An Oklahoma man who had been released early from prison in January as part of a mass commutation effort is now accused of three killings, including the death of a neighbor whose heart he cut out, authorities said.
A judge denied bail Tuesday for Lawrence Paul Anderson, who faces three counts of first-degree murder, one count of assault and one count of maiming for the attack this month in Chickasha, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City.
According to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Anderson is accused of killing Andrea Lynn Blankenship, 41, and cutting out her heart. Authorities say Anderson brought the heart to his aunt and uncle's house, cooked it with potatoes and tried to serve it to them before killing Leon Pye, 67, wounding the aunt and killing Kaeos Yates, the pair's 4-year-old granddaughter.
South Dakota AG Accused of Lying About Fatal Car Accident Last Year
—Ace
Last September, South Dakota's Attorney General hit and run a man, killing him.
Or, rather: He claims it wasn't a hit and run because he didn't know the thing he hit was a human. He says he didn't know it was a man until he revisited the collision scene the next day.
Problem: Prosecutors say the dead man's eyeglasses were found in his car.
Pretty sure deer don't wear eyeglasses.
From the Washington Post:
He's a Republican so believe me, you'll be hearing a lot about this!
Who's Andrew Cuomo? I'm not familiar with the name.
Impeachment charges have been filed against him, and Governor Kristi Noem says he must resign:
Governor Kristi Noem
@govkristinoem
Now that the investigation has closed and charges have been filed, I believe the Attorney General should resign. I have reviewed the material we are releasing, starting today, and I encourage others to review it as well.
Did he run to take a Teddy Kennedy pause to clear the alcohol out of his system? He says he wasn't drunk, but... One wonders.
Here's the video of a police interrogation. I don't know when it's from, if it's from around the time of the incident or if it's from more recently.
It starts getting contentious at 1:10:00. They tell him the "face came through the window" at 1:11:00.
Why Do the Election’s Defenders Require My Agreement?
The purpose of voting today is to give a democratic veneer to an undemocratic regime--not to give the people a say in the direction of their government.
By Michael Anton
February 23, 2021
Recently, I appeared as a guest on Andrew Sullivan's podcast. Sullivan is vociferously anti-Trump, so I expected us to disagree--which, naturally, we did. But I was surprised by the extent to which he insisted I assent to his assertion that the 2020 election was totally on the level. That is to say, I wasn't surprised that Sullivan thinks it was; I was surprised by his evident yearning to hear me say so, too.
Which I could not do.
Sullivan badgered me on this at length before finally accusing me of being fixated on the topic, to which I responded, truthfully, that I was only talking about it because he asked. As far as I’m concerned, the 2020 election is well and truly over. I have, I said, "moved on."
So I thought. Then I received two emails from a friendly acquaintance who is a recognized Republican expert on elections that suggested he, too, is troubled by my lack of belief. Then came two other data points, which I noticed only after the first draft this essay had been completed. Ramesh Ponnuru snarked (snark seems to be the go-to, indeed the only, device his in literary quiver) that one of the anomalies I cited in my most recent article in the Claremont Review of Books had been "debunked" by the partisan left-wing FactCheck.org. While I appreciate the insight into the sources from which National Review editors get their "facts" these days, the quote provided admits that the statistic I cited is, well, accurate. Ponurru naturally ignores all of the other points raised in my earlier article.
Jonathan Chait wrote yet another (his 12th?) article denouncing me, for this same sin of disbelief. Why did he bother? Is there even a remote chance that a single one of his New York magazine readers either read my article or encountered its argument? Or is he worried that the "narrative" of the election is so fragile that it needs to be shored up?
I wanted to move on, I really did. But when Left (Chait), center (Sullivan), faux-right anti-conservative ankle-biter (Ponnuru), and genuine, if establishment, Right (my correspondent) all agree that my lack of belief is a problem, I wondered why this should be so, and the following observations came to mind.
This gets at it:
Or is he worried that the "narrative" of the election is so fragile that it needs to be shored up?
A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. --(Ecclesiastes 10:2)
There are three things that progressives despise, yea, even four they would destroy: intact, two-parent families, equal enforcement of laws, heartfelt Christian worship, and the innocence of small children.
Like a drunken sailor on shore leave after many weeks at sea, so is the government with the public treasury.
Being woke won't save you when the woke mob surrounds your house.
To feminists, masculinity is toxic because the alpha males ignore them.
A wise leader will listen carefully to the advice of John Kerry and then do the exact opposite.
Introverts say there's no people like no people.
Progressives eat heartily, and then leave before the check arrives.
It is better to stick your head in a fishbowl full of angry hornets than to have to listen to the 'Trump said there are fine people on both sides' lie repeated again.
"Intellectuals" of the right are always battling last century's foes. (h/t banana Dream)
"Public health" is a disguise for all sorts of tyranny and injustice.
Progressives love to point at ugliness and say "this is beautiful, and your applause is mandatory."
Democrats say "let us fight now", but Republicans tell each other "we will be brave tomorrow."
Jim Acosta is puffed up like a balloon full of wind, and Brian Stelter is a potato.
Liberals believe that their generosity with other people's money makes them virtuous.
Being 'woke' means never having to say you're satisfied.
Like a tiny car stuffed full of clowns, so is Joe Biden's White House.
Mrs. Muse Says This Is My Daily To-Do List Since I Retired:
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12/12 – Katya, the designated driver sends an update that she was in the ER with shortness of breath last weekend, and has found she has a blood clot in her lung now. The blood thinner she was on for the clot in her leg wasn’t doing the job, so she is giving herself injections twice a day of enoxaparin sodium. She feels good, mostly. She sends her thanks for prayers and support through her chemo treatments.
12/29 Update: Last week was her last chemo treatment. She still has 4 infusion treatments of Keytruda, which is the immunotherapy drug that is still in clinical trials in the US. She has an appointment on Wednesday with the surgeon to scheduler her mastectomy. She sends thanks for continued prayers and support.
1/19 Update – Katya’s surgery was pushed back to the 28th because she has pneumonia.
2/8 Update – Katya’s pneumonia is getting better, and she has been cleared for surgery. On Thursday, she will have a bilateral mastectomy. Prayers for recovery and continued cancer treatment are requested. In a couple of weeks she will begin radiation therapy.
2/16 Update – Katya sent word that her surgery went great, but she’s had some issues since then. (The blood thinner medication for blood clots caused low blood pressure. Then she was losing blood, which caused dizziness and confusion. She got 4 units of blood, so that seems to be getting better. Her pneumonia and chemo have not helped with all of this, but it is getting better.) The surgeon thinks they got 99% of the cancer during surgery. And she is so happy that the surgery is over!
1/8 – Captain Whitebread requests the means to get an eye exam and some new glasses. His current glasses are 4 years old, and he can see distances fine, but his up-close work is blurry. Since he works around computer screens all day, that’s a big problem. His side jobs have all shut down due to Covid, so he’s barely getting the bills paid now; there is nothing to spare.
2/3 Update – Captain Whitebread sends his thanks to the Horde who have prayed for him and who have contributed. He has received contributions to cover the cost of the exam and new glasses.
1/18 – Pollywog the ‘Ette requests prayers for “Thing From Snowy Mountain”. His sister just passed away from Covid caught due to a suppressed immune system from chemo. His mom is in her 80s and also caught it, leading to hospitalization and was put on a ventilator (although she has been allowed to remain conscious). He needs comfort, physical endurance/strength, and positive human interaction. Prayers for provision and a better job would also be helpful.
2/10 Update – His mom is in rehab, but still on a vent. She is awake and seems stronger, but still fails the breathing tests and the medical people are back to trying to convince him to let her die. Lots of scope for prayer in the situation.
2/18 Update – Thing From Snowy Mountain has been threatened with a lawsuit by his mom’s sister to force him to put her in hospice because she didn’t like the result of a Facetime call she attempted yesterday and has decided his mom is braindead. He has contacted a friend who is an attorney, but needs wisdom, favor, peace, etc. as he works through this attempt to, essentially, kill his mom by someone who should be showing compassion and support.
1/20 – Washington Nearsider requests prayers for his mental and financial stability as he leaves his marital home after several years of debating the issue back and forth. Nearly all of the familial debt is in his name, and he is moving into a one-bedroom apartment with only a mattress and computer. Prayers for his wife that she finds peace and grace, and for his two children (ages six and four) that they come through this difficult time with resiliency, maintaining their joy, and exuberance for life.
2/1 – Hrothgar requests prayers for an upcoming, non-optional, non-trivial surgery on Thursday (2/4/2021), followed by several days in the hospital for follow-up. His original cancer diagnosis (from back in November) remains confirmed, but the follow-up biopsy shows clear margins as of today, for which he is thanking God. He’d also like a prayer for DaughterH as she strives to keep everything on an even keel for him!
2/1 – Tonypete asks for prayers for his buddies Jenny and John, who were moved to hospice care this week. Pray for a peaceful and easy transition to their final rewards. Jenny has been suffering for years from cancer and John found out 6 weeks ago he had giloblastoma. He declined remarkably quickly.
2/8 Update – Jenny passed away on 2/2, and John passed away on 2/6. Both will be sadly missed.
2/3 – Juddgement sends an update. Several months back, he had requested prayers for his brother-in-law, who was undergoing hospitalization for severe depression. There have been issues: medication side effects, misdiagnosis by medical staff, a new rehab facility, new medical caregivers. But with a lot of time, care, and work, his brother-in-law is almost a normal functioning adult. Juddgement is adding on to his house now, to provide a suite so his brother-in-law can maintain a semblance of independence, while they can continue to monitor his recovery. Juddgement sends thanks for your prayers.
2/8 – Weak Geek requests prayers for his father and sister following the death Feb. 6 of his wife and our mother. (It was no shock; she’d been declining for years.) Dad will have to cope with being alone after 60 years of marriage. Sister is highly competent, but will need strength to handle future family emergencies, since Weak Geek lives in another state.
2/9 – Rosasharn requests prayers. Her husband has scarring in his lungs (after getting Covid) and can’t recover. They don’t know how long he has, or if they will be able to see him again. Please pray for her to have the strength to get through this, and when his time comes, that it be peaceful and he is welcomed into Jesus’ arms.
2/10 Update – Rosasharn’s husband passed away on 2/10. Thankfully, she and her daughter were able to visit him before he passed.
2/9 – Diogenes asks for prayers for the family of his mother-in-law, Margaret. She passed away on 2/9, at peace, and in her sleep. She was 98.
2/10 – Prayers are requested for Maggie at The Universal Spectator, who is having a lung biopsy today.
2/19 – Pooky’s Girl requests prayers for Pooky, as he is going to have surgery to correct his deviated septum on 3/9. She is praying that the anesthesia works (he’s had problems with that in the past) and that it helps him breathe better and in turn helps his mental state.
For Healing:
9/23 – Dr_No requests continued prayers for his daughter Megan. She had surgery for cancer earlier, and now has had the 2nd of 12 FOLFOX chemo treatments for her Stage III-C cancer. It’s been rough – fatigue, weight loss, cold sensitivity, jaw pain. She’s losing an average of 6.5 pounds per week now and has lost approximately 25 pounds since her surgery and beginning chemo. Her attitude is terrific despite what she’s going through, but it’ll be a rough slog between now and January.
10/8 Update – Megan was admitted to the hospital for bi-lateral pulmonary embolisms. Luckily, the embolisms responded to treatment. Dr_No says thanks again for sending words up for Megan!
11/18 Update – Megan has had the 6th of 12 chemo treatments. She is still having the symptoms above and reactions to the FOLFOX series. Her mom bought her a pair of Neuropathy gloves, and those seem to help reduce the pain and tingling in her hands. She is still losing 3-5 pounds per week. Dr_No thanks the Horde for the prayers for her.
2/10 Update – Megan had the last of her 12 FOLFOX Protocol chemo treatments on 2/9. She goes to the clinic for removal of her port, and after that, she’ll be on every-three-month follow-up exams. It looks like she is past the worst of it now. Thanks to the Horde for your kind thoughts and prayers sent up for her. It worked!
1/13 – Coelacanth asks for prayers for a friend’s son who was snowboarding and had an accident. He was undergoing spinal surgery last night, and it is feared he may never walk again. His name is Gavin.
2/3 – Sassy requests prayers. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo a double mastectomy on 2/8. Prayers for strength, mental, physical, and spiritual recovery.
2/10 – Prayers are requested for Vana, who had a scope shoved down her throat into her lungs for a biopsy. Pray for healing and good recovery.
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Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:
http://www.prayerguide.org.uk/stfrancis.htm
Wednesday Who Dis: After a decent start in roles in movies such as Baby Doll, Giant, and a biopic of Jean Harlow, Caroll Baker fought with Warner Bros., the studio that held her contract, over appearing in a few movies (adaptions of pulp novels by Erskine Caldwell) that she thought were trashy, the studio refused to let her try out for outside films such as The Three Faces of Eve and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. So she did a lot of TV instead. She also in the 1959 Comedy But Not For Me with Mr. Goodwrench (1970s-1980s), Barry Coe, whose last film was in 1978. His gig as Mr. Goodwrench must have paid pretty well.
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Oliver Cromwell Opening The Coffin Of Charles I
Paul Delaroche (Hippolyte-Delaroche)
Paul Delaroche’s style is hard to pin down. He is clearly high academic, but he treads a line between classical and romantic. His work, like this one, is clean, theatrical, and easy to read, but it avoids the hero worship or idealization of the Neoclassicists. He seems more like a proto-Realist.
Delaroche was a history painter and was attracted to English and French history. The English Civil War particularly interested him and he seems to have used its events as metaphors for the French Revolution. Delaroche seemed to also be inspired by the romanticized works of his contemporaries. If one artist painted a fawning work of some historical figure, he would paint the same subject but more realistic and sometimes unflattering. His take on Napoleon crossing the Alps was a response to Jacques-Louis David’s more heroic portrait. In this painting, he seems to be responding to a work by Eugene Delacroix.
The scene is just after Charles’ execution. Cromwell, leader of the Parliamentarian “Roundheads” lifts the coffin’s lid and looks at the corpse of his former king. He fills the visual center of the work. Cromwell is dressed in drab browns and tans, possibly to reflect his strict Puritanism, but Delaroche distributes the browns and tans to emphasize his features and gestures. For example, his boots, pants, coat and hat create this thick pillar of solid brown and black that act as a visual support for the frame. His face and arms are in the lighter tan color and attract my eye. This allows me to focus on the Lord Protector’s face but it’s hard to read. Sometimes I see sadness there, sometimes regret, and other times nothing at all. Something drew him to look at the king’s corpse. He’s lost in thought. The detail on the face is arresting.
The tan line of Cromwell’s right arm pulls the eye away from the central figure and follows the outline of the coffin lid, which ends at the head of Charles. He is pale white, in his lifeless face and in his clothes. This gash of white through a dank palette would normally dominate the viewer’s attention but Delaroche balances this white with a small square of white next to Cromwell’s face. These two fields of brightness compete with each other and my eye darts back and forth between them. That little white collar brings attention back to Cromwell’s enigmatic face where the viewer’s attention should be. It accentuates his centrality in the work. This work is about Oliver Cromwell, not King Charles—and really about his emotional response to the sight of the former king’s lifeless body.
As stated above, Delaroche may have seen the English Civil War as an image of the French Revolution. One source I read thought Charles symbolized Louis XVI and Cromwell Napoleon. I can see the one, but Napoleon had nothing to do with Louis’ murder, and was still a minor artillery officer at that stage. I’ll leave the Horde to discuss possible connections.
In less than a month in office, the Biden [junta] has clearly defined itself and its party as a fascist vanguard, driven by a racist agenda, and unconstrained by constitutional principle. It chooses to rule by presidential diktat, even though it controls both Houses of Congress. It is an aggressive pursuer of political division behind a deceptive smokescreen of "healing" and "unity," It is busily exploiting a fake "armed insurrection" to justify witch-hunts of the military, the capital police, members of Congress and the opposition media, at the moment Fox and Newsmax, whom they want to suppress. Its legislative radicals have called for the expulsion of half the Republican conference, without rebuke from their leaders. Because these actions are indefensible in a democracy, the Democrat Party is brazenly advancing these destructive, anti-democratic measures using Orwellian doublespeak...
