The Classical Saturday Coffee Thread & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
[I apologize for the sad photo. The bottom of the cup is a sad thing to see.]
Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulez for those of you in St. Cloud.)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Let the Cobs throw the first stones.
3) No. You may not run with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend.
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next. Amen.”
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Daily Tech News 15 November 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- There is no hope. There are also no socks. (Apple Insider)
That Apple sock? The thing they called the "iPhone Pocket" even though it is neither an iPhone nor a pocket? That thing that costs less than a dollar to make and they are charging $230 for?
You can't buy one.
Because it has already sold out.
- Half of American households still have cable TV. (Business Inside)
The surprising number is the reverse of what the article thinks it is.
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Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The ONT
—WeirdDave
Howdy Horde! How was everyone's day? Anything unusual happen?
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TGIF Cafe
—Ace
via this account but taken by This guy
Not a huricana but some kind of cyclone move.
Cats have a tai chi battle and I am on the edge of my seat.
Mom lets dad know he can't discipline the child without her permission.
Mom just veges out while her kids jump around like crazypeople.
China's no good at bridges, but they know how to pimp their rides.
Cute project if you've got a spare 70 inch TV.
Cat: +6 attack bonus. Turtle: -10 Armor Class.
They've got you surrounded.
Take time to enjoy life's little surprises.
These evil river otters enjoyed the FA phase, but not the FO phase. This had better not be AI.
Cockatiel whistles while you work.
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Leftwing Biden Judge Orders the Release of 600 Chicago-Area Criminal Illegal Aliens
—Ace
A federal judge appointed by Joe Biden has ordered more than 600 illegal aliens released from custody after a sweeping immigration crackdown across Illinois -- a decision already igniting backlash as another example of the legal system bending over backward for people who broke the law to be here.U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings sided with activists from the National Immigrant Justice Center and the ACLU, who argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement overstepped during "Operation Midway Blitz," the Trump-era enforcement surge that led to more than 3,000 arrests between June and October. The sweep focused on migrants protected by Chicago's sprawling sanctuary network, which continues to shield illegal entrants despite mounting crime concerns.
Cummings' order grants bond to roughly 615 detainees. Even the activists who pushed for the ruling admit the process is chaotic and unclear. "They're all being awarded bond for 615, but how is that process going to happen?" NIJC attorney Mark Fleming said Wednesday, adding that many of those set to be released "are probably all over the country" already.
More from Breitbart's Warner Todd Huston:
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings claims he intends to provide "equitable relief" by ordering the Department of Homeland Security to release any criminal already on ankle monitors or other court-ordered monitoring programs, WLS-TV reported.Pro-migrant activists claim that ICE and DHS are violating a so-called "Consent Decree" that limits how agents can make warrantless arrests of criminal illegal migrants.
The decree was signed in 2022 when President Joe Biden's deputies agreed to accept curbs drafted by the ACLU. Judges allow consent decrees to bind future administrations.
As you probably know, left-wing activists in the government -- of course including "community organizer" Barack Hussein Obama -- encourage "outside" left-wing groups to sue the government and then settle, granting the left-wing groups all that they desire. They do this to avoid changing the law legislatively, which they do not have the popular mandate to do.
So instead they have created this fraudulent "sue and settle" system, to effectively create laws with no legislators and no signature by the president.
There may be 3,000 total illegals this DEI Biden judge will end up releasing.
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The Week In Woke
—Ace
Oh dear: The last employer I would have expected to issue a "Return to Office" order to its "workers" has just done so.
The DNC says that all of its Shiftless Layabouts and otherwise-unemployable Antifa Shock Troopers on its payroll must return to actual work, and, get this, the Shiftless Layabouts and Antifa soldiers don't like it one bit.
DNC Staffers Seethe at Full-Time Return to Office: 'A Flurry of Thumbs-Down Emojis and Other Online Expressions of Discontent'
Thumbs-down emojis? Oh dear, this is more serious than I thought.
Years after the COVID-19 pandemic ended, Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin on Wednesday ordered staffers to work in-person at the office, prompting anger from employees and accusations from the committee's union that the decision is "callous" and "shocking."Immediately after "Martin explained that a full-time return to the office was necessary to ensure that information wasn't being siloed and that staff members would not miss out on time-sensitive decisions," employees began complaining, with remote workers sending "a flurry of thumbs-down emojis and other online expressions of discontent" on Zoom, the New York Times reported. Martin suggested that staff members who dislike the policy "should consider finding another job elsewhere," describing the move as a "'Band-Aid' that was overdue in being ripped off."
By the end of the day, the DNC employees' union, SEIU Local 500, blasted the decision, writing that "it was shocking to see the D.N.C. chair disregard staff's valid concerns on today's team call."
Shock is just outrage with raised eyebrows and an open mouth.
The "conservative" Supreme Court rejected a motion to review the lawless Obergefell case that invented a constitutional right to gay marriage and imposed it on the country without any actual political process.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a long-shot request that could have given the justices a chance to overturn the landmark decision recognizing same-sex marriage nationwide....
The Supreme Court did not provide an explanation for rejecting the application.
The case was brought by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue a gay couple a marriage license in 2015. Her appeal claims that the court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges was "egregiously wrong" and "deeply damaging."
That's the clerk who, if I remember right, refused to sign a marriage certificate because it was against her religious beliefs. The left demanded he be forced to abandon those beliefs. They could have just had a judge permit someone else in government to sign it, but that's not what they want. What they want is to make you comply.
The Court didn't necessarily reject the opportunity to review Obergefell because they support the decision. It's also possible that they didn't see this case as presenting a challenge to Obergefell "squarely," as they say -- Obergefell might be so ancillary to this woman's lawsuit that they didn't think the challenge was "fairly presented." Courts don't rule on major questions of constitutional law unless they're forced to, or unless they are liberals who really want to slap Trump with injunctions.
When I read that a "Texas DA" was letting a repeat child r*pist off with no jailtime, I assumed he was from Austin/Travis County.
A Texas man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child will avoid prosecution on nine felony counts after striking a plea deal with a George Soros-backed Travis County prosecutor, according to a report.Austin's ABC affiliate KVUE reported that Richard Leigh Bell, 37, was indicted on nine felony charges -- including one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, six counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and two counts of indecency with a child. Those charges were dropped as part of a plea deal that allowed Bell to plead guilty to one count of injury to a child, a third-degree felony.
Under the deal, Bell was sentenced to five years of deferred probation. He must register as a sex offender and is barred from contacting the victim, her family or any minors, KVUE reported. The plea included no jail time.
Outside the courtroom on Monday, the victim's father told KVUE he was blindsided by the decision and said prosecutors Efrain De La Fuente and Lorraine Garcia failed to include him in discussions about the plea.
Richard Leigh Bell, 37, pleaded guilty to a lesser felony after prosecutors dropped nine child sex abuse charges as part of a plea deal. (Rockbridge Regional Jail)
"I was outraged to find out that this was not only our first and last plea deal, but this was our deal whether I liked it or not," he said.
The father, who was not named to protect the victim's identity, said he had expected a prison sentence for Bell.
