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Good morning. CBD is on special assignment. Again. So you get this.
To be honest with you. I've been pretty busy with projects. And my daily upkeep of the news has been lacking.
As I was looking at my Face Book account Sunday morning there were some notifications from several people I know. They were responding to a news item I had no knowledge of. But, from what I gathered. Someone was killed by a cop in my home state's capitol city, Madison.
So before I even searched web for "Madison Man Killed By Police", my guess was a black male with a felony record decided to play FAFO. Of course his death was not a result of his piss poor decision making skills but Madison's finest. Although Madison is about as woke as woke goes. The average LEO wants only one thing. To return home at the end of his/her shift. No "Madison Man Killed By Police" you cannot play FA and not face FO.
State Sen. Kelda Roys, another candidate in the primary, said, “Let this city wrap its arms around Corey’s family and loved ones, and demand justice for him and them and all of us. There must be a full, independent investigation and the responsible officers held fully accountable under the law, as required by Wisconsin statute. The Department of Justice should serve as the lead investigator to ensure fairness and impartiality. We do not have to accept this as normal or inevitable. It is NOT. No other country in the world tolerates this level of police violence. We can and must create a more just, safe world for all of us.”
My curiosity was certainly piqued about this man, Cory Ruiz, killed by Madison police.
What did I find out when I went to the wonderful Wisconsin Circuit Court Access record of one Cory Ruiz? Mr. Ruiz was born on January 5, 1988. At the time of his death on July 22, 2026 he was 38 years of his age.
Dane County Case Number 2009CF000495 State of Wisconsin vs. Corey D Ruiz
The defendant Corey D Ruiz was found guilty of the following charge(s) in this case.
Strangulation and Suffocation, a class H felony, Wisconsin Statutes 940.235(1).
Robbery with Use of Force, a class E felony, Wisconsin Statutes 943.32(1)(a).
Strangulation and Suffocation, a class H felony, Wisconsin Statutes 940.235(1).
Charge(s) in this case were read in to this or other case(s). A "read in" charge is a charge that is dismissed as part of a plea agreement, however:
The defendant agrees to have the court consider the charge(s) when sentencing for another crime, under Wis. Stats. 973.20(1g)(b); and
The defendant cannot be prosecuted for these charge(s) in the future.
I'm guessing the sealed juvenile record of this distinguished citizen is about as long as long as my 2 arms.
As with Officer of Derek Chauvin of the St. George Fiasco of Minnehopelis. These 4 Madison cops don't stand a chance. And I for one am sick and fvcking tired of an American race that cannot and will not act civilized; the politicians which enable their predictable criminal behavior and the resulting mayhem affecting the law abiding citizens which they supposedly "represent".
Obviously the black community has forgotten the PSA put out by Chris Rock. I guess it's time to remind all people who might have contact with a LEO.
Exile is hard enough on its own, but days like today make it even harder.
America gave me safety, freedom, and the opportunity to rebuild my life. I learned the language, embraced the culture, and came to appreciate the rule of law. I built a career. I made friends. I built a life. I am proud of everything I have accomplished here.
Because of that, people often assume that after twenty-seven years, I have gotten used to being away from my homeland. But that is only half the story.
The other half is watching the life I was forced to leave behind, in a matter of minutes, slowly disappear.
It is difficult and heartbreaking to read the erudite Anni Cyrus' cri de couer not only for her and for sure many Iranian expats and of course those still suffering at the hands of the Mullahs but her words hit me on a gut level for what we ourselves perhaps are on the precipice of having to experience ourselves. As I commented there, "Given who and what the Democrat/Left are and the rise of soicialism and it’s ally Islam here in the USA, I sometimes feel as if one day I might wind up being an exile in my own homeland. God forbid."
The Democratic Socialists of America mean to end the United States — and if you don't believe me, take a look at what DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer had to say about it this weekend. . . Welcome to the U.S.S.A., comrades. There might not be any prisons for criminals, but why do I get the feeling that there will be plenty of camps for resistors?
As my old-school blogging acquaintance Peter "Da Tech Guy" Ingemi put it, "Well, I'll give her 10 out of 10 for honesty." To that, I'd add: You've been warned.
Update: Commenter I used to have a different nic points out the utter failure to oppose this is de facto being co-conspirators (Take a look at the actions of Congressional Republicans over the past 30 years and tell me that it's only one of the parties.) Sadly all too true, sir. JJS
New York City’s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani doxxed a wide swath of his own constituents — just days after a terrorist attack — by publishing a searchable database of properties impacted by his new “pied-à-terre” tax. The database, uploaded by the New York City Department of Finance, includes the addresses and names of property owners of homes valued at over one million dollars that the city has determined are not being used as primary residences.
Good and hard New Yorkers, you're going to get it right in the neck. He and his cadres will kick you out on the streets, take all your money and if you dare make a peep in protest, quite likely your life.
In 2009, Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old woman, went hiking in a Canadian park on a public trail and was attacked by coyotes. Some hikers heard her screams as she was assaulted for half an hour, but did nothing to help, when rescue finally arrived, she was conscious and bleeding badly.
The young woman was airlifted to the hospital, but did not survive.
Under pressure from environmentalists, Canada, like parts of the United States, had allowed coyotes and wolves to expand their territories, especially the coyote-wolf hybrids who had killed Taylor, and the animals had become increasingly aggressive, wiping out their natural prey, and eventually stalking and attacking humans. The attack on the young woman was one of a series.
Taylor’s mother however pleaded with the authorities to spare the coyotes who had killed her daughter. “When the decision had been made to kill the pack of coyotes, I clearly heard Taylor’s voice say, ‘Please don’t, this is their space.’ She wouldn’t have wanted their demise, especially as a result of her own,” she wrote. “She was passionate about animals, was an environmentalist.”
Forget about Mamdani and all the rest, it's fools like this who vote for them election after election that's the problem.
Have a good day,
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s socialist revolt did not come from nowhere—it was the inevitable offspring of years of Democrat radicalization, now turning against the party that created it. The Socialist Monster Awakens
Democrat congressional candidate Adam Hamawy defended far-left streamer Hasan Piker’s “America deserved 9/11” comments in an interview posted Thursday, insisting the remark should be kept “in perspective.” (Evil reptile farted it out with his forked tongue - jjs) New Jersey Democrat Defends Piker’s ‘America Deserved 9/11’: ‘I Still Love the Guy’
. . .41-year-old Elaine Angene Escoe arrived back in South Florida Thursday after Jamaican authorities arrested her after a federal manhunt. Escoe was accused of masterminding a scheme that fraudulently obtained more than $32 million in taxpayer-funded pandemic aid according to Fox News. Fugitive on FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Fraudsters’ List Arrested, Returned to U.S.
Despite the attacker reportedly claiming that he was motivated by “Allah”, the case is not currently being treated as a terror incident. A source close to the investigation told Le Parisien: “The guy said Allah sent me to kill women. But no, he’s crazy.” Pregnant Woman Among Three Injured in Paris ‘Allah Commanded Me’ Stabbing Spree
Talarico’s resurfaced comments are likely to create problems for the Democrat candidate. Texas is a Christian, conservative stronghold where Democrats have not won a U.S. Senate seat in over 30 years. Talarico’s comments continue to spark questions about the authenticity of his Christian faith. This is not the first comment of its kind from Talarico, who previously hailed the virtues of non-Christian “spiritualism.” Talarico will face off against Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in November later this year. Talarico Credits ‘Islamic Mystics’ for Influencing His Christian Beliefs.
