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Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! How many times did you hear, before Thanksgiving, "Are you ready for Thanksgiving"? Do you expect to hear in the upcoming weeks anything like, "Are you ready for Christmas"?
Who knows? Some things in life are predictable and other thngs are unpredictable.
It was just the two of us this year for Thanksgiving, and we tried to prepare for leftovers (especially after losing one of our refrigerators) by stretching the traditional Thanksgiving treats over several meals. But we still have leftovers. One faux pas so far: yesterday was "cook the turkey breast day", and I didn't realize that there was a gravy base packet inside the breast. I guess that makes up for the giblets and neck usually packaged with a whole turkey. But I had never seen one before. The gravy base packet got baked, too.
The plastic packet did not melt. I gamely tried to rescue the contents but some of the thickener had transformed into something resembling masses of amphibian eggs, and would not thin out. Oh, well. I added a can of chicken gravy and served it anyway.
I can't imagine anything like this occurring in, say, France.
Do people fry turkey breasts whole like they do whole turkeys? Frying one of these gravy packets could be a disaster. When I put the leftovers away, I added drippings from baking the turkey breast to the meat to keep it fresh-tasting, but the rescued gravy has been kept separate, perhaps for use with a future batch of aromatic dressing.
The roasted masterpiece that emerges proudly on Thursday afternoon will, by Friday morning, become a pale, slightly accusatory presence concealed in Tupperware or aluminum foil—what a food writer in The New York Times once called a “ghoulish reminder” of the day before—carved, dismembered, and waiting to be transformed into something, anything, edible.
By Friday, it will be turkey noodle soup. By Saturday, turkey enchiladas. By Sunday, turkey sandwiches. And by Monday, we will swear—once again—that we are done with turkey until next November.
But there’s a quiet wisdom buried in all that culinary improvisation. As the late Rabbi Robert Kahn of Houston’s Congregation Emanu El once said: Anyone can cook the turkey. The real creativity, the real art, lies in what we do with the leftovers.
Bible stories and intriguing thoughts at the link.
Whenever I think about leftovers—not food, but the leftovers of life—I find myself drawn back to Torah. As Jacob prepares to meet Esau after decades of estrangement, he divides his household, saying in effect: “If one group falls, perhaps a remnant will survive.” Jacob is planning for at least part of his tribe to become, well, leftovers. In the Book of Job, messengers come one after another with catastrophic news, each ending their terrible report with the chilling refrain: “I alone have escaped to tell you.” The last remaining witness. All that is left.
This year—as we look toward Thanksgiving—it feels impossible not to hear echoes of Job. Jewish anxiety has become a constant background hum, especially with the ever-increasing antisemitism coming from all sides. The simple act of gathering in joy feels both necessary and fragile. The story of Job is not ancient history. It is the emotional soundtrack beneath our holiday preparations.
So, before we even carve the turkey, we must ask: What do we do with what remains? What do we do with the fragments—the leftover hope, the leftover courage, the leftover faith—that we carry into this season?
Here is what I know: The Jewish people have become virtuosos of leftovers. . .
Earlier this year, someone started a viral trend of asking ChatGPT this question: If you were the devil, how would you destroy the next generation, without them even knowing it?
Chat’s responses were profound and unsettling: “I wouldn’t come with violence. I’d come with convenience.” “I’d keep them busy. Always distracted.”
“I’d watch their minds rot slowly, sweetly, silently. And the best part is, they’d never know it was me. They’d call it freedom.”
As a social psychologist who has been trying since 2015 to figure out what on earth was happening to Gen Z, I was stunned. Why? Because what the AI proposed doing is pretty much what technology seems to be doing to children today. It seemed to be saying: If the devil wanted to destroy a generation, he could just give them all smartphones.
The evidence keeps piling up.
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Ready for technological changes?
There are some malevolent characteristics of tech described just above. But what if it quits working altogether?
AoSHQ got off pretty light in the recent Cloudflare disruptions. But how would we communicate if something more serious or long-lasting happened?
