DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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If correcting nonsense costs you 10x the energy of the person producing it, and low-quality interaction measurably reduces your well-being, what does a rational actor do? They stop. Not because they’re mean, but because they do that math that you haven’t done yet.

Nothing personal—it’s just business; I always liked him.

“You cain’t fix stupid.” —Ron White

I used to feel bad about reading during meals but nowadays that seems positively extraverted.

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A Liberal Democrat council has secured a High Court injunction that effectively bans the unauthorised display of the St George’s Cross and Union Flag on lampposts and public highways across an entire English county.

What began as a grassroots campaign to raise the colours of the nation has been declared a threat to community safety, with the full force of the courts now deployed against it.

Oxfordshire County Council, run by the Liberal Democrats, won its landmark case after months of legal action against the Raise the Colours campaign.

If you can’t fly your country’s flag, it isn’t your country any more.

Democrats would love to do the same in America, I have no doubt.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

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What a give-away: If you allow elections, the Court will ‘move to the right’.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a term-limited Democrat who opposes the measure, said gerrymandering and dark money have put the Legislature out of step with the state and, “to think you can make the judicial branch a part of that dysfunctional system is frightening.”

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Meanwhile, the national and state affiliates for abortion provider Planned Parenthood contributed another $1.6 million toward the vote-no campaign’s $8 million-plus in spending.

There’s that pesky ol’ democracy that Democrats love to talk about but never like to practice.

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Spanish authorities and their leftist allies are pushing the line that the tens of thousands of migrants who stormed Ceuta have mostly “gone home.” The claim is pure fantasy. Fresh video from the streets shows the city still under siege, with invaders assaulting facilities, smashing graves, clashing with locals, and turning a Spanish enclave into a no-go zone.

This is the same dangerous mass migration reality that open-borders ideologues keep denying, even as the evidence piles up in real time.

The official narrative landed hard on Friday. Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares declared that “the practical totality of those who entered Ceuta have already returned to Morocco.” The Spanish Embassy in the UK amplified the message, insisting almost everyone was gone, that no one could reach the mainland without ID checks, and that Schengen integrity remained fully guaranteed.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Locals on the ground immediately called it a lie. One Ceuta resident posted that around 50,000 invaders remained, the city was collapsed, and the official numbers were pure spin. Video filmed that same afternoon showed streets still packed, nothing like the “most have left” story.

Public Domain Review.

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the Ars notoria, its supposed powers, and the demonic influence it had upon some users.

The author is female with a hyphenated last name, so read with caution.

Mastering the full range of subjects taught in medieval universities normally required many years of hard and expensive study. From the thirteenth century on, however, an anonymous work known as the Ars notoria promised, through diagrams, incantations, and arcane rituals, to rapidly transmit to scholars the total knowledge of anything they might need. Condemned by church authorities, the fifty-six extant manuscripts nevertheless testify to the seductiveness of that offer.

Alma Boykin.

Jones begins with pride, superbia, which was and is considered the worst of the seven, then through envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. The medieval terms for each one differ from what we use today, and had different connotations. For each one the author provides a personal example, then medieval discussions, illustrations, what was recommended by the church as ways to turn error into something helpful or outward-looking, and a conclusion. I admit, some of the descriptions and discussions made me twitch, because they struck a little too close to home. These are things we all struggle with, even if we are not all church members, let alone Roman Catholics. Who has not flown into a rage, often over something that would otherwise be a minor irritation? Who has not ignored other people’s opinions, or tried to stand out a little too much at some point, with the idea that we are better than the other person or people? Many of us have probably been unhappy about someone else’s success, perhaps not to the point of trying to damage or destroy it (medieval “envy.”)

I have this book on order from Amazon, on her recommendation. (If you haven’t read her Familiar Tales series of books, I weep for you.)

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has long spoken about the importance of being surrounded by other black or minority Americans. But her new $8.5 million home is located in an exclusive Malibu neighborhood where the population is overwhelmingly white.

And progressive—let’s not forget that part.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, purchased a 4,000-square-foot mansion in Point Dume, one of Malibu’s most exclusive coastal enclaves. Point Dume’s population is approximately 94% white and just 0.2% black, according to a Fox News report citing the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.

