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Today is Thanksgiving day in America.

timon_phocas comments on Nov 26, 2020:

They landed in a howling wilderness with poor soil and harsh conditions. Half of them died that first winter. They cried out to the Lord for help. Out of the wilderness walked a stranger, a Native American who spoke perfect English, and who taught them how to survive in their new land. We call ...

timon_phocas replies on Nov 26, 2020:

Howdy @dmatic, The positive parts of American history have been systematically excluded from 'history' books. The teaching has been even worse.

Today is Thanksgiving day in America.

timon_phocas comments on Nov 26, 2020:

They landed in a howling wilderness with poor soil and harsh conditions. Half of them died that first winter. They cried out to the Lord for help. Out of the wilderness walked a stranger, a Native American who spoke perfect English, and who taught them how to survive in their new land. We call ...

timon_phocas replies on Nov 26, 2020:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, Squanto was kidnapped by English slavers about 1610. He was taken to Malaga, Spain and sold in the slave market there to Monks who taught him the rudiments of Christianity. The monks sent him to England in hopes he could catch a ride on an English ship back to his homeland. In England, Squanto found a good place with a believing English family. It was five years before he found passage (as interpreter) on a ship to his part of America. Once he got there, he walked for many miles only to find his tribe entirely wiped out by a plague. He was in deep dispair and sought shelter with neighboring tribes. And then Pilgrims landed. He heard of their sufferings and joined them. The Pilgrims adopted him. You can visit his grave in Plymouth, Massachusetts to this day.

AdWeek: 10 Things You Need to Know About Newsmax, the Surging Conservative News Network ...

KeithThroop comments on Nov 25, 2020:

I've really grown to like Newsmax over the mast month.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 25, 2020:

Joey @KeithThroop, Yeah, it's been a real scramble finding accurate news sources in thew tumultuous timea

PostMillennial: OANN suspended and demonetized by YouTube. [thepostmillennial.com]

TheMiddleWay comments on Nov 24, 2020:

No big loss ***Overall, we rate One America News Questionable based on far-right bias, lack of sourcing, promotion of conspiracy theories, and propaganda as well as numerous failed fact checks. OAN is not a credible news source*** ---- ...

timon_phocas replies on Nov 24, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Please understand, you view OANN the way I view the New York Times. I feel the New York Times is false and propagandistic, based on my readings of news, history and philosophy. A theory is useful insofar as it accurately describes current conditions and predicts future conditions. This rubric applies to sources as well. The New York Times accomplishes neither. I believe OANN is a fairly good source. Instead of being debated it is being censored.

StrategyPage: F-117 revival.

eschatologyguy comments on Nov 23, 2020:

Are SU-57s really stealth fighters?

timon_phocas replies on Nov 23, 2020:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, They are advertised as stealth. It's been 30+ years since the 117 came out. The concept was based on a a Russian article in a Soviet military journal.

Okay, so I just watched YouTube shed 43 subscribers from my channel right before my eyes.

Lightman comments on Nov 22, 2020:

Twitter is for twits Daisy always has been, which is why I only ever joined and then ceased to use it, except when so called journos gave me no alternative to reach them. The original character limit was completely useless. More suitable for Progressives who couldn't think past 140 characters. ...

timon_phocas replies on Nov 23, 2020:

Howdy @DaisyCousens Just found and followed you on Parler. Still getting used to how it works. Still prefer IDW.

BREAKING REPORT: Largest Number of Cluster Votes In Wayne Co.

WilyRickWiles comments on Nov 22, 2020:

So?

timon_phocas replies on Nov 22, 2020:

Howdy @WilyRickWiles, So? So it does reinforce Republican assumptions that Democrat voters are non compis mentis...

TownHall: Ann Coulter: Why can't the Republicans accept defeat like the Democrats?

TheMiddleWay comments on Nov 19, 2020:

False Equivalence: - No past candidate alleged widespread voter fraud as the reason they lost. - No past candidate alleges they won when there is a 6 million popular vote difference and a projected 50+ electoral vote difference.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 19, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, The article is not about whether industrial scale voter fraud was ever used before. It is about how elaborate deceptions were concocted to explain away Democratic defeats and accuse Republicans of undermining the Republic. Russia Collusion, anyone?

Pentagon Says it Shot Down Unarmed Missile in Sea-Based Test [newsmax.com]

govols comments on Nov 17, 2020:

A bullet with a bullet...BS. Can't be done......

timon_phocas replies on Nov 17, 2020:

Howdy @govols, So far as I have been able to read, we've been doing that since the Reagan administration. It was a critical achievement that convinced Gorbachev the USSR couldn't compete with the US.

PragerU: Salina Soule: The end of women's sports [dailywire.com]

RobBlair comments on Nov 17, 2020:

2 + 2 still equals 4 no matter how many degrees the fool has who says it equals something else.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 17, 2020:

Howdy @RobBlair, Yep, and XY chromosomes still equal more muscle mass, larger lungs and better mechanical leverage from pelvic bones.

Federalist: Three things we must do to ensure a clean vote.

TheMiddleWay comments on Nov 16, 2020:

Attempting to solving a problem that hasn't been proved to exist only risks creating real problems. 1) whatever corruption exists in our political system is inbred throughout the entire system, republican, democrat, independent. Thus taking it apart is a nice slogan, but lacks actionable ...

timon_phocas replies on Nov 16, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, *demonstrably false. Three states had universal mail in voting in 2016 and 2018... Washington, Oregon, Colorado ... yet there were no allegations of any problems with that in 2016, midterm elections in 2018, and suspiciously is enough no allegations of a problem in 2020 by Trump or anyone else* There were indeed complaints about mail-in ballots in 2016 and 2018. There were also massive foul-ups causing election results to be questioned in primaries this year in New York and New Jersey. https://www.propublica.org/article/electionland-2020-georgias-chaotic-primary-nj-mail-voting-problems-election-legislation-and-more https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vote-by-mail-ballot-counted-election/#app https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/21/heres-problem-with-mail-in-ballots-they-might-not-be-counted/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/more-than-16-million-mail-in-ballots-went-missing-from-2016-and-2018-elections-report

CBN: This is the greatest time for the Church.

RobBlair comments on Nov 16, 2020:

"God needs our prayers." No. If God wants more prayer he can command the rocks to sing out prayers (Matt 3:9). He wants our hearts (Psalm 51:17). My faith is not in this country, but entirely on God. As for the Church, I look forward to the Wedding. As for today, rejoice! Phillipians 4:4

timon_phocas replies on Nov 16, 2020:

Howdy @RobBlair, I think you're right. I think God wants us to realize how much we need to pray.

