ON HISTORICAL IGNORANCE

 Long before the Germans came knocking on Ukraine's steppe the Russian commissars poured through the land and took every scrap of food they could find and shipped it back to Russia. Over 6 million Ukrainians were starved to death by the Russians. When the Germans came and it was clear that they meant to invade Russia and topple Stalin and all his works it is not unnatural that they found many like minded Ukrainians. The same thing happened all along the Soviet frontier as Eastern Europeans found it convenient to tear off a piece of Russia given how much Russians had torn away from them. It also happened in the north where the Finns didn't hesitate to side with the Germans in the Continuation War. Like Eastern Europe, it cost them dearly after the war.

The nonsense about recognizing a Ukrainian man for fighting the Soviet Union in World War II with the only means he had and now holding him up as some kind of nazi is not remotely humorous. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Soviet Union made themselves the enemy of man and God.

It may be better to remember all of the past and not just cherry pick the parts we like. Some wars and enemies need to be fought and the weaker side cannot always be choosy about the means used to do it.

LET'S CHANGE ITS NAME BACK TO WAR DEPARTMENT

You kind of have to wonder why we have this enormous hugely expensive misnomer in our government called the Department of Defense. You would think it would involve itself with the defense of the United States but that seems to be utterly foreign to it as it aggressively seeks out wars all over the world to involve us and them in and if it cannot find any it doesn't hesitate to scare one or two up and promote another deeply uneven fight that we lose after 20 years of blood sacrifice and the pure waste of trillions of dollars.

So, what do you think? Should we scrap the whole Department of Defense concept and go back to having a War Department and Navy Department or just arm the Salvation Army since they are probably considerably more dangerous then the entire DoD?

ON THE SILENCE

 Nobody talks about some of the problems that this country is now facing. We have one of the most entitled and useless classes ever experienced in this country who seem to think that they are all above the law. OK, we have two classes with the same expectations. One is the upper level democrats and the other is the minority that commits more than 50% of all violent crime while only representing 11% of the overall population. Enough about that though.

What we also have, courtesy of both the aforementioned classes is an enormous illegal immigration problem. Some people have elected to ignore all of the downstream consequences of letting millions of impoverished ignorant no-skill people into the country to bolster the democratic party's vote farming schemes. What are the problems you ask.

1. They swell the ranks of unemployed/unemployable and foster greater crime and drug use and add to the homeless issue created by the left.

2. They will soon overwhelm all of our public infrastructure and make waiting times for hospitals, doctors, nurses, and classrooms overwhelming and even more outrageous.

3. They almost certainly won't have any form of insurance. That's going to hurt every hospital in the country and they are also going to start driving just as soon as they can steal or buy a cheap car and when they hit you, and they will, you will find out what it means and in the mean time your insurance rates are going to rise dramatically.

4. Every single public benefit that was ever created to benefit Americans will be diluted to the point of meaninglessness as it is forced to deal with the ever increasing numbers of poor and ignorant border crossers.

If you are not interested in local politics you better get interested because those people are the ones that are going to twist every single good thing you like about where you live to the purpose of feeding, educating and housing the illegals over and before feeding, housing and educating the people who were born here.

PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS

 I see from the New York Post that Columbia has shut down the so-called Teachers College Reading and Writing project and pushed its founder and guiding light into the darkness decades too late for most children who were not taught to read by sounding out the words that were new to them. Nobody made all the teachers and schools adopt the idiotic and worse than useless approach to reading that so many did adopt and attempt to instill in all their students. No, that was on those teachers and those schools and on the parents that let them get away with that crap.

I still wonder why it took literally generations of failure before anybody managed to successfully drive a stake through the heart of this warped, stupid and counterproductive idea. 

Worst of all of course is that there are still parents, teachers and schools that will still swear that it works!

FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON

 Every time I see or hear Joe Biden our p'resident I think of what he reminds me of and he is not the only one that brings that old story to life every time. It's the same with Pelosi, Feinstein, McConnell, Fetterman and Kamala Harris. At one time these dullards must have been really sharp and on the ball since they clearly conned an awful lot of people into believing that they were way sharper and more intelligent then they are now.

