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Officials decided an ancient method was the best way to decide the outcome of an election in Robertson County, Kentucky. When Republican Benny Ray Renner and Democrat Kristen Gifford Fryman tied with 91 votes each in the race for magistrate in the 2nd Magisterial District, it was up to officials to decide what to do next, KCRA reported Sunday. “Out of the 182 ballots cast, there was not a single vote that separated the two candidates once all precincts had reported their numbers back,” the outlet said. The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won...The coin used to decide the election was a quarter the sheriff had in his pocket.
Well all politics is indeed "local." But to any sane person, this puerile, irresponsible madness is just indicative of how far we as a nation and society have sunk. Is it really fair to use this idiocy as a barometer for the rest of the country? After all Kentucky is the state that inflicted Tom Massie on us. In any case, given the fact that much of the country is ignorant of the tyrannical bloody history of the Democrat Party, Socialism and Islam and in places where one thought that that ignorance was not the norm nevertheless voted it into power last week.
When an election produces outcomes that run completely counter to historical precedent, polling baselines, and raw mathematical probability, the dispute ceases to be a conventional political debate and transforms into an indictment of the process itself. The case asserting that this midterm was systematically subverted rests upon four primary pillars: statistical impossibility, software and algorithmic manipulation, unauthorized cyber penetration, and administrative chain-of-custody collapse. . . If elections cannot be independently verified and guaranteed as legitimate, this one may well be the last.
Given who and what will be in power come January that could very well be the case. Let's see who wins the coin toss in '28?!
President Donald Trump on Thursday removed Vice President JD Vance from the Iran strategy, instructing him to focus on domestic issues.
I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S...),” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity.”
The president rejected a negotiated deal with the Mullah regime. He asserted that the U.S. has succeeded in opening the Strait of Hormuz, removing Tehran’s sole leverage in the talks. . “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” he said. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
I'm wondering if this is purely about Iran or if there are some other tensions between the two that might be indicative that President Trump will be endorsing someone other than Vance to be at the top of the ticket for 2028. Frankly, Vance has not impressed me of late which given his continued refusal to distance himself from openly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Tuq'r Qatarlson makes him a non-starter for me. YMMV of course.
We'll have to wait and see as the President himself is wont to say. On this and all the other myriad meshugas in the links I nevertheless bid you all to have a very good luck-filled Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobia notwithstanding, then have yourselves a great weekend!
How did the Democrat Party get here, with one of its own elected leaders refusing to acknowledge that a regime responsible for killing Americans is an American enemy? (The Democrat Party itself has been an enemy of America for 200 years - jjs) Adam Hamawy’s Iran defense exposes Democrats’ sickening suicide pact
SpaceX will of course immediately challenge any such determination, but the subsequent court fight will certainly delay further launches. And should SpaceX lose in court (now dominated by Democrat Party rule) it would shut Boca Chica down for good. Texas Democrats move to block SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launches at Boca Chica
For the moment, I'll just have one of my AI assistants searching for ammo deals. If it gets too hairy, meet me for a sunset beer on a gulf beach in the Sunshine State. Bring ice. My Balkanization Plans Are Much Clearer After Last Week
CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION, LAWFARE
. . .voters want Congress to prioritize costs and ending the conflict in Iran over investigating the Trump administration, as Democrats giddily prepare to launch a series of attacks on President Donald Trump and Cabinet officials. Polls Show Voters Have Little Interest in Investigating Trump Administration
Unlike in the previous caravans, where support from Mexico’s government was not openly seen or noticed, this group is now openly being escorted by Mexican police forces throughout their journey. Additionally, the group is being given places to stay in various city auditoriums and large venues in southern Mexico as the 800-1000 people continue their journey. Photos: Mexico Gives Police Escorts to Migrant Caravan Headed to U.S. Border
So the prez will stick with the embargo and other sanctions to keep choking Iran’s economy, leaving it unable to significantly reconstitute its nuclear program, and wait — with the option of other combat operations where appropriate. Trump’s right — no more chasing Iran for a deal to end a war they’ve lost
The state removes a child from a parent. The parent is told to wait for a hearing, wait for discovery, wait for services, wait for a ruling, wait for an appeal. Weeks become months. The child settles into a foster home. A new school becomes familiar. A routine forms. Then the same government that created the separation walks into court and announces that changing the child’s placement would be disruptive. The child is doing well, it says. We must maintain the status quo. The State Takes Your Child. Then It Runs Out the Clock.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The disruption hit government agencies in Australia, Japan, and the United States, and caused disruptions at trading firms, delays to companies publishing their results and airlines warning customers of delayed communication. (too busy with a Swalwell Eggroll in the hay - jjs) Microsoft platforms including Outlook, Teams down as tech giant struggles to fix outage
The Board of Directors appointed Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever Chair of the Board. Mr. Jones has been an entrepreneur, technology executive, and active venture investor for over 30 years, including serving as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Synopsys. Nvidia Ousts Jensen Huang from CEO Role, CFO Colette Kress Named Interim Boss
It’s been almost three decades since the worldwide global warming scare was kicked off by a congressional hearing. Despite hundreds, if not thousands, of warnings since then insisting we had only a few years to act... Global Warming Buffoonery
UPDATE: During a 10:30 a.m. presser, FOX 5 DC pointed out the Metropolitan Police Department indicated Thursday’s suspect barricaded himself on the seventh floor of an apartment building after the shootings at and around VIDA Fitness. Negotiators communicated with the suspect and as that process was taking place, they heard a gunshot. Law enforcement made entry after the gunshot and found the suspect suffering from a self-inflicted wound. Report: Multiple People Shot, Suspect at Large in Gun-Controlled D.C
Last (week's) election results were certainly a disaster, but it is important to maintain perspective and not become overcome by gloom. The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard warned that “despair is a sin,” so we must use the mid-term defeat as a lesson for future battles, and not an excuse to give up. 2028 looms (from friend and friend of the blog Mark Pulliam - jjs) Midterm Postmortem
Victor Davis Hanson: Come next year, Trump will still not have to face a veto-proof Congress — unless renegade Republican senators and representatives join Democrats on key legislation to provide them with the necessary 67-Senate-vote/290-House-vote override... Even though the Democrats cannot hope to override the veto, some, like Elizabeth Warren, have recklessly called for ending the filibuster. Don’t count Trump out despite the midterms rout — he’s got plenty of power to flex
A bunch of cool images!. . . Gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein, occurs when the gravity of a massive foreground object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies, bends, warps, and magnifies the light from a more distant background object. A gallery of gravitationally-lensed objects taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
NASA cancelled the original Mars Sample Return mission in 2024 because its cost had ballooned over $11 billion (with further overruns expected) and fallen years behind schedule. The design of the project was overall too complex, involving multiple companies and governments doing things they had never done before. At the time the agency asked the private sector for new ideas, and got at least one, a $4 billion proposal from Rocket Lab. NASA once again studying how to get Perseverance’s Mars samples back to Earth
Christian Toto: What about the documentaries that get hidden by the usual suspects? That’s assuming they get made in the first place Lights! Camera! Inaction!.
Vatican diplomacy, religious relativism, and the abandonment of the persecuted Church. Surreptitious Surrender
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One of the sports world's brightest stars suffered a significant health scare on Tuesday night, as LeBron James was forced to press his Life Alert button after falling during a game.
Midway through the fourth quarter of the Philadelphia 76ers' 123-10 loss to the Boston Celtics, James fell to the floor, bringing the game to a halt and filling the crowd at the Xfinity Mobile Arena with hushed silence before pressing his Life Alert button to notify first responders that he was in need of assistance.
"Help! I've fallen, and I can't get up!" James was heard shouting as he writhed in pain on the hardwood.
