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Good morning, kids. I don't even know where to begin with this Brittney Griner lowlife and there's a bigger story that broke yesterday which might explain why the Griner swap will most likely continue to dominate the news cycle through the weekend. And since "news" means "daily soap opera" the spin will be the foreign policy brilliance of the Biden junta, the victimhood of Griner and concomitant evil of Vladimir Putin and his puppet, Donald Trump & the MAGA movement, both of which represent the threat of white supremacy. Meh, fuck it and suck it any way you want, but it all comes out the same: America as founded evil, Leftism good.
Independent journalist Bari Weiss took to Twitter on Thursday night to unload a second trove of internal memos and documents exposing how Twitter officials silenced the voices of prominent conservatives on the platform. Radio host Dan Bongino, Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya, and activist Charlie Kirk were among those Twitter censored or blacklisted, along with the popular “Libs of TikTok” account. . .
. . . “This is some Soviet-style bulls**t,” Bongino told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “I’ve known [about the shadow banning] this the whole time. I was called a conspiracy theorist and a whack job.” And it’s not just Twitter. Bongino’s website has been banned by Google Ads, and he was banned from YouTube for saying that cloth masks don’t work to stop the spread of Covid. “And now I find out I’m on a NSFW list,” he fumed. “Tell me again how we live in a free country!”
. . . [Charlie] Kirk told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson that his Twitter account was averaging 150,000 retweets a day, but all of a sudden, “we fell off a cliff.” Engagement was down 95%, he said.
“I was called a conspiracy theorist,” he explained. “They convince you to stop talking about it.”
He noted that Twitter was treating his account “with more scrutiny and censorship” than Iran and other state sponsors of terror.
Weiss pointed out that “Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: ‘We do not shadow ban.’ They added: ‘And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.'” . . .
. . . Weiss’s investigation revealed internal Slack messages where Twitter employees admitted to using “technicalities” to “restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects.” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then Global Head of Trust & Safety, wrote in a direct message to a colleague in 2021, “A lot of times, SI [Site Integrity] has used technicality spam enforcements as a way to solve a problem created by Safety under-enforcing their policies. Which, again, isn’t a problem per se – but it keeps us from addressing the root cause of the issues, which is that our Safety policies need some attention.” . . .
. . . Kirk summed it up nicely by declaring: “I don’t think we’ll ever be able to measure the impact… of what Twitter did in 2020.” Indeed. While Elon Musk has done the republic a great service by publicly revealing Twitter’s evil deeds, we’ll never know how it impacted everything from the 2020 election to the nation’s Covid response—and that’s a complete travesty.
This is rage-inducing for sure, but the last thing it is to anyone who reads this column and others even casually is surprising. And like every other revelation and admission (grudging or otherwise) from Leftists about everything from the Hunter laptop story being true to that attempted mea culpa about lockdowns and the clot-shot perhaps not being such a great idea after all to even the lack of any real hard evidence against Trump from the Mueller "investigation" to the goose-egg inducing string of shampeachments, Leftists will shrug it off, ignore it or otherwise use some sort of variation of "fake, but accurate" to justify their actions.
Hell, Molly Ball's Time magazine piece not only admitting but praising state and non-state actors for essentially rigging the 2020 election – "fortifying" was the euphemism – is perhaps the greatest example of claiming absolute moral authority to do anything, say anything and act "by any means necessary" to achieve their aims because, as inscribed on every Wehrmacht belt buckle Gott Mit Uns.
Again, say what you want about Elon Musk, good, bad or indifferent, he has made himself a target for termination by the junta in power and its followers in and out of government. I find it bitterly ironic that nearly 60 years on from the so-called "free speech movement" that started at UC Berkeley, that generation and its acolytes and progeny are hell bent on absolutely silencing anyone who dares even question them. Funny how the spoiled, rotten bastard Mario Savio shrieked:
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
Mario, baby, from whatever circle of Hell you're watching from, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you and yours are the machine. But I will say this: given everything we have experienced and all that has been revealed about the absolute corruption of this system, I agree you with you 1,000%.
And so that brings us to this Brittney Griner. I don't think we have to go into the details but suffice it to say that as horrible as this was, essentially a win-win for Vladimir Putin (of all people), it was not a gaffe. The abandonment of Paul Whelan, a US Marine who has been imprisoned in Putin's gulag for four years already on trumped up espionage charges speaks volumes. Even if Whelan was an actual intelligence agent, to leave him there for an America-hating pot-smoking freak who couldn't even dunk a donut let alone a basketball is beyond the fucking pale.
But this is not a one-off. Remember, Bowe Bergdahl went AWOL and then committed treason by parlaying with the Taliban, which IIRC resulted in US soldiers being killed and wounded in combat. What did Obama do? Release five big shot Taliban terrorists in exchange for Bergdahl's release, and then fêteing him in the Rose Garden. But wait, there's more!
Just this year, Bout joins two convicted cocaine traffickers related to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and a parade of former Guantánamo detainees freed by Biden’s administration. . .
. . . The release of Bout echoes a similar situation in South America in October, when the Biden Administration carried out a prisoner swap with the authoritarian socialist regime of Venezuela. Biden released two of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s convicted drug trafficking nephews in exchange for seven unjustly imprisoned American oil workers. . .
. . . Outside of Latin America, the biggest beneficiaries of Biden prisoner liberation orders so far appear to be the Taliban, who returned to power in Afghanistan after Biden broke an agreement that would have ended the 20-year Afghan War sooner, inspiring the Taliban to take over Kabul in August 2021. . .
. . . In January, the Biden Administration approved the release of three Yemenis citizens from Guantánamo Bay: Moath al-Alwi, Zuhail al-Sharabi and Omar al-Rammah, as well as Kenyan citizen Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu and Somali national Guleed Hassan Ahmed. All five had been imprisoned over alleged ties to al-Qaeda.
Two months later, the Biden administration released Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani, who had at that time served nearly 20 years in prison for his alleged involvement in the September 11 terrorist attack. Al-Qahtani was released from Guantánamo Bay after the Department of Defense determined that al-Qahtani “was no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the national security of the United States,” releasing him to Saudi Arabia, where he is a national.
Convicted spy Ana Belen Montes, a key figure in the Cuban Wasp Network, is scheduled for early release from prison on Jan. 8, 2023. She began her career in the U.S. Justice Department, where she was an outspoken critic of U.S. policy in Latin America. It was at Justice that she was recruited as a spy. Her career then led her to become the premier Cuba analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where she also assisted in directing U.S. policy towards Latin America. Convicted in 2002, she was sentenced to 25 years and theoretically should remain imprisoned until 2027.
As part of a network of spies, she not only funneled Fidel Castro’s input into U.S. foreign policy; she also appears responsible for outing 450 operatives. The information she provided may have led to the death of Green Beret Sgt. Gregory A. Fronius in El Salvador, according to her critics. Others also link her activities to the killing of four volunteer pilots, gunned down in international waters over the Straits of Florida in February 1996. At the time, they were flying humanitarian aircraft with Brothers to the Rescue, a group seeking to save Cuban raft refugees adrift on the high seas.
The DIA investigator who helped uncover the ring, Chris Simmons, said to Hank Tester of CBS Miami, “I have never seen someone so heartless in my life.” . . .
. . . Even today, there are an estimated 300 Cuban spies operating in the United States. “The Wasp Network was the largest foreign spy network to operate in the United States, and Montes was one of Havana’s top ten assets,” said Simmons. He is not happy with her early release.
But given the current makeup of the federal government, it is unlikely anyone will put the brakes on it. And while she may no longer qualify to be rehired by the U.S. government, unless she has truly reformed her ways in prison, there may be many activist groups in the U.S. more than willing to embrace her and her policies with open arms.
A couple of years ago, either in the wake of the George Floyd Summer of Love 2: Dresden Boogaloo or right before Biden was planted in the Oval Office, I stated that I would not be surprised in the least if both cop killer Mumia abu Jamal was granted a pardon and another cop-killer Joanne Chesimard a.k.a.Assata Shakur who is living on the lam in Cuba, and being treated as a hero, would also return to America and given a hero's welcome in D.C. at George Floyd Plaza.
If there were long odds two years ago, I think they just got a whole lot shorter.