"I think any parent would expect somebody to rot in jail for doing something like this," he told KVUE. "As time went on, I expected a realistic plea deal to be years at least--long enough to serve some time in prison where you belong if you have successfully carried out pedophilic acts."
"Marginalized" and yet insanely entitled and imperious left-wing woman says you MAGA people are "racist" and even "fascist" if you do your job as a citizen and stop one of her cousins from committing a theft. Obviously she has a nosering and is so ugly that she will never know love, but you knew that.
Face-tattoo? Check. Nosering? Check. Insane entitlement? Check. Tasteless profanity? Check. Casual defense of criminality? Check. Unemployable and unf***able goth mutant thinks it's unfair that people have to take tests to get a drivers license and says that's why people drive without licenses. BTW, standard Modern America math skills on this one.
Yesterday I mentioned Seattle's new socialist mayor, who vowed she will not "allow" grocery stores to close. Apparently she intends to enslave the owners of grocery stores and force them to work against their will.
Here's an update: She only won that race because of a sudden dump of ballots arriving, get this, after the actual election.
Democratic mayoral candidate Katie Wilson, a self-professed socialist, has unseated incumbent Democratic Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, multiple outlets projected eight days after polls closed.Wilson, an activist who has been widely compared to socialist Democratic New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, received 50.2% of votes compared to Harrell's 49.5%, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) on Wednesday. While Wilson was initially behind in the vote count, late ballot dumps that broke in her favor were enough to put the leftist challenger over the finish line.
The sitting mayor led in early returns, prompting DDHQ to initially call the race for him on Nov. 6 -- while there were still about 100,000 votes left to count. DDHQ retracted the call just one day later. King County Elections told the DDHQ website that there were tens of thousands fewer ballots left to count than there actually were.
Washington is one of eight states that uses universal mail-in voting. The state does not require voter ID to cast ballots by mail.
Champion of the marginalized Jasmine Ratchet gives huge amounts of her money to charities such as Limos for Peace, the Four Star Hotel Foundation and the Tony Resort Fund.
The Tony Resort Fund -- Money for Tony Resorts.
Just this year, Crockett expended $75,000 -- almost $10,000 higher than the average annual U.S. salary -- on luxuries like limos, resorts, and personal security. Fox News obtained Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings detailing Crockett's reckless and lavish spending.Crockett is the congresswoman who is voting against the deal to end the shutdown, who referred to ICE amidst mounting anti-law enforcement violence as "slave patrols," and called a rape/murder victim of an illegal alien a "random dead person." She screamed about Trump's ballroom, called to defund police, and asserted Republicans are restricting healthcare (by which she means no Obamacare for illegals). And like AOC, who wore a pricey "Tax the Rich" dress to a very expensive and exclusive event, Crockett never practices what she preaches. You see, we are not supposed to have law enforcement protection, steady jobs, or reasonable taxes -- she's too busy paying for her security and indulgent lifestyle off our money.
Fox found Crockett booked herself luxury hotels and transportation services in cities that included Martha's Vineyard, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Notably, the expenses reviewed by Fox do not seem to indicate any significant expenditures in her home district, which includes Dallas. She couldn't even bother to help out a few local businesses with her extravagant spending.
Altogether, Fox found $25,748.87 for hotels and limos in her campaign spending this year.
In case you missed it, far-left radio host and AWFL White Woman Stephanie Miller made a great and gross spectacle of kissing Jasmine Ratchet's feet.
At the Free Press, but excerpted at PJ Media: Many "college students" can no longer do the simplest grade-school math.
Students who are not ready for UC San Diego's regular math classes are placed in a remedial class that was created in 2016 and meant to serve about 1 percent of the incoming class. This fall, about 8.5 percent of incoming students wound up in the remedial math class, which focuses on elementary- and middle-school math subjects, according to the report. Another 3.3 percent of the incoming students were placed in a class that covers high-school math topics such as algebra and geometry....
Officials at UC San Diego also blamed grade inflation and the expansion of admissions from 'under-resourced high schools,' writes Nau. Schools are terrified of failing anyone. Not only is it expensive to pay for a student to repeat a grade, but the school opens itself up to legal action from an angry parent. Letting the child slide to the next grade is so much easier.The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as "The Nation's Report Card," found in 2025 that just 22% of students were proficient in math and 35% were proficient in reading. "The percentage of eighth graders who have 'below basic' reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the exam's three-decade history -- 33 percent," reported the New York Times.
The saddest and scariest thought I have is the one I have when I hear HB-1 defenders saying we have to import foreign workers, American graduates are simply not equipped for the workforce. The thought I have is: I'm beginning to think they're not lying.
Who's responsible for this state of affairs? We may never know the true culprits.
Math teacher says he was called ‘ideologically violent’ for supporting standardized testing...
While studying at one of the "top" higher education institutions in the U.S., a new author recalls how he was described as "ideologically violent" for arguing in favor of standardized testing.
This incident and other concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education inspired him to write a book.
His book "Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher," written under the pen name "Yellow Heights," raises concerns about the ideologically-driven focus of higher education.
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Yellow Heights describes himself as a "former climate researcher, software engineer, investment manager, and high school math teacher." He also is a first-generation immigrant from China and father of two. He writes under a penname and requested anonymity due to concerns about political and job discrimination due to his views.
"This book recounts his Kafkaesque experiences at education school, where he was labeled a white supremacist simply for asking questions," according to the book's Amazon page.
Before the Ohio government banned DEI hirng, Ohio "colleges" went into Berserker Mode hiring DEI dum-dums.
Now the schools are positively choked with incompetent know-nothings.
In 2021, at the height of the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement, Ohio State University's then-president Kristina Johnson announced a bold initiative: the university would hire 50 professors whose scholarship addressed "social equity and racial disparities" and seek to recruit "100 underrepresented and BIPOC [black, indigenous, and people of color] hires in all fields of scholarship."Overnight, Ohio's flagship university became one of the country's leading DEI champions. Today, it's still dealing with the consequences. Newly acquired records provide an inside look at the initiative and how it shaped the university's research agenda. In one hiring cycle, 60 percent of new faculty roles in the arts and humanities focused on race, social justice, or diversity.
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Job listings show the extent of Ohio State's commitment to DEI. At about the same time the university sought to hire a scholar of "indigenous knowledges," the anthropology department advertised a position for an archaeologist who emphasized "decolonization, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, and/or Indigenous ontologies." The philosophy department called for a professor of "philosophy of race" to explore the "metaphysics of race" and "epistemological significance of race or racism."
Who was recruited for the DEI-focused roles? Other documents list the candidates, revealing hiring practices both overtly ideological and, at times, comical.
One of those documents, a search committee's recruitment report, described the finalists for a role as scholar who researches the "intersections of race, science and technology studies (STS), and public health." In the report, the search committee emphasized that diversity, equity, and inclusion would be paramount considerations as it made the new hire. The committee's finalists showed what they had in mind. The report observed that one of those candidates "examines the racialization of fatness and its linkages to histories of health, nation, and empire." Another explores how "NASA's Mars Exploration Program rovers represent 'autonomous colonial laboratories.'"
