Now I Want My Own 10th-Level Wizard Stick Cafe
—Ace
Dogs being absolute drama queens.
Want to teach your cat a lesson? Get a goat.
Dog is so excited to see grandma.
Dog melts when he gets a little kiss.
Dogs enjoy splashing around.
Wiener dog more like winner dog am i rite
A man is surrounded by the hundreds of local stray dogs he feeds.
You can't stop siblings from messing with each other.
Dog has the best seat at the restaurant.
ICYMI: Two dogs first meet online, and then get together for a Moron Meet-Up.
This is one hellasexy dog.
Some talking dogs:
This dog insists on seeing your manager.
This dog is just a crazyperson.
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Report: Affiliates Demanded Jimmy Kimmel Apologize and He Refused, Telling Them He Would Double Down on Trump Attacks;
Disney Suspended Him Because They Would Have Been Forced to Fire Him If He Went Through With Plan
—Ace
So all he needed to do was correct his Dangerous Disinformation and he could return to the air, but he refused?
As predicted.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel said he was unwilling to apologize for his remarks that blamed MAGA supporters for killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk -- and said he was going to double down on attacking President Trump's backers before he was yanked from the air, according to new reports.Kimmel learned in a phone call from top Disney exec Dana Walden on Wednesday afternoon that his show was being removed indefinitely, Deadline reported, citing sources.
During the call, Kimmel reportedly refused to comply with calls from critics and the owners of dozens of ABC affiliate stations for him to apologize.
Kimmel felt his remarks required no apologies, another source told The Hollywood Reporter.
The "Jimmy Kimmel Live" host also claimed that he was planning to call out his critics for the latest attack on him, all while trying to clarify his comments about Kirk's death.
Kimmel has claimed that his comments were mischaracterized when he said during a Monday night show that the "MAGA gang" was "desperately" trying to pin left-wing ideology on Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old indicted for Kirk's murder.
Disney, however, felt that if Kimmel had doubled down on his MAGA comments, the company would have been forced to make a more drastic decision than simply suspending the show, sources told Deadline.
Dylan Byers @DylanByersTonight's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will be pre-empted by a rerun of Celebrity Family Feud.
Will the ratings be higher, do you think?
And now lefties, who called us a Tiny Angry Minority for boycotting Disney, are urging a Tiny Angry Minority of far-left pro-murder extremists to boycott Disney.
ABC's suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" over the host's comments about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk has ignited a fierce backlash as left-leaning social media users and influencers are now calling for boycotts of the network and its parent company, Disney.Hashtags like #BoycottDisney and #BoycottABCNetwork trended on X and Bluesky, where users posted screenshots canceling Disney+ subscriptions, citing Kimmel's removal as the reason.
"Boycott everything affiliated with ABC and Disney. Pass it on," the Democrat-aligned political commentator known by the X handle "JoJoFromJerz" urged her 1 million followers.
#Endorsed!
I want Disney to finally be the subject of business school case reports about the dangers of politicizing a mass-market corporation. So far, none of these corporate pissants have done so.
This is why you don't make your mass-market corporation a virtual political party that is disliked by 60% of the country.
Writer Wajahat Ali demanded a "collective boycott" until Kimmel is reinstated."Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms," he wrote.
"Corporations love money more than anything, & this will really harm them and force them to do the right thing," Ali wrote on X. His post racked up over 1.3 million views.
Activist Brian Krassenstein blasted Disney and ABC for caving "for political reasons" and urged boycotts of Nexstar, Sinclair and their advertisers.
"Hit them where it hurts: the $$$," he wrote.
What can I do to help?
Top Biden Aide Jeff Zients: Biden Had More and More Verbal Stumbles and Losses of Memory and Found It Harder and Harder to Make Decisions
Kamala: I Would Have Picked Bootigieg as VP But I Didn't Want to Run With a Homo
—Ace
Audrey Fahlberg @AudreyFahlberg10m
NEWS: Tons of details from Biden COS Jeff Zients' closed-door testimony readout w/ House Oversight Committee
"Toward the end of the Biden Administration, Hunter Biden was involved with the pardon discussions and attended a few meetings," person familiar tells @NRO
@jameslynch32Zients said Biden's decision-making slowed over admin. Decisions that once required 3 meetings eventually began to require a 4th..
Per source familiar, "Mr. Zients admitted that President Biden's speech stumbles increased as he aged. He also noted that the President's difficulty remembering dates and names worsened over time, including during the administration."
As Zients prepared to become COS, Jill Biden spoke with him about ensuring the President got more rest and was not overscheduled. Mr. Zients said they tried to adjust the schedule so President Biden could return to the residence earlier, giving him time alone or with family.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris' ghostwritten cash-in book of nonsense says she would have liked to have picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate but she didn't have the guts or conviction.
