The Saudi coalition continues to grind away at Iran-supported Houthi control in Yemen, while the Saudi air defenses have gotten better at stopping missiles and drones. So the Iranians are going back to hitting ships in the Red Sea. This is one more problem that will be made worse if Biden tries a Reset 2.0 with Iran's mullah regime.
I have no doubt that as they long have, foreigners interfered in the 2020 election. Just as I have no doubt that they--including the Russians--interfered in 2016. The question is whether they had any effect. The bigger question is whether they actually hacked election results or committed fraud. In 2016 there was no indication of those more important questions. I suspect the same is true today.
Democrats want to steal from the blue collar class and give that money to the children of the upper classes. And it angers beyond reason people like me who borrowed little for college and saved money for my children's college rather than blow the money on vacations and stuff while pleading poverty "for the children." To Hell with these people. If Democrats truly want to help poor people, cancel some of the debt of people who never finished a degree. Let the people who got MAs in victims studies enjoy their loan payments. Tip to Instapundit.
I've long recognized that some people are their own worst enemy. Victimhood is a personality trait. Via Instapundit.
And you won't get the Xi Jinping Flu vaccine for the sake of your country?!
The covid19 panic: "So far covid19 has caused deaths per million population in the U.S. similar to the annual flu did in 1957-58 and 1968-69. " I'm skeptical that China will benefit from the Xi Jinping Flu pandemic given the panic that has overtaken the world over this and the harm Western countries have inflicted on themselves to fight it.
In thirty years, a new generation of woke scolds will discover and outraged that in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, racists ethnically cleansed Native American symbols and names from our country. And they will be right.
Basically Germany can look forward to minimal pressure from the Biden administration to be a real NATO partner. Why people complicate things is beyond me. And I'm going to protest that "the traditional trans-Atlantic alliance" rest on NATO and not the European Union monstrosity.
The Navy's latest version of the solid Burke destroyer has a more powerful radar that will allow for expanded capabilities. But does it have all the electricity it needs for all the fancy stuff that will come on line to exploit that radar?
Are Chinese border troops in Tibet using unpowered exoskeletons?
The Navy let China know that America will eventually deploy unmanned systems in the South China Sea to battle the Chinese fleet. That's fine for wartime. But I'd be careful about unmanned ships without serious overwatch simply patrolling the South China Sea in peacetime because I figure the Chinese would try to ram or board an unmanned ship even if treating a manned ship that way is far less likely.
The question of whether the Navy is falling behind the PLAN is interesting. But I prefer to balance this as a question of our entire military versus their entire military. Purple, don't you know? Plus, you have to consider that most of the American fleet is not in the western Pacific while most of the PLAN is in or adjacent to China. And America has allies with powerful naval and air power. My view is that the Chinese have an initial edge in a war because they set the timing which allows them to maximize their fleet operations against a fraction of the American navy. Then America mobilizes and deploys while allies activate as well. China has a dilemma of whether to also target American allies in the opening days of war and guarantee these allies fight with America very quickly or gamble on allies staying out of the fight if left alone--but being stronger if they join the fight.
If European NATO states on the Mediterranean Sea can't manage to keep that body of water secure, what good is NATO? Remember, America has a phantom fleet there.
Republicans failed to prove election fraud sufficient to change the election despite early claims that it would be forthcoming. I'm disappointed in the claim-proof gulf. The gulf is smaller in distance and duration than the claims of proof for Russia-Trump 2016 collusion, but it is still a fatal gulf. So if Republicans spend four years stridently claiming that the prior election was invalid I think Republicans can safely say they learned it by watching Democrats:Mullah-run Iran doesn't just kidnap foreigners to hold them for ransom. Sometimes the mullahs capture foreigners to kill them.
Well, duh: "Iran would return to compliance with the nuclear deal within an hour of the US doing so, its president said[.]" The deal was designed to be a shield for Iran to get nuclear weapons.
The Royal Navy will protect the Channel from the European Union. Fishing-wise, of course. For now.
I hope the Durham probe into the Russia collusion cabal gets a lot of work done in the next month.
Writing more checks to people who don't need them to cope with the Xi Jinping Flu pandemic--like me--really doesn't make sense now. And from the point of view of elected officials it doesn't make sense because the next election is too far away for that gift to be remembered.
