A Certain Set of Skills Cafe
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Federal Jury Acquits Pro-Life Activist Persecuted by Biden's DOJ on Trumped-Up Charge
Felicia Somnez, the Leftwing SJW That Attempted To Cancel Half of the Washington Post for Not Agreeing Forcefully Enough with Her Feminist Temper Tantrum Demands, Is Now Working in... Retail Sale at a Clothing Store
Bill Kristol's Money-Grifting Gollum Jonathan V. Last: You Know Who's Really Implicated by The Arrest of Crossfire Hurricane FBI Agent Charles McGonical for Taking Money from a Russian Oligarch? Donald Trump, That's Who.
CNN's Ratings Fall to Lowest Level in 9 Years
The UK Used a Shadowy Army "Information Warfare" Unit to Spy on Covid Dissenters
FBI Seized Biden Notebooks That May Contain Classified Information
THE MORNING RANT – Buck Shots [01/30/2023]
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/30/23
Daily Tech News 30 January 2023
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (1/29/23)
Gun Thread: End of January Edition!
Food Thread: Baby-Backs, Beans, And BullSt
First-World Problems...
It's Not A Race Problem; It's A Policing Problem
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 01-29-2023 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
EMT 1/29/23
Daily Tech News 29 January 2023
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (1/28/23)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 1/28/2023 [TheJamesMadison]
Weekend Hobby, Craft and Bodging Thread
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 28
Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 28
WHEN in the course of human events things get really personal
Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
EMT 1/28/23
Daily Tech News 28 January 2023
I'd Buy That ONT For A Dollar!
Twilling Zone Tango Cafe
What Have You Done to Affirm the Identity of a Transpecies Alien Today?
How New York Stopped Fearing the Urban Doom Loop and Learned to Love It
The Pfizer Director Who Admitted His Company Is Mutating Viruses for Gain-of-Function Research Melts Down When James O'Keefe Enters the Scene to Interview Him
Another Surprise! Biden's White House Refuses to Allow Senate Intel Committee Members -- All of Whom Have Maximum Possible Security Clearance -- to See the Classified Documents Biden Was Hoarding
Matt Taibbi's Twitter Files #15: Uncovering the Hamilton68 "Russian Disinformation" Scam
Paul Pelosi Police Bodycam Footage Released
Surprise! Top Director for George Soros' Political Arm Is Frequent Guest of White House
THE MORNING RANT: Is TVA Already Rationing Electricity for Future Industrial Growth?
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/27/23
Daily Tech News 27 January 2023
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Strange Doings Cafe
Quick Hits
Surprise! Biden's Latest Appointment to the Federal Judiciary Doesn't Know What Article II of the Constitution Is
Pelosi Sold $3 Million in Google Stock Mere Weeks Before the DOJ Announced an Antitrust Investigation Into Its Main Revenue Stream, Advertising
Antifa: The Democrat Party's Private Street Paramilitaries
CNN: Biden Lied When He Claimed He "Invited" the FBI to Search His House. He Merely Allowed Them To -- And They Were Considering a Warrant If He Refused.
Freshly Leaked Video Shows Totally-Not-a-Federal-Agent Ray Epps Leading the Protesters to Breach the Fence on January 6th
Project Veritas Sting Catches Pfizer Employee Seemingly Admitting the Company Is Deliberately Mutating Covid
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/26/23
Daily Tech News 26 January 2023
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (1/25/23) Rock The Cash Bar Edition
Seasons Beavers Cafe
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"Our Family Is Sick:" Hunter's Background Check Form Was a Actually a Fraudulent Application For an Apartment Whose Actual Intended Resident Would be His Entitled Felon Cousin
Biden to Send 31 Abrams Tanks to Kill Russians in Ukraine
Adult Swim Fires "Rick and Morty" Creator and Main Voice Actor Justin Roiland Over Domestic Violence Allegations
People Are Moving Out of California, Reducing Their Tax Base, So California Decides: We'll Just Continue Taxing All the People Who Have Left the State As If They Are Slaves Who Still Owe Us Their Labor In Perpetuity
Kevin McCarthy Becomes a Man?
