What are the Russians up to?

Possibility has been raised that Russians may be pre-positioning weapons in space to disrupt US communication or early warning satellites.

Imagine the advantage if an adversary could knock out communications or blind early warning systems prior to attack.

Imagine the confusion on the ground if the inflicted space-based "blindness" happened in concert with cyber-attacks impacting other infrastructure on the ground.

Time to dust off some of those old Civil Defense pamphlets?

Update on a pro-gun-control Democratic Party former congressional candidate

Pro-gun control Democrat now faces murder charge.

What a difference a year makes

Trump was mocked last year for saying Sweden had a problem with immigrant related terrorism.

Impossible to deny it now.

BTW, there's something else immigrants have brought to Sweden.

Child marriage.

Deterrent

Might cause a would-be school shooter to think twice.

Not nearly as inviting as a "gun free zone" sign.

Laurens County students, armed teachers head back to school -- https://t.co/k1zGQ9T28B pic.twitter.com/TLEiHATKfV

— WGXA (@WGXAnews) August 8, 2018

Coming out of her shell

Candidates endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez hit the skids in several Democratic primaries Tuesday.

Maybe America's not ready for the leap into openly socialist candidates after all.

Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez is expanding her socialist rhetoric.

She says the upper middle class no longer exists. 

She says middle class soccer moms driving middle class don't represent America anymore. 

Ocasio-Cortez strikes me as an Obama without the decades of grooming, without the restraint to cloak ideology, or express it in ways that seem mainstream. She opens her mouth, and radical socialism gushes out.

It's not just the rich that these Democratic Socialists want to subjugate, it's also the bourgeoisie, as in middle class folk with conventional values.

That's how Lenin rolled too when he led Communist revolutionaries in taking over Russia.

Middle class folk best realize this new socialism is the same as old socialism.

Marxism isn't a friend of the middle class.

Giving Vice News an A for effort

Vice News had what I thought was a good telling of last weekend's Patriot Prayer vs. Antifa clash in Portland, Oregon.

This far-right group is trying to drag leftists into an unwinnable PR war

While not perfect, I think the Vice crew attempted to accurately portray both sides of the story, and unlike most cable news outfits, actually sought to talk to participants on both sides, and let them speak for themselves. No "gotcha game" journalism was attempted.

I didn't watch any cable news coverage of the weekend's events, but if it followed examples I've seen in the past over similar events, there was likely just enough video or live presence to attempt to create an appearance of journalistic legitimacy, but most the content was steered by in-studio commentators who were neither a part of the demonstration or counter-demonstration, and who perhaps had never even been to such an event.

I give Vice an A for effort. Again, not saying it's perfect. But what Vice delivered looked a lot like the kind of journalism we used to practice back in the day, not the club-you-over-the-head-with-bias stuff that permeates so much of what passes for journalism today.

Racism welcome at the NY Times

As long as it's anti-white racism, of course.

New York Times stands by new tech writer Sarah Jeong after racist tweets surface

 A sampling of  Sarah Jeong's tweets prior to being hired at the New York Times:

When straws are outlawed, only outlaws will have straws

Via Facebook:

Background

Last week, news outlets celebrated and defended CNN's Kaitlan Collins for asking questions when none were being taken at a White House event.

Apparently, Collins has shouted questions before. But didn't get much notice, certainly didn't see others rally around her practice, when she was working for a "right wing" outlet last year.

.@kaitlancollins, Daily Caller reporter who asked question, quickly left as others asked who she was with. "She ran away," one reporter said

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) February 13, 2017

Rapists and murderers are in the mix

Judicial Watch: New HHS Documents Reveal that ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’ Processed During Obama Years Included Violent Criminals, Drug Smugglers, and Human Traffickers

Lest naysayers insist Judicial Watch is a "right-wing" group, information in the write-up is based on government documents generated during the Obama administration, and obtained by way of an open records request covering a period May 1, 2014 through November 12, 2014. Used to be major news media did this kind of reporting. You don't see much of this kind of stuff from major media anymore. I'm not sure major media even remembers how this kind of stuff is done. Selective memory perhaps. This material should have come to light years ago.

Words to the wise

Via Twitter:

If you ever wonder why it is vital that Americans protect their right to keep and bear arms, remember how liberals think you should be jailed if you dare dissent from their creepy dogma.

Buy guns and ammo. https://t.co/PGMiGDLQit

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 28, 2018

WTF

"The entire Cohutta Wilderness is temporarily closed due to a significant number of downed trees from a major storm system that moved through the area on Saturday, July 21."

What the hell is wrong with a wilderness having downed trees?