"Every extreme policy push in America of the last five years overlaps with the objectives and people of the World Economic Forum." 21st Century Robber Barons: the WEF
"Even today, there are an estimated 300 Cuban spies operating in the United States. “The Wasp Network was the largest foreign spy network to operate in the United States, and Montes was one of Havana’s top ten assets,” said Simmons. He is not happy with her early release. But given the current makeup of the federal government, it is unlikely anyone will put the brakes on it. And while she may no longer qualify to be rehired by the U.S. government, unless she has truly reformed her ways in prison, there may be many activist groups in the U.S. more than willing to embrace her and her policies with open arms." Defense Intelligence Agency Spy Ana Belen Montes Awaits Early Release From Federal Prison
“There’s a jump cut here at :13 as everyone is shaking hands and hugging and right before it looks like Griner maybe going in to shake hands with Bout?” political commentator Stephen L. Miller tweeted. “Probably not great optics there to have your star prisoner swap shaking hands with the most notorious arms dealer on the planet.” Video Emerges Of Brittney Griner Being Swapped For Russian Terrorist; Critics Instantly Notice Problem
Bob Menendez:“The Russians and other regimes that take American citizens hostage cannot pretend that there is equivalence between the Brittney Griners of the world and people like Viktor Bout, the so-called ‘Merchant of Death.’ Nothing could be further from the truth, and we cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision.” Top Democrat Senator Blasts Biden Over Releasing Terrorist for Griner: "Deeply Disturbing Decision"
Whelan was arrested in Russia in 2018 and sentenced to 16 years in prison for alleged “espionage.” The former Marine denies the charges; Russian officials have presented no concrete evidence for their claims outside of what was used to imprison him in court. Report: Paul Whelan ‘Greatly Disappointed’ Biden Left Him Out of Prisoner Swap
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Julie Kelly: "Who successfully sought a 'revolution' in Washington—a bunch of random dudes in Michigan or the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world?" The Fake, and Real, Domestic Terrorists
D’Antuono claims he decided to end his career to “spend more time with family.” His decision comes — coincidentally — as the new, Republican-led House of Representatives has promised to give the FBI a much-needed enema. Republicans from the House Judiciary Committee have named D’Antuono and eight other FBI bigwigs as people who have some prompt ‘splainin’ to do. FBI Bigwig Quietly Steps Down Just Before New Congress Probes Begin
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“This is some Soviet-style bullshit,” Bongino told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “I’ve known [about the shadow banning] this the whole time. I was called a conspiracy theorist and a whack job.” And it’s not just Twitter. Bongino’s website has been banned by Google Ads, and he was banned from YouTube for saying that cloth masks don’t work to stop the spread of Covid. “And now I find out I’m on a NSFW list,” he fumed. “Tell me again how we live in a free country!” TWITTER EXPOSED: Blacklists, Secret Censorship Cabal, Treachery at the Highest Levels
“I suspect very strongly that there was some government direction of this. I’ve been involved with this lawsuit brought by the Missouri and Louisiana Attorney General’s offices against the Biden administration and we’ve uncovered tremendous evidence that there were federal agencies that were directing social media companies about what to censor, even who to censor. Now, if that is actually the case, that this blacklisting was directed by the government against American citizens, that’s a direct violation of my civil rights, it’s a direct violation of the First Amendment, and every American should be outraged.” Stanford’s Dr. Bhattacharya: I Want to Know if Government Officials Told Twitter to Blacklist Me, They Have Directed Censorship Before
Jeff McMillan, who is also a board member of the Association of LGBTQ Journalists, said LGBT activists and journalists "worry that Aldrich’s high profile as a crime suspect could lead to negative assumptions about all nonbinary people." (we can't have that, now can we? - jjs) Media Tiptoe Around Colorado Nightclub Shooter’s Preferred Pronouns
"Not only did Jean-Pierre not answer the man’s question, but she also would not explain why she could not answer the question. She became so frustrated that she called an early lid and left the room. You can watch the exchange below . . . " (she really has to lay off the "bad veal" - jjs) Karine Jean-Pierre Storms Out of a White House Briefing in a Huff
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The pivot from Vanguard occurred hours after lawmakers in the state of Texas announced a hearing over asset managers’ alleged mismanagement of taxpayer dollars driven by ideological motives. Several attorneys general filed motions last week with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission arguing that Vanguard should be barred from purchasing shares in publicly traded utilities out of a concern that the company’s emissions reduction efforts would raise energy prices and decrease grid reliability." Vanguard Backs Off From Climate Crusade. Al Gore Furious.
". . . we have issued a subpoena to BlackRock for the production of additional documents the committee needs to complete its work. We will not allow these firms to continue to use Texans’ money to force a narrow political agenda. They have a legal duty to put their investors’ interests first, and we intend to make sure they do.” Texas Legislative Committee Subpoenas BlackRock Over ESG Investing
Michael Walsh: "The late Michael Crichton, patiently listening to Charlie Rose's stupid questions and then trying to explain logic, evidence, and reality to him." "I'm Not a Catastrophist"
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The Central States Pension Fund, which provides benefits to Teamsters union members in the trucking, warehouse, and construction industries, was projected to run out of money by 2025 due to rising inflation, weak stock markets, and a lack of active workers participating in the fund, the Washington Times reported. Biden plans to save the fund from insolvency by using money from his $1.9 trillion dollar American Rescue plan, which even Democrat lawmakers admit caused the country's record high inflation." Biden Grants Historic Federal Bailout to Union Pension Fund Struggling in His Economy
The agency contended in a press release that Microsoft routinely acquires gaming companies to “suppress competition from rival consoles.” Members of the commission voted three to one on issuing the legal complaint. FTC Moves To Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Purchase Of Activision
“At the hearing, the Schencks insisted that they were not *128aa present at 1241 Main Street on December 29, 1990, as part of Project Rescue. Rather, they contend that they were there only to evangelize and preach. The Court finds, however, that their testimony in this regard is not credible,” court documents obtained by Daily Caller News Foundation read. Dems’ Star Witness In SCOTUS Hearing Deemed ‘Not Credible’ By SCOTUS
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used a number of Tiktok accounts to spread divisive content and disinformation, disproportionately favoring Democrats, to millions of viewers before the midterms, according to Forbes. The actions closely mirrored those of Russia during the 2016 election, when Kremlin-linked operatives used Facebook to try to sway American voters." Biden State Dept Not Very Fired Up Over Foreign Influence In Elections That Went Well For Dems
"If Republicans aim to protect their voters, they must secure the ballots of their voters. In order to preserve the consent of the governed they must protect their voters from disenfranchisement." Fortify or Die
In its Dec. 6 letter to the State Department, America First Legal says, "Without Congressional authorization, the Biden [junta] has continued the Obama administration’s policy and practice of attacking the State of Israel’s democracy through direct election interference, information actions, and covert financial and other activities." America First Legal Files FOIA on Biden Junta's 'Direct Election Interference' in Israel
"So the former First Lady, President, and now Vice President is exhibit A of crony capitalism, corruption, and taking care of your friends. She is a corrupt lady and maybe all of those years of shameless corruption have finally caught up with her. I hope so!" Today's Headline Comes From Argentina
"The uncertainty of science: A newly discovered long gamma ray burst (GRB) that appears to have been formed by the merger of two neutron stars has contradicted the long held views of scientists as to the origin of this particular type of GRB." New Gamma Ray Burst Violates the Explanations of Scientists
"If the CAA cannot figure out how to okay it to launch after doing six months of paperwork, how is it going to okay launches for regular rockets from the two Scotland launchpads now under construction?" UK Regulators Block Virgin Orbit Launch
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Who knew? If only we called the children 'zhe' and tucked, packed, and bound their genitals more aggressively, their mental health would miraculously rebound and they would become well-adjusted, stable members of society leading fulfilling, fruitful lives. Duh! This is just intuitive." The Experts™ Finally Discover Why 'LGBTQ Youth' Are Suicidal
"Ancient Apocalypse scares the media because it sets a threatening example for viewers to begin questioning authority in other realms." (the host and guests never really show any hard evidence to bolster their suppositions, but the latter are quite colorful anyway - jjs) The Lying Media Told Me Not To Watch Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, So I Did
"We make mistakes, friends. Let’s own them. We need to rebuild the village on better footing." The Glorious Lie
HITHER & YON
Detectives said that this was “one of those cases” that bothered generations of law enforcement. Cases like this even resonate with the families of those who worked the case but have passed away. (an acquaintance of mine shot a dramatization for his film school thesis on this story, and that was 40 years ago - jjs) Philadelphia Police Finally Solve the Identity of the 'Boy in the Box' Cold Case From 1957
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The time when more than 8GB of RAM becomes useful and starts paying for itself is when you're running several resource-heavy applications simultaneously -- especially high-end image or 4K+ video processing, CAD, or 3D modeling.
Yeah when you're running Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and Maya at the same time, 8GB might get a bit limiting. 64GB might also get a bit limiting. People who run that sort of workload tend to buy systems with 256GB or more.
I happened to reboot my laptop this morning. By the time it had finished booting, before I opened a single application, 8GB of RAM was already in use.
Two of the three new servers have been deployed, just waiting on the third now. Those have 128GB of RAM each. 128GB is probably enough.
I now have an 84TB RAID-Z3 array with gzip compression and block deduplication. I have about 7TB (already gzipped and deduped) to copy onto it, so it should last a good long while.
Looking at the photo, my first thought is there's no way that contains enough information to triangulate, even with a timestamp. And it doesn't. But the arc of possible matching locations in the United States comes near Edwards AFB, and if you look at all the buildings at Edwards in Google Maps there's a clear match to the photo.
I'm sure this entire process could be done with just stars and no google maps as well
Dude, using just stars they were lucky to discover America, which is somewhat larger than one aircraft hangar at Edwards AFB.
Canadians are inconsiderate travelers — even more so than those boisterous, barefooted Americans, if you can believe it. The verdict comes from an Expedia airplane etiquette survey, which ranked each nationality in terms of their travel manners.
Don’t let that seemingly non-stop barrage of viral videos featuring ugly Americans fool you — because the US earns high marks across the board for friendly flying.
So this woman and her family were attacked in their home by a knife wielding manic. She recounts how her husband was desperately holding the bedroom door shut as the criminal thrust his knife through it (and where was your gun lady? If someone is thrusting a knife through my bedroom door, I guarantee you I'd be sending a bunch of little presents back their way). Thankfully they survived, and the man, who she readily admits was mentally ill, was arrested. He died in prison.
So, after describing the terrible attack, and identifying that the attacker was mentally ill, she spends the rest of article speculating without a single shred of evidence offered, (not so much as a dog eared copy of Sarah Palin's autobiography in his possession) that the man may have been motivated by antisemitism fostered by “right-wing hate mongers” such as...Tucker Carlson.
It's insane. She can't just have been unlucky enough to cross paths with a psycho, no, she has to spin it all out into a larger conspiracy theory, one targeted at her because of her in-group identity, one than makes her not just the victim of a crime but a victim of a grand intrigue and nefarious plot.
If you've wondered to yourself “Where did this perversion come from?”, this is an excellent article for you. It traces the history of DQSH back to its roots. It's not as had to understand as you might think, it's the same old sewer of leftist filth that Marxists base their movement on, one that should be exceedingly familiar by now.
