Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue –
1. Kamala
2. Israel
3. Airbrushing
4. Boxing
5. Space
6. Snitchmobile
1. Kamala. The Kamala campaign rolled out last week, looking a whole lot like the 2020 Biden in the Basement campaign. It has been two solid weeks since Biden dropped out of the race, and his putative replacement has yet to hold an unscripted press availability. And the clock continues to tick.
- Kamala’s worst problem as a candidate is that she is awful at explaining things. Anything. Everything. When put into the position of having to respond to an impromptu question, it is only a matter of time before she devolves into world salad or her cackle. Usually, it happens pretty quickly. As bad as her word salad problem is, she still has a problem with alcohol, showing up seemingly drunk in front of the microphones in the lower profile scripted events. Couple the two and you have a real problem.
- On the other hand, she is light years better than Biden at scripted events. Bill O’Reilly reported her speech in Atlanta 10 days ago in front of a crowd of 10,000. She was prepared, coherent, and even a little bit funny, positioning herself as a friendly aunt. Expect her to do everything possible to avoid unscripted events. Note also that she simply doesn’t do hostile interviews and hasn’t over her political career.
- I think we are still in the preliminary stages of the campaign, where Republicans are futzing around with precisely what color she thinks she is. I don’t particularly like going there, but in the persuasion world, this carries a lot of weight as it maximizes the contradictions while she seamlessly slides from one racial identification to another. Black men particularly reject her pretense calling herself black after decades of calling herself Indian. This claim has also angered the Indian community and will anger the West Indian community who emphatically do not describe themselves as black. The irony of a DEI hire changing her selected racial identification for political advantage is not lost on most.
- Somewhere along the line, Kamala’s positions on the issues will become important, especially with her backing away from her former as fast as humanly possible. As usual, the brainwashing machine is doing everything humanly possible to assist her transformation from a Marxist of Indian heritage into a black female Reagan. Now, I don’t think any of her stated positions, old or new, particularly matter, as should she be elected, her handlers out of either the O’Bama or Clinton crime families will be pulling the strings, much like the O’Bamaoids did with Biden over the last four years.
- All that being said, the media brainwashing machine is powerful and may be good enough to turn whatever the current polling into a tie by election day, well within the margin of fraud.
- Speaking of fraud, I believe that is what is pushing her toward selecting PA Governor Josh Shapiro as her VP. Shapiro was in charge of the PA election fraud machine over the last couple years as governor. He helped install it as Attorney General just in time for the 2020 election. Being Jewish may torpedo Shapiro and usher in Tim Walz (MN) over concerns that Shapiro will put MI at risk.
- Democrat interest in segregation displayed itself once again last week with an online meeting of a group calling itself White Dudes for Harris. The estrogen-rich meeting of beta males featured celebrities, LGBTQWTF members and other fellow travelers.
- Final observation is the democrat party’s new technique of both selecting a candidate and running a campaign. In the last two election cycles, the democrat candidate has been selected by party elites. Biden by James Clyburn in 2020 before the SC Primary and Kamala after party elders forced Biden out of the race a month ago. In 2020, all the other candidates were forced to drop out of the race. This year, they simply discarded the votes of the 14 million or so democrat voters who voted for Biden. Both candidates were then supported by a media brainwashing campaign, kindly grandpa Scranton Joe in 2020 and Kamala this year. Both candidates were scrupulously hidden from the public, conducting a basement campaign. The new technique is to delay candidate selection until the very last minute (less than 90 days from the election) and use the brainwashing / election fraud machine to carry them home. The good news is that if anyone can break that construct on Our Side, it is Trump.
2. Israel. With the departure of Dementia Hitler from the political scene, Israel has a freer hand to hunt down and kill its enemies. They had themselves quite a good few weeks, whacking Hamas and Hezbollah leadership. This focus is similar to what they had after the terrorist assault at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics where Black September murdered 9 Israeli athletes. Israel hunted down members of Black September, killing all of them along with their families. Over the last few weeks, Israel killed three high ranking terrorists. First was Mohammed Delf, leader of Hamas Qassam Brigades on July 13 in Gaza. They killed Hezbollah’s most senior commander in an airstrike in Beirut following a rocket attack that killed 12 children on the Golan Heights. Final strike was Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on his bed in a safe house in Tehran. The last one was done with a remotely detonated bomb. Today, Yahya Sinwar is the highest-ranking Hamas leader still above room temperature. In a related story, the Dementia Hitler regime reached a plea bargain with three 9-11 plotters, taking the death penalty off the table. There was great public outrage and SECDEF Austin revoked the plea deal. I don’t know that I mind this sort of plea bargain a whole lot. In the case of the 9-11 plotters, we are dealing with people who want to become martyrs, die for their cause so they can go to heaven with their 72 raisins. Letting them rot in Club Gitmo while hearing their fellow travelers are being hunted down and killed like so many cockroaches is not an unacceptable solution. An obvious question is why do the 9-11 plotters who actually killed thousands of Americans get plea deals while Jan 6 protesters who wandered around the capitol taking selfies aren’t.
