Monday Overnight Open Thread (9/19/22) Limited Content Edition

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We’re cleaning the air we breathe, holding the big polluters accountable, and ushering in a new era for clean energy. That’s climate action done the California Way—and we’re not only doubling down, we’re just getting started. Gov Gavin Newsom (D-CA)

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“All we want to do is make Sun Devil National proud, but fans coming to the games simply just to yell at the players and coaches or to criticize and boo us is quite frankly ridiculous.” Jalin Conyers, tight end for Arizona State

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“Young needs to come clean about what he is doing for the J6 Committee. There is no way a husband can give an independent and objective assessment of his wife’s performance.” Tom Jones, executive director of the watchdog American Accountability Foundation

This just in. Some good news out of Afghanistan. American released after 2 years of Taliban imprisonment.

An American private contractor was released as part of a prisoner swap deal with the Taliban, his family confirmed on Monday.

Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran, was held captive for over 2 years by the Taliban-linked Haqqani Network. After retiring from the Navy, Frerichs worked for over a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor.

Frerichs, 60, was traded for Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban associate who spent over 17 years in US custody for drug trafficking. Monday’s exchange marks the first prisoner swap negotiated with the Taliban

'Have you ever heard this saying? The beatings will continue until morale improves. No one seems to know who said this. But whoever it was, they understood Illinois and that city by the lake.'

The great city by the lake was once famed for its toughness and unbreakable will. But now it curls up into the fetal position as uncontrolled violent crime and legitimate concerns over the Democrat Safe-T Act–which will do away with cash bail on Jan. 1–bleed the city dry.

Democratic political leaders are on the defensive before the mid-term elections. Some like Gov. J.B. Pritzker have been reduced to babbling. Others like Mayor Lori Lightfoot go into hiding. More than a dozen city council members have resigned. They look to the chaos from the mayor’s office and begin turning away.

The bleeding continued Thursday with news that seven children had been shot in the street gang wars in separate incidents, including a 3-year-old shot at home while sleeping. Oh, and anti-violence activists were listed among the wounded at yet another Chicago mass shooting.

CWB Chicago reported that police warned about yet a third armed robbery crew working the city from the West Loop to Edgewater.

But don’t fret, Lightfoot has made sure that no repeat criminals—including violent muggers, robbers, shooters or murderers–will have to risk being hurt in a police chase.

And there had been no arrests in that infamous Sunday afternoon street mugging in the leafy Lakeview neighborhood, where a woman walking alone was attacked, pulled to the ground by thugs and robbed. The poor woman’s piercing screams were caught on a doorbell security camera. And those screams have cut deeply into Illinois politics and focused the people on the Democrat criminal justice centerpiece—the Safe-T Act signed and applauded by Gov. Pritzker.

And to all this comes Chris Kempczinski, the CEO of McDonald’s Corp. who spoke at the Economic Club of Chicago luncheon and delivered a series of body to Mayor Lightfoot’s reelection campaign:

The issue? Crime and her inability to handle it. Crime is up almost 40 percent in Chicago, though murder numbers have dropped slightly. Kempeczinski told his audience that violent crime makes it difficult to attract employees to Chicago.

London greets the Resident of The White House, MushHead. Let's Go Brandon!

Hell no riding a bicycle doesn't stop one from committing a drive by shooting.

LAUDERHILL, Fla. – Authorities released new information on Saturday in regard to someone firing a gun at a Lauderhill Rescue Truck.

According to Lauderhill police, officers responded to the 3100 block of Northwest 19th Street on Friday around 4 p.m. in reference to a shooting.

Investigators determined that a Black heavy-set male fired several shots at the rescue truck.

Quit jammin' me has a new meaning.

Satellite navigation and tracking via GPS has become a critical link in the world's rapidly growing logistics and freight carrying ecosystem. Companies use GPS to track trucks and keep them on time and their cargo secure.

Little wonder, then, that criminals are turning to cheap GPS jamming devices to ransack the cargo on roads and at sea, a problem that's getting worse but may be ameliorated with a new generation of safety technology designed to overcome threats from jamming.

In case you aren't a master criminal or a secret agent, here's some background. The core problem for any system using GPS is that the signals are extremely weak, an inevitable byproduct of the vast distances those signals need to travel. Jammers work by overpowering GPS signals by emitting a signal at the same frequency, just a bit more powerful than the original. The typical jammers used for cargo hijackings are able to jam frequencies from up to 5 miles away rendering GPS tracking and security apparatuses, such as those used by trucking syndicates, totally useless.

A funny thing happened on the way to the courthouse. These spineless professional grifters do not have quite the influence they once had.

Former officials in Republican administrations whose input was rejected by the judge overseeing the case over the search at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home are hoping the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will be more receptive.

