The problem? It’s a “hard no” for many in the military. This means that the Pentagon has to decide to let it go or let countless men and women who are specially trained go.
Read on to see why letting military members is a bad (and expensive) idea.
Fighting for Freedom,
Riley Daniels And:
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teaching hate is Un-American, despicable and dangerous. The Democrat's radical element has taken over the party once again and Biden and his handlers have encouraged the Justice Department to mug soccer mom's and parents in general for protesting their "intrusion" of this insanity impacting the welfare of their children. LET THE PARENTS SPEAK By Yonoson
Rosenblum How did soccer moms morph into "domestic
terrorists" bent on mass destruction? Suddenly, K-12 education has become a major issue in
America. Over the past two years, the number of children being homeschooled has
nearly doubled from 2.5 million to close to 5 million. And contrary to the
stereotype of homeschoolers as either hippies or evangelicals, the percentages
of black, Latino, and Asian parents homeschooling are higher than for the
general population. Unquestionably, COVID-19 was the catalyst for much of the
explosion in homeschooling, at least in part because during the home learning
imposed by lockdowns, parents could see for the first time what and how their
children were being taught. Many white parents were not enthusiastic about
their children being schooled in their white privilege and oppressor status,
and a sizeable number of black parents did not want their children turned into
perpetual victims. Some parents have opposed the ending of honors classes in
the name of "equity" and others the imposition of mask mandates. Across the board, parents have been horrified by their young
children being encouraged to explore their gender identity, asked for their
preferred pronouns, and exposed to explicit material. Scenes of irate parents
at school board meetings reading from the texts that their children have been
assigned have become a staple of the nightly news. If political newcomer Glenn Youngkin defeats former governor
Terry McAuliffe in the upcoming Virginia gubernatorial contest, in a blue
state, the latter's statement — "I don't think parents should be telling
schools what they should teach" — in one of their debates will be largely
responsible. THAT STATEMENT HAS now been seconded by the Biden
administration. In a genuinely shocking one-page memo, dated October 4, United
States Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the FBI, working in conjunction
with US Attorneys in every federal judicial district, to discuss strategies for
addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and
staffs. That memo was issued just five days after a letter from the
National School Boards Association (NSBA) to President Biden urging him to
address the "immediate threat" against America's public schools using
the provisions of "the Patriot Act in regards to domestic terrorism." The Patriot Act was enacted in the wake of 9/11 to enhance
collection and sharing of foreign intelligence information, restrict terrorist
funding, and to enhance border security to prevent further mass terrorist
attacks. It defined terrorism as unlawful acts of violence intended to
intimidate or coerce a civilian population or affect the conduct of government
by "mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping." How did soccer moms morph into "domestic
terrorists" bent on mass destruction? If Garland was looking for domestic
terrorists, BLM and Antifa, two groups that coordinate across state lines and
have been involved in rioting in numerous cities, would have seemed more likely
targets. The attorney general cited no evidence of what he termed the
"disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against
school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff." Presumably, he
was relying on the information provided by the NSBA letter. That letter included 24 footnotes, most of them news reports
of raucous school board meetings. Few had anything to do with criminal conduct.