Sometimes I think the main reason for using the legal system to battle the Biden win because it may have been helped by ample opportunities for fraud and engineered error--magnified by ridiculous Orange Hitler propaganda--is to inspire the troops for future battles to contain the damage the Biden administration can do. The current perfectly lawful under our Constitution legal system battles--like this one on alternate Electors--are long-shots and highly unlikely to work. But you can't turn enthusiasm off and on like a switch. But as I noted above, Republicans learned that by watching the Democrats. Tips to Instapundit.
Japan's pandemic numbers aren't that high--but they are setting records.
For Rep. Swalwell, his dalliance with Fang could have been worse--waaay worse.
The mixed bag of actors filling the partial vacuum created by America's troop reduction in Afghanistan. This includes an Iran alternative to Pakistan for overland lines of supply. Which while nice when you consider the problem of jihadi-friendly Pakistan, is problematic while the mullahs run Iran.
Biden has gotten his Electoral College votes. He is officially the president-elect. Republicans failed to prove election-changing fraud. That may be because of the short time to prove it. But here we are. There are levers of power apart from the presidency. This is still a republic with substantial powers away from the center and outside of government. Republicans need to organize them to resist the incoming administration. And part of the resistance is reforming voting to remove the avenues for cheating and engineered error (error that can be "fixed" in a partisan manner with no oversight). Work the problem. Beginning with the Georgia runoffs for the Senate. Working the problem is harder without the Senate. Leave the futile and stupid gestures to the other side:
The European Union wants their version of the X-37B. You may recall the X-37B, which I've posted on for over a decade now.
China exploits India's corrupt and inefficient weapons manufacturing industry for information war operations. But making stuff up seems potentially counter-productive to me.
Trump has been carrying out a lot of freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea to deny Chinese claims of sovereignty over the vast majority of that body of water. Will Biden return to the Obama era phony FONOPs that I began to suspect were taking place?
Erdogan pissed off the Iranians when he spiked the football over his support for Azerbaijan in the recent war with Armenia by referencing Iran's large Azeri minority. Making friends and influencing people is not Erdogan's strong suit. He's angered America, Israel, European NATO states, the EU, Russia, Armenia, Arabs, Kurds, and now Iran. Amazing.
Cyber-war means that Army bases in the continental United States are no longer secure bastions immune to attack. And that vulnerability extends to civilian companies providing goods and services to the bases. I hope the Navy doesn't think our CONUS ports and airfields are immune to actual kinetic attacks from the sea.
Well this thought from a three-star Air Force general is just silly. Or does the Air Force think it can operate its air bases without the Army between them and enemy ground troops? And it is a dangerous issue for the Air Force to raise. Does he really think the Army wouldn't jump at the chance to take the job and money that the Air Force gets for Army close air support and put it in-house as it was before the Air Force was promoted from Army control after World War II?
Why the newly upgraded anti-ship Tomahawk is still a viable weapon despite its age and low speed.
When the Russians (in their Soviet era) were on the Elbe River, a missile launch false alarm like this would have been very dangerous. Now? Not so much, I think.
I think the people giving credit to the European Union for trade and stability benefits are mistakenly crediting the EU for benefits that the European Economic Community provided.
If I'm ever asked to state my pronouns, they will be "ho, hum, huh?" Peak Stupid will cross the boundary into space at the pace we are raising it.
The United States has sanctioned a pro-Iran subversive group in Bahrain.
So ... what then? A wood-burning aircraft? I miss the days when a military was expected to defeat enemies.
The former senior intelligence officials misled Americans about the Biden "laptop" corruption scandal. It was clear at the time that they were lying by wording ("has all the hallmarks of") that the media willfully interpreted in a way friendly to Biden--that Russia did it. Basically the intel people said that if the Russians did it, it might look like this. Which isn't the same as saying Russia did it. One could say it had the hallmarks of any other country's intelligence outfit--or even that it had the hallmarks of the truth.
I suppose it is barely possible that President Elect Biden won't be sworn in as president if evidence of fraud is strong enough to shame even the Pelosi-run House into declining to accept the formal Electoral College vote. Long shot on that kind of evidence and for Pelosi doing the right thing. Absent that, it's time to work the problem of containing Biden. And that includes winning control of the Senate next month. Don't let pursuit of the unlikely perfect wreck achievement of the good within reach.
I agree. I was totally against the militarization of police until the police had to face sustained rioting this year.
