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Open thread 7/13/23 — 31 Comments

  1. What was in Hermann Goering’s pocket when he was captured by American soldiers in May 1945? An American sidearm– specifically, an American Smith and Wesson Military and Police Model K revolver. Goering had purchased it from a gun dealer in Hamburg before the start of WWII.

    Where is the revolver now? In the West Point Museum on the West Point campus, where visitors can still see it: https://www.facebook.com/WestPointMuseum/posts/10163859568040790/

  2. William Sherman (“Uncle Billy” to his troops) was very fond of Lincoln and in the last days of the war tried to carry out his wishes in the surrender of Joe Johnston’s army. He did not know of the assassination and was accused of treason by Stanton in the changed atmosphere after the event. Joe Johnston attended Sherman’s funeral and died soon after.

  3. NPR coverage of Congressional testimony of FBI Director Chris Wray hit a new high in dishonestly this morning.

    In Congress, Wray was read the text of Hunter Biden threatening a Chinese client who hadn’t paid the full promised $10M bribe. He was then asked if that sounded like a shakedown and preposterously answered “no”.

    But the dishonest part was that NPR… DIDN’T PLAY THE PART OF THE QUESTION ABOUT THE BRIBE!!

    Of course, NPR will claim they played the “Does that sound like a shakedown?” question… they just didn’t play the part of the question that gave MEANING to the question, because that is Hunter Biden asking a foreign official for a bribe, while claiming that Joe Biden is sitting next to him!

    This is NPR acting publicly as an accessory to the suppression of information about criminal behavior. THIS is disinformation!

  4. So the cocainegate investigation is now closed due to lack of suspects. effing amazing, but I guess not surprising. It’s all over the right media, CNN dead silence. Now can we add the Secret Service to the list of compromised government agencies??

  5. spanish tv did touch on it, at least since 2013 with the colombia fracas,

  6. Regarding the CIA’s investigation into cocaine:

    I have some experience with the capabilities of modern security systems. My exposure is with commercial systems; undoubtedly a level or two beneath what the CIA would have in the White House. So the systems I have worked with are almost certainly less good than those involved in this investigation.

    Security cameras and the computer intelligence behind them are SCARY AMAZING! Even if cameras weren’t “directly” on the cubbies (almost certainly absurd, that would be a region of focus and 360 degree imaging cameras are common and inexpensive) what can be seen on the periphery is still incredible. And the storage, recall and search capabilities! You can drag a mouse across an image (like a cubby or a plastic bag) and nearly instantly search hours/days of footage for other appearances of that item. Human face recognition, body temperature and other biometric data…

    They know this. They know we know this. They know we know they know we know this. It’s like Wray’s hearing. The story of the Emperor’s new clothes isn’t the fact that the Emperor is naked. It’s the fact that the peasantry is so cowered no one will dare point it out.

  7. national pravda radio, of course the peasantry knows but you don’t want to be insurrectiony do you, you can mortar a courthouse for 90 days, no foul, but selfies in the rotunda, or the off broadway performance of python, no soup for you,

  8. see the scene in absolute power could have happened, baldacci was not cynical enough,

  9. miguel cervantes @12:52pm,

    Exactly right. That’s why the right, and Trump, were so foolish to fall into their January 6th trap. They needed those images to juxtapose with Burn Loot Murder’s similar images to continue to cower their opposition into submission.

  10. “Biden” is targeting Musk?
    Surprise!
    (Actually, that should’ve been clear from early on…when they tried to target Tesla.)
    Musk had to know what he was in for when he gave away the elaborate, intricate, multi-layered—hey! Just like Russiagate! And just like November 2020—censorship game of the Criminal regime.
    Media tried to ignore it, of course, deny it (of course), spin it (of course)…but these things get through in spite of the best efforts of the RIGHTEOUS protectors of Muh Democracy (to some people at least).
    And ah…sweet revenge!
    Retaliation is how thugs get their kicks.
    Prove their it-hood.
    Teach all of us a lesson….

