I Hanker Fer A Hunk O' ONTs!

—WeirdDave

Time for Timer! Anybody remember that? Just part and parcel of growing up American in the 70s. I'm pretty sure Timer could take Peter Puck in a fight, I mean, his cane was a gun after all.

Remember you're the only you you've got!

Chutzpah!

Woman accused of impersonating prosecutor, dropping criminal charges against herself

The examiner saw a notice in Landon’s court file that prosecutors had dropped charges; the examiner wanted to know if the examination should go forward.

“The file purported to contain a nolle prosequi (drop the charges) filed by Assistant County Attorney Patrice Casian, but it quickly became evident to the State that the document, as well as other documents in the file, had been filed fraudulently,” wrote Superior Court Judge David Anderson in a ruling regarding the case.
Indictments allege Landon also filed an order falsifying a decision of retired Superior Court Judge Gillian Abramson to waive filing fees in a lawsuit she brought against Hillsborough County. And she allegedly filed an order on behalf of a relative to halt guardianship proceedings involving Landon’s child.

If this was fiction, we'd all be rooting for her to succeed.

This Is Just Delightful

I don't know what this is; An organ? A player piano? A Florida voting machine? Whatever it is, I want one.

On the other hand, that guy playing it looks shifty to me. He reminds me a of toon. A toon killed my brother, you know.

Ooops

People Confess Their Most Horrific Workplace Mistakes

Typical click bait, but not not bad clickbait. (I define “bad” click bait as stories that meander across multiple pages, obviously harvesting page views. Also sites with a jillion pop ups and other things that interfere with just reading the story) Some of these are stupid, some funny. A surprising number are from docs, which is...scary. But this one...this one....I can't even imagine. How horrible for everyone involved.

My brother is a surgeon, and during part of his residency, he had to work in the pediatric unit. He was working with two newborns. One was getting much better and fighting for life. He was going to make it just fine. The other baby was hours from death. He wasn’t going to make it. My brother was in charge of informing the families.

My brother realized about 15 minutes later that he had mixed up the families. He told the family with the healthy baby that their baby wasn’t going to make it, and he told the family with the dying baby that their baby was going to be just fine. He then had to go back out to the families and explain the situation to them.

How devastating to be given a glimmer of hope and have it ripped away from you not even an hour later. That was the most upset I’ve heard my brother. He felt destroyed.

Devastating.

Balls The Size Of The Ross Ice Shelf

Leonid Rogozov

He's the Soviet surgeon who, in 1961, found himself at a research base on Antarctica. He was serving as the doctor to an expedition of 12 men, and on April 29, one of the men got sick with appendicitis. It was apparent that Rogozov had to operate or the man would die. Normally, this would be quite routine except for one thing. The man with the inflamed appendix, the man who was so sick that he was about to die, was Rogozov himself.

Rogozov then proceeded to do what any man who had been nursed by bears lactating vodka as a child would do. He sliced himself open, removed his own appendix, then sewed himself back up and recovered fully.

Bad. Ass.

DUNK!

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— Louie - Your Mask Protects Nobody (@LouPalumbo) October 28, 2020

Not bad, kid.

Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords Is No Basis For A System Of Government

Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden

Saga has now displaced Greta Thunberg as heir apparent to the Swedish throne (PBUI).

Halloween

The strange case of the man who died after eating too much licorice So if you raid your kid's haul, don't take all the licorice

100 Chilling Paranormal Experiences So spill: How many of you have had paranormal experiences, and what were they?

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— UK HAUNTED® #WorldsLargestSeance (@UKHaunted) October 29, 2020

Moron Supplied Content

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— 1000 WAYS TO DIE (@1000waystodle) October 23, 2020

h/t to @Bgorllewin. The clip is from a commercial for a delivery service in Dubai.

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Quarantine Cafe: Escape from Paris Edition

—Ace

They're fleeing the city before the next round of literal "confinement" to their apartments begins.

Gotta fight covid, yo.

If that requires restructuring society in to a fascist socialist state, oh well!

Polls: Biden's National Lead Down to 4, Says Harris/Hill

—Ace

New Harris poll for the Hill shows Biden slipping a point, leading Trump by only four nationally. And leading by four nationally means "behind in the swing states by 1-2."

Now, per Rasmussen, which skews more R, Trump is actually up +1 nationally, which would suggest he's going to win all the swing states.

Joe Biden's campaign schedule indicates that Biden knows the polls are garbage.

Supposedly Biden's up comfortably in Minnestoa.

Then why did he just schedule one of his very few out-of-the-basement trips to campaign there?

Justice Department Official Confirms that the FBI Opened an Investigation Into "Hunter Biden and Associates" in 2019 -- and that that Investigation Remains "Open and Active" today

—Ace

James Rosen reports:

@JamesRosenTV

EXCLUSIVE: A @TheJusticeDept official confirms that in 2019, the
@FBI opened up a criminal investigation into "Hunter Biden and his associates," focused on allegations of money-laundering, and that it remains open and active today. More very soon on your @WeAreSinclair stations.

I would say "Ha-ha, let the media try to cover this up now," but that would be stupid. They are beyond corrupt. They are brazen because they think they are untouchable.

We'll see about that.

DOJ Probes New York Nursing Homes Deaths, After Finding, Get This, Andrew Cuomo Undercounted The Number of Elderly People He Murdered

—Ace

Lock. Him. Up.

String.

Him.

Up.

The Justice Department is requesting more data on COVID-19 deaths linked to New York nursing homes after receiving figures that indicate a significant under-count of deaths at publicly run nursing homes in the state.

The Justice Department’s civil division on Tuesday night requested from state officials data on deaths linked to New York's more than 1,000 private nursing homes.

New York records provided in response to an August Justice Department inquiry indicated that a quarter of deaths in the state's roughly two dozen public nursing homes weren't disclosed to federal health officials, administration sources said.

New York indicated that about 400 residents of the state's public facilities died from COVID-19, according to federal sources, who said that state facilities had only disclosed about 300 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In total, the New York Health Department publicly reports about 6,720 deaths from the serious respiratory bug in nursing homes and adult-care facilities. But the true scope of New York’s tragic toll in nursing homes is expected to be much higher.

Andrew Cuomo gave immunity to nursing homes for lawsuits due to transmitting covid from one patient to another after, get this, nursing homes made big donations to his political campaign.

He was later forced to repeal part of that special immunity deal due to public fury, but he tried to deliver favors for campaign cash.

Andrew Cuomo's order to pack the nursing homes -- which had no isolation wards and which barely had any capability of containing an infectious outbreak at all -- with infected and infectious patients just happened to keep those patients out of hospitals.

They murdered tens of thousands of elderly people in nursing homes to spare the hospitals the bother of treating them.

And oh, lookie here -- hospitals also donated hugely to Andrew Cuomo.

It's bad enough that Gov. Cuomo presided over the needless COVID-19 deaths of thousands of vulnerable people in New York nursing homes.

It's bad enough that he wrote a shameful book praising himself for his pandemic response and now is doing a victory lap of self-congratulation in the worst-hit state in the nation.

It's bad enough that he is mounting a pre-election scare campaign on COVID vaccines to stir up anti-vax sentiment for political purposes.

But now we discover that Cuomo got campaign funds from the hospital organizations that lobbied for his lethal policy for the elderly and which then bought TV ads whitewashing his culpability.

An exclusive audit of campaign donations to Cuomo by OpenTheBooks.com shows disturbing links with industry bodies which demanded the disastrous order forcing nursing homes to admit COVID-infected patients hospitals didn't want.

Overall, the audit shows a "systematic pay-to-play culture in Albany," says Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, a nonprofit which has compiled a comprehensive database of US public sector expenditures.

Palate Cleanser: Marvel Comics Still Doesn't Know Why It Has Lost Most of Its Former Readers

—Ace

Enjoy the below tweet, which includes a panel from a recent Iron Man issue.

The panel features Tony Stark being femmesplained about his Toxic Masculinity and White Privilege.

He's being bitchsplained to by a D Minus level superhero called "Hellcat." She's literally a nobody, but her superpower is Spazzing Out Over Phantom Microaggressions.

Tony Stark has saved the world dozens of times, always putting his own life on the line to do so. In fact -- and this is super-dumb, but whatever -- he was in fact killed by Femcel super "hero" Captain Marvel, when he opposed her fascist takeover of the country.

(Something which Marvel portrayed as noble and righteous just because a Strong Empowered Wammen did it.)

This is Marvel's idea of how a founding Avenger should be treated by a no-account nobody climbing bitch.

Because this is Marvel's idea of how all men should be treated in real life.

Well, all white men anyway.

This is Marvel's final fuck-you to the white male audience that has almost entirely deserted it.

Note that while the second, third, and fourth paragraph are altered to make a joke -- and a good one -- the first panel is 100% real.

OOOOOO

When you hear former comic book fans complaining about #WokeMarvel and now #WokeDC, it's because they've spent literal thousands of dollars -- maybe in excess of $10,000 or $15,000 -- faithfully buying these comics for decades only to now be called "Nazis" by the characters they're collecting.

Oh, also take a gander at Hellcat's body. She looks like a chubby middle aged man with no breasts but with a large gut.

That's a thing they do purposefully -- "Defeating the Male Gaze." It's sinful for men to like looking at hot women's bodies, so all women's bodies will be made dumpy and flat-chested.

The net result is that men either derive no pleasure from looking at a woman's body -- big win! no pleasure for men! -- or men are forced to derive pleasure looking a "real women's bodies." Less of a win, but still a win.

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Glenn Greenwald Resigns From His Own Media Company, The Intercept -- Because The Editors In Chief Are Repudiating The Site's Mission Statement and Imposing Complete Censorship Over Any Mention of the Biden Crime Family Scandal

—Ace

Instapundit said, in introducing this story, "What is going on in media now is not normal. It is, in fact, a species of coup."

Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.

The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept's editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.

The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.

I had no objection to their disagreement with my views of what this Biden evidence shows: as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being censored, I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right, the way any confident and healthy media outlet would. But modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it. So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.

The censored article will be published on this page shortly. My letter of intent to resign, which I sent this morning to First Look Media's President Michael Bloom, is published below.

As of now, I will be publishing my journalism here on Substack, where numerous other journalists, including my good friend, the great intrepid reporter Matt Taibbi, have come in order to practice journalism free of the increasingly repressive climate that is engulfing national mainstream media outlets across the country.

This was not an easy choice: I am voluntarily sacrificing the support of a large institution and guaranteed salary in exchange for nothing other than a belief that there are enough people who believe in the virtues of independent journalism and the need for free discourse who will be willing to support my work by subscribing.

...

But the pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality that led to the bizarre spectacle of my being censored by my own media outlet are ones that are by no means unique to The Intercept. These are the viruses that have contaminated virtually every mainstream center-left political organization, academic institution, and newsroom. I began writing about politics fifteen years ago with the goal of combatting media propaganda and repression, and -- regardless of the risks involved -- simply cannot accept any situation, no matter how secure or lucrative, that forces me to submit my journalism and right of free expression to its suffocating constraints and dogmatic dictates.

...

When the three of us as co-founders made the decision early on that we would not attempt to manage the day-to-day operations of the new outlet, so that we could instead focus on our journalism, we negotiated the right of approval for senior editors and, especially the editor-in-chief. The central responsibility of the person holding that title was to implement, in close consultation with us, the unique journalistic vision and journalistic values on which we founded this new media outlet.

Chief among those values was editorial freedom, the protection of a journalist's right to speak in an honest voice, and the airing rather than suppression of dissent from mainstream orthodoxies and even collegial disagreements with one another. That would be accomplished, above all else, by ensuring that journalists, once they fulfilled the first duty of factual accuracy and journalistic ethics, would be not just permitted but encouraged to express political and ideological views that deviated from mainstream orthodoxy and those of their own editors; to express themselves in their own voice of passion and conviction rather stuffed into the corporatized, contrived tone of artificial objectivity, above-it-all omnipotence; and to be completely free of anyone else's dogmatic beliefs or ideological agenda -- including those of the three co-founders.

The current iteration of The Intercept is completely unrecognizable when compared to that original vision. Rather than offering a venue for airing dissent, marginalized voices and unheard perspectives, it is rapidly becoming just another media outlet with mandated ideological and partisan loyalties, a rigid and narrow range of permitted viewpoints (ranging from establishment liberalism to soft leftism, but always anchored in ultimate support for the Democratic Party), a deep fear of offending hegemonic cultural liberalism and center-left Twitter luminaries, and an overarching need to secure the approval and admiration of the very mainstream media outlets we created The Intercept to oppose, critique and subvert.

As a result, it is a rare event indeed when a radical freelance voice unwelcome in mainstream precincts is published in The Intercept. Outisde reporters or writers with no claim to mainstream acceptability -- exactly the people we set out to amplify -- have almost no chance of being published. It is even rarer for The Intercept to publish content that would not fit very comfortably in at least a dozen or more center-left publications of similar size which pre-dated its founding, from Mother Jones to Vox and even MSNBC.

Courage is required to step out of line, to question and poke at those pieties most sacred in one's own milieu, but fear of alienating the guardians of liberal orthodoxy, especially on Twitter, is the predominant attribute of The Intercept’s New-York based editorial leadership team. As a result, The Intercept has all but abandoned its core mission of challenging and poking at, rather than appeasing and comforting, the institutions and guardians most powerful in its cultural and political circles.

...

[T]he brute censorship this week of my article -- about the Hunter Biden materials and Joe Biden's conduct regarding Ukraine and China, as well my critique of the media's rank-closing attempt, in a deeply unholy union with Silicon Valley and the "intelligence community," to suppress its revelations -- eroded the last justification I could cling to for staying. It meant that not only does this media outlet not provide the editorial freedom to other journalists, as I had so hopefully envisioned seven years ago, but now no longer even provides it to me. In the days heading into a presidential election, I am somehow silenced from expressing any views that random editors in New York find disagreeable, and now somehow have to conform my writing and reporting to cater to their partisan desires and eagerness to elect specific candidates.

To say that such censorship is a red line for me, a situation I would never accept no matter the cost, is an understatement. It is astonishing to me, but also a reflection of our current discourse and illiberal media environment, that I have been silenced about Joe Biden by my own media outlet.

Unexpectedly, In France, Three Killed by Islamic Knife Attacks

—Ace

Assassins.

Three people have died in a knife attack at a church in Nice, in what French President Emmanuel Macron said was an "Islamist terrorist attack".

He said France would not surrender its core values after visiting the Notre-Dame basilica in the southern city. An extra 4,000 troops are being deployed to protect churches and schools.

In Nice, one elderly victim was "virtually beheaded", officials said. Another woman and a man also died.

A male suspect was shot and detained.

Anti-terror prosecutors have opened an investigation into the attack and France has raised its national security alert to its highest level.

French media are quoting sources close to the investigation as saying the attacker was a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant, however the authorities have not provided any details.

Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi spoke of "Islamo-fascism" and said the suspect had "repeated endlessly 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest)".

This comes as France and Germany lock down their economies again.

France restores a lockdown on Friday, ordering people to stay at home unless for essential work or medical reasons.

President Emmanuel Macron said the country risked being "overwhelmed by a second wave that no doubt will be harder than the first".

Daily Covid deaths in France are at the highest level since April. On Wednesday, 36,437 new cases and 244 deaths were confirmed.

We shut our borders to prevent the entry of persons from countries with uncontrolled outbreaks of deadly viruses.

Why is it "racist" to shut our borders to countries which have large populations infected with an ideological virus that causes them to randomly murder our countrymen?

There is no test to determine if someone is a carrier of a deadly ideological virus. The only way to guess at at a border-crossers' infection state is to ask him questions -- but this "test" is flawed in that the means of defeating it are so obvious. That is, you just lie and say, "No, I am not an Osama bin Ladin worshipping Death Cultists."

The left -- and the NeverTrump quisling pseudoright -- has claimed that it is unconstitutional to use someone's social media history to determine if his answers to such questions are truthful.

Even if that were not the case, there is no way that our State Department employees -- lazy bureaucrats who are also globalist leftists who do not believe in borders -- are going to conduct the necessary investigations into would-be travelers or immigrants to the US.

But whatever, their leftist Twitter Heroes told them it was "racist" to impose minimum common-sense barriers against the entry of terrorists into the country and any time a leftwing tells you something is racist you have to believe them. They're the experts, after all.

Unexpectedly, National Gross Domestic Product Grows At All Time Record, Doubling Previous Record Set in 1950

—Ace

A usual rate of growth for a good quarter (annualized) of growth is 3%.

The US economy grew by 33.1% in the third quarter.

U.S. GDP accelerated at a 33.1% annualized pace in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported.

That was better than the 32% estimate from a Dow Jones economist survey.

A surge in business and residential investment along with stronger consumer activity helped the economy after its worst-ever quarter in Q2.

...

The gain came after a 31.4% plunge in the second quarter and was better than the 32% estimate from economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The previous post-World War II record was the 16.7% burst in the first quarter of 1950.

Meanwhile, Democrats, and NeverTrump Traitors, are pushing Lockdowns Forever for a respiratory illness which, while bad, is only twice as deadly as the flu we get literally every fucking year.

Earlier in the campaign slow Joe was talking about a K shaped recovery, without understanding what he was saying. I think he was trying to say the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, which is stupid.

Well, the "K" means that the rich get richer and everyone else flatlines. Think of the K tipped over on to its back.

but what IS happening could be described as a K shaped recovery as applied to different regions. Leftist shitholes are headed even further down - states that are opening up and allowing growth are not only getting their own natural growth, but also the growth from all of the business in the shithole states that is moving.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Also: the shitholes' primary industries seem to be arson and looting.

And you just can't build a future on that.

Unbelievable: So, as I mentioned above, the 33.1% growth rate is annulalized. That means, the single quarter of growth is multiplied by four to tell you how much we grew if this same rate of growth continued for a year.

This is literally how GDP is always reported -- taking the one quarter rate and multiplying by four to get an annualized figure.

When you read that a quarter's growth rate was 3.2%, that's the annualized figure. The actual number for the growth in just this quarter would be 0.8%.

But this is how it has always been reported.

Except now. Now the Washington Posts decides to, for the first time in history, report the GDP growth rate on a non-annualized basis, to make it look smaller.

However: The 31.4% contraction we saw in the second quarter was also annualized, or multiplied by four. The actual rate of contraction was around 7.5%.

So: Does the Washington Post reduce the second quarter's contraction in a consistent way, to compare apples with apples?

Answer: No, of course not. They claim that the growth this quarter was 7.4%, which of course barely compares to the second quarter's 31.4% contraction.

Un.

Fucking.

Believable.

Documents From Key Source in Hunter Biden Investigation Stolen From Mail;
UPS Conducting "Urgent" Investigation to Find the Documents

—Ace

A source tells me this is very real.

The United Parcel Service (UPS) says it is "conducting an urgent investigation" into the missing Hunter Biden documents that were shipped by Fox News from New York to Los Angeles earlier this week.

UPS confirmed to left-wing financial news website Business Insider that the cache of documents, mentioned by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his Wednesday night show, disappeared somewhere within it’s network.

Carlson said that "on Monday of this week, we received from a source a collection of confidential documents related to the Biden family. We believe those documents are authentic, they’re real, and they’re damning."

The host explained that the package was initially sent to Fox news’s main office in New York while he and a producer were in Los Angeles conducting his interview with Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski about the Biden's corrupt business dealings in China, Ukraine, and other countries.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

I am sick and tired of our current crop of politicians who obfuscate and triangulate and manipulate and bullshit and behave in all respects like psychopathic liars, because that's what they are.

And even worse, they exude the slime in which they have been immersed for their entire political careers...the evil, primordial ooze of inside-the-beltway and inside-the-state-houses. They have on them the stench of power brokers and lobbyists and corporate pay-offs and dirty backroom deals and all of the things we despise about government.

President Trump is different. And not just a little bit different. Constitutionally different. he does not have the sleaze gene that seems to be required for success in American government.