...Thanks to the Democrats, violent attacks on people and property and government buildings had become a "cultural norm" -- to use Biden's unconscionable phrase for looking away when confronted by Chinese genocide and enslavement of 2 million Uighur Muslims. Yet with the help of cowardly Republicans, afraid to call these aggressions by their proper names, the Democrats were able to turn the Capitol melee into a preposterous Reichstag Fire -- the same that provided Hitler, the elected chancellor of the Weimar Republic with an excuse for destroying the Republic and silencing his opponents.
The difference was that for Hitler the phantom enemy that justified his depredations was the Jews, while for the fascist Democrats it is "white supremacists," whose actual numbers are fewer even than the Jews. The Marxists of Black Lives Matter are the actual authors of the lie that the January 6 melee in the capital was a "white supremacist coup." But even the pathetic Merrick Garland was forced to repeat the canard - without offering a shred of evidence - at his confirmation hearing.
With Joe Biden now a month into his office as [quote-unquote so-called] president of the United States, Americans may shrug at the court's decision, but we shouldn't: The Supreme Court's abdication of its authority to answer important constitutional questions only encourages further lawlessness by state election officials and courts, undermines voter confidence, and threatens even more chaotic federal elections...
...Maybe the six justices who voted against certiorari believe the country will be better off without relitigating the election. The denial, however, will not heal a country that witnessed state officials and courts change the rules mid-vote -- not just in Pennsylvania, but in Wisconsin and Michigan too. Then her citizens saw the Supreme Court seemingly ignore those violations of the Electors Clause when Texas sought relief in the Supreme Court.
Worse yet will be the damage done to our republic when the bending and breaking of election laws repeats in the future. For now, as Justice Thomas concluded, "by doing nothing," the Supreme Court invites "erosion of voter confidence." We "citizens deserve better and expect more."
Beyond the institutionalization of election-rigging (at least only when Democrats do it) given the Good Volksgemeinschaft Seal of Approval by SCOTUS, does anyone think that the Court is going to side with the inevitable lawsuits that will be forthcoming when the junta goes after our guns, our unborn children, our houses of worship and the few remaining media outlets that can still disseminate voices of dissent as well as accurate reportage, etc. etc.? With a court like this, who needs to have it packed?
"Many traditional Americans are sleepwalking into a conflict they are not mentally prepared to handle. What are some practical steps they can take now?" The Last Stop Before Thermopylae
Michael Anton: "The purpose of voting today is to give a democratic veneer to an undemocratic regime --not to give the people a say in the direction of their government." Why Do the Election's Defenders Require My Agreement?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Michael Goodwin: "As Lily Tomlin once said, 'No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.' So it is now as Dems keep finding ways to use Jan. 6 for partisan purposes. Even something as awful as that day cannot be treated honestly and with facts, lest a crisis go to waste." (too bad Goodwin laces an otherwise good essay with ingrained Trump antipathy - jjs) Democrats' Cynical "Jan. 6" Politics
"Democrats view the MAGA base with disdain and fear, as if 75 million grenades were running in and about the Beltway with their pins pulled out." Congressional Whack-a-Mole
Lloyd Billingsley: "One year after DHS whistleblower was gunned down, FBI still not releasing results of forensic investigation." Philip Haney Not Resting in Peace
"Among those eying a run are Cliff Sims, the former deputy at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); former Ambassador to Slovenia Lynda Blanchard, a top Trump donor; former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell; former White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders; former campaign adviser Katrina Pierson; and former White House aide Max Miller." MAGA Marches Forward as Former Trump Officials Seek Office
"The most powerful actor in a democracy can do little to restrain other powerful actors when he is lethargic and drunk, as in the case of Yeltsin, or lethargic and demented, as with Biden. " America's Yeltsin
"The Maine Democrat said passing a $1.9 trillion [Chinese] coronavirus relief bill through budget reconciliation would likely take weeks or months. Instead, he called for Congress to pass a $20 billion relief bill to provide immediate [Chinese] coronavirus aid." Democrat Jared Golden Flip-Flops on $1.9 Trillion Chinese Coronavirus Bill
"Among the barriers to citizenship potentially on the chopping block is the oath of allegiance -- which requires citizens to 'renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity' with any other country and promise to 'support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies.'" Biden Exec Order Hints at Removal of Oath of Allegiance for New Migrants
"Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a democrat, has expressed that the increase to $15 from $7.25 is simply too expensive, despite his progressive colleagues' dreams. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz) has also hinted she may oppose it." Progressives Push to Keep $15 Minimum Wage Hike in Stimulus Package
"Buffalo's school district tells students that 'all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism' -- while presiding over miserable student outcomes." Failure Factory
"Affirmative action in the United States is not very different from the anti-Semitism a previous generation experienced in the USSR and that qualified them for refugee status." Soviet-Style Equal Opportunity in America
"Schools this past year have finally managed to combine teaching nothing with simultaneously keeping children in isolation. Now is the time to dispense with the charade of progressive schooling." No More School
Our intrepid science reporter: "The second member of a four-person crew for what's likely to be the first privately funded orbital space tour has been identified: She's Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old physician assistant who works at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. -- And was successfully treated for bone cancer at St. Jude almost two decades ago." Second Passenger Chosen for Private Manned SpaceX Mission
"Thanks to experience with numerous hurricanes, we were prepared for the Texas power outage and no one slept in the cold at our house. When you are prepared, three days is not that bad." How To Survive For Three Days With No Water Or Power On $200
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
"As a result of going in for heart surgery, he ended up being a triple amputee," "Not because of the heart surgery, but because of the drug that was given to him called Heparin." Attorney Warren Paboojian
Quote II
“I’m a certified black man. I’m certified black in all 50 states. But the federal government doesn’t recognize me.” Ralph Taylor
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“That is not a partisan thing. That transcends everything that you and I might disagree or agree on. That should bring together left and right to protect our Constitution.” Former Democratic adviser Naomi Wolf
Quote IV
If hunting is banned, animals will become worthless and will disappear. Hunting has helped bring back a lot of species from the brink of extinction. The only people protecting these animals are trophy hunters.” Merelize Van Der Merwe
Ask Lucia DeClerck how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer.
“Prayer. Prayer. Prayer,” she offers. “One step at a time. No junk food.”
But surviving the coronavirus, she said, also may have had something to do with another staple: the nine gin-soaked golden raisins she has eaten each morning for most of her life.
“Fill a jar,” she explained. “Nine raisins a day after it sits for nine days.”
Her children and grandchildren recall the ritual as just one of Ms. DeClerck’s endearing lifelong habits, like drinking aloe juice straight from the container and brushing her teeth with baking soda. (That worked, too: She did not have a cavity until she was 99, relatives said.)
“We would just think, ‘Grandma, what are you doing? You’re crazy,’” said her 53-year-old granddaughter, Shawn Laws O’Neil, of Los Angeles. “Now the laugh is on us. She has beaten everything that’s come her way.”
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The ONT has covered the Gorilla Glue hair saga.........
Now Lewis Black examines this story..........NSFW-Language
Self-Cleaning Underwear Can Allegedly Be Worn for Weeks Without Becoming Smelly
A Minnesota company has created what it calls “the world’s cleanest underwear”, an innovative self-cleaning undergarment that can be worn daily for weeks, even months, without becoming smelly.
HercLéon, a material innovation group known for creating the world’s first self-cleaning socks, t-shirts and bedsheets, is now taking on the underwear industry with Kribi, a line of undergarments made from a bacteria-fighting fabric. This revolutionary material, called HercFiber continuously destroys all bacteria and stays clean without needing a wash. All you have to do is let the underwear “air out” for a bit after wearing them, and you can safely put them on again the next day.
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An interesting look at the Texas power debacle...........(H/T Sayomara)
A man accused of planning a terror attack in Britain has told a court he wanted to become a farmer and aspired to be “like Alan Titchmarsh”.
Sahayb Abu, 27, denied planning an atrocity and told the Old Bailey his efforts were focused on starting up a charity that would grow crops for developing countries.
“Honest to God this is what I had planned for my life, I swear to you,” he told jurors while giving evidence on Tuesday. “I’m no Alan Titchmarsh but I was trying to get there.”
Abu said he watched videos of the veteran gardener and broadcaster “growing stuff, snipping this and snipping that”, adding: “I wanted to learn how to do this thing.”
The court heard that Abu had searched for information on drip irrigation systems, set up a fundraising page, and wanted to generate food for Somalia and Yemen.
California mom and her husband say it’s not fair their three boys were kicked out of a Catholic elementary school because the mom sells access to sexy photos and videos of herself online.
Crystal Jackson, known as “Mrs. Poindexter” online, started an OnlyFans account for her “hot mom” persona and was shocked by how quickly it grew. She posts photos and videos of herself mostly doing “normal mom stuff” around the house while posing in lingerie. Some of the content contains nudity.
“We think of it as artistic or sultry and sexy and fun and playful but certainly nothing hardcore,” said Chris Jackson, Crystal’s husband, who sometimes takes the photos.
Thanks to her subscribers, Crystal Jackson’s OnlyFans account now brings in up to $150,000 per month.
But the mother says last summer, a group of moms from her kids’ Catholic school, Sacred Heart Parish in Sacramento, California, started a crusade to get her three boys under the age of 12 kicked out. At one point, anonymous envelopes of Crystal Jackson’s photos were sent to the school.
“All these women are talking about you,” Crystal Jackson said. “They wanted my kids removed from school, and they were successful in the very end.”
Former Capitol Police Chief Blames Intelligence Breakdown for Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
The former chief of the Capitol Police on Tuesday blamed a breakdown in intelligence ahead of the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.
“I think in exigent circumstances there needs to be a streamlined process for the Capitol police chief, for Capitol Police, to have authority,” former Chief Steven Sund told senators during a hearing about the incident.
Sund, who resigned from his post several days after the Capitol breach, remarked that the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms on Jan. 4 allegedly did not respond to a request for assistance. He also requested assistance from the National Guard but was rebuffed.
Dee Snider had some harsh criticism for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, claiming the institution is run by “elitist assholes” in a tirade posted to Twitter.
The Twisted Sister frontman’s main source of contention seems to stem from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's attitude toward metal and hard-rock bands. In the singer’s opinion, too many deserving artists from those genres have been overlooked.
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Per a YouTube Comment:
Cia Lewis
5 years ago
This incredibly talented, brilliant rock and roll blues guitarist died at age 70...without getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That makes me so fucking mad. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is such a crock of shit.
Born on this day: February 23, 1944 - Johnny Winter
American singer and guitarist Johnny Winter who worked with his brother Edger Winter and Rick Derringer. He produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. Winter died at the age of 70 on 16 July 2014 in Zurich, just days after playing at the Lovely Days Festival in Austria. via thisdayinmusic.com
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A bank located blocks away from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters was robbed Monday by a woman in a motorized wheelchair, authorities said.
The bank robbery was reported about noon at the Regions Bank branch on Bay Street near Laura Street.
Police said the woman showed up to discuss an account, but she got into an argument with a teller that escalated when she threatened to kill everyone in the bank and announced she was robbing the place, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
35 years ago, our son, Jared, was born blind. Fortunately, I learned about her life-changing organization when Jared’s teacher of the visually-impaired introduced us to Seedlings Braille Books for Children.
It was founded by Debra Bonde, and although she did not plan to start a nonprofit back in 1984, she ended up helping blind children all over the world.
A shy woman, she just wanted to find a volunteer job she could do without having to talk to anyone. So, she signed up for a braille transcription class in hopes of translating books into braille in the basement of her Detroit home.
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Harry Shearer will no longer voice "black" cartoon character Dr. Hibbert.
Another white "Simpsons" voice actor has stepped down from lending his pipes to a character of color.
According to The Wrap, Harry Shearer, who is white, will no longer voice the black character Dr. Hibbert. He'll be replaced by Kevin Michael Richardson ("Bless the Harts") in next Sunday’s episode, "Wad Goals."
Hank Azaria previously gave up voicing Apu, for Reasons.
Wait until they find out that almost every character on the show is not white, but yellow.
We live inside a regime that hates us and its continuous vengeful psy-op must be actively destroyed or it will take us down. Ready? Go: https://t.co/3J6MRXTXcQ
Gimme Shelter: Biden Now Putting Kids in Cages "Shelters," and the Media Is Gushing About It!
—Ace
Biden sent the first immigrant kids to cages yesterday. These cages are being called "shelters" by the media, despite the very obvious cage-like bars on the windows.
The media is praising these new Biden Cages. Even though it was, of course, Trump who actually requisitioned them.
"We've had kids in cages. We've had a pandemic response that happened way too late that has cost us lives. We have people that don’t have access to critical care that they need." https://t.co/t4OuXRlnrK
LOL: Just weeks after Jeep's politically-pandering Super Bowl ad -- using vicious partisan drunkard and tax-dodger Bruce Springsteen to call for unity -- the Cherokee nation demands that Jeep rename its top-selling SUVs.
The Cherokee Nation is calling on automaker Jeep to stop naming two of its best-selling sports utility vehicles after the Native American tribe, as other U.S. corporations and professional sports teams reconsider branding that could be considered racially or culturally inappropriate.
The Oklahoma-based tribe, one of the largest in the U.S., told Jeep parent company Stellantis during a Zoom call last month that it does not condone Jeep's use of the "Cherokee" name in its branding, a spokesperson for the Cherokee Nation told CBS News in a statement Tuesday.
Two of Jeep's most popular and well-known vehicle models are called the Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Jeep Cherokee.
I've got four words:
Bend.
The.
Fucking.
Knee.
Death to corporations. I'm not fighting these SJW impositions any longer; I'm joining the SJWs in demanding them.
BREAKING: West Virginia lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban critical race theory programs throughout the state. The bill would ban the promotion of race essentialism, collective guilt, and race-based harassment. Our movement is growing—and we will win. pic.twitter.com/l94hgvWYuO
James Murdoch took $2.2 million in personal flights on the 21st Century Fox corporate jet from 2009 to 2018, even as he was breaking with his family over climate change.
This is advanced dementia and the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked, quickly.
Update:
Bident at the “black essential workers” roundtable: “I think there’s a growing awareness that, uh, um, you know uh, injecting bleach into your system doesn’t do it for ya" pic.twitter.com/AZxtW7dAgb
Democrats and left-wing activists are blaming "white supremacy" for the recent surge in violence against Asians in cities across the country.
California Democrat lawmakers, including Rep. Ted Lieu, Rep. Barbara Lee, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a news conference on Friday, linking the uptick in hate crimes to an alleged increase in Trumpian intolerance.
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On Saturday, hundreds of left-wing activists in New York City rallied for "unity and understanding" amid the uptick in violence. They took their cue from congressional Democrats, and blamed the attacks on white supremacism.
In a poster advertising the rally, organizers demanded "justice for Vicha Ratanapakdee," an Asian senior who was murdered in San Francisco.
However, it was a black teenager, not a white supremacist, who was arrested and charged with the murder. Antoine Watson, 19, allegedly charged Ratanapakdee and knocked him to the ground in a horrifying attack that was caught on video.
More at the link.
Note we also saw the spate of attacks on Hasidic people blamed on "white supremacism," even though security camera footaged showed that nearly all the attackers were black (with the occasional Hispanic).
Conservative, Inc. refuses to discuss this kind of evil, destabilizing racial gaslighting -- or the vicious anti-white and anti-Asian racism that is spurring these Knockout Game attacks -- because they agree with their leftwing colleagues: Any talk about race is racist, except if it's to rush to be seen publicly agreeing with or praising a minority.
The deadly assault of an elderly Asian American man in San Francisco is being blamed on white nationalism by left-wing activists. Antoine Watson, the suspect arrested over the homicide, is black. pic.twitter.com/HcqG79kQYL
The Democrat-on-Democrat broadside came less than a week after Kim, of Queens, alleged that Cuomo called him while at home, threatening to “destroy” his political career unless he helped mitigate damage from the ballooning scandal.