Those who want to destroy the United States because of its sins of slavery and colonization are eager to replace it with Islam, which has the same sins. Imagine America under Sharia
New law makes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha official state holidays, with a “curriculum guide” for public schools. CAIR Colonizes California for Islam
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
In Ohio, the current standard is that your friends can come over to party without a permit but not to pray. That can’t be right. A Permit to Have Friends Over
In April, the a grand jury delivered a two-count indictment against Comey, charging that he “did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States, in that he publicly posted a photograph on the internet social media site Instagram which depicted seashells arranged in a pattern making out ’86 47,’ which a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States.” James Comey Asks Charges Be Dropped, Says ’86 47′ Not a Threat
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The Outrider Foundation, a Madison, Wisconsin-based charity funded by Democratic donor Frank Burgess, describes itself as a "non-political, nonpartisan 501c3 organization that educates the public about nuclear security threats and climate issues." Its website claims "it is possible to dismantle our nuclear weapons" and urges readers to act. Anti-Nuke Charity Pays for CNN Reporter on Nuke Beat
The easing of oil prices may provide global central banks, including the Federal Reserve, with some assurance on inflationary pressures as they consider interest rate adjustments. Analysts suggest oil prices could retreat further if a lasting resolution to the Iran war emerges, which could stabilize global markets and reduce energy price-driven inflation. Oil Prices Drop Amid Pause in Iran Fighting, Hope for Fresh Ceasefire.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a significant shift is emerging in corporate America’s approach to staffing, with major employers across multiple industries announcing intentions to hire new workers despite previous predictions that artificial intelligence would substantially reduce workforce needs. Major Corporations Resume Hiring as AI Limitations Become Apparent
Glenn Reynolds: Academia has a diversity problem, and people are starting to notice. Oh, it’s not a race/gender diversity problem; academia has paid a lot of attention to that. It’s a political diversity problem. Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
That brings the total of senators demanding Thune do a vote before the recess to five. And Presler has almost daily updates exposing the number of non-citizens on Pennsylvania non-juror lists and voter rolls to illustrate why Thune is so irresponsible in continuing to stall the SAVE America Act and the House budget resolution that included provisions of the act. 5 Senators Press Thune on SAVE America Act as Voter Roll Cleanup Costs Dems 9,000 in Pennsylvania
Trump signed the order in March, directing the Postal Service to restrict delivery of mail-in ballots in states that refuse to hand over lists of eligible voters. It also orders the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration to compile lists of verified absentee voters for the Postal Service to reference, and threatens to withhold federal funds from states that do not comply, part of a larger effort by the president to tighten a mail voting system he has long argued is vulnerable to abuse. Trump Administration Asks SCOTUS to Revive Mail-In Voting Order Ahead of Midterms
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Do you remember how, during the 2020 campaign, Donald Trump warned voters that China knew things about the Biden family's business dealings that gave Beijing real leverage over Joe Biden? He said Biden was compromised, and the legacy media rolled its eyes, called it a conspiracy theory, and moved on. Well, it turns out Trump was right the whole time. Bombshell Documents Point to China Blackmail Efforts Targeting Biden Family
An attempt to cancel medical giant Dr. Howard Maibach demonstrates how deeply DEI and CRT have penetrated modern medicine. Has Medical Education Gone Woke?
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Using the data from the most detailed Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby Andromeda galaxy (shown above), astronomers have mapped out the galaxy’s stars in a way that shows the likely star formation rate over the past 500 million years, and discovered that the rate has been dropping steadily, with a sudden decline about 40 million years ago. Star formation in the Andromeda galaxy has slowed precipitously in the past half billion years
If true, this issue raises the risks of this very risky $3 billion mission that is vastly overbudget and, according to a September 2025 inspector general report, not likely to meet its 2028 launch window. Is Dragonfly’s power source less capable than planned?
Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino will step down as of August 9 and has hopefully been replaced by a CEO who does not hate Cracker Barrel and its customers and will not target kids for grooming. Disastrous CEO Julie Masino Out at Cracker Barrel
They pushed on, despite seeing friends cut down around them. Some pushed on even when wounded. The invasion had to succeed. It was the only way Europe could be liberated from the Nazis, and the American dream of freedom and the pursuit of happiness could be secured for later generations. D-Day: A vast plan built on a grand heritage
Every loss closes another door to the country I still call home. (Given who and what the Democrat/Left are and the rise of socialism and it’s ally Islam here in the USA, I sometimes feel as if one day I might wind up being an exile in my own homeland. God forbid - jjs) Exile Never Ends
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Nvidia has just raised card prices by another 30%. A minor inconvenience for me, as I do have four perfectly adequate graphics cards and two kind of crappy ones already. If you were waiting for prices to come down, well, keep on waiting I guess.
Because while Apple's Vision Pro headset was a resounding flop, it was at least a product you could buy. Make it smaller and lighter and cheaper and it might not fail so hard next time. And the entire project cost less than some AI companies are burning in a week.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: People are people! You're peopling people!
Good evening Horde. The time has come for Monday? shenanigans. That's right! Monday shenanigans. This is what happens when someone leaves the keys to the blog unattended. The bar is open and freshly re-stocked. Grape nehi soda for everyone tonight!
Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. I am not sure of the customary tradition for pants on a Monday, so we'll say that pants are optional. I am sure that this ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.
[Top photo: 240mm shell handling at the Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts in 1945. 240mm?! Yikes!]
The ONT has dialed up the wayback machine tonight with very random results.
Springfield Armory museum, circa 1950s (the boy's weapon appears to have a rubber barrel and a flexible bayonet?):
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo Annex, Building 99, 1905 (built in 1900, the interweb says this two-story firehouse was notable for being the first steel-frame building constructed on the island. It was moved in 1916 but I don't know if it still exists.):
St. Francis Hotel after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake - it fared better than surrounding buildings due to its steel structure but the fires gutted the interior:
Construction of Husky Stadium on the University of Washington Campus, 1920:
Secondhand store in Peoria, Illinois, 1938 (I do not believe the horse is real. Well, it is real but it isn't living.):
Late stage excavation activity of the Panama Canal, 1914:
USS Maine at Hunters Point, San Francisco, circa 1908 (not the same USS Maine that blew up in Havana Harbor):
Los Angeles Alligator Farm, circa 1907 (note the alligators going down the water slide):
From 1907 until its relocation in 1953, the area of Lincoln Heights was home to what the Los Angeles Times dubbed "the city's most exotic residents": a thousand-strong collection of alligators that welcomed visitors every day of the year to see, pose with, and even ride them.
Lincoln Heights is on either side of the 5, between the 10 and 110. Think adjacent to Chinatown in downtown LA. Fun for the whole family, right? Seems like sensible entertainment for a toddler.
SpaceX Starship Ship 40 update: Ship 40 landed in the Indian Ocean at the end of Flight 13 last Friday. Unlike other landings, Ship 40 did not explode. Instead, it softly toppled over, fully intact, and floated on the surface. Apparently, this contingency was not expected. There were no on-site provisions to tow it to port or sink it. SpaceX was undoubtedly delighted to be able to see test results but we don't know their plans. Last I saw (6 hours ago), Ship 40 was still floating and had drifted over 200km from its landing position. A SpaceX vessel on-site to document the landing is shadowing it, but doesn't seem to be towing it. Elon Musk has said that they will try to catch the ship back a the launch pad tower for the next test if the post-flight mission review goes well.
Stay tuned...
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Fauci Bragged In His Narcissist's Diary That He Caused the Greatest Single-Day Loss in Stock Market History
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Before that: Fauci recorded in his narcissist's diary that he was fully aware that Covid-19 had been engineered by humans while publicly dismissing this claim as a "conspiracy theory" -- and of course organizing 12 bought-and-paid-for grant recipients to claim it had evolved naturally.
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
🚨 FAUCI'S PRIVATE DIARY VS. HIS PUBLIC STORY
Jan 31, 2020
Jeremy Farrar and Kristian Andersen warned Fauci that the virus might have been engineered.
Scientists on the call believed the mutations surrounding the furin cleavage site could not have evolved naturally because they required an evolutionary "jump" not found in known bat viruses.
They raised the possibility that the site had been deliberately inserted and then accidentally released from a laboratory.
Fauci proposed assembling a larger group of virologists the following day.
Feb 1, 2020
On the call that ultimately produced "Proximal Origin," 10 of 12 scientists reportedly believed deliberate insertion was possible.
Fauci's notes cited Wuhan scientist Zheng-Li Shi's years of gain-of-function research modifying coronavirus spike proteins to bind human ACE2 receptors.
Eight days later, Fauci went on Newt Gingrich's podcast and publicly dismissed the idea:
"I've heard these conspiracy theories. And like all conspiracy theories, Newt, they're just conspiracy theories."