RedState: Alex Parker: Alan Dershowtiz says Trump will win the PA lawsuit.

eschatologyguy comments on Nov 14, 2020:

It's a wonder that the US military has not stepped in as it would have happened in a smaller country.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 14, 2020:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, Pray God, no, please no.

Populist.

TheMiddleWay comments on Nov 14, 2020:

> Rep. Louis Gohmert stated US forces may have seized servers containing election data in Frankfurt, Germany. Ummmmm.... this would be an act of war against Germany so color me EXTREMELY skeptical.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 14, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again. Thanks for pointing this out

Populist.

TheMiddleWay comments on Nov 14, 2020:

> Rep. Louis Gohmert stated US forces may have seized servers containing election data in Frankfurt, Germany. Ummmmm.... this would be an act of war against Germany so color me EXTREMELY skeptical.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 14, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, That was (to use WF Buckley's locution) maladroitly phrased. The photo accompanying the article shows a man with "police" emblazoned on their jackets.

AustinBay: A belated vote for Trump's Nobel Prize.

TheMiddleWay comments on Nov 13, 2020:

Careful with that transitive logic: Jeffrey Epstein raped little girls. Oh, and who was Jeffrey Epstein's friend?

timon_phocas replies on Nov 13, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Yes, and I can get many photos of Clinton with Epstein, Clinton with PLA officers, ect. My summary reflected Austin Bay's article. Sometimes people want to read a thumbnail sketch, not the whole article.

PJMedia: Media criticize tech refugees fleeing censorship.

Dmwils comments on Nov 13, 2020:

I've never heard of Gab or SLUG..anyone know anything about them please??

timon_phocas replies on Nov 13, 2020:

Howdy @Dmwils, Gab.com is a social media platform that champions free speech. It was started in reaction to FB's ever expanding censorship. I haven't tried them. Slug is the new market name or app name for IDW. I guess they felt it was catchier, less elitist sounding. OK.

[beforeitsnews.

cepstralspike comments on Nov 10, 2020:

@timon_phocas Great site! Are you using https://www.citizenfreepress.com/ ?

timon_phocas replies on Nov 10, 2020:

Howdy @cepstralspike, No yet. I'll check it out.

Personal Outlook on Media “Calling the Election”.

timon_phocas comments on Nov 8, 2020:

In 1960 there were murmurs about murky results from Chicago that decided the election for JFK. **Making of the President, 1960** explained it openly, the Chicago machine waited until all the results from the rest of Illinois came in and then 'produced' just enough votes to win the state (and ...

timon_phocas replies on Nov 8, 2020:

Howdy @xerxes, Theodore H White wrote his first **Making of the President** book about the 1960 campaign. Here are references to the 2004 Washington gubernatorial campaign: https://mynorthwest.com/1011269/dean-logan-california-gubernatorial-race/ www.academia.edu/2695270/Report_on_the_2004_Washington_Gubernatorial_Election Here are references to the 2004 Al Franken campaign: https://redstate.com/patterico/2016/10/20/throwback-thursday-remember-rigged-al-franken-election-n62848 https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2010/07/20/al-franken-may-have-won-his-senate-seat-through-voter-fraud The Colorado Model https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/12/28/the-colorado-model-the-lefts-stratagem-for-turning-red-states-to-blue-n41631 https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/07/democrats-turned-colorado-into-a-solid-blue-state/ https://www.aspendailynews.com/colorado-politics-how-to-turn-a-red-state-blue/article_c7b50ceb-e8d8-52f1-93b4-3e098cdd5aff.html#ath Here are references to centennarians voting: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/11/05/275361-n275361

NYPost: Michael Goodwin.

TheMiddleWay comments on Nov 6, 2020:

isn't it ironic that Trump supporters don't trust the media, given that the New York Post (4th largest circulation) is the media and they trust it? Would it not be more accurate to say that Trump supporters, emulating Trump himself, don't trust anyone that disagrees with them?

timon_phocas replies on Nov 6, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, A theory is useful insofar as it accurately describes current conditions and forecasts future conditions. So let's look at that massive Blue Wave theory so favored by the media. Did it accurately describe the voter sentiments and predict their actions in the election? Not so much.

Haaretz: Israeli Assyriologists use AI to complete texts in broken cuneiform tablets.

guru comments on Nov 4, 2020:

It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 4, 2020:

Howdy @guru, Well, if it's anything the predictive completion on my phone we'll find out all about Babylonian NFL broadcasting...

Turkey to sell 48 Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukrainians How many times have you heard of ...

timon_phocas comments on Nov 2, 2020:

Russian ground based air defense systems haven't been effective against smaller, composite skinned, UAVs. The Nagorno-Karabakh war has shown them as the new style of tactical air support. Something of a revolution in air war.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 2, 2020:

Howdy @eschatologyguy, It's tough to figure out just who is identified in prophecy. Sometimes it's people groups, sometimes it's geographical areas later occupied by different people groups. People have been debating who does what in Ezekiel 38 since Ezekial 39. Of this I am sure, it will happen.

Why are you voting for your candidate?

timon_phocas comments on Nov 1, 2020:

Back in the hoary days of high school, when giants roamed the land (Caddies, Lincolns and Imperials; the true dinosaurs), I started watching and reading William F Buckley. From him I learned conservatives were eloquent and charming. When Reagan came along I learned they were dignified, and sometimes...

timon_phocas replies on Nov 2, 2020:

Howdy @Tarpon, Thank you. Praise from the praiseworthy is the highest gift of all.

RealClearDefense: RAAF needs to prepare for 'grey zone' missions.

guru comments on Nov 1, 2020:

Cutting the red tape is a good idea. We need our new submarines also.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 1, 2020:

Howdy @guru Thanks, informative article.

RealClearDefense: RAAF needs to prepare for 'grey zone' missions.

guru comments on Nov 1, 2020:

Cutting the red tape is a good idea. We need our new submarines also.

timon_phocas replies on Nov 1, 2020:

Howdy @guru, Are the collins class subs wearing out?

DefenseOne: Are Iraqi forces good enough for US troops to leave?

Bay0Wulf comments on Oct 28, 2020:

We should leave or at least “draw down” to a very small “advisory and training” group. First off, as long as other countries believe we will always be there to “save” them, they will NEVER pick up the slack themselves. Secondly, we might as well see how well they CAN do and, also ...

timon_phocas replies on Oct 28, 2020:

Howdy @Bay0Wulf, When we left in 2010 massive corruption set in the Iraqi military. Ghost soldiers the commanders collected pay for. Ammunition, weapons and equipment were sold. Soldiers had their pay stolen. It's no wonder they broke when ISIS attacked.