On the gripping hand, we kind of know exactly how Harris got her start in politics and it clearly shows any time you put her in a room with anyone smarter than a 4 year old.

It is available to read online

THE STUPID IS STRONG IN THEM

 

IMPORTANCE OF BEING ACCURATE AND TRUTHFUL

 We all now know that the entire intelligence community does nothing but lie about everything and when that fails they just lie some more. It was one thing for the people who ran the FBI, DIA, CIA and NSA to lie about whether or not Hunter Biden's laptop was, in fact, Hunter Biden's laptop but its an entirely different matter when they spent 20 years lying to the top echelons of military and government about every single aspect of our war to displace and root out the Taliban and to contain ISIS and the entire state of the Russian Federation.

Quite literally everything they reported or said was a lie. The FBI never stopped lying about the entirely bogus and fake Russian dossier they alleged was about President Trump being some sort of Russian agent. They still believe it, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

The CIA got the fall of the Soviet Union wrong for almost the entire Cold War and did the same about China and are STILL DOING IT.

The liars at every level in the Intelligence Community lie about Russia running out of men and war materials even as any honest observer can see that Russia's economy is booming and they have both men and war material coming out their ears. The IC wants you to believe that the Russians cannot go on the offensive to capture Kiev because they lack the means and the will but that's the sort of thing only a total idiot would say. Ukrainians are dying like flies attacking fixed layered Russian defenses maintained on the borders (roughly) of the Russian occupied lands formerly part of Ukraine and before that, part of Russia. The Russians have every bit as much need to take Kiev as we did to take Baghdad during DESERT STORM. There was no need to take it.

We are spending trillions on the intelligence community and they are so inept and useless that they could not pin down the source of the Wuhan flu. There are 4 star generals roaming around telling the world that Russia is on the point of objective military defeat by a country that seriously believes 15 more tanks will make some sort of difference in a counter-offensive that never so much as made a spoiling attack in battalion size or greater, much less launched a counter-offensive that if you are honest, would reflect in size, scale and effort, the Russian's initial attack and attempted coup de main at the outset of the conflict.

So if the Intel Community is such a lying bunch of useless idiots, why do we keep funding them? Well, it used to be said that J. Edgar Hoover had the dirt on enough dirty Senators and Congressmen that they dared not provoke him into untimely disclosures. I tend to believe that. 

When you think back to the Manchurian Candidate and the like, you don't really have to wonder too much how low grade morons and brain damaged idiots keep getting 'elected' to power and how people like them keep getting reelected year after year.

Remember how the unknown Chicago thug Obama was heading for defeat until somehow Jack Ryan's sealed divorce papers were suddenly and mysteriously made public by an LA judge?

So they are the Sword of Damocles. Who is going to force them to use it?

DAMNED PECULIAR IS WHAT IT IS

 Has anyone else noticed how none of Trump or Biden's accusers have died in multitudes of strange accidents and suicides and murders and stuff along the lines trotted out to explain all the deaths of friends, colleagues, business associates and others left in the wake of the Clintons? 

Obama is a late bloomer when it comes to strange and mysterious deaths.

A QUESTION FOR OUR TIME

 Back when I was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy and then every time I was promoted I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It went like this:

I solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Do I have to invade New Mexico now and is regime change a requirement?

J'AI MES REGRETS

 It has been a devastating cycle of failure compounding failure backed up by failure, supervised by failures and crafted by failure. We all had some idea that the events of that day long ago would trouble our time for the rest of our lives but I had no idea that I would regret literally every action that my country took in the days and months and years that followed the attack. It was all ruinous, unnecessary, barbaric and cruel and it just keeps getting worse and worse.

We have a sitting governor that believes she can suspend the Constitution of the United States if she declares a health emergency and now almost half the idiots go along with her ridiculous notion. The litany of failures range from Education to the Military, from Foreign Relations and Diplomacy to Energy Policy with a total unswerving intolerance for free speech and mindless belief in what they hear from what calls itself the news.