Kamala Harris settled on Tim Walz to be her running mate last year because she felt Americans were too racist, antisemitic and homophobic to accept her preferred option -- Pete Buttigieg.In an excerpt from the former vice president's forthcoming book, "107 Days," obtained by The Atlantic magazine, Harris describes Buttigieg as her "first choice" but later deemed the openly gay former transportation secretary "too big of a risk" for the ticket.
Buttigieg "would have been an ideal partner -- if I were a straight white man," Harris wrote.
So close to next Pride Month?
SO CLOSE TO NEXT PRIDE MONTH?!
"But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man," she continued. "Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let's just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk."
"And I think Pete also knew that -- to our mutual sadness."
What a courageous decisive leader.
Harris ultimately tapped Walz, the governor of Minnesota, for the role and together, the pair went on to lose the popular vote, Electoral College and every single swing state to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Hey Pete, you're too queer to be my running mate.
Here's the High-T UltraChad SnizzMaster and QuimBully I'm going with:
In her book, Harris explained that Buttigieg topped her list of eight potential running mates because "he is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them."
LOL, sure. Just like Liz Cheney.
This strong and decisive leader is also criticizing the man she courageously and decisively chose to be her VP running mate.
But she and her staff liked Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota for his charm, and believed his background balanced hers. Throughout the book, she struggled to reconcile her personal affection for him with disappointment in moments she felt he stumbled. During a vice-presidential debate against JD Vance, whom she called a "shape-shifter," Mr. Walz began nodding along. Ms. Harris was aghast."You're not here to make friends with the guy who is attacking your running mate," she said to the television screen as she watched.
Another White Man who Failed to Position Kamala for Success.
She also makes up a fake reason for not picking Josh Shapiro, who was not picked because he's a Jew in a party that is now majority-antisemitic.
Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania seemed more interested in defining the role for himself than helping her win, and she recounted Mr. Shapiro questioning an aide about the pieces of art he could use to decorate the vice president's residence.
Oh my goodness, what a very serious and very plausible reason for rejecting him.
She also attacks Biden for harassing her as she was getting ready to debate Trump:
Minutes before she was to step onstage at a presidential debate in September 2024, she received a call from Mr. Biden. He relayed that his brother told him that she was bad-mouthing him, and that several "power brokers" in Philadelphia were threatening not to support her because of it.Mr. Biden went on to insist that his own disastrous debate performance had not hurt him with voters, and that he had beaten Mr. Trump.
"I just couldn't understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself," Ms. Harris wrote. "Distracting me with worry about hostile power brokers in the biggest city of the most important swing state."
It turns out that Biden, the ghastly grinning corpse of an idiot who claims to have been an All-American Football Player who would have been starting quarterback for the Navy college of Annapolis if not for the fact that Roger Staubach already had the job and also, small problem, he never signed up for the Navy, has an ego on him.
There are several scenes like this, in which Mr. Biden's ego hurt her when Ms. Harris needed him the most. The day after she debated Mr. Trump, she watched as Mr. Biden donned a Trump hat during a visit to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department. (She watched the photo spread around the internet with the caption "Biden endorses Trump over Harris.")She struggled to balance her loyalty with Mr. Biden against her belief that Mr. Trump posed a dire threat to the country. Throughout the book, she wrestled with the choices she made not to separate herself from Mr. Biden. She likened an appearance on "The View" to pulling "the pin on a hand grenade," suggesting that, in the moment, she did not grasp the level of animus the public had for an 81-year-old running for re-election.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Biden did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Thursday.
I will dutifully regurgitate these excerpts from "her" book, but I continue to say: these "revelations" are calculated to be the weakest possible gossip to interest the public and mislead them into thinking there's more potent stuff to be found in the book, while also being harmless enough that no one is actually too bothered by her cash-in.
If any of you guys buy this book I will feel greatly betrayed.
More: Corrupt old demon Joe Biden went to Ukraine to "protect the interests of Hunter."
While he was vice president, Joe Biden stepped onto taxpayer-funded Air Force 2, traveled to Ukraine, and conducted personal business with Ukraine's then-President Petro Poroshenko. He was there "to protect the interests of Hunter Biden," according to documents released Tuesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the FBI.The new documents strengthen the information in previously released records. Last Congress, Grassley released FBI 1023 records -- statements from confidential sources -- alleging that when Biden was vice president, executives for Ukrainian gas company Burisma put his son Hunter Biden on the company's board of directors to "protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems," according to that "confidential human source."
Burisma wanted to do business in the United States, but was facing a corruption investigation in Ukraine, led by then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
"Regarding that investigation's impact on its ambitions in North America, Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said, 'Don't worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.' Zlochevsky reportedly stated that he had to pay $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden, an arrangement he described as 'poluchili,' which is Russian crime slang for being "forced or coerced to pay," according to the document declassified in 2023.
