Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Politicians Often Lie . Can Congress Get The Truth From Those Who Testify.? Americans Have Lost Faith In Virtually All Our Institutions. Sad Indeed.

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HOOVER Monthly briefings (edited.)

The Hoover Institution Monthly Briefing on National Security
September 2021
Welcome to the Hoover Institution’s monthly briefing on national security. This month we reflect on the impacts of the post-9/11 period on intelligence; what failure in Afghanistan means to promoting freedom and democracy; the possibilities for a resurgence of al-Qaeda or ISIS; technology’s role in shaping history; and China’s race for technology dominance. Finally, we appreciate the wit and intellectual power of William F. Buckley Jr.
When Intelligence Is Not Serving Its Nation
Hoover senior fellow Amy Zegart in a recent opinion piece, argues that post-9/11 spycraft “does not serve America’s national security interests as it once did . . . [and] has taken time and talent away from [the CIA’s] original purpose of preventing strategic surprise.” What has happened, she explains, is an intermingling of the traditional Department of Defense warfighting function and the CIA intelligence-gathering role, resulting in an overly tactical focus of both. The consequences could be damning: “a diminished ability to understand, anticipate and counter longer-term threats—like China’s rise and Russia’s information warfare—that could threaten American lives and interests far more than today’s terrorist plots.” She recommends that the CIA regain “the balance between fighting the terrorist enemies of today and providing the intelligence to detect, understand and stop the enemies of tomorrow.” Zegart extends her argument and suggests, “The US intelligence community needs a radical reimagining to succeed,” which would include open-source intelligence, expanded talent, and evolved strategy.
When Intentions Fall Short
Research Fellow Joe Felter characterizes US involvement in Afghanistan as two wars, writing, “One was by necessity: safeguarding America from transnational terrorist attacks. The other was a war of choice: bringing greater freedoms and opportunities to Afghanistan.” John Yoo, visiting fellow, argues that the second mission, the one of choice, was a failure because it “was based on the assumption that any political and cultural environment would be receptive to the attractions of liberal democracy, capitalism, and international human-rights law. . . . But nothing in the political culture or traditions of Afghanistan . . . was favorable to such a radical constitutional transformation.” He suggests that US elites should finally learn “that external force rarely succeeds in bringing about the constitutional transformation of a society so long as it remains culturally resistant.”

Senior Fellow Peter Berkowitz offers an alternative conclusion to the belief that “promoting democracy and freedom are beyond America’s capabilities [and] imposing destabilizing practices and institutions on local populations have no place in a responsible US foreign policy.” Berkowitz argues that to secure “the conditions conducive to freedom at home,” US foreign policy must be grounded in America’s needs and priorities. It must also recognize that promoting democracy and promoting freedom are separable and distinct achievements and, in many cases, severely limited. Additionally, the US must improve its understanding of other nations’ cultures as well as rededicating itself to the principles of freedom on which the United States is based. Listen to senior fellows H. R. McMaster and Victor Davis Hanson discuss the “lost war” on Uncommon Knowledge.
Terrorism’s New Foothold?
The rapid fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban raises immediate concerns about expanded and unchecked terrorism. Cole Bunzel, Hoover Fellow, discusses those justified fears but explains the current limitations. “The two movements, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), are vying for influence [but] both face serious obstacles in their quest to use Afghanistan as a platform to bolster their strength and launch a new wave of terrorist attacks.” The Taliban control creates an opportunity for al-Qaeda “to reconstitute and reorganize but it is not well positioned to seize it,” whereas “ISIS will seek to play a spoiler role, but it will have a hard time winning domestic support or matching the Taliban in terms of manpower and resources.” The irony is that ISIS sees the Taliban victory as capitulation to the United States, which will continue “to attempt to degrade both groups through continued drone strikes.” While not minimizing the threat, he cautions that “success is by no means a foregone conclusion” for either group. For more on the terrorism threat in Afghanistan, listen to the Caravan Notebook.
Technology’s Role in the Future of History