McCarthy Blocks Schiff and Swalwell from Intel Panel
Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/25/23
Daily Tech News 25 January 2023
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/24/23)
Moondog Cafe
Quick Hits
Fox News Weatherman Beaten on NYC Subway After Coming to Aid of Senior Being Viciously Abused by Criminal "Teens"
DOJ To File Lawsuit Against Google, Alleging Unfair (Monopoly) Dominance Over Online Advertising Market
Sergei Millian: Durham Should Talk to Russian Oligarch Toady and Traitor, the ex-FBI Russiagate Operator Charles McGonigal
Mike Pence Says He's Got Classified Documents At His Home, Too
Merrick Garland Lies, Claiming There Is No Double Standard in the Treatment of His Political Enemy Trump and His Political Patron Biden
Julie Kelly: Video Proves That the Capitol Police Sprayed Themselves With Tear Gas on January 6th. Did They Catch Brian Sicknick In the Blast, and Then Lie to Blame It On Their Political Enemies?
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/24/23
Daily Tech News 24 January 2023
Monday Overnight Open Thread (1/23/23)
Domestic Shooting Cafe
Quick Hits
Asian White Supremacist Kills Ten in California
New Documentary "Walt's Disinchanted Kingdom" Shows How Disney Stopped Being a Family Brand to Let Its Freak Flags Fly
Big Pharma Covid Vaccine Manufacturers Pressured Twitter To Censor Activists... Calling for Generic Versions of the Vaccine
FBI Discovers Six More Documents At Biden's Home in a "Consensual" Search; Now Considering Searching His Beach House and Other Homes
Former Head of FBI Counterintelligence Division, and the Man Who Started the Russiagate Hoax Investigation Into Trump, Arrested for... Violating Russian Sanctions
It Atlanta and Other Democrat-Controlled Cities, The "Idea" Known as Antifa Spends the Weekend Engaging in Fiery But Peaceful Domestic Terrorism
THE MORNING RANT: Punching Back Against ICE Vehicle Bans; Yes They’re Coming for Your Gas Stove; A “Conservative” Thinker Is Perplexed By Empty Grocery Shelves
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/23/23
Daily Tech News 23 January 2023
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (1/22/23)
Gun Thread: January 22nd Edition!
Food Thread: Bah Bah Thin Sheep
First World Problems . . .
Go For It! Freeze...In The Dark...Taking Cold Showers...Watched By Big Brother! This Is Nothing More Than A Reversion To The Brutal Mean Of Human Existance
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 01-22-2023 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
EMT 1/22/23
Daily Tech News 22 January 2023
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (1/21/23)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread: Broker [moviegique]
The Weekend Hobby Thread
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 21
Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 21
How much should we be focusing on the almost extraterrestrial meetings in Davos?
Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
EMT 1/21/23
Daily Tech News 21 January 2023
Precision And ONT
Golden Years Cafe
Email from Hunter's "Business" Lawyer Names Joe Biden as Being Scheduled to be on a Phone Call Discussing Sale of Natural Gas to China
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Kohberger DM'd One of the Female Victims Repeatedly Before She Was Murdered
Biden Administration Demands Judge Reinstate Mask Mandate on Planes, Trains, and Buses, Claiming It Doesn't Need Statutory Authority to Order Citizens to Mask Up, and Can Temporarily Veto Congressional Law When It Likes
Mike Lee: The FBI Came to Us in September 2020 and Told Us That a Foreign Government Was About to Leak a False Story About a Biden Family Member -- and That We Should Neither Believe It Nor Repeat It
Alphabet, Google's Parent Corporation, Slashes 12,000 Jobs Globally; Microsoft Chops 10,000Media Hails "Biden Miracle Economy"
Christopher Wray, In Davos, Tells His Fellow World Economic Forum Blofeldians That The Future of Security Is in Government-Corporate Partnerships
THE MORNING RANT: Is the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” Ratings Debacle a Harbinger of Its Future, with an Aging Customer Base in the Age of Streaming?