What if the electrical grid went down?
What are our back-ups? Know anyone who does ham radio?
I have decided that one thing I can do right now is give some people manual can openers that really work for Christmas. And get some cash on hand. I'll be thinking about communications, too.
Got any readiness plans for the near future?
These are some readiness plans at the UN. Makes you wonder if they have read any recent news:
Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls.
VDH discusses a recent event in which he participated, in Bakersfield, CA. He is heartened by the development of some conservative organizations there, in a difficult state, climate, etc. Segment starts at about 41 minutes, just after he discusses the travails of the editorial process for a real book.
On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and @jackfowler take aim at the six congressional Democrats who called on military members to defy “illegal” orders from the Commander-in-Chief.https://t.co/9GodSjgeSz
There has been some opposition to individual conservatives in Bakersfield in the recent past. If they can make progress there, maybe some other communities can do some similar things.
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Chetek)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No, you may not run with sharp objects. Dull ones? Feeling lucky?
4) Have a great weekend!
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world As it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right If I surrender to His Will; So that I may be reasonably happy in this life And supremely happy with Him Forever and ever in the next. Amen.
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To be fair, he made the right call, making Nvidia the most valuable company in the world, and that is his job. However, he is pushing his staff to use more AI precisely because if it works he won't need them.
I don't believe it will work, but he has to claim to believe it, because that is also his job. So one way or the other, he is lying.
It has a 9" OLED display with a resolution of 2400x1504 at 165Hz, which is not drastically more than (for example) the Switch 2's 7.9" 1920x1080 120Hz screen.
But it also has an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, the same CPU powering the recent raft of $2000 home AI computers. 16 CPU cores and 40 graphics cores, packed into a handheld.
The only drawback to smoothening the sharp edges of the M3 MacBook Air is that the polished area is prone to oxidation, but nothing like a simple wiping job will do the trick.
There's a fun but bittersweet meme called "What They Took From Us." The idea is that you show something nice that we used to have, which has now disappeared.
I first saw the meme about Pizza Hut's old distinctively-roofed buildings versus the Ikea Construction Company boxes they have now.
So they idea is that you offer an overwrought lament that you've lost a major part of your cultural patrimony, but then you just link some trivial mass-market nostalgia-bait.
So here's a What They Took From Us: Insanely hot girls on TV who are on TV just because they're insanely hot and people like looking at insanely hot girls.
Computers weren't so advanced in the 1970s, so to train tank drivers, they created a miniature battlefield and had the trainees "drive the tank" through the miniature field, viewing it through a small camera that moved across the diorama.
Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, as he often does. The Friday afternoon post stated, "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States." It is unclear how significantly this could impact governmental programs and policies, but certainly it will shake up the federal government.
Next, Trump went so far as to say that Joe Biden was so totally incompetent mentally and physically that he had nothing whatsoever to do with the autopen scandal and would be lying if he said he did.
The president insisted, "The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
I suspect they will claim that any document with the claimed signature of the president is presumptively real and therefore lawful, and that any undoing of that presumption must be on a case-by-case basis and by clear and convincing proof.
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Before I haul out the holly and start setting up for Christmas today, I’ll take advantage of the opportunity to clear the spindle of a few items that didn’t warrant an entire post unto themselves.
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Principled Free Traders Hit Hardest
There is emerging bad news for all the America-last “free traders” who celebrated the loss of American jobs during the era of unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism. Specifically, President Trump’s effort to re-shore American manufacturing is reducing the trade deficit and creating new manufacturing jobs here at home.
This is just one of many stories about manufacturing jobs being reshored to the US:
This article documents how GE is moving production of washers and dryers from China to Kentucky, creating 800 jobs in Louisville alone, while directly investing $490 million into the US economy with the plant’s construction and tooling. In addition, GE has announced contracts worth more than $150 million to US businesses who will be suppliers to the Kentucky operations.
