Panetta was and has always been a political hack. A “yes man” who ended up heading the CIA, not because of years of experience at Langley or bringing some unique skills to the Agency, Panetta was appointed to head the CIA because of politics. Barack Obama put him in that position because he helped Democrats get elected, and he was the chief of staff for Clinton.

In 2011, after the Bin Laden raid, Panetta reveled in the success of the mission. Panetta addressed a throng of people at a CIA Headquarters event – which was to honor the people connected to the raid. At that event, Panetta disclosed classified information — in fact, "Secret" and "Top Secret" information regarding the personnel who found Bin Laden and who conducted it. He fingered the SEAL team (DevGru) and fingered the ground commander. Panetta also revealed more Top Secret information during the speech that was attended by 1,300, many of whom had NO clearance at all. //

In October 2020, Panetta and a group of 50 other former senior intelligence officials signed a letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop controversy had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation" because it contained potentially damaging information to the Biden campaign.

We knew then — and even the New York Times has admitted now — that Hunter's laptop being "Russian disinfo" was utter nonsense propagated by unserious political hacks, not the least of whom was Leon Panetta. //

Mark A
17 hours ago
He can call it whatever he wants. I call it a supremely superb tactical move in a war that Israel didn’t create.

NavyVet Mark A
17 hours ago
So what if it was terrorism? It did more than scare the pants off the terrorists.
Since when is fighting fire with fire a bad thing? What goes around, comes around.
It seems to me it was effective at taking out bad guys with little or no collateral damage.

Cardinal Dolan told reporters that Harris "speaks very much about the high ideals and how it's good to get away from division and come together and unity and all, and that's what the Al Smith dinner is all about."

[...]

"We're not used to this. We don't know how to handle it," he said. "This hasn't happened in 40 years since Walter Mondale turned down the invitation, and remember he lost 49 out of 50 states. I don't want to say there's a direct connection there." //

Greg Price
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Cardinal Dolan on Kamala Harris skipping the Al Smith dinner:

"Schumer said to me, ‘I don’t think she made the decision, I think her schedulers are saying she can’t make it.’"

Kamala wants to run the country but isn't even making her own decisions

10:30 AM · Sep 24, 2024

One handwritten letter, addressed to “The World,” stated, among other things, “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.” //

Barr said in a statement to Fox News Digital:

I was dumbfounded that the DOJ made public this morning the contents of the letter that, Ryan Routh, left with an acquaintance prior to the attempted assassination of former President Trump

Even if DOJ thought it important to provide the letter to the court, it could have redacted inflammatory material or arranged to have the letter submitted under seal. It was rash to put out this letter in the midst of an election during which two attempts on the life of President Trump had been made.

"It served no purpose other than to risk inciting further violence," he added. //

anon-7lqi
39 minutes ago
Which are we to believe:

The Secret Service and DoJ are suddenly hopelessly incompetent and negligent
or
The Secret Service and DoJ knowingly and willfully pulled back protective resources and put their least competent staff on Trump

It was a nice moment and came across as pretty standard fare for a presidential campaign. It's certainly not the first time a nominee has walked into an establishment and paid for something. Trump has routinely bought food for people at campaign stops as well. Leave it to Democrats to try to ruin everything, though. //

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal
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I’m reasonably sure that’s a federal crime

Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
Trump is now handing out cash to voters.
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9:05 PM · Sep 23, 2024 //

The logic here is as stupid as it sounds. By giving the mother of three money, Trump supposedly broke federal laws surrounding vote buying. Of course, the woman never indicates that she is going to vote for the former president because he helped buy her groceries. //

Meanwhile, actual corruption and possible criminality by Democrats are ignored. It's mind-numbing.

I would posit that it is far more than Democrats trying to absolve themselves of their contributions to America’s current political divisions and tensions. Indeed, I believe it is an effort to silence those who oppose their ideology.

People pretending that Trump brought the assassination attempts on himself are, consciously or unconsciously, sending the message that if a prominent individual forcefully opposes progressive views, then they could also face violence or other types of punishments. Even further, any negative consequences for expressing their views are their own fault for daring to argue against progressivism.

To put it simply, they want to blame the assassination attempt on Trump because they want you to shut up.

This isn’t just about deflecting blame from themselves. Their arguments carry with it a covert threat: If you don’t shut up, something like this can happen to you. //

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons
19 hours ago
It might be even darker than Jeff posited. The media are actually saying Trump is not only asking for assassination because of his rhetoric, but he deserves it.