School board members were not subjected to worse harassment than Senator
Kyrsten Sinema, who was followed into and filmed in a public restroom, while
being harangued. No less an authority than President Biden downplayed those actions
as "inappropriate" but "part of the process." The worst of the crimes against school board members, such
as they were, as described by Maud Maron, a former school board president in
New York City's largest school district, included prank phone calls, a single
individual yelling "a Nazi salute in protest of masking
requirements," and other cases where the school board adjourned meetings
in the face of protests. Nothing that rose to the level of a federal crime or
was beyond the capabilities of local law enforcement. One father was removed by police from a school board meeting
in Loudon County, Virginia, when he erupted in anger at being denied the right
to speak in response to at school superintendent's assertion that there had
been no adverse consequences from the board-imposed transgender restroom
policies. In fact, his daughter had been assaulted by a male student wearing a
skirt in a school restroom. The assailant was transferred to another school,
where he promptly assaulted another female student. What normal parent would not have been furious at the
superintendent's deliberately misleading statements concerning a criminal
assault that could have destroyed his daughter's life? (The school board
meeting was a month after the assailant had been transferred.) And for that
anger, the FBI must be called in? The most surprising aspect of the Garland memo was the
shoddiness of its legal analysis, given his reputation as a superb lawyer and
jurist. The First Amendment's protection of spirited debate does not extend
"to attempts to intimidate individuals based on their views," he
asserted. By that standard, Garland should soon be setting up a joint FBI-DOJ
task force to patrol university campuses. But as Andrew McCarthy, the lead federal prosecutor in the
first World Trade Center bombing case, pointed out, the attorney general knows
very well the First Amendment protects many statements that contain an element
of intimidation. McCarthy related that he had a very difficult time securing
Department of Justice approval — at a time when Merrick Garland served as a
high-ranking DOJ official — to charge Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blink
Sheikh" who masterminded the 1993 WTC bombing, with "soliciting acts
of violence." McCarthy was repeatedly cautioned against conflating
protected expressions of hatred for America with criminal incitement so as to
avoid chilling free speech. Even actual "threats of violence" are
only actionable if the threat of violence is real and imminent. And to constitute a federal offense, such as would invoke
Department of Justice involvement, there must be a threat against "the
laws of the United States." In the Blind Sheikh case, that federal
interest was present because he had called for bombing of American military
installations, threatening federal property and military personnel. That
federal element is absent from contentious school board meetings. And the
failure of the attorney general's memo to include any statement of federal
jurisdiction is emblematic of its hasty draftsmanship. As it happens, the attorney general has a serious conflict
of interest. His son-in-law heads a company that purveys the type of materials
on systemic oppression, white supremacy, and intersectionality that have been
at the heart of many of the clashes at school board meetings. McCarthy
suggests, however, that Garland's failure to consider that conflict of interest
is more an indicator of the rush to put the federal government's imprimatur on
the NSBA's letter than the reason for the decision. (The keynote speaker at the
NSBA's 2019 convention was Communist professor Angela Davis, a former denizen
of the FBI's most wanted list.) Rather, the issuance of the Garland memo derives, in
McCarthy's words, from the "Biden Justice Department's embrace of
progressive indoctrination." And it constitutes a blatant attempt to
intimidate and "chill" the free speech of outraged parents — the very
thing that the First Amendment was designed to forestall. In that authoritarian
to stifle certain forms of political speech, it is of a piece with the Obama
administration's use of the IRS to discriminate against conservative (and
pro-Israel) groups in the granting of tax-exempt status. FINALLY, the Justice Department's heavy-handed entry into
local schooling disputes is part of a disturbing larger pattern of increasing
disregard for parental rights with regard to their children's upbringing and
education. In two early 20th-century cases, Meyer vs. Nebraska (the
state may not ban foreign language instruction) and Pierce vs. Society
of Sisters (the state may not ban parochial education), the Supreme Court
established the principle that children are not "mere creatures of the
state," and parents have a large say in their education. But the Garland
memo seeks to deter parents from the exercise of those rights by threatening
them for protesting school curricula. Similarly, in the Alta Fixsler case in England, which just
came to its tragic end this week, the courts refused to give any weight to the
religious views of her parents against terminating her life. "Who says she