Donald Trump’s policy of repatriating jobs is having its desired impact. Wealth retained in this country, which then circulates through the American economy, propels Gross Domestic Product (GDP) upward. It’s already starting to happen.
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed more than expected in August as businesses imported fewer goods against the backdrop of higher tariffs, a trend that if sustained could be a potential tailwind for economic growth in the third quarter.
The monthly trade deficit decreased by an impressive 24% in August, injecting about $20 billion into the US economy that otherwise would have been sent overseas.
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What if ICE had Door Dash do Its Work for Them?
Last Friday I wrote about the black market of illegal, foreign labor that constitutes much of the actual workforce delivering meals for companies such as Door Dash and Uber Eats.
A few days later, Turning Point’s Savannah Hernandez offered up a humorous idea to make ICE’s job easier. Rather than chasing down people who are in the country illegally, ICE can just order Door Dash or Uber Eats and have them show up at ICE’s front door.
All ICE has to do to get illegals out of NYC is order Uber eats and DoorDash all day.
Guaranteed 100% success rate that their delivery person will be an illegal using someone’s stolen social security number.
Basically ordering illegals straight to their door. The perfect plan.
Because I have always understood what a fraud the entire green energy scam is, I have never been at risk of getting suckered into any “renewable energy” investments. I also know that the “winners” in this sector have been those scamming the government for grant money, and those scamming credulous investors out of their savings. Celebrities have been especially good marks for those promoting the climate scam, because celebrities are not only wealthy, but they are often naïve and gullible.
Aspiration Partners, a Marina del Rey green investing firm, collapsed after executives pleaded guilty to using falsified documents to defraud celebrity investors. The company attracted backers including Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer before filing for bankruptcy in March.
Amidst its pure financial fraud, Aspiration was also peddling carbon credits, which people are finally starting to realize is a form of fraud too. While my moral compass would never allow me to participate in a scam against celebrities, I do feel a little schadenfreude when I read that these green crusaders got swindled by con men pushing the climate hoax.
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Is Chicago in a Doom Loop or a Death Spiral?
Goldman Sachs was left holding the bag after a sale of Chicago municipal bonds was largely rejected by investors.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. took down a portion of a $454 million debt deal from Chicago on Wednesday even after boosting yields on the sales-tax bonds that hold higher ratings than the city. The bank was left with roughly $75 million of unsold bonds issued through the city’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp., according to a Chicago spokesperson.
Goldman priced the bonds too cheaply for the risk inherent in issuing bonds on behalf of a failing city, and even when the yield was increased in an attempt to draw in more buyers, Goldman still couldn’t sell all the bonds. As a result, Goldman is stuck with about $75 million dollars in bonds to be repaid by the city of Chicago…if they’re ever actually repaid. Investors seem pretty skeptical, otherwise Goldman wouldn’t have had to eat those unmarketable bonds.
Chicago’s financial default seems inevitable, as it keeps raising taxes while running off its productive, tax-paying citizens. Investors know what time it is. Goldman just figured it out.
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The Market is getting ahead of the credit rating agencies.
Even though the City of Chicago is not at junk bond status (yet), the market is… https://t.co/zyzNJ9yoM3
Who Would Insure a Container Ship Carrying Lithium Batteries?
A container ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles spontaneously erupted in a massive fire that was so toxic and intense that nearby communities were ordered to shelter in place.
A fire broke out aboard the 8,212 teu ONE Henry Hudson while docked at Yusen Container Terminal in the Port of Los Angeles late Friday evening. The incident prompted a major emergency response involving nearly 200 firefighting personnel and sparked a shelter-in-place order for nearby communities.
Predictably, it turns out that the ship’s cargo included containers carrying lithium batteries.
The contents were described as general cargo, but [Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr Mark] Leahey did confirm that shipments of lithium batteries were included.
The ship has been hauled out to sea where it remains under close watch “to ensure there are no re-flashes.”