Government, as George Washington pointed out, is like fire — a dangerous servant and a fearful master. //

Seriously, could no one have sat down with the Maudes, informed them of however it was they were misusing land to which the family had held a grazing allotment for generations, and tried to work something out without immediately and capriciously resorting to criminal charges? The Maudes do, after all, have a long history with the land in question. They have grazed cattle and, apparently, made hay on the land, which doesn't seem unreasonable.

A member of the Maude family has held a U. S. Forest Service National Grasslands grazing allotment in good standing since the inception of that agency, he said. //

In summary: The Maudes had every reason to believe that there was some misunderstanding, that the use they had made of the land to which the family had held a grazing allotment for generations was still acceptable, and that, following the survey in question, some accommodation would be worked out. That is what any reasonable person would expect — but we are dealing with the government, that dangerous servant and fearful master. The Maudes certainly thought some accommodation possible — right up until they were hit with the summons.

And theft of government property? Seriously? One would think this would rate, at most, a trespassing charge. //

Catmother
13 hours ago
They are willing to get into a fight with an American farming /ranching family over 25 acres of grassland but the government isn't willing to do anything about the Chinese government buying up thousands of acres of farmland here in the US, especially if its near US Military facilities. Makes a lot of sense. ///

Bikeshedding in the Bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

Violent crime is up, not down, under Kamala Harris — but as usual, the Fake News isn't telling the whole story 

Violent crime hasn't "dropped," as the Fake News insists. 

When Kamala took office, the FBI changed how it collects crime data. As a result, they're missing data from nearly a third of the nation's law enforcement agencies — including from many of the most violent cities, such as Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and New Orleans. //

A much more accurate picture emerges using data from the DOJ's National Crime Victimization Survey, which shows crime rates remain WAY UP under Kamala — throwing a dagger straight through the heart of claims to the contrary by Democrats and their Fake News allies.

FACT: Violent crime is up 37% between 2020 and last year.

• Rape is up 42%.
• Robbery is up 63%.
• Assault is up 34%.
• Violent crime (excluding simple assault) is up 55%.
• Domestic violence is up 32%.
• Stranger violence is up 61%.
• Violent crime (with an injury) is up 10%.
• Violent crime (with a weapon) is up 56%.
• Motor vehicle theft is up 42%.

So they really think endorsements from a "commie" and a "warmonger" are good things, that's what they're telling us? That tells us something all right, that when it comes to keeping the establishment candidate they will do anything, throw under any principle or ideology, to keep the oligarchy in power. Not to mention the execrable Lincoln Project endorsing Harris. 

What an ad for Trump that is. When all the bad come together, you know to vote for the other side. //

Cafeblue32
3 hours ago edited
"I'm still on the left," Sanders says, while Cheney says he's still "on the right," as they play poker together. "But if we can agree on Trump," Sanders declares. "It means something big," Cheney replies.

That's the thing about this election. Trump broke politics. These corporatist dipwads may be on "opposite" sides, but are they really? And though there may be strange bedfellows among them, have they checked out the GOP lately with RFK and Trump? Tulsi? Joe Rogan? The age of one size fits all party politics may be coming to a close. God, I hope so. Maybe we'll get back to debating ideas and policies again instead of taking the lazy way out and destroying one another personally for party gain.

The OTEC automatic transfer switch series provides the basic features needed for primary source and generator set monitoring, generator set starting, and load transfer functions for emergency standby power applications.

• 40-1200A

Zelensky arrived in Pennsylvania on Monday, a hotly-contested election battleground state, courtesy of a U.S. taxpayer-funded C-17 Globemaster. What followed looked and sounded much more like a campaign stop than a diplomatic event, leaving onlookers to wonder exactly what the real purpose was. //

Vladimir Putin was never going to start a broader war with NATO because he knew he would lose. The Russian military is largely antiquated, poorly trained, and even more poorly led. He invaded Ukraine under Joe Biden for the same reason he invaded it under Barack Obama. Namely, to seize territory he sees as ethnically Russian. There is no larger plan for world domination if for no other reason than the reality that such a plan would be impossible to carry out.

Regardless, what Zelensky said and did on Monday is simply insane. He flew over to the United States at the behest of the Biden-Harris administration to trash their political opponents in a battleground state. //

Is Zelensky going after Trump and Vance because Democrats have prodded him to do so in exchange for taxpayer-funded support? Short of someone spilling the beans on what has been said behind the scenes, we may never know, but it sure seems like it. The appearance of impropriety is extensive, and the practical aspects of using government resources to have Zelensky come essentially campaign for Democrats six weeks before a major election is highly inappropriate. I get that there will be no impeachment inquiry into this, but in a government that wasn't eaten up with corruption, there would be. //

Frankly Speaking
6 hours ago
Let me get this straight. Ukraine is at war with Russia, yet both Zelensky and Putin have endorsed Kamala...