I know Trump and his most loyal backers are slamming Senator McConnell for urging Republicans to accept the validity of Biden's election (which isn't, obviously, the same as supporting Biden's agenda). But perhaps McConnell is worried that Republicans might not hold the Senate next year and needs open lines of communication to prevent the Democrats from killing the filibuster if they run the Senate. Heck, there might even be a secret deal. Sheer speculation. But sometimes you have to fall back and preserve power rather than hold the line at all costs and risk crippling losses in order to win the war. And Trump had five weeks to produce something more substantial than he did. Fewer than 50,000 votes shifted would have made Trump the winner. But he did not provide the proof to shift those votes. It was a short time frame, to be sure. But he got that time with Republican support despite Democratic/media hysteria. And really, the most effective voting interference might have been the relentless media Orange Hitler propaganda over the last four years that swayed too many people to vote for Ham Sandwich (D) for president. I just hope we haven't gotten what we deserve--good and hard.
Hillary Clinton started the BS Trump-Russia collusion hoax that polarized our country the last four years. And the Obama administration was worried that the Russians were manipulating the Clinton campaign to do this! So I don't want to hear a damn thing about how Trump supporters haven't accepted Biden as the president yet--when he isn't even the president yet. And as long as we're going back in time, you're damned right Clinton should have served time for her private email system that evaded government security and record retention rules and practices. Is our only hope for some justice over the last 4-1/2 years more declassification?
I assume I am low on the list for the Xi Jinping Flu vaccine. For yucks I tried a covid19 risk calculator I found online. I have no idea how credible it is. So I'm not linking to it. But online searching at a basic level is not hard. Over the next year under weak mitigation measures and no lockdown conditions, I have under a 4% chance of being hospitalized and a 0.08% chance of dying. I'll still take the vaccine when available, of course. For the team. And I assume that the odds are calculated without considering that the virus will be defeated in less than a year. My odds are lower than calculated both because of mitigation efforts I take regardless of rules and because the odds don't need to be calculated over a year.
Iran pretends to design tanks, with bonus material on Russian tank models.
Not to be rude--and, like my stand against bowing to royalty, not like
I'll have the chance--but I'd call Jill Biden "Elliot" before I call her
"doctor." And honestly, I mistakenly had a higher opinion of her degree until I heard more about what it is and her path to it, in particular. The Streisand Effect Exposure Corollary?
Barring extraordinary revelations and evidence, Biden will be inaugurated. Which is a shame. But violence (by a few, I'll add; and not yet anywhere near the left-wing violence we've experienced this year, and indeed for the last four years off and on) is not the proper response to the possibility that fraud is the cause of Biden's win. Without clear proof rather than data analysis of odd outcomes or sworn testimony of what people believe happened, we have to go forward. As I mentioned, if proof does come up in the future, I imagine impeachment is the legal measure to correct the crime. Which doesn't help Trump. But justice is not perfect. And America should always have gratitude to Trump not only for many policies and judicial appointments, but for denying Hillary Clinton the presidency. He'll always have that credit. And honestly, Biden's victory just rubs Clinton's nose in her 2016 failure. She'll always know that Joe (Ham Sandwich (D)) Biden managed to do what she could not. That's gonna leave a mark. Invest your money in boxed wine stocks now.
California wants to release rapists and murderers from prison because of the pandemic? Huh? I thought California was locking up the non-criminals because of the pandemic? Does California hate criminals so much that it would release criminals to what is supposed to be a death sentence outside? I salute the sheriff for his compassionate decision not to effectively kill those convicts by releasing them. And Californians are haters too. They need to get with the program. It is way better to be raped or killed than to risk even one prisoner's life to the low odds of getting or dying from the virus. Haters.
"Abe Lincoln Canceled in San Fran. School Because Being Murdered by a Democrat for Freeing Slaves Doesn't Show He Cared Enough About Black Lives". That makes sense this year.
It's too soon to worry. But how many times have we heard that line in some doomsday plague movie? Maybe 2021 is telling 2020 "Hold my beer."
Oh please! Like a gay Republican counts!
The year 2020 isn't done effing with East Africa.
Germany's Xi Jinping Flu deaths hit a record high.
Attention: Dispatch from Bizarro America!
Look, the non-wealthy nations had a choice when the Chinese Communist Party unleashed the pandemic on the world: Be further down the line for getting the Xi Jinping Flu vaccine after the wealthy countries that design and produce it use it on their own people; or don't get any at all by preventing the wealthy countries from designing and producing the vaccine. So just stop this self-flagellating nonsense. Anybody that upset in a wealthy country can simply refuse to get the vaccine until the last herder in northern Chad get it, if it makes them feel morally superior.