shares her parents' religious view (or would if she could express
herself)?" the court effectively said. And thus her parents' religious
beliefs are of no moment. Let me give just one example of how dangerous is such
reasoning. An eight-day old Jewish male infant is also incapable of expressing
affirmation of his parents' religious beliefs or of consenting to the
infliction of "bodily injury." Will legislatures or courts now be
free to decide that the best interests of the child mitigate against bris
milah? Just one example of how vigilant we must be with regard to
all efforts to deny parental rights with respect to their children.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Today we had a discussion at our home about fusion power. The speaker along with three associates, have established a private company, by the name of Commonwealth Fusion System, soon to be headquartered on a corporate campus near MIT and Boston. In the process, they have raised well over 1 billion dollars from billionaire investors Dan Brunner made a technical presentation about how this fledgling company, in less than three years, has accomplished what scientists have been seeking to do for decades. In other words, Dan and his group of over 100 scientists and engineer employees have proven, through the use of proprietary magnet formats, power can be produced, using nitrogen as a feed source, at a potentially competitive price. I am not technologically qualified to re-present Dan's discussion but I will post, from time to time, as they move forward, information released by the company. Stay tuned because, if CFS is able to accomplish their goal, an entirely new clean source of energy that produces no materiel toxic waste, that does not need to be buried and is economically competitive to many current objectionable energy sources, will make the world a different place in our life time. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ross rants again:
As each day goes by, and the more the radicals attack Manchin and Sinema personally, and the more Pelosi and Biden tie the infrastructure bill to the big spend and tax bill, the more Manchin and Sinema dig in to say no. Biden had said the bills were not connected, and Pelosi promised to do a vote by September 27. They both clearly lied to their own people, and now the moderates are furious. Sinema now has said unless the infrastructure bill is voted on first, sphe will not consider the big bill. She has support of other moderates. Manchin reacted very angrily at the op ed Bernie authored in a WVA paper. He now seems a no vote, but with him we can’t be sure until it is really over. Pelosi is doing exactly what she promised the moderates she would not do. I continue to believe there will probably be no bill, and possibly not even an infrastructure bill, but we can’t be sure. The longer this continues, the more the moderates and the voters find out what is really in the bill, and the more outrageous it appears. As they say in DC, the longer the fish lays in the sun the more it rots. They are even scheming to find ways to violate the ruling of the Parliamentarian that immigration cannot be covered in the bill. Things like giving illegals free education and welfare, and all sorts of other freebies that they are not entitled to, and which would just encourage an even bigger flood across the border. No bill will be a good thing for the market because it means no new taxes, and no socialist laws, and no new massive spend that will stoke already major inflation. No infrastructure bill will be a negative for the market, but the economy is growing now, so it is not as important as it was. There is zero benefit to the economy of any new spending. The seven day average of cases per 100,000 in the US has gone from 339 in mid-September to 169 this past week and dropping quickly, down 24%, and that is only cases.. Hospitalizations are down to 5.1 per, and 52% of those are over 65, with under 17 being barely above 0 as they have been throughout Covid, which just proves that even though most kids are not yet vaccinated, being back in school was never a risk. Schools should have remained open with masks and spacing last year as they were in Sweden. More young kids are likely to die of flu than Covid. The supply shortage is now having a real impact on production, and on retail sales. It is now too late to solve the holiday shortages. If it is not already here in port, it will not get here in time unless they fly it in, which is very costly. Just running LA port 24/7 accomplishes little. The problem is not unloading ships, it is moving the cargo off the dock, and out of the warehouses which are now filled to capacity. The problem Biden will never talk about is that CA now has a set of rules that forbid trucks older than 2011, and no independent owned trucks are allowed. All part of the green laws. So now, many interstate trucks cannot enter CA. So they go to the state line where CA trucks unload and then transfer containers and goods to the interstate trucks. So the whole photo op about 24/7 operation of the port was just all show to make it look like Biden was actually doing something when he did nothing at all. The only answer would be to allow all trucks to be used in CA, and use the army and National Guard to drive trucks, but apparently that is not