Is he a braggart? Sure! Just ask your fisherman friend how big his last catch was and you'll get the same sort of behavior. But the President has tremendous domestic and foreign policy successes about which to brag. So I happily forgive him his hyperbole.

Does he sometimes paint a rosy picture of the future? Yup! It's called optimism. Bubbling, gleeful, happy optimism, and I absolutely love it! I want my president to be an unabashed cheerleader for America, Americans, and American Exceptionalism, and Donald Trump is exactly that.

One thing he doesn't do is lie. And unlike his predecessor, whose lies were carefully covered up by a compliant and fawning media, president Trump's every utterance is fact-checked and pored over and deconstructed and parsed for the slightest flaws.

He has comported himself well in spite of this constant barrage from the barking leftists at MSNBC and the WaPo and the execrable NYT.

He has not lost his sense of humor and his love for America, and that says a lot about his psychological fortitude and outlook.

Trump Still Wins the Personality Contest

Put aside all his outstanding policy accomplishments, both foreign and domestic, we actually love his personality. We love his humor. This will shock the sophistos. I mean, it is the height of sophistication to say, “Trump may have done good things policy-wise but—tut-tut—you have to look past his personality. Have you seen those tweets?”

We thought it was hilarious when he invited the Russians to “find” Hillary’s 30,000 emails. We laughed out loud when he said, “Maybe I will run for a third term.” Or when he looked skyward and suggested he was the “chosen one” to deal with China.

When he talks to 20,000 people, he holds them in the palm of his hand largely through humor—humor that his opponents almost certainly get, but they use against him nonetheless by pretending he was serious. Lesley Stahl did this schtick on the 60 Minutes interview when she asked him about begging suburban women to love him. Lesley, he was doing a bit.

So who would you rather invite into your home and sit down at the dinner table with? President Trump, his lovely and stunningly elegant wife and his young son (who seems to be rather normal), or his predecessor, with his haughty arrogance and his cold and nasty wife?

Who would be more fun? Who would thank you for the meal? Who would bring a nice gift for his host?

I can't think of another politician I would rather have in my home. I will even forgive the president for being a teetotaler!

[Hat Tip: Bluebell]

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Bay Of Naples
Christen Kobke

It's not great art, but it sure does please the eye.

The Morning Report - 10/29/20

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. Thursday and before getting started, Hurricane Zeta slammed into the Gulf Coast just to the southwest of New Orleans. So far, one death has been reported and 500,000 are without power. Prayers up for all affected.

Onto the situation, just about every link in every category for today converges at a single point - November 3rd, 2020. The rioting and mayhem centered on Philadelphia but flaring up elsewhere over the death of a black man lunging at cops with a knife and getting shot and killed, the fear-mongering over the Chinese virus that is provably only incrementally more lethal than seasonal flu to the most vulnerable and the continued censorship or otherwise attempted discrediting of the vast criminal pay-for-play long con of the Biden Family all have one goal, and that is sabotage the more than likely Trump victory that will happen five days from now or not long after, the ballot counting deadline shenanigans notwithstanding.

What happens after November 3rd (ish) will truly be an absolute crossroads in the life of this nation going forward every bit as crucial as April 19th, 1775, April 12th, 1861, December 7th, 1941 and September 11th, 2001. It took almost 100 years but the government, society and all the institutions and norms associated with it that despite our differences were supposed to keep us unified have been so thoroughly compromised and corrupted, whether for ideological or personal gain (or both), that we are at the point of collapse. 12 years ago, Barack Obama's election was seen as progressivism's final victory over what that movement's followers viewed as a deeply flawed if not completely illegitimate nation. But we the people did not go quietly into that good night. The overt pillaging and persecution of the American people by him and his fellow Democrats and the feckless, useless and ultimately collaborationist GOP-e engendered a reaction: Donald J. Trump.

And for the mortal sin of no longer taking a rhetorical anal gang rape and being grateful for it by shouting "enough!" and electing Trump, we must be destroyed. It's not just because Trump campaigned on draining the swamp, it's because he fulfilled his promise to do so, the sabotage from all sides including many allegedly on our own notwithstanding. Before the phony pandemic lockdown and strangulation of our economy and of our Constitutional rights, President Trump did more to advance our rights, our prosperity and our security, at home and abroad, than arguably any other president in our history. In order to do that, he had to drive a stake into the heart of a vampire that had been sucking the life out of our nation. That vampire is far from dead, as we can see from the riots, the election rigging, the censorship and demonization, and all the other meshugas erupting before us as Election Day draws near. As horrendous as the crimes and moral decay of the Bidens are, they're merely a microcosm of the corrosively evil system and movement that he's a part of.

I suppose this editorial is better suited for next Tuesday morning but my muse is what it is. Many of the links are worthy of a flaming skull in their own right but when you're inundated with them simultaneously, which has been the case now going on several weeks, it makes the task of focusing in on one thing next to impossible. But still I persist. Even if as all real indicators, as well as my gut, tell me that Trump will win this thing, the insurrection against him will only intensify. That said, with no re-election to be concerned with, there will be nothing to hold him back in dealing with it. In terms of BLM/Antifa - the Armed Militant Wing of the Democrat Party - even Rush Limbaugh said yesterday, echoing what we have been shrieking for months now, that Trump should send these terrorists to GITMO.

As far as the Deep State embeds still infesting virtually every bureaucracy and agency, the mission should be to not only purge as many as possible, but to try and abolish and dissolve entire agencies altogether. I'm looking right at the FBI and the CIA, to say nothing of the EPA and the IRS (I can dream, can't I?).

But then, as I have often pondered and will ponder that much more in the next four years, what comes after Trump? It's either national divorce or complete victory over the Democrat-Socialist anti-American enterprise. That means, retaking academia top to bottom, and that is a generational struggle which I can't even begin to figure out how to accomplish.

What cannot go on, will not go on. There is no common ground with which to even base the most basic rapprochement. It's us or them. You're either with us or with the terrorists. For now, there's only next Tuesday. And if we do not win clearly and unambiguously, there's no tomorrow.

Big headlines:

- How in the hell did crucial documentary evidence allegedly proving Biden criminality just disappear from a UPS pouch? Either TuCa is setting people up for some sort of sting or the FBI/CIA intercepted the documents. With a totally kosher FISA warrant no doubt. Can't believe they don't have at least a dozen copies. Sheesh.
- Rioting in Philly was tamped down from the last two nights although cops seized a car with all kinds of explosive devices and weapons. Send them to GITMO.
- France declares national lockdown and the stock market plunges because of a virus that is essentially a little more deadly than seasonal flu. Tell me they're not looking to sabotage Trump at the last minute.
- SCOTUS allows ballot cheating in NC 5-3, as ACB arrived too late to be a factor.
- Dems demand ACB recuse from the Pennsy ballot case. Just like Elena Kagen recused herself from Obamacare challenges.
- Trump still ascendant and Goofy Joey Bribem sundowning, figuratively and literally.
- Lifelong black Democrat councilman from Flint, MI endorses Trump.
- Ted Cruz wails on Jack Dorsey over censorship.

And other picture postcards. I yield the remainder of my time.

BOMBSHELL BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• "Baffled and deeply bothered by this." (please tell me this is all a ruse in order to draw out the FBI and CIA - jjs)
  Tucker Carlson Says "Damning" Hunter Biden Documents "Vanished"
  
• "On Wednesday, Tucker Carlson told a disturbing tale about incriminating Biden-related documents that vanished during shipping." (vanished -- like with a cloth? - jjs)
  Confidential Documents Related to the Biden Family Have Vanished
  
• "You're are about to hear Rob Walker and James Gilliar, those are two of the Biden family's business partners, on a call with Tony Bobulinski. They're discussing how very worried they are that this story, the one we're talking about now, would emerge into the press, that it would become public. And they wanted to figure out how to handle the fallout from that. This audio is very new."
  Tucker Carlson Releases Alleged Audio of Biden Allies: If "Story" is Verified "It Blows Up Big Time"
  
• "The company, founded by the now-missing Chinese tycoon Ye Jianming, has been identified as collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party's People's Liberation Army (PLA) since its founding."
  Huffy Hunter Expenses Emails -- Biden Claims He Is "Managing Director" at Chinese Military-Linked Firm, Demands Massive Cash Reimbursements
  
• "Last November, the Wall Street Journal reported that Tramontano used Biden's name in an effort to secure meetings with senior State Department officials, though the paper said it was not clear 'whether the younger Mr. Biden knew his name was being used by Blue Star in its contacts with State Department officials on Burisma's behalf in early 2016.'"
  Hunter Biden and Lobbyist Named in IRS Complaint Against National Security Non-Profit Where They Both Served on Board
  
• Why not? Meh, don't tell me.
  Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson Won't Call Tony Bobulinski To Testify Before Election
  
• Must be prepping that billion dollar libel suit. /sarc
  Watch: Jim Biden Refuses to Answer Questions on Business Dealings, Bobulinski Claims
  
• "The only thing he excels at is duplicity."
  Joe Biden, the Son of a Used-Car Salesman
  
• "Of all the issues regarding Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's possible influence peddling, another key question deserves an answer: 'Where's Hunter's money?'"
  Where Is Hunter Biden's Money?
  
• "It is one thing to hold China accountable for its transgressions. It's another thing entirely to do the same to U.S. companies, businessmen, and politicians for their complicity. Only Trump does that."
  Biden Aids and Abets China's Awful Regime

  MEDIA CENSORSHIP OF BOMBSHELL BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, DISINFORMATION & SMEARING OF NY POST, GIULIANI ET AL

• Cruz to Dorsey: "Who the hell elected you?"
  Ted Cruz Criticizes Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey For Censoring NY Post, Denying the Platform Impacts Elections
  
• "While failing to report key facts that illuminate this affair, major media outlets are spreading conspiracy theories, half-truths and brazen falsehoods."
  Media Titans Are Misleading the Public About the Biden Scandal
  
• "He was asked about the riots in Philadelphia (for which he said there was "no excuse") and health care policy (he said he would be able to work with Republicans once President Donald Trump was out of the way."
  Media Fail to Ask Joe Biden About Secret Family Business Deal with Chinese Company
  
• "You better apologize for that!"
  Rudy Giuliani Threatens to Walk Out During Interview With Fox Business Network Anchor
  
• "Throughout the two weeks after the first New York Post story dropped on Hunter Biden's corrupt business dealings and his father's involvement, the three networks dedicated 21 minutes and 46 seconds out of 113 hours of total programming to the story." (and all of that time was to call it "Russian disinformation." - jjs)
  Mainstream Nets Dedicate 0.32% of Airtime to Hunter's Hard Drive
  
• "If Joe Biden had answers to any of this, he'd surely speak up. Instead, it looks like he'll keep dodging through Election Day -- and, shockingly, he can count on his allies in the press and Big Tech to keep the scandal as low-profile as possible."
  Tony Bobulinski's Evidence Means the Media Should Push Biden to Answer Big Questions

  ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

• Prayers for those affected.
  One Dead, 500,000 Lose Power as Hurricane Zeta Tears Through Louisiana
  
• "My question is, how long will the West agree to commit suicide in order to be polite? How long will America submit to the demands of rude, immature Marxists, who tell you 'it's only polite' and 'be considerate?' And will it be long enough to kill us?"
  How the Left Is Using Americans' Empathy and Decency to Destroy Us

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE

• "Action News has learned that police recovered propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks from the van." (this is terrorism - send people to GITMO, pull their damn fingernails out and roll up the leadership. Even if it means a MOAB on Kalorama - jjs)
  Police In Philadelphia "Discover Van Loaded With Explosives, Suspicious Equipment," Report Says
  
• "172 people have been arrested and 53 police officers injured during violent unrest since the fatal police-involved shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. in West Philadelphia on Monday, the local news outlet reported. One female PPD Sergeant was struck by a pickup truck amid the riots."
  Report: Philadelphia Issuing Citywide Curfew After Second Night of Looting
  
• "More rioting and looting after police kill an armed and dangerous criminal."
  Philadelphia Explodes
  
• I hope the Guardsmen are even more mostly peaceful than the mostly peaceful protesters.
  National Guard Deployed to Philadelphia After Violence, Looting Explodes for the Second Night
  
• "Get the fuck outta here!"
  Rioters Threaten, Assault, Chase Jewish Residents: "Synagogue Of Satan" (that is a phrase of Farakkkahn - jjs)
  
• "Why would any sane person want to live in a Democrat-run city?"
  Riots in Democrat-Run Philadelphia Described as a "Total Loss"
  
• "Despite sporadic violence on Wednesday night, the city was calmer after the imposition of a curfew."
  Vietnamese Baptist Church Burned in Philadelphia During Black Lives Matter Riots
  
• Mostly peaceful, spirited and at times a bit rowdy...
  Here's How the Media is Describing Violence in Philadelphia
  
• "Come at the cops with a knife, everyone knows what happens next."
  The Justified Shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
  * * * * *

• " Initial reports indicate that someone from a crowd of protesters gathered outside the 4th District police headquarters in DC threw fireworks behind a line of police officers."
  WATCH: DC Cops Injured by Protester's Fireworks
  
• "In L.A. County, Black liberation organizers and their allies frequently hold demonstrations around luxury shopping areas without incident. It's part of a strategy to take their message directly to white communities."
  Beverly Hills Police to Go on "Full Alert" This Weekend, Will Shut Down Rodeo Drive on Election Day
  
• "A family of seven -- including four children -- said they were pepper-sprayed by counter-protesters on Sunday while participating in a pro-Trump vehicle caravan in New York City"
  Leftists Are Physically Attacking Trump Supporters Just Like They Did in 2016
  
• "If Antifa and Black Lives Matter help Democrats beat Trump, history tells us we should not be surprised if it is the Democrats who are targeted next." (if I'm not dead in a ditch, I'll be cheering it on - jjs)
  So You Say You Want a Revolution?

  SCOTUS-PEACHMENT, SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "Falsely touted as a 'senior' White House official, the man who openly admitted undermining the Trump presidency is a Biden supporting nobody."
  The New York Times' "Anonymous" is an Insignificant Pipsqueak
  
• "The Times defended running the anonymous op-ed, noting that it 'adds significant value to the public's understanding of what is going on in the Trump administration from someone who is in a position to know.'"
  Miles Taylor Admits He Was "Anonymous" WH Official Behind NYT "Resistance" Op-Ed
  
• "Coward"... "Liar"... "Clown."
  White House Senior Staff Pile on Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor's Coming Out as "Anonymous"
  
• Well, that's the XiNN litmus test for employment.
  XiNN Contributor "Anonymous" Will Remain With Network After Lying On Air
  
• "Hoping to avoid the Hunter Biden faculty fiasco."
  Georgetown University Hires Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok to Teach Undergraduate Students
  
• Fred Fleitz: "President Trump wants reform. Judging by their fevered activism of late, pro-Biden ex-spies hope a new administration will permit them to return to business as usual."
  Intelligence Community Support for Biden is All About Wanting to Play Political Games

  AMY CONEY BARRETT SCOTUS CONFIRMATION, COURT-PACKING REAL AND IMAGINED

• "Calls for Justice Barrett's recusal on election disputes are, of course, absurd. Justice Elena Kagan has been casting votes in Supreme Court cases on Obamacare for years when, by law, she was disqualified from doing so and should have recused herself."
  Unhinged Anti-Trumpers Already Calling for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett to Be Impeached
  
• "Had Democrats given Trump's judicial nominees due respect and consideration, they could have had more influence over Barrett's nomination process."
  Democrats Worked Hard to Put Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court
  
• "Democrats are promising vengeance for Republicans using their electoral victories to fulfill promises to voters about courts. We shouldn't ignore their threats."
  Democrats' Plan for Revenge Means the Battle for the Supreme Court is Far From Over
  
• "As the recent controversies over Supreme Court justices illustrate, that body -- indeed the judiciary as a whole -- has become far more important than the Founders intended."
  The Least Dangerous Branch?

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• Funny how this is ramping up less than a week before the US elections.
  Macron Locks Down France
  
• Does this mean the Left will oppose mask mandates because, muh koluzhnikovs?
  Putin Imposes Mask Mandate as Russian Vaccine Gets Stuck in Neutral
  
• "The fear that drives people to religious zeal for [Chinese] COVID restrictions is a product of a 21st century Western privilege that makes unexpected death even in old age seem morally unacceptable."
  Endless Chinese Coronavirus Lockdowns Are the Epitome of 21st Century Privilege
  
• "Senate Republicans, who have virtually no voice in Hollywood or corporate media, are rolling out their own five-part mini-documentary on the pandemic."
  In an Effort to Take Control of Chinese COVID Messaging, Senate Republicans Pivot to Documentary
  
• "A savvy election strategy as the campaign comes to its end."
  There's a Reason Why Trump Keeps Telling Voters He's Immune to Chinese COVID-19

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

• "Candidate Sara Gideon reneges on pledge to six debates."
  Maine Dem Gideon Bails on Senate Debate

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Results of the poll correlate with many of the larger trends in American foreign policy. Some Democrats have come under fire during the 2020 campaign for their affinity and history with communist Cuba, such as former vice-presidential hopeful Rep. Karen Bass (D., Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.)."
  Democrats Like Cuba More Than Israel, New Poll Shows

  PHONY DEMOCRAT ELECTION-STEALING POSTAL SERVICE SWINDLE, ELECTION FRAUD IN GENERAL

• Newly sworn-in Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in the vote due to a "need for a prompt resolution and because she has not had time to fully review the parties' filings." (Roberts and Kavanaugh! - jjs)
  SCOTUS Allows NC Absentee Ballot Deadline Extension
  
• LOLGF... I hope.
  Pennsylvania Elections Board Seeks Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Recusal in Voting Case
  
• "It appears that about 10% of all first-class mail is being delayed because of the massive volume of election mail. Despite extraordinary measures by the USPS to get every ballot where it needs to go to be counted, it won't be enough to ensure that every single ballot mailed before Election Day arrives in time to be counted. This wouldn't have been a problem if Democrats hadn't terrified voters into thinking it was deadly to show up to vote in person."
  Experts Now Saying Don't Mail Your Ballot; Vote in Person
  
• "Dee Dee Maynard, who lives in Fort Pierce, said her family received two official sample ballots in the mail: one for her grandfather and another for his wife. But there's a problem. 'My grandfather died in 1996,' Maynard said. 'My grandmother passed away in 2010. Why would they still get ballots?'"
  Ballot Sent to Man Dead More Than 20 Years
  
• "A classic revolutionary coalition straight out of the history books: Intellectuals backed by the mob."
  Bracing for Massive Vote Fraud and Mob Violence as the Counting Hits the Courts

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION

• "The facts speak for themselves."
  Donald Trump Is Again Going to Win
  
• "An honest person would conclude that in the last year, the former vice president has aged rapidly."
  Biden Looked Normal at the Debates, So Why Does He Appear Senile at Most Other Times?
  