Oh for crying out loud, how is the Navy going to match Chinese numbers when some of our LCS may have a basic propulsion system flaw? Maybe the new unarmed LAW can just tow them around for limited protection capabilities and just beach the LCS to protect the Marines once ashore.
To be fair, Iran's hostility toward America didn't end with Obama.
The Xi Jinping Flu has delayed BAE's delivery of prototype light tanks (Mobile Protected Firepower). I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad at this. Does the delay stall the acquisition of the Future Burned Out Hulk or delay the testing that would confirm that it is a ridiculous weapon system to acquire?
Arab states can no longer indulge in the luxury policy of hostility to Israel when America might not defend Arab states from the real threat Iran. Will Biden reverse the peace progress between Israel and the Arab world in order to re-engage our four-decade enemy mullah-run Iran?
I do not envy the French for their efforts to stabilize Mali. Related thoughts on French practice.
Is China really driving forward at top speed after shrugging off the pandemic that started there? Or are Westerners falling for Chinese Communist Party propaganda in the face of indicators that all is not well in China? And more broadly, has China's economy already gone bust? I've been waiting for peak China for a while rather than thinking China's rise is a straight-line vector to global domination.
Seriously, always check the definitions section--especially when it comes to the Xi Jinping Flu.
The Army has a new heavy scissor bridge.
Walk away from Turkey to heal the relationship? I think it is certainly time for a break in the relationship.
Ethiopia is sinking deeper into sectarian conflict. If Egypt had a hand in this in order to pressure Ethiopia on the Nile River GERD dam project, bravo. Not that I'm in favor of the ethnic conflict. But that's pressure of the first order for containing what Egypt sees as a potential existential threat--but only if Egypt could help turn it off if Ethiopia agrees to a deal on the dam. The article wonders if Ethiopia is Africa's Yugoslavia. Well, it is an empire divided by ethnic and religious groupings, and sometimes empires fragment along ethnic lines.
Lukashenko is hanging on to power in Belarus while the opposition is held in check with an uncertain ability to sustain opposition. I mentioned this situation a couple weeks ago. Unless Lukashenko's security forces lose heart and switch sides en masse, including a good chunk of senior leadership, the opposition isn't in a position to win even if Russia doesn't send in troops to back Lukashenko.
Putin's defense against the charge of poisoning opposition figure Navalny is that if Russia tried to kill Navalny he would be dead? Does he really want to stick with the line that Russia is really good at quietly killing dissidents?
Just because Trump will be out of office doesn't mean Twitter won't be a presidential election and governing tool. We had advances to radio, broadcast television, cable TV, YouTube shows, and now Twitter and other social media. Nobody goes backwards. I assume the next presidential election has video game advertising. Or did I miss that this year?
My guess is that he would have targeted a Los Angeles skyscraper.
I'm losing my sympathy for the people of Portland who clearly don't mind their city being bullied by communist thugs. Enjoy your people's paradise, you morons. Seriously, what is their major malfunction? To be clear, I don't really think napalm is the answer.
Iraq's economy and budget are under pressure. Let's hope Iran remains in worse shape so it can't exploit those problems.
One can only hope that the media's pre-election suppression of the Hunter Biden "laptop" corruption story will finally wash away the media's credibility. The media has worked hard for many decades to throw away the trust the American people had in the industry. When the media ups their game to overtly take sides the way it has over the last twelve years, it should be recognized.
The Marines need to address air defense and coping with enemy air attacks. And yeah, the threat of small, armed drones is a real danger, as I addressed in Army magazine.
Giving Swalwell a pass on his relationship with a Chinese spy because he personally didn't tell her anything classified ignores the possibility that she gained information just by having access to him. Did he have no files she could photograph? Did she meet someone through him more vulnerable to espionage? Did she find out about any meetings that other Chinese spies could gain access to in order to get classified information? Even if she was just one of a "thousand grains of sand" Swalwell might have been very useful to China. The same goes for Senator Feinstein's driver/spy, of course. There are no repercussions and little media interest in these Chinese intrusions. Yet somehow it was a good idea to tear our country apart looking for fabricated Trump-Russia election collusion for three years.
North Korea's newest coastal defense missile.
The Su-34 saves Russia's light bomber capability.
Rather than being outraged at a president's actual war on reporters, the media was honored to be punished for failure to serve The One properly. Only returning the anger that reporters demonstrated against Trump counted as a president's war on the media, I guess. Via Instapundit.
The Chinese are expanding base capabilities on their large Hainan Island. This is hardly shocking.