"It is time to be brave, to hold him accountable, to investigate his cover-up of nursing home information," wrote Kim -- whose uncle's death in a New York City nursing home is suspected to be tied to the pandemic -- in the piece for Newsweek.
"It is time to undo the bad policies that led to unnecessary deaths. And it is time to start the impeachment process," Kim wrote.
By now, much of the world has seen New York's Emmy-award winning governor and "COVID-19 hero" Andrew Cuomo come under fire for New York's growing nursing home scandal. A March 25 directive forcing nursing homes to take in patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 led to the spread of the disease among New York's most vulnerable population. And then, to cover his tracks, the Governor may have obstructed justice by suppressing life and death data from the Department of Justice; his office underestimated the number of nursing home deaths by up to fifty percent.
These actions, which Cuomo's aid Melissa DeRosa admitted to in a call with Democratic lawmakers that I was on, implicated all of us in the governor's cover-up. It would be the first of multiple attempts to do so.
On a private phone call, the governor berated me, threatened my career, and demanded that I issue a fabricated statement. He wanted me to deny what I heard on the call. "Are you an honorable man?" He yelled. "Who do you think you are?" This, too, was an attempt to rope me into his scheme.
Those of us who have worked with Cuomo are familiar with his tendencies. There is a long pattern of abusive tactics that the governor deploys when the public gets too close to learning the truth: cast a net far and wide, compromise as many unwitting accomplices, threaten retribution, then berate you for having the temerity to stand up.
I call this Cuomo's Predatory Inclusion Syndrome. And I won't be party to it.
I witnessed a crime, and on top of that, 15,000 nursing home residents died under his watch. Restoring faith in government for those families is my top and only priority, not the governor's PR image.
Read the whole thing. He gets into Cuomo's corrupt, last-minute, unpublicized grant of immunity the nursing homes -- who just happen to be big donors to Cuomo.
And whose silence he needed. And was willing to pay for.
Below, some of Kim's previous statements, accusing Cuomo of trying to pressure Kim into joining his cover-up.
NY Democratic Assemblyman Ron Kim, whose uncle died in a NY nursing home: @NYGovCuomo called and "berated me, yelled at me. He told me that my career would be over [if I didn’t ] lie and … asking me [to cover up a] crime" pic.twitter.com/uHKopiIeDW
While CNN was disgracefully putting Gov. Andrew Cuomo on its airwaves to giggle with his brother as he was heralded as a noble, strong and great leader, @rontkim was doing his job back in April to expose the truth.
Not one person has been charged with possessing or using a gun inside the Capitol. Further, no one even has been identified as carrying a gun inside the building.
By Julie Kelly
February 19, 2021
Since the Justice Department launched its nationwide manhunt to track down and arrest anyone involved with the Capitol breach on January 6, hundreds of perpetrators have been arrested.
Most face misdemeanor charges for trespassing or disorderly conduct, but dozens are in jail and denied bond for the thoughtcrime of believing the 2020 presidential election wasn't on the up-and-up. The acting U.S. attorney general overseeing the investigation promises to apprehend hundreds more, however, it's been two weeks since authorities have arrested anyone in connection to the probe.
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Hundreds of crazed Trumpists carrying deadly weapons, the public believes, stormed the Capitol to injure or kill senators, representatives, and even Vice President Mike Pence in order to avenge a "stolen" election.
Most news outlets--as they did with the coverage of Sicknick's death--unflinchingly repeat the "armed insurrection" trope, which can be traced back to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 7 press conference. "[Y[esterday, the President of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America, the gleeful desecration of the US Capitol...and the violence targeting Congress are horrors that will forever stay in our nation’s history," Pelosi ranted.
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When a thinking person hears the word "armed," he usually thinks of a firearm, or a gun. Yet here is how the Justice Department describes the trove of deadly weapons seen at the Capitol that day: "During the course of the violent protests, several violent protestors were armed with weapons including bats, pepper spray, sticks, zip ties, as well as bulletproof vests and anti-tear gas masks." (The zip ties, it's important to note, weren't brought into the building by Trumpists but by law enforcement officials.)
Vests and gas masks are "weapons," now, as far as the feds are concerned?
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But so far, just two people have been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm--and there’s no proof either man "breached" the Capitol let alone threatened lawmakers as part of a coordinated, armed insurrection.
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Only one defendant had a handgun on his person outside the building hours after the "insurrection" ended. The other defendant had two guns on his person but investigators don't allege he was inside the Capitol on January 6.
Read the whole thing. She notes the feds are claiming a helmet is a weapon, because the helmet was used to break a window.
This is an occupation government. This is a lying, brazenly corrupt repressive government. It is not of the people, nor by the people, and certainly not for the people.
She spoke with Tucker Carlson about this last night. Video below.
EXCLUSIVE: He was the martyred face of the Capitol riot but now mother of hero cop Brian Sicknick says she believes her son died of a fatal stroke - not a fire extinguisher to the head - while authorities won't say a word
The family of US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick is still awaiting answers more than one month after his death on January 7
Sicknick's mother Gladys, 74, told DailyMail.com her son may have suffered a fatal stroke after trying to defend the Capitol from violent protesters
Initial reports stated Sicknick, 42, was killed after being bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher - though those claims were later debunked
Another theory is that he had an adverse reaction to pepper spray or bear spray - both of which contain capsaicin
DailyMail.com has learned that one cop was indeed admitted to the hospital with these symptoms on January 6 after having inhaled pepper spray during the riot
Sicknick, was involved in confronting rioters at the Capitol, but appeared to be fine after the mob dispersed and had returned to his office
That evening, Sicknick texted his elder brother that he had been pepper sprayed twice but felt fine. He later collapsed and died at the hospital
Yet more than one month after Officer Sicknick's death on January 7, his mother says that they are still in the dark as to what exactly caused that catastrophic episode
Tucker Carlson & @julie_kelly2 Call Out Biden's AG Nominee Merrick Garland For His Dishonest Statements About January 6th At His Hearing Today And Expose The "Armed Insurrection" Lie Told By The Democrats & The Media pic.twitter.com/9Xqms5DHNh
When Jeff Sessions, the amiable coward, recused himself from the Special Counsel Investigation did anyone expect anything other than a hyper-partisan hack job? Robert Mueller was a political hatchet man, completely untethered to the rule of law, so a thundering condemnation of President Trump and a recommendation that charges be filed against him seemed to be baked into that cake.
But it was not to be...even Mueller couldn't invent and obfuscate and massage and coerce evidence of...anything. So the frothing fury of the Democrat Media ComplexTM was confined to loud "Yeah..Buts!"
Fast forward to the next great show trial of a post-rule-of-law America, complete with hysterical comparisons and even more hysterical claims of a vast but obviously invisible right-wing army just waiting for its chance to declare itself and march on Washington.
The Oklahoma City bombing bears no comparison to what happened at the Capitol building on January 6. To suggest so not only is an historical false equivalence but a heartless diminution of the suffering and loss McVeigh and his co-conspirators, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, inflicted that day—a painful affront to the families left behind.
But during his confirmation hearing Monday, Merrick Garland, Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general, insisted the current political climate is worse than the divisive climate leading up to McVeigh’s mass murder nearly 26 years ago.
“We are facing a more dangerous period than we faced in Oklahoma City,” Garland told Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). “From what I have seen . . . it looks like an extremely aggressive and perfectly appropriate beginning to an investigation all across the country in the same way our regional investigation was but many, many times more.”
He continued. “I can assure you this will be my first priority and my first briefing.”
This is the ultimate masturbatory fantasy of the Deep State; a far-ranging investigation that will tar its enemies with the brush of fanaticism and violence. Its primary target is of course President Trump, but their witch hunt was never just about him. Its purpose is to drive from the public square any figure that still clings to those quaint notions of freedom and liberty and autonomy upon which American Exceptionalism is based.
But there was no smoking gun in the Russia Investigation, and in fact there was no gun at all. And from a dispassionate examination of the events of January 6th, one can make a rational argument that contrary to the breathless claims of the Democrat Media Complex, almost no violence was done except to the egos of the self-proclaimed royalty of our legislative branch. Far from being an insurrection, it was mostly a big crowd, possibly egged on by provocateurs from the Far Left, who walked unimpeded into a building that they own!
And the only violence was the murder of one of the protesters by a yet-to-be-named agent of the state.
Is this the stuff from which successful witch hunts investigations are made? I'm not so sure.
...The FBI, Garland told the committee, is right to add more agents to root out the threat of far-Right extremism. "We also have to look at what's happening all over the country and where this could spread and where this came from," he said. "It does require a lot of resources..."
What's "happening all over the country" is upwards of 80 million Americans witnessed their votes and then their nation stolen right in front of their eyes. For being ill-mannered enough to point that out, they're going to have to have a rhetorical and if need be literal whack on the knuckles. And, as Garland seems to be alluding, here comes Obama's "internal security force," the one that was supposed to have as much or more funding and manpower than the Defense Department, to do the job. Not that that is really necessary these days when your boss, your colleagues, your neighbors and even your own children can collectively (no pun) put the screws to you to keep your mouth shut and chant with the appropriate zeal "Black Lives Matter," which of course translates as "seig heil" in the original German.
That said, while mobs of organized terrorists from BLM and Antifa rampaged and incinerated dozens of cities with the approval if not at the behest of the Democrat Party from late spring all the way through Election Day of last year with impunity...
More than 200 people already have been arrested, mostly for misdemeanors, and dozens remain behind bars denied bail; federal prosecutors argue defendants with no criminal record nonetheless pose a risk to the community for the thoughtcrime of doubting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. If confirmed, Garland will take charge of a law enforcement agency that continues to act as the Democratic Party's consigliere rather than as a defender of justice for 330 million citizens regardless of political affiliation. Garland now admits he will place another politically motivated investigation above the legitimate public safety concerns of the American public. "This was the most heinous attack on the democratic processes that I've ever seen and one that I never expected to see in my lifetime," Garland dramatically promised Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). (Wait until he hears about Crossfire Hurricane and FISA warrants.).
Democratic processes my ass. Wait, I take that back; It was an "attack" on the Democrat Party's processes of election stealing, if by the word attack he means legitimate protest. The staged "riot" of BLaM-tifa confederates dressed in MAGA hats either being allowed in to the Capitol building complex by sympathetic/paid off DC Cops notwithstanding.
...Further, Democrats do not want the investigation into January 6 to be focused only on those involved in the melee. Their end goal, once again, is to capture and convict Donald Trump of criminal wrongdoing.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) prodded Garland about whether the Justice Department would look "upstream" to pursue the alleged "ringleaders" behind the chaos -- referring, of course, to President Trump and Garland knew it. "We begin with the people on the ground and work our way up to those . . . who were further involved," the longtime prosecutor said. "We will pursue these leads wherever they take us."
Music, no doubt, to the ears of Democrat lawmakers and the current occupant of the Oval Office.
The narrative about what happened on January 6 continues to fall apart, from phony claims about a "murdered" police officer to an "armed" insurrection. But facts won't stop this investigatory and political freight train from running over anyone in its path, including Americans guilty at most of minor misdemeanors with no prior record now labeled traitors and terrorists. That seems just fine with Merrick Garland.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; there is no such thing as "far-right" extremism because there is no such thing as the far right." I fully reject the Left-Center-Right paradigm as it empowers a tyrannical enemy (the "Left if you will) to wield a false narrative as a means of muzzling criticism. Funny how we never hear about "the far Left." Burning Looting and Murdering of course is allowed because structural racism and toxic whiteness. It is always our side that has to apologize and surrender more and more of our freedoms because of the acts of sickos like Timothy McVeigh whom we share absolutely NOTHING in common with and immediately denounce. Him aside, and with the exception of perhaps no more than a handful of incidents, political violence and extremism is the sole purview and stock-in-trade of Democrats and their allies.
Tucker [Carlson] was stunned -- as were those of us who know Naomi -- to hear her give a fluent, impassioned disquisition on American liberties and the threats they're facing as states and Biden use them to grab permanent power.
Wolf asserts that what we are witnessing in America "is not a partisan thing." Instead, "it transcends everything that you and I might disagree or agree on. That should bring together left and right to protect our Constitution." Gathering steam, she told Tucker:
The state has now crushed businesses, kept us from gathering in free assembly to worship as the First Amendment provides, is invading our bodies ... which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, restricting movement, fining us in New York state ... the violations go on and on.
She's right, too. According to Wolf, totalitarian dictatorships always start the same way.
Whether they are on the left or the right, they do these same ten things and now we're at something I never thought I would see in my lifetime ... it is step 10 and that is the suspension of the rule of law and that is when you start to be a police state, and we're here. There is no way around it.
Wolf then sounded an ominous warning: "I really hope we wake up quickly because history also shows that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back." She's right about that, too.
Anyone who is not taking the Democrats seriously - especially after everything we have witnessed this past year, and even way before that - is sticking their head in the sand. When you can be fired from your job for openly stating men are men and women are women, or that abortion is murder or that there's no such thing as institutional racism, guess what: you will be considered part of "the far right" and as such potentially come under the thumb of Merrick Garland's Stasi. When the Enemy controls the language and now the apparatus for not only creating laws but enforcing them, then we are all extremists now.
"The Boeing 747-400 cargo plane, operated by the charter airline service Longtail Aviation and traveling from Maastricht, Netherlands, to New York, was forced to land shortly after taking off Saturday due to a significant engine failure." Second Boeing Plane Fails Mid-Flight, Forcing Emergency Landing
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Garland, who led the Department of Justice's prosecution of the 1996 Oklahoma City bombing, said that domestic terrorism in America today is 'more dangerous' than at the time of that bombing. He also pledged to continue the investigation wherever it takes him, including 'aiders and abettors who were not present on January 6.'" Will Merrick Garland Go After Trump in Prosecuting Capitol Rioters?
According to Biden, "Literally nine years later, as I walked onto the Senate floor through the same door, that same guy, cop, said to me, 'Senator, you remember me?' I said, 'geez, I don't.' He said, 'I arrested you nine years ago... welcome back.'" Joe Biden Once Claimed to Have Been Arrested for Trespassing at U.S. Capitol
"There's nothing mainstream about letting boys compete in girls sports, being obsessed with identity politics, and establishing a militarized zone around the Capitol." A Word About the Biden Return to "Normalcy"
"Our Supreme Court is now part of the Washington Swamp, and the Washington Swamp is now totally divorced from any understanding of or caring about the rest of the nation." Our Supreme Court Goes Full Nicaragua in PA Election Case
"When questioned by GOP senators, [quote-unquote so-called] 'president' Biden's nominee for [spurious] attorney general Merrick Garland said he wouldn't commit to releasing the Durham report." Merrick Garland May Hide Durham Report From Public
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"Sadly I do not think normality is coming. Nor do I think people will abandon their fear. Many have grown to love it, either because cowering in fear makes them feel safer, or because that fear has given them a tool for gaining power for ruling people arbitrarily." The Chinese COVID Epidemic Really IS Ending
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"DeSantis is tough on the media, sets the record straight to his critics, and governs in a free-market conservative manner, while avoiding the rhetorical pitfalls frequently associated with Trump." (meh on the Trump dig, but they do fear DeSantis for sure - jjs) The Media's Coverage of Ron DeSantis Shows They Fear Him in 2024
"It was 4:30 a.m., so I pulled the bathroom door shut in my one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment to answer the phone without waking my then-5-year-old. On the line was Melissa DeRosa, Gov. Cuomo's then-communications director, now his second-in-command. She was threatening to destroy me." Angel of Death Cuomo's Office Terrorized Me for Doing My Job as a Journalist
"The Biden [junta] has endorsed a last-minute determination by the Trump administration that China has committed genocide in Xinjiang and has said the United States must be prepared to impose costs on China." China Rejects Genocide Charge in Xinjiang, Says Door Open to U.N.