I had a longer and more detailed list of regrets but this will suffice. It's time to throw off the shackles placed on our freedoms and return this country to what it was, the land of the free and the home of the brave.

A MODEST PROPOSAL: MAKE THEM PREY

I see that there is at last an obvious way to make the disgusting morons running the country turn around and consider just what they have wrought with all their ignorant and stupid policies. It seems that cruel things keep happening to just the right people and all that has to happen for them to see the error of their ways is right there in front of us. We merely need to encourage all the gangbangers, rapists, murderers, thieves, carjackers etc (see the complete list at Blazing Saddles) to focus their attentions on just liberal democrats and farm labor politicians and bureaucrats.

It would be a win-win!

You see we have no shortage and no end in sight of such criminals who prey on us and a lot of the more important believers in lib/prog soft on crime policies they love, never go anywhere at all without armed security provided by us.

WHAT THE IDIOT LEFT FAILS TO UNDERSTAND

 The idiots we refer to as leftists and who think of themselves as liberal and progressive universally fail to understand a simple little fact of history. It was people just exactly like them that voted for Hitler to come to power democratically and to then destroy all the reins that held government in check and create the Third Reich. They really think that voting for tyranny is the path to freedom and democracy. Every single damned one of them is an idiot.

NO THANKS, I'LL PASS

 I saw this tonight and it produced an immediate visceral response:

I no longer have any faith or trust in the American medical profession. They all lied about every single aspect of the COVID embarrassment and don't feel the slightest bit repentant about it and I don't doubt for one second that any flu vaccine I get delivered from them will contain a secondary unmentioned vaccine to stave off the COVID. Worst of all, I think that even if they knew it did, not a single one of them would balk at recommending it and totally forget about getting informed consent by simply not mentioning what was mingled in with the flu vaccine before sticking me with it.

Way to go AMA!

THE GRISLY NO GOOD DEATH OF ESPN

 I have to admit, Clay Travis writes a really great Obituary for ESPN and cable. You should hustle over to read it if you haven't already run across it today. It reads very much like the post analysis writeups for wars and battles and it also sends a mixed feeling my way. I was never that in to the sports I wasn't playing or participating in and the only time I really watched was back when I shared my office in Bahrain with the resident SEAL and the EOD guy who were both sports fanatics.

Well, not me but the writing is now on the wall for the others to see. The final nail in the coffin bores right in to the truth of things.

Every day it seems we wake up in a world made new.

DEATH OF BRICK $ MORTAR RETAIL

 I see that some clever jackass has decided to express its ire at Target clothing and set the clothes on fire. It's as if shoplifting the retail stores to death isn't enough and now people who don't like something feel free to simply set it on fire. I don't know how retail stores can survive this but I think we are going to see a return to the pre-Piggly Wiggly era of shopping. You go to the bullet proof counter in the bullet proof vestibule with your shopping list and hand it to the clerk who fills your food order and brings it back to the counter where you pay, probably in cash, for your goods and then they shove them through the bullet proof bin and you fill your own shopping bags and head out.

I remember back when I was getting my visa to head off to France in 1989 I had to hit their consulate up in LA. It was about the time that the shops on Rodeo Drive had posted notices that they were "only open by appointment' and kept their doors locked in order to keep out all the smash and grab artistes of that era.

It's interesting to me because the thug society created deserts out of their own neighborhoods during the great riots of the 70s and then did the same thing with the Rodney King riots and then the same thing with Saint Floyd riots and now they have thieved to death their local supermarkets forcing them all to go a bit further abroad to satisfy their thieving and food cravings.

It does make you wonder though how much longer a civilization that obeys no law can survive. They will no doubt end up stealing library books and then burning the libraries down for not supplying enough entertainment for nothing.

