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JUNE 5, 2022

LET US NOT FORGET – OVERNIGHT:  It didn't take long for the Ukraine war to be shoved off the front pages, but it's still being fought, and fiercely.  It is the largest ground action in Europe since the Second World War.  From Reuters: 

Russia hit Kyiv with cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea on Sunday, striking a rail car repair facility in the Ukrainian capital, in the first such attack for weeks, Ukraine‘s army and the country’s railway chief said.

Dark smoke funneled into the sky above Kyiv’s eastern outskirts. At least one person was hospitalized though no deaths were immediately reported, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
Ukrainian air defenses shot down one incoming missile at around 6 a.m. local time (0300 GMT), the military said.

Kyiv resident Kostyantyn Nikitenko, who lives near the repair facility, said that he immediately took shelter in his apartment’s corridor when he heard several powerful explosions around that time.

“Every 10-30 seconds the next explosions came. With every new explosion, it was more and more powerful, and I got the impression that it was getting closer and closer,” he said, adding that afterwards he saw a 100-metre column of black smoke emerging from behind a nearby building.

“There hasn’t been a strike on Kyiv in a while, and perhaps most people, including myself, developed a kind of illusion that the worst was behind us. But this was a reminder that the war is still going on,” Nikitenko said.

One Russian missile that was probably headed for Kyiv flew “critically low” over a major nuclear power plant in the southern Mykolaiv region, state-run nuclear power operator Energoatom said on Telegram. It later posted a video appearing to confirm its account. Reuters could not independently verify the footage.

COMMENT:  This can go on for a long time.  The Russians will not accept a defeat.  We have to brace ourselves, and realize that this could turn into another Korea.  We have now committed ourselves to Ukraine's defense.  If they lose, or if we betray them by taking our marbles and running home, it's on us, with all that implies.

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JUNE 4, 2022

SHE IS TRANSFORMED! – AOC HAS NEW IDENTITY – READ ALL ABOUT IT – OVERNIGHT:  Yes, what you're hearing in the streets is true.  AOC, alias Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, alias Little Evita from the Bronx, alias Squad Member #1, has discovered herself.  Just as Hispanics are leaving the Democratic Party in droves, AOC has discovered that, well, she's not just Hispanic.  She has other backgrounds to sell.  From Fox: 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday her connection to her "indigenous heritage" was awakened while protesting the Dakota Access pipeline with Native American tribes at Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Responding to a comment on Instagram, Ocasio-Cortez said she wanted to connect more with the ancestral roots of the Taíno, an indigenous people group of the Caribbean, and that American Indian tribes welcomed her as family.

Yeah, the same way they welcomed Elizabeth Warren.

"One of the things that first started awakening and connecting me in a deep to my indigenous heritage was connecting to the Lakota Sioux at Standing Rock," Ocasio-Cortez says in the video.

"It really just clicked that this is nuts, like, the grace that they extended to say 'no, you are a relative,' was really formative for me. While we may not be and come from the same exact lineage, there is a commonality to that ancestry. And it's important for us to recognize that we were raised and we were told growing up that we were extinct, that Tainos don't exist, and it's really important for Puerto Ricans to understand that that narrative is being challenged right now."

Are you believing this stuff?

In addition to indigenous and Hispanic roots, Ocasio-Cortez, whose family emigrated to New York City from Puerto Rico, has over the years claimed to have Jewish, European and Black ancestry.

"As is the story of Puerto Rico, we are a people that are an amalgamation," she told a Queens synagogue in 2018. "We are no one thing. We are Black; we are indigenous; we are Spanish; we are European."

Ocasio-Cortez said at the Hannukah service that "a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews" who escaped forced conversions at the hands of Spanish Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ocasio-Cortez is also a Catholic, which she says has informed her environmental views.

Okay, add Jews and Catholics to her heritage.  We're checking on Buddhists.

In her Instagram stories Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez explained that Taíno culture has influenced modern American culture and language without being credited, an issue she claimed is linked to colonization. As an example, she pointed to the word "Juracan," the name of a Taíno deity of chaos and disorder, which formed the root of the word "hurricane."

COMMENT:  I have nothing to say.  But I'm now so inspired to take time out to study my Martian heritage.  We were one of the first families to land at Cape Canaveral.  My first words, which are on the plaque there, were, "I want to buy a condo." 

Only in America.

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SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

CAN IT BE?  I CERTAINLY HOPE SO – FROM COLLEGE FIX:  Employers have started to look at training on the job as a better measure of skills than a college degree, according to one career expert.  Ken Coleman, a career coach and podcaster with Ramsey Solutions, told The College Fix recently that he expects the number of job listings that require a college degree to continue to decline.  “On-the-job training is replacing the college diploma,” Coleman told The Fix through a spokesperson. “To put it simply, the ‘knowledge’ that comes with a degree isn’t relevant to the job.”  The Fix asked Coleman to explain why he believed degrees were becoming less relevant, a point he made during a recent episode of his show.  “62 percent of U.S. adults over the age of 25 do not have a bachelor’s degree,” Coleman said on his show. He said even he thought the number would be lower.  Read the whole thing.  The college degree has been obsolete for decades.  First, many colleges are glorified high schools.  Second, colleges and their faculties have become over-politicized, teaching stuff of no particular value to a grown-up.  Third, companies are often more disciplined, and when they teach they actually expect the student to learn.

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