My daughter Anna was reading her English Standard Version recently and came across this translation ...

timon_phocas comments on Oct 27, 2020:

The right hand was the strong hand, the social hand that dipped out of the common pot at meals. The left hand, the sinister hand, was used for wiping butts.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 28, 2020:

Howdy @KeithThroop, I once quoted Proverbs 29:2 to a DI. "He who makes haste with his feet, errs" It's these kind of exegetical differences that end up in the exercise pit, doing countless pushups, while a DI kicks sand in your face... 😆

Space.

maxmaccc comments on Oct 26, 2020:

I will be amazed if SpaceX nails the landing.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 27, 2020:

Howdy @maxmaccc, There were a lot of Rapid Unscheduled Disassemblies (RUDs). to get the Falcon-9 working. I expect there will be more. I think that's a reason for the sea platforms

TownHall: Biden may have lost the Fracking Election.

TheMiddleWay comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Oil is limited. We have an estimated 50 more years of it left on earth at current consumption. We have to transition out of it eventually. Better to fill the gas tank with alternatives when we are at half full than when we are on empty.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 25, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, They've been telling us that since the late sixties. We were supposed to run out in the seventies. Then they invented directional drilling. We were warned about peak oil around the turn of the century. Then they invented fracking. I'm not saying we'll never run out of oil. Then again, I don't think the experts know all they think they know. Supposedly it consists of ancient, super compressed organic materials. But Titan has river and lake systems of hydrocarbons. Did dinosaurs go to Titan to die? So there must be other ways to produce hydrocarbons. And the experts don't know all they think they do.

NRO: VDH.

TheMiddleWay comments on Oct 23, 2020:

> There was a low bar for Joe Biden in the first debate, given his cognitive challenges. As an opening line, this already tells me this will not be an objective piece of journalism. As I read the full piece, with words like "cocky Biden" and the clearly demonstrable "super predator" lie (this ...

timon_phocas replies on Oct 23, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, It's Victor Davis Hanson. He's a partisan. His views resonate with conservatives. He's 'a source' not 'the truth.' Sources, like theories, are useful insofar as they accurately describe current conditions and future actions.

NRO: VDH.

Jurecki comments on Oct 23, 2020:

True. The take aways from the debate will have a lasting affect in the final days before election day. It was curious to see Biden checking his watch. Am leaning toward the idea that it was an iWatch and he was using text prompts to help him recover from memory losses. Just watching Bidens face told...

timon_phocas replies on Oct 23, 2020:

Howdy @Jurecki, Do you remember when George HW Bush glanced at his watch and was pilloried by the press? I guess it's not so big a thing when it's Slo Joe

WashingtonExaminer: Polls tighten in Pennsylvania.

govols comments on Oct 21, 2020:

Have you seen any intuitively believable explanations from pollsters that they've figured out why they so terribly undercounted Trump support in 2016? I haven't.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 21, 2020:

Howdy @govols, Pollsters always undercounted Republicans and big media polls always tended to favor Democrats. Polling went sideways when landlines became rare. Samples got smaller and margins of error got fuzzier. In 2016 Trump activated a lot of people who hadn't voted in years and were ignored by pollsters as members of irrelevant demographic groups. This same phenomenon is happening in rallies today, with 30 - 40 percent of rally attenders never having voted before. Pollsters concentrated on demographic groups that worked for Obama. That worked in 2008 and 2012. It didn't worked in 2016. Obama had a special appeal to those groups that didn't work for Hillary and aren't working for Biden. There are a couple of interviews with head of Trafalgar Group that are very revealing. I posted one.

TownHall: KurtSchlichter.

KeithThroop comments on Oct 19, 2020:

A lot to think about there. I can't disagree with the fact that our institutions have been taken over by the Left to a large degree and need to be reformed.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 19, 2020:

Howdy @KeithThroop, I'm hoping this will be so thorough a defeat that real moderates among the Dems will start to lead.

Independent: Starlink's last batch of satellites brings it's constellation to over 800.

maxmaccc comments on Oct 18, 2020:

I watched the launch live. I believe it was the ninth time the Falcon 9 was reused. I watched the Apollo missions live too back in the day. If only i'd been born a generation or two later. I'd love to go to space. Maybe the price of a ticket on Blue Origin will become affordable before i die or ...

timon_phocas replies on Oct 18, 2020:

Howdy @maxmaccc, I remember watching the Shepherd launch, and then the rest of the Space program launches. It was a real disappointment when it petered out in the seventies. Now, with Elon Musk, we are back in exciting times.

KatieHopkins: interview in Oregon [youtu.be]

N0DD comments on Oct 16, 2020:

Who is Katie Hopkins?

timon_phocas replies on Oct 16, 2020:

Howdy @N0DD, English conservative gadfly. Youtube personality.

RedState: Election Trends Pointing to a Trump victory. [redstate.com]

Grandoodle comments on Oct 14, 2020:

Don't mean to be a killjoy but not looking good in Michigan and Wisconsin for him, two swing states he took by very small margins four years ago, I'm not sure he'll have enough electoral college votes to pull it off again.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 14, 2020:

Howdy @Grandoodle, I know. It's the strangest presidential campaign I've ever seen. Trump/Pence have rallies with tens of thousands. Biden/Harris can't draw flies. Polls say Biden/Harris will win in a historic landslide. Studies using other factors say it's Trump/Pence.

StrategyPage: the USS Ford is a major failure.

ZuzecaSape comments on Oct 10, 2020:

How many aircraft carriers do we need? Last I checked, we just use them to bomb countries that aren't a threat to us and wag our dick at someone.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 10, 2020:

Howdy @ZuzecaSape, Of any three carriers, one is undergoing maintenance, one is training for deployment, and one is on station. So with ten carriers we have, on average, three on station. The Chinese have two carriers so far. They're building more. In another few years they'll outnumber the USN in the Pacific. The last time that happened to the USN was just before the Pacific War started.

PJMedia: Nancy Pelosi will unveil her proposal on how to use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump.

Barefoot1 comments on Oct 9, 2020:

I see this as nothing more than a conditioning Op to have the seeds planted and germinated and ready to bear fruit when Joe is no longer needed to be the puppet at the end of the strings. Harris has “Misspoke” on at least 2 or 3 occasions since being named as VP nominee of what a “Harris ...

timon_phocas replies on Oct 9, 2020:

Howdy @Barefoot1, I'm hearing that as well. Most interestingly, from Newt Gingrich.