Applying “20th-century terms about 21st-century phenomena” is how Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson reviews his post-9/11 predictions. He notes a familiar pattern in his analysis: “underestimating the impact of technological change on all our daily lives.” He also acknowledges that “all the structural changes in the public sphere brought about by the internet were more historically significant than anything else that had happened since the 1980s.” With that awareness, he puts a new lens on history. “Technological discontinuity matters at least as much as the eternal historical verities (power corrupts, democracy turns into tyranny via demagogy, and so on). If the global war on terrorism was Vietnam reprised—if the fall of Kabul was the fall of Saigon re-enacted—it matters that the earlier event was broadcast on television and the later one on social media.” While historians and the public search for an “end” of a historical event (e.g., the war on terror), Ferguson reminds us, “There is no end of history.” Likewise, there is no end to technology’s disruptive power or the potential for each scientific breakthrough to unlock new ones.

The Race for Tech Superiority
As China modernizes its nuclear arsenal and the US reviews its nuclear posture, America should not lose sight of the bigger race, explains Rose Gottemoeller, research fellow. “China may be a rising nuclear power, but its bigger agenda is building up its science and technology prowess.” She suggests that nuclear weapons should not be the primary focus of our efforts and money, but instead “the new and emerging technologies that are rapidly maturing into military assets. Innovations in artificial intelligence, big data analysis, quantum computing and quantum sensing and biotechnology are where future defense capacity is being born. The Chinese have sworn to beat us at acquiring and exploiting every one of them.” She calls for US government research funds to “push the frontiers of science and innovation.” For more about risks being posed by collaborative research with authoritarian nations, see the China Global Sharp Power’s (CGSP) essay “Global Engagement: Rethinking Risk in the Research Enterprise.”
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Learn to speak Chinese?

A Little Dose of Reality.

In the future China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States . Chinese acquisition of U.S. businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is on pace to shatter that record this year. The Smithfield Foods acquisition is an example. Smithfield Foods is the largest pork producer and processor in the world. It has facilities in 26 U.S. states and it employs tens of thousands of Americans. It directly owns 460 farms and has contracts with approximately 2,100 others.

But now a Chinese company has bought it for $ 4.7 billion, and that means that the Chinese will now be the most important employer in dozens of rural communities all over America.

Thanks in part to our massively bloated trade deficit with China, the Chinese have trillions of dollars to spend. They are only just starting to exercise their economic muscle.

It is important to keep in mind that there is often not much of a difference between “the Chinese government” and “Chinese corporations”. In 2011, 43 percent of all profits in China were produced by companies where the Chinese government had a controlling interest in.

Last year a Chinese company spent $2.6 billion to purchase AMC entertainment – one of the largest movie theater chains in the United States. Now that Chinese company controls more movie ticket sales than anyone else in the world.

But China is not just relying on acquisitions to expand its economic power.

“Economic beachheads” are being established all over America. For example, Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc. recently broke ground on a $100 million plant in Thomasville, Alabama. Many of the residents of Thomasville, Alabama will be glad to have jobs, but it will also become yet another community that will now be heavily dependent on communist China.

And guess where else Chinese companies are putting down roots? Detroit.

Chinese-owned companies are investing in American businesses and new vehicle technology, selling everything from seat belts to shock absorbers in retail stores, and hiring experienced engineers and designers in an effort to soak up the talent and expertise of domestic automakers and their suppliers. If you recently purchased an “American-made” vehicle, there is a really good chance that it has a number of Chinese parts in it. Industry analysts are hard-pressed to put a number on the Chinese suppliers operating in the United States.

China seems particularly interested in acquiring energy resources in the United States.

For example, China is actually mining for coal in the mountains of Tennessee.

Guizhou Gouchuang Energy Holdings Group spent 616 million dollars to acquire Triple H Coal Co. in Jacksboro, Tennessee. At the time, that acquisition really didn’t make much news, but now a group of conservatives in Tennessee is trying to stop the Chinese from blowing up their mountains and taking their coal.

And pretty soon China may want to build entire cities in the United States just like they have been doing in other countries. Right now, China is actually building a city larger than Manhattan just outside Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

Are you starting to get the picture?

