Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat from Hawaii and presidential candidate, will be taking a two-week absence from her campaign Monday to report for active duty with the Hawaiian Army National Guard in Indonesia, she said in an interview with CBSN's Caitlin Huey-Burns.Pretty Presidential, if you ask me.
"I'm stepping off of the campaign trail for a couple of weeks and putting on my army uniform to go on a joint training exercise mission in Indonesia," she said. Gabbard has also taken two weeks off to report for active service in 2017.
"I love our country. I love being able to serve our country in so many ways including as a soldier," she said. "And so while some people are telling me, like gosh this is a terrible time to leave the campaign, can't you find a way out of it? You know that's not what this is about."
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Tulsi Gabbard really has been called up to active duty, just in time to be kept out of the next Presidential debates. She'll be in Indonesia.
Indonesia's not very close to Antarctica. Still, she did get called up for a bit.
ReplyDeleteTiming is curious, but I don't know who has the juice with the HANG to do that on purpose.
Eric Hines
Two weekends a month, two weeks a year. No time off for political favors. Sounds about right to me.
ReplyDeleteBut once again, I'm with Eric, I could see the governor of Hawaii being a Kamala Harris fan, or just throwing her a favor (to-be-exchanged later).
Or Mazie Hirono getting on to the Guv. For a favor to be named later, from either Ige or Harris.
ReplyDeleteAs a practical matter, I don't think the timing materially impacts Gabbard's chances in the primary, but it does remove an effective critic of Kamala Harris, as Mike suggests.
Eric Hines
The bases in Antarctica are only around the perimeter. Nobody is allowed from various sources to go into the interior.
ReplyDeleteThe surface smoke expeditions aren't in the interior and there's no way to use a compass to see where the South pole is because compasses only work by pointing North. There are no compasses that can point South, although technically there should be due to how magnetics work.
Generally speaking, the public will hear that someone went to the South Pole or that sky diving expeditions for civilians are allowed.
These are what one might call surface cover up operations, sorta like how the Manhattan Project was making weapons, but only the inner layers with need to know knew that they weren't conventional weapons.
The fullest debrief about Antarctica does not come from recent de classified documents (cause they are still classified, freedom of information you don't matter there). It comes from rather old records, like Operation High Jump and youngest admiral in US naval history.
Also why is a National Guard in Indonesia? Training insurgents to fight against AQ or Islamic jihadists? Again?
ReplyDeleteThe damage has already been done to Harris, and Gabbard hasn't meet the poll requirement for September anyway.
ReplyDeleteymar (mary?), you are aware that there are astronomers at Amundsen-Scott, right? And that they can look at the stars when it's clear? And see what sorts of arcs they make in the sky as the Earth rotates?
ReplyDelete"...there's no way to use a compass to see where the South pole is because compasses only work by pointing North. There are no compasses that can point South..."
ReplyDeleteUm, allow me to point out the blindingly obvious fact that if you can point North, you can point to it's antithesis, South, rather easily by simple deduction.
And that they can look at the stars when it's clear? And see what sorts of arcs they make in the sky as the Earth rotates?
ReplyDeleteWhich is relevant to what exactly?
Um, allow me to point out the blindingly obvious fact that if you can point North, you can point to it's antithesis, South, rather easily by simple deduction.
Except the North pole magnetically moves around, by several miles even at certain segments, but it doesn't affect the South pole because there is no magnetic South pole. There is a direction away from North, which is labeled South on human made maps and instruments.
As nobody has circumnavigated from South to North, they have no idea where exactly the South pole is because it would require them to triangulate it from several methods. What people call "circumnavigations" are when people sail to the port at Antarctica, travel to Chile, travel back up to Africa, and then England, and call it a "circumnavigation" of the globe. It ain't no such thing. To circumnavigate a globe South to North would be the same as West to East. You have to keep going... and you can't keep going over Antarctica for various reasons. There are perimeters around Antarctica, but it is also not mapped out either. Google Maps aren't allowed to even use civilian high altitude, 747 cameras that have higher resolutions than the Hubbel in space, or military de classified spy plane footage once you try to look a few miles in land from the various bases and outposts on the coast.
In a magnetic field system, all you have to do to point South is to reverse the polarity of whatever your compass is set on. But that doesn't work. Do you know why? Because there is no Magnetic South Pole. There is only a Magnetic North. One polarity. Everything else points away from that central point compass wise. It's also why planes can lose their location and can't find themselves any more over certain regions. Cause compasses don't work, not the way it is supposed to on a Magnetic North/South field.
The problem with this age is that people have a very shallow understanding of engineering and physics outside of their particular job or specialties. They take for granted what the fake news and main stream tells them. Good thing I'm not part of that bridge jumping club.