going to happen. The other answer longer term would be to allow 18 year olds to get licensed to drive, and to increase the hours a driver can be on the road. By the time a kid becomes 21 and legal to drive, he has already found another career, and has settled in there instead of trucking. In an interview on Fox on Friday, the Transportation Sec’y was more interested in talking about his newly adopted babies, and how lucky he is to be working for an employer that allows him to be on parental leave right now, rather than how he will solve the trucking problem, which he never addressed. An example of administration priorities. He even refused to answer why the infrastructure bill was not being voted on since that funding would help with the problem. He just mouthed Biden talking points about the spending bill. His responses just highlighted his gross incompetence. Inflation and supply shortages are going to last far into 2022, which will force the Fed to be more aggressive tapering and raising rates faster than they are now forecasting. Be prepared for a 2%+ ten year much sooner than you expected. The left continues to fail to understand the interconnection and high cost of its actions. The logistics problems have been known since Feb, but all of a sudden the administration woke up to the problem that the private sector major retailers moved to solve for themselves long ago. They now charter their own vessels and send them to Houston, Jacksonville and other ports, and Amazon uses a different type of ship that can unload itself without the big cargo cranes ashore. AMZN, FDX, HD, WMT, TGT, Costco and a few others are doing this alternate port procedure, however, that costs more to send ships through the canal to the east coast, but the merchandise gets to the stores on time and efficiently this way. Welcome once more to the real cost of green new deal and Paris Accord laws plus driver restrictions that can easily be changed. You just recently hear about any of this in the MSM, but you do hear about make believe conferences at the White House to make it appear Biden is actually doing something, and Butthead claiming the problem is too much demand, when reality is, nothing is getting solved on logistics. The way things are going, and especially with inflation and shortages, Biden may set a new polling low, even worse than Carter. If Trump does not wreck it, Republicans should sweep in 22 at all levels. The China power shortage is not going to get better soon. They not only have a shortage of coal, their primary fuel, but the price of coal has shot up to where utilities lose money the more coal they buy. China does, and will, have a real problem meeting production demand, and this then flows over to the world that depends on Chinese manufacturing. Shortages will continue as a result, even after Christmas. China needs to produce enough power to keep citizens warm and with electricity to avoid social unrest. So factories suffer power shortages. The cause is partly the green push to move to wind and solar, and to cut production of coal, and partly trying to punish Australia. Once again the climate screamers like Biden have created a series of consequences they never considered. Production shortages out of China means product shortages, which means prices stay high as demand grows with the ending of Covid. Chinese growth will be negatively impacted-so investing in Chinese stocks is even more risky. Inflation then is not transitory. It is hard to predict the geopolitical ramifications of this situation, but it is not likely good. The EU is in a similar situation. Only the US, with little remaining reliance on coal, and energy independence thanks to Trump, is in reasonable shape other than CA and TX which went green too fast. Power is a critical geopolitical issue now, and there will be a major slowing impact on how fast the transition to green energy happens no matter what they say at the November conference. The downside market risks are getting very high for 2022. China just announced Q3 GDP growth at 4.9% which is well below expectations. Just up .2% from Q2. They have real problems. With earnings off to a very good start, and my belief that most reports will mostly beat estimates, the market is likely to move higher for a short while. There is still a massive amount of cash available to invest, and as inflation continues, bonds become even bigger losers, so equities are the only real solution, along with some types of real estate. (some REITs are now priced in excess of NAV). Inflation, however can cut two ways. It will squeeze margins, and producers find they may not be able to raise prices as fast as wages, raw materials and logistics costs rise. That will be a real issue this quarter as retailers cannot get product on the shelves, and as wages rise too fast due to labor shortages. That will be a drag on Q4 profits, as will supply shortages. so the rise in stocks could possibly prove to be short lived. It is also why I have said I prefer tech stocks that do not depend on moving physical products to grow sales. So long as Powell is not nominated, he will not move to aggressively taper and raise rates. The longer they hold off nominating him, the worse the situation becomes. If they do not nominate him it will be even worse. Once again Biden has no clue, and he is listening to the radicals