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AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published.
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A sneaky cat burglar has been tormenting a town by stealing dozens of clothes from unsuspecting homeowners.
Taboo, a 12-year-old black and white moggie, has nicked gloves, socks, underpants and shoes from properties across Otley, West Yorkshire.
Her owner, Sandra Danskin, 62, has now been forced to share regular pictures of the items on social media so residents can collect them.
'This morning I had four pairs of socks and a pair of underpants. She loves bringing back items of clothing like that, but also we've had a mop head and kitchen rolls.
'We even had half a dozen eggs once, still in their box, but all broken. . .
She also said the moggie is quite fastidious and brings back a 'full set' of anything she managed to find.
Sandra said: 'If she brings back a sock she will always go back and get the matching one so there's a pair.
Courtesy Grateful
Love is the only explanation I can think of.
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Storytime:
Two women were out for a Saturday stroll. One had a Doberman and the other, a Chihuahua. As they walked down the street, the one with the Doberman said to her friend, "Let's go over to that bar for a drink."
The lady with the Chihuahua said, "We can't go in there. We've got dogs with us."
The one with the Doberman said, "Just watch, and do as I do."
They walked over to the bar and the one with the Doberman put on a pair of dark glasses and started to walk in. The bouncer at the door said, "Sorry, lady, no pets allowed."
The woman with the Doberman said, "You don't understand.
This is my seeing-eye dog."
The bouncer said, "A Doberman?"
The woman said, "Yes, they're using them now. They're very good."
The bouncer said, "OK, come on in."
The lady with the Chihuahua thought that convincing him that a Chihuahua was a seeing-eye dog may be a bit more difficult, but thought, "What the heck," so she put on her dark glasses and started to walk in.
Once again the bouncer said, "Sorry, lady, no pets allowed."
The woman said, "You don't understand. This is my seeing-eye dog."
The bouncer said, "A Chihuahua?"
The woman with the Chihuahua stepped back and then said,
"WHAT! A Chihuahua ? They gave me a freaking Chihuahua !!"
Courtesy Hrothgar
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Courtesy Hrothgar
Don't let the dog drive, please.
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Meet The PetMorons
Hi all,
This is my buddy Huey Lewis, he found me at a shelter 10 years ago. Here he is as I'm reading the nightly cafe, the best part of our evening!
If I do comment it's usually as TC.
Thanks y'all!
Huey is obviously a wonderful dog! Love his eyes.
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My Sam learning to read. Nothing good on TV.
Conservative Hippy
A fine choice, Sam, you sweetheart.
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A gracious good evening, K.T.,
I don’t post a lot, but I’m Appycay when I do.
Thank yous first:
I really appreciate what you do to put this thread together - and the gardening thread (and others, but I don’t always keep track of who is doing what.) But thank you. And thank you to Ace, for providing a place for relief from everything else that’s going on. Knowing there are other people who see through the BS helps keep me sane, but sometimes the BS gets to be too much, and that’s when I really appreciate the pet thread. It’s really the only one that I will go back and read from beginning to end, even if I have missed it in real time.
Y’all have kindly accepted and posted an earlier photo I sent of Bob the Cat, and of Insom. Sadly, Bob has shuffled off this mortal coil, but it took friends only two months to suck me into taking a kitten that had been dumped in their condo community. And he came with a name, Turd Ferguson, which the ladies at the vet clinic love getting to yell in the waiting room. The reason he was at the vet clinic was to get his manhood altered. I felt kind of bad about it but it needed to be done. This picture is of him in his post surgery stupor when I first brought him home. It’s the only time since I’ve had him that he’s not been a little asshole racing around the house. Well, when he’s not sleeping.
So sorry to learn that you have lost Bob. Turd Ferguson is delightful.
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Thelma and Louise. But mostly Louise
Meet Miss Louise, of the Misses Thelma and Louise, from deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas. We rescued the teeny, tiny sisters from a likely drowning and brought them home; so young, they didn't really know how to eat so we spoon fed them til they decided to bury their little faces in kitten kibble. Three years and 17 pounds later, Miss Louise is unbothered, moisturized, happy , in her lane, focused (sort of) and flourishing.
S.
A wonderful story and a great photo! We look forward to seeing her sister.
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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde
From By-Tor: Master of All He Surveys. Obviously.
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What a great collection of pets today. Thank you for sharing your pets with us.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:
petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
Until next Saturday, have a great week!
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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 31. Some special PetMoron stories and photos there.
I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Sept. 7
—K.T.
Happy Saturday! Labor Day is over. Do you feel summer leaving? The photo above, from Diana, reminds me that some flowers still survive in the garden. But our hottest day of the week has been postponed by forecasters until today. It's not the same without those hot nights, though.
A few years ago I got seeds to grow a black goji, I tried off and on for a few years to get one to go and I never got one to start. Last year I came across the seeds and I decided I was going to plant all the seeds that were left in one pot and if I got one great, if not at least I didn't have the seed packet anymore, and the seeds were old. Lo and behold ONE took. It is now over a year old and I finally got some fruit. I will say that the black goji fruit is much better than the regular. I think the regular goji is pretty astringent, but the black is definitely sweeter. I have attached a couple of pictures. It is a pretty thorny bugger as well. My regular goji doesn't have thorns. Wondering if anyone else has a black goji?
WeeKreekFarmGirl
Fascinating. Thorny and black.
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Ah, Nature
Is love in the air in your yard? I haven't seen our toads in a couple of weeks. I think they are hiding from the heat. But these are frogs.
Male frogs may clasp onto anything during breeding time
But on discovering their mistake, they usually move on
The centipede pic is of a type that I see fairly frequently in one location. They are 4-6" + long.
Looks kinda like a millipede to me. Don't try to make it lift one foot at a time.
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Good morning,
Long time lurker Harrison Flint here. My sister in law sent me the attached photo of praying mantis's (manti? mantises?) in her rose moss. Thought it was a great image.
Take care,
HF
Glad to see you de-lurk! Great photo!
Wonder if they are close to mating?
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Puttering
What to do with those grow lights after the season is over:
How to make shadow puppets 1930 article, Modern Mechanix
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Adventure
You might actually want to think twice about this adventure:
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Topiary, Montreal Botanical Garden (Everything Beautiful and Amazing)
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Gardens of The Horde
Thistle (see top photo) and a pear tree framed in a gazebo. From Diana.
She decided to send in some photos of "garden problems". Here's one. Any experiences, tips or suggestions?
Pears - Korean pears are good, resistant to most things except for concerted attacks from yellow jackets. Anjou, bosc, etc. are good but need spraying. I only use copper or sulphur compounds and they generally work pretty well. Japanese pears tend to sag and need staking. The fruit also cracks - see pic - which is a problem. Not recommended unless one wants to stake and spray with don't know what.
Anything going on in your garden?
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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, the address is:
ktinthegarden at g mail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
Yesterday in The Week in Woke, Ace included a video clip of Kamala speaking to the NAACP: "I will direct the DOJ to censor 'misinformation and hate' online". And she asserted that it was necessary to fight this fight as a "community".
A "community" backed up by the strength of the Department of Justice to keep hate and misinformation off social media!
From the comments:
The ARC of History! at September 06, 2024 06:48 PM
Matt Taibbi has been doing a study of the various disinformation "laboratories" at places like Stanford and the University of Washington, and has noted a curious thing about their "research".
The government never provides "misinformation".
All information provided by the government is correct and truthful.
Only opponents of the government provide misinformation.
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I think the post below is about the same study by Matt Taibbi:
A novel aspect of our present political moment is that the more credentials a person has, the more likely he or she is to be a Democrat. This wasn’t true 50 years ago; on the contrary. But creeping credentialism has become a key feature of our culture. I think we are in the midst of a coup being carried out by people who are dumb, but have credentials, usually half-baked.
These thoughts are prompted by Matt Taibbi’s current Racket News post. I am not sure whether that link will work if you are not a Racket News subscriber. If not, you might consider signing up. Meanwhile, I will try to do justice to the post with a few excerpts.
Briefly, Taibbi has obtained documents in response to a FOIA request. His post focuses on an alleged “misinformation” expert named Michael Caulfield, of the University of Washington. Early in the covid fiasco, Caulfield wrote an email in which he ridiculed people who were trying to understand the actual lethality of the virus:
Caulfield dismissed efforts to analyze data to figure out what was happening, on the ground that most people lack credentials. (Not that he himself had any relevant expertise, by the way.) Instead, the average person–pretty much everyone–should just figure out “who [sic] to trust.” And that would be the government.
Check out the details at the link.
Of course, as to the covid epidemic, the oft-censored independent voices generally turned out to be right, and the government was wrong.
Finally, I note that Caulfield described thinking for oneself as “a lousy epistemology.” As a one-time student of epistemology, I say with confidence that no philosopher has ever advanced such a theory. The idea that one should always believe the government and follow its dictates has a name, not in epistemology but in politics. It starts with an F. That is where today’s Democratic Party lives.
Why are academia and government teaming up to teach people not to think?
We need to make viruses more dangerous to protect you from viruses.
We need to suppress dissident scientists to preserve science.
We need to suppress free speech to preserve democracy.
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Does the "rules-based international order" sound like a conspiracy theory?
A 16 minute excerpt from an interview with Eric Weinstein showed up in my Twitter feed this week. He is a man of the left, but interesting for a few reasons, among which are:
1. He knows J.D. Vance
2. He is Bret Weinstein's brother and a free speech advocate
3. He named the Intellectual Dark Web. Remember them?
In this excerpt, Weinstein helps explain the behavior of members of The Borg and manages to make one wonder how conspiratorial the "international rules-based order" is, without panicking. Sorry if my comments are disjointed, but the interview is kinda disjointed.
“I purposely left it vague and I didn’t say the other part of it, which I now feel comfortable saying: I don’t know whether Donald Trump will be allowed to become president.”… pic.twitter.com/IcX3p3YCv2
Trump is seen as a threat to "the rules-based international order" which is supposed to keep the world free of war and keep markets open. I don't think a lot of people think that this "international order" has been in terrific shape.
Eric Weinstein is unsettled about this year's election, and his thoughts here should not be considered to be definitive. There are some alternative ideas in the comment thread, too. He doesn't think that Trump will be allowed to become president, or to function as president.
He views Kamala Harris as the tail end of the group trying to hold the order together just a little longer. He thinks the State Department and other agencies have a responsibility to explain to voters that if they choose populist presidents, those populist presidents may risk international agreements. As if the Deep State would ever be this frank with voters!
Check out the last segment starting at 13 minutes, on the media.
There are people who disagree and have other points of view in the comment thread.
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The longer video from which the excerpt above was taken - more than 3 hours - may be a window into a world with which J.D. Vance was familiar before he became the candidate for Vice President. Eric was the only Democrat at a 3 day meeting years ago with J.D. in Ohio. The segment concerning J.D. Vance starts at 3 hours 19 minutes. He describes his personal experiences with J.D. as being not exactly like the person he sees campaigning. But he is confident that J.D. cares about hillbillies. He describes slavery in the 20th century, lots of it white.