ME TOO

 

THE CIVIL SOCIETY RULES

 I wonder how many incorporated towns and cities are adopting the strategy used by both Florida and Texas to make the migrant invasion a major problem for the democrat run big cities? There is no reason that any town used as a dumping ground by INS for. hundreds of illegal aliens cannot round them up as they arrive and load them on another bus for immediate delivery to San Francisco, LA, New York, Washington DC, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Kansas City, Madison, Minneapolis or any of a score of other cities where they would be welcomed warmly and cherished by their Marxist brothers and sisters.

THIS IS INTERESTING

Boeing is finding that somebody drilled hundreds of extra holes in the aft pressure bulkhead of production 737 aircraft. At the same time I learn that the Department of Maximum Injustice here in the formerly United States of America has charged SpaceX with the crime of not hiring illegal aliens to work on its spacecraft or in its space operations.

It's not funny, it's very sad and pathetic.

As you remember, the Russians found that someone was drilling tiny holes in its space craft a few years ago. I think they finally ended up blaming it on an American woman astronaut.

Of course, the government would have a lot more credibility if it hadn't, you know, lied its ass off about the Wuhan Flu and its various insane and stupid countermeasures, or shut down all the roads out of Lahaine, Hawaii leaving all the residents and tourists there to burn to death in the fire that it failed to warn them was rushing down on them driven by 80 mile an hour storm winds that caused an electric transmission line to spark a fire despite known fire dangers.

JUST WONDERING IN AMUSEMENT

 I copied this from Instapundit . I thought it could be tweaked.

I’D WONDERED THIS MYSELF: After Prigozhin humiliated Putin, the question was how he survived so long.

“The very fact that Prigozhin existed after the coup completely upended our understanding of the Putin regime,” said Abbas Galyamov, a political consultant and former Putin speechwriter. “The rule was that you can’t go against Putin. For two months, everything was upside down. Prigozhin created a massive problem for Putin, he humiliated him.”

As I read that paragraph the name Hillary suddenly sprang to mind in lieu of Putin's and Trump's name in lieu of Prigozhin.

In the two months after the mutiny, Prigozhin appeared down but not out. He was filmed in Belarus telling his mercenaries that the conduct of the war in Ukraine was a “disgrace”. He was photographed on the sidelines of a Russia-Africa summit, and then appeared this week armed and in camouflage somewhere in Africa, saying he was “making Russia even greater on all continents”.

Trump somehow survived despite the 100% negative press coverage of literally every single thing he did during his first term.

Perhaps more importantly, he was never served with criminal charges after the mutiny. His companies continued to win multimillion-dollar catering contracts, and he continued to travel between Africa, Belarus and Russia on his Embraer jet until it crashed on Wednesday.

Now it switches to Hillary who is guilty of all kinds of real crimes alongside all of her State Department associates and aides who stripped classification markings off Top Secret documents and emailed them over the unclassified internet to Hillary's private account and none were so much as indicted for the crimes they committed.

“It gave the signal that it was permissible to go against Putin and everything will be OK,” Galyamov said.

I'm not sure where Hillary started killing her enemies but I suspect Vince Foster was not the first to die for the Clinton's many crimes.

Many had the sense that this would not last. The CIA director, William Burns, last month called Putin an “apostle of payback” and warned Prigozhin not to fire his food taster.

Again, Hillary's name in lieu of Putin's.

Somehow, Prigozhin spent his time in Belarus (which is basically a Russian vassal) and sometimes even safely traveling back to Russia… up until he didn’t.

I notice the Clinton's don't appear to fly much in their own private airplane unlike John Kerry and the other dolts running this country.

COLOR ME SURPRISED

 You have thoroughly pissed off the last and most senior surviving officer of the KGB who now heads all of Russia which is engaged in a war with a country that has routinely launched missile and aerial attacks on Moscow. Do you really decide to get on a plane outside of Moscow for the direct private flight to St. Petersburg and take off into the wild blue yonder inside Moscow's ADIZ?

I find it hard to believe that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Private Military Company, is/was that unbelievably stupid. I do feel sorry though for the crew and other passengers that died.

