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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

3rd October 2023

Doonesbury Comic Strip for October 03, 2023

Absurd, attention-seeking Matt Gaetz is the GOP’s John Fetterman (N.Y. Post) And Rich Lowry punches right.

Two right-wing judges seem to be trying to rig a US House race (Vox)

Gerrymandering: Will the Court Permit Discrimination for Partisan Gain? (The Nation)

GOP dudes are big mad at Taylor Swift for reminding them that the ladies don’t like them (Salon) I doubt that Taylor Swift’s preferences are truly representative.

Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes Just Can’t Stay Away From Twitter/X (Daily Beast) Any more than the Daily Beast can stay away from the Gossip Girls table.

Georgia Trump indictment: First defendant who took plea deal wants ‘nightmare’ over (Fox News)

Nobel Prize winner for mRNA vaccines discusses being demoted by UPenn (The Hill)

As Volunteers Blast City’s Gardaworld Contract, City Leaders Blast Lack Of State Support For Migrants (Block Club Chicago)

The anti-abortion pill judge is back — with an alarming new target (MSNBC)

The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe (The New Yorker)

WATCH: ‘Welcoming’ NY Governor Hits Republicans From Right, Calls To Quadruple Border Patrol

Putin’s Pals Brag: Elon Musk ‘Really Is Our Agent!’ (Daily Beast)

Montana GOP Rep. Prayed for Smaller Republican Majority After 2022 Midterms (The Messenger)

My Fellow Republicans: It’s Time to Grow Up (N.Y. Times) The Times must have a closetful of these RINOs ready to trot out when convenient.

NY Times SCOTUS Scare Tactics: ‘How Far to the Right Will the Supreme Court Go?’

No Labels makes its choice (Popular Information)

‘Fact Checkers’ Discredit Themselves In Service to Transgender ‘Stigma’ Reduction

Mexico Blames US’s Cuba Policy for 10,000 Migrants a Day to Border

The Fight Against France’s Homeschooling Ban Goes to the UN

How Red-State Politics Are Shaving Years Off American Lives (Washington Poop)

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

3rd October 2023

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis on Tue, 03 Oct 2023

Money managers are shifting their attitude to ESG as ‘realism’ sets in, says S&P’s Dan Yergin (CNBC)

Slow route to net zero will worsen global climate crisis, IPCC chief warns (The Guardian)

When Uncle Sam stops paying the childcare bill (NPR)

Cook County SA Kim Foxx speaks exclusively on National Wrongful Conviction Day: ‘often at a loss’ (ABC) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a National Wrongful Conviction Day.

Michigan exoneree, Metro Detroit attorney raise awareness on National Wrongful Conviction Day (ClickOnDetroit)

Cooley Law to host panel discussion for Wrongful Conviction Day (WOOD Grand Rapids) Must be a Michigan thing.

Dallas man shares his story for National Wrongful Conviction Remembrance Day (NBC 5) Or maybe a blue city thing.

GOP lawmaker Issa demands answers from Newsom, Senate leaders on Laphonza Butler’s Maryland residency (Fox News)

Tensions flare as migrant buses ramp up (Politico)

Chicago city leaders host meeting for a temporary migrant shelter (CBS Chicago)

Hundreds of migrants live inside O’Hare Airport as Chicago grapples with how to house them (Fox 32 Chicago)

Meghan Markle considering run for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, sources say (NBC Montana)

Senator Meghan Markle? Speculation mounts Duchess of Sussex will try to replace Feinstein (N.Y. Post)

Meghan Markle Was Never Going to Replace Dianne Feinstein. Here’s Why (Newsweek)

What the latest Meghan story tells us about the culture wars (The Guardian)

Can An ‘Independent’ Kennedy Destroy “The Whole Left-Right Demon-Driven Pyschodrama”

Philadelphia Journalist Who Mocked Concern Over Violent Crime In Democrat Cities Shot Dead In Home  Well. There it is. (Scott Adams, of course, had a lot of fun with this one.)

Calif. Senate Appointment Eerily Echoes 1964 Pick

An Unexpected Consumer of Conservative Media: Gavin Newsom  (The Foundry)

Democrats Weigh Whether to Rescue McCarthy From G.O.P. Ouster Bid (N.Y. Times)

Here’s the story of the portrait behind Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s postage stamp (NPR) She looks like a Bond villain.