China is on the rise. If you doubt this, just read the following:

* When you total up all imports and exports, China is now the number one trading nation on the entire planet.

* Overall, the U.S. has run a trade deficit with China over the past decade that comes to more than 2.3 trillion dollars.

* China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet.

* China now has the largest new car market in the entire world.

* China now produces more than twice as many automobiles as the United States does.

* After being bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, GM is involved in 11 joint ventures with Chinese companies.

* China is the number one gold producer in the world.

* The uniforms for the U.S. Olympic team were made in China.

* 85% of all artificial Christmas trees the world over are made in China.

* The new World Trade Center tower in New York is going to include glass imported from China.

* China now consumes more energy than the United States does.

* China is now in aggregate the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world.

* China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined.

* China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.

* China produces 3 times as much coal and 11 times as much steel as the United States does.

* China produces more than 90 percent of the global supply of rare earth elements.

* China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of any national defense system.

* In published scientific research articles China is expected to become the number one in the world very shortly.

And what we have seen so far may just be the tip of the iceberg.

For now, I will just leave you with one piece of advice - learn to speak Chinese.

Nicholas C. Bozick

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Special Forces (USA)

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In listening, over the last two days, to some of the testimony of three high Pentagon officials,  low grade it is reasonable to believe they are generally competent from a military viewpoint.

What concerns me is whether the advice they gave was understood, if so, why was it not taken by the administration and how much of the questions and responses bordered on evasion, covering one's behind, political drama and theater, perhaps some outright lies and the pollicization of the military.

This hearing is, perhaps, better than some but it still leaves anyone trying to assess what and who to believe in an impossible position. Why? Because Gen. Milley volunteered what happened was one of the worst tactical operations yet no one is likely to be held responsible. We are also left not knowing how many Americans were left behind and who are still trying to escape from Afghanistan and why..

While this is going on Biden's domestic agenda is possibly going to implode as Democrats fight among themselves. Meanwhile America continues to be flooded by illegal immigrants and murders are exploding in our nation.

I have not event mentioned the confusion caused by the administration's advice regarding COVID, attempts to radically destroy public education and a few other assorted matters like inflation, employment and energy availability.

Of one thing I am certain - Biden is an incompetent disaster and anyone who denies this is blind. 

(At least we have the Laundrie family and their dirty wash to focus on if you have  given up on the other insignificant news.

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 .Breaking: Dick Morris: Biden Makes Voters Want Trump Again

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The Loser's Game and Back Pedaling? Is The Bull Market On Shaky Legs? Has China Begun To Outclass Us Militarily? Much More.


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Sentimentality in Politics Is a Loser’s Game

Kurt Schlichter

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ABC Edited Out Obama Trashing Biden's Open Border Policy

Matt Vespa


Did Obama backpedal?  https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/mitchpicasso/2021/09/28/obama-nobody-understands-the-border-crisis-better-than-big-hearted-joe-biden-n1514995

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Investors are turning negative because of prospective rising interest rates  and inflation.  Is the bull market over?  Perhaps but also a bit early to tell, but then, what do I know:



Suddenly, soaring oil and sagging bond prices are complicating DC’s messy tasks


On Tuesday, two major trends converged, and managed to kill two birds with one stone. Commodity bulls and bond vigilantes joined hands to shake up a market that's become too complacent with the status quo, and sent a pointed message to Washington’s perpetually quarreling establishment.


Ahead of D.C.’s deadline to avert a federal government shutdown and a self-inflicted debt ceiling calamity, a sell-off in bonds quickened, triggering a rout in stocks and a spike in interest rates.


Heating up the toxic brew is the price of oil (CL=F), which looks like it is prepping a run above $80 per barrel, especially with global demand so high. Energy shortages in China and the U.K. underscore how fuel price spikes are starting to hit home for industrialized countries.


The moves in markets couldn’t possibly have come at a worse time, with the Federal Reserve carefully calibrating the market’s anxieties about both soaring prices and curtailing its massive bond purchases by next year.