The search committee touted these candidates' progressive bona fides--and their demographic characteristics. One candidate, the committee noted, was "a disabled scholar and queer woman of color." Another "interrogate[s] how fatphobia and ableism are institutionalized in public infrastructure through race science, gender oppression, and legacies of colonialism." That candidate "identifies as 'a first generation, fat, queer scholar of color.'"
Again, that terrible thought: What if immigration enthusiasts are telling the truth when they say Americans are just too stupid to work? What if we're already caught in the Idiocracy doom-spiral?
An Outkick reporter tried to cover a Michigan women's vollyball team that is tearing up the competition thanks to a Male Cheater. The reporter was "harassed and stalked" by LOVE IS LOVE transgender extremists.
Including the school's principal.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) on Monday was "still gathering information" about an incident that took place during a girls' high school volleyball match involving an OutKick reporter.OutKick's Dan Zaksheske detailed the harassment he faced while covering Ann Arbor Skyline High School's win over Dexter on Thursday night. Ann Arbor Skyline has had success during the fall season thanks to a transgender athlete who competes on the team.
Zaksheske wrote on Thursday night that he was shadowed by Ann Arbor Skyline principal Casey Elmore throughout the game and harassed and stalked by supporters. He called Ann Arbor Police and asked to send an officer just in case. The officer showed up to the match as it was ending.
Fox News Digital reached out to Ann Arbor Public Schools for comment.
"I really felt like this was a complete and utter failure by both the MHSAA and Ann Arbor Public Schools," Zaksheske told Fox News Digital. "For the principal to watch someone be harassed on her campus, on her property, and to not only allow it to continue, but in some instances almost seem to be encouraging more of it, I don't know how she can justify herself as an educator allowing that kind of thing to go on."
The school issued a BS statement claiming it was "gathering facts" about the incident but, get this, they're lying. They haven't even contacted the reporter who was "stalked."
Kimmerly didn't immediately respond to a question about details of the investigation, including whether officials spoke to Zaksheske or other people who were mentioned in the report.Zaksheske said he hasn't been contacted by the MHSAA as part of its inquiry into last week's incident.
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The BBC Apologizes to Trump for the Stitch-Up but Vows It Will Never Pay Him Compensation
—Ace
This is from the dodgy state media propaganda mill itself.
So I wouldn't believe any of it.
The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation.The corporation said the edit had given "the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action" and said it would not show the 2024 programme again.
Lawyers for Trump have threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£ 759m) in damages unless the corporation issues a retraction, apologises and compensates him.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told BBC Breakfast she was confident the corporation was "gripping this with the seriousness that it demands", adding her role was to ensure "the highest standards are upheld".
But she also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the BBC's editorial standards and guidelines were "in some cases not robust enough and in other cases not consistently applied", adding that there would need to be people "at a very senior level with a journalistic background".
So what was the problem? Too many hard-left liberals at the BBC?
Don't be a sap, Jack! The real problem at the BBC is that they allowed conservative-leaning political appointees on the BBC's board.
Political appointments to the corporation's board would be examined in the BBC's charter review, she said in response to a question asking if member Sir Robbie Gibb, a former political adviser to Theresa May, had overstepped his remit and weighed into politics.
May was the UK PM and leader of the "Conservative" Party from 2016 to 2019. Her political advisor, presumably, leans right (by British standards, anyway).
So that's where the BBC is looking for a problem: There's one slightly conservative man on the board! The problem has nothing to do with the 99% hard-left staffers, "journalists" and editors!
While this was a matter for the board and its chairman, she said, those appointments "damaged confidence and trust in the BBC's impartiality".
Yes it's just this one dude. Once you get rid of him, you will be officially bias-free.
You might say "But the BBC was just responding to a (left-wing) 'journalist's' question."
Um, no. The BBC chose to insert this claim into their own story acknowledging their guilt in the matter of the doctored video of Trump. The BBC is trying to suggest that there's no bias at the BBC, but if there is any bias, it's just this one slightly-conservative-leaning dude.
I'm sure this will not surprise you but the "European Broadcasting Union" also doctored Trump's remarks in a similar way to doctoring of the BBC.
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DOJ Wingmen of Trump's Persecutor Jack Smith Shut Down An Investigation Into the Fraudulent Funding for Hillary Clinton's Russiagate Op
—Ace
It's almost as if they're one big criminal gang.
Justice Department leaders later tied to agency special counsel Jack Smith shut down an FBI investigation tied to possible campaign finance violations carried out by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign when it used cutouts to fund the opposition research firm Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier, emails released Thursday appear to show.Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassely, said his Judiciary Committee, which made public the messages, describes them as "internal emails" and an "electronic communication" from the FBI "exposing" the "refusal" by DOJ leaders "to open a criminal investigation into potential campaign finance violations committed by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee."
Grassley's office said that this potential criminal inquiry by the bureau was shut down "despite FBI agents' demonstration of a fact-pattern showing Clinton and the DNC intentionally concealed payments to inappropriately target then-candidate Donald Trump."
As you may remember, Hillary Clinton lied in her FEC filings when she claimed that the money used to pay FusionGPS and Christopher Steele for the fake dossier was used for "legal services."
You know, straight-up lying on required federal election disclosures.
Wait a tic, isn't that what Trump supposedly did with his Sloppy Daniels "payoff" money...?
Well, anyway, the DOJ shut this investigation down.
No "intent," I imagine. Just a whoops-whoopsie sitch.
Except... wait, Hillary and Marc Elias lied for years, claiming they didn't have anything to do with the dossier.
Which would suggest this wasn't a "whoops-whoopsie" sitch at all, but another crime committed in service of a common criminal enterprise.
Hm. Now I don't know what to think!
Grassley's office pointed out that in 2022 the Federal Election Commission had "fined Clinton and the DNC for disguising campaign expenditures to pay Fusion GPS, a political opposition research firm, to craft the debunked Steele Dossier, which falsely alleged that Trump was colluding with Russia."The Federal Election Commission ruled in 2022 there was "probable cause" to believe Hillary for America and the DNC violated federal laws by "misreporting the purpose of certain disbursements" and fined them.
The FEC said the DNC paid $849,407 and the Clinton campaign paid $175,000 to Perkins Coie for what was alleged in a complaint to be "opposition research done by Fusion." The Clinton campaign falsely reported the purpose of all those payments as "legal services" while the DNC reported the purpose of most of those payments as "legal and compliance consulting."
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Perkins Coie was paid more than $12 million between 2016 and 2017 for its work representing Clinton and the DNC. According to Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson, Fusion was paid $50,000 per month from Perkins Coie. Elias testified it was $60,000 each month. Fusion claimed that it paid Steele $168,000 for his work. Perkins Coie claimed Fusion approached them in March 2016 while knowing that Perkins Coie represented Clinton's campaign.
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Grassley also said Thursday that "the decision to decline the investigation" into the Clinton campaign and the DNC was made by Richard Pilger, then a leader in the DOJ's Public Integrity Section, and by J.P. Cooney, who was working at the time within the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
Grassley noted that Pilger "was later pivotal in reviewing and approving the opening of Smith's Arctic Frost investigation" while Cooney "served as Smith's Deputy Special Counsel for that investigation."
So they nixed an investigation into Hillary Clinton's obvious federal fraud, but couldn't wait to improve a surveillance dragnet and fishing expedition into more than a dozen GOP senators and House members.
