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Nan Arrives!

OK. Now what? All the dire threats from China and spineless pearl clutching from the White House did nothing to halt Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 1045 EST arrival in Taipei. This was not to PINO Joe’s Handlers liking. Being proactive, they had Joe make the passive-aggressive statement to dissuade Nan stating, “The military thinks it’s […]
Nan’s Taiwan Visit- China Loses Its Mind

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) In China’s defense, I’d be upset too if Nan were coming to call. Not the point, though. If PINO Joe’s Handlers think her visit to the contested island will cause an international incident, well, too late. Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Is Already an International Incident By Benjamin Hart House Speaker […]
It Ain’t The Chips

Shortages everywhere? Don’t go blaming the truckers: they are having serious problems getting parts for their OTR vehicles, never mind finding any new trucks they can buy. If anything, blame the shortages of things like semiconductor chips, as well as the squabbling going on in Congress over where those parts should come from. Since the […]
Public Reaction to Covidiocy in . . . the PRC?

Yes, in the PRC. Apparently even residents of the PRC are getting rather fed up with draconian measures imposed by their government to halt the spread of the omnicron variant. (From late March until a few days ago, the city of Shanghai was apparently under lockdown.) From the Wall Street Journal web site: Discontent has […]
Bad Moon Rising… Again

Okay, I know how much you people all hate doing your homework, but you can’t get out of it if you want to know what is going on in the real world and how it will affect you in both the near and distant futures. The link to the article at WUWT is worth following. […]
Navy Officer Sentenced

P-8A Poseidon Lieutenant Fan Yang, a former Naval Flight Officer based onboard NAS Jacksonville FL, has been sentenced to four years behind Federal bars for purchasing firearms for a Chinese national, and lying about the relationship. According to court records, he is guilty of conspiring to violate U.S. firearms laws making false written statements to […]
China warns against military support for Taiwan

Echoing Putin at the beginning of the Russo-Ukraine War, China warns countries that there would be serious consequences for militarily supporting Taiwan. They continued with the claim that the Chinese Communist Party would be unstoppable should it decide to take Taiwan. News viewers in Taiwan are following what is happening in Ukraine and are encouraged […]
F-35 Recovered

F-35C Lightning II Navy personnel operating from a commercial salvage ship have recovered the F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter that suffered a ramp strike on the deck of USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and crashed into the South China Sea. The aircraft, assigned to the “Argonauts” of VFA-147 Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA), was recovered from […]
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