Occasional Reader 1/28/2024 6:18:51 AM

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Good morning.

New documents bolster Covid-19 lab-leak hypothesis:

https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-documents-bolster-lab-leak-hypothesis

Will there be any consequences?  For anyone?

Occasional Reader 1/28/2024 6:27:13 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 1/28/2024 8:06:57 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

Check out the Wednesday thread

JCM 1/28/2024 9:23:38 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

The consequences will only come in a "French Revolution" type period.

None of us really want that.

JCM 1/28/2024 9:35:23 AM

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JCM 1/28/2024 9:40:31 AM

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Ben Shapiro has the number one song on iTunes.

The left and music industry is absolutely melting down.

Kosh's Shadow 1/28/2024 10:00:06 AM

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In #5 JCM said: Iran is at war with us... when are we going to wake up and recognize that fact?

Iran has been at war with the US since 1979

Kosh's Shadow 1/28/2024 11:04:54 AM

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In #7 Kosh's Shadow said: Iran has been at war with the US since 1979

And only one president actually did something about it.

The current administration?

While Iran Tries to Kill US Soldiers, Biden Regime Provides It With Intel

The U.S. secretly warned Iran that Islamic State was preparing to carry out the terrorist attack early this month that killed more than 80 Iranians in a pair of coordinated suicide bombings, U.S. officials said.

And there is still the question of whether the US knew that Hamas was planning something but told Israel nothing was going to happen soon.

JCM 1/28/2024 11:45:33 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8:

Iran is actually pretty simple. Support the traditional Persian people and culture. Similar to how Reagan supported Solidarosc in Poland.

Kosh's Shadow 1/28/2024 12:13:18 PM

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Reply to JCM in 9:
Unfortunately, no president has suggested supporting regime change - even Trump. (I think that was part of the breakup witn Bolton)

JCM 1/28/2024 12:58:12 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 10:

Best chance we had was the Green Revolution during Obama.

That feckless Marxist stated he supported "legitimate elections" and that was all the encouragement the the mad mullahs needed.

All he had to say was "I support the right of people to have self determination and to consent to their government".

The leftists since Rabbit Bait have viewed Islamists as allies in their fight against individual liberty, and classical democratic princples.

Kosh's Shadow 1/28/2024 1:00:48 PM

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In #11 JCM said: Best chance we had was the Green Revolution during Obama.

Obama supported election protests only when it would put Islamists in power - all the "Arab Spring", But not Iran where it would have removed them.

Occasional Reader 1/28/2024 1:08:00 PM

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Reply to JCM in 6:

I can’t believe he’s beating “Think U The Shit (Fart)” (currently no 10).

I mean, there are only so many works of music that one might define as “epochal”.  Bach’s “Mass in B Minor”; Beethoven’s 9th Symphony; Ice Spice’s “Think U The Shit (Fart)”.

JCM 1/28/2024 1:20:31 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 13:

I barely consider rap to be music.... Shapiro at #1 is an epic troll.

Kosh's Shadow 1/28/2024 1:39:42 PM

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In #14 JCM said: I barely consider rap to be music

"rap" is the only word with a silent c (first letter)

I found Run DMC interesting, but that's as far as it goes

buzzsawmonkey 1/28/2024 4:33:27 PM

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OR---

Thanks for trying, albeit in vain, to set "Griller II" straight on Insty.  He seems to be of the "we are letting the Israelis sucker us into fighting their battles for them" school---yet he can't even spell "Israeli" correctly.

buzzsawmonkey 1/28/2024 4:50:55 PM

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In #15 Kosh's Shadow said: "rap" is the only word with a silent c (first letter)

Nice.

Kosh's Shadow 1/28/2024 5:00:13 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 17:

I did not come up with that

Kosh's Shadow 1/28/2024 5:01:31 PM

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