• "Can someone tell me who Jill Biden is talking about in this tweet?"
  Hilarity Ensues After Jill Biden Proclaims "Decency is on the Ballot"
  
• "The Democrat nominee's supporters sense it but won't say it. Why would reality feel different from polls with a wobbly record of recording reality?"
  Biden Is Sinking
  
• "The silent Trump vote is beginning to stir."
  The Polls Shift Toward Trump
  
• Maurice Davis, a black Flint, Michigan city council member and life long Democrat: "G-d uses whoever he wants to, to bring His people out of whatever the problem has to be. Right now the narrative been spent. President Trump is full of hate? Let me tell you something, the Democrats is full of hate."
  WATCH: Democrat Flint City Council Member Endorses Trump for Re-Election
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Why are President Trump's rallies packed while Biden's rallies are deserted?"
  An Election Between Love and Hate
  
• "A week-long trip through these Midwest battleground states talking with ordinary people convinced us the polls aren't telling the full story."
  Trump is Doing Better in Michigan and Wisconsin Than Polls Suggest
  
• "In regions of eastern Pennsylvania, the Kennedy Democrats of 1960 are today's Trump Republicans -- a voting bloc that could largely determine this year's election."
  Last Call in the Kennedy Belt
  
• Miranda Devine: "This re-energized economy, albeit with a pandemic pause, accounts in large part for the loyalty many former Democrat voters feel toward the president today."
  Forget the Polls, These Rust-Belters Offer Real Election Insight
  
• "Now let's go win."
  MN GOP Senate Challenger Posts Optimistic Message After Hospital Discharge
  
• "I don't see myself really staying where I'm at for the rest of my life."
  Alexandria "Titty-Caca" AOC Suggests She May Seek Higher Office
  
• "It's one thing for someone to support a bad foreign policy because they don't understand what's going on in the war zone directly adjacent to that country. It's another thing for someone to brag and say, 'I specifically focused on that with respect to intelligence selection and analysis.'"
  Combat Vet Slams Dem Opponent Over Role in Shaping Iran Deal
  
• "He boasts a 100% rating from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund... an 'F' rating from the NRA's Political Victory Fund. His campaign has hauled in thousands from far-left groups, including End Citizens United, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and SEIU."
  "Moderate" Conor Lamb Votes With Far-Left "Squad" Almost 90% of the Time
  
• "Constitutional Amendment 1 could prevent gerrymandering by both parties -- but Democrats aren't interested now that they're in power."
  Virginia Democrats Flip-Flop on Bipartisan Redistricting Commission
  
• "Normalcy may seem an unlikely theme for a re-election campaign, but it's one that strikes a chord in 2020."
  Trump's Most Exciting Campaign Pitch: A Return to Normal Life
  
• The Golden Bear goes all in for the Golden Scalp-weasel.
  Arguably Top Golfer In History Announces Presidential Endorsement: This is Not a Personality Contest"
  
• "In a healthy Democrat Party, Joe Biden's primary opponents would have cared about his family's documented habit of trading on their powerful last name."
  With Biden Corruption, Democrats Are Once Again Reaping the Consequences of Their Gentle Primary
  
• "The far Left is making inroads into local government races."
  City Hall Socialists
  
• "Worse than the zombie apocalypse?"
  50 Things a Biden Presidency Would Mean for America
  
• Trump's Vocabulary Is Larger Than Biden's, and His Twitter Account Proves It
  
• "Leftists hate the president for nothing more than they hate him for this."
  Trump's Greatest Crime
  
• "In one week or four more years, Republicans will have to decide what Trump's lasting influence will be on the party he's captained."
  Determining Trump's Long-Term Impact on the Republican Party
  
• "Republicans who don't like Trump want to go back to 'normal,' but the old GOP is dead. Trump made a new party, and that is the party of the future." (inshalla - jjs)
  There's No Going Back to "Normal" After Trump. The Republican Party is Changed Forever
  
• I agree, but the author's definition of "reckoning" might differ from my own.
  If Trump Wins, There Must Be a Reckoning for the Destructive Left

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "The reform will end the annual award of 85,000 H-1B visas by lottery, which has been gamed by companies to import foreign workers at wages far below the salaries needed by American professionals. Instead, the visas will be offered to the companies that compete to offer the highest salaries, preventing employers from undercutting American graduates."
  Trump Rewrites H-1B Program to Help American White-Collar Workers
  
• "The video narration of the ad simply titled 'Cruel,' starts with 'Trump's plan was to crush immigrant children.' It continues along those lines for the remainder."
  Collectivist Lincoln Project Amplifies MSM False Immigration Narrative; Attacks President
  
• Michael Ledeen: "For millions of Chinese, the Party's over."
  Getting Out of China

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "I'm not asking for an exhaustive list, I'm asking for a single example," [Sen. Mike] Lee retorted. "Just one individual, one entity."
  Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter's Jack Dorsey Can't Think of Any Liberal Who Has Been Censored
  
• Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) had a blunt response to the rumor that Bezos might purchase CNN: "One word to this: No."
  Bezos, Who Owns Amazon and WaPo, Might Buy CNN, Report Says
  
• Ed Markey is a cancerous anal wart on the body politic.
  Democrat Senator on Tech Censorship: "Anti-Conservative Bias Not a Problem," "Not Enough" Censorship Happening
  
• "Citizen Free Press will weather the mysterious disappearance from Bing, Duck Duck Go, and Yahoo, whether or not Microsoft does indeed fix the problem. One way or another, Microsoft has some explaining to do. UPDATE 10/29/2020 1:15 a.m.: Citizen Free Press has again appeared on Bing's search results, although the first search result includes "Breaking" text that does not belong. Microsoft did not explain what had happened."
  Drudge Alternative Citizen Free Press Mysteriously Disappears From Bing, Yahoo, Duck Duck Go -- Updated
  
• "If Americans want to protect the free flow and exchange of ideas and dismantle digital totalitarianism in our country, we must act now."
  3 Strategies For Dismantling Digital Totalitarianism in America
  
• "One mom shared that, six months ago, she saw herself as a 'solid centrist.' But 'there's no middle anymore.' She is very concerned about the 'loss of objectivity' fueled by a biased media."
  Big Tech Censorship is Driving These Moms to Trump
  
• Horrendous capitulation, but tragically, not surprising.
  Girl Scouts of the USA Deletes Tweet Celebrating Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "If it was Hunter Biden and your wife and family sitting in those pews at that church, would you still want me not to have this gun to protect them with?"
  Texas Heroes Rail Against Biden Gun-Control Plans
  
• "The judge said there is no reason not to go through the regular rulemaking process to amend the state law and make it illegal to carry firearms at polling places. But Democrats are saying, in essence, the law be damned. This is an emergency!"
  Michigan Judge Halts Ban on Carrying Guns at Polling Places

  ABORTION
  
  

• "I know firsthand that Harris is one of the biggest threats to First Amendment civil liberties that our country has ever seen because I have been on the receiving end of her unconstitutional abuses of power when she was California's attorney general."
  Journalist Who Exposed Planned Parenthood: Kamala Harris Weaponized Her Office to Punish Me on Behalf of Her Donors

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Turk Turdogan: "Europe is preparing its own end with its front against Muslims."
  Turkey's Turk Turdogan Calls For Boycott of French Goods Over "Islamophobic" Response to Teacher's Beheading
  
• "But what makes Roukoz's declarations particularly striking is that she's the daughter of Michel Aoun -- president of Lebanon since October 2016. And not only that: back in August, a few days after the signing of the normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Aoun himself was asked about peace with Israel by French TV and hardly ruled it out, replying: 'That depends. We have problems with Israel, and we have to resolve them first.'"
  The "Normalization" Train Keeps Moving: Even Top Lebanese Figures Talk of Peace with Israel
  
• "Trump saw that most of the Middle East was ready to love its children more than they hated Israel. He got it. And he acted upon it, to remarkable effect."
  Donald Trump, Genie
  
• "Two associates of Chung were later arrested Tuesday night under the new national security law, a sweeping legislative act that restricts political freedom within Hong Kong and of dissident Hong Kongers abroad." (fuck you, LeBron James - jjs)
  Pro-Democracy Hong Konger Arrested By China While Seeking Asylum at U.S. Consulate
  
• "The rise in shipments means that China now represents more than 70 percent of Brazil's total oil exports, which remain a vital part of the country's economy."
  Brazil Becomes China's Third-Largest Oil Provider
  
• "He massively underestimates the threat the former poses." (no, he's in their pocket - jjs)
  Biden Gets China and Russia All Wrong
  
• Peter Navarro: "The American media aren't the only useful idiots promoting Communist China's agenda, of course."
  China's US Patsies, From Antifa to the NBA
  
• "Notorious inciter turns to the people he demonizes to save his life." (I guess Saeb Erakat will get an angry letter from Rancida Taliban and the Bro-Fo - jjs)
  Israel Battles to Save Life of Chief Palestinian Authority Diplomat

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "FBI says five men threatened U.S. resident to return to his homeland."
  Feds Arrest Five For Aiding Chinese Regime

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Enrique Marquez Jr. supplied the weapons that Syed Rizwan Farook & Tashfeen Malik used to kill 14."
  San Bernardino Man Gets 20 Years for Buying Guns Used in 2015 Christmas-Time Terror Attack
  
• 22 people were sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. And it will happen again, probably in America, as TSA agents continue to stop our grandmothers to search their girdles for bombs while the likelihood of a well-dressed Middle Eastern man or woman boarding a plane and blowing it up is increased dramatically."
  Manchester Massacre Inquiry: Security Could Have Stopped Bomber But Feared Being Branded "Racist"
  
• Pamela Geller: "It took way too long, but justice was finally served."
  After Ten Years, Court Strikes Down Ruling Banning Ads Offering Help to Those Leaving Islam

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "Traditional regulation can't keep up with a rapidly changing economy." (why not just deregulate? - jjs)
  Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Regulatory State?

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• This is nothing but the result of panic mongering to sabotage pro-Trump election turnout. Or even collusion by Wall Street to sell of and bolster the illusion.
  Dow Falls Over 900 Points as Chinese Coronavirus Cases Surge and Lockdowns Loom
  
• "Biden's new spending is a nightmare for conservatives, libertarians, and any sane, rational human being."
  Eleven Trillion Reasons Not to Vote for Joe Biden

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Biden's advice about the use of deadly force reveals his ignorance about policing."
  Please Stop Telling Cops to Shoot Suspects in the Leg

  HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE

• "[Chinese] COVID funding requirement means too many enrollees and not enough cash to cover them."
  Thanks to Congress, Medicaid Is Spiraling Out of Control

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "What started as peaceful protests have recently grown into expressions that have been anything but peaceful or productive."
  Northwestern Faculty Condemn University President for Denouncing Anti-Semitic Protests
  
• "Last week, four members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, urging her to investigate Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law after multiple professors -- including the school's interim dean -- confessed to being 'racist.'" (another self-inflicted dick-punch! - jjs)
  Civil Rights Commissioners Urge DOE to Investigate Racism at Northwestern Law School
  
• "For the first time in decades, the diversity bureaucrats dividing the country on the basis of race, class, and sex are worried about losing federal funding and being sued."
  The DOJ's Lawsuit Against Yale is How to Win the Culture War

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Biden gets it; Trump doesn't," Brennan said. (I hope one day the both of you "get it." - jjs)
  Obama's CIA Director: "Climate Change is Most Urgent National and International Security Threat...Vote Biden"
  
• "Climate change only makes it more urgent that California revive its timber and biomass industries."
  The Unelected Tyrants Who Burned Down the Golden State
  
• "We've seen this before."
  Science Nazis Demand Obedience to Their Political Agenda

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter: "The changes we bring will be the result of animate processes. We will have turned a lifeless place into a place where children can play, and where a future for many can be worked out, for themselves. For that possibility I would gladly give up the clean inanimate surface of Mars. The benefit far outweighs the cost, immeasurably."
  Bringing Life to the Slumping Lifeless Slopes of Mars

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "Listen, Fat! I know what boys like! Waitresses, 1980!"
  Biden Promises Biological Males Access to Girls' "Sports, Bathrooms and Locker Rooms"

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "The Left's dark path for America."
  Prager U Video: They Say Scandinavia But They Mean Venezuela
  
• Christian Toto: "Press outlets want the podcast giant punished, but Spotify has his back (for now)."
  Joe Rogan Stares Down Cancel Culture Mob by Interviewing Alex Jones
  
• "While national campaign rhetoric can be both divisive and dispiriting, getting involved in a local campaign was edifying and encouraging."
  How Canvassing for a Local Candidate Filled Me With Hope During a Divisive National Election
  
• "There is no worse religion in the world than the one the g-dless have constructed for themselves."
  The Modern World's Never-Ending War on Faith

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (10/28/20)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

“Biological women and girls must continue to have the freedom to associate with other biological women and girls in activities that serve their unique interests and needs as females. Further, this beauty pageant has already made reasonable accommodations for fully transitioned transgender females without male genitals.” Allison Kindle Pejovic, a lawyer with the Justice Centre

A "chick" with a dick, is still a guy.

Quote II

"We must call especially on young people to do without a few parties now in order to have a good life tomorrow or the day after,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Quote III

“They wanted to celebrate their birthday. This is who we’re dealing with. They’re people who are not bad people. They want to live their life, and they make bad decisions." Michelle Fire

Quote IV

“I remain innocent of any claims against me. I took the actions necessary to dispose of the case and get on with my life,” “Based on my experience as a defendant in the criminal justice system, I can imagine what happens to people without my education or means.” Brian Dennehey, Libertarian candidate for Cook County DA

Quote V

"We've all been cooped up and it's been just a terrible year. We've just decided if this brings a little bit of joy and a little bit of smiles to someone, then we're doing everything right." Angela Nava of Richmond, TX

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You sir, and I use the word "sir" loosely are a lying, gutless son of a bitch.

Miles Taylor has come forward and revealed himself to be the anonymous anti-Trump admin official who wrote the 2018 NY Times Op-Ed and Book critical of Trump.

In a statement to CNN, Taylor explains “More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump’s perilous presidency, while I was serving under him. He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?””

“Trump sees personal criticism as subversive,” he continues “I take a different view. As Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about anyone else.” We do not owe the President our silence. We owe him and the American people the truth.”

Surprised Twitter allowed these Tweets today.

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Karens vs. Non-Karens. It's getting ugly out there.

An NHS worker has had his eye socket broken in three places after being thrown from a London Underground train when he confronted three passengers for not wearing masks.

The health service employee was also punched repeatedly during the attack, which occurred after he pointed out that it was a breach of coronavirus restrictions for the trio – two men and a woman – not to be in face coverings.

One of the group struck the victim several times before throwing him off the train and onto the platform at High Street Kensington station.

He also suffered a chipped jaw.

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Halloween is Saturday night. Since tonight is my last ONT until Saturday I thought we would indulge in some Halloween topics. Nice to leave the world of current events behind us for a period of time.

As we approach Halloween....................

(H/T Gibson Girl)

Here is a way to keep Trick or Treating alive............

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Crazy Costumes: A Celebration of Halloween and Beyond - A look at dressing up for Halloween and more in these lovely 20th Century snapshots

(Of course there is a Mystery Click)

(H/T qdpsteve)

I really haven't been a fan of Halloween since I was in the 8th grade just a couple of years ago. The Fabulous Mrs. Mis Hum and I don't decorate for it. However, if we did I would emulate one Mr. Steven Novak of East Dallas.

Halloween, the high holy day of spooky season, has a sort of Spooky Scale™ that runs the gamut from the casual black cat, full moon, or harmless jack-o'-lantern to the extremes of disembodied corpses, chainsaw massacre enactments or, even scarier, the thought of paying bills every month under the terror of COVID-19.

Local artist Steven Novak finds himself comfortably at the "horrifying" end of the scale, as his East Dallas neighbors and the Dallas Police Department will surely attest.

“I’ve always been up to hijinks like flying ghosts or 7-foot tall snow sculptures of myself, so if I was gonna do Halloween, it was obvious that it should be hyperreal," Novak says. "No lights, fog machine, or camp … something that would really freak people out walking by in the dark. So I whipped up some dummies and slung 20 gallons of blood all over.”

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Loud pipes save lives Harley Davidson and their electric bike.

It’s been almost a year since we’ve last heard from Harley-Davidson’s nascent electric bike project, but based on what the company is announcing today, it may have been well worth the wait. Harley-Davidson unveiled a stunning new electric bike that it says will go on sale in March 2021. And the motorcycle manufacturer is also spinning out its e-bike division as a separate company called Serial 1 Cycle.

First and foremost, this is a nostalgia play. The name Serial 1 is a reference to “Serial Number One,” the nickname for Harley-Davidson’s oldest known motorcycle built in 1903. The bike’s design, with its white tires, leather saddle and handgrips, and sleek black frame, are meant to harken back to that first prototype.

Harley’s new company sprung out of the company’s skunk works Product Development Center, where a small group of “passionate motorcycle and bicycle enthusiasts” have been working on designing and developing an e-bike “worthy of the Harley-Davidson name,” Harley says.

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Can We Wipe Out All Coronaviruses for Good? Here’s What a Group of 200 Scientists Think

Coronavirus is almost synonymous with Covid-19, social distancing, and frustration. But it’s not one virus—it’s a whole family.

The good news is that we’re already well acquainted with some members of the family. One estimate suggests these buggers have been around for 10,000 years, and we’re aware of dozens of strains, with seven that can infect humans. Many coronaviruses just cause a sniffle or light cough—also known as the common cold. The problem sparks when a viral strain, normally happily living in a bat, pig, or rodent, completely benign, mutates enough to be able to infect humans. Adding to the series of unfortunate events, the virus gets the opportunity to make that dreary carrier-to-human hop. The strain then becomes dangerous to humans, we don’t have any immunity against it—and the virus blazes through our population like wildfire.

Call me Mr. Negative, but they won't and they can't.

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Leading up to The ONT Musical Interlude, Here's your chance to buy at auction a guitar owned by Eddie Van Halen.(H/T CBD)

Two of Eddie Van Halen’s Guitars Are Going to Auction
Eddie Van Halen is one of the greatest guitar players of all time. In addition to an incredible legacy, the revolutionary guitar virtuoso also left behind two guitars that are set to head to auction later this year. The new dynamic duo of Julien’s Icons & Idols Trilogy: Rock ‘N’ Auction are a 2004 EVH Charvel Art Series electric guitar (hand-striped, maple neck and fingerboard, Fender Stratocaster-style headstock) and a custom axe serial number F 0024 that Van Halen built himself with his guitar tech Matt Buick in his 5150 home studio. In addition to those two iconic pieces, this auction also includes a number of other memorable pieces of memorabilia.

Expected prices, $40K-$80K.........

The ONT Musical Interlude

Born on this day: 28 Oct 1936
Charlie Daniels who is known for his No.1 country hit 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'. Daniels has been active as a singer since the early 1950s and was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008. He died of a hemorrhagic stroke on 6 July 2020, age 83. via thisdayinmusic.com

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On this day: 28 Oct 1997
R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry announced that he was leaving the group after 17 years, becoming a farmer. via thisdayinmusic.com

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A couple of Genius Award Winners tonight................

Definitely, this will show Mercedes.

A popular Russian vlogger recently made international headlines after purposely burning his expensive Mercedes-AMG G63, because he was sick of it breaking down all the time.

Russian media reported that young vlogger Mikhail Litvin bought his brand new luxury car in December of 2019, for a whopping 13 million rubles, or around $170,000. For that kind of money one would expect both performance and durability, only Litvin claims that his Mercedes-AMG G63 was really short on the latter. Despite having allegedly driven it only 15,000 km (about 9,300 miles), he claims the car has been in and out of repair shops over the last 10 months. Exasperated by the constant need for repairs and the manufacturer’s reluctance to accept responsibility, the Russian vlogger decided that the best way to solve things was to simply burn the car down to a crisp.

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Booze, pumpkin guts just what could go wrong for this Florida man?

Florida Man is accused of striking his girlfriend with a pumpkin and its innards during a 2 AM confrontation yesterday in the couple’s apartment, police report.

According to a criminal complaint, Nathan Garisto, 26, was arrested Monday on a domestic battery charge. Garisto, free on $1000 bond, has been ordered to have no contact with the 29-year-old victim.

Police say that when they responded to the couple’s Largo residence, the victim was “covered in pumpkin seeds and pulp.” Garisto, cops noted, was “heavily intoxicated while engaged in a verbal argument with his girlfriend.”

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A couple of Feel Good Stories, they have been lacking as of late.

Cancer patient risks it all. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Marshall Helm had been walking his granddaughter to the bus stop early in the morning when the bus driver drew his attention to the smoke and flames emanating from the house next door.

Helm ran over to the endangered home and threw open the garage door only to find flames climbing up one of the building walls. Despite how the Vietnam veteran has been battling cancer, he did not hesitate to charge past the flames and into the house so he could make sure his neighbors were safe.

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Our vets deserve our thanks. And our help. Our second: Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A Vietnam veteran who has lived in a central Indiana home without power or running water for more than a year is getting a new house built from the ground up, thanks to a few volunteers.

