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And, BTW, gold hit $2,414 at noon today. The only time it's been higher than that was February-March 1980. And you know what started in January 1980? The Jimmy Carter Great Recession...that Reagan had to clean up, painfully but necessarily, after he took office in January 1981.

So, yeah. Despite how the White House is trying to spin Bidenomics, the Fed and the rest of the cabinet have thrown the U.S. economy under a very big bus just as we were trying to climb out from under the COVID pandemic. The cumulative rate Biden's inflation has now climbed past 20% to 20.7%. What you could buy for a dollar in December 2020 now costs you $1.21.

Three and a half years. It took the previous 11 years--all the way back to 2009 and Obama's Great Recession--to accumulate an aggregate 20.6% inflation. Uncle Joe and the Fed have managed to beat that in less than one-third the time! What an amazing accomplishment!

Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:23 am Prosecutor Livid After FBI Refused To Pursue 'Credible' Biden-Ukraine Corruption Allegations, Grassley Reveals 40 Informants

Former Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney Scott Brady revealed to the House Judiciary Committee that his team found enough credible evidence in its initial review of Hunter Biden’s dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings and possible corruption by Joe Biden to refer criminal matters to three separate U.S. Attorney's offices in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Delaware for further investigation.

But almost immediately after he was assigned by the Justice Department in 2020 to review Biden family matters in Ukraine, Brady said he encountered resistance at both the FBI and the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s office that at times required him to escalate to his bosses in the deputy attorney general’s office

Move along. Nothing to see here. Move along...

Wow. Thanks for that. A brand new article by John Lott, and it's a doozy. Bookmarked that one.

After the movie "Miss Sloane"--a blatant and bogus 2016 snow job of the NRA, and painting the organization as the most powerful and unscrupulous lobbyist group in the country...when the NRA has never come even close to the best-funded lobbyists--I don't believe I watched anything that Jessica Chastain was in. Not a specific attempt at boycotting, it's just that seeing her name reminds of that movie and leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

This was published just 2 hours ago in the Military Times. The Military Times, not MSNBC.

A ‘lethal threat’: why the far right sees more scrutiny than the left
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoin ... -the-left/

Now, government agencies and scholars across the political spectrum agree that far-right movements have caused most of the political violence in the U.S. over the past few years – and present the most dangerous threat today. Data shows that the involvement of veterans and service members in some of these groups is helping to further the violence.

You'll have to make up your own minds about it, but as I read it I kept thinking, "Didn't chunks of our cities burn in 2020? Weren't businesses and vehicles looted and destroyed? Didn't we have armed Antifa and BLM patrolling riots and 'sovereign secessions' and shutting down streets and directly threatening physical violence against any who didn't wear their T-shirts or shout their chants?" But I guess I'm completely misremembering the scope of what happened that summer and beyond. I don't consider myself to be on the far right, so maybe I just never see or have ever come into contact with these evidently vast and pervasive conspiratorial far-right groups. Dunno.

And while I definitely disagree with what took place January 6, the DOJ has made over 1,106 arrests for crimes committed at the Capitol that day; had 632 people plead guilty; 597 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences; and, of those, 366 have been sentenced to time behind bars (source: United States Attorney's Office, District of Columbia). Do all of those cases go into the think-tanks' count of violent far-right extremism? You know, like Gary Wickersham who, at 81, is the oldest known person to be convicted and sentenced for January 6? While not a single arrest was made in scores of the rioting, burning, and looting that was perpetrated by Antifa and BLM in the name of convicted violent felon George Floyd?

crazy2medic wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:57 pm another great reason to have a vault in a location that no one knows about. the story really struck me again as the comment that the fbi assumed if you have more 5k of stuff then you must be a criminal??? hmm lets search pelosis home and her husbands stuf?

Pelosi has that much in Refrigerators filled with Ice Cream

The absolute safest way to store something securely is to bury it on the grounds of a property owned by the Clintons.

From MilitaryTimes yesterday:

Likes, shares and posts now prohibited in Pentagon’s new anti-extremism policy
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pent ... sm-policy/

"Membership in extremist groups is still not prohibited by the Defense Department, but an updated instruction released Monday seeks to prohibit pretty much everything that one might do in association with an extremist group."

I'm just a lowly, salt-of-the-earth gun guy, but...where are all these white extremist groups? If someone was doing nothing but monitoring MSNBC and CNN they'd come to conclusion that there are literally millions of them in organized phalanxes posing a clear and present danger to the country, and that America's active military and veterans make up the bulk of the numbers. Where the heck are all of them? Aren't they marching and rioting almost every day? Why do I never see any of them or even--at gun ranges, for goodness sake--come in contact with these organizations?

Back in June, the same journalist who wrote yesterday's piece noted, "The Defense Department has been having a rough time communicating about its efforts to root out extremism. Despite numerous public statements, there are still some who see the entire endeavor as a thinly shrouded attempt to punish politically conservative troops. SECDEF Lloyd Austin was pressed on June 10 to explain exactly what the Defense Department defined as "extremism." Austin couldn't give a definition. "'Again we’re focused on, on behavior,' he said, adding that the department-wide extremism stand-down earlier this year was meant to open up discussions and give some hard-and-fast rules, but not to attempt to define extremism itself."

So, is it like pornography? They think it's everywhere; they're sure they'll know it when they see it; but they can't actually define it or know how to tell who has it?

I remain thoroughly confused.