But the spirit of drag is predicated on the transgressive sexual element and the ideology of queer theory, which cannot be erased by switching the context and softening the language. The philosophical and political project of queer theory has always been to dethrone traditional heterosexual culture and elevate what Rubin called the “sexual caste” at the bottom of the hierarchy: the transsexual, the transvestite, the fetishist, the sadomasochist, the prostitute, the porn star, and the pedophile. Drag Queen Story Hour can attempt to sanitize the routines and run criminal background checks on its performers, but the subculture of queer theory will always attract men who want to follow the ideology to its conclusions.
Same old intersectionality garbage. Define what's normal as “oppressive” and seek to overthrow it by elevating the fringe – in this case sick perversions like child porn, child sex and bestiality – over the healthy normal. It's the same post-modern excrement that the communist uses to justify their opposition to the free market or the totalitarian uses to explain their desire to eradicate liberty.
If you're interested in that kind of stuff, I urge you to read the article. It isn't pleasant, but you'll understand the why and the how of every anti-western movement out there.
The author hates secular Christmas songs. I prefer religious carols myself, but also enjoy some secular songs. To me it's the difference between the (religious) reason for the season and the (cultural) spirit of the season. There's room for both in my world. That's not to say all secular songs are worthy of a listen, the horrid “Christmas Shoes” (which didn't make the list for some odd reason) should be consigned to the depths of a black hole, for example, but many are fun. What songs would you add to the list?
Remember The Utah!
Yesterday was the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Here's an interesting article about the “forgotten” battleship that sank that day, USS Utah, and ongoing efforts to identify remains so they can be returned to their kin for proper honor and burial.
The strong sense of community previous generations experienced has largely been replaced by a false sense of togetherness in the form of social media and other online pursuits. In general, society may feel more connected, but reality shows that's not the case. Spending time alone is on the rise for all people aged 15 and older. And like the increase in those 50 and older who live alone, this broad type of loneliness started increasing well before the pandemic.
None of these factors make for a cheerful report. If anything, they serve as a reminder that family is our most valuable asset, children are good, and fostering a sense of actual community, not just its online substitution, is necessary for a healthy culture. For too long, the message has been that independence and career achievement should be prized most of all. There is nothing wrong with establishing one's individual identity or advancing in a chosen field. But these things pale in comparison to the rich physical, mental, and emotional rewards of bonds with friends and family.
This is another place where understanding the philosophy behind things is helpful in understanding what may seem on the surface to be undesirable outcomes are actually intended. In a socialistic worldview, elderly are a drag on society. They are done being productive, and now take out of the system without putting anything back. Where is the percentage in paying for hips, coronary bypasses, or cancer treatment for individuals who aren't working and “contributing” anymore? (Wisdom, experience, and yes, even love, don't count) If such individuals are isolated and lonely, it's easier to ease them into the great beyond than to support them. Weakening or destroying the traditional nuclear and extended family makes this easier to accomplish. Think I'm talking crazy talk? Euthanasia is now the 6th leading cause of death in Canada. Say, does anyone remember how they mocked Sarah Palin for “death panels”? Good times, good times.
Or is it just that they don't want to be boycotted by Republican governors?
Legal Insurrection:
Vanguard Group, One of 'Big Three' Index Fund Managers, Quits ESG-Oriented 'Net Zero' Group
Vanguard indicated its decision rested in a desire to maintain the freedom not to restrict its investment options.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
How It Started: In October, my colleague Mike LaChance noted Wall Street's enthusiasm for ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing was already starting to wane.
How It's Going: One of the "Big Three" index fund managers is now quitting an ESG-oriented group.
Vanguard Group Inc. is walking out of the world's largest climate-finance alliance, marking the coalition's biggest defection to date as US Republicans step up their threats against firms deemed hostile toward the fossil-fuel industry.
Vanguard's decision followed a "considerable period of review," according to a company statement Wednesday. Withdrawing from the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, which is a sub-unit of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, "will help provide the clarity our investors desire" about everything from the role of index funds, to financial risks in the context of climate change, the firm said.
...Vanguard indicated its decision rested in a desire to maintain the freedom not to restrict its investment options.
Initiatives such as the net-zero alliance "can advance constructive dialogue, but sometimes they can also result in confusion about the views of individual investment firms," Vanguard said. "That has been the case in this instance, particularly regarding the applicability of net-zero approaches to the broadly diversified index funds favored by many Vanguard investors."
The "Big Three" (BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street) can cast nearly 25% of the votes in any director election at S&P 500 companies. The departure has significant implications for the American economy.
That article goes on to note that, get this, studies show that funds that prioritize "environmental sustainability" don't necessarily have the greatest economic performance, if you can believe that.
Steve Milloy
@JunkScience
Bad day for ESG:
Vanguard quits net zero banking group GFANZ.
Earlier, @BlackRock was subpoenaed by the state of Texas regarding illegal ESG activity.
While the decision by Vanguard to untether itself from the net-zero alliance is a win in the anti-ESG fight, MarketWatch noted that the world's second largest asset management firm will still "track its progress" toward reducing emissions "as an effort to provide 'clarity' to its investors."
MarketWatch noted the significance of Vanguard's withdrawal, saying "some environmental groups who follow pledges toward net-zero greenhouse emissions from the lifeblood of the economy -- the financial services and banking sector -- called the exit a major blow to the effort. These groups argued that such a move is kowtowing to 'anti-woke' sentiment," their report added. That is, conservatives just won a major battle in the fight against ESG and the woke left's attempts to force an energy "transition" away from affordable and reliable American fossil fuels.
For Some Reason, Traditionalist Men, Who Have Filled the Ranks of the Armed Services Throughout American History, Just Aren't Signing Up Any Longer
—Ace
The military is having so much trouble recruiting that they're considering dropping their standards to the lowet levels in history.
The Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) is scored by combining points scored on four of the ASVAB subtests. The raw score is then translated into a percentile and ranked to determine a candidate's basic eligibility and placement. In the Navy that translates into one's potential Naval Enlisted Classification code (NEC) and rating. I'll spare you the details.
Due to circumstances that may have been mentioned here, recruiting is markedly down. Every branch of the military is struggling to meet its FY 2022 recruiting quotas; so much so that that the continuation of the all-volunteer force has been questioned. Spox say the Pentagon's top leaders are now casting for ways to find new recruits. Panic mode, in other words.
My Navy has come up with a remarkedly bad idea.
Navy to Accept Recruits with Lowest Test Scores as Recruiting Goal Grows
By Drew F. Lawrence
The Navy unveiled new guidelines Monday that allow the service to enlist thousands of sailors with entrance test scores that fall into the lowest aptitude percentile allowed by military standards as it faces a higher recruiting goal, according to a notice from Navy Recruiting Command reviewed by Military.com.
Under the program, the service can recruit and contract up to 7,500 prospective sailors this year who fall under what the military calls "Category IV" recruits, or high school diploma-holding applicants who score within the 10th and 30th percentile on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, or AFQT. Up to 20% of this year's active-duty enlisted pool could fall into the lowest allowable aptitude percentile.
I wonder why capable young men aren't interested in military service any longer.
It's literally gay porn, featuring bondage and him ejaculating on other men.
I wonder if any of the men serving under this noxious pervert felt "uncomfortable" or "unsafe."
I sure know one thing -- they wouldn't have felt "safe" saying so. Because they'd have been court-martialed for breathing a word of their discomfort.
We're going to lose any war we ever fight -- in fact, we'll be so weak we will never even credibly threaten to use force again -- but at least "Pup Ravage" got to live his best life in the US military.
The US Military will become what the left always dreamed it could be: A government program for paying for expensive experimental transgender surgeries in exchange for signing up for two years of desk duty.
And it will become that with the support of most of the current officer corps.
Just kidding, it's not about Kyle Rittenhouse. It should be.
But it will infuriate the left almost as much.
The upcoming western, debuting Jan. 6, 2023 in theaters, stars Nicolas Cage as a reformed gunslinger trying to raise his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). When an outlaw gang threatens his family, Cage's character schools his daughter in the art of self-defense, and that means Firearms Training 101.
"The Old Way" co-stars Nick Searcy ("Terror on the Prairie," "Gosnell"), Clint Howard ("Apollo 13," "Far and Away") and Noah Le Gros ("A Score to Settle").
French remake of the Three Musketeers, in two parts. Eva Greene as Milady. She's French I think. Or Anglo-French.
It looks a little damp, to be honest. I'm not seeing the swashbuckling quota being met. Not sure anyone is ever going to come close to equaling the Richard Lester version.
Fun story there. You might know that there's a sequel to that movie, The Four Musketeers. Ilya and Alexander Salkind, who went on to produce Superman and Superman II back to back, knew they were making both The Three Musketeers and the sequel at the same time.
They could hide this because all of the material they were shooting was from the one Alexander Dumas book. But it was a very long book.
So they didn't tell the cast or crew the story would be divided up into two films for separate release. The contracts they signed with everyone only spoke of a single movie, The Three Musketeers.
So the Salkinds didn't pay hardly anything for The Four Musketeers. It was a free movie. They paid for one movie, and got the second for free.
All of the actors and major crew were super-pissed when they saw the first movie end halfway through the material they'd shot with previews included for the next movie. Since then, all movie contracts have a Salkind clause, specifying that the contract is for a single movie only, and if there's any other movie to be made from the material shot, a separate contract must be signed to cover that.
Is this something? Chris Gore saw it and says the first five minutes are "water sports," and he doesn't mean Marco Polo.
I get the feeling that this searing indictment of Hollywood's culture of vice is actually a celebration of Hollywood's culture of vice dressed up as a searing indictment of Hollywood's culture of vice.
Um, when are you going to do a film about Hollywood's pedophilia?
German Study: The Covid-19 Vaccine Caused Death: the Death of Otherwise Healthy People
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They say that all vaccines have adverse reactions.
Or at least they said that until covid-19, when, for two years, you weren't allowed to say that the covid vaccine had any adverse reactions. It was the world's first Perfect Vaccine, like the 2020 election was the world's first Perfect Election.
