When drones swarmed our military bases, the only thing bureaucrats ‘shot down’ were proposals about how to deal with the problem. //

In the end, the Journal strongly implies that the drone intrusions over Langley Airforce Base came to a halt only because twenty-something Chinese student Fengyun Shi accidentally crashed his drone into a tree. Law enforcement identified Shi’s suspicious behavior, and he was arrested before he could escape on a one-way trip back to China. He was convicted of espionage and sentenced to only six months in prison.

This story provides a genuine, although probably unintentional, insight into American national security. U.S. policymakers tie themselves in knots over what they view as insurmountably complex technological and regulatory questions, instead of accepting common-sense approaches. //

Our national security apparatus is addicted to complexity. The more complex the problem, the more our elites feel justified in insisting that only the experts with the best credentials at the highest levels can be trusted to address the challenges we face. The larger the budgets that can be requested, the easier the excuses for when the problem remains unresolved.

The purpose of swarm tactics (whether from drones or otherwise) is to overwhelm a single target with multiple autonomous entities, which become increasingly difficult to track and react against.

The vulnerability being exploited isn’t a technological one. Rather it’s exploiting the opponent’s centralized and rigid decision-making process. This is the same logic deployed by Antifa rioters, who seek to overwhelm law enforcement with dozens of independently operating affinity groups.

Where all tactical decisions are increasingly centralized, and often subjected to political pressure (such as the role played by vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz in the loss of the Third Minneapolis Police Precinct during the 2020 riots), autonomous swarm tactics win the day. Where individuals and small groups are empowered to respond as needed and cut through the red tape, swarms can be defeated, as amply demonstrated by the response from Florida police to illegal efforts by pro-Hamas protesters to blockade major roads in April 2024. Where power is centralized, the swarm wins every time.

We should be wary when the national security apparatus insists that if we just granted them additional powers, they could defeat the latest and greatest threat. We should be skeptical of claims that we must continue to centralize power so our safety can be ensured. Instead, to defeat the swarms that threaten us, we should be on the lookout for ways to decentralize our security, spreading out responsibilities and empowering those closest to the problem to react with prudence.

Why do Democrats do this, and what does it say about their governance? They do it because they believe you are stupid. They truly think Americans are child-like figures with no more common sense than your average five-year-old. To the average left-winger, you are an idiot who needs to be meticulously guided down to having your words coached. More importantly, that forms the very basis of the left-wing power structure.

If the majority of Americans actually believed they could accomplish things on their own, without the need for politicians to light the way and provide everything for them, Democrats would never win another election. That's what is so insidious about the constant infantilization of voters. It conditions people to rely on an ineffective, wasteful government to take care of them the way instead of taking advantage of the opportunities in front of them. //

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We should bear in mind the Left has moved Heaven and Earth for decades, to create a playing field comprised as entirely of fundamentally ignorant and/or acceptably brainwashed people, as possible. It is Human nature to want to assume that something one has worked hardest to create, matters. That the Creation in question here is offered from a place of the most self-serving, malevolent intent -- a thing hopefully one day recognized as the ideological Warcrime it unquestionably is -- manages to be beside the point. They treat us like fools, because they that much absolutely require it to be the case, in order to survive.

This is one of those times when it sounds like I'm being sardonic, and I might even have lifted a first foot in that direction. But the further I went, the more unavoidably true the matter presented itself as being. These people have an absolute knack for engendering these things. It is almost a skill.

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Seems to me many people liked Obama, because of his charisma, his supposed, coolness. I’ll give him this, he was good at reading speeches, but would fumble and stumble about when answering questions, would draw out his answer to the point of everyone wanting to go home after he answered just one question, in the last hour and ten minutes. He sure could filibuster with the best of them in response. He stood at the podium for an hour and forty five minutes answering all three questions asked, in the allotted time.

In my experience he is and was the most divisive leader this Country has ever seen ! Set the racial divide back seventy years at least. Definitely did nothing to unite the people. A sad chapter for the US of America. //

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Obama has wildly succeeded in turning this country into bitter factions- it is he who started the woke movement. He continues to work behind the scenes to Cloward & Piven the country. He's done untold illegal things in the shadows, emboldened by the media's compliance. In terms of effectiveness, I'd say he was a success. //

When CNN pundits are asking questions, you know it smells. Though the outlet is famous for their hatred for Trump, even their senior legal analyst Elie Honig is wondering, just what the heck is going on here?

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig on Friday said he is unaware of “any precedent” for Judge Tanya Chutkan releasing redacted documents of special counsel Jack Smith’s evidence against former President Donald Trump, given the November election is approaching. //

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More blatant lawfare and election interference by Biden-Kamala’s Jack Smith and DC Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan.

They’re publicly dumping a one-sided political narrative tomorrow.

With the election less than 3 weeks away.

After waiting nearly 3 years to bring the (bogus) charges.
9:09 PM · Oct 17, 2024 //

Is it election interference? "It’s very much a Rorschach test,” Honig said. I sure as heck know what I'm reading from that test.