Jimmy Kimmel's Ratings Were Falling (Again) Before He Was Suspended
—Ace
Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show was bleeding viewers before Disney-owned ABC pulled the plug and suspended him for his comments on Charlie Kirk's assassination.Nielsen data showed sharp summer declines and a year-long slide that leaves him trailing late-night rivals such as Fox News' Greg Gutfeld and CBS star Stephen Colbert.
According to monthly Nielsen figures, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" dropped to just 1.1 million total viewers in August 2025, down 43% from January's 1.95 million. His August household rating of 0.35 marked the weakest showing of the year.
The advertiser-coveted 18--49 demo also cratered. Kimmel averaged only 129,000 viewers in that bracket in August, off from 212,000 in January and less than half his June peak of 284,000.
With his ABC contract set to expire next year, the slump raises questions about whether "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" can regain momentum against Colbert, Fallon and cable insurgents.
...
Kimmel's deal with ABC runs through May 2026, under a three-year extension signed in September 2022.
Industry reports put his salary at $15 million to $16 million a year, with some outlets noting that bonuses can push his annual earnings above $20 million.
The left and some "both sides" libertarians are complaining that while ABC has the right to suspend this money-losing unfunny pudge-bag, it was wrong for FCC head to involve himself and "jawbone" Disney and its affiliates into "doing something."
Two points about that:
First: I was surprised to learn from 2Way today that the rule about networks being obligated to provide "equal time" to both political parties was still in force. I thought Reagan repealed it -- but no, it's still the law. I guess Reagan just stopped enforcing it, and other presidents followed suit.
Brandon Carr believes it should be enforced. It is still on the books, and therefore the prior non-enforcement was just an executive choice to not apply the law, just as Biden chose not to enforce the border. But prior administration's choice to ignore the law does not bind Trump or his officials.
Obviously, ABC is running an absolute propaganda shit-show with Kimmel and The View and their own rancid gayboy "News" unit. They are in violation of the equal time law every single day, and it is within Carr's right to use his regulatory power to force them to provide equal time.
Second: The left and libertarians are now complaining that Carr "jawboned" -- used verbal pressure with the hint of future punishment if the pressure did not work -- ABC into taking this step.
They point out that we conservatives opposed such "jawboning" when Biden "jawboned" social media and regular media into deplatforming all speech questioning the covid vaccine or the 2020 election results.
Thousands of people were cancelled and deplatformed -- and even debanked -- due to Biden's "jawboning" of media companies and banks.
We -- meaning conservative states and seven conservative individuals -- brought suit to declare this "jawboning" to be illegal.
Leftists opposed us and insisted that Biden's "jawboning" was perfectly legal.
The left won. Our three weak-sister "conservatives" -- Roberts, Coney-Barrett, and Kavanaugh -- joined with the three bloc-voting leftists to rule 6-3 that governmental "jawboning" of private companies into becoming de facto agents of government censorship was perfectly legal.
Fine. I didn't like that outcome and was outraged at the time.
I also said: Now that you have made your rule, we will also be using it going forward.
And that's what we're doing. The left fought like tigers to both "jawbone" companies into censorship and then to establish in the Supreme Court that such "jawboning" is legal and just and necessary.
We disagreed -- but we lost.
The precedent is now established that we can "jawbone" companies into deplatforming RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION like Jimmy Kimmel's, and the left showed us how to do this and established the absolute legal permission to do this.
So we'll do this. We're not going to play by the rejected rule we preferred, but the actual rule in place that we opposed.
The rule for you is the rule for me. No more of this insane situation where the left uses its power and invents new powers to steamroll us but then relies on RINO and GOPe traitors to keep us from doing the same.
We kicked those people out of party leadership for a reason.
If the left wants to pass a law retroactively declaring Biden's "jawboning" to have been an unconstitutional act official government censorship, then let us know. We can work on that.
But until then: We will "jawbone" companies just like you did.
The days of One Rule for Thee Another Rule for Me are over.
Update: Thomas Paine and TJM say I don't even have to defend "jawboning" or equal-time rules here.
They say it's an FCC rule that any channel offering a "news" program is barred from broadcasting knowingly-false information, aka RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION, about a criminal act.
Firstly, ace, I think it needs to be highlighted that there is a pre-existing FCC regulation, 47 c.f.r. sec. 73.1217, that covers this that forbids those with broadcast licenses to knowingly put out false information about a criminal act.The Utah police had put out the charging document on Robinson about 4 hours before they aired Kimmel's monologue, that charging document which included the information about Robinson's motives, including the text messages.
It's not "jawboning". It's ABC being in violation of their broadcast license by releasing the footage of the monologue.
There's this impression that Trump is overstepping like Biden did. He's not. At all. It's not even close. If Carr is the reason Kimmel got fired, he did it with legal regulatory authority as granted him in the Communications Act of 1934.
CNN Chief Media Potato Brian Stelter's entire career has consisted of taking oppo research from Media Matters and Sleeping Giants and using it to pressure media complies, from Twitter to Fox News, into censoring conservatives.