The Delaware County Veterans Affairs Office worked with the volunteers to demolish 77-year-old John Holaday’s old home in Muncie in early October and began rebuilding it, the Associated Press reported.

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Quarantine Cafe: Kick Evil In the Guts Edition

—Ace

Tucker Carlson will have more audio of the Biden Family Consigliere trying to pressure Bobulinski to stop talking.

Via Rodrigio Borgia, this short clip of an antifa sissy charging a real American-flag carrying man, and being stopped in his tracks by what I'm going to guess was a push-kick or "teep" that maybe hit the guy in the knee or thigh.

It definitely stopped him cold, and seems to have hurt him. I think it must have been a push-kick because he seems to have stopped the guy from entering punch/grab range.

Unfortunately we don't see the actual contact. We just see the guy being knocked back, and the defender lowering his leg.

Former "Senior Administration Official" (According to the Media) Who Penned Anti-Trump Diatribe As "Anonymous" Reveals Himself... and It's.. a Nobody

—Ace

Why call yourself "Anonymous" when you can use your real name and no one would know who the fuck you are?

Ah well, the media was able to take this minor flunkie and get people to speculate that it was actually John Kelly or even Mike Pence writing the diatribe.

It's Miles Taylor.

That's right, you heard me -- the Miles Taylor.

He claims that he joined the Trump Administration in a minor position because he rilly rilly rilly wanted Trump to succeed, which is why he... joined other liberals and NeverTrumpers who had infiltrated the government to subvert and "resist" Trump.

Oh, and after quitting his mid-level manager position, he joined the True Conservative news network called "CNN."

People I know have been querying LinkedIn to find out who this alleged "Senior Administration Official" even is/was. Literally no one I know has ever heard of him, and they have to fire up the Advanced Search to find media mentions of him.

Update/Flashback: When this mid-level bureaucrat first wrote his screed in the New York Times, Trump suggested it was a mid-level bureaucrat.

CNN's Chris Cillizza said no way it's a mid-level bureaucrat, Trump You Demon Liar, because the New York Times would never publish a mid-level bureaucrat and claim he was a "senior administration official."

So is CNN going to retract and correct now? Will it admit the New York Times straight-up lies?

Is Florida Already Won For Trump?

—Ace

Trump stopped most of his advertising for Trump, provoking the leftwing media and NeverTrumpers (but I repeat myself!) to proclaim he was just giving up.

Giving up -- or redeploying resources from a state he's already one to one he can win, like Minnesota? Update: Trump and his campaign spokesman say the Bloomberg story about Trump reducing his Florida ad buy is completely wrong and must be retracted.

This guy is tracking all the early votes in Florida, both by-mail and in person.

The Democrats have a 200,000 lead right now, though that's dropping by the minute.

Let's look at the "supervoters" who have not voted yet. These are the voters who have voted in four of the last four elections, and thus are a lock to vote in this election, but who haven't yet voted.

Democrats have 305649 "supervoters" left to vote.

And Republicans?

555,193. We have 250,000 more supervoters still expected to vote.

In North Carolina, Democrats have already banked 111% of their total 2016 vote.

But so have Republicans. And Republicans won last time. So Republicans are ahead now.

I already mentioned that Jon Ralston, a highly partisan Democrat "journalist," is worried for the Democrats in Nevada, as they're underperforming their 2016 vote.

To meet 2016 metrics at end of early voting, Dems would need 54K statewide and 88K in Clark -- they are not on track to get either with three days left.

That NYT poll may show 6-point Biden lead, but I doubt the Dems are sleeping well tonight.

Mollie Hemingway makes a good point: Why is Biden using one of his very few non-lid appearances to shore up Michigan, where he's supposedly up by (giggle) 12 points?

If he really believed that 12 point lead, why isn't he spending his time in Florida or North Carolina?

Zuckerberg: We Censored the Hunter Biden Story Because an Unnamed Individual at the FBI Told Us to be On the Lookout for Russian Disinformation

—Ace

Two possibilities:

1. The FBI gave him a general, nonspecific warning about Russian disinformation, and Zuckerberg is just using this as an excuse for his own company's partisan censorship.

2. More chillingly -- the FBI, which was sitting on the laptop for a year and thereby keeping the story bottled-up, took the extra step of poisoning the well and claiming that the story was Russian disinformation to Zuckerberg, to make sure it got censored if it did come out.

If Zuckerberg's telling the truth, it's #2.

Who is this person at the FBI doing extra credit homework for the Biden campaign? If he's assisting in censorship of public information, we have the right to know who he is.

Is it Christopher Wray, by any chance?

"One of the threats that the FBI has alerted our company and the public to was the possibility of a hack and leak operation in the days or weeks leading up to this election," Zuckerberg said. "So you had both public testimony from the FBI and in private meetings alerts that were given--at least to our company, I assume the others as well--that suggested we be on high alert and sensitivity that if a trove of documents appeared, that we should view that with suspicion that it might be part of a foreign manipulation attempt."

The FBI has had the computer and hard drive of Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden in its possession for almost a year.

More: Zuckerberg says the warning wasn't specifically about this story:

"Did the FBI contact you and say the New York Post story was false?" Johnson asked.

"Not about that story specifically," Zuckerberg replied.

When Johnson asked why Facebook chose to move forward in limiting the article's distribution, Zuckerberg claimed that it was because of "heightened alert" surrounding election interference by the Russians that they began to prevent the article from being widely shared.

"They alerted us to be on heightened alert around the risk of a hack and leak operation," Zuckerberg said. "To be clear on this, we didn't censor the content. We flagged it for fact-checkers to review and pending that review, we temporarily constrained the distribution to make sure it didn't spread wildly while it was being reviewed."

But it seems the allegedly nonspecific warning was in fact crafted to get this specific story censored.

Once again, I want to know who wrote this warning.

Soiboi Strategists Plot the Coming Civil War

—Ace

These guys barely have the steam lead a bull to their wife's vaizhe, but they're gonna be leading the revolution.

In Senate Testimony, Jack Dorsey Commits Perjury

—Ace

Ted Cruz interrogated Jack Dorsey over Twitter's censorship of the New York Post story, while "gleefully" allowing "journalists" to illegally spread Trump's alleged tax returns on Twitter.

Dorsey lied and claimed there was partisan bias in that decision. But that's hard to prove, and that's the lie they all tell fifty times a day. (And then they wonder why we're not bothered if Trump exaggerates the truth.)

Dorsey went on to falsely claim that Twitter was now permitting users to post the story.

Ted Cruz just tested that claim, and finds that Dorsey is lying. Again.

In a provable way.

As New Polls Show Biden Cruising to Victory, Two Polling Experts Say the Polls Are Wrong

—Ace

I'm not going to talk about the new polls, though I'll mention a new ABC polls that claims Biden is ahead in Wisconsin... by 17 points.

That's silly.

Obviously, the media, the academy, and corporations have made this is a viciously hostile environment for self-declared Trump supporters.

So a lot of people will simply not talk to a pollster, or lie when they do.

Researchers have also identified self-screening as the major contributing factor to the polling failures during the 2016 election cycle.

For example, distrust of pollsters also leads to lower response rates for Trump supporters. Rasmussen finds that 17 percent of likely U.S. voters who "strongly approve" of the job Trump is doing say they are less likely to let others know how they intend to vote in the upcoming election. By comparison, only 8 percent of those who "strongly disapprove" of the president's performance say the same.

So the polls are off by...9%?

A friend keeping tabs on the "EV" -- the early vote -- in different swing states updates me that the GOP is closing the Democrat lead in EV's.

2016 EV Gap was 45,072.

Yesterday gap was 53,834. Today is 49,660.

Jon Ralston says Dems should be worried.

Ralston is a very partisan Democrat so that's interesting.

Again, it it Democrats and their media Get Out the Vote allies who pushed Democrats to vote early and vote by mail.

Republicans have pushed the idea of in-person voting.

And the Democrat ballot lead is falling day by day, and closing in on 2016's level.

Update: Florida's Early Vote gap is shrinking down to nothing by the minute.

GOP was 2.16% off their 2016 EV gap this morning. And it's now 1.63%. This is just wild to watch in real time.

It just occurred to me that most of the NeverTrumpers have by now reclassified themselves as independents. Or Democrats.

So that Republican vote does not contain many defectors.

Tony Bobulinski Reveals That Biden Family Plan to Cover Up "The Chairman's" Role in Taking Foreign Bribes: "Plausible Deniability"

—Ace

The corporate propaganda outlets are still refusing to even mention the story.

Bobulinski, in an interview with Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight," said he raised concerns in 2017 to the former vice president's brother Jim Biden, about Joe Biden's alleged ties to a possible joint venture with a Chinese energy firm.

Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was the former CEO of SinoHawk Holdings, which he said was the partnership between the CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming and the two Biden family members.

"I remember saying, 'How are you guys getting away with this?' 'Aren't you concerned?'" he told Carlson.

He claims that Jim Biden chuckled.

"'Plausible Deniability,' he said it directly to me in a cabana at the Peninsula Hotel," he said.

Bobulinski said he decided to come forward after serial defamer Adam Schiff lied yet again, and claimed that this Navy veteran with Q clearance was a Russian Asset.

Bobulinski's brother recently retired after 28 years as a naval aviator. Two weeks ago he lost his wife to cancer. It was while Bobulinski was with his brother in Virginia that the "Russian disinformation" defense began to take shape, and Bobulinski saw Adam Schiff make that claim on a Sunday morning news show. Given his family's legacy of military service, and what his brother was going through, Bobulinski called Rob Marshall and told him that the Bidens had 24 hours to tell the truth and get Schiff to retract his claim, otherwise Bobulinski would go public with everything he had.

Rather than telling Adam Schiff to retract his millionth Russia lie, the Biden family had their representative (who himself was all connected to the dirty deals in Russia and China) to try to smooth feathers -- while claiming it was too hard to get Adam Schiff to stop lying.

"You're just gonna bury us," he complained.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

In other words, she was taking what I had always assumed how journalism was supposed to work and standing it on its head. I was quite astonished when she just came right out and said it. Of course, I had always suspected that's what they were doing, but it was if Mapes was saying "Fact checking? We don' need no stinking fact checking!"

As Chris Taylor commented on Twitter a few days ago:

News "fact checkers" are the worst problem with news today. No, not for the reason you think. They're a problem because that's supposed to happen BEFORE you go to print, not after.

See, in the past, grizzled, tough editors would stop crap news from going through, force rewrites, and block anything that couldn't be substantiated or proven outside rumors and the writer's own claims.

Now the process is reversed: the news fires off crap then someone goes through it to find the facts and claims to see how valid they are later. Which almost always is narrowed to "things I don't like seeing in print" while other claims are left unvetted.

As I said, I was shocked at Mapes' candid admission, but nowadays? Everybody knows that sort of thing is pretty much SOP. In fact, it has even acquired a name of its own, "journalisming" which encompasses not only inadequate (or non-existent) but also the overuse of "anonymous" sources. And then when the story turns out to be a load of crap (like that Atlantic story a few weeks ago that claimed Trump referred to soldiers as 'suckers' and 'losers'), nothing ever happens, and everybody just moves on. I thought it used to be that if an anonymous source fed crap, that invalidated the anonymity agreement and the source could get publicly identified. If *I* were a journalist that wrote a story bases on an anonymous tip that turned out to be crap, I'd (a) not use the source ever again, because they just demonstrated that they're not trustworthy and (b) write a follow-up article apologizing for my poor judgment which led to erroneous reporting and either publicly naming the source or writing "I know who it was and I'll never use him again."

The media has pretty much burned through any and all of its moral capital, or good will, or whatever you might want to call it so that whenever they include phrases in a news story such as

--an anonymous source/whistleblower
--a source close to the situation
--a source close to President Trump
--sources say

...they no longer are entitled to be given any benefit of the doubt whatsoever. In fact, we should assume the opposite: any time there is not a source willing to go on the record to corroborate whatever story they're trying to sell, you can conclude that they're lying. Somewhere along the line, some of that hard fact-checking I mentioned earlier hasn't been done, and the reporter journalismist is cutting corners by attempting to fill in the blanks with his own pre-conceived ideas of what he wants to be true.

With a pandemic sweeping the country and a crucial election just around the country, it's a pity we don't have a functioning media to keep us informed. We could've used one right now.

You Can Just Feel The Energy From This 'Fired-Up' Crowd:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

The Left Took The News Of ACB's Confirmation With Its Usual Grace And Dignity:

"She seems nice."

Installation Complete:

Hey Joe:

Me: "2020 Can't Get Any More Bizarre."
2020: "Hold my beer."

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com.

Prayer Requests:

Special Prayer: Remember in your prayers the 'rons and 'ettes who are dealing with depression and also with anxiety caused by the upcoming election. Always remember that our God reigns no matter who is president.

9/30 – Coelacanth requests prayers for his son Cameron, for Godliness and clarity of thought and heart and purpose.
10/19 Update – Coelacanth sends thanks – they have seen a couple of small breakthroughs this last week.

9/30 – lurking grandma asks for prayers for her family, for strength and solace. Her son-in-law died at 36 years old, from Covid 19 and co-morbidities. He left 4 children and 3 step-children still at home.

9/30 – A dad requests prayers for his son, David, who is currently employed by Disney World and may be furloughed soon. He needs prayers for help.

10/7 – Lee Also requests prayers for her good friend who needs a lung transplant. He’s been on the list for a while, but it’s getting to the point where he needs it sooner than later. She also would like prayers for the family of the person whose untimely death will give life to her friend. They have lost someone they love. But their generosity will help her friend.

10/15 – Pooky’s Girl reports that Pooky will not get the part-time job he applied for, but he is volunteering for their church and Pookette’s school. They should be okay financially, but it is nerve-wracking. Also, next Friday, they will be doing a home study to get approved for their adoption license. The last meeting didn’t go very well, but they are moving forward after almost a year of delays. Prayers for peace, calm, and patience would be appreciated.

10/21 – Muley, the Duchess requests prayers for her late husband’s mother, ho is being taken out by bone cancer at 91. For peace and fortitude. She hasn’t seen any family since March.

For Healing:

9/2 – Katya, the designated driver requests prayers for her stage 3 triple negative breast cancer. She is 2 chemo treatments in. She is doing well with side effects.
9/23 Update – Katya, the designated driver, sends word that her 4th chemo treatment was 9/24. She will have an ultrasound in about 2 weeks to see how things are progressing. Or hopefully, regressing. The plan is for her to follow up with the next round of chemo, surgery after that, then radiation. Her side effects have been very minor compared to most people. She sends her thanks to the Horde.
10/16 Update – Katya, the designated driver sends an update that her treatments are still going well, and so far, no problems. She also requests prayers for her mom, who has Covid. She is being treated in the nursing facility where she lives. She is very tired and has no appetite and is on oxygen.
10/27 Update – Katya, the designated driver sent word that her mother passed away yesterday. She and her brother were able to visit a few times over the weekend. Her mother was aware of them and seemed to know them. She slipped away quietly.

9/23 – Dr_No requests continued prayers for his daughter Megan. She had surgery for cancer earlier, and now has had the 2nd of 12 FOLFOX chemo treatments for her Stage III-C cancer. It’s been rough – fatigue, weight loss, cold sensitivity, jaw pain. She’s losing an average of 6.5 pounds per week now and has lost approximately 25 pounds since her surgery and beginning chemo. Her attitude is terrific despite what she’s going through, but it’ll be a rough slog between now and January.
10/8 Update – Megan was admitted to the hospital for bi-lateral pulmonary embolisms. Luckily, the embolisms responded to treatment. Dr_No says thanks again for sending words up for Megan!

9/24 – THE Lonebadger requests prayers for Dad, who had an episode of unknown origin while getting out of bed and he became unresponsive. Dad is in intensive care and on a ventilator.

10/7 – MrObvious requests prayers for an old friend from college, who has extremely aggressive Stage 4, Grade 3 Colo-rectal cancer. She’s been through extensive tests since then and the common thread of discussion is “whether to even attempt surgery or go straight to hospice”.

10/13 – Former ‘ette Miss Marple is in an Indianapolis hospital. I believe Hrothgar saw the information, and he said he will provide updates when he finds out anything specific.

10/14 – vmom requests prayers for her friend Denise, who is recovering from a stroke.

10/21 – Lady in Black requests prayers for her stepmom, who fought breast cancer 7 years ago, and now it’s back. She will be having surgery for a double mastectomy, followed by chemo. She’d appreciated any prayers to help her get through this surgery and contain this cancer.

10/24 – Kerncon requests prayers for his wife. His wife is currently in the ICU following a massive kidney infection, which resulted in the removal of one of them. She is currently stable and slowly recovering. They hope to be able to get her out of ICU in the next few days. Her remaining kidney hasn’t resumed functioning, and it could take weeks to recover, if at all. Please keep them in your prayers for a swift recovery, and for regaining full function to her remaining kidney.

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.

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Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:
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Keep calm and pray on!

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Monday Who Dis: I had originally intended to pair John Stamos (actor and occasional Beach Boys drummer) with his counterpart on the original Full House series, Lori Loughlin. She's pretty enough but not spectacular. Then I discovered he got married in 2018 to Caitlin McHugh, who doesn't have much of a CV, but wow, is she gorgeous. So I thought she'd make a better choice.

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Hungarian Mushroom Soup:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

On The Swing
Nikolai Yaroshenko

[It isn't what you think]

The Morning Report - 10/28/20

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and a couple of things are in the lead: Biden crime family whistleblower Tony Bobulinski's appearance on Tucker Carlson last night (whose show overall this month just became the highest-rated cable news show in history per Nielsen) and a flare up of the mostly peaceful rioting, looting and mayhem in Philadelphia, Washington DC and New York as a result of two police shootings of black suspects.

We'll get to those in a moment. But Tony Bobulinski, the ex-business partner of Hunter Biden who verified the initial reporting in The New York Post about the contents of Biden's laptop, sat down for a full hour with TuCa and blew the lid (all kinds of puns there!) off the story.

Here's a recap of why Bobulinski came forward:

Bobulinski's name recently became public knowledge when James Gilliar, another businessman working on SinoHawk, sent an email to Tony Bobulinski, setting out the terms Gilliar had been negotiating with CEFC. What caught everyone's interest was the statement that Hunter would hold "10[%] for the Big Guy." Bobulinski confirmed that Joe Biden was the "Big Guy."

At this point, Schiff, the media, and Joe Biden, none of whom ever denied the legitimacy of the email, claimed that the whole thing was a Russian smear. This unfounded accusation got Bobulinski's dander up. As a naval officer from a military family and a true patriot, being smeared as a Russian agent was beyond the pale.

Bobulinski demanded that Schiff retract the insult and, when Schiff failed to do so, he went public and did a full document dump. Bobulinski had saved everything -- every document, every email, and every text.

That's the quick background to the interview with Carlson, during which Bobulinski said that:

- Hunter and James Biden brought nothing to the deal other than the Biden family name,
- What China wanted was the Biden family name,
- Joe Biden was involved in the business deal, so much so that he had veto power over negotiations,
- In 2017, Bobulinski met Joe Biden twice when the Biden side of SinoHawk was courting him to step in and act as CEO,
- Bobulinski also spoke at length with James Biden, Joe's brother,
- When Bobulinski asked James how they could get away with this kind of deal, which seemed to be falling into dangerous territory given that Joe could run again for president, James announced, "plausible deniability," and
- The Biden group stiffed Bobulinski, leaving him out of pocket for all his expenses while channeling CEFC's money into another entity that did not involve Bobulinski.

Bobulinksi said it was "crystal clear" that Hunter Biden had brought his father up to speed on the status of a joint venture deal with the before he met with the former vice president. "They were putting their entire family legacy on the line. They knew exactly what they were doing. They were dealing with a Chinese owned enterprise ...that had strong financial support and political support from the Chinese Communist Party. That's how it was presented to me. That's not my own words. That's how they presented it to me and read me in on it," Bobulinski said.

Bobulinski recalled bringing up his concerns with Jim Biden the following day after his meeting with the former vice president that their business dealings with the Chinese could impact his brother's 2020 presidential aspirations.

