7.5 Billion Later, No New Water Storage in California

No new water storage infrastructure has been built in California, more than a decade after voters approved a $7.5 billion water bond in Proposition 1 of 2014. - Joel B. Pollak
The San Jose Mercury-News reported Wednesday that officials are deciding what to do with nearly half a billion dollars of available cash after the “collapse” of a project to expand the Los Vaqueros Reservoir, which is east of San Francisco.
Other projects have received funding for planning and permitting, but nothing has been built...
  • The only project under construction, the Harvest Water Program in Sacramento, will recycle wastewater to provide 50,000 acre-feet (16 billion gallons) of water for agricultural purposes...

Not... the...dance!

 

Libs in the White House press corps screamed at Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller that Elon Musk is “unelected!”

I promise you - this is the single best video on the internet today: - Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson
Libs in the White House press corps screamed at Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller that Elon Musk is “unelected!” 
What happens next is a fatality. I promise you - this is the single best video on the internet today:


#1 This day 1965-----This diamond ring - Gary Lewis & the playboys

Western Civilization is still in the grip of a virulent mind-virus: The ideology of civilizational suicide

This ideology is a set of doctrines teaching that humanity itself is a grossly overgrown invasive species; the most destructive of which is Western Civilization.  - Patricia Anthone 
  • It teaches that our way of life is both evil and toxic and that our only hope lies in revolutionary deconstruction; a return to some imagined Utopia in which humans were innocent, primitive and rare. (Eden?)
  • Augmenting this godless religious teaching, is a socio-economic worldview (informed by Marxism) which divides the world into oppressors and the oppressed. 
  • Primitive, zero-sum thinking drives the view that those who succeed in any way do so at the direct expense of others.
This pathological combination is drummed into kids' heads beginning in preschool....

Remember when democrats warned us about violent rhetoric?

 

Trump designates violent Latin American gangs as global terror organizations | Blaze Media

Trump designates violent Latin American gangs as global terror organizations | Blaze Media

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to designate a number of violent cartel gangs as global terror organizations. The official statement was made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and named nine gangs and cartel organizations to be designated as terror groups.

...an article that would never have been written before VP Vance gave his speech to the NATO's Munich conference.

What shocks many in the world is that Europeans didn’t anticipate the quagmire they’re in. - Donald Sensing
From "Foreign Policy," the mainline journal of the foreign affairs establishment, an article that would never have been written before VP Vance gave his speech to the NATO's Munich conference.
What shocks many in the world is that Europeans didn’t anticipate the quagmire they’re in. One of the first rules of geopolitics is that we must always plan against worst-case scenarios. After the Ukraine war broke out, all European strategic thinking was based on the best-case scenario of the United States being a totally reliable ally, despite having experienced Trump’s first term and his threats to pull out of the world’s biggest military alliance. For a continent that has produced strategic minds like Metternich, Talleyrand, and Kissinger, there has been almost infantile strategic thinking on Ukraine and its long-term consequences. ...
And an incredible closing:
Trump is behaving like a rational geopolitical actor in putting what he perceives to be his country’s interests first. Europe shouldn’t just criticize Trump—instead, it should emulate him. It should carry out the currently unthinkable option: Declare that henceforth it will be a strategically autonomous actor on the world stage that will put its own interests first. Trump may finally show some respect for Europe if it does that....
foreignpolicy.com - It’s Time for Europe to Do the Unthinkable
Brussels has slavishly followed Washington for too long—and forgotten how to advance its own geopolitical interests.
Europe disdained US Republicans for years, now euro-elites are in a frenzy
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Europe disdained US Republicans for years, now euro-elites are in a frenzy
Europe disdained US Republicans for years, now euro-elites are in a frenzy
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History for February 21

History for February 21 - On-This-Day.com 
Barbara Jordan 1936 - Lawyer, U.S. Congresswoman
  • 1804 - The first self-propelled locomotive on rails was demonstrated in Wales.
  • 1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.
  • 1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
  • 1904 - The National Ski Association was formed in Ishpeming, MI.
  • 1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
  • 1988 - In Baton Rouge, LA, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin. He announced that he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Swaggart had been linked to an admitted prostitute.

Thursday, February 20, 2025