"The unearthed effort, revealed via a letter from Senator Charles Grassley, notes that 'several emails uncovered during my investigation show that while you were the Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), you were involved in efforts to delist (Islamic Relief Agency) ISRA from the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list.' Biden's USAID Nominee Samantha Power "Lobbied" to Remove Terror-Linked Group From U.S. Blacklist
"A one-size-fits-all federal wage would severely increase these economic problems for wide swaths of rural America and states with low costs of living." The Minimum Wage: Separating Myth from Fact
"How the pandemic is reshaping family life and the economy." Women Without Work
"Live theater has been devastated by the pandemic, and its return remains uncertain." Broadway's Annus Miserable
"The street-level view is a freak storm knocking out the power for a few million unlucky Texans. But the bigger picture comes into view as an indictment of a bought, unresponsive, ruling class." When the Free Market Freezes Over
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"As of this moment, New Jersey's broken and indefensible marijuana laws, which permanently stained the records of many residents and short-circuited their futures, and which disproportionately hurt communities of color and failed the meaning of justice at every level, social or otherwise -- are no more." (did he just insinuate colored people are dope smoking degenerates? - jjs) Dickweed Phil Murphy Legalizes Weed-Weed in Garden State
"Reopening will be our only focus until our children and young people are back in schools. We're cancelling renaming committee meetings for the time being." San Francisco Backs Down on Renaming Schools
"Ivy Leaguers, and the institutions themselves, have been given much; many Americans turn to them for leadership.. And yet, they have often failed catastrophically." Poisoned Ivies Threaten American Freedoms
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Our intrepid science reporter: "Using data from Europe's Gaia satellite, astronomers have now compiled a 3D map of every binary star within 3,000 light years of the the Sun -- 1.3 million -- including many widely spaced binaries that were previously not identified." New 3D Atlas of All Binary Stars Within 3,000 Light Years of the Sun
FYI, aways lots of other great science stories at Behindtheblack.com
"Barack also has a history of associating with drunk drivers. In 2018, for example, he reportedly counseled failed candidate Beto O'Rourke, who was arrested and charged with DWI after reportedly attempting to flee the scene of a wreck he caused. Obama also gave the eulogy at Ted Kennedy's funeral in 2009. Mothers Against Drunk Driving did not immediately respond to a request for comment." Barack Obama Copies Wife Again, Launches Podcast with New Jersey Man Arrested for DWI
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
Being told that any disagreement or feelings of discomfort somehow upholds “white supremacy” is not just morally wrong. It is psychologically abusive. Jodi Shaw, Whistleblower at Smith College
GOP candidates did very well in the House races. And we know a bunch more Republican senators would have voted to convict President Trump if they had not been so terrified of our wrath. This is good – we want Republican officials in a permanent state of terror over our wrath. Kurt Schlichter
EU lawsuit threats dismantled as AstraZeneca contract shows Brussels CAN'T sue over jab
THE European Union waived its right to sue pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca over delays in coronavirus vaccine deliveries, according to reports.
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A magic wand? How cool........
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If Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was still in production the following would probably make it. Bear vs. Moose. Graphic video
HUNGRY BEAR DRAGS INJURED MOOSE OFF ROAD IN FRONT OF STUNNED DRIVERS
Flash forward to the present day, as the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator, “content.”
As recently as fifteen years ago, the term “content” was heard only when people were discussing the cinema on a serious level, and it was contrasted with and measured against “form.” Then, gradually, it was used more and more by the people who took over media companies, most of whom knew nothing about the history of the art form, or even cared enough to think that they should. “Content” became a business term for all moving images: a David Lean movie, a cat video, a Super Bowl commercial, a superhero sequel, a series episode. It was linked, of course, not to the theatrical experience but to home viewing, on the streaming platforms that have come to overtake the moviegoing experience, just as Amazon overtook physical stores. On the one hand, this has been good for filmmakers, myself included. On the other hand, it has created a situation in which everything is presented to the viewer on a level playing field, which sounds democratic but isn’t. If further viewing is “suggested” by algorithms based on what you’ve already seen, and the suggestions are based only on subject matter or genre, then what does that do to the art of cinema?
On the opposite political end lay former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Executive Network Partnering Corporation, launched last August. Reports humorously noted that Ryan and his partner, Solamere Capital founder Alex Dunn, had “not selected a target industry” for their SPAC, which essentially meant they were asking for $300 million without knowing what for yet. The SEC filing for ENPC was inspired vagueness:
We have not selected any company to partner with and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, engaged in any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any company to partner with regarding a partnering transaction. We may pursue a partnering transaction with any company in any industry.
If you invest in a SPAC, your money goes in an interest-bearing account that can only be used to acquire properties or be returned to you, should the SPAC management team (called “sponsors”) fail to acquire properties in the allotted time, usually 18 to 24 months. Sponsors are paid in “founder shares,” bought at a discount and usually amounting to 20% of the common stock of the future company, a nice relatively risk-free chunk of change framed as the sponsors’ reward for not paying themselves exorbitant salaries during the brief shopping period.
Software bugs reportedly keep Arizona inmates jailed past release dates
State law was updated in 2019, but the state's software suite still hasn't been.
A failure to update critical prison management software has kept hundreds of incarcerated people in Arizona behind bars longer than they should be, according to a whistleblower report.
Employees for the Arizona Department of Corrections have known about the bug since 2019, Phoenix-based NPR affiliate KJZZ reported. The flaw follows a change to state law that the software simply cannot handle and has not been updated to deal with.
A customer has told of his surprise after he received a full bottle of urine as part of a food delivery during lockdown.
Oliver McManus said he received the suspicious-looking yellow liquid with a meal kit from HelloFresh on Sunday morning.
He tweeted the company a picture with the question: "Hey HelloFreshUK, I'll keep it simple: why have I received someone's bottled up piss as part of my order? Look forward to your response on this one."
Mr McManus added: "Give me an address, I'll send it to you and you can have a whiff in case you're sceptical!"
Intuitively, we all know there are benefits to cooking at home. You can use healthier ingredients, set portions to a reasonable size, avoid food allergies, and of course you can save money compared to ordering restaurant delivery or using a meal kit service.
But just how much money do you save by cooking at home? We decided to analyze our recipe data to find out the true cost of cooking at home from scratch, compared to delivery from a restaurant or a meal kit service.
We analyzed data from Priceonomics customer wellio, a platform that breaks down millions of recipes into single ingredients and matching those to grocery items from local stores. That allows us to measure the ingredient cost for a wide variety of recipes. For 86 popular dinner recipes, we decided to look at the average cost per serving of cooking from scratch and compare it to the cost per serving of ordering from a restaurant or a meal kit delivery service.
We found on average, it is almost five times more expensive to order delivery from a restaurant than it is to cook at home. And if you’re using a meal kit service as a shortcut to a home cooked meal, it’s a bit more affordable, but still almost three times as expensive as cooking from scratch.
When cooking at home, you'll save a substantial amount of money on carb-based meals like pasta or pizza, and you'll save the most on protein-based meals when compared to ordering from a restaurant or meal kits.
Researchers imagine it might be possible to transform the world’s largest desert, the Sahara, into a giant solar farm, capable of meeting four times the world’s current energy demand. Blueprints have been drawn up for projects in Tunisia and Morocco that would supply electricity for millions of households in Europe.
While the black surfaces of solar panels absorb most of the sunlight that reaches them, only a fraction (around 15%) of that incoming energy gets converted to electricity. The rest is returned to the environment as heat. The panels are usually much darker than the ground they cover, so a vast expanse of solar cells will absorb a lot of additional energy and emit it as heat, affecting the climate.
If these effects were only local, they might not matter in a sparsely populated and barren desert. But the scale of the installations that would be needed to make a dent in the world’s fossil energy demand would be vast, covering thousands of square kilometers. Heat re-emitted from an area this size will be redistributed by the flow of air in the atmosphere, having regional and even global effects on the climate.
Have you seen those viral videos on TikTok and Twitter where users are burning snow to “prove” that it’s actually fake? Needless to say, the snow is real. The viral videos actually show a perfectly normal reaction to placing the flame of a lighter or match against a snowball. But that hasn’t stopped these videos from racking up millions of views.
Who’s creating this “fake” snow that’s falling from the sky all around the world, according to the conspiracy theorists? Bill Gates, of course, the evil puppetmaster behind so many of the world’s ills right now—from the covid-19 pandemic to secret tracking chips inside all of the world’s coronavirus vaccines.
Yes, conspiracy theorists with smartphones are really worried about being constantly tracked through their... vaccines. And it’s not just Bill Gates. Some people believe China is in on the whole conspiracy, sending fake snow to the U.S. in an effort to convince Americans climate change is real. China may have even done this to make Ted Cruz look bad, according to some conspiracy theorists.
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On this day: 22 Feb 2002
Drummer Ronnie Verrell died aged 76. Worked with The Ted Heath Orchestra and The Syd Lawrence Orchestra. Provided the drum licks for Animal in The Muppet Show. When American drummer Buddy Rich, (one of Verrell's heroes), guested on the show, Verrell (as Animal) had a drumming duel with Rich, and won after Animal smashed a snare drum over Rich's head. via thisdayinmusic.com
I said, "Let's go through the drive-thru and not let's make a drive through.Genius Award Winner.
FAIRFIELD — A Bridgeport woman has been charged after she slammed into the McDonald’s on Post Road late last month while on cocaine and PCP, police ssaid.
Police released footage of the incident on Tuesday, saying it happened around midnight on Jan. 29.
It was just three degrees outside when 92-year-old Bella Vista resident Leroy Kostka began shoveling snow in Jen Sheridan's driveway.
"Everyone should have a 92-year-old neighbor-hero who brings a snow shovel and shovels your driveway and front porch off," Sheridan wrote in Facebook post.
Leroy, a World War II Air Force veteran, married the love of his life, while serving in Germany. After the war, Anni and Leroy returned to the states, and eventually retired in Bella Vista.
"They've been here nearly 30 years," said Sheridan. "The entire neighborhood loves them dearly, from 20-somethings to 80-year-old widows."
"I love this man," one user commented.
"What a stud," wrote another.
Sheridan added thet Leroy often comes by to play with her dog, Maggie. She says Leroy and Anni are a local treasure.
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Robot ostrich chick infiltrates an ostrich brood. In this one, a leopard shows up, and the mother ostrich feigns an injury and flees, limping, trying to draw the leopard away from the chicks.
Kurt Schlichter: The Military Is Shifting Its Emphasis from Fighting Wars to Fighting Intolerance. This Will Get People Killed, and Leave America Defenseless.
While all the while, Conservative, Inc. swears to us that this is just the normal give-and-take in a democracy, and that we shouldn't be all hotheaded (like that criminal Rush Limbaugh) about rejecting these demands outright.
We must always make a Reasonable Counteroffer. That's the gentlemanly thing to do. Like making sure there's plenty of Sunny D in the fridge for your bull when he comes to service your wife.
It gives me no pleasure to say that I no longer recommend that young people join the military, and I'm not alone. The non-Blue Falcon veteran community is in full revolt against the conscious decision to decline embraced by our current military leadership. After failing to win a war in the last 20 years pp and don't say Syria, because the second President * woke up in the Oval Office wondering how he got there, more of our troops were heading back into the hellscape for reasons no one has bothered to articulate -- the military has decided to target an easier enemy, i.e., other Americans.
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So, count us out from complicity with the degeneration of our proud institution into a giant gender studies struggle session. And that's a big deal. Do you know where the military gets a huge chunk on its recruits? Legacies. These are young troops who want to be like their father or grandfather or big brother or neighbor or other role model. I was the third-generation commissioned officer in my family, on both sides. Guess what? Right now, if one of my kids goes in, it's against my advice. And again, I am not alone. I hear this over and over and over from other vets. And it makes me furious.
Congratulations, Pentagon. This is all on you.
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And now, though we have not won a war in two decades, our military has plenty of time to stop training and focus on purging the ranks of people who like the politicians the current administration opposes. I eagerly await the introduction to the new 69D MOS - political officer. A zampolit for every battalion -- hell, why not every company?
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No, I do not recommend anyone subject themselves to this sort of four-year camo sociology seminar in which they must "pledge to advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy" or any other branch. My intersectional identity is "America," and I am utterly uninterested in any other identity.
Diversity and inclusion are crucial to our force and our mission. Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, AMC commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Brian Kruzelnick, AMC command chief, talked about the Air Force Racial Disparity Report and AMC's actions to improve the culture of inclusion. pic.twitter.com/UE7tdV4tRs
And, by the way: Antifa attempted to burn the courthouse down.
I believe that a fire would have disrupted normal business operations, but then, I'm not an expert in the law like this dull-minded partisan hack and apologist for terrorism.
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Meanwhile, he continues upping the ante as far as the "menace" posed by QAnon and other distractions favored by the hard left.
He's saying that we're seeing a threat environment like was saw before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing -- so, in other words, the gloves are off, and no repressive tactic is off the table.
If it saves just one life and all that:
Merrick Garland on domestic terrorism and social media: “We are facing a more dangerous period then we faced in Oklahoma City” before the 1995 bombing pic.twitter.com/Uze7wFWFrK
Does this mean everyone will be under suspicion, or just conservatives? Because I remember in the wake of 9/11, everyone was equally burdened by the government's Security Theater.
I betcha this time the harassments will be more narrowly-tailored, though.
He refuses to call illegal border crossing illegal. Non-Americans will continue to live life to the full:
BREAKING: Merrick Garland refuses to state illegally crossing the border is a crime pic.twitter.com/BCN1QE43jE
He also believes there was a "bombing" at the Capitol:
Garland told Booker he will investigate the Capitol “bombing” of January 6. He has a Mueller-level grasp of the facts—he’ll be a figurehead and Weismann-type prosecutors will run the show. Not good
If Amazon, which controls most of the book sales in America, has decided to delist a book with which some of its functionaries disagree, that is an unconscionable assault on free speech. It will have chilling effect on the publishing industry and the free circulation of ideas. It must not be left to stand unchallenged.
Amazon is a monopoly. Our "conservative" leaders have decided that exercising monopoly power to control other markets is not only permissible, but praiseworthy. They believe that we should have free competition, until one company "wins" and becomes a monopoly, and is then permitted to use that monopoly power to quash competition.
That's literally the rules of monopoly in the children's game "Monopoly." In the game Monopoly, you are supposed to create a monopoly and then ruthlessly exploit it, and that's how you win the game.
And that is how the corporate-sponsored "intellectual" class conceives of monopoly. It's just winning the game. Why would we interfere with a Winner's Prerogative?
David French, who has gleefully signed up to be a footsoldier in every deplatforming campaign against his enemies, now seems surprised that deplatforming has come for one of his allies:
Even setting aside your debunked slanders against your political opponents and those who host them, surely you're not so naive as to think that the censors you cheered would adopt anything remotely near your personal definition of what is acceptable speech and what is not.
LOL anyone surprised he’s lying again? Nearly every federal indictment, backup document cite posts on Twitter and Facebook as evidence of wrongdoing. I have yet to see any citation of Parler—this is what happens when you’re paid to recite leftwing political propaganda: https://t.co/b8sUWH7Ho5
French, as usual, is lying. I know, I know: You're all shocked to hear that.
French is now claiming that his unprincipled stance on deplatforming -- YAY! if it's against people I don't like, BOO! If it's against people I do like -- is in fact principled.
He claims that the only distinction in his takes is whether or not we're talking about government intervention or not. He claims that he was in favor of the Parler deplatforming only... only because the specter of government intervention was invoked?
That's a lie. He's claiming that he was worried that the Biden administration might attack his Tech Bros political allies to restore Parler?
Nonsense. In all cases, David French can offer either his own support for a corporation's deplatforming, or his criticism. There is no principle that says he has to remain silent on some deplatformings. There is no principle that says he must support some deplatformings, and object to others.
He could be objecting to companies -- particularly those with monopoly power -- using their power to chill free speech on a principled basis, not caring which speech is being quashed.
Instead, he's constantly either supporting deplatformings or whining about them according to whether you're in his tribe of twitter tinydicks or not.
This sniping little hyperemotional cunt is just being as extravagantly unprincipled as usual and just basing his "position" (if you can dignify it as that) on whether he likes you on Twitter or not.