In March, scientists from the call published "Proximal Origin," which dismissed laboratory engineering as implausible.
In April, Fauci cited the paper from the White House podium without mentioning his role in organizing the discussions behind it.
Why did Fauci publicly ridicule a possibility his own specialists had privately considered credible?
His agency had funded Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In 2018, EcoHealth proposed inserting a furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction of a coronavirus.
In 2019, SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan with a novel furin cleavage site at that exact junction.
The record shows Fauci knew the laboratory-origin hypothesis was considered scientifically plausible.
He lied to the public and called it a "conspiracy theory" anyway.
Now, as for tanking the stock market in an election year: Was Fauci bragging about being the cause of the greatest percentage drop in history just because he's narcissistic evil dwarf, or was bragging that he was doing the Deep State's work in taking Trump's miracle economy away from him?
Tara Servatius
@TaraServatius
DAMN. In early 2020, Fauci recorded in his diary how much he was able to make the stock market drop with his lie that covid was 10x more deadly than the flu.
At the same time, in the same diary, he wrote that covid wasn't any more deadly than the seasonal flu.
While he was going on TV saying the opposite to terrify the public into shutting down the economy.
It was all a lie designed to take out Trump's most formidable weapon for reelection: his booming economy.
DAMN. In early 2020, Fauci recorded in his diary how much he was able to make the stock market drop with his lie that covid was 10x more deadly than the flu.
At the same time, in the same diary, he wrote that covid wasn't any more deadly than the seasonal flu.
Fauci was also receiving market-moving insider information from Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla before that information was made public:
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
6h
This is a bad look for @pfizer. We have multiple instances of CEO Albert Bourla giving Fauci market-moving info the night before it's released publicly. (Although it's important to note there's no record of Fauci personally trading off of these tips.)
Nov. 8, 2020, Bourla at 7:45 p.m. calls Fauci to tell him what the Data Safety Monitoring Board had just seen: 94 infections in the first interim look at the mRNA vaccine trial. Four in the vaccine arm, 90 in placebo. "95% efficacy."
Fauci wrote it down in his diary, exclamation points & all, adding (p. 460): "This will be announced tomorrow."
Nov. 4, 2021, Bourla called again -- "late at night," Fauci notes -- to alert him that Pfizer would announce Paxlovid's "extremely favorable results" the following morning (p. 914). As before, Fauci gets the numbers first.
In July 2021, Pfizer got out ahead of the administration on boosters without warning. Fauci's entry (p. 806): "I received a phone call from Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla who was very sorry and apologetic that he did not Alert me about the Pfizer announcement ahead of time."
Nobody apologizes for skipping a courtesy they never extended. The apology means they had a standing arrangement.
Fauci also helped Pfizer with their European competitor, @AstraZeneca
.
On Aug. 24, 2020, Bourla called "expressing concern about AstraZenica [sic] likely trying to get an EUA [emergency use authorization] for their vaccine before the big companies (Moderna, Pfizer, J & J) complete their phase 3 trials."
Fauci recounts: "We discussed what to do." (p. 313)
Bourla wanted the companies to sign a mutual agreement. Fauci's counter-proposal was to mobilize the scientific community to publicly demand the FDA show its data before authorizing anything, knowing that would delay AstraZeneca's application.
Earlier that month, Fauci recounted a meeting where EUA was being considered for AstraZeneca, & Fauci frets that this happening would help Trump & hurt Pfizer's ongoing trials:
"An EUA will likely get in the way of completing the RCTs that are going on. Clearly. This is politically driven and will be a ploy for Trump to get re-elected."
Ultimately Pfizer received the first EUA in December. AstraZeneca never received it.
Six months later, at Yale University's "Legend in Leadership" award, Bourla and J&J's Alex Gorsky delivered tribute speeches to Fauci.
This is a bad look for @pfizer. We have multiple instances of CEO Albert Bourla giving Fauci market-moving info the night before it's released publicly. (Although it's important to note there's no record of Fauci personally trading off of these tips.)
Fauci lied to the public in claiming that he had nothing to do with "locking down anything" -- while bragging in his diary that he convinced mayors to shut down schools:
David Zweig
@davidzweig
Fauci: "Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did." (2023, NYT)
"First of all, I didn't recommend locking anything down."
Many are saying that Jake Tapper's expose about what Jake Tapper knew and when he knew it is going to be a must-read... in six years.
Jaker Tapper's book about how Jake Tapper had no idea Jake Tapper had cozy dinners with Anthony Fauci while the rest of us weren't allowed to attend funerals hits shelves in February. https://t.co/RlJPrroXlI
Incompetent Woke Karen Who Ran Cracker Barrel Into the Ground Fired and Replaced (by a Man)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Breaking911
@Breaking911
Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is stepping down after the company's controversial rebrand sparked backlash from longtime customers. The overhaul removed the iconic Uncle Herschel mascot and many of the nostalgic decorations that had defined the chain for decades.
After widespread criticism, Cracker Barrel reversed course and embraced its traditional identity. The company says former Bloomin' Brands CEO David Deno, whose company owns Outback Steakhouse, will take over as CEO on August 10.
Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is stepping down after the failure of her "woke" rebrand last year, which was rolled back following intense backlash from loyal customers, the company announced Monday.
David Deno, a restaurant exec who most recently served as CEO of Bloomin' Brands, which owns Outback Steakhouse, will replace Masino on August 10, according to a Cracker Barrel press release.
Masino will remain at Cracker Barrel in an advisory capacity until October 9 to ensure a smooth transition, the company said.
Shares in Cracker Barrel slipped 2.4% Monday.
Her departure comes after less than three years at the helm, during which diners revolted against the company's attempts to modernize the Southern dining chain last August by axing its beloved mascot Uncle Herschel and revamping restaurants without its trademark tchotchkes.
Following heated backlash from longtime customers and even President Trump himself, Cracker Barrel reversed the changes and leaned into its folksy charm -- ultimately sending the stock up 100% so far this year.
I can't help noticing that in four cases -- Bud Light; Cracker Barrel; Star Wars/Lucasfilm; and Disney's Marvel studio -- executives have decided to throw over/ignore the brands' historic male (or traditionalist) customer base in an insane drive to remake them into something Carrie Bradshaw would write about on Sex and the City.
In three of those cases, a female executive decided that "old" customer base just wasn't hip and Fashion Forward enough and decided to remake the brand into something that would make her the heroine of her feminist friend circle. In the fourth case, a similar rebrand was performed by Kevin Feige, who is a weak cuck pussy.
This is unprofessional, obviously. If you're trusted with a business or brand, it's your job to strengthen the brand's sales, not remake it into something you or your urban coastal liberal galpals would be proud to patronize. (Or matronize.)
I don't think this is necessarily something to do with women, but it does have everything to do with feminism, a cult to which a lot of "professional" (or maybe not so professional) women belong to.
Men aren't compelled to remake female brands into ones they and their buddies would be proud to spend money on, because there is no political cult popular among men demanding we do that.
But many women do belong to the cult of feminism, which demands that every single product or service be made appealing first and foremost to urban coastal liberal women. This is not a business calculation; in terms of business strategy, it's a lunatic disaster, and it was obviously a lunatic disaster before the actual data came in.
This is the doctrine of a nasty pseudoreligion. Whether it makes money or loses it hand over fist is besides the point. The important thing is, Women Must See Themselves Represented In All Products at All Times, period.
In the Wake of the Latest Muslim Mass-Casualty Attack, Leftists and the Media (But I Repeat Myself) Scramble to Blame "Masculinity," "White Men," "Christians" and of course the Car
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is a cult. A cult that justifies mass murder, even of its own fellow cultists.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 26, 2026
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
@ImMeme0
Jul 26
The writing has been on the wall for a long time, yet leftists still refuse to see it!
Gay American in Berlin says that, after Islamists plowed a van into Pride parade-goers, he would have expected an attack like this to happen in the United States rather than in Germany.
REALITY CHECK!
In the past 5 years, with the U.S. population roughly 4 times larger than Germany's:
🇺🇸 United States (pop. ~344M)
Islamist attacks: 5--8
Killed: 3--6
Injured: 15--30
This is what happens when you open your borders to radical Islamists who hate the West.