PJMedia: Nancy Pelosi will unveil her proposal on how to use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump.

ScottforKing comments on Oct 9, 2020:

Nothing happened when clicked on link.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 9, 2020:

Howdy @ScottforKing, Thanks I went to PJMedia and recopied the link. Works for me. Try it yourself.

God, if you don't exist, don't reply to this.

timon_phocas comments on Oct 8, 2020:

Howdy @Zteph, No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained *Him* John 1:18 But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always *being* ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you... I Peter 3:15 If you want a response ...

timon_phocas replies on Oct 9, 2020:

@Zteph Howdy again. The LORD my God is able to do everything recorded in the Bible, and more. In the 3rd chapter of Daniel, three friends of Daniel were about to thrown into a furnace. They said to the king that their God was able to deliver them from death, but even if He did not, they would not worship the king's idol. One meaning here is that a miracle is God's choice, not man's. Every miracle is performed for a transcendent purpose. God can certainly send down fire from heaven, as He did for Elijah (I Kings 18). It turned a great part of Israel back to God. Expecting God to send fire from heaven to light my cigar would be wildly arrogant on my part. Not likely to be answered, for that matter. I would again ask, humbly, that you begin your search for God in His scriptures.

TownHall: NBA rethinking its support of Marxist BLM after the current season's ratings disaster.

TheMiddleWay comments on Oct 9, 2020:

Seems unlikely that those two are related given that the NBA's viewership demographics skews toward Blacks and other ethnic minorities. I don't think any sports are doing well anywhere, are they?

timon_phocas replies on Oct 9, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, It's an odd thing. The COVID lockdown had everyone penned in their homes. Watching television is one of the few things they can do. Yet televised sports have a dwindling viewership. Especially sports emphasizing radically leftist politics. Michael Jordan was once asked why he didn't endorse Black politicians and he said, "Republicans buy shoes too." The NBA, and professional sports writ large, have forgotten this.

Timeline History: archeological evidence of phoenician child sacrifice.

FrozenSoul comments on Oct 6, 2020:

What does this have to do with anything?

timon_phocas replies on Oct 6, 2020:

Howdy @SocialDarwin, And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God:" — Leviticus 18:21 2nd Kings 7:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. Infant human sacrifice was forbidden under Moses, but it was practiced by surrounding cultures. God's prophets condemned it when Israel and Judah took up this foreign practice. This article affirms the Biblical account about Phoenician infant sacrifices

ParabolicArc: SpaceX says Boca Chica homeowners should accept their offers or be pushed out by ...

Penrodster comments on Oct 5, 2020:

Anyone remember the Heinlein story where they bought the moon? Bought all the land the moon passed over? Why is Musk getting all this business freedom and political push? Is California getting desperate?

timon_phocas replies on Oct 5, 2020:

Howdy @Penrodster, I think the County administration and State of Texas are absolutely delighted to have the next generation of spacecraft manufactured in Boca Chica, Texas. I think SpaceX has to have the unspoken, but wildly enthusiastic, support of the US government. The FAA approved a 12,000 strong constellation of satellites. And thousands more in the offing. This will become the dominant telecommunications backbone of the world and the US government will have its finger on the pulse. Look at it from a historical perspective. The US government heartily approved telegraph networks. Government was one of its biggest customers. The US government not only approved, but heavily subsidized, transcontinental railroads. Railroads made continental sized countries governable.

California fires: clime change or poor management? [twitter.com] -

Lexpd1145 comments on Oct 5, 2020:

So someone brought up that most of the fires in CA start on lands owned by the federal government and they are the ones not doing the controlled burns? Anyone have input on this specifically in CA?

timon_phocas replies on Oct 5, 2020:

Howdy @cRaZyTMG, If I were to hazard a guess, it would Canadians thin their forests with constant managed logging.

StrategyPage: General Atomic goes back to its roots.

Machiavelliwar comments on Oct 4, 2020:

Was reading about this power source for outer space, without the anti-Soviet hits part. Seems to be the same out of date, anti Russia Neo-Con writers here????

timon_phocas replies on Oct 4, 2020:

Howdy @Machiavelliwar, If the author is who I think it is, , Jim Dunnigan was a nuclear weapons officer in the Army. He's kept an ear cocked to this subject ever since the sixties. His prose tends to wander all over a subject.

I like what Andrew Womack says, "many people do not allow the Bible to interfere with what they ...

FrozenSoul comments on Oct 2, 2020:

I don’t because I don’t believe the Bible. The Bible can’t coexist with science. I choose science. Non Biblical gods CAN coexist with science (and nature)

timon_phocas replies on Oct 3, 2020:

@Pand0ro Howdy again. There seems to be a misapprehension at the heart of your question. Because Christians believe Biblical miracles happened does not mean we expect them as an ordinary part of everyday life. Miracles are, by definition, extraordinarily unlikely. In the Bible miracles are used to establish the authority of God, his Word, or his chosen prophet. Proverbs is a wonderful Biblical book devoted to wisdom, or 'skill in the art of living.' In Proverbs, wisdom has two aspects. Reverence to God (the authority behind transcendent moral values) and following those values. Or, as Obama put it, "don't do stupid stuff." This is what we are expected to live by.

StateJournal: Biracial woman claims she was attacked the night BLM rioters threw Molotov cocktails ...

warminster100 comments on Oct 2, 2020:

Supporting page removed.

timon_phocas replies on Oct 2, 2020:

Howdy @warminster100, I added another link.

President Trump on large outdoor rallies at the debate: > "So far, we have had no problem ...

timon_phocas comments on Oct 2, 2020:

Quarantines, unless they are clinically absolute, do not stop infection. You still have to shop. You still have to manufacture, distribute, and sell the necessities of life. You still have to travel to accomplish those things. All those points of essential commerce are potential infection sources....

timon_phocas replies on Oct 2, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again. Herman Caine was an old man and he was a cancer survivor. The cancer treatment impaired his immune system. I am very sorry to lose him and I am sorry for his family's loss. Hindsight is twenty-twenty. They moved the rallies outdoors after his loss.

FreeBeacon: Biden says 6,114 service members died of COVID.