The Morning Report — 1/20/23
Daily Tech News 20 January 2023
It's A Jolly Holiday With ONT
2 Cute Cafe
Quick Hits
Antifa Shoots a Cop in Atlanta; After the Police Respond and Kill a Thug, Antifa Groups Call for a "Night of Rage" and Violent Retaliation Against the Police Biden, the FBI Remain Silent
CNN Admits that Joe Biden Met With Hunter Biden's Business Partners While Vice President... Citing Hunter Biden's Laptop
Surprise! The Supreme Court "Investigation" That Was Designed to Fail to Identify the Dobbs Leaker Has Successfully Failed to Identify the Dobbs Leaker
Marjorie Taylor-Greene Thinks She's In Some Contest Where You Win If You Can Prove You're the World's Biggest Kevin McCarthy Sycophant
Reason: FaceBook Acted as the Government's Censorship Bureau, Too
Tucker Carlson: Did Hackers Shut Down the American Air Grid a Week Ago, and Did the American Government Covertly Pay Them a Ransom to Unlock the System?
Alec Baldwin Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter of Director of "Rust"
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/19/23
Daily Tech News 19 January 2023
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (1/18/23)
Full Metal Pizza Alchemist Cafe
Quick Hits
The $49,910 Hunter Biden Listed as the Rent He Paid Just Happens To Be the Exact Amount of Money Returned as a Deposit on the Office Space for the Company He Planned to Open with Chinese Partners
Karine Jean-Pierre: When I Lied to You on Monday, I Was Providing You With the Most Recently Updated Lies I Had Available
Washington Post Opinion: Gee, We Might Have Really Overcounted Covid Deaths and Hospitalizations
Signatory of Letter Claiming Hunter Biden's Laptop Was Disinformation Admits He Knew It Was Real
CNN Lies, Pretending There's No Effort in Virginia Schools to Push for Equal Outcomes For All Students Without Exception
Merrick Garland: I'm Letting Biden's Hand-Picked Personal Praetorian Guard Collect The Evidence Against Him Because I Don't Want To "Complicate" the Investigation Or Something
Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]
Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]
The Morning Report — 1/17/23
Daily Tech News 18 January 2023
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/17/23)
Goat Debating Society Cafe
Quick Hits
Davos Needs Whores: Klaus Schwab's Blofeldian World-Domination Conference in Switzerland Is Importing So Many Prostitutes from the Hinterlands That CENTCOM Analysts Fear a "Fartclam Gap"
Konstantin Kisin Delivers Cracking Response to Wokeness at Oxford Debate
At Least Thirteen Virginia Schools Now Known to Have Hidden or "Delayed" Reporting of National Merit Awards to Students in Name of "Equity;" Governor Youngkin Blasts "Maniacal maniacal Focus on Equal Outcomes for All Students at All Costs"
CNN Looking to Put a Leftwing Clown -- I Mean, a Professional Clown -- On the Air from 9pm to 11pm Every Night to Do "News" "Comedy"
A Woke Corporation Is Seeding the Atmosphere With Sulphur Dioxide to Fight "Climate Change"
The Dumbest Man in DC Wants to Retrain Cops to Shoot Armed and Dangeous Felons in the Leg or Shoulder
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/17/23
Daily Tech News 17 January 2023
Monday Overnight Open Thread (1/16/23)
Sky Masters Cafe
Quick Hits
"Concerning:" FBI Sent Its Orders to Twitter Via an App Called Teleport, Where Messages Would Disappear Within 10 Days, and Could Not be Screenshot
Finally: Sheila Jackson-Lee Introduces Bill to Make It Federal Crime For White People to Criticize Minorities, Which, and I'm Not Kidding, the Bill Would Criminalize as Doing a White Supremacy
CDC Investigating Link Between Pfizer's "Bivalent" Covid Vaccine and Strokes in People 65 and Older
Hunter Biden Asks Court to Stop His Baby-Mama From Changing His Child's Surname to "Biden"
Oh: Hunter Biden Was Paying Joe Biden Almost $50,000 Per Month In "Rent" to Live At His House
THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Update on the Electric Vehicle Follies (01/16/2023)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/16/23
Daily Tech News 16 January 2023
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (1/15/23)
Gun Thread: January 15th Edition!