For now, this incident is being referred to as an “electrical fire.” I’ve done a little digging, and as best I can tell, this “electrical fire” is only the second incident ever at the Port of LA that required neighboring residents to shelter in place. The previous occurrence was in 2018, due to a chemical spill.
Fortunately, the crew was safely evacuated because the ship was in port, but these ship-borne fires involving EVs and lithium batteries are becoming dangerously common.
[h/t to Mr. CBD for sending me this story.]
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Don’t Mess with the Gulf of America
The 2025 hurricane season ends this weekend, and for the first time since 2015, there was not a single hurricane making landfall on the United States coast. Not only were there no hurricane strikes, but there were zero hurricanes at all in the Gulf of MexicoAmerica this season.
The Gulf of Mexico had a long history of catastrophic, category 5 hurricanes, but so far there has never been a hurricane in the Gulf of America. It should have been renamed a long time ago, since hurricanes are clearly afraid of entering the Gulf of America.
Ponder this, there has NEVER been a hurricane in the Gulf of America. Had we known hurricanes wouldn’t mess with our Gulf, we might’ve changed the name sooner.
My pal Scott McKay at The American Spectator has a new book out, titled “Blockbusters.” It’s the third in his Mike Holman series, in which the protagonist is involved in a conservative takeover of the entertainment industry. It’s a good read, and timely too, considering all the media upheavals going on, including the imminent sale of debt-laden Warner, as well as conservative-ish media conglomerate Sinclair making a bid for Scripps.
Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If there’s an upright bass in the band, it’s probably going to be good.”
At the Throckmorton household, we have a strictly-enforced house rule of “no Christmas before Thanksgiving.” Since the fridge is full of Thanksgiving leftovers, I suppose it’s safe to start gearing up for Christmas now.
Here’s Dailey and Vincent with the Bill Monroe classic, “Christmas Time’s a-Coming”
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that . . . “I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us,” he said:
It is now all too painfully obvious, at least to me, that Army Specialist Beckstrom died in the line of duty, in defense of our nation. Or at least what vestiges of it remain after decades of destruction, division and dissolution that have, as Abraham Lincoln once described it, rotted away at its vitals. To say that we are in a state of civil war in my view is incorrect, but we are for sure in a state of siege by an axis of evil representing ideologies and people that are simultaneously foreign and domestic, and who share a rabid fever dream of obtaining absolute power with zero compunction and now a desire to employ the most violent means at their disposal.
President Trump says he’ll ‘permanently pause migration’ from all ‘Third World Countries’
. . . He will additionally “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization,” he wrote in the long post.. . “Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!” the post said. Trump’s comments came following a deadly ambush on two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday, which investigators say was carried out by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Lakanwal, 29, entered the US in 2021 from Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Biden administration’s withdrawal as part of the “Operation Allies Welcome” program.
Well, Amen to all of that. What the President did not say, and for obvious reasons cannot say is that one of the two major things that are non-compatible with Western Civilization is ISLAM. It is and has been for 1,500 years a tyrannical totalitarian death cult Hell bent of the conquest and subjugation of the entire human race by every means necessary. Islam is like a virus. First mass migration to non-muslim countries, especially those in the west where freedoms and civil rights and a notion of multicultural puarlaism allows them to over time corrupt and co-opt those societies without fear of backlash. All one has to do is look at England and France for starters and what each hs done to itself since the end ofWorld War 2 and the dissolution of their respective colonial empires that together encompassed a huge segment of Islamic majority nations. And Islam is now on the verge of completely subsuming their host countries into the Muslim "Ummah" or community.
On a positive note, it is certainly a good thing that the President along with Governor Abbott of Texas have moved to make the Muslim Brotherhood a designated terrorist organization. But again, the MB as well as Al Qaeda, ISIS and all the rest as horrid and dangerous as they are, are not the threat. They are merely the symptoms of the real threat and disease which is Islam itself. Those organizations and all the rest exist to spread Islam by force of arms and terrorism.
