Straight Talk from the Professor

Younger basketball fans don’t really understand what Larry Bird actually did.. Or what he was capable of on a basketball court.. That level of skill, IQ, and clutch mentality doesn’t just exist anymore..

I talk a lot about being raised in the 60s and 70s because it’s important. It was a world where: Families didn't break up over politics. Actors didn't tell us who to vote for. Movies and TV shows didn't try to depress us about our lives. Cartoons didn't try to turn us gay. We never heard the n-word or f-bombs coming out of our radios. I could ride public transportation without worrying about being kidnapped by pedophiles. I could go to school without getting jumped. Nobody told us what words we were allowed to say. There were no TRANS kids. Nobody told you their pronouns. A man was a man, a woman was a woman, and nobody pretended otherwise. Nobody lost their job or their home or their family or their friends for merely stating biological facts. We respected cops, teachers, and the flag. We celebrated CHRISTMAS, not Kwanzaa. Nobody was "offended" by EVERYTHING. If anybody WAS offended by something, it was THEIR PERSONAL PROBLEM, not a national crisis. Call me old-fashioned and outdated but I really miss those days. So God, if you're listening, this is my prayer: Take us back to the good old days of American civility, PLEASE. AMEN.

Just a reminder that this fraudulent piece of shit never called me a single time when I was working overtime on this case, and for transparency. Not once did I hear from this fraud about the case. When I saw him at main Justice he never even mentioned it. And then when I offered to brief him at FBI HQ about this case, and others, he passed. Because he’s full of shit. I’ve met a lot of political zeroes in my time but never a bigger zero than this pinecone. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire. He jumped the shark, and when the shark bit back, he cried “The Jooos,” and “Epstein!” I’ve seen him behind the scenes and he’s a pathetic, boner-phone-club VIP points member. It says a lot that the people who know him best just kicked his sorry ass out by ten points. If he wants a war with me then I’m more than happy to oblige. Because nothing he vomits out will change the fact that he’s a zero, and a performance artist.

As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible. Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs. Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point. While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide. Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse. Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way” of government meddling, is inherently unstable. Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization. Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned. The lesson is clear. Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property. Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning. The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.

The Moment a Kamikaze Struck USS Essex 🇯🇵🇺🇸 Historical WWII colorized footage from November 25, 1944, in the Philippine Sea shows a Japanese Kamikaze aircraft diving into the deck of the American carrier USS Essex. The devastating impact triggers a massive fireball and heavy smoke across the ship. A defining image of the desperate final stages of the Pacific War.

Barbara Walters writes: Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton." Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton. From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper... Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day. I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals." When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient." Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me. These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less

Classic 1980s debate moment. A woman in hijab passionately challenges Rabbi Meir Kahane: “How can you have no compassion for the Arab people?” invoking Hitler and Palestinian suffering. Kahane’s calm, piercing response cuts through: “You had an opportunity for your own state in 1948. The UN proposed partition plan which would have created a Palestine and an Israel. You went to war. You killed 6,000 of our people. ’56, another war. ’67, another war. ’73, another war. I don’t trust you. I don’t believe you. When I’m attacked and I win and you lose, and you’re the one that started it, learn one thing… you take the consequences of your actions.” Raw, unfiltered truth about repeated rejection of peace and the cost of starting wars. No slogans. Just history. Powerful then. Powerful now.

“Those poor souls. They didn’t have their fathers here” - Marine Colonel Francis Fenton kneels beside his son, Private First Class Mike Fenton, near Shuri, Okinawa, May 1945. - They had met once during the fighting when their paths crossed at a partially destroyed Okinawan farmhouse. After exchanging news the two family members returned to their work. They would never talk again. On May 7, 1945, while beating back a Japanese counterattack the younger Fenton, 19, was killed. - When his father received the bitter news, he traveled to the site of his son’s death and knelt down to pray over the flag-draped body. - Upon arising, Colonel Fenton stared at the bodies of other Marine dead and said: ‘Those poor souls. They didn’t have their fathers here’ - If you’ll remember in the past, I posted a photo of Captain Ike Fenton of 1/5 in Korea, 1950. Ike Fenton was another son of Col Fenton. - This Memorial Day, and every day, remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and spend the day how you feel best honors their memory.

Manny Fernandez, should’ve been named Super Bowl MVP in the Miami Dolphins Perfect Season and had one of the greatest plays I’ve ever seen — he stole the opposing team’s handoff. Haven’t ever seen that play replicated before or since. RIP Manny Fernandez #75.

Larry Bird had athleticism and great basketball skills. But what made him a true standout was his instinct, his knowledge of the game. Call it his Basketball IQ; it was off the charts. He had amazing situational awareness and could “see” the whole court and what was happening on it. I cannot think of anyone who matched him in that department.

Today in 1987, with the Pistons up 107-106 and in possession of the ball in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Larry Bird steals the inbounds pass and hits Dennis Johnson for the game-winner. It remains a thing of absolute beauty.

Rand Paul: “We violated the Constitution, removed an elected official.” Marco Rubio: “We did not remove an elected official. We removed an unelected, indicted drug trafficker.”

Milton Friedman: “Wherever the free market has been permitted to operate, the ordinary man has been able to attain levels of living never dreamed of before.” “Nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate.”

If you put JFK and AOC in the same room and removed the party labels, nobody would believe they belonged to the same political party. That’s how far the modern Democratic Party has drifted from its roots. They are now the party of Socialists.

@BBGreatMoments For sure, Curt Schilling. He has the stats and he did nothing to dishonor the game. The only reason he’s been passed by is because he has been vocal about his political views. That shouldn’t be a reason to deny him entry into the Hall of Fame.

Which two get in?

This black woman demands that she be let into the front of the plane before the line even moves. This gentleman behind her expresses his fatigue.

Remember them, all of them.

"It is foolish & wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." —General George Patton

"The State is not the solution. The State is the problem." — Javier Milei

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Oldukça etkileyici görüntüler.. Bismarck'ın ana ve ikincil bataryaları ile HMS Hood'u mermi yağmuruna tuttuğu anlar, ağır kruvazör Prinz Eugen'den çekilmiş. Çeken personel gerçekten eşi benzeri olmayan anları kayda almış desek abartmış olmayız.. Videonun sonunda, infilak etmiş HMS Hood'u yoğun dumanlar içinde görüyoruz.. Bu videoyu her gördüğümde, Yamato'nun da böyle bir video kaydı olmasını diliyorum ama olmadığı için çok üzülüyorum.. Kriegsmarine'de sadece 9 ay hizmette kalabilmiş Bismarck'ın bile çok sayıda görüntüsü var iken yaklaşık 4 sene hizmette kalmış Yamato sınıfının 1 tane bile video kaydı yok...