"I know Joe decided not to run in 2016, but what if he ran in the future? Aren't they taking political risk or headline risk? And I remember looking at Jim Biden and saying, 'How are you guys getting away with this? Like, aren't you concerned?'"

"And he certainly looked at me and he laughed a little bit and said, 'plausible deniability.'" Bobulinski said.

This is murder. I have zero sympathy for the doddering, demented half-dead corpse (who will be instantly disposed of if GOD FORBID he winds up winning on Tuesday) or his inept, drug addict, vile spawn. The Bidens sold out America's national security and foreign policy to corrupt foreign leaders and to our number one geo-political enemy hell bent on world hegemony. Considering their crimes date back not only to the eight years he was VP but well into his near half-century as a senator, one can make the case that the Bidens may very well have done more damage than the Rosenbergs, the Walker Family, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen combined. It's now a toss up as to which is the worst political scandal in US history; this or the plot to overturn 2016 and overthrow President Trump. In any case, both are no doubt interconnected considering the players involved.

That includes our national security and federal law enforcement agencies as co-conspirators before and after the fact. The FBI had the laptop and Christopher Wray sat on it, looking to run out the clock in hopes that Trump would not be re-elected and all of this would be swept under the rug. And now, lookie here!

Federal law enforcement officials reportedly obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against a Chinese business associate of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that the revelation suggests that the man, Patrick Ho, was "suspected of acting as a covert agent of a foreign government..."

... "Ho was charged on Dec. 18, 2017 with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering related to CEFC China Energy contracts in Uganda and Chad," the report stated. "Ho had been an executive at the multi-billion dollar Chinese energy company prior to his arrest."

Ho was mentioned in a Senate report released last month titled, "Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns."

Here's part of the report:

In November 2017, Ye Jianming's associate and Hunter Biden's reported client, Patrick Ho, was arrested and charged with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, international money laundering, and conspiracy to commit both. The first call that he reportedly made was to James Biden, who reportedly referred him to Hunter Biden. Ho was convicted in March 2019 on charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and was sentenced to three years in U.S. prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe officials in Chad and Uganda in exchange for business advantages for CEFC, Ye's company. Department of Justice documents describe Ye as Patrick Ho's boss and, again, note that Ye's company supplied funding to the China Energy Fund Committee. Ho worked as the secretary-general of the committee during the period when he was carrying out his illegal schemes.

So as long as two to three years ago - before any of the revelations on the laptop came to light - the DOJ, FBI, CIA and whatever other useless corrupt alphabet soup bureaucracy knew about the Bidens and essentially DID NOTHING. Worse than that, they withheld exculpatory evidence and allowed Adam Schiff-for-Brains and the Democrats to move forward with an impeachment against President Trump for the corruption and crimes that the Bidens themselves were guilty of. Christopher Wray deserves to be dragged out of the Hoover Building and horsewhipped in the street on national TV. But no. He too will have a seven-figure book deal and a gig on CNN. I'm seething.

As stated, there has been a flare up in rioting and mayhem in the wake of two more black suspects shot in the course of their encounters with police. The epicenter of the rioting is in Philadelphia, where that city suffered a second wave of terror last night. Considering that the violence and mayhem since the death of career criminal George Floyd in Minneapolis last Memorial Day is a key factor in drawing voters towards Trump - including perhaps an historically significant number of black voters - and that Pennsylvania is a key battleground state, I can't see this incident as hurting Trump. It doesn't exactly help Biden either, especially since the Dems are being consumed by his huge gaffe at the debate in openly calling for an end to fracking and fossil fuels in general.

As for the violence itself, two thugs who played stupid games and won stupid prizes is just the convenient pretext. I think what we're really seeing a dress rehearsal for Election Day. The Armed Militant Wing of the Democrat Party - BLM/Antifa - will not wait until after dark to take to the streets. They are out to intimidate people away from the polls.

If you live either in a deep blue urban or other area that might come under siege by the terrorist thugs, get to the polls and vote if early voting is available to you. Also, stay indoors on Election Day, arm yourself to the teeth and have enough food and other essentials on hand for 72 hours. I can't even believe I typed this paragraph but these people are out of their minds with rage and hate, and cannot be reasoned with. To paraphrase Col. Putnam at Bunker Hill, "don't fire until you see the whites..." dressed in black.

Elsewhere...

- Amy Coney Barrett taking her seat on SCOTUS looms large as an Obama-appointed hack-in-black rules that South Carolina does not have to match signatures with absentee ballots. I expect the SC GOP to appeal this immediately to the SCOTUS?
- Two other less sensational yet no-less horrendous Biden Crime Family rackets.
- Trump train keeps on rolling while Biden holds a rally where FDR went to die.
- Two interesting profiles on up-and-coming GOPers, including one woman taking on putrid crone Rosa DeLauro and another who was a refugee from Soviet Ukraine.
- Iran and France butt heads.
- More on the madness of the Green New Deal

And lots of other hot links, but no beer. Have at it.

BOMBSHELL BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
• "When I saw Adam Schiff go on record, talking about Russian disinformation, after this email had been posted online by the New York Post... I was at the end of my rope."
  Bobulinski: I Came Forward Because Schiff Accused Me of Being Part of Russian Disinformation
  
• "Bobulinski explains at length how integral Joe Biden was to Hunter Biden's China deal."
  Tucker Carlson's Interview with Tony Bobulinski is Must-See TV
  
• "Bobulinski recalled how Joe Biden's brother, Jim Biden, said 'plausible deniability' would shield the Biden family from scrutiny over their Chinese business dealings."
  Hunter's Ex-Business Partner Tony Bobulinski: "Joe Biden and the Biden Family Are Compromised"
  
• "I was focused on pushing these guys to do the right thing, to demonstrate an ounce of integrity in front of the American people. They all know the facts; I lived the facts. And luckily for the American people, all the facts are extremely well documented."
  Biden Whistleblower Plays Tape of Biden Allies Responding to Him Going Public: You're "Gonna Bury All of Us"
  
• Michael Goodwin: "For Tony Bobulinski, the meetings with Joe Biden are unforgettable, and not because they had anything to do with politics. It's because that's when Bobulinski fully understood that Joe was very much involved in the foreign business schemes that son Hunter Biden and Joe's brother Jim had cooked up."
  "Look Out for My Family": Hunter's Biz Partner Tells All on Meeting with Joe Biden
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• "Ho was charged on Dec. 18, 2017 with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering related to CEFC China Energy contracts in Uganda and Chad," the report stated. "Ho had been an executive at the multi-billion dollar Chinese energy company prior to his arrest."
  Feds Authorized FISA Warrant Against Hunter Biden Chinese Business Associate, Report Says
  
• Hunter Biden -- in an audio file labeled "Most Genius Shit Ever" -- appears to be referencing Patrick Ho, who was a former Secretary for Home Affairs in Hong Kong, as a "spy chief of China" while lamenting how his business partner Ye Jianming of CEFC China Energy had disappeared.
  Hunter Biden Audio Confesses Partnership With China "Spy Chief"... Joe Biden Named As Criminal Case Witness
  
• "Hunter Biden and his partners sought a $10 million seed investment from CEFC China Energy, a company whose chairman had close ties to the People's Liberation Army."
  Hunter Biden Group Touted Joe Biden In Investment Pitch To Chinese Firm
  
• The words ring especially true, given Biden's attempt to shift the subject from China to the "Family Table" during his debate with President Trump last week."
  Legal Journal Published Most Damning 3 Paras On "Phony" Biden and the Ukraine/China Connection In 2019
  
• "In the event of a Biden victory, we will face the reality that Beijing has been paying off the president-elect for over a decade."
  We Didn't Need the Laptop to Know About Biden Corruption

  MEDIA CENSORSHIP OF BOMBSHELL BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, DISINFORMATION & SMEARING OF NY POST, GIULIANI ET AL

• "Major U.S. media outlets are living in an alternate fantasy world in which the Biden scandal is a 'miasma' meant to confuse and mislead gullible Americans."
  The Hunter Biden Scandal Has Exposed the Corporate Press' Corruption and Condescension
  
• Matt Taibbi: "The flow of information in the United States has become so politicized -- bottlenecked by an increasingly brazen union of corporate press and tech platforms -- that it's become impossible for American audiences to see news about certain topics absent thickets of propagandistic contextualizing."
  The Media -- and Social Media -- Drive to Squelch Information No Matter Who Wins Election

  OTHER BIDEN FAMILY CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

• Daniel Greenfield: "There wasn't enough money for medication, tests, or sterilizing instruments, but lots of money for the Bidens."
  The Bidens Got Into the Hospital Business and People Died
  
• "Less sexy than Hunter Biden on drugs in China, perhaps, but just as compromising."
  The Little-Reported Corruption Racket Between Joe Biden and Big Academia

  ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

• "U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis sentenced Raniere to 120 years in prison on Tuesday. Prosecutors had sought life in prison while defense lawyers fought for 15 years in prison." (what about Gillibrand? - jjs)
  NXIVM Founder Keith Raniere Sentenced for Sex-Trafficking Conspiracy
  
• Left's Post-Election Agenda: More Riots, "Truth Commissions," Other Punishment For Their Foes -- That Means You

  AMY CONEY BARRETT SCOTUS CONFIRMATION, COURT-PACKING REAL AND IMAGINED

• "The newest justice will change the dynamic among her colleagues."
  It's Now the Barrett Court
  
• "The Democratic plan for the Supreme Court was Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't die," he added. "And that's why they're such a loser party. I vote for them but they don't know how to do politics."
  Bill Maher Slams Democrats As "Loser Party," Says Ginsburg "Should Have Quit" During Obama Presidency
  
• Kamala Harris believes the Republicans have "just done great harm to the American people" by confirming Barrett.
  "Expand the Court": Democrats, the Left Lose Their Minds Over Barrett's Confirmation
  
• "In order to prevent a restoration of the Supreme Court's proper role in America's constitutional republic, Democrats have to hide their true intentions. They have to convince Americans that originalism does not mean a return to the Constitution's rules of fair play but rather something else. No Democrat has proved quite as shameless as Sen. Ed Markey (D-Ipshit.) in this regard."
  Democrats Give Away the Game: They Want the Supreme Court to Unilaterally Amend the Constitution
  
• "Irresponsible and inflammatory."
  Sen. Mike Lee Demands Sen. Ed Markey 'Retract' His Statement On Judicial Originalism (don't hold your breath, Senator Lee - jjs)

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE

• "Commissioner Outlaw said 30 of her officers were injured during the civil unrest. Most were injured by projectiles thrown by rioters. Those projectiles included rocks, bricks, and other debris, she explained."
  91 Arrested in Philadelphia Rioting Including 76 for Burglary
  
• "The widespread rioting and looting in Philadelphia is tied to the recent shooting of Walter Wallace, Jr. who chased police officers with a knife forcing two police officers to fire at him. "
  Watch: Protesters Assault Reporter Filming BLM Looting in Philadelphia
  
• "Burn the precinct to the ground, every city, every town!" the group, mainly clad in black, chanted as they marched near Boerum Place and Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn.
  Anti-Cop Protesters Leave Trail of Destruction in Downtown Brooklyn
  
• "Large groups of protesters gathered around various parts of DC to demonstrate against the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton. The young man died in a moped crash while fleeing from the police."
  Watch: DC Cops Respond to Violent Protesters with Tear Gas, Flash Bangs
  
• About as sane an rational as you'd expect.
  How Would Greenpeace Activists Respond to the Election Results? We Attended One of Their Meetings to Find Out
  
• "Eleven protesters say mayor, police commissioner directed police to use unjustifiable force."
  Civil Liberties Union, Legal Aid Society File Lawsuit Against DeBolshevik
  
• "Harris never took much interest in making meaningful changes to the criminal justice system when she was an attorney general. What makes you think she'll do it as vice president?"
  When Kamala Harris Could Have Pushed To Investigate Police Shootings, She Didn't
  
• "Sidney Powell: Joe Biden's big pitch is his promise to restore calm. It's a con."
  Biden Is Running a Protection Racket

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• "This is beginning to look like a pattern. Biden has repeatedly substituted 'million' for 'thousand,' and in each case, the gross exaggeration bolsters his argument on an issue."
  Mistake or Messaging? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Say MILLIONS of Americans Died From Chinese COVID-19
  
• "Americans in other states have reasons to be grateful this year that they aren't Californians."
  California Gov. Newsom Lays Egg With Thanksgiving Chinese COVID-19 Guidelines
  
• "A red-state Legislature finally has enough of a blue governor's shutdowns."
  Louisiana's Constitutional Chinese COVID Crisis
  
• "Liberty and compassion vs. slavery and cruelty."
  Scientists Against the Chinese COVID Internment
  
• "Families and businesses are watching their bottom lines and stretching each dollar. But House Democrats are pushing a plan to prevent America's schools from doing the same thing."
  Democrats' Deadly Strings on New Chinese COVID-19 Aid

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

• "Liberal university scolds congressional candidate prof."
  NY Dem Reprimanded for Campaign Fundraising
  
• "...police are looking into Alexander Assefa's personal and campaign finance records, as well as physical evidence that the state assemblyman lives outside of his Spring Valley district."
  Nevada Democrat Under Investigation for Campaign Finance Violations

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Ben Stein: "This from Trump-hating Biden supporters."
  The America I Love Does Not Pepper-Spray Jews (this is not the America you love, not in blue states anyway - jjs)
  
• "Rasha Mubarak cries 'Islamophobia' -- as the Young Democrats continue to affiliate with her."
  Florida Democrat Party Cancels Event Featuring Anti-Semite Muslim Activist
  
• "Listen, Shylock, if you don't vote for me, you ain't no sheenie weather-controller!"
  Biden Touts Endorsement From Leading Anti-Semites

  PHONY DEMOCRAT ELECTION-STEALING POSTAL SERVICE SWINDLE, ELECTION FRAUD IN GENERAL

• Send it for immediate appeal to the Coney Barrett court.
  South Carolina Federal Judge, Obama Appointee, Rules Signatures Don't Have to Match Absentee Ballots
  
• "That leaves Democrats in a last-minute struggle to deliver on their push to get voters to submit their vote-by-mail ballots."
  One Week Left: 42% of Pennsylvania Mail-in Ballot Requests Not Returned
  
• James O'Keefe: "Why would a Texas 'Republican' consultant and self proclaimed 'ballot chaser' be illegally pressuring voters to vote Democrat? "
  SHOCK: Texas "Consultant" Caught On Camera Illegally Changing Someone's Vote To Democrat
  
• "The commonwealth's supreme court ruled that ballots submitted by mail may not be rejected because of signature mismatches between the ballot and the voter registry."
  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Bad Voting Decision is the Law's Fault
  
• "Like two navies angling for a better broadside, the legal teams of Donald Trump and Joe Biden are already sparring over the integrity of the 2020 vote before a single vote has been counted."
  The Battle Royal of 2020

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION

• "A rather significant trend, since more than 62 million votes have already been cast in the election via early poll voting, absentee ballots, and mail-in ballots and we're still seven days out from Election Day."
  "Can I Change My Vote" Surges On Google Post-Debate. Here's Where You Can
  
• "Three weeks and Joe's shot."
  Trump: Kamala Harris Could Replace Joe Biden via 25th Amendment
  
• "Shortly after Biden's speech, President Donald Trump kicked off a campaign rally in Lansing, Michigan, where he was meet by a large crowd of supporters." (several thousand strong - jjs)
  Watch: Joe Biden Rallies Dozens in Georgia
  
• He's more than likely ahead of Biden. This is just their way covering their ass as election day draws near.
  New IBD Poll: Trump Closing in on Biden
  
• Boom.
  Biden Boasts, "In 8 Days We're Going To Take Our Democracy Back." Nigel Farage Fires Back: "And Then Sell It To China?"
  
• Robert Spencer: "Biden inspiringly noted: 'It was here on April 12, 1945 that President Roosevelt died.' That made it a perfect setting for a speech by an elderly, low-energy candidate that many assume will not live long into his presidential term if elected."
  Biden Tries to Project Energy By Going to Where FDR Went to Die
  
• "The GOP Chairwoman is putting up data that counters the polls and the mainstream media narrative based upon those polls."
  Ronna McDaniel's Twitter Feed Tells You What the Polls Are Missing
  
• "I would love to play poker with Kamala Harris because she has the most obvious tell in the history of politics."
  The Kamala Harris Nervous Laugh is What Gamblers Call a "Tell"
  
• "Their attacks on Trump are expressions of their animosity toward the electorate."
  Democrats' Contempt for the Will of the Voters
  
• "It's like 2016 all over again!"
  Hillary Whines She Was "Born" to Be President, "Can't Entertain the Idea" of Trump Winning
  
• "If history is any indication, the key to Trump's re-election is by winning Florida."
  Who Will Win Florida -- and the White House?
  
• "I know her personally and she is not a good person. I know that sounds like a spiteful mother-in-law but I speak on behalf of my son's three other children that they do not see."
  Texas Dem MJ Hegar's Latest Detractor Is Her Own Mother-In-Law
  
• "There are currently 97 members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress. That number is only expected to grow as AOC acolytes and other radicals take their seats in January after winning in November. They may even come close to being half the entire Democrat caucus in the House."
  How Far Left Would a President Biden Be Pushed by the Radicals?
  
• "Socialism inevitably ends in ruin wherever it's applied. Joe Biden is working with socialist cronies to craft massive government programs that would further strip away fundamental economic and personal freedoms. Voters have good reason to keep these realities in mind."
  Racing Down The Socialist Road With Joe Biden
  
• "Today, just four years later, we're living it all over again. So what happened to the soul searching, and how did the pundit class end up back in the exact place, trying desperately to undo history by repeating it to a tee?"
  All Signs Point to One Thing: We're Reliving the 2016 Election
  
• Larry Elder: "Why I sent him a series of tweets."
  Ice Cube Gets It -- Almost
  
• "Streicker, a wealthy real estate developer, has invested a total of $1.6 million in her campaign to unseat DeLauro in the state's 3rd district."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi Ally Rosa DeLauro Faces Aggressive Challenge from CT GOP Political Outsider Margaret Streicker
  
• "Victoria Spartz brings experience growing up in Soviet Ukraine to fight against socialism."
  From the Soviet Union to Indiana, Republican House Candidate Stands Against Socialist Future
  
• "The Democrats' sanctimonious urge to power will brook no limit."
  Why Nothing Biden Says or Does Matters to Democrats
  
• "And a nation is at stake."
  Election Day Draws Near, and the Dice Are Rolling

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "Social media platform cites fact check."
  Facebook Removes Black Man's Anti-Biden Ad
  
• "Sure, waste a SCOTUS pick on a 73-year-old woman who has turned into a conspiracy nut."
  MSNBC Alleged Intern-Killer Joe Scarborough Suggests Biden Nominate Hillary for SCOTUS
  
• Jonathan Turley: "What is striking is that Meacham is supposed to give what NBC, MSNBC, and PBS present as neutral, scholarly analysis. But his comment about Trump supporters having lizard brains captures why conservative or independent voters view the networks as biased and gratuitously insulting."
  Presidential Historian and Hack Stenographer Jon Meacham: Trump Supporters Have the "Nervous, White Guy's Lizard Brain"
  
• "Public health measures to combat social media addiction would save lives and help restrain the power of Silicon Valley."
  How to Restrain Big Tech Immediately

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Gun buying also rises among minorities amid pandemic."
  Health Care Workers Help Drive Gun Surge, New Study Says

  ABORTION
  
  

• "Yes, we are in a fight for the soul of our nation, as our country chooses not to see what is going on, turning a blind eye to the horror of abortion."
  Joe Biden Cannot Claim to Fight For Our Nation's Soul While Supporting Unborn Genocide

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "'During the session, the Iranian official denounced the French officials' 'unacceptable measures,' which [he claimed] have hurt the feelings of millions of Muslims in Europe and the entire world,' according to the report."
  Iran Summons French Envoy After Macron Defends Satirical Cartoons
  
• "The resolution urges the executive branch to take all available measures to halt China's abuses against its Uighur people. So far, Beijing has imprisoned about 1.8 million Uighurs in labor camps in its Xinjiang region, subjecting them to forced sterilizations, abortions, and other abuses."
  Rubio, Cornyn Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Designate Uighur Camps as Genocide
  
• "The only good thing about the UN is when President Trump comes to visit."
  Commemorating UN Day
  
• "Annexing the oil-rich Canadian province could solve its many woes."
  The Case for an American Alberta

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The removal of these AQ-S leaders will disrupt the terrorist organization's ability to further plot and carry out global attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians."
  American Airstrikes Take Down 12 al-Qaeda and Taliban Operators
  
• In a recent report to Congress, the Department of Defense outlined how China is "leveraging civilian service and logistics capabilities for military purposes" and "uses commercial infrastructure to support all of its military operations abroad."
  China Makes Waves, Seeking To Control World Shipping

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Unprecedented: Jews presented as victims of Arab intolerance."
  MBC-TV Drama Series Umm Haroun Is Rocking The Arab World

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "Five years in the making, America Lost offers perspective on the decline of once-thriving U.S. communities -- and how they might find rebirth."
  America Lost Documentary Explores How Families Overcome Cycles of Poverty

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Oil, soybean, and car imports drove the growth alongside a strengthening Chinese economy, according to a Bloomberg analysis. The growth comes after the United States and China signed the Phase One trade deal in January, in which China promised to buy $200 billion more in U.S. goods than its 2017 amount by the end of 2021."
  China Purchases Record Amount of US Goods in September as Part of New Trade Deal
  
• "The potential nomination of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo undermines Joe Biden's anti-Wall Street rhetoric, putting him at odds with the progressive left."
  Biden Eyes Wall Street Insider as Potential Treasury Secretary if He Wins in November

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "ThriveNYC is the brainchild of Mayor [DeBolshevik's] wife, Chirlane McCray, and her hubby managed to finagle $1.25 billion out of the city council to fund it."
  DeBolshevik Wants New Yorkers Who Are Threatened by Mentally Ill to Call His Commie Wife's Company Hotline
  
• What about Brennan, Comey and Clapper?
  Barr Orders Execution of 2 Death Row Federal Inmates for "Heinous Murders"

  HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE

• "The bureaucratic mindset -- self-protection at the expense of the public interest-- got in the way."
  The Record-Time FDA Approval that Almost Didn't Happen.
  