She may be stupid but her husband is not.

Newsbusters.

On Friday, as socialists continued their rise as a part of the Democratic Party through primary election victories, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough took his own route with socialism claims of his own and instead claimed the Republicans were actually the socialists. He also seemed to minimize the actual rise of socialists in the Democratic Party, a topic his show has recently covered extensively, as he called the DSA “fringe.”

The conversation started at the very beginning of the premier liberal morning show as, between Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s bickering about who would lead the segment, Scarborough remarked, “Let’s start with the socialists… that nobody’s talking about.”

After Brzezinski agreed, Scarborough continued, “but everybody should be talking about it because socialists are taking over some of the most important companies in America’s economy.”

Joe Scarborough, who once pretended to be a Republican when it was profitable, has been fully assimilated by the Proglodyte Borg.

Newsbusters.

The feminist psychological castration of men proceeds apace.

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New data exposes the purest form of Trump Derangement Syndrome yet: young Americans so thoroughly programmed that they will abandon church itself rather than sit in a pew next to someone who supports the president.

A survey from the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Research Institute found that nearly half of Gen Z adults – 48 percent – say Christians’ support for Donald Trump has made them less likely to attend church.

Among strong Democrats the figure hits 76 percent. Atheists clock in at 72 percent. Even 30 to 44 percent of young people who still call themselves Christian claim the association turns them off.

I suspect that’s just a case of correlation, not causation. A lot of people call themselves Christian who aren’t, in any meaningful sense, much like the ‘trans community’.

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California, the most populous U.S. state and the one with the largest economy, ranked as the 35th best state in a new ranking published by U.S. News on July 28.

Utah ranked as the best state, followed by South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Nebraska.

The ranking was based on scores in eight categories such as education, healthcare, economy, and fiscal stability, and it was weighted by survey opinions.

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Yeah. Quit being Woke socialists.

Canada is exporting its highest earners to the United States. This finding, highlighted in a recent Hub analysis on Canada’s GDP per capita crisis, including its causes and manifestations, generated substantial discussion and debate over the past week.

That discussion, coupled with a new article from The Economist entitled “Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers,” prompted a revisit of Canada’s brain drain.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

In a Stockholm suburb a man dressed in black appeared out of the winter night. Carrying a handgun, he approached 20-year-old Murad Abdelkader, a student on his way back from a shift at McDonald’s.

The gunman opened fire, shooting again and again as he approached his target. He fired the last shot into his victim’s head as he lay helpless on the ground.

The killer was 18-year-old Atilla Azimov. On that February night last year, he had killed the wrong man.

He had done it for money – hired by the Foxtrot Network, an organised crime group with links to the Iranian regime which has become notorious for its violence-as-a-service (VaaS) tactics.

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The current crisis in Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa, involves African migrants swimming around the barriers designed to keep them out of Spanish territory. Last week’s sudden surge was prompted by a recent Spanish Supreme Court decision that prohibited authorities from pushing arriving migrants back into Morocco.

Which goes to show that those earnest Moroccan residents who long to become “New Spaniards” have been paying close attention to Spanish political affairs, so that they know when the time is ripe to make their move.

Ceuta is much closer to the Spanish mainland than Melilla, the other Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast. As a result, the bodies of drowned culture-enrichers have been washing up on the shores of Malaga in Andalusia.

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The shooting was reported at 2:30 p.m. at the In-N-Out in Twin Falls.

At least three people were killed, with reports of two injured.

The shooter is among the dead.

A nearby civilian in a hat was also recorded firing back across the parking lot at the shooter.

Zero clue who this champ is or what kind of pistol he was packing.

Stuff you can get away with in a ‘gun-free zone’ get a stronger response in a Red state.

No word yet on whether the suppressed gunslinger was the one who killed the bad guy.

According to a 34-year-old local witness named Lane Koehn, the good guy with the gun helped an In-N-Out employee care for a wounded female coworker who had a gunshot wound to her chest. Koehn, who was at a red light when the shooting started, stayed with them as well until paramedics arrived.

“I hope she made it,” he said.

The Telegraph (UK).

Are Muslim police staff invited to fast during Lent? The question answers itself.

