Macron and al-Sisi Face Uphill Battles for Religious Reform

Teen Kills Religious Minority Doctor In Pakistan For Allegedly Insulting Islam

ISIS Conducts Sabotage Bombing Of Gas Pipeline Between Egypt & Israel

Al-Qaida Leader Reportedly Dead of ‘Breathing Issues’ in Afghanistan

The Attempt to Domesticate Islam in France

Azerbaijani Troops Enter First Of Districts That Are Set To Be Returned Under Karabakh Deal

Mortar Shells Hit Kabul Residential Areas; at Least 8 Dead

23 Rockets Slam Into Kabul, Killing 8, As Pompeo Negotiates With Taliban In Qatar

Iran Directs Military & Allies Be On “High Alert” In Trump’s Final Weeks In Office

Manhunt Underway After 69 Flee In Mass Lebanese Prison Break, 5 Fugitives Killed

Al-Qaida in North Africa Names New Leader to Succeed Droukdel

Algeria: New Boss Same As The Old Boss

VIDEO: Leading French Civil Liberties Advocate, Yasser Louati, Speaks Out on Western Muslims and Macron  Glenn Greenwald.

The mullah report: is Biden bringing back the Iran Deal?

An ISIS Homecoming

“There is no Difference Between Islam and Political Islam”  Who doesn’t know that?

Pakistani Minister For Human Rights Compares Emmanuel Macron To Nazi Germany

Arab states are fighting back against Turkey’s ‘neo-Ottomanism’

Double Bomb Blast In Afghanistan Reportedly Kills At Least 14, Dozens Wounded

Militant Convicted in Fatal Benghazi Attack Seeks New Trial

Saudi Arabia Receives Dangerous Gifts From Houthi-Iranian Alliance

“Italians, We Will Cut Your Throats”

Police: Assailant in Swiss Knife Attack Was Jihadist

New Jersey Woman Charged With Funneling Money To Terrorists In Syria

Swiss Woman Arrested After Suspected Terror Attack Had Ties To Jihadist In Syria

Global Terrorism Report Shows Deaths at Lowest Point in 5 Years

Train Gunman Tells French Court His Target Only US Soldiers

Culture-Enriching Femicide

Cultural Enrichment, With Tourniquet

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Biden “pulled so many rabbits out of his hat” to potentially become the oldest elected president in American history, should Trump fail in his legal challenges to the election tallies of several key state.

Highly suspicious, to say the least. These are the sort of thing that UN poll watchers in Turd World countries usually use to conclude that a vote was rigged.

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A set of demands from teachers unions in July, which addressed how to safely reopen schools amid a pandemic, was criticized by The Wall Street Journal editorial board as “political extortion.” The board argued that unions were taking advantage of a health crisis to advance their own ideological agendas and to eliminate competition from charter schools.

“For most Americans the coronavirus is a scourge. But teachers unions seem to think it’s also an opportunity—to squeeze more money from taxpayers and put their private and public charter school competition out of business,” the board wrote. “Rather than work to open schools safely, the unions are issuing ultimatums and threatening strikes until they are granted their ideological wish list.”

“If there’s a silver lining here, it’s that Americans are getting a closer look at the true, self-interested character of today’s teachers unions,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board added.

WashPost Honors ‘Best Books,’ Especially Their Employees Trashing Trump

Joe Scarborough: Won’t Go Back to GOP After It Backed Trump  As if they would take him.

Atlanta Homicides Reportedly Hit Record Highs

HUH?! NYT ‘Sportswriter’ Runs ‘Fast as Possible’ by House With Blue Lives Matter Flag

A Short Probation in Chicago

In a 5-4 ruling, Supreme Court sides with religious groups in a dispute over Covid-19 restrictions in New York

Good COVID News: None of the SARS-CoV-2 Genetic Mutations Appear to Increase Transmissibility

Study finds 84% fewer hospitalizations for patients treated with controversial drug hydroxychloroquine

As Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving, the world watches with dread and disbelief  (Washington Post) Dread! Disbelief! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Bill Gates predicts when the next pandemic will arrive

Russian Vaccine Claims 91.4% Efficacy, by Steve Sailer

Italian Covid-19 Lockdown Businesses Threaten a Tax Strike

Here Are Some Of The Politicians Who Have Been Caught Violating Their Own Coronavirus Rules Before Thanksgiving

Sanford Health CEO Resigns After Saying He’s Immune To Coronavirus, Calling Masks A ‘Symbolic Gesture’  Exactly: Security Theater.