Look, this is something that happens whenever you have the left-wing politicians making comments like they are making. I mean, when you have someone like Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment, when you have someone like Abigail Spanberger, who is saying let your rage fuel you. These are the type of things that lead to this kind of action.” He added, “You know many of are blessed with children and grandchildren and we teach then that words matter and our left-wing politicians need to understand that. This is a result of all of that, as well as them wanting to defund the police, wanting to attack our law enforcement. All of that needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.”
Good on Rep Buddy Carter for telling it like it is. The Democrat/Left have been the enemy inside the gate for over 200 years.
And they too have embraced a foreign anti Western ideology that was imported into this nation almost a center ago, namely socialism. Its adherents and high priests who preach it have done so from the pulpit of the American classroom and lecture hall. Unless and until that is stopped, we are doomed.
Surprise surprise: The younger generations have now glommed onto Socialism, of all things, as something that will be their savior. Will Donald Trump's ascendancy lead us to a rekindling of America as founded, or merely a speed bump on the road to Hell, because if the trends are correct will the rise of Mamdani and his ilk be a one-off or as I fear our future.
Having sown mutiny in the ranks, it is ominous that we hear talk like this, since electoral politics being what it is and the Democrat proclivity to steal them on top of the vicissitudes of the electorate to change for the hell of it, this is kind of ominous when, and not if, there is a Democrat or Democrat Socialist SOCIALITE who takes the White House
The Purpose of the ‘Illegal Orders’ for Military Narrative is Beginning to Take Shape —
“The View” co-host Joy Behar invoked the Nazi Nuremberg trials on Tuesday in her warning to service members who may be following “illegal orders” from the Trump administration.
While discussing the Pentagon’s investigation into the members of Congress featured in the video, Behar recommended the audience watch a recently released film called “Nuremberg,” a movie based on the Allied trials of Nazi leaders after World War II. . .
. . . JEn Piss-Hockey Psaki and MSNOW amplify the ‘Dems will prosecute anyone taking part in the Mark Kelly investigation’ intimidation campaign:
Psaki: “What do you think the consequences should be for people who are abiding by following these steps from the Commander In Chief?”
Kirschner: “They’re following unlawful commands from Donald Trump. And if you’re committing offenses and your defense is going to be ‘I was just following orders’ — You know, that didn’t work out so well at Nuremberg.”
When they gain power again, The Left is going to come after all of us with a vengeance. Mark my words.
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“I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us,” he said: President Trump: National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom Dies Following D.C. Attack
Look, this is something that happens whenever you have the left-wing politicians making comments like they are making. I mean, when you have someone like Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment, when you have someone like Abigail Spanberger, who is saying let your rage fuel you. These are the type of things that lead to this kind of action.” He added, “You know many of are blessed with children and grandchildren and we teach then that words matter and our left-wing politicians need to understand that. This is a result of all of that, as well as them wanting to defund the police, wanting to attack our law enforcement. All of that needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.” GOP Rep. Carter: Comments from ‘Left-Wing Politicians’ Led to DC Shooting
In a feature titled “The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists,” author Amanda Montell contends the settlers who arrived in Plymouth were “not escaping religious persecution” at all but instead “left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas,” insisting they “were no doubt eager to continue building their patriarchal theocracy in the hope that Jesus would soon return.” Far‑Left Nation Mag Trashes Thanksgiving: Says Pilgrims Were ‘Doomsday Cultists’ — ‘Time to Reckon America’s Radical Origins’
The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make the program permanent last week, Fox News reported. Cook County is the second-largest county in the U.S. and includes the city of Chicago. (Brandon Johnson's gonna need a lot of bitches on the street and a lot of dealers in Cabrini Green to make that hustle work! Meh, Big Daddy Pritzker will just shake down whitey everywhere else!- jjs) Cook County in Illinois Makes Guaranteed Basic Income Program Permanent
California is known for pushing hundreds of bills through its Legislature each year, but many residents don’t realize what Democrat leaders have approved until the laws take effect. Top Five Craziest Laws Hitting California In 2026
In its one-page order in Blanche v. Perlmutter, the high court deferred consideration of a request from the Trump administration to temporarily stay (“pause”) a September injunction issued by a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. That directive sought to block the administration from firing Shira Perlmutter, who led the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress until her termination in May. SCOTUS Punts On Trump’s Firing Of Library Of Congress Official (For Now)
Viewers must have watched in a transfixed revulsion. Here were what appeared to be two melting candlesticks and a stud version of Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface openly daydreaming about a racially kinky sexual political conspiracy for their own enjoyment. Fascinating. Joy Reid Partakes In Democrat Tradition Of Openly Sharing Sick Fantasies
CNN’s possible sale to Paramount could mark the first real chance in years to replace activism with accountability and steer the network back toward honest journalism. Is CNN About to Turn Red?