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James was taken off the court on a stretcher and was said to be resting more comfortably in the locker room with a warm blanket and a glass of Metamucil.
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Compare and contrast with the greatest goal scorer in NHL history taking a puck to the face while on the bench during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final in 2018
This 24 year old guy figured out how to beat a casino and won $800,000
The casino refused to pay him and gave him back just $50,000 and when he complained to gambling regulators, they sided with the casino.
His name is Thomas McPeek, he’s from Chicago who still lives with his parents.
Early 2024
- spends months reading sports betting books
- studies football parlays
- discovers Caesars is offering odds he believes are mathematically mispriced
He realizes he might have found a way to beat the house.
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McPeek returns to Horseshoe to collect his money.
But Caesars has other plans.
The casino voids his winning tickets, accusing him of coordinating bets across state lines and splitting his wagers into smaller amounts to circumvent its rules.
Instead of paying his winnings, Caesars returns his original $50,000.
Full story and video segment at the link
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Wes Moore is BIG ASSHOE. Dude has the unmitigated gall to put out a book called "Repair". Ya know what WON'T be in there?? Pictures or stories about the repaired Key Bridge.
Only a self-centered, valor stealing, moron would choose Veterans Day to share about his new book. He doesn’t give a damn about our nation’s veterans. Wes Moore only cares about himself.
We’re all used to grabbing bags of sugar and flour at the grocery store without much thought, but is there a reason why sugar is sold in paper bags? Plenty of dry goods come in boxes, plastic bags, or more sturdy containers, so why isn’t sugar better protected against moisture and tearing?
While it may not seem like great packaging when you bring home a bag on a rainy day, or when a torn corner leaves a mess of sugar in your pantry, there are actually some practical reasons why sugar is packaged in paper bags, including cost and ease. Here’s what to know once you bring your sugar home.
Think you know? Check your answer at the link.
But wait - there's more!
Why Is Brown Sugar Packaged in Plastic?
You may notice other types of sugars, like brown sugar and confectioners’ sugar, are stored in plastic bags.
Did you get the correct answer(s)?
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is quite a joke. They finally corrected a horrible error of omission this year with the upcoming induction of Iron Maiden. Several other acts will be inducted as part of this year's class on Saturday. Maiden won't be attending (good for them!), neither will 2 other acts.
The Rock Hall announced 17 finalists for this year’s class in February and named the eight inductees in February, which include Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Oasis, Sade, Wu-Tang Clan and posthumously, Luther Vandross.
The Black Crowes, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Melissa Etheridge, Lauryn Hill, INXS, New Edition and Shakira missed the cut for the 2026 class.
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Iron Maiden announced in April that they would not attend, while Rolling Stone confirmed that Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher will also miss the ceremony. Noel Gallagher is playing a solo show in London, and Liam Gallagher cited travel distance and other commitments. Additionally, the British band Sade announced on Tuesday that they will not attend in person, though singer Sade Adu shared a statement expressing gratitude for the recognition.
Holding out some hope for INXS to make it next year
Near the spine of the United States’ Continental Divide, there’s a highway that goes by many names—it’s been dubbed “America’s Most Scenic Road Trip” and the “National Park Highway.” Both are understandable monikers—after all, the route passes by no fewer than seven national parks, and an assortment of national monuments and forests. But avid road-trippers might recognize this drive better by its official name: U.S. Route 89.
Officially stretching from Flagstaff, Arizona, to the border with Canada (not counting an older, decommissioned leg that runs from the Mexican border in Nogales to Flagstaff), Route 89 sprawls across roughly 1,300 miles. Add that historic section and a couple of alternative routes, and you’re looking at an almost 2,000-mile road trip. Along the way, you’ll pass a veritable laundry list of America’s most popular national parks, including Grand Canyon, Zion, and Yellowstone, all within a two-hour detour of the highway.
Though all those national parks are the main attraction, a drive down Route 89 has much more in store. “People gravitate to the seven national parks along the route, but the national monuments and state parks should not be overlooked,” says Vicky Derksen, the owner of USRoute89.com, a digital resource on all things Route 89. She also notes that “U.S. Route 89 is a stargazer’s paradise, with about three dozen Dark Sky Places that are certified by DarkSky International. Having access to gorgeous night skies is a treasure.”
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Every year from May to September, this Zimbabwe estate dumps tons of leftover orange pulp and low-grade fruit by the river, creating a massive daily buffet for hundreds of wild elephants.
Authorities in South Carolina managed to locate 11-month-old Koah Sharpe alive after he was allegedly buried in a dog crate by his father, Michael Comer. According to Global News, Comer had Sharpe on Monday when the infant was reported missing following Comer's arrest by the Lexington County Sheriff's Department. Comer was taken into custody on a burglary charge and for resisting arrest Monday night; Koah Sharpe was not with Comer when police apprehended him.
Early Tuesday afternoon, a search party located Koah Sharpe in the woods near Comer's father's home, where they noticed freshly disturbed earth. Sharpe was reportedly crying when authorities dug up the dog crate he was buried in. It had been covered with a towel, which created an air pocket that allowed the infant to survive about 24 hours underground.
I wonder if the father will plead postpartum psychosis and gather an army of cult supporters behind him.
There's no one fatter and lazier than a deep red state's Republican organization, with few exceptions, and this bit us badly on the butt last week. Now, California is not a red state -- not anymore, though it was when I grew up there -- but this little story kind of sums up the problem with Republican organizations. They aren't about winning; they are social clubs. I was at some GOP event and sat down for rubber chicken next to somebody who proudly announced he was the Republican chair of, say, the 69th District and had been for 20 years. I asked him when the last time a Republican won in the 69th District was, and he looked at me like I was insane, like it never occurred to him that electing people might be a remotely relevant consideration for a district chair. The answer, of course, was "Never." The Republicans had never won it. But he had his gig, a nice seat on the dais, and that was what mattered. Not victory. Just his place in the social club that is the California Republican Party.
In the red states, we got too used to winning easily. Far too used to it. We got so used to winning that it never occurred to us that we might not win, and it never occurred to us that we might have to work to win.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
Apparently, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's call to round up the "criminals" in Washington includes the conservative justices: "I mean, of course, this Supreme Court as well has also kind of legalized a lot of his criminality." The Democrats are fast becoming a party of berserkers...
...Of course, the impeachment standard is actually not
"kind of legalizing" stuff, but it is no worse than the understanding of her other colleagues of the standard...
...This pack and the pen approach would expand the Court with an instant liberal majority while potentially removing conservatives through criminal charges.
Rep. Tom Emmer says he doubts Ilhan Nur Said Elmi will be in Congress much longer.
I do not believe this at all, but I like the optimism.
"She lied because you get naturalized as a citizen with your natural parent when they are naturalized, if you are under the age of 18. Well, she was not under the age of 18," Emmer said.
Emmer argued that the citizenship question offers a cleaner route than any criminal case. "She would have to reapply to be a citizen -- it's an administrative procedure. She shouldn't be in Congress," he told Finnerty.
Any indictment, according to Emmer, is a separate matter that "will go through in court."
"Once it's established that she was over the age of 18 when she claimed to be a minor, she's no longer a citizen of the United States. And when she's no longer a citizen, she's not entitled to serve in Congress," he added.
Pressed on who would confirm her actual birth date, Emmer said, "I think the Department of Justice is finalizing that." He noted that "there are four different things that are being looked at, and that is one of them."
Via Ed Morrissey: it sure looks like the ugliest man in US history to think he has a realistic chance to be president got tipped by investigators that Nvidia might face an intelligence probe, then he and his wife (who he married for her heiress-money) dumped their Nvidia stock.
Trade With Congress
@tradewithcong
Well, well, well
Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece
He's a member of the following:
- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech Caucus
Apparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation
He avoided a ~26% dip
The ugliest man in American history to mistakenly believe he could be president crusades against "corruption" and also claims he is against congressmen trading in individual stocks.
