I want to be a White House reporter...

...in an alternate universe, where Pete Buttigieg is elected president just so in a press conference I can say, “So, President-elect Buttigieg, you gonna suck dick in the White House?” 

General Lee and General Li

"To Mark Milley, the General Lee who has been dead for 151 years is a dire threat, but the General Li who commands the world's largest army on behalf of a murderous tyranny is a chum." – Dan McLaughlin, National Review, quoted by Josh Hammer at Jewish World Review.

Milley is a stupid general

What has not been said of Milley is how utterly, absolutely, unbelievably stupid was his remark to PLA Gen. Li: “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”

Was Milley looking for a first in a four-star, chief military advisor to a head of state? He certainly achieved that. At no other time, in any army, has a general of Milley’s position told another general, “I’ll let you know in advance if we’re going to attack you with our full arsenal.”

But, some of Milley’s previous statements were lacking in what country people would call “smarts.”

There were his comments on “white rage” and he stayed up late at night studying that great threat to national security.

On June 11, 2020, he apologized for walking with the president, the commander in chief, his boss, at the president’s request. “My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”

Oh, okay. But calling a Chinese Communist Party general and assuring the general that he would let the general in on US war plans was not involving the military in domestic politics?

We are not that stupid, General, and if you have surrounded yourself with people who believe you acted within your oath of commissioning, We The People need and deserve a JCS chairman with a few more smarts.

Unbelievably stupid.

 

Chechen leader threatens to burn political opponent ‘in a blue flame’

From Caucasian Knot 

The leader of Chechnya promised to burn Akhmed Zakaev, living in Great Britain. Ramzan Kadyrov stated that Akhmed Zakaev promised to return to Chechnya from emigration, but did not keep his word.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that in late January, after an Akhmed Zakaev’s appeal in support of the people killed by law enforcers in Katar-Yurt, Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma member from Chechnya, demanded the extradition of Akhmed Zakaev from Great Britain to Russia. In March, in Chechnya, investigators instituted a criminal case against Akhmed Zakaev under the article on justifying terrorism.

In his joint broadcast with Speaker of the Chechen Parliament Magomed Daudov on Instagram, Ramzan Kadyrov voiced threats against Akhmed Zakaev.

“If you mention the name of my father again, then you will see what will become of you [...] I will burn you in a blue flame, if you mention my father’s name,” said the leader of Chechnya on the video as translated by the “Kavkaz.Realii”*. On September 15, the video was posted on the Instagram page lord_095 with two million followers.

Ramzan Kadyrov accused Akhmed Zakaev of not keeping his promise to return to Chechnya with his associates.

The leader of Chechnya also called Akhmed Zakaev a traitor and referred to the opinion of Aslan Maskhadov.

Then Ramzan Kadyrov declared that he was not going to kill his critics, who “received political asylum in different countries” after the threats. “We need you alive and healthy. We will bring you home and bring you to your knees in front of people. Do not die yet, beware of the coronavirus there,” the leader of Chechnya said.

https://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/56761/
© Caucasian Knot

 

 

 

C.S. Lewis had a concise and studious answer

From Never Yet Melted

 

Written by CS Lewis in 1948.

“ ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of chronic pain, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways.

It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about death. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

https://neveryetmelted.com/2021/09/14/c-s-lewis-on-living-today/

 

 

Somebody had to own slaves

It’s not like nobody owned them. Might as well have been Biden’s ancestors as anybody else’s. 

From Weasel Zippers

Genealogists have reportedly found evidence that President Biden’s paternal colonial ancestors owned slaves.

The reported finding, detailed in an adapted excerpt from Politico correspondent Ben Schreckinger’s upcoming book “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” was recently discovered by Alexander Bannerman, a genealogist in West Virginia, and lineage expert Gary Boyd Roberts.

After the 2020 presidential election, Bannerman worked alongside Roberts to put together Biden’s genealogy for the winter 2021 issues of American Ancestors magazine.

Bannerman told Schreckinger that during their research, the pair found that two of Biden’s ancestors on his father’s side enslaved people while living in Maryland.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/biden-related-to-maryland-slave-owners-report/

 

 

Christian Hungary, European Parliament at odds on what makes a family

From Hungary Today 

“In her English-language comments published on Facebook on Tuesday evening, (Hungarian Justice Minister) Judit Varga said: ‘It seems like they (the EP) don’t give up. It still hurts the EP that Hungary, thanks to its Child Protection Act, does not let any sexual propaganda into our educational institutions, schools and kindergartens. They are frustrated because we resist their pressure and the LGBTQ lobby’.

“She reiterated the Hungarian government’s position that raising children remains the sole responsibility of parents, and this concept is enshrined in Article 14 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.

“’With the resolution voted by the European Parliament today, they want to tell what shall we consider as a marriage, a family and child-parent relationship. Again, they want to instruct us from above on issues that fall within national competence. It is only icing on the cake that the EP once again points at the Article 7 procedure,’ Varga said.

https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-reaction-ep-lgbtq-rights/

The European Parliament has called for infringement procedures, judicial measures, and budgetary tools against Hungary, Poland and Romania for failure to enact and practice laws dictated by other member states.