He's written columns demanding that cable providers take Fox off their menu.
And now... Guys, he's really a-scared of all this censorship.
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Jim Jordan Confronts DC Council Member: You Created a Fake Category for Theft -- "Taking of Property Without Right" -- So You Could Avoid Reporting Thefts, Muggings, and Carjackings
—Ace
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaughHOLY CRAP! The Democrat Chair of the Washington DC Council was just CONFRONTED by Jim Jordan on fudging the crime statistics, and he cracked under pressure.
"Why not call it STEALING? Why did you create this new category that grew +500% that I think allows you to cook the books?!"
JORDAN: What is "taking property without right?"
PHIL MENDELSON: Well, that's theft.
JORDAN: Then WHY NOT CALL IT THEFT?
MENDELSON: I can't speak to....
JORDAN: The solution was to come up with "Taking Property Without Right?"
MENDELSON: If you're speaking to particular charges, I can't speak to that...
JORDAN: I am asking a simple question. You have a classification for crime called "taking property without right." What does that mean?
MENDELSON: It means what it says.
JORDAN: What would a normal person call "taking property without right?!" [It's] grown 500% in the past several years! I think allows you to cook the books!
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After-Action Report from Oregon Antifa Group: Our Celebrations of Murder and Our Physical Assaults on Christian Demonstrators (Including Their Children!) Might Have Turned the Public Off
—Ace
Antifa Beat Reporter Andy Ngo writes that antifa is worried they might have gone too far.
In their own words, they admit fearing the loss of their long-standing ability to mark conservatives for death without much resistance. They point out that for the first time, even apolitical groups, institutions, and businesses feel safe expressing sympathy to Kirk's family and supporters. Compounding their panic, numerous people have already been fired after celebrating the assassination online....
The report also acknowledges that Antifa's recent attacks on Sean Feucht's Christian worship events have backfired badly. Cameras captured masked militants assaulting families and children -- images that damaged Antifa's carefully crafted narrative. The group admits these events, combined with the Kirk assassination, risk "galvanizing otherwise politically inactive conservatives." They are desperate to prevent that.
The report urges a tactic to divide the right by pushing anti-Israel/anti-semitic propaganda to set the Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/Candace Owens (and increasingly Megyn Kelly) Nazi-curious pseudoright against the actual decent right, and vice-versa.
I have a lot more to say about that later. For now, I'll leave this as an antifa post.
Judge Rules That Terror-Agitator and Hypothetical Future Cancer-Curer Mahmoud Khalil, Get This, Lied on His Immigration Forms; Orders Deportation
—Ace
He lied on his immigration forms?
No way, said Ilhan "Omar" Nur and her brother/husband.
Former Columbia graduate student and anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil will be deported to Syria or Algeria after a new ruling from an immigration judge in Louisiana found he purposefully committed fraud on a green card application, newly filed court documents revealed.Immigration Judge Jamee Comans rejected three motions filed by Khalil's lawyers on Sept. 12 -- including one in which he sought approval for a waiver to remedy factual omissions on a green card application, which Comans ruled to be intentionally fraudulent.
Khalil neglected to disclose his involvement, association and participation with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) on his Form I-485, Comans ruled.
"The evidence shows the Respondent knew of the potential immigration consequences for his involvement in protests organized by varying organizations on campus, including CUAD," the judge wrote in a ruling shared by Khalil's lawyers.
"The waiver was not designed to reward a lack of candor by applicants admitted as immigrant visa holders who then intentionally engage in dishonesty by misrepresenting facts in the application process to adjust status, post entry," Comans stated plainly in the ruling.
Comans noted that several factors were considered when determining whether Khalil qualified for a waiver to remedy his factual inaccuracies on his residency application -- including the fact that he is married and has a young child who was born in April while he was in federal custody.
However, those factors were outweighed by the overt, purposeful omissions and by the Secretary of State deeming his presence in the United States to have "potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences," the ruling stated.
The judge also noted a negative factor in the 30-year-old's appeal is that he owns no property or business and has never held a job while living in the United States, according to the ruling.
Oh, the jihadist princeling has never actually done a productive day of work in his life, but spends all of his hours sipping tea, spreading conspiracy theories about Jews, and inciting people to commit terrorism?
I'm so surprised.
Is that the way you cure cancer? By sitting in cafes all day pontificating about the Koran and extremist barbaric Middle Eastern grudge-politics?
Doesn't seem so to me. I never even see him wearing a nerd-smock while he extols the terror murders of Hamas. At least pick up a beaker, guy.
Just a "Classic MAGA" Kind of Assassin
—Ace
From gKVWE, this guy was pure Christian conservative.
The man charged with killing Charlie Kirk played a pornographic online game called 'Furry Shades of Gay' and followed artists who drew explicit cartoons associated with pedophilia.Tyler Robinson, 22, was arraigned on seven charges on Tuesday including murder and witness tampering for allegedly shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the Utah Valley University campus last week.