like Warren. This is another real market risk. I believe 2022 will be a very risky year for the stock market because the public has lost confidence that the administration is competent. Consumer confidence dropped last month when it should have risen with the ending of Delta. The more consumers feel the government is incompetent, the more they don’t spend, the more they are reluctant to invest in stocks. The more they feel prices are too high, the more they save. The more house prices rise, and the more interest rates rise, the less homes are purchased, and that leads to economic slowdown. The EU has lost all confidence in Biden after Afghanistan, and they don’t trust him at all after he moved with no notice to them. It has been reported by people who are non-partisan, and who have met with EU leaders, that the situation is already very bad. And now Biden is not moving forward with the free trade agreement with the UK that had been a key deal. This situation just creates substantially greater risk of a geopolitical crisis in 2022. Energy prices will continue to move higher across the world as Biden continues to push his climate change ideology, and that means more inflation and more poverty. Climate change is happening, but it is not anywhere near being the crisis the media and Biden make it to be. Bad storms, floods and wildfires have always existed. There is nothing new if you look at the data. 2022 has the potential to be a year of the black swans. Biden is even worse than I forecast, but I was way ahead of the market when I sold stocks in November 2020. I got back in quickly when I realized the market was not understanding the situation. I am getting ready to move again, but waiting to see what the market does. So everyone is clear. I am a moderate Republican who likes to understand an issue, then make a decision based on researching real data, my life experiences, and common sense, not ideology, and not crap from the internet. I know all about Trump, far more than most of you, and while he did numerous excellent things as president, and had some very good policies, his personality has always been horrible, and a he is major liar, and so self-centered that he becomes very destructive. While there were clearly some illegal things done by Democrats in 2020 , there is not sufficient evidence to change the outcome, per AG Barr and 30 judges. Now Trump is telling his followers not to vote in 22 unless the GOP backs his fraud claims. He does not care if he helps Dems if he does not get his way. What happened on Jan 6 was outrageous in my view. We cannot have violent mobs attack the capitol. Likewise, we cannot have BLM mobs looting and burning, and allowed to not have jail time and heavy pushback from the cops. All of it is wrong. The reality is the Republicans have a massive opportunity in 2022 and 2024 to take control, and to reverse the terrible policies of Biden and the left, but Trump is on his way to blowing that opportunity because he is pushing his personal agenda instead of the party, and his stolen election delusion. Trump is now a real risk to a Republican take back of Congress in 22, and the White House in 2024. I said in 2016, he is a really terrible person, and now he is much more dangerous to a Republican takeover. He has already created havoc in Ohio and Nevada, and is possibly going to cause a loss in GA to Stacy Abrams the way he caused the loss of the two senate seats in 2020. The Republicans have a great bench of really electable candidates, and Trump is on his way to ruining it because of his ego. Likewise, while some of you believe the misinformation on the internet about vaccines, reality is, 6.5 BILLION shots have been administered across the world, and every national health director, medical association and valid research institute, says it is safe and should be taken. A tiny number of people may have died after they got the shot, but they were almost all stricken with some other much more dangerous disease and were dying anyway. The entire legitimate and objective medical world in the US says it is safe, as does Israel, the second most advanced nation in medical science behind the US, plus the entire EU health authorities. Just because some doctor says on the internet it is not safe, or claims the CDC is lying, that does not make it true. It is not. These people have an agenda, and it usually is to make money, or to get on TV, so don’t believe them. Get vaccinated and save your life. 77% of over 12 are vaccinated with at least one dose and another 13%-15% + are naturally immune= 90%-92% of adults are at least partially immune now, and that number grows by the day. Children under 12 equals 48 Million, so there are not a lot of at risk unprotected people left. New cases will continue to decline very rapidly. It is now ridiculous to have mandates now, and other restrictions that cost jobs. If you have been to a doctor lately, at least in some areas, they now ask what sex you choose to be at the moment , what sex at birth, are you trans, and similar questions. How ridiculous. A doctor needs to know are you male or female to treat and diagnose you since the biology is different, not a matter of choice, so why ask these ridiculous questions just to be woke. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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