Democrats abandoned the working poor, Republicans started listening to them.
Also in the last segment, how the Democrats will likely neutralize Trump.
Although the video at YouTube includes major topics for segments you can skip to at the bottom of the screen, the entire interview has a kind of stream-of-consciousness character and may be sort of hard for a lot of people to follow. Much of this three-hour interview goes over my head, especially the parts about math and physics, with references to previous conversations between the two men. But the final part, starting at 2 hours 48 minutes, is worthwhile listening, with interesting ideas and memorable illustrations about things like the importance of holding on to heritage and the sacred. He is very concerned about the frightening way heterosexual relationships and white men have been denigrated and ignored in the culture.
He sees AOC as a communist and Kamala Harris as a sort of amalgam of things like Marxist and crony finance (3 hr 9 min). The segment on "what can be, unburdened by what has been" is kind of scary. It starts at 3 hours 3 minutes.
He recognizes that we don't have a president at this time.
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In case you have been wondering what Eric's brother Bret has been doing lately, he has been campaigning to defeat the enemies of free speech - namely the Democratic Party and their cohorts.
Eric Weinstein described why Something Like That by Tim McGraw is a great, slightly cringey song supporting committed heterosexual relationships in society (at 2 hours and 52 minutes in the longer video).
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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
(Ahhhhh.......Tasty!)
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The first Saturday in September? Hmmmm. Where has the year gone? In brighter news I have been informed by Mr. J.J. Sefton of the following:
Hi MH
Some good news to report. My MRI came back negative, so essentially I'm cancer-free for now.............
Please give everyone my thanks for all their prayers and kind words. It helped get me this far, I'm convinced.
Fantastic news J.J. Thank you for sharing with the Prayer Revival.
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Before we enter the Prayer Revival there are a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Cornucopia)
1. This is an open thread so feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Even the trolls need some understanding.
3. For Heaven's sake, no jumping on the Naugahyde divan.
4. No. Running. With. Sharp. Objects.
5. Have a great weekend!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
6/29 – bluebell passed along a request from grammie winger, who asked for prayers for her husband, Rev, who is having open heart surgery on 7/8 to take care of his aortic aneurysm. Recovery time is expected to be 6-8 weeks.
8/17 Update – Rev is improving day by day. A home health nurse comes 3 days a week, and he has PT twice a week.
7/13 – Chris C, a loyal lurker (and prayer) requests prayers for his bride, Melanie, who was just diagnosed with breast cancer. She needs support as she is exhausted from caring for Chris and his 23 days in the hospital for a triple bypass that “went south”.
8/17 Update – Chris sent his thanks for all the prayers. Melanie’s surgery was successful, and the doctor got it all. Lymph sentinel was negative.
7/22 – Sponge’s First Lady is home and resting comfortably. The surgery went well and the doctor was pleased. They did remove some lymph nodes that looked suspect, but did not have to remove much mass around the cancer. They will have the results of the tests on the nodes next week. Thank you for the continued prayers as she has only just begun this whole thing.
8/8 Update – One of the lymph nodes had cancer cells in it. She’ll start chemo in a couple of weeks, but for now it will be once a week for 12 weeks, then different meds once every 2 weeks for 4 weeks, then radiation for 5 weeks. They send thanks to all for your support.
8/12 Update – Sponge’s First Lady starts chemo this week, earlier than expected. She’s also nervous that her boss won’t be happy that she can’t work Thursdays anymore, due to the chemo schedule.
8/6 - LMD Outer Banker requested prayers for a son who is undergoing an experimental treatment for chronic Lyme disease, which he has been battling for 25 years. He will be in a clinic abroad for about a month.
8/31 Update – The son is on his way home. After one month of treatment, the tests appear to show he is free of Lyme and its coinfections. For the first time in 15 years, he no longer has to take antibiotics. Now the challenge is for his immune system to repair itself to be able to ward off future problems. The clinic indicates that will take about 6 months of healthy eating and supplements. Thank you for your prayers; LMD Outer Banker and family are crying in joy.
8/10 – Farmer Bob provided an update. He sent his thanks for the prayers and encouragement. It’s been a year, and he is fit, fun, fashionable, fearless, and faithful man again, vs. the pit of despair and despondency.
8/10 – From about That Time requested prayers for a nephew, daughter, and the entire family in general. The nephew, a 45 year old, was camping with the family, and felt ill. He went to the porch to rest and died. The daughter could use prayers because she just lost her (early) second pregnancy. A boatload of prayers would be greatly appreciated.
8/17 Update – From about That Time sent thanks to all for the prayers.
8/10 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his HS buddy Fred, who passed away on 8/9 after suffering from ALS for many years.
8/10 – S requested prayers for his friend Jim, who lost his brother and needs strength to assist in this painful transition.
8/11 – RickZ asked for prayers for an internet friend, Pandora, who died of cancer, and for her beloved husband. Pandora was very worried about him, how hard it will be for him when she died.
8/17 – Pug Mahon posted that he was worried about his wife. She was on antibiotics for acute Lyme disease, and was scheduled for an MRI on Sunday morning. They are not sure what is going on.
8/21 Update – Pug’s wife didn’t do well with the first antibiotic, but she is responding better to the second one. Also, she is working half-days. It is pretty clearly Lyme disease.
8/17 – Oddbob asked for prayers for the family of M, his daughter’s friend, who passed away last week.
8/17 – Dave in Fla asked for prayers. He is looking for guidance related to his job. He is about 3 years from retirement, and returned to work from a vacation to find that he was removed from his position without explanation, and after demonstrated success, due to office politics. He still has a job, and can keep working in FL, but he is also considering an offer from the company’s San Diego location. It’d be a burden to be bi-coastal for 3 years until retirement, but he knows and trusts the people at that location.
8/17 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for her son, who is still looking for a job in his major, which was horticulture. He has been apparently been offered a part time dealing with writing things for the internet, but that hasn’t started yet. Also, prayers for all the Morons and ‘ettes looking for jobs, including Bulgar.
8/17 – Polliwog the ‘Ette posted that Sister, C, found out that she has ovarian cancer and is scheduled for surgery at the end of August. Thankfully, it seems contained to just that area, but life will be complicated for the entire extended family for a bit.
8/19 – screaming in digital requested prayers for J, who fell of her porch and hit her head on concrete. J is a recent widow, and has been a friend for nearly 40 years.
8/23 – Grumpy and Recalcitrant requested continued prayers for J.J. Sefton. J.J. is feeing “not too bad, all things considered”. His post-radiation/chemo MRI is scheduled for the first week of Sept, and this is when he will find out where things are at, concerning his cancer. Please keep praying for complete remission, recovery, and a return to good health.
8/24 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for a friend, P, whose daughter was getting married in the RCC church on 8/24. P is disaffected from the RCC, believes in God, but not in Jesus. P’s wife is involved in the RCC church, so this is a sticking point with her. Also, prayers are requested for blessings for the daughter and son-in-law, and that everyone gets back and forth safely, and that the people at the wedding feel the presence of God and have a lovely time.
8/24 – tbodie Lurker asked for prayers for a 2nd ablation surgery, scheduled for 9/30. Hoping this one sticks.
8/31 – Tonypete requested prayers for his wife’s friend Barb. She is suffering from some type of mental disturbance and is a mess.
8/31 – Huerfano asked for prayers for a nephew, FHC, who sustained a lower back injury in a car accident a couple of months ago. He is running out of treatment options, short of surgery, which no one wants.
8/31 – Jewells45 sent an update. She started on Cyremza 2 weeks ago, and the only side effects are really bad headaches and fatigue. She is praying this works.
8/31 Zibby requested prayers for her brother-in-law, who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer and given 2 months to live. The family is in shock and Zibby’s husband is devastated. The BIL is the oldest sibling and beloved by everyone. Thank you for your prayers.
8/31 – AnnaS1’s husband died in July, and her heart is shattered. She needs some prayers. If anyone else has lost a spouse, how did you get through it?
8/31 – Morgan, loyal lurker, just got a new job and is very hopeful. He is requesting prayers that this will work out, that he can prove to be a valuable employee, and that God will bless the firm and its clients.
9/2 – Anderson Cooper’s giant anus has a praise update for the prayer list. His stage 4 esophageal cancer (lymph nodes and lungs secondary) is gone after 6 months of integrated therapy. The new scan is clean. Praise God. Thank you Horde.
9/3 – Ben Had posted that JT is sounding really good and sends his thanks for the prayers and concern. He will be in the rehab facility for a while longer.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
If everyone outside hard-core engineering, math or pre-med courses can easily get an A, the whole system loses meaning. It fails to make distinctions between different levels of achievement or to motivate students to work hard on their academic pursuits. All the while, it allows students to pretend–to themselves and to others–that they are performing exceptionally well. Worse, this system creates perverse incentives. To name but one, it actively punishes those who take risks by enrolling in truly challenging courses.
All true, if somewhat less daring than I had hoped.
The proposal is that every course be reduced to pass/fail. Which is better than the current situation, but doesn't actually fix the problem.
The tool Cisco provides to manage your software licenses for the hardware you bought from Cisco also allows anyone nearby to break into your network. If you're dumb enough to leave the license manager open to the internet, you're toast.
(And there are lots of people who are exactly that dumb. They post on Threads.)
As we covered at the time, Unity did indeed commit suicide, implementing a new payment structure that could easily cost more than 100% of a game's revenue.
Godot is one of Unity's main competitors, but it is a less polished library built by a smaller team, so taking on all those developers fleeing Unity was going to be a struggle, and they knew it.
Makes me like the Godot team all the more.
(Also, it's officially pronounced however you want.)
Well, it is a good laptop (though not a cheap one). Intel's latest Lunar Lake CPU, up to 32GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD, dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, and a 14" 2880x1800 OLED display. Those screens are great.
And it has the Four Essential Keys. Not in my preferred arrangement, but they are all there.
And it weighs less than 1kg.
What's not to like?
Two things: First, pricing starts at $1999. This is not in the same ZIP code as cheap.
Second, Lunar Lake. Apart from the fact that you cannot upgrade the RAM, ever, it is not all that fast. We haven't seen the numbers yet, but with just four P cores and four E cores, and no hyper-threading, even if its single-core performance is extraordinary it is unlikely to outperform a four year old Ryzen 5800U for multi-threaded tasks.
And I already have a four year old Ryzen 5800U. Well, the very slightly updated 7730U, but it's the same silicon.
This includes full patient identification - names, addresses, drivers licenses, insurance information; medical records including health conditions, family histories, and traumatic experiences; test results and prescription medications; and audio and video recordings of therapy sessions.
All sitting on a server connected directly to the internet without a password.