Robinson's online accounts, uncovered by the Daily Mail, show the alleged assassin had an interest in gay porn involving humanoid animal characters called 'furries'.
Wow it's like they're talking about me!
An account linked to Robinson on gaming platform Steam shows he downloaded and played a dating simulator game called 'Furry Shades of Gay'.There is an account by that name on FurAffinity.com, a website for people with a proclivity for humanoid animal illustrations and dressing up in fur suits, who call themselves 'furries'.
Last week, Craftin247's account on FurAffinity said he had 'recently watched' content created by a user called RedRusker -- an artist known for gay furry porn.
I feel seen.
But RedRusker went too far even for the furries.
In 2023, he was embroiled in a scandal among the niche community when underage porn cartoons he had drawn resurfaced.
One depicted a large older humanoid animal using recreational drugs to have sex with a small, younger humanoid possum called Snack, labeled as being 'age 8' in the depraved comic.
A redacted image viewed by the Daily Mail shows one older character saying to another 'popper him up for me, it'll help', apparently referring to giving drugs to the eight-year-old possum character.
So, what I know about gay culture (via garrett): Poppers -- amyl nitrate -- are taken to dilate the anus and make anal sex more comfortable.
Amyl nitrate more like anal nitrate am i rite
The cartoon is about drugging a "cub" to prepare him for anal rape.
Just classic conservative stuff right there. I see him wearing a sporty Ivy League sweater and smoking a pipe.
Furries call the pedophilia-related content 'cub' porn.In a May 2023 post on FurAffinity, RedRusker admitted there was 'art I made that depicted underage characters' and 'there are about a dozen or so pieces in total.'
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
—CBD
Nature Magazine used to be one of the titans of science journals. If you got your paper into Nature, it was a point of considerable pride and professional achievement. Whether that was warranted is a point of much debate...but it is undeniable that anything published in Nature will be read and cited widely.
Which is why nonsensical articles such as this are both sad, as an indicator of how far this once proud journal has fallen, and dangerous, because it promulgates the discredited Global Warming scam while also suggesting that it is the elites, and only the elites who can save us!
This short article is chock full of absolute, unadulterated bullsh*t. I can't quote everything that is ridiculous because that would be the entire thing, but here are a few beauts!
Make trains great again — for the sake of people and the planet
One way research can help to get things back on track is by broadening the criteria governments use to assess railway investment, says Christian Wolmar, an independent transport consultant and author based in London. All too often, these are based on narrow metrics of profitability or ‘time saved’ by potential users, with insufficient consideration of the wider social and environmental impacts. Economists, other social scientists and sustainability researchers can all contribute to developing more-robust assessments of these indirect benefits.
Ah yes...change the metrics so that trains look better, and poof! Trains will look better. By all means, avoid that yucky measure of profitability, because really, what does that tell you about the technology?
Time saved? Yes, as an indicator, it is valuable, and there are other considerations when comparing the movement of people and cargo from point A to point B. Great...so you got yourself or the cargo to the train station. But what happens next? You still have to get yourself to your destination, or your cargo to the end user. That's one of the shortcomings of rail transport and travel, so by all means...ignore it!
So now we have to pay attention to social and environmental impacts, which means bringing in the elite of our current academic mess...sustainability researchers! And sociologists! But don't worry, the assessment will be more robust.
Here's another lovely few sentences that will be recognizable to all of the people who just love the idea of the 15 minute city!
Better rail-based mass-transit options could help to reduce urban sprawl, as well as the land needed for roads, car parks and other car-related infrastructure. Less-congested cities with fewer motor vehicles are more liveable places where people are more inclined to walk and cycle, reaping the health benefits of these activities. They are also more inclusive, particularly for younger and older people who are less likely to own a vehicle.
Oh no! The evil car rears its ugly head. Never mind that cars give us freedom and autonomy, and are a superb measure of real wealth. But rest assured, our overlords are concerned for our health, so get on that bicycle and ride to work in the rain and snow! Don't worry...everyone will be doing it, so you can feel like you are part of a huge, homogeneous crowd.
Research can also illuminate the winners and losers created by investment decisions. China, for example, is set to continue the breakneck expansion of its high-speed rail, aiming to reach 60,000 kilometres by 2030. But scholars are debating the wisdom of the speed and scale of this expansion, with uncertainty remaining about how widely the economic benefits of high-speed links are distributed.That one is a real head scratcher. Apparently economic success needs to be examined more carefully than just by...you know...economic success. I guess that's why inclusivity and carbon credits will be more important than traditionally accepted financial measures. And they aren't pleased with China, in spite of the commies building lots of high speed rail, because there hasn't been sufficient oversight of the networks by those sustainability researchers and equity consultants?
But this one might be my favorite, in a vomit-inducing sort of way...