NY Gov. Hochul Suddenly Shifts Gears On Illegal Immigration As Her State Is Overrun

“It’s Broken”: Bill Clinton Now Opposes NYC “Sanctuary City” Laws As Migrant Crisis Spirals Out-Of-Control

Rep. Cuellar unharmed in armed carjacking in DC (The Hill)

Philly Police Seek Biker Who Stomped Out Back Window Of Sedan Where Two Innocent Children Sat

Police Cuts Show ‘Real World Consequence’ of ‘Defund’ Movement

Kansas Police Chief Who Led Kansas Paper Raid Resigns

Blackstone’s Massive CRE REIT Records Eleven Months Of Outflows 

Italian Court Stops Detention and Deportation of Illegal Migrants

On Lampedusa, the Left Blames Borders for Migrant Deaths

California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National (The Atlantic)

Does New York Have to ‘House the World’?

Driver hits woman in S.F., then Cruise driverless car runs her over  We have the technology.

After Trashing Dr. Oz as Carpetbagger, Media Shrug at DC Fundraiser Taking California Senate Seat

International Fishing Group Bans Trans Women

NYC Becomes First US City to Offer ‘on Demand’ Phone Appointment for ‘Abortion Kit’

Taylor Swift Traded To The Jets (Babylon Bee)

Kimmel, Schwarzenegger Promote Leftism To Justify Remaining in GOP

‘Untenable’: Illinois Gov Joins List of ‘Sanctuary’ Dems Who Don’t Love Migrants So Much Anymore

Mexico Buses Migrants in South as Thousands Reach US Border

White feminists are finding new problems with motherhood

Google removes Reviews widget when you add the word ‘sucks’ to a company search

NYC Becomes First to Deliver Abortion Kits Available Via Telehealth  Somebody is really opposed to New Yorkers reproducing. Can’t say that they’re wrong.

Los Angeles Enacts ‘Zero Bail’ System Time to leave.

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

3rd October 2023

Banks behind 70% jump in greenwashing incidents in 2023 -report (Reuters)

Energy company ‘doubling down on costly, dirty coal’ to power massive EV battery plant (Fox News)

EV battery factory will require so much energy it needs a coal plant to power it (WDBO Orland0)

Massive EV Battery Factory May Have To Rely On Coal Plant For It To Function (Daily Caller)

If you’re saying no to war, you have to say no to oil (EuroNews)

Cream and sugar with your concrete? Australians add coffee to cement. (Washington Poop)

Emergency bulkhead being installed in North Wildwood due to severe beach erosion (ABC)

Facing increasing pressure from customers, some miners are switching to renewable energy (Associated Press)

Climate change could impose ‘substantial financial costs’ on U.S. household finances, Treasury warns (CNBC)

As the ‘water tower of Asia’ dries out, villagers learn to recharge their springs (NPR)

I-Team: EPA warned Baltimore officials about water parasite risk in May (WBAL TV)

Texas drought has deepened amid this year’s brutal heat (Texas Narrative Tribune)

The Dangerous Delusion of a Global Transition To “Just Electricity”

Marc Morano on Climate Change Radicalism: ‘This Is Our World If We Allow It’

The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With Seaweed (Wired ‘Science’)

As EV sales surge and cars get heavier, parking garages will have to change

Apple’s carbon-neutral product claims called a ‘climate-wash’

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

3rd October 2023

Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump (CNN)

John Kelly confirms Trump’s ‘suckers’ remark about war dead (The Hill)

Trump says he would prefer to die by electrocution in bizarre campaign rant (The Guardian)

Trump fundraises off fraud trial: ‘Nothing can break me’ (The Hill)

Real Estate Experts in Florida Say Valuation of Mar-a-Lago Cited by Judge in Civil Case Is Based on a Misunderstanding of Basic Real Estate Practice (N.Y. Sun) My, what a surprise.

Sidney Powell Paid For Georgia Election Machine Examination Upon ‘Threat’, Her Lawyer Says

John Bolton: It’s ‘entirely possible’ Trump wants his supporters to kill Mark Milley (Raw Story)

Trump ramps up violent rhetoric (NBC News)

How Trump Turned an Oval Office Fantasy Into G.O.P. Doctrine (N.Y. Times)

‘I Almost Crossed The Picket Line,’ Late Night Hosts Celebrate Trump Indictments

Beer-Can Bearing Trump’s Mug-Shot Hits Major Milestone: CEO

Why MAGA Wants to Betray Ukraine (N.Y. Times) Paul Krugman illustrates that MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump and the New York show trial