Again and again they prove Islam is incompatible with Western culture and values. Yet somehow it's always the fault of white Christian men.
The writing has been on the wall for a long time, yet leftists still refuse to see it!
Gay American in Berlin says that, after Islamists plowed a van into Pride parade-goers, he would have expected an attack like this to happen in the United States rather than in Germany.… https://t.co/KDip2pNcxcpic.twitter.com/vX6IaDMdRD
President Donald Trump on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to keep the Senate in session to terminate the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act.
Trump took to Truth Social in the morning to pressure Thune to keep senators working in Washington until the SAVE America Act, which takes a number of steps to secure federal elections, is passed.
"John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to 'leave town' until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including a full and deep throated SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget, and the ever looming Debt Ceiling disaster, 1929!" Trump wrote.
Because 60 votes are required for passing the SAVE America Act -- which would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote, voter ID, and end universal mail-in ballots with a few exceptions -- Republicans would need to end the filibuster to advance it with a simple majority.
Trump stressed that if and when Democrats return to power, they will immediately nuke the filibuster.
"The Dumocrats will do it on day one, and can't believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership. Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING & DEATH!" Trump added.
Thune's scheme was to move to adjourn the Senate. If there is no objection, the motion would be approved unanimously with no roll-call.
Scott Presler called for a Senator to object and force a Yea or Nay roll call. At least then the McConnell sell-outs like Thune, Lankford, McConnell, Murkowski, etc. would be on-the-record in favor of continued vote fraud by Democrats.
ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
We need ONE brave Senator to force a roll call vote in order for the Senate to vote
on leaving for a 37-day paid vacation for August recess.
We need ONE Senator to object to unanimous consent & "ask for the yeas and nays."
Meanwhile, Thune continues his mentor Mitch McConnell's practice of never formally recessing the Senate, thereby denying Trump the right enjoyed by all previous presidents of making temporary (one-year) recess appointments when the senate is recessed.
.@LeaderJohnThune, I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August—at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act—and hereby request a roll call vote.
Rand Paul Publishes Anthony Fauci's Private Diaries, In Which He Confesses He Knows Covid Didn't Come from "The Wet Market" and Has a Lethality of Only 0.2-0.3%; The Media Refuses to Cover
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And they won't cover it because the diaries also expose this deranged dwarfish narcissist as being their dinner-guest and "friendship building" pal.
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MS NOW ignore Fauci diary entries that reveal fixation on fame during COVID
Networks failed to mention the story from Saturday through Monday morning, according to a search of transcripts
Eye-popping diary entries written by Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal the former White House COVID advisor was fixated on his newfound celebrity at the height of the global pandemic, but anyone who relies on legacy media outlets for news and information may not be aware.
ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, CNN and MS NOW's on-air broadcasts ignored Fauci's diary entries from the time they were released on Saturday afternoon through Monday at 9 a.m. ET when flagship morning shows had concluded, according to a search of transcripts using Grabien Media.
Released by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., the journals chronicle Fauci's day-to-day role during the COVID-19 crisis through conversations with President Donald Trump, governors and world leaders, media appearances, and his personal observations as the pandemic unfolded in 2020.
Paul, a longtime Fauci critic who frequently clashed with him over the federal response and the origins of the virus, made the diaries public as part of the committee's ongoing oversight investigation. The diary entries document Fauci's fondness of his newfound fame, cozy relationships with a variety of legacy media personalities, his growing frustration with the Trump White House and the suggestion that it was "not hyperbole" to say he was "the most famous and talked about person in the country."
The diary entries exploded on social media but appear to have been ignored by mainstream news networks.
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CNN's on-air blackout came despite anchor Jake Tapper appearing repeatedly throughout the private diary entries as Fauci documented phone calls, text exchanges and dinners at the Tappers' Washington home amid their growing friendship.
Fauci wrote that Tapper privately checked to make sure a CNN interview hadn't caused problems with the White House. When The Atlantic's Peter Nicholas suggested Fauci had been "humiliated" over a canceled Tapper interview, Fauci fired back in his diary: "F--- you, Peter."
After Fauci's heated exchange with GOP Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan in April 2021, Fauci wrote that CNN's Dana Bash texted him, telling him he was "a better man" and relaying that fellow CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer had joked no one would have blamed Fauci if he had told Jordan to "go f--- yourself."
Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume took notice of the media blackout.
"This is not getting the coverage it deserves," Hume wrote on X. "Is that because so many media luminaries were so chummy with the man at the center of a major medical controversy?"
ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment. MS NOW declined comment.
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Anthony Fauci, writing in his diary in March 2020, clearly loving life:
"Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson [sic] in the world.
"Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written abuyt me since I am so busy....seriously. POTUS seems to be enamored of me even though I am taking the spotlight away from him. We are developing a very unique and interesting relationship. The entire secret service corps is coming over to me and chatting. They let me into the first gate without even checking ID."
The diaries establish far more than Fauci's debilitating, judgment-shredding narcissism.
They also reveal he is a repeat perjurer. He confesses in the diaries to not believing the lies he was telling the public -- and Congress.
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
🚨Fauci's diary says he privately put COVID's fatality rate at 0.2-0.3%. Under oath weeks later, he told Congress it was 10x the flu. The timeline:
Feb 8, 2020 (private diary): case fatality rate "more like 0.2-0.3%."
March 10 (Hannity): "The mortality for this is about 2-2.5%. It's probably lower than that, closer to 1%. But even if it's 1%, it's 10x more lethal than the seasonal flu."
March 11 (Congress, under oath): "The stated fatality rate of this overall... is about 3%. If you count all the cases of asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality down to 1%, which means it's 10x more deadly than the seasonal flu."
March 27 (Daily Show): "The mortality of this is about 10x the flu. It's at least 1%."
He wrote 0.2-0.3% in his journal -- then told the public, over and over, a number 3 to 5 times higher.
@RandPaul
@DrJBhattacharya
@RobertKennedyJr
Senator Rand Paul
@SenRandPaul
2/9 Jan. 26, 2020. Fauci writes in his diary: "Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier."
That is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes.
Senator Rand Paul
@SenRandPaul
3/9 Feb. 1, 2020. The call that produced Proximal Origin. Twelve scientists.
Only 2 concluded it was natural. Per Fauci's own notes, "the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible."
This was never a 50/50 room.
Senator Rand Paul
@SenRandPaul
9/9 July 12, 2021. Fauci complains about "how many hours we are all wasting" answering letters he calls "fundamentally driven by conspiracy theories" -- from senators he names, including me.
Asking who funded the research is not a conspiracy theory. It's oversight.
Robby Soave
@robbysoave
Privately, in his diaries, Doctor Fauci admitted he no longer believed the wet market was the origin of covid. A week later, he convenes a call with 12 scientists, and only two of them think it's definitely animal spillover.
Publicly, he comes out against lab leak and presses the Proximal Origins paper to find in favor of animal spillover. Seems bad.
Fauci reassured one of the men he was paying off through NIH grants that his grants were safe.... after this guy wrote the "Proximal Origins" paper, falsely claiming covid-19 arose through natural mutation.
Jake Tapper had Fauci as a dinner-guest even as the rest of the country was on lockdown and forbidden from having non-family members over to dinner.
This is not getting the coverage it deserves. Is that because so many media luminaries were so chummy with the man at the center of a major medical controversy? https://t.co/d7uyfeC9gC
Jake is doing damage control. No mention of The Vets this time -- he has become too notorious for that.
This time, he wants you to know he's just a Regular Joe who loves dogs.
No bad man could love a dog.
Fake Tapper does the Fake Journalist scandal-management equivalent of standing with your wife holding a Bible outside of church. https://t.co/jarFGXbSRG
— James Talarico's Musky Heterosexual Urges (@AceofSpadesHQ) July 27, 2026
And you know No True Islamist can be crazy. Just like all failed communist states are dismissed. No True Communist State would ever send its citizens to the gulag for complaining about a lack of bread!
So this is how they keep removing leftists and trans extremists and Islamists from the terrorist lists -- they just say the killer is "mentally unstable" so (say it with me) The Motive May Never Be Known.