"These records show the same partisans who rushed to cover for Clinton rabidly pursued Arctic Frost, which was a runaway train aimed directly at President Trump and the Republican political apparatus. I appreciate Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel's efforts to turn over the information I requested, and I'll continue investigating this matter."
Related: Paul Sperry wrote this earlier in the week. I've been waiting for more details or an article, but he hasn't published yet.
So this is all I have about it for now, but I think it's worth reading:
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_NEW: In presenting evidence in a motion to the court as part of its perjury defense, James Comey's legal team altered two words in a transcript of his 2020 Senate testimony to make it seem as if Sen. Ted Cruz asked Comey a key question he didnt actually ask him during the hearing
Well that doesn't sound like the James Comey I know.
Below: A psychiatrist says that some of his patients are experiencing genuine problems in their lives due to Trump derangement.
This really should go in The Week in Woke, but that is already stuffed. So enjoy this one early.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh🚨 HOLY CRAP! Psychotherapists are now seeing the effects of Trump DERANGEMENT Syndrome in their patients
"I had one patient who couldn't enjoy vacation because she saw Trump on her device or news, and felt triggered."
Omg...
"Some of the features of this 'disorder': They can't sleep. They feel traumatized by Mr. Trump."
"Trump is the trigger for many of these people. To be that fixated on a person, it's simply not healthy."
"This is a profound pathology. I would even go far as to say the defining pathology of our time."
Rosie O'Donnell is one KEY example of one of the first major cases of TDS.
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Oh No! Ladykiller Alec Baldwin and His Wife from Barthelona Are in Marriage Counseling Due to Their Age Difference and Language Barrier But Mostly the Age Difference
—Ace
Reached for comment, Alec Baldwin was quoted a saying, "Get that f***in' camera out of my face you g***** slippery-assed f****t! I'll stab you in the throat with my keys!"
And then he shot a postman.
The Daily Mail, or as I know it, the Daily Mail UK.
Alec Baldwin's wife Hilaria has revealed she and the Hollywood star have therapy to navigate their 26-year age-gap - and admitted she lost part of her identity after their marriage.
¡Aye! ¡Dios mio! Yo perdé mi identidád!
Speaking on Caroline Stanbury's Uncut And Uncensored podcast, the 41-year-old mother of seven opened up about the challenges of her 13-year marriage to the Rust star, 67.'I don't believe that age is just a number, at least in our situación,' she said.
¡ Aye! ¡La edad no es solomente un numero!
'There are certain things where I have to look at him and digo, he has 26 more years of experience. And sometimes that's a flex, and sometimes that means that we need to do un poco therapy. And sometimes, he takes out a gun and wings me in el corathon.'
I'm adding back a little of the Spanish sabor she's omitting, and I touched up that last oración.
The former yoga instructor, who was recently voted off this year's Dancing with the Stars, added that while much has been written about her supposedly pushing for a large family, it was in fact Alec who was 'the instigator'.
'Can I tell you, he'd have more,' she said. 'I'm the one who's like, no more, thank you very much. He would have more. He's the second oldest of seis.
Aye no papi, no grathiah. No más, por favor. Tu pinga no es rica.
I think I've seen this pelicula before.
Hilaria also reflected on the personal toll of becoming 'Alec Baldwin's mujer' - and how she has struggled to define herself outside of his fame.'I think in many ways, I did lose una parte di my identity when I married Alec,' she confessed.
She found it again by watching old videos of Charo. Hoochie coochie!
'That was not only other people talking about me for the first time on a very massive level.... when people hablar - I posted this on my [Instagram] stories, this woman said, you need to be able to really articulate and know what your identity is, because otherwise you're going to just get it from other people because todos el mundo es going to have an opinion.
First world/third world problems, am I rite? If only the most pressing problema en mi vida was mi identidád.
...She continued: 'I'm a recovering people pleaser. I want people to be pleased around me. I like people to feel warm and good and happy when they're with me.
But when people come and they say these things about me - "You talk funny", "Why do you have so many kids?", "You're married to this guy who's so much older" - I internalize it and think, "oh my god, is there something wrong with me?"'
Tengo un doler di mi corathon!!!
She knows the English word "internalize" but she struggled to come up with "cucumber."
She also revealed that she's now learning to reclaim her sense of self.Hilaria explained: 'I haven't been as clear as I should have been with myself about my identity. But that is the gift that I'm getting now. That's the gift of the lemons that I'm turning into lemonade.
'People can say this or that - I cannot stop them. But I can know myself in a way that hopefully it won't give me that nauseous pit in mi estomago that I've experienced tan mucho tiempos.'
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As for her advice to other couples with significant age gaps, Hilaria said the key is recognizing differences without diminishing either partner.
'I cannot expect him to be 41. He cannot expect me to be 67. But we can unite through our differences,' she said.
She's dunking on him, pointing out that she is cuarenta y uno and he is sesenta y siete.
'So many times I am 'Alec Baldwin's wife', 'and guest'. And look, in certain things, at a table, I don't care. But when you're in your home, that can't be. I'm not a supporting character - I'm a main character.
No Lucy joo cannot sing tonight at the Club Babaloo. No Lucy, ¡ No!
She was eliminated by audience vote on Bailar Con Las Estrellas last month.
She dressed like Princess Leia, trying to tap into that Guerra de Las Galaxias vibe, and still lost to... Andy Richter? Dressed like, what, a chef from Ratatooie? Dancing with a rat?
People watch this?
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Federal "Manhunt" Underway to Capture the Democrat Activist Who Stormed Into Trump Attorney Alina Habba's Office and Wrecked the Place with a Baseball Bat
—Ace
In this House, we believe in supporting political violence.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday that federal authorities are searching for a man who stormed into the New Jersey office of Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, damaged property, and fled before agents could respond -- the latest unsettling incident in what Bondi warned is a growing wave of politically charged aggression against federal law-enforcement officials.According to Bondi, the suspect showed up Wednesday and "attempted to confront" Habba before tearing through part of her workspace and escaping. Details remain sparse, but the attorney general made clear the incident is being treated as a serious threat. "Thankfully, Alina is ok," Bondi wrote on X. "Any violence or threats of violence against any federal officer will not be tolerated. Period. This is unfortunately becoming a trend as radicals continue to attack law-enforcement agents around the country."
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Habba, who has spent the past year taking on high-profile federal cases and has become a frequent target of left-wing activists online, dismissed the attack as a failed intimidation attempt. "I will not be intimidated by radical lunatics for doing my job," she said in a brief statement Thursday.
Video of Pam Bondi vowing to capture the mainstream Democrat activist below the fold.
Very closely related:
From JustTheNews, a Virginia Soros prosecutor won't investigate the illegal doxxing and threats on Trump aide Steven Miller's life, and Jim Jordan has opened a probe to find out why.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Thursday notified a Virginia prosecutor that his committee is investigating allegations she ignored threats that were made against White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller.Jordan highlighted allegations that left-wing activist Barbara Wien potentially violated state and federal anti-doxing laws by posting flyers in Arlington, Virginia, last month that depicted Miller's face and address. She has also been accused of attempting to intimidate Miller's wife at their Virginian home.