Hamas & Islamic Jihad have now themselves, in their own martyr notices, admitted that SIXTY-TWO "innocent Gazan journalists" were in fact combatants killed in action. Despite obsessive interest in the Gaza war, not one major mainstream media outlet has covered this story.
🚨 JUST IN: Left-wing climate activists are SPEECHLESS after seeing Greta Thunberg break out into hysterical laughter at people still doing climate marches in 2026
"It's the Fridays for Future demonstration in Berlin..."
THUNBERG: "Is it! 🤣🤣 Really? They still do that?! Cut!"
IT WAS A MASSIVE SCAM ALL ALONG to steal BILLIONS OF DOLLARS for globalists
And now their new "thing" is Palestine and "human rights" against the West.
In France, It's Officially Now a Crime to Criticize Islam, Even for a Major Author Who Was Permitted to Blaspheme Just Ten Years Ago
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Michel Houllebecq, author of Submission -- about France under Islamic rule -- was just charged with the crime of offending violent Muslim colonizers.
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
@TRobinsonNewEra
FRENCH AUTHOR CHARGED FOR CRITICISM OF ISLAM
Michel Houellebecq is a French novelist, filmmaker and singer.
He is known for his 'controversial' views on Islam and demographic replacement.
He has said that Islam is "the dumbest of religions" and has warned "when entire territories come under Islamist control ... [violent] acts of resistance will take place"
He has also said:
"the wish of the population with French roots" was "for the violence to decrease, for [Muslim immigrants] to respect the law and people. Or, another good solution, for them to leave."
The Union of Mosques of France filed a legal complaint alleging Houellebecq of "encouraging violence" through his remarks.
In 2015, he published a novel titled 'Submission', imagining France under a Muslim president whose election leads to sweeping political and social changes.
He did this just a day after the the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. One of the victims of that murderous terrorist attack on freedom of speech just so happened to be a friend of his.
A judge has now charged him with "complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence"
Houellebecq's attorneys told Le Monde that the "[incriminating] remarks have no dimension of incitement, not even implicitly" and said their client
"[regrets] the increasing judicialization of intellectual debate."
When far left groups and Muslim organisations take people to court to get a politically motivated judge to charge them for speaking freely, that signs the death knell for feedom of speech.
Resist them while you can with every ounce of determination and with every resource you have, or risk losing those freedoms forever.
Houllebecq is a major author and public intellectual. So this isn't a case of the censors going after a minor-league rabble-rouser they decide people won't fight for.
This is the censors coming straight at the heart of free speech. Political speech and art are now officially crimes.
David Strom points out he's even chickened out and backtracked as the Muslims ginned up the state to punish him. It wasn't enough.
They want the coercion. They want the blasphemy laws enforced.
And the guy is hardly Tommy Robinson, who is more confrontational. He used to be, but has become far more circumspect. When he got pushback on his comments, he chickened out and said the problem wasn't Islam, but juvenile delinquents who just happen to be, by some strange coincidence, Muslims.
He learned his lesson from the previous trial: couch your words in vagueness if you might offend a Muslim.
Worst of all, he said he worried not so much about Muslims becoming violent, but about the French reaction to Muslims [after the French became] tired of the crime.
In other words, Strom notes, he did the Norm MacDonald joke, but for real, hoping that if he couched his words in terms of his fear of backlash against peaceful Muslims after they blow up a dirty bomb, his speech would be deemed legal.
It wasn't.
Oh, one more point from Strom:
It's amazing how far down the prestige ladder the French intellectuals have fallen; a couple of decades ago, it would have been inconceivable for intellectuals to be held to account for almost any crime.
Including pedophilia, of course, if you're on the left.
When I was studying French and watching their TV, I was surprised that they actually respected free speech on news discussion shows. Yes, speakers on the right were "controversial," but they were actually allowed on the major debate shows and treated with respect. The French were, in that regard, much more open than the very closed American media, which completely excludes conservatives from the public debate.
Except, of course, for "conservatives" like David French, Bill Krisol, and Jonah Goldberg.
And it also wasn't the six-on-one token conservative gang-up, either. People were permitted to speak and disputes were had between one person and one other, or maybe two others.
But I see that is no longer the case. Now they're charging critics of Islam with blasphemy.
KS-MVultra
@kevinskiles
Nov 10
I'm so relieved the west won the Cold War. If the Soviets had of prevailed we'd be living under constant photo survelience, all our phones would be tapped, going to a political protest could get you financially sanctioned, writing a critical book could get you jailed and there would only be one political party to vote for. What a relief none of that happened.
Matt McGloin has scoops about the upcoming James Gunn Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, being canceled, Batgirl-style, with all money spent so far being taken as a tax write off.
Or, he suggests, Man of Tomorrow might be given a cheap post-production budget and just dumped on HBO Max.
I don't think this is true.
But if it is true, I have a theory about it. Grace Randolf, an idiot SJW biased critic who was nevertheless right that James Gunn was a very poor fit for DC, has been predicting that the new regime at Skydance wants to give Gunn "notes" about the movie -- demands about what must be cut (for example, Supergirl's presence) and what new scenes need to be shot in reshoots.
But James Gunn's contract states that he gets final cut over the movie.
So: Is it possible that Skydance is putting out word they will straight-up cancel the movie (which has already been almost completely shot) if James Gunn does not give up on his final cut power and accept studio notes?
That's a scenario that seems plausible to me.
That said, I still don't know if we can credit any of these "scoops" as true. This seems like a really, really big decision to make. This is an expensive movie. Canceling it saves the money for post-production (editing, music, and of course special effects and marketing), but cancelling it locks in the substantial money already spent as a loss.
I know, I know:
They write it off, Jerry. They write it off.
Posted by: Kramer
If Gunn calls their bluff and says "Fine, cancel it," do they go forward with the threat?
I don't know.
Like I said, I don't know how much of these claims, from a fairly obscure geek-culture news site, are true.
Man of Tomorrow's release is an open question inside Skydance.
"All options are on the table," per what our Skydance Paramount insider was told Tuesday night from inside the company.
That covers the Superman sequel's July 9, 2027 theatrical date, and everything short of it.
It comes a day after the same insiders told us Skydance expects the movie to lose up to $100 million, with David Corenswet out as Superman.
The math is the problem.
"Now Ellison and Latcham have a $250M pile of ass sitting there waiting for post production, VFX, reshoots, and at least $125M in marketing. Total easily over $400M if they release it."
"BIG HUGE IF," said the insider's friend inside the company.
The movie wrapped filming in August, and James Gunn finished the assembly cut in early October.
Post-production, effects, and any reshoots now happen under the regime that fired Gunn to take over the final cut.
And what is on the screen is its own problem. Our insiders trashed the plot itself, down to what Wonder Woman is doing in it.
The same read is now circulating outside the company.
Columnist Dan Marcus, host of The Film Frontier, posted Tuesday night: "My friend predicted to me earlier today that MAN OF TOMORROW might just get dumped on the new HBO MAX/Paramount Plus streaming platform, and I hate to say it, but I think he could be right."
Shown the post, our insider replied: "I was told tonight all options are on the table."
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Then there is Enty, the lawyer behind the Crazy Days and Nights blind item site, who ran this as Blind Item #5 dated November 10: "The comic studio heads were fired. They didn't quit. Their boss wants to sell off the entire comic book universe to help get rid of some of that $100B debt."
So that kind of makes sense -- except for the fact that due to the collapse of DC on Film, the entire DC pile of intellectual property is currently at a low value. You'd want to bring in a Fluffer to get its value up a bit before selling.
Still, some talk about DC being "cursed" and maybe the thinking is that its value will never increase.
