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On a scale of “Trump conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election” to “Respected nominee to Supreme Court is secretly a serial gang rape cartel leader roaming the streets of suburban Maryland,” where would “it’s weird that this guy in the middle of a hot Senate race hasn’t been on the trail for weeks” rank?
You know who is braver than a college president? Wynton Marsalis speaking out against rap and hip-hop in black culture. Not that I agree on all his positions.
Wynton Marsalis covered all the bases. Race. His role in New Orleans’s removal of Confederate statues last year. His deep antipathy to rap and hip-hop. And the damage he believes the genres inflict on African Americans. “I feel that that’s much more of a racial issue than taking Robert E. Lee’s statue down,” Marsalis told me in the latest episode of “Cape Up.” “There’s more niggers in that than there is in Robert E. Lee’s statue.”
I am also disturbed by young non-black kids imitating black gang culture. And I was horrified to hear a non-black neighbor, a fairly regular guy, casually listening to gangsta rap with his friend in the presence of their eight year old daughters. Worse language about women than anything at Cornell. I said something.
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This really is - even vs Trump and Biden's antics - zany third world bullshite.
This woman married her own (gay?) brother as part of an immigration fraud scam, which has been low-key known about since decade-old revelations on Somali Spot (sue me if you deny this). She now denies exactly knowing her birth-date.
This American used to be a liberal and was shocked by what she was told in college about Muslims
“I went to college where a social work professor asked our class, what are you doing on an everyday basis to combat racism and prejudice and bigotry? So I raised my hand as a really proud, liberal, naive young woman. I raised my hand so proud and I said, well, when I go to the airport, I always go out of my way to be really nice and smile at Middle Eastern men. because I assume that people have been really mean to them at the airport, so I always go out of my way to smile at them.
And she looked at me in front of the entire class and said, never do that again, because in their culture, smiling at a man means that you're a prostitute, so never do that again”
“I was stunned into silence. And I don't know who needs to hear this today, but sympathy toward an ideology that is openly hostile, brutally oppressive and objectifying to women is not empathy. It's actually what I would call Western privilege. You have the privilege of extending sympathy to men who buy into this radical ideology because you have never been a Middle Eastern woman subject to being under it. How you look at them will never change how they look at you”
For those that didn’t know this, it’s real. In Muslim culture a woman smiling at a man that is not her husband is considered haram (forbidden) and strongly prohibited
Muslims say a woman uncovering her face and smiling at a man can lead to evil, here’s the actual reasoning
“It is haraam for a woman to uncover her face or to smile at a non-mahram man, because of the evil to which that may lead.”
Our cultures are not equal. Islam is not compatible with Western Civilization
Defeated at the Battle of Bemis Heights, surrounded, and greatly outnumbered, British general John Burgoyne surrendered his 6,300-man army on this day in 1777. The campaign that he had so confidently begun four months earlier, had ended disastrously for him. For the victorious Patriots, it was a desperately needed success, crushing the British attempt to isolate New England and leading directly to the crucial American alliance with France.
As provided in the terms of capitulation, at 11 a.m. Burgoyne’s army laid down (grounded) their arms, overseen by two of General Gates’s aides. The surrendered army then marched out in a column passing through lines of American troops drawn up on either side of them, both sides behaving with solemnity and decorum. Burgoyne and his staff proceeded to Gates’s headquarters, where Burgoyne presented his sword to Gates. “The Fortune of war, General Gates, has made me your prisoner,” he said. Gates answered, “I shall always be ready to testify that it has not been through any fault of your excellency,” as he returned the sword to Burgoyne.
The terms of the surrender provided that Burgoyne’s disarmed army would march to Boston, where it would be allowed to board ships and return to Great Britain, on the condition that none of the surrendered men were to participate further in the war. Congress objected strenuously, however, when the terms became known, protesting that there could be no assurance the British would honor them and that even if they did the surrendered men could simply take the place of other British garrisons which could then be sent to America. So before allowing the British soldiers to leave, Congress required that Parliament explicitly ratify the agreement. But because Great Britain did not recognize the validity of the U.S. government, it would not formally enter into any official agreement with it. That being exactly what Congress had expected, Burgoyne’s men (who came to be called "the Convention Army" ) were treated as prisoners of war, kept initially in Massachusetts and ultimately in barracks in Albemarle County, Virginia. The fascinating story of the “Convention Army” will be a Dose for another day.
The painting is “The Surrender of General Burgoyne” by John Trumbull. Completed in 1821, it hangs in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol.
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WEEKEND
I have been skimming some little AI stories in my social media feed. Man, are some of the story lines complex, yet stupidly incomplete. One featured multiple hidden identities and two misidentified deaths. Plus a hidden prison and a child held ransom for a future trust payout.
These old Colombo stories, on the other hand, take a simple story and pay attention to detail. Some politicians might want to pay attention.
Another busy week in the news: the midterms approached a climax, there were riots in France, Katie Zacharia came and went in record time, Elon Musk unveiled a flying (sort of) automobile. But from a meme point of view, the number one story was Homeland Security's raid on Ilhan Omar's D.C. house. Speculation as to what crime is being investigated is rampant, and Omar's statement in response sounded like a farewell address. But that is too much to hope for. Meanwhile, no word on whether they searched her underwear drawer.
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in the Greater Corsicana Metroplex)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Praying isn't a bad idea either.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Or ........
3) No running with sharp objects, scissors included.(H/T Hrothgar)
4) Have a great weekend!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
9/18 – Random Dave posted an update to his job progress. He is still looking for FT work, but has accepted a substitute teacher position (more flexibility for interviews, some income to slow the bleeding). He asks for prayers that the interview results he is waiting on will get back to him soon, especially if one is the “right job”. If any are “not the right job”, they would fall away soon and get back to him, and that if all of them are “not the right job”, the ‘right job” would show itself aggressively, so he doesn’t miss it! He also thanks the Horde and the folks at church for their prayers and support.
8/14 Update – Random Dave needs continued prayers for his job situation, that God would guide him to the right one soon, and also for prayers for M’s grandmother, who fell the other day and tore a ligament.
10/1 Update – M’s grandma is healing. They are still praying for complete healing and mobility.
9/18 – Tonypete asked for prayers for #1 son. He has something going on which is, as yet, undiagnosed. He is under care now, so that is a positive step. Prayers also for his wife and daughter #2. Mom is a spoiled princess who consistently chooses the worst path of action regarding #2.
9/18 – Brother Tim posted that he has been overnight in his car more than indoors. He is convinced that his retirement/resignation was a severe error, a result of fatigue and depression. He asks for prayers.
10/8 – D asks for blessings on the Texas MoMe participants, as they travel and as they enjoy the event – and especially blessings on the organizers.
10/10 – Just Some Guy asked for prayers for his former work colleague, who had a heart attack and stroke.
10/10 – Mile, okravangelist, requested prayers for Mama Publius, for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. Mama Publius is in home hospice care.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Leap seconds were introduced by astronomers to make sure that UTC time that normal people use never drifted more than a second from UT1 time that abnormal people astronomers use.
UT1 measures what time it really is based on the rotation of the Earth. The problem is that while this measure is definitive, it is not consistent: The Earth wobbles.
So after fifty years of faffing about, astronomers decided it was all more trouble than it was worth, and dropped it in favour of a leap hour, which is not expected to arise for a very long time.
Musical Interlude
It's the same song as this day last year. YouTube is playing up for me right now, so I can't easily search for a new one.
Bonus Jdon My Soul Video of the Day
Hololive's very Australian Hakos Baelz playing a game of telephone with her American, Japanese, and Indonesian colleagues.
Men who have opinions about how women dress, need to all the way go fuck themselves. This toxic masculinity trend needs to end. These fragile men need to get out of the way of women in totality.
We do not answer to you.
We do not dress for you.
We do not need your useless opinions.
Men, get it together, do better.
Women, be mindful of the men you choose to elect into office during this election cycle. Listen to the words...
By the way, here's how the Child Murderess describes herself:
Casey Anthony
@therealcaseyanthony
Researcher. Consultant. Author. Advocate. Activist. LGBTQIA+ Ally🏳️🌈. - Protect the dolls. Stand with women. - We are Jane Doe.
Are you joking. Are you joking.
Lisa Elizabeth
@Lisaelizabeth
I just don't get why women are so dishonest. Like -- just admit that you dress like that because you want people, especially men, to think that you're hot. And by hot I mean sexually attractive. That's why the shorts are short and tight and scrunch up around your butt to make your butt look bigger and rounder. Why? Because you think men like big round juicy butts. You wear low-cut tops because men find breasts attractive. Cut the bullshit that you do it just for you or that it's more comfortable because you don't and it's not. Just freaking own it.