Non-Muslim officers and staff working at West Midlands Police have been invited to fast during Ramadan in an “act of solidarity”, The Telegraph can reveal.

The West Midlands Association of Muslim Police has said colleagues can take part in a fast for the day during the religious festival to raise money for charity.

West Midlands Police said the practice helped officers understand the “significance of Ramadan” for Muslim residents.

Every day I thank God I don’t live in Britain.

The Telegraph (UK).

Members of the group have also targeted a mackerel festival, proposing the fish be replaced by a cabbage

Oh,  I have no doubt.

PETA activists have demanded that the World Black Pudding Championships use vegan alternatives for the annual throwing competition.

In a letter sent to the contest’s organisers, the animal rights group said it was wrong for pigs to have their “blood and fat thrown at a target for a bit of fun”.

To compete in the annual event in the village of Ramsbottom in Bury, athletes throw blood sausages to try to knock Yorkshire puddings off a ledge.

Proglodytes are never happy unless they are pissing in somebody else’s soup.

The Telegraph (UK).

Traffickers take on new operatives to meet demand after chaotic storming of Spanish enclave fuels false hopes for thousands

But are they ‘false’? That’s the question.

People-smuggling networks are cutting prices on small boat crossings to Britain to exploit the growing European migrant crisis.

The Telegraph was offered a Channel crossing for as little as €600 (£513) per person on Friday afternoon – at least €200 cheaper than the week before.

Traffickers spoke of their “excitement” after 60,000 migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this week, even though most were quickly returned to Morocco.

The Telegraph (UK).

When Omar scrambled to the shores of Ceuta, his eyes drifted 1,000 miles to the north.

Having swam around the breakwater marking the border between Morocco and Spain, where dozens had died in the perilous journey, the teenager had made the first step of a journey eight years in the making.

“I came to Ceuta because I want to study,” the 15-year-old told The Telegraph.

“My sister already lives in Spain. She’s married and has a daughter. I want to study for six years in Tarazona and then maybe go to England.

“I really like England, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love Morocco.”

6 of the Wildest Details From the WSJ’s Trump Fundraising Report (Nia Prater/New York Magazine)  Here’s the playbook: 1. A Narrative Media ‘journalist’ cobbles together a menage of slur and inuendo about Trump; 2. Another Usual Suspect takes the first report as gospel-truth and proceeds to expand on it; 3. The rest of the Narrative Media pile on, just ‘reporting what’s in the news’. These people are shameless.

A Portrait of MAGA Psychodrama (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Coral Davenport/New York Times)  Note the statist assumption: Deregulating a program ‘upends’ it.

Florida Man Gets 2 Years for Threatening Trump  I’m willing to bet that he wasn’t a Republican.

Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts (Associated Press)  They’re just pissed that they didn’t think of it first.

The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China (Peter Jamison/Washington Post) If there actually is a “Trump country”, I want to move there.

MD Gov. Wes Moore: ‘Concerned’ Trump Will Interfere in Midterms  In other words, they’re worried that the election will actually be more honest.

He’s Making It Worse on Purpose (Jim Swift/The Bulwark)  Nobody hates like the Kristol Krew.

Why Trump is at war with the International Criminal Court (Vox)  Because they declared war on him.

‘It Wasn’t Part of Trump’s Plans’: Venezuela’s Feeble Earthquake Response Undermining US Credibility (Eva Hartog/Politico)  Because, as we all know, earthquake ‘response’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (New York Times)  The Narrative Media would rather we didn’t have any arctic ships.

The Working Class Is Fleeing Trump (New York Times)  Actually, they’re fleeing the New York Times.

NBC Mourns Spanish Border Crisis Has ‘Been Seized On By President Trump’

Obama described Trump as an ‘idiot’ and Don Jr a ‘f****** moron’ in call to Fauci, diaries reveal (Erin Keller/The Independent)  I’m sure Trump would say the same about Obama and Obama Jr. (oops, my mistake—there is no Obama Jr.)

Newsbusters.

Even mind-readers have to have something to work with.

How long and warm were the handshakes? How was the body language? How did Trump’s voice sound?

What White House door did the Israeli Prime Minister use to go in and see the President?