Food Thread: Crunchy Brains and $7 Eggs? Can We Have A Do-Over?
First-World Problems...
Stop Worshipping Celebrity: They Are Everything That Is Wrong With America
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 01-15-2023 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
EMT 1/15/23
Daily Tech News 15 January 2023
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (1/14/23)
A Music Thread [Joe Mannix]
Weekend Hobby, Craft and Bodging Thread
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 14
Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 14
The Long March against Gramsci, Step 2
Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
EMT 1/14/23
Daily Tech News 14 January 2023
Tonight's ONT Is Back To "Normal"
Locomotive Breath Cafe
New York Times: Let's Face It, DeSantis Is Worse Than Trump
Quick Hits
Woke Pakistani-American Actor Complains That Hollywood Won't Cast Him as a Villain, Because They're Afraid to Cast Anyone As a Villain Except for White Men
Mayor Butt Refused Key Meetings During Unanounced Secret "Paternity Leave"
Former Uvalde Police Chief: I Left the Gunman Unhindered to Continue Killing the Children He Held Hostage, So I Could "Evacuate" The Children Who Were In No Danger Whatsoever
Woke Leftwing Super-Investment Firm BlackRock Announces Layoffs After Suffering "Heavy Losses"
Why Did China Start Donating Millions Through Anonymous Straw Donors to UPenn as Soon as Joe Biden Announced He Was Setting Up a Grifter Shop There?
THE MORNING RANT: Red State Legislatures Take Aim at Tenure; You Tube’s Banning of “Climate Skeptic” Video Results in Massive Viewing of It on Rumble (with an assist from AOSHQ)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/13/23
Daily Tech News 13 January 2023
Tonight's ONT is Out Of Order
Sexy Cupid Cafe
Quick Hits
The Twitter Files, Part 14: How Democrat "Congressional Trolls" and the Corrupt Propaganda Media Invented a "Russian Bot" Scare to Explain Why Normal Americans Were Calling for the Release of the Devon Nunes Memo Debunking RussiaGate
Harry Markle: When I Applied The Cream to My Aching Penis, I Was Transported and Could Only Think of My Mum's Fragrant Lips
CPSC Withdraws Proposal to Ban Gas Stoves; Left Wing Goes From Claiming The Right Is Crazy To Oppose Banning These Racist, Climate Destroying Stoves, To Claiming the Right Wing Is Crazy To Claim the Left Ever Wanted to Ban Them
Merrick Garland Announces Appointment of Special Counsel
Ratings for "Woke" Golden Globes Fell 26% From Previous Show
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/12/23
Daily Tech News 12 January 2023
Welcome Aboard A Guest ONT—01/11/2023 [Roger Ball]
Live Every Week Like It's Shark Week Cafe
Quick Hits
Courts Deal Gender Extremists Two Setbacks, Okaying Laws Requiring Students To Use Their Correct-Sex Bathrooms and Play on Their Correct-Sex Sports Teams
Biden Aides Discover a Small, Tiny, Hardly-Worth-Mentioning Second Batch of Classified Documents At Second Location
Again: Two More Virginia High Schools Admit They Hid Students' National Merit Awards From Them, So That They Would Not Have Advantages In College Applications, and So Other Students Wouldn't Feel Bad About Not Winning The Awards
Surprise! Biden's Stash of Classified Documents Included Top Secret Files on... Ukraine and Iran
Rasmussen: 50% of Likely Voters Think the $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill that Mitch the Bitch and 17 Other Republican Senators Voted to Ram Through Congress In December Is a "Disaster" for the Country
Idiocracy: Another Day, Another Collapse of a Foundational System
Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/11/23
Daily Tech News 11 January 2023
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/10/23) Minimalist Edition
Prison Break Cafe
Quick Hits
Randi Weingartner: Hey Serious You Guys, Remote Learning Didn't Work