And if you are going to dress like that, don't expect people not to look because that's specifically why you chose the outfit you did. Furthermore, don't get mad when people you don't think are hot hit on you. You can't have it both ways.
Aside from it being problematic for society and relationships between men and women, thing that frustrates me the most is the dishonesty in all of it. You know why you do it, we know why you do it. I am so tired of people expecting others not to be honest about things that are blatantly/obviously/objectively true.
woodsplitter
@woodsplittergpy
are they in denial that they are sooo desperate for male attention; or are they upset and embarrassed that they have to use their fat shiny poopers (as opposed to their superior intellects, and healthier psyches) to get it??
I had Fat Shiny Poopers' debut EP. It was an import from the UK on Stiff Records.
During a recent high school cross-country meet in Washington, in which female athletes walked off the course instead of running against a trans-identified male runner who had switched to the female division earlier in the season, it has been revealed that the male athlete shared a hotel room with a female member of the team.
This took place during Camas High School's trip to the Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational in Arlington, which took place on October 10. Per Clark County Today, members of the cross-country team were lodged in a hotel at the expense of the school district. The biological male running of the girls' team, Logan Mihailoff, shared a hotel room with a female member of the Camas team.
Camas School District Communications and Media Manager Doreen McKercher told the outlet, "Coaching staff coordinate room assignments for overnight athletic trips and may consider student-athletes' preferences. We can confirm that no student was required to share a room with someone they were uncomfortable rooming with. To protect student privacy, we will not discuss individual room assignments or accommodations."
And when I say "woman," I mean it in the Canadian sense: I mean a man who dresses as a woman and who helps another transgender kill children.
The lawyer for a Washington resident accused of conspiring with the Tumbler Ridge shooter told a judge Tuesday his client has co-operated fully with police since the February shooting and does not pose a threat to the public.
The accused, James Cody Bryant, 30, of Bellingham, Wash., appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle for a pretrial detention hearing Thursday. Ms. Bryant goes by Melody and uses she/her pronouns, according to her lawyers.
She wore glasses, and a beige button-down jumpsuit over her slight frame. Her long hair reached past her shoulders.
Her?
Ms. Bryant's lawyer, public defender Gregory Murphy, argued his client could be safely released before trial under conditions, including potential house detention, a mental health assessment and strict monitoring of her online activities.
He noted Ms. Bryant, who was arrested last week, was shocked by the shooting and has co-operated with police since the days after it occurred.
Tumbler Ridge shooter was aided by conspirator in Washington State, authorities allege
"Words fail when we talk about the horror of what Van Rootselaar did ... Ms. Bryant, I think, feels that also," Mr. Murphy said, referring to shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar. He noted his client has sobbed during interviews with the FBI.
But the judge rejected the defence's request and opted to keep Ms. Bryant in custody.
Ms. Bryant faces charges of aiding Ms. Van Rootselaar, 18, in planning and executing the mass shooting at a school in the northern B.C. mining town in February.
Ms. Van Rootselaar killed her mother and half-brother at their family home on Feb. 10 before proceeding to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where she killed five students and an educational assistant. She then turned a gun on herself. It was the deadliest school shooting in Canadian history.
It's almost as if these native citizens believe they have rights in their own country.
Over the past couple of decades, more than a few British people have accused immigrants of stealing their jobs, by under-cutting them on pay. At last, though, it seems that things may be starting to change. Because these days, apparently, it's the other way round.
Or so I gather from a fascinating quote in our report, published on Sunday, about places in Britain where a majority of adults are claiming out-of-work benefits. In Birmingham, our reporter interviewed a local man named Mohammad Khan. And he said: "Here it is hard to get a job. A lot of students come and pick up part-time jobs. They take over the housing. They work for a lower rate and they can speak English."
If the ability to speak English is giving these students a decisive advantage in the Birmingham jobs market, that means the people they're under-cutting must be immigrants who can't speak English. In which case, I hope Birmingham isn't going to see mass protests by unemployed immigrants, muttering: "Bloody British. Coming over here, stealing our jobs." Then again, if they can only say this in another language, I suppose we won't know what they're protesting about.
Her lawyers need to spend some time reviewing the case law on how lowly Nazi prison camp guards, some of whom were forced into service, immigrated to the U.S. under the Displaced Persons Act after WWII, later became U.S. citizens, but were denaturalized and deported when their military histories were proven.
This new paper is hilarious. It warns about political and cultural biases influencing science, and aims to expose the biased "co-option of research" by...
..."Using the lens of queer monster theory" to reveal the "power dynamics" that have resulted in "binary definitions and proscriptions of cis-heterosexism" the "purported 'biological truth' of immutable binary sex."
Oh yes, the sex binary rooted in observable sperm and ova discovered over a century ago is totally a result of cultural and political bias, but "queer monster theory" and "cis-heterosexism" is rooted in pure reason and derivable from first principles. 🙄
These people have zero self-awareness.
Liberals in New York City gather to sing a song about abolishing the New York Police Department
Take a look at how diverse this group is…. The entire group is privileged white liberals
This is a choir that’s part of the Democratic Socialists of America New York Chapter. The DSA literally setup a choir to sing songs “For a Revolution”
Imagine being so privileged and living in an area so safe you think we don’t need police anymore and then wanting to force that belief on everyone else who actually needs the protection
The Millionaire Tech Weirdo Who Says His Biohacking Will Grant Him Immortality Finds a New Way to Weird You Out
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A couple of weeks ago I spoke casually about supplementing potassium. A commenter chided me for speaking about taking a supplement that could lead to hyperkalemia, which at high enough levels can be fatal. Or just cause you neurological damage.
I also have been watching Elementary and noticed someone was murdered by an injections of potassium chloride, which caused a heart attack.
So... don't take much potassium as a supplement. There's a reason the pills you can buy only have 3% of the USRDA of potassium.
On to the story:
This is the guy with a full scientific/medical lab in his house who does multiple analyses of his blood and biological fluids every single day.
His theory is that science is approaching the point where it could reverse aging, so if he can just extend his life to, say, 120, he will become immortal. He's said something to the effect of "these will be the last generations to know death." Or something like that, less poetical.
Among his tests: He wears some kind of a genital cuff around his dong at night because nighttime erections have been linked to longevity.
His "girlfriend," who seems nearly as weird as he is, wants in on this too.
A device that measures nighttime female "erections" to gauge longevity? Now that's a biohacker's wet dream.
Every night, Kate Tolo inserts a $15,700 "research grade erection device" into what her boyfriend and business partner, biohacker Bryan Johnson, famously called her "top 1%" vagina.
In fact, both of them wear an erection tracker nightly. Johnson says he's looking to maintain healthy erections, which some experts agree is a predictor of longevity for men.
And Tolo -- despite not having a penis -- wants in on the action.
Atoms Family Values
Tolo says women get "erections" too -- and it's possible that tracking them could give ladies similar longevity insights.
I'll spare you the details but the science says the Little Man in the Prow of the Boat stands up a couple of times per night.
"The light sensor inside my probe is the same kind smartwatches use to read your heart rate," she explained.
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Tolo's vaginal "erection" data is not easy to get. Her device costs $15,723.68 and is like "lab equipment in my bedroom," she said.
"I insert the 5cm probe [and] tape a wire to my leg that is plugged into a machine and a laptop. The laptop can't fall asleep or we lose the data. I sadly learned that through experience."
Meanwhile, Johnson's can be bought online for $275 and connects to a smartphone.
"I've tracked my nighttime erections for years ... It's one of the best signals I have for vascular health, and it costs $275," Johnson said. "The gap in our devices sums up the current status of female health.
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Tolo has been outspoken about the disparity in research on women's health.
This year, she created "the female protocol" to measure 1,900 biomarkers across blood, urine, stool and vaginal microbiome, while holding diet, sleep and exercise constant.
The happy couple is all smiles as they show off their genital probes:
You don't have to be a pioneer on the Oregon Trail to catch the bug that causes dysentery.
Nowadays, the infection is spreading more through sex -- and evolving into something that's "close to untreatable," one expert said.
Shigella bacteria infect nearly half a million people in the US every year -- causing diarrhea with blood or mucus (the hallmark of a dysentery infection), stomach pain, cramps, fever and vomiting.
Scientists are learning more about why the disturbing disease is spreading so quickly, and why it's developing a resistance to treatment.
Shigella is a nasty illness that causes more than uncomfortable doo-doos. It can become life-threatening by dehydrating and depleting bodily fluids including blood, causing bacterial and septic shock, neurological complications, and internal bleeding and infection.
The bacteria spreads through infected poop that gets into the mouth because of ill-washed hands, or swallowing tainted food or water. A minuscule amount -- as few as 10 organisms -- is enough to get you sick.