3. Airbrushing. As part of their ongoing effort to remove unpleasant parts of US History, DoD announced 10 days ago that they would be reviewing medals of Honor given US soldiers in the 1890 battle at Wounded Knee, a mere 134 years after the fact. SECDEF Austin ordered the review following decades of pressure from Native American groups and politicians. This pressure resulted in a congressional apology to the descendants of those killed in 1990. That apology did not revoke the medals. Austin created a review panel with a report due no later than Oct 15, just in time for the election.
4. Boxing. Members of my daily e-mail list have already seen this commentary. Apologies to them for the repeat to the wider group. This story is about a pair of Olympic boxers, one from Algeria, one from Taiwan, who are competing as women and pounding their opposition. The story came to a head last week when the Algerian quickly broke the nose of his (her?) Italian opponent, ending the fight in 46 seconds. The media blew up in outrage that lasted most of the week. As usual, there is more to the story than is reported. Paula Bolyard, who is a pretty good reporter, describes what is happening pretty well in the linked piece. There are two issues. First is the actual physical foundation for all things trans. Second is basic training in whatever your sport is.
- First. There is a group of people who are born with a mix of male and female chromosomes. Women are typically XX (whatever that means). Men are typically XY. But that dividing line while sharp, is not 100%. There is some crossover. There are those born women with some male characteristics at the cellular level. There are some men born with female characteristics. The BS numbers say that happens perhaps 1 in 2,000 – 5,000 births, less than 30,000 born worldwide every year. An old term for this sort of thing is hermaphrodite, an individual born with sexual organs of both sexes. It appears the Algerian boxer and a Taiwanese boxer are operating in this grey area. The problem is that the various governing bodies haven’t figured out yet how to deal with these people. The body governing international boxing seems to have a fairly strict gender test that weeds most of them out of the crossovers. The IOC that governs Olympic participation doesn’t, and you end up with the current mess. Note that none of this embraces the current trans craze here in the US, where gender bending is being used as a money grab and political lever by unscrupulous people in the medical and LGBTQWTF communities.
- Second is training. This comes out of Fox Sports Radio host Doug Gottleib who noted that the Italian woman who got into the ring was awful. Incompetent. She didn’t know how to box. She did not cover up and protect her face, something all boxers are trained to do against opponents who are larger, stronger, and more skilled. The idea is to let your hands and arms get hit rather than your face. She opened up her face multiple times. Once her nose was broken, it was all over. This is a complete failure of her training and coaching. Boxing is a sport that if you get into the ring without knowing what you are doing, you can get killed. Gymnastics is another – blow a flip and come down on your head, you run the very real chance of breaking your neck. There are others, but you get the idea.
I am not in any way making any excuses for any of the participants but am trying to explain there is more to the story than we think at first glance. Two questions come to mind:
- Given there is a real, definable population of people out there with genetic combinations of male / female, what do we do with them? How do we allow them to participate on an equal basis? Is it even possible? Should it be? Or are they out of luck not unlike a 5’4” 120# adult trying to play pro football as a linebacker or a 6’4” Mercury astronaut?
- How to ensure the boxer (or any other participant) is properly trained? Sports is unforgiving of incapacity and incompetence. The higher level you participate in, the less forgiving it is. And the Olympics are supposed to be the worldwide pinnacle. Broken bones will heal. But the pain of failing will take longer to heal from.
5. Space. Last week was a busy week in space with multiple short stories.
- SpaceX returned to operational flight with five launches over the last two weeks, catching up a bit over their previous cadence. Four of them were Starlink launches. The fifth was a commercial resupply Cygnus capsule to ISS. The first stage for the Cygnus launch landed back at the Cape, essentially the same flight profile as a typical Starship first stage.
- SpaceX won a contract to deorbit ISS around 2030. Their proposal looks like a Dragon on steroids, with the service module (trunk) outfitted with over 30 small rocket engines. The contract was worth $843 million. Given its large size and mass (450 metric tons), reentry and disposal must be done on a controlled basis, otherwise large chunks will land on inhabited regions. This contract award was not without its critics, though not for the usual reasons from losers in a competitive environment. Criticism this time around noted that today, there is essentially no competition to SpaceX for space launch anywhere in the world, especially here in the US which has been trying to create a commercial sector in space for decades.
- Final story is the continued stranding of Boeing’s Starliner at ISS with helium / thruster issues. Engineers and the crew completed an extensive series of thruster tests while the craft was still attached to ISS. They are currently analyzing the data. The flight was originally scheduled for 10 – 14 days and is well beyond its second month.
6. Snitchmobile. Ford is fast becoming yet another corporation at war with their customers. Latest demonstration is pursuit of a patent that integrates onboard sensors to automate measurement of speed of nearby vehicles, and then report that data to police. The concept is being sold to the law enforcement community as a way to make it easier to catch speeders. The concern is that the same system can be included in a civilian vehicle with automatic reporting made to law enforcement, hence the snitchmobile name. An earlier Ford patent application for an automated repossession system was allowed to expire following public pushback. There are a lot of things law enforcement can do with tech. Not all of them are positive improvements in liberty.
More later –
- AG