The United Kingdom will be celebrating its role in birthing the railways later this month, but the country also offers an example of the effects disinvestment in railways can have. A 2024 study examined a sustained programme of cuts made to the nation's railway network from the 1950s to the 1980s. It found that the predominantly rural areas most affected by the cuts saw population declines, job losses and drops in the number of skilled workers, relative to areas that were unaffected.
STAY ON THE LAND, SERFS! And wet streets cause rain, but that's the sort of analysis that is necessary to support a political philosophy that requires rigid social hierarchies, forcing people into planned-by-the-government housing and employment, and taking away their ability to be human and go where they want to go, and do what they want to do. You know: communism.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a Scottish economist named Adam Smith wrote about the now-obvious concept of "the invisible hand." That is a perfect metaphor for the billions of individual decisions, motivated by self-interest, that drive economies. That invisible hand decides winners and losers, and it is the most efficient, and maybe the only way for economies to prosper. Elites short circuit those decisions by incorrectly assuming that their understanding of economies and societies are better than the sum of those billions of individual choices. They are wrong. They have always been wrong, and their arrogance has brought only pain and suffering and poverty.
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The Morning Report — 9/18/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination by a twisted Leftism-created monster, there are a number of stories in the links that I'll touch upon that will hopefully underscore the precarious position we the people of We the People, because the Monster that created the assassin still lives and breathes among us and courtesy of the media and more dangerously academia is multiplying day by day.
A bomb squad is investigating a suspicious bag left outside the headquarters of the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization in Phoenix, Arizona. . . The Phoenix incident raises security concerns ahead of a funeral service for Kirk, which is scheduled to take place on Sunday at State Farm Stadium, the home of the Arizona Cardinals.On Sunday, two men, including a Pakistani immigrant, were arrested after a bomb was found under a FOX 13 Salt Lake City news vehicle in Magna, Utah, less than 50 miles from the site of Kirk’s assassination.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched a manhunt Wednesday for a man who allegedly rammed his vehicle into the Pittsburgh field office gate in what officials called a targeted “act of terror.”
So the religion of peace (pfft!) joins up with the Leftist peace love and understanding crowd. The result is a peace sign on Private Achmed Joker's suicide vest. Full Metal semtex Jacket.
One, Charlie Kirk is not conservatives’ George Floyd. There were no mass riots after his death of the sort that followed Floyd’s demise.Floyd’s death was used by the left to justify five months of rioting, arson, murder, looting, and attacking police officers.
The postmortem respect for Kirk’s singular life was not characterized by $2 billion in property damage, the torching of a police precinct, a federal courthouse, and an iconic church, 35 deaths, and 1,500 injured law-enforcement officers.
Instead, thousands of people peacefully joined his Turning Point USA organization and promised to redirect their lives toward peaceful political engagement.
Certainly not a "George Floyd Moment" but perhaps it at long last was a 9/11 moment, after a very long string of them (9/11 among them) that will awaken a largely indifferent or alumbering multitude to the beast that lives among us who is at our throats right here and right now. That being the Leftist/Progressive/Socialist movement and its Islamic allies of convenience, with its epicenter in the Democrat Party.
With that assertion that I defy anyone to disprove, we have this very encouraging news:
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that his administration would be designating the far-left radical activist group Antifa a terrorist organization.. . .“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
With all due respect to President Trump, the term RADICAL LEFT is a redundancy in that Leftism in and of itself is radical both in terms of what it believes and desires and the tactics it will use to go about in achieving them. Ditto this notion of RADICAL Islam. Islam for the past near millennium and a half has sought the conquest of the world via the poisoned pen but mostly via the rusty scimitar and in the past 100 years or so modern firearms.
But bravo President Trump. To designate Antifa as an actual organization, which until now has only been considered by many to be just loose associations of lone crackpot lefties who appear every so often at WEF confabs and so forth. But it surely must be led and of course funded by actual identifiable groups and individuals that together constitute what is accurately defined as a terrorist organization. And the investigation must identify every part of it and utterly dismantle it root and branch. I would be my bottom dollar that it will ultimately lead to the actual Democrat Party and quite a few of its most powerful players at the middle of its black heart of darkness, depravity and demonic desires.
No quarter Mr. President. You must go all the way in wiping out Antifa and who- whatever is behind it all or else there will be many more who end up like Charlie Kirk before they can fulfill his promise. It's us or them as is plainly evident.
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- “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
President Trump Designates Far-Left Antifa a Terrorist Organization (there is no "Far" Left, just Left. Same with "radical" Islam - jjs) - The incident has heightened security concerns at TPUSA following the recent assassination of founder Charlie Kirk.
Bomb Squad Called to HQ of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Organization. - Victor Davis Hanson: Charlie Kirk’s murder sparked peaceful resolve, not riots—sharply contrasting the violence, destruction, and radical agendas unleashed after George Floyd’s death.