The population most likely to get infected are children under 5, who catch it at day care and schools from other kids who are just starting to learn about keeping themselves clean. Travelers to places where sanitation standards are lower, and people experiencing homelessness are also at higher risk.
The swap from incandescent to LED bulbs became mandatory, thanks to a 2007 energy bill signed by George W. Bush. With a simple pitch that left little room for argument, the efficiency rules in the bill quietly dimmed the incandescent bulb out of existence, clearing the way to replace it with LED bulbs....
Indeed, the concern over LED light is mainstream and growing. Dr. Glen Jeffery at UCL's Institute of Ophthalmology has found that the blue-heavy light from typical LEDs lowers the membrane potential in our mitochondria, thus impacting the electrical charge that lets our mitochondria produce ATP, the energy currency of the cell. Along with that, blue light in the evening suppresses melatonin and disrupts circadian rhythms, which in turn affects sleep, hormone balance, and overnight cellular repair. And studies on animals reveal that blue light causes retinal damage. Eye damage is significant because half of the human brain is wired, either directly or indirectly, to process what it receives through the eyes. Stare too long at a device and, yes, your eyes are wrecked. Think about it. The notion that it was safe to rewire the light--swap out the bulb--in every home, school, office, street, and so on, and see absolutely no biological cost is absurd.
Dr. Jack Kruse and others in the holistic world have been warning us about this for years. Kruse maintains that light, not food, is the master signal for human health.
🚨 The government pushed incandescent bulbs out. Now the Department of Energy is backing their return.
Why? The science around artificial light, blue-light exposure, and what it may mean for our eyes and health is becoming impossible to ignore.
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But according to a recent Lancet Public Health study, which analyzed data from more than 110,000 people, taking 7,000 steps offered the same health benefits as 10,000 steps, including a lower risk of all-cause mortality, reduced cardiovascular risk, and even a decreased risk of developing dementia.
This made me question everything. Was I overdoing it for no reason? And where did the 10,000-step rule even come from?
As it turns out, the 10,000-step benchmark wasn't based on science. It originated in Japan in the 1960s, when a pedometer company called Yamasa created a product named "manpo-kei," which translates to "10,000-step meter." The catchy number stuck -- and so did the idea that 10,000 was the gold standard.
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I didn't realize how obsessed I'd become with the number on my watch until I started skipping the gym on days when I hit my 10,000 steps early. I'd feel like I'd done enough just because my step count was high -- even if I hadn't lifted weights in weeks or eaten a proper meal.
This kind of tunnel vision is what Ogden cautions against.
"Fitness isn't one-dimensional," she says. "Just because you're active doesn't mean you're well-rounded in your routine. Are you working on your strength? Your mobility? Your cardiovascular health?"
She often sees clients who walk 10,000 steps a day but can't carry groceries or struggle to get off the floor. "That tells me there's a gap in functional fitness," she says. "Movement needs to support your life, not just your metrics."
Strength-based exercises like planks are a key part of long-term fitness and longevity.
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In other words, if swimming, yoga, or pilates fits more easily into your lifestyle, and are more enjoyable, those activities may provide greater benefits than forcing extra steps just to hit 10,000.
The study, published in the journal Life Sciences, isolated the biological impacts of exercise from the secondary changes triggered by dropping pounds. Researchers fed male mice a high-fat diet to induce obesity, then divided them into a sedentary group and an exercising group. Both groups continued eating the high-fat diet to ensure physical activity was the only difference between them.
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The experiment also included a group of mice fed a standard diet. To simulate strength training, the exercising animals climbed a staircase 70 centimeters, or about 28 inches, high with weights attached to their tails. They trained at 70% of their maximum carrying capacity, completing 20 climbs per session with rest intervals of 60 to 90 seconds. In total, they completed seven sessions over seven days.
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The researchers focused on mesenteric adipose tissue, the fat surrounding the intestines, which Moura describes as a primary counterpart to human visceral fat. The exercised mice had less of this tissue and smaller fat-storing cells, called adipocytes, than the sedentary obese mice.
In obesity, adipocytes can become so enlarged that they experience chronic stress and release inflammatory substances into the bloodstream. These substances can disrupt metabolism throughout the body, helping explain why excess visceral fat is more harmful than subcutaneous fat beneath the skin. The team interpreted the smaller cells as a sign that the tissue was becoming less inflamed and metabolically healthier.
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Exercise affected fat production as well. The trained mice showed lower activity of Scd1, a gene involved in making fat molecules. The researchers interpret that decrease as a sign that the body may become less likely to store calories from food as fat.
Researchers at Adelaide University analyzed 157 systematic reviews covering 2,736 randomized controlled trials and 221,279 participants. Across that evidence, exercise was associated with reductions in both acute and chronic pain, making the study the most comprehensive synthesis to date of exercise as a pain treatment.
The results challenge the assumption that harder or longer workouts are necessary for pain relief. Lower intensity and shorter duration programs produced greater reductions in pain, while meaningful benefits were also seen in programs totaling less than two hours of exercise per week.
Netflix (NFLX.O), opens new tab is laying off 6% of its workforce, or roughly 1,000 employees, in its biggest cuts since 2022, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters, as the streaming pioneer faces tough competition for viewers from legacy rivals and YouTube.
The bulk of the job cuts would be in Netflix's product, tech, legal and human-resources teams, the email Co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos sent to employees on Wednesday showed.
They're getting no criticism for this. Leftists play life on its easy settings.
But when the company he demanded be allowed to purchase Warner Bros. cuts 1000 jobs, he says NOTHING. Because he's a taqiyya communist and lies are like breaths to him.
They also point out that the other super-left media company, the Disney Groomer Corporation, just cut 600 jobs. No objections from Ruffalo.
AG
@AGHamilton29
The entire continued freakout over @bariweiss and CBS News is simply because the left believes they are entitled to controlling the media narrative and feel threatened that even one major news organization might present the other side.
If you follow the news closely, you will see that they act like a herd and always cover the same stories from the same perspectives. Far more important is what they choose not to cover. The factual stories and perspectives that they simply ignore because they don't fit the narratives that the so many of the activists in their news and editorial rooms prefer.
They don't even want people exposed to those stories/views if it's not coming from outlets they can dismiss like FNC or the NY Post because it might allow people who aren't openly partisan choose how they understand these issues for themselves. That's the entire threat.
It's not that CBS News might become ideologically right-wing. There is zero evidence Weiss is pushing for them to only report things from that perspective and plenty of evidence that's not true. It's simply that it could expose people to the other side, and that can't be allowed.
Actor Ben Affleck went on the attack against those who support the deportation of criminal illegal aliens -- support that has long been bipartisan -- and insisted that supporters off President Donald Trump's immigration policies are rooted in "xenophobia."
He also claimed that it is "totally false" that Democrats have been refusing to prosecute illegal migrant murderers and rapists.
Ben Affleck says deportations are driven by "xenophobia" & scapegoating
The idea that criminals & rapists were being ignored [before Trump] is totally false. It's simply a veneer to one of our more ugly tendencies, to seek our own protection at the expense of someone else. https://t.co/TrOF1XmcGY
Speaking of aging: Captain Kirk is now 95 years old. He doesn't look 95. He looks 65. This guy was living out of his station wagon for years when he couldn't get work after Star Trek.
Metallica's James Hetfiled told an audience he wasn't going to share his political opinions because that's not his job. His job is to rock.
Metallica's James Hetfield BLASTS other celebrities who push their political opinions on fans
“Metallica is not here like some other entertainers to influence you with their bullshit” 🔥 https://t.co/iSAtVLQXtX
Unfortunately, as you know, you're not allowed to say you want to stay out of Current Day Politics. You are required to pledge yourself to the One True Faith of the Communist-Islamist Alliance.
Jew-hating, Hamas loving ex-rocker Roger Waters attacked him, claiming Hetfield is a "nobody" (seriously?) and has "an IQ of 3."
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx also said he didn't want to talk about politics:
Metal heads are nice people dressing up and pretending to be mean people.
Hippies are mean people dressing up and pretending to be nice people.
The trailer for the C.S. Lewis' adaptation of The Magician's Nephew debuted.
This is the "modernized" version by Barbie director Greta Gerwig. She gender-flipped the character standing in for God/Jesus, Aslan, who will be played by Meryl Streep. Because eff you, Hollywood makes like four Christian themed movies and that's too many. Any Christian themed movie must be subverted, deconstructed, and "modernized" to not offed TikTok harridans. A Christian story has to be made for atheist efminists.
The trailer's getting a lot of praise for featuring an altered version Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
Greta Gerwig claims this is the very first time that Led Zeppelin has allowed anyone to use their music in a movie trailer.