This is the worst security fuckup I have ever seen. Whether the data was stolen is unknown - it was discovered by a security researcher - and will not be known unless or until the data starts circulating on the Dark Web.
Sony's $100 million woke flop Concord is now deceased, having failed to reach 1000 players in the entire world in the ten days since release.
I would get one, but I think first I should do something with the three Bullet Journals I bought, and then did nothing with. Oh -- I think I started to pen in some calendars on one.
You organized people have no idea what a gift you've been given. It's like a superpower, to those who don't have it.
This reindeer is obviously racist. #DoBetter, white reindeer. #DoBetter.
Abdul Jameel Wright was named Minnesota Teacher of the Year in 2016. That same year, he allegedly began a sexual relationship with a then 14-year-old student that lasted nearly a year; Wright was 30 at the time.
According to a summons filed in Hennepin County District Court late last week, Wright, who is also known as "AB," has been charged with one felony count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a minor age 13 to 15 while in a position of authority.
The allegations against Wright, now 38, surfaced earlier this spring in a public social media post by a woman who accused Wright of "taking a little girls (sic) innocence."
Following the spread of the social media post, St. Louis Park High School sent an internal email to staff stating that a teacher had been placed on leave following allegations of "serious misconduct," and that an investigation was underway. Wright was not named by the school in the email, but was employed as a language arts teacher, according to the school's online staff directory at the time and his LinkedIn bio.
Let's make sure teachers have more "private little chats" about sex and blowjobs and anal with the children they have authority over.
The power toolmaker Stanley Black and Decker is the latest firm to face a boycott from conservatives over its diversity-hiring policies and support for LGBTQ causes.
Consumers' Research, an advocacy group, has panned the Connecticut-based firm for picking suppliers based on their race, and funding LGBTQ lobbying in Washington.
The company, which is behind such brands as DeWalt, Black and Decker, and Stanley, joins a growing list of firms to come under pressure from conservatives over policies seen by many as 'woke.'
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'Companies need to focus on serving their customers, not woke politicians.'
The $24 billion company did not immediately comment on the claims.
The boycott comes at a tough time for the toolmaker, which has seen its stock value sink in recent months, as it shutters plants and distribution hubs in a bid to trim $2 billion in costs and turn a profit.
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A report from Consumers' Research highlights controversial DEI efforts at the company.
They include policies to increase business with minority suppliers by at least 10 percent by 2025, donations of $10.5 million to 'racial equity' groups, and compulsory 'equity training' sessions for bosses.
It highlights comments from the firm's diversity chief Joe Simms, who has spoken of DEI as an 'unwavering focus' for the firm and one of its 'foundational commitments.'
Executives also teamed up with the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group, and took part in its 'equality index,' which ranks firms on how friendly they are to gay and transgender staff.
The report includes filings that show the company spent $280,000 on lobbying lawmakers for the Equality Act, which would 'enshrine in federal law that biological males can participate in women's sports.'
The Mail surveyed the company's website and social media channels and found repeated references to its DEI work and support for 'inclusive' workspaces and celebrations of Pride month.
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In recent weeks, Ford, Lowe's, Coors, Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply, John Deere and other well-known brands have pulled the plug on their DEI work or their support for LGBTQ causes.
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Many were pushed into action by the online anti-DEI campaigner Robby Starbuck. Others have faced legal challenges from America First Legal, a group led by former Trump administration officials.
You'll be happy to know that the the leftwing propaganda media is finally taking an interest in the takeovers of apartment buildings by the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragau.
Residents at an Aurora apartment complex are speaking out against the narrative that their building is being taken over by a Venezuelan gang -- saying it isn't true.
Tuesday, tenants at the Edge At Lowry apartments held a press conference to dispute claims about gangs taking over the complex ever since viral videos allegedly showing the gang, Tren de Aragua, breaking into apartments have been shared by people all over the world.
Many tenants tell Denver7 they do not believe the gang is present at the complex. They said the most significant problems they've dealt with are the uninhabitable conditions of the building they're living in, a story Denver7 covered a few weeks ago.
One tenant, who is from Venezuela, said he now feels targeted since the rumors began circulating.
Oh perfect, you found an illegal alien from Venezuela to tell us that the "rumors" about these other illegal aliens from Venezuela are all lies told by the White Man.
"I'm scared to go out. They're accusing all of us at the complex of being in gangs, and this is completely false," tenant Oscar Rojas said in Spanish. "It's completely false. There are good people here, families. There's always going to be crime everywhere."
So maybe there's a little organized crime activity here, no big deal! It didn't bother us much in Venezuela, why are you gringos making a big fuss?
I totally trust illegal aliens living in an apartment building taken over by criminal illegal alien gangs when they tell me they're totally okay with the levels of criminality they're seeing, and also, there's no criminality at all.
Oh, and by the way, a second apartment building has been taken over by Tren de Aragau.
But you know, it's a Mostly Peaceful Armed Takeover.
By the way: Tren de Aragua breaks into empty apartments to (illegally) move in other illegal alien Venezuelans. And they demand half of the rent collected by the building's owner for "protection."
So yeah, let's take the word of other illegal aliens in the building uncriticially.
More details on gangs taking over apartments in Aurora, CO.
This has been going on since Nov. It happened to multiple buildings. The gang told the property manager to give them half the rents and threatened to kiII him.
"My building has been taken over by gang members armed with rifles. But what I'm really worried about is the media presenting these gangsters in a negative light."
-- Things people don't ever really say (unless they have a gun at their back or a payoff in their pocket)
Well, the important thing is your social media clout.
Don't get me wrong -- the childless cat ladies with bizarrely colored hair who fantasize about talking about Gay Pride "kink" displays are also heinous.
Ex-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Friday her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will cast his ballot this year in favor of Vice President Harris.
"Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris," Cheney told The Atlantic's Mark Leibovich at the Texas Tribune Festival.
Cheney added her father "believes, and he's said publicly, that there's never been an individual in our country who is as grave a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump is."
Cheney's comments follow her announcement earlier this week that she is also going to vote for Harris over former President Trump, despite being a lifelong conservative.
How many times can this slug-like hag announce the same thing and get fresh media mentions every time?
The GOPe has always hated their constituency. I welcome the Cheney family's newly discovered candor. Treat all GOPe as you would the Cheneys. https://t.co/GP1n2cEe0k
Collin Alred is a Democrat running for Senate against Ted Cruz. I'm not sure why Liz Cheney would be in a position to vote for him -- is she pretending to live in Texas now? Is that the latest False Address she's giving the authorities to hide the fact she's been living in the criminal hub of the US, northeastern Virginia, her entire life?
The betrayal is now almost complete. Everything we ever said about them -- that this is a cadre of people who hate us so much but pander to us, completely insincerely, about the handful of issues we care about so they trick us into voting for them so they can pass endless tax cuts for themselves and fund endless foreign wars -- is now proven.
It's almost V. I half-believe in the Infiltrating Space Reptile theory of politics now.
Or, I believe more in this:
J.D. Vance recently pointed out that Liz Cheney keeps getting richer and fatter as America gets weaker and poorer.
Echoing the New York Times' David French, Cheney stated, "As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I am voting for Kamala Harris."
'This is a person whose entire career has been about sending other people's children off to fight and die for her military conflicts.'
This endorsement comes two years after Republican primary voters in Wyoming overwhelmingly rejected Cheney and just days after scores of nominally Republican staffers who served under President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), and failed presidential candidate Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) similarly threw in their lots with Harris.
It also represents a major about-face for Cheney, who in November 2020 suggested that Harris sounded "just like Karl Marx."
A month earlier, Cheney wrote, "Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who wants to raise your taxes, take away your guns and your health insurance, explode the size of our federal government and give it control over every aspect of our lives. She would recreate America in the image of what we've seen on the streets of Portland and Seattle. We won't give her the chance."
Cheney told Fox News in August 2020:
It's very clear, [Kamala Harris] is a radical liberal. She's somebody that has said we ought to spend $32 trillion on Medicare for all. If you look at her record as well in California, she did in fact essentially ban gun sales with executive action and she threatened during the primaries to do the same thing if she's elected.
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Vance responded, "A very good thing that I could say about the next presidency of Donald Trump is that he's going to make sure that people like Liz Cheney are laughed out of the Oval Office instead of rewarded."
"This is a person whose entire career has been about sending other people's children off to fight and die for her military conflicts and her ridiculous ideas that somehow, we were going to turn Afghanistan -- a country that doesn't even have running water in a lot of places -- into a thriving liberal democracy," said Vance. "And for that, Liz Cheney was willing to kill thousands of your children."
"I think it's the best thing in the world that she's supporting Kamala Harris," continued Trump's running mate. "Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney make very, very interesting partners. They get rich when America's sons and daughters go off to die. They get rich when America loses wars instead of winning wars. And they get rich when America gets weaker in the world."
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (TND) -- Former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, R- District 24, announced on Wednesday she would ditch the Democratic Party and change her affiliation to the GOP.
Romero, who served as a state lawmaker for 12 years, made the announcement during a press conference outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento. She explained the decision was due to a feeling of misalignment with the Democratic Party.
"In this Capitol behind me, I served as both Senate Democratic Caucus chair and the Senate Majority Leader," she said. "Today, I say goodbye, adios, I've had enough."
"I am now another near-lifelong Democrat who is joining the growing number of people, including key groups like Latinos, who are leaving the Democratic Party," she added. "This is not the Democratic Party I once championed, I do not recognize it anymore."
The former state senator explained she planned to vote for former President Donald Trump in the November election. Romero also noted she was not able to back several contemporary Democratic policies, such as those targeting emissions and climate
change.
"I for example think we are going to solve nothing by banning gas stoves," she said. "As a Latina, I will not give up my gas stove because you can not toast a tortilla on an electric range."
The gas stove thing is no small matter. The Democrat Party -- or the Democrat-Media-GOPe Regime -- is the party that will not stop f***ing with citizens, ever, on any matter, whether fundamental or trivial.
It's a party of Big Government Bullies who love tormenting anyone it has under their thumb, because the thrill of making other people bend to their will is the only pleasure they take in this fallen world.
Are you enjoying something? Do you cling bitterly to your outdoors sports, your guns, your religion, and your traditional morality? Well then, the Democrat Party is here to tell you you're doing it all wrong and mandate -- I mean, force you via "tough regulations and financial incentives" -- to change every aspect of your life to match that of gay heiress nepo baby Anderson Cooper.
The Old Ruling class had a motto: Reign, not rule. They wanted the power, but they knew if they f***ed with the citizenry too much -- if they ruled over them -- they would revolt. So their ethos was to reign... lightly. To not piss off the peons.
This New Ruling class very definitely wants to Rule, not reign. They WANT you to know they're above you. They WANT you to feel the weight of their boots on your neck. They WANT you to know they have very specific ways in which they want you to live, and if you fail to live their way, they will hound you to the ends of the earth.