Oh, and it should be pointed out that due to copyright protections finally being allowed to expire, Superman and Batman (at least in their earlier forms) will become public domain in the 2030s. And then a whole bunch of characters start dropping into public domain: Wonder Woman, Joker, Captain America, Flash, etc. All the characters created in the initial burst of of the golden age of comics.
(Most of the characters created by Marvel, except for the early ones like Cap, Human Torch, and Namor the Sub-Mariner, will be protected for a while longer, as they were mostly created in the early sixties.)
Some of these claims seem dubious, but McGloin tells him that his Warner Bros/Discovery sources previously tipped him, accurately, that Hal Jordan would be killed in "Lanterns" and that Gunn was slated to be fired.
UPDATE: Variety confirms our report on Man of Tomorrow. Two sources now describe Gunn "setting fire" to DC on his way out, screaming matches over the cut included. The plot details leaked: a simp Superman and a lesbian Wonder Woman. Insiders reports are stating Man of Tomorrow may not get a theatrical release. We're told David Corenswet is done. Variety says Lanterns is canceled. THR reports David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz fired Gunn and Safran in person on the Warner Bros. lot; plus, Puck reports Skydance is already dismantling the Gunn DCU slate. TheWrap also says the goofy DCU is over and Ellison is mandating a return to Justice League.
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They're the same insiders who first told us back in October 2025 that Gunn would be out, who told us that Hal Jordan would die in Lanterns, and even that Daredevil: Born Again would be retooled.
"MOT is dog s--, confirmed, bunch of random nobodies cameo without rhyme or reason. Plot is stupid, Superman is a simp again, and Wonder Woman is a lesbian. You heard that right. She and Hawkgirl 'meet cute' and bond while punching white straight 'evil' dudes."
That is our Skydance Paramount insiders, relaying word from inside the studio as the new regime decides what to do with the movie.
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Per this leak, that is the pairing: a meet cute, a bond, and "evil" dudes to punch.
We have also been told Arjona's Wonder Woman is a one-and-done, so whatever happens in this movie, the character starts over under the new bosses.
The "random nobodies" complaint has a paper trail.
Our insiders said Man of Tomorrow is Gunn's last hurrah and Gunn was "kitchen sinking cameos and fan service, a lot of which may not even make it to the screen".
Script leaks described an event movie stuffed with two teams and characters DC has never put on screen.
A word about these rumored "kitchen sink cameos:" 1, they would make Superman a mere co-star in his own movie again, and 2, it would further goofify the DC universe by featuring Gunn's favorite type of character, misfit joke-characters, and 3, it would also reduce excitement for what Skydance hopes would re-invigorate the brand, a Justice League team-up. If you have Superman teaming up with half of the DC universe in every movie, it's not really a big deal when he teams up with other characters.
You might say, "But Gunn would use marginal/minor characters for his cameos and reserve the 'big guns' for a future Justice League movie."
But here's the thing: To a normie, any characters besides Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are marginal/minor characters. The Flash is one of DC's top heroes but to a normie, he's just another weird side-character. Especially after Ezra Miller played him.
And on Monday, the insiders behind the Gunn firing exclusive said the new bosses call the movie "too bloated" and are not excited about it.
Although I almost can't believe they'd make Wonder Woman -- the most iconic female superhero in the world -- a lesbian, it should be remembered that leftists, feminists, and gay activists have been demanding she be made a lesbian (or at least bisexual) for a long, long time, and leftwing "creatives" have been bowing to that pressure to make many B- or C-list characters gay for a decade now.
Even if the "meet cute" were just a Star-Wars-like hint/suggestion that they might be gay, that would still establish Wonder Woman as canonically lesbian. The straight-to-gay sexuality-bending pipeline only goes in one direction. It never goes in the other direction.
Feh. Maybe Skydance should take Alfred's advice about how to deal with mad chaos agents: "Burn the whole forest down."
Update: It's also reported that Skydance asked Gunn and his partner Safran about their plans for the future and their progress on their alleged "ten year plan" of movies but the pair were secretive and evasive, which made up Skydance's minds for them.
Meanwhile, Jim Caviziel's action movie Ghost Soldier opened Tuesday for Veterans Day.
Also Godzilla Minus Zero is coming out, and supposedly it's as good or almost as good as the first one.
Minus One was so remarkably effective because it had one emotional through line. It was a character arc centered on Shikishima.
In Minus Zero, however, we have Shikishima and Noriko trying to protect Akiko, Dr. Noda and newcomer Aoyama trying to atone for past sins, along with the brilliant Professor Murakami who’s characterization in the film was by far the strongest and most interesting.
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Cutting 10 minutes of melodrama would have made a better movie.
Still... loved it.
...but I was wrong, that earlier trailer also contains the spoiler, just more subtle. But not that subtle.
So if you want to remain unspoiled, don't watch the trailers. Or stop them on the hero shot of Godzilla roaring at the camera near the end. But you better stop it quick after that, because that's when they drop the spoiler.
His apartment is worth $1.1 million. I think he could have hired someone to clear out the mold.
He shot up the gym because he thought its ventilation might be giving him mold.
The gunman in the early morning Washington, DC, gym shooting has been identified as a well-heeled doctor who was battling his homeowners' association over black mold in his $1.1 million penthouse and railed about it on X.
Dr. Matt Lambert, an emergency room doctor, had sued Metropole Condominium Association in March 2025, alleging that repairs to the building, which involved it being surrounded by scaffolding and drapes, led to mold festering in his home.
"Two years of living in luxury (and the start of 6 months with no shower, dryer, HVAC, and cooking)," an X account linked to Lambert posted Wednesday, along with pictures showing renovations in the Logan Circle unit.
Lambert, who lived on the seventh floor of 1515 15th St. NW, opened fire Thursday morning inside the ground-floor gym, killing at least one person. He then ran back up to his apartment and barricaded himself for nearly an hour before he killed himself.
Emergency personnel are pictured working at the site of a shooting in Washington, DC, with police cruisers, fire trucks, and ambulances surrounding the area, with an overlay of an emergency response team standing on the roof deck of a building in Logan Circle.
DC police said they were investigating a conflict with the homeowner's association as the reason behind the shooting, which left one dead and four others injured.
Lambert filed his suit in March 2025, alleging that his home experienced "no significant water intrusion, mold, moldy smells, moisture accumulation, or related damage," prior to the remediation efforts overseen by the association.
But, after the building was enveloped, his unit "experienced suspected water intrusion, mold, significant moisture accumulation, and/or related damage," the suit said.
Lambert described himself as "a board-certified emergency physician with over two decades of clinical experience" and a medical tech executive on his personal website.
"He has a deep understanding of health care regulations and their impact on technology adoption," the site says.
He also said he split his time between the "mountains of West Virginia and the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC."
I mean, it sucks-- but murder? He is wealthy enough to move.
You might wonder where I'm getting the idea that he's a shitlib from.
DC gym shooter ID'd as Dr. Matt Lambert - who went berserk at HOA over black mold in his $1.1M apartment https://t.co/4UEJXJBn5O https://t.co/fjJUzGRcNT
Update: The Twice-Deported Honduran Terrorist Who Panicked a Plane by Claiming He Had a Bomb and Rushing the Cockpit... Was Allowed to Stay In the US by a Judge Because He Claimed He Was "Transgender"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the reason this 2x previously deported illegal alien was released into the country after his third illegal crossing in 2019 is because he claimed to be transgender and claimed fear of being killed in his home country on his asylum application, which was approved in early 2020. DHS has provided that section from his application 👇🏻
DHS alleges that this was a blatant case of asylum fraud and the "gaming of a weak asylum system."
BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the reason this 2x previously deported illegal alien was released into the country after his third illegal crossing in 2019 is because he claimed to be transgender and claimed fear of being killed in his home country on his asylum application, which was approved in early 2020. DHS has provided that section from his application 👇🏻
DHS alleges that this was a blatant case of asylum fraud and the “gaming of a weak asylum system.”
They have infinite lies they're told to claim to gain asylum.
And when they're caught lying, you still can't deport them, because the open borders Democrats com-splain that lies in your immigration or asylum filings are merely "paperwork crimes."
They're claiming this now with Ilhan Omar, as it becomes more and more obvious she's guilty of every crime she's accused of.
Matt Robinson
@mattrobinson
Oct 28
Jonathan Turley Rejects Hasan Piker's Defense of Ilhan Omar Federal Immigration Investigation
Constitutional attorney Jonathan Turley joined Fox News Channel's "The Story" to address online political commentator Hasan Piker's characterization of the federal investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar. Piker recently dismissed the federal probe targeting the Minnesota congresswoman's immigration background, marital history, and financial filings as a minor paperwork violation.
Turley strongly rejected that interpretation, stating that the criminal code is largely comprised of paperwork violations, including serious offenses like tax evasion, bank fraud, and extortion. He emphasized that the allegations constitute serious immigration fraud. Legal experts note that if Omar's citizenship application relied on a false age to piggyback off her father's naturalization application as a minor, the federal government could seek to revoke her citizenship entirely rather than allowing a simple administrative correction.
The ongoing investigation has brought additional scrutiny to several facets of Omar's past, including her late father's potential role as a colonel in an abusive Somali regime and unverified allegations concerning her previous marriage. Turley criticized mainstream media outlets for failing to press the lawmaker on specific inconsistencies, such as deleted social media posts, alleged staff directives to alter birth dates on official documents, and her ambiguous responses regarding her familial relationships.
Jonathan Turley Rejects Hasan Piker's Defense of Ilhan Omar Federal Immigration Investigation
Constitutional attorney Jonathan Turley joined Fox News Channel's "The Story" to address online political commentator Hasan Piker's characterization of the federal investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar. Piker recently dismissed the federal probe targeting the Minnesota congresswoman's immigration background, marital history, and financial filings as a minor paperwork violation.
Turley strongly rejected that interpretation, stating that the criminal code is largely comprised of paperwork violations, including serious offenses like tax evasion, bank fraud, and extortion. He emphasized that the allegations constitute serious immigration fraud. Legal experts note that if Omar's citizenship application relied on a false age to piggyback off her father's naturalization application as a minor, the federal government could seek to revoke her citizenship entirely rather than allowing a simple administrative correction.
The ongoing investigation has brought additional scrutiny to several facets of Omar's past, including her late father's potential role as a colonel in an abusive Somali regime and unverified allegations concerning her previous marriage. Turley criticized mainstream media outlets for failing to press the lawmaker on specific inconsistencies, such as deleted social media posts, alleged staff directives to alter birth dates on official documents, and her ambiguous responses regarding her familial relationships.
🚨 UPDATE: Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar Elmi is acting SMUG when confronted with her immigration fraud and federal investigation after Dems won the midterms
Except the DOJ investigation is FULL STEAM AHEAD
TURLEY: "[Dems in power] DOESN'T take out the Department of Justice...the Obama admin thought there might be evidence of FRAUD by her. The Biden administration investigated it. Both of those investigations ended up being suddenly stopped. But there is growing evidence here and she's doing very little to address those questions!"
She should not be allowed to be seated in Congress come January.
Not only is it a FAKE NAME but she committed fraud just to get here!
I hope the case is building fast enough to get her OUT of Congress ASAP.
Nvidia's CEO Resigns After His Affair with a Chinese Spy Is Revealed
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Nvidia makes the crucial chips that power almost all AI machines.
China is obviously interested in keeping those chips flowing to China, and perhaps picking up some details about how they're made and how they can be exploited.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy in a message to his company amid media reports.
The company has announced an independent investigation into the matter, with the intent of determining whether Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. Huang has apologized to his wife and children and says he takes "full responsibility" for his actions.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Nvidia announced in a statement Sunday that it is opening an independent investigation of CEO Jensen Huang, following reports that he had been targeted by a long-term foreign intelligence effort led by the Chinese Communist Party aimed at weakening the chip manufacturer's relationship with the United States and strengthening it with China.
Nvidia's Board of Directors said as part of the statement: "A committee of independent directors, assisted by outside independent counsel, will oversee the investigation. The Board prioritizes U.S. national and economic security, which is paramount to the interests of NVIDIA and its shareholders. While the Board has no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised, the Board's inquiry will examine all available information."
I don't know if the suspected honeytrap used her affair with Huang to move chips to China. But she sure did move a lot of Nvidia chips to China:
Kalshi
@Kalshi
BREAKING: Jensen Huang's lover helped move $7,500,000,000 in restricted Nvidia AI chips into China during affair
43% chance Jensen leaves as CEO before 2028
Seven and a half billion dollars' worth of AI chips. That's a lot.
The abrupt departure follows days of melodrama over Huang's admitted affairs -- two have been acknowledged by Huang, so you know there are more out there -- and the fact that his most recent paramour has all the appearances of being a ChiCom intelligence officer in addition to running a front company designed to bust U.S. restrictions on China's access to Nvidia chips. This has cost Nvidia about 30% of its stock value, or about $1 trillion- yes, that was with a "t"- since the affair broke on October 29.
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Ms. Huang was an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, a major Nvidia customer that U.S. authorities have investigated for suspected diversion of advanced chips toward China. A recent New York Times investigation found that Megaspeed had no offices, facilities, or apparent employees despite accounting for between 10 and 15 percent of Nvidia's revenue. It ran from leased space inside an accounting firm that specialized in managing shell corporations.
BREAKING: Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO. CFO Colette Kress will act as Interim CEO and earnings go ahead next week. The board will consider external candidates for CEO longterm.
Nvidia stock prices fell 13% on news of the resignation, but had already fallen a bunch since the disclosure of the scandal at the end of October.
Update: It's now reported he had two extramarital affairs, but I assume it's only the suspected Chinese spy they really care about. The second acknowledged affair was with Kimberly Powell, a Nvidia executive handling health care.
Ed Ludlow
@EdLudlow
BREAKING: Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO. CFO Colette Kress will act as Interim CEO and earnings go ahead next week. The board will consider external candidates for CEO longterm.
Below: China's own chip industry is rapidly catching up to our own.
An active shooting situation Thursday morning near Logan Circle in Washington, D.C. has left at least five people injured, D.C. Metro Police tell Fox News Digital.
Police say they no longer consider the shooter to be at large, telling Fox News Digital the shooter has been "contained" and is currently barricaded by law enforcement officers.
"MPD is on the scene of an ACTIVE SHOOTING in the area of 15th and P Street, Northwest. MPD's Emergency Response Team is on scene," D.C. police wrote on X.
"AVOID THE AREA," police added.
In a post on X, D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto said the shooting occurred outside of Vida Fitness, adding that multiple people were injured.
🚨 BREAKING: MASSIVE POLICE PRESENCE in DC after an active shooting with at least 4 shot, and the shooter is reportedly BARRICADED
Pray for the victims and the police who are RAPIDLY trying to get this scumbag mitigated 🙏🏻
"The incident has resulted in a barricade situation in the 1500 block of 15th Street, Northwest. MPD’s Emergency Response Team is on the scene. Please avoid the area as we work to resolve the incident."
Huge law enforcement presence has been spotted. The public is being told to avoid the area
Do we know the motive? Maybe. Supposedly this cowardly murderer posted his online manifesto, in which he complained about... building maintenance.
The account is called "OfMiceandMold," so, if this is him, his complaint is that the super didn't make the fixes he demanded.