Using a remixed version of a Led Zeppelin classic in the trailer for a fantasy film? What a great, creative, never-been-done-before new idea.
Here's the trailer.
I think it suffers from the "Two People Standing in a Room Made Entirely of Greenscreen and Computer Pixels" problem. People are tired of this. We've seen it and seen it and seen it and seen it. And then when Ant Man: Quantumania came out, we decided not to bother seeing it at all.
Another fantasy flop, A Wrinkle in Time, also featured "Two Kids Standing in a Room Made of Greenscreen and Computer Pixels" and flopped hard.
No one is impressed by this, and no one thinks it looks real.
The best part of the trailer, to me, is the beginning, when they're filming in an actual crumbling building in England.
The movie cost $280 million. With some saying it cost even more than that.
The InSneider is now further reporting on friction between Netflix film chief Dan Lin and Greta Gerwig over 'Narnia,' the fantasy epic that's reportedly carrying a $280M budget, with some saying it's much higher than that.
One source tells Sneider the tension is very real, and that people at Netflix think the movie is "awful," calling it "a genuine problem.” A second source, who attended a test screening over the summer, compared it to Ava DuVernay's "A Wrinkle in Time," the 2018 Disney adaptation that reportedly lost the studio close to $100M. According to that source, the mood in the room was deflated once the lights came up.
That screening reportedly led Netflix to order reshoots. The same source flagged a structural issue that may still be fixed in post: the characters apparently don't reach Narnia until the third act. For a movie called 'Narnia,' that's a curious choice.
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[W]hen multiple sources are describing what seems to be a problematic movie, Netflix has reason to worry. I have no idea what the final result will be, but I had also heard about the mixed test screening reactions, but that was also a cut with barely half-finished VFX.
NYC First Lady Painted Portrait of Her 'Inspiration': A Jew-Hating Artist Who Said 'Anne Frank' Is a Hoax, Posted Hitler's Paintings, and Celebrated Oct 7
Rama Duwaji's obsession with the Palestinian cause is shown in her reverence for the violence-tinged painter Sliman Mansour
New York City first lady Rama Duwaji's self-declared artistic "inspiration," whose portrait she's painted in tribute, is a radical Hamas propagandist who praised the terror group's leaders as "great heroes," openly celebrated the Oct. 7 attack against Israel, and has claimed that The Diary of Anne Frank is a Jewish forgery.
Sliman Mansour, a Palestinian artist, was also pleased when a warlike reinterpretation of one of his paintings was used as a backdrop for an angry press conference by future Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, where he thanked Iran for funding Hamas.
Mansour died in August after spending decades propping up violent "resistance" movements against the State of Israel. Before that, Duwaji had animated a portrait of the painter and indicated he "inspired the work that I do."
"Hi, I'm Rama, a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, and today I'm going to be animating a portrait of Sliman Mansour, who is a painter and sculptor that's inspired the work that I do. Sliman is an artist of the Intifada," said Houston-born Duwaji, the wife of Zohran Mamdani, in a video first posted online in April 2024.
The second intifada, in the early 2000s, involved thousands of terror attacks against Israelis, including deadly suicide bombings on buses. It left more than a thousand Israelis dead, mostly civilians.
Mansour's work "is about the Palestinian experience under occupation, and growing up seeing his paintings, I was always really inspired by the emotion behind his portraits," Duwaji continued.
The video shows her working in a Palestinian-themed studio under a large banner reading "Artists Against Apartheid: Palestine Will Be Free"--a reference widely considered an antisemitic trope. She wears a keffiyeh-patterned headband and even lights a candle using matches from a Brooklyn Palestinian restaurant.
"Sliman has been jailed twice since the start of his career," Duwaji says proudly. "And since then, he's inspired many artists after him, including myself."
Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's long-awaited Roadster on Thursday, claiming the electric sports car can accelerate from zero to 60 mph in less than a second, reach speeds of 230 mph and even fly. The vehicle reportedly uses thrusters to achieve its extreme acceleration, though details about its flight capabilities remain unclear. Tesla says production is expected to begin in 2028, with no price announced.
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Tesla has unveiled its new and redesigned Roadster - a 'flying car' that can turn in the air and land.
Developed in collaboration with CEO Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX, it's claimed the Roadster can accelerate from zero to 60mph in less than one second and can hit a top speed of over 230 mph.
Tesla demonstrated the two-seater vehicle at a livestreamed event in Texas, showing it driving upside down on a ramp and performing a mid-air flip.
Musk told the crowd, "It can basically fly like a rocket", but admitted it's "not necessarily a safety-optimised car."
It remains unclear how the proposed flying features would work on public roads, or whether they would be legal. Production is set to start in 2028.
I saw this last night and immediately thought, of course, "AI."
ELON MUSK: “It's going to be pretty wild that you can have a rocket car. The car has attitude control thrusters and main thrusters in the rear, so it can basically fly like a rocket. It could do rolls. It could do crazy gymnastics. Whatever you want, really.
This is not necessarily a safety-optimized car, but it takes the fun meter to 11 out of 10.
This will be an actual car that’s on the roads. I’m not sure it’s necessarily legal in all jurisdictions.
The car can recharge its air tank, so it’s not like you need special propellant or anything like that. It literally is just going to pop itself up and be able to do these maneuvers whenever you’d like.”
🚨 AOC gets roasted in a brutal new meme as Tesla's flying Roadster soars right past her. The internet showed no mercy on this one. Somewhere, the Green New Deal just got lapped. https://t.co/qE5bkNFKrW
Elon Musk says this car really sucks. It has a suction-fan system to keep it stuck to the ground, which is important, because when a car moves at rocket-like speeds it tends to take off like a rocket.
Hillary Clinton says she is "very popular" -- until she's no longer "in service to a man" and wants to run for president.
She's so bitter:
"My approval rating is always sky high when I'm not running for something...as long as I am in service to either a man like my husband or President Obama..."
"And then once I say, well, you know what? I think I could do a really good job. Like, I don't know, being president. Then oh my goodness, that's very scary."
Hillary's never getting over her rejection in 2016.
MSNOW Of All Outlets Challenges Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's Lie About Having No Familial Connections to the Muslim Brotherhood
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Over the weekend, extreme partisan Kristin Welker asked Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed if he or his family had any connections to the Egyptian terrorist group which begat Al Qaeda and Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood. He said "No," flatly, and Welker did not ask any follow-up questions nor confront him with tweets from his half-sister bragging about his mother's "activism" in the Muslim Brotherhood while in college.
As usual, when a Democrat media operative "asks questions" of a Democrat about a scandal, they do not challenge the Democrat -- instead, they helpfully offer the Democrat an opportunity to deny the allegation without any pushback or interrogation.
However, a male reporter at MSNOW confronted Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed in an on-the-street interview, and did ask him about his half-sister's praise of his mother for being a member of the terrorist group.
El-Sayed sputtered out various defenses, including the bizarre assertion that it's just not a "serious" matter whether or not he comes from a family of terrorists, and also objected to the very idea that he should be questioned about his terrorist ties. In the end, he seemed to suggest that it's just not important whether or not he belongs to a family of terrorists and we should just all MoveOn.org.
The new story he seems to have settled on is that he has never spoken with his mother about being a Muslim terrorist so it's not fair to charge him with knowledge of it or call him a liar for denying it.
Note that when he denied his mother's membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, he did not say "I never spoke to her about it." He just insisted she was not a member of the terrorist group.
Oh, and he claims his sister' reportage of his mother's membership in the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood is just "hearsay" that no one should bother themselves about.
Just some "hearsay" from people in the family who are the greatest authorities on the histories of members of the family.
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed dismissed his sister's claims that their Egyptian relatives are members of the Muslim Brotherhood as "hearsay" in a heated exchange with Tom Llamas of NBC News. El-Sayed denied any personal knowledge of his family's deep ties to the Islamist organization.
Llamas pressed El-Sayed about social media posts from El-Sayed's sister, Eman Abdelhadi, in which she said her family has "long been" in the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdelhadi said her relatives in Egypt have been "jailed" over their ties to the group, according to the posts, which were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon. She also said that her and El-Sayed's mother, Fatten Elkomy, was active in the Brotherhood as a college student in Egypt in the 1970s.
The posts came to light after El-Sayed told Meet the Press on Sunday that neither he nor his family have ties to the Brotherhood. El-Sayed bristled when Llamas asked him to "just explain" them.
"You want to ask me about what was happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?" El-Sayed said.
Let's not bicker and argue about 'oo's a terrorist or not.
What a frivolous line of questioning! Ask about serious matters like what Trump's plan for reducing the price of arugla is.