"That is just bad news, another reason to leave the Democratic Party," Romero added.
Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-San Diego, welcomed Sen. Romero to the GOP in a statement.
"We are honored to have Gloria on our side as we fight to fix California," he wrote. "For anyone else who is tired of witnessing the Democrat supermajority run this state into the ground, we have a seat at our table for you, too."
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson made waves in February for making a similar decision to flip his party affiliation from blue to red. The move, he said, prompted "distraught" phone calls from some Democrats.
CNN Confirms: Discord Linked to School Shooter Expressed "Frustrations with Acceptance of Transgender People," Claimed He Was "Bullied for Being Gay"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It was technically illegal for me to even speculate about his motives -- only the media is permitted by law to do that -- especially if that speculation impacted one of the "disadvantaged" (actually, "greatly advantaged") Democrat client group.
They don't say he was trans -- just that he was very, very upset about the lack of "acceptance of trans people."
Georgia school shooter Colt Gray was discovered to have had a Discord account that contained posts suggesting he was planning a mass shooting due to his grievances over the lack of trans acceptance. Gray had also researched previous school shootings, like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting carried out by Adam Lanza as well as the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in 2018.
The posts on Discord, from 2023, referenced plans for a "future mass shooting," CNN reported. "I'm committing a mass shooting," a post read, "I'm committing a mass shooting and I'm waiting a good two to three years, and I'm ready." CNN reported that the poster then shared a picture of the gun he intended to use, before continuing to discuss the post.
The reporter said that the post, attributed to Gray, was "expressing desires to target an elementary school, expressing frustrations with the treatment of transgender people."
"The account referenced Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter, and in separate posts shared a desire to target an elementary school and expressed frustration with the acceptance of transgender people," a report from CNN read.
I'm very glad that the Professionals at CNN have decided to share this Forbidden News with us, so we weren't forced to continue guessing, which we're also not allowed to do. Forbidden News is forbidden for a reason, sub-peons!
We should definitely keep covering this up and continue pretending there is absolutely no problem of mentally-ill Alphabet People engaging in mass shootings to express the hatred of normies the left instills in them.
Hey, remember when the media whipped up a mass national panic over "incels" due to a single mass shooting?
That panic continued into, and past, 2019, when the media whipped up a panic that the movie Joker might spur Dangerous Incels to commit mass shootings.
Anyone think they'll be similarly whipping up one now after multiple shootings?
Or will the victims be blamed?
Spoiler: the victims will be blamed. Bullies get what they get!
Hey media, maybe stop your endless hate-farming operations to whip up your Clients and Catspaws into seething with hatred against the out-groups?
You know -- all of the incessant, panicky shrieking that if you fail to use whatever pronouns a fucked-up teenager is using this week then you're committing "Trans Genocide" and attempting to "erase" them from "existence?"
Maybe given the precarious mental health of these fucked-up teenagers, charging them full of that kind of incendiary, eliminationist rhetoric might just tip them in acting as if their actual "existence" really is in danger of being "erased"?
Or is it only the Non-Certified Media that needs to be cautious about its rhetoric?
I am glad the father has been arrested for involuntary manslaughter for buying his fucked-up psychopathic son -- who had already been interviewed by the FBI for making terroristic threats to commit a school shooting -- the very weapon which he then used to commit the school shooting.
I'm sure we'll find out he's a hard-left liberal who kinda-sorta wanted his headcase, parental-abuse psychopath to rain bloody vengeance down on the normies.
he father of a 14-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting four people at a Georgia high school was arrested Thursday and faces charges including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for letting his son possess a weapon, authorities said.
It's the latest example of prosecutors holding parents responsible for their children's actions in school shootings. In April, Michigan parents Jennifer and James Crumbley were the first convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting. They were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for not securing a firearm at home and acting indifferently to signs of their son's deteriorating mental health before he killed four students in 2021.
Colin Gray, 54, the father of Colt Gray, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at a news conference.
"His charges are directly connected with the actions of his son and allowing him to possess a weapon," Hosey said.
In Georgia, second-degree murder means that a person has caused the death of another person while committing second-degree cruelty to children, regardless of intent. It is punishable by 10 to 30 years in prison, while malice murder and felony murder carry a minimum sentence of life. Involuntary manslaughter means that someone unintentionally caused the death of another person.
CNN's Isabel Rosales reports to Anderson Cooper about the Winder, Ga. school mass shooter's alleged Discord posts in 2023 expressing a desire to kill and frustrations over transgender issues. A transcript of Colt Grey's father's interview with law enforcement last year reveals… pic.twitter.com/PzJnAHW2n1
Biden-Harris White House Is Shocked by Hamas's Brutal Execution of Hostages, and Begins to Suspect the Unthinkable -- Maybe Hamas is a Bad Actor That Actually Doesn't Want Peace at All!
David Strom quotes the media punching bag of the day (besides AP), Axios:
Biden and his top advisers were shocked after Hamas killed six hostages, among them U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and have started to rethink the way forward in the negotiations over the deal.
At the same time, Hamas' new demand to increase the number of Palestinian prisoners released as part of the deal raised even more concerns and questions among U.S. negotiators about whether an agreement is possible, U.S. officials said.
"We still think the deal is the only way to save the lives of the hostages and stop the war. But the executions not only increased our sense of urgency but also called into question Hamas' willingness to do a deal of any kind," a U.S. official said.
Wow! These Elites! No wonder they're in charge! They have powers of cognition that are so far above those of sub-peons like us!
Strom comments:
We are led by fools. No doubt Bibi Netanyahu has been telling the Biden administration these things since 10/7, and they merely saw him as a right-wing warmonger who must be wrong. Surely, if only Israel made concessions to and friends with Hamas we could all come to some sort of agreement.
Idiots.
Yet here we are, 11 months after the most brutal day in Israeli history, and the US government is slowly realizing that Hamas are not the good guy in all this.
Of course, this isn't really the Democrat Party being "fooled:" It's more that the Democrat Party, determined to change the electorate, has imported tens of millions of Newcomers from the Arab-Muslim world, and those Newcomers are pro-terrorist, so the Democrat Party is feeling out an exciting "Third Way" between the extremes of being pro-terrorism or, like the Republican fuddy-duddy racist old-thinkers, being anti-terrorist.
They want to be "centrists" on terrorism.
Now, that's a shift in the Biden-Harris White House's thinking.
SICKENING: Tampon Tim Walz says pro-Hamas radicals "are speaking out for all the right reasons" and calls to "put the leverage" on Israel to ensure Hamas terrorists live to see another day. pic.twitter.com/WYDZiX84PL
As they say, when a terrorist apologist speaks, you can ignore everything before that crucial "but" -- it's what comes after the telling "but" that the terrorist apologist actually believes.
[Walz]: Well, I think first and foremost what we saw on October 7th was a horrific act of violence against the people of Israel. They have certainly, and the vice president said it, I've said it, have the right to defend themselves and the United States will always stand by that, but we can't allow what's happened in Gaza to happen. The Palestinian people have every right to life and liberty themselves. We need to continue, I think to put the leverage on to make sure we move towards a two state solution. I think we're at a critical point right now. We need the Netanyahu government to start moving in that direction. But I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons. It's a humanitarian crisis. It can't stand the way it is. And we need to find a way that people can live together in this and we've said it and continue to say it, getting a ceasefire with the return of the hostages and then moving towards a sustainable two state solution is the only way forward.
Douglas Murray just knocked down Piers Morgan for making the same claim-- that the key to "peace" is constantly mau-mauing Israel into being more "open" to peace and being willing to "compromise."
With terrorist rapist and hostage-takers who shoot their hostages in the back of their heads rather than allow them to be liberated by rescuers.
Douglas Murray points out that only a fraction of wars are settled by a "peace process." The majority are settled by, get this, one side winning in such a comprehensive way that the losing side is forced to come to terms and give up its own demands -- such as a "From the River to the Sea" eradication of Israel and ethnic cleansing of all Jews from the region. And note: That is best-case scenario for the Jews of Israel. Ethnic cleansing is their best hope.
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PIERS MORGAN vs. DOUGLAS MURRAY:
PIERS MORGAN: Do you not feel that something has to give here, that this has to get resolved somehow, and that the only way to do that is, as with all these situations, you have to eventually compromise in some way? The problem for… pic.twitter.com/gobE78FHQq
America First Legal Sues Every County in Arizona to Force Them, as the Law Requires, to Remove All Illegal Aliens from the Voter Rolls
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In case you're not on Musk's wavelength: It's a troll. He's pretending that liberals should support voter-integrity measures because of course it's Trump and the Republicans who cheat in elections. That's why Republicans always want to stop vote cheating, and Democrats fight to keep it.
Before getting to that, some more legal news: Corrupt judge Merchan, whose daughter continues fundraising off her father's efforts to jail Trump, has postponed the sentencing until after the election.
Judge Juan Merchan decided to postpone former President Trump's sentencing in New York v. Trump until after the November presidential election.
Trump's sentencing date is now scheduled for Nov. 26. The original date was set for Sept. 18.
"The public's confidence in the integrity of our judicial system demands a sentencing hearing that is entirely focused on the verdict of the jury and the weighing of aggravating and mitigating factors free from distraction or distortion," Merchan said in a letter Friday.
I can't wait 'til Alvin Bragg, Merchan, "Tish" James, and the judge who oversaw the "business crimes" prosecution learn that political prosecutions GO BOTH WAYS. They need to be investigated by the DOJ for conspiracy to Defraud the People of the US of an election (that's the same charge the DOJ slaps Trump and J6 defendants with), and need to go to jail when -- not if -- they lie about contacts with Biden's DOJ and strategists from the Democrat Party.
I will not be one of the Soft Sisters whining that Trump must be "above it all" and "restore norms." I will be one of the people demanding that those who attempted to rig an election through lawfare experience the tender mercies of lawfare themselves.
On to the headline story:
America First Legal is suing every single county in Arizona to force them, very much against their will, to take proven illegal aliens off the voter rolls.
The Democrat Party, which is all about "protecting our precious democracy," is determined to keep illegal aliens on the rolls.
Not that they'd vote or anything! Heaven forfend! They just want their names on the voter roll as... I don't know, like an "Honorary Voter" status, maybe?
/2 On July 17, we sent letters on behalf of our clients demanding that election officials in all 15 AZ counties fulfill their legal obligations to prevent aliens from voting and warning them that if they failed to do so, we would pursue legal action on behalf of our clients.
/3 On August 6, 2024, we sued the Maricopa County Recorder on behalf of Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona and Yvonne Cahill, a registered voter and naturalized citizen, for brazenly refusing to comply with the law.
/4 The claims in the lawsuit were based on Arizona state laws that require county recorders to do monthly voter list maintenance to remove foreign citizens from voter rolls.