The fake Newsom asks, "If I don't ban Mr Reagan's parody AI videos, how would we ever know that":

• Trump will be a dictator on day one
• If he doesn't win, he's promised a bloodbath
• Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation
• Inflation is transitory and the border is secure
• COVID came from bat soup
• Trump told everyone to inject bleach
• Boys can be girls and girls can be boys and there's no such thing as gender
• Trump is controlled by Vladimir Putin
• January 6 was an armed insurrection where many police officers lost their lives
• COVID vaccines had zero side effects and masks were 100 percent effective
• Trump staged both of his assassination attempts
  And the list goes on. The fake Newsom adds, "And how would we know that Trump is literally Hitler? Reincarnation is definitely a thing. Hitler died in 1945. Trump was born in 1946. Coincidence? I think not."

President Biden said Monday that his White House aides have told him he “can’t” do things “that I want to do,” but that he would “do it anyway” — before asking young girls to join him on stage at an event honoring Gotham FC.

Biden, 81, shook hands with several elementary- and middle school-age children on stage in the East Room after making the stunning admission at an event honoring the 2023 National Women’s Soccer League champions.

“You know, I thought when I got to be president, I’d get to do things that I want to do. But my staff tells me what I can’t do,” Biden said after walking into the event holding hands with star player Ali Krieger, 40.

“But I’m going to do it anyway,” he added. “All the young women, young kids out there — that are out there, come on up and do this one. Stand behind me, would do. Just come on.”

Hardware hacker Dmitry Grinberg recently achieved what might sound impossible: booting Linux on the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor. With just 2,300 transistors and an original clock speed of 740 kHz, the 1971 CPU is incredibly primitive by modern standards. And it's slow—it takes about 4.76 days for the Linux kernel to boot.

Initially designed for a Japanese calculator called the Busicom 141-PF, the 4-bit 4004 found limited use in commercial products of the 1970s before being superseded by more powerful Intel chips, such as the 8008 and 8080 that powered early personal computers—and then the 8086 and 8088 that launched the IBM PC era.

If you're skeptical that this feat is possible with a raw 4004, you're right: The 4004 itself is far too limited to run Linux directly. Instead, Grinberg created a solution that is equally impressive: an emulator that runs on the 4004 and emulates a MIPS R3000 processor—the architecture used in the DECstation 2100 workstation that Linux was originally ported to. This emulator, along with minimal hardware emulation, allows a stripped-down Debian Linux to boot to a command prompt.

How many foot of water in 1 psi? The answer is 2.3066587368787. We assume you are converting between foot of water [4 °C] and pound/square inch.

• 1 foot of water to psi = 0.43353 psi
• 5 foot of water to psi = 2.16764 psi
• 10 foot of water to psi = 4.33528 psi
• 20 foot of water to psi = 8.67055 psi
• 30 foot of water to psi = 13.00583 psi
• 40 foot of water to psi = 17.3411 psi
• 50 foot of water to psi = 21.67638 psi
• 75 foot of water to psi = 32.51456 psi
• 100 foot of water to psi = 43.35275 psi

When size and weight don't matter, lots of other battery chemistries can work.

The “sanctuary” term has most often been applied to immigration. But there are several different types of sanctuary cities – one of which is related to protecting Second Amendment rights. Indeed, over 61 percent of counties in America have declared themselves sanctuaries for gun rights. This means sheriffs and other local law enforcement would refuse to enforce unconstitutional restrictions on firearms coming from state and local governments.

An example would be what happened in Illinois when its government passed an assault weapons ban. Over half of the state’s sheriffs announced they would refuse to enforce the measure. While these counties did not necessarily declare themselves to be sanctuaries, the nullification principle was in action. //

Trump’s vow to end sanctuary cities will have more ramifications than he likely intends. Sure, it would make it easier to track down illegal immigrants – perhaps dangerous ones. But what is to keep a Democratic president from using this as a precedent to crack down on Second Amendment sanctuaries? //

This is why all politics is local. The governments that are closest to us should have the most say over what rules we choose to live under – not politicians in Washington, D.C. The last thing we want is for the federal government to be empowered to go after cities whose elected leaders uphold the Second Amendment – or other natural rights guaranteed in the Constitution. //

Anna DM
8 hours ago
I respectfully disagree. Illegal aliens are, well, illegal and so cutting off the funding to localities that endorse and support illegal activities is perfectly sane and rational. Gun ownership in the US is protected by the 2A. If some localities decide to disobey the 2A (placing unconstitutional prohibitions on the right to keep and bear arms) and then subunits within that locality decide to disobey the disobeying entity, that's not a sanctuary situation. That's a (very constitutional) middle finger to the entity that is disobeying the constitution. In the end, the courts generally overrule such unlawful incursions against the 2A. The two examples are not the same thing, IMO.