So he shot four or five people. (I don't know if the fifth person shot in an innocent or they're counting the killer himself.)
Another tragedy occurred in Brooklyn late yesterday afternoon. A building collapsed, resulting in at least eight deaths and 17 injuries.
FDNY
@FDNY
At 4:01 p.m. Wednesday, the FDNY responded to 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn for a collapse of a three-story, multiple-dwelling building into an adjacent construction site.
Units arrived within one minute and immediately started search-and-rescue operations. Two people have been pronounced dead, and more than 15 others have been injured as of 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
"Multiple people from the building and the construction site were trapped," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said. "This will be a prolonged operation. Collapse operations are extremely dangerous. Every move is choreographed and critically important to patient outcomes and member safety. Members have been working methodically and haven't stopped since they arrived this afternoon."
More than 250 fire and EMS personnel responded, and search efforts in coordination with the NYPD were ongoing Wednesday night.
The cause of the collapse is under investigation.
🚨 UPDATE: New York first responders have been desperately searching the rubble all night and EIGHT PEOPLE are confirmed deceased in the building collapse 💔
At least 17 injuries reported as of this morning 🙏🏻
It collapsed into a CONSTRUCTION SITE NEXT DOOR around 4 PM on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn
Several firefighters were hurt.
The cause is still under investigation. These heroes are still searching hard.
Shifting cultural norms have consequences that take years to appear, and while the conceit of the left is that behavior can be guided, that is laughably incorrect. Man's social behavior is far too complex to assume that changing X will lead to Y and Z. The real goal of the left is simply to change behavior for the worse...moving it away from traditional roles and toward the chaos that they seek.
The destruction of the perceived differences between men and women, while simultaneously crediting women with all of the physical and martial skills of men may be their greatest triumph. Shifting the default of women away from their natural behavior -- child-bearing and rearing -- and toward some simulacrum of clownish masculinity has produced a culture that is hilariously ignorant of reality. That five-foot tall, 110 pound woman who kicks the crap out of multiple attackers is amusing to watch in a movie, but has no link to the real world. It simply doesn't work that way!
But even more ridiculous is the expectation among the woke ignoramuses that women have the capacity and right to confront men physically, but men will be handcuffed by the traditional mores of a bygone era, and will not respond in kind. Of course those traditional rules apply only to women who behave traditionally.
So we have women behaving like men, and men expected to behave like women.
Except when it doesn't work out quite as planned.
Liberals are mad because ICE removed this woman that was blocking law enforcement https://t.co/f6Y22lqkAG
I watched that clip about 17 times, because it makes me chuckle. This middle-aged AWFL was confident that the social construct of the empowered woman was sufficient to protect her from the real-world consequences of her actions which, when examined, were nothing more than a physical confrontation with law enforcement.
And she lost.
Which is to be expected in about 99% of these cases. The time and place for confrontation with law enforcement is when one is before a judge, not on the street. Oh, she thought that because her cause was just and good and approved by the bien-pensants that she would be safe from the physical consequences of her physical act. She was wrong, but her expectation was reasonable because that is what our culture has taught her!
And those lessons can be seen across the country in thousands of these sorts of interactions. The earnest but deluded leftist who knocks over a pro-life organization's table at a demonstration is shocked...SHOCKED...to be handcuffed and taken to jail. The septuagenarian lunatic in NH who slaps a Turning Point Action volunteer is stunned by the perfectly reasonable result...arrest!
In the old America, most people understood that physical confrontation often led to a punch on the nose or a trip to jail, and that is why girls and women shied away from that sort of behavior. But the rules have changed, and not for the better. Perhaps America needs to return to a time when violence was allowed to develop according to those ancient and rather clever rules.
Does that mean that traditional roles are better than the chaos we have today? Absolutely, and those roles were a big part of keeping our society reasonably civil, at least in comparison to the current insanity.
A Brooklyn building collapsed into a massive pile of rubble Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring 17 — including four critically — as firefighters desperately search for more victims buried underneath the wreck in a harrowing scene. Loved ones made frantic calls for help after the three-story apartment building at Newkirk and Flatbush Avenues fell into an active construction site next door at around 4 p.m., witnesses said. Officials warned that the number of victims would likely increase. Rescue crews don’t know how many people from the building are still missing as the dire and dangerous search for any survivors continued into the night and is expected to stretch for days.
As many of you know, I am a former New Yorker, so this story really hits close to home in that I not only hail from Brooklyn but my childhood home is not even a mile from the site of the collapse.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a law giving nonprofit organizations the first opportunity to purchase distressed residential buildings. . . Covered properties include multifamily buildings with four or more units that are in significant disrepair, as well as buildings with affordability restrictions governed by HPD regulatory agreements. By creating a pathway for responsible community-based ownership, COPA will ensure that these properties are repaired, maintained and operated in partnership with tenants rather than left to deteriorate by negligent owners.
Obviously given the players involved here, the terms "responsible" and "negligent owners" are quite fungible. You better believe that property inspectors will be fully vetted for their political allegiances to no one but the Democrat Socialites. That means that a distressed property will be defined as one whose owner is the Trump organization or someone similar.
Thanksgiving Is a 'Day of Mourning,' Lesson Plan Recommended to Loudoun County Second Graders Says. . . Public school teachers in Loudoun County, Virginia, looking to teach their students about American holidays can draw from a list of district-approved lesson plans, including one recommended for second graders that declares Thanksgiving a "Day of Mourning" and another that calls Columbus Day a "Debated Celebration," documents obtained via a public records request and shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon show.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) made huge political gains in the midterms. Having already captured the mayor’s office in New York City, the group is now working their political message into school classrooms. American education is already rife with left-wing political indoctrination, but it’s about to get even worse. . . The New York City DSA chapter also established Comrades With Kids, a family-focused organizing group that seeks to be a “political and social home base for working-class families.” The group posted photos of DSA-themed coloring pages for children provided at a Zohran for Parents event in September 2025.
Democrat Scott Colom Wins Mississippi Senate Seat Defeating Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith . . . that gives Democrats their 55th seat in the U.S. Senate following the November midterm election.
Despite all this misery, I nevertheless hope that all of you have a good day
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Victor Davis Hanson: The MAGA divide over Iran isn’t a neoconservative revival but a clash between Jacksonian interventionists and isolationists, with accusations of neocon influence obscuring the real debate. Neocons, Neocons, Neocons!
Co-host Luke Russert said, “Congressman Raskin, you mentioned that impeachment of the president is a possibility, but more as sort of something to keep in the constitutional toolbox, not necessarily something you’re going to run to anytime soon.” Raskin: Republicans ‘Practically Begging’ Us to Impeach Trump
White House Counsel Will Scharf is fighting back, telling Garcia: Cut the tough-guy act. His letter reminds Garcia that Congress can’t simply investigate whatever it wants: House and Senate investigations require some legislative purpose; law enforcement is an Executive Branch power. Democrats are already at risk of AGAIN overplaying anti-Trump lawfare
Everything appeared to be in place for a massive strike on Iran's oil and nuclear infrastructure after the midterm elections. Then, on Monday, Donald Trump met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and everything changed. Trump's Iran Strategy Could Be a War Winner if He Sticks to It
Mamdani’s new law gives qualified nonprofits priority to purchase roughly 2,100 distressed properties, limiting when and how landlords can sell to outside buyers. Mamdani Signs Law Giving Nonprofits First Dibs on Distressed NYC Buildings (soon to include all of Trump's real estate holdings - jjs)
John Stossel: "The heart of socialism," says Schrager, "is the exact same lie that's behind almost every financial scam: 'You will have everything guaranteed. But you'll also have growth and prosperity.' It just doesn't work that way ... Capitalism, it's brutal. It doesn't offer any guarantees. Bad things happen, you lose money, but you also have that promise of potential, of growth." Try, Try Again
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
If university administrators won't restore order on campus, dispatch ICE to disperse the foreigners disrupting undergraduate education Send ICE to Harvard
Florida is once again leading the way in securing elections, and the Trump administration should take note of the latest move that should be implemented across the country in order to prevent election fraud or other kinds of fraud by noncitizens who have IDs. Florida Passes Its Own SAVE Act
In failing blue states such as New York, Minnesota and California, decades of Democrat mismanagement seemed like they might serve as a countervailing force to the widespread dissatisfaction with the Republican-controlled federal government. California’s big mistake could pave the way for its big comeback
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There's more, but it's now commonly behind proxies or services like Cloudflare that mitigate attacks of various kinds.