IKEA Releases 100-Foot-Long Dining Table For 2020 Gatherings  Babylon Bee.

Study: Climate Change Increases the Risk of Global Pandemics

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“The media can talk all day long about Donald Trump and all day long about things that he’s doing wrong,” Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, said on a call Tuesday unveiling a poll the center commissioned, “Special Report: The Stealing of the Presidency, 2020.”

“It is absolutely unequivocal, the evidence that it was the national news movement that deliberately, and I underscore deliberately, made it a point not to tell the public about these stories that nobody can question,” Bozell said. “And now we’re showing the evidence that it cost Donald Trump the election.”

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A state judge in Pennsylvania temporarily blocked the state Wednesday from further certifying its general election results, after the state certified President-elect Joe Biden’s win Tuesday, while a Republican-led lawsuit attempting to block Pennsylvania’s election results plays out in court, though the order has now been paused due to an appeal.

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Good luck with that.

(Um … They look African to me….)

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According to Trump officials, the judge set a Dec. 3 hearing date and is allowing 15 depositions. What’s more, the campaign plans to present its evidence that could result in the rejection of tens of thousands of mail-in ballots in Democratic Clark County where Biden ballots outnumbered Trump ballots by 91,000 in unofficial results.

Illegal Votes From Noncitizens Likely Affected the 2020 Election, Study Says

Civil War on the Left (75): Biden Staff Edition

Michigan County Joins Republican Effort To Impeach Whitmer Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Coronavirus Restrictions

Fox News Host: Trump Has ‘Responsibility’ to Concede  Fox is now officially part of the Corporate Media.

Never Trumpers To Be Granted Special VIP Section Of Gulags When Dems Take Over  Babylon Bee.

“Compliance Units” – Maryland Police Partner With Local Officials To Enforce Virus Rules

Denver Mayor Said ‘Avoid Travel’ 30 Minutes Before He Boarded Plane To Visit Family

YouTube Suspends OAN as Liberal Senators Call for Censorship

Biden Says His Priorities Are Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants, Overturning Trump’s Executive Orders Affecting Climate

New York City To Establish Virus Checkpoints Ahead Of Thanksgiving: Report

Starbucks Fires Barista Who Refused To Wear ‘Pride’ Shirt For Religious Reasons, Lawsuit Alleges

New Mexico governor shuts down grocery stores for two weeks

COVID Passports Seen as Key to Resuming International Travel

Cops Swarm Toronto BBQ For Defying COVID Lockdown, Shut It Down

The Blizzard Of Bogus Journalism On COVID

Three Girls Raided by the Corona Stasi

US, UK Intel Agencies Declare Cyber War On Independent Media

A Commonsense Approach to COVID-19

Head of WHO Suggests COVID Restrictions Will Continue Even After Vaccine  No bureaucrat ever voluntarily gives up power.

Coronavirus in one state (131)

Jobless Claims Rise to 778,000 as Pandemic Worsens  That didn’t take long.

British Economy Shrinks By Most In 300 Years Thanks To COVID, Chancellor Warns  More accurately, thanks to the Covid Panic.