I say defund the sanctuary cities as regards illegal aliens. //

Terrible System
8 hours ago
2nd Amendment sanctuary cities are set up to protect clear 2nd Amendment rights. Immigration sanctuary cities are set up t0 abet violations of federal immigration law, which is clearly within the purview of the federal government to enforce.

There is no legitimate comparison here.

in the case of two films that highlight conservative subjects, the disconnect between the press and regular Americans is put on full display. The results show that either A) elitist “journalists” are totally out of touch with the greater public, or B) that they’re shaping the narrative to fit their progressive viewpoints, or C) both.

To wit, over at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, the film “REAGAN” received a terrible 17 percent “fresh” rating from professional reviewers—yet it garnered a huge 98 percent favorable rating from the public. That is an astounding divide. To me, it can only be explained by one thing: the left hates Ronald Reagan, and most journalists are left-leaning, so they can’t possibly judge a movie based on its merits. They can only judge it based on their ideology. //

Here’s some of the educated criticism from our nation’s journalists: “Like Reagan the actor and Reagan the president, Reagan the new movie has a strained relationship with reality.” Paul Renfro, Slate. No bias detected there, right? “It comes so close to parody that it brings to mind the ‘Saturday Night Live’ ‘Mastermind’ skit.” Rogerebert.com. “For conservatives, Reagan has become Muhammad, the Prophet whose name no non-believer ever dare utter.” Movie Nation. Wait, I thought you were reviewing a movie?

Mildred's Oldest Son
3 hours ago
Of course he's incommunicado, he's probably afraid to turn on a table lamp, much less use any electronic devices. Tin cans and string have a limited range.

anon-eoij Mildred's Oldest Son
39 minutes ago
No more free hotel ball point pens… //

Noggindog
an hour ago
Oh, they shouldn't be talking about this! They should have just generated some deep-fakes of Sinwar saying and doing things Israeli's would like to see, things that discredit HAMAS. If he is still alive, he would have to surface! (giving Israel another shot at him!) And if he's dead, Israel could keep generating deep-fakes for quite a while!

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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Kamala says she'd "like another debate" with the "former vice president."

Does she think she's running against Mike Pence? Dick Cheney? Dan Quayle? Has she covered up Biden's cognitive decline for so long that it has now rubbed off on her?

6:30 PM · Sep 22, 2024 //

Brash Monk
2 hours ago
"The government is NOT supposed to be "providing" for me, it's supposed to get out of my way so I can provide for myself."
Spot on, well said.

A libertarian friend of mine once said to me that government has three jobs:

1. Protect my borders.
2. Deliver my mail.
3. Stay the hell out of my business.
   The current administration is failing at all three. Okay, I can give them credit for mail delivery, though I don't think they've done anything to help.

ꪻꫝể ꪻꫝể @TheThe1776
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Megyn Kelly DESTROYS the lawfare against President Trump🔥🔥🔥‼️

11:16 AM · Sep 21, 2024
https://x.com/TheThe1776/status/1837511249321685004

Jason Calacanis asked about some of the cases, erroneously saying Trump had been found "guilty" in civil cases.

Kelly brought him up short, correcting him on the facts and the terminology.

His partners on the show also came back on him a bit, asking whether he knows Kelly is a lawyer,and said, "You said three convictions, now you're walking it back."

Then he asked if she thought all five cases had issues. "100 percent," she said.

That's when Kelly went to town. First, she noted the change of the law in the Carroll case. Next, she hit the problems in the fraud case brought in New York by Attorney General Letitia James, including that the banks didn't consider themselves victims and James ran on a promise of getting Trump.

She also snarked about how "Soros" Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg didn't like to bring any cases except against Donald Trump. There were questions there as well. Then she spoke about the Georgia case, where she referred to the relationship between Fulton County DA Fani Willis and Nathan Wade. Then she pointed out how the Florida classified documents case was likely to fall as well. //

David Limbaugh @DavidLimbaugh
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I almost didn't watch this because usually when someone says another got schooled or whatever it's not that big a deal, but this is just delicious. Big props to @megynkelly for not only educating this clown, but humiliating him simply with the facts and unapologetic fierceness.