/5 Nevertheless, Maricopa County removed the case to federal court, arguing that the case also involved federal laws that, in the county's view, should be interpreted in federal court. Maricopa County is notorious for employing procedural maneuvers to delay election cases and keep them from being heard on the merits.
Here's a fun wrinkle: by removing the case to federal court, Maricopa gave America First Legal the right to sue every county in the state to compel the action to remove illegal aliens from the voter rolls.
/6 However, Maricopa County's attempts here have backfired.
Arizona state court rules only allow for one county to be sued in a case like this, whereas federal court rules allow a plaintiff to sue more than one county at a time.
/7 Now that our clients are in federal court, we added the other 14 counties in Arizona to the lawsuit to ensure that every county in the state is compelled to fulfill its statutory duties.
/8 Two federal statutes that have been in effect for nearly thirty years, 8 U.S.C. sec. 1373(c) and 8 U.S.C. sec. 1644, allow State and local officials to obtain information about the citizenship or immigration status of any individual for any lawful purpose.
/9 Yet, counties in Arizona have decided to ignore these tools and threaten the integrity of the 2024 Presidential election by failing to remove foreign nationals from their voter rolls.
Weaselly Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his refusal to say why he opposes a House bill that would include a requirement of proof of citizenship to register to vote, which is bipartisan.
When asked whether he would support it -- and having it pointed out that five Democrat House members voted for the SAVE Act back in July -- Schumer began spamming out crap about "poison pills."
Look, Speaker Johnson should learn from the past, you can only keep the government fund[ed] in a bipartisan way. You can't have a group of Republicans, particularly led by right-wing, hard-nosed Republicans who don't even represent the whole Republican Party, put together a proposal with all kinds of poison pill legislation in it and then say, this is what has to pass. That bill may not even pass the House. I think there are some Republicans who might vote against it.
Mike Miller of RedState points out:
Um, Chuck? The House passed a nationwide proof of citizenship bill -- the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act -- with a 221-198 vote on July 10, with 216 Republicans and five Democrats voting for its passage.
Schumer again said that he would block any such bill, but continues to not say why:
It certainly has no chance in the Senate or no chance of being signed by the president. So, Speaker Johnson, look at what's going on, you can't pass a bill unless we come together on a bipartisan agreement, that's what each -- has happened each time in the past. You've tried to appease your right wing, it's failed, and you've had to come to us and negotiate. We're ready to negotiate a bipartisan deal.
Whitworth continued to push: "Some Democrats do support it, though. And what about it would not pass through the Senate?"
Again, Chuck refused to answer, further twisting himself into a an illogical pretzel, circling back to the "poison pills" excuse.
Schumer claims "if you're not a citizen, you can't vote."
But you can vote as a non-citizen, Chuck -- many do. They're not allowed to, but they do.
I'll give you a hint: He has no chin, he's paid by China, and sometimes he glitches publicly for 20 or more second straight.
While there is bipartisan agreement that there will likely need to be a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded past Sept. 30, House conservatives and a Democrat-led Senate are headed for a showdown amid efforts on both sides regarding barring noncitizens from voting. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's name is being reported as being against adding the stricter voting requirement measure to the funding bill.
"McConnell staffers have urged conservatives in the Senate and the House to keep the precedent of passing clean short-term-funding bills and argued that using a potential shutdown to try to score political points is dangerous before the election, sources said," according to Axios.
"Their involvement in this latest push shows he's not taking a back seat in high-level negotiations even though he plans to step down as leader after the election," the outlet added.
Job Creation Slows as Foreign Workers Take the Lion's Share of What Few Jobs Were Created Plus: Appeals Courts Remove RFKJr's Name from Ballots in MI and NC!
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Unrelated Update: Both Michigan's Appeals Court and North Carolina's Supreme Court have reversed lower (Hawaiian judge) rulings keeping RFKJr.'s name on the ballot. Democrats want to keep his name on the ballot because they don't want RFKJr.'s voters voting for the man RFKJr. endorsed, Trump. Republicans want him off (as RFKJr. himself demanded) so that they will.
Remember, it was RFKJr. himself who filed to remove his name from the ballot. Democrat judges said "no, you have to stay on the ballot, to help Kamala." I mean, they didn't say that last part out loud -- but that's the reason.
Nice election news for Team Trump:
@SteveLovesAmmo
BREAKING: Michigan Appeals Court just ordered that RFK Jr.'s name will be taken off the ballot!
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@LeadingReport
BREAKING: North Carolina Court of Appeals has ordered Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name to be taken off the general election ballot in the state.
Since I'm on Axios' site, I'll go with their spin on this.
The U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate edged slightly lower to 4.2% from 4.3%, the Labor Department said on Friday.
Why it matters: A slowing labor market is a pivotal factor that will help the Federal Reserve determine the size of a highly anticipated interest rate cut later this month.
Axios casually side-steps the real "Why It Matters:" Economists worry that Biden has driven us off the cliff and this latest data point suggests we are closer to a deep recession.
But naaaah, it's just about something most people don't care about, a possible federal rate cut.
Note the Fed would only cut interest rates, especially in the face of uncontrolled inflation, if a recession were imminent.
Axios is pretending they don't know this.
The August figures came in below expectations of 161,000 job gains.
The new report also shows notable revisions for months past: The economy added just 89,000 jobs in July--25,000 fewer than initially thought.
June's gains were revised down by 61,000 to 118,000.
Surprise, surprise. Gee-- that's almost half of June's jobs that turned out to be Fake Economic News.
Employment among foreign-born workers has increased 4.4 million since pre-pandemic (and is back on trend) while jobs among native-born Americans have fallen 833k over that same time - literally no progress in 5 years... pic.twitter.com/qLVgC4LXk3
Charles Schumer's take? Obviously we must Make America a Foreign Country Again.
SCHUMER: “The only way we’re going to have a great future in America” is by granting citizenship to millions of illegal aliens pic.twitter.com/CYLir0G5LM
Very much related: Biden admits that the dishonestly, propgandistically named "Inflation Reduction Act" was never about inflation.
He's admitting this because the "Inflation Reduction" obviously failed -- but he wants you to know, he succeeded in the real goal of the latest inflation-provoking $369 billion boondoggle:
BIDEN: My investments, through my investments, the most significant climate change law ever, and by the way, it is a $369 billion bill, it's called the, we should have named it what it was, at any rate.
Joe Biden just STRAIGHT UP ADMITTED that the Inflation Reduction Act was a TOTAL SCAM that had NOTHING to do with reducing inflation!
Bear in mind: This is the same outlet that insisted Kamala Harris was never "border czar" despite their own "reportage" calling her that in 2021.
With 60 days left in the race, and at the very moment she's presenting a different ideology than four years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris isn't getting subjected to the media scrutiny typical for a presidential nominee.
Why it matters: Harris is copying President Biden's self-protection media strategy -- duck tough interviews and limit improvisational moments.
Her circumstances are different, for sure. She entered the race just seven weeks ago, did dozens of interviews this year before Biden's exit, and plans to do more interviews and gaggles.
But with her debate with former President Trump coming up Tuesday (9pm ET), Harris has big questions to answer in two areas that go to the heart of running America:
Why did President Biden's top advisers routinely leak word they found her performance as vice president disappointing or episodically problematic?
How did her views change in five years, from liberal to centrist on health care, immigration and energy? Why should voters believe her new views are the ones she'd stick with inside the White House?
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Nine areas in which she's shifted views or her current position is unknown:
Banning plastic straws for environmental concerns. (She's no longer for it, as Axios reported Thursday.)
A mandate for automakers to only make electric and hydrogen vehicles by 2035. (The Harris campaign won't say whether she's still for it.)
Banning fracking because of concerns over global warming and potential water contamination. (No longer favors a ban.)
A mandatory buyback program for assault weapons as part of her gun safety agenda. (She's dropped this idea.)
Decriminalizing crossing the border from a criminal offense to a civil one. (No longer supports.)
Reparations for slavery, which many progressives argued for during the 2020 primary. (Position unclear.)
Building a wall on the Southwest border, a defining Trump promise that many Democrats have fought. (Accepted it as part of the bipartisan border package that Republicans killed.)
A federal jobs guarantee that was part of her Green New Deal proposal. (No longer for it.)
Medicare for All, which Harris embraced in her first year as senator. (She's backed off this.)
What they're saying: Harris and her campaign haven't provided many details explaining her policy shifts.
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Reality check: One of the features of her melded staff (Harris loyalists and Obama alumni, grafted onto existing Biden staffers) is that even some of her own staffers aren't sure where she stands on a range of issues.
[Trump's] running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), routinely sits for tough interviews with mainstream reporters. Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, hasn't done a solo TV interview.
I saw a story a couple of weeks ago that Walz avoids interviews precisely because 1, he doesn't want to say what the Harris-Walz position is on issues, and 2, he doesn't even know what the Harris-Walz position is on issues.
Behind the scenes: As Axios' Sophia Cai has reported, Harris made a decision not to get too deep into specific policies because there wasn't time.
LOL, that must be it, Axios. Good "reporting."
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The result is lots of down-the-middle vagueness. That's the case on the issue of whether Harris would require automakers to build only electric or hydrogen vehicles by 2035 -- a position she took during her 2020 campaign for president.
For a story this week, Axios asked her campaign about the issue for six days before getting a "no comment."
Why does Kamala Harris think she can stiff-arm a Kamala-boosting media with "no comment," wonders a Kamala-boosting media that makes excuses for her when she stiff-arms them with a "no comment"?
Some elements of the national press are finally starting to understand that Kamala Harris is playing them for fools. Of course, admitting there's a problem is different than acting on it.
I'm not sure what's more frustrating. That Kamala Harris doesn't even have an official policy platform yet and early voting is already starting, or that the supposed news outlets are trying to play the victim in the face of that. If only there was a massive "fourth estate" with enormous, worldwide influence that could report honestly on Harris and pressure her into doing interviews and press conferences.
If you are to believe Axios' framing, they and other mainstream news sources are helpless. There's just nothing they can do. That contradiction between complaining about Harris' strategy and the press feeding into it is illustrated later in the same article.
What they're saying: Harris and her campaign haven't provided many details explaining her policy shifts.
A Harris campaign aide explained to Axios that she's no longer pushing Medicare for All because of what she learned during her four years of experience in the White House, and seeing how the Biden administration has expanded coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
Do you know what the press could do if they want to make Harris speak clearly and publicly about her policy positions? They could stop publishing anonymous sources like the one cited above. Every single time an anonymous "aide" is allowed to change a Harris position with no further details or explanation, her campaign is given every incentive to continue hiding the candidate behind a teleprompter.
If it were one issue it wouldn't be a big deal but as Cillizza correctly points out, she's done this on a bunch of issues: Fracking, the border wall and asylum policies, the Green New Deal, gun confiscation, Medicare for All. She has done an about face on all of them. It's a big part of her strategy to get elected.