And some think the former is increasingly likely to impact the latter — which is partly why bond investors seem to be forcing the government’s hand.


“Inflation expectations are finally catching up to inflation and the drama in Washington,” Gene Goldman, CIO at Cetera Investment Management, told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday, who argued that the Fed “has been severely underestimating the stickiness of inflation.”


With regard to soaring prices, “transitory” has become a byword of pandemic-era central bank policymaking. The Fed anticipates that much of the pressures pushing up inflation will eventually dissipate.


However, Goldman argued that “the eventual landing spot [of inflation] will be above the pre-pandemic and Fed target levels.” As of August, headline prices were running above 5%, with core prices not far behind.


“If inflation was as transitory as the Fed suggests, year-over-year inflation should not be this high,” Goldman told Yahoo Finance in an email.


“With tapering being the first step to remove stimulus and the Fed not wanting to expand its balance sheet while raising rates, the Fed is most likely to begin tapering ASAP (November) so that if inflation keeps rising, they can address it with higher rates faster,” the investor added.


Within the last week alone, the benchmark 10-year Treasury has added around 20 basis points, while the inflation-sensitive two-year yield spiked to its highest in over a year, according to Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at ​​Bannockburn Global Forex. 


Interest rates have sharply risen during the last two weeks


And given that yields are still too low relative to U.S. economic growth, Cetera’s Goldman thinks the 10-year could breach the psychologically important 2%.


As if containing the dragon of inflation wasn’t enough work, the specter of a government shutdown — or worse still, a default — makes the outlook that much worse. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned Congress that the debt limit must be raised or suspended by Oct. 18.


While almost nobody expects Uncle Sam will stop paying his bills, Washington’s highly partisan atmosphere is enough to give investors a serious gut check, especially because technology and growth-sensitive stocks are sensitive to rising rates. 


"Below the surface of the equity market, long-duration growth stocks have started to underperform as rates have risen, consistent with the historical pattern," Goldman Sachs analysts wrote on Tuesday. "Rising interest rates pose a greater risk to the valuations of long-duration stocks given the high share of cash flows expected to be generated in the distant future."


By Javier E. David, editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him at @Teflongeek

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Has the downhill slide in our military superiority begun?


China's True Naval Capabilities May Outclass Our Own
 
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More polls show Joe Biden's presidency is crumbling.  What is fascinating  to me is  the dry rot that began with Clinton, accelerated with Obama and now  has  apparently reached the apex with Biden .  In less than 7 months this disaster of a president has literally taken over 240 years of American History and turned it on it's head and, perhaps, permanently changed the ability of America to recover 

Like construction, it takes a period of time for a building to rise but it can come down so quickly and that , lamentably, is what anyone with their eyes open is now experiencing unless you are a committed Democrat and fixated on ascribing everything to Trump, even before he became president.

Democrats are so intent on retaining power they are paranoid.


The last few months have been tough for the Biden administration, and things seem to be getting worse every day. According to the latest polls, Americans have had enough of Joe Biden and his inability to lead.

According to a recent ABC News/Ipsos survey, confidence in President Joe Biden's handling of serious challenges such as the pandemic, immigration, and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure is deteriorating less than a year after he came to office, even among members of his own party.

Because of the lower numbers from his own party in the survey, Biden's overall approval fell below 40% on critical topics including gun control (38%), Afghanistan (38%), and the border crisis (33%), according to the poll.


The biggest issues that seem to be hurting Biden are his handling of Afghanistan and the current economic situation. Across the board, Americans gave Biden low marks for what happened in Afghanistan during our failed retreat. And many respondents to the poll say Biden has no idea what he's doing when it comes to the economy.

It makes you wonder when Vice President Harris plans to take over.

More Political Headlines

Why this former Marine is suddenly in jail after speaking up


Finally:

https://nypost.com/2021/09/28/tragic-cost-of-bidens-afghanistan-lies-goodwin/

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A president lacking basic recall is either a liar and/or a threat to himself, the nation, the world.  Pelosi and Milley concocted a false narrative and the mass media ran with it that we should be worried about Trump having his finger on the red button.


