Once You Eliminate The Impossible, Whatever Remains, No Matter How Improbable, Must Be The ONT

Welcome, 'rons and 'ettes! It's the one, the only, Thursday night ONT! I'm your host, Weirddave! And I don't mean to brag, but...

The Happy Hooker

He's obviously using the wrong worm. Apparently, this was the Republican mayor of Hudson, Oh. He has since resigned from his position. The story refers to another incident when he referred to a book that was being used in Hudson schools as “child porn”. Now, I would not be surprised if educators were using graphic books depicting pornographic scenes with children, Ace has documented some of them here, but in this case it was a creative writing course for high school seniors, and the book in question was “642 Things to Write About”, which gave suggested writing topics. One of them was “Write a sex scene you wouldn't show your mom” and then “Rewrite the scene to one you would show your mom”. Questionable, perhaps, but high school seniors are 17-18 years old, and that is hardly “child porn”. Maybe the mayor is the one with sex issues.

Lets Talk About The Mall Shooting In Indiana

As you all know, earlier this week a 22 year old man, Elisjsha Dicken, became the much heralded “good guy with a gun” when he shot and killed a 20 year old who was attempting to instigate a mass shooting event. Sadly, the shooter (whom I will not name) did manage to kill three people before Dicken took him down. Dicken, who was with his girlfriend at the time, heard the first shots and reacted. In the span of 15 seconds he:

Shoved his Girlfriend under cover.
Drew his weapon
Motioned fleeing patrons to get behind him
Steadied himself against a post for cover/brace
Hit with 8/10 shots with his 9mm handgun (reports say Glock, but I dunno, everything's a “Glock” to the idiots in the MSM)
At a distance of 40 yards!

All of this while dealing with the massive adrenaline dump that anyone finding themselves in a gunfight must deal with. Eight out of ten hits. AT 40 YARDS! The range I practice at here in East Texas is only 25 yards long. That's not good shooting, not good shooting at all. Folks, that's God-level shooting. He must be the reincarnation of Davy Crockett or something. Incredible. A true hero.

Any Pilots In The Crowd?

Speaking of difficult feats, check this out:

Not only did he land on a curve, but watch him avoid the power lines as well. And this was a novice pilot. I am not a pilot, but that's impressive as hell from where I'm sitting.

Living In America

People Shared the Things They Love Most About the USA and the Answers Caught Us by Surprise

Yes, it's a clickbait article, but it's always fun seeing what people from other countries say about us. Sometimes they're silly, sometimes they're trite, but sometimes they can remind us of how blessed we are to live in the USA.

A Perspective From The UK

The ‘adults in the room’ are the scariest people in politics

I don't know diddly about British politics, although the Prime Minister's Questions can be fun to watch, I'd love to see Jittering Joe try and answer questions from the opposition in a forum like that. Most of the GOPe would roll over, but there are a few who would light him up good. I also can't tell what the politics of the author are, the kind of feel left wing/Labour-ish, but he's (sorta) defending Boris. What is striking is this:

No, the anti-Boris fever that infects large swathes of the chattering class is not about anything as tangible as policy, or history, or even reality. Rather, it expresses a deeper, more visceral disgust within the elites for what Boris is seen to represent – that is, ordinary people’s desire to shake up the technocratic establishment and to secure a little more democratic clout for themselves.

One of the most striking things about the Borisphobia that has spread like a malady in elite circles is its ahistorical nature. To say ‘Boris is the worst PM ever’ is to declare, sans shame, that you have little concern for history. That you are so swept up in the now, in super recent political events, that you have lost sight of the fact that the past exists and that it is pock-marked with bad rule and objectionable policy. This hyper-presentism of the Boris-loathers is not born of ignorance – many of these people are very well educated. Rather, it springs from the combination of narcissism and irrationalism that motors their dread of Boris, and of the little people who voted for him. Convinced they have a God-given right to shape politics, and concerned that this right has been upended by recent democratic developments, these people end up in an existential freakout that views everything that is happening right this minute in the most intense fashion imaginable, as the Worst Thing Ever, as the be-all and end-all. Their anti-Boris fury is more about what they feel they have lost than it is about Boris himself.

That's a good description of the Never Trump insanity over here. What with all of the popular unrest going on in the West these days, one might wonder if it is a universal truth. If so, that's a very good sign.

Feel Good Story Of The Day

JJ Watt Offers To Cover Funeral Expenses For Woman Struggling After Grandfather’s Death

A woman advertised online, selling some JJ Watt merch (Watt is an all-star defensive end in the NFL, and one of the true good guys in the league) to cover the cost of her grandfather's funeral. Watt saw the add and contacted the woman, offering to cover the funeral costs for her. Nice gesture.

Deep Dive

Facing the Beast

Dr. Naomi Wolf lays out the case that everything about Covid, from the virus, to the vaccines, is a Chinese plot to bring the West to its knees. It's too long and convoluted to excerpt here, but by her reckoning, we're in a war that we don't even recognize is happening. Read it if you've got a few spare moments, then draw your own conclusions.

Speaking Of Conspiracy Theories...

They're remarkably similar. Almost as if they were issued from the same stores. And while you can certainly spend more on your AR, that's still a pretty Gucci build. EOTECH sight? They're not cheap, and both shooters were unemployed losers. That's what, somewhere in the 4-7 K range for that kit? Where did they get the money?

Stories The Media Is No Longer Following

10-Year-Old Rape Victim's Mom Is in Domestic Relationship With Child's Alleged Illegal Alien Rapist

Well, not all media. Townhall, here and RCP, below are covering these stories, but the MSM?

Not only is the mother publicly standing by her boyfriend, she is apparently photographed posing next to her child's alleged rapist—seen smiling in a picture while the man with a striking resemblance to Fuentes's booking photo flashes a toothy grin. His arm appears to be wrapped around her.  Who exactly is this mystery woman seemingly scrambling to cover up her daughter's sexual abuse?

The MSM was all over this story when it broke, touting the pregnant 10 year old as proof of the horrors that overturning Roe would unleash (10 years old. Gives me crawly skin just saying that. Bring on The Punisher), but when the details started to come out, namely that this woman, here illegally, was allowing her illegal alien boyfriend to molest her daughter, they dropped it like a hot rock. TH has a good summary at the link.

Willful Blindness: Feds Ignore Illegal Alien ID Theft Plaguing Americans as U.S. Coffers Fill

This identity-related crime is providing a windfall for the U.S. government. A 2017 study from the conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform found that the federal government collects about $22 billion annually in tax receipts from illegal aliens, with the bulk going toward Social Security ($12.6 billion) and Medicare ($5.9 billion) – programs from which noncitizens are ineligible to receive benefits. FAIR estimated that illegal migrants also paid $3.3 billion in federal income tax – a smaller proportion primarily due to illegal aliens’ lower wage levels – and another $1 billion in state income taxes.

In other words, the fraud has the effect of bolstering financially shaky federal programs. In one of the agency’s rare direct statements on the issue, Social Security Administration Chief Actuary Stephen Goss told CNN in 2014 that without "undocumented immigrants paying into the system, Social Security would have entered persistent shortfall of tax revenue to cover payouts starting in 2009." Leading progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal echoed this observation in 2018, arguing that a "complication of [then-president] Trump’s plans to limit immigration is the effect to our Social Security Earnings Suspense File – money that keeps our Social Security system afloat," including money provided by "undocumented immigrants."

In both cases, when the story involves one of the left's sacred cows – in this case problems caused by open borders – the media becomes deaf, dumb and blind. Not all media, as evidenced by the links, but how many people read RCP or TH? This stuff should be being covered by CNN and ABC.

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posted by WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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