Three people, reportedly including a pregnant woman, were injured on Monday morning in Paris after a man went on a stabbing spree in the French capital.
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Despite the attacker reportedly claiming that he was motivated by "Allah", the case is not currently being treated as a terror incident. A source close to the investigation told Le Parisien: "The guy said Allah sent me to kill women. But no, he's crazy."
The original story continues as follows...
According to a report from the Parisien newspaper, three women were attacked in the street by a knifeman near the Porte de Clichy metro station in northern Paris on Monday. The paper asserted that one of the three victims was pregnant at the time of the attack.
A separate report from Le Figaro stated that two of the victims are currently in critical condition, while the third is in serious condition.
"They were taken care of by emergency services and transported to the hospital," a Paris police prefecture spokesman stated.
Le Figaro said that an off-duty police officer had witnessed a man with two knives attacking a pedestrian. He is said to have called for backup and eventually apprehended the suspect.
The paper cited footage circulating on social media, which appeared to show the suspected knifeman being held down by multiple people. In the video, he is reportedly heard saying: "Allah commanded me".
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Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said that he is remaining "very cautious about the motive of this violent act," claiming that the suspect was heard "uttering incoherent statements".
This follows a weekend in which another Maryland Man, "Abdul B.," rammed a vehicle into a "pride" parade in Berlin.
This particular Maryland Man was well known to authorities as a terrorist who had joined ISIS.
But they let him out on the streets anyway.
He's an anchor baby.
The suspect in the terror attack, which struck the Berlin Pride Parade on Saturday evening, has been identified as 21-year-old 'Abdul B.', who was previously detained in Germany on terror offences, reportedly including the support of the so-called Islamic State.
UPDATE 13:40: German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Sunday morning that at least one person was killed and 29 people were injured, some seriously, in what he said is believed to have been an "Islamist terror attack" at the Berlin Pride Parade on Saturday evening. Dobrindt said the suspect was born in Germany but is of Lebanese descent, with his mother naturalised in the country in 2002. He also confirmed that the alleged terrorist had also attacked revellers with a bladed weapon, thought to be a machete. The manhunt continues.
The original story continues as follows...
Tragedy struck the annual Christopher Street Day event in the German capital, one of the largest LGBTQ pride parades in Europe, with a white van being driven into a crowd in the Tiergarten area of the city at around 10 pm, leaving at least one dead and 29 injured.
Berlin Police identified "Abdul B." as their main suspect, releasing a picture of the 21-year-old as they conduct a large-scale manhunt. The force said that there may be more suspects yet to be identified. A spokesman earlier revealed that the suspect was known to police as an "Islamist".
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German paper of record Die Welt reported that Abdul was previously identified as a threat by police and had been in juvenile detention as recently as May for having attempted to incite or threaten a terror attack. He was also said to have claimed to have contacts with the ISIS terror network.
After being released in May, Abdul was reportedly put on probation and was instructed to attend de-radicalisation counselling sessions, the third of which was scheduled for Monday.
You brought social workers to a terror-fight.
While it is yet to be confirmed that he was a supporter of the so-called Islamic State, Die Welt noted that the U.S. State Department had specifically warned in 2024 that ISIS had called on supporters to attack Pride events in Europe.
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@DrewPavlou
Guys, the details of the latest jihadist attack in Europe are psychotic.
Abdul Ballout was born in Berlin, but he left Germany for Lebanon.
Germany identified him as an Islamist threat, so they had him arrested in Lebanon and FLEW HIM BACK TO GERMANY to put him on trial for plotting terror attacks.
He was convicted and sentenced for terrorism offences in May 2026 but released on time served.
By July 2026 he was back on the streets.
German authorities told him to attend de-radicalisation counselling sessions.
He responded by carrying out a jihadist terrorist attack on a pride parade.
As Fox Butterworth would say: Despite the indulgence of socialist governments for crime and terror, socialist states and cities keep experiencing high rates of crime and terror.
Three people were killed and four were wounded Sunday evening during a shooting at a food festival at the Seattle Center, a short distance from the city's iconic Space Needle, police said.
One of the wounded was a 2-year-old toddler, and police said they believed the incident began when two parties began shooting at each other.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced one person was taken into custody, while Seattle Assistant Police Chief Tyrone Davis said at least one other suspect remained at large.
"There may be more," Davis said, according to the Seattle Times. "We're still trying to figure this out."
It takes an intellectual to summon the mental discipline to remain permanently blind to blood-soaked reality.
Waah: Leftists, "Journalists" (But I Repeat Myself) Cry and Seethe Over Trump's Suggestion that CNN's Kaitlin Collins Sorta Looks Like a Transgender Witch
Dylan Mulvaney Responds After Trump Mocks Her and CNN's Kaitlan Collins at White House Correspondents' Dinner
"To the president, thank you for reminding me that I am more powerful than I even knew," she said in a video posted to social media.
Oh, snup.
A snup is a failed "snap."
Transgender advocate and actress Dylan Mulvaney has responded to President Donald Trump after the latter mocked both her and CNN's Kaitlan Collins during his speech at the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night.
At the event, which had been postponed from April after a gunman fired shots as the first dinner was under way, Trump gave a speech wherein he compared the two women after Collins accepted an award for her working covering the administration.
I completely forgot this was still going on and I had no idea it was going on this past weekend.
"I want to personally congratulate CNN's Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award," Trump said. "It was all about me. It's a fake -- she shouldn't get the award, it was a fake. But I didn't mind. I said, 'Kaitlan, congratulations.' But it was fake, there's no question about it."
After criticizing Collins for her facial expressions, Trump then compared her to Mulvaney, mentioning the 2023 controversy surrounding the latter's Bud Light commercial. Three years ago, Mulvaney made an ad for Bud Light that was met with criticism from conservatives who launched a boycott against the beer brand, leading to a decline in sales.
"I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney," Trump said Friday. "Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap. That was the worst commercial ever made by the way, for those few people who want to hear that. Most people don't care, but I would. I wouldn't want to hire Dylan any time soon."
"The attempted mass murder at the Washington Hilton-that's what it could have been-was an assault on our democracy itself," Trump said. "A very serious situation. Many of you were there with me, and some showed extreme bravery, like Pete Hegseth, Steve Miller, Tom Holman. Really, they were standing on tables. And most of you were under the table," he said to Friday night's attendees, which got some laughs.
The media remained stone-silent and barely laughed at any of Trump's jokes.
Even the president was critical of some of the jokes when they received no laughs. At one point, he referred to the "governor of Chicago," presumably billionaire Gov. of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, while discussing a staged fight among politicians.
"I would say I could mention the governor of Chicago, but I'm going to mention instead Jerry Nadler, and they're fighting for a big piece of cheesecake, big fat piece of cheesecake," he said to zero audible laughs. "Who the hell wrote that line?"
In fairness, a lot of these aren't ha-ha jokes. They're really just insults delivered in a faux-jocular way. I understand that -- it's hard to be funny about people you actually hate. The media leftists hate Trump, and Trump, understandably, hates them back.
None of their "jokes" about Trump are funny either. Just insults.
Following mentions of late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, whom he called talentless, Trump also admitted that he truly hates some people.
"They thought about going with a professional clown for entertainment, but Adam 'Shifty' Schiff was not available," Trump joked. "You know he's known -- I hate some people. You know, I shouldn't say the surprise. I'm not supposed to hate him. I'm supposed to love everybody, but he's a terrible person. He's a liar, and I called him watermelon head because he has the largest head I've ever seen with the smallest neck, pencil neck. How does that big fat ugly head stand on a on a little pencil, pencil, pencil neck?"
That's not really a joke. That's just reality.
Menstrual manlet Jim Acosta was, get this, outraged.
Jim Acosta
@Acosta
Jul 24
This dinner is a disgrace. Trump's rambling, unhinged speech is full of hate and spite. Just spewing nastiness at his usual targets. Let's not sanitize how truly ugly it was. This would be a great moment for members of the press to get up and walk out.