• "In many ways, Biden's proposed default coverage represents a greater intrusion into the lives of Americans than Obamacare's individual mandate."
  Democrats Considering "Squeegee Insurance" That Automatically Enrolls You Then Bills You On Tax Day

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "After purging public schools of Judeo-Christian virtues, the left replaced them with five pseudo-virtues: tolerance, inclusivism, egalitarianism, multiculturalism, and environmentalism."
  How To Stop Schools From Replacing True Virtue With Leftist Virtue Signaling
  
• "Teachers unions want schools to remain closed while teachers keep getting their salaries even though evidence roundly shows that [Chinese] coronavirus poses little risk to children."
  As Private Students Return To School, Teachers Unions Block Chicago Public Schools From Opening
  
• "When reasoned debate exits stage left."
  Cancel Culture Spells the Demise of Academic Freedom
  
• Heather Mac Donald: "Northwestern University's president takes a commendable hard line against student rioting -- but he helped create the climate for the destructive behavior."
  Waking to the Woke
  
• Dennis Prager: "Leftists fear that five minutes of conservative thought will undo four years of left-wing teaching."
  What Happened When a High School Offered a PragerU Video

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Given heightened concerns that foreign countries, primarily China and Russia, are potentially funding U.S.-based 'green' groups to undermine American energy independence and to help maintain the integrity of the EPA's decision-making, EPA will refer this matter to the DOJ [Foreign Agents Registration Act] Unit," Wheeler said. "The DOJ can then determine what appropriate steps to take, if any, including whether those entities should be registered as foreign agents."
  EPA Requests DOJ Investigate Foreign Funding of Environmental Groups
  
• "Despite recent denials, Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has made on-the-record comments saying that he would ban the use of hydraulic fracking to extract energy, as well as put an end to all federal oil and natural gas leasing."
  Study: Fracking Ban Would Cost Millions of Jobs, Reduce GDP, Increase Average Household Energy Expense 14%
  
• "Those who believe in this socialist nonsense or suffer amnesia or were too young to remember, need to be reminded that in 2008, the Obama-Biden administration enacted a comprehensive 'New Energy for America' plan, a precursor of the current insanity."
  The Green New Deal is Not Green and is Not a Deal

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter: "After 16 years, this company has so far accomplished nothing, while spending probably more than $2 billion in private capital. It now wants more, even as Richard Branson has sold off his stock at a nifty profit."
  The Sad Story of Virgin Galactic

  NB: Other space flight links on
  Blue Origin,
  SpaceX
  and the Europa Clipper
  at Bob Zimmerman's site. Click each one for the link

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "Image reportedly shows black man wearing a shirt that resembled an inmate's uniform."
  Ikea Delays Release of 2021 Catalog To Remove Potentially Racist Image: Report
  
• Christian Toto: "Plot Against the President gets its revenge, piling up user raves following delay."
  4 Times Amazon Tortured Right-Leaning Documentaries
  
• "Angela Davis, the Soviet Union's best friend, keeps the faith."
  Communism Collapsed, But Communists Are Still With Us
  
• "To understand how our disharmony comes from those who constantly promise to unite us, we could learn much from studying what Frederic Bastiat, among history's ablest defenders of freedom, had to teach in his Economic Harmonies."
  Government Fosters Acrimony, Not Harmony
  
• "The idea that some grand self-sacrificial gesture will heal the culture-war breach is deluded. It is politics as the third act of a romantic comedy."
  Why the Right Can Never End the Culture Wars by Capitulating
  
• "As the Rush Limbaugh Show spread across America, conservatives began to learn that they were not."
  The Five Dimensions of Rush Limbaugh

  HITHER & YON

• "Refusal to have children, intermarriage, and the lingering effects of the Holocaust all play a part." (the rejection of the faith with the embrace of atheistic leftism didn't help either - jjs)
  The Dramatic Decline of the Jewish Population Worldwide

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (10/27/20)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

“Especially in these times, Americans depend on the reliability and integrity of those that deliver the U.S. Mail,” “Conduct by Postal employees that violates that duty will result in swift federal prosecution.”United States Attorney Russell Coleman

Quote II

"Since freedom impelled and independence inspired and nationality exalted, a world super-government is contrary to everything we cherish and can have no sanction by our Republic. This is not selfishness, it is sanctity." Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865 - 1923), 29th President of the United States, March 4, 1921 (H/T Isophorone Blog)

Quote III

“Oslo is experiencing a bicycle boom. We want to give cyclists an opportunity to continue with the good trend into the winter.” Director Heidi Sørensen at the country’s Climate Agency

Quote IV

"What we really want is first an order allowing him to park, which we've got so far. And just a declaration that this violates First Amendment rights so that this school knows it and so that other schools know it,” Jacob Huebert, Attorney at Law.

Quote V

“Protect your health but don’t let the Court and the deliberately crippled Postal Service deprive you of your most precious civil right. Plan your vote,” Former AG Eric Holder

Quote VI

I know her personally and she is not a good person. I know that sounds like a spiteful mother-in-law but I speak on behalf of my son's three other children that they do not see." Patricia Heiman

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One more reason why I like Donald Trump and voted for him.

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Common sense + humor = Hodge Twins.

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(H/T Golfman)

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What a sad and pathetic existence. Everything is racist. Every G.D. thing under the sun, including beer.

David L. Brunsma, a professor in Virginia Tech’s department of sociology, claimed that both beer and the phrase “ the American people” are racist in a recent book and tweet, respectively.

The book, co-authored by Burnsma and titled Beer and Racism: How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It, claims to provide a “critical and interdisciplinary path to examine and understand the racial dynamics in the craft beer industry and the popular consumption of beer” according to its description.

"From the racist marketing of malt liquor to the bearded-white-dude culture of craft beer, readers will never look at a frothy pint the same after reading Beer and Racism." Tweet This
The book claims that beer in the United States has “always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities” and that American attitudes towards beer have led to “intersectional inequalities.”

“Brewing up Race," “The Making of the (White) Craft Beer Industry”, “Gentrification and the Making of Craft Beer” and “#WeAreCraftBeer: Contemporary Movements to Change the Whiteness of Craft Beer” are among chapters contained in the work.

In a tweet intended to promote his book, Brunsma included hashtags like “#blackpeoplelovebeer,” “#brownpeoplelovebeer,” and “#beerandracism."

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The State of New York loses another business. Buh-bye says Kimber, Mfg.

Kimber Mfg., is pleased to name Troy, Alabama, as its official corporate headquarters and to announce it is hiring aggressively in all departments. After a carefully planned shift of leadership, R&D and manufacturing resources, Kimber has made substantial progress in the transition to its new, state-of-the-art headquarters in Troy, Alabama.

The final step in completing this new facility is adding staff across all departments. Kimber’s new headquarters is situated on 80+ acres with more than 225,000 square-feet of space and is now home to industry-leading design engineering, product management and manufacturing capabilities.

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Me, anti-social, how could that be? Just because I don't subscribe to wearing a mask.

Scientists in Brazil have linked resistance to Covid-19 safety measures, such as wearing a mask, with antisocial personality traits.

Their study was the first of its kind in Latin America and surveyed over 1,500 people aged 18-73.

Using a questionnaire, the scientists sought to identify the participants’ affective resonance - their impulse to act on feelings stirred by another person - and asked a series of personality questions about how well certain statements represented their behaviour on a scale.

The survey also asked about compliance with Covid-19 containment measures over time, such as mask wearing.

When profiles were analysed, two were identified: an antisocial pattern profile who were resistant to Covid-19 safety measures and an empathy pattern profile who were compliant.

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Risk and reward. It's been a concept present since the start of time. No one forced anyone to go to law school.

One of the harsh realities of law school that we don’t speak about quite often enough is student loans. The average law student is shouldered with six figures of debt upon graduation, and these heavy debt loads act as huge setbacks for new attorneys. Lawyers in the early stages of their careers are delaying marriages, putting off home-buying, and postponing or forgoing having children because of student loans. And, of course, law school debt is taking a horrific toll on their mental health.

According to a new report put together by the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and the AccessLex Institute, student loans are weighing heavily on the minds of recent law school graduates. More than 1,000 lawyers in their first decade of practice participated in a YLD survey meant to gauge the impact debt played in their lives, and a negative impact on mental health became a common, unprompted theme among their responses.

Here are just a few responses to the open-ended question “Which of these ways, if any, has your total student loan debt affected your life?” that the study’s authors categorize as “difficult to read”:

It turns out I hate being a lawyer but I can’t afford to do anything else. My mental health has aged me prematurely. I can’t afford to stay working in my area due to increased cost of living.

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There is a right way and a wrong way to do certain things. Searching for treasure in a cemetery is wrong. Just plain wrong.

A man caught digging in the historic Fort Yellowstone Cemetery faces up to 12 years in prison and nearly $300,000 in fines. He was indicted on charges of excavating or trafficking in archeological resources and injury or depredation to United States property, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming announced last week.

Rodrick Dow Craythorn, 52, appeared before a grand jury on October 22 and pled not guilty to two counts of illegal excavation, depredation, and damage to U.S. property. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Craythorn was claimed he was searching for Forrest Fenn’s treasure — a collection of jewels and artifacts hidden by Fenn, an art dealer, in 2010 — when people discovered him digging in the park cemetery.

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No word from the typical raging United States feminists. And our lefties think we have it bad.

Australia says it has raised "grossly disturbing" reports with Qatar that women were strip-searched and examined before a flight from Doha to Sydney.

The women were checked for signs of having recently given birth after a newborn baby was found abandoned in a toilet at Hamad International Airport.

The unidentified baby has been cared for since being found on 2 October.

The searches came to light when Australian women spoke out. Women from other countries were also examined.

All adult women on the Qatar Airways flight were required to disembark to be body-searched, two of the women told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Thirteen Australian women were taken to an ambulance on the tarmac and told to remove their underwear before being examined, reports said.

Kim Mills told the Guardian she was among those taken off the flight and led into a dark car park, where three ambulances were waiting to perform medical examinations.

However, officials did not subject her to the examination due, she suspected, to her being in her 60s. Even so, she said, the experience was horrifying.

"My legs were just wobbling. I was terrified they were going to take me away somewhere. Why didn't they explain to us what was going on?" she said, adding that airplane staff later told her they didn't know what was happening.

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It is 2020 so nothing surprises me anymore. Truth is stranger than fiction when it comes to Murder Hornets.

Heavily protected crews worked in Washington state on Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States.

The state agriculture department spent weeks searching, trapping and using dental floss to tie tracking devices to Asian giant hornets, which can deliver painful stings to people and spit venom but are the biggest threat to honeybees farmers depend on to pollinate crops.

Quite the outfit.

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Quite the breaking and entry duo.

According to IFL Science, a pair of young raccoons were spotted inside a branch of the Peninsula Bank when a client saw the mischievous animals while withdrawing money from the ATM outside in the early morning.

At first, the man thought the raccoons were merely a pair of stuffed animals. But he quickly realized that they were actually wild animals rummaging through the bank’s empty office.

Once news of the furry bandits reached bank officials, they called in animal rescuers from the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Born on this day: 27 Oct 1967
Scott Weiland, vocals, Stone Temple Pilots, (1993 UK No.23 single 'Plush'). Velvet Revolver, (2004 US No.1 & UK No.11 album 'Contraband'). Weiland has also established himself as a solo artist, releasing three studio albums, a cover album, and collaborations with several other musicians since 1998. Weiland died on December 3, 2015 after being found in cardiac arrest on his tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota, just before he was scheduled to go on stage with his band The Wildabouts. He was 48 years old. via thisdayinmusic.com

&&&

On this day: 27 Oct 1964
31 year old Salvatore Philip Bono married 18 year old Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. For a time they performed together as Caesar and Cleo before changing the name of their act to Sonny and Cher. Their union lasted 12 years. via thisdayinmusic.com

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My guess? He isn't the Son of God but he is a Genius Award Winner.

ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — An Altoona man was charged after allegedly screaming and throwing items into the road at 5 a.m.

According to the complaint, 42-year-old Martin Miller was outside of his apartment on the 500 block of 12th Street in Altoona on Wednesday, October 14, when police arrived and observed two mailboxes laying in the street and a handle of vodka behind him.

Police spoke with the woman who called the police after Miller woke her up by screaming from the street that “skies are opening” and that he was the “son of God.” She reportedly told officers that right before their arrival, he was throwing things into the street and screaming “Beam me up Scotty!” and “here piggy piggy.”

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It's old but it still makes, "Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day."

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Close it up

Highly Suggestible Morons Open Thread/
Tony Bobulinski on Tucker Carlson

—Ace

An open thread for suggesting shows, books, products, etc. to you fellow Morons.

After having it recommended it to me a few times, I downloaded the FXX series version of What We Do In the Shadows. It's not quite as good as the movie -- and they borrow some plot elements from the movie, though they're redressed a little -- but it is pretty good. I don't know how it aired on FXX, but in the Amazon download, it's got the f-bomb in it every episode.

There are also connections to the movie. The vampire lore in the show is pretty fun, too.

I thought I wouldn't like the Psychic Vampire, aka the Energy Vampire who drains your energy by frustrating and annoying you at work, but he's pretty funny.

Project Veritas Pays a Greedy "Ballot Chaser" to Watch How She Works; She Freely Admits Committing Vote Crimes

—Ace

No fraud, anywhere!

Sure, this woman who buys votes has collected 7000 votes just in one county in Texas, but surely she's the only "ballot chaser" criminal.

Except... except for the other criminal "ballot chasers" she narcs on.

Texas 'Ballot Chaser' Pressures Voter to Change Vote from Cornyn to Hegar: 'That's My Job' ... 'I Can Honestly Say I'm Bringing at Least 7,000 Votes to The Polls' ... Said Garza Gave Her $2,500 Gift Budget

Ballot Chaser Raquel Rodriguez: "I could go to jail. I'm a little apprehensive to tell anybody what I'm f#cking doing, you know what I'm saying?"

Rodriguez: "You [voter] said you're voting straight Democrat per our conversation... 'cause that's what you want to do, correct?"

Rodriguez: I drop off bundles of ballots at different post offices to avoid suspicion. "I go throughout the entire city. I'll take 20 [ballots] here, 30 [ballots] here, 40 [ballots] here."

James O'Keefe: "Our journalists discovered a voter fraud system positioned to swing Texas in 2020."

...

Sometimes, the ballot chaser said she hosts parties at a bar for her voters, some of them former inmates recruited by her colleague, Tommy Acosta.

"Tommy does what's called, like barbecues, so like an example, this coming Thursday at a bar, we're going to feed 45 ex-felons that we registered because they're going to all vote," she said.

The parties are thrown after everyone votes, she said.

Raquel Rodriguez: "So, guess what we're going to do? We're taking them to a bar to go eat, OK. I got some people to go to the bar and guess what? I had to f#cking take them beer. I was like, are y'all going to come and vote or not? And they were like we're going to meet you right now. I said come meet me because when you get to the bar, I'm going to have a bucket of beer for all of y'all to drink. I just took care of it. Just said your bucket is there."

Later, Rodriguez told another Project Veritas journalist she was worried about what the other undercover journalist saw.

Raquel Rodriguez: "What I do picking up those ballots when he was with me --that'a illegal. I could go to jail. I'm a little apprehensive to tell anybody what I'm f#cking doing, you know what I'm saying? And again, once he works with me once, he's gonna say--"

Journalist: "I guess Trump was right. (laughs) I'm sorry."

Rodriguez: "About doing stuff illegal?"

Journalist: "I'm sorry?"

Rodriguez: "About doing stuff illegal?"

Journalist: "Yeah, they all said he was full of sh#t."

Rodriguez: "Oh hell no, he's not. It's true-- 'cause you're not supposed to do that."

Fake Tapper immediately sprang to the airwaves to announce, without evidence, that this was all Russian Disinformation.

No he didn't. He just ignored the story.

They ignore every story if they can. If they need help, they call up their buddies at Google and FaceBook to suppress the story.

Video at the link. Teaser video below.

American Greatness Poll: Trump Takes Four Point Lead in Florida

—Ace

Susquahanna polling, conducting a poll for American Greatness, finds Trump with a four point lead, 48 to 44.

Donald Trump has taken a 4-point lead over Joe Biden in Florida according to a new survey by Susquehanna Polling and Research for the Center for American Greatness.

The phone survey of 400 likely voters conducted October 23-25 showed Trump with 48 percent and Biden with 44 percent support, with a 4.9 percent margin of error.Libertarian Jo Jorgensen gets 2 percent of the vote, while 6 percent of respondents remain undecided or refused to answer. If "leaners" are included, Trump leads 48.5-44. This same poll conducted last month using the same methodology showed Biden with a 3-point lead.

A friend pointed out this site which organizes early voting in Florida and North Carolina.

The below map is their "Advantage Map" graphic. This map color-codes counties not by whether Republicans or Democrats are voting more, but according to the Republican or Democrat advantage in 2020 as compared to the baseline of 2016.

Miami-Dade county being colored pink does not mean Republicans are winning Miami-Dade, but it does mean that more Republican ballots have been turned in in Miami-Dade this year than in 2016.

The three big Democrat counties are Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach. A bunch more Republicans have returned ballots in Miami-Dade in 2020 than in 2016 )(+23,145 Republican ballots). In Broward and Palm Beach, Democrats got more ballots than they did in 2016 -- about +19,600 for the Democrats, over the 2016 level.

But that means in the three biggest Democrat counties, Republicans have actually gained +4,000 ballots on the Democrats.

And as you can see from the rest of the map: there's a lot of bright red in other, more Republican-leaning counties.

