[TheBlaze] Georgia woman slammed her SUV into a Popeyes restaurant because her order was missing biscuits, according to police.
Around 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, a woman ordered food at the Popeyes restaurant in Augusta, Georgia. The woman claimed that her order at the fast food restaurant was missing biscuits. A Popeyes manager informed authorities that the order was corrected and the customer was given biscuits. However, the woman was reportedly "still not happy."
The woman instructed the restaurant staff to hurry up with the order "because she was coming black back," according to the Popeyes employees.
The woman allegedly made several threats to the staff of the Popeyes in Augusta — even threatening to drive her car into the restaurant I don't have an LLB or JD, and I didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night, but this sounds like First Degree Felonious Vehicular Assault to me.
, according to the incident report from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office. Wanna' play "Guessin' The Complexion?" Hint: Check out the vid @ link.
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In Florida, last week, the entitled one was waving her gun over a free cookie at Mickey D's. Needless to say, her profile did not indicate many missed cookies.
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Should have gave her the dry ass biscuits, maybe she would have choked to death.
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Chris, they did give her the bisquits. Just like the woman who demanded a free cookie, even though she got it, she still wasn't happy and wanted to, "teach them a lesson". Some people are just never satisfied.
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^ Dude read the articles. Kudos...
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Some people are just never satisfied. Told every day by all media that they are entitled.
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[Federalist] The nation is worried about serious national security threats, including Chinese spy aircraft, but the U.S. Department of Defense seems pre-occupied with misplaced priorities. "Woke" policies are taking leftist ideologies to extremes with enforced compliance, even if it hurts the institution.
Since January 2021, Defense Department officials have expanded woke transgender mandates in significant ways. A comprehensive policy analysis titled "Biden Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military," summarized here, compares Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin directives to the 2016 transgender policies of Barack Obama and Ashton Carter.
As in the Obama years, the Biden/Austin policy fully embraces the idea that individuals can change their "sex assigned at birth to a different gender role." Department of Defense Instruction 1300.28, updated on Dec. 20, 2022, has changed the official vocabulary of this pseudo-science, using the phrase "self-identified gender" instead of "preferred gender" throughout.
The DOD Instruction stipulates that if a person "self-identifies" as a person of the opposite sex, and if the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) changes a person’s bureaucratic "gender marker," a man claiming to be a woman must be treated as a woman, and vice versa.
Military commanders, doctors and nurses, chaplains, and military men and women at all levels must endorse and act on this ideological belief or suffer career penalties if they don’t. Alleged "biases against transgender individuals," which are prohibited, could include anything from "misgendering" people with the wrong pronouns to expressions of concern about medically questionable hormone treatments or surgeries for adults or military-dependent children.
Individuals who are confused about gender identity deserve compassionate counseling, competent medical care, and complete information about the serious risks and irreversible consequences of "gender-affirming" treatments that do not change biological sex. Instead, a self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria permits only one course of treatment, pushing the service member toward life-changing, often-irreversible transgender "transition," without an independent "second opinion."
Commanders are directed to consult with designated "experts," called Service Central Coordination Cells. The SCCCs have no responsibility for military operations or any obligation to put the needs of the patient first.
Biden’s regulations do not protect or even mention rights of religious liberty for chaplains and people of faith. Nor do they provide options for doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel who object to transgender ideology on moral or ethical grounds.
Once a military doctor approves, transgender transition can be deemed "complete" with or without surgical alteration of healthy body parts. At that point, as the DOD Instruction states several times: "[S]ervice members will use those berthing, bathroom, and shower facilities associated with their gender marker in DEERS."
This policy denies human biological realities and violates minimal expectations of personal privacy and modesty between men and women. Human dilemmas are discussed in PowerPoint training slide "vignettes," such as a "female to male" soldier announcing a pregnancy.
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I guess turning the barracks into bordellos is just one way to help with recruitment.
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Insanity! I trust there will be courageous Chaplains who will refuse such an order, requesting a Court Martial and trusting the sanity/professionalism/honor of what is left of the Officer Corps below General Officer rank.
