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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.

David Muir's ABC News Ratings Fall After 'Debating' Trump While Donald Trump won with post-debate focus groups following the presidential "debate" on September 10, the same could not be said of his chief opponent, "moderator" David Muir. The ABC News news reader saw a decided turn away from him in the ratings. Even his lefty viewers apparently thought that Muir's performance and that of his co-host, Kamala Harris's sorority sister, were so one-sided that they were embarrassed out of watching for the rest of the week. It's not hard to see why 12% of his viewers said adios to his "World News Tonight" show following the debate. Fox News reports that for three nights after the debate, the audience tumbled from the usual 7.6 million viewers to an average "6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the three episodes following the debate." [...] https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/09/17/david-muirs-abc-news-ratings-crater-after-debating-trump-couldnt-happen-to-a-nice-guy-n4932601

Highly interesting. The reporter, Salena Zito, is always deeply on the ground in Pennsylvania. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luzerne County is ground zero in Pennsylvania's rightward shift https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3156893/luzerne-county-pennsylvania-rightward-shift/

I applied for Global Entry many months ago, and I'm still waiting for the interview. I even inquired. The response is that it takes a long time to get an interview. Current times are well into 2025. One must also keep checking the site for news of approval to schedule an interview.

I heard Eric Trump being interviewed on Tuesday. He said that the golf-course incident was an example of combined success & failure -- stellar reaction when the agent noticed the rifle barrel, but failed perimeter surveillance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Capitol Hill's bipartisan outrage at Secret Service: 'They failed twice' Bipartisan frustration with the Secret Service is boiling over after a second alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump this week. Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are openly questioning the security protocols of the beleaguered agency, with senators calling for expanded investigations into how another apparent would-be gunman got so close to Trump on Monday. [...] https://www.semafor.com/article/09/16/2024/second-attempt-to-harm-trump-sparks-bipartisan-interest-in-more-secret-service-funding

No excuse for this. I think that the top half-dozen pooh-bahs in the USSS should be cashiered immediately, along with individual agents who can't cut the mustard. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Report Shines More Light On Secret Service Incompetence That Nearly Killed Trump A day after another crazed leftist was arrested and accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has released a blistering 22-page Whistleblower Report on the U.S. Secret Service's epic failure to protect the GOP presidential nominee. [...] https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/16/report-shines-more-light-on-secret-service-incompetence-that-nearly-killed-trump/

Actually, if we had a state named Euphoria, it would probably be the happiest.

Comments? These surveys and results are mildly interesting but not gospel, I conclude. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Happiest States in America (2024) [...] Even though people across the U.S. are facing difficult times, the state in which you live may have an impact on how happy you are. To determine where Americans exhibit the best combination of good economic, emotional, physical and social health, we examined the 50 states across 30 key metrics, ranging from the depression rate and the share of adults feeling productive to income growth and the unemployment rate. [...] https://wallethub.com/edu/happiest-states/6959

With hygienic practices like this, no wonder Britannia no longer rules the waves... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tons Of Americans Are Just Now Finding Out How Brits REALLY Wash Their Dishes, And The Reactions Are Killing Me There's something weird happening on the internet (redundant, I know). It's yet another discovery about how things are done over in the UK, and this time it's about doing the dishes (or, as it's called there, "washing up"). [...] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tons-americans-just-now-finding-205409934.html

Good (double) post and good questions in it.

Can we too get in on this?

Brilliant! ~~~~~~~~~~ Israeli supply chain infiltration likely behind Hezbollah pager blasts: analysts Israel has scored a major intelligence success by apparently infiltrating a supply chain to cause the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of Hezbollah pagers in a blow for the Lebanese militant group and its Iranian backers, analysts say. At least nine people were killed and some 2,800 wounded, including the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, when the pagers exploded in Hezbollah strongholds across the country in an unprecedented simultaneous attack. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-supply-chain-infiltration-likely-184909961.html

Scintillating Tuesday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: We spoke too soon last night, premature we man. Miu demanded full brushing fully Many (2+2) -- si man, Many (2+2) -- times, demanding miu man. Got too late a start, distracted we man. Lunch was sliced turkey inside the last 2 Aldi hot-dog buns, ingest we man. Warshed filthy T-B.-mobile, Clean for Gene man. Went to favorite large thrift shop, discount day man. There was good and much bad news, si man. The good news was that we saved $Many ($2x2x2x2 -2), financially savvy we man. One piece of bad news is that the store's checkout has been revised, man! In place of the long counters are Many semi-self-checkout stations, good grief man. They are too close together, going to be disaster during half-off days man. They have no shelf or counter space, man. There is no room for baskets behind them if other customers are adjacent, man. The clerks scan the items and the customers must bag them, man. The large bags are stuck together on hooks, man. The second piece of bad news is that the pants are now hung from one leg, good grief man. One must unhook them and rehook them from the top seam in order to measure length, man. The Many'rd piece of bad news is that the new tags aren't colored, will discounts go away man? The Many'th piece of bad news is that the changes are chain-wide, man. Who are the bleeping geniuses who came up with this garbage, huh man? We are highly discouraged and now unlikely to go as often, and sigh man. After this trauma, we went to Costco Business Warehouse, on way back man. We went for 2 items and returned with Many (2+2), pretty good self-restraint we man. At the casa, had to service demanding miu, Treat and Lunch Me Daddy man. Had to retrieve Mini-B. from skool, request by occupied ex-she man man. Didn't return to casa in time for a siesta, exhausted we man. Stayed awake somehow, minor miracle man. Retrieved Mini-B., retrieve we man wee man man. Mini-B. appeared crestfallen and subdued, denied anything wrong man. We dropped Mini-B. at ex-Mrs.-T-B.'s casa, dutiful we man. Upon return to casa, got phone call from skool, uh-oh man. It was a skool kounselor, uh-oh man. She reported that Mini-B. had teased a Many'th-grader at lunch, uh-oh man. We apologized and promised to speak with him, man. We notified ex-Mrs.-T-B. of this by e-mail and went for our siesta, zzz too long delayed man. Amidst our siesta, the phone rang, we ignored it man. It turned out to be Assistant Prinsippul of skool, uh-oh man. She wanted to talk about "bullying," uh-oh man. She sent an e-mail about it, good grief man. We caucused with ex-Mrs.-T-B., caucus we with ex-she man man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. caucused with Mini-B., caucus ex-she man with wee man man. Mini-B. had apparently addressed the Many'th-grader with a hip phrase from TikTok or somewhere, si man. He meant no harm, no man. We wrote the skool kounselor and Prinsippul, write we man. We shall hear the verdict soon, expect we man. Financial caucus on Wednesday, caucu$ we man. Later, take Mama T-B. for doc visit, chauffeur we man senior she man man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report and we man.

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