Those, um, policy shifts are all part of a designed strategy on the part of the Harris team. This, from Axios, is telling on that front:
A big part of the Harris plan is to unapologetically change some of her more liberal positions, and claim her White House experience helped change her mind. Yes, when she was running for president in 2019, she was against fracking, for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, and for single-payer health care (Medicare for All).
So here's the obvious part. The claim that Harris has actually changed her mind because of her time as VP and that her values haven't changed is just not credible.
Given that history, I struggle to swallow the spin that her time as vice president is what explains all of these policy shifts. Especially when you consider that every single one of them is Harris moving from a position liberals love to one centrists -- and swing voters -- prefer. Like, she never learned anything during her time in the White House that made her think a more liberal solution was the right way to go?
And the explanation that she and her campaign team have settled on -- "my values have not changed" -- doesn't really fly either. If her values told her that single payer, government run healthcare was the right way to insure Americans get the best services possible, why does she no longer think that?
Yes, this is all blindingly obvious but again, how many journalists are saying it?
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It's pretty hard to claim her opponents are all liars when there is oodles of video showing Harris herself stating her left-wing views. And the silly claim that her views have evolved, as Chris Cillizza said, just doesn't seem credible. What does seem credible is that Harris' advisers are lying because the real Kamala Harris is a fringe candidate who can't possibly win this election.
Yes, the real truth is that she does have real views, and they are the hard-left views of her Marxist professor father, and she knows she cannot win on those issues, so she's, get this, lying about them with a paper-thin lie that is only designed to hold up for 60 days.
Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign won't say whether she supports requiring automakers to build only electric or hydrogen vehicles by 2035 -- a position she took during her 2020 campaign for president.
Why it matters: Since taking over President Biden's campaign in July, Harris has been light on policy details.
Harris' campaign has said she no longer supports many of her past progressive positions and has embraced more centrist stances on health care, immigration, gun control and fracking.
Even so, Donald Trump's campaign has focused on footage from Harris' 2020 campaign to attack her as "dangerously liberal."
Driving the news: Harris' campaign has sent contradictory signals about her position on a mandate for automakers -- a key issue in pivotal Midwestern states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where many autoworkers are based.
In a lengthy "fact-check" email last week that covered several issues, a campaign spokesperson included a line saying that Harris "does not support an electric vehicle mandate" -- suggesting she changed her previous position, without elaborating.
On Aug. 28 Axios asked the Harris campaign to clarify her position, and whether she would sign or veto a bill she co-sponsored in 2019 that included such a mandate for manufacturers.
On Tuesday afternoon, Harris' campaign ultimately declined to comment.
But the important thing is: Trump lies. Trump lies when he says Biden-Harris is already pushing an EV mandate, when all they're actually doing is attempting to force people to buy EVs through "tough regulations and financial incentives:"
Trump has falsely claimed that Biden has already instituted such a mandate, but the current administration has pushed the adoption of EVs through a combination of tough regulations and financial incentives.
Do you think that Axios would agree that DeSantis hasn't "banned abortion," but merely discouraged it through "tough regulations"?
Because I don't. I think they say he's "banned abortions."
Matt Whitlock makes the important point: As that female journalist on CNBC correctly noted, alleged "policy shifts" aren't real if it's just Kamala Harris's Media Whisperers claiming, anonymously and on background, that she's shifted positions.
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Notable that these changes were ALL announced through unnamed staffers - not from her and not on her website.
So we have to trust she's flipped completely on positions - many of which she held even before 2019/2020 - based on anonymous campaign sources in media reports.
The media keeps claiming she's dropped her hard left positions -- but Kamala Harris hasn't herself claimed this, except for a couple (like her claim she doesn't support frakking now, for the next 60 days).
But mostly, the media's "source" for her pretended change in positions isn't Kamala Harris herself, but her (and Obama's) people lying to the press about her "new positions," while Kamala remains free to reassert those positions post-election, and say, honestly: "I never said I was changing positions on that." And she's say, dishonestly: "If you heard that from a mere staffer, it's your fault for believing they could change my policies behind my back."
It's both Kamala's fault and the media's fault. The media shouldn't allow her to get away with this, obviously, and also obviously, Kamala Harris is sending out her Media Whisperers to lie anonymously about her supposedly new, changed positions without Kamala ever committing to these new positions.
THE MORNING RANT: A Study Shows that Blue State Refugees Are Voting Heavily Republican in Tennessee
—Buck Throckmorton
There is a great exodus of people fleeing the taxes, crime, and other left-wing pathologies of blue states for the freedom and culture of red states. This has caused much consternation among conservatives in fast-growing red states, who fear the refugees will vote left and ruin their new states, as they did in prior waves that flipped states such as Colorado and Arizona from Republican to Democrat.
There is some great news out of an analysis of new-to-Tennessee voters casting their first ballots after registering in Tennessee – they are voting overwhelmingly Republican. In this study, first time voters from California are casting more than three times as many Republican ballots as they are Democrat ballots.
Before I discuss the specifics of the analysis, I believe it is necessary to once again discuss the difference between “colonizers” and “refugees.” The colonizers tend to be left-wing voters relocating to a red state because of their job. That is what makes Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s recruitment of tech companies so distasteful. Abbott has recruited wave after wave of tech workers from California, and they generally bring their left-wing voting habits with them. It is terribly short-sighted for Texas to import anti-carbon voters who will enthusiastically kill off Texas’ petroleum and cattle industries. Refugees, by contrast, tend to be conservatives fleeing blue states. They vote Republican in their new state, making it even redder. Even better, they bring with them an appreciation for just how destructive 21st Century Democrats are when they gain power.
My growing neighborhood in a Tennessee suburb had so many Illinois license plates in 2021 and 2022 that you might have thought it was a Chicago suburb. During my “Welcome to the neighborhood” chats with them, at which time I asked what brought them to Tennessee, it became clear that pretty much all of them are refugees.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press just did an analysis of those who moved from out of state to Hamilton County, Tennessee (e.g. Chattanooga and surrounding suburbs) since January 1, 2023, totaling how many voted in this year’s Republican primaries versus how many voted in the Democrat primaries. It was a mega-landslide in favor of Republicans. (Or maybe that should be “maga-landslide.”)
Among those who have moved from California to Hamilton County in recent years and registered to vote since the beginning of 2023, 75% of them participated in a Republican primary this year — either the one in March or August. (Tennesseans don't align with a political party when registering to vote. Party affiliation is determined by which party ballot they chose in the latest primary.)
The article quoted Paul Chabot of the online site Conservative Move, who observed that blue state conservatives fleeing to Tennessee are heading for the suburbs, not the major cities, because even the cities are too Democrat.
Tennessee, especially its suburbs surrounding the urban cities, Chabot said, is among the top destinations for the tens of thousands of clients his company serves each year. "The big cities — Nashville, Knoxville and others — are run largely by Democrats, but once you get out of the city limits into the suburbs where most of our clients are moving," Chabot said, "these areas are ruby red."
Below is a chart that the Times Free Press compiled from records at the Hamilton County Election Commission. It shows which primary ballot was chosen by those new voters whose previous address was in California.
• 83 former Californians voted in the Republican primary.
• 26 former Californians voted in the Democrat primary.
• 1 General* ballot.
(*There was one ballot cast in a concurrent, non-partisan election for a municipal office, at which time the newcomer didn’t vote in either party’s primary.)
That is a ratio exceeding 3 to 1 in favor of Republicans. California transplants are making this county redder.
The ratio was approximately the same for Illinois transplants.
While these 110 Californians who moved to Hamilton County, Tennessee are not a huge number by themselves, their voting behavior is likely a representative sample of how blue state refugees vote, wherever their diaspora takes them.
Don’t forget, Florida moved from a “purple” tossup state to solidly Republican in less than a decade, due to the overwhelmingly Republican voting habits of the blue state refugees fleeing to the Sunshine State.
In a way, these refugees fleeing to red states are a little bit like the Cubans who escaped from Castro’s communism. They experienced first-hand just how destructive left-wing governance can be, and they have a passion to not let their new home states fall victim to the same political ruin that they fled. In a review of Roger L. Simon’s “American Refugees,” Mark Pulliam wrote, “Newly arrived transplants, acutely aware of the peril posed by leftist policies, often find themselves acting like Paul Revere, warning the cliquish locals of the dangers of passivity and complacency. Far from posing a threat to red states, refugees from blue states, Simon posits, are in fact ‘a cavalry come to rescue the red states from themselves.’”
Liberty cannot be taken for granted. I am grateful that blue state refugees are making free states more conservative.
Good Morning Kids. Regardless of the media propaganda hype surrounding Kamala Hamas and Tim Walz, or I should say despite it, they don't seem to be gaining any kind of traction or real support as the race to November kicks into high gear. It's because more and more the general public are believing their lying eyes as our economy, national security and sense of personal safety go up in flames around us. Seemingly no one is immune from being mugged by reality as this pleasantly surprising story indicates:
A group of university professors are circulating a petition and a statement among their colleagues to support the Republican ticket in the upcoming presidential election. The project is titled "Lesser Evil." These professors are not MAGA-hatted hardcore conservatives, but citing Adam Smith, they have reached the logical conclusion that fundamental freedoms will be better preserved under a Republican administration than a Democratic one. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Klein, a professor at George Mason University, and Daniel Mahoney, professor emeritus of political science at Assumption University. On the website, Klein explains the rationale behind the effort
. . . Langbert also said that the GOP leaders “have done too little to cut harmful government programs, of which I can offer a long list beginning with the Department of Education.” He also commented, “Republicans are the lesser of two evils. They remain philosophically committed to liberalism and the rule of law…neither party has embraced the liberal views that propelled the United States, and earlier Great Britain and Germany, to world leadership.” Langbert also contends that a Harris administration would be "catastrophic."
. . . The group is looking for tenured professors at American universities to sign the petition. The College Fix notes that as of Thursday, 51 professors had signed on, double the number of signatories in late August.
The site also has an interesting graphic showing how Republicans are "less bad" than Democrats regarding various issues.
While we are not seeing a landslide of people shifting from left to right or even from center to right, there is momentum. Ironically, people like these professors, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., politicians, and people from all walks of life understand something that easily escapes the Democratic Machine, its celebrities, media figures, et al. It is something that even eludes the Never-Trump conservatives who go to such pains to remind everyone how truly erudite and illumined they are.
. . . But for now, it is good to have new faces here. These people understand that we are in danger of seeing Orwell's quote from 1984 come to fruition: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
Of course, even with fresh recruits, victory in November is not guaranteed. The Democratic war machine is well-oiled and well-funded. Be that as it may, the Democrats know that despite their best efforts, more and more people are awake, not woke.
People forget that the first few weeks of her 2019 campaign were not a total disaster area; it took a few weeks for the shine to wear off.