Informal hearing today in front of TX medical board resulted in proposed fine of $5000, 8 CME hours & sitting through another jurisprudence exam. This for saving for 5000 patients - a fine of $1 per patient. I rejected their “offer” and am proceeding with a public hearing.
Mary Talley Bowden MD
@MdBreathe
BreatheMD. Censored, defamed, retaliated against for advocating early RX. Treated 5500+patients with #COVID19. Suing FDA for interfering with DR-PT relationship
Doctors, based on yesterday’s ruling, be warned that any hospital can now disagree with your medical views, launch a worldwide PR campaign to cast you as dangerous, and walk away with no consequences. A legal precedent has been set, but I intend to fight it.
Informal hearing today in front of TX medical board resulted in proposed fine of $5000, 8 CME hours & sitting through another jurisprudence exam. This for saving for 5000 patients - a fine of $1 per patient. I rejected their “offer” and am proceeding with a public hearing.
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This for saving for 5000 patients - a fine of $1 per patient.
Not coincidentally, the cost of the Ivermectin she prescribed.
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Any state that legalizes dope should also de-regulate the practice of medicine.
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This is why there should be no 'forgiveness' of the people in official position during the hysteria. If the Texas legislature is still in session I'd recommend the establishment of a Crimes Against Humanity tribunal to review all the actions of the health and public service officials involved.
[Cleveland.com] Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer.
This is not a difficult decision.
Adams said Black people are a hate group, citing a recent Rasmussen survey which, he said, shows nearly half of all Black people do not agree with the phrase "It’s okay to be white."
"I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people," he says in the video.
#1
While we have been conditioned or programmed by the media and pseudo-social scientists to believe otherwise, apartheid is not an evil act. It is a natural mechanism of human survival.
#13
I like the way the women in 9 Chickweed Lane are drawn. Then the word balloons are filled and it's ruined for me.
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Scott Adams: I'm sorry I killed Jesus..
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I've had bosses and worked for companies like Dilbert. My favorite comic strip is Pickles.
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Ink-stained wretch that I am: Comix are the paper's way of saying stuff they can't say in the articles. It's geared to their most stupid customers (I didn't say readers on purpose)
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Before you decide he's a hero, remember he's all-in on COVID vaccines.
I'll love a convert; it was never about winning or losing, but making the right choice for yourself, and that regret he was trying to frame is how a lot of people who got at least one shot feel.
I think I can count on one hand the number of Big Names who have said at least, "Hey, not only was I maybe wrong, but got strung along and even used."
Mike Rowe? That makes two. Nicki Manaj is three.
I still think its a personal choice, and Scott Adams I consider, with no offense meant, a passive influencer in the sense I'd have to go find his opinion. Now, the evangelists who were actively finding people and threatening them with get the shots or else you flat Earth potato humper...
On topic, I think here he sees the trendline too and of course, again, we can't have people seeing things. I'd agree that the future of the American Black Community is bleak. Entertainment is trying to turn it into a docile and gay future with the blaxploitation advertising of Black Panther followed by storyline of Black Panther 2 being the most egregious examples. The other side of the coin, government policy, is an uneducated pissed off mob who are not only cleared of any social behavioral common standards but encouraged to break any sense of community with the most extravagant receiving special martyr protections.
Like that fucker with the Disney Burger King Special hair who straight up shot four people and was arrested for the crime of being over 18 while committing the most recent crimes. Newspapers be all like, "I can't breathe" instead of covering the real story.
Not sure if the solution is to just separate, but I also don't have to worry about being set on fire in a subway car for interrupting a rape or just let it happen and hope I'm not next.
#43
People who get their cues from cartoons deserve what they get.
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That happened?!
CNN, MSLSD, NPR and Adams say "No, that's disinformation."
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Imagine a world where all the harm his words did came back on him.
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He is a washed up cartoonist. My brother had a theory that BJ Honeycutt didn’t have a funny line in the last 5 seasons of MASH. It has been a long time since Adams penned anything funny. There was a real conspiracy to suppress accurate info. Government invaded social media illegally. Let’s not let the Biden Administration off the hook and drop this all in the lap of an irrelevant clown.
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Yeah, and Alan Alda was going to be the man to be all and end all.
We got past that somehow. And got Buttgig for our trouble...
