Judi S.

Egalitarian motives?

Really?

How much smarter than a vervet monkey does one have to be to know that protecting Islam against criticism and allowing it to infiltrate our media, our institutions and our nations is the way to insure the exact opposite occurs?

How much smarter than a vervet does one have to be to know that the hyper focus on…[Read more]

Yeah, you can look at foreign aid through a small scope of things, but if we are not there, China and Russia will be. And then, of course, then they have a pro-China dictator installed. An ounce of prevention. And if resistant TB runs rampant and jumps the pond, who is sorry now?

If we can’t see three moves ahead, as the previous American leaders…[Read more]

Some USAID programs might be viewed as a waste of American tax dollars and a poke in the eye to people with socially conservative values. They ask how do programs such as these benefit the United States?

USAID’s Transgender ProgramsTransgender Opera in Colombia: USAID allocated $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, aimed at promoting…[Read more]

Robert,

You mean that without USAID, US farmers couldn’t, I dunno, sell their bumper crops to Americans who could use more plentiful and cheaper food?

And you mean that Third World Kleptocrat dictators don’t already play all ends against the middle on foreign aid? Do you mean that these dictators have any good will to gain with foreign…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:
The strategy is one of overloading the defenses along the lines drone swarm attacks.

You guys beat me to post this insightful video. I’ll just add, Scientology cult creator L Ron Hubbard taught “The best defense is an offense”.

Hubbard may have taught it, but the concept goes back at least as far as Sun Tzu’s…[Read more]

Reg and Simon,

What a real-life ‘trolley problem’ reveals about morality.

To me, it shows that Euro types have a misplaced love for Late Eighteenth Century modes of transportation (and their timing and itenerary) even unto the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

The individually-owned automobile is not the irredeemable boogeyman that Eco Wac…[Read more]

I must admit that I am unaware about much of the details of the workings of the Federal government, but besides funding some religious activities, USAID also serves as a relief valve, purchasing excess bumper crops from US farmers for export to needy nations. Midwest farmers are kinda upset. Where is that tiny violin. I’m kinda surprised they…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
What a real-life ‘trolley problem’ reveals about morality.

This is very interesting, and shows what I always said: there is usually no single right or wrong answer to a moral question, but a number of right or wrong answers, one for each value that comes into play.  So, something can be right in *this* way but wron…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
The strategy is one of overloading the defenses along the lines drone swarm attacks.

You guys beat me to post this insightful video. I’ll just add, Scientology cult creator L Ron Hubbard taught “The best defense is an offense”.

Jake,

Speaking of learning and the Left, David Horowitz runs a web site called Discover the networks, which documents prominent individuals and organizations of the Left. It includes extensive categories such as Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic, Islamist, and Religious Left. Always interesting reading.

Discover the…[Read more]

Jake,

Sounds like an awful ride on the roller coaster of life. I just took a nasty fall hiking after slipping on ice so i am gonna rant a little about the left.

Naah, I will hold it in abeyance as it is painful to type.

I fully relate to spills and slips, since I now have to be especially careful of them

BTW hang in because a little…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Sorry, my bad. I thought I had shared that link to State Capture above. Please try it again here.

That works. I have a lot of time on my hands and look at many sources of information and viewpoints. However, at the same time I have a small budget that is not keeping up with inflation. As a result, I simply don’t have…[Read more]

Sorry, my bad. I thought I had shared that link to State Capture above. Please try it again here.

Enco,

Sounds like an awful ride on the roller coaster of life. I just took a nasty fall hiking after slipping on ice so i am gonna rant a little about the left.

Naah, I will hold it in abeyance as it is painful to type.

BTW hang in because a little birdie told me medicine is on cusp of revolution.

Reg,

I’ll try and save you some effort: If it’s paywalled, don’t expect anyone to read it.

The Mainstream Lamestream Media helped create who Donald Trump is lo all these many years, and Congress farmed out so much of their Constitutional powers to the Executive Branch lo for all these many decades, so why is their caterwauling about Donald Trump…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Some commentary on “State Capture“.

Paywall. I think they used to let you have a certain number of free articles per month. No more.

Summarize, perhaps?

Jake,

Thanks for asking about my health and I hope you and all here are staying healthy.

No more heart or rhabdo incidents, but I got a diabetic ulcer on my foot last September and I’ve been trying to heal it since. The first Podiatrist the hospital foisted on me wanted me to stay out of work for a month–which he might have the luxury to do…[Read more]

The Palestinian Authority is remarkably enlightened in having welfare payments that are triggered by so called pay for slay aka a martyrs’fund. 30 million budget annually. Hey don’t look askance. It is only right that they have a slew of virgins for their heroes and financial support for the living.…[Read more]

Some commentary on “State Capture“.

Yeah, a two-state solution, as traditionally envisioned, is no longer a realistic outcome. A lot of Western leaders are still calling for one, in response to Trump’s “Riviera” idea. Palestinian political disunity is a major problem as their leadership is split between the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza. The PA is…[Read more]