Plus, the Democrat Party, not the Republican Party, really pushed its stalwarts to vote by mail and, if not by mail, then to vote early in person.

There are also more Republicans ballots returned in early voting in Wisconsin than Democrat ballots:

Leaked Phone Call: Hunter Biden Says His Business "Partner" is the "F***ing Spy King of China"

—Ace

Hillary Clinton: The Thought of Trump Winning, Plus All the Breakfast Gin Fizzies I Drink, Makes Me Literally Sick to My Stomach

—Ace

Can she just do the honorable thing and eat two handfuls of pills already?

In a podcast released Monday, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said the thought of a second term with President Donald Trump makes her "literally sick to my stomach."

"I can't entertain the idea of him winning, so let's just preface it by that," Clinton told Kara Swisher, as a guest on Swisher's New York Times Opinion podcast.

"It makes me literally sick to my stomach to think that we'd have four more years of this abuse and destruction of our institutions, and damaging of our norms and our values, and lessening of our leadership... The list goes on," she said.

All thanks to you and your repellant corruption, your venomous criminal bitch.

Meanwhile, via Instapundit, Jake Tapper continues with his regularly-scheduled nervous breakdown.

Trump Spokesman Tim Murtaugh Accuses (Accurately) Fredo Cuomo of Having Broken Covid Quarantine; Fredo Lies To the World and Claims He Didn't

—Ace

Fredo offered the Liar's Demurrer. A liar doesn't want to be specific about what he's denying. Being specific is just making it easier to prove you're a lair.

So you just resort to nonspecific denials-- childishly gainsaying "Nuh-uh!"

Jake Tapper did this after the debate, calling Trump's charges against Hunter Biden "nonsense" because he had no specific grounds to deny the claims.

So he just yell-cried "Nuh-uh!"

As his CNN chumpmate Fredo Cuomo does here.

He never once says what he's claiming he did do, re: breaking quarantine. He just keeps shouting "No I didn't!"

Sundown Joe's "Speech" From a Couple of Days Ago Is Very Alarming

—Ace

He's slurring and garbling words, sometimes saying them out of order, sometimes making up strange new "words."

Obviously, he's of no use on the campaign trail, even if he were physically strong enough to campaign.

So what's Fox News doing? Covering the speeches of Biden's surrogate, Obama.

As a friend asked: Will Fox also be covering Trump's surrogates? Or nah?

Guess Whose New Show Has Plummeted in Ratings to Become Cable's Least-Watched Primetime Show??

—Ace

No, not Fake Tapper, though he's always a contender.

Shep "They're eating babies in the Superdome because global warming" Smith.

He's now routinely falling behind Fox Business repeats.

Shepard Smith, once a star anchor at Fox News, made headlines last year when he abruptly left the network. Now, his highly anticipated -- and heavily promoted -- new show at CNBC is falling behind repeats of Fox Business show Lou Dobbs Tonight.

...

Bringing in an average of 343,000 total viewers in its first week according to Nielsen, the show dropped to 268,000 in its second week, 254,000 in its third, and is set to continue to decline for week four (ratings for last Friday will be in later today).

...

Between September 30 and October 22, The News with Shepard Smith was at the bottom of 7 p.m. cable news ratings -- behind MSNBC's Joy Reid, CNN's Erin Burnett and Fox News’ Martha MacCallum -- with an average of 272,000 viewers.

Sheppie used to get ratings of one million or more at Fox. Or, I should say, Fox News garnered ratings of one million even while temporarily featuring Shep Smith.

But Shep Smith thought he was the secret sauce.

lol

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

Pack the court? Sure. How about if by some miracle the Republicans regain the House and President Trump nominates five more extremely young and extremely conservative judges and Cocaine Mitch McConnell rams them through in the next few months. How does that sound?

Article III of the U.S. Constitution does not specify the number of judges on the Supreme Court. The current number was set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, which is an act of Congress and can be changed by any subsequent Congress.

Or maybe we should go in the other direction. How about a Supreme Court of three judges? Thomas as Chief Justice, with Barrett and Alito as associate justices.

And while we are at it, how about if Congress limits the scope of the court's authority? The Constitution seems to give them that power in Article III Section 2:

In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

It is these insanities that makes conservatism immensely satisfying as a political philosophy. Chesterton's Fence is a lesson that needs endless repetition. I'll bet Harry Reid would like to revisit his destruction of the filibuster and the consequent boon for the Republican party. He claims to be happy with it, but legislation can always be changed, but the court is for a generation and can set the tone of legislation and even the direction of the political process of the country. As much as the Left would like to radically remake the structure of our government, there is the possibility that their enemies on the other side of the aisle will be emboldened to use those same tools, and the end result might be unpleasant for them.

If President Trump wins reelection next week, he will have a tremendous opportunity to do just that. Gut the regulatory state and empty the departments of the thousands of apparatchiks who have nurtured the Deep State. And a rational Supreme Court will be much more supportive of a return to basic principles!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Saint Sebastian
Tiziano Vecellio

This is one of Titian's last works, and it is radically different than another Saint Sebastian he did when he was much younger, part of the Averoldi Polyptych.

I think the contrast is fascinating.

The Morning Report - 10/27/20

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and it's a beautiful morning. Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in last night after being confirmed by a Harry Reid simple majority in the Senate. The swearing in of Justice Barrett to take the empty seat on the Supreme Court is filled with a number of metaphors as well as at least one deliciously ironic coincidence; yesterday was Hillary Clinton's birthday. Just over four years ago, the now deceased predecessor of Justice Barrett, who was no spring chicken even then and a double cancer survivor was urged to step down so that Barack Obama could appoint her successor, one who would be equally anti-Constitutional. But no. She was determined to bitterly cling to that seat so that she could live to see her successor sworn in by Hillary, who was after all, a 100% lead pipe cinch to be the first female president (the jury is still out as to whether or not that was, in fact, Obama or James Buchanan). If you're reading this post wherever you are, how did that work out for you?

The second metaphor, and a powerful one at that, was that a black man did the honors of swearing in a woman. Yet to the left Clarence Thomas is not black and Amy Coney Barrett is not a woman. Both of them are infidels and apostates to Leftism, which to them trumps biology. As I had mentioned, Justice Barrett is the antithesis of everything her predecessor was and what the Judiciary had been corrupted by the Left to be: a supra-legislative body the sole purpose of which was to advance laws and policies that could never survive the ballot box or Congress. In her speech last night, this demure, attractive lady, in her own quiet and elegant way, leaned back and cold-cocked the Democrats right in their collective pie-hole:

The confirmation process has made ever-clearer to me one of the fundamental differences between the federal judiciary and the United States Senate, and perhaps the most acute is the role of policy preferences. It is the job of a senator to pursue her policy preferences; in fact, it would be a dereliction of duty to put policy goals aside.

By contrast, it is the job of a judge to resist her policy preferences. It would be a dereliction of duty for her to give in to them. Federal judges don't stand for election, thus they have no basis for claiming that their preferences reflect those of the people. This separation of duty from political preference is what makes the judiciary distinct among the three branches of government. A judge declares independence not only from Congress and the president, but also from the private beliefs that might otherwise move her. The judicial oath captures the essence of the judicial duty; the rule of law must always control...

...The oath that I have solemnly taken tonight means at its core that I will do my job without any fear or favor and that I will do so independent of both the political branches and my own preferences. I love the Constitution and the democratic republic that it establishes, and I will devote myself to preserving it.

This should not be controversial. The fact that it is controversial speaks to just how corrupted and diseased our government and politics have become over the course of the past 50 years or even longer. If that doesn't convince you, then the shrill, bitter, poison words out of the filthy sewers of the Democrats in opposing this confirmation speak as loudly as a gaggle of five-year-olds on a sugar bender shrieking and kicking after being told "no."

A little reminder about judicial philosophy for our Leftist chums. The Constitution is no more a living and breathing thing as is a brick. Words have meaning and the words in our governing documents are not poetry, not from the Kabballa, or "E Pleb Neesta." They are clear, unambiguous and we have volumes of correspondence from the men who wrote it as to what they meant in their work. The Constitution is not fungible and subject to changing times, tastes or technology. It is the gold standard by which laws and regulations must meet or else be struck down. They are the rules that protect the individual rights against something else that does not change: human nature, i.e. the will to power of some who seek to lord over and enslave others. This idea that the court must be "balanced" is madness. The only people who should be on that court are justices who approach their responsibilities exactly as Justice Barrett has stated. The fact that Ruth Bader-Ginsburg and perhaps a dozen or so others who thought and acted like her over the course of the past 231 years were allowed within 10 miles of that bench is a travesty.

So now, aside from lashing out at President Trump and the GOP for following the rules and doing their duty as well as playing totally kosher hardball politics thanks to Harry Reid who in the waning days of the Obama reign of error disregarded precedent and comity for what he thought would be political advantage, the Democrats are shrieking about "fairness" and packing the courts if they have the chance. Being a sore loser is of course childish in the extreme. And their claiming the mantle of righteousness and morality as is their wont is sickening. But these people are not children. The next time they have the chance, they will burn the country down and us with it.

Yes, Mairzy-Doats Hirohito is a sub-literate degenerate daughter of a child pimp. While her antics did debase an otherwise solemn and beautiful ceremony, it's Chris Coons who is out of his friggin' mind.

"[W]e've got to have a wide-open conversation about how do we rebalance our courts. Yes, the two Supreme Court [seats] that have been stolen through these processes that are just wildly hypocritical have been used to jam through partisan nominees. But we've got to look at our federal courts as a whole, Rachel. Because we've seen hundreds of conservative judges put on circuit courts and district courts all over this country in the last four years, in many cases, too young, too unqualified, and too far right to be allowed to sit peaceably without our re-examining the process, the results, and the consequences."

Is it just me or did this diseased little mouse testicle just declare open season on judges? I get it; you're angry and lashing out because thanks to the greatest American president in the last 100 years is actually hell bent on reversing the trajectory of this nation during that time frame and doing everything he can to return power where it belongs; to the individual citizen. But this is so manifestly irresponsible that it borders on the criminal. How many James Hodgkinsons are out there with Chris Coons' office on speed dial? Or cupcakes like the "far right" would-be terrorist armed to the teeth and plotting to kill Goofy Joey Biden, who turns out to be a far-left Islam-curious Bernie Bro? Coons and his cohorts have encouraged the Burning-Looting-Murdering of our cities to take down this President and punish this country. A few bullet-ridden judges is how they make the omelet.

Disgusting.

Elsewhere...

- TuCa will have Biden family whistleblower Tony Bobulinski for his entire show tonight.
- Big win as SCOTUS upholds lower court ruling preventing Dems from stealing Wisconsin with ballot counting days after the election.
- GOP MN Senate Candidate Jason Lewis doing well after emergency surgery yesterday.
- Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows majority believe the revelations about the Bidens, which indicates that the attempted embargo of the story has failed.
- Aide of pajama boy Ossoff caught on tape disparaging "redneck rubes" and saying Ossoff is hiding his Communism to fool the latter into voting for him.
- Trump doing upwards of three rallies a day now forcing team Biden to drag the corpse out of the basement.
- Sure looks like Wall Street forced the Dow to take a dive to foul up Trump in the last week. The excuse was an alleged surge in the Chinese Lung Gleet. More cases means more testing and likely more false positives. It still does not translate into death; the mortality rate is still statistically on par with flu.
- Goofy Joey can't keep his facts straight on student loans.
- Marsha Blackburn on the warpath against academia/Confucius Institute collusion.
- Water found on the moon.
- Matthew McConaughey talks with Joe Rogan.

And other picture postcards. Have at it.

BOMBSHELL BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
• "The individual who provided Hunter with these gifts is Miguel Aleman Magnani... the grandson of a former Mexican President and son of one of Mexico's richest men, is the CEO of Mexican airline Interjet."
  Hunter Biden "Brought Every Single Person To White House, VP's House" That Foreign Business Partner Wanted, Received Resort Villa Stays, Artwork In Exchange
  
• Jeffrey Lord: "Peter Schweizer's treasure trove of e-mails catch Biden cold: time for a special counsel."
  Boom! -- E-Mails Expose Biden Inc.
  
• "The poll comes just days after one of Hunter Biden's former business partners alleged that Joe Biden was privy to discussions in 2017 regarding his son's dealings with CEFC China Energy Co., a Chinese oil company."
  Poll: Majority Believe Biden Knew About Son's Foreign Business Ventures
  
• "Beneath lie serious threats to the security of our tech and military information."
  Hunter Biden Is Just the Tip of the China Iceberg
  
• "How can it be disinformation? We have the drop slip Hunter Biden signed. We have John Ratcliffe and the FBI saying it's not Russian disinformation. We have an eyewitness saying the emails are real. We have an eye witness who says the big guy in one of the e-mails in fact refers to Joe Biden and that same eye witness met with Joe Biden about this whole subject area."
  Rep. Jim Jordan: They Said the Fake Dossier Is Real; Now They're Saying the Real Laptop, Emails Are Fake
  
• "How is the lack of any media or police interest in Hunter Biden's crack pipe not a glaring example of so-called white privilege?"
  Hunter Biden: White Crackhead Privilege
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Who's going to protect the children from the Bidens?"
  Hunter Biden Chaired a Foundation to Stop Child Abuse, While Engaging In It

  MEDIA CENSORSHIP OF BOMBSHELL BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, DISINFORMATION & SMEARING OF NY POST, GIULIANI ET AL

• "Tucker Carlson will be dedicating his entire prime time program Tuesday night to a one-hour interview with Biden family whistleblower Tony Bobulinski."
  Tucker Carlson's Entire Tuesday Night Show To Feature Interview Of Biden Whistleblower Tony Bobulinski
  
• William Jacobson: "If the assault on the Electoral College was the game changer for me, a runner up was waking up to implications of the concentration of power in a small number of social media and internet companies who have been weaponized to shut down speech and expression."
  Backlash Against Big Tech Censorship May Destroy Their Business Models, and "They Will Have No One But Themselves to Blame"
  
• "Reporting on anything that is damaging to Democrats is considered 'doing Republicans' work for them.'"
  Christiane Amanpour Gives the Game Away on Media Blackout of Biden Scandal
  
• Conrad Black: "The media must answer for the most egregious smear job in the history of the democratic world."
  The Media's Smear Job Campaigning for Joe Biden
  
• "During the Biden stretch run, the firemen on the left have shredded what is left of their reputations as journalists to destroy information the Deep State does not want their audiences to have."
  Media Firemen Scramble to Save Biden Candidacy

  ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

• "U.S. Senate Candidate Jason Lewis (R-MN) exited a 'successful' emergency surgery, several hours after his campaign announced the former GOP congressman had been rushed to the hospital on Monday morning after suffering from several abdominal pain."
  Emergency Surgery For GOP Senate Candidate From Minnesota "Successful," Says Campaign
  
• "Decades of gross bias and disinformation."
  The Dirty Deals of NPR

  AMY CONEY BARRETT SCOTUS CONFIRMATION, COURT-PACKING REAL AND IMAGINED

• "...it is the job of a judge to resist her policy preferences. It would be a dereliction of duty for her to give in to them."
  Barrett's Speech After Swearing In: "I Will Do My Job Without Any Fear Or Favor"
  
• "ACB sworn in on one year anniversary of President Trump's successful assassination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." (and Hillary's birthday! - jjs)
  HANDMAID'S FAIL: Liberal Cosplay Couldn't Stop Amy Coney Barrett from Joining Supreme Court
  
• "In the long term, she could have a profound influence on American jurisprudence, reinforcing originalism and textualism, and perhaps revisiting controversial precedents such as Roe vs. Wade."
  Justice Amy Coney Barrett Will Face Cases on Voting, Obamacare, Apportionment, Mueller Report
  
• "Unfortunately, many of the influencers in academia and mainstream media, to say nothing of our governing class, are decidedly less welcoming of conservative women, and especially women of faith."
  Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation is a Triumph for Women
  
• Please, go pimp some children to the Bidens.
  WATCH: Mairzy-Doats Hirohito Votes "Hell No" On Confirming Barrett, Appears To Storm Out
  
• "The modern Democrat party has abandoned all norms of civility and constitutionality. When they lose, they try to wreck the place."
  Democrats Go Ballistic After Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation
  
• "The longtime Biden advisor is supporting a bill of dubious constitutionality which would enforce hard term limits on any new Justices."
  Head of Biden Transition Team Endorses Blowing Up Supreme Court
  
• Is it me or is this shrunken, diseased mouse testicle encouraging mass assassinations?
  Coons: "Hundreds" of Trump's Lower Court Judges Shouldn't "Be Allowed to Sit Peaceably"

  SCOTUS-PEACHMENT, SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Margot Cleveland: "60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl falsely reported it is 'unverified' that the Obama-Biden administration spied on Trump's campaign in 2016."
  Lesley Stahl is Wrong and Trump is Right: The Obama Administration Spied on the Trump Campaign
  
• "We're still not privy to everything the Obama Administration did. But we know enough based on publicly available information to fact-check the fact-checkers."
  Dangerous Spygate Denials Show Intelligence Now Controls Media

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE

• Robert Spencer: "What a surprise."
  "Right-Wing Extremist" Who Wanted to Kill Biden Turns Out to Be a Leftist Inspired by Jihadis
  
• "Examples of hostilities toward Trump and his supporters abound, but leftists' threats of terror are even greater should Biden win the presidency."
  7 Open Leftist Threats That Political Terror is Coming to America Whether Trump Wins of Not
  
• "The officer who was struck can be seen in footage on social media as a black truck swerves into a group of officers lined across the street to protect against oncoming demonstrators."
  Philadelphia Cop Hit by Truck Amid Protests Over Police Shooting of Armed Black Suspect

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• Will Mr. Huxley please pick up the white courtesy soma...
  Wikipedia Owners, WHO Announce Collaboration Against Chinese Coronavirus "Misinformation"
  
• "Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer."
  What The WHO Really Said About Lockdowns -- And Why -- Will Surprise You
  
• "Horribly tone deaf."
  Cuck Schemer Laments Veteran's Suicide From Poverty While Dems Accused of Blocking Chinese Coronavirus Relief
  
• Cuomo in August: "I wear a mask for you as much as I wear it for me. I had the disease!"
  "Acting Like He Was the Mayor of the Joint": Fredo Cuomo, Who Preaches Mask-Wearing, Caught Without One AGAIN, Report Says
  
• "Does this look like a couple of guys taking it seriously?"
  Tim Murtaugh Mocks "Cuomo Brothers Comedy Hour"
  
• Julie Kelly: "Because, 'science!'"
  If We're Doing a Mask Mandate, Do It Right!
  