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I don't stalk Scott Adams so gonna need some help here exactly where he lands on the persuasion spectrum.
We talk, "I'm getting it."
or, "I am, and I think everyone should."
"I am, and you had better, too."
"If you don't have four booster like me, you are a Nazi."
Not being snotty, looking for evidence and trends since polls and statistics call for noticing thing, and that can't be allowed.
Follow up, I hear, unsubstantiated, that some 15% of adults received zero shots?
There is a bill to pay. I understand The Majority land in the 1 or 2 shot range.
#50
Adams was in the "I have this all figured out. Shut up and do what I say" camp.
He's changed his mind now? How sweet...
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Are we deliberately ignoring the results of the Rasmussen survey? That seems more interesting than a past its prime comic strip. Separate but equal, anyone?
#52
This whole thread tires me and disappoints. Carry on if you need to
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Like we are supposed to blow our wad on this instead of keeping focus.
There is some delicious irony of a man who made his career poking fun at corporate and government ineptitude shilling for those very organizations.
Why I'm curious about the sudden change; how far in the tank was he before, "Wow, was I wrong."
Evidence presented in this thread suggests we have an expert on the topic confident enough to follow me to another thread like a grocery store Karen.
SteveS, is there a link to that poll lost in this mess (or did I miss it as a topic)?
Scott Adams, like his work or not, had been doing influencing (or at least expressing his opinion, again what was that?) and represented a particular generation/age group which was highly targeted by the Covid Narrative.
As for my record, it stands on its own. For two, no three years now, I've felt like Sergeant Powell here saying, "They're shooting at the lights." Could have used this level of fire and brimstone in my corner back then, and I did have people shoulder to shoulder here at Rantburg. I do the face when Deputy Editor Dwayne T. Robinson suddenly shouts, "Masks don't work!" but am glad with the calls of Bullshit!
Here's the thing, my take, is there is a bill to pay. The bill doesn't get paid if the ticket isn't delivered to the table. But if the rest of the restaurant patrons don't block the exit, the Dine and Dash still works.
People like Scott Adams, if you want to be a pragmatist, can be one of those blockers. Unless he is cancelled.
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And for Purity Test, let the record show that I donated over $1000 at cost fabric and material for our local seamstresses to fabricated masks, especially during the 2 4 6 8 whatever weeks To Flatten the Curve. The record shows I testified to the effect of, "If it don't stop Anhydrous Gas, it don't stop a virus."
What was it..."If the masks are so effective, I can go into a grocery store and smoke a cigarette and nobody would notice the smell."
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I do ask, on this site which seems to attract a number of professionals, if I could have the courtesy of where I fall on the collaborator spectrum, so that I could have my affairs in order?
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swksvolff - you're all good as far as I'm concerned. I enjoy Dilbert daily in my online sub. Not always hilarious or on point, but better than Doonesbury or whatever that shit is. I don't understand how this got above 50 comments
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Ever fixed a wrecked car?
Yes and No - Logical Fallacy; the question would be, is it fixable?
An eff'd up pickup can still have the bed removed and refurbished into a trailor. A damaged car is somebody else's teenager first car.
I take great honor in pirating the phrase "Where America Gets It's News":
Well played, sir.
[Daily Mail] Qi Han has been the center of formal complaints for seven years claiming he physically, emotionally and verbally bullied gymnasts who said they felt 'brainwashed' and suicidal as a result of his strategies.
Han, owner of Everest Gymnastics in North Carolina, is accused of assigning extra workouts to gymnasts he deemed 'fat' while calling them stupid or unworthy of his attention.
Han runs the Everest center with his wife Yiwen Chen. Both were formerly members of the Chinese national gymnastics team.
If he:
1. Begins identifying as a chick;
2. Also tacks on being a Ukrainian chick; and
3. Changes his name to "Too Kung Foo"
He'll probably see the school named after him.
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I know we've gone soft, but credit to the parents not putting their kid in groomer+ competitive cheer.
Finally? Get Good or Stop Wasting My Time.
I actually had a gymnastics teacher with that line of thinking. He had the Next Chapter of my Gymnastics and Us Tourists separated within five minutes. He made it clear Get Good or Get Out in the next five minutes. Then he put our asses to work.