Prosecutors Probe Trump’s Efforts to Steal Arizona’s Election — Years After He Lost

Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) “Nice life you got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it…”

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

3rd October 2023

Civil rights leader criticizes ‘divisive protests,’ ‘rioting’ in the name of social justice (Fox News)

Capitol Police deliver new update on Bowman fire alarm incident (The Hill)

Dem Rep Jamaal Bowman’s Office: Yes, He Pulled Capitol Fire Alarm, But Republicans Are Nazis

Bowman disavows talking points attacking ‘Nazi members’ of GOP in office’s fire alarm messaging guidance (Fox News)

‘I Am Embarrassed To Admit That I Activated The Fire Alarm,’ Bowman

Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in Congress. Should he face jail time? (Fox News)

Did This ‘Squad’ Member Really Think There Would Be No Consequences to Pulling an Alarm as Congress Voted? Well, yes.

Capitol Police Corroborate Part of Rep. Bowman’s Story

Rep. Bowman Backtracks on Memo Calling Republicans Nazis

Nets Gush Over ‘Historic’ New CA Senator, Ignore Key Details

Laphonza Butler Once Backed Abolishing Bail in Calif.

ABC & NBC Drop Bowman Fire Alarm Coverage, CBS Runs Excuses

Fmr Detroit Police Chief Craig Joins Michigan Senate Race

What to Know About Laphonza Butler, Newsom’s Appointee to the Senate (N.Y. Times) Laying down the Narrative so you all will know what to think.

The Atlantic Monthly Is All Over World War Hair, by Steve Sailer

Rep. Bowman Explains

Howard Men

The lonesome death of Tyesha Edwards

The compleat Democrat

Nigeria: 8 killed on independence day in latest round of Plateau attacks

Media Desperately Try To Spin Rep Bowman’s Fire Alarm Stunt

DNC Officials Warn Delegates Could Be Too White

Newsom’s Diversity Pick for Senate Could Backfire, Create Awkward Showdown Between Two Black Female Dems

Justin Jones alleges Tennessee House Speaker violated Constitution with ‘disparate racial treatment’ (The Hill)

 

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America’s Worst Prosecutor

3rd October 2023

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It’s a stiff competition. Democratic Party prosecutors who have brought frivolous charges against Donald Trump are certainly in the mix. Nevertheless, I would award that title to Mary Moriarty, the County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. Hennepin is the state’s most populous county, and it includes Minneapolis along with a number of other high-crime towns. Nevertheless, Moriarty ran for office on a platform of not prosecuting criminals, and she is the rare politician who has kept her campaign promises.

The situation is so bad that it is now drawing national (the New York Post) and even international (the Daily Mail) attention. The Post headlines: “Fury as Minneapolis’ ‘woke’ DA Mary Moriarty allows accused rapists and killers to stay free.” The Daily Mail headlines: “Is this America’s wokest DA? Democrat Minneapolis prosecutor sparks fury by giving probation to murderers, pedophile and killer drug dealer, with even Soros-backed Minnesota AG blasting her.”

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Redfin is Leaving National Association of Realtors

3rd October 2023

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We’ve had many meetings with NAR execs to explore compromises on the policies that would let us continue our support. Since a Redfin-wide initiative to join NAR in 2017, we’ve paid more than $13 million in dues, in an effort to influence NAR to advocate for an open, technology-driven marketplace that would benefit consumers. We’ll now explore other ways to advance those goals.

In the many marketplaces governed by its policies, NAR still blocks sellers from listing homes that don’t pay a commission to the buyer’s agent, and it blocks websites like Redfin.com from showing for-sale-by-owner listings alongside agent-listed homes. Removing these blocks would be easy, and it would make our industry more consumer-friendly and competitive.

‘Professional associations’, no matter what they claim, are all about protecting the financial interest of existing members rather than anything having to do with either the ‘profession’ or their customers.

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The GloboCap Nazi Follies

3rd October 2023

OffGuardian.

Here’s a story destined for urgent dispatch down the Memory Hole. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear it being sucked down through the ducts of the GloboCap Ministry of Truth toward the enormous mnemonic incinerator where all official “unstories” go to die.

Yesterday, it was an embarrassment. Tomorrow, it will no longer be of interest. By next week, it will have never happened.

So, let’s review it before that happens … and perhaps try to understand why it happened.