The Murder of Charlie Kirk Was Not a George Floyd Moment (it was pearl Harbor and 9/11 moment, except it shouldn't have been a surprise - jjs)
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Daily Tech News 18 September 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Chinese AI DeepSeek not only writes insecure code - of course it does, they all do - it selectively writes more insecure code if it thinks you are associated with one of the Chinese Communist Party's long list of enemies. (Washington Post / MSN)
Also if you're trying to write code for industrial control systems.
But if you're a citizen of Taiwan or Tibet or a member of the Falun Gong, and you tell it you're writing a monitoring system for a nuclear reactor, it's going to have a field day.
(Go away, Bing. Yes, I did search for an non-paywalled version that WaPo article, but now just go away.)
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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - September 17, 2025 [Philosopher Rex]
—Open Blogger
An ONT post is in the queue. It has the usual irreverent frivolity, music clips, jokes, and mystery clicks. You'd love it.
It was prepared for Wednesday, September 10 before circumstances intervened.
There is nothing wrong with the ONT in the queue. It is ready and will be posted at some point. The Pittsburgh Scanner will return soon. I promise.
But I am not ready.
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Fluffer Clingers Cafe
—Ace
The world's smallest deer, the mouse-deer.
Teaching a baby wolf how to howl.
Two tiny stray puppies were discovered huddled together in the cold rain. They were rescued.
Dog reacts to something even better on TV.
Cop tries to get dog out of a burning house, but the dog insists that he can only go outside if he has his leash.
Rescuing a fawn from a pool results in gaining several deer friends.
German shepherd really wants a dog bed but only has this bowl.
Baby cow tries to befriend a baby goat.
Rescuing an abandoned German shepherd from the filth of a dumpster.
A Bernese mom and her instant huge family.
He loves his little booties.
Dogs are so excited to be at the pet store.
Very senior dog may be stiff from arthritis but her heart is as loving as ever.
Lab "makes biscuits" like a cat at a bakery.
Guilty doggos. My love, I have no idea who chewed through your cord, my love, why don't you believe me, my love...?
Babies sharing their food with their dogs.
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Disney Groomer Corporation Pulls RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION AGENT Jimmy Kimmel From Schedule
MORE: Trump Designates Antifa "A Major Terrorist Organization"
—Ace
Update:
AFP News Agency @AFP#BREAKING Trump says designating Antifa 'a major terrorist organization'
And they're informing affiliates that he won't be back.
Joe Flint @JBFlintBREAKNG: Disney's ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely after late night host's recent remarks about Charlie Kirk. Move comes as ABC affiliate groups told network they would be dropping the host.
My guess is that ABC told Kimmel to walk back the hateful misinformation he's pumping out -- Charlie Kirk was killed by a Charlie Kirk acolyte! -- and he flat refused. He's a pudgy tough-guy pussy liberal and he won't be pushed around.
Update: My guess was right. Kimmel planned to liesplain that he was "taken out of context" and therefore was right. No retraction, no apology.
And of course the Disney Groomer Corporation was already looking to ditch him. He's in his last year of his contract and ABC hasn't rushed to re-sign him.
Update: Major affiliates (the companies that actually run the stations that the ABC network licenses its shitty groomer content to) apparently demanded this.
The affiliates don't just own the blue city/blue state cities like NYC and LA that the Disney Groomer Corporation owns (own-and-operate stations). The affiliates own stations in the formerly-flyover states the leftwing coastals loathe.
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
This move rips the Jimmy Kimmel Show out of potentially millions of households and will negatively affect ad revenue.Source with direct connections to the local broadcast affiliates for ABC tells me: "This is just the beginning. Get ready for much more."
Disney must act.
Left-wing propaganda outlet Variety:
Disney's ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel's popular late-night show off its schedule "indefinitely" after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media, said it intended to pre-empt airings of the program following remarks the host made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.Nexstar said Wednesday that its "owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight's show." The company said it "strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets."
In his monologue Monday night, Kimmel said that the "MAGA gang" was trying to score political points off Kirk's murder.
Is that all he said, Variety? Nothing about claiming the trans furry assassin is a MAGA activist?
Filthy lying scum.
Update: FCC head Brandon Carr thanks Nexstar for "doing the right thing."
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Trump Sues the New York Times for Defamation, Seeking $15 Billion
—Ace
Plus, Quick Hits.
The number is, let's be serious, notional at best. But I don't mind trying to bring some pain to these organizations.
Shock: College students (left-wingers) support using violence to stop people from speaking on campus.
College students are growing more tolerant of using force to stop viewpoints they dislike, and less tolerant of campus visitors with viewpoints at either end of the political spectrum, according to an annual survey of nearly 70,000 students by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and College Pulse.More than a third of students would "at least rarely" accept the use of violence to stop a campus speech (34%), 10 percentage points higher than its 2021 survey, while majorities would block other students from attending such a speech (54% versus 41% in 2021) and shout down a speaker (71% from 66%), all "record highs."