LOL: Movie Audiences Shrank by 50% Over the Past Four Years
Former Head of the FDA Turned Pfizer Director Scott Gottlieb (How Convenient) Pressured Twitter to Deplatform Anyone Claiming, Accurately , That Natural Immunity Was Stronger Than That Provided by Pfizer's Leaky Non-Vaccine
Chicago Board of Education Inspector General: Hundreds of Chicago Teachers Groomed, R@ped Hundreds of Children in 2021-2022 Alone
Kevin McCarthy Affirms That He Will Strip Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff, and Ilhan Omar of Their Intelligence/Foreign Affairs Committee Assignments, As Promised
The FBI and DOJ Knew Biden Was Illegally In Possession of Classified Documents Before the Midterms -- But Covered It Up Until Yesterday
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/10/23
Daily Tech News 10 January 2023
Monday Overnight Open Thread (1/9/23) Relieving Ace Early Edition
Cuddle-Up Cafe
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Good Guy With a Gun Kills Bad Guy With a Fake Gun
Harry Markle Will Be Excluded from Charles' Coronation After Continuing Attacks on Royal Family Made in Quickie Cash-In Book, Spare
Twitter Files: Adam Schiff Pressured Twitter to Censor New York Post Reporter Paul Sperry
The Deal The Freedom Caucus Struck Will Guarantee Two Investigative Panels, One on the "Weaponization of Federal Law Enforcement," the Other On the Origins of COVID
Shock: NYU Study Finds Russian Trolls Had Little to No Impact on Trump's 2016 Election
THE MORNING RANT: You Tube Blocks Heartland Institute’s “Climate Realism” Live Stream…Because of January 6?
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/9/23
Daily Tech News 9 January 2023
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (1/8/23)
Gun Thread: January 8th Edition!
Food Thread: Bones, Hominy And Yorkshire Pudding?
First-World Problems...
Blue-On-Blue Fighting Is The Best Fighting
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 01-08-2023 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
EMT 1/8/23
Daily Tech News 8 January 2023
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (1/7/23)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 1/7/2023 [TheJamesMadison]
The Weekend Hobby Thread
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 7
Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 7
Waking up (?) in Switzerland, other snowy places and a certain sunny place.
Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
EMT 1/7/23
Daily Tech News 7 January 2023
ONT: Thanks For The Meme-ories
ON A LESS SERIOUS NOTE: Surviving Quicksand and Other 1970s Perils
Not So Quick Hits
Bonus Book Thread - 01-04-2023 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
2022 Box Office At 60% Of All-Time High [moviegique]
Never Forgive, Never Forget.
One small blow against Qualified Immunity [TJM]
Drones-R-Us
THE MORNING RANT: Bravo to the GOP Rebels If They Can Break The Congressional Seniority System; (plus a crazy alternative idea – “Reverse Seniority” )
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/6/23
Daily Tech News 6 January 2023
On The Eleventh Vote, The ONT Has Been Elected Speaker Of The House
Fast Food Restaurants Are Broken; Is Convenience Store “Grab and Go” Dining Now The Best Fast Food Option? (plus other thoughts related to fast food and culture)
Happy Fun Thread!
"Perfessor" Squirrel Speaks Out!
Not So Quick Hits
Taipei Personalities, Or War Pigs' Gonna Pig
One Thing the Federal Government gets Right [Dave in Fla]
The Joke's on Both of Them [Joe Mannix]
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/5/23
Daily Tech News 5 January 2023
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (1/4/23) H/T Edition
On A Less Serious Note - 01/04/2023
The Price of 7% [Joe Mannix]
McCarthy Loses A 5th Vote (And Now A 6th) For Speaker: How Long Will He Drag This Out?