First things first: there is no way to know for sure how common this is due to poor screening and reporting, but German researchers have decisively demonstrated through autopsy that the COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis was the cause of death in 5 patients they autopsied after sudden deaths experienced shortly after COVID-19 vaccination.
The study was published in the peer reviewed journal Clinical Research in Cardiology. The doctor sharing the study is a Johns-Hopkins professor and graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, so not a nobody in the public health world.
The study itself is very convincing, as it is based not upon a statistical analysis of deaths based upon ICD codes or anything like that. It is based entirely on autopsies conducted by the researchers themselves, all in a single hospital on patients who had experienced sudden deaths following shortly after COVID-19 vaccinations using mRNA vaccines. mRNA are apparently the vaccines likely to cause the adverse reactions.
They do no analysis of relative risk between COVID infection and vaccine reactions, and understandably so. It is essentially impossible to do that given that almost everybody has been infected by COVID at some point, but the precise numbers are unknown. Hence there is no definitive way to compare the relative risks, although it is known that COVID itself can cause myocarditis, as can other viral infections.
However, it is pretty clear that the risk is not insubstantial, given the fact that 5 patients were identified in a relatively short period of time at one hospital alone in Berlin.
Shut up, Science Denier. It's the world's first Perfect Vaccine.
This is how we do Science now: We have all the politicians of the left line up and yell dogma and focus-group-tested attack lines at everyone until they comply with The Science (TM).
In his new book -- The Truth About Wuhan -- whistleblower Dr Huff claims the pandemic was the result of the US government's funding of dangerous genetic engineering of coronaviruses in China.
The epidemiologist said China's gain-of-function experiments -- carried out with shoddy biosecurity -- led to a lab leak at the US-funded Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology," he said in his book, an exclusive pre-release copy of which was provided to The Sun Online.
EcoHealth Alliance had been studying different coronaviruses in bats for more than ten years with funding from the National Institutes of Health -- and developed close working ties with the Wuhan lab.
Dr Huff, who worked at EcoHealth Alliance from 2014 to 2016 and served as vice president from 2015, worked on the classified side of the research programme as a US government scientist.
The army veteran, from Michigan, said the organisation taught the Wuhan lab the "best existing methods to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species" for many years.
And he claimed "China knew from day one that this was a genetically engineered agent".
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In 2009, the Wuhan lab started working with the EcoHealth Alliance on a USAID programme -- called PREDICT -- focusing on emerging pandemic threats.
PREDICT was designed to help detect and find zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential -- including coronaviruses.
Shi Zhengli -- the Wuhan virologist who famously became known as "Batwoman" -- hoped the programme would create an early-warning system for pandemics.
Anthony Fauci isn't certain who that is, according to his sworn deposition. He has trouble with "Asian names."
But in 2014, Dr Huff was asked to review a funding proposal which revealed that gain of function work was being carried out to create SARS-CoV-2 -- which causes Covid.
Gain of function work sees viruses souped up to more easily infect humans to help researchers test scientific theories, develop new technologies and find treatments for infectious diseases.
But the risky research method can pose safety and security concerns -- and it's banned in many countries.
It was originally banned in the US in 2014 -- but was reintroduced by the NIH in 2017.
During the chaotic time of the presidential transition, Anthony Fauci snuck through a change in definition of what "gain of function" was, for purposes of the ban, that would allow most gain of function research.
And then, having specifically engineered a loophole to allow him to fund gain of function research, he claims he didn't know that when he funded EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab -- who had for years done gain-of-function research on bat viruses -- that they would use his (our) money for gain-of-function research on bat viruses.
The stress of living through pandemic lockdowns has accelerated aging in the brains of teenagers. The effects are similar to those previously observed as a result of violence, neglect, and family dysfunction.
Even if you've left adolescence far behind, you might remember that it can be a tumultuous time in terms of thoughts and feelings, and there's a lot of reorganizing that goes on in the brain -- even without a global pandemic and the associated lockdowns.
A recent study by researchers from Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, concluded the pandemic had 'sped up' some of this reorganizing, thinning of the cortex and increasing the size of the hippocampus and the amygdala sections of the brain.
"We already know from global research that the pandemic has adversely affected mental health in youth, but we didn't know what, if anything, it was doing physically to their brains," says psychologist Ian Gotlib, Director of the Stanford Neurodevelopment, Affect, and Psychopathology (SNAP) Laboratory in California.
The team looked at magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) brain scans of 81 children taken before the pandemic (between November 2016 and November 2019), and 82 children taken during the pandemic (between October 2020 and March 2022) but after lockdown restrictions had eased (spring 2020, in California).
Next, the researchers matched children from both groups using factors including sex, age, pubertal status, ethnicity, early life stress, and socioeconomic background, to give them multiple comparison points.
What the scans showed was that the brain aging process had seemingly accelerated in the post-pandemic group. Lockdown periods of less than a year had resulted in the equivalent of three years of brain aging in the second selection of youngsters.
Poorer mental health was also noticed in the post-pandemic group, though it's not clear if that's directly related to brain age. What this study can't tell us is whether these changes are going to be permanent, or whether there are further mental health problems that will arise from the accelerated changes in these key brain structures.
"Will their chronological age eventually catch up to their 'brain age'?" asks Gotlib. "If their brain remains permanently older than their chronological age, it's unclear what the outcomes will be in the future.
The Dean of Students at Chicago's Super-Pricey Francis W. Parker School Brags About Teaching Minors About "Queer Sex," Handing Out Dildos to Them So They Can "Play" With The Sextoys
It's a private school so at least you're not forced to have your kids traumatized by repulsive groomers.
But did the people dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars know that groomers were passing out dildos to minors so that they could have a "rap sesh" about the relative merits of using spit vs. lube on them?
This is not some random pervert off the street. This is the Dean of Students.
Elite Chicago Private School's Dean of Students Brags About Bringing in LGBTQ+ Health Center to Teach 'Queer Sex' to Minors ... 'That's a Really Cool Part of My Job' ... 'Passing Around Dildos and Butt Plugs' ... 'Using Lube Versus Using Spit'
Joseph Bruno, Dean of Students, Francis W. Parker School: "So, I've been the Dean for four years. During Pride -- we do a Pride Week every year -- I had our LGBTQ+ Health Center come in [to the classroom]. They were passing around butt-plugs and dildos to my students -- talking about queer sex, using lube versus using spit."
Bruno: "They're just, like, passing around dildos and butt-plugs. The kids are just playing with 'em, looking at 'em...They're like, 'How does this butt-plug work? How do we do -- like, how does this work?' That's a really cool part of my job."
Bruno: "We had a Drag Queen come in -- pass out cookies and brownies and do photos."
[CHICAGO -- Dec. 7, 2022] Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a high-ranking private school official, Joseph Bruno, who admitted that he teaches underage children about sex with items such as "butt-plugs" and "dildos."
Bruno, who works as the Dean of Students at an elite school in Chicago called Francis W. Parker, said that these were the items brought into the classroom by an LGBTQ+ group.
"So, I've been the Dean for four years. During Pride -- we do a Pride Week every year -- I had our LGBTQ+ Health Center come in [to the classroom]. They were passing around butt-plugs and dildos to my students -- talking about queer sex, using lube versus using spit," Bruno said.
The school administrator claimed that this educational practice is one of the reasons he enjoys his current employment.
"The kids are just playing with 'em, looking at 'em [butt-plugs and dildos] ... They're like, 'How does this butt-plug work? How do we do -- like, how does this work?' That's a really cool part of my job," he said.
Bruno also said he has invited a Drag Queen to the school.
"We had a Drag Queen come in -- pass out cookies and brownies and do photos."
Note that this groomer says he doesn't run his little Funtime Activities With Minors by his superiors. He says there's no point; his superiors would just say "That's wonderful" and approve his Sexytime Games with Children.
Is that true? Well I guess we'll see, based on what the school does next.
The school is now saying they're fully behind the grooming operations.
It says the only problem here is a "right-wing fringe group" "attacking" an employee and attempting to bully them out of their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mission.
BREAKING: Fracis W. Parker School in Chicago, IL - where the Dean of Students Joseph Bruno was caught on video talking about giving students butt plugs and dildos- sent out this email to parents saying that they stand in full support of the Dean. pic.twitter.com/isHOxfLEQK
The administration is aiding and abetting an invasion of the Southern border. Our rights are being stripped away. We are at war and the enemy is within.
In response to this existential threat, we're told that we need to entrust a congressman previously recognized as the "tech industry's best friend" as our leader.
That's boneheaded. Kevin McCarthy is not the right leader for the moment. Fortunately, enough Republicans recognize that to stop him from being the next Speaker of the House. Five House Republicans, including myself, have announced that we will not vote for McCarthy during the January 3rd speaker election. As many have privately also informed McCarthy of their plans to vote for someone else.
McCarthy's allies are fretting and are pushing out a false narrative that opposition to the Paul Ryan endorsed McCarthy will embolden Democrats to elect a squish Republican as Speaker. It turns out that spin is right, just not the way the McCarthy camp sold it.
Semafor is reporting that "Leader-designate Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. waved off the suggestion Democrats would help elect an alternative for speaker, while Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. all but volunteered Democrats' support to help get McCarthy over the threshold of votes needed for speaker."
This is the uniparty in action and should let you know that McCarthy is not a threat to the system destroying America. How could he be? His closest adviser has represented Pfizer, Amazon, and a firm dedicated to giving out a path to American citizenship to wealthy Chinese. His roommate counts Google among his clients.
This is the moment for a fight and McCarthy's instinct is flight. In the days after January 6, McCarthy asked in a call with Liz Cheney whether Twitter can take away Conservative Congressman Barry Moore's Twitter account because Rep. Moore pointed out that the shooting of Ashli Babbit doesn't fit the left's narrative of January 6.
McCarthy, likewise, said I was endangering the safety of Rep. Cheney by criticizing her.
The defense of McCarthy is that he isn't an ideologue. He just wants to get along, they say, and moves with the times.