The ultimate troll was Trump's announcement that he's running for president again in 2028:
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 25, 2026
This was kinda funny:
.@POTUS: "A once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled. Their former leaders have been removed and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions. But I for one wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News." 🤣 pic.twitter.com/tlE0i7Wwbc
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 25, 2026
Here was the Kaitlin Collins insult:
.@POTUS: "I thought @kaitlancollins had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney." 🤣 pic.twitter.com/QAOKHgAwiR
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 25, 2026
One problem with Trump's jokes and speeches in general is that he hates just reading prepared material. His "compromise" for reading a speech, or reading a prepared joke, is to read one line of the pre-written material, then add in two or three sentences of improvised riffs between each line. This is what makes his SOTU addresses so long and, frankly, meandering. It also hurts a joke when you riff two or three lines unrelated to the joke between the set-up and punchline. It separates the two things you're trying to connect in the joke.
That said: I like showing disrespect to people who are thoroughly disreputable, despicable, and whore-ish. Funniness is beside the main point.
THE MORNING RANT: As Bombshell Fauci Docs Drop, Faux-Conservative Media Indignantly Covers Story It Suppressed in 2020
—Buck Throckmorton
The best time to be skeptical of an “expert” stating there’s an emergency requiring the suspension of your freedom is the moment he states his intent to deny you liberty.
The type of conservatives who read this blog were highly skeptical of Anthony Fauci from day one, as was much of the new conservative media. However, the legacy (formerly?) conservative media could not lick Anthony Fauci’s boots hard enough in Spring of 2020.
Over this past weekend, major news broke, with many of Anthony Fauci’s personal notes from early 2020 being released. They revealed that before the March 2020 lockdowns, Fauci had already acknowledged that the wet markets were not the source of the Covid virus. The release also reveals extensive collaboration between Fauci and media personalities on how to shape the message and counter critics. There will be extensive coverage here and elsewhere of these bombshell revelations from better investigative writers than me, so sit tight.
In this quick post, I just want to point out that the same faux-conservative media that cooed over Anthony Fauci - and criticized you and me for doubting him - are now doing very serious journalism about these important stories they tried to suppress six years ago.
Here is a 2020 National Review piece from Andrew McCarthy published about six weeks into the two-week lockdown, in which he condemns some House Republicans for daring to criticize McCarthy’s lord and savior, Anthony Fauci.
As we’ve all heard over the past month, Dr. Fauci has worked long hours through seven-day weeks trying to save American lives. He also has made countless statements in scores of interviews and White House Task Force press conferences. Consistently, he has been a model of empathy. Again and again, he has agonized over the excruciating choice that government officials have no choice but to make: The choice between the well-being of (a) those sick from, dying of, and vulnerable to a potentially lethal infectious disease, and (b) those whose financial, emotional, and physical well-being are being shattered by the shutdown. It has worn on him, like it would wear on any of us.
As Fauci’s web of lies became ever more tangled, it became harder for Fauci’s “conservative” fanboys to justify their worshipful swooning. But Fauci was working to take out President Trump, so the NeverTrump media remained loyal to him, working to keep him propped up until Trump was gone.
By late July 2020, over four months into the two-week lockdown, Fauci’s popularity was eroding. He was seen in public violating his own lockdown protocols, while also posing in glamour shots for celebrity magazines. Jim Geraghty rushed to protect Fauci in a piece that gently chided Fauci’s PR mistakes (“unforced errors”) while also slobbering all over Fauci.
Before we go any further, let me begin by saying I believe Dr. Anthony Fauci is an exceptional doctor and public-health expert who is doing the best he can in extremely challenging circumstances. I think most of his judgments during this pandemic have been either correct or a reasonable assessment based upon what was known at the time.
In a tweet yesterday, this same Jim Geraghty is now snarking at Fauci:
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, in his private notes, January 2020: ‘Now we know the Market Was Not the Source, It Was the Amplifier.’
Funny, I don’t remember him emphasizing or even mentioning that point throughout the entire pandemic and aftermath…”
It does not matter that National Review’s coverage of Covid and Fauci became more critical by 2021 (once Trump was successfully dispatched in the 2020 election.) National Review was as reverent about Fauci in early 2020 as any legacy left-wing media source.
Regarding the latest Fauci revelations, National Review and its writers ought to simply abstain from discussing or covering the story altogether, unless it’s an apology for their lack of critical coverage when it could have made a difference in 2020. They also deserve mockery for any efforts to now critically cover the events of 2020.
Fauci was always the villain. It's regrettable that you and @NRO spent so much time defending him and condemning Fauci's right-wing critics. pic.twitter.com/8DK1ty7t8L
If the assassination attempts on President Trump, on top of the slaughter of Charlie Kirk, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thomspon, the organized and disorganized terrorism of Anti-ICE/police Goon Squads and of course the martyrdom of Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland and the judicial persecution of other January 6th protesters, pro-life protesters and school board members daring to defy/criticize the mind and body raping of their children in the schools . . .
In a case of queer overreach so extreme that even the far-left Denver Public Schools board was forced to act, a lesbian-identifying Colorado teacher was fired this spring after repeatedly pressuring students to kiss same-sex classmates during supposedly instructional classroom skits. Teacher Jennifer Honka was employed for the past eight years to teach French Language and Culture at Northeast Early College (NEC), a high school which is part of the Denver Public Schools district.
Our First Amendment free speech rights aren't there to protect speech we all agree with, it's to protect the speech we don't. A classic, liberal free speech position is that you respect the right to free speech, especially when that speech reflects views you despise. That's what the principle means, it means upholding the right to free speech for your opponents, not just for those with views you are allied with. . . But a new case in Minnesota appears to have violated the free speech rights of a mom who said a bad word. There are no hate speech laws in the United States. Saying mean words is absolutely not a criminal offense. Other nations have hate speech laws, but they have absolutely no place in these United States. This Minnesota court has come up with a workaround. And the jury deliberated for over nine hours. In his closing arguments, her attorney Brian Karalus said, "The state of Minnesota has decided to prosecute Ms. Hendrix for language," and that's exactly what happened. We can all oppose calling people the n-word, but that doesn't make the speech a crime.
Wait, courts, judges, prosecutors and worst of all jurors literally inventing laws out of whole cloth and using them to convict an innocent person?!
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Megan Romer defended their proposals to abolish Senate, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and prisons.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Many Americans see that law enforcement and the justice system in America have devolved into a state resembling the procedures and protocols of banana republics. How the Left Naturalizes Sedition
. . . the Senate is an anachronistic institution, and it comes from the British House of Lords. It is meant to protect power. You know, the Senate was part of the, the system that was made to make sure that the people didn’t have too much of a say. So we want to expand the Congress significantly, but make it a unicameral legislature. DSA Co-Chair Romer Defends Proposals to Abolish Senate, ICE, Prisons
Attorney General Hanaway has said Johnston “used the court docket as her dating app,” describing her behavior as “unbelievable” and citing “members of the courthouse walking in on her during one of these incidents.” First elected to her post in 2014, the disgraced prosecutor is apparently running for another term this year. Prosecutor Suspended for Assisting Illegal Alien Sex Criminal, Starting Relationship With Him.
The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are demonstrating once again that the quantity of munitions matters at least as much as their quality. Years of insufficient defense budgets severely eroded the US defense industry’s capacity and left our military with arsenals that are dangerously small and insufficient to address growing threats. The US military must RACE to rebuild its supply of munitions
How, then, do courts uphold the Constitution’s separation of powers by reining in the administrative state without destabilizing America’s political and economic institutions? As The Administrative State Weakens, Who Fills The Vacuum?