Thanksgiving with my illegally large family

Macron’s COVID war goes from bad to worse

Convicted Killer Scott Peterson Among Death Row Inmates Who Scammed Over $400,000 In Fraudulent COVID Benefits

Here Comes The New Recession

‘A Death Blow To An Already Decimated Industry’: 30 Gyms Petition Philadelphia To Reverse COVID Closures

COVID Death Rates Are Falling As Treatment Improves, Experts Say

‘Uninvite Your Bragging Brother’: Oregon Governor Who Cheered BLM Protests Tells Citizens To Uninvite Family For Thanksgiving

Governor Newsom Orders Police To Go Door To Door Arresting Anyone Not Depressed And Alone  Babylon Bee.

Online Learning Tanked Grades, Learning in VA’s Largest School System, Study Finds

Doctors Warn Side Effects From COVID-19 Vaccine “Won’t Be A Walk In The Park”

How good has media coverage of Covid-19 been?  Hint; Not good.

Germany Extends Partial Shutdown to Curb Virus Spread

Morning Joe: We Have No Reason to Tolerate, Understand Anyone Who Supported Trump

Blame Trump: Politico Tries to Cover for Potential Biden Econ Failure

Mika Eager to Lock Him Up: Tells ‘View’ She Hopes Biden Will ‘Investigate’ Trump  For what?

‘You Can’t Let All These Things Go By’: Mika Brzezinski Wants Investigations And A Post-Mortem On Trump Presidency  What things?

German Think Tank: Climate Deniers are Holding Back Climate Action

Gutfeld Rips John Kerry: ‘Biden Made Him Climate Czar Because He Mistook Him For A Tree’

Strengthening the climate change scenario framework

Cultural motivations for wind and solar renewables deployment

NYC Tech Darling Charged with Bashing Englewood Officer in Face with Radio

Sen. Booker Introduces Bill to Transfer Land to Black Farmers  Good luck finding one.

‘I Just Want To Take A Moment To Drink You In’: Colbert Praises Obama During Interview

Obama: Hispanics Ignore Trump’s Racism Because They Oppose Gay Marriage And Abortion

“Pandemic Of Crime” – LA Homicides Hit Decade Highs

Glenn Greenwald.

The most prolific activism demanding more Silicon Valley censorship is found in the nation’s largest news outlets: the media reporters of CNN, the “disinformation” unit of NBC News, and especially the tech reporters of The New York Times. That is where the most aggressive and sustained pro-internet-censorship campaigns are waged.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

he jury is still out on whether the Biden campaign stole the 2020 election through voter fraud, but that isn’t the only way elections get stolen. The evidence is strong that the Democratic Party press swung this year’s election to Biden by its selective non-coverage of critically important news stories that reflected well on President Trump or poorly on Biden.

UPDATE: The News Biden Voters Didn’t Know

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

Joe Biden has selected John Kerry — old foghorn himself — to be “climate czar”, as some accounts label the job, or “climate envoy”, as other accounts call it. I don’t think the climate will heed a czar. I’m not sure it will even accept an envoy.

Armed Baltimore Gangs Target Delivery Drivers In Recent Wave Of Carjackings And Robberies

‘The Machines Did The Killing’: Obama Awkwardly Defends Drone Kill List In New Memoir

CNN’s Smerconish Destroys Kaepernick’s Cop-Killer Support

Colin Kaepernick: I’m Being ‘Denied Employment’  The New Civil Right.

REPORT: Family House Blasted With Gunfire After Father Finds Two Boys In His Teenage Daughter’s Bedroom

Cuomo Said He Was Going To Spend Thanksgiving With His Mother, Daughters. Now, After Backlash, His Office Says He Won’t See Them  They’ll have to look elsewhere for a turkey.

‘We Are In Danger’: North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper Announces Stricter Mask Mandate As Cases In NC Reach Record Highs

CBS Bashes Holiday Travelers, Cops Say They’re Not Enforcing Abusive Restrictions

CNN: GOP Intentionally Let COVID Get Bad, Bring Retribution ‘Directly and Cold’  Hey, it wasn’t Republicans who put all those infected old people in those nursing homes.

Biden taps John Kerry as Presidential climate envoy – Expect merging of COVID & Climate – Kerry: ‘You could just as easily replace the words climate change with COVID-19’

Do pandemics boost public faith in science?  Hint: No.