Biden doesn't even know what color the button is but no one seems the least bit worried. It is just that serious.


'No. No One Said That to Me'

Larry O'ConnorLarry O'Connor|Posted: Sep 28, 2021 5:05 PM 

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.


'No. No One Said That to Me'


Just 12 days ago, I detailed how Joe Biden was caught in one of the biggest, most consequential lies in modern presidential history.  


Now, this isn't an "I did not have sexual relations" kind of lie designed to cover up an embarrassing Oval Office sexcapade. And it isn't a "biggest presidential inauguration audience in history" kind of lie designed to boost an ego against a negative media cycle. It isn't even an "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" kind of lie designed to jam your legislation through with a damnable broken promise.


This lie was in the midst of an ongoing military mission that resulted in the careless and unnecessary murder of 13 servicemembers thrust into harm's way by an incompetent president without full use of his faculties and without serious advisors who recognize his dangerously diminished capabilities but refuse to step in and do anything about it.


As a reminder, in mid-August, as the Taliban took over the last parts of Kabul and terrified Afghans trampled over American citizens as they desperately hurled themselves onto the fuselage of an Air Force jet ending in their eventual plummet back to earth, Joe Biden decided his main problem was a PR challenge that would be cured with some damage control with former Clinton Advisor George Stephanopoulos on ABC News. 


Knowing that literally nothing in Biden's feckless career gave him anything close to wisdom or expertise when it comes to military strategic planning, Stephanopolous asked the obvious question: Who in the hell advised you on this nightmare in Afghanistan, and why didn't you listen to the experts?


Here's the key exchange.


STEPHANOPOULOS: But your top military advisors warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.


BIDEN: No, they didn't. It was split. Tha-- that wasn't true. That wasn't true.


STEPHANOPOULOS: They didn't tell you that they wanted troops to stay?


BIDEN: No. Not at -- not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops. They didn't argue against that.


STEPHANOPOULOS: So no one told -- your military advisors did not tell you, "No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It's been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that"?


BIDEN: No. No one said that to me that I can recall.

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You can call me a racist  and engaged in too much generalization  but, when one goes back in point of time, Muslims have proven to be a radical sect.  In terms of our modern era there has not been much improvement in their status regarding the embrace of terrorism except, for the fact,  they have become more destructive.


If they were all located in one nation state, like the Nazi's, their elimination and/or defeat might be predictable and doable as with WW 2. However,  they are scattered throughout the world, have wormed their way into just about every nation and, when they have, their impact on that society/nation is disproportionate to their numbers. They stir up hatred and become a magnet for other haters.  In our own  nation they have effectively turned The Democrat Party into a negative position vis a vis one our most trusted allies.  They have wrecked free campus speech and, through intimidation, have created discord in the land. Furthermore, the actual destruction they have cost and human misery is incalculable.


Finally, they have watered the seeds of anti-Semitism and made it blossom among the misguided.


Yes, some have made positive contributions and brought a richness to our own culture but, on balance, in my radical view they have been, and remain, a scourge and there is nothing we are likely to be able to do about this "human cancer."

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Obama Disengages To Avoid The Stench. Piling Up. Cut To The Chase. Can We Return To The American Way? 14 Reasons. Kennedy and Will 2 Favorites.

We have reached the pinnacle:
My husband and I divorced over religious differences
He thought he was God, and I didn't.
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John was on his deathbed and gasped pitifully.

"Give me one last request, dear," he said.

"Of course, John," his wife said softly.

"Six months after I die," he said, "I want you to marry Bob."

"But I thought you hated Bob," she said.

With his last breath John said, "I do!"

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Obama is covering his own ass because he does not want the stench to reach/envelope him:

Obama Slams Biden? BREAKING
› This may shock you...

Obama Slams Biden? BREAKING
Read it Here >>

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A Brilliant Exercise

 
This cuts thru all the political double talk we get.
It puts it into a much better perspective….
 
Lesson # 1:
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $19,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
 
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $192,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $385
Got It ???
 