Rep. Matt Rosendale, one of the five Republicans standing athwart McCarthy, put it well when he said, "We don't need a weatherman, we need a leader." A leader would stand up to the Biden administration's demands to send tens of billions of dollars to protect Ukraine's border instead of ours.
A leader wouldn't wait until thousands of military service members have been kicked out due to a mandate to end it. That's the problem with living with Frank Luntz and making all of your decisions based on polling data. You will always be late.
But enough about Rep. McCarthy, now is the time for conservatives to come to terms with the fact that the Speakership is up for grabs. Five Republicans are enough to stop Kevin McCarthy from becoming Speaker.
In order to avoid chaos on January 3rd, Republicans need to embrace reality.
More at the link. He plans to vote for Andy Biggs for Speaker.
As I've mentioned, the Freedom Caucus has said they could support McCarthy -- if he agreed to some reforms that would move the House away from the "Imperial Speakership" model, in which the Speaker gets to decide alone what matters can even be voted on, in favor of how the House used to operate, to wit, like an actual democratic body, in which individual members could propose legislation and amendments and it would be voted up or down.
I think they also want the power to demand a vote to remove the Speaker from his position -- if he acts like he no doubt will.
Now I don't know about you, but I have not heard any news about McCarthy agreeing to any reforms in how the House will do its business going forward.
Which means McCarthy is attempting to ride roughshod over the conservatives, once again, and demand their votes while addressing precisely zero of their concerns. He wants to keep all the power in the House in his corrupt, liberal Luntz-caressed hands.
He wants them to vote him into power as Speaker, and then he never wants to hear from them again. All deals going forward will be worked out in back rooms with his coterie of liberals and with his Good Democrat Friends and then brought to the floor for a vote as faits accoplis. (LOL, I pluralized that just to be a prick and annoy people.)
Kevin McCarthy is saying, in the words of Freddie Mercury, "I Want It All."*
Well you shouldn't have it, Luntz Roommate.
Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
Andy Biggs and Matt Gaetz are 2 of a tiny handful of GOP House members who've denounced DOJs abusive J6 prosecution and holding of political prisoners. McCarthy has been silent.
Sounds like a longshot run but a fight worth having.
Biden Trades a Terrorist Gun-Dealer Who Plotted to Kill Americans to Get Back Drug Smoking WNBA Flake; Gives Up Trying to Get Back the Marine Russia's Kept in Prison for Four Years
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FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER NOTICED A WNBA TRADE
Posted by: Elric Blade
Biden's bragging that he got back a woman who is important to his key constituencies of LGBT Activists and CRT Grievance Stokers and literally no one else:
The Great Diplomat is less forthcoming about the man he's putting on a plane in exchange for this pothead scofflaw.
Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy
MORE: To secure Griner's return, Biden has freed arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout gained infamy as the "Merchant of Death" & was found guilty for conspiring to sell AK-47's that would've been used to kill DEA agents.
DOJ press release on 2011 conviction of Viktor Bout: “Bout was convicted of conspiring to kill U.S. nationals; conspiring to kill U.S. officers & employees; conspiring to acquire & use anti-aircraft missiles; + conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist org…” pic.twitter.com/uFK3aJEpge
This is what John Brennan, Obama's deputy national security advisor for homeland security and counterterrorism, said about "Merchant of Death" arms dealer Viktor Bout in 2010.
Note that Russia doesn't usually engage in diplomacy to get back its criminal scumbags so that means that this terrorist weapons-dealer who plotted to kill Americans is actually a... wait for it... agent of Putin's government.
He works for Putin. He was doing terrorism for Putin.
And the Sage of Scranton released him for a pothead who can't dunk without a boost.
You can't say she was "unjustly detained" because she actually did break the law. You can say her sentence was insane, because it was, but she did bring THC vape cartridges with her illegally and stupidly. She confessed to it. https://t.co/oInPCeO2eH
The idea of someone being so f***ing entitled and stupid that they'd go to a backwards and unfree foreign country and just smuggle in drugs to feed their habit is just... well, people wind up where they wind up for reasons most of the time.
MORE: The swap to see Griner home for Christmas is 1-for-1 & does not involve Ret. Marine Paul Whelan, who is about to mark his 4th year in Russian custody.
Matt Whitlock
@mattdizwhitlock
So we gave up the "merchant of death" who has been involved in plots to kill Americans
And we got the famous basketball player that a lot of celebrities lobbied for but not the marine who has been captive for 4 years.
And they're going to treat this like a major win.
Whelan is being held for (allegedly) spying -- which would be a more even trade for a TERRORIST ARMS DEALER.
But nah, trade the terrorist arms dealer for the woman that Elizabeth Warren has a poster of in her bedroom.
The clapping seal media is pleased as punch, obviously:
Can't wait to see David French praise the cool steady hand of Scranton Joe later.
Ah yes: The elections.
He wouldn't make this wretched "deal" before the elections.
Only after the elections, when, as Obama once said, he had more room to be flexible.
This was inevitable. As soon as the elections were over, naturally. I actually thought it was going to be WORSE than just a one-for-one for the Death Dealer. I thought Putin would get even more in exchange for this creepy useless twat that 80% of the USA utterly despises. Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?
Posted by: Elric Blade
J.J. Sefton touched upon this topic in his excellent Morning ReportTM this morning, and while I agree in part that the conflation of American anti-Semitism vis-a-vis Kanye West's relationship with Donald Trump is arrant nonsense, there is a kernel of a difficult and hidden truth to it.
No...not the idea that Donald Trump is a crypto-Jew-Hater. That is so ridiculous on the face of it that it should be refuted with one of my favorite responses: "You can't possibly be that fvcking stupid!" Donald Trump did more for American Jews by improving the economy than any president since Ronald Reagan. And despite the vicious bias of the media, he was a tremendously inclusive president.
Look at his remarks after the Tree Of Life Synagogue shooting! He spoke about the evil of anti-Semitism and the hatred of religion, the need for an armed response at all houses of worship (not just Jewish), and he carefully did not marginalize the majority of Americans who own firearms by criticizing the weapon used.
He also did more for the ancestral homeland of the Jews -- Israel -- than any president in American history. Anyone with more than two functioning neurons can see the sea change in the Arab world as a result of the Abraham Accords, as nation after nation opens diplomatic, cultural and economic ties with Israel. Ironically it is very possibly the beginning of a political and diplomatic distancing between America and Israel, since Israel can no longer count on America to be its ally against Islamic fundamentalism and Iranian insanity.
No...the point with which I disagree with Sefton is that Kanye West is actually an important voice in anti-Semitism in America. Yes, West is a barely literate, ignorant fool who is almost certainly mentally ill, but his anti-Semitism is real, and most of all he has a bully pulpit from which to preach it. The secret that no progressive Jew wants to admit much less speak aloud, is that there is rampant anti-Semitism in much of black America, and it is being fomented from the pulpits and by the rappers and the revolving door of the prison system where young black men are inculcated with the lunacy of Nation of Islam drivel and similar black Muslim and black nationalist nonsense.
And of course the left gobbles it up, because of its own virulent anti-Semitism and its awareness that driving the wedge deeper and deeper between American Jewry and American blacks will create the conditions for more social upheaval and strife, which is their stock in trade.
So Kanye West is a real threat, but not as a confidante and friend of Donald Trump (as Sefton corectly points out), but as a mouthpiece from which the traditional black anti-Semitism of the last 80 years is spouted.
There is one point that may put me in the minority here, but I do not think that West should be muzzled. His speech is dangerous and destructive, and reaches the ears of angry, ignorant young black men who will lash out at the nearest convenient target. Just look at the anti-Semitic attacks in NYC for confirmation. But it is speech that should be protected. As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, "Sunshine is the best disinfectant."
Our job is to refute the arguments of the anti-Semites in the public square...forcefully and intelligently. But let us not forget that our last resort is the 2nd Amendment, because the founders knew quite well that the right to our self defense from these sort of malign ideas is absolute, and can be defended in ways other than in the public square.
Good morning, kids. Thursday and a bit of housekeeping before getting into the main event.
After today, I will no longer be linking to the New York Post. This morning as I was gathering the links, I came across this article, and, aside from my own personal interest in this subject it was one that I thought you all would be as well:
So, after a long history of this person, her deeds, her quotes, survivors' quotes, etc. etc., I get to the last paragraph:
The end of Furchner’s proceedings also comes at a particularly fraught time, as rapper Kanye West’s rants praising Hitler and Nazis have led to a surge in anti-Semitism. Earlier this week, NYPD statistics also revealed that anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City were up 125% in November compared to the same month in 2021.
Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said Jewish communities are bracing for backlash after West’s comments, warning that the vitriol was “escalating from ugliness to incitement.”
Seriously? Are you fucking kidding me? Kanye West. Translation: DONALD TRUMP and the MAGA MOVEMENT. To say that these two stories are even tangentially related is, at best, a stretch. In point of fact, they have nothing to do with each other. But, let's play along for a moment. The "reporter," some bimbo with the byline of Olivia Land wants to link a nonagenarian Nazi concentration camp secretary to the current rise of anti-Semitism. Okay. Yet, with everything from Al Sharpton to Jessie Jackson to Calypso Louie to "The Squad" to Obama/Jeremiah Wright and on and on and on for freaking decades, this hack chooses Ye.
The in-your-face, amateur hour, cheap propaganda hackery of Land and her editors is embarrassing, and disgusting. Look, a newspaper has every right to publish editorials for or against people, policies and whatever. Even the Post's anti-Trump ravings, rabid and frothing at the mouth as they were, were kept to the editorial pages. I put up with the Podhoretz's and McCarthy's because of the value of the Devine's and Harlan-Reynolds'.
No more. This kind of propaganda is what I expect of the NY Times, WaPo and CNN. The last thing we need is another one of them. So, thank you and fuck you New York Post. "Never again," pun intended.