There was a time when a student opinion page stood as ground zero for honest disagreements. Young adults tested ideas, challenged assumptions, and sharpened arguments under bright lights. When Campus Editors Fear the Truth More Than Debate
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
. . .Klobuchar triumphantly claimed that power bills have surged by 11% under Trump, blaming him for higher utility costs and a spike in past-due balances. It was supposed to be another zinger against Trump. But once again, reality intervened. Klobuchar Humiliated Herself and Accidentally Destroyed Biden
POLITICS
With Carlson now openly antisemitic and hostile to Christians and Republicans who support Israel, why is Turning Point USA still partnering with him? Turning Point USA Has A Tucker Carlson Problem
The October 2022 attack on the bridge came when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections and required months of repairs. The blast killed the truck driver and four other people in a car nearby. Moscow decried the attack as an act of terrorism and retaliated by bombarding Ukraine´s civilian infrastructure, targeting the country´s power grid over the winter. Russia Jails Ukrainian Partisans on Terrorism Charges Over Crimea Bridge Bombing
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Both nations have robust Muslim populations today but played critical roles in the early development of the Church. Over 30 percent of Lebanon remains Christian, the majority of that population Catholic, and its constitution requires the president of the country to be a Maronite Christian. Turkey – after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the imposition of secularism under founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the return of Islamism under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – is a less welcoming country to Christians, though Erdogan is expected to meet with the pope personally. Pope Leo XIV Sets Off to Turkey and Lebanon on First International Tour as Pontiff
Politics will not succeed in rehabilitating the narrative of man-made, CO2-based climate change to suppress, once again, both the dialogue with the AfD and the critical debate on the Green Deal. Is the German AfD Firewall Finally Cracking?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The HHS’s final review left critics empty-handed, underscoring that current medical evidence overwhelmingly backs protecting children from risky, irreversible sex-change treatments. A Day That Will Live in Infamy for Child Gender Ideology
John Stossel: A reflection on the only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Socialism
Nearly five years since America lost the great conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh, he delivered his final annual rendition of the true story of Thanksgiving in November 2020, just months before his untimely passing. Many are keeping the tradition alive and ensuring the upcoming generations know what led to the first Thanksgiving and what it is truly a celebration of. Five Years Later: Rush Limbaugh’s Final Rendition of the True Story of Thanksgiving
“His recovery in the last month has been absolutely crazy. It’s amazing,” said Apuzzo’s father. “It is Thanksgiving, so I can say… thank you to this community for all the support that we have received.” Apuzzo has another six months of therapy to fully recovery, but doctors say he has a strong chance to fully heal. 15-Year-Old Athlete Walks Out of California Hospital After Paralyzing Spinal Injury
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This won't make the datacenter any more reliable, it will just make it easier for customers to switch over to somewhere else the next time it goes down.
It won't work. There are too many VPNs, they're too easy to create, and too easy to use. The Great Firewall of China leaks like a sieve, so the UK doesn't stand a chance.
Musical Interlude
Song is Golden from the movie KPop Demon Hunters, which is about a KPop (Korean pop music) group that, uh, hunts demons.
The movie is supposed to be pretty good, though when Hololive EN did a watchalong stream, Kronii rolled her eyes so hard that her motion-tracking sensor picked it up.
