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Venezuela is an America First Priority After four years of the Biden/Harris administration's feeble foreign policy, the redefining of the United States' redlines should begin in our own backyard: Latin America and the Caribbean. After all, the value of renovating one's house is limited if the neighborhood is in shambles. To create a healthy neighborhood, it helps if neighbors share similar values, such as democracy, fair elections, and civil liberties. Fortunately, many of America's neighboring nations do. But there is one country whose owner is ruining the neighborhood, even though its people do value those ideals: Venezuela. [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/venezuela_is_an_america_first_priority.html

This article is good, but worth it purely for the included photo! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiny Israel flips the tables of warfare itself on the terrorists of Hezb'allah Today's second wave of electronic bombings on Hezb'allah members in Lebanon, apparently by Israel, has got to have the Iran-backed terrorists freaking out. Yesterday, some 3,000 terrorists got their Hezb'allah-approved pagers detonated on them at once, killing a few and leaving a lot with blown off hands, eyes, or private parts. At least one of them got it on the toilet: [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/tiny_israel_flips_the_tables_of_warfare_itself_on_the_terrorists_of_hezb_allah.html

Thali, welcome to the forum. One rule here is that we avoid posting translations of someone else's post. It's fine to translate it for yourself privately, but when you respond to it in the forums, please post the original English version. Thanks.

Here's another report, with several key updates. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BREAKING: Walkie-Talkies Explode in Hezbollah Strongholds in Second Wave; UPDATE: Nine Dead, 300+ Injured https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/09/18/breaking-walkie-talkies-explode-in-hezbollah-strongholds-n3794667

Interesting additional facts and analysis. It starts by talking about Iran's ambassador to Lebanon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hmmm: 19 Iranian Soldiers Die of Acute Pagercide, 150 Injured [...] Why would a diplomat carry a communication device connected to a terror network currently attacking another state, intended for operational purposes? We'll get back to that question, but first, let's look at today's question, asked in Star Trek V fashion: What did nearly 200 IRGC troops need with a Hezbollah pager? [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/09/18/hmmm-19-iranian-soldiers-die-of-acute-pagercide-150-injured-n3794660

~~~~~~~~~ Harris Tosses Fresh Word Salad, and It's Tasty [...] Fox News reported Wednesday that at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 47th Annual Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., Harris served up a particularly tasty word salad, telling the eager and receptive crowd: "I grew up understanding the children of the community are the children of the community." [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/09/18/harris-tosses-fresh-word-salad-and-its-tasty-n4932643

Guess who Iran wants to win our election. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BREAKING: Iran Hacked Trump Campaign, Sent Stolen Material to Biden-Harris Campaign [...] Let that sink in—foreign actors handed over stolen data to a sitting president's campaign in order to stop President Trump from getting back into office. This isn't just a breach of security; it's an assault on the integrity of our elections. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/09/18/iran-hacked-trump-campaign-sent-stolen-material-to-biden-harris-campaign-n4932647

Amazing -- home energy systems, too! ~~~~~~~~ 'Second Wave' Attack on Hezbollah Targets Walkie-Talkies and Other Electronic Equipment Hezbollah must be thinking, "Just when you thought it was safe to use your two-way radio..." The Associated Press is reporting that explosions were going off all over Beirut and Southern Lebanon as another wave of attacks against the terrorist group is underway. Hezbollah says that this attack targeted the walkie-talkies and other electronic devices of Hezbollah members. The attack also targeted home energy systems, according to Hezbollah. AP is reporting that at least one person was killed and dozens wounded. Several blasts were heard during the funeral of Hezbollah members in Beirut. [...] https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/09/18/second-wave-attack-on-hezbollah-targets-walkie-talkies-and-other-electronic-equipment-n4932630

Funny! ~~~~~~ What the Media Aren't Telling You About Israel's Ingenious Strike Against Terrorist Pagers [...] This is an example where the media are neutered because they don't have the power to change any of the facts on the ground right now. And speaking of neutering, since most people keep their pagers in (or attached to) their pants pockets, those explosions likely hit a sensitive part of the terrorists' anatomy. (Ahem.) Yesterday evening, balls were flying all across Lebanon — yet nobody was playing soccer. [...] https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/09/18/what-the-mainstream-media-isnt-telling-you-about-israels-ingenious-strike-against-terrorist-beepers-n4932631

Sensible words. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shrinking island, vanishing polar bears — the climate scare stories that turn out to be false Looking back on more than 20 years of climate agitation, two themes emerge: a stubborn unwillingness by campaigners to acknowledge any inconvenient science, and ever-shifting favorite stories, first elevated and then dropped by the wayside. The one constant: a fixation on scaring the public, which has in turn shaped bad climate policies. At the start of this century, the polar bear was the emblem of climate apocalypse. Protesters dressed as polar bears, while Al Gore's hit 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth" showed us a sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death. The Washington Post warned that polar bears faced extinction, and the World Wildlife Fund's chief scientist even claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to reproduce by 2012. And then in the 2010s, campaigners just stopped talking about polar bears. [...] https://nypost.com/2024/09/15/opinion/shrinking-island-vanishing-polar-bears-the-climate-scare-stories-that-turn-out-to-be-false/

This is a well-written and satisfying article! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paging Hezbollah: How Israel will follow up exploding beepers [...] One thing is abundantly clear: Israel resides in Hezbollah's communications network, as well as in Iran's air defense network, and has established dominance in the cyber domain — and now its supply chains. Why attack now is the bigger question. [...] https://nypost.com/2024/09/17/opinion/paging-hezbollah-how-idf-will-follow-up-exploding-beepers/

Scintillating Wednesday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Wednesday report, see man: No word from Mini-B.'s skool, no man. Lunch was 2 sliced-turkey sandwiches, ingest we man. Had time for a mini-siesta before the day's obligation, zzz we man. Took Mama T-B. to doc, chauffeur we man senior she man man. Deposited check for Uncle T-B., deposit we man for senior he man man. Serviced demanding miu, service we man demanding miu man. Din-din was Tuna Glop, ingest we man. After consideration, we opted for a second siesta, zzz we man. Party with the rubias tonight, cavort we man. Will have to arise at o'dark-Many to take Mama T-B. for bloodwork, fasting senior she man. Thursday will be Two Guys eve, Two Guys man. And that was/is our thrilling Wednesday, report we man.

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FBI Says We May Never Know The Motivation Of The Would-Be Trump Assassin Who Was A Biden-Harris Supporter And Donated To Democrats 20 Times WEST PALM BEACH, FL — As the investigation into the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump continued, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said we may never know the motivation of the would-be assassin who was a Biden-Harris supporter and donated to Democrats 20 times. Sources within the FBI said the mystery had thus far proved to be too complex to unravel, as agents scoured the shooter's extensive social media post history condemning Trump and his long track record of giving money to Democratic political causes in search of any sign of what may have motivated his attack. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-says-we-may-never-know-the-motivation-of-the-would-be-trump-assassin-who-was-a-biden-harris-supporter-and-donated-to-democrats-20-times