Proposed changes to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rules will strip access to public waters and devastate local economies along most of the eastern U.S. coastline, according to boating and fishing advocacy groups.
The North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule will decimate the U.S.’s multi-billion-dollar boating and fishing industry without protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales (NARW) from severe injuries and deaths, the Center for Sportfishing Policy (CSP) and the South Carolina Boating and Fishing Alliance (SCBFA) told the Daily Caller. . .
. . . “When you talk about putting a 10-knot or an 11.5 mph speed limit on boats over 35 feet, you are suddenly making a day trip to the Gulf Stream or going offshore, in general, more dangerous and more time-consuming,” Brannon said. “It’s not just the time it takes to travel out to sea that is dangerous, but how long it takes to steer cargo ships into the harbor.”
The federal government’s regulation is also causing an untenable economic situation for boating and fishing industries in South Carolina and along the east coast, Brannon warned. “We represent about 23,000 jobs and over 600 related businesses in the $5 billion fishing and boating sector. And those are the businesses — when the federal government does not take into account any balance between the economy and ecology — are the ones that are going to be hurt the most,” he said. . .
. . . Six Republican U.S. Senators, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, signed a letter urging NOAA administrator Richard Spinrad to “modify its proposal so that the NARW is protected, but the unintended consequences … can be eliminated.”
Kevin Bishop, a spokesman for Sen. Graham, told the Caller the rule was “an example of government overreach and government not effectively engaging stakeholders.”
“Senator Graham remains concerned about the safety impact the proposed rule will have on cargo ships and their pilots,” Bishop said, adding that the senator worries the rule will “lead to further delays and exacerbate already strained supply chains” and impact East Coast ports that are part of the National Port Readiness Network.
Say what you will about Lindsay Graham, but he is the duly elected Senator from the state of South Carolina. His purview – in theory – along with his colleagues in the Senate and in the House is the passage of laws that reflect the will of the people who elected him and whom he represents.
With all due respect, that is to say none whatsoever, who the hell elected NOAA administrator Richard Spinrad?
By what authority as laid out in the United States Constitution does this person have to enact what is in fact a law?
And Senator Graham "remains concerned?" If I were the Senator from the State of South Carolina, I'd take a stroll over to the NOAA, march into this prick's cubicle, and do a Pelosi by tearing up the law in his face. Or make it into a barbed-wire-wrapped flaming pineapple and insert it sideways in a certain aperture.
Look, no doubt, the installation of Warnock into the Senate is not exactly healthy for our nation and society. But considering that at best it's on life support and since 2020 is in fact clinically dead, what's the big deal? Are we worried that the filibuster will be killed and leftist judges will be installed? Hell, at least half the judiciary and SCOTUS itself is teetering on the brink. Law schools are pumping out commie apparatchiks now by the bushel. Ditto every damn school including medical schools. But I digress.
A dozen Senate Republicans already voted to abolish the Defense of Marriage Act, eliminating both marriage and religious freedom in one fell swoop, just as the Supreme Court was moving to protect it. Some of the senators then had the chutzpah to claim that they did it to protect religious freedom. The betrayal is bad enough, treating voters like bamboozled idiots is worse.
And that’s just the beginning of the lame duck sellout session.
Senate Republican RINOs are rushing through their betrayals while they hope no one is paying attention. Next up is amnesty for illegal aliens. Every time you hear about secret negotiations to reach a deal on immigration, it’s always the same damn sellout that it’s been for decades.
The latest incarnation of “immigration reform” once again promises more money for “border security” in exchange for amnesty for illegal aliens. Trading amnesty for border security is like trading your alarm code for a better alarm system. And after multiple rounds of these deals, our border is more open than ever and our country is more filled with illegal migrants than ever.
While Senate sellouts are conducting secret negotiations in the latest incarnation of amnesty (as befits a nation where the people answer to the government, not the other way around), it starts by ratifying Obama’s illegal DACA amnesty to legalize at least 2 million illegal aliens.
And, if past immigration dirty deals are anything to go by, the dirty deal will get much worse.
Republican proponents of making Obama’s lawlessness, lawful, call this a “DACA fix”. An actual fix would end the lawlessness and enforce immigration law, instead of finding new spin for their sellouts. But many of the Senate Republicans who had voted to abolish marriage and religious freedom have also been longtime supporters of illegal alien amnesty. And this is their hour.
Most Americans, in poll after poll, say that they’re sick and tired of Biden’s immigration policies, and yet, somehow, a number of Senate RINOs looked at those numbers and decided that they want a piece of those 60% disapproval ratings while giving Democrats millions more voters.
Why try for win-win, when lose-lose is so much better.
Senate Republicans keep promising that their latest bipartisan deal will finally secure the border. Only the most naive human being alive who had already bought the Brooklyn Bridge with the crypto millions from FTX would take them seriously. Money won’t secure the border. Only a consensus to follow the laws of our country will do that. Politicians who cut the heart out of immigration laws while promising that they’ll enforce them in the future don’t mean it.
Just like a drunk who promises to stop drinking tomorrow doesn’t mean it. . .
. . . Every so often, the RINOs remind their voters that they don’t work for them, they serve the criminals, junkies, illegal aliens and worsening every crisis that we are already drowning in.
While you hang up your Christmas lights and light your menorah, in Washington D.C. they’re finally getting to work on their real jobs of destroying our lives, our beliefs and our country.
After surrendering to Democrats on a myriad of hot-button issues, Senate Republicans may get yet another chance to sell out their base before the year’s end — this time, on a last-minute immigration bill reportedly engineered by North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis that would provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. . .
. . . While it’s unclear whether the Senate plans to take up the bill before the current congressional session ends, Tillis’s last-minute attempt to ram through an amnesty package before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives next month runs contrary to claims issued by his office earlier this year. Back in June, a representative from the North Carolina senator’s office told Fox News there was “not much to negotiate” on immigration until President Joe Biden “enforce[s] immigration laws” and takes action “to end the crisis at the [U.S. southern] border.”
At this rate, the Democrats don't have to rig or otherwise "fortify" elections. With scum like Thom Tillis, no one will show up at the polls anyway.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
"Creeping censorship on digital platforms is alarming—but the decentralizing forces of new technology make Chinese-style control unlikely." Social Credit: Could It Happen Here?
NewsNation obtained a federal law enforcement memo warning “Power stations in Oregon and Washington have reported physical attacks on substations using hand tools, arson, firearms, and metal chains possibly in response to an online call for attacks on critical infrastructure.” The intelligence memo is from an unnamed federal agency, but Homeland Security has been sending out warnings for months about attacks on “critical infrastructure.” Feds Link Attack on North Carolina Substations to Attacks on Oregon, Washington Power Stations
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The NAB came out of the shadows and activated its extensive grassroots network to harass conservative members of Congress blocking the JCPA. NAB is led by leftist president and CEO Curtis LeGeyt, a former Senior Counsel to the powerful Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). The NAB is pushing local broadcasters to call congressional offices demanding that lawmakers drop their opposition in a desperate lobbying barrage." Shadow Greed: National Association of Broadcasters Harasses Congress for JCPA Media Bailout
"Klobuchar rolled out the national security argument Tuesday amid a massive backlash against plans to attach the JCPA, essentially corporate welfare for media companies, to the defense spending bill. 'It is about our own national future and national security,' said Klobuchar." (hopefully with you a complete non-factor and nonexistent - jjs) After NDAA Defeat, Amy Klobuchar Drops National Security Rationale for Media Cartel Bill JCPA
"Functionally, there is no line between the state and private industry in this context and many others, but technically there is. Although it’s violated in spirit, there may be no prosecutable violation of the letter of the First Amendment when Twitter uses a former FBI official as its in-house Deep State Whisperer to channel the censorious desires of the permanent bureaucracy and tip the scales in favor of its chosen candidate." The Twitter Files: How the Corporate State Uses Legal Jiujitsu to Blur Lines Between Private Industry and Government
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection dispatched agents to the social media company's headquarters after two anonymous Twitter users tweeted complaints that the company was violating the city's building codes by setting up office bedrooms for employees. The complaints followed a Monday Forbes article that described how Twitter has set up "modest bedrooms" for workers who spend the night at the office—a not uncommon practice among Silicon Valley tech workers. Anti-Musk Twitter Users Sic San Francisco Building Inspectors on Company’s San Francisco HQ
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"The slipping of their mask confirms what we’ve been saying all along: that the new standards they insist upon for language use, behavior, and public interaction with gender non-conforming persons are blatantly unworkable." The Mask Slips: The Colorado Massacre and the “Non-Binary” Con
“I know the White House is tying Homeland Security – there’s a lot of career people there that know what job needs to be done,” Cuellar continued. “The White House is paying attention only to the immigration activists. Who is paying attention to the men and women in green and blue and who is paying attention to our communities on the border?” (Cuellar's pollos are coming home to roost - jjs) Dem Rep Says Biden Junta is "Tying" Up Homeland Security, Only Listening to "Immigration Activists"
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"A number of Republican state governments have recently divested from prominent asset managers over concerns that the companies’ voting priorities are driven by political ideology rather than the maximization of returns. Following divestments from South Carolina, Louisiana, Missouri, West Virginia, and Utah, the state of Florida revealed plans last week to remove $2 billion from BlackRock next year." Vanguard Drops Out of Climate Initiative as Reaction Against Woke Investing Continues
"Where and when will it all end? Not in the realisation of pipedreams. Think, instead, of an ocean of tears that not even the wizards of Oz can make disappear." Panglossian Pipedreams of a 'Green' Superpower
"The North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule will decimate the U.S.’s multi-billion-dollar boating and fishing industry without protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales (NARW) from severe injuries and deaths, the Center for Sportfishing Policy (CSP) and the South Carolina Boating and Fishing Alliance (SCBFA) told the Daily Caller." New Federal Regulation Could Devastate Coastal Communities