Exposing Russian covert operations.
I still don't understand how people who warn about Islamist ideology that generates jihadis can be accused of being "Islamophobic." Aren't the people who cannot see the difference between the jihadi terror-friendly Islamists and the bulk of Moslems the real haters?
On-demand high-resolution satellite photograph service is coming online. The article mistakenly stated the satellite could see into buildings until corrected. But how long before that opacity is defeated? This is hastening the day of no privacy as I noted here and here concerning the science fiction book The Light of Other Days. It explored human reaction to the lack of any personal privacy. Science fiction is becoming science fact faster than I'd like in this area. And as a private entity asset, it also has implications for hastening the day of private military operations.
I've been wondering whether Senator Manchin is Plan B for Republicans to control the Senate if the Democrats win both Georgia Senator runoff elections. I'm obviously not the first to think of that.
Let's get the Twitter Red Guards on the case of canceling this misogynist who is on record mocking Jill Biden's academic achievement. Sure, he'll say he doesn't remember it--and he may be right--but the facts are clear. Buh bye hater.
Japan is moving beyond missile defense to shoot down enemy nukes to "deterrence" with long-range missiles able to reach potential attackers. Precision conventional warheads can deter a bit, given that prior to precision small nuclear warheads were required for some targets. But this seems like a signal that Japan could eventually go nuclear if the threats continue to expand. Also, Japan will build its own stealth fighter to supplement F-35s.
Is it just me? Or does it annoy others that there are people who make a living being an online "influencer."
The World Court will take up the issue of the Venezuela-Guyana border. Venezuela doesn't want this intervention. I have to wonder if Maduro would order an invasion if the court rules for Guyana. While Venezuela's military is in shambles, Guyana has almost no military and has a tiny population. Would Brazil intervene to help Guyana?
The kidnapped school boys in Nigeria were released. Boko Haram may or may not have been behind the mass kidnapping because lots of violence-prone groups plague Nigeria. The military may well be one of those, practically speaking.
Iran is building at its underground nuclear facility at Fordow. But somehow we are to believe that Iran is determined to build nukes even in the face of air attacks only because America won't agree to abide by the horrible Iran nuclear deal that in theory delays Iranian nukes for a decade or so and then frees Iran of all international nuclear scrutiny.
To be fair, I'm not sure how much better we are doing on freedom of speech than Britain even though America has a written Constitution with enumerated civil rights. Tip to Instapundit.
From the damned if you do and damned if you don't files: "With Trump silent, reprisals for [Russian] hacks may fall to Biden[.]" One, we don't know that Trump didn't authorize quiet retaliation. And two, if Trump was loudly or even just visibly striking back, tell me that the exact same critics would be claiming that Trump was trying to start a war to justify nullifying the election and remaining in power. And three, was it as bad as so many are now saying given we knew about this in the spring? And remember, the Obama-Biden administration ignored Russia's August 2008 invasion of Georgia when it crafted its 2009 "Reset" initiative.
Sweden is experiencing a big rise in Xi Jinping Flu cases and deaths after what seemed like a relatively low level by the summer despite remaining largely open. Apparently Sweden failed to quarantine people coming in who were exposed to the virus. Heck, it may be that no strategy could have stopped the virus prior to herd immunity, whether by immunization or spread. I'd avoid real comparisons until this is over and we can establish uniform definitions for the purpose of comparing countries. But the early Swedish method wasn't the obvious way to go in response to the pandemic.
Well that's nice for her:
But the rest of us need technology:
I see that Biden and Obama both went on TV for late night comedian "interviews." I guess we know what the shape of journalism will be for the next four years. Good God, the wet-kiss news media isn't friendly enough for them? Yes, yes, these aren't news people. But they are setting the standard for what Biden and Harris expect. The "hard" news people will grovel just as eagerly. And willingly.
Yes, if Trump was a Democrat he'd get the Nobel Peace Prize for any one of the peace agreements between four Arab states and Israel. And yes, recognizing Israel is tantamount to a peace deal in these circumstances. Heck, Trump would have gotten one once in office just for his "potential."
Iran's global "Quds force" terrorist organization within the Iranian state. Poor Iranian finances and the decline of leftist terrorists in South America limit its power now, but with a base of operations in Venezuela it could ramp up if the Biden administration loosens the financial squeeze on the mullah regime. God help the world if Quds has access to nukes. If Iran wasn't a mullah-run despotism they'd be a natural ally against the jihadis from the Sunni world we've been battling for nearly twenty years on the Long War. That and other problems would be easier to solve without mullah-run Iran.