The chairman demanded information from Arlington County and the City of Falls Church prosecutor Parisa Dehghani-Tafti on her handling of the doxing and intimidation case, after the prosecutor allegedly sided with Wien's defense team's request that the judge overseeing the case limit the information state police could share with the FBI.
Falls Church is heavily Islamic and per Google's dogshit AI, she did receive Soros money:
Parisa Dehghani-Tafti is the Commonwealth's Attorney for Arlington County, and her election received funding from George Soros's political action committee (PAC). Soros's PAC supported her campaign, along with other progressive prosecutors in Virginia, as part of a broader strategy to elect reform-minded prosecutors who favor policies like eliminating cash bail and reducing incarceration rates for certain offenses.
To be honest, I wrote in this post that she was a Soros DA before I bothered to check. All of the left-wing DAs in northern Virginia are Soros DAs -- the ones declining to prosecute sexual offenders invading little girls locker rooms, etc.
"Your unmistakably partisan actions suggest that you are willing to not only ignore threats of political violence against those with whom you disagree, but will actively side with those making the threats," Jordan wrote in a letter to Dehghani-Tafti."The Miller family deserves the same protections afforded to all Americans, particularly when it comes to feeling safe in their own home," he continued. "The appearance that you have allowed your political bias to influence an investigation
involving a senior Trump Administration official gives rise to substantial federal concerns."
He has demanded she preserve all correspondence concerinng this case and any email exchanges she's had with the antifa-adjacent "activist" doxxing Steven Miller.
Remember, unfortunately, that now that Virginia has elected a Republican-child-murder-crazy DEI dummy as the state's Attorney General, Virginia will be sanctioning Democrat threats and even violence against Republicans.
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For the First Time, the US State Department Designates Antifa a Foreign Terrorist Organization
—Ace
Before the headline, I want to mention a story I failed to cover when it was still fresh: The Antifa attacks on a TPUSA event at Berkeley.
The Department of Justice and FBI are investigating Monday's bloody riots at a Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley, which authorities said Antifa protesters turned into a war zone."Antifa is an existential threat to our nation," Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X Monday afternoon.
"The violent riots at UC Berkeley last night are under full investigation by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force. We will continue to spare no expense unmasking all who commit and orchestrate acts of political violence."
The sold-out event at the ultra-liberal Bay Area campus, held two months to the day since TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated, drew scores of keffiyeh-clad demonstrators who lobbed smoke bombs, bottles, and set off fireworks attempting to disrupt the tour stop.
A bloodied man in a "Freedom" shirt is detained by police following a scuffle at a"Antifa is breaking through police barricades and threatening our event attendees," TPUSA chief of staff Mikey McCoy wrote on X as the chaos unfolded.
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"Mob assault and thuggish intimidation of attendees exercising their First Amendment rights are unacceptable," the DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, wrote in an X post.
One of the terrorists attacking peaceful citizens was a Cultural Enrichment Officer named, of course, Jihad.
A demonstrator named "Jihad" who was at Monday's chaotic protest against Turning Point USA at the University of California-Berkeley was charged with assault and robbery for an incident at the scene, according to cops.Jihad Dphrepaulezz, 25, allegedly snatched a chain necklace from an attendee, sparking a vicious fight that left him and the victim covered in blood -- as "antifa thugs" clashed with Charlie Kirk supporters exactly two months after the TPUSA founder's assassination.
The unidentified victim was initially arrested, too, but later released.
Of course Berkeley cops arrested the victim of Jihad. You have to be very pro-active about stopping any possible future hypothetical "backlash" against Muslims, even as Muslims are attacking people right now, for real.
Harmeet Dhillon sent a letter to Berkeley demanding it preserve all records about the attacks and their response to it, meaning she intends to investigate them and does not want them destroying documents.
More: Harmeet Dhillon may be investigating whether Berkeley is continuing the abusive policies towards conservative speakers that she herself sued over as a private attorney.
In a Tuesday morning post on social media, Harmeet Dhillon, a San Francisco attorney who is now the U.S. assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said that she sees "several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa's ability to operate with impunity in CA."She said the scene on Monday night at the Cal campus, which featured conservative activists, comedian Rob Schneider and author Frank Turek, was reminiscent of Berkeley in 2017.
The Justice Department on Tuesday sent a letter to UC Berkeley saying it plans to investigate the universitys response after violence broke out ahead of a Turning Point USA event on campus one day earlier. Four people were arrested.
It appeared as though Dhillon was referencing a lawsuit and settlement her firm reached when her clients, the Berkeley College Republicans, alleged that UC Berkeley placed prohibitive restrictions on when and where events featuring conservative speakers Ann Coulter and David Horowitz could be held.
At the time, Cal maintained that the restrictions were set in place due to real security concerns following violent protests that forced the cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos' speech earlier that year. Cal insisted the rules did not prevent the groups from holding their events.
The case was settled in 2018, with an agreement that UC Berkeley would stop charging security fees to students for speaking groups.
I wonder if they bother providing security to conservatives when their terrorist Antifa allies announce an intent to violently disrupt their events.
Berkeley released this statement:
Breaking: UC Berkeley has released a statement about the violent Antifa mobbing of the TPUSA event on Nov. 10. It says it will conduct an investigation and cooperate with any federal investigations looking into the "outside agitators" who came in prepared for violence:"UC Berkeley condemns all violence and will hold accountable anyone who violates the law or campus regulations. The University is firmly committed to an open and robust marketplace of ideas and to maintaining a campus where people of all beliefs and perspectives can feel safe and respected.
There is no place at UC Berkeley for attempts to use violence or intimidation to prevent lawful expression or chill free speech. The University is conducting a full investigation and intends to fully cooperate with and assist any federal investigations and the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force to identify the outside agitators responsible for attempting to disrupt last night's TPUSA event. UC Berkeley will take all appropriate steps to safeguard the right of every member of our community to speak and assemble freely.
That's what they claim -- but do they really arrest Antifa when it attacks people? Or do they take the position that all left-wing mayors do, that when left-wing "protesters" begin to riot and throw molotov cocktails, you must step back to give them "space to destroy"?
Hopefully Dhillon will find out.
With that background: Antifa -- the organization that doesn't exist -- will soon officially be a foreign terrorist organization.
The State Department will designate four Antifa-linked groups operating in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) -- putting them among the likes of ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah -- Fox News Digital has learned.The decision marks the first time the U.S. government has applied foreign terrorist designations to Antifa-linked groups, expanding President Donald Trump's previous domestic terrorism directive to an international scale.
The four Antifa-aligned cells active in Europe -- in Germany, Italy and Greece -- are accused of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings and other politically motivated attacks.
The designation requires U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of FTOs and SDGTs and ban entry of the group's members into the U.S. It allows the U.S. to criminally prosecute those under U.S. jurisdiction who offer material support to FTOs or conspire to offer such support.
This is well and good, but I don't see an indication that the American Antifa is being called a terrorist organization, just the four Antifa cells in Europe.
This guy suggests that's what's going on but I'm not sure I believe it.
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"The anarchists, Marxists, and violent extremists of Antifa have waged a terror campaign in the United States and across the Western world for decades, carrying out bombings, beatings, shootings, and riots in service of their extreme agenda," said principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Piggot.