By the end of semester, I could hold a v seat and hand-over-hand climb a 20 some foot rope. Had to to pass the class.
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Guys coaching young girls are automatically suspect.
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One of my kids was treated for an eating disorder years ago. There was a gymnast in her group. The little girl grew 6 inches in 9 months. I have refused to watch gymnastics since. The guy should have been banned. There should be a jerk registry to keep him and every other Bella Karolyi wannabe away from kids.
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Yeah. He's a dick. Those are results. Not my style.
If he is following them home on social media, that would be too far.
Back in the day, I'd have hell practice, and that was it. Girls softball practice they got the same from their coach as we got from ours. When I was Ass. Coach recently, head coach told 2nd base she better start paying attention or she will be eating softball for dinner. Nothing cruel. She never came back.
I am convinced the difference today is these kids never get to leave, have their own time. Go to school, get home media posts about today's losers in school. Go to practice, get sports stuff from coach (I never did that, Head did). Have an off night on a date, dog piled before they even leave the prom.
Music handing out awards about loose sex. Screen playing Go Gay! 24/7. Teachers not able to teach or even control their classrooms. Its a far cry from "Run the fences. Lost one home drinks first from the hose." being the one and potentially only tough moment of the day.
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There’s a difference between being a tough, demanding coach, which is necessary to achieve top level success, and being abusive — and it’s not a fine line. Nor is fat-shaming to the point fo driving kids into eating disorders exclusive to girls’ gymnastics and dance. I ran into one of the boys I ‘d gone to school with at a high school reunion — he was in the popular/wrestling/student council crowd while I was theater/music/honours classes (and gymnastics, but I always was eclectic), but all the popular boys had been kind to me in elementary school, so I remembered him fondly. At the reunion he related how he’d reluctantly had to quit wrestling because the coach deliberately made them bulimic so they’d drop into lower weight classes for meets, which eventually started endangering his health. This would have been in the latter half of the 1970s.
And even that kind of abuse is a large step away from Olympic team doctor who treated the girls on the team as his personal harem for several decades before some of the girls spoke up about it.
If the kids are feeling suicidal, the coach should readdress his tactics. There are ways to get the kids to feel good about driving themselves, instead of feeling bad about being driven. And those who can’t or won’t work to that level should be encouraged to go somewhere else, where they are better suited.
[GEO.TV] Panav Jha and Victoria Jha unexpectedly spent their wedding day confined in an elevator.
The couple and four other members of their family,
Oh. That’s not where I thought this story was headed — this sounds entirely too wholesome for Penthouse Letters.
after getting done with the wedding ceremony on February 18 headed to their after-party on the 16th floor of the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The group encountered an unexpected plot twist as they became stranded between the first and second stories. The doors of the elevator became stuck after they had only risen around five feet, the groom told CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... "Then, the doors started to open, so I could see the concrete wall right in front of me, and I could see the concrete wall behind me. I was like, ’That’s not normal.’"
The Charlotte Fire Department, fortunately, came to the rescue.
Despite the fact that the firefighters claimed they frequently receive calls like this, this rescue was more difficult, reported bride.com. Firefighter David Budd explains, "We tried all the typical things you try on an elevator call, and none of the stuff was working."
When the team got there, they used ropes to hoist each passenger out of the top of the elevator one at a time so they could leave for the fourth story. The captain of Rescue 11 explained that they usually rely on the elevator repair team to help in such cases but also have their own tools to "make it work".
"We put them in what’s called a hasty seat. It’s just a simple seat that hooks around them and we hook them up to our rope rigging system," said captain Steven Pritchard.
The guest reportedly requested that the firefighters "bring my sister out next" after saving the first victim. All six of them were rescued two and a half hours later.
Once the firefighters from North Carolina saved the group, they snapped a picture with the newlyweds and made a Facebook update about the mishap.
"Mr and Mrs Jha, we hope today is the start of a long and happy life together," their social media post read.
The pictures show the bride wearing a lehenga with golden embroidery while the groom coordinates with a matching shirt.