Was Covid beginning to peak before the second lockdown?

Just Hours After Being Placed In Cuomo’s Possession, Emmy Statue Dies Of COVID Babylon Bee.

Glove Factories Shuttered After Thousands of Workers Test Positive for COVID

These Governors Told Citizens To Stay Home. Then They Broke Their Own COVID Rules

NYC Synagogue To Be Fined $15,000 After Hosting Massive Maskless Wedding

New York nightlife never stopped. It just moved underground

CNN’s Crazed Brinkley Claims Trump Will Form a ‘Shadow Government’ with Rush Limbaugh  I’d vote for that.

‘This Close To A Dictatorship’: Joy Behar Calls Trump Officials The Cast Of ‘Lord Of The Flies’  Hang on, girl, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

5 Mainstream Liberal Fever Dreams That Came Up Gloriously Short Of Expectations

Watch: CNN Declares Trump Will Form “Shadow Government”, Hold “Counter Inaugural”

US Attorney Gives Antifa Pass On Rand Paul Attack After Refusing To Investigate

Lone Michigan Canvasser Holdout to Newsmax: ‘Whoever Threatens the Most Wins’

NY Times Defends Red China, Attacks ‘Far Right,’ Bannon and CCP Opponents on COVID

De Blasio Unleashes ‘COVID Checkpoints’ To Catch & Fine NYC Travelers Who Violate Holiday Quarantine

State Governor Frees All Drug Dealers To Provide Prison Space For Families Celebrating Thanksgiving Babylon Bee.

Hollywood Outlet: Disney Should Fire ‘Mandalorian’ Star for ‘Dangerously Ignorant Views’

Media Censoring Negative Biden News May Have Cost Trump The Election, Swing State Poll Shows

SPECIAL REPORT: The Stealing of the Presidency, 2020

New Jersey Congressman Tries To Get Rudy Giuliani Disbarred Over ‘Frivolous’ Election Lawsuits

Testy MSNBC Host Cuts Off GOP Senator After He Calls Out Network’s Bias, Hypocrisy

‘Get Paid To Snitch’ – NYC Bill Proposes Crowdsourcing To Report Illegal Parking 

NYT: Facebook Manipulated ‘Secret’ Algorithm to Suppress ‘Misinformation’

Delaware Computer Repair Shop Behind Hunter Biden’s Laptop Closes Shop After Receiving Death Threats

YouTube Bows to Transgender Activists, Deletes Candace Owens Podcast

Maryland Governor Expands COVID-19 Snitch Line, Says ‘No Constitutional Right’ To Go Maskless

John Kerry Would Return as Climate Czar in Biden Administration  Because of his vast experience with climate science?

The U.S. National Temperature Index, is it based on data? Or corrections?

Drilling the Arctic refuge doesn’t make sense—but Trump wants it to happen anyway (Popular ‘Science’)

WMO: “impact of the COVID-19 confinements [on CO2] cannot be distinguished from natural variability”

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I was wondering when someone would get around to that.

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This would be a great plot device for an assassination.

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Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, teachers unions have used in-person learning as leverage to forward their demands. They also have a history of bargaining for political advantage without apparent regard for the mental or physical health of the children which are purportedly their primary concern.

Despite the fact that only 5% of teachers identify themselves as “very liberal” and 29% as “liberal” according to the Education Week Research Center, teachers unions have pushed progressive policies and have become a mainstay of the Democratic party. This has continued apace during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unified Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) demanded defunding the police and medicare for all before schools were allowed to reopen, as reported by The Daily Wire.

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Good to know he hasn’t anything more important to do.

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There are two sorts of Conservative in Britain. There are reformists and then there are declinists. Thatcher is the ultimate reformist. Heath, May and Major are declinists. Declinism is the view that the correct response to loss of British power and influence after the Second World War was to manage that decline, slow it down, do what the Americans tell us to do because that keeps the relationship special and merge our lot with the European Union, because we cannot manage on our own. Reformism is the view that we can change Britain, make it more united, more efficient and that our greatest days are ahead of us rather than behind us.