Naomi comments on Oct 2, 2020:

Hello. I was reading this article: Presidential debate: Trump and Biden's claims fact-checked https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54350219 It wasn't a good debate. :(

timon_phocas replies on Oct 2, 2020:

Howdy @Naomi, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers? I take so-called fact checkers with a grain of salt. Especially from ideologically driven news organizations. The Debate was distasteful, like listening to a couple of ally cats fighting. And yet... and yet. After the first few exchanges, when the moderator clearly showed he was allowing Biden to interrupt Trump but objecting to Trump's rejoinders, I think Trump decided this was going to be a bare-knuckle debate. He took off his rhetorical boxing gloves and Joe Biden wilted under the assault. It didn't sound any better, but Trump was the only on landing punches.

I like what Andrew Womack says, "many people do not allow the Bible to interfere with what they ...

FrozenSoul comments on Oct 2, 2020:

I don’t because I don’t believe the Bible. The Bible can’t coexist with science. I choose science. Non Biblical gods CAN coexist with science (and nature)

timon_phocas replies on Oct 2, 2020:

Howdy @Pand0ro, Let's see, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet anything belonging to thy neighbor. Yeah, I think I'd do better with a stockbroker who believed these were transcendent moral values.

I like what Andrew Womack says, "many people do not allow the Bible to interfere with what they ...

FrozenSoul comments on Oct 2, 2020:

I don’t because I don’t believe the Bible. The Bible can’t coexist with science. I choose science. Non Biblical gods CAN coexist with science (and nature)

timon_phocas replies on Oct 2, 2020:

Howdy @SocialDarwin, This is a matter of fundemental assumptions. As to science and the Bible, I would ask, "which science?" I'm old enough to have read 3 or 4 generations of science books. Each generation said it had the definatve understanding of how the universe worked and all previous generations' claims were so much phlogiston. Today's science is making the same claims. In all those generations the Bible remained the same. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." "Thou shalt not steal." "I am the way, the truth and the life." All these claims have remained exactly the same as when they were written. Their constancy is my solace and hope as my journey on this earth moves nearer to its end. So it really comes down to fundemental assumptions. My fundemental assumption is "God exists and he rewards those who seriously seek him." But I cannot force this assumption on you. Indeed, my God would not want me to.

DailyBeast: Long time gangster arrested and charged with the ambush shooting of two LA Sheriff's ...

DaveO276 comments on Oct 2, 2020:

> Become a member to read this story. No thank you! I'm not paying for Daily Beast propaganda!

timon_phocas replies on Oct 2, 2020:

Howdy @DaveO276, Sorry. There were many articles covering this story, but this seemed to have the most information. The paywall was annoying, but I was able to get past it. Here's another article w/o a paywall.

WaPo: Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues.

Machiavelliwar comments on Sep 30, 2020:

Will Nato, or Bill Clinton insist we become involved, or any neo-cons? The Russian's and Germany/France, are more or less silent. This is fun. Watching the once all wise States, who always knew what our American Leaders, should do or not do, having to Do or not do something Themselves! What say ...

timon_phocas replies on Oct 1, 2020:

Howdy @Machiavelliwar, The Azeris are a Turkish people. The Russians are long time allies of Armenia. Erdogon is always belicose these days. The Armenians have a long, tragic history with the Turks. Russia will have to choose between their historic alliance as Armenia's protector and the utility of their relationship with a revanchist Turkey.

Can feelings of "self-confidence," "self-reliance," "initiative," "enterprise," and "optimism" be ...

timon_phocas comments on Sep 30, 2020:

I read parts of Kaczynski's Manifesto. He wanted mid-nineteenth century energy footprint with a mid-nineteenth century population. So what happens to the rest of us? I always say serving in the Corps doesn't make you a man. You are a man when you realize you are responsible for paying your own ...

timon_phocas replies on Sep 30, 2020:

Howdy @Admin, What I saw in the Corps was that you could choose to be a superannuated teenager with a large allowance. Blow a paycheck in a weekend party and you still have three hots and a cot. No one says boo as long as you perform your duties. I think a national service program would work the same way.

NYTimes: SPARC fusion reactor, built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems, promises a smaller ...

pbuck0145 comments on Sep 29, 2020:

Didn't want to join the woke leftist NYT as a user. Found this instead: https://news.mit.edu/2020/physics-fusion-studies-0929

timon_phocas replies on Sep 29, 2020:

Thank you

SeaPower: If you're thinking about a war with China, think about Guadalcanal.

Machiavelliwar comments on Sep 28, 2020:

I find this a very strange opinion. China in a sea war? They have one old refurbished Russian Carrier. A lot of smaller fighting ship capability, and their own land mass at their back, with missile defense. Is it budget time? Or is their one section of the Marines, who do not like the plans for ...

timon_phocas replies on Sep 29, 2020:

Howdy @Machiavelliwar, The PLAN's 2nd carrier is undergoing sea trials. Their 3rd carrier is being built and it's going to be a full carrier with catapults, not a ski jump. That means launching aircraft with full combat loads. The PLAN is already larger than the US in absolute number of ships. 491ships in the PLAN, and throw in 230-odd various flavors of auxiliaries. The USN figures are confusing. It says there are 460, but that number includes the reserve fleet. I keep hearing they want to build to a 355 ship Navy, but there's no money and no plan to get there. The Corps recognizes this and it's redesigning itself to reintegrate itself with the Navy's mission. Very interesting because for the last 70-odd years they've been trying to establish themselves as a separate service. It's not widely recognized, but the Imperial Japanese Navy was decisively defeated in the Solomons campaigns. Midway meant the IJN couldn't win like they did at Tsushima. The Solomons campaigns broke the IJN's back. That's what Marine planners are referring to.

JustTheNews: NASA says a school-bus sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Thursday.

TheMiddleWay comments on Sep 28, 2020:

Already passed. We are still here. Or are we!!???!!! :O

timon_phocas replies on Sep 28, 2020:

No coffee or chachkis... So sad.

PJMedia: David Horowitz radio interview on 570 WSYR .

TheMiddleWay comments on Sep 28, 2020:

> " The current Civil War started in 2016 when the Democrats decided not to accept the election results." "And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. Our constitutional ...

timon_phocas replies on Sep 28, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, The article pivots on Horowitz' book and his opinion that this is a new kind of hybrid civil war. Not with opposing armies, but civil unrest, virulent political opposition and politically skewed reporting. According to Horowitz, the civil war began five days after the 2016 election in a meeting at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. "...a very posh hotel in Washington, D.C. It was organized by George Soros and there were something like 400 people there including Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Soros, Bernie Sanders, the Occupy Wall Street communists, the whole range of the left. What they did is form what they called a “resistance” to Trump—you remember, 70 Democrats boycotted the inauguration. This is sedition..." Again, this is Horowitz' view. I felt it useful to share his opinion. I don't know how accurate it is, but it's important to examine it.