Unfortunately, the newlyweds could not make it to the after-party. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Victoria was glad that she did not get stuck alone. "At least we got to spend it together," she remarked.
Panav agreed, adding that it was a great story to share with the couple's future children. "I’m going to tell my kids your mom was so beautiful, the fire department had to come."
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How hot was Mom on your wedding?
Your Mom was so hot.....
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Yeah, she's makin' it. I hope her new hubby realizes how lucky he appears to be at the moment.
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I got stuck in an elevator once. I used the phone in the elevator to call the number listed for elevator problems. I got a busy signal. I pushed the alarm button. It was 20 minutes before someone came to re-start the elevator. Luckily I had my lunch with me so I sat down and ate it.
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[FoxNews] National Margarita Day is Feb. 22 — so what better way to celebrate than with a salt, lime and tequila?
Instead of celebrating the occasion with the same old tequila-and-triple-sec combo you’ve likely been slurping down for years, elevate the experience with one of the recipes below.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — What IS it? That was the question a lot of people in western Maryland and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia asked themselves (and other people) Thursday night into Friday after they found cars and other items outside coated in dust.
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Oh, come on. I used to determine what was in an unknown sample in high school chem lab. The most sophisticated thing I had to work with was a busted down old GC. Had to get results in 2 hours.
Of course, it took DoD a week to figure out whether the Chinese balloon was spying.
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Is it yellow? A mysterious yellow powder that coated all outside here turned out to be tree pollen.
#2
I believe the technical term is aftershocks. One of the articles here mentioned over 2,000 in the first few days after the big one that started it all.
Video shows the moments a Good Samaritan chases down a drunk driver who slammed into a vehicle carrying an off duty cop and his family Overcome by the rapture of righteousness.
Good way to get shot.
In the newly surfaced video, Dylan Molina, 26, is seen attempting to flee from the scene of the accident in which he struck and killed Alex Cervantes
Officer Cervantes was killed but his wife and two children survived. In January, Molina was sentenced to 15 years in prison for intoxication manslaughter
It is believed that before crashing into Cervantes, Molina had been served eight double vodka Red Bull cocktails and 16 single shots
Footage sees Chinese fighter jet and guided-missile destroyer warship warning a US military plane to turn away from Chinese airspace in the South China Sea
The American reconnaissance aircraft was over 30 miles away from any airspace recognized as owned by China at the time of the heart-stopping encounter
The Chinese pilot warned the American pilot over the radio with the Chinese plane escorting the American plane for 15 minutes from just 500 feet away
#5
We have a national interest in that area more so than in Ukraine. We would have less so if our business leaders had not farmed out all our industry to China.
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The Piper will be paid.
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Maybe a generation of kids without cell phones will focus the national mind.
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Instead we will get Kin "freedom phones."
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[BenarNews] The Pentagon plans to quadruple the number of American troops in Taiwan and Taipei is to send a combined arms battalion to the United States, both for training purposes in the face of a growing threat from China, according to media reports.
The United States will deploy between 100 and 200 troops to Taiwan to bolster a training program for the local military, a report published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying.
As of September 2022, the Pentagon had 39 personnel stationed in Taiwan, including 23 on active duty from all four military branches, according to the U.S. Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).
The unnamed officials who were quoted said this deployment was "planned for months" to help strengthen the island’s self-defense against potential attacks from China, and was not connected with the latest dip in Sino-U.S. relations after the Pentagon shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon.
"This is a good development," said Grant Newsham, a former U.S. Marine colonel and diplomat. "Even 100 or 200 troops can have a positive effect on Taiwan’s military if they are properly deployed."
"Taiwan’s military needs as much direct exposure to other militaries as possible as it has been isolated for over 40 years and its capability development has languished as a result," said Newsham, who spent a whole year studying Taiwan’s defense in 2019.
In his opinion, both militaries should work on a joint operation planning "for future contingencies."
Several prominent figures in the U.S. military have predicted different timelines for a possible Chinese invasion and urged the island’s leadership to build up defense capabilities.
’HANDCUFFED BY FEAR OF CCP’
Newsham told Radio Free Asia (RFA) that there’s "also a psychological aspect" as the U.S. new deployment would bolster confidence "with the military, the government, and the public on the lam."