If you want to see more clownsmanship from the Dispatch bitches, here's Jonah Goldberg saying he will never "fully forgive" how Ron DeSantis' campaigned for governor:
I will never fully forgive DeSantis for how he ran for Governor. But the “if DeSantis did it, it must be eeevil and stooopid” coverage is so ridiculous.
Running for governor of a sovereign state he all but vowed to be a vassal of the president and politicized his own kids as members of a cult of personality to a federal authority.
I'm very happy that "the corporate media" has caught on. Pretty sure I popularized that a few years ago, although it was surely already a set phrase on the left.
You know, how the left always pretended the corporate media was biased towards the right.
Funny, they don't claim that any longer! I wonder what changed.
Almost all the rest of these are from the great OrwellNGoode channel:
Are the neocons who preached a foreign policy based on grandiose notions of pure morality happy with China Joe?
Answer: Yes, they are, because they're all being funded by the China Class itself.
All of the Russia Russia Russia attacks on Trump were attacks lodged by the China Class, for purposes of allowing them to continue hurting America while profiting from their relationships with China. They couldn't just say that, of course.
So they just talked about Russia.
Similarly, "Mean Tweets" were a way to attack Trump's crackdown on immigration. Again, they couldn't say that, so the attack was "Mean Tweets."
They've literally done nothing but lie in order to manipulate you, while getting rich off of selling out America, for thirty fucking years, and now they're panicking that you've noticed.
This one from GarbageHuman. This is one of those "climate scientists," though I don't know if he has a job in the field. I see him shitting out climate panic porn at leftwing amateur webzines like Slate.
Feminists always look exactly how you'd expect them to look:
Coke Goes Full Woke: Whistle-Blower Reveals That Alleged "Anti-Racist" Training Is Incredibly Racist, Telling White People to "Try To Be Less White"
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CoRpOraTiONz R YoUr FrEnZ, says #Woka-Cola.
I've been a devoted Coke customer all my life. I am now done, completely. The last Coke I currently own, about twelve cans, will be the last Coke I buy. I'll just be making soda in my SodaStream maker, using Ralph's soda mixes.
Done with this Klan Komany:
By the way, white scum: Your white scum children are also racist:
So try to be a minority, so you're not scum:
Coke has confirmed this is real -- and doubles-down, insisting that racist material and racial denigration is a part of "inclusivity" training.
Though they do claim the video floating around is not specifically from Coke's presentation.
A Coca-Cola spokesperson confirmed that the course is "part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace," but also noted that "the video circulating on social media is from a publicly available LinkedIn Learning series and is not a focus of our company's curriculum."
"Our Better Together global learning curriculum is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace," the spokesperson said in a statement. "It is comprised of a number of short vignettes, each a few minutes long. The training includes access to LinkedIn Learning on a variety of topics, including on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
If a corporate company sent around a training kit instructing black people how to "be less black", the world would implode and lawsuits would follow.
I genuinely hope these employees sue @CocaCola for blatant racism and discrimination.
Malevolent Elf and Undercover Bug-Chaser Anthony Fauci: We May Be Returning to "Normality" by... 2022, and Even Then, "Normality" Will Vary By User Experience
Dr. Anthony Fauci said America’s New Normal after the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations are delivered depends on a number of unknowns. He cautioned about soundbites promising a return to how life was before the coronavirus pandemic.
When asked whether Americans will still be wearing masks in 2022, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday, "It is possible that that’s the case, and again it really depends on what you mean by normality."
"If normality means exactly the way things were before we had this happen to us, I mean, I can't predict that," he said. "Obviously, I think we're going to have a significant degree of normality beyond what a terrible burden all of us have been through over the last year."
But when the lockdown involves Americans quarantined in their own homes for two years, "the science" suddenly flip-flops.
Resurfaced interviews show Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984, was opposed to "draconian" quarantines that could have "unintended consequences" – back in 2014 during an Ebola outbreak in Africa.
He warned in late October of that year that enforcing mandatory quarantines would discourage medical professionals from volunteering aid in stricken areas. Governors from both major parties had imposed mandatory 21-day quarantines on people returning from affected countries in an effort to prevent the virus from spreading into the U.S.
"The best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in Africa, and we need those health care workers -- so we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer to go," he said at the time.
In an October 2014 interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, Fauci declined to criticize both Govs. Andrew Cuomo, of New York, and Chris Christie, of New Jersey, over the quarantines – but warned that "we have to be careful that there aren't unintended consequences."
Never forget which conservatives were always skeptical of these lockdowns and which "conservatives" have been bullying and scolding actual conservatives to bow down before the Leviathan State and take a knee on freedom.*
So late to the party that you might as well be the maid.
* Personally, I was in the middle for a while in the beginning, so I'm not claiming I'm a hero here. I was unresolved for a while, then, of course, began seeing that everything these people told us was a lie.
I was not prescient.
But I at least gave a hearing to those who were more prescient, like Julie Kelly and Sean Davis.
All the fake conservatives were, as usual, on the side of the liberal establishment and the Leviathan State, ginning up fear and panic because "the experts," as well as their leftwing twitter friends (or handlers, really) told them it would earn them Virtue Signaling Points to do so.
And they were almost all viciously nasty to anyone on the right who so much as questioned Fauci's latest science-free babblings.
A lot of babbling Twitter Addicts have changed their position on the Forever Lockdowns, now that the political usefulness of them has evaporated.
April 2020:
Dr. Fauci is a genius who has helped this country through the aids epidemic, Ebola and covid just to make a few. The implication he’s some kind of bobblehead, puppet is beyond insulting to him and his career. Grow up with these reductive questions. https://t.co/w34bBvspQC
Many of you can keep worshiping at the alter of Fauchi. I’m not a phony - i will not go on tv and lie saying one thing privately and another on air. This is my opinion. We need someone else in charge of coronavirus messaging and leadership.
On Monday, the Supreme Court threw out several of the remaining challenges to the 2020 presidential election as moot, considering that former President Donald Trump conceded to Joe Biden, who has now become president. Yet Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented, arguing that the Supreme Court should have taken the opportunity to clarify election law, especially in the case of Pennsylvania.
"The Constitution gives to each state legislature authority to determine the ‘Manner’ of federal elections," Thomas wrote. "Yet both before and after the 2020 election, nonlegislative officials in various States took it upon themselves to set the rules instead. As a result, we received an unusually high number of petitions and emergency applications contesting those changes."
Thomas argued that the cases Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Veronica DeGraffenreid (2021) and Jake Corman v. Pennsylvania Democratic Party (2021) presented "a clear example" of election law issues that the Supreme Court should put to rest. "The Pennsylvania Legislature established an unambiguous deadline for receiving mail-in ballots: 8 p.m. on election day. Dissatisfied, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended that deadline by three days."
"That decision to rewrite the rules seems to have affected too few ballots to change the outcome of any federal election. But that may not be the case in the future," Thomas argued. "These cases provide us with an ideal opportunity to address just what authority nonlegislative officials have to set election rules, and to do so well before the next election cycle. The refusal to do so is inexplicable."
I can explain it: the "Shadow conspiracy" article in Time Magazine explained it.
The Shadow Conspiracy article in Time was written to alert the left that these changes were absolutely critical to fake-winning the election, and that therefore, anyone on the left and anyone supporting the permanent corrupt Deep State must fight with all their might to keep these illegal rules in place.
Remember, these last-minute illegal changes were mostly justified by the pandemic threat.
But the left might not have that justification in 2022.
So the people who rigged the election told their stories to Time to let the rest of the left know: Even if there is no major pandemic threat in 2022, you must fight tooth and nail to retail the illegal rules changes we instituted supposedly "because of the pandemic."
Or else you'll just lose.
I guess the Supreme Court figured that much out.
Alito also wrote a dissent, which Justice Neil Gorsuch joined. Alito argued that these cases "present an important and recurring constitutional question: whether the Elections or Electors Clauses of the United States Constitution… are violated when a state court holds that a state constitutional provision overrides a state statute governing the manner in which a federal election is to be conducted. That question has divided the lower courts,* and our review at this time would be greatly beneficial."
"Now, the election is over, and there is no reason for refusing to decide the important question that these cases pose," Alito argued. While a decision in these cases "would not have any implications regarding the 2020 election," it would "provide invaluable guidance for future elections."
By the way, they keep saying that this wouldn't effect the results of the election because they have repeatedly sifted the number of challenges down to the point where we're talking about just a couple of thousand ballots.
They've figured out other ways to ignore the challenges to all the other ballots.
It's like breaking down a cargo into a hundred pieces and saying of each tiny piece, "No, this won't meaningfully affect the ship's seaworthiness. No this one also won't meaningfully affect the ship's seaworthiness. No this one also won't appreciably affect the ship's seaworthiness..."
Yeah but take them all together and the ship sinks.
Let me put this simply:
Teams that are winning and have the advantage in points don't start changing the rules for what counts as a "point" behind-the-scenes.
The team that is behind changes the rules.
Is that a noncontroversial enough take?
Or are we now at the point where we pretend that the team ahead on the scoreboard starts making sketchy rules-changes just to pad their margin?
Robert Barnes
@scotusreporter
BREAKING: Scotus won't take up Pennsylvania elections case that challenged state supreme court decisions to extend deadline for mail-in ballots. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch disagree
@julie_kelly2
Looking at order list now. It looks like SCOTUS killed every election lawsuit filed by Trump and other parties. Only Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito dissented in rejecting PA GOP v PA SOS case. We have no institution to protect our elections. Thanks Barrett and Kavanaugh!
Here is what I think is the dumbest of the dumb takes on Limbaugh's passing:
First, a bit of context here: In addition to being an absolute dumbsh1t, Joe Lockhart is a stooge. He was a stooge for Bill Clinton back in the day, and now he's a stooge for CNN. Same thing really, there's just a differnet person signing his paychecks.
But for sheer, concentrated, weapons-grade dumbness, this tweet is hard to beat. Lockhart is giving Sally Kohn a run for her money.
So let's take it a little bit at a time:
"The thing about Rush Limbaugh is he wasn't the zealot that he came across as."
In other words, Rush wasn't the bitter, angry, unhinged lunatic that Lockhart thinks all conservatives must be like. Therefore, he wasn't a conservative. That's Joe's argument. He probably met Limbaugh at some time, or, more likely, he knew people who had, and it turns out that Rush is actually a nice guy. None of his previous (4? 5? I've lost count) wives will say a bad word about him, despite the efforts to get them to. But rather than admit that the image of conservatives he holds in his mind is wrong and will need to be revised, he would much rather believe that Rush simply isn't one. But, if he isn't one, then what is the explanation for his career? There can be only one answer:
"Rush did it for the money. Lots of it."
Yes, that's right. Rush is cynically manipulating the flyover rubes for a big paycheck. I've actually heard this before. Behind this view is the assumption that no thinking person, no rational person can possibly believe any of the conservative ideas Rush talks about on his show. It's just not possible. So there has got to be another reason for it.
"Just like Hannity and company, his background wasn't in politics or a political movement. It was making money."
The absolute dumbness of this statement is breathtaking. Rush's background was "making money"? Really? Does he know *anything* about Rush's earlier life at all? Rush started out completely unacquainted with what Joe Lockhart would think of as "money." His first "real" job was a low-level sales job with the Kansas City Royals. That wasn't a high pay position. And then his first talk show was in Sacramento, California, which is not a big radio market. Nobody gets rich being on the radio in Sacramento. Rush wasn't raking in the bucks. "Rush's background was making money" should be revised to "Rush's background was trying to earn a living as best as he could" for accuracy.
And Rush's national radio career wasn't a sure thing. I remember one time Rush related the story of meeting with his investors who were going to help him set up what would become the EIB network and they asked him how much money he had in the bank. It was some pitifully small amount, but they told Rush they wanted it all. That is, they wanted him to have an actual stake in his new talk show as an incentive to work hard and not screw around. If he goofed off, he wouldn't be goofing off with someone else's money, because if he did, he'd be goofing off with his own as well.
In other words, they wanted him to work the high wire without a net. And he did.
And I hope all you morons caught the stench of Lockhart's "how dare he?" elitism in his complaint about Rush not having the proper "background in politics" or "a political movement" (meaning, liberal political movement) in order to be a political commentator. No, Rush did not have the proper background. Rush didn't go to the proper schools. Rush didn't hang out with the proper people. Rush didn't make the proper connections. Rush doesn't have the right opinions.
And what's so valuable about being in politics? Sniffy Joe and Bernie the commie have never been outside of politics their entire adult lives, and they haven't done diddly squat.
But it's true, Rush wasn't part of any political movement. He pretty much created his own political movement. It consists of ordinary, working Americans who are tired of being looked down upon, sneered at, marginalized, and lied to by people like Joe Lockhart, all the while telling us that we're the problem. What Rush did was create a vast army of deplorables and taught them how to raise their middle fingers to the Joe Lockharts of this world. That the only thing they deserve is to get laughed at and made fun of, and not take them seriously.
And his continuously derisive laughter and ridicule aimed at these self-styled elites is why they hate Rush so much.
Wednesday Who Dis: It seemed to me that Susan Oliver spent most of her career doing guest shots on various TV series, including Star Trek. But the actress, whose other passion was flying (she was a licensd pilot) did a number of movies, including the 1964 Hank Williams biopic Your Cheatin' Heart with George Hamilton, the original Orange Man. There was a reason why all but one the pics of him I used were B&W; photos. The color of his skin looks like something that is not found in nature.
Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Chicken Parmesan:
Good morning, kids. Happy birthday to some old white guy named George Washington. Start of a new week and several things are popping at once, not least of which is the coming apart at the seams of our society even as the illegal and evil junta officially known as the Democrat Party is making its move to not only consolidate power but to officially outlaw any and all opposition. The effort becomes that much more effective, though, when krony korporationz - along with colleagues, neighbors and even family members - put the iron in the glove by making life impossible for the average citizen who refuses to knuckle under and grovel at the fetid feet of their socialist/globalist/anti-American overlords.
In any case, some of the bigger stories popping up include:
-- the long knives coming out for Angel of Death Cuomo, which his Emmy Award and best-selling fictional book on his pandemic "leadership" are not able to shield him from,
-- the catastrophic economic, psychological and physical toll the two-week lockdown, which has now been ongoing for nearly 50 weeks has taken on us showing no signs of being lifted by Dr. Sigmoid Fraud (aka Anthony Fauci), the quack hack whose word is Gospel while his record is G-d awful, and despite the fact that this Chinese virus is provably marginally worse than common flu and that we have achieved herd immunity already per Johns Hopkins (I guess they'll have a gun to their head to retract that claim),
-- the repercussions over the spectacular failure of Texas' energy grid during last week's deep freeze and its implications of the absolute madness of "going green,"
-- the concomitant, rapidly-approaching catastrophe of the Junta destroying our fossil fuel industry and the economy in general when cheap, abundant energy is no longer available,
-- the danger to our national security when the Middle East flares up yet again due to our reliance on foreign energy and how it only emboldens our geo-political enemies and rivals in that region and elsewhere to potentially get frisky,
-- and of course the complete erasure of our southern border when instant citizenship - and official Democrat Party registration - is granted to millions just for showing up.
There is a saying in some parts of the Balkans, "hiqja qimen thiut" which roughly translates to: every hair from the boar. This phrase grew in popularity, especially around the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union and fall of communism in the Eastern Bloc states. What it means is a simple metaphor - the government is the boar and it can be killed by subtly plucking every hair from its fat body.
Less poetically, it's a guide on how to dismantle the bureaucracy that communist regimes rely on...
... But if there's one thing consistent in American history, it's that our government doesn't fight well against decentralized forces. The 20-year war in Afghanistan is a current example. So, the good news -- if you're uncomfortable with the rise of agitprop teachings in the form of public school indoctrinations, church humiliation exercises and mandatory Critical Race Theory training in companies like Coca-Cola that just want you to "Try And Be Less White" -- is that the bureaucracy that the left grows more and more dependent on, is extremely fragile. Ironically, the easiest way to break it is to heavily participate in it. Every hair from the boar...