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Adding Spider DNA to Silkworms Creates Silk Stronger Than Kevlar

3rd October 2023

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Junpeng Mi and his colleagues working at Donghua University, China, used CRISPR gene-editing technology to recode the silk-creating properties of a silkworm. First, they took genes from Araneus ventricosus, an East Asian orb-weaving spider known for its strong silk. Then they placed these complex genes – genes that involve more than 100 amino acids – into silkworm egg cells. (This description fails to capture how time-consuming, technical, and laborious this was; it’s a procedure that requires hundreds of thousands of microinjections.)

This had all been done before, and this had failed before. Where Mi and his team succeeded was using a concept called “localization.” Localization involves narrowing in on a very specific location in a genome. For this experiment, the team from Donghua University developed a “minimal basic structure model” of silkworm silk, which guided the genetic modifications. They wanted to make sure they had the exactly right transgenic spider silk proteins. Mi said that combining localization with this basic structure model “represents a significant departure from previous research.” And, judging only from the results, he might be right. They successfully synthesized “fibers exhibited impressive tensile strength (1,299 MPa) and toughness (319 MJ/m3), surpassing Kevlar’s toughness 6-fold.”

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Thought for the Day

3rd October 2023

Meal Planning

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This Lib Artist Won’t Call the Police if You Steal Her Paintings

3rd October 2023

Washington Free Beacon.

What happened: AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez, a radical left-wing IndoLatinx artist whose work focuses on “justice” and “liberation,” was living the dream at her first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C., until a thief ran off with two of her paintings.

“I feel violated, and I’m grieving the lost art, but mostly I’m feeling shocked at the boldness and thoughtlessness of entering a community space, and stealing art that is all about justice and liberation,” Velasco-Sanchez wrote in an Instagram post announcing the theft.

One of the stolen paintings, valued at $200 each, was titled Bountiful: The Land of Thoughts and Prayers. It dealt with “gun violence and state sanctioned violence in the United States,” the artist said on TikTok, a Chinese spyware app and social media platform.

And oh, was it ever ugly….

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Prehistoric Carvings Are So Accurate, Animals’ Sex, Age, and Species Can Be Determined

3rd October 2023

ScienceAlert.

The animal footprint carvings you can find in the Doro Nawas Mountains of western Namibia are quite something: the artists have captured the tracks so accurately, they can reveal plenty of useful information about the animals they represent.

A team from the Heinrich Barth Institute and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, and the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia, worked with Indigenous tracking experts from the Kalahari region to look at a total of 513 carvings.

For more than 90 percent of them, Indigenous experts could identify the species, sex, age group, and even which leg the carving was from. It’s like a wildlife compendium, written in rock.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

2nd October 2023

White House prohibiting official travel to fossil fuel conferences, internal memo shows (Fox News)

Climate solutions are necessary. So we’re dedicating a week to highlighting them (NPR)

Greenpeace Canada Co-Founder Admits “We Are Not In A Climate Crisis”

Europe Launches a Carbon Tax Attack Against the US Economy

The Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters

The BBC Seminar That Banned Discussion Of Climate Change

Africa is 50% hotter than the rest of the world. How farmers are combating rising temperatures

Are Small Nuclear Reactors The Answer To Big-Tech’s Energy Crisis?

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

2nd October 2023

AG Garland: I’d Resign If Biden Asked for Action on Trump  Of course Biden doesn’t need to ask,  Garland will do it on his own initiative.

Federal Prosecutors Push For Gag Order Against Trump After His Recent Remarks Freedom of speech is not a Democrat value.

As His Fraud Trial Begins, Trump Looks to Capitalize on It (N.Y. Times)

Bankman-Fried Explored Paying Trump $5B Not to Run

Supreme Court Rejects Long Shot’s Bid to Disqualify Trump in ’24

Trump: ‘The Crime Is Against Me,’ ‘No Crime,’ ‘No Victim Here’ Except Me  Quite agree.

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

2nd October 2023

House GOP Members Look to Expel Gaetz as He Schemes to Oust McCarthy: Report (Daily Beast)

Rep. Matt Gaetz threatens to trigger vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker (NBC News)

Pelosi weighs in on Gaetz’s plan to oust McCarthy (CNN)

EXPLAINER | How hardline US House Republicans could strip Kevin McCarthy of speakership (News 24)

Dems Marshal Strategy on Potential McCarthy Ouster (NewsMax)

PBS NewsHour Runs Down GOP Candidates on ‘Slavery’ Curriculum, Transgender Kids

‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening (The Guardian) You gotta love all this ‘rightwing code’ that proglodyte ‘journalists’ seem to have no trouble reading.