Of course Iran can get Xi Jinping Flu vaccines "despite" American sanctions. Iran is under sanctions and not under blockade by America. Iran blames sanctions for everything. Don't buy their BS. And given that Iran was hit hard early by their direct air links and high-level contacts with China, China is obviously a route for a vaccine. Don't put Iran's problems on America when the virus came from China and when the mullah rulers initially said Allah protected Iran's faithful from the virus. Maybe if Iran had a higher priority on coping with the pandemic rather than seeking nuclear weapons the Iranian people would be better off.
I see the media has started the "look at the foreign policy problem Biden will inherit from Trump" nonsense. No media people ever lament what a Republican inherits from a Democrat. Apparently Democrats leave a global kite-flying paradise to those luck SOB Republicans. I have little tolerance for this media genre. How can Democratic presidents grow up with "helicopter journalists" forever protecting their precious little ones from facing the world as it is?
Well, Space Force troops better learn to box or learn to dance. Space Force just guaranteed that its troops will be bullied on the Joint playground. Space Force has decided to call its troops "guardians." I kid you not. I certainly can't imagine any soldier, sailor, airmen, or marine sarcastically mocking their newest comrades in arms, "Hey, guardian ... Ow! My nipples!" I suggested "spacor" with my reasoning set out here. But does the Pentagon listen to me? Nooooo. They didn't listen to me on PAINCOM and I doubt Space Force will call its future close combat troop units SMOD. I'm giving the Pentagon gold here, I tell you, but they don't listen.
This is how you know that polls on most subjects are worthless: "In the poll, when asked, “Is President-elect Biden your president?” 56% said yes, 34% no, and 10% were not sure." The proper answer should have been 100% no because the president-elect is not the president! When he is sworn in (99% chance of that, although the 1% is almost exclusively the chance of Harris pushing Biden down a flight of stairs in the next three weeks rather than Trump proving enough voter fraud in that time) I will of course--regrettably--say yes, he is my president. Trump was my president. Obama was my president. Bush 43 was my president. And so on back to Eisenhower, in theory (good Lord, that hadn't occurred to me until just now). Maybe the pollsters should focus on honestly and accurately tracking voter polls for elections.
Her priorities for her constituents don't apply to her, naturally.
Despite their draconian measures to keep people in line during the Xi Jinping Flu California is in rough shape. This is far from gloating. Just a note that supposed best practices are no match for the virus. And a reminder to avoid judging relative performance until this is over.
Tell me you are surprised that Democrats are running interference for campus Confucius Institutes--Chinese Communist Party propaganda and espionage nests on our college campuses. Tip to Instapundit.
They're going to convince me to scrape off my alumni association sticker from my car, aren't they? At any moment the stupidity piled on the asininity is going to push me over the edge to do that, isn't it? Sigh. Ow, my nipples. Tip to Instapundit.
What is their major malfunction?
North Korea is sending their special forces into China and Russia to capture smugglers in order to seal their border. The Chinese and Russians cooperate.
Police and armed local people in Nigeria rescued 84 of a reported 113 children kidnapped there. The children attended an Islamic school and the government called the kidnappers "bandits." Was it a "business" venture for profit, selling the kids back to families for ransom or to armed groups for "recruits?" Or could it have been attempted revenge for jihadis kidnapping children?
If I understand the rules of treating people, I think that because Doctor Johnny Fever is such an outstanding doctor that he should be named surgeon general by the Biden administration.
Turkey continues to get squeezed out of its northwest Syria buffer zone notwithstanding the ceasefire that does not prevent Russian-backed Syrian forces from isolating Turkish outposts guarding the borders of the buffer zone.
Too many of our elites apparently don't fear the Xi Jinping Flu as much as they tell us to fear it--and hide away from it. I had a better opinion of Dr. Birx until this story. How do they have credibility left?
I always suspect that calculations of this sort are BS given that nobody has any way of judging what is reasonable for calculating how many--if any--civilizations developed in the galaxy. And this calculation has some big BS involved, such as assuming for the purpose of the calculations "intelligent creatures' tendency toward self-annihilation" as a given. How was that established as reasonable to assume? By looking at the survival rate of planetary civilizations? Um, that would be one--Earth--and the survival rate is 100%. How is it not biased to assume we will destroy ourselves contrary to the outcome so far and that projected outcome is the norm? This isn't science. Tip to Instapundit.