...There are subsidies for everything. Housing, clothing, food, electricity, hot water and home heating fuels, hell even cellphones and internet bills are picked up by Uncle Sam (thanks, Obama!) Even if you earn too much, the processing time for millions of new applications would drain the system even faster and demoralize government workers. Before you describe your pride to me, remember that illegal immigrants do not hesitate to take every advantage of our social services. The reason communism ultimately fails is because more is taken out than can be put in.
-- In most states in America, you can opt out of weekly tax withholding and choose to pay at the end of the year. This gives our government systems less funds to gamble with during the year. Only the financially savvy should attempt this.
-- Caught speeding or fined for not wearing a mask? Ask for a trial. Most citations have an option to plead not guilty and if you don't pay it, you will either be given a court date or have it dropped all altogether. Extra points for utilizing a public defender. Worse case is you end up paying the ticket anyway, but at least you did your part to clog the system.
-- I don't know of any places left in this country with well-kept roadways. That means if you're unlucky enough to get a flat tire, because you totally, absolutely, maybe hit a pothole, you can sue the town. A few dollars to file a civil claim and you could end up on a new set of wheels and tires...
Another idea is to challenge them, not from the right but by going even further to the left than Titty Caca Cortez. Form a 501-C3 and call it the "Committee for Progressive Accountability" or something like that, and whenever something gets screwed up as it inevitably will, issue a press release that blames their incompetence on not being fully on board with progressive and socialist ideals. Call them out for stealing the election - from Bernie Sanders in the primaries.
We're behind the lines now. Time for us to sow some dissolution and discord since we are now counterculture. My two kopeks, for what they're worth.
Roger Kimball: "The history of speculation about truth has prominently included what we might call a school of impatience that, instead of trying to solve the problem, has endeavored to dismiss it." Can the Truth Set us Free?
Victor Davis Hanson: "Nothing is more dangerous than stronger powers, even inadvertently, sending signals that are interpreted as weakness by weaker powers." Is the Biden Junta Stumbling Into War?
"A look back at the Freeze of 1989 shows just how bad things could have been in Texas -- and the degree of death and destruction the Green New Deal promises for all of us." An Insider Explains Why Texans Lost Their Power
CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH
"It is disturbing that Garland is embracing the rancid lie that the Capitol riot was racially motivated, an uprising by 'white supremacists' which rivaled the Islamist terror attack of 9/11 in which 3,000 people were slaughtered." There Shouldn't Be a Double Standard for Law and Order
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Robert Spencer: "Also conspicuously lacking in this report were definitions of the key terms. What does the government define as 'right-wing?' What do they classify as 'left-wing?' What do they define as a 'terrorist attack?' The Joint Regional Intelligence Center report defines "terrorist incidents" as 'violence motivated by political or religious conviction,' but offers no definitions of the other terms." DHS: "Right-Wing Extremists" Committed Most Deadly Terrorist Attacks Last Year
'Progressive Democrat New York Assemblyman Ron Kim claimed to CNN last Wednesday that Cuomo threatened his career if he did not help 'cover up' allegations that Cuomo's staff deliberately 'concealed the full extent of nursing home-related deaths during the [Chinese] COVID pandemic.'" New York Lawmakers "Inching" Toward a Bipartisan Impeachment Probe Against Angel of Death Cuomo
"As New York's governor flounders under attacks from even his own party, a tried and true Democrat debate-avoiding tactic is revealed." Suddenly, It's All a Conspiracy Theory
"America First populists currently siloed in several parties should give Biden the unity he wants good and hard by moving into the Democrat Party and voting en bloc." Biden Wants Unity? Give It to Him Good and Hard
"While we expected that a Biden [quote-unquote so-called] 'presidency' would have nothing to do with Joe Biden, we certainly didn't expect it to look like this." Joe Biden Held Hostage -- Day 34
"Everyone knows Trump is eager to taste his revenge against the handful of Republicans who voted against him during impeachment. That appears to be his top priority as he re-emerges to do battle with his enemies." Trump Ready to Go to War With GOP Enemies
"This is an existential battle. Siphoning off voters from the side that's fighting the hardest to preserve individual liberty and economic freedom is not principled. It is nihilism." The Choice Facing Libertarians
"For many years I thought this excerpt from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (circa 1705 - 1711) summed up the allure of Rush Limbaugh's radio show to millions of people." The Real Secret of Rush Limbaugh's Success
"We have led on this issue from the very beginning," DeSantis said at a press conference. "The result of 2020, from an administrative perspective, was that Florida had the most transparent and efficient election anywhere in the country," he added. "The results speak for themselves, but we also can't rest on our laurels. We need to make sure that we continue to stay ahead of the curve." DeSantis to Introduce New Election Integrity Agenda, Ban Mass Mail-In Ballots, Target Ballot Harvesting
Julie Kelly: "It's unlikely Garland will do anything to restore the Justice Department's reputation [such as it allegedly was] but Republicans should at least try to make him publicly commit to do so." Questions the GOP Should Ask Merrick Garland
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
Brian C. Joondeph, MD: "So here we are, not following the science on whether masks provide a clinically significant benefit based on mask type and circumstances of use, how many are necessary, or when multiple masks morph from virtue signaling to suffocation. And ignoring the environmental science as well." Unmasking the Medical Experts
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"...Biden's America has already suspended deportations and is dismantling Trump's highly effective 'remain in Mexico' policy regarding asylum applicants. Biden is also asking Congress to provide mass amnesty for trespassers already here, alongside promises of generous public benefits to new illegal aliens, such as taxpayer-funded healthcare." Biden's Looming Border Crisis
"When Executive Orders handcuff agents - and set law violators free." (funny how Trump's EO's enabled bureaucrats to ignore them and sabotage him - jjs) Biden Cripples Immigration Law Enforcement
"Don't expect the local news to 'do what's right.' Not even in a weather report." Fake News Wannabes
"Whatever the outcomes of these conflicts, the public has suddenly become aware of the fact that big tech can intimidate mere puny countries. And if Facebook can disappear Australia, Amazon re-architecture India, and just maybe Google rule the world, then could this enormous power already have been used to affect Western politics?" Facebook's Ban on News in Australia Is Waking People Up
"As one version of the #NeverTrump GOP losers guild falls apart, a new one seeks to fill the void of corporate right-wing lapdog for the media. Here's why that is a good thing." The Sinkin' Project's Principled* Party
"All power to Robert Pratt. As a podcast his reach could actually be larger than when his broadcasts were confined to local Texas radio stations. And wouldn't that be sweet?" Bypassing the Blacklist: Robert Pratt's New Podcast
"...America will be losing the region as a whole -- to its historic rival, Russia. Iranian mischief will wax again, and Washington's Arab and Israeli allies will move on without anyone losing much sleep over what the White House thinks about anything. This is a deliberate strategic choice, and it will lead to the collapse of American influence in western Asia." Biden is Set to Repeat Obama's Mideast Failures -- And Wipe Out US Influence
"From the George H.W. Bush administration, through Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama, the simple and stark fact is that our national security leaders failed the American people." On China, Trump Tried To Save Washington From Itself
"A federal grand jury has issued a superseding indictment against Chinese national Chen Song, 39-years-old, for allegedly fraudulently securing a J-1 visa to the U.S. by lying about her enrollment in China's military, known as the People's Liberation Army, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced." DOJ: China Military Member Lied to Secure J-1 Visa, Conduct Research at Stanford University
"Federalism is like a diet and the coming entitlement crisis may yet make federalism weight watchers of us all." Taking Federalism Seriously
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The federal budget process threatens America's future." A National Disgrace
"In Lower Manhattan, commercial office leasing dropped nearly 70% in 2020, while a staggering 12% of businesses -- ranging from hotels to department stores to restaurants -- closed for good, data from the Downtown Alliance shows." New York City Businesses Are Barely Hanging On
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Specifically, Berger worked at Meppen, a sub-camp in the system where prisoners worked 'to the point of exhaustion and death.'" (I thought Pelosi would tap this guy to be an advisor to the Democrats for their re-education camps... - jjs) Former Nazi Guard Living in Tennessee Deported to Germany
"We need more Jodi Shaws in the world. The problem is that it takes otherworldly courage to speak out, to demand change. I daresay Ms. Shaw's life will never be the same. And given her stand was made on a college campus, any career she was hoping for in higher education is probably ruined. She's probably lost some friends over her stand. Her life has been changed forever." "Critical Race Theory" Costs a Brave Smith College Whistleblower Her Job
"Energy issues are the kind of thing that causes significant numbers of people escape into fantasy worlds rather than consider reality." Fantastical Energy
"What just happened on The Bachelor is more a reflection of American life today than what happened in Washington with former President Trump's impeachment trial." The Bachelor, Racism, and Frogs
"Woke ideology isn't funded by grassroots communists. It is financed by global corporations and leftist billionaires. The intent is to destroy the sense of shared identity that defines America." The Origin and True Agenda of "Anti-Racist" Politics
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
'I was looking around and it just popped up and I thought 'wow, that really looks like a man's parts'. Joleen Vultaggio
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"Also, I wanted to remind the public that no benevolent government should forbid autonomous adults from altering their consciousness, as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others." Dr. Carl Hart
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"I think it's a very appropriate way to think of it, so it is directly related to the warming, even though your instinct is to say, wait a minute, this is the new Ice Age. But it's not. It is coming from the global warming and it threatens all the normal weather patterns."John F. Kerry
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Well, they should be doing it by paying people low wages. We don’t want low-wage businesses. Most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage. If you look at the minimum wage, it increased with worker productivity until 1968, and that relationship was severed. If workers were actually getting paid for the value they were creating, it would be up to $23. I love small businesses, I’m all for it, but I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees. It’s fair for people to be making what they’re producing. I think $15 is very reasonable in this country.” Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA)
Let that sink in...........
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“It is clear U.S. President Joe Biden is not up to the task he has been sworn in to do."
Inside the World of Backstreet Castrators, Cutters and Eunuch-Makers
The Daily Beast got an unprecedented look at the world of backstreet castrations where people desperate to have genitalia altered or removed undergo risky, illicit operations.
In 2018, William, a thoughtful, handsome guy in his late twenties with an eye for design and architecture, took a train up from his home in Baltimore to New York to meet a man he’d been chatting with online for a few months. They had dinner, checked into a hotel near Times Square with a nice view of the Hudson River, and got all showered up and clean. Then, the man placed a restrictive band around William’s genitals and injected them with lidocaine. Once William was fully numb, the man sliced open his scrotum, cut off one of his testicles, and cauterized the testicular artery. He would have cut out William’s remaining testicle as well, but his cauterizing tool died. So, he sutured William up instead.
3D-printed guns, or functional firearms that can be mostly or entirely manufactured at home with a 3D printer, are getting more sophisticated and more dangerous.
For a long time, 3D-printed guns were still quite slapdash. Early homemade handguns would break apart after firing once, and they served as more of a symbolic middle finger to government firearm regulation than a tangible threat. But they’re getting steadily more advanced, Slate reports. Now, a prominent 3D-printed gun community plans to unveil the designs for a functional, upgraded assault rifle early this year.
As detailed on the F150gen14.com forum, a user in the lower half of Texas says they lost power for three days; while neighbors set up a conventional backup generator to keep their critical home functions rolling, this forum poster busted out their 2021 Ford F-150 Platinum PowerBoost Hybrid. Using the onboard power-supply setup—which is powered by both the batteries and the engine—as a generator, the owner ran extension cords from the pickup to their kitchen to power a few lights, a toaster oven, a space heater, and the fridge.
It sounds as though the F-150 went above and beyond the call of basic duty, also powering a 75-inch TV, a coffee maker, and a freezer for "10-12 hours per day." Keep in mind, temperatures in the area were hovering in the teens during most of this time. The Ford owner says the F-150's hybrid powertrain only chewed through a few gallons of gasoline during this period and noted how the engine would come on and turn off periodically to keep the batteries onboard juiced up. The setup proved quieter than the neighbors' traditional portable generator, according to the user, and thanks to the truck's much larger fuel tank, didn't need to be refueled at least twice per day.
So Boob Scarf Is Something You Can Actually Buy…
Flaunt your massive mammories this winter while wearing the boob scarf! The soft fleece caresses your skin and keeps you warm while the nippleitis-laden knockers keep the scarf hanging au naturel. Is this for real? Yes, you can actually buy this tacky insane thing on Amazon!
Former President Trump will be a keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., his first public speaking engagement since leaving the White House, a spokesman for the organization confirmed to The Post on Saturday.
Trump is scheduled to speak on Sunday, Feb 28, the last day of the conference.
Trump’s speech will focus on “the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement,” a source close to the former president told The Post.
OAKLEY — It started with profanity, jokes about parents just wanting a babysitter or to smoke pot in their homes, and then came the horrible realization by the elected officials making these remarks that they were on a live video stream being broadcast to the public.
And now, the three-day saga that has garnered national attention and widespread condemnation has resulted in the resignation of the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board, according to a letter Friday from the district’s superintendent, Greg Hetrick. He wrote that county education board members will replace the board in an interim capacity.
“We deeply regret the earlier comments that were made in the meeting of the Board of Education earlier this week,” a joint statement by now ex-board members Kim Beede, Erica Ippolito and Richie Masadas says. “As trustees, we realize it is our responsibility to model the conduct that we expect of our students and staff, and it is our obligation to build confidence in district leadership; our comments failed you in both regards, and for this we offer our sincerest apology.”
Beede, Ippolito and Masadas join board president Lisa Brizendine, who announced her resignation late Thursday.
Disney has decided that “The Muppet Show” — featuring Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy — contains “offensive content” and can now be seen only on an adult account.
When viewers open the streaming service, which made five series available last Friday, viewers are greeted with the disclaimer: “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now,” the Daily Mail reported.
Alaskan native Shannon Stevens was attacked by a black bear when she went to relieve herself in the outhouse near her brother’s yurt on Saturday night, Feb. 13.
Following a rustic dinner of sausages cooked on an open fire and a day of snowmobiling to the remote hideaway near Chilkat Lake, Stevens became one with nature — to a dangerous degree — when she faced the wild animal hiding out in her brother Erik’s latrine.
“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon said, according to the Daily Mail. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”
I guess mice and spiders aren't so bad in a privy after all.
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The ONT Musical Interlude
Born on this day: 21 Feb 1949
American songwriter, musician Jerry Harrison, keyboards, guitar, Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers, and Talking Heads, who had the 1983 US No.9 single 'Burning Down The House', and the 1985 UK No.6 single 'Road To Nowhere'. Also a member of Casual Gods. via thisdayinmusic.com
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Born on this day:21 Feb 1967
Michael Ward, guitarist with American rock band The Wallflowers who had the 1997 US No.3 album Bringing Down The Horse. via thisdayinmusic.com
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – A couple was caught allegedly stealing lamb and a variety of seafood from a Naples Costco by shoving it in their pants and purse.
Lucrezia Gentile, 71, and Vito Gentile, 76, part-time Florida residents from Brooklyn, New York, were arrested on Thursday.
A witness told Collier County deputies she saw the couple conceal multiple items and leave the store without paying for them. She said she saw Vito fold a halibut package in half it place it in Lucrezia’s purse. Crab legs and clams also were allegedly placed into Lucrezia’s purse.
Vito was reportedly seen placing lamb down his pants. The couple walked through the Costco, paid for several items and left.
The survival mindset involves a lot of things, not the least of which includes using improvised weapons when necessary to defend your life. An 82-year-old Marine Corps veteran did just that in recent days. After seeing an intruder slash his wife’s face with a large knife, Herbert Parrish grabbed an unloaded shotgun from a wall mount and beat the violent intruder to death with it.