~~~~~~~~~~~ Rashida Tlaib Uninjured After Her Pager Mysteriously Explodes [...] "It just blew up right out of nowhere!" one of Tlaib's staffers said following the explosion. "We were just going about our business, checking over the congresswoman's itinerary of Death-To-Israel protests, when there was a huge blast in the next room. We went in there, papers were flying everywhere, and there was smoke… thank goodness she had put the pager on the desk. Such a crazy, unexplained incident, right?" [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/rashida-tlaib-uninjured-after-her-pager-mysteriously-explodes

Hillary Clinton Says First Amendment Is Russian Disinformation WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an interview with Rachel Maddow, former presidential candidate and email server technician Hillary Clinton called for the imprisonment of anyone who spreads misleading information online and accused the First Amendment of being Russian disinformation. "The First Amendment is just Russian disinformation created to help crooked Donald Trump win the election," Clinton told Maddow. "I think it's clear Trump is in cahoots with the constitutional amendment in his ever growing march to thwart democracy." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-first-amendment-is-russian-disinformation

Fascinating parallel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did the Bible inspire Israel's attack against Hezbollah? Using technical wizardry, Israel simultaneously detonated thousands of Hezbollah pagers in Lebanon and Syria, effectively castrating a bunch of fighters who subscribe to an ideology that views sadistic rape as a weapon of war. A short time later, after weathering eleven months of non-stop rocket fire from Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel finally launched serious military attacks against Hezbollah outposts. I firmly believe that the IDF looked to the Bible for its inspiration when planning this unique attack. If you haven't read Genesis 34 in a while, here's the story it tells: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/did_the_bible_inspire_israel_s_attack_against_hezbollah.html

Poetic justice and some GREAT comebacks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rashida Tlaib Finds the Exploding Pager Memes 'Disgusting' [...] We're finding it hard to work up sympathy for terrorists who've launched thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians since October 7, but Rep. Rashida Tlaib of the Hamas caucus found the "crass memefication of Israeli terrorism" disgusting. [...] https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/09/17/rashida-tlaib-finds-the-exploding-pager-memes-disgusting-n2401099

Grisly, but historic. How far battlefield medicine has come over the centuries... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wellington Won at Waterloo, but It Cost an Arm and a Leg It's hard, sometimes, to understand what life was like before modern medicine. My paternal grandparents saw three of their five children die before they were three years old due to maladies that today would have been trivially easy to treat. Nowhere is this advance in medicine more apparent than in military circles, where soldiers routinely live through and recover from injuries that would have been fatal a century ago. Throughout history, this wasn't the case. I remember reading an apocryphal account of an American Civil War surgeon who bragged about his record on amputations: "40 or 50 percent of my patients survive." In those days, wounds to limbs were routinely dealt with by amputation. Now we have a gruesome reminder of this, as on the site of the Battle of Waterloo, a site occupied during the battle by British, Dutch, and Prussian forces, archeologists have uncovered the skeletal remains of a pile of amputated arms and legs. [...] https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/17/wellington-won-at-waterloo-but-it-cost-an-arm-and-a-leg-n2179447

Interesting analysis of the pager incident. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hezbollah: We Bought Pagers From Some New Outfit [...] Back to the pagers, however, which were part of a critical security strategy for the terror group. Did Hezbollah even bother to inspect the pagers before sending them to every important figure within their command structure? Apparently not, which would be their second mistake in outsourcing. [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/09/17/hezbollah-we-bought-pagers-from-some-new-outfit-n3794632

It is Wednesday, and here is our eagerly awaited Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: ============================================================== THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY Threw out my back sleeping and tweaked my neck sneezing... I'm probably one strong fart away from complete paralysis. Being popular on Facebook is like sitting at the "cool table" in the cafeteria of a mental hospital. Dear paranoid people who check behind their shower curtains for murderers: If you do find one, what's your plan? The older I get, the more I understand why roosters scream to start their day. You know you're over 50 when you have "upstairs ibuprofen" and "downstairs ibuprofen." When a kid says, "Daddy, I want Mommy," that's the kid version of "I'd like to speak to your supervisor." Last night, the Internet stopped working, so I spent a few hours with my family. They seem like good people.