The same applies to the U.S. Trump is a Reformist, Romney is a Declinist. National Review went from Reformist to Declinist once Buckley died.

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This is a really odd time to be having a “housing boom”. We are in the middle of the worst public health crisis in 100 years, endless civil unrest has been ravaging many of our largest cities, and we are experiencing the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But even though more than 70 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits this year, home sales are absolutely rocking. How in the world is this possible?

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MLive.com reported that the Kalkaska County Board of Commissioners voted 4-2 on a resolution backing calls for Whitmer’s impeachment. The measure will now be sent to the Michigan legislature for consideration.

County Commissioner David Comai blamed what he called Whitmer’s “unconstitutional executive orders” for Kalkaska’s economic crisis. Many conservatives have expressed outrage at actions Whitmer has taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Orwell’s 1984 Is Prophetic: How Leftists Are Already Trying To Erase President Trump & Change History

Beijing-Controlled News Outlet Paid US Newspapers Millions To Publish Propaganda This Year

MSNBC Radicals Defend Rev. Wright’s ‘God Damn America!’—Critics Miss the ‘Nuance’

‘Wokeness’ Infiltrates College Music Departments

No Pushback! Politico Criticizes Parler for Lack of Censorship

China Pushing For A Global COVID QR Code To Track Travel, Limit Exposure To Coronavirus

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Encourages Citizens To Call Police On People Violating COVID-19 Shutdown Orders During Thanksgiving

Twitter Censors Trump and Campaign 262 Times, Biden Still at Zero

CNN Lets Lincoln Project Stooge Advocate Rebvoking Repulbican Canvasser’s Legal License

Sad: Libertarian Wants To Have Big Thanksgiving To Defy Government But No One Wants To Hang Out With Him  Babylon Bee.

House Democrat Committee Chairs Send Letter To GSA Administrator Asking Why Transition Process For Biden Has Not Begun  Perhaps because Biden has not yet been elected President – and won’t until the electors meet on December 8.

Pennsylvania Governor Bans Alcohol Sales On The Day Before Thanksgiving

Los Angeles has now crossed 300 homicides for the first time in over a decade

49 Shot, 5 Dead In Chicago Weekend Shootings, 5 Teenage Boys Among The Victims

Biden to Nominate Linda Thomas-Greenfield as UN Ambassador I’m sure she’ll feel right at home among the other Turd World kleptocrats.

REPORT: 1 Dead, 6 Hurt In Two Consecutive Shootings Near A ‘Sweet 16’ Party

‘You’ve Become A Model’: Pope Francis Praises NBA Players For Social Justice Advocacy At Vatican Meeting  The Woke Pope strikes again.

When Police Yell ‘Drop the Gun,’ Guess What Happens If You Don’t?

Bacon (Oh, And Toilet Paper) Shortages Erupt As Americans ‘Panic Hoard’ Ahead Of COVID Winter

Protesters take to the streets in California to bash Newsom’s curfew orders

Florida bar quickly closes after it’s packed with maskless crowds at reopening

Secret plans helped Brooklyn synagogue pull off massive, maskless wedding

L.A. County suspends outdoor dining at restaurants as coronavirus surges

‘You’re Such a D***’: NJ Gov. Murphy Confronted At Big Family Dinner

Daily California coronavirus cases triple as pandemic worsens   Guess those strict lockdowns really work.