One family member says the ringleader of the group threatened the family before the Friday-night assault, saying, “We’re going to beat up the haole boys,” a Hawaiian slang term commonly used to refer to a white person. California Family Brutally Beaten in Hawaiian ‘Anti-White’ Attack
Maryland’s gun laws are some of the most stringent in the country. These laws include a blanket refusal to recognize out-of-state permits or to make reciprocity agreements with other states, according to the Maryland State Police. Law That Makes Heroes Felons Could End Up In Supreme Court
Get-out-the-vote warrior Scott Presler triggered the upset in the Senate by begging one senator — any senator — to request a roll call vote and force senators to go on the record about the SAVE America Act before the recess. This action is in accord with Senate rules and is based on Article I, Section 5, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) responded to Presler by offering to take up the challenge, and then notified Thune, "I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August—at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act—and hereby request a roll call vote." Rick Scott Joins Push to Force SAVE Act Vote as Lee Explains His Plan
In other words, it was Jersey’s Democrat-run agency that screwed up, albeit under then-Gov. Phil Murphy . . . who championed Sherrill as his successor. Note, too, that Sherrill’s team learned of the mess a week before she came clean, as the feds were thundering about nearly 270,000 noncitizens they’d ID’d on voter rolls across Jersey and three other states — more than 35,000 of them in the Garden State. New Jersey noncitizen-voting mess is tip of an iceberg Mikie Sherrill hopes you won’t notice
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
The meteoric rise and torturous fall of Graham Platner in Democrat Party politics may seem perplexing. A Face in the Crowd
Yet for decades, congressional staffers have operated with fewer mandatory vetting requirements than a shift manager at a grocery store chain. A foreign adversary doesn’t need to hack servers or bribe a member directly. They can simply embed an operative as a driver, an aide, an intern, or a romantic partner to receive information and even sway important policy decisions that affect Americans. 237 Years Overdue: Congresswomen Call For The Obvious After Claiming Declassified Files Show Interns Are Foreign Agents
...Wait a minute. If your fundraising committee needs to borrow money, what does that say about how capable the committee is of raising funds? Nothing good. Because of Harris, because of ActBlue, because of whatever dumpster fire was going on, major donors were pulling back, forcing the fundraising committee to look at borrowing money simply to keep the lights on. Democrats Keep Digging Their Hole Deeper
This data indicates a tightening race ahead of the midterms in November, with Democrats gaining momentum in battleground states. However, as prediction markets suggest that the GOP still retains a slight edge, it remains unclear whether these polling shifts will translate to actual victories later this year. Republicans Slip Behind Democrats in Three Key Senate Races.
Prior to assuming his duties as Head of Political Strategy at Number 10, the Prime Minister’s official residence, McGregor deleted his X (formerly Twitter) account following an expose by The National Pulse revealing his previous posts attacking and smearing President Donald J. Trump and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. EXCLUSIVE: Burnham’s New Strategy Chief Worked With Convicted Paedophile to Downplay UK Grooming Gangs.
The German mainstream still pretends to be puzzled by the upstart party. Baffled by AfD
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The strikes come as Ukraine’s successful drone attacks have stalled the Russian army’s advances in an expanded campaign inside Russia that has been causing fuel shortages and piling pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Six Dead as Ukraine and Russia Trade Missile and Drone Strikes
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
We should resist the desire to forget the price paid for Dr. Fauci’s dream of creating novel vaccines for yet-to-appear superviruses. The Lockdown Dissidents Vindicated
Roger Kimball: The National Museum of American History, like so many aspects of the Smithsonian, has strayed far from its original purpose. Odysseus Visits the Smithsonian
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If you're copying and pasting your exam question into an AI to cheat, at least read the answer it spits out.
Also, don't ever do that. Copy into a neutral environment like Notepad (or Notepad++) precisely so that you don't inadvertently include nasty Unicode stuff, or, in this case, an instruction to the AI to make a nonsensical reference to an island off East Africa in your final exam paper.
Apparently my work laptop now falls below not only the recommended specs, but the minimum specs. Yes, it's a bit laggy when running with ~200 mods installed, but it's perfectly fine unmodded.
Not ahead of time either, given that it can take six months for a completed chip to roll off the production line.
Research: Cosmic ray spallation, tufa versus travertine flowstone, positrons are evil, muon tomography, and the proper attitude for a cat tasked with editing fanfiction.
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Last Sunday one of the month. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Angle Reese scored 0 points in the WNBA all star game last night and got a layup blocked by a player not trying to block it.
It's obvious that Mattel didn't make a barbie doll of her because she's a good player, they made it because she's black and hates Caitlin Clark! pic.twitter.com/QE2pPKifnB
Social Security has just about six years before it may need to start reducing retirement benefits — unless Congress acts sooner.
Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of senators put forward a proposal that outlines a process to make a Social Security overhaul happen faster.
Now, AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that advocates on senior issues, said it opposes the senators’ bill, called the Protecting Retirement Opportunities and Maintaining Income Security for Everyone, or PROMISE, Act.
“We strongly object to fast-tracking Social Security changes through Congress, as your bill would do,” AARP Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer Nancy LeaMond wrote in a July 21 letter addressed to Sens. Dick Durbin, the Democratic Whip from Illinois; and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana. Durbin and Cassidy are among the lawmakers who introduced the PROMISE Act proposal.
"Nonpartisan" - we all believe that, right?
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Young guy with a strong work ethic!
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Of course this happens when I'm no longer at the Doof Enterprises northern command
One of the planet’s largest species of jellyfish—the Lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)—have been making unwelcome appearances on Massachusetts beaches, as reported by the Boston Globe.
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“Lion’s Mane jellyfish are currently appearing in unusually large numbers off Cape Cod,” reads a social media post by the Sandwich Marina – Sandwich Harbormaster in Cape Cod. “While Lion’s Mane is normally seen from late spring through summer, this year reports began in May, with exceptionally high densities observed by mid-June. Similar blooms have occurred in the past, including in 2020. Experts believe factors such as water temperatures and available food sources may contribute to these increases.”
Furthermore, the post reminds people to not touch jellyfish—whether they’re on the beach or in the water. It’s generally a good idea to stay away from them, as tentacles can be hard to spot. In the case of a sting, wash the spot with warm water and use tweezers to get rid of the tentacles. You can use vinegar to help get rid of the sting.
I would actually really enjoy seeing this creature! Imagine it rocking out like this
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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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From Pitch to Catwalk: The Wild, Wonderful World of FIFA Soccer Kits- Dedicated to Doof for his love of the game.
Soccer kits aren’t just uniforms, they’re national mood boards, cultural flexes, and straight-up fashion statements that can outshine the scoreline. In the high-stakes arena of the FIFA World Cup, a jersey has to survive 90 minutes of sweat, sprinting, and sliding tackles… while also looking sharp enough to make fans line up to buy them. Whether it’s the canary-yellow panache of Brazil or the ornate black-and-blue drama of Argentina’s latest away kit, these shirts have leapt from the pitch to street style. Let’s dive into the colorful and downright fabulous history of FIFA fashion, the creative minds behind the 2026 looks, and a definitive ranking by moi.
The Classics
Some kits transcend the game and become pure style icons. Top of the podium? Brazil’s 1970 home kit. That vibrant yellow shirt with green trim and blue shorts, worn by Pelé and the greatest team of all time, is the gold standard.
Close behind:
o West Germany’s 1990 kit, with its bold black-red-gold zigzag that screamed victory (and won the tournament). Designer Ina Franzmann wanted something that “makes a bang,” and it still does.
o Nigeria’s 2018 Nike chevron masterpiece (designed by the legendary Matthew Wolff) remains a streetwear grail.
o USA’s quirky 1994 “denim” kit, initially mocked by the players themselves but now a beloved retro cult favorite.
2026: North America’s Fashion World Cup — The Designers Behind the Looks
The 2026 tournament (48 teams, 100+ kits) turned releases into a runway show. The “big three” dominate: Adidas (14 federations), Nike (12), and Puma (11), with smaller brands like Kappa, Umbro, Capelli, and others filling the rest.
Key creative force: Sergio Mareco, Adidas Senior Designer of Apparel (and one of the lead minds on the 2026 federation collection). He and the Adidas team (including Matteo Kossman on home kits) infused national storytelling, heritage motifs, and technical cooling fabrics into everything from Argentina’s ornate away to Mexico’s Aztec-inspired home and Germany’s retro farewell (Adidas’s last tournament with Die Mannschaft before they switch brands). Nike’s in-house teams handled powerhouses like France, Brazil, the US, and Canada, focusing on breathable recycled mesh and cultural nods (e.g., Justin Atallian on the US kits). Puma brought vibrant African and European flair. Smaller brands like Capelli Sport delivered distinctive looks for rising nations.