Perhaps no other meal has ever said “It’s Thanksgiving and I’ve burned all the bridges with my family” quite like this extravagant feast. pic.twitter.com/t3drHmmARj
CAUTION! SEXUAL CONTENT WARNING! A male hedgehog tries to stick it to a female hedgehog, and that's not easy, on account of all the sticky bits. She's not making it easy for him. Her quills are all up. I know how that story goes.
Incumbent Senator John Cornyn (RINO - TX) betrayed his party and his country by voting in favor Biden's Afghan resettlement bill in 2021. Cornyn voted to bring in the Afghan who shot two National Guard soldiers on US soil. A vote for Cornyn is an endorsement of importing unvetted, radicalized murderers. [Buck]
Podcast: Jim Lakely of Heartland Institute joins CBD for a discussion of their recent polling that shows a majority of 18-39s want socialism, the Epstein files, what will Mamdani do, and more!
Podcast: Buck Throckmorton joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the cultural and business shift away from the insanity of EVs and Climate Religion, his calm perspective on last week's election, Tucker is a toad, and more!
Our Favorite British Couple Exploring True America Experiences Flora-Bama And Sees A Side Of The Deep South Rarely Seen. [dri]
Tucker Carlson claims that it's weird that Ted Cruz is interested in the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, because he has "no track record of being interested in Christians," then blows off the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, saying it might or might not be a real concern Tucker Carlson enjoys using the left-wing tactic of "Tactical Ignorance" to avoid taking positions on topics. Is Hamas really a terrorist organization? Tucker can't say. He hasn't looked into it enough, but "it seems like a political organization to me." Are Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria? Again, Tucker just doesn't know. He hasn't examined the evidence yet. He knows every Palestinian Christian who said he was blocked from visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, but he just hasn't had the time to look into the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria that has been going on since (checks watch) 2009. He doesn't know, so he can't offer an opinion. Wouldn't be prudent, you know? Don't rush him! He'll sift through the evidence at some point in the future and render an opinion sometime around 2044. Of course, if you need an opinion on Jewish Perfidy, he has all the facts at his fingertips and can give you a fully informed opinion pronto. Say, have you ever heard of the USS Liberty incident...? You'd think that the main issue for Tucker Carlson, who pretends to be so deeply concerned about Palestinian Christians being bullied by Jews in Israel (supposedly), would be the massacre of 185,000 Christians in Nigeria itself. But no, his main problem is that Ted Cruz is talking about it, "who has no track record of being interested in Christians at all." And then he just shrugs as to whether this is even a real issue or not.
Whatever we do we must never "divide the right," huh?
Tucker is attacking Ted Cruz for bringing the issue up because he's acting as an apologist for Jihadism, and he can't cleanly admit that Jihadists are killing any Christians, anywhere. There is no daylight between him and CAIR at this point.
One might conclude that Tucker Carlson himself isn't interested in the plight of Christians -- except as they can be used as a cudgel to attack Jews. Just gonna ask an Interesting Question myself -- why is it that Tucker Carlson's arguments all track with those shit out by Qatarian propaganda agents and the far left? That if Jews crush an ant underfoot it is worldwide news, but when Muslims slaughter Christians it elicits not even a vigorous shrug?
I once glimpsed Garth in the penumbra betwixt my wake and sleep. He was in my dream, standing afar, not looking my way, nor did he acknowledge me. But I felt seen. And that's when I knew I was a traveler on the right path. I'm glad he's still with us.
Greetings, Traveler. If you still have not experienced Garth Merenghi -- Author, Dream-weaver, Visionary, plus Actor -- the six episodes of his Darkplace are still available on YouTube and supposedly upscaled to HD. (Viewing it now, it doesn't appeared upscaled for shit.) I think the second episode, "Hell Hath Fury," is the best by a good margin. Try to at least watch through to that one. It's Mereghi's incisive but nuanced take on sexism.
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