OK now Lesson # 2:
 
Here's another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:
Let's say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewer
backup in your neighborhood....and your home has sewage all the way up
 to your ceilings.
What do you think you should do ...
Raise the ceilings, or pump out the crap?
Your choice is coming - November 2022.


And:


https://nypost.com/2021/09/27/democrats-plans-will-blow-up-us-budget-for-generations/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
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Finally:

Are we this stupid?

It's easy to dismiss individual programs  that  benefit non-citizens until they're put together  and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot  of research to put together all of this data.     Often these programs are buried within other  programs making them difficult to find. 


A Real  M  Eye Opener
WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?
Read this  :

I hope the following  14  reasons are
forwarded over and over again until
they are read so many times that the
reader gets sick of reading them. I also
have included the URL's for verification
of all the following facts 

1.
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare
to illegal aliens each year by state governments. 
Verify
at:  http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8 

2.
$22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food
assistance programs such as food stamps,
WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. 
Verify
at:  http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML 

3.
$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on
Medicaid for illegal aliens. 
Verify at: 
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML 

4.
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on
primary and secondary school education
for children here illegally and they
cannot speak a word of English!
Verify
at:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt...0.HTML 

5.
$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for
education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as
anchor babies.
Verify
at  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML 

6.
$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to
incarcerate illegal aliens. 
Verify at: 
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

7. 
30% percent of all Federal Prison
inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.CNN..com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..01.HTML


8.
$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on
illegal aliens for Welfare & social
services by the American taxpayers.
Verify
at:  http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML 

9.
$200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed
American wages are caused by illegal
aliens
Verify
at:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI 


13.
In 2006, illegal aliens sent home
$45 BILLION in remittances to their
countries of origin.
Verify
at:  .  <http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm> 
14.

The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration:
Nearly One million sex crimes committed
by Illegal Immigrants In The  United States .
Verify
at:  http: //  www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
 

Drdsk.com

 
 


The total cost is a whopping
 
$ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS
A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME,
HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING
THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS
$  338,300,000,000.00  WHICH
WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE
THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF
THIS COUNTRY. 
Are we THAT Stupid? 
YES, FOR ALLOWING THOSE
IN THE  U.S. CONGRESS
TO GET AWAY WITH DOING THIS YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!! 

If this doesn't bother you, then just
delete the message. 

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I generally do it my way and that is why Lynn says I am always in deep s---!

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This from a, I hate to admit it, friend of mine and also a fellow memo reader:


Subject: The Lucky Pig


The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.  (O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.  (O.M.G.!!!)  

Is that why they are always squealing?

 

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy)

(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Don't try this at home; maybe at work.)

 

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

(Honey, I'm home. What the...?)

 

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football  field.

(30 minutes. Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still can't believe that pig ...quality over quantity.)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm.......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing.)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder how much the government paid to figure that out.)

 An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
 (I know some people like that.)

 Starfish have no brains.
 (I know some people like that, too.)

 Polar bears are left-handed.
 (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig? Do the dolphins know about the pig?)

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Key Moments From the Senate’s Bombshell Afghanistan Hearing



Congress held its first major public hearing on Afghanistan today with General Mark A. Milley, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and General Kenneth F. McKenzie. The hearing was nothing but bad news for Biden but the American people were able to hear important details about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the current state of the military. 


Here are the takeaways: 


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Biden's Crimes Against America Keep Piling Up
› Attention...

Biden's Crimes Against America Keep Piling Up
Read it Here >>


And:
A must watch:

https://youtu.be/VpTz6OQT5qA
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O'Reilly cuts to the chase:

Subject: O'Reilly cutting to the chase and about sums it up:
Time for Straight Talk
By Bill O'Reilly
This column will take no prisoners.  Nor will it evacuate anyone.  No, what I am writing needs to be said and I will say it. 

President Biden is not able to effectively run the United States of America.  He is directly responsible for the death and destruction in Afghanistan as well as thousands of poor migrants being brutalized in Mexico at this very moment. 