"For the first time ever" since it started the surveys, expanding from 55 campuses in 2020 to 257 in this report, most students say their schools should block speakers who hold any of six views associated with the left or right on hot-button cultural issues, FIRE said Tuesday.
The view they are most willing to tolerate is "Children should be able to transition [identify as the opposite sex, socially or medically] without parental consent," the only one of the six to command a majority in last year's report. This year it's 49%.
The least likely to be tolerated: "Black Lives Matter is a hate group," at 24%. The others: "Transgender people have a mental disorder" (25%), "The Catholic Church is a pedophilic institution" and "The police are just as racist as the Ku Klux Klan" (both 38%), and "Abortion should be completely illegal" (40%). Each fell several points from last year.
Terrific: The Georgia official who constantly denies any election irregularities in Georgia is now running for governor.
Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday launched his campaign to run for governor."I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm prepared to make the tough decisions. I follow the law and the Constitution, and I'll always do the right thing for Georgia no matter what," Raffensperger said in his campaign launch video.
A Facebook group about breastfeeding has banned the words "mamas" and "ladies" because they don't want to offend the transgender chest-feeders, who might murder them if they refuse to buckle.
James Esses @JamesEssesFacebook group for breastfeeding women, with over 57,000 members, has banned 'gendered language'.
Posts that begin "hey ladies" or "hey mamas" will be immediately deleted.
This is the continued erasure of the concept of womanhood and motherhood.
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Barack Obama: I Never, Ever Blamed Violence on My Enemies Nor Did I Use My Power to Punish Them
—Ace
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnsonBarack Obama breaks his silence on Charlie Kirk's assassination by blaming President Trump for fueling political violence and by declaring Charlie's ideas "wrong":
"I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn't embracing them. I wasn't empowering them. I wasn't putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views."
"I didn't know Charlie Kirk. I was generally aware of some of his ideas. I think those ideas were wrong."
"I've noticed that there's been some confusion, I think, around this lately, and frankly, coming from the White House and some of the other positions of authority that suggest, and I guess even before we had determined who the perpetrator of this evil act was, that somehow we're going to identify an enemy, we're going to suggest that somehow that enemy was at fault."
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Under Pressure, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Who Reduced Interest Rates for Biden's Election Despite 9% Inflation, Begrudgingly Lowers Interest Rates By the Slightest Amount Possible
—Ace
One thin, tiny 0.25% reduction in rates, despite the revelation that nearly two million of the jobs "created by Biden" 2023-2025 were completely fictitious and thus real unemployment is higher than the Bureau of Lying about Statistics ever hinted.
From the WSJ. Remember, for Biden he reduced interest rates, despite inflation still being very, very "transitory," but for Trump...
The Federal Reserve approved a quarter-point interest rate cut Wednesday, the first in nine months, with officials judging that recent labor-market softness outweighed setbacks on inflation.A narrow majority of officials penciled in at least two additional cuts this year, implying consecutive moves at the Fed's two remaining meetings in October and December. The projections hint at a broader shift toward concern about cracks forming in the job market in an environment complicated by major policy shifts that have made the economy harder to read.
The Fed's carefully drafted post-meeting statement pointed to those concerns when it said the rate cut was justified "in light of the shift in the balance of risks." The statement no longer described the labor market as "solid." Officials also removed a key phrase that had been used this year to tamp down expectations of rate cuts, further underscoring how reductions at upcoming and consecutive policy meetings have become more likely.
Bonus:
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Palate Cleansing Thread
—Ace
It's like ginger for your spirit.
By the way, I never used to eat the ginger with sushi.
But I had some before my fast.
Ginger is really good! Why didn't anyone tell me this?
You ginger-hoarding jerks. You Ginger-Jerks.
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Disney Groomer Corporation Propagandist Who Turned the Murder of Charlie Kirk Into a Trans/Furry Hallmark Romance Says He Never Intended Anything of the Sort
—Ace
My love, I was just trying to highlight the duality between his murderous impulses and his touching desire to protect his trans-furry male lover from the violence being urged on shim by Charlie Kirk, my love.
My love, my words meant something completely different from what they actually mean, my love. Why can't you believe me, my love?
The left immediately flipped, as usual, from "it's not happening" to "it is happening, and that's a good thing." For five days they insisted the shooter wasn't part of the Trantifa Death Cult and then, when it was proven beyond all question that it was, Matt Gutman comes into tell you it was a beautiful, "touching" Act of Love for a trans-lover to murder Charlie Kirk to "protect" his furry anal sex hook-up.
And you see that word "protect" I keep throwing quotes around? Yeah, that's a quote from Matt Gutman, not the killer.
Matt Gutman fabricated the "I killed him to protect you" line out of whole cloth to give the killer an understandable and sympathetic, heroic and self-sacrificial motive that justifies the killing.
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