"I get it, but you were asked a question," Llamas responded. "Yeah, I'm telling you, like, we--I have no ties. We have no ties," El-Sayed said. "So your mother had no ties?" asked Llamas. "I have never had these conversations with my mother," said El-Sayed. "Like, you're using hearsay evidence from a tweet. This is not serious."
When Llamas noted that El-Sayed has "gone after the president for truthfulness," El-Sayed responded, "Are you insinuating that somehow I was lying?" "I don't know. That's why I'm asking," Llamas responded.
No ties to the Muslim Brotherhood here, no siree!
It's not the first time El-Sayed claims to have been kept out of the loop of his Egyptian family's doings. He said as recently as 2016 that he had "dual citizenship" in Egypt and the United States. His campaign now says that statement was an "error" and based on inaccurate information from an unnamed relative.
In 2012, he signed an open letter calling on the newly elected Brotherhood to "purge" the press and police in Egypt, the Free Beacon reported. In a since-deleted 2021 Substack post, El-Sayed defended a "friend" of his who was jailed for funding the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, considered to be one of the most violent chapters of the group. El-Sayed's father in law, Tayeb Jukaku, is a longtime board member of the Islamic Society of North America, which federal prosecutors identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front group.
Abdelhadi, who was arrested last year for assaulting a cop in Chicago during an anti-ICE protest, did not respond to questions about her brother's remarks.
🚨 OMG THIS IS BRUTAL. MI Senate candidate Abdul Mohamed El Sayed has LOST NBC NEWS after they found out he lied to Kristen Welker about being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood
When confronted, he's visibly shaken:
NBC: "You've gone after the president for 'truthfulness.' When people ask YOU a question, they expect the truth." 🤯
ABDUL: "Do you think, do you think, are you, are you insinuating somehow I was lying?!"
And yet the receipts of his own family stating ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are RIGHT THERE: "My family has long been MB"
Not what Abdul wants in October!
MIKE ROGERS HAS THE MOMENTUM.
Those posts came from his own sister, Eman Abdelhadi. She also said relatives in Egypt were jailed over their ties to the group
She wrote that their mother was active in the Brotherhood in college in the 1970s
He dismissed his own sister's words as "hearsay evidence from a tweet." IT'S HIS FAMILY'S OWN WORDS
If even MSNOW is reporting on El-Sayed's half-sister's admission that his mother is a terrorist, what kind of leftwing communist Third-Worldist hack would still deny it?
Enter CNN's Abby Philip:
If @abbydphillip followed the news she'd know @AbdulElSayed himself has claimed dual citizenship with Egypt and called himself "an immigrant from North Africa" and talked about how he spent every summer as a kid in Egypt. That's a little different than he "grew up in Michigan."
Three children and a teacher were killed, and two others critically wounded, in a shooting on Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, authorities said.
The suspect, a 16-year-old male, was shot and killed by a bystander, Bend police said.
Along with the teacher, the three children killed were ages 5, 8 and 11, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said in a news conference Thursday night. Two others, a 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher, were taken to St. Charles Medical Center with critical injuries. No names were immediately released.
Krantz said that officers were called to the school just before 1 p.m. on a 911 call from a person who said they had been shot at several times while in their vehicle by a suspect with a long gun. Emergency dispatchers then received dozens of 911 calls that the suspect had entered the school.
The shooter forced his way into the school by "shooting at locked doors," Krantz said.
When officers arrived at the school within three minutes of the first 911 call, they discovered that the suspect had been killed by a bystander, Krantz said.
"An officer reported that the suspect had been shot by a community member who had seen the suspect enter the school and pursued him into the school and engaged him," Krantz told reporters.
After officers entered the building, Krantz said, they found the four deceased victims.
Officials would not say exactly what type of weapon was used in the attack or how many rounds were fired. Multiple law enforcement sources told CBS News the suspect used a shotgun.
There was no word on a motive.
Which causes us to very justifiably suspect it's one of the motives that the corrupt and craven establishment like to hide from the public.
The Teen of Obscured Allegiance was armed with a shotgun, the Daily Mail says, purchased by his mother.
So he had the one weapon Joe Biden told people to buy, and it was likely legally purchased by a mother with no criminal record.
A teenage gunman who murdered three children and a teacher an an Oregon school shot through a secure area meant to keep children safe from killers like him, before being taken down by a hero bystander rumored to be a student's father.
The as-yet-unidentified 16-year-old was carrying a long gun that he used to shoot the locks out of 'secure vestibules' at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend shortly before 1pm PT Thursday, The Oregonian reported.
Those vestibules see visitors granted access to a locked porch area, whose second electronic door then opens into the school once they have been screened.
But that supposedly secure system was easily overcome on Thursday afternoon when the shooter shot his way into the special education area of the school and killed three children aged five, eight and 11 as well as a teacher. A seven-year-old child and 54-year-old teacher were also rushed to hospital in critical condition.
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[A teacher] said: 'They were so afraid, the looks on their faces. It was really hard to see, [I] was just trying to calm them down.
'Some kids were praying, some kids were consoling other kids, but doing so quietly because they know you don't make any noise.'
Smith and her students were ultimately rescued from being killed by a good Samaritan who spotted the teenager and followed him into the building, shooting him dead shortly after he began his rampage.
Dispatch audio suggested the hero was the father of a student at the school, with 'It looks like the shooter has been neutralized, possibly shot by a father at the school' picked up by multiple news outlets.
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One onlooker was sitting in his red Toyota Tacoma idling outside the school when he spotted the teen approaching the Silver Rail building with his gun.
Concerned by what he saw, the driver confronted the teen who returned a series of shots at the vehicle. A second good Samaritan then confronted the shooter inside the school and killed him.
A law enforcement official briefed on the shooting told The Associated Press the teen used a pump-action shotgun that was purchased by his mother.
The heroic bystander is also being identified and he is, of course, a Chad.
🚨#UPDATE: Christina Aguayo is now reporting that the bystander who stopped the Silver Rail Elementary shooter is Kaylub Giamanco.
According to a family member, Giamanco was heading home on his lunch break when he heard gunshots near the school where his two daughters attend classes. He lives nearby and rushed toward the scene after seeing the suspect moving toward or entering the building.
Bend Police have NOT yet officially confirmed his identity and continue to describe him only as an armed community member. The name continues to circulate based on family statements.
Ilhan "Omar" Disappears; Husband Asked If She's Fled the Country
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I mean her current husband, the one with the wine-label "business" that zoomed up to $5 million in value and then was "corrected" down to six buck twenty, not the brother she married to fraudulently obtain a Green Card for.
"Hey Tim, there are rumors that the congresswoman left the country, is that true?" a Fox News Digital reporter asked.
"You're annoying the hell out of all the neighbors around here man," Mynett replied.
"No, I just wanted to get your response to everything that's been going on, that's all," the reporter said. "And what the president's saying about the net worth and the investigation. Just giving you a chance to respond."
SPOTTED: Ilhan Omar's husband Tim Mynett snapped at questions surrounding rumors that the congresswoman fled the country following a federal raid by Homeland Security Investigations. He was seen outside their Washington, D.C., home multiple times, but Omar has not been spotted since the raid.
Remember that Ilhan "Omar" isn't just being investigated for immigration fraud -- but for financial fraud as well.
I imagine the "winery" that produces no actual wine is a major part of this investigation.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed Tuesday that her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures, opening a new chapter in the controversy surrounding the Minnesota Democrat's previously reported multimillion-dollar assets.
Speaking on Fox News' "America Reports," Pirro said her office was examining Omar's financial disclosures, which previously showed that the reported value of businesses tied to her husband, Tim Mynett, had surged from as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024.
As I understand it, the "winery" isn't a winery. What the "business" seems to be is a company that buys wine from actual wineries then slaps its own label on it and resells it.
I cannot say with certainty but this seems very much like Hunter Biden's "watercolor paintings" -- a commodity whose objective price is hard to establish so it could be "sold" for any number of dollars to political donors whose real object, as with Hunter's Watercolors, is just to funnel money to a politician in a way that avoids reporting requirements and donation limits.
Six dollar bottle of wine might "sell" for $1000 because it's got that classy, high-status Mynett-Omar brand attached to it. You can't cry foul because who knows what a bottle of wine is worth?
This is speculation on my part but what other theory fits the facts here?
THE MORNING RANT: Perhaps Cars and Grocery Freezers Shouldn’t Be Subject to Hacking and Bad Programming
—Buck Throckmorton
Here are three unrelated stories, but they share a theme, specifically that “improving” machinery with complicated software and remote internet access often renders the machinery compromised and inoperable. (h/t to @ComradeArthur for a couple of these tips.)