"The investment bank found that 65% of institutions see stagflation, which refers to economic stagnation combined with inflationary pressures, as a more significant threat than a recession. Rising price levels are still seen as the top overall risk for the year ahead; 69% of investors identified inflation as the greatest threat to their portfolios." Stagflation Risk More Concerning Than An Outright Recession, Investors Believe
Shaun Ferguson will retire at the end of 2022, Democratic New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Tuesday. New Orleans’ Metropolitan Crime Commission named the city the “murder capital of the United States” for the first half of 2022, determining that its homicide rate outpaced any other city nationwide when population was taken into account, according to WDSU. New Orleans Police Superintendent Retiring After Hundreds of Cops Leave Department
"The sad case of the child who was used by left-wing media and abortionist Caitlin Bernard to prop up their abortion narrative back in July is still roiling with controversy." New Information in Ohio Child Rape Case
“Absent entry of this Temporary Restraining Order, Plaintiffs will be deprived of their right to bear arms pursuant to Or. Const. Art. l, Sec. 27 by being made unable to lawfully purchase a firearm or bear a magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition in the State of Oregon. Deprivation of fundamental constitutional rights for any period constitutes irreparable harm,” the judge wrote in his Tuesday order. Oregon Judge Freezes Gun Control Law Over Questions About "Fundamental Constitutional Rights"
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Ziegler’s termination came shortly after a special grand jury report concluded that the public school district “dropped the ball” on student safety after multiple sexual assaults took place in the district. LCPS prioritized the interests of district administrators over the safety of students, according to the special grand jury’s findings. Loudoun County School Board Terminates Superintendent Who Oversaw Multiple Assaults
“The Congresswoman has always taken ethics incredibly seriously, refusing any donations from lobbyists, corporations, or other special interests,” Ocasio-Cortez’s office claimed in a statement. “We are confident that this matter will be dismissed.” (Pelosi or an ally is out to get her - jjs) "Titty Caca" Ocasio-Cortez Responds To Being Under Congressional Investigation
". . . identity politics wasn’t enough to get Warnock elected. His opponent, Herschel Walker, is just as black. Yet black voters went mostly for Warnock. Why? Because black folks are still dedicated to the Democrats, which is amazing considering how the Democrats have mistreated black people for 400 years." Why Are Black People Still Voting for Democrats? It's Magic! (magic negroes? - jjs)
"Peru entered a constitutional crisis on Wednesday after Castillo, a former schoolteacher and left-wing Marxist politician elected in 2021, announced that he would dissolve the unicameral Peruvian Congress and impose a state of national emergency, which included a national curfew and authority to rule by decree. The Congress was in the middle of impeachment proceedings against Castillo for allegations of corruption, previously investigated by Peru’s Public Prosecutor, that Castillo received $510,000 in exchange for granting Heaven Petroleum, a foreign company, a contract to sell biodiesel, per MercoPress." Peruvian Embassy Has ‘No Idea’ Who Its President Is Following Attempted Coup (ditto the USA post-2020 - jjs)
"Peru is one of those countries where the Executive and the Legislator try to dissolve each other. Guess who won this time around." Down in Lima is Where the Action Is
"So because right-wing nuts protested against pandemic restrictions, that delegitimizes them completely? Sheesh. As we saw with the January 6 investigation and the way that Democrats have politicized and exaggerated the riot, no doubt the socialists in charge in Germany will look to exploit this incident for all it’s worth." Federal Police in Germany Arrest 25 'Far-Right Extremists' in Bizarre Coup Plot
"Four Republicans from the House and Senate Armed Services Committee are asking the Pentagon comply with a statute that mandates it provide unclassified information about China’s military might, including data that could show it is on pace to exceed the United States' number of intercontinental missiles and nuclear warheads, according to a letter sent to the Pentagon. While a classified version of such data was provided, the Pentagon has yet to furnish the unclassified companion." Pentagon Withholds Critical Data on China’s Expanding Nuclear Arsenal, Republicans Say
"Virginia’s innovative governor unveils a promising, if incomplete, new plan." Youngkin’s Housing Start
“Our cleaning contractor at Twitter was told by Twitter that they are cutting the contract,” said Olga Miranda, the janitors’ union president. “So we have about 48 families out of work. And it just so happens that it’s three weeks before Christmas.” Perhaps it was a bad idea to strike three weeks before Christmas then, no? Janitors’ Union Went on Strike Outside Twitter, So Musk Gave Them the Reagan Treatment
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Which would be just mildly ironic, because that in turn burst the bubble that was propping up the mad web of fraud and delusion that was FTX, Alameda Research, and their 130 subsidiaries and spinoffs.
“I have not challenged the results of any Arizona elections. I have given legal advice about the future use of machine counting by companies that refuse to disclose the inner workings of their machines. I support transparency in elections,” Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz
Quote IV
"You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival." Sir Winston Churchill
Kevin McCarthy: Republican Majority Will Hold Biden Administration Accountable from ‘Day One
Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday made it clear that the forthcoming GOP majority in the U.S. House will hold the Biden administration and Democrats accountable from “day one” — from investigating the origins of the Chinese coronavirus to the Department of Justice targeting concerned parents to the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“You deserve to know the origins of COVID. You deserve to know why the DOJ went after concerned parents. You deserve to know why we failed to keep American lives safe in Afghanistan. On day one a Republican majority will begin holding this administration accountable,” McCarthy said in a viral social media post:
Peru In Crisis: Here’s What To Know After President Is Detained By Police
TOPLINE Peruvian President Pedro Castillo appeared to be held by police Wednesday, according to multiple reports, following a chaotic day in the country capped by Castillo's attempt to dissolve the national Congress and install an emergency government in what many observers are calling a coup attempt--this is what we know so far.
A Philadelphia gas station owner hired heavily armed guards to fend off criminals amid a dangerous rise in crime, according to a report.
Neil Patel hired Pennsylvania S.I.T.E Agents armed with AR-15’s and shotguns to stand outside his Karco gas station at Broad and Clearfield streets in Northern Philadelphia, according to Fox 5 NY.
“They are forcing us to hire the security, high-level security, state level,” Patel told Fox 29. “We are tired of this nonsense; robbery, drug trafficking, hanging around gangs.”
If only the banks would cough up gobs and shittons of cash the thuggery would stop.
Rep. Andy Biggs Calls Mark Levin The “Biggest Fraud In Politics” For Supporting McCarthy
After calling McCarthy a "RINO dimwit" and criticizing him for years, Levin has begun supporting the establishment figure.
The House Committee on Ethics announced on Wednesday that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is under investigation for a potential ethics violation.
In a press release, the Committee stated that the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) referred the matter to them on June 23, 2022, the same day it received an OCE referral regarding fellow New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney.
“The Committee notes that the mere fact of a referral or an extension, and the mandatory disclosure of such an extension and the name of the subject of the matter, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee,” the panel said.
Shark Week slammed by scientists for being 'too white', featuring too many men named 'Mike'
As well as looking at the overrepresentation of white men named Mike, the study also looked at how sharks are portrayed in the series, concluding that the programming emphasized negative stereotypes about sharks.
After creating so many cinematic memories on the big screen, the James Bond franchise is celebrating its 60th anniversary. While news of what comes next for the saga is pretty thin at the moment, there is one certainty about what’s in store: The next James Bond will boast some intriguing, fun, and altogether dangerous gadgets.
It’s become a staple of the series, with the genre as a whole looking to the James Bond movies for inspiration when crafting their own equipment. While the likes of the Kingsman and Johnny English series might have taken some of the gadgets a step further into comedic territory, the devices that 007 uses throughout his adventures can often be grounded in a hyper-reality that pulls from real-world technology but are defined by an imaginative edge. These designs were memorable for their uses in the field and how cool they truly are as a concept. And although Bond might have some of the best gadgets out there, that isn’t to say that his enemies and allies aren’t also well-equipped.
A bylaw amendment that will allow all people to be topless on Nantucket beaches regardless of gender has been approved by Attorney General Maura Healey.
The determination, addressed to Town Clerk Nancy Holmes, amends the town’s Protection of Coastal Areas and Open Spaces bylaws to add: “In order to promote equality for all persons, any person shall be allowed to go topless on any public or private beach within the Town of Nantucket.”
Current state law dictates that only men can be barechested in public — if women do the same, they can face a penalty of up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $300, provided that a complaint is filed with the police department.
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The ONT Musical Interlude & Luggage Carousel Emporium
A Michigan man exposed his buttocks to a judge Monday (December 5) while appearing in virtual court.
35-year-old Hassan Chokr was in court for a virtual emergency bond motion hearing when he mooned Juge Regina Thomas, according to FOX 2 News. The hearing was in regards to a charge of resisting arrest in Wayne County, and the court has now revoked his bond following the incident.
White liberals will pay for any "treatment" if you tell them it's "Eastern" or "tribal."
Cats gonna cat. If you don't know what's going on here: When cats are happy, they revert to this behavior they did when infants, in which they tread up and down on their mom's belly, to get the milk to flow. That's what the leopard is doing.
The American Girl doll brand is very popular with girls and has been for years. They are a line of educational dolls that are meant to teach about American history to little girls. Parents and grandparents spend a lot of money on the product line because it's pricey. Unfortunately, this move looks like yet another attempt by a successful company to go woke and push a cultural agenda on its customers. How sad.
The author of the guide is Mel Hammond, a resident American Girl author. Books and educational materials are sold with the dolls. This guide is currently available in American Girl stores and on the website. In the discussion about feeling good about their bodies, the subject of puberty blockers comes up.
'Parts of your body may make you feel uncomfortable and you may want to change the way you look,' one excerpt deemed problematic by parents online reads, before asserting 'That's totally OK!'
It goes on to advise children: 'You can appreciate your body for everything it allows you to experience and still want to change certain things about it.'
On the very same page, the book promotes the use of puberty blockers, telling girls to seek them out from their doctor if they feel confused about their gender but are not physically ready to undergo hormone therapy.