    Don’t cross “me” is the message.
    And if you try, you’ll get January Sixed. You’ll get Michael Lynched. You’ll get Dreyfus J. Trumped. You’ll get Gal Lufted.
    So go on, MAKE “OUR” DAY, you chumps.

    Putin couldn’ta said it better.

    + Bonus (on “Biden”‘s IRGC):
    “Turley: Wray’s playing Americans for chumps — so what will Congress do about it?”—
    https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/07/13/turley-wrays-playing-americans-for-chumps-so-what-will-congress-do-about-it-n564320

  11. I forgot to mention that Steve Inskeep of NRP took the opportunity this morning to say that Republicans grilling Wray and wanting to stop a new HQ Building means they are “defund the police”!

    What slimeballs.

  12. cb on July 13, 2023 at 1:48 pm said:

    “Studies of the science of climate provide strong evidence that there is no climate crisis and that increasing CO2 concentrations will benefit the world.”
    Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis’
    https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4167594/posts
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    cb:

    Thanks for posting this. I was curious, so I looked into it a little more.

    The Nobel-prize winner cited in the “Free Republic” article is John Clauser, one of the most famous and well-regarded physicists of his generation. Clauser has recently become a board member of the “CO2 Coalition.” The Coalition’s director, Greg Wrightstone, tried to post a summary of Clauser’s speech to Facebook, but it was censored (https://tinyurl.com/2s3peun5).

    It’s no surprise that the Left and their social media allies won’t allow us to read a critique of the so-called consensus on catastrophic anthropogenic global warning. Even so, It’s especially galling to learn that nameless idiots at Facebook are able to censor the speech of a Nobel-prize-winning physicist.

  13. I am beginning to suspect that exposing the climate change hoax might be the step that could initiate the destruction of the whole globalist agenda.

    It seems to be the “piece de resistance” that got the whole movement started, and has caused humanity to waste trillions of dollars in its pursuit!

  14. Re: Indy 5 flop

    So “Mission Impossible 7” opened and is killing the box office and “Indy 5”.

    Disney is already pulling “Indy 5” from theaters. Disney will lose at least a couple hundred mil, which on all their flops for the year will top one bil.

    Disney is falling. Disney will have to choose Woke or Broke.

  15. @ huxley > “Disney will have to choose Woke or Broke.”

    Even if Disney gives up the Woke, they will go Broke, because conservatives won’t ever trust them again.

    IMO they will stick with Woke to the point of bankruptcy, and will not be able to reclaim their former customers even if restructured with different ownership and management IF that’s even possible.

  16. AesopFan:

    So Disney has Bud-Lighted itself?

    Could be.

    But if they’ve got a hope, it can’t be digging the Woke Hole deeper.

    Although I see your point in that Disney is so saturated with the Woke that even if the word comes down from on high to return to Walt’s Mission, they won’t be able to do it.

    Because they don’t want to and because they don’t have the skills or character.

    What twenty-thirty-something Disney writer could write an old-school Male Hero, even with a gun to zer head?

  17. I continue to be touched by Dem analyst Ruy Teixiera’s poignant pleas to talk Democats off the hard left ledge:
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    So cultural leftism not only does not represent the views of most voters; it also doesn’t represent the views of vast segments of the very party—the Democrats—that is now identified with promulgating said cultural leftism. This is not how a big tent party should act.

    –Ruy Teixeira, “The Democratic Party Left vs. the Center: The Two Are Not Compatible”
    https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-democratic-party-left-vs-the

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    I have detected no signals that any Democrat is listening to Teixeira.

  18. The no doubt well-meaning and intuitive Teixeira doesn’t seem to understand that as the Democratic Party increasingly “fine tunes” the electoral process AND—most importantly—the vote counting “methodology”, the party does NOT need (as in, NO LONGER NEEDS) its voters to vote for it.
    DPUSA today! DPUSA tomorrow!! DPUSA forever!!!
    (Who could ask for anything more?)

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