Bonus Book Thread - 01-04-2023 ("Perfessor" Squirrel)
The Medicinal Use Of Gaslighting For The Healing Of Institutional Trust [moviegique]
Watch List? Watch This!
Thomas the Tank Engine and the University System [TJM]
The Vote For House Speaker: All We Can Hope For Is Casualties On Both Sides!
Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/4/23
Daily Tech News 4 January 2023
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/3/23)
On a Less Serious Note: Remembering the “Pyramid Power” Fad
"Perfessor" Squirrel Speaks Out!
Is China Trade Policy Going to Change? [Joe Mannix]
It Hasn't Happened in 100 Years, But...Is A Second Vote For Speaker Just Theater?
FBI Says Violence Against Jews Is in Decline. Jews Aren’t Buying It.
Occasional Afternoon Rant: Politicians teach us to think like children
Immigration Reform [Joe Mannix]
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/3/23
Daily Tech News 3 January 2023
Monday Overnight Open Thread (1/2/23)
On a Less Serious Note: Hooray for Exquisitely Awful School Bands
Not So Quick Hits
Bonus Book Thread - 01-02-2023 ("Perfessor" Squirrel)
Jeremy Renner Airlifted To Hospital After Snowplow Incident [moviegique]
The Masks Have Fallen, But You'll Still Have to Wear One
I didn't invite these people into my house [TJM]
What's A New Year Without Uncle Sam Taking More?
THE MORNING RANT - Herb Kelleher’s Prophecy Fulfilled: “The biggest threat to Southwest Airlines will come from within, not from other airlines”
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Morning Report — 1/2/23
Daily Tech News 2 January 2023
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (1/1/23)
Gun Thread: January First! 2023 Edition!
Food Thread: Truncated New Years Day Edition
First-World Problems...The World Has Too Much Time On Its Hands Edition
Detransitioners Are Blasphemers Against The Left's Gospel Of Normalizing The Mental Illness Of Transexuals
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 01-01-2023 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
Daily Tech News 1 January 2023
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Top Headlines
S3E2:
Joe Mannix joins CBD and J.J. Sefton with his fascinating insights into China's crashing birthrate concluding that the so-called Chinese Century is very much in doubt, US escalates tensions with Russia by sending M1 battle tanks to the Ukraine, the Biden Documentgate Scandal might explode into something even bigger, and more!
Confirmed: Bill Kristol and his other Disinformation Grifters, along with their "mainstream" media co-conspirators,
have chosen a strategy of coordinated silence to pretend that they didn't spend four years slurring Americans as "Russian agents." Matt Taibbi writes:
I asked for comment from a huge range of actors -- from the Alliance for Securing Democracy to Watts and McFaul and Podesta and Kristol to editors and news directors at MSNBC, Politico, Mother Jones, the Washington Post, Politifact, and others. Not one answered. They're all going to pretend this didn't happen. The few reporters who got this right contemporaneously, from Glenn Greenwald to Max Blumenthal to Miriam Elder and Charlie Wurzel of Buzzfeed to sites like Moon of Alabama, can take a victory lap. Almost every other news organization ran these stories and needs to come clean about it.
The Hamilton 68 tale has no clear analog in media history, which may give mainstream media writers an excuse not to cover it. They will be under heavy pressure to avoid addressing this scandal, since nearly all of them work for organizations guilty of spreading Hamilton's "bullshit" stories in volume. On the plus side, none of them are denying the story, either: So they are all tacitly admitting it's all true.
More from Taibbi:
Levich's tale is at the heart of what is so sinister about the Hamilton 68 campaign. This was digital McCarthyism, taking people with dissident or unconventional opinions and mass-accusing them of "Un-American activities." The peculiar twist of the Hamilton 68 version of McCarthyism is that instead of targeting leftists (although there are several self-professed left-leaning accounts on the list), the bulk of the real accounts involved conservatives, with handles like ULTRA MAGA Dog Mom and @ClassyLadyForDJT.