Upper Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island heading for COVID-19 restrictions: Cuomo

State Security, Your Papers Please? UK to introduce “Freedom Passes” for Coronavirus

“Pandemic is Over” – Former Pfizer Chief Science Officer Says “Second Wave” Faked On False-Positive COVID Tests

The A-Z Of COVID-19

COVID Deaths Mount In France & The Czech Republic As Lockdowns Fail

Externalities and Covid

Covid-19, duration of viral shedding, and infectiousness: meta-analysis

Rapid Antigen Tests in Europe

Republican State Legislatures are Positively Correlated with Obesity, Democrat Legislatures with Death from #Coronavirus

Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Catholic Diocese’s Challenge to Cuomo’s Worship Restrictions

‘Not Interfering With People’s Thanksgiving Dinners’: New Jersey Police Chief Vows To Limit Enforcement Of Governor’s COVID-19 Orders

Annoyed ABC Scolds Americans ‘Not Listening,’ Visiting Family on Thanksgiving

Millions Of People Are Traveling Ahead Of Thanksgiving Despite COVID-19 Warning, TSA Data Shows

Nevada Governor Orders Indoor Mask Mandate, Limits Private Gatherings Ahead Of Thanksgiving

Surgeon General: Everyone, Including WH, Should Avoid Holiday Gatherings

Our Kids Are The Hostages — How Teachers Unions Are Using Coronavirus To Try And Line Their Pockets  Look for … the Union label….

The Coming Fights About Vaccinations and Returning to Normal

REPORT: Washington, DC, Mayor Bowser To Announce New COVID-19 Restrictions Before Thanksgiving

Walmart Thanks Government For Completely Obliterating Their Small Business Competition  Babylon Bee.

Democrat Governors are Suicidal — or They Don’t Believe in Their Own Lockdowns

America’s Economy Cannot Survive Another Lockdown, And The Cult Of The Reset Knows It

CNN Gives 23 Minutes to South Dakota Nurse’s Dubious Claims Trashing COVID Patients

NFL Quarterback Matthew Stafford’s Wife Apologizes After Comparing COVID Lockdown To ‘Dictatorship’

COVID-19 testing can’t guarantee a safe Thanksgiving. Here’s why.  Popular ‘Science’ shills for the Narrative.

Preventing future forest infernos

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #430

Animals are finding surprising ways to adapt to rising temperatures

UN: Surge in Greenhouse Gases Sustained Despite COVID-19 Lockdowns

Columbia Faculty Calls To “Cancel” Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

Ebenezer Scrooge, Environmentalist

The 10 countries most likely to survive the imminent threats of climate change

Trump repeats unfounded election fraud claims in late-night posts flagged by Twitter  (Washington Post) Unfounded!

Trump’s election lies are an attempted coup. Biden and other Democrats should say so. (NBC News) Lies! Attempted coup!

Actor Kurt Russell to Hollywood: Shut Up and Act

Scarborough on Trump Vote Challenges: ‘None Dare Call it Treason—But Maybe They Should’  Treason has a definition, and apparently Joe has never read it.

Whoopi Wails Trump’s Attempting a ‘Coup:’ ‘This Is What Dictators Do!’  No, Whoopi, stealing elections is what dictators do.

‘He’ll Be Living With Macho Man In Cell Block 11’: Joy Behar Predicts Trump Will Land In Prison  Joy’s just jealous.

Rep. Waters Calls for Investigation of ‘Criminal’ Trump Just what exactly is he supposed to have done?

Hunter Biden Arrives At White House Dressed As Turkey In Hopes Of Being Pardoned By Trump Babylon Bee.

Debra Messing Wants to ‘BURN the Constitution’ If Trump Doesn’t Go To Jail

The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

What’s wrong with open borders? Or, to be more specific, what’s wrong with “conservatives” who don’t see what’s wrong with open borders?

For more than 20 years, I have been mystified by those on “our” side who seem oblivious to the consequences of our broken immigration policy which is, in fact, so broken that it’s not actually a coherent policy but a confusing accumulation of blunders that have been piling up since Ted Kennedy pushed the 1965 “reform” bill through the Senate.

I wish Ted Kennedy were still alive so that I could shoot him myself.