A new proposed amicus brief supports the U.S. Department of Justice’s request that the appellate court partially stay the order to allow for continued review of seized classified documents and prevent the DOJ from having to disclose them to the newly appointed special master. It’s from former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and six former federal and state prosecutors, Donald B. Ayer, Gregory A. Brower, John J. Farmer Jr., Stuart M. Gerson, Peter D. Keisler and William F. Weld, and it builds on a brief they tried to submit in the court case last month that was rejected by U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee.

My contempt and loathing for these people at the moment is unmeasurable.

Government, it's a funny thing. Sometimes it moves very fast. And at other times it crawls as slow as slow can be.

A chain-link fence on a blufftop overlooking Newport Beach’s Back Bay is at the center of a war between environmentalists and a wealthy Republican donor.

On one side of the fence is the private home of longtime political rainmaker Buck Johns. On the other side is the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve and a popular trail used by bicyclists, hikers and equestrians.

Part of the land claimed by Johns, nearly one-third of an acre, actually belongs to the county of Orange. But it has been fenced since before Johns owned the home, perhaps for decades. Now activists want the fence taken down. And state agencies and the Orange County grand jury agree.

For his part, Johns filed a lawsuit this month to keep the county from touching the fence — not that it wants to. Orange County officials were poised in 2019 to sell the triangular-shaped property to Johns for an appraised value of $13,000, far below the $1.1 million valuation that activists say was appraised for a similar parcel.

Let's face it, a group of rag-tag environmentalists vs. a Political King Maker will be a slow slug-fest.

This little Quisling cannot leave Washington D.C. fast enough. FOAD Adam Kinzinger, soon to be unelected, unemployed Congress critter.

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.) claims Republican lawmakers will demand a vote to impeach President Biden “every week” if the GOP wins control of the House in the upcoming midterm elections.

"Back before we had all the crazies here — just some crazies — you know, every vote we took, we had to somehow defund ObamaCare. … You’ll remember, right when we took over it was we need to do the omnibus bill, but we’re not going to vote for it because it doesn’t defund ObamaCare,” Kinzinger said on an episode of CNN’s The Axe Files with David Axelrod, which was released Monday.

I wonder if he is interviewing to be Obama's newest buttboi.

Hey it's an older link............
Surprised? Nope, not in the least. White liberals are prone to be crazier than most.

White liberals are more prone to mental health disorders than individuals who identify as conservative or moderates, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

Sixty-two percent of Whites who classify themselves as “very liberal” or “liberal” have been told by a doctor they have a mental health condition, as compared to 26% of conservatives and 20% of moderates, the study found.

Not to be outdone by Ford & GM, Dodge Ram to go the EV route.

Fuel-efficient, industry leading Ram diesel pickup being discontinued, all-electric model debuts soon

The public-private partnership infecting all sectors of the economy has shifted the markets from consumer-driven to corporate-dictated in order to satisfy the demands of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) score-peddling globalists.

Companies from around the world have signed onto a deadline of 2030 to facilitate the transformation to a compliancy-based credit scoring system and those pressures have led the makers of the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel to discontinue the model in favor of an all-electric vehicle.

After previewing the launch of the Ram Revolution concept at the Detroit Auto Show, explaining that the unveiling of the automakers first all-electric pickup would take place in November, Ram

Whatever truck maker which continues to produce a 4x4 diesel pickup truck will not be lacking sales.

On this day: 9 Sep 1973
Country rock singer, songwriter 26-year-old Gram Parsons formerly of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, died under mysterious conditions in Joshua Tree, California. His death was attributed to heart failure but later was officially announced as a drug overdose. His coffin was stolen by two of his associates, manager Phil Kaufman and Michael Martin, a former roadie for The Byrds, and was taken to Cap Rock in the California desert, where it was set alight, in accordance to Parson's wishes. The two were later arrested by police. via thisdayinmusic.com

On this day: 19 Sep 2005
Research published by Guinness World Records showed that Status Quo have had more hit singles than any other band in UK chart history. The band had scored 61 chart successes, dating from ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’ in 1968 to ‘You'll Come Around’ in 2004. Queen came second with 52 hits, with The Rolling Stones and UB40 with 51 hits each. via thisdayinmusic.com

No, not even close to "Mother of The Year". But she is tonight's: Genius Award Winner.

SEPTEMBER 16--In a series of vile Snapchat videos, a 26-year-old mother of two recorded herself engaging in sexual activity with her three-year-old son and, while breastfeeding her younger child, filmed the family dog licking her private parts, according to Florida court records.

Natalie Wagner, 26, is facing scores of felony counts in connection with 15 separate videos that investigators received last month from Snapchat following the issuance of a subpoena. Wagner, seen at right, is being held in the St. Lucie County jail in lieu of $1.2 million bond.

Some "Karen" attempted to ruin a party. These cops said, "Nope". Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Officers Matthews, King and Johnson, received a call about a noise complaint and went to check it out.

Upon arrival they discovered that a young lady named Kim was celebrating her Quinceañera.

Family and friends invited the officers to stay for some food and help celebrate with the girl.

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