Kevin McCarthy Shows How CBS Host Margaret Brennan Acts Like a Hostile Democrat Debater

Abortion Bans by Any Other Name Are Still Abortion Bans (N.Y. Times)

North Carolina Republicans create “secret police force” (Popular Information) Yet another proglodyte mushroom of hate.

Musk’s first year as Twitter’s Dear Leader is nigh

Musk Under Fire After Posting Mocking Zelenskyy Meme  Free speech is not a proglodyte value.

Anti-Trump Republicans Won’t Save Democracy. Can Anybody? (New York Magazine) In the Narrative media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Online Censorship: Canada Continues Crackdown

The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

2nd October 2023

COVID vaccine poll finds more than half of adults are likely to say ‘no thanks’ to the vax (Fox News)

Why Did People Comply?

Why It’s Too Soon to Call It Covid Season (Wired ‘Science’)

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

2nd October 2023

He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court (Politico)

Horrific moment store clerk in crime-ridden Bay Area is set on FIRE with stolen lighter fluid by serial shoplifter, leaving him suffering from second and third-degree burns (UK Daily Mail)

Canada To Create Registry Of Podcasters In Potential Censorship Initiative 

For Some, Open Border Chaos Is The Goal

German Mayor Call Concerns Over Child Safety “Unfounded” Amid Plans To Accomodate 80 Asylum-Seekers At A Primary School

Pope Francis Claims No Migrant Emergency In Europe – Suggests ‘Individualism’ Is The Problem

Meet the Violent Criminals Roaming the Illinois Streets Thanks to State’s Cash Bail Ban

Playbook: A new senator, and a new showdown (Politico)

The EU Is Ruining European Agriculture

Newsom Fills Feinstein’s Empty Senate Seat With Wealthy Black Lesbian From Maryland

Stop Arguing Over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free. (The Nation) Progs are just full of solutions that require other people to pay for their stuff.

Sweden: Gangs Start Health Care Clinics To Commit Welfare Fraud

Who Is Laphonza Butler? Abortion Strategist, Clinton Adviser, Labor Union Boss Replacing Feinstein

Is Dark Money ‘Anti-Hate’ Group CCDH Run By An Intelligence Operative?

Newsom’s appointment confirms that abortion is the heart of the Democratic Party

Gavin Newsom Throws Dart At Board Covered In Black Lesbians To Select Next Senator (Babylon Bee)

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

2nd October 2023

Newsom picks Laphonza Butler as Feinstein replacement (Politico) Not the black woman he was being leaned on to appoint, but a black woman nevertheless.

Newsom names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to fill Feinstein’s vacant Senate seat (Fox News)

California Gov. Newsom will appoint Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein’s Senate seat (CNN)

Michigan Teen Who Clocked Teacher In Head With Metal Chair Arrested On Felony Assault Charges

Court Blocks Grant Program for Black Women Entrepreneurs

Gov. Newsom Picks Top Abortion Activist to Sen. Feinstein’s Seat

Intersectionality Wins Again, by Steve Sailer

Nets Play Defense for Far-Left Bowman, Accept His Excuse for Pulling Fire Alarm

Whoopi, Hostin Suggest GOP Plot Behind Why Bowman Pulled Fire Alarm

Bowman camp slams ‘Nazi’ Republicans after fire alarm flap (Politico)

Jamall Bowman: pulling the fire alarm and then pulling our legs?

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

2nd October 2023

20th Busload Of Illegal Immigrants Arrives In Downtown Los Angeles

Biden Policies Driving Anti-Taliban Forces Toward Russia, Iran

The Military DEI Circus Continues Merrily Onward

Meet Joe Biden’s Newest Campaign Surrogates: The Republicans Who Hate Him (The Messenger)

“Renewed Upward Pressure On Inflation” – US Manufacturing Surveys Signal Stagflation

‘SOFT LANDING’? Bloomberg News Admits ‘US Recession Is Still Likely’ and ‘Coming Soon’

Big Government Created This Economic Mess. Why Would We Think It Could Fix It?

Chief of Staff of Pentagon Counterterrorism Office Served Iranian Gov.

WATCH: Biden Freezes During Comments on Shutdown

VP Harris Allies Hope Gun Assignment Will Reset Image  Her imae as a gun-grabber?

Biden Admin Twists the Law to Force Abortion Policies on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.