On – and on and on – went these and other questions from the American media as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu arrived at the White House for his latest meeting with President Trump.

There are multiple examples of this kind of media scrutiny of the President and the Trump White House, where minor details are over-interpreted and become major obsessions, as the two leaders met.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Muslims invaded Spain in 711 and conquered almost all of that country. They held Spain for centuries, until the Christian Reconquest finally drove out the last of the Muslims in 1492. The Reconquest has always been regarded as a glorious chapter in Spanish history, but its current far-left, socialist government seems to be on the other side.

Spain’s government had already given 500,000 illegal aliens, mostly Muslims, legal status in that country. That was the context for yesterday’s attack by Moroccans on the Spanish territory of Ceuta, which Bill Glahn wrote about here. Suddenly, thousands of Moroccans swam or boated around Spain’s fence into Cueta. Why did this happen all at once? They seem to have gotten word that the Spanish authorities wouldn’t stop them.

As usual in these cases, the “migrants” were nearly all military-age men. This wasn’t a migration, it was an invasion, as in 711. And Spain’s government seems to be on board with it.

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Speaking for the people with three degrees, I can vouch for all of this.

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A clear pattern is emerging: When the political left or their favorite pet migrants wreak havoc and commit heinous crimes, the immediate canned response from the activist fold is to blame the “right wing” or blame those devious Israelis. Why do they do this? Because it works.

Progressive politicians and third world invaders always seem to dodge accountability while conservative movements in-fight over the source of the problem.

There a people on both sides of the aisle that maintain a distaste for Israel, sometimes to the point that they attribute almost godlike abilities to the Israeli government. They seem to be downright omnipresent; everywhere all at once and always ten steps ahead. It’s positively astounding.

Strategists within leftist and elitist movements understand very well that many conservatives and independents are suspicious of Israeli influence and they use this built-in paranoia as a weapon to divert attention away from their own machinations. While there are plenty of valid criticisms to be made against Israel, some claims dive deep into the absurd.

For example, the political left is spreading a new narrative across social media asserting that the migrant invasion of Spain’s Ceuta enclave is part of a vast US/Israeli conspiracy to destroy the country. In other words, they believe that tens-of-thousands of Muslim migrants are taking marching orders from a Jewish-run government.

Truly, this is an unprecedented level of progress in Islamic/Israeli relations.

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Hee hee hee.,…

Husbands do ‘hubby work’, i.e. anything that requires height or upper body strength that the wife just does not have.

Otherwise, you’re on your own.

Newsbusters.

The main Democratic and media—but we repeat ourselves—conceit of the 2024 election that voters saw straight through was that former Vice President Kamala Harris is some sort of a moderate. Harris recently proved voters right again in a recent statement where she endorsed statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and the need to “revisit” the Electoral College. However, on Friday’s PBS News Hour, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart agreed, “That’s not controversial.”

Not at PBS, that’s certainly true.

Moderator Geoff Bennett teed up Brooks by playing a clip of Harris insisting, “We need to revisit the Electoral College. We need to revisit the point of expanding the Court to 13 justices, like we have 13 district courts. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.”

Bennett was not interested in examining the radical aspects of those proposals. Instead, he wondered if it showed Harris was in tune with the Democratic base, “So that’s the thing. Democrats are saying they want a candidate who will fight for the things that Democrats say they care about. What do you make of that message?”

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The Department of Homeland Security has issued the broadest Jones Act waiver since at least the 1950s, just weeks after the US-Iran conflict erupted. The measure has allowed foreign-flagged vessels to transport fuel, crude oil, fertilizer, and other essential goods between US ports, bypassing domestic shipping restrictions to mitigate supply chain disruptions across various U.S. regions.

The Jones Act, a century-old law requiring goods transported between U.S. ports to be carried aboard U.S.-Built, US-owned, and US-crewed vessels, was immediately waived in the early days of the U.S.-Iran conflict by the Trump administration.

As of Friday, the waiver has entered its 135th day, suggesting that the administration is continuing to protect domestic supply chains and curb energy prices by temporarily easing maritime protectionist restrictions.

A recent Reuters report stated that the Trump administration was considering another extension of the waiver.

