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What a novel concept! But someone might want to tell that bastard James Mattis that Joe Biden is a Nazi. Preview Open
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They stopped counting in the middle of the night in key swing states where Trump was leading. They forced Republican poll watchers to leave. Then they started counting again in secret and magically the next day Biden was ahead. Nope. Not going to accept that that is fair. Preview Open
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The Great Task Remaining Before Us
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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We had a 21 minute outage from a data center yesterday. Here’s the explanation from the data center: We have determined that this outage was caused by a software issue affecting a switch pair. We are performing a full investigation to determine the root cause and help prevent this issue from recurring in the future. We […]
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Election Night at Ricochet
Join us this evening from 6PM ET / 3PM PT on to talk with your fellow members about the election in a Ricochet Live Chat. Then at around 9PM ET / 6PM PT we will start a Zoom broadcast (on the live chat page) with Bethany Mandel & Jon Gabriel, with visits from Peter Robinson & Rob Long, and other Ricochet friends and alum, and we’ll hear from Ricochet members who want to share their thoughts as well.
So gird your loins, grab your favorite beverage, and strap in for a history night with friends at Ricochet.
Goodbye, Sweet Henrietta
My sweetest Henrietta died on Friday morning in my lap. I hope that my touch in her last conscious moments was comforting to her. She was attached to me as no other cat has ever been, and I to her. I found her in an actual trash pile in Brooklyn, NY, on October 17, 2011.
We had thought that she had arthritis since January of this year, and I had been giving her medication for that three times a week. Once a jumper who spent most of her time on top of the refrigerator, she had slowly relinquished her former heights until she spent most of her last few months on our bed, which is only 18 inches off the ground.
About a month ago we took her to the vet’s because she was having difficulty breathing. We saw that from about that time on her mobility was quickly declining. I began to have to carry her to the litter box because she couldn’t get into it on her own. Last Monday we took her in again and our vet realized that her mobility issues were neurological, likely due to a tumor somewhere on her spine. The vet gave her a steroid shot, which helped her for several days. Thursday she began having trouble breathing again, and that night I lay on the floor of the bathroom, where she had retreated, and thought that she would die there. I looked in her eyes and slowly blinked, the cat way of saying, “I love you.”
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Our web host had a catastrophic world-wide outage this evening. The first assumption was that it was a cyber attack, but the host is still sorting it out. In any case it wasn’t an attack necessarily against us — all sites at the host went down. Our hosting provider is actively working on the issue, […]
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Trump Supporters Face Threats and Vandalism
The UNH Survey Center’s most recent Granite State Poll reports that 60% of Trump supporters in New Hampshire do not want to put a bumper sticker on their car or a sign in their front yard because they’re afraid of vandalism. I wish I’d seen this stat a couple of days ago when I was writing this piece for National Review:
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Anyone want to jump on Zoom with me? https://zoom.us/j/99874128343?pwd=S1U3Z0Ywd1hXck9ZTHVmdmZMNUNwQT09 Preview Open
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What in the hell? Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even taking a small break, has just tested positive for Covid 19. Terrible! The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020 Preview […]
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Harry Truman and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Peter Robinson expressed his opinion on Twitter today that President Truman did not approve the use of the nuclear bomb. “Truman never approved the use of the bomb–or disapproved it,” He wrote. “The military considered it one more weapon, like a new submarine or aircraft. They kept Truman informed. But they did not ask his approval.”
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Anyone want to jump on Zoom and talk politics? [Zoom link deleted because I’m no longer online.] Preview Open
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Donald Trump Defeats Chris Wallace in First Presidential Debate
That was one of the most awesome debates of all time, with President Donald Trump totally dominating his opponent, Chris Wallace.
Wallace tried his best to hurt Trump and help Joe Biden, who was standing in the stage for some reason, but failed utterly and succeeded only in demonstrating that he is a complete jackass.
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Mask Theater
Today I had to cancel a scheduled medical procedure because I would not wear a mask.
I had no interest in causing a scene in the office (or in driving an hour to the office only to be turned away) so I called in advance and told them I would not be wearing a mask. The receptionist was polite and checked with my primary care provider, who is a Nurse Practitioner and was going to perform the procedure in the office. It was a minor procedure (removing a small cyst on my head that has been there for over ten years, which has not ever grown). The receptionist reported that the NP said I didn’t have to wear a mask in the office with her while she did the procedure, but that I would have to wear a mask in the waiting room and the hallways. So I cancelled the appointment.
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We moved the website to a new server. The transfer itself took about 90 minutes, and then there was some more time that the rest of you couldn’t access the site while we evaluated things. But hopefully most of you were asleep anyway. (It’s 2:58AM ET right now.) If there are any stray issues, we […]
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OK, last night didn’t work out because we found something that would have been broken on the new server. But we fixed that and we’re going to move the website to a new server tonight at midnight. And only the things we don’t know about will break, which really is more fun anyway, when you […]
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Truth Over Facts: Second Declaration of Independence?
James Mattis Compares Donald Trump to Nazis in Statement to The Atlantic
In a statement given to the Leftist magazine The Atlantic, former Secretary of Defense James Mattis compared his former boss President Donald Trump to Nazis. Mattis wrote:
Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.
Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.
Chris Sununu’s Stay at Home Hypocrisy in New Hampshire