Even at Twitter, where there were basically no open conservatives in the email record, it was recognized that Hamilton 68 (and at least two other research institutes using similar methodology) were simply taking organic Trumpish chatter and describing it as Russian scheming.
The site "falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots," as Roth put it, getting "traction around partisan trends, to assert that any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots." Morbidly obese degenerate grifter obsessive Bill Kristol wants you to send him some more money so that he can "Defend Democracy" against the authoritarians. Won't you help him?
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BREAKING: Ronna McDaniel re-elected as RNC Chair.
The RNC is dead.
Bill Kristol, Michael McFaul, and "Alliance Securing Democracy" itself are all remaining in coordinated silence regarding Matt Taibbi's expos´ of their McCarthyite lies (and yes I am aware that is a slur on McCarthy, but there is no other generally-accepted word for what I'm describing). They're all counting on their Media frenz to keep the story buried for them -- which is probably a very good strategy, as the Media is once again part of the conspiracy, and is itself implicated. They have just as much reason as Bill Kristol to keep the lie going.
A while ago I said I'd post a Mystery Click that absolutely no one would know, with the exception, maybe, of Australian morons. So here it is:
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click Here's the lyric hint for all the good it will do you:
I've tried to persuade you
But I couldn't make you stay
You wrote the story
And you let it end this way, yes you did
I'm short of the distance
I'm back where I started from
Preparing myself
For the sound of the starting gun
It's a little cheesy but it's a pretty good workout song, as long as the workout you're doing is aerobics and you're wearing neon leg-warmers.
The oldest datable runestone discovered at ancient cremation pit in Norway The context of the find is datable through typology and C14, and it dates from 1-250 CE, which means it might very well be the oldest runic inscription discovered. I am thrilled to be on the team of the initial investigation of these inscriptions.
The first stone was found on top of a flat grave, and the skeletal remains are C14 dated to 25-120 CE. However, we can't tell if the stone was put there at the same time as this person had their burial ritual. The stone has several inscriptions on the front...
... and even one on the side. In addition, it has other markings, some of which appears to be non-meaningful, and others that might or might not be meaningful. Some of the runic sequences are difficult to interpret, but one of them seems to be "the headline", so to speak.
Jackson Crawford talks about the find here, and alludes to the stupid headlines the media will give this. He talks there about his own area of interest, which is the script that the runes are based on/borrowed from. He rejects the idea that they're borrowed from Roman letters,
and suggests they were instead based on Italic scripts used by Celtic tribes in the Alps, based on the Phoenecian/Greek alphabets. I personally favor this theory, chiefly because it's the only theory of runic evolution that I ever heard so obviously it's my current Front Runner.
Look to the West just around sunset, and you'll see Venus below the slim crescent Moon. When it gets dark enough, you'll see Saturn appear to the lower West. The Moon, Venus, and Saturn will be aligned fairly close the ecliptic. Jupiter will be higher along that same arc.
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79 The Mexican skull video must be in reverse
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I'll be commenting all this week as Lamont, because I'm a Big Dummy. Yes of course. I'm such an idiot.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click I can see behind your eyes the things that I don't know
If you hide away from me how can our love grow? Features a spoken word line -- "Pure energy" -- from Spock, from the Star Trek episode
Errand of Mercy . Also features McCoy from
I, Mudd , saying "It's worked so far, but we're not out yet." The line "Destruction" is said by an android in
I, Mudd.
Two other songs on the album sampled Star Trek. This caused
a legal snag that only First Officer Spock could solve:
Just one problem: the samples weren't cleared and the record company refused to release the album until they were. The album was slated for release in December 1987, but got stuck in limbo when nobody from Paramount would respond to requests to authorize the Star Trek clips. The breakthrough came when the band's A&R man contacted Nimoy's son Adam and asked for help. Adam Nimoy brought the issue to his father's attention, and the samples cleared.
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