THIS IS TRULY PAINFUL TO READ

 I was reading about the coming downfall of civilization at Conservative Treehouse just now and this is actually alarming. Our friends at google 

are deploying AI to crawl the entire world wide web for context. This is allegedly to develop better informed and rational artificial intelligence but as is made clear in the linked article, they are doing it in order to subvert and take total control and dominance over the entirety of the world wide web and censor ALL INFORMATION.

If you cannot read it, I urge you to hit the link and look at what the censors are up to.

SAD BUT TRUE

 This is Painful to admit and accept

The medical professionals all over the world disgraced themselves over Covid 19 and are getting even less reputable then Congress or snake oil salesmen.

A SILLY QUESTION

 Is there some reason that Ukraine is not using its factories and industrialized workforce to turn out 100,000 155mm shells every month? This is simple fabrication and well within the means of any industrialized country like Ukraine. The fuzes may all be point detonated or base fuzed but they could probably turn out some variable time airbursting rounds if they put their backs into it like any real country facing and existential threat to its existence.

I guess most of the money we sent/send there just goes into the pockets of the democratic party donors so thick on the ground in Ukraine and the rest of the EU.

Russia, for all the sanctions against it isn't having any trouble at all restocking, replenishing and making ever more artillery ammunition.

UNMITIGATED EVIL

I knew that the neocons were bad but their far worse than that. They are actively evil.  This shows that they are worse than evil and likely always have been. 

The war in Ukraine is all but over. There is no hope for any kind of Ukrainian victory and they have made themselves so unpleasant that nobody seriously roots for them to win anyway. All that can result from continuing the war is more destruction and more killing and the killing is pretty much one-sided these days. Nobody can attack into fixed defenses without at least a 3-1 advantage in numbers and tanks and artillery and air support and the Ukrainians don't have any of that.
 

UNFOUNDED OPTIMISM AMIDST THE RUINS

 It occurred to me as I listened to the latest on both the war in Ukraine and the disaster that swept over Maui that perhaps I am being unfair to the rotten string of Chiefs of Naval Operations that the Navy has endured for the last 20 years. Perhaps I underestimated their low cunning and guile. Perhaps they foresaw the wreckage that the neocons leave in their wake as they continuously seek every opportunity to make war on our former friends and allies and decided to castrate any potential war with China by disestablishing the Navy. It kind of makes sense since they have effectively gutted the Navy by their actions and failures and there is little doubt that the neocons and the big political donors and weapons makers are making money by the truckload fueling endless wars but I think the consensus is that any Pacific War requires a powerful navy to carry out. With no powerful navy on hand to make war it slides further and further away from their grasp and nobody can deny that the USN today is half the Navy it was in 1985.

40% of our submarines are offline for maintenance issues and our amphibious shipping takes hit after hit from the beancounters, saboteurs and shoddy shipyard work. I don't know what condition Naval Aviation is in but I have little doubt that it is in dire straits. Even at our height the Flying Hour Program was the first thing on the chopping block when it was time to economize. It probably doesn't help that F35s are making up more and more of the inventory and that there are few, if any pilots that have even so much as 1000 hours in the airframe.

The other nice side effect of making war on our friends and allies is that few of ours in the Pacific would stoop to pick up any gauntlets tossed at their feet. Nobody feels sanguine about going to war with the United States offering their firmest ever possible backing and support. They saw what happened in Iraq, in Afghanistan and they have long memories of what we did to South Vietnam when we decided we had enough and the democrat congress turned off the supply of arms and ammunition leaving the South to the mercy of the North Vietnamese.

Ukraine is finished as an American puppet state. It's out of men and tanks and APCs and cannot so much as. brush through the first line of Russian defenses and now it and the world know it. I won't be surprised if the generals take out the Ukrainian government in the next week or two and shoot them all out of hand or hang them upside down from lamp posts. Of course, the instant they start to make their move the apparatchiks will all flee to their villas in France and castles in Spain but we have become used to that.