Genesis Chapter 30 King James Version 1 And when Ra'-chel saw that she bare Ja'-cob no children,...

NathanPumphrey comments on Sep 28, 2020:

If anyone knows why the first 25 verses are included, please let me know. I can't figure out why Jacob's relationships with his wives would be important at all.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 28, 2020:

Howdy @NathanPumphrey, Hate to quote Shrek, but I find the Bible to be like a onion. There are layers and layers of meanings. On one level, God is blessing Jacob with sons. In a farming family that is a very good thing. On another level, God is blessing the faithful (but unlovely) Leah with many children. In doing so, He is insuring her security. For without children a woman's old age is a very precarious thing. On another layer, God demonstrates His sovereignty over conception and births. On another layer, this illustrates the competition and backbiting in polygamy, something God allowed but did not endorse. I haven't ever read a Biblical passage mentioning polygamy without bitterness and backbiting. The passage shows the flaws and foibles of its protagonists. These are real people, not fairy tales. This passage is also establishing the bloodlines of the tribes of Israel. Very important in a tribal society. I'm sure there are more meanings. There are always more meanings.

That's it. I Kant.

Lightman comments on Sep 21, 2020:

You can can can.... Or maybe you should recant...

timon_phocas replies on Sep 21, 2020:

Or decant?

White the FBI is bleating about the threat of 'White Supremacy', BLM terrorists continue to murder.

timon_phocas comments on Sep 20, 2020:

This judgement is based on the massacres perpetrated by white racist nuts at synagogues, in the WalMart massacre in El Paso, in the New Zealand mosques and the Norway massacre. These are widely separated and uncoordinated acts by scattered online sociopaths. But they've killed scores of people....

timon_phocas replies on Sep 21, 2020:

@JacksonNought Howdy again. The Weather Underground was a diffuse terrorist movement organized in cells and dedicated to the revolutionary overthrow of the US. So is Antifa. Being anti-fascist is the ideological equivalent of being Anti Komodo Dragon. Komodo Dragons are dangerous, but they only exist on a handful of islands in Indonesia and some zoos. Real fascists are almost as rare. The only Blackshirts wandering the streets and beating people senseless are antifa and BLM.

Trump’s gene comments ‘indistinguishable from Nazi rhetoric’, expert on Holocaust says | The ...

timon_phocas comments on Sep 21, 2020:

So Trump praises Scandanavian pioneers and that makes him a Nazi? I am descended from Norwegian immigrants on my mother's side. I even had a couple Norwegian bachelor farmers as uncle's. Does praising my Scandahoovian ancestors make me a Nazi?

timon_phocas replies on Sep 21, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again. As to the statement about "good genes," Trump would have had to assert the Scandanavian genes were "best" to also assert other genes were inferior. He did not. You can infer that value statement, but that's your action, not his. In truth, what Trump was speaking about is how the generally Scandinavian pioneers built a stable, orderly, hard working subculture in the upper mid-west. An echo of their home societies here in the US.

White the FBI is bleating about the threat of 'White Supremacy', BLM terrorists continue to murder.

timon_phocas comments on Sep 20, 2020:

This judgement is based on the massacres perpetrated by white racist nuts at synagogues, in the WalMart massacre in El Paso, in the New Zealand mosques and the Norway massacre. These are widely separated and uncoordinated acts by scattered online sociopaths. But they've killed scores of people....

timon_phocas replies on Sep 21, 2020:

howdy @JacksonNought, Antifa is organized into cells so no single member can finger more than their own cell. So sure, they don't have a board of directors, 501 c3 fundraisers and annual picnics. Nevertheless, they do coordinate with other cells and their goal is destruction of the US.

Trump’s gene comments ‘indistinguishable from Nazi rhetoric’, expert on Holocaust says | The ...

timon_phocas comments on Sep 21, 2020:

So Trump praises Scandanavian pioneers and that makes him a Nazi? I am descended from Norwegian immigrants on my mother's side. I even had a couple Norwegian bachelor farmers as uncle's. Does praising my Scandahoovian ancestors make me a Nazi?

timon_phocas replies on Sep 21, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again. Basic logic (thank you Aristotle). Asserting that Minnesotans' Scandanavian ancestors had "good genes" **does not** assert that anyone elses genes are inferior. And since neither Minnesotans nor Scandanavians had deliberate breeding programs for racial purity, the Nazi Lebensborn program is utterly irrelevant.

“This is the business we’ve chosen.

timon_phocas comments on Sep 21, 2020:

The difficulty with a philosophy of "all's fair in love and war," is that eventually somebody decides that every activity fall into one of those catagories.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 21, 2020:

Howdy @Edgework, My comment was not meant to criticize your essay, but as a sad emphasis to it. Just saying.

As If the Stakes Weren't High Enough "Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the enigmatic, longtime Supreme Court ...

timon_phocas comments on Sep 18, 2020:

Almost every projection of the election says it will end up in the Supreme Court. This gives us the opportunity to tilt the Court in a firmly conservative direction just in time for those messy battles.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 19, 2020:

@Machiavelliwar Howdy again. I think if fifty remain constant, VP Pence will cast the deciding vote.

Obama Suggests Delay of Ginsburg Replacement Until After Election

timon_phocas comments on Sep 19, 2020:

The Blessed Saint Barry was **against** election year nominations when he was a Senator and a Republican president would make the nomination. The Blessed Saint Barry was **FOR** election year nominations when he was president and a Democrat was making the nomination. That's the only ...

timon_phocas replies on Sep 19, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Howdy again. Hypocrites... it can certainly be put that way. I prefer to say politicians are all about power and they all try exercise it (whatever the flavor of their rhetoric).

PJMedia: Hannity and Ted Cruz discuss why it's important to fill the Supreme Court vacancy before ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Sep 19, 2020:

> Both men also made clear that confirming her replacement either in the 45 days before Election Day or before the next inauguration was immediately on their minds. Four years ago, both men strongly opposed confirming Merrick Garland, the nominee proposed by President Barack Obama as a replacement ...

timon_phocas replies on Sep 19, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, If the issue was solely a matter of principles, why did President Obama complain so vociferously when the Republican Senate refused to vote on Merritt Graland's nomination in 2016? Senator Obama was on the other side of the issue when Justice Ginsburg first became seriously ill back in 2006-7 and President Bush would have made the nomination. So in truth (pius platitudes aside) it is always an exercise in power.

RedState: Pastor John MacArthur has been laboring at Grace Community Church for over fifty years.

