“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.” — George Orwell
The White House admits Joe Biden was lying when he suggested that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea during WW2. Wow, I thought this was a true story. Karine Jean-Pierre tried deflecting by saying Biden was simply just expressing how “incredibly proud” he was of his uncle before admitting the story was false. “You saw the president, he was incredibly proud of his uncle’s service in uniform.” Jean-Pierre then admitted that his uncle Ambrose Finnegan died by crashing into the Pacific. “You saw him respond to all of you when asked about the moment yesterday and his uncle who lost his life when the military aircraft he was on crashed in the Pacific after taking off near New Guinea.”
I’ve never heard of “expressing you’re proud” of a relative by claiming they were eaten by cannibals. What about Corn Pop…is that story made up too?
House Democrats finally found a nation’s flag they believe is worth waiving. Not yours…Ukraine’s dummy. Instead of outlining a long-term plan for addressing the war in Ukraine, we’re hastily throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at a problem without a clear solution or exit strategy.
Google Fires Pro-Palestinian Protestors
Google’s dismissal of 28 protesting employees on Wednesday has exposed the tech giant’s evolution from its idealistic origins into a more conventional company, a significant shift from its initial pledges. Silicon Valley’s leading firms, including Google, have long encouraged talented employees to regard the office as a campus, where they could “bring their whole selves” to work and change the world for the better. However, workers who bought into those promises are now facing a moment of truth.
The 28 firings came in the wake of sit-in protests on Tuesday at Google offices in Silicon Valley and New York City. The demonstrators opposed a $1.2 billion 2021 Google Cloud contract with the Israeli government, contending that Google’s support for the effort — known as Project Nimbus — was harming Palestinians in Gaza. Nine employees were arrested during the sit-ins.
In a note to employees, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, “This is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.” Google also stated that the Project Nimbus contract is “not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.”
Google, from its early days, prided itself on creating a university-like atmosphere for the elite engineers it hired. Dissent was encouraged in the belief that open discourse fostered innovation. “A lot of Google is organized around the fact that people still think they’re in college when they work here,” then-CEO Eric Schmidt told “In the Plex” author Steven Levy in the 2000s. However, what worked for an organization with a few thousand employees is harder to maintain among nearly 200,000 workers. Generational shifts in political and social expectations also mean that Google’s leadership and its rank-and-file aren’t always aligned.
Google has already faced several waves of employee protest over its programs. In 2018, thousands of Google workers protested its participation in a Defense Department effort called Project Maven that attempted to apply AI to the Pentagon’s image-recognition needs. Some employees quit, arguing that their research should not be used to help target drones. The company has also previously undertaken high-profile firings or quasi-firings, like those of AI researchers Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru. (Google maintains Gebru resigned.) With this week’s dismissals, the company made it clear that it views the current protests not as a form of intellectual disagreement but as a matter of rules enforcement and security.
Social media posts and reports of the debate on internal Google message boards show a deep split in thinking on the firings. One group of observers — often older or more conservative in perspective, and including many business leaders or investors — applauds Google, saying the protesters got what they deserved and were deluded for thinking that the workplace was an appropriate forum for political action. Another group — often younger, more progressive and more friendly to labor — sees the protests as an act of conscience and the firings as a betrayal of Google’s founding values.
It’s a Vindman Thing – Eugene Vindman, who already has been accused of being a carpetbagger, posed with a Confederate-era Virginia flag over the weekend, was forced to apologize… then bizarrely called for Virginia to change its state flag. Somehow his “apology” made both Democrats and Republicans even more upset.
Vindman was attacked by local legislators and his primary opponents, who said it was “disheartening” and “ignorant” and even called him “out of state grifter.”
“Eugene Vindman isn’t ready for primetime. Should Vindman somehow squeak out of the primary, Republicans are ready to pounce on him and flip this seat in November.” — NRCC Spokeswoman Delanie Bomar
It’s really too bad political commentator H.L. Mencken, who analyzed the character of such notable Americans like Warren Gamaliel Harding and “Silent Cal” Coolidge back in the 1920’s isn’t alive today to give us some color commentary on our own buffoonish, comic-book character “leader” Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, whose uncle Ambrose Finnegan was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea during WW2, which accomplishment on the part of Ambrose made our own Joe “incredibly proud” of him, as it probably should, because let’s face it, people, how many other people in America can brag about having a relative actually eaten by cannibals.
Not any that I know of, anyway.
There were dead Americans, and maybe some not yet dead, who were eaten by feral hogs in Viet Nam, like was the case on many Civil War battlefields, but getting eaten by a feral hog pales in comparison to someone actually being eaten by cannibals.
So no wonder our Joe is “incredibly proud” of Ambrose, and my goodness why wouldn’t he be, with an accomplishment like that!
I spent two tours, the better part of 1968, 69, and 70 in VietNam. 1st Marine Air Wing and 1st Marine Division. When I arrived the Gunny told me that there were 49 types of Snakes there; 48 were poisonous and the other one swallowed you whole. Sneaky snakes are like Indian underwear, they keep creeping up on you.
Had a close run in with a Tiger about 3x my size. Several of our units did.
The mosquitos were large and fierce.
Leeches, nasty.
However, I personally never heard of our guys being eaten by feral Hogs.