Turley: Four Biden Impeachment Articles & What The House Will Need To Prove

 

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It Would Appear Some People Are Above the Law

2nd October 2023

The Spectator.

“In this country, no one is above the law” has become a rallying mantra of both our national media and increasing, the Democratic Party (but is there a difference, really?). Attorney General Merrick Garland used this phrase on 60 Minutes this past Sunday, as did President Joe Biden during a friendly kid glove chat with ProPublica reporter John Harwood.

As justification for pursuing more than ninety indictments on several fronts against former president Donald Trump, on everything from electioneering to housing classified documents, the left has pounded the tables on the rule of law being the most important foundational principal to the survival of the Republic itself. And it has been solemnly reported that way by several cable news infotainment, including Jake Tapper and Rachel Maddow.

Well now they get to put this claim to the test. This past weekend, as members of Congress were staying to vote on a continuing resolution to avert a possible government shutdown, Representative Jamaal Bowman, from New York, was captured on video camera in the federal Cannon Building appearing to pull a red and clearly-labeled fire alarm. Bowman’s excuse, per his office, was that he was in a hurry and the notion of a push-bar exit door confused and disoriented him at the time.

Triggering a false fire alarm in a federal building is a violation of 18 USC 1512(c) and can carry with it a punishment of up to $10,000 in fines and a prison sentence of up to six months. Bowman could, however, be in even deeper legal trouble for subverting an official government proceeding, which is a felony that can carry a maximum of twenty years in prison. This is, by the way, the same statue that DC prosecutors and Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice are using against citizen rioters who breached the capitol building on January 6, 2021.

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RFK Goes Rogue

2nd October 2023

The Spectator.

A week from today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to make an announcement in Philadelphia that will almost certainly entail running for president as a third-party candidate.

The signs have been there for months that RFK’s politically unique appeal would be crushed by the Democratic Party’s process, which is heavily skewed toward renominating Joe Biden by acclamation. The possibility of Biden debating Kennedy was always out of the question — not because they don’t take his challenge seriously, but because for all their dismissiveness, Democratic leadership takes it very seriously indeed.

The logistics of an RFK independent run would be the challenge — unless, given the unique changes that have taken place in their leadership over the past few years, he is able to run under the standard of the Libertarian Party. According to the New York Times, Kennedy already met with party chair Angela McArdle over the summer. Already on the ballot in all fifty states, the party would offer Kennedy the chance to skip a major challenge for outsider candidates, presuming that he can win the nomination over the objections of delegates who find him insufficiently libertarian.

Why would that bother them? The Democrats frequently run candidates who aren’t at all interested in democracy, and twice in my lifetime the Republicans have nominated Presidential candidates who were famous for being RINOs.

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Iran Official Admits Role in 1983 Beirut Bombings

2nd October 2023

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Sayyed Issa Tabatabai’s comments marked the first public acknowledgment of Iran’s involvement in the bombings: at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, in which 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed; and the barracks of American and French members of the Multinational Force in October 1983, in which 242 U.S. Marines and 58 French troops were killed.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) first located and translated the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) interview with Tabatabai, who represents Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Lebanon.

MEMRI reported that the part of the interview in which Tabatabai acknowledged receiving then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa ordering attacks on American and Israeli targets in Lebanon was removed by IRNA from its website shortly after publication.

My, what a surprise.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

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Thought for the Day

2nd October 2023

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Work From Home Works

2nd October 2023

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It took firms decades to adjust to electricity by redesigning factories, products, and workflows to take full advantage of the new possibilities. Similarly, the benefits of work from home start to come most profoundly when expensive offices can be shrunk, employers can draw from a much larger pool of workers and workers can adjust when and where they work, including the location of their homes. It’s not surprising, therefore, that with little time for either the workers or the firms to adjust and with few options to choose how much to work from home, productivity fell when COVID sent workers home. But, with more time to plan and more options for hybrid but extensive work (e.g. work from home Mondays and Fridays), work from home has large benefits. We are also seeing management redesign to take advantage of work from home in the same way we saw factory redesign to take advantage of electricity. Management, for example, is shifting from input metrics–do you show up?–to output metrics–did the work get done? Designing and validating new metrics takes time, but these changes are helping to increase the benefits of work from home.

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The Heartbreak of Software

2nd October 2023

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It has become painfully clear in recent decades that, more and more, the major stumbling block in weapon acquisition programs is software, rather than hardware.