No doubt getting pummeled to death ranks right up there with getting stoned to death among the most unpleasant ways to exit this mortal coil. However, for the intruder, 61-year-old Harold Runnels, Jr., it came about as a result of a series of epic poor choices Monday afternoon in Jackson, South Carolina
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Weekly commenter stats for week of 2-21-2021
Top 10 commenters:
1 [445 comments] 'Skip' [62.47 posts/day]
2 [444 comments] 'Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt'
3 [436 comments] '4'
4 [364 comments] 'Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)'
5 [360 comments] 'Aetius451AD'
6 [338 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets'
7 [338 comments] 'REDACTED'
8 [334 comments] 'Catch Thirty-Thr33'
9 [331 comments] 'CN'
10 [300 comments] 'Adm. George Tarrant, watching the boys go ashore '
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [296 names] 'Adm. George Tarrant, watching the boys go ashore ' [41.55 unique names/day]
2 [97 names] 'BifBewalski - effing lefty green bastards'
3 [46 names] 'Dr Fauci'
4 [41 names] 'Duncanthrax'
5 [32 names] '4'
6 [30 names] 'Jak Sucio'
7 [24 names] '18-1'
8 [24 names] 'davidt'
9 [23 names] 'G'rump928(c)'
10 [23 names] 'mindful webworker ~25 years of webworks'
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Gun Thread: It's Snowing Down in Texas Edition! [Weasel]
—Open Blogger
Full speed ahead!
Welp, another Sunday and another Gun Thread. Let's gather around the fire and discuss guns, shooting and the wunnerful world of firearms for a while!
Our pals in Texas have taken a beating from ol' Man Winter this past week, with snow and ridiculously low temps across the state. Add to that power outages and water shortages and you have a Texas size problemo! We all have a bunch of very special Moron pals down there who we need to keep in our thoughts and prayers. They are all people who impress me as competent, independent and highly self-sufficient, but dealing with this sort of weather crap is no picnic.
So with that said, let's pop down below and see what we have this week, shall we?
Speaking of likable Texans, our pal and TXMoMe host extraordinaire RancherBob, takes time out from shoveling and shivering to share pics of his beloved Winchester Model 1907. You may recall last week's mailbag entry featured the following page from a vintage Sears catalog.
Vintage Sears Catalog Ad (courtesy WTM)
RancherBob explains:
Sorry to say I lost this gun in a tragic ferry boat incident. I'm still quite traumatized and unable to talk about it.
Very nice, RancherBob! Hope you are thawing out. Thank you for sharing and bigly Gun Thread condolences on your loss.
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Next up, our pal and delightful 'ette Ladyl shares a range report as she continues to develop her marksmanship skills.
I had private instruction at the range today. It included about a half an hour in the classroom and 45 minutes at the range.
The purpose of doing this was to review the operation of my Glock 43X, including loading, clearing, grip, etc. Because this is new to me, it will be a while before I want to fire the gun without an expert beside me to make sure I'm doing everything right.
At the range I had detailed instruction on loading and firing. The instructor had me do five rounds at a time, dry firing at the end of each five rounds.
My first few shots were disappointing--I think I was more focused on pulling the trigger than keeping my eyes on the sight. It got better as I went on, but it was harder than I thought it would be.
The targets were at five yards.
Well there is nothing in the world wrong with these targets! Shooting is a skill which takes time and practice to develop and you are just getting started. You may want to think about some dry-fire drills at home. These will save on ammo while developing muscle memory and getting you used to handling the firearm.
Why, here is a drill right here!
You might later consider on of the laser practice aids we have been discussing.
Nice work, Ladyl!
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Here's another live fire drill, called the 10-10-10 Drill, sent to us by our pal redc1c4. Thanks Red!
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A few weeks back we looked at the Whitworth Confederate Sniper Rifle which started a muzzleloader discussion. Our pal Qmark sent in this great looking example, the Knight .45 DISC Extreme.
Speaking of nice rifles, our pal Scuba_Dude has been busy in the shop mounting a scope.
Sweet! How do you like working on the Tipton vise, SD?
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Next up, our pal WFD426 sends in several good questions on concealed carry, and also a quick range report.
Regarding concealed carry, I was wondering about holster styles; kydex vs leather, amount of retention necessary, and locations of gun placement, appendix vs 3 o'clock vs 6 o'clock vs pocket, etc...
Also a brief range report: took my 15 y.o. son to the range Saturday and we shot our way up from 22LR to 45acp, with stops at 32acp and 9mm. We didn't shoot super-well, but it was our first time with all those pistols. A bad day at the range is still always a good day!
OK! Let's help a fellow Moron out. I personally like Garrett Silent Thunder Holsters and have been buying them for various guns for years. I carry at about 3 o'clock with a slight forward cant.
What are your favorites?
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Several of you have asked for information on zeroing iron sights on an AR-15. This video is worth a look.
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Homework
I have been watching a bunch of videos by a guy posting on YouTube as GunBlue490. His videos are great, but they are long! Here is one on oiling and lubrication that clocks in at just over an hour, so don't try and watch it tonight. Instead, try and watch it when you have time this week and we can discuss next Sunday.
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Link-O-Rama
So I've had this list up for over two years now, and I understand they're not returning much in the way of available inventory. Maybe someday they will be useful again, so I will leave them here. I know retail inventory is listed and then gone almost immediately, but if you have had luck in sourcing ammo, please let us know what/when/where in the comments.
This week's entry comes courtesy of our pal and prolific contributor JT. Man, if this ain't the truth.
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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Food Thread: Steak Or Chop? With MSG Or Without? These Are The Questions That Try Men's Souls
—CBD
I grabbed a nice looking rib steak recently. I had no need for it, but when I walked past the butcher's case it began to whisper to me..."Dildo....Dildo...come to me!" I felt like Frodo with the One Ring.
Anyway, it was a 3" thick steak cut from the deckle end of the primal, which means a shorter bone and a thick girdle of the best part of the cow. Please don't argue the point. The deckle is magnificent.
I have been playing around with reverse sear, so that's what I did with this one. But it was so thick that it behaved more like a roast than a steak. That is by no means a complaint...it was excellent, and impossibly juicy, which is why it seemed like a roast. And the fat had that unctuous mouth feel that one gets from a nice big slice of prime rib.
I wasn't sure what was going on in the pan, but one of the advantages of being comfortable in the kitchen is the confidence to figure out what is different and just go with it. Had I been fixated on a crispy exterior I probably would have overcooked the steak, but it turned out really well.
But that's not a photo of it, and careful readers of this column will know exactly why!
And while his suggestions border on the insane (in a martini?), it's not a bad thing to experiment with additives. There is a conceit among a certain class of chefs and cooks that everything must be more natural and authentic than even at God's table. I'll bet I have displayed that sort of elitism and arrogance on occasion, but the reality is that as long as the food tastes good to you, who cares what's in it. There are a few people in my food world who sneer at truffle oil. Okay, it's artificial, and it was overused in the 1990s. But I sort of like it on popcorn, and it doesn't offend me when used properly.
So...eat and drink what you want, and if that means sprinkling MSG on your Velveeta and truffle oil sandwich...have at it!
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Here's another entry in the Festive-but-Frugal Meal For Eight; and it's a good one. Commenter "Michael" is a man of few words but a hearty appetite!
In addition to this being a very appealing menu, it is not complicated, and can be prepped easily the day before. It's exactly the kind of cooking that makes people want you to host again next year.
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It's not a great photo, but that is the pan in which a couple of very nice steaks were seared and then buttter basted. With garlic and fresh thyme because I respect my food and want it to be happy and content and to smell good.
While the steaks were resting I decided to make something green, and cut up some broccoli, nuked it for about three minutes, then tossed it into the pan to brown in the beef fat and butter.
I will be doing that as much as possible. It's not that I don't like vegetables; I do...really! But cooking them in animal fat makes them taste better. Although a large quantity of olive oil sure does make my ratatouille taste good...
Could it be that fat in any form tastes good? I will have to examine this supposition.
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One of the frustrating things about many food blogs and websites is that the people who write them -- good, honest cooks who have interesting ideas -- often have no idea how to write a recipe. They bloviate and ramble or are too cryptic and provide too little detail. Here is Hank Shaw from "Hunter-Angler-Gardener-Cook" doing it the right way. There is plenty of chatter, but there is also plenty of good information about how the recipe will work out, and how it will vary based on the cook's choices. I love that! Green Chile Stew
I like chiles, and I like stews, and I like stews with chilies even more, so this is going to make me a happy camper just as soon as I find some good fresh chilies. I wonder if there is a non-stop to Albuquerque?
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I mentioned last week that I made fresh tortilla chips for a dish I made recently. Well, they were so good, and so damned easy that I kept doing it. Of course I had a ton of corn tortillas, and I'm a cheap bastard, so I didn't want them to get stale.
Why did I use such a small pot? Well, I was only making a few, and that way I didn't have to use very much oil. It worked fine. They fry so quickly that it makes sense to do them in small batches anyway.
They are great plain. Seriously, they are so good that I didn't bother with salsa or anything other than a sprinkle of Kosher salt when they came out of the oil.
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I have posted a video or two from Guga, who has two channels. One, "Sous Vide Everything," is pretty self explanatory. The second one, "Guga Foods," is a more general cooking channel, but he loves meat...beef in particular...so that is the topic most times.
But this is just nuts!
[Hat Tip: Prothonotary Warbler]
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I was a little worried about this loaf, because I tried a different technique that included an autolyse step. Sounds impressive, but all it means is mixing the flour and water without salt and sourdough starter and letting it rest for 30 minutes or so. It improves the hydration of the flour and does a few other geeky things involving proteases a. Also it allows the foul humors exuded by the baking imps to leave the dough, giving it a better chance of turning out well.
And it did. The dough itself was easy to handle and formed nicely. It was also very...um...tight? It would stretch but snap back immediately, and that made me a bit concerned about it rising fully. I was correct; it didn't rise as much, but it more than made up for that by rising beautifully in the oven.
So this easy extra step is a keeper. Although I am not sure about the pattern on the top of the loaf. Next time I will cut much deeper.
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Food and cooking tips, Large-breasted Muscovy ducks, young wild pigs, bartenders who use vermouth in Martinis (but not too much), pork belly that doesn't have 5-spice, an herb garden that actually grows herbs, beef short ribs that have meat on them (not the stupid little sliver of bone they sneak into the packages) and good tomatoes that aren't square, pale pink and covered with Mestizo E.coli: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. Any advocacy of French Toast with syrup will result in disciplinary action up to and including being nuked from orbit. And yes, shaking a Manhattan is blasphemy...it's in the Bible!
While there are plenty of shipwrecks worthy of exploration, few are as iconic as that of the RMS Titanic. After over a century of exposure to everything that depths have to offer, the wreck is deteriorating at a rapid pace. In an effort to explore, chronicle and study the massive wreck before it's gone forever, OceanGate is launching a series of week-long expeditions in 2021.
Aside from the pesky issue of claustrophobia, this sounds like it would be a blast.
Of course it's funny, but it is also a sad commentary on the politicization of science and public health. I wonder how many people are dead because Rachel Carson, a profoundly evil woman, decided to write a pop science book and lie to the world?
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In my youth I had a girlfriend who was a skater, and she told me that during competitions they would put Vaseline on their teeth so that they could smile in spite of the dry air in the arena.
That sounds...unpleasant.
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Anyone smoke flavored cigars, or cigarellos, or whatever those things are called? The ad calls them cigarettes, but I don't know about that. I like cigars on occasion, but have never tried a flavored one. I suspect that it is like flavored coffee, an acquired taste.
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Here's a band to take the taste of the last one out of your mouth.
It's an appealing idea; one that combines a thumb in the eye of the Democrat machine that is desperate to deplatform (and probably imprison) President Trump with a ready-made bully pulpit for a man who is a master at using one.
Trump for Congress 2022! Donald Trump declares his candidacy, asks voters across the country to turn out and elect him a Republican majority in the House, and launches a simultaneous campaign to become Speaker of the House once elected. Imagine, Donald Trump second in line to the Presidency and forcing President Biden-Harris-Biden to negotiate with him in order to pass legislation. The “Art of the Deal” evolves into the political “Art of War.”
Except....The position of Speaker of The House requires knowledge of the intricacies of the rules of the House, and the ability to manipulate those rules. One of President Trump's weaknesses was his inability to navigate the labyrinth of government, preferring to use his own management style that worked well for him in the past, coupled with his excellent and energizing speaking skills.
But that management style won't work in the House, because the 218+ representatives each have their own agendas and the Republican Party has been remiss for a very long time in cracking the whip and forcing a unified voice. And the bully pulpit of the speaker is an order of magnitude smaller than the president's.
All of this assumes that President Trump would be elected speaker, something that may seem a foregone conclusion, but which might not be realistic. I simply cannot imagine President Trump accepting an inferior position within the house hierarchy, so it would be "Speaker or bust!"
A more realistic position for President Trump is as the leader of the New PartyTM, whatever that may be. Could it be a reconstituted Republican Party after a violent purge of the NeverTrumpers and the "go along to get along" squishes who have done real damage to the party and to the country? Sure. Maybe. Or will it be an entirely new party, built from the ashes of the Republican party's self-immolation? That sounds even better, and I know full well that may mean a generation out of power.
Either way. President Trump belongs at the head of a movement, in full view of all of America, not buried in the Capitol trying to wend his way through the Deep State's obstacles.
Good morning to all you 'rons, 'ettes, lurkers, and lurkettes, wine moms, frat bros, crétins sans pantalon (who are technically breaking the rules). Welcome once again to the stately, prestigious, internationally acclaimed and high-class Sunday Morning Book Thread, a weekly compendium of reviews, observations, snark, witty repartee, hilarious bon mots, and a continuing conversation on books, reading, spending way too much money on books, writing books, and publishing books by escaped oafs and oafettes who follow words with their fingers and whose lips move as they read. Unlike other AoSHQ comment threads, the Sunday Morning Book Thread is so hoity-toity, pants are required. Even if it's these pants, that were rejected by the Festrunk Brothers for being way too dorky.
Pic Note:
I have featured the magnificant old Cincinnati Public Library in previous book threads (see here and here) but never knew much about it, other than it was just an old building that is no longer standing. But wait, there's more:
First constructed in 1874, Old Cincinnati Library was built on a site intended for an opera house...
From the gorgeous chequered marble flooring to the massive arched skylight ceiling, the library was a feat of architectural beauty. Cast iron shelves teeming with books spread across the four-story main hall, creating a labyrinth of literature that was a sight to behold for patrons.
The huge glass ceiling flooded the library with natural light, providing ample illumination for those searching through the endless catalogue of books -it’s though the total capacity was an incredible 300,000!
You all remember Mark Judge, right? He was the guy whom the MSM thought could deliver the goods on the depredations of Brett Kavanaugh and his gropey rapey pirate ship that terrorized the eastern seaboard for years and nobody ever knew about it, certainly not anyone at any of Kavanaugh's previous confirmation hearings -- until Doctor Christine Blaisey Doctor Ford ratted him out. Only Judge says he doesn't remember any of it, wasn't even there and was certainly never aboard Kavanaugh's rape boat, so they had to see if they could find someone else to bear false witness to Ford's lies.
Anyway, Mr. Judge is a writer of books and commentary, such as this piece 'They Were Relentless': How I Learned Respect for Our Communist Media, which is a review of a book written by Father Walter Ciszek, a priest who spent 20+ years in the Soviet gulag because he was "convicted" of being a spy for the Vatican. At first, he did not take his captors seriously and the psychological pressure they could bring to bear. But that changed when
...he realized what he was dealing with. The Russians were not about to stop asking him the same questions over and over again for days on end. They were not going to listen to facts or reason. “They were relentless, and they were thorough, and they were good at their trade,” Ciszek notes.
Judge then relates this to his own experience with having to deal with the character assassins of the MSM:
The reporter who has just called you with a list of personal questions might be a goofball — or a trained and skilled interrogator. Assume, to be on the safe side, that he is very likely a deeply damaged, ideologically obsessed and angry human being. One who cares nothing about you, fairness, or even your life. Just like the Russians who tortured Fr. Ciszek.
Only through an utter reliance on God's will did he manage to endure the extreme hardship. He tells of the courage he found in prayer--a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustration, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amidst the "arrogance of evil" that surrounded him. Ciszek learns to accept the inhuman work in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God...
He Leadeth Me is a book to inspire all Christians to greater faith and trust in God--even in their darkest hour. As the author asks, "What can ultimately trouble the soul that accepts every moment of every day as a gift from the hands of God and strives always to do his will?"