Could have happened but I doubt that it was common. At least up North in I Corps…
Between the Marines up there and the tigers, Jock, I suspect it was all the feral hogs, if there any ever were any up there, that got eaten.
And thanks for your service, Jock and welcome home, and my goodness, but that is a very impressive combat resume you have, especially that hair-raising story about almost getting eaten by that huge tiger.
So how did that go?
How were you able to escape?
Did you kill the tiger?
People are sitting on the edges of their seats out here in America and holding their breath in anticipation of how that story ended.
As to the feral hogs eating some Americans, Jock, are you at all familiar with the three-sided ambush where West Pointer Lieutenant Colonel Terry Allen was killed in South Vietnam on 17 October 1967, while leading the 2d Battalion, 28th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division on a search and destroy operation near Chon Thanh, in Binh Long Province, northwest of Saigon, in the Battle of Ong Thanh?
Have you ever read up on that, or studied that ambush, which as a grunt I would say was picture perfect?
Old Charley shot out both of Colonel Allen’s eyes as a message to the Americans that the next time you try and come into our country, follow somebody with a better set of eyes than that dude did.
Kind of like Washakie back in 1863 I think it was, after the battle of Crow Heart Butte where Washakie, then about 63, killed a younger Crow war chief invading Washakie’s territory and then cut out the dude’s heart, stuck it on his spear, held it up in the air and told the Crow, next time you try to come back, better follow somebody with more heart than this dude had.
War is the application of psychology!
Who applies it better in the end wins, Jock.
Did you know that?
Anyway, as to the feral hogs, Jock, have you read “They Marched Into Sunlight” by David Maraniss who researched that ambush, the worst American defeat in Viet Nam, which is something WARHAWK Jen Kiggans should give some thought to, if she is able to, and I believe interviewed the Viet Cong commander who was responsible for that ambush, and this is what the Viet Cong records say they found on the battlefield:
Soldiers from (Viet Cong) Rear Service Group 83 were also active early that morning.
Nguyen Van Lam, the local farmer who commanded C-1 Company, took some of his men to the northeastern edge of the battlefield.
They had constructed a concealed water hole within yards of the biggest tree in the area, likely the same tree that American troops remembered so vividly, the one under which Major Holleder had died.
As they approached the water hole, Lam came upon an American corpse.
It was torn in several pieces, shredded, it appeared, by a fragmentation bomb.
The largest section was a white torso with arms attached.
There was a shattered watch on the wrist of one hand.
The flesh was raw and freshly ripped.
Wild pigs, Lam realized, had found the body before he did.
No worries. No, did not shoot Tiger. Just another tricky day
Just figured I’d question the “Feral Hogs eating living and dead servicemen” claim.
That’s all
Not trying to start an argument sir.
No problems whatsoever, Jock!
You called me out with a legitimate question, which I don’t mind at all, and hopefully, I held up my end by giving you the answer you sought, as you should have.
So, we’re cool, and once again, thanks fo9r your service and welcome home!
And hey, Joe Biden, how about the price of a gallon of gas out there in the countryside, dude?
Over four bucks a gallon now, Joe and climbing!
So what do you have to say about that?
And if a cannibal ate Joe Biden’s brain, would he end up starving to death because there is no substance whatsoever to Joe Biden’s brain?
Funk China-Joe and Kamal-Toe!
Remember these two when your liberal neighbor wants to borrow a tool to finish a project or your kids want to sleep over a liberal’s house. Then when the wife says it is ok, remember Slick-Willy, his hideous wife and Barry, Bath-house Barry.
Gas is really cheap in Mexico. Wonder why?
Because Joe Biden isn’t in charge of things down there and lucky them!
I still can’t get over Joe Biden’s Uncle Bosie getting eaten by cannibals on New Guinea during WWII after they shot down his reconnaissance plane with their blow-guns and poison darts.
Oh, the horror of it chills me to my very bones!
The load of grief that poor man carries, what with his son Beau getting killed in combat in Iraq, and his Uncle Bosie getting eaten by cannibals during WWII, must be immense and it is a wonder he can carry it all, which is a real testament to that famous Biden grit we are always hearing about, which is what makes Joe Biden such an exceptional world leader.
And OMG, people of America and the world!
How absolutely horrible this is!
Oh, the humanity!
Just when we all thought the story of Joe Biden’s grief-filled family history was over, what with his son Beau getting killed in combat in Iraq, and his Uncle Bosie getting eaten by cannibals during WWII after they shot down his reconnaissance plane with blowguns and poison darts, news is now coming out from sources said to be impeccable and reliable that both Joe Biden’s grandfather and grandmother were cooked and eaten by rampaging Mohawk Indians in Canada during the infamous Lachine Massacre on August 5, 1689.
How does this man hold up so well with such terrible family grief to carry through his life, in addition to having to care for everybody in the world while at the same time defending the SOUL OF AMERICA against Donald Trump, who is everybody’s retribution against Joe Biden and the BUILD BACK BETTER DEMOCRATS, and Trump’s cronies, the terrible, hate-filled MAGA Republicans?
How does he bear his earthly burdens so well?
My goodness, but this would all literally crush a lesser man than Joe Biden, who life’s adversity has molded into such a strong world leader as the world has never before seen in all of its history, and that is a fact!