The Jones Act is one of those cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face pieces of legislation that disgrace the U.S. Code. It ought to be repealed, not just waived.

The Other McCain.

Say hello to Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because young Mr. Gomez shuffled off this mortal coil in February, after deciding to start a shootout with police in Elkhart, Indiana, which lasted only three seconds.

I spent my high-school years in Elkhart, Indiana. There were no ‘Hispanics’ there at the time, and not a lot of People of Color.

What do you notice about the photo of Gomez? Does that jersey signify that he was a fan of the Chicago White Sox? Well, Elkhart is only 112 miles from Chicago, and I suppose it’s possible that Gomez was a White Sox fan, but a quick Google search indicates that wearing White Sox regalia is common among certain gangs affiliated with the Crips. Just had to point this out.

And why is this relevant? Well:

Although Officer Ragsdale did not know it at the time, the front seat passenger provided false information regarding his name during the investigation and was on probation after having being adjudicated Delinquent for both felony and misdemeanor offenses in Elkhart County Juvenile Court, the nature of which included Auto Theft, Resisting Law Enforcement, Dangerous Possession of a Firearm, and Disorderly Conduct . . .

The front passenger then abruptly turned, got out of the car on the passenger’s side, and fired a handgun toward Officer Breneman.

Both Officer Ragsdale and Officer Breneman fired their respective handguns in response. The front passenger was fatally shot during this event. A Glock 9mm handgun was on the ground near him. . . .
During the crime scene investigation in which crime scene specialists documented and recovered evidence related to the event, another handgun was found on the front passenger floorboard of the subject vehicle that had been modified to be fully automatic by what is known as a “switch”. A “switch” is an after-market attachment that converts a semi-automatic handgun to a fully automatic handgun which is illegal to possess pursuant to both State and Federal law.

Yeah, just a totally innocent Member of the Community.

The Telegraph (UK).

Works for me (except for the nose-ring, of course).

The Telegraph (UK).

My,  what a surprise….

Despite the fact that Ceuta has been Spanish since 1580, Morocco wants it ‘back’, and this is an obvious ploy in that direction.

Some place cool.

There is an historian with a YouTube channel who explores the insanity of racial classifications in America.

I Stopped Checking WHITE. Then This Happened?

If you get sucked into this rabbit hole, I have no sympathy for you….

For the record, I know who my great-grandparents were, and I am 7 parts Irish and 1 part Scots, and you can’t get much Whiter than that; maybe if you came from Norway (as my ancestors did 900 years ago). My paternal great-grandfather was born in Ireland in 1854, and I doubt that he ever saw a non-white person in his life until he got to Boston, and quite possibly not even then.

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What had changed, and what generated the host of NITBYs that bore conservationism to victory, was the ascendancy of modernist architecture, a style that most people demonstrably find relatively ugly. Conservationism was a reaction to postwar redevelopment, as its proponents claimed. But it was less a reaction to what the modernists destroyed, than to what they created.

Most debates about the policy significance of ugliness presuppose a certain model of how it affects housebuilding. On this model, local people resent the prospect of having ugliness inflicted upon them, they therefore oppose ugly developments, and politicians implement antidevelopment policies to placate them. This probably does happen sometimes: ugliness obviously does affect local people, and it would be surprising if this had no effect at all on their behavior. But a closer look suggests that ugliness plays only a minor role in motivating NIMBYism.

New York Post.

Despite a career-long commitment to combating racial disparities in housing and touting the importance of living among Black people, former Vice President Kamala Harris’ new California mansion is situated in a neighborhood with virtually no racial diversity.

Harris’ new 4,000-square-foot property, which reports indicate she acquired for $8.15 million, is located in the exclusive seaside community of Point Dume and includes ocean views, multiple wine fridges, private golf greens and enough parking to accommodate five vehicles.

Point Dume is situated entirely within Census tract 8004.08, which the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimated was just 0.2% Black and roughly 94% White as of 2019.

Harris’ choice of neighborhood may surprise longtime observers given past comments she has made about the importance of living among other Black Americans.

Oh, I can assure you that most of us aren’t surprised at all.

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omeone carved a notch to lock two logs together—half a million years before Homo sapiens.

Obviously the Silurians.

