According to his official Report of Separation and Record of Service, he re-enlisted for six years on September 18th, 2001. However, in his response he says that he re-enlisted for four years, conveniently retiring a year before his battalion was deployed to Iraq. Even if he had re-enlisted for four years following Sept.11, his retirement date would have been September 18th, 2005. Why then did he "retire" on May 16th, 2005, before his supposed four-year enlistment was up? And he makes it sound like he "retired" a year before his battalion deployed to Iraq; when in reality he knew when he "retired" that the battalion would be deployed to Iraq.

Tim Walz is an American coward, plain and simple. He betrayed his word, his contract; he betrayed his men. He committed the ultimate act of betrayal, and that is irrefutable. It is beyond offensive to those of us who not only served our country but who had the honor and privilege to serve with our brothers and sisters in combat. //

SeekingRationalThought
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Well said. Having never served, I won't accuse Walz of cowardice. That is for veterans like the writer above, not the likes of me. However, remember this. If Walz, as the senior enlisted in his unit, was willing to abandon his troops, and his responsibilities to them, for personal gain (Congress), what isn't he willing to do for personal gain?

"Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025?" Robert Costa asked Biden.

"If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident at all," Biden said first. He then corrected himself, saying if Trump loses, he's not confident at all. His brain is just mush. While the video released by NBC reflected this, their written story did not reflect what he first said.

What is he actually saying here? If Trump loses then is Biden saying he wouldn't transfer power to Kamala Harris? Does he even understand what he's saying? //

It isn't Trump talking about "mobs." It isn't Trump threatening the Supreme Court. It isn't Trump being anti-democratic and tossing the votes of more than 14 million people to the side in a coup.

It's Democrats who keep suggesting something is going to happen.

As it turned out, on Wednesday, both JD Vance and Kamala Harris were arriving at the airport in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Once again, Harris needed help to buff out her crowd by having a popular musician at her event, Bon Iver.

But when Vance arrived, he skewered Harris' effort to avoid reporters but good. He walked over to where Air Force Two was and delivered a great shot.

Vance joked, "It's going to be my plane in a few months."

Then he said, "I also thought you guys may get lonely" because Kamala Harris "doesn't answer questions from reporters and hasn't in 17 days." He asked them if the Harris team had given them any explanation for her avoiding the media. He said he thought it would be good if she took questions rather than running a campaign from a basement and with a teleprompter. Then he smiled and thanked them.

His tactic worked. One reporter asked what he wanted to hear from Harris. Vance responded he wanted to hear what she wanted to do in the office and why her positions have all flip-flopped. He said she pretended to be a tough-on-crime prosecutor but then was for defunding the police and opening the border.

Vance finished by saying it was "disgraceful" how she was blowing them off, as Harris was avoiding the media with her motorcade pulling away behind Vance.

As if that weren't twisted enough, now we learn that the TSA whistleblowers who came forward with their concerns about this development are facing retaliatory investigations of their own. //

As Leavitt also notes on Twitter/X, the Quiet Skies program has not even been shown to be effective at its purported aim. //

The whole Quiet Skies program seems like a civil liberties nightmare anyway.

Over four years the OIG examined, the found Quiet Skies confirmed precisely zero passengers as aviation security threats. I can think of far better uses for the hundreds of thousands of dollars DHS puts into this.

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The Democratic Socialists of America claimed credit for Walz being picked in a thread on X.

Harris choosing Walz as a running mate has shown the world that DSA and our allies on the left are a force that cannot be ignored. Through collective action, DSA and the US left more broadly have made it clear that change is needed. DSA members organized in our workplaces and unions to realign the labor movement to support Palestinian liberation.

The Uncommitted movement, in which DSA members played crucial roles nationally and in multiple states, pressured the Democratic establishment into choosing a new candidate and backing down from a potential VP with direct ties to the IDF and who would have ferociously supported the ongoing genocide in Palestine. //

But what the DSA is telling us by this is that they seem to believe Walz was the more left-wing choice. That tells you everything you need to know about him, because they sure don't sound like they think he's a "centrist," as the media is trying to pitch him.

The lawsuit, which video streaming company Rumble also joined, comes on the heels of a House Judiciary Committee report alleging GARM likely violated federal antitrust laws by colluding with giant ad buyer GroupM to coordinate the demonization of news websites, platforms, and podcasts it deemed guilty of wrongthink. //

Correspondence obtained by the committee shows GARM Co-Founder Rob Rakowitz bragged about and even “took credit for Twitter’s revenue decline,” according to the committee report. //

According to Yaccarino, X’s legal action is “about more than damages.”

“[W]e have to fix a broken ecosystem that allows this illegal activity to occur,” she continued.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is threatening to prosecute a resident for “spread[ing]” what has been labeled as “misleading or false” election-related information, according to a “cease and desist” letter reported Tuesday. This comes just days after The Federalist revealed Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is urging residents to report their neighbors for so-called “election misinformation.”