• "The ad juxtaposes Biden and Harris' criticisms of President Trump's [Chinese] COVID-19 comments with Dr. Anthony Fauci making the same public statements in his own media appearances. Just like Trump, Fauci said at one point that masks are not necessary. Just like Trump, Fauci said the virus should recede with warmer weather. It seriously looks like Biden and Harris are criticizing Dr. Fauci, not the president."
  WATCH: New Ad Drops a Bomb on Joe Biden's Chinese COVID-19 Talking Points

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

• "Further footage shows [field organizer Dino] Nguyen saying that Ossoff is only genuine to a certain point because he is campaigning in a red state. He says people in red and purple states are not open-minded. This from the same guy who wants people to die so he can get his electoral way."
  Caught on Tape: Georgia Senate Candidate Jon Ossoff Hides His Leftist Beliefs From the "Stupid" "Rednecks"
  
• "Congressman, you want to talk about relationships with corporate special interests?" Mowers asked Pappas. "With all due respect, you've been dating a corporate lobbyist who actually was lobbying on behalf of Amazon at the time. You were dating a corporate lobbyist. And the fact of the matter is you never disclosed it."
  New Hampshire Dem Failed to Disclose Relationship with Lobbyist

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "The Judeo-Christian idea that language corresponds with reality, a feature of the classical liberal system, is for the left a bug that must be crushed by the totalitarian boot."
  Why Jew Hatred Is Always A Hallmark Of The Totalitarian Left

  PHONY DEMOCRAT ELECTION-STEALING POSTAL SERVICE SWINDLE, ELECTION FRAUD IN GENERAL

• "Democrats in Wisconsin -- a key swing state for the presidential election -- had argued that over 100,000 voters could be 'disenfranchised through no fault of their own' without an extension." (great news but how does this differ from Pennsylvania? - jjs)
  SCOTUS Upholds Decision to Block Wisconsin Mail-In Ballot Extension
  
• "Election fraud is epidemic."
  There Is Only One Electoral Issue
  
• "The official who oversees voter registration in New York City is the 80-year-old mother of a former congressman. The director of Election Day operations is a close friend of Manhattan's Republican chairwoman. The head of ballot management is the son of a former Brooklyn Democratic district leader. And the administrative manager is the wife of a City Council member."
  New York City Elections Board Run Incompetently By Lazy Family Members Of Politicians, Report Says
  
• "The Boston Elections Department notified Galvin's office that the fire was set at about 4 a.m. in the ballot drop box outside of the Boston Public Library's main branch in Copley Square."
  Ballot Collection Box Targeted By Arsonist, FBI Investigating

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION

• Trump lives rent free in their heads.
  Biden Campaign Announces Live Event After Trump Suggests Joe "Waved a White Flag" in Final Week of Race
  
• "Monday's poll also noted an increase in black voters for Trump compared to the 2016 election, the Washington Examiner reported. 27% said they'd vote for Trump if the presidential election were today. The president only garnered 8% of the black vote in 2016."
  Trump Sneaks Ahead of Biden in Rasmussen Poll For First Time Since September
  
• "Biden up 0.5 points over Clinton in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin."
  2020 Polls In Battleground States Nearly Identical To 2016, According To RCP
  
• "The nation stands on the cusp of the third and perhaps most notable political realignment in the past 160 years, as those on both sides of the political spectrum recognize that the 2020 election has evolved into a watershed moment in American history."
  Donald Trump is Poised to Become Among the Most Transformative Presidents in American History
  
• R.S. McCain: "Trump's strength in Ohio shows he is fighting to win."
  There Is Still Hope in the Heartland
  
• "It's like you gotta just 'shh' -- just be cool. Show up to the polls and vote you know."
  Wisconsin Resident: "Sleeper" Trump Support Larger Now than 2016 -- It's a "Secret Society"
  
• "Where's Joe? If you're a reporter on the Joe Biden for President beat for election 2020, how could you not notice that there's nothing to report?"
  Trump's Non-Stop Campaign Schedule Versus Biden's Basement Strategy Is Paying Off
  
• "To vote for someone for that position who is incompetent, corrupt, or power-hungry is a mortal error. To also pick a person who is incompetent mentally is beyond rational."
  Joe Biden is Just Not Qualified, For Health Reasons
  
• "We've spent the past year listening to grim predictions about Trump's chances, so isn't it time to bask for at least a few moments in cheering thoughts?"
  Analysts Predict Trump Victories: Either a Squeaker or a Blowout
  
• "Dem donors are Libertarian candidate's biggest backers."
  Dems Boost Libertarian in Kentucky in Hail Mary to Defeat McConnell
  
• "C'mon, fat! Pushup bras at 20 paces!"
  Biden Challenges Trump: "Compare Our Physical and Mental Acuity. I'm Happy to Have That Comparison"
  
• "On a New York Times podcast, Hillary Clinton continued lamenting her 2016 loss, and claiming she was 'born' for the presidency."
  Four Years Later, Bitter Hillary Clinton Claims 2016 Election Was "Stolen" From Her
  
• "To me, this is about control and power and more than it is about whatever excuse they're using for safety."
  Martha McSally: Mark Kelly "Will Be the 51st Vote" for Open Borders, Killing Second Amendment, Lockdowns
  
• "Aldrin is a very youthful 90 years old and rather fond of Twitter. He gave a nice plug to his fellow fighter pilot McSally after the announcement."
  NASA Legend Buzz Aldrin Endorses Martha McSally in AZ Senate Race
  
• "Leftists are calling Nora O'Donnell a Republican 'hack' after she cited an academic standard to refute Harris' rejection of the 'socialist' label."
  Progressives Decry Kamala Harris' Socialist Moment on 60 Minutes as "Ridiculous" Interview
  
• "Are prediction markets the wave of the future as regards election analysis?"
  Prediction Markets and the Elections

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "New pre-[Chinese] COVID data shows policy choices caused immigration numbers to drop even as the economy sped up."
  Immigration Isn't an Uncontrollable Force of Nature After All

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "We can return to the explosive job creation, rising wages and general prosperity we had before the pandemic. We can have economic freedom and opportunity, and resist cancel culture and censorship. We can put annus horribilis, 2020, behind us and make America great again, again. We can do all this -- if we make the right choice on Nov. 3."
  New York Post, Washington Examiner Endorse Trump For Reelection
  
• "Of course, they wouldn't be media if they didn't."
  Why Would Media Frighten People About a Virus?
  
• "Facebook says a 'glitch' in their initiative to flag groups associated with conspiracy theorists like QAnon was wrongly applied to a Christian worship organization."
  Facebook Falsely Flags Christian Worship Group As Associated With QAnon Conspiracy Theorists
  
• "All five sites had numerous stories that were negative regarding the President, either in terms of policy or the Presidential campaign."
  To Tell the Truth: Five MSM Outlets Act in Unison to Suppress Information and Assist Biden Campaign
  
• "The robber barons of yore wanted your money; the lords of Silicon Valley want your heart, mind, and soul."
  Big Tech is Turning the United States Into a Giant Company Town
  
• "Who will guard the gatekeepers of our political discourse?"
  Unfriending Free Speech

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Brady PAC focuses on health care, not gun control, to boost Dems."
  Top Gun-Control Group Ducks Guns in Election Ad
  
• "Rondell Coleman, 11, was read his rights and interrogated following the Sept. 18 incident after a police report alleged the boy was 'brandishing a gun on camera.'"
  Case Dropped After 4th Grader Faced Criminal Charges For BB Gun In Room During Online Learning

  ABORTION

• "No, Christians shouldn't tie themselves to the GOP. But it's farcical to equivocate the records of Republicans and Trump to the Democrats on abortion."
  VeggieTales Creator Applies His Postmodern Fairytales to False Mess of a Video About Roe v. Wade

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Normalization of relations will continue, with the "Palestinians" and the Arab Joint List losing out on their own accord."
  Can the Trump Administration Broker Even More Peace in the Middle East?
  
• "Such grassroots dialogue between Israelis and Gaza Palestinians is rare."
  Hamas Releases "Palestinian" Peace Activists Arrested for Talking to Israelis on Zoom
  
• "Joe Biden is a sure bet to fail it."
  The Coming Taiwan Test
  
• "There are parts of Rome where people come close to me to tell me to keep on fighting but then they move away because they are afraid of being seen by the clans."
  Anti-Establishment Mayor of Rome Says the Mob Planned to Kill Her and Her Family
  
• Recent global study: "More than 116,000 Indian infants died from air pollution in the first month of life."
  Indians Defend Trump As Media Feign Outrage Over "Filthy" Air Quality Remark
  
• "And in Britain, boy are they shy."
  The Shy Trumper Phenomenon Is Real

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Blackburn demands answers from education giant over Confucius Institute ties."
  Senator: College Board Gave Chinese Influence Op Advanced Placement in U.S. High Schools

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Will Samuel Paty's beheading make any difference in Macron's Islam policy?"
  French Outrage

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "The [Chinese] coronavirus recession is a good time for them to stop begging and do their job right."
  USPS Leaks Reveal an Agency That Wants a Bailout But Needs Reform

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "True freedom and prosperity don't come from the clumsy hand of the government. They come from empowering people to control their own lives and set their own destinies through the dignity that comes from work,' Gov. Scott Walker said."
  Wisconsin's Great Recession Recovery Shows the Path Forward After Chinese COVID-19: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
  
• I smell yet another attempt to sabotage Trump and punish ordinary Americans for daring to vote for him as we head to the election. Not going to work, Wall Street.
  Dow Plunges 1,000 Points a Chinese COVID-19 Surges, Stimulus Talks Stall

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "After our interview, Mr. Biden's staff told us he misspoke and that the cost of free public college could be twice as much as he said."
  Joe Biden Botches Own Free College Agenda, Staff Says He "Misspoke"
  
• Confiscate it and put it toward paying off student loan debt.
  U.S. Colleges Hid More Than $6.5 Billion in Foreign Funding, Education Department Finds
  
• "Ohio's education department offered -- and withdrew, at least for now -- a startling collection of 'antiracist' teaching supplements."
  Smashing "Whiteness" in the Classroom
  
• "When the curricula become all about 'social justice.'"
  English Departments in the Ideological Thrall of Identity Politics
  
• Salena Zito: "A tiny college of about 1,200 people when she attended in the early 1990s, the liberal arts school in midtown Memphis has turned out to be a cradle of sorts for today's political leaders."
  Amy Coney Barrett's Memphis Liberal Arts College Fostered Diversity in Views

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "While we must steward the planet God has gifted to us, there is no empirical basis for apocalyptic predictions of impending doom."
  New Data Shows Climate Change Hysteria Isn't Grounded In Science

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter with some pretty big news: "The result is important, however, as it increases the likelihood that there is lots of water ice trapped in the permanently shadowed craters near the poles, in amounts that WILL be useful to future colonists."
  Breakthrough: Water Found On Sunlit Surface Of Moon, NASA Confirms
  
• Our intrepid science reporter says, "The results from Pathfinder and Sojourner suggested the presence of melted ejecta from impacts, melt from volcanic processes, and sedimentary and rounded rocks suggesting water processes." (my flo is linoleum - jjs)
  "Flow-Like" Feature in the Martian Lowlands

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• I defer to sanity, science and Alice Cooper for the last word on this, Tampax.
  Tampax Gets Feminist Backlash for Touting Diversity of All People Who Bleed," Biology Is Not Bigotry

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "'Science is the practical pursuit of G-d,' McConaughey said in defending the Bible and his religious beliefs on Joe Rogan's podcast."
  Matthew McConaughey Opens Up on Joe Rogan About Christianity, Cancel Culture, and Defund the Police
  
• "However, the woman named the most leftist senator might want to get used to hearing what a lot of people think she is anyway: Commie-la. Is that racist too?"
  If Ka-MAL-a Harris Mispronounces Her Own Name Does That Make Her a Racist Too?
  
• Christian Toto: "Trump's political exit leaves Colbert and Co. vulnerable like never before."
  Will a Biden Victory Crush Late Night TV?
  
• "Will we learn from the lessons of the past and reject sacrificial revolution at its infancy or take the long, sad path of ignorant repetition?"
  A Warning from Ethiopia: Socialism Leads to Blind Murder

  HITHER & YON

• Robin Leach unavailable for comment...
  Billionaire Bill Gross Allegedly Blared Gilligan's Island Theme Song On Loop To Annoy Neighbor During Dispute Over Sculpture

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (10/26/20)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

The other side is serious about making us into serfs. And we have got to wake up and get woke to the fact that its not whether we get into the fight of our lives, but only whether or not we will fight back. Kurt Schlichter

Quote II

“There’s only one chance to do this right. And if we do it wrong, then we’re done for, it’ll be years. Because there’s already a serious problem with a lack of trust, and the [lack of] trust will become so severe at that point, we won’t be able to dig out of it.” Sheldon Toubman, attorney FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC)

Quote III

“Trump administration has helped the Crow Tribe in amending the Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance which allowed them to permit their own mineral resources,” Crow Tribal Chairman Alvin Not Afraid, Jr.

Quote IV

“I think the -- the principal reason why we ended up not winning those three states that we thought we were going to win was the Comey letter. Because we could literally chart what happened from before and after. And we could see polling and we knew we were dropping. I thought that I had stopped the drop that it had you know hit the bottom, but we also learned afterwards how people were searching on Google trying to make sense of it, what did it mean, so there was a lot of voter angst as well.” Hillary Clinton

Good Lord lady, go play with your grandbabies and get the hell out of the public eye.

Quote V

The flow of information in the United States has become so politicized – bottlenecked by an increasingly brazen union of corporate press and tech platforms – that it’s become impossible for American audiences to see news about certain topics absent thickets of propagandistic contextualizing. Matt Taibbi

Quote VI

"To replicate the magical experience of visiting Macy's Santaland for children and their families, we will shift to a virtual engagement this year," Susan Tercero, Macy's vice president of Branded Entertainment

Quote VII

"Terence you said nothing when Captains & Chiefs took a knee with violent protesters who injured members of the NYPD. You say nothing to those who sing & dance in uniform. Now your little itsy-bitsy balls are in DeBlasio's [sic] palm & you tweet nonsense. Relax & take a knee!" The Sergeants Benevolent Association

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Over the weekend the annual Texas MoMe took place. A couple of photos from Bebee's Boobs Destroy and Ben Had.

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Adam Carolla on Gov. Gavin Newsome Language-NSFW

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Just another reason to boycott the NFL.

Arizona Cardinals' wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins stuck his middle fingers up at a Trump convoy while weaving in and out of traffic, the President's supporters claim.

The NFL superstar, 28, reportedly swerved his Ferrari in between a convoy of Trump supporters while holding up two middle fingers on the I-10 yesterday.

He is thought to have been driving to his team’s game against the Seattle Seahawks at State Farm Stadium when he came across the PHX Trump Train drive at around 1.30pm.

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You will be made to care and to comply.

Delta Airlines Adds 460 Passengers Who Refused To Wear Masks To ‘No-Fly’ List

More than 400 passengers won’t be flying Delta Airlines after allegedly refusing to wear face masks during flights, according to an internal memo obtained by NBC News.

“In a letter to Delta employees Thursday, CEO Ed Bastian said that 460 customers who refused to wear face coverings amid the coronavirus pandemic were added to the airline’s ‘no-fly list,'” NBC reported.

“Wearing a mask is among the simplest and most effective actions we can take to reduce transmission, which is why Delta has long required them for our customers and our people,” Bastian wrote as he announced the bans, according to the report.

Not only will this guy be on the airline's "No Fly List" he's probably on his wife's shit list.

Woman slaps her husband as he goes on anti-mask tirade on flight

A video shows the man calling his wife an 'imbecile' before she strikes him across the face.

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What did you do you do during the Great 2020 Lock Down? This person decided to build a Wacky H12 engine.

The reason why H engines aren't more popular is their complexity. The primary issue is that the two banks of cylinders do not share a common output shaft, so they must be somehow geared together. This creation, however, does not have to deal with this issue. Each of the small engines has its own output shaft, and the easiest way to join them together, as he decided six months ago, was with a series of chains.

After building the colossal frame to house all of these engines (sourcing the motors themselves was not an issue) and sorting out all of the foibles related to it actually running, the mechanical masterpiece wouldn't turn over. It finally came to life with the help of two automotive starters, and despite being timed to fire evenly and smoothly, the engine still makes a tremendous racket thanks to its chain drive system.

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Well lookey here, another high ranking university official has his knickers in a bind.

LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 26, 2020 — In a meandering, scolding screed that demonstrates shockingly little knowledge of how journalism or the First Amendment work, a public university president formally forbade a student from interviewing government agencies for the student newspaper. He also directed the student editor to start showing university administrators the “highest respect” — or else!

Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the Native American Journalists Association and the Student Press Law Center wrote to Haskell Indian Nations University. The coalition demands that the federally-operated university immediately and explicitly rescind its threats against the award-winning student newspaper and reminds the university’s leadership that they can be held personally and monetarily responsible for threatening freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

HINU President Ronald Graham issued a personally-signed “directive” on Oct. 16 to student journalist Jared Nally, threatening him with disciplinary action if he continued basic acts of journalism. Graham specifically prohibited Nally from recording interviews, interviewing government officials, and failing to treat members of the HINU community with the “highest respect.”

On Oct. 5, Nally, editor-in-chief of The Indian Leader student newspaper, emailed the Lawrence Police Department with a routine request for information about the death of an HINU employee. As is standard journalistic practice, Nally identified himself as a student reporter of The Indian Leader. For that, Graham wrote that Nally “discredited” himself and the university, and brought “unwanted attention” to the Kansas university.

“Under no circumstances,” wrote Graham, “do you have the authority to contact the police department (or any other governmental agency) and demand anything on behalf of the university.” (Read Nally’s “demand” for yourself.)

Hope he is hit in the wallet. Hard.

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Why False Positives Merit Concern, Too. False negatives are not the only troublesome outcome of a faulty coronavirus test.

In the high-stakes world of coronavirus testing, one mistake has taken center stage: the dreaded false negative, wherein a test mistakenly deems an infected person to be virus-free.

These troublesome results, experts have said, can deprive a person of treatment and embolden them to mingle with others, hastening the spread of disease.

But false negatives are not the only errors bedeviling coronavirus diagnostics. False positives, which incorrectly identify a healthy person as infected by the virus, can have serious consequences as well, especially in places where the virus is scarce.

Although false positives may seem relatively harmless in comparison with their false-negative cousins, “people can absolutely get hurt,” said Dr. Benjamin Mazer, a pathologist and diagnostics expert at Johns Hopkins University.

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Are you prepared to wear a mask indefinitely? Health experts are advising us to get ready to.

A top doctor who served as an expert witness for the U.S. Congress says that even after a COVID-19 vaccine is available, mask wearing and other social distancing measures will remain mandatory.

“I feel like there is this perception that once we have a #CoronavirusVaccine life will go back to normal,” tweeted Dr.Krutika Kuppalli.

“Life will not be like it was pre-COVID. Even after we have a #vaccine you will still need to use good hand hygiene, maintain physical distance, avoid crowds and wear masks,” she added.

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Masks for me but not for thee. The double standard of celebrity vs. us Chumps.

Chris Cuomo was seen at the weekend in a New York City members' club not wearing a mask and walking around to greet people as if he were the 'mayor', according to people who were there.

The CNN host, who had COVID-19 earlier this year, had already been scolded by his apartment building management for not wearing a mask in common areas.

According to sources cited by Page Six on Monday, it did nothing to change his behavior over the weekend.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Born on this day: 26 Oct 1967
Keith Urban, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, Urban found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch. Since 2006, he has been married to actress Nicole Kidman. via thisdayinmusic.com

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On this day: 26 Oct 1965
Queen Elizabeth II invested The Beatles with their MBE's at Buckingham Palace, London. According to an account by John Lennon the group smoked marijuana in one of the palace bathrooms to calm their nerves. Many former recipients gave their MBE's back in protest, to which John Lennon responded "Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war, for killing people." He continued: "We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more." via thisdayinmusic.com

Is Ozzy telling the truth? Was Eddie Van Halen that drunk?

Earlier this month, the legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen passed away at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer. Now, Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne is speaking out to reveal that Van Halen once asked him to be a member of his band.

“[Van Halen] phoned me up one time and asked me if I wanted to sing in his band – way after Sammy [Hagar],” Osbourne told his radio show co-host Billy Morrison. “I think he was a bit drunk.”

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Clue? What clue? Genius Award Winner.

A Canberra radio presenter has taken down an aspiring Tesla thief after they forgot one of the carmaker’s main draws – and then left personal effects behind in the abandoned car.

Mix 106.3 Drive show presenter Annabelle Brett received a number of alarming notifications from the Tesla app on her phone at around 6.20am on Thursday morning.

While she was getting ready to start her day, the app was informing her that her Tesla was going for a drive.

“I got a ping on my phone that my car alarm was going off,” she told the Hit network’s Hughesy and Ed.

The company has a semi-autonomous driving function but Ms Brett’s Model 3 wasn’t driving itself.

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Target shooting practice makes perfect. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

LAREDO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man suspected of human smuggling in Texas after he struck an agent with his vehicle while trying to escape the scene, federal authorities said Saturday.

Border Patrol agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and the Webb County constable’s office intercepted a tractor-trailer and a vehicle dropping off a large number of people in Laredo around 9:30 p.m. Friday, Chief Patrol Agent Matthew Hudak said

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