"This matters as much as new tactics, techniques, and procedures the military might learn," he said, adding, "Never overlook the ’mental’ aspects of a national defense."
By law, Washington is obligated to help Taiwan to strengthen its defenses but every movement is being closely watched by Beijing, which considers Taiwan a Chinese province and threatens to take it back by force if needed.
According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. officials were apparently mindful of possible reactions from Beijing when they said that it’s "a question that is constantly being evaluated and looked at specifically with every decision involving support to Taiwan."
"This is worrisome. It suggests that American support for Taiwan is still handcuffed by fear of the Chinese Communist Party," Newsham said.
"If America indicates it will back down if seriously pressured by Beijing, China will have the advantage, and is far more likely to use force against Taiwan," he added.
Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng, when asked about the U.S. deployment plan, only said that "more information needs to be gathered to provide a thorough explanation."
’RADICAL CHANGE’
Meanwhile the official Central News Agency (CNA) quoted Taiwanese military experts who said that Taipei is to send a combined arms battalion to the United States for training in the second half of this year at.
The CNA said in a report that the joint battalion will be composed mainly of soldiers from the Army’s 333rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade and 542nd Armor Brigade. A battalion has around 500 troops.
Up to now, Taiwan has only sent platoon-level (25-60 troops) and company-level (80-150 troops) teams to the U.S. as part of military exchanges.
Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng again didn’t confirm the report but neither did he deny it.
This new development "would be a radical change in U.S. foreign policy, if true," said Wendell Minnick, a Taiwan-based U.S. defense analyst.
The U.S. has allowed Taiwanese military personnel to attend schools, such as SEAL, or special ops, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and the U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia, according to Minnick.
Taiwan also has a training squadron of F-16 fighters at Luke Air Base in Arizona but "to send a battalion of men would be hard to believe," the expert said.
"One problem is these men are needed here. A battalion would be a lot of manpower needed for a war," Minnick told RFA.
Newsham meanwhile argued that an increase in troop numbers would be a good thing as "it’s important to operate with a fairly large unit, also to expose larger numbers of troops to a different environment and a new training setting."
"This is how a military improves."
A report released last month by the influential Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington said that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would not succeed should the U.S. and Japan back Taipei but it would come at a high cost for all involved.
The report predicted that a Taiwan-U.S.-Japan alliance could defeat a "conventional amphibious invasion by China" and maintain an autonomous Taiwan. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... they would lose "dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and tens of thousands of service members."
"China’s leaders have become increasingly strident" about unifying the island with the mainland, therefore a military invasion is "not out of the question," the report said.
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Congratulations Soldier, you have been awarded an additional MOS Skill Identifier, 1369, TripWire, National Security Level! In Taipei, doing something meaningless with ROC troops already better trained than you. But boy, that will stop the CCP PLA from making Jojo mad, because they know all about CornPop and his resolute, determined, telepromter reading face.
#6
Trip what? Putting them in there is Miley level stupid. If he gets more of our people killed, will he drone zap another family of innocents in response?
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[Breitbart] Pfizer denied conducting gain-of-function research for the coronavirus virus in a letter to Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Jackson, a physician and a member of the Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, sent a letter in January, which was exclusively obtained by Breitbart News’s Hannah Bleau, demanding answers on if Pfizer engaged in gain-of-function research by intentionally mutating the Chinese coronavirus.
Pfizer responded to Jackson on February 23 with a letter signed by their vice president & COO of vaccine research, which was obtained by Breitbart News.
In the letter, Pfizer strongly denied that the company would engage in gain-of-function research.
#4
Well, there's experiments going on in unflushed drug house toilets too.
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I suppose Pfizer CEO Bourla would know that phrase quite well, "leger de main".
Meanwhile, like we are supposed to believe anything out of Pfizer? How many billions of dollars have they been fined over the years and multiple cases? Yeah, I believe 'em.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Cleveland.com] 
[GEO.TV] Panav Jha and Victoria Jha unexpectedly spent their wedding day confined in an elevator. 
[Breitbart] Pfizer denied conducting gain-of-function research for the coronavirus virus in a letter to Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