"The State Department is committed to identifying and dismantling these terror networks that conspire to ruthlessly suppress the will of the people and violently undermine the very foundations of the United States and Western Civilization."
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., who had written to Rubio advocating for the designation, praised the move.
"I'm grateful to Secretary Rubio and the Trump administration for working with me on this critical issue -- holding these radical groups who enable, fund and support political violence in the United States and across the world accountable."
While the American Antifa cells are patterned after the original terrorist Antifa groups of Europe, I don't believe they share much (if any) funding or leadership, so designating European Antifa groups as terrorist doesn't mean that American cells are now officially terrorist groups. Just like if the State Department declared that specific mafia groups in Italy were terrorist organizations, that would not mean that the American mafia/LCN groups are terrorist.
I'm not sure this means as much as it's being sold to mean.
Related: Rubio blasts the Europeans for demanding US-made Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine, while telling us we can't take care of our own hemispheric communist strongman.
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THE MORNING RANT: Uninsured Motorists, Illegal Aliens, and the Soaring Cost of Auto Insurance
—Buck Throckmorton
The cost of auto insurance, for those of us who actually keep our vehicles insured, has increased dramatically in the past few years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (as reported by US News), the cost of car insurance increased by 56% from 2020 to 2025.
There are obviously many inputs into the increased cost of insurance, including the obvious one - an increase in the cost of repairs, because vehicles are more expensive and more complicated than ever before. Most news stories will also lazily throw in tariffs or supply chain problems as contributing reasons. But there is another worsening problem that is a major cause of rising auto insurance premiums, and that is uninsured drivers. Coincidentally, the surge in uninsured drivers over recent years neatly coincides with President Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas throwing the border open wide to millions of illegal aliens.
Per the Insurance Research Council’s most recent full year data (2023), there has been a huge increase in the number of uninsured drivers. In 2019, 11.6% of drivers lacked automobile liability insurance, but just four years later in 2023 that number had increased to 15.4% of drivers. Another way to state this is that in 2019, one in nine drivers were uninsured, but in 2023 that number had deteriorated to one in six. This data is sourced from insurance claims where an insured driver had to use his Uninsured Motorist Coverage to make a claim, because the party at fault in the wreck did not have insurance.
But this also means that wrecks between two uninsured motorists go unnoticed by the Insurance Research Council (“IRC”), as do single car wrecks involving uninsured motorists, since they obviously cannot make an insurance claim. It can be extrapolated then that the percent of uninsured drivers is even higher.
Compounding the problem is the growing number of drivers who are underinsured, meaning they have liability insurance at the minimum amount required to register a vehicle and/or obtain a drivers license, but the amount of insurance is woefully insufficient. For instance, Texas’ minimum requirement for liability insurance covers just $25,000 of physical damage per accident, which is less than the replacement cost of most cars on the road, and much less than the average cost of most new cars. In California, the amount is just $15,000.
Per the IRC, in the same four-year span of 2019, the number of underinsured motorists increased from 12.2% of drivers to 18.0%.
In summary, here is the expensive truth:
• More than 33% of accidents involve drivers who are either uninsured or underinsured, meaning they do not have sufficient insurance to pay for the damage they caused. This is up from 23% in just four years.
• Therefore, one in three wrecks require the party not at fault to file a claim against his own insurance company, using his “Uninsured Motorist Coverage.”
• This also means that those of us obeying the law and properly maintaining our insurance are subsidizing uninsured and underinsured drivers.
I have insinuated that the rise in uninsured motorists corresponds closely with the Biden-era influx of illegal aliens. While correlation alone does not prove causation, there is data indicating that the influx of non-citizen drivers has been a major contributor to the rise in uninsured motorists.
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The Morning Report — 11/14/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Quite a few things breaking this morning, first of all comes news that Sen. John Fetterman was hospitalized yesterday
During an early morning walk, Senator Fetterman sustained a fall near his home in Braddock. Out of an abundance of caution, he was transported to a hospital in Pittsburgh. Upon evaluation, it was established he had a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that led to Senator Fetterman feeling light-headed, falling to the ground and hitting his face with minor injuries. Senator Fetterman had this to say: ‘If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!’ He is doing well and receiving routine observation at the hospital. He has opted to stay so doctors can fine-tune his medication regimen. Senator Fetterman is grateful for the EMTs, doctors, and nurses who are providing his care.
Despite his party affiliation, his outspoken opposition to that party's positions on a number of crucial issues as well as their violent rhetoric and smearing of President Trump and his supporters has earned for him, at least in my eyes a level of respect I never thought I'd give when he first came onto the political scene running against Dr. Oz. Seems like a million years ago now. To me, John Fetterman is sort of an almost RINO, but kind of in a good way when you think about it, considering the actual definition of the term? Yes, at the end of the day he is a doctrinaire liberal Democrat and as a politician will no doubt go where he's kicked and generally vote the party line, but his willingness to sepeak honestly, openly, frankly and loudly against the hardcore leftist maniacs and their positions is both refreshing and welcome.
So I personally wish him well and that he has a full and speedy recovery.
Jackson's record as one of the most divisive racialists and race-hustlers to have blighted the American societal/political landscape is extensive, and as such he has done more to put people at each other's throats than anyone until the coming of Al Sharpton and of course Barack Hussein Obama.
I'll not share my feelings about Jesse Jackson as I'm sure you can probably draw your own conclusions.
Elsewhere, I give you a well-written piece that is otherwise clueless or naive in its outlook.
Congress Has Forgotten How to Legislate Congress once built the future through lawmaking; today, it mostly performs instead of legislates.
That's just the headline and sub-head. Where to even begin. Congress generally does not want to legislate as passing laws would make members of both parties politically vulnerable to voters should they pass unpopular legislation. On the other side of that coin, the author seems to have forgotten all about that thing called OBAMACARE which it's namesake and Congress rammed down the throats of the American people with virtually zero debate. Of course seizing one sixth of the American economy and literal control over the life and death of the populace tends to make gaining and maintaining absolute power that much easier. Tyrants and despots have known this sine time immemorial, and when Obama boasted about fundamentally transforming America that was not mere rhetoric. It was is and always will be his and his fellow travelers goal, by any and every means necessary.
About the only thing that has stood in their way has been President Trump and his ability to wield executive power in an attempt to rein in the real legislative power of Washington DC – the unelected unofficial and all-too-powerful so-called Fourth branch of government: the administrative state, bureaucracy. And that has been challenged and fought tooth and nail by Democrats, GOP sellouts and of course a rogue judiciary.
And, it is heartening to see that the administration is serious about going after Antifa in declaring it a foreign terrorist organization, although quite a bit of its terrorism is being inflicted right here at home. And on that note, with the rise of CommunISlam here at home, we face a monstrous internal threat like never before.
The Democrat party has transformed itself into the Democratic Socialists of America.
Yes as the title states American Communism must be eradicated. I am open to suggestions, preferably a solution that allows us to actually preserve the spirit if not the entirety of the Constitution, the rule of a just and stable law and our society and that does not entail bloodshed — except of course in self defense.
And internationally, things seem to be heating up in the southern hemisphere.