The F-35, for example, has failed on the software side of things rather than the hardware. The all-encompassing, mission planning, parts inventory controlling, maintenance regulating, aircraft health assessing ALIS software has been a colossal, and to date, unrecoverable, failure. Further, the F-35 was planned to be fully combat capable only with the advent of the Block 4 software upgrade which is now hopelessly behind schedule and has had many of its planned features deleted or deferred to some undetermined future time.

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Who’s Your MAGA?

2nd October 2023

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Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” was a slogan of genius. While his supporters (and most Americans) instantly knew what it meant, Democrats hated it. They didn’t know whether to respond, “America is still great,” or “America was never great,” which is what most of them believe. It was a painful dilemma.

But times have changed. Now Democrats embrace Trump’s slogan, or at least its acronym. They constantly refer derisively to “MAGA Republicans.” A Google search for “MAGA Republicans” returns over 58 million hits.

MAGA is the New Nigger.

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

1st October 2023

Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Remdesivir Manufacturer Over Alleged Deceptive Practices

How ‘Cattle COVID’ Is Ravaging Spain’s Farms

Over 277,000 ‘Vaccinated’ COVID-19 Cases Hidden By CDC In 2021: Newly Obtained Files Show

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

1st October 2023

WashPost Puffs Trump’s J-6 Judge: Reasonable Yet Tough, ‘Coolheaded Natural Talent’

Trump goes to trial in New York before a judge who just ruled he’s a fraud (Politico)

The Case for Amplifying Trump’s Insanity (The Garden of Forking Paths) Another mushroom of hate.

Christian Nationalism May Not Be Serious, but It’s Dangerous (N.Y. Times) David French has long since given up any pretense of being a conservative; it appears he’s giving up any pretense of being a Christian as well.

Elitist Deutsch: Trump Cares What My Kind Of People Think — Not Tupelo Bumpkins

Trump Receives Cheers From CA Crowd After Arguing In Favor Of Shooting Looters  I like him already.

Nikki Haley Says Trump’s Campaign Sent Her A Birdcage (Huffington Post) Naw, I don’t believe that. “But it had to be the Trump campaign, who else would do that?” The Trump campaign would have done something a lot more clever.

 

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Today in the Biden-Harris Slow-Motion Train Wreck

1st October 2023

Hunter Biden’s Daughter Was Living In White House While Representing Peruvian Government

Biden Embarrassingly Reverses Plan To Defund Schools With Archery & Hunting Programs

McCarthy: Border is bigger priority than Ukraine (The Hill) Finally, the sleeper wakes.

 

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Today in BIPOC Privilege

1st October 2023

Dem Rep. Bowman Faces Investigation After Pulling Capitol Fire Alarm

McCarthy: Punish Rep. Bowman for Pulling Fire Alarm Before Vote

House Passes Spending Bill After Democrat (Allegedly) Pulls Fire Alarm

Political Cursing vs. Pulling a Fire Alarm

Dem Congressman Obstructs an Official Proceeding

A Breakthrough for Diversity

Let’s Play, ‘Find the Hidden Racism’!

GOP Outrage Over Bowman Pulling House Alarm  Not that anyone gives a shit, much less Bowman.

AOC Defends Lawmaker Who Pulled Fire Alarm To ‘Open Door’ And Totally Not Disrupt The Democratic Process  The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

Black Caucus Wants Rep. Lee to Replace Feinstein

Lee supporters reignite pressure on Newsom over Senate appointment (Politico)

Manhattan DA Bragg Sued Over ‘Racial Equity’ Pursuit

 

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Today in Witch-Hunt Culture

1st October 2023

Science vs. ‘wokeism’: The growing tensions between the doctors’ lobby and the GOP (Politico)

Physical anthropologists, beware – the woke brigade has come for you

Anthropology Session On Importance Of Biological Sex Canceled To Appease LGBT Advocates

The Trans Power Wins Again

Police Chief Who Led Kansas Newspaper Raid Suspended

Elon Musk crosses the border to Nazi (The Handbasket) Every time one turns around, there is a new proglodyte mushroom sprouting from the manure pile of modern progressivism.

Jeffries: House stopgap bill ‘total defeat for the extreme MAGA Republicans’ (The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger. (Ask him whether there are any ‘MAGA Republicans’ who are not ‘extreme’. Go ahead. I dare you.)

These Republican senators voted against the government funding bill (The Hill)

Uncle Fester speaks: Fetterman: ‘I’m done normalizing this dysfunction’  Like being called ugly by a frog….