First: Chinese electric vehicles that were rented to the Norwegian military by a Chinese-controlled rental car company made video recordings of confidential military information.
Rental cars used by Norway’s Home Guard during a large exercise in September recorded video of soldiers, their routes, and the codes they typed into military gates, according to a soldier who took part, Norwegian business daily Dagens Næringsliv reported.
The cars were rented by the Norwegian Armed Forces from Hertz in Norway, which belongs to Volvo Cars and, through Volvo, to China’s Geely group. At least two of them were electric cars from Deepal, a brand of Chinese automaker Changan.
America’s principled free traders dream of allowing China and its electric spy cars into our market, and if you seek to protect private-sector American industrial jobs from being lost to Chinese state-controlled industries, those same “free traders” will call you a socialist.
Second: The start of the recent Formula One race in Malaysia had to be aborted because bad programming rendered many of the supercars unable to move faster than a slow crawl, if they weren’t bricked altogether.
The governing FIA said afterwards that "an unprecedented combination of low engine speed, low-grip conditions, wet-weather energy management settings and the Sepang circuit’s sector configuration led to an unintended loss of power for a number of cars."
F1 cars are now part electric and part internal combustion, and there is programming required to make the two forms of propulsion integrate. That software apparently didn’t take into account such unforeseen things as low speed and wet roads, which rendered the cars undriveable.
Traditional gasoline-powered cars without internet connectivity can drive in pretty much any weather condition. So of course, all the smart people are determined to proceed with technology that flakes out in bad weather, or when software hasn’t anticipated every permutation of temperature, precipitation, rpm, and speed.
Any car that needs software updates to keep operating is a car than can be kept from running due to malicious software.
Third: If I ran a business in which much of my inventory must be kept refrigerated or frozen, I would certainly maintain remote monitoring systems so I would know if any refrigerators were broken or not holding temperature. Inventory obviously must be protected from spoilage. What I would not do is create remote internet controls so that anyone hacking into the remote monitoring system can also sabotage the refrigeration equipment.
Hackers targeted hundreds of French supermarkets in a cyberattack that reportedly caused refrigerators and freezers to overheat, spoiling food and sparking fires. Fridges at [various supermarket chains] saw fridges heat up to as much as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight.
While this incident was in France, not the U.S., I can’t help but believe that the corporate obsession with automation and elimination of labor expense contributed to this cyber-attack on the food supply. Too many business executives are antagonistic toward the blue-collar tradesmen who keep their machinery running. They desperately want to believe that AI, or software, or a slick presentation from an expensive consultant can rid them of the annoyance of paying professional compensation to a skilled laborer.
Remote monitoring is obviously required. Remote access and control, however, is an invitation to destructive hacking. That invitation was obviously accepted.
@ComradeArthur The MBA & Private Equity bros’ war on Labor Expense will tolerate 100% of perishable inventory being lost due to AI/IOT hacking rather than pay a dude with a blue collared shirt to monitor and maintain the freezers manually.
Good morning kids. In the lead there was yet another school shooting this time up in the town of Bend, Oregon. First and foremost prayers offered for the victims and their loved ones. For that of course we are to be mocked and scorned by our fellow citizens in name only, of the Left. I don't know about Oregon in general but Bend from what I know is a very Leftist community, and given the undue influence of Portland on the entire state I'll just assume the restrictions on the second amendment are widespread and in full force. I'm sure the usual geschrei from the Communists in both the propagandist media and politics will be at maximum volume and intensity, as is the case in the wake of incidents like this and with the crucial midterms just over two weeks away, the insanity of early voting already underway.
A University of Wyoming student was arrested after police say she tried to poison a colleague, then attempted to flee to China when officers questioned her. Aili Wang, 32, was questioned by campus police after surveillance cameras set up by a coworker experiencing medical symptoms allegedly caught her rinsing his mug with liquid from her own cup on Oct. 1, according to a University of Wyoming police affidavit, which added that she was seen on camera “taking photos and manipulating notebooks.” Wang didn’t get along with the coworker, who wasn’t named in court documents. Surveillance footage allegedly showed Wang searching through the victim’s desk; the victim specialized in disease treatment technology, work similar to what she had done in China. . . Now you may think this is just some sort of bizarre thing that one crazy person did. But there’s been a pattern of such incidents all involving foreign researchers and students involved in the sciences on college campuses. . .
. . . There’s some obvious patterns here. . .Professional rivalry likely plays a role. China is very academically competitive and while the vast majority of students aren’t poisoning people, clearly some are, while others understand that such behaviors exist. Call it ‘cultural differences’. Or something else to be aware of.
I for one it's not personal, but it's high-level Chi-Com intrigue and sabotage. Considering what American Universities have been doing to the minds of young people for decades, this is almost a nothing-burger in comparison. And, thank you Harry Truman for not letting MacArthur storm across the Yalu River, nor nuking Beijing while we had the chance.
“The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings sent to various addresses nationwide, including Secretary of State offices and their related election offices,” an FBI spokesperson told Fox News. “Some of the letters contained an unknown substance and we are working closely with our law enforcement partners to respond to each incident.” The notice included an image of one of the envelopes. The return addresses indicate the letters came from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) with the address the organization lists on its membership forms: 75 Maiden Lane in New York City.
If you went to public school any time after 2000, you may not have even taken a history class. If you did, it’s highly unlikely that the lefties who taught you covered how many Soviet citizens died under Josef Stalin. Under Stalin, roughly 1.7 million Soviet citizens died in gulags from 1930 to 1953. That doesn’t include the roughly 5 million to 7 million who died from famine as a result of socialist policies. Yale historian Timothy Snyder has estimated that Stalin’s regime deliberately murdered about 6 million Soviet citizens. . .
. . . As leftists often tell us any time we point out the failures of socialism, “That’s because it’s never been tried the right way before.”
Let’s see whether the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) got it right. Mao Zedong’s kill numbers are from the low “tens of millions” to upward of 80 million. All were his own people. No one can get a very accurate count for how many he killed, because the best possible sources were killed.
As with Russia, Mao’s weapon of choice was famine – letting people starve to death.Historians say that under Mao, his people suffered from the deadliest famine in recorded history. They blame “collectivization,” falsified food production data and reports, suppression (censorship) of accurate information, and general mismanagement. . . What none of them see coming is that when socialism fails, and it always does, the leaders already know whom to blame: conservatives and Republicans, all because they resisted the socialist wave and made it difficult to actually execute socialism the right way.
The embrace of Bernie Sanders, Mamdani, El-Sayed and all the rest by far too many of our young people and considering the saga of American academia for over 60 years many many more who should be old enough to know better but of course don't.
It's been said probably in every election since '64 if not before, but this one and '28 could be lights out forever if either or both go south. At least the Democrats of yore were better at hiding who and what they were/are way back when, or that's how I seem to remember things. Nowadays the freak flags are flying in the breeze.
On these and all the rest I bid you all to have a great weekend.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
An armed Good Samaritan fatally shot a teenage gunman who opened fire at an Oregon elementary school Thursday afternoon, ending a deadly attack that claimed the lives of three young children and a teacher, authorities said. School Shooting in Bend, Oregon Leaves Four Dead, Others Wounded
As leftists often tell us any time we point out the failures of socialism, “That’s because it’s never been tried the right way before.”...The people behind the White House website got it right. Socialism kills. It kills intentionally, and it kills unintentionally. Either way, when socialist leaders do things that end up killing millions, one thing that never changes is that they don’t care. They don’t care that it happened. They don’t care who died. They don’t care about the lies or empty promises they made to secure power. And so, when the common people start to drop dead because of failed socialist policies, and leaders make no real attempt to keep their promises, those same psychopaths just look the other way. Young Americans who make up Generation Z cannot comprehend that the socialists they love and support would ever not care about them. After all, they promised a better world. They promised that once capitalism is defeated, America would become a utopia. Compassionate Socialism? It’s Time to Have a Sit-Down With That Young Socialist You Know.(It's pissing in the wind - jjs)
David Harsanyi: Should Omar be given an exemption from the law because she’s in Congress? Or because she’s a Democrat?... Those on the left carping that the Omar investigation is politically motivated can’t be taken seriously. Not after they spent a decade engaged in blatant lawfare — first by attempting to annul the 2016 election of Donald Trump by concocting one lurid conspiracy theory after the next, and then by trying to stop him from running for the presidency in 2024. When you spend your time stripping away norms, you can’t expect the other side to unilaterally disarm. Hypocrite Democrats say ‘no one is above the law’ — except for Bro-Fo Omar
. . .far as I can see, the people screaming loudest today forfeited their standing to lecture anyone about political prosecutions. They wrote the playbook. They celebrated every chapter. They just never imagined someone else might apply it to them. They're not understanding that fine point; it shows us that for all their chanting abort it, they are clueless about how actual democracy (small d) and rule of law actually work. Clearly they're not about saving democracy... just Democrats. Democrats Discover the Fourth Amendment, Just in Time for Ilhan Omar
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is taking action against a Cuban financial institution that is helping prop up the genocidal Iranian regime. The red-green alliance of communism and fundamentalist Islam is a very real and very dangerous fact. Rubio Designates Cuban Institution for Helping Fund Iranian Regime
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
. . .a preemptive strike on Israel as Israel’s October 27 election approaches. That's the assessment of Brigadier General (Ret.) Amir Avivi, the founder and CEO of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF). Is Iran Planning an Attack to Bring Down Netanyahu?