These are humanitarian disasters on a massive scale. 

Mr. Biden is a diminished man living in a world of delusion.  And now the entire world knows it. 

No one really understands who, exactly, is running the Executive Branch of the U.S. government.  It is certainly not Joe Biden. But the President hired his staff and the cabinet members and the woke Generals, who are embarrassing the military and putting them in grave danger. 

The corrupt corporate media is also responsible for the incredible mess Biden has caused in seven months.  Its destructive hatred of President Trump has led us to this point.  The press did everything it could, including peddling rank falsehoods, to demean and destroy Mr. Trump.  The result: perhaps the most incompetent leader in American history today works in the Oval Office. 

Even now, anti-Trump fanatics like Juan Williams and Matthew Dowd spew incomprehensible gibberish about what a great job old Joe is doing. 

The Democratic Party is also responsible for the madness that’s on vivid display. Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not answer questions about Afghanistan. Why should she?  The Congresswoman can’t even explain why her own San Francisco district is overrun with criminality and social chaos.   

In addition, every single American who voted for Joe Biden is indirectly responsible for America’s dramatic decline.  And it’s not just overseas or at the border.  Inflation is galloping, the individual work ethic is being destroyed - right along with important American traditions like due process and self-reliance. 

Yes, most people who voted for Biden did so to get rid of Trump.  But casting a ballot on emotion almost always leads to disaster.  And that’s what we are now facing as a nation. 

Like many Americans, I cringe when the President of the United States has to answer questions or read the teleprompter.  I’ve been around long enough to know when a person is not able to do a job.  There is no debate about this - Joe Biden cannot run the country and the damage he is doing is incalculable. 

As for a comeback, come on, man (as Biden might say)!  Biology is a definite science.  Every person ages.  All of us are slaves to time. 

Joe Biden’s time has passed.  He is not capable of complicated decision-making. He and his band of enablers are not going to improve.

That’s the truth.  I’m glad I told it.
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My two favorites.  Kennedy, today's Will Rogers, and the inimical Will:

Good ol’ boy wisdom from a Senator. 

 

The Will Rogers of Our Time 

 

You often see a TV Anchor ask Senator Kennedy a question, and one would think he is just a good ole boy from Louisiana.

 

Kennedy graduated Magna cum Laude from Vanderbilt, has a Law degree from the University of Virginia and a B.C.L. degree from Oxford in England where he was a First-Class Honors graduate.

 He is no country bumpkin; he is very insightful and often humorous.

 Comment about Cuomo lecturing us. "It's like a frog calling you ugly". -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy 

"This election in Ga. will be the most important in history.  You have nothing to worry about unless you are a taxpayer, parent, gun owner, cop, a person of faith, or an unborn baby!" -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana describes Democrats as the "well-intended arugula and tofu crowd." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"You can only be young once, but you can always be immature." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress, but we can't figure out what they are good for.  Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"It's as dead as four o'clock. - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"Always follow your heart.....but take your brains with you." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"The short answer is 'No'.  The long answer is 'Hell No'." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"It must suck to be that dumb." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"When the Portland mayor's IQ gets to 75, he oughta sell." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"I keep trying to see Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's point of view, but I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"Go sell your crazy somewhere else.....we are all stocked up here." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"She has a Billy goat brain and a mockingbird mouth!" -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

Sen. John Kennedy (Rep. La.) said on Wednesday that he trusted most Middle Eastern countries as much as gas station sushi. -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"You can get a goat to climb a tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"1.  This has been going on since Moby Dick was a minnow.

 2.  Never stand between a dog and a fire hydrant." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"It appears that he might do the right thing, but only when closely supervised and cornered like a rat." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"Dumb enough to be a twin of himself." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy 

"This is why space aliens won't talk to us." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"Democrats are running around like they found a hair in their biscuit." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"Chuck Schumer just moo's and follows Nancy Pelosi into the cow chute." - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"What planet did you parachute in from?" - Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

"Just because you CAN sing doesn't mean you should." -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi, "She can strut sitting down!" -Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

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