The Kindle edition is $11.99. Judge's review comes complete with a 3 AM knock on his door. I almost wish he had answered it. Let me rephrase that: After reading his review, and how the MSM treated him, I almost wish he had opened the door and then shot the guy in the face.
(Last week's 'who dis' was actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, back when she was very young and some vampires needed killin'.
Moron Recommendations
14 I read To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. In 2257 exobiologist, Kira, finds an alien relic. This sets off a series of events which lead to the Earth and its colonies to the brink of annihilation. An interesting, exciting story populated by strange, alien life forms. Also of interest is the afterword in which Paolini describes the long road taken to get this book to print. Not a road for the lazy or easily discouraged.
Posted by: Zoltan at February 14, 2021 09:07 AM (qb8uZ)
33 Just for fun, I'm reading "The Talented Mr. Varg," by Alexander McCall
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 14, 2021 09:14 AM (TdMsT)
The Talented Mr. Varg appears to be the third in a series. It sounds like some comedy or some sort of farce:
In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg series...
Like I said, second in a series.
Ulf and his team investigate a notorious philanderer—a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may be all bark and no bite.
The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases is always prepared to dive into an investigation, no matter how complex. So when the girlfriend of an infamous author who insists her bad-boy beau is being blackmailed approaches Ulf Varg, the department’s lead detective, Ulf is determined to help. It’s rather difficult to determine what skeletons hide in the hard-living Lothario’s closet, though. And while Swedes are notoriously tolerant . . . well, there are limits. Even for the Swedish.
In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.
These are their stories.
BONG! BONG!
What kind of cases we talking about here? Cases like these:
The first case: the small matter of a man stabbed in the back of the knee. Who would perpetrate such a crime and why? Next: a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes missing. But how on earth do you search for someone who doesn't exist? And in the final investigation: eerie secrets that are revealed under a full moon may not seem so supernatural in the light of day. No case is too unusual, too complicated, or too, well insignificant for this squad to solve.
The author, Alexander McCall Smith, has written a ton of books, including The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
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Here's a freebie for you Harry Potter fans. A lurking moron e-mailed me to tell me about an online book that I guess could be described as HP reimagined:
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the story of Harry Potter as it would have been if his “mom” (Aunt Petunia) had received a major beauty upgrade from Harry’s real mom and went on to marry an Oxford Professor. Harry is raised with two people who care for him, in a home filled with science and tutors. Instead of going to Griffendor, he ends up in Ravenclaw (with Hermione, after Harry blows off Ron). From there on it, the story escalates as Harry applies the scientific method to magic, and begins to understand its foundations the way the Magical World never did. All while the Defense Professor (Quirrell) takes way too great an interest in Harry, befriending him and training his raw young intellect. This is Harry Potter done right, and in a fashion that doesn’t drag through seven years and too many innocent deaths from secrets kept. Well recommended (and apparently it was authorized by JK Rowling, although not for [the author] to make money).
You can go to the hosting site and read it online or download it in various e-book formats.
This reminds me of the magic/computer mashup books I read a number of years ago wherein a computer geek gets sucked into a magic-rich universe where the magic is powerful, but flakey, unpredictable, and not easily controlled. Nobody knows why he's there until he learns how to make a magical equivalent to "1" and "0", and from those binary digits, he proceeds to use his nerd/geek skills to construct spells like writing computer programs that work reliably well all the time. The author's name is Rick Cook and his books are available as inexpensive, DRM-free e-book compilations here, here, and there was even an additional installment I never got to, here. I found the writing to be a bit amateurish, but nonetheless entertaining.
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'Prince Ludwig the Deplorable' e-mails:
I thought I’d pass along a recommendation for The Long Moonlight by Razörfist. To my knowledge, it’s the first ever fantasy-noir novel. Think Tolkien meets The Maltese Falcon, with strong Robert E Howard/Walter B Gibson pulp serial influence. It was a fun read.
Something is poking me way, way in the back of my brain telling me that this is not the first time I've heard about a sword-and-sorcery/noir mashup, but I just can't recall. Oh well, it will probably come to be days from now. Anyway, here is the blurb:
MENUVIA
A sparkling gem made rough stone, the seat of political power in the Kingdom of Vale. Revolt foments among the patrician class and open gang war looms on the horizon. As the Argentine Tower plots revolution, a lone thief with a past as dark as Menuvia itself picks the wrong lock and opens the wrong door. Shadows still cast in the dark of night, underneath THE LONG MOONLIGHT.
Moron author Max Cossack has a new novel out. According to the e-mail he sent me:
There’s a new Max Cossack novel out this week, number 5 in the “Wilder Bunch” series beginning with “Khaybar, Minnesota,” and including “Simple Grifts.” It’s “Where There Is No Man”, in which Sam Lapidos and his Mauritanian-born law partner Jacob Laghdaf take on a series of new Arizona clients, each one plunging their lives into ever more violent turmoil, and each new day bringing their clients and themselves closer to destruction. It’s “suspenseful, action-packed, sometimes moving, often laugh-out-loud funny, and always PC-indifferent.”
So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, insults, threats, ugly pants pics and moron library submissions may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm.
What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books.
Sitting in a bar the Scotsman says, "As good as this bar is, I still prefer the pubs back home. In Glasgow, there's a wee place called McTavish's. The landlord goes out of his way for the locals. When you buy four drinks, he'll buy the fifth drink."
"Well, Angus," said the Englishman, "At my local in London , the Red Lion, the barman will buy you your third drink after you buy the first two."
"Ahhh, dat's nothin'," said the Irishman, "back home in my favorite pub, the moment you set foot in the place, they'll buy you a drink, then another, all the drinks you like, actually. Then, when you've had enough drinks, they'll take you upstairs and see that you gets laid, all on the house!"
The Englishman and Scotsman were suspicious of the claims. The Irishman swore every word was true.
Then the Englishman asked, "Did this actually happen to you?"
"Not meself, personally, no," admitted the Irishman, "but it did happen to me sister quite a few times."
Who does not love pizza? No one that we know, and if you know someone who hates it, well, they are not normal. Hey, we're just saying. Now, there have been plenty of recorded instances of animals scarfing down pizza too. However, did you ever stop to think what would happen if you left a pizza unguarded in the woods?
Probably not, but the guy behind AceVlogs did. He sets up a couple trail cameras and then proceeds to test three different types of pizza left in the forest.
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How not to clean your roof of snow
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"I noticed that he had an obvious erection protruding in his shorts,” a cop reported." And that my friend is how you become a Genius Award Winner.
FEBRUARY 18--A man who was spotted pleasuring himself inside a Kia in a Walmart parking lot told Florida cops that he was “lonely” because his former girlfriend was in Colorado, according to an arrest report.
Police were summoned yesterday afternoon to a Walmart in Vero Beach by a woman who reported that a man who was parked next to her was masturbating while behind the wheel of a car that had its driver’s side window open.
Upon arriving at the parking lot, cops stopped a Kia with out-of-state plates and asked the driver to exit the vehicle. When Kyle Weiss, 26, stepped out of his car, there was little doubt he was the suspect being sought: “I noticed that he had an obvious erection protruding in his shorts,” a cop reported.
Weiss initially denied exposing himself, and claimed that he was at the retailer “as a food shopper,” adding that “his business is like Uber Eats, buying food and delivering it to customers.”
I believe it is "Price Rollbacks" not pants rollback.
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With so many aspects of our culture now contaminated with leftist nonsense, it was probably inevitable that science would eventually succumb to the pathogen that is leftism, which has led to the politicization of science, i.e., science put toward leftist goals.
It began with social "science," which struggled for validation and acceptance as a science before giving up the struggle entirely as hopeless, and simply accepting being a stalking horse for leftist propaganda. The result was any number of "studies" on how conservatives are stupid, uneducated, bigoted, rigid, etc. Apparently we're stupid, uneducated, bigoted, rigid, but also wealthy masters of the universe. It's ... complicated.
The utility of such "studies" to the Left was perhaps most apparent in the Prop. 8 fiasco, the initiative ballot measure in California banning homosexual marriage. Jerry Brown, the state AG at the time, was charged with speaking in favor of Prop. 8, which he did with all the enthusiasm I'd bring to kissing Hillary Clinton on the mouth. Those attacking Prop. 8 proffered any number of "studies" that purported to show that homosexuality was great, really, A-OK, the bedrock of society, something that had made America great, etc. Jerry Brown, of course, inexplicably failed to produce any "studies" in rebuttal (?), so Judge Lance, after careful and even-handed consideration of the two sides, threw out Prop. 8 and then went home to his husband, the kabuki now completed.
Sociology is the pigpen in which leftist social "scientists" most commonly wallow because it was of dubious intellectual merit to begin with, and rapidly jettisoned any pretense or effort of being intellectually meritorious. Apart from Edward Frazier Franklin, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and the early W.E.B. duBois (whose doctoral dissertation on suppression of the American slave trade is a masterpiece of scholarship).
Similarly, psychology and political science have long had their problems, with Herrnstein and Murray being rare examples of a more scholarly approach. Economics, with its assertion of the rational market hope hypothesis also has its problems, with equally highly regarded economists (e.g., Friedman and Keynes) offering diametrically opposed viewpoints.
But all these problems dwindle into insignificance when putative scientists segue from their expertise into the political arena. Paul Krugman is the poster boy for this malady, but it extends into what are nominally STEM subjects as well. Michael Mann, Paul Ehrlich, to name two, are examples. Bill Nye isn't even a scientist, but an erstwhile mechanical engineer and failed comic, but he gets in on the act as well. You know, mechanical engineering is just like atmospheric physics, when you get down to it.
The problem is that these worthies use whatever reputation they had in their fields - and some of them had stellar reputations - and use it in essence to argue from authority for political goals, oftentimes basically intoning ex cathedra pronouncements. Now the obvious objection to their doing so is that they are speaking beyond their expertise and/or the data they have to hand. They are offering their opinions as indisputable facts, and tend to dismiss with a deprecatory wave of the hand - but no substantive arguments - anyone expressing skepticism. A more fundamental objection, however, is that even if they were on absolutely sound ground in a narrowly drawn scientific sense, political decisions must reflect much more than a simplistic technical perspective.
Consider global warming, for example. (Oh, excuse me: I meant, "climate change.")The Faithful urge that we as a nation repent and make sacrifice to Gaia in hopes of propitiating her wrath (beating us over the head with Mann's hockey stick?) for our trespasses, we just might be able to escape that wrath by purchasing suitable indulgences (which fortunately the apostles and prophets (sp?) of the Faith are in a position to supply, for a modest fee).
These latter-day flagellants will brook no skepticism regarding the True Faith, and have literally suggested that blasphemers and heretics (aka "climate deniers") should answer to the criminal justice system. (Burning at the stake is, of course, out of the question, as it would add even more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.) There is no room for debate in matters of the Faith. We must act now, or we're all doomed, doomed I tell you! It may even be too late now, but possibly through a suitably frenzied effort we might, just might, be able to SAVE THE PLANET!! It's for the children! Gaia vobiscum! Et cum carbon-neutral spiritu tuo! Oremus!
But ... a lot more goes into a policy decision than a simple consideration of the pertinent science (even if that science were sound). The decision also involves economics (risk/benefit calculations), geopolitics, the psychology, history, and culture of the country, the alternatives to the proposed policy, and the precedents that may be being set, to name a few. In short, we need a free-wheeling debate touching upon all of these considerations, and others besides.
Which is exactly what the Left tries so strenuously to shut down. The marketplace of ideas is repellent to them, perhaps because it includes the word "market." As Angela Davis once told me, "Of course the Party believes in free speech. You're free to tell the truth. You're just not free to tell lies." With "the Party" of course, being the arbiter of such.
Having succeeded in getting Disney to fire Gina Carano, the lunatic twitter trans-extremists take aim at their next cancellation target: Rosario Dawson Dawson, you may remember, was sued by a lunatic transgender who claimed that Dawson's family (not the actress herself) insulted her. Dawson has been on the Cancellation List since then. Now that their model for cancellation has been proven to work, they're putting it into action for the next one. This is why I say that the Cancel-Culture "Conservatives" like David French, Jonah Goldberg, Rich Lowry, and Ben Shapiro brought this current hell on us all: By constantly feeding the Cancel Culture beast, they made it grow, and it just got hungrier and hungrier as it grew. If they had said "NO!" when it was weaker, we would have starved the thing to death. Instead, they nurtured it and nurtured it, trusting that they would be able to control the beast and only sic it on their enemies. I can't wait to return the favor to these assholes and get them cancelled. Turn about is fair play.
This is a common progressive view - racial dynamics in an argument are the most important thing unless the white person is arguing the "antiracist" position, and then the racial dynamics become totally irrelevant.
In other words -- white people are supposed to endlessly defer to black people, unless the white person is repeating Official Woke Racist Cult Dogma, in which case the Dogma trumps skin color.
Oh, and we should also point out: Rich white leftwing women are of course the most oppressed group in the history of the universe, and therefore, are always at the top of every progressive stack. In their own minds, at least. They do have to pretend slightly that they defer to others who may think they have more Racial Oppression Points, but all leftwing white women know the real score. And they will only defer so much before asserting their natural position at the top of the racial hierarchy as Rich White People. Ya Boi Zach noted this dynamic years ago: Rich White Liberal Women (and Rich White Liberal Men, of course) do not like being near the bottom of the progressive stack. They are insanely narcissistic. So they're always looking for some Progressive Stack Edge to elevate themselves to the top. They need an excuse to do this, because, by the rules they claim to believe in, they're members of an Oppressor Class. So they're always looking to game the rules to contrive themselves a special Go To the Top of the Stack exception.
Update:
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
@jackGarland is now saying he will help Congress draft laws to restrict free speech online
This is the guy Mitch McConnell will support -- an Attorney General who can't wait to overthrow the constitution and do what it explicitly forbids, which is, criminalizing speech. But then, the GOP Establishment is every bit as eager to start imposing Thought Policing on the public as the leftwing are. It's the only way that these deeply unpopular and incompetent groups can remain in power -- by forbidding any dissent.
McConnell to support Garland for attorney general The guy who says antifa can't be terrorists because they attack at night, and that he's not sure if illegally crossing the border is a crime, and claims, preposterously, he hasn't even thought about whether or not the Constitution demands that women and girls get the shit beaten out of them by men in Judo competitions. That last one? That is a flat-out lie told under oath. But we're going to put him in charge of the feds' prosecutions for what the FBI claims is "obstruction," huh? And while he's not sure if antifa is a terrorist organization, he also says that his top priority will be prosecuting the Capitol Numbskulls and their "abettors" -- you know, like FoxNews. This is the guy that Mitch McConnell -- currently being fangirled by National Review, of course! -- says should be our AG, administering our laws.
I'm done. The cvcks can have this piece of shit party -- my only hope for the future is giving Democrats full power and letting them destroy the country, which may (or may not) hasten a rebirth. But I am done with the Perpetual Sell-Outs and unceasing Failure Theater. Done. NeverTrump wanted to convince me I had no place in politics -- well, they convinced me. Good luck in your future political endeavors when half the GOP decides that voting is a pointless con.
AllahPundit and his "twitter pal" agree: Fauci's forced to be ridiculous about Forever Lockdowns because mean covid skeptics are forcing him to be:
"As a Twitter pal said this afternoon, Fauci and the entire health-care bureaucracy have been spooked by the persistent reluctance of some Americans to take basic precautions against infection, such as by wearing masks, and have taken a hyper-conservative line towards relaxing restrictions because of it. If he endorses the idea of any particular subgroup lifting precautions -- "sure, vaccinated grandparents, go hug your grandkids, it’s safe!" -- then some more vulnerable segment of society will take that as license to let down their guard too. "
I'd be very curious to see how much NeverTrumpers contributed to vaccine skepticism to this by themselves suggesting that the "Trump Vaccine" was a rush job that can't be trusted. A friend (who I know in real life) comments: "I love how he says 'twitter pal' as if he has any other kind of friend"
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