But now it’s wearing off, so the Democrats are activating Operation Russiagate II.
The Biden-Harris junta is making noise about Russia interfering in our elections again. Yesterday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced indictments and seizures of internet domains related to Russian interference in the election.
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment Wednesday alleging that two Russian nationals working for President Vladimir Putin’s government funneled millions of dollars into a media company run by anti-Trump conservative influencer Lauren Chen.
“An indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York charged Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, both based in Moscow, with conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” CBS News reported on Wednesday. . .
. . . The company allegedly had business arrangements of varying depths and duration with popular influencers such as Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, and Lauren Southern as talent.
Most of those listed have voiced pro-Trump opinions, though Chen herself had turned on the former president.
. . .Biase: “The whole thing is disgusting. And they’re just out to get him [Trump].”
“You know, it’s a perversion of justice.”
“He [Alvin Bragg] was stacking charges and rearranging things just to make it fit a case. To be honest with you, I think the case is nonsense.”
“This guy’s probably going to try to lock him [Trump] up. There is going to be — it’s going to be ugly. They’re so obsessed with getting him [Trump].”
Undercover Reporter: “Who is they?”
Biase: “The Democrats.”
. . . The focus was primarily on the New York case since Biase does his work for the SDNY. However, Biase said the following about Fulton County DA Fani Willis and the case against Trump in Georgia:
“It’s a travesty of justice to put it mildly. It’s a mockery of justice. She [Willis] is a joke. Like her and her boyfriend she was seeing, the whole thing is disgusting. And, they’re just out to get him [Trump].”
What someone says on a hidden camera is one thing, but to preserve protect and defend their jobs, pensions and their own asses from getting the Frank Serpico or Jeffrey Epstein treatment is something else. And yet, extrapolate it out to what I am sensing is a not insignificant and growing number of ordinary people who are beginning to connect their misery of the past four years with what Trump is saying and it seems to be connecting. Please God.
It has only been a week into the start of Fall semester on college campuses, but jihadist lynch mobs are already back terrorizing Jews. Nine universities had all summer to respond to a letter written by multiple U.S. House Committees asking how they’d protect their Jewish students from the violent riots that unfolded on their campuses last semester. This includes how administrators will prevent unauthorized encampments from resurfacing. Universities Ignore Congressional Deadline to Answer for their Antisemitism Problem
"BIDEN, And HARRIS, BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“There is some deep-seated either self-loathing of oneself or of one’s country or city or state, but that’s the only explanation how an entire society could go stark raving mad and allow people who are foreign nationals to come into their country, knowingly breaking the law,” Hanson continued. “Then knowingly breaking the law a second time by staying here and then knowingly breaking the law, either with this type of activity or applying for things up that which they’re not eligible.” Victor Davis Hanson Says Gavin Newsom’s ‘Career Is Over’ If He Signs Bill Allowing Illegal Migrants Housing Stipends
Franklin Arquimedes Viera-Guevara, arrested alongside partner Wedni Del Cid Rodriguez for keeping two boys aged seven and nine chained near a sleeping cot in Virginia town near the Washington D.C. metro area, has been outed as an illegal alien deported under former President Donald J. Trump in 2018.Viera-Guevara, 29, and Rodriguez, 47, told law enforcement they would only chain up the brothers occasionally to “scare them” into not leaving the apartment. However, a roommate said the boys were left shackled and unsupervised regularly, only being released when Viera-Guevara and Rodriguez were at home. Previously Deported Illegal Kept Young Boys Chained to Bed Near D.C.
The unidentified woman was sleeping in a friend’s car with her boyfriend in Deerfield Beach, Florida, when she awoke to a man penetrating her vagina with two fingers, according to Broward County court documents. She was laying down on the passenger seat when she observed him moving his fingers in and out of her vagina under her black skirt. Terrified Woman Woke Up To Illegal Migrant Sexually Assaulting Her In Friend’s Car, Authorities Allege
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Jonathan Turley: Hunter has succeeded in putting himself in the worst possible position for a plea. He waited until he had little to trade and reportedly did not even inform the prosecutors of his decision. But it gets worse. If he had agreed to a less generous plea deal last year, he could have secured a recommended sentence on both the gun and tax charges. Instead, he will go into this sentencing with a past criminal record, an aggravating factor that could reduce the benefit of the belated plea. Hunter Biden ruined himself every step of the way — now he’s betting it all on pardon from dad
Robert Spencer: In a refreshing twist, however, now a top spokesman for Bragg’s own home base, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, has admitted as much, calling Bragg’s case “nonsense.” As of this writing on Thursday afternoon, the poor fellow is not yet looking for new employment, but he may be soon. Secret Video: Manhattan Attorney’s Office Spokesman Says Bragg’s Case Against Trump is ‘Nonsense’
Judge Tanya Chutkan is holding a hearing Thursday in the case, the first since the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity and Smith’s recent superseding indictment against Trump, according to CNN. Jackson, on “CNN News Central,” told host Sara Sidner Trump’s lawyers are justified in objecting to the case proceeding because of the approaching election. CNN Legal Analyst Says It’s ‘Troubling’ How ‘Close’ Jack Smith’s Trump Case Is ‘To The Election’
Most people with a rational, logic-based mindset have felt that the prosecution of former President and current Republican nominee for president Donald Trump, particularly in New York City, are nothing more than a tactic by opposition to keep the man from running for office again, let alone possibly win back the White House. But, what happens when someone with firsthand knowledge of the situation admits that the whole thing is a “travesty of justice?” Undercover Video Shows DOJ Official Saying 'Democrats' Carrying Out 'Perversion of Justice'
The Biden-Harris junta is making noise about Russia interfering in our elections again. Yesterday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced indictments and seizures of internet domains related to Russian interference in the election. Russiagate II: Kamala’s Revenge
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AFTERMATH
A lack of available agents was cited as a factor that led to the shooting of former President Donald J. Trump and the killing of firefighter Corey Comperatore in July during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as USSS agents were supplemented with Homeland Security (DHS) agents who were far less experienced. Secret Service Offers LGBT Disney Trip as Part of DEI Scheme.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Mollie Hemingway: For decades, the network had been viewed as a typical leftist media outlet, but it became the very embodiment of fake news in the last decade as its hosts and reporters brazenly pushed Democrat narratives and uncritically regurgitated information operations from nefarious actors. In becoming the in-house propaganda shop of the anti-Donald Trump resistance, the network gained viewers but saw its credibility damaged beyond repair. Flailing CNN Rehires Stelter In Bid To Save Network By Matching MSNBC Extremism
From July 22 to Aug. 6, about two weeks before he was added to the ticket, Walz appeared on MSNBC, PBS, CNN and Fox News a total of ten times, an analysis by Newsbusters’ Curtis Houck, shared with the Daily Caller, showed. Since Harris chose Walz as her running mate on Aug. 6, the governor has not appeared on the networks he flocked to during the vetting process, according to Houck’s analysis. ‘Witness Protection’: Media-Friendly Tim Walz Has Disappeared From Airwaves Since Joining Harris Ticket (WItless protection! - jjs)
Translation: Had Trump remained in office, the jobs recovery would almost certainly have been faster than it was under Biden, given that Biden and his fellow Democrats showered benefits on the unemployed that kept them out of the labor force. . . You’d never know any of this if you relied on the mainstream press for news. They are too busy scribbling down talking points issued to them by the Biden-Harris regime to notice. Or care. Biden Confesses To A Big Lie, And Nobody Notices … Not Even Joe
Cuban said, “What I told them is if you tax unrealized gains, you’re going to kill the stock market, and it’s going to be the ultimate employment plan for private equity because companies are not going to go public because you can get whipsawed.” Cuban: Kamala’s Capital Gains Tax Plan Would ‘Kill the Stock Market’
The University of Colorado Boulder’s Law School class, titled “Statutory Interpretation,” is offered to second-year law students and will hinge on topics of relevance in the current election season, including former president Donald Trump’s legal battles and the Supreme Court’s supposed “legitimacy crisis,” professor Paul Campos told students in an email obtained by DCNF. Campos noted in the email that the course could be more aptly named “The Crisis of the American Legal System in the Age of Trump.” EXCLUSIVE: Law School Offers Course That Explores Rise Of ‘Authoritarian Christianist Nationalism’ In ‘Age Of Trump’
Unprepared and increasingly uneducated college students get little help from professors, many of whom barely seem to work anymore. Professor MIA
The project is titled "Lesser Evil." These professors are not MAGA-hatted hardcore conservatives, but citing Adam Smith, they have reached the logical conclusion that fundamental freedoms will be better preserved under a Republican administration than a Democratic one. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Klein, a professor at George Mason University, and Daniel Mahoney, professor emeritus of political science at Assumption University. Welcome Aboard: College Profs Backing Trump
THE 2020 AND 2022 ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH— Plus 2024 Shenanigans
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Several sources told the outlet that NYC First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright’s Manhattan townhome and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks’ Queens single-family residence were both searched as part of an investigation into Adams’ 2021 campaign. FBI Raids Homes of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ Top Two Aides
“With Republicans united and a growing number of Independents and disaffected Democrats crossing partisan lines, the Trump-Vance campaign has momentum for the final stretch of the race,” senior Trump campaign adviser Brian Hughes said. “These fundraising numbers from August are a reflection of that movement and will propel President Trump’s America First movement back to the White House so we can undo the terrible failures of Harris and Biden.” Trump Campaign Raises $130M In August As Race Enters Final Months
The former Republican representative made the announcement during a speaking event at Duke University. (This is what's known as the clincher for Trump! - jjs) Liz Cheney States Intent to Vote for Harris
French President Emmanuel Macron has finally decided on a Prime ministerial candidate after the country was without a new government for nearly two months following July’s legislative elections.Macron has called on Michel Barnier, the former European Union official tasked with negotiating a deal with the UK following the 2016 Brexit referendum, which is well-known as opposed to the UK leaving the European Union. Here’s Who Macron Has Picked as France’s New Prime Minister (It’s Not Good!)
“America can no longer afford to ignore this [obesity] crisis,” the researchers emphasized in the report. They noted that conditions such as diabetes, osteoarthritis, hypertension, and steatotic liver disease in service members are beginning to match or exceed civilian rates, even as combat injuries decline. U.S Military Obesity Costs Over $1 Billion a Year.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“Dr. Shaknovsky removed Mr. Bryan’s liver and, in so doing, transected the major vasculature supplying the liver, causing immediate and catastrophic blood loss resulting in death,” the statement from the law firm said. “The surgeon proceeded with labeling the removed liver specimen as a 'spleen,' and it wasn’t until following the death that it was identified that the organ removed was actually Mr. Bryan’s liver, as opposed to the spleen.'” Florida Doctor Allegedly Removed Patient's Liver Instead of Spleen, Killing Him
If I had to bet, I would say SpaceX (on its own) is the most likely to do this first, with China second. If SpaceX teams up with NASA then it will be a close race between NASA and China. China targets 2028 for its own Mars sample return mission
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Unfortunately it is utter garbage since the definition of "artificial intelligence" it provides applies to every computer ever built, back to the Hollerith tabulating machines used in the 1890 US census.