It’s time to end McCarthy’s reign of error (Washington Poop) I guess Dana Milbank has been turned to the Matt Gaetz side of the farce….

How the right’s elevation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could now backfire (Washington Poop) Next up is undoubtedly the proclamation of RFK jr as a white supremacist.

Rep. Lawler: Gaetz’s McCarthy Plans ‘Delusional Thinking’  (NewsMax) The chief difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

AOC: Would Vote to Oust ‘Very Weak’ McCarthy

Sen. Graham: ‘Disaster’ if GOP Joins With Dems to Oust McCarthy  It would certainly be a disaster for the Linday Grahams of the party.

House GOP members seek to expel Gaetz amid renewed threat to vacate House Speaker McCarthy (Fox News)

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

1st October 2023

UK home secretary says multiculturalism has ‘failed’ as Europe faces migrant crisis (Fox News)

Suella Braverman’s message of divide and rule must be resisted (The Guardian)

Tory MPs complain to chief whip about Suella Braverman’s asylum speech (BBC)

Is The US Military Laying The Groundwork To Reinstitute The Draft?

Univision Cheers Licenses For Illegals In Minnesota

Newsom Vetoes Bill Offering Strikers Unemployment Pay

Paris Homeless Problem Swept Under the Rug for Olympics

RFK Jr. Could Make Announcement On Run As Independent On Oct. 9  Cleverly timed to give all of the RINOs and never-Trumpers a place to fetch up.

Gaetz says he will force vote to oust McCarthy as House speaker (Washington Poop) Talk is cheap. Don’t say it; do it. This kabuki dance fools no one.

Trudeau Government moves to regulate podcasts

Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services

MSNBC Host Alicia Menendez: DUH, I Won’t Be Covering Daddy’s Bribery Scandal

To Many Americans, Government Dysfunction Is the New Normal (N.Y. Times) They’re shocked, shocked to find that people are seeing government dysfunctional.

CBS Sunday Morning ‘News’ Airs Robert Reich Rant Ending with Vote-Democrat Appeal

Majority of US students now support speech codes

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

1st October 2023

Biden admin quietly released study showing green energy receives far more subsidies than fossil fuels (Fox News)

Confirmed: New Study Shows The Gulf Stream Is Definitely Weakening (ScienceAlert)

Gulf Stream warning issued by scientists as UK temperatures could plummet (UK Daily Record)

Temperatures across UK could plummet as terrifying Gulf Stream warning issued (UK Daily Mirror)

The Myth of “Settled” Climate Science: A Revelatory Study on Cloud Formation

Celebrity Flights  Hate on your favorite emitter.

Great Travel Reset: Poll: 41% of French population favors restricting EVERYONE to ONLY 4 airplane flights in their ENTIRE LIFE to ‘fight against global warming’

‘Quotes were £5000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance cost

 

 

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Capitalism Is Dead: Long Live Technofeudalism

1st October 2023

Read it.

It has taken me years to answer my father’s question — in the form of my new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. In it, I argue that our preferences are now shaped not by markets but by machine networks — what I call “cloud capital”. Amazon’s Alexa, for example, is the portal to a totalitarian, fully centralised system of preference creation and satisfaction. First, it trains us to train it to dictate what we want. Second, it sells us what we now “want” directly, bypassing any actual marketplace. Third, it succeeds in making us sustain this enormous behavioural modification machine with our free labour: we post reviews, rate products. Finally, it amasses huge rents from capitalists who rely on this network of cloud capital, usually 40% of sale price. That’s not capitalism. Welcome to Technofeudalism.

Another seemingly bright person led astray by word-salad. One of these days I’m going to write an essay on the various mythologies of ‘capitalism’, both left and right.

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The Descent of Man

1st October 2023

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“Nobody plays with Ken,” Ryan Gosling told Jimmy Fallon in an interview prior to the release of the Barbie movie. “He’s just an accessory and not even one of the cool ones.”

From the original advertising, it seemed that playing Ken was unusual for Gosling, who often portrays complex and troubled male characters. In Blade Runner 2049, for example, his role reflected the sensation of feeling not only lonely, but lost in a world and trying to find purpose within it.

This stands in stark contrast to Ken’s initial depiction as a clingy, unassertive simp who secretly harbours resentment about being in the friendzone. As the infamous Barbie poster says, “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.”

 

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Thought for the Day

1st October 2023

Frazz Comic Strip for September 30, 2023

*sigh* These kids today….

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