Tina Peters and other election deniers claim they’ve pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan” (Alex Kaplan/Media Matters for America)

Trump Puts Immunity From Probes Over His Fight for Blanche (Bloomberg)

Trump’s ‘Freedom Haulers’ event revealed something deeply unsettling about the president and his team (Holly Baxter/The Independent)  Yeah. He actually has original ideas, ideas that The Usual Suspects can’t wrap their mindes around.

Defying Trump, Cornyn Uses His Lame-Duck Power (Michael Gold/New York Times)  The RINO is strong in this one.

Inside Trump’s Senate playbook (Axios)  The mind-readers of the Narrative Media are SURE they have the inside scoop on what Trump is planning. ‘Delusional’ seems totally inadequate to describe it.

Faced with Blanche dilemma, Trump chooses revenge (Politico)  The Narrative Media lament the disappearance of the traditional Republican Punching Bag.

Nine Things to Know About Trump Fundraiser Meredith O’Rourke (Wall Street Journal)  Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

Democrats Mobilize Over Fears Trump Will Deploy Troops to Polls (NOTUS)

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

Cheap gas won’t save Trump, now at a new all-time approval low (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Whistling past the graveyard….

Trump’s Iran strategy is working. His vice president’s isn’t. (Marc A. Thiessen/Washington Post)  Hey, we gotta find somebody to hate on.

Trump admin tries to rebuild election security infrastructure it gutted as midterms near (CNN)  Wow, election security infrastructure (that guaranteed Democrats wouldn’t be caught cheating) guts all over the place. What a mess!

The Tate Brothers’ Should Be The Trumps’ Second Epstein Scandal (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  Yeah, they couldn’t lie their way into making people believe that there was some connection with Epstein, perhaps they can lie their way into making people believe that there is some connection to the Tates. Hey, words are cheap….

Critics Say Historic Sites Are Endangered by Trump-Aligned Panel’s Plan (Julia Jacobs/New York Times)  “Trump-aligned” means “We can’t provide any evidence of a connection, so we’re just going to depend on smears and innuendo to see if people will buy it”.

In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing. (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal is corrupt and dangerous. Just ask Marco Rubio. (Sen. Edward J. Markey/MS NOW)

How a Lawsuit Seeking to Silence Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Actually Proved Its Point

We Now Have the Leading Charge in Trump’s Next Impeachment (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)  But it doesn’t matter—we’d just make something up anyeway.

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Smallpox is an age-old scourge with a terrible history.

Caused by the variola virus, it’s thought to have been responsible for some 4 million total deaths in Indigenous communities in the Americas after European colonizers arrived – communities with no immune protection against the virus.

Previously, the evidence for this has been a historical paper trail.

Now though, 500 years later, we have the first solid genetic evidence that it was indeed smallpox contracted from Europeans that led to this catastrophic population decline in Indigenous communities.

Oh, good. Another thing to blame white people for. Just think of it as evolution in action and move the fuck on.

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In January, I had the fortune of being a keynote speaker at LCA2013. One of the tchotchkes I received from the conference organizers was a little USB memory stick.

I thought it was a neat coincidence that I was in a factory that manufactured exactly such memory sticks about a week before the conference. In fact, I managed to score a rare treat: the factory owner gave me a sheet of raw chip-on-flex, prior to bonding and encapsulation, to take home.

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The lady is using some sort of tool made out of hand-cut bamboo. I still haven’t figured out exactly how they work, but every time I’ve seen this process they are using what looks like a modified chopstick to place the chips on the board. My best guess is that the bamboo sticks have just the right surface energy to adhere to the silicon die, such that silicon will stick to the tip of the bamboo rod. A dot of glue is pre-applied to the bare boards, so when the operator touches the die down onto the glue, the surface tension of the glue pulls the die off of the bamboo stick.

It’s trippy to think that the chips inside my USB stick were handled using modified chopsticks.

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A Smithsonian Institution exhibit featuring 250 objects claiming to tell the story of American history is overwhelmingly dedicated to promoting liberal causes, including controversial sexual themes, a review of the exhibit’s catalog reveals.

The Smithsonian’s “Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness” exhibit at the Museum of American History features three times more liberal than conservative items, the Fox News Digital review found. Several of the liberal items were overtly sexual items.