US aircraft carrier nears Venezuela in flex of American military power
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Have a great weekend!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- “The anarchists, Marxists, and violent extremists of Antifa have waged a terror campaign in the United States and across the Western world for decades, carrying out bombings, beatings, shootings, and riots in service of their extreme agenda.”
State Dept. to Designate Antifa as Foreign Terrorist Organization in Europe
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Daily Tech News 14 November 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- The three big memory chip makers - Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix - have two messages for you: First, things are going to get worse before they get better, and second, they never said anything about things getting better. (Tom's Hadware)
AI server deployments are eating all available memory production sending prices soaring for everyone else, and the big three have already committed to $54 billion in factory expansion.
Despite the supply crunch they are loath to commit more funds right now, because there used to be a lot more memory producers and the reason there are only three survivors is because of the bust that came after the last bubble burst.
- Meanwhile Elon Musk's companies are looking to expand their own semiconductor production facilities. (WCCFTech)
Currently Tesla has a PCB plant in Texas, and is building out an advanced packaging facility - working with bare dies to create tightly integrated modules - to come online next year.
Longer term the group is looking at building its own chipmaking facilities, but that just shifts the bottleneck from TSMC to ASML, the one company in the world that makes leading edge chip fabrication equipment.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - November 13, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Church building in the MD town of North East - constructed in 1742
Welcome to the Thursday ONT. How's everyone doing tonight?
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Thumpday Cafe
—Ace
Northern Lights over the "Garden of the Gods"
in Colorado Springs, by Daniel Forster
Seems almost unreal, but people are saying this is real photo taken as part of a series of photos just last night.
Looks like an original series Star Trek set-- where they had a few (foam) rocks in foreground and then the background was red light over some kind of shim or cyclotron wall or something.
Anyone from Colorado Springs? Can you confirm?
Photos from last year show that the Northern Lights do light up the area with a pink light.
Transom Cat watches you, judges you.
Super senior dachshund out on an adventure.
Huge tree in a storm. This better not be AI.
Cats are much more naive about AI.
Flashback: Waterproof mobile phones in the early 2000s.
European starlings are great mimics. Almost as good as the black guy in Police Academy. (Whose name I just realize I know, for some reason-- Michael Winslow. I wonder what important bit of knowledge my brain deleted to hard-code that.)
Do you like monkeys? Do you like vermin who crawl all over you? Then you'll love monkey vermin.
If you see two people dancing, you're left-brained, if you see a bowl of fruit, you're right brained. Well okay but I see Elsie the cow and I can't unsee her, so I guess I'm just f***ed. Back me up -- it's a cow, right?
That's not really proof of anything, I primed you to see a cow.
But at least I'm no longer alone in the world.
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Milan Prosecutors Investigate Supposed "Sniper Tourism," Involving Wealthy Elites Paying Guides to Take Them to the Bosnian War Zones to Kill People With Rifles
—Ace
This sounds like a sci-fi action movie plot, which makes me skeptical.
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged 'sniper tourism' during Bosnian warGroups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.More than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by constant shelling and sniper fire between 1992 and 1996 in what was the longest siege in modern history, after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia.
The snipers were perhaps the most feared element of life under siege in Sarajevo because they would pick off people on the streets, including children, at random, as if it was a video game or a safari.
Groups of Italians and other nationalities, so-called "sniper tourists", are alleged to have participated in the massacre after paying large sums of money to soldiers belonging to the army of Radovan Karadžić, the former Bosnian Serb leader who in 2016 was found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity, to be transported to the hills surrounding Sarajevo so that they could shoot at the population for pleasure.
Sarajevo is in a basin surrounded by mountains, which made cutting it off and attacking it particularly easy.
Milan prosecutors, led by Alessandro Gobbi, launched an investigation aimed at identifying the Italians involved on charges of voluntary murder aggravated by cruelty and abject motives.
The investigation originated from a legal complaint submitted by Ezio Gavazzeni, a Milan-based writer who gathered evidence on the allegations, as well as a report sent to the prosecutors by the former mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karić.
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In the documentary, a former Serb soldier and a contractor claimed that groups of westerners would shoot at the civilian population from the hills around Sarajevo. Its claims have been vehemently denied by Serbian war veterans.
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Gavazzeni claimed "many, many, many Italians" were alleged to have been involved, without providing a figure. "There were Germans, French, English ... people from all western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians."
He claimed the Italian suspects would meet in the northern city of Trieste and travel to Belgrade, from where the Bosnian Serb soldiers would accompany them to the hills of Sarajevo. "There was a traffic of war tourists who went to there to shoot people," he said. "I call it an indifference towards evil."
This sounds to me like a dark fantasy that this guy wants to be true.
People are comforted by the thought that the world is better than it really is. But other people are just as comforted by the idea that the world is much worse than it really is.
Add into that Italy's very vibrant Communist scene, where there's always a market for stories about greedy capitalist pigs killing the virtuous poor, and... I'm going to want more proof than a "journalist's" research.
And this is an idea that just seems to capture the public's imagination. I've seen most of these Humans Hunting Humans films. One I always see referenced, and want to see some day, is "The Tenth Victim" from 1965 starring Ursula Andress and Marcello Mastroianni.
The 10th Victim (Italian: La decima vittima) is a 1965 science fiction film directed and co-written by Elio Petri, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, and Salvo Randone. An international co-production between Italy and France, it is based on Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story "Seventh Victim".Taking place in the year 2079 in the aftermath of World War III, the film's focus is on a government-endorsed program known as "The Big Hunt", whereby contestants from around the world act as "hunters" and "victims" in two-person battles to the death as a means of avoiding mass warfare. The plot follows veteran Big Hunt contestants Caroline Meredith (Andress) and Marcello Poletti (Mastroianni), who are respectively assigned the roles of hunter and victim for one such confrontation, which is complicated by their budding romance. Like Petri's other films, The 10th Victim is a work of socio-political satire, while also combining science fiction themes with conventions of the commedia all'italiana genre.[6]
I did see the Ozploitation version of this story, in Turkey Shoot. I don't recommend it. Trashy but not trashy fun.
I think the Edgar Wright directed The Running Man remake opens this weekend.
Octopussy had a three-minute human safari sequence, and it was the worst part of the movie.
So it's something that just seems to grip people's minds. But I don't remember hearing about any cases where this actually happened, though.
And, on a practical level: I think someone entering a war zone with a sniper rifle would be fired upon themselves, and I wonder exactly which of the wealthy, pampered, likely old people were willing to risk that.
I'm also a little wary of Italian prosecutors making action/horror movie claims. In read the terrific true-crime book by Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence, the so-called "Jack the Ripper of Italy," operating there in the 80s and 90s.
In my review, I relayed that there are more dangers there than serial killers:
Italy's a lovely place, but take this advice: Never be accused of committing a serious crime there. I'm not saying don't commit a serious crime; chances are, you'd get away with it. I'm saying don't be accused of committing a serious crime, especially if you're innocent, because that's when the Italian justice system seems to go into Berserker Mode to convict you. The clownshow of Italian justice is jaw-slackening stuff.Add into that the medieval -- if that -- banditry of the Sardinian mountain clans and a local populace absolutely terrified of an audacious murderer that simply cannot be found, and the panics and paranoias that grip the area and DAs and head detectives who rely on the theories of shrieky, conspiratorial bloggers, pushing bizarre theories about aristocrats and doctors in Satanic Cults trading in female sexual organs (because the most psychic energy is contained in sexual organs from people killed at the point of orgasm, you know.... didn't you know that? I thought everyone knew that).