The book advises: 'If you haven't gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identity.'
Musk installed some beds at Twitter HQ so that employees could nap while still on the campus, and San Francisco immediately sent inspectors to harass him, on the pretext that maybe he was stealthily changing the building into a mixed-occupancy office-and-apartment building.
Ted Goldberg
@TedrickG
BREAKING: San Francisco building inspectors are launching an investigation into reports Twitter has converted several office rooms at its headquarters into sleeping quarters for employees. 'We need to make sure the building is being used as intended' @sfdbi rep tells @KQEDnews
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to @TedrickG @sfdbi and @KQEDnews
So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?
It will be funny when Twitter abandons San Francisco, leaving the city with a huge, gushing thirty million dollar tax hole, plus a sudden surplus of office space made available depressing rents.
A social worker at a shelter for seniors complained that a trans resident had threatened to kill her. Instead of protecting this worker and investigating the trans resident, they demoted her to janitor and then fired her.
I wonder if this trans serial killer made the social worker feel "uncomfortable" or "unsafe"...?
Does it matter? Does anyone care? Does anyone have any rights, except those on the Democrat Socialist Party's list of Victor Groups empowered to impose Victors' "Justice" on The Defeated?
A jury in Manhattan has found former President Donald Trump's company guilty of a long-running criminal tax fraud scheme that lasted into his presidency.
Though Trump and his company have repeatedly faced criminal investigations, this case marks the first time his company has been charged, tried, and convicted on criminal charges.
Trump built his political brand, in large part, on his claim that he was an aggressive and successful businessman.
In all, the jury found two entities controlled by Trump guilty on 17 counts of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. The maximum penalty is $1.6 million.
3. This New York Times "journalist" Elizabeth Spiers then answers, essentially, "I can but I totally don't feel like it so fuck you." More precisely, she says:
Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers
I can, but why would I waste my time doing your homework for you? Do I look like your research assistant? If you haven't seen the extensive documentation, it's because you're willfully avoiding it to suit your agenda
The "documentation" is so, so extensive that she cannot find it with a Google search. It would take work to find this "extensive documentation." There's just too much proof to share any of it.
New York Times "journalist."
Shadowban them. Limit their reach. Choke them. Slap warnings on every fucking Tweet they post.
Biden: "It will construct a second lab in Phoenix to build chips, three nanochips, three nanochip, chips that are three nano anyway you know what I'm saying. Nano Nono, I don't know." pic.twitter.com/48OiOL1egp
A Virginia-based conservative Christian advocacy group was turned away from a local restaurant just an hour before their reservation last week.
A representative of the Family Foundation said he was frustrated after the group was turned away from Metzger Bar and Butchery last Wednesday. The group claims the refusal had to do with their religious beliefs.
Foundation, one of the owners of Metzger called a representative of the Family Foundation about an hour before the reservation time, saying that the group would not be dining in the restaurant.
"We've had events at restaurants all over the city and never encountered a situation like this," Gathje said. "It's no secret that we are very much engaged in the public policy debate on a number of controversial issues. But we never expected that we would be denied service at a restaurant based on our religious values or political beliefs."
For businesses like restaurants, federal and state laws do not allow discrimination based on protected classes such as race, religion, sex and more, as defined by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It's not yet clear if this incident falls under one of those protected classes.
In a Facebook post the following day, Metzger wrote that the restaurant has "very rarely refused service to anyone who wished to dine with us."
Facebook post by Metzger on Thursday explaining their refusal to serve the Family Foundation.
However, the restaurant added, "We have always refused service to anyone for making our staff feel uncomfortable and unsafe and this was the driving force behind our decision."
The restaurant noted that many staff members were LGBTQ or women and that it believed the Family Foundation "seeks to deprive women and LGBTQ+ persons of their basic rights in Virginia."
So "feeling uncomfortable" or "unsafe" around minorities or certain groups is grounds to refuse them service...?
Good to know. Good to fuckin' know! Because I know some people may feel "uncomfortable" among certain sexual minorities, particularly those of recent vintage, and some people, particularly shop-owners, may feel "unsafe" if some racial minorities are in their store.
Is this now license to refuse entry?
Or are we just declaring that it's open season on whites and Christians and straights?
No no, don't tell me, I've already guessed the answer.
David Strom compares this case to 303 Creative. In that case, the Court is deciding whether designing a website is like just selling someone your stock in trade -- which you're not allowed to discriminate against people when doing -- or being coerced into speaking a political message you disagree with.
That is, Masterpiece Bakeshop could not refuse to sell a gay person a cake that was available on its shelves, but could refuse to participate in the planning and theming of a specially-made gay wedding cake, as that involved them creatively and expressively in the gay wedding -- which they have a First Amendment right to refuse to do.
And here? At Metzger?
Plainly, this is a paradigmatic case of just serving someone your stock in trade with no endorsement at all of their message. They're not designing special Christian Dishes for these customers. They're just being asked to serve their regular board of fare, as the would for anyone else.
And they were refused, because they're Christian, and therefore make gays feel "uncomfortable" and "unsafe."
And yet, we will not see any hue and cry from the left about this.
Because they affirmatively support weaponizing the government against their racial, religious, and sexual enemies.
Either the Constitution protects us all or it does not. If the Constitution has now been perverted into a Slavers' ownership document that only imposes endless burdens on whites and Christians and offers them no protections in return -- if we are to be endlessly subject to racial abuse and religious discrimination, abetted by a state that hates us -- then we need to have a conversation, and that conversation will be intense and, let us say, pregnant, and I don't think The Regime feels its power is quite secure enough yet to have that conversation.
The Sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Khameini Calls For an End to His "Despotic Caliphate" and Urges the Revolutionary Guards "and Their Mercenaries" to Lay Down Their Arms
—Ace
Some of you might not realize how big of a deal this is.
But speech in Iran is almost as tightly controlled as it is in the United States, if you can imagine that. The sister of the Supreme Leader demanding and end to his rule is the equivalent of an American saying, openly, in a public space, "There are two sexes."
A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son.
Iran has been gripped by unrest since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody on Sept 16., and is facing a three-day general strike movement which started on Monday.
Badri Hosseini Khamenei, who lives in Iran and is the sister of Ayatollah Khamenei, criticised the clerical establishment starting from the time of the Islamic Republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to her brother's rule, the letter, dated "December 2022", said.
"I think it is appropriate now to declare that I oppose my brother's actions and I express my sympathy with all mothers mourning the crimes of the Islamic Republic, from the time of Khomeini to the current era of the despotic caliphate of Ali Khamenei," she wrote in the letter which was shared on Wednesday on the Twitter account of her son, Mahmoud Moradkhani.
"Ali Khamenei's Revolutionary Guards and mercenaries should lay down their weapons as soon as possible and join the people before it is too late," the letter said.
The Revolutionary Guards are Iran's elite force which has helped the country's establish proxies across the Middle East, and runs a vast business empire.
On Tuesday, the elite force shared a statement calling on the judiciary to "not show mercy to rioters, thugs and terrorists", in a sign that the authorities have no intention of easing their fierce crackdown on dissent.
Regardless of the outcome of the #GArunoff rest assured the GOP won't even read your tweets with suggestions of what to do differently/better, let alone put them into practice. Because it doesn't care about winning or you, because it hates you.
Now the New York Times is saying it's 95% likely that the crazed abortionist Warnock will win They say the remaining vote is "overwhelmingly" in Democrat counties. Nice of them to always hold that vote back until the end, huh? If it's any consolation -- the GOPe was planning to sell you out whether they were in the majority or in the minority or had a tie in the Senate. Your hopes and wishes simply do not matter to them. Now donate to the GOP so they can use your money to pay leftwing consultants like Frank Luntz to tell them exciting new ways to lie to you.
I hope Fulton County doesn’t have any plumbing issues tonight
Here's that review of "Deconstructing Karen" I mentioned yesterday "If you're going to cry, you have to leave the room. Crying is part of white supremacy. Crying is how White Women draw attention to themselves." Here's the trailer. That's a very short trailer -- it's very hard to find trailers or clips from this movie online. I think they're taking them down because the movie is getting memed so hard.
Settling an argument on the blog from a couple of weeks ago: the rule is that you use "a" before words starting with "h" where "h" is pronounced, and "an" before words starting with "h" where "h" is silent. This isn't really the whole of the rule, because the "h" in "historic" is pronounced, and yet we're told it's "an historic first," but I guess it's... kinda-sorta sometimes not pronounced? I don't know. I lied, this settles no arguments. Really it just escalates them to the point of violence, which, honestly, was my intention. There's a rule -- or a tendency -- in English to avoid "hiatus" (another "h"!), which is running two vowel sounds together. Because, to make the vowels sound properly, you have to insert a silence between them -- a hiatus between the sounds. Which is awkward. I think this is why they say "an historic." You do pronounce the "h" in "historic," but if you say "a historic," I think you run into the problem of hiatus, where, to make the sounds clearly, you have to insert a micro-pause between "a" and "historic," which is awkward. Easier, then, to just say "an historic," so you can just run the words together with no hiatus: "anhistoric." This guy has a lot of videos about the real Secret Rules of English Speech. Or should I say, English Sbeech. Because that's how we usually say it.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Soft Rock Easy Listening Edition Is everything okay?
I just thought I'd write a song to tell the world how I miss you
'Cause each and every day
I think of all the words I never said and all the chances that I had to
Japan loses to Croatia on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie
The B-21 Unveiling, live video Tennessee Jed says it's white rather than matte black. I guess it's a daylight bomber? Update: It's a jip. They give you sense of the thing's basic outline then they end the "unveiling." The image is blurry like Sasquatch.
Happening now (7:18 PM EST Dec 1): Awful people are streaming into Biden's state dinner with the Macrons, including Joe and Mika.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Good conversation [with Apple CEO Tim Cook]. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.