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A generation of socialist candidates—Ivy-educated and meritocracy-perfected—has turned the ladder it climbed into a weapon against the country that provided it.

A civilization can be measured not only by what it produces, but by what its beneficiaries choose to do with what they have received.

America has produced a generation of political candidates who represent something genuinely new to our nation. They call themselves Democratic Socialists. They are on the ballot in Colorado, in Michigan, in New York’s most competitive districts. And the story being told about them is that they are the voice of the working class—champions of the paycheck-to-paycheck laborer, tribunes of the forgotten American.

That story is not true.

Look at who they actually are.

The new nomenklatura.

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Gee, who could have predicted that?

Newsbusters.

The spectacle of Dr. Anthony Fauci refusing to answer questions from senators by repeatedly citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination was blatantly ridiculous. A man who never found a microphone he didn’t like was refusing to engage in defending his record. Then the elitist media that claim to be all about transparency and accountability rushed to his defense.

Sen. Rand Paul’s release of Fauci’s writings on his government computer revealed just how cozy the wily doctor was with the network news stars in 2020, from George Stephanopoulos to Chuck Todd to Jake Tapper. This was an obvious reason for the networks to bury the story of these writings.

It was all reminiscent of 2016, when Wikileaks dropped a pile of communications between Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta and other Democrats and political journalists. The networks discussed the leaked documents about the Clinton campaign vs. the Bernie Sanders campaign. But they weren’t going to discuss the chummy content between Podesta and the “objective” reporters.

Wikileaks exposed that in 2015, NBC’s Chuck Todd invited Podesta (among others) to their home for “Cocktails & Dinner in honor of” Jennifer Palmieri, another Clinton staffer, and her Democrat husband, Jim Lyons. Wikileaks revealed CNN asked the Democratic National Committee for questions to ask Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. What we’re never told is how cooperative the journalists were with the Democrat suggestions.

This is, in a word, collusion – a complete blur between journalists and Democrats, all seeking the same political objectives. But the media that claims to be all for democracy and transparency hide their inner chumminess in concocting the “news” product while pretending there is no secretive alliance.

You don’t need a ‘conspiracy theory’ if everybody involved knows what they need to do.

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A 164-year-old historic church in Leicester, UK “caught fire” this week, leaving its roof severely damaged while officials initially described the cause as unknown.

Must be those damned Methodists.

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Twenty Ethiopians connected to a youth football team disappeared in Sweden on the final day of the Gothia Cup youth tournament, prompting an international missing persons search.

The group consists mainly of boys aged between 14 and 17, together with one or more adult leaders. Police believe they left voluntarily, amid suspicions that they may be attempting to remain in Sweden or another European country, although officers say that has not been confirmed.

Uh-huh. ‘Not been confirmed’. “The prisoners may be attempting a jail-break, but that has not been confirmed.”

Read it.

Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner has called for Islamic religious education to be introduced in state schools following the deadly Islamist attack near the capital’s Christopher Street Day celebrations.

The Germans are committing suicide. Nothing we can do, unfortunately.

Newsbusters.

Of course they do. Muslims invading? Ho-hum….

Newsbusters.

CBS announced a new spate of 60 Minutes correspondents – including Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips – but the left-wingers obsessed over New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. The Daily Beast screeched: “Right-Wing Religious Zealot Unveiled as New Star of ‘60 Minutes’.”

I like him already.

That phrasing is comical — any tilt to the right is “desperate,” and the relentless leftist bias is “perfectly built.”

Just like Bari Weiss, the liberals throw “no real TV experience” — as if the newbie won’t be surrounded by veteran TV producers. Let’s guess if CBS recruited Trump-loathing columnist David French instead, they wouldn’t sweat the experience thing.

In the announcement, new executive producer Nick Bilton played up Douthat’s podcast at the Times: “A Ross interview—and he’s interviewed on camera Vice President Vance, Dario Amodei, Amy Coney Barrett, Hasan Piker and Ben Sasse among others—is a special conversation, expansive and probing and news-making.“

Then there’s the biggest Bari Weiss-haters on the internet, the team at Status.com. They turned to anonymous sources to trash the Douthat pick.