In this case the bug is restricted to HTTP/2, so if you remove the entries for h2 and h2c from your configuration file so that it falls back to HTTP/1 you're safe and you shouldn't notice any difference. It will be a little slower, but if you're not Google you won't care.
Someone found and published 30 "zero-day" vulnerabilities all at once so they locked and bolted the door. And the windows, floor, ceiling, air ducts, and everything else, while they scrambled to fix them.
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Early morning coming here at Casa Dino, so apologies for being more low profile than usual in the comments. Please don't make a mess of the place. I'd like to get my security deposit back.
Today is Veteran's Day. Thank you to all who serve.
[Top photo:Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]
One Southern California dinosaur is back in its natural environment on Monday after facing near extinction.
A large green dinosaur from a Sinclair gas station in San Joaquin County, California, was stolen on Oct. 27, per CBS News. Police investigated the stolen dinosaur, which left a trail toward Stockton, where it was found with a black bag over its head.
A suspect was arrested - albeit not the person the dinosaur was ultimately found with, who claimed they had no idea the dinosaur was stolen.
Deputies returned the dinosaur to the gas station it was originally stationed at on Monday. But before doing so, the deputies who rescued it took several photos to celebrate their achievement.
Big hat tip thanks to tankdemon. Next time he's late, I bet he blames the delay on a wayward dino.
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ONT Space News
SpaceX Starship is scheduled to fly again on Friday. This mini movie of the last one is very well done.
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ONT Shopping Guide
Some of you may have Morons on your shopping list and are wondering what to get them for gifts. Neither Ace of Spades or the Wednesday ONT officially endorse these personal hygiene products but who doesn't appreciate the aroma of gunpowder?
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ONT Department of Questionable Food
Spotted in the real world recently. This is not AI.
Anything this awful must be good for you, right? Can you imagine being a cherry or lemon and thinking you are destined for a pie and finding you've been re-assigned in a futile attempt to moderate the evil that is beet juice?
After thinking further, it all became clear. Maybe we're supposed to use them as ordinance against our enemies?
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Mandatory Maiden
The time has come for Aces High. The song is about the Battle of Britain in 1940, told from the perspective of a British RAF fighter pilot. I would wager a large amount of money that many people are familiar with Sir Winston Churchill's famous speech thanks to the introduction to Aces High that Iron Maiden uses when playing the song live.
June 4, 1940:
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government - every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.
The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
Fun fact - the original speech given to Parliament was not recorded when delivered live. It was recorded for posterity after the war ended.
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel from Boylei Hobby Time. Content from this channel has found its way to the Saturday Hobby Thread, but it may not be known more broadly. This is single hobbyist builder that makes amazing dioramas, often with very creative bespoke scenes (many with sci-fi themes).
The skill is remarkable. The creativity is impressive. In many cases, the final products are personal showpieces. In some cases, they are gifts for others. The channel description starts with a bible quote - "I hope my videos inspire you to create with the gifts you've been created with." (Ephesians 2:10)
The videos themselves are simple, methodical and well done. Modest voiceover and background music, but no graphics or clickbait. Most screen time shows his hands engaged in the specifics of crafting. It is not so much a "how to" channel as a "watch and learn" channel. Many projects use a kit as a starting point and add the magic of scenery and action to give them life.
The channel has over 1.15 million subscribers and view counts range from the hundreds of thousands in to the millions. He has been posting videos for six years.
Sample video to illustrate (yes, he had me at "dinosaur army"):
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Pittsburgh Scanner
The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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Pat Benatar for the big ONT finish:
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Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be sorted and processed and filed. Are you lurking ????
Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer
watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted a Nazi U-boat's
hope of breaking into the center of a large convoy.
Sinking of U-175, April 17, 1943.
Via The Art of Manliness's collection of 50 Amazing Rarely-Seen Photos from WWII
RFK Jr.'s siblings sue Trump to stop 'Triumphal Arch' from 'casting shadows' on family graves
Robert and Ethel Kennedy, President Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, WWII casualty Joe Kennedy were all laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Arch would "also cast a shadow over our democratic principles," family says.
Well we can't have shadows falling on the graves of aristocrats!
Seven of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s siblings, plus his nephew and cousin, are suing President Trump, the Interior Department and National Park Service among others to stop Trump's planned "Triumphal Arch," citing its unavoidable blocking of light over their family's graves at Arlington National Cemetery, which are "sacred spaces."
"Our parents, Robert and Ethel Kennedy, and our uncles, President John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, are laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Our uncle Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., who lost his life serving our country in World War II, is also memorialized there," RFK Jr.'s siblings Rory Kennedy and Maxwell Kennedy said on behalf of the family in a statement released by their lawyers at Democracy Defenders Fund.
"We believe Donald Trump has violated the laws and procedures established by Congress to protect this most sacred national memorial," they said, portraying the arch as an attack on democracy itself.
"A towering arch casting shadows across the graves of our father, mother, and uncles, as well as the graves of so many who have served our country, would also cast a shadow over our democratic principles, undermining the safeguards established by our elected representatives to protect this hallowed ground for generations to come," they said.
The fund makes clear the family sees Trump's plan as a personal affront.
"The arch would block views of the Kennedy Gravesites and Eternal Flame from Arlington Memorial Bridge -- a sightline specially chosen by the Kennedy family," it says. "The arch would also cast a shadow over the Kennedys' graves, especially in the early morning when the family traditionally visits."
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Though the "activist" U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan temporarily blocked the start of construction for at least two weeks in response to Virginia and D.C. legal action, the Trump administration is "confident we will be fully vindicated as this litigation proceeds," Ingle said.
Joe Biden: My debate debacle wasn't very "consequential," you know.
Steve Cortes
@SteveCortes
Joe Biden now claims his 2024 presidential debate against President Trump, which forced him to drop out of the race, was not very consequential:
"To me it was not very consequential. First of all I thought there would be another debate, which there wasn't. Notwithstanding the fact that there wasn't another debate, it didn't disturb me because it wasn't consequential."
Just 24 days after the "not very consequential" presidential debate, Joe Biden ended his campaign for President.
Don't know if this got commented on previously or not, but Illinois SuperMayor Tiffany Henyard's bid to become a Fulton County (GA) Commissioner as the Republican choice fell just a bit short.
Henyard (R) 5.40%
Willis (D) 94.60%
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Teeeee-riffic:
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Sen. Majority Leader John Thune has been re-elected by Senate Republicans and will serve as Senate Minority Leader in the new Congress when Dems take power. Senators Barrasso, Cotton, Capito, and Lankford have all also been re-elected to their positions. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) will now serve as NRSC Chairman instead of Sen. Tim Scott.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
THUNE STATEMENT:
"I appreciated the opportunity to have an open, honest, and transparent conversation with my colleagues today, and I am honored to have their continued trust and support to lead the Senate Republican Conference in the 120th Congress," said Thune. "I'm proud of what this Republican team has accomplished together, and we remain united in our commitment to advancing conservative priorities, working with President Trump and our colleagues in the House, and holding the line against Democrats' efforts to enact their far-left, liberal agenda. We have important work ahead of us, and I look forward to serving alongside my colleagues on behalf of the American people."