On the plus side, it has deeply upset the communists by focusing almost entirely on government use of AI rather than corporate or individual use.
The Windows 11 23H2 Ryzen patch is here. Does it deliver performance as promised by the preview? Yes. Maybe. Sometimes. (YouTube)
Interestingly this video tests Windows 10 alongside Windows 11 2023 and 2024 versions with and without the patch, and Windows 10 often runs faster than unpatched Windows 11.
The problem is that there is a 10% variance in performance between two installs of the same patch version of Windows 11 on the same computer.
That's the kind of thing that leads to bald hardware reviewers.
If you know of the fuss about the original design of Sonic for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, this looks worse.
If you don't know of that fuss, simply put, this movie is going to bomb. Hard. With 350 million crazed Minecraft fans in the world, there is no way this is going to break even.
There's already a gold standard in this kind of thing, in the form of the Lego Movie.
Everything the Lego Movie did right (which is a lot), this does wrong.
Only problem is that Taiwan is now ramping up 2nm production. And it will take China a decade to get there.
China's 7nm chips are produced using 14nm equipment with multi-patterning, carefully writing over the chip repeatedly using optical effects to produce a smaller feature size than can be achieved directly.
The problem is that this is rather like saving on painting a car by buying half-price paint... That requires twelve coats to provide an acceptable finish.
Well, tonight is opening night of the NFL season, Ravens at Chiefs. And if football season is upon us, that means that something else is coming up fast. Something...ominous.
As the ship prepared for a West Pacific deployment in April 2023, the enlisted leader onboard conspired with the ship’s chiefs to install the secret, unauthorized network aboard the ship, for use exclusively by them.
So while rank-and-file sailors lived without the level of internet connectivity they enjoyed ashore, the chiefs installed a Starlink satellite internet dish on the top of the ship and used a Wi-Fi network they dubbed “STINKY” to check sports scores, text home and stream movies.
Led by the senior enlisted leader of the ship’s gold crew, then-Command Senior Chief Grisel Marrero, the effort roped in the entire chiefs mess by the time it was uncovered a few months later.
Marrero was relieved in late 2023 after repeatedly misleading and lying to her ship’s command about the Wi-Fi network, and she was convicted at court-martial this spring in connection to the scheme.
She was sentenced to a reduction in rank to E-7 after the trial and did not respond to requests for comment for this report.
Bet you a dollar she was charging sailors to download porn. And she only got reduced one rank? The Navy should adopt a new recruiting song.
What the hell is going on here? wondered the American spies who proposed interdicting the GRU hit team and seizing their secret weapon. Clearly, the local COS was “just following orders” from CIA headquarters, what’s termed the “seventh floor” at Langley. Biden’s IC was determined not to have the weapon fall into American hands. Because if that happened, it would only be a matter of time before Congress found out and started asking questions. Such can’t be allowed, since that would require Biden’s intelligence bosses and their masters in the White House to admit that they’ve known the truth about AHI for years and chose to aggressively cover it up, as hundreds of Americans fell victim to this outrageous Moscow-Havana operation. Many are crippled for life. Others are dead.
Team Biden doesn’t want to know the truth. Indeed, they refuse to. One more time for the seats in the back: They don’t want to know.
This reads like a Tom Clancy novel, except that the bureaucrats in a Clancy novel are usually not incompetent/evil.
Located on a sprawling 19-acre campus in Jackson Park on the city's south side, the half-finished construction site is dominated by a 225-foot "museum tower" that looks like a brutalist tomb designed to house the remains of some tinpot oil sheikh or dictator from one of the ex-Soviet "stan" countries. The horrendous design was approved by a committee of experts including Caroline Kennedy's husband, Meryl Streep's ex-husband, and Democratic megadonor Fred Eychaner. A large portion of the self-monument will be engraved with words from one of Obama's speeches so that all may marvel at Dear Leader's eloquence. It certainly feels like a place where mere citizens are expected to make pilgrimage and weep in awe; one of the first things rebel forces would destroy after seizing power in a revolution.
What is it about Marxists and brutalism? Ugly inside, ugly outside?
The executive branch now drives policy while Congress acts as an occasional, flaccid check on its actions. This is a total reversal of how our constitutional system was supposed to operate. From domestic matters to issues of war and peace, everything now flows through the presidency first and foremost.
But what we have isn’t quite Caesarism, at least not in the classic sense.
One man doesn’t run the show. In fact, it appears that the position atop the executive branch is more and more a ceremonial formality. Right now, it has been granted to Biden, who is being rewarded for his more than half-century of service to the Democrat Party with a career capper.
No, what we have is a different kind of Caesarism than that of classical Rome.
We have little Caesarism, with apologies to the pizza chain.
We are now ruled by millions of little apparatchiks burrowed in our Byzantine executive and legislative agencies. It’s a vast interlocking web of government bureaucracies that dictate federal policy more than our elected officials, whether members of Congress or the president.
The founders' genius was in recognizing that the only way to preserve liberty is to sharply limit exactly what government can do. If its reach is not limited, it will eventually encompass everything. We have failed utterly at preserving that vision, and unless we somehow regain it, this country will slide further and further into despotism.
Simply put, it was immediately clear that he was a blessing: a man of principle committed to his values; a man who walked his talk; and a person infused in his personal faith and his faith in what this nation can be.
Time went by, and Kennedy announced his candidacy for President. It was frustrating to see how he was blocked out of the Democratic Party, which, in collusion with the mainstream media, was committed to reelecting a senile Joe Biden without any contest. It was clear that he had a great internal struggle about running as an independent, and that there was immense personal pain at the thought of leaving the party whose identity had been tied to his father and uncle.
But Kennedy is a dreamer and a man of faith, and so he chose to try to climb the “glass mountain” of running for President as an independent. And he was attacked in every way for doing so.
Ehh. I don't buy the RFK hagiography. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that he removed his name from the ballot in swing states (those that would let him), but he's a committed leftist on all but a couple of issues (MRNA Vax and corruption). If Trump gives him a place in his administration, it should be one that is narrowly focused on one of those subjects, and he should be ignored on everything else.
After Oct 7, Israel, like the Bush administration, called on a liberal consensus that no longer existed, and tried to rally public opinion against “barbarism” and “savagery”. But neither of those are motives. Rather than acknowledging what the enemy was and trying to build a coalition with other countries struggling against Islamic terrorism, Israel tried to appeal to liberals. And lost.
Israel had failed to define the enemy. Terrorist supporters stepped into that vacuum. Their narrative, easily familiar from even the briefest exposure to media and social media, is that Israel was oppressing a minority that had struck back as an act of resistance and liberation.
This is the same excuse used to justify religious violence by Islamic groups around the world against not only Jews, but Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and numerous cultures and religions.
The big lie that Islamic violence is socioeconomic and not religious, local not global, only works when no one talks about Islam or recognizes the larger pattern of Islamic violence for a thousand years that is being perpetrated on nearly every continent and against every culture.
Are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists all the problem? Or is Islam the issue?
When we fail to ask this fundamental question, we lose the argument.
Islam does not play well with others. It's great to be tolerant and freedom of religion is a founding principle of the US that I agree with, however it is not unlimited. Freedom of speech does not include inciting violence. Limitations on any of our core freedoms must be rare, and extremely narrowly written, but they are necessary. Perhaps it's time to discuss how such restrictions might be applied to a movement that hides behind its status as a religion in order to be a destructive force. I'm not sure we're mature enough as a culture anymore to have that discussion.
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Aw -- mama deer seeks help for her fawn, which is caught in a wire fence, and gets the help she needs. Update: Robert says there's a community note saying this is fake. So many of these animal videos turn out to be fake! Usually my BS radar works better.
Forgotten 90s Mystery Click Too much walkin', shoes worn thin
Too much trippin' and my soul's worn thin
Time to catch a ride, it leaves today, her name is what it means
Too much walkin', shoes worn thin Damn I used to love this one. It's definitely a driving-around, looking-for-trouble kind of song.
Both Michigan's Appeals Court and North Carolina's Supreme Court have reversed lower (Hawaiian judge) rulings keeping RFKJr.'s name on the ballot. Democrats want to keep his name on the ballot because they don't want RFKJr.'s voters voting for the man RFKJr. endorsed, Trump. Republicans want him off (as RFKJr. himself demanded) so that they will.
Remember, it was RFKJr. himself who filed to remove his name from the ballot. Democrat judges said "no, you have to stay on the ballot, to help Kamala." I mean, they didn't say that last part out loud -- but that's the reason.
Nice election news for Team Trump:
@SteveLovesAmmo
BREAKING: Michigan Appeals Court just ordered that RFK Jr.'s name will be taken off the ballot!
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BREAKING: North Carolina Court of Appeals has ordered Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name to be taken off the general election ballot in the state.
Forgotten 70s Yacht Rock Mystery Click Another easy one -- I don't want anyone working too hard on Labor Day weekend. Friday night, it was late, I was walking you home
We got down to the gate and I was dreaming of the night
Would it turn out right
Forgotten Very Early 80s Soft Rock Mystery Click Let's make this super-easy, barely an inconvenience for Labor Day. You don't have to name the band, just the song: Well, make a wish, baby
And I will make it come true
Make a list baby, of the things I'll do for you
I was talking about Vince Vaughan movies with Pug Mahon and other commenters. Even when his movies are mid, or romantic comedy dreck, he always has a least one scene that's a scream. In The Break-Up, he revisits his hilarious video-game trash-talking from Swingers, this time humiliating a child he's playing online and then Jennifer Anniston's date. His funniest stuff is what can be called "aggressive, bullying Alpha Chad whining and complaining." Or just straight-up rage freak-outs. And of course his Swingers trash-talk is a classic in the field
I listened to Dave Smith's podcast with Nicole Shanahan. At some point you have to ask, people who genuinely consider themselves to be good, and still vote Democrat... how do you not know you are supporting the most evil people to ever exert power in this country? Whatever your grievances against Republicans and Don Trump (many of which are perfectly valid), how do you not see this for what it is?
Nicole is a very reasonable person, and while she lacks the name recognition of RFK, in many ways she even a better spokeperson for this very point.
That podcast is here. It's an hour long. I'll ask Burt about where she talks about this.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click I totally forgot this one until five minutes ago. I had no memory of it at all. I got no means to show identification
I got no papers show you what I am
You'll have to take me just the way that you find me
What's gone is gone and I do not give a damn
Former Clinton adviser Mark Penn: Kamala ducking the media and refusing to debate is "unacceptable" in a democracy It's only a fake democracy now-- the Regime is barely pretending it's anything else than an oligarchy.
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