KeithThroop comments on Sep 17, 2020:

I pray that it won't get to the point where John has to go to jail, but if he does, it will be due to his having done the right thing, and it will be one of the most egregious injustices I've witnessed as an American citizen.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 17, 2020:

Howdy @KeithThroop, A Federal judge in Pennsylvania overturned their governor's COVID shutdown orders. Other cases are pending. In Michigan a petition to cancel their governor's emergency orders already has 400,000 signatures. I think these lockdowns are exceeding the people's patience. A wise governor would find a way to gracefully sidestep a losing issue. I don't know if Newsom has that wisdom. MacArthur said the police have told him they will enforce the laws, not executive orders. It's in his interview with Eric Metaxas. Certainly time for prayer.

PopularMechanics: The Air Force designed, built a flew a brand new, next-gen fighter in a year.

govols comments on Sep 16, 2020:

If your narrow the design to JUST knocking down planes built to multi-task, it get easier?

timon_phocas replies on Sep 16, 2020:

I think, or guess, they're taking a mix of F-22 and F-35 technologies. For pure performance nothing beats the F-22. But the stealth coatings have to be painted and puttied. The F-35 stealth coatings are baked into the skin. F-35s have the best technology for situational awareness (an immense advantage in air to air combat). And you're right, it's easier to design something for a single mission.

Deadline: DailyWire media company announces a move to Nashville.

TheMiddleWay comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Doesn't matter where it's located, borderline questionable MSM is still borderline questionable MSM. "Overall, we rate The Daily Wire borderline questionable and Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that align with the conservative right. We also rate them Mixed for ...

timon_phocas replies on Sep 16, 2020:

Howdy @TheMiddleWay, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Latin for "who watches the watchers? In a thoroughly politicised news media, "fact checkers" are just as politicised as the agency that hires them. In today's news environment you have to establish your own trusted sources. I have found DailyWire to be openly conservative. I prefer this to the tattered pretense of outlets like the NYTimes.They're as about as objective as a six-month pregnant teenager is virginal. I have also found the DailyWire to be trustworthy. I have not found them releasing errors, deliberate or otherwise (Russia Collusion, anyone?).

RealClearDefense: Andrew Latham, WWI, WWII, and the Faltering Contender theory.

CharliePrime comments on Sep 14, 2020:

Germany's decision to defend against the Soviet Union was based upon the fact that the Soviets had invaded Germany's next-door neighbor, and Soviet Communists had already taken their state of Bavaria.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 14, 2020:

Howdy @CharliePrime, Sorry about being unclear. The first example was about going to war with Tsarist Russia and starting WWI.

EpochTimes: China Explosion cover-up. [youtu.be]

CharliePrime comments on Sep 12, 2020:

Do always keep in mind that the _Epoch Times_ is owned and operated by the Falun Gong religious terror cult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong Their propaganda is not designed with America's best interests in mind.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 12, 2020:

Howdy @CharliePrime, I recognize the Epoch Times ownership. I consider it 'a source,' not, 'the truth.' That notwithstanding, it's offering insights into China I don't find elsewhere. PS, that why I always try to ID the source of articles I post, so you have an idea where it's coming from.

Space.

Machiavelliwar comments on Sep 10, 2020:

This is very confusing. Once again. This launch was reported as being a Chinese launch that was return to earth as a successful Musk like achievement. This says it was a launch of low orbit satellite, and nothing about return. hmm

timon_phocas replies on Sep 11, 2020:

Howdy @Machiavelliwar, I think they were saying they were lofting a Chinese version of the X-37B. It is reusable. Left unsaid was when the booster would be reusable.

Fox: First shots fired in Chinese/India border area. [foxnews.com]

KeithThroop comments on Sep 9, 2020:

Will this become a hot spot in the ongoing cold war with China? I certainly hope not.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 9, 2020:

Howdy @KeithThroop I think, not sure, China is caught in a trap like like Japan was a century ago. They had promoted an ultra nationalist ethos. The most nationalistic officers sort of pulled the rest of the government along behind them. They'd pull some stunt on the frontier (which was in China back then). The government in Tokyo felt it had to support them. This led to a self reinforcing cycle of incidents. I don't know for sure, but I think this may be happening.

TownHall: "Commander Red" goes fetal and cries when arrested.

lukewarm comments on Sep 5, 2020:

it is fake. i have read a lot on CHE . he was a trained doctor. his father was a doctor. he went about his neighbourhood helping poverty stricken people. he brought pills and bandages and blankets to people living in shacks . he was kind and considerate. he suffered greatly from ashama.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 5, 2020:

Howdy @lukewarm, I have read about Guevara's bloodthirstiness in other accounts. I read his blood lust was interfering with Castro's ability to rule so he was "exiled" to start a revolution in Bolivia. I read it a long time ago. It would take some research to get enough evidence to establish confidence

Issues&Insights: Trump was right.

Penrodster comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Imagine the sunkissed cheerleaders to the east of the monument: "He's our god and he's OK. He's the sun god RA RA RA!" The monument just isn't marketed correctly.

timon_phocas replies on Sep 4, 2020:

Howdy @Penrodster, Maybe the "Washington Football Team" can adopt it as their mascot. It's a little phallic looking, but aside from that it's not racial and if it's the symbol of a football team it won't represent a dead slave owner.

So, what do you think about this story?

timon_phocas comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Howdy @Naomi, Numbers chapter 12 is illuminating for this subject. 1¶Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman); Moses had a mixed marriage, for the Cushites were black Africans. Miriam and Aaron ...

timon_phocas replies on Sep 2, 2020:

Howdy @CharliePrime, Mosos wife The Cushite reference to the wife of Moses occurs at Numbers 12.[11] In the story Aaron and Miriam harshly criticize Moses' marriage to a Cushite or Kushite woman after he returned to Egypt to set the children of Israel free. Cushites were of the ancestry of Kush, a.k.a. Nubia, in northeast Africa. https://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/2346085/jewish/The-Cushite-Woman.htm

It is quite evident that the DNC has been doing everything in their power to unseat Trump and to ...

Fleabag comments on Aug 30, 2020:

No, but I do think the US is screwed either way. He wins and they will impeach or some other bull or he loses. At least if Rep win most states it should see the riots in Dem strongholds go back to being peaceful I would hope. (From UK so sorry if I'm wrong on this)

timon_phocas replies on Aug 30, 2020:

@BikerPetehall70 Howdy, You're right in a big way. Gun sales have gone through the roof. Long guns, pistols and ammo are scarce in all the retailers.