I'm only halfway through and I haven't even gotten to the good stuff yet. (The authors may or may not be threatened to be jailed unless they leave Italy and/or actually thrown in jail for daring to report on this insanity... by the DA pushing the Satanic Sex Cult Genital Trafficking theory of the case.)
I have no information about Milan's prosecutors but having read about Florence's, I'm skeptical.
The prosecutor pushing the "doctors and lawyers are the real serial killers" line got embarrassed that his Interesting Theories were never proven, and was embarrassed more when it turned out some of his sources and accusers were homeless drunks. How they knew the skinny on Italy's aristocrats and their secret Satanic sex parties, I don't know.
He then repackagef his Satanic Sex Orgy theories of murder by... prosecuting Amanda Knox under a similar sort of "satanic sex orgy gone wrong" murder theory.
The actual killer in that case turned out to be an African immigrant and drifter and noted "girl-botherer" -- sex pest -- with a criminal history of breaking into people's homes for petty theft and then taking a poop there. Which is exactly what happened in the Meredith Kercher murder, except she came home while he was burgling the place. His DNA and bloody handprints were found everywhere.
A very likely suspect with a ton of evidence against him... but no razzle-dazzle, you know? No va-va-voom.
The DA was too invested in his "Satanic Sex Orgy" theory so he just claimed that the sex-pest immigrant burglar had, for some reason, been recruited into the orgy murder scenario by Amanda Knox.
So that's why I'm very skeptical. It just doesn't seem very likely to me.
I'll ask Colonel Kurt Schlichter if he remembers any intel about Human Hunts when he was serving over in Kosovo but I imagine he already would have written a couple of thriller books about it if he had.
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Just-Completed Chinese Bridge Collapses, Tom Friedman Hardest Hit
Plus: The Tenth Annivesary of the Savage Bataclan Attack in Paris
—Ace
I always hate linking stuff that shows China in a good light in the Cafe. If there's a Chinese foot-bridge connecting two mountains, I'll link it, but say something like "I don't like linking China, but they do some impressive civil engineering." Partly to justify linking anything that might seem pro-China, and partly because I'm wistful about the days of great American civil engineering.
The last time I said that, a few commenters said: No they don't. Alluding to the tendency for these impressive structures to sometimes collapse even more impressively.
(I did also allude to that when I linked a glass alpine roller coaster going down a mountain's side, saying that China's lack of concern for human life allows them to build some fun-but-lethal amusement rides.)
Anyway, my mistake on ever saying China did some impressive civil engineering.
A bridge has collapsed after just one month of being open to the public.
A massive bridge at a hydropower station in southwest China collapsed Tuesday, sending concrete and steel plunging into a river just months after it opened, according to Chinese state media.Reuters reported that an official from Barkam County confirmed the collapse to the Chinese state-run Global Times, saying no casualties had been reported.
Sure. Sure. Sure sure sure.
Suuuuuuuure.
Sure sure sure sure sure sure sure.
S U R E
There are no casualties. However, dozens of engineers, minor officials. and witnesses have been Reported Missing.
No but seriously, the bridge began collapsing over a period of hours, so they did have time to divert traffic.
Though they don't say they "stopped" traffic, only that they imposed "temporary traffic controls."
The report added that cracks were detected a day earlier on the bridge's road surface and slope, prompting authorities to impose temporary traffic controls.Footage of the collapse, shared widely on Chinese social media, showed the Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan Province buckling before falling into the river below, kicking up a massive cloud of dust.
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Local transportation and public security bureaus said the right-bank slope of the bridge showed signs of deformation Monday afternoon, just hours before the collapse.
Authorities quickly shut down the structure to all traffic and issued a public notice warning of potential safety risks.
Fox says "Reuters contributed to this report." I think I see Reuters' influence in vouching for the speedy, decisive action by the wonderful Red China government.
...According to Times Now, the Hongqi Bridge was located in Sichuan Province's mountainous Maerkang area and completed earlier this year as part of the G317 national highway--an important route connecting central China to Tibet.
I think Tibet would disagree about the importance of being connected to Red China.
The 758-meter-long, cantilevered two-lane beam bridge stood roughly 625 meters above the gorge floor, with piers reaching up to 172 meters in height. It was built by the state-backed Sichuan Road & Bridge Group as part of efforts to expand access to the Tibetan Plateau.
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Communist Spy Asset and Adulterer Eric Swalwell Referred to the DOJ for Mortgage Fraud
—Ace
Imma be honest with y'all, I think this is the weakest such referral yet.
Unless he's did what "Big Tish" James and claimed multiple properties to be his primary residence in applying for reduced mortgage rates, I think he skates.
The basic claim here is that he said his DC residence was his "primary" residence and got a $1.2 million mortgage. The purported inconsistency is that a California representative is supposed to be primarily domiciled in California. But he's claiming his DC mansion is his primary residence, so he's not actually a California resident! And if he's telling the truth about being primarily domiciled in DC, he can't be a Representative from California!
Uhhhh... I mean, kind of? I don't think it will hold up. Again, not unless he is claiming both a California home as his primary residence for mortgage purposes along with his DC house. In that case, there's a clear inconsistency between the representations he's making to banks.
But... yeah I don't know if maintaining a residence in California while claiming primary residence in DC is "fraud."
Maybe his alleged "constituents" in California have reason to not vote for him, given that he legally considers himself a DC resident, but... I don't think he's guilty of criminal fraud based on only this.
Sort of like Donald Trump's "fraud" on Deutsche Bank for giving his collateral properties a supposed over-evaluation is really Deutsche Bank's bitch to pitch, not Soros DA Alvin Bragg's. But then, the left thought that was a perfectly reasonable prosecution, sooooo...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was hit with a federal criminal referral for alleged mortgage and tax fraud related to his purchase of a $1.2 million home in Washington, DC, that he claimed as a primary residence, The Post has confirmed.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte in a Wednesday letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi requested an investigation of Swalwell based on allegedly false and misleading statements he made about the purchase, NBC News first reported.
The California Democrat was able to secure millions of dollars' worth of loans and refinancing based on the primary residence declaration in DC, a source familiar with the referral said.
The designation could constitute mortgage fraud, insurance fraud and state and local tax fraud, among other charges, the source noted.
In addition to the Department of Justice criminal referral, FHFA's inspector general is probing the alleged mortgage fraud.
"As the most vocal critic of Donald Trump over the last decade and as the only person who still has a surviving lawsuit against him, the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me," Swalwell responded in a statement.
"Like James Comey and John Bolton, Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook, Letitia James and the dozens more to come -- I refuse to live in fear in what was once the freest country in the world," added the California congressman, who is now the fourth Democratic official to be targeted for mortgage fraud by the Trump administration.
Yeah they're all guilty. Saying you're just as innocent as they are does you no good.
Go do anal with a Chicom spook grooming you for intelligence and influence, Fartwell.
What an asshole.
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