He argued that the matter is open to interpretation, which is damning enough considering that even the appearance of banana republic justice is problematic after all the abuses of the Justice Department since Biden-Harris came into power. //

The Justice Department flatly states in their manual:

Federal prosecutors and agents may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.

Youngkin explained that his executive order, which he issued over the summer, was meant to clarify who can legally vote:

I think it's really important....they self-identify as a non-citizen, when this whole process starts [at the Department of Motor Vehicles], and then they've ended up on the voter roll--either by accident or purposefully--and therefore, we go through a very clear process that's been on our books for 18 years.

He said that since 2006, Virginia has notified the non-citizens, giving them 14 days "to affirm that they are a citizen or not, and then they are removed from the voter roll." He added that Virginia has same-day voter registration, so even "if there's been a mistake," any legal citizen can walk up to the polls, register, and vote via a provisional ballot.

Pointing out that there are "multiple safeguards," he called the DOJ suit "unprecedented": //

Call me crazy, but I believe that only citizens should be voting in U.S. elections.

Bartiromo interjected that that's the law, and that Youngkin and his administration are following it. She also brought up one of the contentions in the Biden-Harris DOJ's filing, which claims that the purging of names 90 days ahead is too close to the election.

Youngkin waved it away, saying that "it's an individual process" put in motion by the individual showing up at the DMV. //

I believe that this is purely political. They waited until 25 days before a presidential election in order to file this suit. I wrote my executive order back in early August....I think this is why people lose faith in the entire process....This is a moment where we have to stand strong.

So today, I was at "Fox and Friends" at seven in the morning. I then went to two different other appearances. I then made about 15 phone calls. I've gone 48 days now without a rest, and I've got that loser who doesn't have the energy of a rabbit.

Let me tell you something. She should have been last night with the Catholics. So all they do is put out soundbites. Tell me when you've seen me take even a little bit of a rest. Not only am I, I'm not even tired. I'm really exhilarated. You know why? We're killing her in the polls because the American people don't want her. She didn't pass her bar exam. She's not a smart person. She's not a person that should represent our country so I just want to let you know that very clearly.

How do you know Kamala Harris is in trouble, and that the momentum is with former President Donald Trump?

Endangered Democrats in tight Senate races are boasting about their ties to Trump, as they try to run to the middle to appeal to the voters.

We reported earlier about Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) saying in an ad that he bucked Joe Biden to "protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China." That indicates he knows he needs to align with Trump to improve his chances (even if he doesn't actually align with Trump generally). //

Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) put up an ad, featuring Trump, saying she "got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill": //

Rep. Elissa Slotkin's (D-Mich.) campaign for Senate also spent more than a $1 million starting mid-August on an ad saying she "wrote a law signed by President Trump forcing drug companies to show their actual prices," according to AdImpact. [....]

Tester ads have featured Montanans who say they are "lifelong Republicans" or plan to vote for Trump, but back Tester for Senate.

An ad from earlier this year boasts that Brown "wrote a bill that Donald Trump signed to crack down on drugs at the border."

That last candidate mentioned is Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

They're blowing up Kamala Harris' narrative that Trump is unstable/Hitler when they're including him in ads. Plus, they're also acknowledging that mentioning Trump is going to help them in their elections, which is a nod to his strength in those swing states. If they thought Harris was winning, they wouldn't see a need to do that:

On Thursday, Trump's team filed a motion to continue the stay until November 14, arguing, in part, that allowing the “asymmetric release of charged allegations and related documents during early voting creates a concerning appearance of election interference.” Chutkan denied that motion, however, and indicated that she would lift the stay of her prior order on Friday, which she then did, directing the Clerk of the Court to docket the Government's redacted appendices (laying out their evidence) on the public docket.

Of note, in making that ruling, Chutkan determined that publicly docketing the Government's evidence against Trump less than three weeks ahead of Election Day did not create such a concerning appearance. Rather, Chutkan reasoned that not doing so would run the risk of creating the appearance of election interference: //

So, in one breath, she says she's going to allow the Government to present its case publicly (when Trump's response isn't due to be filed until after the election) for fear that not doing so would appear to be election interference, and in the next, she's saying that the court will "continue to keep political considerations out of its decisionmaking."

Three things could produce an African Renaissance: liberty, capitalism, and energy. The Western world can't do much about the first two; that's something the people of the various nations of Africa will have to work out for themselves. The one thing the West could help with is energy development. But American and European climate scolds seem determined to prevent any energy development. It is, in effect, a re-colonizing of Africa.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/17/climate-colonialisms-stranglehold-on-africas-energy-starved/

In 2024, it is unconscionable that over 600 million Africans still lack access to electricity. In sub-Saharan Africa, only 28% of healthcare facilities have reliable electricity. More than 900 million people cook with traditional biomass like wood and animal dung, inhaling toxic fumes that claim over 600,000 African lives each year. Clean water remains a luxury for vast swaths of the population.

Bloomberg calls for cancellation of the SLS rocket. In an op-ed that is critical of NASA's Artemis Program, billionaire Michael Bloomberg—the founder of Bloomberg News and a former US Presidential candidate—called for cancellation of the Space Launch System rocket. "Each launch will likely cost at least $4 billion, quadruple initial estimates," Bloomberg wrote. "This exceeds private-sector costs many times over, yet it can launch only about once every two years and—unlike SpaceX’s rockets—can’t be reused."