Ranking the 2026 Kits (Our Fun Fashion Top 5)
Argentina away (Adidas) — The undisputed fashion champion. Ornate black with swirling blue fileteado porteño folk-art patterns. Brave, unique, and pure Buenos Aires swagger. (Sergio Mareco & Adidas team)
France (Nike) — Collars are back, baby! The home kit brings sophistication with tricolor flourishes (very “fashion capital” ), while the away leans into a cool light-green Statue of Liberty vibe.
Curaçao away (Adidas) — Sunny lemon-yellow with multicolored Trefoil stripes inspired by Willemstad’s colorful buildings. First-ever World Cup vibes and pure collector gold.
Japan away (Adidas) — Clean, retro-baseball-inspired elegance. If you find one, buy it!
Uruguay away (Nike) — The “Black Panther” kit. Sleek, superhero-level presence that pushes boundaries.
Honorable mention: Germany home (Adidas) — Last Adidas hurrah: 1990 zigzag throwback done right. Unmistakably German.
From 1930s wool to 2026’s high-tech storytelling canvases, FIFA kits prove the beautiful game has always been fabulous. Rank your favorites and maybe rock one off the pitch!
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Thanks, Piper -- although I must warn you that any future use of "pitch" instead of "field" or "kit" instead of "uniform" may result in you losing your prime parking spot at Doof Enterprises HQ.
The rest of you - Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.
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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Final July Edition? Coming soon: August Editions!
Programming Note: I have a bunch of great content from you guys and gals in the ol' inbox and promise I will get to it soon. Like starting after next Sunday soon. Pinky swear! This has really turned out to be a wacky summer for us, schedule-wise, and I invariably find myself putting them together at the last minute. Apologies to those who have taken the time to send stuff in, and thank you for your patience!
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
Are you practicing your fundamentals? Hmmm? Every single time you shoot, people. Every single time you shoot.
With luck, noted shooting video critic GWB will be here to give us his thoughts on the following.
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More Pimp Guns
Gotta say, I am not a fan of the polished finish. Do you like it?
and...
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CMP News!
Get your M14 from the CMP! Courtesy of our pal RedMindBlueState. I mean the link is courtesy of RMBS. He's not buying everyone an M14, that I know of.
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US&S M1911A1
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So F'n Cool
Who thinks SpaceX will attempt to tow the ship to Australia?
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Our Pal Plutonium
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Musical Interlude
Brushy One String and Ganga Wata.
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Highway Patrol!
This week's episode: Motorcycle A. Recognize anyone familiar?
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The Head!
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!
That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Babka is a sweet braided bread (or cake?), usually filled with chocolate, although people use nuts or jam or fruit too. But...why?
Chocolate is the way to go, and a good version is delicious. There is a famous bakery in NYC called Breads that makes a good version, but most vaguely Jewish or ethnic bakeries will have one. And they are...okay. They almost never have enough butter and chocolate, so one ends up with a bland and sort of dry bread that is completely forgettable.
We had guests over for dinner last night, and they brought a chocolate Babka from a local (to them) bakery. Wow! it was fantastic. Absolutely chock full of good dark chocolate, and there was enough butter in the bread to make a dairyman smile.
And because we didn't have enough chocolate at the table, I also made Chocolate Chip Cookies from Lin-duh's recipe, which may be the best cookie recipe on the planet.
In my naïveté I used to think that outrageously arrogant and opaque wine descriptions were the purview of the professionals, who are clearly paid by the word, and judged by the flamboyance of their prose, rather than their ability to convey information to the wine buyer.
But this amateur, writing on a very popular wine app, might be angling for a position in the pantheon of pompous!
A classic, clean-lined expression of Sancerre that leans into precision rather than flamboyance. The nose opens with brisk citrus--lemon zest and grapefruit pith--followed by green apple skin, white peach, and a distinct chalky minerality that feels more stony than overtly grassy. There's a gentle herbal edge--fresh-cut hay and a whisper of tomato leaf--alongside subtle floral notes that recall elderflower.
On the palate, it's taut and linear, driven by bright acidity and a core of citrus and orchard fruit. The texture carries a faint lanolin-like roundness mid-palate that softens the edges without dulling the wine's snap. The mineral character builds through the finish, turning saline and mouthwatering, with a light touch of wet stone and lime peel lingering. Balanced, refreshing, and quietly expressive.
I was once a pompous wine snob, but this guy would run circles around me! Imagine sitting across the table from him during dinner!
All I want from a wine review is some standard language that describes the flavors, and a general connection to reality. Descriptions are necessarily subjective, but there can be a basic structure of common descriptors that everyone understands.
I don't want an exposition of meaningless language and a trip through someone's thesaurus.
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K.I.S.S.
Keep it simple, stupid!
When in doubt, make something very simple and straightforward for dinner. No complicated recipes or exotic ingredients. Just something simple, simply cooked. Grilling is always good, but baked works well!
Hell, a good pan of gently scrambled eggs made with lots of butter and cheese is a delicious meal! Even people who don't understand the imperative of stirring Paella can make great scrambled eggs!
Cooking doesn't have to be complicated...it doesn't have to be expensive...it doesn't have to be time consuming.
Just pay a bit of attention to the technique, and use good ingredients, and the odds are excellent that you will eat well!
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I have been baking sourdough for a very long time...long enough that I don't use a recipe, and I certainly don't buy into the arrant nonsense about sourdough starter that is obviously being underwritten by Big Flour.
On Thursday I decided to bake a loaf for Saturday evening, so I grabbed my starter out of the refrigerator.
Yup! That's it. The dregs from the last time I made sourdough...more than a month ago! I added 75 grams of water, and scraped the dried crap off the sides and mixed it so it was dissolved. then 75 grams of good quality unbleached flour. mixed that in, and put it on the counter for 24 hours. During the winter I put it in the boiler room where it's nice and toasty, but my guess is that the starter would eventually come to life no matter what.
24 hours later the starter has tripled! And that is very much alive and kicking.
Anyway, I made a particularly good loaf for last evening, and the only difference (aside from the typical variation) was the way I folded the dough after mixing. I usually use the slap and fold technique, and I am an enthusiastic slapper! But yesterday I tried a gentler method that I will call "lift and fold." It worked well, maybe even better than my usual technique, and the results were delicious!
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And speaking of bread; how do you folks keep your homemade baked bread fresh? My aluminum foil wrap works...okay, but there are all sorts of fancy bags available that promise to keep bread perfectly fresh and tender and crispy...all at once!
Looks good, but I think that I will try it with a rack of pork.
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The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the Berlin attack, Iran...Again! Sefton's mini Odyssey review, Data Republican's blockbuster reveal about the DNC, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click She's totally committed to major independence
She's a lady through and through
She gives them quite a battle, all that they can handle
She'll bruise some, she'll hurt some too
Podcast: Illegals registered and voted in NJ! Leftist violence is baked into the Democrat cake, Iran's capabilities are being degraded, Londonistan? And...come on SC...no senate dynasties!
FDA is providing an update regarding the sample of lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico which was reported positive on July 18, 2026. Due to the complexity in detection of Cyclospora, FDA laboratory experts re-reviewed the sample results and have concluded that the finding does not represent true amplification and should be considered a false positive. Information about the sample has been removed from the July 18, 2026, update below. FDA has notified Taylor Farms and continues working with the firm to ensure product implicated in this outbreak has been removed from the market. FDA and state partners continue to collect and analyze product samples. As of July 19, 2026, there are no confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora.
Podcast: Trump Slaps Mullin down; he wants the auto stops to continue, we need employment enforcement at our big corporations, The gerontocracy in the Senate, the Iranian junta is true to form, but Trump responds forcefully, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Northern Lights Division
Our topic today is music That's right, like
'Cause my brother and I are now experts in the field, eh
Yeah, right, 'cause we're a band now
Uh, yeah, so Except for him, I'm a band
Aw, how can you do that?
You're making me look bad
You're such a Hosehead
CNBC ranks Tennessee as dead last in its “Worst States to Live” analysis. The specific reason is that cross-dressing men in TN are denied access to children and women’s private spaces. Texas finished 49th. The “worst” states were all red states. [Buck]
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