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Some Questions
Has anyone on Ricochet heard anything further about the investigation into the person who leaked Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs?
How close are we to world war, post the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline? If that was done by Russia, was it not, in essence, an attack on NATO? Done in NATO territorial waters?
Why are world leaders so sanguine about the war in Ukraine? That war is obviously having global impact and is disastrous not just for Ukraine, but the world. There should have long since been a major international effort to force a halt to that war. Does that mean that world leaders actually favor the conflict? Why would they do that? Is Biden really OK with Putin annexing parts of Ukraine? It seems to me that that war puts the world back in a pre-medieval state, only with nukes. This time, Carthage won’t be salted, but radioactive.
Why isn’t the WEF, the Davos crowd, calling loudly for an end to the war? Do they favor it? Are all of our elites psychopaths?
If Joe Biden thinks immigration is such a wonderful thing for America (as it was in the 19th and early 20th Centuries before we had a welfare state), why does he not push for legislation to change our immigration laws to allow unlimited (but at least vetted) immigration from Latin America? After all, our restrictive immigration laws (initially passed in 1924 and signed into law by Calvin Coolidge–even Calvin Coolidge was a Progressive) were based on the depraved ideas of eugenics, the foremost agenda of Progressives, and were highly racist (as were Progressives then and Progressives now).
Of course, one reason the Democrats don’t bother with trying to change immigration law is a result of the fact that they stiffed Ronald Reagan, who agreed with amnesty based on a commitment to prevent further illegal immigration. Reagan was as much of a fool on that deal as Manchin was on Schumer’s promise to vote on easing permitting for energy projects. And the Democrats don’t seem to want to even try to change immigration law unless they get amnesty for everyone who has come here illegally. E.g, they want to be rewarded for bad behavior. Which won’t fly. So they won’t do anything without getting their way.
Has Liz Cheney destroyed the Bush (41 and 43) legacy by revealing the arrogant, not to mention irrational, elitism that underpinned it?
Is Joe Biden indeed trying to inflate away US debt? He seems to be really happy about the pain and suffering his inflationary policies are creating. Or is he just unaware? Or incapable of grasping what is going on?
Will Republicans again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the midterms?
Is the current surge of transgender treatment and surgery in children a mass psychosis that is sweeping the country? Like the accusations, with zero evidence, of bizarre abuse of children in daycare centers (the McMartins, Snowdens, Amiraults) of the 1990s? Or the Salem witch trials of the 1600s?
New litigation has been filed in the TWA 800 crash, with an allegation that the crash was due to a Navy missile erroneously striking the jetliner. Will the FBI/CIA coverup of that event be ultimately exposed?
Will Andy McCarthy ever wake up to the fact that the Biden FBI and Justice Department are not the entities for which he worked in the 1990s?
With the arrest of Mark Houck, Garland’s memo on investigation of parents objecting to school policies, the treatment of Jan. 6 demonstrators, and the focus on right-wing extremism by the DOJ and FBI, will Rich Lowry realize that we are all Cliven Bundy now?
Will Snowden be happy in Moscow?
Published in General
Yes.
I can answer this one.
Yes.
@amyschley gave us a link to some analysis by some engineer that explained the bad maintenance theory. I was impressed. I’m tentatively converted to that theory.
The new SCOTUS term starts Monday. No leaker yet.
But we are on the case.
You missed one: Why did the Las Vegas shooter do what he did, and who helped him (checks calendar) 5 years ago?
Why is almost no one calling to get rid of the voting machines with internal modems?
Thank you. I hope this is the answer. And that it is made clear and accepted by everyone quickly. That may help avert escalation.
Fantastic post. Hope you fail miserably and stumble on something while not doing anything.
Politicians of all stripe hope to be in positions of power at some point with the prospect of benefitting from those modems. Sort of like why the House won’t vote to ban stock trading by Congresspeople, I guess.
https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html
A big one to have missed. Thanks for noting the omission. And I grew up outside of Las Vegas in the 1950s and 60s. But that was when the Mafia was in firm control of Vegas and no crime like that shooting ever occurred. In fact, in those days, crime other than Mafia hits almost never occurred. And Ocean’s Eleven was a great film, but pure fantasy.