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Gee... it seems like nuclear can actually provide a ton of clean power for high demand applications.... maybe we can, i dunno, build larger ones for general load? Had that been done before? Derp?

Oh, and the crazy costs are always government red tape and activists almost requiring a plant to be built three times with nutty reqs as regs are arbitrarily changed repeatedly and facilities are fined for stuff the govt is supposed to handle (Yucca). Always lots of pointing out the "uneconomical" costs and totally ignoring other advanced nations are reliant on it and seem to have solved the base load issue...

One of those was laughing at Russias/OPECs death grip on energy costs, btw. Oh, also found a ton of the animosity against nuclear is fanned by hostile revanchist nations afraid of everyone cutting them loose. Again, gee, imagine China pushing solar! Imagine Russia pushing wind and solar! Both suppressing nuclear abroad while pursuing it themselves. Wowsers! Whodathunk? (The nuclear sector for the past 40 years)

If other nations can be powered largely by nuclear, so can we. Any other argument is hypocrisy for sustainability and pandering to lobbyists afraid their "green" stock or fossil stocks will crater as a result. Interesting as soon as nuclear gains headway, the lobbyists do everything they can to stall it...

For the record, we need a mix, but nuclear IS the solution overall. It's goofy seeing real world examples work for cost and people get all sticker shocked at govt inflated prices but are okay blowing trillions on pipe dreams... that still don't match nuclear...

Edit: correction, reference to Russias pushing for Europe to adopt solar and wind power pre Ukraine war to control their reactions when base load couldn't be met with those sources and control them via gas prices as a result, for a while.

Violin Sonata No. 2 In E Minor

1. Allegro non troppo
2. Andante molto
3. Allegro non troppo
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After handing off the body of our fallen brother, we walk back to our rooms in silence. Thinking about the journey this body would take back to his loved ones on the other side of the world. We did this over and over for the next 14 months . There were times when there was much left of a body, and those times still haunt me. I was ask to do a honorable task, the burden of that task is still with me. Men and woman who sacrificed it all for a country they loved, I carried them to fly back home. Their loss forever with me.

<Walz stealing those sacred moments, to drape himself in THIER honorable sacrifice is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever heard. His lying fill me with a rage and anger that I hope fall upon him one day. He dishonors his own service with these lies. He dishonors our nation’s heroes by stealing their courage and glory. 24 yrs of service thrown away because he knew he quit on his men, quit on himself, and is filled with the shame for who he sees in the mirror. Let us never forget those who gave it all. Let us never allow their glory, courage, and selfless sacrifice be stolen by anyone. We live our lives today to honor who they were as men and woman, TRULY THE GREATEST AMERICANS.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan Kills It at Charity Dinner, Smokes Kamala for Being MIA

I have often argued that comedy and satire are some of the best ways to expose the extremism on the left, and it’s something conservatives must continue to do as we fight back against misinformation warfare, censorship, and cancel culture.

HOT TAKES: Al Smith Dinner Featured Trump at His Funniest Despite the Elephant (Not) in the Room

But the contrast is clear. One candidate stands up and shows up, even when opposed. The other candidate shrinks, hides, and casts shade.

Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson Reveal Trump Team's Hilarious Reaction to Biden Debate Meltdown

This is history unfolding before their faces. They knew he was bad, but the looks as it unfolded were priceless. They were all astounded, although Ben Carson was perhaps the best, as he stopped mid-bite of food.

It's worth noting that Politico's headline reads "Harris to join Michelle and Barack Obama on the Campaign Trail." Last I checked, it's the vice president who is running and being joined on the campaign trail, yet the press, in all their slavish devotion, still gives deference to the Obamas. //

If the Obamas had the ability to sway elections, Hillary Clinton would be finishing up her second term right now.

Trump got in a good one about how he knows the tradition is self-deprecating jokes.

But "I've got nothing," Trump said as the crowd roared.

"I guess I just don't see the point of taking shots at myself when other people have been shooting at me for a hell of a long time...," he continued. That was pretty good. //

He spoke about "having recently myself survived two assassination attempts" and the fact that turning to look at a chart probably saved his life. "Was that luck, or was that God, and I think that was God," he said.

"I have a fresh appreciation of how blessed we are by God’s Providence and his divine mercy...With God’s help, I know there is nothing that cannot be achieved. We can do so much good with this country and get together and unify."

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Navigating the 3D view in FreeCAD can be achieved using various inputs including a mouse, a Space Navigator device, keyboard shortcuts, a touchpad, or any combination thereof. FreeCAD offers a range of navigation modes that define how the three fundamental viewing operations—pan, rotate, and zoom—are executed. Additionally, these modes govern how objects are selected within the workspace. To access and switch between these navigation modes, you can navigate to the Preferences screen or simply right-click in the 3D view. Additionally, there is a third, more immediate option for altering the navigation style directly from the user interface located in the lower-right part of the screen.

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