Another day, another corrupt act by Democratic Party-aligned government lawyers—this time in Arizona.

Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis had all nine felony charges dismissed against her in the Arizona electors case Tuesday, supposedly “in exchange for” her promise to testify, according to the prosecutor’s press release.

There is no exchange here. Prosecutors in Democratic circles are now more concerned with feeding MSNBC’s nightly narrative machine than they are even pretending to care about justice.

This “cooperation agreement,” released gleefully in a Monday press release, fails to do what all cooperation agreements are supposed to do—help prove the case.

The case the Arizona AG is trying to make essentially boils down to: When Republicans in Arizona attempted to file an alternate slate of electors in the 2020 Electoral College, they were committing felony-level “fraudulent schemes” and forgery.

That is a difficult case to make, as Fulton County DA Fani Willis is also learning. //

In a just world, no judge would accept this plea deal. Prosecutors are extorting it out of her by charging her with near-treasonous crimes. //

Leftist lawfare prosecutors have been able to extort some plea deals in some jurisdictions by threatening big crimes and offering tiny punishments to different, tiny crimes. The Georgia and New York cases are both examples of this. Now add Arizona to the list.

It is a sad state of affairs for America. Prosecution has been flipped on its head. In a just world, facts backed by evidence are used to build charging decisions. In today’s deep blue court jurisdictions, charging decisions backed by agendized media are used to build public narratives.

You know the power I have as a prosecutor is that with the swipe of my pen, I can charge someone with a misdemeanor for the lowest level offense possible. And by virtue of that swipe of my pen, you will have to go to a courthouse and stand in line. You will have to come out of pocket and hire an attorney. You may get arrested for a few hours. You will be embarrassed in your community. You will miss time from coming onto the Google campus.

All because with the swipe of my pen, I've tried to charge you with a crime. Which I may choose to dismiss two weeks later. //

That may or may not have been her intent, but her swaying comportment and her excitement at talking about her magical powers are nevertheless chilling.

Those who contend that she was merely arguing in favor of prosecutorial discretion miss a key point: the kind of harassment she talks about is exactly what we’ve seen for three and half years out of the Biden/Harris Justice Department. They selectively prosecute enemies based on their political affiliation, and have waged a relentless, corrupt campaign against their number one foe, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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"Compared to it, Microsoft Word is pure madness"—Anne Rice. //

WordStar's most recent claim to fame might be that it's the word processing application on which George R.R. Martin is still not finishing A Song of Ice and Fire.

But many writers loved and still love WordStar, a word processor notably good for actual writing. As computers moved on from DOS to Windows, and word programs grew to encompass features that strayed far from organizing words on a page, WordStar hung back, whether in DOS emulation or in the hearts of its die-hard fans.

One of those fans is Robert J. Sawyer, an award-winning science fiction author still using the program last updated in 1992. Deciding that the app is now "abandonware," Sawyer recently put together as complete a version of WordStar 7 as might exist. He bundled together over 1,000 pages of scanned manuals that came with WordStar, related utilities, his own README guidance, ready-to-run versions of DOSBox-X and VDosPlus, and WordStar 7 Rev. D and posted them on his website as the "Complete WordStar 7.0 Archive."

https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm //

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I like sticking with the stuff I'm comfortable with, but I can't for the life of me understand why anyone can put up, let alone love those dos, command based word editor. I mean, the advent of mouse and GUI was an improvement (IMO). If one must avoid 21st century bloatware, even something like notepad++ could do the job. Ah well different strokes for different folks i guess

Mouse motion is limited to a couple of fixed finger inputs, a scroll wheel and wrist motion. Keeping both hands on the keyboard lets you parallelize more of the input - key when most of the input is alphanumeric with a smattering of punctuation. Adding in key sequences that manipulate the cursor or activate functions can make a fast typist blindingly fast at input and editing.

If you take someone who types at 120 wpm and can keep both hands on the keyboard continuously, they can whip out a page in literally two minutes. If not interrupted, that means they could literally do a manuscript for a 250 page novel in a day.

What are they and why do they matter. //

In fact, every display you’ve ever seen only shows a small portion of the colors that your eyes are capable of perceiving. That portion is what’s referred to as a “color gamut.” A color gamut refers to the range of colors within the visible light spectrum that the display is capable of reproducing.

It might not seem like there are colors missing from your display, because you see approximations of most colors, but there are certain colors that simply can’t be shown. For a simple comparison, SDR (standard dynamic range) TVs are capable of displaying over 16.7 million colors—more specifically, there are 16.7 million unique combinations of the 256 different levels of red, green, and blue that the display can produce.

An HDR TV, on the other hand, is capable of at least 1,024 different levels of red, green, and blue each, for over 1.07 billion unique color combinations. This dramatically expands how much of the visible spectrum that displays can reproduce. But it also means that all the content that you see on your display—every show, movie, or video game—has to be created with those new color options in mind. ///

Computer monitors

Google's rapid rise from "scrappy search engine with doodles" to "dystopic mega-corporation" has been remarkable in many ways, especially when you consider just how much goodwill the company squandered so quickly. Along the way, though, Google has achieved one unexpected result: In a divided America, it offers just about everyone something to hate.