Another omission, of course, is who bombed Lefty Rosenthal’s car? My uncle and his son, who lived in Las Vegas at the time, saw the aftermath of that event, with a singed Rosenthal looking very angry, moments after the bomb went off. Memorialized in Scorcese’ movie Casino.
Thanks for summoning the memories, I think.
The answer is that the elites are evil and what us all dead os cowed.
Seawriter’s son actually works with pipelines and their repair, and he is sceptical that it is a maintenance or repair issue.
Quote of the Day: Who Benefits?
Dang. Am I gonna have to think now?
I have rarely seen so infinite an opportunity for picking and choosing answers:
Alito draft leak: No one has any interest in finding the answer. It will take another “deep throat” deathbed confession to ever learn what happened.
Nordstream Pipeline destruction: The CIA did it, probably with deniable permission.
European Leaders and Ukraine: There is no long term thinking going on among any of that crowd.
Liz Cheney: Her “useful idiot” prominence will end with the Democrat control of all three branches of government next month. She will drop below the surface without a ripple.
Joe Biden: He is very much a public face for the actions of his staff. There is no principal or guiding goal of any sort. Expect lots of “not my fault” books in three years.
January 6th: The Democrat control of all three branches is almost up, and their unchallenged narrative ends with it. The DC gulag, the facts surrounding the deaths of the protestors, even the suicide deaths of the capitol police over what they saw will get a first true hearing.
You never stop. :)
I do my best.
Some of these are contradictory, but, oddly, I agree with them all!
You mean like international condemnations, the imposition of sanctions, a U.N. security council motion to end the war, possibly even the shipment of arms and materiel to Ukraine to defend itself? How about negotiations between the belligerents, or loud and public offers to mediate an end to the conflict made by world leaders? In short, the kind of international efforts that have been happening long since?
Or perhaps the war itself is too terrible, and we should be imposing all those things on Ukraine for having the temerity to defend themselves against an invader. Absent any other consideration sending the signal “We will help you conquer your neighbors” will not lead to a more peaceful world.
If you think it’d be better to end the war ourselves by mounting a military expedition, well, I think you’ve got your choice of threads in which to argue that point.
Otherwise, how would someone go about ending the war? What avenues have been left unexplored that we ought to look in to?
first of all the US should immediately end all restrictions on natural gas production and oil as fast as possible and start flooding world markets with these.Mount a Marshall plan to provide energy to Europe. That would start to deprive Putin of revenue and have the benefit of lowering energy prices for everyone. The world economy would be helped rather than harmed as current sanctions are doing.
put naval assets in the Black Sea and the Baltic and mass NATO assets at the Ukraine borders with NATO. Keep B1’s in the air around Russia 24-7. Do these things without the ridiculous and ineffectual rhetoric. Everything that is being done now is bass-akwards as they say.
Never in the history of international relations has a great power been so puerile and ineffective as the US and NATO in response to Putins invasion of Ukraine.
Get the Democratic nations together and establish a highly coordinated response to Russia with a clear declaration that the invasion of Ukraine is unacceptable and demand Putins immediate withdrawal from Ukraine
Oh, I wish I was this confident.
I suspect we won’t really get answers until we replace our legacy media figures with actual journalists.
I was kind of thinking of the same answer. The author seems unaware of all that stuff.
Who is sanguine? If by “put an end to the war” you mean “let Russia take what it wants,” don’t expect a lot of agreement.
After so much Democrat malfeasance over the past few decades, do we still have that capability? And/or how long could it be sustained?
Call me skeptical. Nothing came of Benghazi.
What? I’m sure there were some hearings at which members of Congress were able to grandstand and then turn those soundbites into campaign slogans. That’s not nothing, guy!
My opinion on the Davos crowd is that they want regime change in Russia to install a western puppet, similar to Macron, Biden, Merkel, and Trudeau. And Zelensky.
I know a lot of people here would be in favor of regime change, but do you really want these people in charge of picking who gets it? I know – anything is better than Putin. Maybe so. But I’d rather the Russians do the picking and no one else. I especially think one more major world power being tucked into the WEF matrix spells disaster for us, the citizenry.
Its just one more milestone on the way to international communism.