New polling reveals an appetite for accountable government—but a partisan impasse that gives the far Left room to grow... California wants change. It just doesn’t want Republicans delivering it. California’s Missing Reform Coalition
The biggest threat to our survival as a great, prosperous, and free country is a mostly compliant media, which, instead of holding powerful people to account, roots for a powerful government run by leftists. Bureaucracy is out of control
No one likes putting gas in their car right now, but the networks talk about “soaring” or "skyrocketing" gas prices even as prices at the pump stay the same, or decline a bit. Four years ago, under Biden, they touted "relief" on gas prices when the price went down a few cents. The framing of inflation depends entirely on which party is in power. Using Pain at the Pump to Overpower Trump
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Automated license plate readers are anti-surveillance groups’ current focus, but their ultimate goal is to dismantle America’s post-9/11 security. (Deep-State targeting of all non-leftists?! - jjs) They Went After Flock—Their Next Target is Even Bigger
One in four US public school teachers said they are likely to quit within the next year — as only a third of them feel appreciated, according to a concerning new survey. . . Teachers at private, independent, or charter schools, meanwhile, were far more likely than their public school counterparts to believe they matter a great deal. One in four US teachers say they are likely to quit within 12 months, concerning survey reveals
Poison is being slipped into water bottles. Chinese Profs and Students Keep Poisoning People at U.S. Universities (Considering what American Universities have been doing to the minds of our young people for decades, this is almost a nothing-burger in comparison, and thank you Harry Truman for not letting MacArthur storm across the Yalu, nor nuking Beijing while we had the chance. - jjs)
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage owes much of his popularity to his record of being ahead of the political curve, from raising the alarm about the illegal migration crisis in the English Channel to predicting the election of President Donald J. Trump. Five Times Nigel Farage Predicted the Future.
It appears that as eight-mile-wide (Saturnian moon) Pan orbits Saturn inside the gap, it pulls material from the edges to form a wake behind it. Carving a gap in Saturn’s rings
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Christian Toto:The simple act of steering clear of political dustups is enough to get one branded as pro-MAGA by the Left. Apolitical Stars Are The New Rebels/a>
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It has Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, which is basically an RTX 5070 graphics card with some ARM cores and 128GB of RAM glued onto it.
If you want to run large AI models on your laptop, it is faster than a MacBook or AMD's competing Ryzen 395 (they really need to update that). But there aren't that many people buying laptops specifically to run 35B LLMs on them.
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 15, 2026 [scampydog]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to the Thursday ONT. Double feature/content o'plenty edition. Your regular Thursday host (Doof) has surrendered the keys for the evening. He's off to Texas to meet with people who know each other by their AoSHQ handles, puns, and various online pleasantries.
We will keep the one-night transition (not transaction) mostly peaceful. Keeping the lights on, the doors open, and the comment section moderately unsupervised.
James Bond had Q for his gadgets. We consumers got Ron Popeil and Ronco for ours. The Salad Spinner, Miracle Brush, Mr. Microphone, Pocket Fisherman, and more. Ronco history. Who got sucked in and made a purchase?
Ronco refined its marketing and distribution techniques with its second televised product, the "Chop-O-Matic." Produced by Popeil Brothers, this "food chopper with rotating blades" had been peddled by Ron Popeil on the fair circuit since the late 1950s. Not only was the commercial for this device longer, at five minutes, but Ronco also made this its first mail-order product. Delighted with the Chop-O-Matic's success, Sam Popeil invented and manufactured the Dial-O-Matic and what would become Ronco's first blockbuster, the Veg-O-Matic. Ron Popeil's television ad fueled the sale of over nine million units for $50 million worth of these rather primitive food processors.
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A section of news for those who like their ONT with a side of aggravation.
No new features have been added, your deductible is still enormous, and your preferred doctor may no longer be in network. Thank you for being a valued customer.
Congratulations! Your health insurance premium is going up again. Ignore the explainers in the article. Check out the chart.
The Department of War mandated the universities conduct a review of their foreign partnerships following its updates to a list of "foreign institutions engaging in problematic activities." Reports were due at the beginning of this school year.
The American Association of University Professors challenged the Department of War's audit along with the American Federation of Teachers in August.
Of course they challenged. That's what commies do. People who are deeply invested in an ideology react defensively to information that threatens them/it. It's not confirmation bias if you call it ideological consistency. At least, that's what the Confirmation Bias Department would like you to believe.
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Economic reform is a long game. Summary of Javier Milei over at American Thinker and his battle against socialism. Worth a read.
The cancer of socialism metastasizes into every area of society -- the chemotherapy requires more time than a single presidency.
Predicting the future: the commentariat will hyperventilate. We should ready ourselves for the usual lectures about decorum, solemn denunciations, and grave warnings about the deplorable portion of society. I expect a parade of earnest pundits lecturing us that the real scandal is the response (public firing squad) rather than Nidal Hasan's actions (murdering 13 people).
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that the execution of convicted Fort Hood Islamist terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan will be "PUBLIC," with American soldiers carrying out the firing squad at the very military installation where Hasan murdered 13 people and wounded 32 others in 2009.
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The ONT is here for: 1) those of you currently evading the U.S. Marshals or considering it as a future career pivot, and 2) those committed to maintaining operational readiness.
A few friendly reminders from the world of being on the run: Predictable routines are a gift to anyone trying to find you. Burner phones are not magical talismans. And purchasing a black turtleneck does not, in fact, make you invisible to federal law enforcement nor does it make you Archer. US Marshals. They are decidely unimpressed by your burner phone.
The thing that sticks with you after that video isn’t some secret gadget or Hollywood manhunt trick. It’s the patience of it. US Marshals can work through the ordinary leftovers of a person’s life until the hiding place starts getting smaller… an old address that still matters, somebody who knows more than they realize, a car that turns up in the right area, or a routine that finally becomes predictable enough to be useful.
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Now we know. Tungsten Carbide Pins. Sounds techy - I don't know enough about it to render judgment on accuracy. Fun and curious reading, however.
In automotive assembly, for example, fixture plates use carbide pins to locate body panels during welding. The pins slide into corresponding holes, ensuring each panel sits in precisely the right position before robotic welders do their work. Because these fixtures cycle thousands of times per day, the pins need to resist wear that would gradually enlarge the holes and degrade positioning accuracy. The same principle applies in:
• Aerospace jigs for composite layup and drilling operations
• Electronics manufacturing where circuit boards require precise positioning
• Medical device assembly where tolerances are measured in micrometers
• Tool and die construction for stamping and forming operations
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Rooftop bar? No.
As seen at a watering hole. When someone says they want the authentic travel experience...this is exactly the type of joint they mean.
And while we're at it, for those who actually read the content, and the two of you smarty-pants readers who actually don't already know: the science behind the Alberger process.
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Nothing like an old-fashioned stare down.
Let's do some movie stare downs. What do you have Horde? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Clubber Lang and Rocky? News Team Stare Down in The Anchorman?
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Two musical selections for your entertainment. Enjoy, complain, or suggest better ones - use tinyurl or similar if linking. Don't blow out the margins!
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Questions of the moment. What perfectly reasonable life moment has you questioning things?
Surely the package carriers know what's inside those boxes going to Exact Sciences Laboratories. Right?
Can anyone actually interpret a bill from a doctor visit?
When did saying, "I am so busy" become an excuse rather than a problem to be solved? Further, why is the person who identifies the problem often labeled as the problem?
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Whitehaven Beach, located on Whitsunday Island, off the coast of Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia.
The photo above shows Hill Inlet. Apparently the tides move the sand through the turquoise waters creating the swirly looking things of awesomeness. The beach itself is 4 miles of the finest sand in the world. 98% pure silica. No public roads - it is on an island. Boat or aircraft only.
DISCLAIMER: This brief ONT appearance does not constitute a return to regular service, an expression of renewed commitment, or an indication that you or I have learned anything from tonight. All future ONT appearances are subject to availability, inclination, weak moments, amnesia, and the Bacardi to mixer ratio. Safe travels to the Texas adventurers.