DailyWire: Jacob Blake's mother demands that the rioting stop, apologizes to President Trump.

ForeverFree76 comments on Aug 26, 2020:

Don Lemon brains imploded after her response. 😆

timon_phocas replies on Aug 26, 2020:

Howdy @ForeverFree76, Well, I've always suspected Don Lemon's head enclosed a vacuum.

Police charged the Antifa shield wall hard, not holding back on beating the rioters with batons ...

Xtra comments on Aug 26, 2020:

Awesome. Where did this take place?

timon_phocas replies on Aug 26, 2020:

I think I recognise a building from downtown Portland. Isn't that depressing? They've rioted so long in Portland I'm starting to recognize neighborhoods from riot videos.

I was watching Tim Pool/TimcastIRL, and he had an interesting theory on what happened to the white ...

timon_phocas comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Like all totalitarian movements, and they need an enemy. They're willing to manufacture an enemy if need be. The neo- nazis are a miniscule fragment of a minority, but if they're willing to say "hail Trump" and give a stiff arm salute, they'll have enthusiastic TV coverage. Moreover, this way ...

timon_phocas replies on Aug 22, 2020:

@Thaw Howdy Again. I think what we can agree on that the Jewish people (about 14 million souls) have a singularly outsized influence in a world of 7.8 billion people.

I was watching Tim Pool/TimcastIRL, and he had an interesting theory on what happened to the white ...

timon_phocas comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Like all totalitarian movements, and they need an enemy. They're willing to manufacture an enemy if need be. The neo- nazis are a miniscule fragment of a minority, but if they're willing to say "hail Trump" and give a stiff arm salute, they'll have enthusiastic TV coverage. Moreover, this way ...

timon_phocas replies on Aug 22, 2020:

@Thaw Howdy again. A theory is useful insofar as it describes current conditions and is useful in predicting future actions. Paxton describes the conditions of post WWI Europe. Fascism thrived amidst an enormous cohort of embittered, betrayed combat survivors. There is no such vast cohort today. Fascists today are lonely, scattered sociopaths. Jews have a 3,500 year history of valuing scholarship. They've been excluded from many trades and professions, so they have a cultural imperitive for finding new opportunities. They've been at the forefront of many societal changes. They were early innovators in electronics. David Sarnoff and. Walther Rathenau are two examples. But not the only examples. Richard Feynman (physics) is another that comes to mind. Misters Gimball and Macy, Jewish entrepenures, basically defined America's cultural approach to Christmas. The Jewish contribution to the world was not limited to Leon Trotsky and Meyer Lansky. Just as Germany's is not limited to Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann.

I was watching Tim Pool/TimcastIRL, and he had an interesting theory on what happened to the white ...

timon_phocas comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Like all totalitarian movements, and they need an enemy. They're willing to manufacture an enemy if need be. The neo- nazis are a miniscule fragment of a minority, but if they're willing to say "hail Trump" and give a stiff arm salute, they'll have enthusiastic TV coverage. Moreover, this way ...

timon_phocas replies on Aug 22, 2020:

Howdy @Thaw, Robert Paxton wrote a pretty thorough history of fascist movements. It's titled, "The Anatomy of Fascism." It covers movements all over Europe. He says fascism rose out of WWI. Governments mobilized not only armies, but industry, education, news, and entertainment. The police searched exhaustively for seditious citizens. If that sounds totalitarian, well, it was. At the end of the war, the old, classically liberal, elites were disillusioned and discredited. At the same time, men who had proven themselves in ferocious trench warfare decided they would replace the old elites. And they had vast cadres of fellow soldiers who agreed that they should be replaced. That vast cohort of veterans; disillusioned, betrayed and embittered was the seedbed of fascism. It didn't really matter whether they were Italian, French or German. WWI was followed by economic chaos, political tumult and radical social changes. Communists were part of that. Fascism came out of the crucible of war and the chaos that followed.

DailyCaller: Black Democrat running for Minnesota House demonstrates in front of the Minneapolis ...

David42 comments on Aug 20, 2020:

Would YOU vote for this idiot ?

timon_phocas replies on Aug 20, 2020:

Howdy @David42, Hell no, but this is what the Democratic party is pushing.

TheVerge: Northrup Grumman launches a rescue mission for an old satellite. [theverge.com]

coalburned comments on Aug 19, 2020:

This is interesting. Is their primary goal conserving real estate at in the geosynch space? Or buying time before a more expensive replacement unit has to be launched?

timon_phocas replies on Aug 20, 2020:

@coalburned Howdy again. Elon Musk owns it. I think he's going to use it to provide a cash flow from users to finance to fund his Mars project. Broadband internet anywhere on the planet. Our DoD is already experimenting with using separate secure networks on it.

TheVerge: Northrup Grumman launches a rescue mission for an old satellite. [theverge.com]

coalburned comments on Aug 19, 2020:

This is interesting. Is their primary goal conserving real estate at in the geosynch space? Or buying time before a more expensive replacement unit has to be launched?

timon_phocas replies on Aug 19, 2020:

Howdy @coalburned, I think the big, expensive geosynchronous satellites are about to be superseded by immense constellations like Starlink. I think Iridium was the harbinger of this. This will keep the Intelsat functional for the remainder of its business life. That my guess, anyway.

StrategyPage: Syrian War drags on and on.

pbuck0145 comments on Aug 18, 2020:

Your viewpoints continue to be consistent and objective.

timon_phocas replies on Aug 18, 2020:

Howdy @pbuck0145, Thank you very much, but this was copied and pasted from StrategyPage.com. I started reading them back in the nineties. After the 9/11 attacks I found their reports to be strikingly similar to what returning soldiers were saying. So I've been following them daily.

Realclearworld: A deal between Serbia and Kosovo is unlikely.

altschmerz comments on Aug 16, 2020:

I can't find the article.

timon_phocas replies on Aug 16, 2020:

Howdy @deipnophobe, Thanks for pointing that out. I've recopied the address.

Does it matter that Kamala Harris is descended from a slave owner?

timon_phocas comments on Aug 15, 2020:

I don't think her adoring press will bring up the subject. I don't think it's an important issue for conservatives.

timon_phocas replies on Aug 15, 2020:

Howdy @B1967, She postures as an oppressed minority when she was the child of UC Berkeley professors, went to the finest schools and was ushered into public life by highly placed mentors. That repells me, not her ancestry.

Compelling image of Saturn and Jupiter rising in the New Mexico Badlands night sky.

Machiavelliwar comments on Aug 14, 2020:

It would be cool if it was real! a piece of Art!