While on the subject of Equinor, I would like to recommend a fabulous piece written by energy expert Robert Bryce. He noted that The NGOs have been shameless in their collusion with foreign corporations, including Equinor, which are collecting billions in federal tax credits to construct wind projects.

But more importantly, Bryce examines the green energy realities based on the science of physics:

…Big Wind is facing a crisis caused by simple physics. The turbines now being deployed onshore and offshore are failing far sooner than expected. Why? They have gotten too big.

Yes, bigger wind turbines are more efficient than their smaller cousins. But the larger the turbine, the more its components get hit by the stresses that come with their size and weight.

The GE Vernova Haliade-X wind turbine used at Vineyard Wind stands 260 meters high and sweeps an area of 38,000 square meters. That means the turbine captures wind energy over an area five times larger than a soccer pitch.

But here’s the critical part: its blades are 107 meters (351 feet) long and weigh 70 tons. In addition, the rotor of the massive machine spans 220 meters. For comparison, the wingspan of a Boeing 737 is 34 meters.

In other words, the turbines at Vineyard Wind are nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower and each of their blades weighs more than a fully loaded 737. piece has an eye-opening piece on the physics associated with the massive wind projects that touches upon blade size.

... I could smell the burning tires, and that was -- that was a very real thing. And I kept the windows open for as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening." //

In those first days, Walz's daughter, Hope, made sure rioters knew that the National Guard was not going to be deployed on the night of May 28 so they could continue their rampage. //

By their words and actions, it's clear that the entire Walz family stood in solidarity with the anti-American hooligans who sought to destroy the businesses and homes of the people in Minneapolis who could least afford to have their neighborhoods destroyed, ...

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J.R.R. Tolkien did not write a story about why power is evil but about why domination is evil. //

For example, at the end of the story, Aragorn does not renounce power and wander off into the wilderness to smoke pipeweed. He claims the throne and with it the power that is rightfully his — and he does so with none of the reluctance that Peter Jackson added to the film adaptation. Likewise, characters such as Gandalf and Galadriel do not renounce power as such — indeed, they have and use great power — but they do renounce a certain sort and use of power.

What they reject is the domination that makes people into thralls and slaves. //

But French misunderstands Tolkien. Indeed, if anyone is disqualified on Tolkien’s terms, it is those such as French who reject natural law and the legitimate power of governments to make and enforce laws in accord with it. Unlike French, Tolkien did not urge us to embrace a relativistic legal pluralism that cannot distinguish between good and evil, beautiful and ugly, God and Satan.

Put simply, Aragorn would not have tolerated Uruk-hai story hour.

When it comes to supporting Harris for this election run, Powell Jobs has many tools at her disposal that lend a media advantage, starting with the fact that she is the publisher of The Atlantic. This would be the outlet that delivered the fraudulent yet widely-cited news item in 2020 that claimed Donald Trump called dead WW2 soldiers “suckers and losers,” based on anonymous sourcing. It is not tough to see how that outlet would lean Kamala’s way.

But this is hardly the only media influence Powell Jobs could leverage. Through two organizational entities, she has tendrils spread out across the media environment, in both mainstream outlets, local news, and as we will show, even in the realm of astroturfed propaganda sites. This is a veiled sector of the Jobs umbrella activities and one that can wield some significant influence.

when it comes to Roe v. Wade, for example, what did the court decide? Decided that we the people should answer that question, not nine people sitting in Washington, D.C. //

GARRETT: How about affirmative action?

GORSUCH: Much the same thing. What did we decide? We decided that all people are created equal, that it’s not acceptable in this country to discriminate on the basis of race. //

GARRETT: And, for those who would say but I feel something’s been ripped away from me, you would say?

GORSUCH: I would say that we’re taking it back to you. In a democracy, you’re in the driver’s seat. You’re the sovereign. Those famous three first words of the Constitution empower you. Do you really want me deciding everything for you?

GARRETT: And for a woman in a state where she no longer has the rights she once relied on, is that cold comfort?

GORSUCH: Major, all I can say is I don’t know better than you do on these questions. And that most major western democracies have decided these questions through the ballot box. //

part of me just wants to call Vladimir Duthiers an imbecile and leave it at that. His reasoning is so ridiculous as to be worthy of nothing but mockery. Would he say the same about the precedent that once allowed segregation of schools? What about the precedent that once restricted personhood for black Americans? The idea that a precedent is untouchable simply because it exists is moronic. What matters is proper legal interpretation of the law. Nothing more, nothing less.

In the end, what this Gorsuch interview shows is that Democrats have no actual argument. They are simply emoting at any given point, wrapping themselves in contradictions to garner the political outcome they want in the moment. The Supreme Court stands in the way of that, and that's why they are trying to destroy it.