Drunk and Homely Female Democrat Lives in a Van Down by the River and Threatens Republicans, "We Have Guns Too"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A retarded woman running as a Democrat -- is there any other kind? -- was plainly drunk and possibly on drugs when she popped into a studio for a scheduled interview.
A Democrat running for county council in eastern Indiana was ridiculed Tuesday after critics claimed she appeared "s--- faced" and slurred her way through attacks on Republicans during a televised candidate forum.
During the forum, Fayette County Council candidate Jaime West said she would "fire all Republicans" if elected, railed against "MAGAs" she called "racist" and unintelligent and alleged that a sheriff's nephew had threatened to kill her. Asked for a final message to voters, West responded: "We have guns too."
"This is not a skit," said LibsOfTikTok, a popular conservative punditry account run by commentator Chaya Raichik.
"Jaime West, a Democrat running for Fayette County Council in Indiana, gave an embarrassing interview where she appears to mumble and rant the entire time. Is she intoxicated?" Raichik asked on X.
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When asked one decision she would make if elected that constituents would find unpopular, West told the moderator, "Fire all Republicans."
"I wouldn't let them -- I don't even talk to them. I don't like them. They voted against -- their own state representative voted against her own party," West continued while also pledging not to raise taxes.
"Y'all did this to us. ... You made this happen. This ICE coming into our communities, stealing people's jobs. I mean, I've been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA; we'll call them, because there's Republicans who actually get it. You know, there are good Republicans out there, but then there's these MAGAs who are just racist and aren't very intelligent at all," West continued.
"They call you names. The sheriff's nephew threatened to blow my head off. But, you know, what are you going to do?"
The sheriff says he has no idea what this brain-damaged woman is talking about. #BelieveAllSheriffs.
The moderator paused before asking West for a final message to voters.
"We have guns too," West said as the moderator pivoted to informing viewers about how to vote in the Hoosier State's elections this year.
Remember, all leftists are smarter than you. Their ideology assures them this the case. That's why they're so passionate about it. Their ideology tells them, despite all available evidence, that they are special and superior.
This is WILD. I legit thought it was a skit/high school video project.
It is 100% real.
This is Jaime West (Democratic Party) - she's running for election for Fayette County Council, District 4 in Indiana.
I had to make sure she did not have a neurological disorder that could account for the slurred speech and insane rambling.
She doesn't.
And even if she did have a diagnosed neurological disorder, "we have guns too!" after talking about firing all Republicans would ordinarily be disqualifying.
"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato
Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
Oct 13
Watch this to the end, you won't regret it. This is what happens when you're at happy hour and are reminded you agreed to do an interview about your race.
Of course:
Keith Olbermann
@KeithOlbermann
I don't want to overreact to Jaime West here but I think she's my pick for Secretary of Defense
One brain-damaged estrogen-drenched wreck supports another.
Do these people live on another planet? College campuses are already anti-men to the max. Many male college students I've spoken with tell me they feel like a punching bag. Absolutely delusional to suggest that college men "aren’t being taught about inequality, power & sexism."
Former Vice President Kamala Harris called for institutional changes to the Supreme Court and the Electoral College during an interview Tuesday, calling for more justices on the highest court in the nation.
"The work that we can do about winning back the House and the Senate is going to be on a number of things. For example, I believe that we need to expand the Supreme Court. We need more justices on the Supreme Court so that we can have a court that actually reinforces the spirit and principles behind the Constitution of the United States," Harris told podcast host Keke Palmer on her "Baby, This is Keke Palmer" podcast.
"I believe that we should be pushing for what is possible around changing the Electoral College. Right?
"It's about, the popular vote has to matter, right? You know, all the things that make people feel, like, overwhelmed, and does their vote matter? We have, you know, listen, if the folks there want it, we should be pushing for statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C., right? These are some of the things that are structural that we need to do, but we need to reestablish affordable child care," Harris added.
Harris lost both the Electoral College and the popular vote to President Donald Trump in 2024. She told Palmer she still remains undecided about a 2028 presidential run.
New York blew off 16,000 Trump administration ICE orders to detain suspected heinous illegal migrants accused or convicted in more than 50,000 criminal charges, disturbing new data show.
The Department of Homeland Security said the municipalities across the Dem-driven state have refused to comply with its detainment requests 16,070 times since President Trump re-entered office fewer than two years ago -- refusing to hand over criminal migrants suspected or convicted of everything from murder to kidnapping and sexual assault.
"While sanctuary politicians continue to release dangerous criminals onto their streets, our brave law enforcement officers will continue to risk their lives to arrest these heinous criminals and make America safe again. Illegal aliens have no sanctuary in America," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told The Post.
"We enforce these laws with no help from Mayor [Zohran] Mamdani and Governor [Kathy] Hochul.
Governess Hochul put on an embarrassing performance in her debate with Republican Bruce Blakeman. Or so I'm told; I didn't watch it.
One poll says the race is neck-and-neck. I doubt it, but if you're a New York voters, you know what you could do that would result in the Funniest Thing Ever...?
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Bruce Blakeman are nearly neck-and-neck as they head into the gubernatorial election's only debate Tuesday, a stunning new poll found.
Democrat Hochul leads the Republican Nassau executive 47% to 44%, a Pollfinity survey released Tuesday found.
The poll found about 6% of voters were undecided, while another 3% planned to cast their ballots for others.
When undecided voters were asked which way they were leaning the race spread slightly, but just barely -- with the candidates falling within 4 points of each other at 48% to 44%.
The poll called on 499 New Yorkers between Oct. 8 and 12, and bucked trends other pollsters had found in recent weeks which placed Hochul at a roughly 10-point lead over Blakeman.
Hochul led Blakeman by 12 points -- 52% to 40%, with 8% undecided -- in an Oct. 8 poll from Emerson College and PIX 11 that called on 900 voters.
Kathy Hochul is asked about all the prejudicial statements she and Tish James have made pre-judging the "Cornell 7" defendants as Gang Rapists -- and then goes on to make even MORE flagrantly prejudicial statements, declaring the "victim" was "brutally attacked" at the fraternity https://t.co/nLcUtkaxSb
I was informed by Authoritative Left-Wing Sources that this was fascism:
Angie Nixon: "They're spreading lies about me saying I want to abolish prisons... Why would I want to do that when I want [Ashley Moody] locked up and jailed."
CNN: "You want your Republican opponent locked up?"
Angie Nixon: "Yeah basically. I absolutely want that to happen." https://t.co/KkfiWKhIi6
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Garrett's Sus iPod Edition Everybody wants you
Everybody wants your love
I'd just like to make you mine, all mine Just imagine he's singing that to a dude. BTW I thought this was a completely different band from Garrett's Sus iPod, the Bay City Rollers.
Podcast: The Nobel Peace Prize farce, Ilhan Omar in hot water, Talarico's disappearance, Guilfoyle is a crook, Should Nidal's execution be streamed, Bugs Bunny, and more!
Our very own "Weasel" has won the Nobel Prize For Physics:
A Rigorous Investigation into the Quasi-Static Equilibration of Shoulder-Fired Ballistic Platforms: Rear-Bag-Mediated Suppression of Angular Perturbations and Its Implications for Sub-MOA Precision.
[CBD]
Podcast: A sea change in Israel? France might fall before the UK! Trump's Iran rhetoric is manipulated by the commie media (film at 11!), Brazil looks good, and Rubio looks even better (maybe)!
Christian Toto Roasts Digger: "We have an A-list star (Tom Cruise) stretching his talents in ways we haven't seen in some time. The story has something to say about the world (Climate Change) and human nature in all its complexities." Sounds...boring! [CBD]
Nearly one thousand Roman silver denari found in woods near Cologne, Germany, probably deliberately buried in 125 AD It's about seven pounds of ancient silver. Alas, it's not an artifact of the massacre of the XIXth Legion at Teutonburg Forest, which is about a hundred and fifthy miles away.
Podcast: Vote Early...Vote Often! Oil exports are returning to normal, Trump relaxes CAFE standards, ChiComs fund AI backlash, the descendants of our business titans are anti-American, Boston is nuts, and more!
Podcast: CBD is solo and just checking in! Trump's UN speech is a success, the Last Ditch Bar in Western MA keeps their lunacy in the spotlight, and the White House plays hardball with the media and the judiciary...as it should!
Somebody should write a book about the greatest drinking stories of O'Toole, Burton, Harris, and Caine. One of my faves was Richard Harris went on a six week bender in the South of France without telling wifey. Upon return, she's screaming, and he simply replied "why didn't you pay the ransom"?