Fuck you.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just promised "many, many investigations" to round up the huge number of "criminals" that Democrats see in their political opponents. None of this bodes well for the Republic as we restart the type of J6 show trials that marked the prior Democratic House.
Preston Byrne
@prestonjbyrne
Ofcom [The UK's big brother censorship organization] indicated in a hearing today that it is going to start pushing for arrest warrants for American refusers of the Online Safety Act.
It is wildly inappropriate for a foreign country to threaten Americans for exercising our constitutional rights.
The GRANITE Act would shield an American from extradition, and any time Ofcom threatened an American in this way, the American would be able to drag Ofcom - the UK's Internet censor - into federal court to confirm the order is unenforceable.
Congress: pass the GRANITE Act!
Voters aren't allowed to be their authentic selves...
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@Bubblebathgirl
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson doesn't care that voters passed Initiative 638 on Election Day to keep biological males out of girls' sports. On Tuesday, a week after the election, she posted that she supports the Seattle Public Schools Board's decision to challenge the measure because "every young person in Seattle deserves to thrive as their authentic self."
That's not governing. That's ignoring the result. Washington voters approved the initiative to protect girls' sports with a clear majority--about 57 percent--even while Democrats made gains elsewhere on the ballot. I-638 requires medical documentation confirming biological sex for girls' competition. That law takes effect in December. Wilson and the school board are moving to fight it in court anyway.
I can’t believe a Democrat is already exposing his own party like this
Don Leonard, the Democrat who just won Ohio’s 15th District, says senior House Democrats warned him what happens if he won’t back Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker:
“Making my life a living heII for the next two years here in Washington as well as being sure to lose my election”
He says they “expect you to wear the team jersey” and “be a good team player”
They don’t want representatives, they want obedience
Remember the latest trans-looking lunatic who violently attacked TP USA staffers?
HERE WE GO AGAIN!!
Another trans psycho assaults a TPUSA student earlier today at the UT campus in Tyler! The incident happened right in front of police and they arrested the attacker!
They always use the same language they’ve been taught by the liberal media and Democrat leaders! like “fascist!”
Zhe claims that he's allowed to physically attack conservatives because "free speech doesn't mean freedom from [violent] consequences."
And zhe says zhe was "backed into a corner" by people peacefully handing out leaflets.
Do these people understand that many of us are thisclose to agreeing, enthusiastically, that we are allowed to beat (or worse) people we disagree with?
Texas authorities have identified a man accused of attacking students at a Turning Point USA tent on the University of Texas at Tyler campus Tuesday in the latest attack on the conservative youth organization whose founder was assassinated last year.
Smith County booking records identify the suspect Ciro Tomlian.
Video of the incident shows a man wearing a cape and a round-brimmed hat as he threw an American flag on the ground and swung a cane at a group of people. He is a former student who was not enrolled at the school at the time of the attack, according to authorities.
Tomlian faces two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and another of assault causing bodily injury after allegedly striking TPUSA students with a cane.
In the video, which shows the end of the encounter and Tomlian's arrest by campus police, the suspect grabs an American flag, throws it over his shoulder, gives the students the middle finger and can be heard saying "Back the f-- off you fascist pieces of s--."
A woman off-camera tells him to "stay away," and he raises the cane before taking a checked swing in her direction.
The man identified as Tomlian screams "back up!" again, and the woman tells someone else to "just back up."
Then a male voice, also off-camera, tells Tomlian, "No one's scared of you."
Charlie Kirk speaks at a TPUSA event
That's when he swings the cane again, apparently striking the speaker, before someone else runs over and grabs the cane. Police arrive moments later and place the suspect in handcuffs.
Once cuffed, he appears to paint the incident as self-defense and says, "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences."
"I apologize officer," he says as he's led away. "I was backed into a corner."
We'll see if the school expels zhim.
Blake Carpenter
@BCarpenterBooks
Boys do not need to be socialized. They do not need to be taught the "right way" to read or the "right POVs" to enjoy. They do not need lectures or preaching. They do not need "the message."
Boys need dragons to slay and princesses to save (and ones who want to be saved, natch). Boys need danger. They need risks and stakes. They need to know what death is and what it means. They need to know what failure looks like so they know how to cope with it when Real Life comes calling. Most of all, they need stories that allow them to be who and what they are without being told why they should be something else.
Boys are not broken girls; they should not be treated as such.
If you REALLY care about getting boys to read again, pay attention to the stories being shared in other media that they like, and emulate those.
Make no mistake: this viewpoint is evil. It deserves no less than to be called out as such.
Boys do not need to be socialized. They do not need to be taught the “right way” to read or the “right POVs” to enjoy. They do not need lectures or preaching. They do not need “the message.”
Boys need dragons to slay and princesses to save (and ones who want to be saved, natch). Boys need danger. They need risks and stakes. They need to know what death is and what it means. They need to know what failure looks like so they know how to cope with it when Real Life comes calling. Most of all, they need stories that allow them to be who and what they are without being told why they should be something else.
Boys are not broken girls; they should not be treated as such.
If you REALLY care about getting boys to read again, pay attention to the stories being shared in other media that they like, and emulate those.
Make no mistake: this viewpoint is evil. It deserves no less than to be called out as such.
While my job title doesn't indicate it I work all day on cutting edge AI models and advanced chip architecture.
And I just can't stop talking about all the awesome things I am working on.
So totally don't come by my neighborhood bar at 6 PM tomorrow and starting chatting with me. I mean get a few drinks in me and who knows what secrets I might spill.
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Email confirmed as once used by the Muskily Heterosexual James Talarico found in leak of emails of Fling.com sex dating site:
An email address that James Talarico's attorneys confirmed belonged to and was at one time used by the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate appears in a database search result associated with the adult dating website Fling.com's 2011 data breach. A Fling.com account was created with Talarico's email address just before Talarico began teaching sixth graders.
The result lists the username "mohawk787" and an account creation timestamp of December 26, 2010, at 20:56:49. The profile's interests field lists "FETISH," "GROUPSEX," "SEXUAL RELATIONS," "ONLINE FLIRTING," and "OTHER."
Townhall shared the information described in this article with the Talarico campaign and requested comment Friday morning, and in response, a mere 35 minutes later, received a four-page, detailed letter from legal counsel for Talarico that addressed some, but not all of the information described in this report.
"Well I can't believe the trans-child-obsessed Confirmed Bachelor James Talarico is into group fetish shit," said noted void phantom Doctor Nullity, The Man Who Never Existed
I'm not the guy who noted this, I saw it on X (Razib Khan maybe), but The Bulwark could be "audience capture". It might have started as the Frum / 90s-Kristol / NRO classic Eisenhower Republicanism. But nobody was reading the Bulwark except leftists.
Tallyrand has a quote on this, "I am their leader so I must follow them".
Same goes for David French, Christianity Today, and the "Anxious Bench" side of Patheos. They may have started out Christian. But it wasn't Christians signing their checks.
Flashback: "trans man" Lawyer freaks out after a judge denies "his" motion. He's ultimately arrested. "He" makes so much drama he was just recruited to develop a new CW show.
I'm just wondering if this flighty high-calorie pyrsyn is also in the news today for other reasons....
Update: No, it's not. Zee/Zem says they's name is like "Rob Hopkins" or something. Story here, courtesy of The Blade
[Song title]
Don't breathe down my neck, no
I got no trophies on display
I sign them away
I mean what the heck
All of your promises
Don't fill me with pride no
I just wanna get out on the floor
And do the Cuban slide, slide, slide, slide
From Anonosaurus Wrecks:
@NBCNews
Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.
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