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Similar to the way a lithium-ion battery may catch fire and/or explode in an e-cigarette, cell phone, or laptop, the lithium-ion battery can do the same when it’s inside a vehicle, particularly if it’s exposed to extreme heat or is punctured or damaged in some way. Some of these types of fires have already occurred. In 2013, a Tesla Model S caught fire on a Seattle highway. A piece of metal fell off a tractor-trailer and punched a hole through the vehicle’s armor plating that protects the battery pack. There was a short-circuit, a thermal runaway, and finally, a fire. A Porsche Taycan also caught fire inside a garage in Florida in February 2020, and there have been other similar incidents.

Emergency responders are used to dealing with fires involving cars, trucks, and other highway vehicles, but those caused by lithium-ion batteries are different and pose new risks and variables.

A problem that has not gotten enough attention.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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I love coincidences! And right now, we are surrounded by so many, we can pick ’em like daisies and make a lovely bouquet.

If Joe Biden … the man who thought he was running for the Senate and couldn’t draw flies to a manure factory … actually won, it would be the result of the most amazing run of coincidences in modern world history.

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Presumed President-Elect Joe Biden vowed during the campaign that on “day one” he would rescind President Donald Trump’s “vile” and “Islamophobic” restrictions on U.S. entry from 13 countries, the policy often referred to as the “Muslim Travel Ban.”

But repealing the president’s executive order, which applies to 13 countries with terrorism and espionage concerns, portends a return to a very recent era when U.S. security and immigration agencies often were unable to vet travelers from those particular nations.

ZMan counts it up.

An iron rule of the universe is that anything that has value will inevitably be forged or stolen, usually both. This is especially true of elections, because the election promises to bestow the most valuable thing of all to the ruling class. Elections give the ruling class legitimacy. As a result, every American election has had irregularities. Whether it is the Democrats calling out the dead vote or Democrats busing in illegal’s to vote in the suburbs, Democrats have been gaming elections since forever.

This most recent election may set a record for irregularities. It is hard to know if the claims being made by Trump are real. Trump’s track record on truth telling is not great, but even putting his claims aside, this election has more strange angles than any election in American history. Too many states have had ballots magically appear in the middle of the night or last minute rule changes that favor one side. When this happens in the third world, the West demands new election.

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How dare these people not know their place?

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Apparently that’s a thing. Of course, this is CNN so I’d want to check for corroboration.

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I recently heard of a statement made by Neil deGrasse Tyson that I thought must have been a misquote. I looked into it and, sure enough, that wise man who’s quoted on tee shirts and coffee mugs said, “The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.”

Whoa. The list of superseded scientific pronouncements is a long one, but I seem to recall a couple of real bloopers from his own field of expertise. It was once thought – as late as the early 20th century – that our own galaxy was the extent of the universe. Lo and behold, it is now accepted that there may be 100 billion galaxies comprising the universe – and counting. Now that’s a major whiff.

Not to mention the fact that luminaries such as Einstein, Shapley, Hoyle, and Gold believed that the universe was static, that is until Hubble peered through the Mt. Wilson telescope and verified the findings of that crazy Catholic priest George Lemaitre who had been trying to tell them the universe was expanding, and had been since the explosion of the primal atom (I won’t say creation).

Stay tuned for more alterations in “settled science.” It’s the nature of things.

‘Science’ means knowledge, and the problem with most ‘science’ is that it isn’t knowledge so much as it is merely opinion — educated opinion, granted, and perhaps highly reliable opinion, but opinion nevertheless. Witness how much ‘science’ needs to be revised and corrected every twenty years or so.

Twitter will hand @POTUS to Biden on Inauguration Day, even if Trump doesn’t concede

Wisconsin GOP election commissioner praised right-wing provocateur who promoted voter fraud conspiracies (CNN)

History by MSNBC: Thanksgiving is ‘Colonizer Christmas’ and Colonists Were Cannibals

Michigan AG Calls For Criminal Charges Against GOP Certifiers Who Won’t ‘Fall In Line’  I don’t think she can do that.

China Accuses Italy of Being the Source of Covid-19

Border Patrol Reports Surge In Illegal Immigration Since Election  My, what a surprise.